Welcome back to SuperCloud 4, where we explore the evolution of generative AI and its impact on company strategies and industry transformations. You know, very often, tectonic shifts in enterprise tech start in consumer markets. The ascendancy of the PC, for example, gave Wintel, i.e. Microsoft software and the Intel X86 architecture, the scale it needed to crack into the enterprise market. The iPhone gave rise to mobile apps, flash storage and ARM processors, which have all found their way into enterprise technology. And our next guest is Sridhar Ramaswamy. He's a senior vice president for AI at Snowflake, a company that acquired Neva in May of this year, which is a company that Sridhar co-founded. Neva was a consumer search company that ran into the Google search monster and then pivoted with Gen AI to enterprise search and is now helping simplify the Snowflake customer experience across a variety of industries and use cases. Sridhar, welcome, good to see you again. It's great to see you, Dave, excited to chat. So in June at the Snowflake Summit, we talked about what was a most interesting use case to me and that is, as a customer, I want to access some table, let's say, that has some important data that I want to get to. And I'm going to do that in natural language. I'm going to bring up a Streamlet app you described. Streamlet, of course, is another Snowflake acquisition to build data science apps. And through my natural language commands, it all happens behind the scenes. First of all, is that still the right vision? How has that evolved? And where are you in terms of making that a reality for your customers? That's right. Part of what is incredibly exciting about AI itself, Genitive AI that are out of applications, but the core technology of AI is that, as you find out, it's a natural language. You can speak to it, you can write things and it can extract the structured information that is underneath and for service it to you. At Snowflake, we are building a set of technology capabilities deep into the platform. Part one, we are running language models within Snowflake so that you can access them, whether it's from SQL or a Streamlet app or your own application, without having to bring up GPUs, without having to do all of the hard work. So that is basically inferencing at scale that we host. We're also integrating the Neva Search technology, which is a combination of old school information retrieval plus vector indexing natively into Snowflake, so that you're able to just with a single command, index a table. And now where it all comes together is in, for example, a Streamlet app that you talked about, where you can talk to a table. We're also creating a co-pilot experience that builds on top of the inferencing platform and the vector indexing, so that you can talk to it in English, it writes the SQL queries and then you can click a button and have that run. It is that fluid access to data that further will democratize access to all of the great structured information that's sitting in Snowflake. And we are absolutely on our way to getting this done. We have a series of announcements coming up in roughly a month in Snowday. It's a pretty exciting time and you're moving incredibly quickly. Yeah, so I mean, we just got together, it was just over 90 days ago, which isn't that long ago, but of course in this day and age, that's a long time. What has changed? Are there any learnings since we last sat down in June that you can share? Yeah, I would say the thing that's been most exciting over the past 90 days is of course the rise of open-source language models and the role that Meta is increasingly playing in the language model space. And so Lamadu has struggled, charged a lot of efforts. We have a great partnership with Meta, but of course we are also pre-training our own models. So I think it's just provided a lot of impetus to the ecosystem, which at the beginning of the year looked like it would pretty much only be a handful of players like OpenAI, like Anthropic and the much anticipated Gemini model from Google. So I think this sort of rise in open-source and the democratization of AI models is an important development. I think the other, less relevant to enterprise, but the other equally important development is that it's very clear that chat GPT as well as Sydney, which is Bing's chat bot, have talked out in terms of how many people they have reached. And so what looked early on in the year as a sweep the table move from OpenAI and Microsoft is now sputtering a little bit on the consumer side. So I think that'll influence a lot of how the search evolved, what does Google do, even what is going to happen with people's perception of how unshakable Google is, lots of excitement in multiple places. But the core thing that is also beginning very, very clear is that contrary to popular belief, consumer might not be the biggest AI hit, it's people like Snowflake and Salesforce that are integrating AI deep into their platforms and making it possible for their customers to do more. But I got to tell you, this story is changing like by the month and that's part of what is exciting about working in it. And I want to come back to that notion of enterprise and some of the specific use cases there, but first I want to talk about some of the challenges of adopting AI. You know, I love the all in podcast, but when I listen to those guys it's like, oh yeah, you flick a switch and all of a sudden you can just deploy AI and it's not that simple. It is on one hand to create experiments on the other hand to actually create value. So I wonder, Alex, if you could bring up the slide, this is data from a ETR survey this month. ETR is our data partner and no matter which industry you filter on overwhelmingly, the blocker to moving into production is we're still in the evaluation phase. That's that big bar on the left. And oh yeah, right behind that are data privacy, security, legal and compliance concerns. You know, the lawyers are definitely in control. You know, nothing else really stands out. It doesn't seem that budget is generally concerned because they're stealing from other areas. There's no perceived lack of value. The point is despite the narrative that this stuff is easy to do, it's actually not so simple. It needs to be made easy, but today maybe not so much. So Sridhar, does your data align your information when you talk to customers, align with this and what can be done about it? What specifically are you doing about it? Yeah, I think this is where, you know, all technologists and the media have to be careful about sort of not setting expectations so high that they cannot possibly be met. I'll give you a simple example. Everybody is like, hey, talk to chat GPT. It is the most amazing thing since sliced bread. It's fine. I have a chat GPT subscription. I paid 20 bucks a month. I'm happy to pay it, but I don't think really hard about what questions I want to ask it because I know that if I ask it obscure questions, it is just going to have a synod. Meaning it's going to make up stuff, which means that instantly that cannot be part of a business application. People cannot use what comes out of that to make actual decisions. I'm very proud of the fact that like starting last year, we recognize that language models had magical capabilities, their ability to take like a 1500 word blog and write an accurate four sentence summary is nothing short of miraculous. On the other hand, that doesn't mean that you get to roll it out into an application and give it in the hands of users. So we pioneered a technique called drag, retrieval augmented generation, or you can just think of that as smart search that you need to use in conjunction with the language model in order to produce believable output. This is exactly what we are in the process of doing at Snowflake. It's taking us a few months, but we want to have that index that can set the context for a language model to always produce believable authentic information. And we would much rather have our system say like, hey, I can't answer that. Not all questions are answerable in the context of the data that a particular database has. It is the basics of how do you create value? How do you make sure that it is believable? How do you make sure that you don't over promise that I think the sort of the early hype around AI is severely misjudged? And so we are now going through the graph that you talked about where people are like, oh, it's nice, three answers are great, but two, polite fiction, what do we do with that?  