All right, if you remember, on Tuesday, we were looking at pure bending. What did that mean to us? Yeah, our moments were in one plane. We were not looking at any kind of axial loading, it was just simply easiest picture we could possibly have, this pure bending that's caused by a load, a transverse load, and or applied moments, but those moments are perpendicular to the axial direction of the beam, and perpendicular to our arbitrary, generally chosen y direction, which was up there, then that makes these moments either into or out of the board in the z direction. Pure bending of prismatic beams, and what did I mean by that? What's a prismatic beam? As you learn from the very first day in here with the cross-sectional area, and now, starting with this week, the cross-sectional area shape is vitally important to what we're doing. If we look at the cross-section, we have some cross-section that doesn't have to be rectangular, doesn't have to be circular, can be anything we want it to be, anything we need it to be, that is symmetric about that y axis. So a cross-section, an example of that is just like that. So we came up with, on Tuesday, then the normal stress in the x direction is a factor of whatever moment is being applied. I bet you make sense, that's what's doing the bending, that's causing the stress. Times the position in the y direction along that beam divided by, and this is the last little bit we got developed there, the area moment of inertia, and we'll review today how we come up with that. Remember what the minus sign was, what the deal with that was? This is the distance in the beam from the neutral axis, and that's where we put our origin. So, finally, we need to find that, that's the centroidal area, the centroid of the area of that cross-sectional, we'll review how to find that today. Then y is the distance from that to any point in the beam. The minus sign is that, if we have curvature like that, that puts the center of curvature somewhere way up here, and then our y direction is measured from the neutral axis towards that center of curvature. This minus, then, goes with the fact that that kind of bending, y moving in a positive direction with this kind of bending, we have a beam that sees compression on the top, tension on the bottom, with that point of zero stress being right on the neutral axis, the neutral axis being right through the centroid. Let me not use C because you have a different beam force. So, if we have bending in the other direction, then the center of curvature is down below. Our y now measures towards that as the positive direction, and again, then that gives us compression on the top. Positive y gives a negative stress, which is compression. Negative y gives a positive stress, which is tension. And so, that's the purpose of the minus sign in there, that's where it came from. Then we had also, of course, then our maximum stress was at whatever point was the greatest distance from the neutral axis. And you may need to pay attention a little bit to that because it's just, it's not necessarily true for any particular cross-section we have that the greatest distance from the neutral axis is up. It might be down, and you need to pay attention to which one of the directions is that point of maximum distance from the neutral axis, giving us the maximum stress through the beam at that point. So, we'll do a problem, a rather straightforward problem. Get us warmed up again, mostly, get us warmed up again to finding where the neutral axis is, where the centroid is of a non-regular shape, and then also finding the moment of inertia of that shape. So, very simple problem, about as simple a problem as we can use, so we're not focused on that. Just a mid-load, four kilonewtons, and then we don't even need to mess too terribly with what the moment is, it's almost a straightforward calculation. But let's use then a non-regular cross-section of the beam. So, this is some kind of T-shape, maybe as simple as two boards nailed together then used as a floor joist or something is the type of picture we have here. Dimensions, all of these in millimeters. So, if the top board's got a width of 10 and a height of 150 millimeters, then that bottom board is 15 by 120. Want to find a couple things. Now, we haven't messed with this before. Well, we've calculated the stress on nice regular shapes. We've never done this before with an irregular cross-sectional area. So, it's a good chance for us to use our, remember these are called the flexion formulas. So, I want to find three things. The maximum stress in the beam, whether it's tension or compression, we need to know that. If this is wood, wood is superb in compression, very bad in tension. For this kind of bending where we'd expect tension at the bottom of the beam, this sort of beam might make some sense because now there's more material down here that we'd expect in tension where wood is the worst. Just the type of thing you would do if you were building something, if you're worried about it being weak at some place, you're going to put more material in there. Just the very same thing you would do. Then I want to find also the stress at a couple spots at point K, which we'll put here a distance 40 millimeters down, and then a point here on this flange that we'll call H. All right, so we want to find the stress at those points as well. For whatever reason, if we were laminating something on there that's very, very thin, it has nothing to do with the structural integrity, but you might be worried about that lamination bundling and coming loose, and then there's an aesthetic problem with the beam because not only do beams sometimes have to be structural, they have to be pretty in time, so we got to work on all that stuff. All right, we already know how to find these stresses, whether it's the maximum or at some particular point, we'll use our fletcher formula. But what we do need is that first moment of the area, the moment, area, moment of inertia. All right, if you remember, there's a couple things we need to do to find that. First thing we need to do to find that, first thing we need to do is find the centroid itself, and then once we've found that, then we can find moment of the area moment of inertia. So it's a two-step process. The two steps are very much the same. I don't, if I remember the way our book does it, I don't like so much how they execute these steps. And I think it's very easy to get confused with the way they do it. So I'll do it, I'll do it my way. You decide which one you like, whether you like doing it with the way the book does it, or whether you like doing it this way. I don't care which. But to do this first part, to find the centroid, we have here also then two steps we need to make. First thing to do is pick some reference location. It doesn't matter where it is. It's an arbitrary location that allows you to put in all the values you need with respect to that reference location. And then once you found the centroid, you don't need this reference anymore because now the centroid is a part of the cross section itself and doesn't need any reference from there. So pick some reference location. It doesn't matter where. You can pick the top of the beam, some join in between or the bottom of the beam. It doesn't matter. So just to go with my numbers, I'll pick the bottom as a reference. And then from there, we calculate where the location of the centroid is. And that's our Y bar. A lot of these cross sections, you can look at them and get kind of a feeling where it should be.  So we expect the centroid to be someplace in there somewhere. That'll help you because when you get through with the calculation, if you find that the number puts a way up here, you know you did something wrong. And you just have to go back and fix it. Maybe just simply something as simple as a minus sign. That's our distance Y bar that we're looking for from this reference point. Once we know what that is, then we know where the centroid is in the cross section and we don't have to worry about anything else. So to do that, we need to take the individual parts. I happen to have two parts of the beam here. So maybe just for reference, I'll call them A and B. We need to find this product for each of those. However many sub parts there are and we can divide it up any way we want. Add those together and then also divide that by the total cross-sectional area. Now what the book does, if I remember, the book then works out this equation. It just expands this equation, puts all the numbers in. I think it's a real easy way to just get something wrong when you can be a little bit more regular about it. So I like to make a table where I'll put in there the values for each of these two things. Keep them straight. It's just a lot easier way to do this without making a mistake. It's not a big deal on a two-piece beam, but we're gonna have four, five, even six-piece beams that we could do. And so it's, you know, get in practice with this one, it's easy. Then it's no sweat when it's much more difficult. So we're gonna need those two values for each of the sections. We're going to need that product for each of the sections. So it's gonna be really easy setting this up on a table. And then we need the total of that third line. That'll be the numerator. The total of the second line, that'll be the denominator. We just pull them out of that table then and survive. Also, though, pay attention to what the units are. So this one will be in millimeters. Obviously, this will be millimeters squared. This will be millimeters cubed. Obviously, it's very important we get the units right, as always. All right, for piece A, we locate its centroid with respect to our reference line. This is piece A, a simple rectangle. It's centroid, its own centroid is right in the middle. Remember, we're looking for the centroid of the whole piece, but this right here is the centroid of an individual piece. It's in the middle, which is 75 plus another 15, which is ninth. For piece B, its centroid is, with respect to our reference line, the dead center of this rectangular piece at seven and a half. The area of A, 10 times 150, 1500, the area of B, what's 15 times 120, 1800. Those two numbers, we need added up. So 3, 3, 300. Then we also need the product of each of those in the third column and then those added up. So you can do those real quick. Careful with these tables, some of these numbers get really big. And if you haven't left yourself enough room, you just have trouble writing them all in. So you do those numbers real quick. Also, make a little habit as you do this, that you line things up so you're less likely to make a mistake when you're adding numbers because for a lot of the students, the best mass students in the school, you're also the ones who might be most likely to make the easy mistakes rather than the hard ones. So that totals to I think 148.5, right? This is just to locate the centroid. That's the only