Thank you. That concludes general questions. We will now move to First Minister's questions and at question number one, I call Douglas Ross. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. Does the First Minister agree with Pete Wishert, currently the SNP's longest serving MP at Westminster, who said earlier on this week that it was a fair point that her Government had imposed too many Covid restrictions over Christmas? I'm not sure that's a fair representation of Pete Wisher's comments, but can I first take the opportunity, Presiding Officer, to recognise that Pete Wisher is, I think, Scotland's longest serving member of Parliament, which I think goes to show what an outstanding service Pete Wisher does for his constituents. Let me take the opportunity, and I'm sure Douglas Ross will join me in paying tribute to his public service. I think we introduced a series of balanced protective measures over the Christmas period, coupled with the extraordinary response of the public, changing their behaviour and, of course, the extraordinary success of the booster programme. We are thankfully now in a better position than we might have been when we were looking ahead before the Christmas period, but we're not in a position that I think allows us any complacency. Covid rates are still high, there are still significant uncertainties ahead, which is why doctors, nurses, NHS managers and trade unions all expressed some concern with the Prime Minister's announcement yesterday to lift all restrictions at this stage, including the requirement to wear face coverings. We will continue to take a proportionate and balanced set of decisions to try to get through this next, I hope, final phase of the pandemic and keep the country as safe as we possibly can do while we're doing so. The First Minister said that it wasn't a fair representation of people's wishers' comments. It was a direct quote. He was asked, has the First Minister in Scotland introduced too many Covid restrictions over Christmas, and his response was, that is a fair point. He agreed with the premise of the question and the First Minister went on to laud his parliamentary career. Perhaps she could maybe listen to him when he, an SNP member, elected representative is saying that the restrictions imposed over Christmas were too much, because the First Minister imposed restrictions that had a massive impact on jobs, on businesses, on people's mental and physical health. We can now see that they weren't needed. It was the Scottish public's actions, not the SNP Government's restrictions that got this right. The First Minister has tried to build a reputation for caution during this pandemic, but she was far too gung-ho in imposing extra restrictions last month. Will she now accept that her Government went too far? Firstly, the public did comply. They complied with what the Government asked them to do. I think that Douglas Ross is striking rather a desperate note right now, just as if he is seriously describing Pete Wisher showing, as all the elected representatives should, some respect for the point that somebody was making to him, as evidence that Pete Wisher agrees with Douglas Ross rather than with this Government. All that says to people is that Douglas Ross is showing rather more political desperation than we even thought he might have been. We have taken a balanced approach. At the moment, I think that this cautious approach is the one that we should be taking. That is my sentiment. Those are not actually my words, though. Those are the words of Sandesh Gohani MSP on BBC Scotland on 7 January. If Douglas Ross is basing his entire line of questioning to me right now on something that Pete Wisher said, what is his response to his own MSP saying that the cautious approach is the one that we should be taking? Professor Susan Meekie, a member of the UK Government's sage committee, Scotland is doing something that is very good from a public health point of view. The Scottish approach is in line with the Welsh Government's approach and the Northern Irish Government's approach. We are taking a sensible approach through this, which is why infection levels, although dropping now thankfully in all parts of the UK, are lower in Scotland than they are in England right now. Over the festive period, the numbers of people in hospital proportionately were lower. We are not out of the woods yet, although things look far more positive. I will continue to take a cautious approach. Frankly, the price of throwing caution to the wind is not paid by Governments. It is paid by people across the country in terms of ill health and, sadly, in some cases, serious illness and death. That is a price that I do not think I should impose on the people of Scotland. Douglas Ross, Serious illness and death does not just come from Covid.  We have been living with the pandemic now for two years, and I think that the First Minister would do better to respond to the points being made. She may not like them, but the points and questions being made, rather than launching personal attacks on the opposition politicians who do it. Not only did the First Minister impose unnecessary restrictions, she actually wanted to go further. The First Minister repeatedly claimed throughout December that the UK Government was holding her back from putting Scotland into lockdown again. She wanted to close down the economy, no matter the impact that it would have on Scottish jobs and businesses. However, the First Minister promised compensation when her restrictions were introduced, yet now we are coming out of the restrictions. That compensation still has not been delivered to many businesses. They have not received a single penny. This week, the Federation of Small Businesses said that thousands of Scottish businesses needlessly go under every year because of late payment. Will the First Minister accept that her Government is currently the worst offender of late payments in Scotland? No, but I will say to Douglas Ross that the pandemic is causing the serious impact on individuals and businesses across Scotland, the UK, Europe and the entire world. Much as we might all like to be able to do so—believe me, I would love to be able to do so—we cannot just magic it away. No country is able to do that. I have to say to Douglas Ross that he has stood in his position in this chamber at every key juncture in the management of this pandemic, since he has been back in this chamber. He has opposed the decisions that the Scottish Government has taken, even at times when there were exactly the same decisions that were taken by his colleagues in the Westminster Government. He has decided to take an entirely opportunistic approach to the handling of a global pandemic. I think that people will judge that, and I do not think that they will judge it very kindly. If we had listened to Douglas Ross, then over the past months we would not have had sensible measures such as asking people to wear face coverings. We would not have had other mitigations in our schools, for example. We would not have advised people sensibly to work from home, and we would not therefore be in the stronger position that we are in right now, able to lift those protective measures from Monday of next week. Given that Douglas Ross has called it wrong literally at every juncture of this pandemic, forgive me if I am not going to start listening to him now. On business support, of course, much of the— Mr Hughes, Mr Hughes. Incidentally, on the issue of opposition politicians and quoting people, Douglas Ross opened his line of questioning today, misrepresenting, in my view, Pete Wisher. Then he takes issue with the fact that I give a direct quote from Sandesh Gohani, and let me repeat that direct quote. At the moment, this cautious approach is the one that we should be taking. Given the issue of business support, of course, much of this business support will not be available to businesses suffering the same impact south of the border. If Douglas Ross does not think that they are suffering the same impact, then I suggest that he really needs to get out a little bit more. All local authorities have started processing payments. Some local authorities have made very good progress and said that they have already paid almost all of the hospitality and leisure businesses eligible for support. All local authorities are on track to complete 100 per cent of payments to hospitality and leisure businesses affected by the Christmas cancellations and physical distancing by 31 January. That support is available here and is not available elsewhere, and we will continue to do the right thing by businesses. Douglas Ross. The First Minister needs to make her mind up. She is accusing the Conservatives of opposing every measure that she puts forward and then, in the same breath, she is accusing the Conservatives for wanting a cautious approach. It is simply not opportunistic to trust the people in Scotland, to trust that they can learn to live with Covid rather than having to live with her Government's restrictions, which are having a massive impact on jobs, on businesses and communities across Scotland, and they are not getting the money or the support that they were promised. The First Minister has got the big decisions wrong over the past few months. Too quick to bring in unnecessary Covid restrictions, too late to launch mass vaccination centres, too late to change the self-isolation rules, too late to get funding to businesses who need it. The First Minister says that she does not shy away from the mistakes that she has made in the handling of the pandemic, so can she finally just admit that by introducing those tough restrictions here in Scotland before Christmas and by wanting to introduce even tougher restrictions, she has simply made the wrong call. Of course, Minister. I will let the people of Scotland judge the impact of the calls that I and my Government have made, but let me say this. Right now, on first doses, on second doses, on third doses, on booster vaccination doses, Scotland is the most vaccinated part of the United Kingdom. If Douglas Ross's proposition is that we left it too late, then what on earth does that say about his colleagues in the Westminster Government? We also, in terms of the ONS figures this week, infection levels in England right now are over 20 per cent higher than in Scotland. I do not think that it is a competition, but if Douglas Ross wants to make those comparisons, then the comparisons