I'm one of the few members of the European Parliament who is an immigrant from outside the European Union. Whenever I see anything about India, about the country that I came from or about my parents, I feel something about it because I think there will always be that draw. And I think today we have to understand what diversity and empowerment actually means. It means that you can be proud to be European, to have multiple identities. I've experienced racism from the start. I grew up in the 1970s in a country, Scotland, which had very few ethnic minorities. So I've experienced all types of racism, racial harassment, race discrimination. I've seen all of that. And in the political field, of course it is more subtle, but if you look around you, if you look today where we are today in the European Parliament, there is literally a small handful of visible ethnic minorities. I think the majority come from the United Kingdom. There are virtually none from most of the big countries. That's less than when I came to the European Parliament in 1999. So visible ethnic minorities are not represented in our European Parliament or the European Parliament or the European Commission. We are in a very unique moment. And I think for people of colour, different race backgrounds, non-white people, this is a moment where we have to assert our self-confidence, understanding that the opportunities are there, and to unite with people. I am a migrant.


What's up team? It's your biggest fan the real Casadero and this here is the first part in a series of videos that I that are coming from Me producing a course for my website the code 365 startup lab and the name of this course is HTML mastery and my goal is to have this done fairly quickly soon and be able to give people a master level understanding of HTML and a core foundation that they can build on when it comes to building websites web applications and And and writing programs in general team. This is the education that I didn't get I think it's the education that everybody needs and most importantly it shows people that hey You don't have to go out and learn this super complicated stuff the stuff that that you you can use this stuff Right now to go out build your own website build your own app start your own business go out and get freelance clients You can use this knowledge to get a job The whole goal is to show you how to think through through problems and think about how the web and software and applications are put together So you can take full advantage of what's out here team and you're not locked into some sort of box You're not locked into some sort of framework and I locked into some sort of tutorial But you're actually able to go out and build things team So let's get to it if this content is valuable when you reach the end Please like share subscribe to the video team and if you want to support the channel Go over to code 365 startup lab comm you can get any of the courses their team And when if you sign up you'll get some regular emails from me You'll also get a link to the discord server and if you sign up for a lifetime membership team that would be Fantastic classic goals to help me produce more content just like this But again, I need your input so I know what's working what's not working team And also you can follow me over on Twitter on social media And if you want some cool swag and merch for coders check out write code drink coffee dot com That's enough of me plugging myself team. This is all about you. Let's go learn some code All right team if you're gonna if you want to follow along what you're gonna need is you're gonna need a few pieces of software One of these pieces of software you can go out and you can I'm actually gonna show you how to go out and grab it But it later on in the video, but I'm gonna show you here as well I'm gonna be using PowerShell and I use if you're on a Windows machine PowerShell comes with the computer But you can also go download what's called PowerShell core and it's just on their github page So you go over to github PowerShell core and if you will maximize if you scroll if you scroll down They have instructions on how to install it for your particular operating system And so like I use Windows and I'll give you a quick just a quick intro to how Windows works So at Windows 64 bit If your operating system has four gigs of RAM or more, this is 64 bit operating system And what the 64 bits mean is just the the way the operating system stores data and it allocates memory when something is loaded in the memory It loads it in the 64 bit segments And so you're able to load more stuff in the memory and it help in and because the chunks are bigger The operating system is able to manage essentially more memory space Windows x86 is for four gigs or less and that's you that's like a 32 bit System and so that means you've got 32 bits of space and and if you do the math Right like so if you got a whole bunch of RAM and using 32 bits then the computer has more addresses to manage But if you have the 64 bit spaces then the computer doesn't have these additional addresses to management So that's just a little bit of computer knowledge for you So again if you got four gigs of RAM or less you're going to use Windows 86 and if you got four gigs of RAM or more, but you know, this is typically most systems today Especially if you've just if you if you're on a Windows 10 machine that you just got you're probably Windows 64 team You just head over into the instructions and they will walk you through how to download and install everything team I know it's a headache. I know it's not, you know the idea situation for a lot of people But if you're coming out here to learn this stuff, this is the kind of stuff You're gonna encounter and you're gonna be reading this kind of stuff anyway So you might as well just go out and use it for yourself instead of reading it So you can go apply it to somebody else's business and and help them grow and create the life that they want right to spend your time struggling and scratching your head and and and Struggling through this stuff so you can build your own thing and just own your own stuff team All right, the next thing we're gonna need is you're gonna need a program called a visual studio code And if we just type it here, I'm using Bing and I'm on Microsoft Edge on Windows Visual studio code the website is code dot visual studio dot com and this this is just one of many text editors This is the text editor. I use it's the text editor that I'm gonna be using throughout this But I've also used other text editors in the past. There's sublime text. There's brackets There's all kinds of text editors team. This is just the one that I use It's made by Microsoft is well backed and it has a ton of extensions and plugins to make coding easier And also the keyboard shortcuts are fantastic There's a bunch of things you can do team And so if you want to follow on I recommend visual studio code because the you'll be able to use the exact same commands and Shortcuts that I'm using and it's gonna in and you're gonna learn you're gonna learn to really use this tool to build Your own type of stuff team and I don't know if I get into it inside of this course per se Well, not