How exactly is access control going to work? This is why with the things that we are implementing, we make sure that governance and security are right in there from the very beginning so that like we actually have applications where people can feel like, okay, only the people that are supposed to look at some data are actually allowed to look at that data. On the legal issues we are getting through, we actually had like, you know, a big power with the legal department internally at Snowflake about what are our policies for what data we can use to train models, for fine tuning, how do we assure our customers that their data is never going to be used for any kind of common, you know, tuning of models across artist liability work. This comes up often, people go like, oh, I see. So you're using this open source model, but if you get sued, who's going to bear copyright liability for stuff like that? So this is just stuff that every company has to work through, as I said, with every new piece of technology, we just assume that all of these things are going to just magically happen. But to your point, some of these were led by consumer products, but we can get consumers pretty much agree to anything, but in the enterprise people ask more questions. So I think the delays are predictable, but the rock solid technology from places like Snowflake is fast hitting the market and you will see people that get real value out of it. But even we are going to say like, hey, this is not magic, start with the simple ones. For example, a chatbot over a bunch of documentation, we know how to do this, and that can be made super reliable. It's things like applications like that that get you into the crawl phase, and then we can get into more complicated things like write SQL and run it automatically. That's like more in the walk and run phases. There's 100% value to be created is just going to take a few months. But on the other hand, this is still lightning fast by enterprise standards. And to your point there, street art, the data shows and when you talk to customers, they'll confirm this. When you look at the actual use cases in production, they're essentially taking chat GPT or some kind of similar tool to generate code, provide chat support. Maybe they're writing marketing copy or summarizing text to the legal firms. And well, that's all well and good. Your vision is broader. And so what are you seeing in terms of the possible use cases that are being evaluated beyond these initially simple ones are there specific ones that you can point to or patterns that stand out that are exciting you? I look like a really important part of language models is literally what the two words say, which is their proficiency with language. It is easy to discount all of the simple applications like the summarization, like the translation, like the ability to create a chat bot, over known data, but in terms of efficiency, they're pretty amazing. Part of what we are going to do as part of the Snowflake platform is not just host a set of models, but we're going to make it easily accessible in SQL, which means that the thousands of data analysts that are working in every large company, all of a sudden have access to language models in the SQL that they write without needing to deal with GPUs, deal with APIs, deal with keys, deal with the whole new like billing system, internal approvals, procurement, none of that stuff. That stuff just works. And to me, like that is actually a significant value add to how like companies use Snowflake to how products work. And I would not discount the simple use cases as not delivering value, they're going to deliver a lot of value, but there's a lot. I think it is when they get really good enough to be able to take an English question, write a piece of SQL, get you the answer and like summarize and point out interesting things in the answer or even better, let's say as an enterprise, you have your own APIs. The example that I give people is, let's take a shipping company, they have all of the packages that have been shipped out in Snowflake so that we can know like, hey, what are packages that are still, that Dave is going to get, but there's a different system, let's say that is currently storing where that package is actually located. What models can do is now you can create a chatbot that you put in front of the customers of the shipping company and they'd be able to ask questions like, oh, where is this package that I am expecting from a Wayfair, let's say, which is a Boston company. And the model will then decide, I'm going to use Snowflake to look up the packages, but I'm going to use this other API in order to figure out where that package actually is. It is that ability to fluidly blend in different kinds of applications that I think is going to be powerful. And we have so far in the context of enterprise, not even touched on the generative use cases, you talked about marketing copy, but I can think of other things like personalization of image creatives, using data say from a Salesforce connector coming into Snowflake, you use that and other characteristics of your customer to write custom newsletters to be able to create custom images. I think the generative applications will also come. I don't know if you have played it on with things like video generation like Runway ML. It's early, I find that stuff like fascinating. So I think there's a lot to come. It will take time. Yeah, and what we're playing around with is actually creating short takes from our videos, which AI is doing. There used to be a human that actually did that. You know, the poor guy was like an air traffic controller. And your point about not discounting some of these early use cases, I think is well taken. I mean, at the same time, it's quite amazing, I guess I would say as well, it's quite amazing to me the adoption in terms of experimentation. I mean, even when you think about the cloud, it took a much, much longer time for the cloud to reach this type of experimentation level. So it's huge. The but is if you had a handicap, when do you think will go from this broad experimentation to more meaningful deployments and deeper ROI and what do you think would be the catalyst? Do you have any sort of the handicapping vision there? Yeah, so I would say by the beginning of the calendar year next year, I think you're going to see both from Snowflake and other people access to lots and lots of models from simple things that people know a lot of like SQL. And our take is that combining SQL and streamlet to write interesting applications, people are going to come up with some crazy stuff that will be incredibly valuable. So I think the first wave is going to come early next year. There are people that have built chatbots by stitching together things like, oh, let me take some data, put it into a pine cone or some other vector database and then use something like OpenAI to create a chatbot. That's a great demo. But I said people immediately go like, okay, so what is your data story? How do you make sure that you have good governance on that? I think those sorts of applications will begin to roll out in Q1, but you'll see I think a lot more of that in like Q1, Q2 next year. But models are also making crazy progress. I think you're going to see generative applications, especially in the context of marketing, where you can experiment because you're putting these ads in some external platform like a Facebook, like a Google. So I would say this is a matter of small number of quarters and not like years, to your point, things like the enterprise adoption took years upon years. And even today, we meet lots of like big name customers that are like, yeah, all our stuff runs on-prem. We need to figure out how to be more into the cloud and you guys at Snowflake are great. So compared to that, I think this is lightning fast. I wonder if I get your thoughts. We took this concept of a power law and then applied it to generative AI. And if you think about the power law of the music industry, it's a very steep right angle. There's a lot of big folks and then a huge long tail. There's a similar development we think in gen AI, although open source and some of these other tools are sort of pulling the torso up, if you will. And so it's more of a smooth and then certainly a long tail. But I'm interested in some of your thoughts on the domain specific or industry specific models, versus those consumer models that we were talking about from industry giants like Google and open AI and Microsoft, et cetera. How is that evolving? I mean, Snowflake has visibility on industries. Your go-to-market is organized that way and financial services and healthcare and telecommunications and others. Do you see that evolving? Are there any industry examples that excite you? I think it is definitely evolving pretty rapidly. Whenever there is a new platform like this, people are fascinated by the value. But to be honest with you, I think we are all excited by just the disruption that these things potentially end up creating. And as I said, what happened since the beginning of this year is that things have gone from only three companies can create meaningful large models to where these models are open source. There's a lot more creativity. So there are multiple schools of thought on this. I don't have a, you know, like, I think the jury is still out. I think incumbents are actually going to realize a lot of value from AI. Like, since the beginning of the year, it is pretty clear that neither Bard, nor ChatGPD is going to replace Google search per se. And Bard, which is Google's chatbot, is getting better by the day. It's not rolled out to everybody. There's actually, it is very good. So there's one school of thought that says that, you know, this knowledge is spreading so rapidly and companies are so ultra aware of the disruptive power of AI that they're going to be very quick to absorb, use that technology at Snowflake. We certainly are at like the cutting edge of using all of these technologies. Many of them developed in-house, but also with partnerships into our products so that our customers can use them. We're also looking into partnerships with companies like landing.ai, for example, Andrewing's company, Andrew, of course, one of the foremost people in deep learning. They're interested in image models that can do various kinds of feature detection and also video models. You now can integrate that deep within Snowflake using our extensibility platform