there are the data. I say gently to Douglas Ross, because I know that he is having a tough time politically, but I say gently. It is inconsistent, entirely inconsistent. There is no consistency in saying, as his health spokesperson did, that the cautious approach is the one that we should be taking and then opposing every cautious measure that we choose to take for opportunistic reasons. Can I suggest that Douglas Ross just gets his own house in order? Perhaps suggest to more of his colleagues that they obey the rules that are in place when they are in place and leave this Government to get on with steering this country responsibly and in a mature, grown-up fashion through the global pandemic. The First Minister said that the option of major offshore wind project was one of the most significant days that Scotland has seen in a very, very long time. I welcome in-word investment, but it should not come at the cost of the Scottish economy or just transition or our values. Let us be clear about what has happened. This SNP Government has sold on the cheap the right to profit from Scotland's energy transition to multinational companies with questionable human rights records. One of the new owners of Scotland's seabed bed refined $54 million for bribing Nigerian officials and $88 million for bribing Indonesian officials. Another one was found to have contributed to human rights abuses at one of its construction sites, of destroying villages in Myanmar, of relying on forced labour and using slavery to build pipelines. Surely those are not people that the Scottish Government should be doing business with. Countessates Scotland made the decisions on the companies, the consortiums that would award the status to develop projects around our coast. They have appropriate processes in place to do due diligence, but this is one of the most exciting things for Scotland in a long, long time, which is probably why Scottish Labour has been so negative about it. Why does this give us the potential to meet our own energy needs from renewable sources? It positions us with the ability to be a major exporter of renewable energy, including green hydrogen. It gives enormous potential for our supply chain. The estimate is that for every gigawatt of power that will be generated from those projects, there will be £1 billion of investment in our supply chain. For the first time, companies have had to set out in statements what they will do to support our supply chain. That is good news. There are complicated consenting and planning processes that lie ahead, but that offers massive potential to Scotland and its potential we intend to seize with both hands. I agree with the opportunity, but values matter. Just last week, the SNP was right to accuse the Tory Government of tolerating human rights abuses as a price worth paying to secure deals for the UK. This week, the SNP has done the same. What Nicola Sturgeon in effect is saying is that it is bad when the Tories do it, but it is okay when the SNP does it. There is another concerning part of the deal. One of the new owners of Scotland's seabed is the Swedish-owned state-owned energy company. That state-owned Swedish energy company can now use its part of the Scottish seabed to keep energy bills down for people in Sweden. The First Minister once promised a Scottish state-owned energy company. In fact, this SNP Government spent almost £500,000 of taxpayers' money on the project before scrapping the plans. Why is it that people of Sweden now own a bigger stake in Scottish energy supply and distribution than the Scottish people? The SNP, not stronger for Scotland but stronger for Sweden. The First Minister Yes, Sweden is also an independent country with full control over energy, which, of course, this Government and this Parliament do not have. However, that is a matter that Anasar War might want to reflect on a little bit more. Today, the cabinet secretary for net zero is talking about the opportunities around consultation for our plans for an energy public agency to steer those kinds of developments in the future. That is a thoroughly positive opportunity for Scotland. No wonder, then, that Scottish Labour just wants to gyrn about it and be negative. That is what has characterised Scottish Labour for a long time, and it is why it is sitting over there these days, not there and certainly not here. Let me just repeat the opportunity. The opportunity to meet our own energy needs from renewable sources and to keep energy costs down, the opportunity to export renewable energy to other countries, the opportunity to grow a supply chain and create thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of jobs and, of course, the opportunity to raise revenues for the Scottish Government, for public services here in Scotland from the lease options alone £700 million. Then, when those projects are operational, there will be rent fees in addition to that. That is a thoroughly positive opportunity. Perhaps Anasar War, just for once, could find it within himself to be positive about the potential of Scotland. Anasar War, I have said I welcome your investment, I have said I welcome and recognise the opportunity, but this is such a desperate, poor reply. The First Minister often likes to accuse Opposition parties of demonstrating a brass neck. That was a brass neck from the First Minister in that reply. Acuse the tories of bad values on human rights, accept human rights values as being part of the price worth paying for Scottish opportunities here, because this is about the Scottish supply chain, Scottish companies and Scottish jobs. The sad reality is that this is an SNP Government that does not understand economic development. Scottish bridges built with Chinese steel, Scottish wind farms with turbines built in Indonesia, ferries not built with Scottish shipyards built in Poland and Turkey and now Scotland's seabed owned by foreign multinationals with woeful human rights records. We have heard the list of promises from the First Minister before. A state-owned energy company promised never delivered. Scotland's becoming renewables like Saudi Arabia promised but never delivered. A 130,000 green jobs promised but never delivered. After 15 years, isn't it the case that this is an SNP Government that has sold out Scottish jobs, sold off Scottish assets and now has sold out Scottish values? I am just sitting here reflecting. Almost unbelievably, the Anasarwar has just accused me of behaving like a Tory. The day after, his party threw open the doors to a Tory MP. There is now so little difference between Labour and the Tories that their MPs are just interchangeable, so Brasnek, I would say to Mr Sarwar, I think he will be polishing his for the rest of the day. Anasarwar and his many predecessors as Scottish Labour leader—I have to say, I have forgotten how many predecessors Scottish Labour leader Anasarwar has had—have been trotting out those negative, top-down Scotland tropes for years. All that has happened is that they have gone further and further down in the ratings in Scottish politics. They have lost more and more votes and my party's share of the vote has increased. I came into the chamber expecting political desperation from Douglas Ross today. I think that I have seen even more from Anasarwar, which probably says all we need to know. I will get on with encouraging the potential for Scottish renewable energy, Scottish jobs and revenue for the Scottish Government. I will be delighted at the next time I ask him to put that record before the Scottish people. I am not so sure that Anasarwar will be quite so keen. We will now take supplementary questions, and I call Fiona Hyslop. First Minister, increasing energy prices are of very real concern. What discussions has she had with the Westminster Government on help for families to combat the spiralling financial cost of the energy crisis? The energy crisis, the cost of living crisis, is increasing on a daily basis at the moment. It is of deep concern to this Government. We are taking a range of measures ourselves through our £41 million winter fund, seven new benefits aimed at low-income households and, of course, shortly we will double the Scottish child payment. Of course, key powers do remain reserved to Westminster. We have written to the UK Government countless times about poverty and also just last week set out further actions, which we have outlined that they must urgently take to tackle rising energy bills. If a Government, as is the case with the Westminster Government, is so busy trying to deal with self-inflicted sleaze and scandal and daily defections and deflections, then its focus is not on the cost of living crisis, it is on themselves. That is deeply regrettable and deeply serious, because it is right now neglecting the real issues that people are facing across the country. First Minister, diabetes rates are rapidly increasing across Scotland, with diagnosis more than doubling in the last 20 years. Diabetes Scotland reported last week that access to the correct diabetes technology, such as instant pumps, can be a life changing for patients, but just over 10 per cent of 18-year-olds use them. The gap in diabetes outcomes between affluent and deprived areas in Scotland is widening, so can I ask the First Minister what urgent action can be put in place to ensure that this worrying trend is reversed? It is an important issue. We will work with Diabetes Scotland to take forward the findings of the report, making sure that access to insulin pumps for young people, but for people of all ages, is important, but also that they are used and they are used effectively is vital. We have made improvements in years gone by in this, and we will continue to focus on making further improvements for the sake of people across Scotland who live with that condition. The First Minister will be aware of the anger in local authorities across Scotland that the Scottish Government is not planning to compensate them for the upcoming raise in national insurance, as councils in England and Wales are being compensated. That will inevitably cause further cuts to already stretched services. How does the First Minister justify living Scottish local authorities worse off for this change than their English counterparts? The UK Treasury block grant to the Scottish budget does not identify consequential funding for national insurance contributions, so there are no identifiable consequentials to pass on. However, we