The final item of business is a member's business debate on motion 1794, in the name of Megan Gallacher, on better protection for Scotland's war memorials. This debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I would ask those members who would wish to speak in the debate to please press the request to speak buttons. I call on Megan Gallacher to open the debate up to several minutes, please, Ms Gallacher. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I am really pleased to bring my first member's debate on better protections for Scotland's war memorials to the chamber today. I appreciate that I am cutting it a bit fine as I go on maternity leave next week, but I am honoured for the opportunity to raise such an important issue on behalf of veteran and community groups across Scotland. Before I begin my remarks, I would like to mention the Friends of Deniston war memorial group. Unfortunately, they are unable to be in Parliament today, but they have been at the forefront of the campaign to bring in better legislation for our war memorials. I would like to put on record my thanks for all of their hard work and efforts. Today marks the 15th of June. A rather innocuous date, and to many of us in the chamber today, is simply another Wednesday in the calendar. However, during the Great War, the 15th of June resulted in 2,637 recorded casualties for Britain and her Commonwealth allies. That is 2,637 sons, fathers, brothers and husbands who would never come home. Most of those men still lie in foreign lands where they went to serve and where they ultimately died. As the podium says, now we lie in Flandersfields. War memorials were commissioned throughout towns and villages in Scotland to commemorate the brave men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice so that we could live in a world free of tyranny and oppression. For many of the families and relatives, those memorials provide the only focal point for remembering. It is the names of their loved ones who have been etched into the hundreds of war memorials across the country. They are emotive and are at the heart of our communities. Many gather at these impressive structures at least once a year on 11 November at 11am, so we can come together to remember all of those who have been commemorated in stone. It is important that we continue to meet at these important landmarks, and that younger generations are educated on what the names on the structures fought and died for. Since 1966, there have been 66 attacks on war memorials in Scotland. Although the number appears low, almost 70 per cent have occurred within the last decade, and that is a worrying trend. Data shows that most attacks have taken place across the central belt, particularly in the area that I represent. During my time as a councillor in now MSP, I have been made aware of several incidents of war memorials being damaged and vandalised. The first incident was the war memorial situated in the Duchess Park in Motherwell in 2019. I was horrified by the wording of the graffiti that had been drawn all over the names of soldiers who fought and died for our country.  It was written in red wax and was stained onto the stone, and although some community members had attempted to clean it off, it required a specialised stone mason to carry out the repair work. Like many, I was grateful that the council acted quickly and the memorial was restored in just a matter of days. However, I was disgusted that someone could be so cruel and disrespectful. Following this attack, I have been involved in other incidents such as the memorial in Coatbridge, the Spanish Civil War Memorial in Motherwell, and the Hollowtown War Memorial. I know some of my central belt MSP colleagues. We will mention those. Thank you very much. I wish Ms Galkyr all the best for the maternity leave that is coming up. Thank you for raising the issue of the Duchess Park memorial. My great-uncle's name was on that memorial as well. Will she join me in fankening Mr McGowan and his son Stephen, who cleaned the Ney Passaran War Memorial for the Spanish Civil War, having come across it and took up on themselves to clean that, which also had fascist symbols painted on it? I will issue an issue that I commented on at the time because no memorial that has names of loved ones should ever be defaced in such a manner, so I definitely share the member's comments. I know some of our central region colleagues will go on to mention various other examples, just like the one that Ms Adamson mentioned. Due to the level of attacks on war memorials across Scotland, groups such as Friends of Deniston War Memorial formed to take direct action and to bring in better protections. They have organised a successful social media campaign to highlight the number of incidents and have brought together groups of people who care about our heritage, our history and our war dead. They have petitioned the Parliament on numerous occasions, asking that more is done to protect those sites from the mindless and important attacks on the memories of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. It is a rather sad indictment that those petitions have so far been unsuccessful in achieving their desired outcome. Furthermore, many of the leading veterans' charities in Scotland have condemned those attacks. Poppy Scotland and Legion Scotland have regularly condemned the attacks on war memorials and are especially concerned about the detrimental impact that those attacks will have on the mental health of the veteran community that they so passionately represent. The cabinet secretary, the ministers, might suggest that we already have legislation in place to deal with cases of vandalism to our war memorials. She may tell Parliament that the current legislation states that perpetrators of vandalism can face up to six months in prison or finds up to £5,000 under current legislation, which deals with vandalism and desecration of statues in memorials, including war memorials. However, I do not feel that those laws are tough enough and do not provide the necessary deterrence to stop those events from happening in the first place. If the legislation was adequate, we would not see an increasing number of attacks on them. There is a massive difference between graffiti and vandalism of a picnic table and that of a war memorial. However, under the current legislation, both events are categorised in the same manner. That cannot be right. Therefore, it is my intention to launch a member's bill so that we can finally provide a stronger legislation for the better protection of Scotland's war memorials, as has already been successfully introduced by my colleagues in England and Wales via the UK Government. Before I close, I would like to remind Parliament that Armed Forces and Veterans Week starts on Monday. That is an opportunity for local communities to come together to support our Armed Forces men and women, charities and third-party organisations who work alongside veterans once they return to civilian life. I look forward to working alongside various groups as I begin to progress my bill through Parliament. Ms Gallagher, I now call Paul O'Kane to be followed by Jenny Minto. Up to four minutes, please, Mr O'Kane. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer.  I also apologise to you and colleagues for needing to leave prior to the conclusion of the debate, and I thank you for your accommodations in that regard. I declare an interest as the chair of the Neilston War Memorial Association, and I begin this evening by paying tribute to all those who have served and lost their lives and are recorded on our memorials across Scotland. However, in particular, I am thinking of the Falklands Islands conflict as we gather just a day after the 40-year commemoration of the conclusion of that conflict yesterday. 