not in this not not in the course I get into it in the course, but I'm not sure if I used it in these lessons that you're about to watch but There's a program called to get and you can get there by using get slash get dash SCM a calm and this is what's called a version control tracking system And this allows us to track different versions of our software as we build through them I don't really want to dig deep into it and start explaining all this stuff right here But if you head over to the website, you just read through the website and I'm telling you team This is how you gain the best understanding the very best understanding of all this stuff But download install get if you want to follow along with that and last but not I'm gonna open up another tab by hitting control T There's a program called x amp and we are gonna be using that to give us local server capabilities on our machine So if you go here, this isn't what we're looking for We're gonna go back one and we go into the the x amp installer and the web page is actually WWW dot Apache this a p a c h e friends f r i n d s dot org team and This is just a program we download onto our computer and we can install it and it gives us a web server Just like we'd have a web server on the internet It gives us a database that we can use it gives us the php programming language which team is is it's a programming language But think of this as a a server side scripting language that we can use to process any sort of Request that we send to a web server normally what like when we came to this website We typed in this address What happened is is we sent a request to a web server at this address and that web server said hey They're looking for the index by HTML and they send it back to us now What we don't see on the back end is this probably a php page is probably a php application and php just returns HTML so it'll go into the database It'll grab all the stuff that the user is looking for and it will make it a HTML file and it'll send it back To the browser and that's what we see team This is what websites do all of them the general theory behind all of them whether you're using an angler or a Reactor review or whatever. It's all the same thing. I'm just showing you PHP because PHP you can start with that immediately and you'll have this foundational knowledge You can build on if you ever ran across somebody who seemed like a genius coder There's either they study really hard But there's a very good chance that they started very simple and just started building little HTML pages and then they were like Ah, you know, they added some JavaScript. I mean they added some CSS then they added some JavaScript and they're like Hey, right. I want to put this on the internet I want people to be able to log in and then they learned PHP and from there it's off to the races team You understand two three different programming languages You understand the structure and architecture of things you understand how to think through different problem sets And now you're able to go out and start building and that's how you end up with these companies like snap chats and Ubers and Facebook and all these different stuff team is just people with different ideas out there building But anyway, this is some software we can download to our machine and when we get to that portion I'm gonna show you I'm gonna go over the download again so you can skip that part but I'm gonna show you how to get it set up and get it running so you can run a local web server and And and that's that's pretty much to it team So if you want to follow along this is all the stuff you're gonna need here team and that should be good So let's get into it team. Let's start building some stuff. All right team Welcome back. It's your biggest fan the real Castero and we are going to get into HTML forms So let's do it. We're gonna hit the windows key and type in power pw for power shell core gonna Make this a little smaller and zoom in so you guys can see all right, so we're good So what we're gonna do actually we're gonna do this a Little different. We're gonna do a CD. They're gonna do a tilde key of backslash and they were gonna type DS and type Tab and that is gonna take us to the desktop now Now we're on the desktop gonna do a MK dir and we're gonna call this form example Dot HTML Well, actually we're making this a directory So we'll just do this and we'll go form and we'll make this capital e back Like that and then we'll do a CD form now. We're in that directory and we'll do a new dash item and we'll call this index dot HTML HTML enter they will do a code dot to open this directory in visual studio code So look we got all these code windows open Yes, I want to save that and this is what we're looking for right here So what we're gonna do is you're gonna put this off to the left side and then we're gonna hit the go live right away Bring up the go live and we're gonna put that off to the right side right here Actually, let me put this back up there grab this there we go team Okay, so now we got our web page. We'll go over here to visual studio code do a control W to close that window go into our index.html put an exclamation point hit tab and down We'll hit tab a few more times and down here in documents. We're gonna put form Example form example. Alright, so we got a basic web page right here team We're just gonna make an example of a Standard input form and forms are where we first start to get into programming. This is our foray into programming So like I said Like I always say what HTML you can start and you can start building stuff right away You can start building anything you want you can put it out there in the internet You got people come and see it you can build little stores for products and merchandise You can build online of course you can build whatever you want build your landing page put it on there But then at some point you're gonna want to get input from users You may want to get a username and password so they can log in so you can serve up a Back into a membership website or so they can download something you may want to put in a form So they could give you their information so they could buy something. This is this is what forms are used for team Forms or to get input from programs. So let's so let's get into it We're gonna make an example Form so we're gonna go right down here to our body and we're just gonna type a form Tap and then it's gonna ask us for action and then this action What we would do is we would say what where we want that form to go and what we wanted to do So in this case, we're gonna make it go to a action tion underscore page Dot PHP So this is gonna go point to a PHP file and then we're gonna go in here And we're gonna move this form down inside of our form. We're gonna put all the stuff we need so we need a first we go first name and Then after that first name We're gonna put a VR and this is gonna create what's called a line break and then under that We're gonna put a input field. So we go input INP and then hit tab the type is going to be text because we're gonna be putting a string in here So a first name and this name will just give it first Name and then this ID will give it a value of m-i-c-k-e-y emmy