are providing a settlement to local government that is fair and crucially affordable. The overall local government funding package of more than £12.5 billion represents an increase in real terms of 5.1 per cent in revenue alone. It is a real terms increase of 4.9 per cent, so we will continue to treat local government as fairly as possible and support local government as far as we possibly can in delivering the services that people across the country rely on. As the First Minister will be aware, my Dogs Protection and Livestock Amendment Scotland Act 2021 is now in force and provides police Scotland and the courts with greater powers to investigate those who allow their dogs to worry, attack or kill livestock in Scotland's countryside. Livestock worrying can have serious animal welfare implications as well as significant financial and emotional impact on farmers. Can the First Minister, in light of lamb and season approaching, outline what action the Scottish Government has taken to promote public awareness of the updated legislation? I congratulate Emma Harper on her success with the legislation. It is an extremely important legislation. The Scottish Government, I can assure her, will take appropriate steps to raise awareness of it. Of course, we will do everything that we can working with partners as appropriate to ensure appropriate enforcement of it, but it is a significant step forward and one that I know will be particularly welcomed across rural Scotland. Since the extension of free personal care for people under the age of 65, no data has been recorded on the number of people who have now received this care. Given the problems that we have seen during the pandemic on people accessing care packages and, in fact, with many being removed or cut for individuals, we are finding that more and more people are reporting that people with complex needs and life-limiting conditions are not getting that care. Will the Scottish Government agree to establish a national recovery group alongside COSLA to make sure that people who are entitled to free personal care get that and that it is fully restored and delivered across Scotland? Everybody who is entitled to free personal care should get free personal care and, of course, the entitlements to free personal care in Scotland can go far beyond the situation in other parts of the UK. I am not going to give a commitment today to the proposition. I will consider it carefully, but I am not going to say right now before having the chance to consider it that I think that that would be the right way forward. I will also, however, look at the issue of data and come back to the member with an indication of when data is likely to be published, which will give a sense of how many people are taking that entitlement. Constituents of Lansfield Key in Glasgow are living with what has been deemed 22 intolerable risks to life as a result of flammable cladding on their building. They have been struggling to get a single building assessment on it, which was promised in June 2021. Can I ask the First Minister what she and her Government could do to assist my constituent in obtaining that information as a matter of urgency? Obviously, I know from my position as constituency MSP here how important this is. The Government is taking forward steps to ensure single building assessments. I will ask the housing minister to write to the member with full update on that work and what the next steps in it are. Thank you, Presiding Officer, for having a hiccup with my glasses and the mask. Can the First Minister indicate what the Scottish Government's response is regarding the impact on Scotland of reports that the BBC licence fee will be cut after the current funding deal ends in 2027? I am sure that every member across the chamber from time to time will have gripes with or criticisms of the BBC, but the BBC is an important part of our broadcasting framework. We should all defend the principle of public service broadcasting. I am deeply concerned with the hints or announcements that we saw earlier this week from the UK Government. I suspect that there is some evidence that those were an attempt to divert attention from the Prime Minister's troubles, but, nevertheless, I think that all of us have to stand up for those principles and guard against the Government and the damage it seems willing to do to key institutions, often just to try to save its own skin. To ask the First Minister what impact the UK Government's nationality and borders bill will have on devolved functions. The Scottish Government has profound concerns about this bill. We are currently considering its potential impact on areas that are devolved. If we conclude that there is an impact on the legislative competence of this Parliament, we will lodge a legislative consent memorandum setting out the relevant provisions. There is no doubt, however, that the bill will have significant impacts on devolved services at local authorities and communities. The Scottish ministers have written to the UK Government in relation to this bill five times outlining our significant concerns, including with the Welsh Government, who shared those concerns. I also note that the House of Commons joint committee on human rights yesterday said that the reforms of the asylum system proposed in the bill, and I am quoting, would fail to meet the UK's human rights obligations and risk exacerbating the already unacceptable backlog. We will continue to urge the UK Government to introduce a humane, effective and efficient system that delivers for people living in Scotland, including those who are fleeing war and persecution. The Prime Minister's intention to use the military to prevent asylum seekers from reaching the UK is deeply immoral, as is the possibility of trading access to Covid vaccines for the right to open detention centres in other countries. The First Minister will be aware of the appalling circumstances faced by many asylum seekers in Scotland, including in Aberdeen in my region, accommodated in hotels but not given basic support or things like toiletries, culturally sensitive food, language classes and so on. While we do not have the powers to counter these racist policies, we can make sure that asylum seekers and refugees in Scotland are treated better. I am sure that the First Minister will join me in condemning the plans by the Prime Minister and his cruel and inhuman home office. Will she also outline what lessons have been learned by the tragic death at Park Inn in Glasgow and say what more we can do to prevent the growth of the use of institutional accommodation across Scotland and improve the support available through local authorities so that asylum seekers are treated with dignity? There is a lot of detail in that question, and I will undertake to ask the relevant minister to write with more detailed answers than time will allow me to give today, including, for example, on the question of lessons learned from the dreadful circumstances around Park Inn in Glasgow. The UK Government plans to divert vessels in the channel, dangerous, and it is important that we are all clear that it will significantly increase risk to life. Medicine Sun Frontiers stated that, pursuing a policy of forced returns and engaging in push-back tactics is dangerous, inhumane and in breach of international law. It puts lives at risk at sea. In my view, people seeking asylum in the UK should be accommodated within communities where they can begin to rebuild their lives, where they have access to essential services and the support and advocacy that they need, and where they can make a contribution to the communities that they are living in. The UK Government is failing to provide that. The Home Office has not shared yet its review of the tragedy at the Park Inn, but, as I said a moment ago, I will ask the Scottish Government Minister responsible to write further about that. The comments that we saw at the weekend for example about use of military a bit on the BBC were an attempt to divert attention from the troubles—the self-inflicted troubles—of the Prime Minister, but we should not be using the BBC and we should absolutely not be using refugees and asylum seekers in that way. The UK Government should not be using refugees and asylum seekers in that way. It is utterly despicable. I think that it is another sign of the moral decay at the heart of the UK Government. Question 4. Stephanie Callaghan is joining us online. Thank you. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to public health Scotland census data, which states that three out of four care home places are now provided by private companies. First Minister. Although the percentage of private sector care homes has increased, the overall balance of provision in care home places between the public and private sector has not changed markedly over the past decade. The number of care home places has remained relatively stable, which reflects our policy to support people at home for as long as possible. As we move towards the creation of the national care service, an ethical approach will be at the heart of how we commission and deliver services. All social care providers across Scotland, from the independent third and public sectors, will continue to be subject to the same regulations, standards and guidelines, ensuring that the continuation of high-quality care home provision is and will continue to be the priority of the Scottish Government. Stephanie Callaghan. I thank the First Minister for her response. Given the prevalence of private care home provision across Suddingston-Bales hill constituency in wider Scotland, how will the national care service deliver improved terms and conditions for private care home staff and ensure that high-quality care for residents? There is no doubt that the national care service will be the most significant change in public services since the establishment of the national health service. We are committed to delivering a service by the end of this Parliament in order to ensure that everybody gets the high-quality care that they are entitled to, regardless of where they live in the country. The consultation on the establishment of the national care service proposed that it will oversee the delivery of care, improve standards, ensure that it will enhance paying conditions for workers and provide better support for unpaid carers, as well as supporting ethical commissioning of care. All that will lead to