40 years on, we remember the 255 British personnel who paid the ultimate sacrifice, many of whom are recorded on memorials across the country. When a war memorial is vandalised or desecrated, it is quite simply appalling. Megan Gallagher is right when she says in her motion before us today that war memorials are not representative of political or religious iconography, but serve an important purpose here in Scotland, that purpose of bringing people together to remember. I believe that it is right that we take remembrance very seriously, especially considering when we have asked so much of our armed forces, and given the historic horrors of the First and Second World Wars in particular. War memorials should not serve as a glorification of war, but rather as a reminder of what happens when dialogue fails and we fail to respect our differences and find common cause in our shared home upon this planet. With that in mind, I believe that the idea of making vandalism of a war memorial a specific criminal offence contains considerable merit, and the proposal should be fully examined. I start to look forward to seeing the outcome of the petition that is submitted by the War Memorial and engaging with the member on her proposals, which she hopes to bring forward. To make a real and substantial difference right now, the Scottish Government should support police and prosecutors to exercise the current full force of the law to deal with instances of vandalism. In my own village of Neilston, we take great pride in honouring the lives lost to war and the pain of a community left behind, and in some cases that pain, which is continuing to be experienced by families to this day. The Neilston War Memorial Association, whom I have spoken of before in this chamber, is run by local volunteers and has worked hard to place and maintain memorials throughout the local area. That includes the regular maintenance of our cenotaph and the erection of a series of benches and information boards, telling the story of those who died in the Arctic convoys during the Second World War and the shelter that was given to hundreds of refugees in Neilston, whom those men died protecting. However, in recent weeks, this relatively new memorial was vandalised. I and my community were outraged by that and the behaviour that associated it. It made me think of what action we as a community can take to stop such acts from happening again. I do not doubt that some people vandalise memorials with political motivation, and there is evidence of that. However, I do believe that it can often also be out of ignorance that people carry out such acts. I am sure that many in the chamber will agree with me when I say that the best way to overcome ignorance is through education. We must make sure that skills across our country teach about horrors of the First World War. The stories and experiences of young people in our communities who never returned young men who very often were just like them must be made relevant to those stories rather than just names that are etched in cold stone on our war memorials. It is only by educating young people about such horrors and the impact that they can have on people and their communities that we can make war memorials relevant to young people and give them a sense of ownership over them. I know that many schools in Scotland have done incredible work on this already by helping, for example, to arrange trips to places such as Flanders and Normandy. In bringing my remarks to a conclusion, I hope that, with a stronger focus from Government on supporting groups such as the Neals to War Memorial Association, I am working with Police Scotland at our schools that we can end vandalism of war memorials and continue to promote their protection enhancement in all our communities. I also wish to thank and commend the work that communities, volunteers, the British Legion, churches and councils across Argyllin, but in Scotland do to keep war memorials in the heart of their communities in such wonderful condition. In St Andrews, as a brownie and guide, I took part in many Remembrance Day services in Holy Trinity Church, the minute silence, the parade to the war memorial and the reef laying. I had been told about the wars and the sacrifice, but it wasn't until Easter 1982 when a family holiday to the battlefields of Northern France coincided with the Falklands war that the Remembrance Day became much more meaningful. I knew that six Minto cousins fought in World War I, three survived, my great-uncle Rab being one who, on his return, studied for the ministry. Of the cousins who didn't come home, two are buried in different cemeteries in Poperring, one from East Lothian and one from Australia, closer to death, and closer together in death than they were in life. I was able to pay my respects to those two men when I attended World War 100 commemorations in 2017 in Ypres and Tyncott. Families joined together in Remembrance as the motion says of the young men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their countries so that everyone today, irrespective of their background, can equally enjoy freedom from tyranny and oppression. Like communities across Scotland and Argyll and Bute, Islay has its war memorials in Commonwealth War Commission graveyards. Memorials in Remembrance to Locals lost, sailors washed up on its shores and one grave of an American soldier, Roy Munkaster. In February 19, the troopship Tuscania was torpedoed in the north channel between Islay and Ireland. Almost 200 men were lost, with many being swept on to Islay and those who did not survive were buried there. After the war, those American soldiers were repatriated either to their homes, to Arlington Cemetery or to Brookwood south of London, except for Roy Munkaster. His family wanted him to remain where he'd been laid to rest. They knew he would be looked after by the Iowa folk. He is. But also the Forest Ranger Service, whom Roy worked for in Washington State, named a mountain in his memory in the Olympia National Park. Memorials take different forms. Islay's war memorials contain names of the fallen in World War II and other conflicts, and in 2018 support from the Scottish Government allowed us to clean and keep the war memorials in great form. In small communities they are personal. The surnames etched into the stone are still on the school rules today. They are not simply names, they are family members, recognised, remembered and respected. The stories of the battles in the trenches in the deserts or on the seas are handed down, retold, learnt about and in school. I struggle to understand why anyone would vandalise or desecrate a war memorial or a gravestone. Do we not do enough to ensure the stories behind the names are told? Yes, punishment should fit the crime and I welcome that, but the history behind our war memorials needs to be handed down through the generations lest we forget. That is why these debates are so important, and like the one last week on 40 years since the Falklands led by my colleague Graham Day, they raise awareness. Our war memorials belong to our communities. They represent the collective memories and histories of our communities. They are, as others have said, beyond politics. They do not judge wars as just or unjust. They simply but start to remind us what high prices communities pay when countries go to war, and they honour those of our own folk who paid the ultimate sacrifice.  