thing we're trying to do here. With respect to our arbitrary reference line, then we'll know where it is and we don't need the arbitrary reference line anymore. Pull these numbers right out of the chart. That's adding up the two above it. Is that right? I didn't do that right on the wrong day. And then we just pull our numbers right out of the table, which is what makes it so easy. Notice the unit's workout. This is a distance that we're looking for here. We're gonna be left with millimeters. What's it come out to be? 45 millimeters. That locates for us now the centroid or what we now know to be the neutral axis. That's the point where once this beam is in pure bending, that's the point that we'll have zero stress. And then the stress varies linear from there. It doesn't even matter what the area is. It simply matters the y distance from the neutral axis. So we already know that if we look at our theme on the side, we're gonna have that upper part there and then this little flange part here and the neutral axis, we now know to be 45 millimeters up. And so we already know what our stress distribution is gonna look like. We don't know the values of the stress, but we do know what the distribution looks like. Everything above the neutral axis with the type of bending that we have will be in compression. Everything below the neutral axis will be in tension with a linear distribution in between. Doesn't even matter that this is much wider down here. The stress distribution is still linear throughout the entire beam. So we've located the neutral axis, which was good. That we now know goes right through the centroid. So we found that. Now we need to find the moment of area. That's the same basic type of thing that we did here to find the moment of area. To find i, then we just plug everything into here. Again, it works very well if you have a little table where in each of these, for the two parts we happen to have in this problem, we need to find the area moment of inertia of that piece itself. We need to find the area moment of inertia of piece A and that of piece B. Put that in there. And then if you remember, we have what is called the parallel axis there. And so we have to apply that because we want this moment of inertia to be with respect to the neutral axis. And all of these component parts that make up this cross-section are off of the neutral axis by a certain distance. And we have to apply that little bit. So then we can put whatever we want in the table, what was things up. Let's see, we've already got the area. So I'm just running out of space. So you can put out whatever much you want in there. And then it's that last bit here that we need to add up. We need to find the area moment of inertia, each of the pieces with respect to that neutral axis. So I see, let's see, you have your book. The front cover of the book over here are the location of the centroids with respect to particular directions for some very regular solids. And that's exactly what we've got. We've got two rectangular solids. The only thing we have to be careful of is making sure you get the right dimensions in the right direction. As drawn in the book for a rectangular solid, it looks like this. And we need the moment of inertia with respect to this x direction because that's what our neutral axis is. It's this horizontal direction. It doesn't matter which direction is rectangular. We just fill in the parts there from there. So Ix is 112 BHQ is the height. And it doesn't matter whether it's this shape or this shape, we just change what the B and the H are. So for this first one, it's 112. B is 10. That's the horizontal dimension across the bottom. A is 150, so it's 112, 150, Q. It was dimensions up to the fourth. And so you can see that's gonna be a big number. But obviously, you can't get the 10 and the 150 reversed. You gotta be real careful with this. Take the picture exactly as it lays right out of the book. For part A, B is one, is 10, H is 150. Just leave it in the orientation in which it lays. And you got that number? Remember, they get big. So you gotta give yourself some space, 2,812, 500, 500 millimeters to the fourth. You can go to meters, that'll make that number smaller, easier to put in the table. But if you go to meters, then these numbers come smaller. So it's kind of a wash. That's the moment of inertia of piece A. It's a centroidal moment of inertia with respect to its very own centroid. But its centroid is a distance between the two. This centroid is a distance D away from our centroid here. So we need to put in that D. Centroid of A is right down the center here. So that distance is 75. This distance is 45 that we just calculated. So the distance, little distance D is 75 plus 15 is 90 minus 45. Should be 45. See if you agree with that. Then you need to do A times D squared. I'll fill in these numbers. And you determine the next line for part B to make sure you're reading it right. And then we do IC plus AD squared to get the last part. So the numbers are getting pretty big. Sorry, what? D is the distance between the centroid of our entire cross-section that we found in our first step. The distance between that centroid and the true centroid of the component piece all by itself. So a nice big drawing, carefully done table can make a big difference here. So are you guys, see if we all come up with the same numbers on the component piece of the cross-section B. Obviously the fewer pieces you can make out of the cross-section and the more regular they are, the easier they are to handle. So let's see if you get the same values for the second part, the second piece B that I got.  You thought, oh, it's the last day for spring break. We'll have a party. Nothing like pizza day 30 in the morning. You guys are college age bachelors. You probably had cold beats for breakfast anyway. Better cap and crunch. Oh, don't have any milk. I'll use beer for the college age bachelors. Boy, did I give that life up.  It's terrible. What? Beer and cereal, old beer and cereal. That's not disgusting, it's the best. Any of it. Beer is the best. And the best part is cap and crunch and beer are about the same color. So it doesn't look disgusting. It just looks normal. Got some numbers, Jake. Pat. How'd you get the last number? The I and I. This one? Yeah. It's I plus AB squared. Because we're doing the parallel axis theorem on each of the little pieces. Each of the pieces is off of the neutral axis and we want this centroidal, we want the area moment of inertia to be with respect to the neutral axis of the entire cross section. We got some numbers, we can check. Bobby, you still going? Another 30 seconds or so and you can put in it. That on camera. Yeah, you should, I should. Do a little commercial for who is that? We're doing a commercial for? Apple. Apple. I remember two or three years ago you came in with one of the first eye touches and had some pictures on it that weren't appropriate for sharing during class time. If I remember. Yeah, I remember, I think I remember your phone went off right in the middle of the class. You started giggling. There's a text, yeah, yeah. I notice not how you even do people come to class in a moment. Which is wonderful. It wasn't that she can present all of it. All right, what do you have for the centroidal moment of area of the second piece? Which is the equation and calculation right out of the cover of the book, the 112th DHQ. What do you have? 3375. For D, right, 37.5. Remember that's the distance between the centroid of part B and the neutral axis we found in our first step. That's D. And so it's seven and a half up to the centroid. And then take that away from the 45, it's all the way up to the neutral axis. And then AD squared, well A, but A we had was the 1800. So this is just straight math here. I'm gonna have to trust you on that one. 2531, 250, 2250, is that right? And multiply well, 2565. That's the last column that we need. We need the sum of those two because the moment of the area of a component, a compound cross-section is the sum of the moments of each of the compound sections. So that's 8, 4, 1, 5, 0, 0, 0. And that's millimeters to the fourth. We're ready to do this. The moment, I think everybody had or you could have done real quick. Oh, I didn't give you a length of the beam. You can't find the moment without a length of the beam. Sorry about that. Five meters, length of the beam. So it makes the moment then five kilonewton meters. We just use our statics to find that business. And then I, we have now here, 8, 4, 1, 5, 0, 0, 0. Now you gotta watch your units. That's millimeters to the fourth is in meters. So you've gotta get that straight. And then the y location is the distance each of these points of interest are from the neutral axis. So we can figure those out straight away. That's the maximum moment by here at the center. In fact, if we look at this beam, you know by symmetry that each of these is two kilonewtons. So the shear diagram will go up two, down four, up two. And then the moment diagram, that slope, which is two is minus two. And we know the slope comes down to zero because it's just a no moment end. And then that maximum slope. As you'd expect from your own experience is standing on boards when you were a kid, they're more likely to break dead center because that's where the maximum moment is. Nothing here you haven't learned as a kid.  