mickey and then under that we're gonna put another v-i-r So we'll go Not v-i-r, but v-r to add another line break and then what we'll do is we'll just copy this So we'll grab this first name all the way down to there We'll hold the alt and shift key and we'll go down and now we've got this area where we can make our last Name all right, so we'll go here Space and then we'll get rid of this first go down here and we'll type we'll make this last name So we'll take this out And we'll go LAST and Last name is going to be m-o-u-s-e mickey mouse. All right team So now we've got a pretty standard form Let's add another line break right here and then underneath that we're gonna put an input type And we're gonna make actually I'm sorry a team. We're gonna do a input. We're gonna make this type a submit So it shows up as a button and we're gonna give this a value of submit. So we'll go value is equal to Submit and then we'll just get rid of all this other stuff T submit We'll save and now we got nothing over here. Let's see what's going on How come we don't see this let's close out our live server bring our live server back and there we go. We have a Pretty standard HTML form now What would happen is we submit this button and it would go off and it would get this action PHP page but because we don't have an action PHP page and we are not on a Web server that has PHP on the back end. It gives us this cannot get action page But if we had this set up the way it was supposed to be set up We could get cat. We could get back any kind of input We want so we could have this page sitting on a server and the server could be sitting and it could be waiting and it Can say hey when you get a request with this Username and this password show them this page Then from that point on that that user that would be able to use that page to do all kinds of stuff on the back end but if they weren't logged in they wouldn't be able to see that page and so that's why we have passwords and Passwords composed of input fields all forms input fields credit card input field, right? We want to buy something online sign up for Amazon Netflix. They all want input feel So this means we know how we must know how to design and create forms team So in the next video, we are going to go a deeper into forms But now you know how to make a basic form. You know how to make it point to something But you don't know any PHP yet. You don't know any programming yet We're gonna get to all that stuff team before we get there. We're gonna make sure we got HTML locked down We're gonna make sure we understand everything that's going on here before we move on team All right, I will see you guys in the next video


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Yes, Bertie. I didn't hear you come here. The mayor didn't hear me leave either. No, sir. What are we having for dinner, Bertie? Dinner. Mr. Gilder Sleeve is just 4.30. Well, I'm getting a little hungry. And you go full tilt the way I do. You have to keep stoking the furnace. Yes, sir. I made a real good cake this morning. Well?  Fine, Bertie. I can eat a piece of cake if I skip something for dinner, like a glass of water. I'm glad Grace has a fireplace. When I go over tonight, I think I'll suggest that we just sit and toast our tootsies. Hi, Aunt. Yeah, hello, Leeroy. How was school today? Just like it is every other day. Yes, yes. Hello, Leeroy. Hi, Bertie. What have you got there? Piece of cake for your uncle. Looks very appetizing, Bertie. Thank you, sir. That's my new recipe. Hey, can I have some? Never tasted anything like that. What happened to that piece of cake I put in your lunchbox this morning, Leeroy? I gave it to Mickey. Who is Mickey? Sheila's brother. Who's Sheila? Mickey's sister. Oh, my goodness. Sheila's little girl, Leeroy, has been shining up too lately. That's why he's beaten around the bush. Is that right, Leeroy? Must be right. Leeroy, I sure wish you hadn't given that Mickey your cake. Oh, gosh. What are you going to do when he asks for it? Right in front of Sheila. That Mickey's always getting things from you. Watch this. Well, I'll go get you another piece of cake this time. But you watch that Mickey with my cake. Okay. I've got a lot of schoolwork to do. Can I borrow your fountain pen? Yes, but where's the one I gave you? Mickey's got it. Why did you let him take your fountain pen? He wanted to copy my homework. Leeroy, I've got a feeling that boy's taking advantage of you. Well, he likes me. He says I'm a good sport. You can be too good. Open your eyes. Can't you see he's using you? Oh, gosh. I can spot those fellas a mile off. You never find one of those spongers getting the best of me. The idea of this boy eating your cake and getting your pen all in the same day. He's had the pen for a week. A week? Leeroy. Yeah? This is going far enough.  Oh, I can't do that. Why can't you? He's got my bike. I'd like to jump on Leeroy.  It's ridiculous. Oh, well. From the ridiculous to the sublime. Grace seemed awfully excited when I talked to her on the phone. I wonder why. Just about me, I guess. I can hear those high heels clicking to the door. What a girl. Drop, Morton. Come in. Hello, Grace. I could hardly wait for you to come over. Well, I could hardly wait to get here. I have the most wonderful surprise for you. Good. Wonderful evening for a surprise. Just you, me and the fire. Oh, Grace. Who's that in the next room? He's the surprise. He? Come along, Throckmorton. I want you to meet my brother. Oh, your brother. Sidney, this is Mr. Gilder Sleeves. So yours, Throckmorton. Yes, indeed. How do you do, Mr. Tuttle? Well, Grace has told me a lot about you. I was going to town to the telegraph office to send a few wires, but when Grace said you were coming over, I said, Grace, I want to wait and meet Commissioner Gilder Sleeves. Throckmorton, Mr. Tuttle. My friends call me Sidney. Oh, thanks, Sidney. Well, why don't we sit down? Good idea.  Sidney, why don't you take the easy chair? Thank you. I didn't know you were coming to town. Grace, why didn't you tell me? I didn't know it either. Sidney never tells me anything. He's so busy. Well, I hate to bother people, and it's just by the nearest chance that I happen to be here. I guess if Sidney hadn't been on his way to Palm Beach, I wouldn't have seen him for another five years. Is that so? What do you expect to do in Palm Beach? The same thing I did in Cincinnati. Oh, good. Big corporations keep moving Sidney around. Sounds pretty important. Well, after all, we have to have intermediaries and correlators. Intermediary? Oh, yes. Yes, indeed.  