I now call Stephen Kerr to be followed by Fulton MacGregor up to four minutes, please, Mr Kerr. It is a great pleasure to follow Jenny Minto. I thought she gave a beautiful speech, and indeed all the speeches have been first class. I want to thank my good friend and neighbour Megan Gallacher for securing this debate about Scotland's war memorials. This is a timely debate for the people of Falkirk, with the unveiling of the Bainsford war memorial on Friday last week and the rededication of the Grangemouth war memorial on Saturday. Scotland's war memorials must be defended. As the motion lays out, there has been an increase of targeted vandalism on war memorials across Scotland. Those are shameless and shameful attacks, not only on the physical memorials themselves but on what those memorials represent. Millions across our United Kingdom, across Scotland, made the ultimate sacrifice so that we can enjoy liberties that are part of our everyday lives. We must defend this legacy. I heard mention of Flanders, and memories came back to me of a family visit to Ypres visiting the Commonwealth War Graves commission tended graves of our fallen and the Men and Gate. Everyone, I think, should see the Men and Gate with tens of thousands of names of young men, and they were very young, who are lost, their bodies never found. Those memorials, whether in Belgium or northern France, or across all of our communities in Scotland, need to be conserved. You wouldn't be surprised to hear a conservative asked for something to be conserved. Everyone across Scotland must have a local war memorial that they can be proud of. I live in the small community of Bridget Valley, and the war memorial there is the focus of our remembrance across all parties, all types of people across Bridget Valley on every Remembrance Sunday. It was at the Remembrance Sunday in Grangemouth last year that a number of members of the public came up to me to express their sadness about the growing moss on the war memorial. Sharing that concern, I wrote to numerous bodies asking them what could be done to remove this moss. I found out that a professional clean to remove moss and bacteria growth was undertaken last in 2017, but that moss was once again visible within 18 months. Although I was assured that the low-level removal of moss growth can be undertaken by park staff and volunteers after appropriate training, I was disappointed to read that Falkirk Council had concluded that recommissioning this cleaning work on a sufficient regular basis for the memorial to appear clear of biological growth is not affordable within our current budgets. I do not wish to stray into party political territory here, but Falkirk Council has suffered cuts and I fear for the future of budgets that exist to conserve Scotland's war memorials. When preparing for this debate, a quote from one of my political heroes at Winston Churchill struck me. He said, we shape our buildings and they after they shape us. I reflect on that. I know that war memorials are not buildings, but they certainly shape us. I will never forget the impression that the war memorials of Belgium and northern France made on our children. Regardless of where we are in our United Kingdom, when you walk past a war memorial, you can only remember duty shown by our fellow countrymen and the sacrifices they have made. As we in this chamber and those across our United Kingdom look to the future, we must ground ourselves by remembering all those who have come before us and the sacrifices they have made and the lessons that they continue to teach us. Our war memorials allow us to do that on a daily basis, and that is why, Deputy Presiding Officer, we must be united and defend them. Thank you, Mr Kerr. I now call Fulton McGregor to be followed by Alexander Burnett. Up to four minutes please, Mr McGregor. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and I also want to thank you and pay tribute to Megan Gallacher for bringing this important debate to the chamber and also wish her well on her maternity leave. The motion is indeed correct that memorials hold a very special place in the hearts of those in our communities and ensure that most of us in this chamber have paid tribute to those who died fighting for their country at such memorials. They are a reminder of what we lost and the sacrifices that were made. I myself have been the honour of laying a wreath many times in my constituency of Co-bridge and Chrysyn at the war memorial situated near the centre of Co-bridge, which Megan Gallacher talked about also, Glen Boyge, Gart Cosh and other locations across the constituency. The one at Co-bridge I have done is the six years in MSP, a councillor before that, and it goes back even further to when I was a young boy and a adolescent in the boys brigade, and we went there on memorial day as well. That memorial pays tribute to those who lost their lives both in the First and World Wars, and as Elaine Smith, former MSP, spoke in here a few times about the design being by Edith Burnett Hughes, who was a very important figure in Scottish architecture. She was considered Britain's first practising women architect, and it was first unveiled in 1924, meaning that this special memorial is fast approaching its 100th birthday, and I'm sure that myself and Megan and others will be at events to commemorate that in a couple of years' time. As Claire Adamson mentioned, a personal connection to the war memorial. In her area, similarly, there's her name Joseph Simpson, who is inscribed in that memorial, who's my mum's uncle, so that would be my great-uncle as well, I think, and similar to Claire Adamson, who she never met, and I'm very proud of his names inscribed here. Sadly, as Megan Gallachers talked about, the point of the motion is that vandalism, that these memorials sometimes receive in this particular memorial on Coatbridge, has had several acts of vandalism even in the six years that I've been an MSP. I've had to stand up at First Minister's Questions on a couple of occasions and condemn it. What's been written on war memorials, the vandalism itself, is absolutely disgusting. Myself and the local community were obviously rightly outraged. I have to say over the last couple of years that there hasn't been anything and I do hope that that continues and I hope that I don't find myself having to stand up in the chamber again this year and condemn it. Attacks in that centre or any centre are a direct attack on the memory of the men who fought and died for their country. They come from different backgrounds. They come from all faiths and none. I have to say that the experience is a different situation because Stephen Kerr was talking about moss, but I have to say that not-flancher council did, as Megan Gallachers talked about the situation, react very quickly and cleaned up the graffiti that was on it on those occasions, so I want to pay tribute to them for doing that.  I think that that gives into Jenny Mintle's point about reminding people of their value and their importance. Firstly, and I've spoken about it both in the chamber before, in fact I think I had a member's debate in the last session on this very subject, but very briefly, Presiding Officer, firstly a former teacher, Les Jenkins, indeed my own history teacher, just a couple of years ago. First of the idea of his project 35 years ago and involved his history pupils at Coatbridge High, but he completed his retirement to mark the centenary of the conflict's end. He compiled the stories of all 863 first world war fallen who are on the Coatbridge same daff and Les's biographies of the Coatbridge soldiers are contained in a series of folders which members can access in the local studies room at Airdrie library if you're interested. The other gentleman I'll talk about is John McCann. He is a website which is a culmination of more than a decade of research. He travelled across Europe to piece together scraps of the information that was recorded about the brave fighting men from Coatbridge who lost their lives during the Great War. When Mr McCann learned that no research had actually been done on the men who the memorial commemorates, he decided to collect it himself, as I said, and his website lists all the names. There has been a lot of support from family and friends of the fallen who have found out about information about their loved ones and it's a really, really incredibly important work and I'm sure the members will agree in that. I'm actually hoping to meet John soon. He now lives in Northern Ireland with myself in Les Jenkins. I'm looking to set up a meeting and I would be happy to send an invite to Megan Gallacher to come along to that if you can fit it in when Governor maternity leave, when we get it set up and we'll do that. I'll leave it on that, thank you very much. That's great, thank you very much indeed, Mr Gregor. I will now call Alexander Burnett, who will be the last speaker before I ask the Minister to respond up to four minutes please, Mr Burnett. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and can I join my colleagues who have spoken tonight in thanking Megan Gallacher for securing this important debate on her first member's business and giving us all the opportunity to speak on the importance of having better protection for our war memorials. 2018, the year we marked 100 years since the end of World War I, that summer I visited all 50 war memorials and Commonwealth graves in Aberdeenshire West and visiting the memorials to pay respects to those who gave their lives in the Great War was deeply moving. A stark reminder of not just the violence and atrocities, but the solidarity, sacrifice and bravery shown by many. War memorials serve as a symbol to respect those who gave their life for the greater good, and I support my colleagues' calls to bring forward stronger legislation, which will ensure that these memorials are protected and will recognise vandalism of memorials for the heinous criminal act that it is. But I want to note however that during my visits to these war memorials and graveyards, I was very disheartened to see that many of them are now longer being maintained properly, and headstones and memorials serve to honour their sacrifice and bravery, and they should be well maintained, and several constituents have started to contact me over the state of these various graveyards. I understand that it is the practice of the Scottish Government not to directly fund war memorials, but it was assured previously that a number of years ago they introduced a fund to help maintain and improve war memorials where required, and this was operated through Historic Environment Scotland's War Memorial Trust's grants scheme, so I'd be grateful to hear from the Minister if his fund is still in operation or if there are any other systems in place to support the maintenance for war memorials. Now, cemeteries themselves fall under local authorities and obviously Covid restrictions had impacted on landscape service teams, but normal service has far been resumed following cuts to their budgets. Often, I should say, under the excuse of increasing wildlife habitat, so communities had started to take matters into their own hands, including the Friends of Ellen Cemetery, started by Councillor Julian Owen after seeing the success of the Friends of Tariff Cemetery, but if budget cuts were not bad enough, just today I read in the press and journal that the Friends of Ellen, who were pulled at discovering graves of loved ones covered in cut grass, have now been banned from clearing the mess themselves due to health and safety rules unless they get special training. One can't help but think what those remembered by such graves would make of how we define risk today. So I just asked the Cabinet Secretary to recognise and support this very important issue today, and once again consider providing direct funding to community councils or other local groups to ensure that all graveyards and memorials can be well kept, including cutting the grass and maintaining structures to enable people to show their respect for many more years to come. Can I just finish by thanking those who have fought for us and those who continue to serve? We are reminded in current times of the bravery of those who make the world a safer place, and we are forever grateful and thank you for your service. I now call on Ash Wregan Minister to respond to the debate up to seven minutes. I would also like to extend my thanks to Megan Gallagher for providing an opportunity this evening to highlight and to discuss the importance of preserving and protecting our war memorials and to thank the other members across the chamber who have contributed to today's debate, particularly Jenny Minto, who gave a very thoughtful contribution this evening. We have had this time to reflect that memorials such as the ones we are discussing are not there to glorify war, and I think that this was a point that was made by Mr McCain instead to recognise the sacrifices that were made to protect the freedoms that we enjoy today. War memorials across Scotland give friends and families and the general public important and poignant focal points to pay their respects to so many of our countries' young men and women who did not return home from conflicts around the globe. They also play a vital role in raising awareness of past conflicts among those too young to remember them. They help us to remember the hardships endured, the courage displayed in the face of adversity and the ultimate sacrifice made during those times of conflict. I have been lucky enough to see some of the outstanding work that has been done in our communities across the country to honour those who have fought and continue to fight for the liberties and peace that we so often take for granted, and I am very grateful for that. We will forever hold an honoured place in our hearts for the commitment and sacrifices made by veterans, as well as our active service men and women. Their legacy is deserving of the utmost respect, and it is therefore easy for us to appreciate how distressing and abhorrent it is when war memorials and statues connected to the past conflicts are the target of willful vandalism. I am pleased that the Scottish Government plays its part in ensuring that war memorials throughout the country are looked after to the highest standard, and that is through the Scottish Government's Centenary Memorial Restoration Fund. Historic Environment Scotland provided support totaling £1 million to the war memorial's trust, and that money was used to aid repairs to war memorials throughout Scotland from April 2013 until March 2018. The programme supported the repair and conservation of about 125 projects in total, and the support has not ended there. In 2019-20, Historic Environment Scotland also awarded the war memorial's trust a grant of just over £91,000, and that was to fund 50 per cent of their grants, programmes and conservation programmes. I am pleased to say that this year, Historic Environment Scotland have awarded a further £88,000 to fund war memorial's trust conservation programme and 50 per cent of its grant programme in Scotland, and that is for the period 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2025. Of course, I welcome the announcement there. However, does the minister acknowledge that the current legislation does not act as a deterrent, and that is why we are seeing an increase that we have done over the last decade in the vandalism of war memorials? I take the member's point. I have some statistics here. It seems as if the crime is a very low crime, and the information that I had received was from the war memorial's trust, and they said that the statistics are 0.04 per cent of war memorials that are damaged in the way that Ms Gallagher is describing, but I accept that it is a particularly distressing crime. I