called Container Services. So we do see these kinds of specialized applications. People also ask us a lot about, hey, can we get a fine tuned model on top of the SQL model that you have created so that it becomes better at understanding my schema is able to generate better SQL. I think one likely outcome is that the large platform companies like Snowflake obviously AWS, Google, and Azure are going to get really, really very good at figuring out the industry-specific use cases. And it doesn't lead to large-scale disruption, say that the internet created or even that mobile created when the world went from desktop computers to Android and iOS or the dominant mobile platforms. What if I could ask you, you mentioned on-prem before, there's a sort of debate going on in the industry about where these things are going to take place. Obviously inference at the edge is a big topic. I was at a Dell financial analyst meeting earlier this month. And that was a big discussion amongst the financial analysts is like, where is this going to occur? Of course, Dell would make the argument that, well, there's a lot of data on-prem and you're going to bring the AI to the data on-prem and we have solutions there. And of course, Amazon would say something different. You're obviously all cloud, very much prominent in the AWS ecosystem. Do you have any thoughts on that? Customers actually saying, hey, because of privacy, we actually want to do something on-prem, how can Snowflake help us? Or is it just a matter of the cloud making them comfortable with doing this in the cloud? Do you have any thoughts on that? I mean, look, yes, we are 100% cloud, but for the most demanding, the most unique customers, we are also perfectly happy to basically do virtual instances that are dedicated for them so that there's nothing else in that deployment. So as far as customers are concerned, we feel like we have a really solid story when it comes to, can you be on cloud? But I think you're asking a larger architectural question, which is what is the essentially like distribution of GPU capacity between server-side things and what can happen at the edge on individual computers? You probably know this, but your iPhone actually has a fair amount of GPU capacity. This is how things like Face ID work. It's three clever models that help them do this. So I think that is too early to call. I think people like Intel and AMD, but also like Apple, because they designed their own chips are going to be looking to push more of the inferencing functionality to the edge. There's also a race to develop smaller models that can be very useful. For example, with speech recognition, there is little reason why that has to happen at the cloud. There is very good reason to think that that inferencing can be done right on the device. I think there will be value created by the big models. Let's face it, while Lama2 is great, GBD4's reasoning ability by all accounts, including mine, is unmatched. So I think there will be a little bit of this hybrid world where some functions will live at the edge, other functions will be in the cloud, but a lot of these complicated technical questions can only be settled with like data and rollout, and we are in a world where stuff is just evolving very, very rapidly. So I don't think we can quite call it just yet. Yeah, well, for those, and I very much do know that this thing includes a lot of really power, like you said, GPU, there's an NPU in there, a lot of accelerators, and the combinatorial performance is amazing. Followers of my breaking analysis program know where I stand on this. I think AI inferencing is going to be enormous at the edge, and I think ARM is going to be a key platform for that, and I think it's going to, it already is, in my view, rippling into the enterprise. In fact, you're taking advantage of things like Graviton, you know, whether or not, you know, that data comes back to the cloud or maybe, you know, someday Snowflake figures out, okay, how do we actually participate in that? Remains to be seen, but I think, as you point out, it's very unpredictable, and it's those use cases and deployments that are going to actually determine what actually, what really happens. I'll give you the last word, Sridhar, we're out of time, I really appreciate, you know, your thoughts on this. What should we be looking for going forward and maybe some of the key milestones that you want to hit or other things that we should be excited about? At Snowflake, as I said earlier, we get really excited about democratizing data access within the enterprise. That's the point of being a, that's the point of being a data cloud, but not in a way that everybody is comfortable so that there's the right governance and so on. So we have cities of things coming out in the AI space that are going to further that mission, whether it is analysts just being able to do a lot more with their data, our thinkers and app developers being able to spin up apps very quickly to the most complicated of, you know, I need a vector index, I need this, you know, middle layer and I need fine tuned language models for my own use. We are excited to be enabling things like that. You know, we think of ourselves as the iPhone platform for data where stuff just works. Stuff is very well put together. We're very proud of the fact that there's one Snowflake product, not a set of disparate products. That's the lens that we are applying to AI. What I ought to tell you as a technologist, this is such a rapidly moving space. You're going to see us do a lot more things whether it is, you know, taking advantage of mass fine tuning capabilities so that more personalization is possible for more customers.  It is really exciting to be at the center of all of these discussions, to be talking to customers pretty much every single day about it. I'm like a kid in a candy shop. It's pretty fun times and lots of value to be created. Yeah, and it's our pleasure to be following this and reporting on it. Sridhar, thanks so much for participating in SuperCloud 4. Really appreciate it. Thank you, Dave. Looking forward to everything coming out. All right, keep it right there for more action live from our Palo Alto studio. This is Dave Vellante for John Furrier. You're watching SuperCloud 4 on theCUBE.


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So today's topic is about theories of growth. So there are various theories of growth of head and face region in orthodontics. The theories are genetic theory, sutural theory, cartilage theory and functional matrix theory. One of the first theory is genetic theory. So it was given by Alan G. Brody in 1950s. According to this theory, the growth is controlled by genes. As the name suggests, the control of growth is on genes. So it is more of an assumed theory than a proven one. There is no proof for this theory. It is more of an assumption. So according to this theory, head and face grew from growth centers. So we know growth centers. So the head and face grows from growth centers. The point is under strict genetic control. So there is a strict genetic control upon the growth of head and face. So primarily, genetic control determines the initial features. Later, the second truly, the local feedback and inner communication happens between cells and tissues. That is a process of growth. Primarily, the genetic control determines the basic initial features, then the local feedback and inner communication. That is a further growth. That is happening between cells and tissues. So this theory is not accepted at all because this theory can't explain the role of epigenetic and environmental factors. So this theory is later replaced by many theory. This is one of the first theory because of this genes involvement. A part of this was correct, but it cannot prove or it cannot explain the entire growth of head and face region because it is not considering the epigenetic and environmental factors of growth, which has significant roles in the growth and development of head and face.  Suppose if genetic theory is true, we could predict the future of a children from the ciflogram of parents. If this is to be true, we can easily predict what happens or what would happen for children from the ciflograms of parents. But this is not at all possible. To an extent, we can say that this might happen, but there is no complete assurance that this would happen because there is always involvement of epigenetic and other environmental factors and other growth factors. But there is a slight favoring side, the significance of development of malocclusion because mostly the occlusion similarities we can see which runs in families. Malocclusion will be of little significance under genetic theory. So genetic theories, most of the things are against genetic theory. So only few things like malocclusion, some similarities which can be caused by the genetics. Genetics is there definitely. Genetics has a role, but we cannot explain the entire growth of head and face by the genetic theory. So a part of genetic theory can be accepted, but not completely. So this is the first theory that is genetic theory given by Alan G. Brody, complete control of genes. Primary it has initial control on basic features and there is cells and tissues, inner communication and local feedback. There is no emphasizing on epigenetic and environmental factors. So it rejected a little influence on the malocclusion because there is occlusion similarities in the family. So now let's move on to the future of theory.