Sigma max, we have all those numbers. What M we've got in a Y or sigma max. The greatest distance from the neutral axis, that's up to the top, that's 120 millimeters. Probably in this case, it's as easy to make that meters into millimeters. In the end, we generally want stress and passcals. So we've got to get to that anyway. Oh, and then the I we have. So your answer, you can do the multiplication, but the units are as important as anything. So tell me what this is in mega units is anything else because you throw these numbers off by a factor of 1,000. You just cost your company a $150 million loss when the building comes down. Don't come crying at me. Because I've got it on tape. I told you to watch your units. Yes, mega passcals. So minus, we know it's going to be compression with the type of bending we've got. What do we get? This is 71.3 minus 71.3. Now, you have to check if this is indeed wood, you need to check the bottom intention as well. Even though it's not as far away, the tent wood is about 1 tenth the strength and tension that it is in compression. So you'd have to be 1 tenth the distance away from the neutral axis to have the same type of load that we would have there. So you definitely want to check the bottom in tension to compare it, but we didn't say what the material was here. So sigma k, those two numbers the same, the m and the i are the same. What do you put in for y? Let's see, it's a whole distance was 165. That was 45, meaning that's 120, meaning this is 80, isn't it? A is on, 80 is on the same mag border, mag is on 120, so your conversion should even be pretty easy. Frame break, Wednesday, that requirement, it just makes the, the numeral itself easy to handle. What do we have for sigma k? The normal stress, axial-nominal stress at point k. 47.5 minus 47.5, the minus meaning it's in compression, which we knew anyway. So a lot of times we don't even mess with the minus sign on these because it's obvious from the problem what it's going to be, but just to be careful. What you put in for y of point h, because don't forget it's out here on the flange, so what do you put in for h? Let's see, this was 45, right? And that's 15, so we're at a point 30 below the neutral axis, but we're out here on the flange. So what do you do about that? Doesn't matter. The stress distribution is only with y has nothing to do with x because, or sorry, that's z, because we're looking at prismatic beams. So this is actually a minus 30 because we're in the direction away from the curvature, center of curvature, which is good because that tells us that this is in tension. You do those numbers, 17.8 megapascals. And for wood, ultimate strength of wood in compression is somewhere about minus 30 megapascals. So we're well over that anyway. We're not going to use wood here, which that's a pretty thin piece of wood, 10 millimeters. So you would have expected that. For tension, the ultimate strength is about a 10th of that. So good luck with this one, fellas. This is how you're building your boathouse, which is what everybody's working on in the spring break, right, working on your boathouse, getting it ready for the coming season, huh? Another question? Yep. I mean, it's probably like I'm coming in there, but I try to find the eye doing the way the book did it or like it takes, they'll take like the whole face and like the total light that's attracted by like, the part of the stuff that's out there. Do the beam not as two pieces like this, but do it as one beam like that and then you subtract out those? Yeah. Yeah, you can do that. I think that's a different part, I don't know why. Probably screw it up. Probably. The centroid is not, the neutral axis is still at the same place wherever that is. And then you've got to get the center of that, that's your D. You've got two of those. So when you add them up, you don't have to do it again. You just take one of those and add it in there twice because they're gonna have the same area, moment of inertia with respect to the neutral axis. And then you've got this hole on here. Don't forget that it's centroid right at the center. Oops, I have to put the neutral axis right through the center. But the neutral axis, as we know down here somewhere, so you have to have that D in there as well. I can just do 112 base times the height of the whole square and then subtract it by 112 base times the height of the smallest. Well, for one, don't forget, I already have it raised. It's not the base times the height, it's the base times the height cubed. Okay. No, you can't just do 112 base times the height of the whole section minus the smaller sections because what you miss is the parallel axis there in part of it. You have to do that. The only time you don't do this is when D happens to be zero and that's when one of the components has a centroid that's right on the neutral axis anyway, which is pretty easy to happen if we have, say, not an I-beam, but an H-beam. An H-beam, you know automatically, just by looking at it, the centroid of this whole area is going to be right there. The neutral axis is going to be right there and every component piece has its centroid right on the neutral axis already. So for that kind of thing, you're not going to have this column being there because D's going to be zero for everything. That is a cross-section that has not just symmetry about the y-axis, but also about the z-axis, which we did not have here. We only had y-axis symmetry. We didn't have d-axis symmetry, okay? So check your numbers. It should come out exactly the same. There's no reason you should get a different I doing it a different way because that's just an arbitrary choice by you. As the laborer, it can't affect the end mathematics, which is all this is. All right, any questions? Yeah, we've got one minute, no sense starting anything. This kind of stuff is pretty easy to do to set up on a spreadsheet and then you can put in different widths for things. So if you're interested, I can give you an extra credit problem for break that you can do fairly easily on Excel, if you're interested. If you're not even going to look at it, what? Let me explain it real quick when you're off. It's to look at a couple cross-sections, both an I beam and an H beam, but you do the same thing with them.  Oh, that'd be one, that'd be two maybe. You can vary the dimensions however you want so that you stay within that area. So in the extreme, H one is the same as H two and you have a beam that's like that. At the other extreme, B two is at a minimum H one and you get a beam that's like that. Somewhere in between is a beam that has the optimum characteristics of the cross-sectional area for that beam. That's the kind of thing and then you build a spreadsheet where you vary H and B, two of them I set, two of them you vary them and then you can make the graph of the stress as a function of however thick the pieces are and you get a pretty interesting graph. I think that I remember it looks something like that. So that's the kind of problem I can put up there if you want an extra credit problem to do in Bahamas. I'm not taking my backpack. You don't take your backpack, take your laptop, take grandants, yeah, can you do spreadsheets on that? Yeah, yeah. That sucks, you can't get away from it then. You got no excuse. All right.


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Hi, I'm Sukena Bawani and I come from the Stockholm Environment Institute in the Oxford Centre. So we manage the global platform for learning and capacity building on climate adaptation and the synergies with mitigation. So the way we engage different audiences in the platform is through engagement with the people who contribute content. So we have user-generated content and we have editors who quality check the content that comes into us. So editors engage with the contributors on a regular basis. But we also have different methods of engagement through the way we design the platform to be user-friendly and very accessible and easy to use. But we also try and connect different types of knowledge systems. So we try and have a very interdisciplinary synthesis approach to the content that we bring together. So we're trying to connect climate scientists with people who are making decisions about adaptation and mitigation in different contexts and trying to bridge that knowledge gap. So apart from engaging people through direct contact and engagement with the content they're sharing, we're also trying to use new technological advances in enabling the sharing of content. So the platform is becoming more and more accessible, I think, through these new types of technology and it's also becoming, through word of mouth, more popular. We're trying to target bridging organisations or boundary organisations who can really be the knowledge intermediaries between the local populations and different scales where decisions are being made. I think one of the key things that we've been trying to do is create a platform for learning that is only possible because people are willing to share the lessons they've learnt from the work that they've done and in that sharing of lessons they're including information about key barriers that they face in their work and key enabling factors. And I think it's only through learning about those experiences and how those barriers are overcome that we can really affect social change quickly.


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Hi, I'm Matthew Coast, head dating coach and founder at commitmentconnection.com. And today we're going to talk about what men find sexy in women. So if you're looking to attract a man into a relationship, you need to understand what they find sexy. Or even if you're in a relationship, it's important not only to know what men find sexy but more specifically what your man finds sexy. So let's talk about it. The first one is something that a lot of women kind of take for granted and don't realize how powerful it is, but it's feminine energy, right? Being a feminine woman or pulling out your feminine side is just so, it's so attractive. It's so sexy. It's so attractive to men. And a lot of women don't realize how attractive it really is, but this is so powerful. A lot of guys who date women who are feminine or who know how to use their femininity, what they'll describe is they'll say things like, I don't know what it is about her. It's like, I just want to just rip her clothes off and make a love to her.  So a second one is sexualizing conversations. So when you tell a man that he's attractive or you say, oh, that was hot or like that's sexy, you know, like that can be really, really attractive to a guy and it's really sexy to a guy and it can turn him on.  You know, if you say stuff like that, that is a turn on to guys. The next one is misinterpreting what he's saying as being sexual and you just have to find situations where you can take what he said and turn it into something that's sexual. And if you practice doing it a little bit, you'll get used to it and it's, and it's not only funny, but it can be really, really hot and it can change a relationship. If you're in the friend zone with a guy, it can make a guy want you like think about you as someone's sexual more. Then third thing here is letting him be a man around you and this is another one of those things that a lot of women kind of don't get and they kind of take for granted. But if you let a man lead you and protect you and defend you and help you with things, that is so hot. It's so attractive. It kind of goes along with that whole femininity thing. You know, that's being feminine is allowing him to lead, you know, and it's powerful and it's very attractive.    It's hot. That's hot. So the next one is teasing him with your touch, right? And so this is touching him and there's a lot of different places where you can touch him that is even more attractive, right? So touching him on the hand or his arm is fine, but touching him like under his bicep or touching him on his chest, right? Tasing him in vulnerable areas like his ribcage, you know, or on his inner thigh, like that is really hot. So doing those different things. So there's one, two, three, four, five of these, right?  Those are all really, really attractive things to men and will turn a man on. So that's it for today. If you want more information on how to attract a quality man into a committed, lasting relationship, make sure you go to my website at commitmentconnection.com and take my quiz. I'm Matthew Coast and I'll speak with you again soon.