will go on to speak a little bit more about the legislative approach in a moment. Turning to the distressing subjects of vandalism, including the incidents that have been referred to already, the recent petition that has been submitted on behalf of the Friends of Deniston war memorial urges the Scottish Government to introduce stronger legislation that would recognise the desecration or vandalism of war memorials as a specific criminal offence. I hear the heartfelt concerns of that group and, indeed, some of the speakers this evening, and I can reassure members that the Scottish Government continues to recognise the importance of Scottish war memorials in ensuring that the memories of those who gave their lives in conflict are not forgotten. Vandalism is a crime, regardless of the motivations for it, and the Scottish Government condemns all acts of malicious vandalism and graffiti. That sort of behaviour is unacceptable in modern Scotland, and those who are indulging in such behaviour can expect to face criminal charges. I will say a little bit more about the current legal provisions in Scotland relating to vandalism. Under the vandalism provisions contained in the criminal law consolidation Scotland act of 95, any person who, without reasonable excuse, willfully or recklessly destroys or damages any property belonging to another shall be guilty of the offence of vandalism and liable for a fine of up to £1,000. The Antisocial Behaviour Scotland act of 2004 also enables the police to issue on-the-spot penalties to people suspected, and that is of more low-level crimes of offences such as graffiti. Additionally, depending on the circumstances, common law breach of the police could be used to deal with those involved in the desecration of statues and monuments. Such individuals may also fall foul of the criminal justice and licensing act of 2010 if they are also involved in threatening or abusive behaviour, which causes fear or alarm for which an individual can be fined or receive a prison term up to five years. The Scottish Government supports police and prosecutors in using the existing powers that they have available to them in dealing with incidents of vandalism that affect warm memorials. However, we are open to considering this matter further, and whether it would be appropriate to consider introducing additional legislation in order to protect warm memorials. I thank Ms Gallagher for raising the debate today. I welcome the views that have been expressed in the debate across the chamber this evening, which have been helpful in raising the profile of this very important issue. I will reflect on the points that members have raised today in the discussion. I also thank the Friends of Deniston War Memorial petition.


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Them start possibly but then not have easy time. Sheriff Trinne McGill have been responsible for a lot of death and destruction in this territory, Tonneau. There's no one whose life or property is safe while those men are free. We see trail outlaws make when them ride through street. Were the hoof prints distinctive? Ah, we know them sure if we see them again. Which way do they ride? Them go west in the hills. By morning they may double back or else they'll be far away. I know this country well. We know country well, Kimosabe. Yes, and when they break down we'll start combing it. Tonneau, it's the last thing I do. I'm going to put Shafter McGill back in prison. Far from every beaten trail and in wild country the few men knew. Prospector Andy Hogan and his wife Leida were eating their meager breakfast. Hogan, elderly and weather beaten was his usual philosophic self. His wife listened with a feeling of resignation to his promises for the future. Leida, I know how many times I've made you big promises in the past, but this time I'm sure I'm struck and wrecked. Yeah, sure. And next year we'll take the million dollars and go out to San Francisco. No, Leida, not San Francisco. Not right away at least. First we go and ride on one of them railroad trains. It tells about him in that Denver newspaper I got when I was in town last time. Such ears. Hear me out, will you please? Then we ride all the way in. Some of them disappeared in land with him. I thought they could scare up something if it's each you want. Come on in. Fact of our lone ranger adventure, before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. He can move though. Proteins, vitamins and minerals, the very things that help build healthy bodies, strong bones, good red blood and muscles. Why they'd be the sort of breakfast you'd go for even if they didn't taste so good. And they do. They're a real old cereal already cooked with that delicious toasted old flavor. Swell-tasting Cheerios and milk for go power. Eat them every morning. For dislike, turn to suspicion when one of them leaves Shafter the table in the corner. Shafter spoke to his partner. Stuff over and out of the tip. Think you'll be able to rest us up something good, Mom? It wasn't good. Leida Hogan grim-faced began to rekindle the fire to prepare food for the men. She was about to light a newspaper taken from a pile of papers in the corner. When suddenly she spouted with a gleam in her eye. We're saying to myself, I ought to push out to home. I'll have things ready in a jiffy. I get to town once in a while, and I get newspapers from San Francisco and Deserita. Look to the wooded area near the town of Deserita, where Tato had trailed the outlaws the previous evening. The lone rangers studied the footprints. They are a distinctive tunnel, but following them up through the hill will be difficult. See how far they'll eat his horns. If there's someone up there, it'll be well to find out. The door of Prospector Andy Hogan's cabin prepared to leave. That was a good meal, Mrs. Hogan. We sure appreciate it. Yeah, we could give you. Now we better go. We have our horses up above. Back for us. Right. Andy, those two were outlaws. Rox McGill. Look at this paper over here, Andy. The one you bought a few months ago. The Denver paper. See? Look at those pictures. Let me look at this. They don't have whiskers in these pictures, but that's the two of them, sure. Sure it is. I knew I'd seen them. Then when I remembered where it was and who they were, I became nice to them. Why? They might appear less if we let on it. Say, are you paying any attention to me? I'm reading this article here. Lighter, there's a lot of rewards out for them. More than $10,000 altogether. More than a reward. Come to us right about the old lady, Lee. She was wise to us. Let me see that paper.  This is where you, Lee, are pictures right on the front page of a Denver paper. He was wise that your wife knows who we are. It's rich-looking stuff. And now we'll take that gold-prosy of miners from Deserat is going to find us up here. Push your mind, Hogan. Might be worth looking at. And it's certainly a good place to leave you, best. Perhaps, but we'll work down to the side of the place hoping that they don't. Husbands still lay unconscious on the floor.  