The final item of business today is the member's business debate on motion number 1, 4481, in the name of Liz Smith, on Perth bid to become the UK city of culture 2021. This debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I'd be grateful if those members who wish to speak in the debate could press the request to speak button to now. I call on Liz Smith to open the debate seven minutes, please, Ms Smith. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I'm very grateful to bring this motion to Parliament, and can I immediately put on record my thanks to all the members across the chamber who have given it their support. The UK City of Culture competition, which is run by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, is, I think, we all agree, a great opportunity for any UK city to both celebrate and promote its unique culture. Judging what has been achieved to date in cities such as Derry, London Derry, which was 2013, which I think is absolutely fantastic, what is planned for the future with Hull in 2017, I think the potential benefits are so significant. It was very welcome news that Perth and Kinross Council announced that it was putting together its bid for 2021. Perth is, of course, at the very heart of Scotland's story, once just beyond the very northern edge of the Roman Empire. It is where ancient Scotland and the Kingdom of Alba were forged, and it was, of course, once the capital and the crowning place of Scottish kings. Scun Palace, immortalised in Macbeth, remains a lasting symbol of Perth's historic and royal connections, and was the most fitting venue when Her Majesty the Queen besoad city status on Perth just a few years ago in 2012. In economic terms, intimately tied with the River Tey, Perth has always been an important focus for employment, investment and trade, but now its very rich cultural heritage is becoming just as important. The Fair City is the place that inspired Water Scot to write about the fair made of Perth and which inspired George Beasay's opera of exactly the same name. Perth has plenty reason throughout history to celebrate its culture, but it is ambitious to do so much more. To build on the highly successful Perth Festival of the Arts, which was founded in 1972, and the magnificent art collections in the museums and galleries, including the Ferguson gallery, which celebrates the life and work of the celebrated Scottish colourist John Duncan Ferguson, whose wife Margaret Morris was the pioneer of modern dance. The city was also home to glass production, including Vassart Monart, which during the heyday of the 1930s was Scotland's answer to the French art glass movement, celebrated for its vivid, spiralling colours in the very fashionable Emporia of London in New York, so it has very much put Perth and Scotland on the world's arts map. Even today, Perth Museum and the Art Gallery are home to one of Europe's most important collections of glass, especially when it comes to the highly valued Monart and Vassart paper weights. It is, of course, Perth home to two theatres, Perth Theatre and the Concert Hall, which, apart from attracting Scotland's political parties for their conference seasons, has a remarkable record for hosting some of the finest international artists in the world of music and drama. Perth Theatre, which was constructed in 1900, is one of Scotland's oldest and most historic repertory theatre, and we are all very much looking forward to the state-of-the-art 16 million redevelopment that, by 2017, will build a new complex to house studio art space, a youth theatre, a construction workshop and a series of front-of-house performance areas in addition to the main focus of the conservation and restoration of the historic Edwardian auditorium. That is all part of the effort undertaken by Perth and Cynros Council over the last two years to set out a long-term approach to develop the city's unique cultural assets and strengths and to bring forward an investment programme focused on Perth becoming a cultural hub for the whole central part of Scotland. Alongside the Perth Theatre redevelopment, there is also the Mill Street regeneration, new proposals to further develop the Perth museum and the art gallery and exciting plans to develop a city cultural quarter. In short, it is a plan to ensure that Perth City becomes the most desirable place in Scotland in which to live, work, invest and enjoy a rich diversity of cultural experience, as well as a plan that will improve connectivity, develop the knowledge economy and strengthen the opportunities for business and tourism. Being named UK city of culture also brings the opportunity for the winning city to host UK cultural events such as the Turner prize, which was awarded in Scotland for the first time in Glasgow's Tramway Arts Centre, the Mann Bucher prize and the Sterling prize. If successful, the whole of Perthshire and Cynrosshire can benefit from thousands of additional visitors and it could lead to an estimated £60 million boost for the local economy. Importantly, the bid also has the potential to act as a catalyst for key regeneration projects and its hope that there could be long-term help for some of the neglected areas such as Bridgend and the long-term future for St Paul's Church. As mentioned earlier, it is only three years since Perth had its city status restored to mark Her Majesty's Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012, so Perth's bid for the city of culture represents a really exciting opportunity to put Perth and Perthshire and Cynroshire firmly on the cultural map of the United Kingdom as well as raising the international profile of Perth. I know that, to some extent, the UK city of culture competition 2021 is set to pit two of Scotland's great cities beginning with P in competition with each other. I am pleased to see that the member for Paisley is sitting in the chamber because I know that that bidding process will be very competitive and intense. Nonetheless, I think that that competition will be good for all the cities that do compete because I think that it makes them focus on what the future can deliver in terms of diverse and vibrant arts culture. Perth is, as you know, a relatively small city with a population standing at around 47,000. However, I believe that that is not the most important thing. I think that the deciding factor ought to be on what it can offer from a very important cultural diversity. The former cultural secretary, Brian Bradshaw, said something very interesting when he announced the launch of the UK city of culture initiative. He said that culture is something that we are incredibly good at in the UK but excellence and innovation in the arts does not begin and end inside the M25 and I believe that we have been too London centric for too long in our cultural life and I entirely agree with that comment. The quality of the cultural organisations that are based in the area is exceptional, whether it is horse cross arts, the Pitlocry festival theatre, the Perth festival of the arts and many more. Culture is central to the future aspirations of the city, both in terms of the economic benefits that that can deliver and what culture can do to have that wider transformative power to improve the quality of life and build a sense of identity and civic pride across the communities. I very much look forward to working with colleagues across the chamber and I hope that Perth will be well considered in the competition. Many thanks. I turn to the open debate speech. The four minutes please and I now call Clare Baker to be followed by Willie Rennie. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I would like to congratulate Liz Smith on securing today's debate on Perth's bid to be a city of culture 2021. Liz Smith has expertly detailed the strengths of a Perth's bid and it is fantastic to see this level of ambition from a city within my own region. Perth is a beautifully located city that is investing in its arts infrastructure. We increasingly recognise the importance of the cultural and social value of arts festivals across Scotland. Our arts and our culture are hugely important for tourism with visitors increasingly looking for an experience when they visit and an engagement with the country's cultural programme. The Perth Festival of the Arts was founded in 1972 and is now in its 45th year. It is one of the oldest continuous arts festivals in Scotland and has grown and strengthened in recent years with a much more diverse programme. The investment in the Perth's theatre development and the Mill Street regeneration demonstrates a commitment to cultural investment by the city, building an identity for the arts and a commitment to a home for Scotland's talent. The redevelopment of the Perth Museum and Art Gallery also gives improved opportunities to showcase the collection in the best possible way and builds on Perth's reputation as a cultural city. Of course, Perth's cultural programme serves many more people than those in Perth alone and it does act as a hub for the surrounding area, so a successful bid for Perth would bring wider benefits to the Perthshire economy. That is a significant undertaking for Perth and Kinross Council and I wish them well in developing their bid proposal. As a member for Midscotland and Fife, I would be delighted to see them win the award and offer my support for their bid. The City of Culture programme was launched in July 2009 by the Labour UK Government. It built on the success of Liverpool as the European city of culture in 2008. It demonstrated how a cultural award and focused investment can bring cultural, economic and social benefits. Culture can be really transformative for an area and can particularly bring rewards for areas that have been hit by economic and industrial decline. In the first year, 14 cities applied and Derry, London Derry became the first city of culture in 2013. The title is heard for a year with the award made every four years. The most recent winner was Hull, although Dundee did get considered in the final four. It is interesting to consider what the TV producer Phil Redmond, who was then the chair of the culture panel, said. He said that Hull was the unanimous choice because it put forward the most compelling case based on its theme as a city coming out of the shadows. I think that that demonstrates an important aspect of the competition. It does support regeneration of a city and it looks for transformational change in awarding the title. There are other Scottish bids. I recently visited Paisley at the invitation of Neil Bibby MSP and met Mark McMillan, the council leader, to talk about Paisley's bid and their aim to combine the heritage of Paisley with a cultural vision for the future. There may be other bids from Scottish cities still to come. The cabinet secretary will know that the last time the award was bid for both Dundee and Aberdeen entered the competition. Although Dundee was considered in the final four, there is a debate about whether Scotland should support one bid that could gather support from the Scottish Government. It is obviously not a Government bid. The competition is for the city authorities, but support from the Government might give more weight to a bid and lead to a successful Scottish bid. I would like to close by saying that I wish Perth well in its campaign. It has a significant base to build from. It has shown commitment to investing in its cultural capital and it would be fantastic to see it being awarded this status. I congratulate Liz Smith on securing the debate today. I think that this is the first member's debate that I have ever taken part in. It is such an important issue that I have decided to speak in this important debate. For the city of culture status in 2021, I think that it is well fitting to the city of Perth. It is the city of my birth, the city of my youngest son's birth. It is the city where my oldest son attends college and he does an HND in technical theatre, which brings me neatly to the real benefits of the Perth bid. It has such a thriving cultural community in the city that it would really live up to the aspirations of the city of culture status. I think that what we have clearly seen is that we have some fantastic facilities, as Liz Smith has set out with the concert hall, the museum and the art gallery, the Perth theatre that has gone through quite a significant period of investment with £16 million, which shows again the commitment of Perth and Conross Council. I think that it is the deep heritage within the city that I think would make it a spectacular winning nominee for the city of culture status. We have heard about the great history, the fact that modern Scotland was forged within Perth. It was the ancient capital of Scotland that many kings were crowned alongside the great city of Dunfermline. They competed for that status. The Renaissance, playing a very important part in the Renaissance, with Ferguson, with Geddes and Souter, all linked with the city of Perth. One of the strongest elements of its bid is its community arts scene. Organisations such as Adlib, which is a drama school that encourages people of all ages to participate in the arts and music. I have seen their work first hand and I know how good it is. That is just one example of the many examples that exist within the city. Therefore, I think that it would be a fitting winner of the competition. It is also what Claire Baker referred to earlier on. It is what it could do for the city as well, rather than just what Perth could do for the whole process, but what the process could do for Perth. Despite the façade within Perth, there are some pockets of poverty. I think that there is an opportunity to lift that up using the opportunity that is created from this process and the investment that would come with it to lift up the opportunities for many hundreds of people within Perth in the wider area who could do with a helping hand. I think that the combination of the facilities within Perth, the great community spirit, the arts community and the potential for what it could do for Perth and the wider area makes it a winning contender for the competition. Many thanks. I now call George Adam to be followed by Murdo Fraser. I thank Liz Smith for bringing this debate to the Parliament. Some of you may not be aware that I worked in the fair city of Perth for a number of years, so I am only too aware of its thriving arts, cultural and entertainment scene. There is much to commend Perth's bid for the UK city of culture 2021, but in this week of all weeks, I paraphrase the Star Wars saga by saying that there is another. That town is the town of Paisley, which on November 13 this year launched its bid in Paisley Historic Abbey. Perth might be the heart of Scotland, but the great town of Paisley is the centre of the known universe, and the buddies have their eye on the prize. Willie Rennie seems to have forgotten his university years that he spent in the great town of Paisley. He may not find himself a pint at the student union when he goes back to any alumni events at UWS, but both bids have many similarities. When you look at Liz Smith's motion, you can see that redevelopment and regeneration are a major part of it. The one in Paisley is the same with the museum and various venues as well. The redevelopment and regeneration for me is the most important part of any bid, because it is what comes out of it and what is the legacy as we move forward. That is the most important part, creating the type of capital investment to ensure that we have the capacity to have such an event. I am only too aware of Perth's concert hall, because I have been there in various party conferences not recently, because the membership is a wee bit too large now, but we all miss going to Perth for that. Paisley currently has many venues as well with Paisley town hall, and the abbey has been used as an arts venue just now as well. That creates the whole history and legacy. Paisley has given Scotland the importance in general. We have the arts centre, but we lack one major capital investment, which is a cinema performance area. Paisley community trust plans to create a £40 million cinema and performing arts centre in the heart of Paisley, a 500-seat main theatre with five cinema screens, cafe, bar and restaurant. That is all in the back of working with the bid as well. They are using the Glasgow film theatre type model to do that. Recently they had the screen machine, which normally goes round rural areas in Paisley county square yesterday, and they showed that it is a wonderful life. I did not go to see it because Stacey and I tend to leave that for a wee greet in Christmas Eve, but it was good to see kids and everybody back in the heart of the town instead of some out-of-town cinema and shopping centre. As we have all said, any bid needs to ensure that it has the public backing. It has to be owned by the people