Welcome back to the session on latex. In this session, we shall recapitulate what we learnt in topic 2. In session 6, we learnt to set paper size, margins for top, left, right and bottom. We also learnt to set inner and outer margins for two sided documents like book. All of this was done using a package called geometry. In session 7, we concentrated on customizing the header and footer using page style and this page style commands, reset page numbers using set counter command and change the page numbering style. Some examples are Arabic, Roman, alphabets, etcetera. In session 8, we changed the orientation of our document to landscape mode, we added page breaks and inserted footnotes. In session 9, we created a two column document, we also had a look on dividing certain content into multiple columns using multi-call package, we increased some spacing between the columns and set the thickness of the dividing line. In session 10, we learnt to read error messages and resolve them. This brings us to the end of topic 2. I hope you are enjoying the course. Thank you. Have a nice day.


John Rothstein here in Houston setting the table for the 2023 national championship game between Yukon and San Diego. State of Yukon has been the most dominant team in this NCAA tournament and is winning games on average by more points per game than the 2018 Villanova team. The only way for San Diego State to win this game is to drag the Huskies into the mud and Yukon is just too balanced, too deep and too good defensively to allow that to happen. Think about this, Yukon beat Miami on Saturday night by 13, Jordan Hawkins only scored 13 points, he had 44 in the two games prior to this and Andre Jackson, the most indispensable piece on Yukon, played limited minutes due to foul problems. How indispensable is Jackson in the NCAA tournament as a sister turnover ratio is 35 to 8. Yukon will win its fifth national championship Monday night and it's first under Dan Hurley.


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Welcome to SRQ, I'm Patrick Lottin and along with Christopher Brantley. And today we're going to take you into a time machine, back to an era over 100 years ago where your horsepower was determined by, well, the number of horses hitched to your wagon. The dirt roads of the towns were lit at night by kerosene lanterns and people communicated by the telegraph wire. Along our journey we'll take a look at some of the landmarks of the Industrial Revolution, the icons of 20th century technology and some of the hottest wheels to ever hit the road. We're at the second oldest continuously operating car museum in the country and it's right here in Sarasota. So join us for a trip throughout the Sarasota Classic Car Museum. The year was 1953, Ike was in the White House, Americans were fighting in Korea and two brothers from Iowa decided that Sarasota would be a great place to display their collections of over 70 classic cars. Herbert and Bob Horn opened Horn's Cars of Yesterday in March of 1953 and while the name has changed a couple of times, the cars have been on display here ever since. Today it's the Sarasota Classic Car Museum and you can stop in for a visit every day of the year except Christmas. They have Rolls Royce, a Model T, the Lorian, Ferraris, a Drag Racer, Muscle Cars, Classic Rides and my favorite, John Lennon's Mercedes. So Chris let's put this in drive and when we return we'll take these guys down memory lane in style. Alright, let's go. G-Morning sunshine, wakey wakey, text me back. Hey, did you tell your parents about us? Let's skip first period together. Did you get all my texts? Is practice over yet? Where are you at? Are you with your friends? That's L-A-A-A-M-M-E-E. Capital X, lower queso, capital X, lower queso.  Are you ignoring me? We're in a huge fight right now. Is it something I did? I can see your lights on. I'm coming over. What do you dream about? Me? I'm lonely. Holla back. Holla back. Let's try something new, nude pics, send me some. Text me. Abandoned and lost. On the dark, cold streets of the city. To a cage in the local shelter. To heaven, your lap. Welcome back to SRQ. We're here at the Sarasota Class A car museum with one of the museum docents, Jim Lynch, who is a living encyclopedia of classic cars and is going to be our tour guide through this highway of history. Thank you, Christopher. It's very nice being here with you and your group. Thank you. I'd like to tell you about a 1912, two-thirds scale Model T Ford that we have here that was built by the original owners of this museum. And this cementure car was used to transport children around the museum outside to give them something to do and to stimulate their interest in old cars. Next we have Chris, a car here that we're continuing on our tour that is made in 1904 by the Shock Motor Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. And they built this car from 1904 through 1913, building approximately 9,000 of the cars that you see behind us here. All right, so it's peculiar. One half of the car is looking really nice and the other half is looking a little bit roughed up. Chris, this car was found some 65 years ago in a barn laying on its side. The museum chose to leave one side of the car as it was originally found and then they restored the other side of the car, making it look the way it was brand new. All right, so let's move on to what we've got here. Good. Thank you. Well, Chris, we have a car here that's a chassis of a car that was made by the Carter Car Company of Hyatt'sville, Maryland. They built this car from 1906 through 1970, now this car is minus the body as you can see and the reason for that is we're trying to show you exactly the drive system that this car was manufactured with. In this car you have an engine and you have a drive chain going to a large flywheel here and then you have a secondary flywheel that's covered with rubber and what you do is if we're going to take the car forward, we take the flywheel over there and put the secondary flywheel up against the large flywheel and as we move the secondary flywheel off to the left, it makes the car go faster. Of course, you do have a throttle on the car at that time. So we're going to back this automobile up now. We're going to just slide the secondary flywheel to this side and of course the engine continues turning counterclockwise so now we're backing the car up. We have a blacksmith shop and in it you'll see the blacksmith sitting in his chair up there because with the advent of the car this blacksmith was becoming unemployed. He had to find a new occupation or otherwise he couldn't make a living because his primary job in those times was putting four shoes on a horse or fixing the wagons which were towed by the horses. Now moving over here, in 1912 they considered this one of the biggest layoffs in history with the advent of the automobile because the blacksmith was going out of business. In 1912 there were 25 million horses being used in our country to transport people and goods. If you had to put four iron shoes on each one of those horses, Chris, you would have enough iron to build 60,000 motor vehicles. So this horse that we see here was quickly going to pasture with the advent of the automobile. So what do we have here? Chris, we have a 1913 Model T Ford. Henry Ford developed the Model T car in 1908 and built the car through 1928 and he built over 16 million Model T's. Now the one we have here is not quite a correct representative of a Model T although it is a 1913, the body that was originally on this car had been removed by its owner and made into what you'd call a torpedo roadster whereby they painted it white because usually you could buy a Model T in any color along as it was black and that was what Henry Ford sold at that time. So this is a 1913 Model and Henry Ford learned to mass produce the Model T car at approximately 1913 because he dropped his price from $550 per car to $350 so his own employees could buy their own car. And they did buy it because in 1913 they produced 100 and some thousand cars that year. That was his first large benchmark for the Model T car. Now Chris, the next generation of Ford cars was the Model A which Ford built from 1928 through 1931. What you see here is a beautiful Ford roadster. This car did very very well and they sold again probably somewhere in the range of 15 million Model A Ford. Wow, this is an age looking vehicle. Yes Chris, this is a 1910 Buick Model 10 touring car. This car is now 100 years old when you say age it, it is age it. Wow. And this car sold for $1,000. Whether or not in 1910 people paid $1,000 for this car because they preferred the name of a Buick over a Ford automobile or anything else that sold for much less. Now they did sell 10,000 of these touring cars in 1910. Ah, finally something I'm kind of familiar with. This looks to be a Mini Cooper, is that correct? Yes. This is a Paul McCartney's car of the Beatles, it's a 1965 Mini Cooper and both him and John Lennon bought cars that year. But this was a neat little car whereby the factory painted his special C-foam green and they even put a sunroof in this car so they could stand on the seats and say hello to some of his fans when he was driving this car around England which he did do for some five years.  