Already Sidney's fallen in love with Summerfield. Yes, I make decisions quickly about places and people. Oh, me too. Throckmorton, from the cigars, sticking out of your pocket, I see you smoke. Grace, I wish I'd known. I would have bought some cigars for Throckmorton. Well, thanks for the thought. Here, have one of mine. If you insist, thanks. My pleasure. Right? After you? Oh, no, be my guest. If you insist. Here's another ashtray, boys. Fine, sis. Say it's great to relax. Sidney, if you have a lot of telegrams to send, don't you think you'd better see about them? I haven't forgotten them. Send them tonight, you'll get the cheap rate. It's not that you'd be interested in anything cheap. Why don't you just phone them in? Oh, sis, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't have them charged on your phone bill. Isn't he considerate Throckmorton? Yes, he is. Well, I'll send the wires in the morning. I'd much rather stay here and talk to Throckmorton. Really? Well, I'm flattered. While you two talk, I'll go make some cocoa. Sounds good. She's quite a girl, Sidney. Well, she's a lucky girl. Lucky? Now that you and I have met Throckmorton, I think I'll take it upon myself to remind, sis, that there aren't many eligible bachelors of your caliber. Well... That is, if you don't mind, a little pat on the back? Oh, no. Grateful for it. Fine cigars, Throckmorton. Yeah, it's been my favorite brand for years. You're an excellent judge of tobacco. Say, as long as I'm not going downtown this evening, I might just borrow another cigar to tide me over if you don't mind. You certainly not. Here, take two. All right, I will. Since I don't know where to buy these. Oh, don't worry about that. I'll bring you a box. More coffee, Mr. Guilty? No, thank you, Bertie. My George, that was a fine breakfast. Thank you, sir. Yeah, I ate 14 buckwheat. Leroy, look around and see if you can find me a cigar, will you? Okay. Yeah, I'll just glance through the paper here. The humidor's empty.  Well, over at Miss Tuttle's last night, we smoked them. You mean Miss Tuttle smokes cigars? No, Leroy, her brother is visiting her. Yeah? He's a big shot correlator from Cincinnati on his way to Palm Beach to intermediate something. I didn't know Miss Tuttle had a brother. Yes, he's a wonderful fellow. We hit it off right away. Of course, that pleased Grace. Oh, yes, sir. If you like the sister, it's real good insurance to stand in with the brother. Well, I like this fellow anyway. Sydney's real quality. Sydney, huh? Yep. By the way, Leroy, we'd better get going. I told Sydney I'd meet him this morning and introduce him around City Hall. Okay. To save the paper, Bertie, I'll read it tonight. Yes, sir. Don't forget your lunch today, Leroy. I got it. Yes, my boy? You were lecturing me about Mickey having my fountain pen and my bike. Well, I got them both back. Good. From now on, don't let people talk you out of things. Don't worry. I've learned my lesson. Good boy. Farads, why are we standing here on the curb? We're waiting for Sydney to pick us up. What? Last night, I loaned him my car.  Sydney certainly made a good impression around City Hall this morning. And he insisted I meet him for lunch. Yes. It'll be a good chance to introduce him to Peaty. Peaty? Oh, Mr. Jonas Lee. What can I do for you today? Peaty, we're going to have lunch with you today. Very well. I want to introduce you to a friend of mine. Oh, how do you do? Who are you talking to? He isn't here yet. Well, I didn't see anybody, but I wasn't going to say anything if you didn't. He could be invisible. Yes, yes. You've been reading too many of your own comic books. Who is this friend of yours, Mr. Jonas Lee? Ms. Tuttle's brother, Sydney. That's quite a coincidence. What's a coincidence? We once had a cat named Sydney. Oh? Then he had kittens and we changed it to Cynthia. What are you serving for lunch, Peaty? I imagine he's pretty particular. I'm a little particular myself. I may not even want to serve him. Oh, Peaty, you like it. He should be along in my car any minute. You've got your car, have you? Yeah, I met him only last night, and already a fast Frenchiff has developed it. If you've borrowed your car already, it is a fast Frenchiff. Oh, there he is, driving up now. He may be particular about what he eats, but he isn't particular about what he hits. That was my car. I don't guess there was any damage. Nothing fell off. Oh, there you are, Throckmorton. Hello, Sydney. I want you to meet a good friend of mine, Mr. Peaty. Oh, I was glad to meet a friend of the commissioners. How do you do, Mr. Peaty? I don't know. Do I go out front and look at my car? Oh, was that your car I hit? I'm not used to driving Throckmortons yet. Back in Cincinnati, I drive a Jag. How's that? A Jag, Peaty. Tell him what it is said. It's an expensive English car. Expensive import. Get that, Peaty? Yes, I did. Well, now, what should we have for lunch, Throckmorton? Let's see. How's the spaghetti plate, Peaty? It's imported from Italy. Very expensive. Shall we try it, Sydney? Yes. Perhaps Mr. Peaty will have lunch with us. I just cook. I don't eat here. Two spaghetti, Peaty. May I have? Let me have the check, Mr. Peaty. May I have? No, I don't pay any attention to him, Peaty. Give me the check. No, I insist. Give me the tab. No, Sydney, you're a guest in town. Just put it on my charge account, Peaty. Is that all right with you, Mr. Tuttle? Well, it's pretty hard to say no to Mr. Gildersleeve. You win again, Throckmorton. It's my pleasure. Mr. Peaty, is that candy fresh? Yes, and I got unpacked it. I should take a box of that to, Sis.  Very thoughtful of you, Sydney. I'll take your box if you didn't. Oh, Throckmorton. Yes? I'm terribly embarrassed, but I must have left my wallet at home. Where did you say home is, Cincinnati? I mean my sister's apartment. Pardon me, Sydney, but isn't that your wallet sticking out of your pocket? Yes, yes, this is my wallet, but I must have left my money on the dresser. Can you spare a five-spot? What's that? I hate to ask you. Oh, no, not at all. Here, Sydney. Thanks. Here you are, Mr. Peaty, and keep the change. Oh, thank you. And while I'm in the drug store, I should get some shaving lotions, razor blades, hair tonic, and one of those electric clocks. Very well. Throckmorton, I'm not going to ask you to break out your wallet again. Good. Let's just put it on your charge account. Zoof! We'll be right back. Christmas is right around the corner, and with it, all the gifts to wrap, the last-minute hustle, all the extra baking a holiday brings. Here's a wonderful way to bake Christmas cookies and cakes days ahead so that they're ready when you need them. You can actually bake days ahead if you bake with superfined craft oil. 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Great Gildesley was elated when his girlfriend's brother came to town and took a fancy to him. Yes, sir, Mr. Sidney Tubble turned out to be a cultured, traveled and personable gentleman.  Let's see now, Bertie. I bought his lunch at PD's, and he borrowed $5 from me to buy candy. Then, including the electric clock, he charged $9 to my account. Mr. Gildesley. Yes, Bertie.  