Tell us where this gold mine is at. We can't waste time. Happened to Mr. Hogan. Him on floor. Unaware of the masked man who stood outside the open window with his gun aimed, toppled glanced at the window, then moved fast. He grabbed McGillick at the horse's glorious court. It's Marshall and Deputy have come to make prisoners. Now, as they themselves led a new posse ready to leave for the hills, they saw a procession of horses enter the main street. Sam Rowland, Sheriff Wyatt's Deputy, was the first to speak. Susie and Rodney beside it. I think I recognize those two. That's old Andy Hogan. Waking stagecoach. The Marshalls spoke at length with the Hogan's and the masked man. Securious bystanders heard the masked man say... And Marshall and Mrs. Hogan recognized the outlaws. Them off long enough for taught me to take them and deserve the reward. We do. There's enough money in that to do us the rest of our days. And I'm going to make Andy get someone to work it for us. Trips he was always talking about. Get it out. Give the reward money to Sheriff Wyatt and Sam Rowland who caught those rooks in the first place. Well, regardless of what we say, Marshall's office will make the final decision. How don't I have our reward in helping as we did then in knowing if Sheriff Wyatt will live. Howdy, old son of a... There's enough in the ups and rides away with the engines. Say, Marshall, a man like that must be something special. Why don't you keep him here and put him in charge of the sheriff's office? Oh, no. Jim Wyatt will be back soon and take care of Desirata. Let it vanish, man. We'll be needed in other places to make sure that men like Shaft or McGill don't get the upper hand. You see? Getting ahead seems a lot easier knowing champions are made, not born. Take Eddie Matthews, Home Run King of the Milwaukee Braves. Let's talk about that early day when Ed was learning third base play. He practiced buzzing how to hit and chose the food that keeps champs fit. Wheaties and milk, his favorite. And now that Ed's a champ today, he still sparks up the Wheaties way. Yep, Eddie Matthews had his first bowl of Wheaties when he was only seven years old. Been eating him ever since. Talk about a ball player's breakfast. There's a whole kernel of wheat in every Wheaties plate. Now watch Ed put that ball away. This way, he's on his way, on his way. Get on your way, because champions are made, not born. Yes, sir. Get on your way, get on your way. 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Here we go, July 21st, week three of the old options bootcamp. This week we're going to talk about risk, reward, placing the trades, managing risk, order entry rules, all kinds of, all kinds of good stuff, okay? Why would I need to learn options, right? If I can just trade the stock, absolutely, absolutely. And if that is what you want to do by all means, please do that and no hard feelings whatsoever, okay? No hard feelings whatsoever, but to say that, to say the only reason I trade the stock is because one, maybe I don't understand options and that's fine. That's why we're here. The second being I don't need to, okay, cool, that's your choice. But the fact that assuming or insinuating there's no edge or there's no advantage to it is completely and totally false, okay? And in the assumption that trading options is only if you have a small account, no, no, by all means not the case whatsoever. You trade options when you're looking for a bigger percent gain and in order to hedge your risk and your exposure, okay? Because when you buy stock, you're fully exposed in almost every situation possible, especially short, but on the long side, you can hedge it as well. So continue through that. Let's take a trade, okay? In KLA, all right? Had I purchased stock at $40 a share on the said date right here, okay? Going into first green day, this is one of my favorite setups. Had I bought the stock at the close at $40, sold it at the close the next day, it would have been a 35% increase on my position, okay? So whatever amount of money I invested into it, I would have had a 35% increase on that money, okay? Now, let's say I bought at the money options that same day. That same day, had I bought at the money calls, at the money $40 calls, how would that trade have turned out? The next day, first green day, those $40 calls were 206, the prior day, and at the close on July 8th, they were 1409. In other words, a 584% increase, okay? 584% increase. That is insane. Look at the amount of volume that happened on these calls too. 20,000 contracts, more than 20,000 contracts traded. That's really liquid in terms of contracts for options, okay? Extremely liquid. To say that I don't need to do this because I have a giant account size and that's the justification for it, I don't see it. I don't see it because that's the argument is that 35% increase is better than a fully hedged position that has the potential of making 584%. On a rare occasion, does the stock ever make a 584% increase, but a 35% increase in stock all of a sudden increases 584% using calls or options to say that matter. Higher Delta is going to be stuff that's 25 cents to 50 cents. These are the higher risk situations, higher returns, okay? They will cost more money. These premiums will cost more money. This is not always fast and true with high return, high risk, okay? You can play in the money strikes and it'd be lower risk and lower return, all right? Again, this is not, it's such a moving target that it's so hard to define set rules for when Delta is this, we do this, when Delta is that, we do this, when options this, we do that. It is such a moving target that it becomes so hard to tell you that there's only one way that this works.  A million and one, maybe even more, maybe a million, too. So let's talk about some risk examples. A high risk situation, this is my definition of a high risk situation and most others, is 50% max loss or 100% profit target. Basically, if my options cost me 1,000 bucks, I don't want to lose more than 500 and I want to make 1,000 bucks. Lower risk, okay? Lower risk is 30% max loss and looking to make anywhere between 50 to 60%. So those are two situations kind of that will help you judge on how much money you need to go into the trade with that you can afford to lose, all right? In order to make a decent profit and make it actually worth your time. These are candles. Per $1 move, 380 to 381, there is going to be in theory a 25 cent increase in your call options because the delta at that given time was 25 cents. So if you remember the definition we gave earlier, it is the per contract increase or decrease per $1 move in the underlying stock. So when the stock goes from 380 to 381, many people will go, well, how do I know my options are gonna be worth when it goes from 38 to 381? How do I know? Like it's just like magic or do I need to like message somebody? No, no, just look at delta, okay? 25 cents, all right? 25 cents, the stock goes from 380, your goal, okay? Your goal here is to sell it at 384 because that's resistance, all right? This is the trade idea. We wanna buy it at 380, we wanna sell it at 384. The target is 384. So what are we potentially going to make here? Well, we're potentially going to buy options at four bucks because that's what the bid ask is right now. Let's say it's like four or say it's like 390 by four, right? So we're gonna buy on the ask in the worst case scenario. We don't wanna do that, but if we did that, okay? If we did that, we would buy it at four and if it goes to 384, how do we do the quick math in our head? Okay, well, let's just do four, shazam. So in a perfect world, and there's no increase in volatility and delta doesn't change and everything stays constant, the option would go from four bucks to five bucks, all right? And many people are gonna go, well, I can make four points over here or I can make a point over here. That doesn't seem like a very good deal. Okay, well, you do the percent change from 380 to 384 and then do it from four to five and tell me what's bigger.  