better outcomes for those who rely on our care services. It is important work, it is difficult work, it is in many aspects controversial work, but I hope that by the end of this Parliament this will be a significant public sector reform that future generations will come back and look on as fondly as we look on the establishment of the national health service. Jackie Baillie Irrespective of the status of the sector, the employees in social care are predominantly female and they are predominantly low paid. It is still the case that you can get paid more by working in hospitality and retail. There were vacancies before the pandemic, made worse by the pandemic, so will the First Minister back the GMBN Unite in their campaigns to pay care workers £15 per hour, starting with an immediate rise to £12 per hour in April? We are increasing the pay of those who work in the care sector. It is important that, while Jackie Baillie, as she always does, sets out the problem, it is this Government that is delivering the solution. We are increasing the pay of social care workers. We will continue to do that. Of course, we have to do it within the bounds of affordability and we will do that, but we are also committed to a national care service that will have collective bargaining and better paying conditions for social care staff absolutely at its heart. We will continue to get on with doing the hard work that delivers the outcomes that Jackie Baillie calls for. To ask the First Minister whether she will provide an update on the delivery of Lot 1 of the R100 programme. Of course, broadband investment is reserved to Westminster, but given the UK Government's failure to deliver on that alongside its failure to deliver on so many other things, we have had to step in and make a difference. The R100 north contract was signed in December 2020. Despite the pandemic, a huge amount of property work has been completed since. A remodelling exercise ensured that every connection delivered will be full fibre and survey work for over 5,000 properties and 16 subsea cables, which will deliver vital backhaul connectivity to 15 Scottish islands. We anticipate that by the end of June, the northlock contract will have delivered over 4,000 connections. The R100 Scottish broadband voucher scheme also ensures that everyone who wants a superfast broadband connection now can have one with around 750 connections already delivered in the north of Scotland. I am not surprised by your response. I have no doubt that you will continue to try to throw the public into believing that the roll-out of broadband is reserved. That line is wearing very thin. The practical roll-out of broadband is devolved to the Scottish Government. That line, as I say, is wearing things like the patience of the people in rural Scotland. The SNP talked up the scheme as reaching 100 per cent, but rural communities are not getting what they are expected. Nearly 37,000 properties in lot 1 will not get fibre from the main scheme. The voucher scheme that you talked about is delivering nothing, with only 4 per cent of uptake so far. The First Minister should surely rename the R100 scheme that is promised by the SNP as the R40 scheme, and it is five years late. The SNP promised that its flagship R100 scheme would be delivered to everybody by 2021. Will the First Minister now apologise to people and the businesses in rural and remote communities who might not get connected at all, and most of them will not get connected until 2027? Through the R100 contracts, the R100 Scottish broadband voucher scheme and commercial coverage as well, we have ensured that every premises in Scotland can access a superfast broadband connection, despite telecoms being reserved. That is not a matter of opinion, that is a matter of fact in the Scotland act, which the member is free to go and check. To date, the UK Government's contribution to the R100 programme totals £31.5 million, 5 per cent of the total compared to £579 million invested by the Scottish Government. The UK Government's own project gigabit has yet to award a single procurement contract. The Scottish Government is getting on with the job of delivering connections, while all the Scottish Conservatives can do is gripe and ghern about it. Before we move on to question 6, I remind members to desist from shouting across the chamber when we are trying to hear questions and answers. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to Scotland's plans to cut ticket office opening hours at 120 stations and to close free ticket offices entirely. The aim of this review is the modernisation of railway stations. Clearly, to most people, technology has changed how people want to access information and tickets, but we also need to acknowledge the importance of local staff services on the ground where and when they are needed. The consultation offers the public the chance to have their say on how to provide an efficient modern service for the future, and we would encourage people to get involved. We will await the consultation findings before any final decisions are made on the proposals. Ticket office staff play a crucial role in making our railway safe and accessible, many go above and beyond such as Dalmure workers whose quick thinking recently saved a life. A properly staffed rail network is central to reducing car use and meeting Scotland's climate ambitions, yet under this Government rail is being undermined. ScotRail is cutting 300 services per day, fares will be hiked up by 3.8 per cent next week, ticket des are shutting and there is still no fully integrated smart ticketing for passengers. To drive modal shift, rail network must be more attractive and more accessible to passengers, so will the First Minister stop those ticket office closures? Consult on what a modern system of railway stations and offices looks like. I absolutely agree about the importance of ticket office staff and where they are necessary. It is important to recognise that, but everybody knows that at many railway stations now the ticket process is automated. We have to reflect that on how those services are delivered in the future, and it is right that we consult properly so that we come to the right balanced decisions. We are investing heavily in our railways. We will continue to do so to ensure that it provides a service that people in Scotland need and have a right to expect and that they deserve. Also, to continue the theme of Opposition parties calling for things, but this Government getting on with delivery, of course, is this Government that is in the process of bringing ScotRail into public ownership, delivering the nationalisation that Scottish Labour only talks about. Given that passenger numbers are dramatically down on the railways and ScotRail therefore depends on the public purse for an increased subsidy, does the First Minister agree that ScotRail does have to look at its costs and reduce them if possible? We have to make sure that we have a modern service, that we have a service that is efficient and, of course, for taxpayers that we have a service that provides value for money, but we are supporting a rail franchise right now with more than £1 billion, including £450 million of additional funding via the pandemic emergency measures. We will continue to do so to ensure that Scotland does have the railways service that it needs and deserves. Of course, as I said earlier on, we will bring it into public ownership, which I think is something that the majority of people will welcome. First Minister, 50 per cent of lung cancer patients are diagnosed at stage 4 with mortality rates high for this cancer. During Covid restrictions, there were 25 per cent less people diagnosed and 25 per cent less people in treatment. Does the First Minister recognise that Covid restrictions have a significant impact on many other conditions that will be felt long after the Covid pandemic has passed? Yes, I do. If memory serves me correctly, we had an important exchange on this issue last week. Early diagnosis of cancer and the earliest possible staging of cancer is vital. That is why we are investing so heavily in the detect cancer early programme. That is why we have established or are establishing fast track cancer diagnostic centres so that people with symptoms—that are not the most common symptoms of cancer—can get the same fast track access and fast track diagnosis as those on the urgent suspicion of cancer referral pathway. That is really important. We are absolutely committed to ensuring the earliest possible diagnosis. Of course, staging is not the only thing that is important. We then need to make sure that people get quick access to high-quality care and treatment. That is a big part of our focus in terms of cancer services too. With UK inflation hitting a 30-year high and energy costs spiralling for households with no action from the UK Government, and the standard rate of universal credit having been cut by £20 per week by the UK Government, can the First Minister outline what impact that has all had on her Government's ability to meet her child poverty targets, and whether or not she supports the poverty alliances campaign to see the punitive welfare cap scrapped by the UK Government? Yes, I fully support that poverty alliance campaign. I will be blunt about it. The UK Government is making the poorest poorer. It is doing that knowingly and it is utterly despicable. The removal of the £20 a week universal credit uplift has impacted some of the poorest families in our society, and those actions are making it more difficult for the Scottish Government to live up to our responsibilities to tackle child poverty. However, we are doing more doubling the Scottish child payment. A child payment like the Scottish child payment does not exist in any other part of the UK. Having established it, we are now taking steps to double it, so we are doing everything that we can. However, if we weren't up against the Government pulling in the opposite direction, we would be able to do more and have a much greater impact, which is, of course, the powerful argument for having all of those levers in the hands of Scottish Governments and the Scottish Parliament not leaving them in the hands of Westminster Governments. That concludes First Minister's questions. There will be a short pause before members' business.


And remember, those who deserve absolutely nothing are often the ones who you feel most compelled to give your energy to.