in the said town. Our local newspaper, the Paisley Daily Express, has urged all buddies to back the bid by doing a social media campaign in hashtag why I love Paisley. We all know that I tend to just come here to do that, but I have been taken to social media to do that as well now. What is not to love about Paisley and its history in the bid? What is not to love about the people, their passion for life and what we have given the world both in historical context and in cultural one? David Tennant, Gerard Butler, Jerry Rafferty, John Byrn, Weaver poet Robert Tannihill, Reverend John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence in America, and of course the world-famous Paisley pattern. All those things will be part of the bid that Paisley is pushing forward, but regardless of who is successful in 2017 for the 2021 UK city of culture, the most important thing, I believe, is regeneration. Looking at previous bids, I think that this was the case for both Derry and for Hull. It was what could actually show for the future. Scotland moves forward with two of its great towns, both bidding for this UK city of culture. Can I just take this opportunity to wish Perth all the success in its journey during the bidding process? For me, the best option will always be the great town of Paisley. I say just in closing, watch this space, because as Benjamin Dugdale said, keep your eye on Paisley. I'm glad that we did briefly return to Perth at the end. I now call Murdo Fraser. Perhaps I can bring the debate back from George Adam's galaxy far, far away in Paisley to Perth. I congratulate Liz Smith for securing this debate and thank her for the opportunity to contribute. It's just three years since Perth was awarded city status as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations. I think the city is well placed now to be the UK city of culture 2021. I remember the long fought campaign for city status in Perth, which was fought with cross-party backing. It's good to see that the current campaign also has cross-party support. To have politicians from all sides unite in support of this bid as UK city of culture, it's going to be hugely important in taking it forward. Despite being Scotland's newest city, Perth is actually one of the country's oldest, and the birth of our nation and Perth's story are closely wrapped together. In a tale so gruesome it could feature in an episode of Game of Thrones, Kenneth McAlpine slaughtered his Pictish rivals at the dinner table in Skun and therefore became the first king of Scots. For the next 800 years, Skun Palace served as the coronation location for all of Scotland's monarchs. Perth's interesting and sometimes bloody history is well represented throughout the city thanks to museums and other cultural hotspots. As we've heard, one particular attraction that traces Perth's history through the ages is the museum and art gallery. From the Romans to Scottish art, including a recent acquisition of an Alice in What piece, Perth Museum has all bases covered and is also facing the exciting prospect of a new redevelopment. This is also true of the Black Watch Museum near the city centre, which recently underwent a massive restoration programme. In terms of culture, Perth is of course the birthplace of John Buchan, one of Scotland's greatest writers, and of course famous, among other things, for his biography of the first marquess of Montrose. Still, I believe, is a popular subject for biographers, especially those with a Perth connection. History is everywhere in Perth. Richard III, we know, was famously dug up from underneath a car park in Leicester, but there are many historians who believe that Perth also has a dead monarch lying underneath the streets. Following his murder in Perth, historians long argue that James I lies buried under the streets of Perth. Perhaps I wouldn't advocate digging up the streets to search for him, although some people have proposed just that. The shovels are going to hit the ground near the city centre as part of a major leisure and archery development. As Liz Smith mentioned, the Mill Street car park is set for a major private sector investment, with a regeneration project likely to bring a leisure complex complete with cinema, gym, restaurants and shops. Encouraging private sector investment like this to get involved is going to be incredibly important. Despite all the future plans and existing attractions, in many ways Perth is Scotland's forgotten city. As other areas of the country have been handed generous support and investment, Perth, for the most part, has been left to its own devices. People in Perth have looked on with some envy as Dundee has received substantial public investment by way of the V&A museum and the waterfront development. Perth needs similar support, and attaining UK city of culture status would be the perfect springboard to attract more investors. Finally, digital infrastructure must also improve if Perth is to be a serious contender. A modern city is online and interconnected. Google Maps, CripAdvisor and Yale are today's guidebooks, and Perth must be able to deliver them to visitors on demand and on the move. Sadly, too much of Perth continues to lag behind with broadband and internet speed falling way behind what was expected in the 21st century, and that needs to be improved. Contributions across the chamber today have demonstrated that Perth has the attractions to make it the perfect UK city of culture. History, culture and art ooze from every corner. As Liz Smith mentioned, London Dairy Dairy in Northern Ireland has benefited tremendously from city of culture status and forecasters have predicted that around £60 million could be generated within the local economy from a successful Perth bid. There are many challenges to overcome before this becomes a reality, but I look forward to working with colleagues across the chamber to further Perth's case to be named as the next UK city of culture. Many thanks. Can I now invite Fiona Hyslop to respond to the debate? Cabinet Secretary, seven minutes or so please. First of all, I would like to thank members for their contributions, and, as Merda Fraser has pointed out, Perth's bid has cross-party support. Local authorities have a crucial role to play in delivering cultural activity, and I welcome Perth's and Conross's clear ambitions to use cultural creativity as a catalyst to promote regeneration. I am mindful, as George Adam has pointed out, that there are other Scottish cities and areas that have indicated, or may still indicate, given that this process is in its early days. A desire to bid to become 2021 UK city of culture. Indeed, I recently met Renfrewshire Council to hear of their ambitions around Paisley. There is a strong case for Scotland in this competition, and our cities are in a strong place culturally, so let any competition be constructive to advertise our cultural successes and potential collectively in this country. Clare Baker might be interested to know that Scottish Government and our agencies, including Creative Scotland, Event Scotland and Scottish Enterprise, provided significant support for shortlisted Dundee's 2017 bid, which, although ultimately unsuccessful, helped to put forward a subsequent successful bid to become a designated UNESCO city of design, the first city in the UK to do so. The Scottish Government and our agencies, therefore, have a recent valuable experience to help to advise future bidding cities through this process. My officials have also been in contact with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport Westminster, who run the competition to ensure details of the bidding process will be finalised to help Scottish cities and the areas that develop their plans. Let's focus on Perth. Perth is at the heart of Scotland's story of ancient Scotland and the Kingdom of Alba and the crowning place of Scottish kings. Perth also shaped modern Scotland as Willie Rennie referred to key figures from the 20th century Scottish renaissance, the modernist and colourist painter John Duncan Ferguson, Patrick Geddes and William Sutter, all linked with Perth. It has a vibrant cultural scene with the quality of the cultural organisations based in the area, being of exceptional quality, from horse cross arts to pitlockery festival, theatre to the Perth festival of the arts and many more. We've heard about the importance, the central importance of the Ferguson gallery and extensive archives that