This is a beautiful car and this was owned by his partner in music, John Lennon. John Lennon also chose to buy a new car in 1965 buying this Mercedes-Benz 230 SL convertible and it was his car, we had the documentation to prove that these cars were actually owned by the Beatles. This car sold for approximately $7,000 new in 1965, we would probably sell today for probably close to $200,000 with his name on it. Now it wouldn't bring that much without his name on it, probably in the range of $40,000 to $50,000 today without his name on it. But with his name on it, you can count on that kind of price. Wow, this is something people in Sarasota might be interested in isn't it? Oh absolutely. This is definitely a local story. This car here is a 1922 Rolls-Royce owned by John Ringling of the Ringling Circus family and this car by the way sold for approximately $13,000 in 1922 was one of the most expensive automobiles in the world at that time. Funny to think of $13,000 as extremely expensive in 1922. Now the story behind this car is very interesting. Now Rolls-Royce was traditionally an English built automobile. When John Ringling went out of the country, which he did travel out of the country a lot, he not only took his luggage, he took his car and his chauffeur in the bowels of the ship. So when he got to the UK or Great Britain or any of those countries, he had the car that was driving on the right side of the road. This car belongs to Mrs. Ringling and so I'm told she had a little problem. She was claustrophobic. So she didn't like to ride in these closed in cars, but she did like big automobiles. So I'm under the impression that she obviously got John to buy her this 1923 Piercero touring car, which was also built extra long to accommodate seven people. And this car sold probably in the range of $8,000 to $9,000. Of course she had a chauffeur drive her around Sarasota at that time. Tell me about this one. It's definitely an odd style for a car. Yes, it's not much of a road car, but it's a very good car on a racetrack. This car is on loan to us by Don Garwood's Museum of Calif, Florida. And it's called a dragster. This car has approximately a 600 horsepower Chrysler engine. And that has been known to propel this car well over 200 miles per hour in a 5.8 seconds in a quarter mile. Now of course this car, the front end goes up in the air when this car takes off from the starting line and eventually it comes down because it does have a special spoiler on the front that will bring the front end of this car down so that they can steer it. But up until that time it's being steered by the rear wheels of this automobile. I recognize this, it looks like a Mustang, but it looks a little bit different than a regular Mustang. Chris, this is a very special Mustang. This car has been modified by Carol Shelby, who has been cooperating with the Ford Motor Company for probably 45 or 50 years and he's 85 years old as we speak today where he takes a standard Mustang car and modifies the engine and the suspension system and the interior seating and the safety system to equate for the horsepower, additional horsepower that this car is designed to produce. This is a very beautiful automobile that has been restored back to new and would probably sell for somewhere in the area of $6,000 in 1965 and today it would probably bring somewhere in the range of about $135,000 this year at the Barrett Jackson auction. Beautiful, beautiful. I love the color too. Very, very nice. Yeah, especially with the way that the engine is here, the hood, that would be beautiful. All right, wow, what a beautiful Ferrari, seriously beautiful Ferrari. But how is it that the museum comes about getting one of these? Well we have two sources of our cars. Some of our cars are on loan to the museum by individuals who live here in Sarasota and others are purchased by the museum at the auction. Also from individuals who may want to sell one of these cars where they've got a little older and they're not into sports cars. This is a 1997 Ferrari sports coupe. It has a V10 engine in it of approximately 450 horsepower. It's a beautiful original automobile with a gorgeous red leather interior in it and this beautiful silver paint, second to none all the way through this car. Okay, so I'm used to seeing this car, very beautiful Mustang, right? This is your kind of car without a doubt. That's even my kind of car. This car is a 1966 Ford Mustang and this car was developed by Ford Motor Company in 1963 and started production in 1964 and a half with a small six-owner engine in it and a manual transmission selling for approximately $2,000. Now this is a 66 model by that time they've got into building convertibles. But the story behind this car is Lee Iacocca was then president of the Ford Motor Company and he tried to sell Henry Ford and the board of directors for two years on building this automobile but Henry Ford had a little sour taste in his mouth from the Yetzel experience. But Mr. Iacocca and his cohort by the name of House Spurlich did finally convince them to build this car using a lot of the Ford Falcon componentry. So it wasn't an absolutely totally new car but it is probably one of the best kudos that the Ford Motor Company has ever done other than the Model T Ford. Definitely a wise decision on their part to go ahead and go to run with this car. Very much so. Next we have on our tour here a very beautiful 1959 Chevrolet Corvette. This car is absolutely a picture perfect automobile every place you look and it is a fiberglass body which Corvette has used. One of the few manufacturers to build a car with fiberglass in our country were used to building cars out of steel. But this is a fiberglass body and this car being a 1959 doesn't have some of the attributes that some of the later Corvettes have. But overall this is a very very beautiful original car. There is not a mark on it any place. Chris what do you think would you like to own this car. I'd love to how much. Well today probably in the range of over a hundred thousand dollars for this beautiful white Corvette. Even though it's a 1959 being a thousand point automobile. You know I'll get back to you on that as soon as I conjure up that hundred thousand dollars leave me I'd be here to take this one off your hands. You know what I'm very enjoyable car. Yes. We have another one across the street here that I'd like to show you. All righty. Well G. Jim I've never seen a car like this before. Well the reason you haven't seen a car like this before is this car is one of one. It was built in Los Angeles California in 1947 by a gentleman a former race car driver by the name of Frank Curtis. He built this car on a 1947 Ford chassis using a 1947 Ford Flathead V8 engine with manual transmission. He even in order to get spoke wheels had to go back to 1934 Ford spoke wheels. It doesn't look good though. But it's a beautiful car being only one in the country it's on loan to our museum by another museum from the West Coast. Very very nice. Now what do you have your eye on up there. Wow. A DeLorean. I cannot believe I am looking at an actual DeLorean. It's a beautiful car was designed by John DeLorean a former executive of General Motors who headed up the Pontiac division for many years and then the Chevrolet division and after retiring from General Motors he had a desire to build his own sports car. And how he got connected to Margaret Thatcher and the government of Great Britain I'm not sure but anyway Margaret Thatcher and the government agreed to loan him the money to design this car and to build him a factory in Donaway, Ireland where she had a 50% unemployment problem. This car has been in a special movie is that correct. Not this car but one like it was used in the movie Back to the Future and that was got a lot of important press while it was being used in that movie back at that time. Now this car is unique it's stainless steel so this is the only color you can get this car in and they built this car from 1981 and 1982 but every car that came off the semi-line during that period was red ink for the government of Great Britain. So in 1982 Margaret Thatcher turned the key and locked the door in the factory and of course she didn't win and the people in Donaway, Ireland didn't win and John DeLorean certainly didn't win. Now let's take a look at another car that we have over here. This car is out of this world. Christopher here is a very unique automobile here in this country. This is a 1965 Isetta 300. This has quite a story behind it and some of it is kind of local. But anyway this car was built by BMW but they didn't design this car. A family in Milan, Italy by the name of Revolta designed this car. The father and the son chose to build a car using motorcycle chassis and motorcycle engine that would give you good mileage and also very good transportation and the family during this period of time was coming to Sarasota, Florida to vacation at times and later in life they settled here and one son lives in our city yet today. All right cool, serves up on this one. Isn't that a beautiful automobile? Yeah it really is. That's a 1940 Buick Woody station wagon and of course if you lived in California you'd have to have one of those with a surfboard on the roof when you went to the beach. Anyway they built about 495 of these beautiful cars and they sold for about $1242 at that time. It has absolutely been restored. It's a thousand point automobile and it's valued today as well which seems like $100,000 if you wanted to buy that automobile. There are so many other cars here. Really wish we could go through all of them but unfortunately we don't have enough time. Wish you could too anyway. Thank you. It's been very nice having you here to show you our wonderful museum and our wonderful cars. This is a magnificent museum. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Been awesome being here really, really amazing. I'm here with the event coordinator of the Sarasota Classic Car Museum Robin Kane. Thank you for allowing us to be here at this magnificent museum. Thank you for coming. So tell us something about this museum. What's your mission? Basically we're here to acquire, preserve and exhibit classic and vintage cars for future generations to enjoy. Sounds great. So am I correct that this is open every day of the year? Yeah, we're open from 9 to 6 every day of the year except Christmas. The prices are very affordable. We've been here a long time since 1953 and we try to keep here for another 50 years or so. We keep the prices, adults are only 850 to come in and see up to 100 cars so it's a good deal. So I'm curious, what is this room that we're in? It's much different from the cars. This is our banquet room, our event center. We rent out the whole museum actually including this room for different functions, weddings, plummets, fuzz, you name it. We also have our own events that we do here like Elvis impersonator and different musical acts and comedy acts. We have a regular standing show, our Houdini magic show and they're a very well known Las Vegas magic show, they're very good so we have a lot of stuff going on here. Well thanks for telling me about the museum, it was great to meet you and allowing us to be here. Thank you very much. For more information on the Sarasota Classic Car Museum, go to their website at www.sarasotacarmuseum.org. That's it for this episode of SRQ. Be sure to join us next time as we go to the always magical Sidewalk Chalk at Strava Gansa. Until then I'm Christopher Brantley. And I'm Patrick Lawson and thanks for watching.