Jimmy Donaldson went from an 11-year-old YouTuber who grew up in Greensville, North Carolina to a multi-millionaire with a YouTube channel with over 100 million subscribers. Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, began his YouTube career doing absurd challenges, like counting to 100,000, but years later he scaled his outlandish ideas to produce videos like Getting Buried Alive for 24 hours and recreating the Netflix hit, Squib Game, on his YouTube channel. Although MrBeast has frequented different podcasts from time to time, like Joe Rogan or Logan Paul's podcast, he has never exposed his beliefs about God or the afterlife, until now. So, let's dive in. This video is made possible by The Daily Disciple Club on Patreon. To support my mission of equipping people to follow Jesus daily, join Patreon today. So, what do we make of this? It sounds like Jimmy went to a Christian school. He grew up in North Carolina, which is kind of part of the Bible Belt of the United States, so imagine he might have went to a Baptist church, he went to a Christian school, he maybe heard about Jesus, but then later on in his life he's now saying, hey, look, there's so many religions out there. How do you know? And there's a good chance that he might have even responded to an altar call at his church or at his school and went to the front and said, yeah, I want to ask Jesus into my heart, but it never stuck. I mean, I'm not sure if MrBeast ever identified as a Christian, but when you look at the statistics in the United States, over 70% of people identify as a Christian. So if that's the case, why didn't it stick? And Ray Comfort, the evangelist, diagnoses this problem as the problem with false conversion. He highlights his problem as largely due to the popularization of a false gospel. The gospel that Jesus has come to make your life better. Fulfilling relationships, a strong family, a flourishing community, success at your job, and a happy, comfortable retirement. But it rarely mentions sin or judgment or justice. And if it does mention Jesus, it's always in the context of what Jesus can give us to give us more blessed lives. Still, some will argue, but Isaac biblical principles do make our lives better. And in a lot of ways, I agree, following God's design and the way he set things up is going to be better ultimately. But that doesn't guarantee us a wonderful life according to the world's standards. In Ray Comfort's book, God has a wonderful plan for your life. He talks about thinking through the martyrs of the faith and how they didn't necessarily experience, well, they definitely didn't experience this wonderful life that people are often promoting when they say, come to Jesus, you're going to get this good life that you've always wanted. You're going to be happy, healthy, wealthy, you're going to have peace, happiness, joy, all this kind of thing. But then you look at the martyrs, man, they were killed, literally. Now, the question I'm going to be asking if I'm hearing this modern gospel is what did they do wrong? Why did they not receive the successful and comfortable life that we're supposedly guaranteed? Did they go off course somewhere? No, the problem is that we treat God like a vending machine, like a genie in the bottle that we can just come to to make our lives better. Now, I'll tell you, somebody down on their luck that's having a lot of issues in their life, this modern gospel is a great message. You're telling me that God can pick me up off my feet so I won't experience the challenges and heartbreaks that I'm currently experiencing. That's a great message. I want to pour into that because that'll give me some hope. But then when you look at somebody like Mr. Beast, who's very successful and by all rights, very happy, at least in a worldly sense, what are you trying to offer him? The modern gospel doesn't sell to somebody like him because what it's offering, he already has in a way. The gospel of life improvement isn't that attractive to somebody that has their life pretty much improved as much as they could possibly have. At that point, it's no wonder that down the line, you kind of lose connection with these Christian ideas because, look, man, I was just in it to make my life better anyway or because it was part of the cultural zeitgeist of my town. And so I was, yeah, I was a Christian, you know, this is cool. Jesus said some cool stuff, but you never responded to the true message of the gospel. What made you do the food pantry? Well, so I do plan on making the, how do I say this? This is something weird. I just, like, I feel like there's a coin flip chance. I make a ton of money throughout my life. So, like, I hope to one day be a billionaire. And when I do, I do want to do just whatever, start charities, ideally find ways to, like, start a business that's ran by homeless people. We hire them and they make product and, like, it's a kick business. But just figure out all these things. Nowadays, what I hear from Jimmy is he talks a lot about his philanthropy, how he has these food banks set up and how he helps so many people and he gives away so much money. There's no doubt in my mind that he believes that through those good things that he's doing in the world, that that makes him a good person. And hey, I'm happy that he's doing that stuff, but there's a big missing piece here. You see, if I could talk to Jimmy right now, I would tell him, hey, there's a lot more to Christianity than just being a good person or following Jesus as an example of what a good person looks like or doing enough stuff to earn God's favor or to follow Jesus so your life can be improved. All of those are distortions of the gospel. Here's what I would tell Jimmy. Our problem is sin. Sin is anything counter to God's goodness. It could be a desire, a thought, a deed, something we say, but the Bible says that even if we stumble at one point, we're guilty of all of it. It says that in James 2.10. Our conscience also testifies to us that we are in need of help, that we are guilty and we feel the shame. So he said he was having a hard time figuring out the truth in the midst of all these different religions and beliefs. Well, here's the distinction between Christianity and every other religion. You see, every other religion's mission is to get us close to God, to become one with God, to earn God's favor, and all that is done either through good works or meditation or something we do in and of ourselves to bridge that gap. But Christianity is different. Let me bring you into the story. We were standing guilty before God deserving of his wrath, but Jesus stepped in, came to this earth, fully God and fully man without sin. He lived that sinless life that we could not live and he died on the cross. The death we deserve to die for our sins against God. He rose again on the third day, defeating sin and death. That if we would put our faith in him, that we would repent for our sin and trust in him, we could have eternal life and have a restored relationship with God. Many people hear this message and yet it goes through one ear and out the other. We need to ask God to give us ears to hear and eyes to see. Ray Comfort paints this wonderful analogy. You're in an airplane 10,000 feet in the air ready to jump. You see this parachute next to you and you say, I believe in the parachute. I believe the parachute has the ability to save me, but you jump without even putting it on. That's Jesus. We need to put on Jesus. We need to put our faith in Jesus, not just believe that Jesus exists, that he said some nice stuff, but put our trust in him. Many places in Western culture has this air of cultural Christianity. People have Bible verses in their Instagram bios or Bible verse bumper stickers and maybe they even go to church. But at the end of the day, outside of Sunday, it has no impact on their daily lives.  But they don't hear what he's saying. Okay, here we go. One of the most famous passages in the whole Bible, if not the most popular, is John 3.16. Many people have heard this verse, but they haven't heard what comes after. So let's read it here. For God to love the world, that he gave his only son that whoever would believe in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him, whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already because he is not believed in the name of the only son of God. And this is the judgment. The light has come into the world and the people love the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone does wicked things and hates the light and does not come into the light lest his works be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God. Friends, Jesus didn't come to this world to just put more money in your bank account or give you more friends or give you a bigger house. And he also didn't come merely to condemn the world in our sin. He came to save the world and today he's asking you to respond to that invitation, inviting you into his family by his grace. Jesus said he is the way, the truth, and the life. You can't merely apathetically push that aside. That is a claim that requires response. And today Jesus is calling you to put your faith in him. Don't waste another day. And the beauty of receiving Christ is that we lay our heavy burdens down and that we take up Christ's yoke which is light and which is joyful and we find our pleasure and our joy in him and not the things of this world. That is a beautiful, wonderful destiny. I'll see you next time, guys. God bless.


So you beginner needing some Angular projects, you reach the right video, let me explain. This video was brought to you by DigiLink Academy. You're number one source to learning programming fast and get to that six-figure salary you desire. Our third day project course includes our JavaScript front-end projects, our Python back-end projects, our SQL database projects, and much, much more. So go ahead and click the link below to our free seven-step guide so that you can start reaching your programming goals today. I'll see you guys in the course. All right, guys, before we get into these projects, I want to set the tone of this. You're going to have two different types of projects. You're going to have the projects that are more training-related projects that are going to teach you how to fundamental the programming and more of the entry-level stuff. And then you're going to have the real-world projects, the stuff that a company actually needs that's going to also give you an opportunity to get you a job, really set you apart from other developers who are using Angular and be able to provide more value to a company using Angular as well. And most of the projects, well, we're going to say all of the projects in these videos are going to be real-world projects that you're going to be able to use in different areas, as is your portfolio for your resume, your portfolio, your resume, during the interview showcase how you can help solve problems and go beyond all this. I'm going to cover this at a very high-level, guys. We get to a lot more details in a seven-step guide. We'll talk about that later on in the video and also our 30-day project lunch bag course. So we're going to cover this at a very high level. So I just want to set the expectation of the video. But before we get started, guys, tell me about some of the projects that you guys are working with that you struggle with that may not necessarily be what you want, but you got to start from somewhere so that we can help you guys really take your projects to the next level when it comes to the Angular guys. So I made some points here that I wanted to cover and make sure I hit on these so that I can get all these for you guys. So number one, every company's got some kind of system that