So if there's any confusion on delta, just reference this slide about 14 other times, okay? Before sending me a message on delta, all right? Again, it's not that important, but I'm just gonna tell it to you that way that you have an idea on what to expect, all right? On what to expect. So before I get a thousand messages on delta, as you're watching this, before you hit enter and you message me about what delta is or how to use it, watch this slide, just rewind it four, five, six times, whatever you need, 20 times, ever how many it takes until it sinks in, okay? Ever how many it takes, put in that work, all right? So let's take a look here at what an option versus the underlying stock looks like, all right? In a real world example, real world example. Again, remember, this is the perfect world, right? The perfect world where all things work equal, everybody has equal rights, there's no kind of discrimination, there's no gray areas, this is how the world is. Nah, no, not always gonna be that way, okay? This is a real world example, all right? Let's take Netflix today, for example, all right, today. If I want to buy into support at 500 and 495, okay? The trade plan right out of the gate is whatever I do, whatever I do, I have to be willing, willing to lose half of the contract value. So at 500, right? At 500, this big-ass candle here, right? This big-ass candle here is also this big-ass red candle here from seven down to four, all right? That's that candle, all right? The opening candle was this candle right here, that candle right there, which is this big green candle, which where it goes from, see, this is where the bid ask is really wide at the open. So that means that somebody filled way down here like 320 and the last price was seven bucks in like a span of five minutes, right? Cause it's a five minute chart. So, I mean, that's a chat room alert if there ever was one in small caps, but not in options. This is usually just due to liquidity. And so that is kind of the art of filling in between is you can fill in between in these really widespread situations. And then all of a sudden the bid and the ask will tighten up and you'll be able to sell at a much higher price and the stock could have absolutely went, look, the stock went freaking nowhere, right? It went nowhere, but the euphoria of buying, thinking that seeing this wick, look, when it tanks, it goes red and then all of a sudden it gets bought up really big.  So five, 10 strike, okay? It's the five, 10, C, five, 10. That means calls, five, 10 calls. July 24th calls, five, 10 strike.  Doesn't mean anything. Thank you so much for watching our video. If you wanna see more of our videos, please subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking the button here. We do our best to post a new video every single day. If you have any questions about MIC or any general trading questions, please text us using the number here. 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And now as we continue through the morning, we have a couple of featured keynotes. I think that they finished the setup over here. The first one is going to be brought to us by someone who has been a guest at our OpenStack summits for a number of times now. It's always interesting, always likes to walk the wire. He is the founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Well, thank you very much. Welcome to Hong Kong. It is a great pleasure to be here. You know, in the Ubuntu community and in Canonical, our highest purpose is to celebrate the work of thousands of developers across hundreds of projects. But it's very rare that you see a project which manages to combine both great leadership, great governance, and being in the right place at the right time. And this project has all of those things. So it's a real privilege to be part of it. And I want to thank the OpenStack team for the way they've kept things together, even despite the extraordinary growth and intense pressure that they must experience being at the center of all of this. Now, we have a bit of a tradition at OpenStack summits, which is that I try very, very hard to do an impossible thing. So far, so good, touch wood. It has worked. And really what I want to do is celebrate the progress that OpenStack is making, show you just what is possible with the latest drops of code. So this time, I'm going to need a volunteer. Let's see. In the past, what do we do? We did an automated deployment. The first time we did this, we did an automated deployment of a workload onto OpenStack. Then live on stage, we did a deployment from scratch on bare metal of OpenStack in 20 minutes. The next OpenStack summit, we did an upgrade in place of a running cloud. So we had a cloud that was running fulsome, and by the end of the talk, it was running grisly. In the next OpenStack summit, we did a complete reboot of the entire cloud without destroying the running instances to show that you could use OpenStack in production and you could essentially preserve guests while upgrading the kernel across the entire cloud. And that, of course, is a critical feature for people who are putting OpenStack into production. All of that is controlled by landscape, the Ubuntu management server. So you might be asking yourself, what we're going to do today? Well, of course, we're gonna build a cloud, but I need a volunteer, and to get a volunteer, we're gonna use my little ducky. This is, in fact, a random number generator, and the way it's a random number generator is that whoever ends up holding this ducky, if they want to, can volunteer, otherwise they can pass it on, they can pass the duck. So if you don't want to volunteer, just throw it over your shoulder. Are you in? All right, give him a round of applause. While he's coming up, I want to tell you a little bit about Ubuntu. Ubuntu is the reference operating system for OpenStack development. It's the base OS used in more than 80% of today's production OpenStack clouds, and it's the number one guest Linux on Amazon, Azure, and HP Cloud. Hello, hi. Tell us a little about yourself, what's your name? Atul, Atul. It is great to have you here. Thank you for coming up. Atul, do you work for Canonical? Do you know what's coming? Do you know what this is all about? Okay, very good. Do you guys believe me that Atul doesn't know what's coming? Okay, sit tight, hang on to the duck. All right. So, what else is Ubuntu? We try to make Ubuntu, oh, here's a quote from the excellent guys at Scala. Scala is an interface to public clouds. It allows enterprises to have governance over their public cloud activities. And Scala says that more than 70% of the images they see on those public clouds are Ubuntu. We try to make Ubuntu fast, friendly, beautiful, and really easy to use for developers. And we build it on a cadence, just like OpenStack. So our 1204, 1404, 1604 LTS cadence matches, with interim releases, matches OpenStack's cadence. So that we try to be the best and easiest way to get OpenStack into your hands. 1404 LTS is going into planning right now. We will ship that in April. So developers, now's the time to tell us what you're looking for in 1404. Specific dependencies, specific versions. We're gonna live with 1404 for a long time. So please, our engineers are here to figure out exactly what makes the best base for OpenStack. And we recently overtook Centos as the platform for large-scale computing. We have been the number one platform on the top 10,000 websites by traffic for some time. We've now overtaken Centos on the top million websites by traffic as well. So KVM, now you may know that Ubuntu was the first Linux distribution to adopt KVM. A tool, would you like to build a cloud with KVM? Okay, but wouldn't it be nice to have some options? Grab a mic. Okay, so here's how this game is gonna be played. What I'd like to do is I'd like everyone on the left-hand side of the audience to show their appreciation for a tool. Okay, and now everybody on the right-hand side to do the same. All right, a tool. What are we doing? Are we doing left or are we doing right? You'll go with the right. Good choice, there you go. All right, don't worry, don't worry. That was just a warm-up, that was just a warm-up. Okay, so we're gonna build a cloud