The next item of business is an urgent question, and I call Megan Gallacher. To ask the Scottish Government what support has been provided to NHS Lanarkshire in light of reports that Wisher Hospital A&E Department was at full capacity at the weekend, with patients being transferred to Monkland's hospital. First, it has always been part of the board's operational practice to work as a clinical network to manage demand by diverting patients between their hospitals where it is clinically safe to do so, minimising delays for patients. As you know, and every member knows, the health and care system is under extreme pressure due to the pandemic. In NHS Lanarkshire, like all health boards, it is experiencing significant issues, including workforce challenges and high levels of delayed discharge. We recognise that some people are not getting the service of care, they are re-indeed. I would expect and, of course, I regret and apologise to anybody who has suffered as a result of that. As members will know, we have invested in the additional £300 million winter package of measures to support health and care services. Over and above that, and to maximise capacity, we have also invested £10 million into specialist programmes that aim to provide alternative submission and that our processes are right to ensure timely discharge. On top of that, the member will probably be aware that NHS Lanarkshire has been assigned 64 military medics to support the three acute setting sites. That task has recently been extended from 11 November until 17 December, which is welcomed by me and indeed the board. My senior officials have been meeting regularly with the executive team at NHS Lanarkshire to agree immediate actions that will support improvements and minimise delay for patients. I spoke to the chief executive of NHS Lanarkshire yesterday. Cabinet secretary, some patients who presented themselves at Wishaw general at the weekend were diverted to Monkland hospital A&E department to receive treatment as there was a shortage of beds and high demand. The journey time between those two hospitals is 24 minutes. The cabinet secretary was aware of the concerns surrounding Wishaw general and other NHS Lanarkshire hospitals after they recently announced code black. I ask the cabinet secretary why no immediate intervention was made to prevent patients having to be diverted to another hospital nearly 10 miles away. I disagree with the characterisation that no action was taken. I will come to that in a second, but it should be said that any patient that is diverted to another hospital is done on the basis where a clinician has decided that it is safe to do so. The idea that we have not taken action, I am afraid, is incorrect. I can write to the member in quite a lot of detail on the action that we have taken on the code black status. Of course, we do not want to see NHS Lanarkshire at the highest level of escalation. It is why we have invested £300 million in terms of a winter package that I have met with NHS Lanarkshire regularly. The key to that is to try to ensure that we can clinically discharge where it is safe to do so, as many people out of the acute sites and the three hospital sites that the member knows about, into care as best and as quickly as we possibly can. However, I am more than happy to write to Megan Gallacher in a great amount of detail about the additional investment that has gone into NHS Lanarkshire. My thanks to all the staff at NHS Lanarkshire and social care staff at NHS Lanarkshire who are working so hard under very extreme pressure. Megan Gallacher said that the target of 95 per cent of patients being seen within four hours at A&E departments across all NHS localities. However, recent figures for NHS Lanarkshire show that only 61.8 per cent of patients are being seen within the time frame. The Scottish Government has failed to get a grip of this crisis and NHS Lanarkshire patients are paying the price. Therefore, will the cabinet secretary apologise to NHS staff and patients across the NHS Lanarkshire locality? Will he commit to getting a grip of this crisis? I think that our NHS staff is something that Megan Gallacher has not been able to do thus far for their incredible work in the midst of this global pandemic. She talks about the 95 per cent target. Of course, I acknowledge that we have not met that target. If she does not shout from a cemetery position and listens, she might get the answer to why that is the case. We are in the midst of a global pandemic, Ms Gallacher. Yes, of course, we are not at the place that we want to be. I can hear somebody shouting from a cemetery position. It would do well for the Conservatives and Mr Kerr to listen to that answer, because it is incredibly important that we have seen two weeks of improvement. Yes, NHS performance is not where I want it to be, but the fact of the matter is, Ms Gallacher and the Conservative party that are shouting from a cemetery position, we are still the best performing A&E department in the entire UK. I do not say that. Again, they would do well to listen. It is not because we are abdicating our responsibility. Our responsibility is over the Scottish NHS, but that surely demonstrates to members that this is a problem that health services right across the UK are facing. My job is to ensure that the NHS boards, including NHS Lanarkshire, and our staff get the funding that is necessary to make the improvements. We have seen improvements over the past two weeks, which have not been acknowledged by Ms Gallacher. Of course, to ensure that staff wellbeing is taken care of. That is why I want to once again reiterate my thanks to our NHS and social care staff who are working incredibly hard in the midst of this pandemic. Does the cabinet secretary agree that the unprecedented pressure on our NHS is attributable to the Covid-19 pandemic and that this emphasises the importance of using every tool at our disposal to increase vaccine uptake and reduce case numbers? Does he also agree that the Conservatives' opposition to on-going public health measures, including Ms Gallacher's own previous calls to align with England, sits at odds with their concern for the health service? Yes, I agree. I could hear and can still hear the Conservative members shouting from a sedentary position when, of course, Ms Adamson is absolutely correct. She is entirely correct that, of course, one of the pressures that we face—not all of the pressures are attributed to Covid, but anybody who lives in the real world would understand that the pandemic has caused the biggest shock to our NHS in its 73-year existence. For the fact that we have well over 750 patients with Covid in our hospitals that are taking up beds, adds to that pressure. Controlling transmission of Covid, controlling infection, is clearly going to help to alleviate some of that pressure as we go into the very depths of winter. Of course, we saw this afternoon when the First Minister was making her statement that the Conservatives' only contribution to this debate is to oppose every sensible measure that this Government looks to bring forward to control Covid, which would, of course, help to alleviate that pressure on NHS boards, including NHS Lanarkshire. Paul O'Kane Thank you, Presiding Officer. This is an extremely serious situation and I would want to also thank our NHS staff, but NHS Lanarkshire moved to Code Black on 22 October, and that resulted in some cancer operations being cancelled for patients who were already experiencing unacceptably long delays. Some three weeks on since that Code Black was declared, those reports from Wishaw A&E department clearly demonstrate that the Scottish Government has not dealt with the situation. So can I ask the cabinet secretary when he expects all-elective surgeries, especially cancer procedures, to recommence? Just remind Paul O'Kane that we are still in the midst of a global pandemic. I can again hear him shouting from a sedentary position, but we are still in the midst of that global pandemic. What I would say to him is that it is impossible for any government, I suspect, across the UK to set a target date of when all-electives will be back on track. That is why we published the NHS recovery plan to increase capacity by 10 per cent. That is backed by £1 billion of investment over the course of the parliamentary term. However, I would say to the member that it is not my decision, of course, to pause elective care. That is a decision that is taken by clinicians, quite rightly so. It is a decision that is taken by NHS health boards at their local health board area. I know from speaking to NHS Lanarkshire as I do every single week and as my officials do on effectively a daily basis that these decisions are not taken lightly. Once NHS Lanarkshire went into the highest level of escalation, I announced a number of additional measures and proposals with increased funding. I am happy to write to the member with the details of what funding went directly to NHS Lanarkshire in that regard. I have been contacted by a constituent whose twin babies were born prematurely on 21 October at University Hospital Wishaw. I would like to send our congratulations. They were then transferred to the Victoria hospital in Kirkcaldy as the special care baby unit at Wishaw was closed due to staff shortages and a lack of available cots. It has now been three weeks since my constituent and his partner are both living out of suit cases, sleeping in the neonatal unit on a full down bed. Will the cabinet secretary look into the matter and ascertain whether alternative arrangements can be made to get them closer to home if not back in Wishaw? Of course I will if Gillian Mackay can furnish me with the details. The constituent's story that Ms Mackay rightly articulates here in this chamber is just again symptomatic of the pressures that we are facing at the moment and NHS Lanarkshire is facing those pressures even more acute than other health boards right across the country. We will continue to not just invest but leave no stone unturned. That is why, of course, we were happy to facilitate that MACA request and request in the military for further assistance for NHS Lanarkshire. However, if Ms Mackay does furnish me with the details, I will certainly raise that with the board and see what more can be done for the family involved. I really do think that the cabinet secretary has been incredibly patronising towards my colleague Megan Gallacher. She has asked very reasonable questions and what she has gotten back is snippets from a ministerial briefing and sound bites about investment. She is actually asking the cabinet secretary about what he and his Government have done to