Well, I hate to take snap judgments of people, Bertie, but I'm beginning to question that big-shot business. Yes, sir. You made me go over and get my bike and pen from Mickey. Why don't you hop in the car and go get your money from Sidney? Well, he still has my car. Oh, brother, and you're the one who said you could spot him a mile off, didn't you, Bertie? That's what he said. Well, I'm on to him, but I can't do much about it. I don't want to hurt Miss Tuttle. She thinks her brother's perfect. Of course, she only sees him every few years. What if he decides to stay in town, Aunt? You're probably the best job he ever had. Well, he isn't going to get anything else out of me. He isn't. From now on, my guard is up and my pocketbook is padlocked. Yeah? You've got a club over you, Aunt. What if he starts running you down to Miss Tuttle? Well, yes, sir. Mr. Gildesley, you could be in a predicament. If you've got a good girlfriend with a no-good brother, and if a no-good brother tells your girlfriend that you know good, which a no-good brother could do, that's no good. There must be some way out of this situation. Hello? Oh, yes, Pee-Bee. That's a cigar. He did? Well, Pee-Bee, I'm afraid I've misjudged Sidney. Sorry, I ever doubted you. What else did he say? He said to charge his cigars to you. Oh! I hate to disillusion grace, but I must have a talk with her. She thinks her brother's a sincere, honest big shot. I'm not going to let him get away with his tricks again. Besides, he has a right to know he misrepresents things. It'll be for her own good. I'll be diplomatic, but honest. Oh, hello, Throckmorton. Hello, Grace. May I come in a moment? Of course. Thank you. What's the matter, Throckmorton?  Well, I had to walk all the way over here. Oh, Sidney does have your car, doesn't he? Yeah, and about that car. You've been wonderful about it. He tells me you won't even let him buy gas for it. I won't. I suppose you didn't want me to know about it, but there's one thing about Sidney. He gives credit where credit is due. You're using my credit all over town. Sidney isn't home now, is he? No, he's downtown. He's probably at Peabee shopping again. He'll be sorry he missed you. Oh, that's all right. He's so fond of you, Throckmorton. Well, I'm fond of him, too, but I'm glad he isn't here right now. I mean, I'd rather talk to you alone. Let's sit here. Good. We haven't had many chances to be together, have we? That is just the two of us. No. I want you to know how much I appreciate your being so nice to Sidney. And how about him? Isn't he a wonderful brother? How many brothers take their sister's candy? Grace, there are probably a lot of things you don't know about him. Well, he is terribly modest. He seldom speaks of his exploits. So far, he's exploited me for $14. He's had some wonderful positions. Of course, he hasn't told me much about what he does, but he never fails to write just enough to let me know he's highly successful at it. Well, that sounds like Sidney. And, well, we're on the subject of Sidney. Oh, let's not talk about him now. Here, let me straighten your tie. It's out of kilter. Well... There. Now you look very handsome. Thank you. But as I was about to say... And here's a carnation for your lapel. Sidney brought them. And by the way, he said the florist spoke very highly of you. Uh-oh. Isn't it wonderful the way Sidney makes friends? It's remarkable. Of course, I have to thank you for introducing him around town. I've been wondering what nice thing I can do for you. You have? Anyway, I'll tell you what I'm going to do right now. Oh?  Right on top of the head. Grace? Yes? I want to do something nice for you. Oh? And your brother, of course.  Everything set, Bertie? Yes, sir. I'm ready for him. After all you've said about Sidney, I can't get over you inviting him to dinner. Leeroy, let me handle this. You're to see that you're on your good behavior tonight. I always am. Now I'm going upstairs and changing my tie. Grace likes blue. And Sidney likes the long green, huh? He may have a few faults, but Miss Tuttle thinks the world of it. So don't say anything out of line. Okay. She doesn't know he borrows his money. She thinks he makes it. Hey, maybe he does make it in the basement somewhere. For over $14, we invite the guy for dinner. Leeroy, your uncle can take a lot of punishment. Well, Sidney's not going to take Uncle again. When he comes over tonight, I'm going to try to get Uncle money back. Leeroy, you're playing in a pretty big league. Yeah. Uh-oh, there they are. You let him in. Bertie's got things to do in the kitchen. I'll be right down. Okay. I've got to figure some way to get rid of Uncle. Good evening, Leeroy. Hi, Miss Tuttle. Well, Leeroy, how's the boy? Come on in. Thank you. Thank you. I'll give you a ride down. Here, I'll put your coach in the den. Good boy, Leeroy. I wasn't at the door. Leeroy's taking care of us. Hello, Throckmorton. Throckmorton, when we got out of your car, I noticed one of your tires is a little flat. Oh, perhaps I'd better. Excuse me, Grace. Sidney, take our guests into the parlor, Leeroy. Sure. Nice little place Throckmorton has here. Isn't it? Sidney, don't you think you should go out and help Throckmorton? Grace, dear, I don't know the first thing about changing a tire. Well, I wouldn't want you to anyway. Why don't you sit down? Yes, let's just relax. Quite an uncle you have there, Leeroy. Yeah, Uncle's tops. I've been trying to figure out a way to do something nice for him. Isn't that sweet. He's a wonderful man, Leeroy. Yes, Throckmorton's top drawer. Does he have any cigars in the humidor? No, I've been empty for a couple of days. He said somebody was going to give him a box but they haven't yet. Oh. Yeah, I've really got to do something nice for him. Probably as I'm just a little kid and I don't have enough money. Well, money isn't everything, Leeroy. Not to a VIP like you. That means very important person. I know, thank you. Gosh, you probably got more money than you know what to do with. Well... Sidney's one of those fortunate people. Everything he touches turns to money. Yeah? Now, sis, there's nothing mysterious about my operations. Tell me, Mr. Tuttle, if you were a little kid who wanted to do something nice for a very good uncle and needed $14, how would you get it? Oh, in that case, I'd borrow it. I'd get it from someone close to me. Well, gosh, it's nice of you to suggest it, but I really don't know you that well. Sidney, why don't you lend Leeroy $14? Me? Well, uh... Oh, please do it for me. Of course, sis, if I have it with me. I'll just go in the den and look at my overcoat. Mr. Tuttle, does your brother always carry money in his overcoat? Leeroy, he finds money in the strangest places. You don't like me borrowing from your brother, Mr. Tuttle? He doesn't have to know about it, Leeroy. If Mr. Tuttle wasn't the kind of fella he is, I wouldn't ask for the loan. Well, Leeroy, my boy, here's your $14. Oh, boy! Thanks, Mr. Tuttle. That's very sweet of you, Sidney. That's all right, sis. I'll never let you and Leeroy down. Excuse me, will I go put this money someplace? Go right ahead, Leeroy. I'll tell him that the money Sidney owes you. Leeroy, how did you get it? I got ways. I wish I could get the rest of it. There's more? He was just out here and borrowed $14. Honestly, we'll be back in just 30 seconds. There's one way to make sure your pie crusts bake crisp and flaky every time. Use craft oil. 