they hold, exhibiting that great talent and creative energy. The Perth concert hall is one of the most significant Scottish public buildings of this century and is renowned for its first-class acoustics. I have been very pleased to attend youth brass band championships there in previous years. The city plan for Perth sets a new level of ambition for the city, improving connectivity, developing the knowledge economy and strengthening the business and tourism offer. It's clear that culture is central to the future aspirations for Perth, as Claire Baker set out both in terms of the economic benefits that culture can generate and its wider transformative power to improve quality of life and build a sense of identity and civic pride across communities for the very newest of our cities. The transformation of Perth's theatre is under way to renew and enhance the existing Edwardian theatre in the centre of Perth. The transformation of this much-loved building into the most modern and exhilarating theatre space in Scotland in the heart of Scotland's new city will perfectly complement the international standard Perth concert hall. Within the theatre, horse-crossed arts will increase and diversify audiences through inspiring programmes, collaboration and the nurturing of new talent. A paved civic space is to be created adjacent to the new theatre development and the venals linking Mill Street and the High Street are to be given significant improvements. Within the Perth city plan, Mill Street and the surrounding area is identified as a cultural quarter. Next year, as part of the town centre planning pilots, the Scottish Government is supporting the council to develop an innovative lighting project designed to help to tell the story of Perth and attract visitors into the town centre. That will be launched in 2016, the year of innovation, architecture and design, which will spotlight, celebrate and promote Scotland's heritage and modern attributes in relation to architecture, engineering, renewables, fashion, textiles, science, technology and more through an exciting programme of activity to inspire the people of Scotland and our visitors and to boost tourism in every corner of Scotland. Creative Scotland has invested over £3.29 million in individuals and organisations based in Perth and Conross through 15 awards in 2014-15, including one of the highlights in Scotland's cultural calendar of Perth Festival of the Arts, which celebrated the 44th year in May this year. Highlights include the Proclaimers, Jules Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra and Lab OEM by English Touring Opera. It is something for everyone and I am sure that the 45th festival next year will be some celebration. In recent years, all five of our national performing companies have performed in and engaged with communities across Perth and Conross. Activities have ranged from offering practical ideas for music making for local nursery staff and teachers to taste the sessions for all ages in modern ballet. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra inspired a 50 strong community orchestra to help horse cross art to celebrate their 10th birthday this summer and they chose Perth to present their inaugural Notes from Scotland initiative, with five new works from young composers inspired by the National Trust of Scotland locations around the country. The National Theatre of Scotland has announced the first part in a brand new cycle of three music pieces commemorating the First World War, the 306 Dawn, written by Oliver Emanuel with music composed by Gareth Williams. The work will be co-produced with Perth Theatre and 1418 Now in association with Red Note Ensemble and will be directed by Laurie Sanson. The first part of the trilogy explores the stories of the 306 men shot for cowardice and desertion during the First World War. Dawn is set around the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 and will be ambitiously staged in the Perthshire countryside from May 2016. Our National Collections and Museums Gallery Scotland have extensive learning and community engagement programmes with a recent increase in visits to the National Museum of Scotland from schools in the Perth area. There were only 10 in 13, 14, and that has increased to 15 in 14, 15. Perth Museum and Art Gallery and the Black Watch Museum are one of 10 partners in the next-of-kin touring programme commemorating the centenary of the First World War across Scotland and each contributes their own stories based on local collections. I have also developed additional resources used by schools and community groups. From what we have heard from all contributions and what I have set out in terms of the current activity, Perth is on a journey. Earlier this year, it was announced that Perth had beaten off competition from 19 other Scottish locations to land its own customised board to celebrate Monopoly's 80th anniversary. I was crowned as the May fair of Perth, joined St Johnson's FC, the Perth Museum of Art Gallery, the Black Watch Museum, Perth College, the Ferguson Gallery, the Fair Maids House and the Concert Hall on the board's 22 squares. The courier features on the spot normally occupied by Fleet Street, the traditional home of the newspaper industry, while Old Kent Road is taken over by the North Inch. Perth is going places, not just on the Monopoly board, and I wish the city well on its cultural journey.


Hi friends, happy Saturday 6 40 a.m. And this girl is at the grocery store It doesn't open for about another 15 minutes or so So I'm gonna finish compiling my grocery list make sure everything is on there and ready to pick up in the store And then I will be headed home to show you all of the groceries that I picked up for the week Is well as my carry-on meal planner and what I have planned out as far as meals go for this week I'm excited. I have some really delicious yummy meals on my plan for this week So super excited about that So if you want to see all of the groceries that I picked up for the week and my meal plan then just stay tuned So I just got back from the grocery store and here is my haul So this is actually a smaller haul than normal I have quite a bit of meat and everything on hand for the week So I had to just pick up a few of those things and then just some dairy and a little bit of canned goods So let me show you everything that I picked up for the week after I show you my grocery haul will go through my meal plan I Grab another box of the simple truth natural chicken breasts. I actually really like these. There is zero added fat to the breast of chicken and No rib meat So definitely zero points and they just the quality is a million times better than the less expensive version of chicken and Really quick look who's joined us for the grocery haul He actually goes to the vet today at 1130 to check his stitches and to check his staples and see if they're ready to be removed So I'm sure he's looking forward to that as much as we are. I Also grabbed two cans of the Pillsbury Crescent rolls. These are the reduced calorie I am making a recipe that requires two cans this week I also picked up a container of dairy gold 2% low fat cottage cheese This is both for a recipe this week as well as for snacking. I've been really enjoying cottage cheese lately I also grabbed a big container of the fa a 0% Greek yogurt I need this for a couple of recipes and I'm about out I'm also going to be making two ingredient dough it for meal prep So I needed non-fat Greek yogurt for that. I Also picked up light or reduced fat sour cream again for some recipes this week And because we are about out of light sour cream. I also grabbed some yogurts I've been really enjoying parfaits with the raspberry smart cakes. So I grabbed berries and cream pineapple Vanilla and then toasted coconut vanilla So for yogurts to get me through the week for either snacking or for the parfaits They have not had these eggs for a while the happy eggs are no longer on sale Which I love but these eggs are so good. These are better than the happy eggs They're about six dollars a dozen and they have not had them for a while They finally have them back in stock and I actually had a coupon for a dollar 25 off. So I think that made them like for 25 a dozen so not bad and they really are so delicious. This is the blue sky Organic pastures eggs young Also, they had a great meat sale going on. They had their roasts buy one get one free equal or lesser