they input orders in across all systems. Some companies call it different things, work orders, loads. You got banks to use withdrawals and deposits. At the end of the day, where you do to conduct your business, take in business, take in orders, every company has some form of this. And they call this their main system. Well, this process is done depending on how big the company is. Thousands of millions of times. And every time the person has to input the information into the computer system, let's just say a web app, all that stuff. It would be great if you can automate some of that, if not the entire process, depending on who that person is, where they're typing, the order, get certain information that really start to auto populate. Angular can help out with that, guys, to really try to automate that process from a visual perspective. A lot of you guys just think about front end as a visual type user interface GUI, which is that's true. But you gotta get beyond that so that we can help stand out and actually solve problems beyond the actual design. And just to be quite frank with you guys, once you've done that initial project where you've actually pre-dead up, and I use the word pre-dead up their website, actually get them that first design, they're going to leverage that design for years. So you got to find a way to provide additional value outside of that. And these five projects, you know, you know, there's out of these 10 projects that I talked to you guys about in the video, that's not one of them. Because I'm assuming you already done that and you're trying to find some more projects to be able to provide value. So after you do your initial design and initial website or whatever you may know today, use your interface. Now we want to bring some automation to the table in that order entry portion of it. And this can be in any section of it. It's just order entry is one that we know every company is going to need to some form of fashion. So that's number one. Number two, mobile friendly CRM or web apps. This is becoming a thing. And I know you guys may think, hey, company has a iOS or a Android app, which is true. There's some development there. But there's going to be a segment of that business who want to use that main CRM or that main order system on a mobile device, maybe Safari, maybe Google Chrome. We are on our computers a lot, but we're on our phones more. Well, let's just say a sales manager or something like this in a meeting, they just need to get something quick off that CRM. It might not be a heavy use case, but it is a use case. There's a lot of that that can be done in a mobile friendly environment, maybe a tablet, maybe a phone. There's a lot of opportunities for Angular with that to really make sure it detects the display that you're working on. And you can optimize that user experience based off of that. And a lot of you guys don't you guys overlook that because you're so focused on the web app side of things over there on Android or Apple Store. You forget about the browsers that, you know, a lot of people, even some hyperlinks go to the website. And that website is not optimized for mobile. And there's so many possibilities that can be done there. I would say that was more one of the most less utilized projects throughout. We can go, we can have a whole video, hold three hours of that alone, but just just hit on this high level is that mobile app development as far as the browser app development. Number three, performance improvements. And let me put this in layman's terms as a developer, front end developer, Angular developer, because you guys think, hey, everything on the server side that's performance related. I don't have to worry about that. You're wrong. Even software developers have to think about performance because over time, as you scale and you see how Azure and AWS, they start to price stuff based off of compute, not just a actual VM. So it's going to be it's going to be critical that your application run as efficient as possible. That being said, you got stuff, you got a lot of tools out there, but a lot of performance level projects. But one that comes to mind off the top is lazy load to where, hey, you got this big, long web page. Why would I load all the stuff on the bottom where my display haven't got down yet? That could save a ton of computing resources over time. So many legacy applications don't have that functionality, guys. You can bring that that alone with help to performance of other areas of the application without even impacting the one that you're alongside of impacting the one that you're working on as well. And that's one of the projects that a lot of you guys just overlook as well. The lazy load that that's a that's one that's not as sexy anymore. But that was game changing for companies who use a ton of data that just needed that boost of performance without having to invest more money on the infrastructure side, guys, on that piece. Number number four, custom progress bars. And a lot of you guys may think custom project bars. No, we got the little load sign. No, I don't want that. I want a dynamic load based off of what they're doing on that application because what you're going to find out is people get the abort button too fast and the processes are still running in the background only because they don't know what the application is doing. You need to have custom progress bars based off of what procedures that they're doing so that they can you can set expectations so that you can at least let them know that the application is still running. That alone will help you guys be able to determine, hey, now, end users can report back to me. Yeah, it takes this many time to complete this specific task. And now you can go back to number three to optimize your lazy loads area, you get more information about your application. No, you know what, that's another one, guys, to be able to do. And the last one that we'll cover on this video is the reporting and dynamic reporting. Guys, just having information on a side bar or in different areas of application to be able to notify people that an issue has arrived. Let's just say you in your order taking app and I'm taking an order for a customer who's 30 days behind. Well, don't wait till you do the work. And can't collect the money. Why can't you alert that user right then as they're taking the order, talking to the client right there? Why can't you alert them right there on the screen as they put that customer information in there? That's the kind of stuff that's going to help you guys get to the next level. I will cover all 10 in this video. I don't want to do that. I want to really just give you an opportunity to learn at least some of the stuff we got better kind of better projects alongside of this guys in our seven step guide. I really want to make sure people in my community that's in the digital community is actually going to actually get the heads. I'm going to be quite frank. I want them to get the job because they are investing in themselves. So I want to just help out the general public to give them five. But the other five, we're going to actually save specifically for the digital community and also get into our 30 day development course. So go ahead and get the click the link below to get the other five. Like, subscribe to the content. If you haven't already, go ahead and check out our 30 day lunchpad course to really kind of get you ahead of the game and show you the full strategy to get a job as a beginner with no experience and help you really implement these projects into your career. So if you haven't already, I'll put links to the seven step guide on the screen. I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.


A brief history of Tilburg University. In 1927, the university was founded by a group of people, including this guy. That's why we named everything after him. It started with five professors, eight lecturers, and 28 students in this building. Olof was founded. And despite that, people still managed to graduate in 1930. In 1940, World War II started. In 1943, the university was closed for an entire year. To commemorate the war, this monument was made. In the 1950s, a move was necessary. West of the existing building, there was a newer, bigger one. The Queen came over to officially open the place and shake some hands. Also like true wise men, students traveled by camel. The number of students had grown to 838. That's a lot. Also, people smoked a lot. A whole lot. The introduction week was fun. In 1963, law and social sciences were added to the study program. In 1969, students started to revolt. There was music, chanting, and dairy. In 1971, we got our first female professor. Yes! In 1986, the university changed its name. Students once again stood up to defend their rights. This woman received an honorary doctorate. And the introduction week changed its name. The library got a big update. To celebrate, there were pigeons. And this parachute jumped. In 2001, the university changed its name. Again. A year later, there was another royal visit. Kofi Annan received an honorary doctorate. Yes, that Kofi Annan. In 2010, another name changed. In 2012, the tick week again changed its name. Queen Maxima came by and opened the jads in Den Bosch in 2016, where Tilbergen Eindhoven joined forces. As you can see, a lot has happened. New buildings were added to the campus. One disappeared, and we're still building. The campus and university community keeps growing.


Hello you guys welcome back to the esoteric explorer series here on Nostics TV as you saw from the introduction. I am so honored today to have Derek here who is we think what the five times great grandson we think so great grandfather to the fifth power was like I fully realized that like my ancestors were part of like the trail of tears and yet and that's the narrative we get right so who like I also have other thoughts and sides to the kind of sticking to that narrative like we did push them out there were land land agreements that the government didn't like own up to you know to mean so there is a definite obvious dark side to the natives being pushed out well so however happened the natives get pushed out and then the United States government is giving out these huge land grants right when you're on a radio station you give the same as a vacuum cleaner it allows it's that the electronic sound allows voices to be heard that are trying to speak to so that makes it like that chill box when you said that because that makes a lot of sense that Kate father was Lucy's brother so we have two women here two women and aunt and a niece who are coming from this other family that we don't know much about that obviously picked Lucy to John Bell I'm assuming they were probably prominent to in North Carolina this would be like your seven time you know your six time great grandparents yeah that Kate is also that's Kate's grandparents Lucy's parents I could see that like maybe getting a spirits attention oh digging up bones but if there wasn't already so much darkness going on they might not have cared like I don't think that specifically like the haunting is because they're mad that the bones got dug up I feel like spirits on the other side they're able to like rationalize and say oh they're just children but it's almost they got like pulled into it and saw what was going on they're like oh glad glad you called me to watch this show and get access to all shows on the Gnostic TV network just click the link in the description below