pre-empt the crises that were declared in NHS Lanarkshire. What he has given us back is politics. Can he give us a sample of his extensive and exhaustive list of things that he has done that he could not tell us one thing of a few minutes ago? That was barely worth listening to, I have to say, so this is a serious issue. That is a serious issue that deserves far more than Stephen Caer's bluff and Stephen Caer's bluster. Can I remind all members who will be well versed in the code of conduct that we have a duty to treat one another with courtesy and respect at all times? In terms of the action that we have taken, we have invested £20 million additional funding into the Scottish Ambulance Service. In fact, £20 million before the announcement that I made in September, I am taking the additional resource for the Scottish Ambulance Service to more than £240 million, a £300 million winter package, which I am happy to give him details of. The First Minister announced £482 million recently in helping with Covid pressures. I announced in July an additional £12 million. Last week I announced an additional £10 million. If the member wants me to keep going, I can tell him a number of actions. He says practical things, but he does not think that money or investment is practical. However, that investment is helping our NHS boards, including NHS Lanarkshire. Constituents in Lanarkshire have told me that they are willing to travel to other health boards. When I asked the board about this on Friday, I was told apart from the Golden Jubilee for a small number of cases that there is no capacity in other health boards. Since then, I have been told that other health boards have approached Lanarkshire, which is in code black, asking Lanarkshire for help. Are there any other health boards close to code black? When can we expect mutual aid to become available? Is there any spare capacity at all in our health system? There is no other health board at the moment that is going to raise its escalation level to the highest level of escalation black, which NHS Lanarkshire is on. Of course, that is a situation that is reviewed daily and weekly. In fact, it is reviewed hourly, I suspect, by health boards, given the extreme pressures that they are under. On mutual aid, it is not uncommon for health boards to reach out to other health boards for mutual aid. I know that a number of health boards have done that, depending on the different services. I was talking to NHS Tayside yesterday who understand our speaking to other health boards about potential mutual aid for some of their breast cancer services. For example, in terms of elective surgery, of course, if there is at all any theatre capacity and there are teams that can be brought together from different health boards, then we are looking extensively to see how we can maximise that opportunity. However, the NHS Golden Jubilee is helping health boards right across the country, including NHS Lanarkshire, with some elective surgeries. Thank you. That concludes the urgent question. The next item of business is a committee announcement. I call Siobhan Brown, convener of the Covid-19 recovery committee, to make an announcement on their upcoming debate, Covid-19, preparing for winter and priorities for recovery. I wish to inform the chamber that the Covid-19 recovery committee will be initiating a debate on Covid-19, preparing for winter and priorities for recovery. The debate will be held on Thursday, 2 December, and we are as keen for as many committees to take part as possible. We feel that the timing is right to hold this debate. The committee has been following the Scottish Government's response to Covid closely and we are aware that case numbers remain stubbornly high. Scottish ministers and others have warned that we face a very challenging winter ahead. Although we are all very keen for this to be over, we feel that we cannot take our eyes off the ball. For this reason, the committee has decided to examine the ongoing use of baseline measures to respond to Covid-19. The Scottish Government's strategic framework, which was updated just today, states that the aim of those measures is to suppress the virus to a level consistent with alleviating its harms while we will recover and rebuild for a better future. The committee will be keen to highlight the evidence that we have heard on the use of those measures, as we know that Scotland's ongoing response to Covid-19 is an issue that concerns all members. The committee is also keen to hear what work other committees have been doing in relation to Covid-19. We want them to use this debate to highlight the issues that they feel this Parliament should be prioritising for recovery. The Covid-19 recovery committee hopes to turn its focus to recovery in the new year and to add value to the important work that is being led by other committees. I hope that many committees will take part in this debate, and I encourage as many members as possible to get involved. The next item of business is consideration of parliamentary bureau motion 2150 on suspension and variation of standing orders. I ask George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau to move the motion. The question on this motion will be put at decision time, and there are four questions to be put as a result of today's business. The first is the amendment 2127.1 in the name of Liz Smith, which seeks to amend motion 2127 in the name of Kate Forbes on celebrating the first anniversary of the Scottish National Investment Bank being agreed. Are we all agreed? The amendment is therefore agreed. The next question is the amendment 2127.2 in the name of Daniel Johnson, which seeks to amend motion 2127 in the name of Kate Forbes on celebrating the first anniversary of the Scottish National Investment Bank being agreed. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, and there will be a short suspension to allow members to access the digital voting system.


Yeah. Which is very unique. It's an area of our business that agents are always asking me about. Walk us through like, walk us through a phone sale, man. Walk us through your psychology of a phone sale, some setup, just some tips and tricks from the phone sale side. Yeah, absolutely. So it's really in the beginning, it's all about having to quickly start establishing that you are the expert and the subject matter expert and that you're going to work at building rapport. I always tell my agents in phone sales, because they can't see you, it is so important that they hear you, they hear your, I guess what I like to now call your cadence, your voice cadence, so that they feel what you're trying to express to them. They understand the emotion. I always tell the guys that people buy on emotion and then justify with logic.  It doesn't work that way. There has to be rapport building in the midst of all that. And so that's why it's important when you get them on the line immediately, asking open ended questions is one of the biggest things. And so you have two different avenues that you can go. Some agents love being scripted and some agents want to just have more bullet points and then make sure they hit those bullet points and then inject their own personality. And both ways work. That's the thing. In both ways are incredibly successful. We have guys who are 100% scripted every single time and they're writing 35, 40 apps a month. We have other guys that can write the same amount being unscripted and just hitting bullet points, making sure they cover whatever they need to cover in the conversation. And so I think that if as long as in the midst of both avenues, you're trying to also build rapport and you're trying to get to know them better and you're trying to dig and figure out, what's their pain point? Why is it that they want information? Why is it that they're unhappy with their existing plan, whether it be a Medicare Advantage plan or a Medicare supplement? Most times you'll find with MetSubs they're unhappy because they're paying too much money. It's not because of the coverage. The coverage is phenomenal. They're just, they're unhappy because they're paying more money than they need to. And with Medicare Advantage side, they're maybe unhappy because they actually had to use their Medicare Advantage plan in some type of bad situation. They could have been diagnosed with COPD or they had to basically max out their Medicare Advantage plan and they see, oh my god, this cost me more money than I thought. And so now they're unhappy because of that situation and they're like, how do I get back to a Medicare supplement? But those are pain points and we can use those pain points because if we understand them and we notate them and we know how to interject them back into the conversation, we're going to have a much higher chance of closing that person because we now know what's driving their decision, right? It's the emotion. Yeah, that's good. That's good. You talked really quick there about how to pivot, keep control of the conversation, move it where you want to go. That's one thing I also believe a lot in is in phone cells is the person in control, not from a jerk standpoint, but just in control of the conversation is definitely going to get farther if you're able to keep control of it and it doesn't mean you have to talk a lot, right?  Yeah, absolutely. And here's the thing, if you're in the sales game, and I think that sometimes it gets painted negatively the idea that we're salespeople and that we are doing certain techniques to try to control the conversation, well, that's our job. Our job as the subject matter as experts is to control the conversation, is to make sure that we're going down the right avenue and not chasing going down a bunch of rabbit holes. So I don't think there's any problem at all with doing the right thing in terms of asking the questions necessary to steer them in the direction of providing the correct information for that consumer situation. So we do that exact same thing that you're talking about. Cody, you were probably actually the first person that taught us that you say it differently. Say it again. It's asking. Yeah, agree, answer and ask. Yeah, agree, answer and ask. And so I also, it was reinforced by a book called the conversion code that another buddy recommended and then in there they call it acknowledge, respond pivot, meaning the exact same thing, right? But it's so powerful because that's what needs to happen. Any time somebody brings up an objection over the phone, you need to acknowledge their objection. You need to acknowledge that you're actively listening. You hear it. You respond to that objection with an answer, some hopefully that's been well rehearsed so that you have a good way of controlling. And then you go ahead and pivot with asking another question that continues directing the conversation the way you want it to go. Yeah, you mentioned something too. I want to touch on, I think is a valuable for most people as you talk touched on rehearsing it. Walk us through what you do with your team. Do you guys role play? Walk us through how important it is to constantly be improving every day. Yeah, so before we started, if you guys follow Cody, which if you're watching this, you follow Cody, you know how he practices with his team in the mornings and those games looked so fun that we started implementing them into our organization as well. And my team loves it. They love it because it, two things, it gets your mind sharp in the morning. If the first thing you do, you drink some caffeine, we get in a circle or we get in a line and we start going through these exercises, it starts making you think sharp. And then after that, the other or the second thing that I really love about it is the camaraderie because sometimes we'll say some off the wall stuff, you know, our objections or our pivotal question or whatever it is, we say some off the wall things, but it makes everyone laugh. And so now everyone's getting in a good mood. You got them in door fence flowing.  