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The next item of business is topical questions, and at question number one, I call Jamie Greene. To ask the Scottish Government what it can do to increase the resilience of Scotland's 999 emergency telephone service in light of UK-wide technical issues over the weekend that rendered the service unusable for many users. Cabinet Secretary, Angela Constance. Presiding Officer, the 999 call platform is a UK-wide system operated by BT and an integral part of the UK telecoms network. All telecoms infrastructure is reserved to and the responsibility of the UK Government. Scotland was not disproportionately affected by the issue. Police Scotland, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Scottish Ambulance Service promptly implemented business continuity arrangements that helped to manage call handling and reduce the likelihood of substantial call queue build-up or excessive wait times for callers. Due to the scale of the incident, the Scottish Government resilience room was activated for the duration of the incident. We have made clear our concerns about this incident to BT and await the outcome of the formal inquiry initiated by OFCOM on 26 June. That should allow us to better understand the cause of the failure, the full impacts and any lessons that may be learned. Jamie Greene. I thank the cabinet secretary for that very helpful update. I also add my thanks to those call handlers and emergency service workers who responded so quickly to events. On the issue of the outage itself and resilience, can I ask if the cabinet secretary had any direct conversations with BT or Police Scotland over the past 48 hours with regard to perhaps any initial thoughts as to what could have been a potential cause? Although I understand that there will be a full-scale inquiry into that for obvious reasons. What we did see, as a result of the 999 outage, was that the 101 service really stepped up to take and respond to emergency calls, which is a relief because the criminal justice committee just nine months ago took evidence from Deputy Chief Officer Page from Police Scotland who said that the very service itself was under existential threat, and thankfully the Government responded to that warning. Given the importance of the 101 service, can the cabinet secretary commit to on-going investment in it and that it will continue to exist in its current form? Cabinet secretary. Let me start by reassuring Mr Greene that throughout the course of Sunday I had several conversations throughout the course of the day with my resilience officials who were also taking part in the UK Cobra meetings to relay any concerns that we had in Scotland. Since then, yesterday, by chance, there were indeed four nations where all ministers were present with regard to resilience. There certainly is a shared understanding and a shared support for the BT inquiry from OFCOM in this matter. In terms of some of the more specifics around this UK-wide outage, I draw to Mr Greene's attention a statement made by BT that says that they are nearing the end of a full internal investigation and expect to share the findings with Government emergency services and OFCOM by Thursday. The internal review will examine the technical aspects of what triggered Sunday's incident, the process of moving over to the back-up system and the timings of communications to emergency services, OFCOM and Government. In the interests of transparency, BT will share key findings publicly at the same time, subject to the removal of any information that may remain confidential for critical national infrastructure purposes. In terms of the 101 service, I am glad that Mr Greene acknowledges the improvements in that service and that would coincide with the views of his Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and the Scottish Government will continue to ensure that the 101 service, as operated by Police Scotland, is scrutinised by the SPA that those arrangements work well. I thank the cabinet secretary for that further update and also to BT for the information that they provided, which is now a matter of public record from the cabinet secretary. I do not think that we can really underestimate the importance of our 999 and 101 services and the ability for the public to feel confidence in them and to get through when needed. The reality is that that trust has been eroded in many circumstances. Over the last five years, nearly 2 million calls to 101 had actually been abandoned by the caller and waiting times for both 999 and 101 calls has risen significantly. The longest wait last month for a 101 call to be answered was one hour and two minutes. We coupled that on top of the recent scandal, which was very unfortunate, where we discovered that calls had been allocated fake call signs and had not been responded to at all. We all know the tragic consequences as a Parliament of what happens when call handling goes wrong. I guess what I'm looking for are some reassurances to the public that they can have full confidence that all of our blue light services will be there for them when they are needed and that there is robust infrastructure in place to deal with both from a technical and resource point of view to deal with those emergency calls. Cabinet secretary. What is clear from Sunday's unfortunate events is that the Scottish Government's resilience arrangements work well and the continuity business plans of all our emergency services work well. Of course, we deserve our grateful thanks for that. In terms of the more specifics in and around Police Scotland call handling separate to this UK-wide national outage, that BT has now been investigated for, we continue to be hugely grateful to Police Scotland and its staff. It is worth remembering that Police Scotland receives more than 2 million calls each year and they continue to prioritise those 999 calls. The most recent figures show in that's April of this year that Police Scotland has an average answer time of six seconds for 999 calls and that is in line with other large forces across the UK. In this year, up to the end of March, the average time to answer a non-emergency 101 call was four minutes, 27 seconds. As I mentioned in my previous answer, the SPA closely monitors Police Scotland's approach and there have also been a number of improvements made. Police Scotland have highlighted a number of actions on public engagement system improvement and staff support being taken forward to further strengthen performance, but it is of course a matter that we will all continue to be vigilant on and it is a matter that is in helped with the increased police funding year on year since 2016-17. Of course, we have the assurance from the HMICS assurance review into the services contact assessment model which has highlighted a number of successes in this area. I would be grateful for concise questions and responses. I call Emma Harper. The downing of the phone line is of course a huge concern and I welcome the measures that the cabinet secretary has outlined to ensure that in an emergency access to care is always available. Can the cabinet secretary outline what additional steps are being taken to raise awareness amongst the public and what other means of accessing medical attention in a non-emergency or non-urgent situation? Our NHS 24 has completely transformed over the past three years from a predominantly out-of-hours primary care service to a 24-7 system-wide service providing triage to patients requiring both acute or primary care intervention and ensuring that they are signposted to the appropriate service. My messaging regarding NHS 24 services runs on social media along with communication campaigns on television, radio and digital platforms to promote NHS 424 services in the run-up, in particular to busy periods like bank holidays and there is also the NHS Inform website and the NHS 24 online app. To ask the Scottish Government what its responses to the reported delays in processing time for adult disability payments. Cabinet Secretary, Shirley-Anne Somerville. We know 53 per cent of adult disability payment decisions were made in less than four months, but we also know that many others are waiting too long and Social Security Scotland is taking urgent action and concerted action to speed this up. The focus is on getting the decision right first time and statistics show that this is working with only 6 per cent of people asking for a redetermination. People can also be assured that Social Security Scotland will backdate all payments to the date of application and that they will continue to deliver this benefit in a different way, supporting people to apply and collecting information on their behalf. Under the previous system, people had to do this themselves before applying. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. Presiding Officer, things are getting worse, not better. The average waits in Scotland for processing adult disability payment applications have more than doubled between September 2022 and April 2023, with people waiting on average 19 weeks for a decision. More than double the average of the waiting time that people in England and Wales wait for personal independence payments through the DWP. That is an unacceptable position. We do not even have a full picture of the longest waits. Many members around the chamber will have mailbags telling us the stories of it in the ordinary waits that people are experiencing. We need the granular data, Presiding Officer, to be able to show the full picture of the situation in Scotland. Will the cabinet secretary agree to publish full data so that we understand the scale of the problem and so that we can measure her responses by it? Recent statistics have not long been published, which looks at the adult disability processing times. Can I urge some caution about a comparison to PIP and personal independence payments? They are very different application processes, and I made reference to some of those points in my original remarks. First of all, it is the obligation for social security Scotland to work very hard to make sure that they are getting the right decision first time. That is showing that only 6 per cent of people are going for redeterminations. Whereas PIP, for example, there were 25 per cent going to mandatory reconsiderations, and many are, of course, going to appeal. There are, of course, some people who are not able to just go through that quite oppressive system. Can I urge caution on that point because many of the PIP decisions clearly are then overturned under reconsideration or appeal? I can also point to the fact around the supporting information because that is a very important difference within the system. Under PIP, the client, or customer, as a DWP likes to call people, had to collect that supporting information themselves. People told us, as we developed the agency and its processes, that this was a very burdensome and onerous task. That is why it is now the responsibility of the agency to gather that supporting information. That does take time, but I think that it is important. I hope that Paul O'Kane is not suggesting that we change this and put that burden back on the client, as in PIP, that the Social Security Scotland will endeavour to do this as quickly as possible. That is why they are taking concerted action to speed things up, but they will endeavour to get that supporting information themselves rather than going through the client. Paul O'Kane speaks about concerted action in order to speed things up. Absolutely, I think that it is clear what we now must see. In recent months, there has been a whole range of issues exposed relating to the ability of Social Security Scotland to deliver on its core functions. The soaring cost of the IT budget, people waiting over an hour to have their call answered, being cut off on the phone and being unable to access the website. The reality is that we were promised a better, fairer social security system by this Government through the creation of Social Security Scotland five years ago that people are still in real need and should not be having to wait so long. Will the cabinet secretary outline for the chamber what direct action she is going to take to get a grip of that problem, to bring those waiting times down, and will she commit to bringing forward a clear plan to this chamber in order to ensure that those processing times are speed up? Cabinet secretary. I give one example of the cost of the IT budget has increased because, of course, when you compare that to our initial estimates, we were not at that time planning to deliver the Scottish child payment. Of course, the IT system has been delivered to ensure that that payment is now gaining traction right across the country and making a real difference to people's lives. I have been in the chamber on a number of occasions recently, talking through some of the points of change that are already being undertaken by the agency. There is an end-to-end process review, and there are some procedures that I have already put in place. Again, I have spoken in the chamber already about changes that have already been made to the application process. I have talked already in the chamber about the fact that the agency is drawing more on the expertise of in-house health and social care practitioners to support case discussions earlier, therefore allowing people to have their decisions made earlier. A number of changes have also been made to the way in which the agency handles calls. Staff who can be deployed from elsewhere in the organisation to help to reduce processing times have also been moved. I believe that the chief executive of social school to Scotland is due to appear before Parliament to go into further details on that. I have already discussed with him that it might be useful for him to provide an update to all members within the Scottish Parliament to reassure them of the work that has been undertaken and also to ensure that we are open to suggestions about how that can be improved. Stephanie Callaghan. People who have experienced a delay when applying have understandable concerns about the prospect of losing out in payments whilst they are waiting a decision to be made. I have heard what the cabinet secretary has said today, but just to be crystal clear, can she confirm that in cases where delays have been experienced, the Scottish Government will ensure that those eligible will be paid from the date on which they applied? Cabinet secretary. Yes, Prime Minister. I am happy to give that reassurance once again that people will be backdated in their payments to the date of application. Thank you. That concludes topical questions. The next item of business is a debate on motion 9710 in the name of Emma Roddick on illegal migration bill, UK legislation. I'd be grateful if members who wish to speak in the debate were to press their request to speak buttons. I'll allow a moment for members to organise themselves.