Hi, in this video, we're going to go over how to do a hypothesis test for a single proportion using randomization distributions in Python. And we're going to continue on with this Texas cold snap example from the power crisis in 2021. And we're still going to be focusing on just when because this is a single proportion. So we have to look at a single sample here. Now the proportion that we're going to look at is the proportion of time that wind generation fell below the forecast peak capacity. So recall that this forecast to peak capacity is really reflects the demand on the system. And so we're going to look at the proportion of time that essentially supply was not meeting demand during this crisis. And again, just for wind here. Okay, so let's get to it. So our hypotheses for this single proportion, the null is that that that the forecast peak capacity was met half the time or at least half the time. And the alternative is that this proportion, the proportion of time below the peak capacity is greater than 0.5. That is more than half the time when it was not meeting that capacity level. Okay. So that's kind of that's our failure criteria here in in the alternative. So we're testing to see if either the null was met, or the null was not met. Again, we're not, we never accept this alternative hypothesis. So let's start off. The first thing to do always in step one is to calculate our sample statistics. So what is our actual proportion from the data? So let's calculate wind p hat. So our p hat from the wind sample is the length of the elements in our wind vector. Recall that with the hypothesis test for the single mean, we extracted the generation from from wind into a single vector called wind. So this wind object is a series of the generation in gigawatts. And we're going to divide by little n, little n being the sample size of wind p hat. We calculated those back up in the hypothesis test for the single mean. So n is the, is the length effectively wind here and wind becomes this generation of just the wind source. So let's see what our sample statistic is here. So wind, put this out, 0.64. So 64% of the time, the actual generation fell below the forecasted peak capacity of 6.1 gigawatts. So then the question is, well, is that a lot? Is that statistically significantly different than half the time? So that's what the hypothesis test here is going to answer. So for a randomization distribution, this is going to be a bit simpler than what we did with the, with the mean. We're not going to use random choice. Instead, our key function here is going to be random dot binomial. We're going to use this binomial distribution to, to simulate conditions under the null hypothesis. So if the null hypothesis were true, then half the time the generation would be above or equal to 6.1 and half the time be below. That'd be the, that's essentially what's going on in the null. And maybe those proportions are a little bit different, but, but let's see here. So with the binomial distribution, how we can simulate from that is that, well, we can essentially, with the binomial distribution is essentially doing a series of coin flips. So we can flip a coin at every time during our two-day period here of the Texas cold snap. And, you know, if it's heads, then we'll say that wind falls below the capacity. If it's tails, it falls above. So that's, that's essentially what's going on with this binomial distribution. So let's put into action in Python here. We'll establish our little n is the length of the wind. We already have that established above, but we'll reproduce that here. And again, we can always specify a capital N. We'll keep it the same as what we had for the hypothesis of a single mean. And what our random dot binomial distribution is going to do is it's going to return the counts of successes here. So it's going to turn return essentially the, our numerator in this proportion. So the number of times that wind falls below 6.1. And what we need to give it is our sample size. So we want to do n different flips or trials. And our proportion here is going to be 0.1. I'm sorry, 0.5. That's going to be our null value. We take this value straight from the null hypothesis up here. And our size is going to be n. So we're going to do little n trials, capital N number of times. So let's go ahead and run that and we'll see what's contained in counts here. So we see that we have a collection of a thousand counts, a thousand numbers of successes. And so if we want to get our p-hats from these, so our simulated p-hat values will be just the counts divided by in this case a little n. It's not letting me, every time I hit return it capitalizes it. p-hat, there we go. So there, there it is in proportion format. So these are our p-hats. What we're looking at right now, this series of numbers, this is our randomization distribution. Let's visualize this. So we'll do p-hat data frame is equal to pd.dataFrames. We're just going to transform p-hat into a data frame here and give it some colon names. We'll say p-hat. And then use our good friend ggplot to visualize this. I'm going to use a different visualization than histograms. We did a histogram last time for the single mean. Let's use a, let's do a dot plot now. We'll see what this looks like. The reason, well, I'll explain the reason why I'm using a dot plot here. Let me take a look at it. And as we had before, let's also put our sample statistic here as a vertical dashed line. So we'll have our sample statistic when p-hat is going to be a vertical dashed line at this x-intercept value. The color again will have the red and line type can be dashed. So there we go. There's our randomization distribution. This is the dot plot. So instead of having bars, we have a collection of dots stacked on one top of one another. And the reason why I like doing this for the randomization distributions is that each dot represents one randomization. So a single randomized sample. So we can see basically the number of randomized trials in this case that fall within each bin, within each category of p-hat here, which is nice. It gives us a sense of the scale and how many trials have been run. Again, this vertical red dashed line, this is our true sample statistic. This is what the data say. And similar to what we saw with the hypothesis test for the single mean, this falls outside of our randomization distribution. In this case, it falls above it. But let's go back and reference our alternative hypothesis here. Our alternative hypothesis is that p is greater than 0.5. And here we see no randomized trial that is at least as great as this red dashed line. So this red dashed line is pretty extreme here. So just by inspection of this, we know beforehand that we can reject the null hypothesis. We can formalize this into a p-value. Let me just copy and paste our code for printing the p-value here. Our p-value here is not going to be based on random mean. Instead, we have p-hat is our series that contains a randomization distribution. And it's not wind mean this time, but rather wind p-hat. And we've got to flip this around. It's greater than this time. But still our p-value is 0. So there's zero probability of getting a randomized trial at least as great as our sample statistic if the null hypothesis is true. Again, this randomization distribution is reflecting the condition under which the null hypothesis is true and showing what sort of variability we would have in that in our data vis-a-vis our p-hat if that null hypothesis is true. So what should we write for a concluding statement? Again, we can say since the p-value of zero is less than 0.05, we can reject the null hypothesis that wind met or exceeded the forecast of p-capacity. I'm just going to write capacity half the time. But the key term here is rejecting the null hypothesis. So we reject the null hypothesis and we provide the reason. The reason being that our p-value is less than our default significance level of 0.05. Okay, so that is our test for a single proportion.


We have with us Adam Gerhardt, global CEO of Mindshare. So first question, what do you love to do on your weekends? Usually it involves chasing around my six-year-old daughter. She keeps me on my toes. So cute.  Dog. We have a nine-year-old French bulldog. Wow. What was the last web series that you've been watched? I just told my team I'm not an F1 fan but drive to survive on Netflix is converting me. So highly recommend. Great. And are you into books? Yes. Great. What are you reading right now? Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, his autobiography is one of the most inspiring books on leadership I've ever read. Okay. Now that you're in India, did you try any of the Indian street food? I did. Yes. What was it and what was your favorite? So in four days I've done Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi. So I don't know that I can keep track of it all but I know that I've put on probably a kilo in those four days. Okay. Any of the things that you remember you had? Priyami. Let's see. Obviously butter chicken is a staple. Wow. Okay. Awesome. Thank you so much. That was all.


Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another Dolby After Effects tutorial. In this one, I'm going to show you how to do a glitch effect very easily, very quickly, in under two minutes. Here's the original footage. As I slide through it, you'll see here the scary clown lady. And then now here is the glitched version. If I hit play, it's glitching out quite a bit here. I'm going to show you how to do this in, like I said, two minutes. Start your timer. All right. So the first step here, I've got some footage, drag and drop it onto new composition presto. Same footage. Here we go. The next step, under effects and presets, I'm going to type into the search bar VR space digital. When I do that, you're going to see VR digital glitch under immersive video. Just drag and drop that right onto the composition like that. When you do that, you're going to get this old school VCR ish staticky look. And there's a chance there's a good chance that's not the type of glitch you're looking for. Not to worry, under effect controls, we're going to do a couple things. One, I'm going to go ahead and click on the little Chiron or Chiron beside the distortion here. And I'm going to go ahead and turn the distortion rate down to zero. That gets rid of all of that static EVCR VHS look. The next step is you want to turn your color distortion from 50 to zero. This is for the maximum amount of color distortion. This gives it that red, green, blue, RGB split that we're looking for. The final thing I like to do is I'm going to work with the color evolution. I'm going to make sure the play hit is at the beginning. I'm going to hold down the option key on a Mac or the alt key on the PC and in effect controls under color evolution. I'm just going to click on that little stopwatch right here. When I do that, that creates an expression. And then under color distortion, you'll see here that I can go ahead now and just type in an effect. So part of me, color evolution is what I meant to say. So I'm in color evolution right here. You'll see that it's gone red. So we've got the red look here and the equal sign is plus. It's pressed in and here all you got to do is do this. Type in wiggle bracket and then how much do you want it to wiggle? It's variation, number of variations times frequency. So I'm going to go with something like 10 and then I'm going to go with 200. So I'm going to make this a pretty serious wiggle. You can change both of those numbers to get it as you see fit. I'll click out and now I'll go to the beginning unless it play. There we go. We've got a pretty serious, pretty cool glitch. If you want to change that, remember just change the wiggle to if you want it to be a huge wiggle changes to 100. Let's see what that looks like. Go back to the beginning. This will look crazy. Yeah, crazy. That's all there is to it. Thanks for watching.