And you look forward to every morning when you start doing that. So I think that that's probably one of the best things that that you've put out there, Cody, is how you start training with your teams in the morning. Because I know that if I'm adopting it, several other people are I know Ramiz is doing the same thing. I've seen him, you know, saying that he's going to do with his team. And there's probably so many others that maybe haven't told you yet, but they're probably doing it. It's fun. It's so fun. But we also another thing that we practice, especially for any agents who want to use our scripts, you have to practice the scripts. I think especially with with us taking on doing Medicare Advantage as a call center, we actually have to buy force. We have to do scripting. We have to say things the way that the insurance carrier wants us to say. So in order to come off smooth, you have to practice. So we'll spend a couple of days every week in the morning time practicing and going through the script so that we sound more natural as we're having to read through it. And the same thing with our Medicare supplement scripts, if people want to use those in our teams, they go through and practice it. And so we just go and practice with each other to talk about it. Throw some crazy objections in the middle of it to see how how they can recover from that objection and still stay on script. It's all so important to do to practice. Absolutely. That's good, man. What do you guys do from like a obviously that helps with an energy standpoint? How important is energy in a sales room in a sales team? Like, you know what I mean? Just throughout the day. Oh my God. I mean, there's two things that are that I think if anyone's had an employee or or someone part of your organization who was a negative Nellie, you know how quickly that spreads like cancer. I mean, it's unbelievable the effect that one person with a negative attitude can have on the rest of the team. It's not worth keeping them, is it? No matter even if it's your best sales part, it's not worth it, is it? It's just not because your best person who has a negative attitude, even if they're selling 50 apps is not going to make up for the other 10 people they're affecting who aren't reaching their potential because of it. It just won't work. And so I think one of the things that has had to happen in my office, I've had to let people go who are those negative Nellies, who are those cancers to the office because it was affecting my other teammates and I could see it. And as soon as I let them go, I'll give you the last person that I had to let go. And this is not something I revel in or enjoy.  I can tell you don't like it at all, man. I hate it. But as soon as I remember it was Monday morning, I let them go. We were in the last week of a month and I said, you know what? I wasn't going to give them the rest of the week and then let them go on Friday. But Monday came and I just thought to myself, as I sat in my office, why wouldn't I give the rest of my team the best chance at closing out the week strong?  And sure enough, we had one of our best weeks that week. I let that person go that Monday morning, she walked, I let the team know, and there was just this, this black cloud and all of a sudden everybody, everybody just started performing. And I was like, so amazed seeing that and saying, wow, that's just proof in the pudding that one negative Nelly can really affect you. So energy, oh my God, it's so important. It's so important in an environment. And so we also try to keep motivation up, you know, I try to give a raw, raw speech in the morning to get everybody going. And we try to have good music playing throughout the throughout the day. That was my next, that was my next question. We adopted music and it is like freaking amazing how much it's helped. Yeah, yeah, it's huge. I love it because it helps to keep that, that, that good momentum going. So sometimes all of a sudden some slow musical play or some music, I listen to it, I'm like, I can't get into this change it. And so we immediately change it and put on something that's more high energy because you do need that high energy music to keep the mojo flowing, I guess. Hey, if you love this video and you want a 10X your income, I got the video here just for you to help you do that. It's right there. Click on it and I'll see you there. Hey, most people don't know how to 10X their income, their average, but they don't want to be average. And I'm guessing you don't want to either. I'm going to show you how the average insurance agent earns $50,600.


I'll just conclude on the work that we've done so far with the Moodle community funding platform. So maybe just a quick recap in case people don't know about this aspect of the community sites work. The purpose of this is to make sure we improve Moodle's development funding process and that's in parallel with Brett and Matt running the community and partners PhD for LMS and is to try and make it more inclusive and reflect in the broader community's needs in terms of funding LMS projects. So what we've done so far on this aspect, so the aim is to have a platform where institutions, individuals, any type of organizations want to contribute to specific Moodle LMS features will be able to contribute financially towards those. So the research we've done is an assessment on different funding platforms and funding landscapes so far in terms of mainly the Moodle User Association contributions and community feedback on that. We've designed detailed personas with use cases reflecting a wide range of users of the potential platform including individual contributors and educational institutions and different scenarios for those. What we have done so far we've designed based on those personas different functionalities, features of the platform that are classified in the most core classification to define what's our MVP and we're very close to that. So actually we've got the report now and we're still addressing some legal and financial considerations because it's a funding platform and it's not something as a community site we're used to. So we're working with the Moodle HQ legal and financial teams to work on these aspects. And the next stage is to from this week start some testing based on those personas in selected platforms and move on to what would be a pilot stage with real potentially from the PHE real feature from January onwards. There is a deadline that we hadn't anticipated before that we need to keep in mind which is the potential of having to switch on as soon as 1st of February which is very soon a recurring contribution feature. So we're working towards these aspects and that's where we are. So kind of report done moving on to the testing phase now and happy to answer any questions on this.


From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report. New studies have found that a chemical commonly used to fight plant disease is harming honey bees. Experts say the chemical may be partly to blame for the widespread loss of honey bees in the United States. The insects are important to farmers. When a honey bee lands on a flowering plant, pollen sticks to its legs. When the bee lands on another flower, some of the pollen falls off and fertilizes the second plant. The act of pollination is important to the growth of many fruits, vegetables, nuts, and other crops. Yet about 30 percent of honey bees in the United States and other areas have died in recent years. Dennis Van Engelsdorp is a researcher at the University of Maryland. He wants to learn why so many bees are dying. His research team examined pollen grains that honey bees carried to their hives. They found that the pollen contained high levels of 35 different pesticides, chemicals used to kill insects. They also found that bees that ate some fungicides became infected with a deadly microorganism called nocema. Fungicides are used to protect against fungi and are widely used for agriculture purposes in the United States. Mike Leggett studies pesticides for the pest management industry group Crop Life America. He says many of the pesticides found in the pollen examined by Dennis Van Engelsdorp actually protect bees from nocema. Honey bees are important to agriculture. This makes the search for an answer to their deaths especially urgent for Mr. Van Engelsdorp's team. As he notes, one in every three bites of food we eat is somehow pollinated by honey bees. For the OA Learning English, I'm Laurel Bowman.


In this video, we provide the solution to question number three for practice exam number three for math 1060 In which case we're given two vectors u equals i minus j and v equals 2i minus 3j And we're asked to compute the dot product between these all right So when it comes to computing the dot product between two vectors if we have their component forms that makes things a lot easier We're gonna multiply together their horizontal components. So we take one times two One was the horizontal component for u and two was the horizontal component for for v And then we add that to the product of their vertical components for you It's a negative one and for v. It's a negative three So we get one times two which is two negative one times negative three Which is equal to three in which case we get two plus three which is equal to five So the correct answer would then be d