value So I actually got two boneless chuck roasts for about $15. So that is a definite steal I'm actually going to be doing an instant pot recipe It was pot roast this week So one of the roasts is for that and the other one I will toss in the freezer for a future recipe You can never beat buy one get one the free I also grabbed some sprinkles. These are for my Easter Baking that I'm going to be doing where I'm going to be showing you guys a super fun Easter recipe for The holiday time so I grabbed some fun little Easter sprinkles And then we're also having Easter dinner at our house And it is my father-in-law's birthday as well So I'm going to be making an Easter bunny cake and so these sprinkles will come in handy. I Also picked up a can of tuna fish. I like to just have this on hand I bought those Joseph pitas in my nutrition haul if you haven't seen that haul make sure you check that out But I thought some tuna fish pitas would be a really good lunch. I Picked up a can of Rotel just to have on hand same with a can of cream of chicken soup I don't know if you guys knew but this healthy request is The less points than the reduced fat cream of chicken So if you can find the healthy request you might as well grab it has a little more flavor a little bit thicker than the fat free I Also picked up a tiny little jar of diced Pimentos and this is for a recipe this week that called for Pimentos, but this is so cute. It's literally the smallest jar ever Lift in onion soup mix again for a recipe. I believe this is for the pot roast But don't quote me on that. I'll show you my meal plan here in just a bit, but I grabbed some onion soup mix I'm also making a brownie recipe in meal prep and I like to add some espresso or some coffee to my brownies It just really enhances the chocolate flavor.  I Also picked up another container of sugar-free Italian sweet cream coffee mate This is my favorite of the sugar-free creamers. Well, actually the peppermint mocha is my favorite But they don't have that after Christmas unfortunately So my second favorite is the Italian sweet cream It used to be a blue container and they've just recently changed their packaging I also grabbed some zesty dill pickles. My husband loved the loves these He's a lot of pickles. So we always like to have these on hand The rest is produce. I grabbed some mushrooms. I usually buy sliced, but these were such a good deal I can slice them myself a Red onion three Roma tomatoes Carrots, which is also for the pot roast Zucchinis a pack of organic basil I wanted some salad mix and this organic girl protein greens. This stuff is really really good actually was on sale for a dollar 50 so it's good It has pea leaves in it and it just makes this nice flavor for your salad So I picked that up and I also picked up some halos and lastly I grabbed some Diet Coke and some coke vanilla zero just to have on hand as you know My husband is a Diet Coke addict So picked him up another couple of 12 packs for the week. All right So let's talk about the meal plan for the week. Of course, I will be using my Kerry L meal planner. This is it It is absolutely awesome. So here's what the meal planner looks like I mainly use the yellow tap here that is specifically for your meal plan I love how it has every week a menu that you can list out your menu for the week And then it also has a detachable Grocery list on the menu so you can see that I use my grocery list every single week And then it also has a calendar so you can track day by day on a monthly basis What you are planning to make for dinners and then down here There's a note section as well If maybe you need to note a product that you ran out of that you need to add to your grocery list So it's definitely an all-purpose amazing meal planner So this is the week that we are currently in which is 4 6 through 4 12 my week runs Saturday through Friday So today is Saturday the 6th and we go out to dinner Which we probably won't today, but it is the day that I use my weekly So I don't have any meal planned for Saturdays. We kind of just go with the flow. Whatever sounds good Tomorrow I'm going to be making crescent chicken. So that is what I bought those crescent rolls for Really excited about this recipe and then we'll pair that with either a salad or some vegetables And then on Monday, I'm going to be doing that instant pot sundae pot roast Really excited about this as well. I love instant pot recipes. They're fast. They're quick. They're easy I will be doing an entire instant pot video. So stay tuned for that On Tuesday, I'm going to be making goulash and a veggie Wednesday is my late day at work So we typically have leftovers and usually by midweek we have plenty of food left over to eat So I usually don't cook one to two nights per week Thursday, I'm going to be making italian creamy chicken pasta Again excited about this pair that with a vegetable and then on friday We will most likely have leftovers as well. And then on the back of my weekly menu It is just blank and this is where I plan my meal prep. So for breakfast this week I'm going to be making copycat starbucks starbucks egg bites Yeah, these are going to be amazing. I'm going to pair that with a western bagel and some fruit So of course, you'll be seeing that in my meal prep on monday For lunches this week I'm going to be making a spaghetti and wait until you see how low point I make my spaghetti and I use real noodles Not zoodles. So I'm excited to show you that I'll be making two ingredient dough garlic knots And then I'll be having some sort of vegetable with my lunch as well And then for a dessert this week. I am making a double chocolate chip brownies Really excited to show you guys those as well So that is what I have on the agenda for my meal prep for the week And then of course what I have planned for my menu for the week as well So I do have a discount here for the cariel meal planner It is down in the description box below. It will get you 10 off It is seriously amazing you guys it has everything from planning gatherings All of your meal prep. It has a little pocket back here for some notes Tons of note pages which I love So if you're looking for a really good meal planner, I highly recommend the cariel So thank you for joining me on another W. W. Weekly grocery haul and meal plan I hope that you enjoyed seeing all of the good stuff that I picked up for the week As well as a glimpse into my weekly menu and my amazing cariel meal planner I know a lot of you have bought the meal planner and absolutely love it But if you have not yet, you can go ahead and use my discount below to save that 10 They have the eight and a half by 11 size, which is the one that I showed you And they also have a smaller seven by nine So just depending on what you're looking for as far as a meal planner goes So if you're new to my channel, I'd like to extend a big warm welcome Make sure that you subscribe if you hit the bell It'll notify you each time that I upload a new video I would love it if you would give this one a thumbs up comment below Let me know what's on your meal plan for the week and which of my recipes that I showed you Are you most excited to see and I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye


Deck the Halls with festive plungers because we're back for another video game story time advent calendar video. Today we'll solve the mystery that has confounded gamers for decades. Why is Mario a plumber? Of course Mario didn't start life in the plumbing trade, he was originally a carpenter before changing professions. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, in Donkey Kong Mario was actually a carpenter and he was working on a building and then the next game we made after that was a game called Mario Brothers and that was a game set in the sewers and the pipes were green and there were turtles coming out of the pipes. And so we thought in this game it would make sense that Mario be a plumber because of all the pipes and so that's where the plumber came from. But my vision of Mario has always been that he's sort of representative of everyone. He's a kind of blue collar hero and so that's why we chose these roles for him that were things like carpenters and plumbers. So that's the answer. Shigeru Miyamoto wanted Mario to feel relatable to everyone, although anyone who's ever had a painfully large plumbing bill might not relate to plumbers all that much. Join us tomorrow for another of these tiny videos.