Hey stampers, welcome to another week of Watch It Weekly, Wednesday. I'm Aubrey, part of the Stump and Jill creative team. And today I'm excited to share with you a new stamp set from the mini catalog. It's super cute, not totally one I would normally choose, but there's so much hype behind this type of set right now that I had to play with it. And I have to say I have grown to love it. So let me show you, it is the Shark Frenzy stamp set and Shark Dies. So as most of you probably know of a little YouTube sensation video that is happening right now, especially if you have little kids or grandkids, Baby Shark, right? We all know who Baby Shark is. So cute, but also that song can get super annoying. But how cute to have a stamp set that you can stamp a cute little card for our little loves. So this is what this set looks like. You have a big shark. You have a little baby shark. And you have all these accessories that you can use to kind of decorate the shark. And then it also says mommy, grandma, daddy, baby, grandpa, shark, and I love you. And also you can't forget about the doo-doos that you can sing along to and also stamp on your card. So let me show you some fun ideas using this set. Here is what the set looks like that I have. And the dies, the dies are super cute. You can't really see them all too well in the catalog, but they have like these cute seaweeds. They have bubbles.  So cute. And then all the little ones that will cut out all of your little pieces. So I wanted to show you all the colors that you can stamp baby shark because the best part is that he is a two-step stamping stamp. So you can stamp his outline just like I've done here and then add the color afterward. So I have a rainbow of colors here and I wanna show you how cute he is in all of these colors. So bear with me while I stamp that and I'll have to clean it in between. So it'll be fine. So we're gonna start with gorgeous grape. These colors are so cute and so bright. I love them. So cute. Okay. And next is Pacific Point and we're just stamping in a cute little rainbow here. Cute. And then Coastal Cabana. Oh, love it. Okay. And then Granny Apple Green. Now, Granny Apple Green. I'm pretty sure the Granny, the grandma should be Granny Apple Green, right? Cute. All right. Next I'm going to Daffodil Delight. So cute. I think that's the color he is in the YouTube video that I've been talking about. Okay. Next I'm gonna do Mango Melody. I didn't quite get that one straight on there but I'm sure you'll forgive me. And the last one I wanna do is Melon Mambo. So cute. Look how cute that is in all of those cute little colors. I love it. So I have made a few samples using this set and the dies and I wanted to show you those. The first one I wanna show you is my cute rainbow-y one.  And I'm pretty sure I know a few little boys that would love this card. So fun. And then I wanted to show you this really fun paper. This is in the annual catalog. It's called Well of a Time. I think this pairs so well with this stamp set because it has all of these ocean scenes. Oop, that you can use for your shark. So I made some cards using this paper. The Well of a Time paper, so cute. So let me show you those. We have this one. It's like he's on a stage there. And then here, this is where I set. You remember those little ones that you can cut out? They kinda look like goldfish. So cute. And then mommy shark, daddy shark, and baby shark. And then this one I did with grandma and grandpa shark and they're saying I love you with a cute little girl shark. So fun. This stamp set has been so much more fun to play with than I expected. I have loved it and I have fallen in love with it and it makes me want to make all the baby shark things. So if it's something you're interested in, make sure to visit us at stampinjail.com and you can place an order there. If you have any questions or comments, make sure to comment below and we'll see you next week for another Watch It Weekly Wednesday.


Hey guys, there are a few things every rider should check before going out on the ride in order to take full advantage of their bikes It's kind of a checklist that I have and I'm going to show you Where I usually cover The tires, the spokes, the chain and the air filter. So let's get to it So with the chain you should always make sure it's properly lubed up And believe it or not that no maker chain lasts so much longer just having this small gear and when you touch it It should look nice and glossy Like this With the air filter if you haven't checked the last time you're out, it's definitely a good time to check it right now Clean air filter will make you take full advantage of your engine's bike. This one is still good for another ride Something that's really overlooked. It's usually the tension of your spokes and it makes a huge difference while riding Because sometimes there are a lot of people that stop riding because they broke two or three spokes because they never checked it So you have two ways to check your spokes tension It's simply like squeezing a pair of those and going all around both sides and whenever you feel that there's a pair that's a bit Looser, just tighten them. Tighten them a quarter of a turn every time or each time check it again and so on or if you want to do the more artistic way is Grabbing a key and turning the wheel and listening to your your spokes And so whenever you hear a lower pitch on your spokes You tighten them one quarter of a turn each time and then check it again And so on until you don't hear any difference or major difference on your spokes So Last but not least It's your tires pressure. It makes such a difference every time you ride and obviously it depends if you change for example the place you ride in the terrain, but usually what I do with my Way my setup is when I go right to a faster place or a faster track I usually send the tire pressure to around 0.9 1 bar and whenever I go do some hard endure or some Right some places where there are a lot of more rocks. I usually go for 0.7 0.8 so it depends obviously on your feel your tires, but usually that's what I go And it takes advantage a lot more of your bike when riding you get such a huge difference in traction Really makes a difference So that's it. That's my checklist Please let me know your checklist and tell me other things that I should add on my checklist maybe and if you like the videos Please subscribe and let me know what you think about the videos, okay? Bye