Gene Simmons, thanks for joining us today. I appreciate it. Take us through the vault. This is your newest venture. What is it all about? Well, look, I'm proud to say Kiss, this little band that started 44 years ago. Yes, 44 years ago has become America's number one gold record award-winning group of all time. I'm proud to say in all categories. And so here we are today in 2017 and time is moving on. I'm 68. We're still touring. We're having a great time. And boy, do I look good. But in all seriousness over the years, ever since I was a little kid, I've got so much stuff in my vaults. So therein lies the idea behind the vault. GeneSimmonsVault.com, that is. Yeah, you see what I did there? GeneSimmonsVault.com. And so the retail model in general is diminishing, which is a big word like gymnasium. I'm saddened to see seers in trouble, malls are in trouble. People just don't seem to be getting out of their homes. So in this case, the mountain is going to come to you. The vault for the first time anywhere. It's going to break the model. This is not going to be available online. It's not going to be available in retail. If you buy a vault, and I'll tell you all about it in a second, I'm going to get on a plane at my cost and I'm going to bring it to you. I'm going to hand the vault to you, the largest box set of all time. What's in the vault, Gene? Well, I'm glad you asked. The vault contains a hundred and fifty never-before-released tracks over a fifty-year span. From 1966, that's in the previous century, when I was fourteen or fifteen years old. The very first song I ever wrote, My Uncle Is A Raft, all the way to 2016, a hundred and fifty songs. Plus, it's got songs that I co-wrote with Bob Dylan, even the recording session of Bob and I trading licks and stuff. It's in the box set. Three Van Halen tracks that they appear on, Alex and Eddie. Joe Perry's on the track. All the Kiss Guys are on it. I mean, it really spans wine. Then there's our beautiful book, which is 50,000 words about the making of, the stories behind, where I was, who I was with, and all that stuff with tons of photos from my private collection. A gold look at this cool look at a gold thing. That's right. And on one side it says, in Gene, we trust, and on the other side it says, if it's too loud, you're too old. But it's all in Latin, of course. And to make matters even more interesting, there's a powerful and attractive action figure of yours truly, really exceptional. Kind of looks like you a little bit. I hope so. I hope it doesn't look like Richard Simmons, but I mean that in a good way. And then we have, oh look, more chicks. Wow. And then we have private things that I put on for my private collection. There's a hidden private box, a little secret place where you press it, it opens up, and in different vaults there'll be different things that I stick in for my private collection. Backstage passes, all this kind of stuff. Now the thing that makes the vault not only the largest box set of all time, is that we are breaking the entire mold because you don't have to leave your home. I'm going to be bringing this to your area. Back to you, Chad. I appreciate it. Your comments on retail are fascinating. You are literally taking this and cutting out the middleman. What are your thoughts on retail more broadly? Well, retail has its own problems, and that is that the public has ADD, attention deficit disorder. There's so many images and ideas coming out there from all sides. Retail has to be more competitive. I mean, we have our rock and bruise restaurant chain all over the place. I fully recognize no one has to leave their home to grab a bite to eat. In fact, you don't have to fight traffic. You can stay at home and doing that. It is incumbent upon us, there's another big word, to make sure that when you come to our rock and bruise restaurants, it's an experience. Retail is no longer an experience. The kids, when I was growing up, used to say, let's go hang at the mall. They didn't even know what they were going for. When the cost goes and the other great retailers started, people would go in for a quart of milk and walk out with a flat screen TV. Now, you sort of know what it's come.  It is important to change the retail model to make it fun because life is dreary and dull. It is my infert fiduciary duty to myself and other ideas. It's my responsibility to make my life fun and to make good business and good judgments and so on. And my favorite judgment today, by the way, I love that the Dow is on a two-day high now, we're 22,113 or 112. Pretty good because when I rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange without a corporate partner, just Mr. Grasso inviting me, the Dow was below 8,000. That's around 2008. And on the floor, your competitor asked me, what do you suggest? I said, buy American. It's going to go high. Am I the first one that's going to tell you buy low, sell high? Come on. So I bought everything I could get my hands on we're 22,000 and we'll be 23,000. I'm telling you because about two years back, I said, the Dow's going to break 20,000 and here we are. You were on here with us when you made that Dow 20,000 call. Do you see it going up more than 23,000? What gets it there? It will. Everybody's talking about a balloon, but what's happening now is the president, whether you agree or disagree, is going to take, is going to make some moves which some people are going to argue with, which is lower taxes, make it easier for business, streamline the way business does. Now, by the way, I fully recognize some people have problems with the political idea and there are people talking in the background, so I won't kill myself until later. But to make it easy for all of you, what's going to happen is less people are going to be out of work. Business is easier to do. I mean, the Dow is alive and well. And if we get a flat tax pass, we may even beat the 19 trillion in debt that we have that we're leaving for generations to come. And I'm told by some economists in 10 or 15 years, we can get it under control. That's 19 trillion, but you need a flat tax. I'm not running for government. I'm just pragmatic. That's my political party, the pragmatic political party. I want to ask about that there are a lot of celebrities. Haven't you told people how stunning I am in real life? Oh, I've done that coming into here. Bitcoin. There are a lot of celebrities investing in Bitcoin. Are you interested in Bitcoin? I am, but only as a piece of the puzzle.   What you want to do is to be diverse and spread the risk, not just in Vegas and stuff. Coins? Great. Real estate? Great. Just mutual funds? That's fine. But CDs? Okay. But have a nice portfolio, and it depends on your appetite. How conservative you are and how safe you are in the morning. It's no kiss coin. I'm interested. Kiss Bitcoins? Kidcoins? Kiss coins? Sure. Ultimate business man. You can talk to me. Kissed Gianity? Sure. Tax-free. I wanted to obviously touch a little bit on music. What is the state of the music industry? The state of the music industry is unfortunately very, very dim. I said before that rock is dead. It really is. But it's not that there isn't talent out there. There's really a dearth. In other words, you don't really throw dearth in my face if you dare. See what I did there? These are semantics, but I'm not anti-semantic. There's lots of talent out there, but the system is broken because fans have gotten used to the idea of not paying for anything. So if you're a supermarket and people walk in and just take whatever they want and leave, the farmers are out of business, the truckers who deliver it, the people who work there. So the model is broken, and so there needs to be new legislation. And the record company was asleep at the wheel when that first kid downloaded and file-shared and didn't pay for it. You should have been on that freckle-faced kid next door and taken his home. Along those lines, Apple, they've been pioneering in music. They came out with a new phone yesterday. Are you interested in this? How? I am. The first thing I would do with the phone is to plug in Gene Simmonsvault.com. And I'm a great believer in Apple, I think, especially since they're getting into programming. And if they're smart, they'll try to own the programming. And I like reruns. There's lots of new, lots of old content that's very sexy for people. But Apple is getting smartly diversifying. You can't just be technology. If you're just technology, you're missing the point, which is content, content, content is king now and forevermore. What is your favorite social media platform? Where do you see the most engagement? My favorite kinds of platforms are the kinds that kiss wear us. There's seven and eight inch platforms. And we stomp the stage. We are America's number one gold record award winning group of all time. And we wear more makeup and higher heels than even your mommy does. What's your mom's name, by the way? Deborah. Oh, I remember her. She was my best friend. Okay, I appreciate that. And lastly, what do you collect?  In all seriousness, I'm an only child and I wasn't born in America. And that is my great advantage, respectfully, over you and many people. That is that I don't take anything for granted. I am aware I'm living in the promised land. I was born in Israel, but don't kid yourself. Flight was invented here. You know, phones were invented here, that light that darkens the night if we weren't here, if it was the middle of the night before America, the world was in darkness. America lit darkness and turned it into day. And I don't take any of it for granted. And only in America could I make Gene Simmons vault.com a reality because in other parts of the world, you could not have the chance to access Jim Cramer's The Street. Jim was all with you.  But look, at the end of the day, marketing, marketing sales, it's about people, people connecting with people. And if you don't connect and you don't have an honest voice that they can, you know, where the messaging is clear, say what you mean, mean what you say, they'll think it's just shucking jive. So here's the reality. GeneSimmonsVault.com. I'm going to get on a plane. And I appreciate that you're going to spend $2,000 for this. Plus we also have producer experiences and home experiences. You'll log on to GeneSimmonsVault.com.  And I don't fool, you're not supposed to say rich. I'm goddamn rich. I really am. And I work for every damn penny of it because the fans gave me the chance. And the band, and my bandmates, and Paul, and everybody, it's time to give back.  So I'm here to tell you that this is a once in a lifetime mold breaking opportunity for me to finally meet you face to face and hand you the largest box set of all time. Do you ever get tired of making money? I mean, you have all these ideas. That is such a negative idea. I'm just asking. No, I mean, really, if God appeared to all human beings on earth and said, I can make, I know what's in your wallet or purse, I'm going to give you either more or less money. What do you think everybody from Buffett on down is going to say? One more. Why would anybody say, aren't you tired of making money? Isn't it true that the richest and the poorest, if they win the lottery for a hundred million tax-free, are going to run down the street and go, whoopee, would you say to him, aren't you tired of making money? I don't know. Even God passes the hat, my friend. That's true. Very much. Thank you for coming down again. I appreciate it. I'm sorry, what did you say? Gene Simmons Vault.com? Gene Simmons Vault.com. Thank you, Mr. I appreciate it.