with KVM because KVM is the reference hypervisor for OpenStack, but wouldn't it be great if we could choose our own adventure? Who had those books, choose your own adventure, yeah? Oh man, I love those. Okay, so our adventure. You get to choose ESX or LXC. So ESX, LXC. All right, champs, that'll be LXC. All right, storage. Now, you get the choice. How are we gonna do this? Swift, are you listening at all? Seth, I scuzzy. Enterprise, guys, enterprise. It's legacy, but we have to talk to it. All right, so I think that was Swift and Seth, yeah? Okay, now the network. Now, we're gonna build a cloud of the flat network because that's how most people do it, but again, wouldn't it be nice to have options? And I heard there's this SDN neutron thing. So let's hear it. Open V-switch. I should have put NSX. Oh, it's all. Too many choices. Which ways are gonna go? Too many choices. Too many choices. All right, let's try again. Open V-switch. Nasera NSX. OVS it is, all right. Now, do you guys believe I had nothing to do with this? He chose, you chose. Okay, we're gonna build two clouds. Thank you very much at all. It was a pleasure to meet you. Take the duck. There you go. So our goal is to make an open stack easy for you and to give your options, right? The extraordinary thing about open stack is it is this nexus of collaboration between an entire giant industry. And we want to express that by making it really easy for all of these pieces to plug together. And the way we do that is with Juju. So Juju is sort of one step up from configuration management. It allows us to distill into what we call charms, applications or components, pieces that we want to glue together in a cloud environment. And in this case, we've got, for example, Nova VMware as a charm. So that lets us talk to ESX, which you didn't choose. And here I think we have an example of Ceph and Rados Gateway. So you can see how we build different clouds by combining together these different pieces. And we test and support all possible permutations and combinations, which we expect over time is going to be a fantastic exercise in interoperability testing, right? Hypervisors, storage options, network options, SDNs and physical kit that you might want to deploy all of this on. So I'm very pleased to announce that we're going to, that we have created the open stack interop laboratory oil. And oil is all about creating a place for vendors to deliver and test both stable code and next generation code. Today inside the oil lab, we have multiple clusters on hardware from a whole range of different players. We build the cloud again and again with different permutations and combinations. We build it on stable, we build it against tip. We also build custom versions of those branches for some of our customers who have their own variations on Nova or Swift or CIF or any particular component, right? They publish their branches to us. We organize the continuous integration. And so we're able to know with very high fidelity whether or not they will be able to plug EMC or NetApp or any number of different pieces into that. If you are interested in that, if you have components that you would like people to integrate into Ubuntu open stack clouds, then please email oil at ubuntu.com. We're here this week, so it'd be great to get together. Now, to date, we have done all of our demonstrations on x86, but I think the next big thing is hyper dense servers. And so I'm very pleased to announce that we are working with these three great companies to bring open stack to ARM so that you will be able to deploy ultra dense computing infrastructure, highly specialized applications, highly optimized ASICs. And I look forward to working with these companies and many more integrating their contributions into open stack and really fundamentally changing the face of large scale computing. Last time, six months ago, we announced that we were working with VMware to be able to connect open stack and ESX. Today I can tell you that that is moving into production in a number of locations. How many folks here have ESX on-prem? So how many people have VMware on your network today? So this technology and this partnership allows you to bring open stack and ESX together so that you can use the open stack API to talk to your existing hypervisor infrastructure as well as any other infrastructure that you're deploying in your data centers. I also wanted to give a shout out to the guys at CIF and Ink Tank. Now, I'm not impartial here. I liked CIF so much that I supported the company that spun up, but they have done extraordinarily well. How many folks here have actually played with CIF over the last six months? And what do you think? Yeah? So I think that's an extraordinary bit of technology and it's great to see the rapid pace of adoption around what they have done, fundamentally changing the way we think about scale-out storage. I'm also really pleased to announce that we now have a Windows 2008, Windows 2012 driver that passes all of the HTK tests. It's in production with some high-volume customers. Those of you who have to run Windows on open stack can now do it with confidence. And we look forward to tuning the performance of that and helping some of our larger network operator customers deliver platforms that are completely, clouds that are completely platform agnostic. So, you've got a cloud. And in fact, when we first started building clouds on stage, do we have blinking lights? We've got blinking lights. When we started building on clouds on stage, that was kind of revolutionary, that you could just spin up an open stack. But I think that by the time we meet again, you will all have done this. All you need to do is take off the shelf kit. Here I have Dell and HP servers. As of 14.04, every single server that Ubuntu certifies will only be certified if you can, in fact, do this in the privacy of your own garage with that server. So we use standard interfaces to talk to the hardware, standard infrastructure to essentially build out the cloud and deploy any kind of workload, but especially open stack. So building a cloud is no longer particularly exciting. If you want, we'll come and do it for you in a couple of days. We'll mix up the permutations and combinations that you want and voila, you'll have a cloud. But what do you do with it? Well, how about a Paz? A lot of conversations, it's an extremely exciting field. For the last three or four years, developers have been working with companies like Heroku and any number of other Paz environments to fundamentally develop a way of thinking about a new kind of application development productivity. And our position has been that all of that innovation was really, really healthy. It's fantastic. You can think of 15 or 20 different Paz options that you would have on Ubuntu, on open stack, or just on open stack generally. But one of the things that I think it's important for us to do is to signal to our customers and our partners who we think is in the lead and to build relationships that essentially ensure that when we work with a customer around a technology, we can go really deep with that technology, with that customer. And so I'm really pleased to announce that Pivotal and Canonical will be working together to make the experience of Cloud Foundry on open stack absolutely fantastic. We're going to work together to deliver a turnkey Cloud Foundry solution, not just for Ubuntu open stack, but for any open stack. We're going to certify and test that openly across the open stack ecosystem. We're actually going to work on two products together. We're going to charm up Cloud Foundry so that you can use Juju to deploy Cloud Foundry. Now today, there are lots of ways to deploy Cloud Foundry, but the recommended way uses a tool called Bosch from Pivotal, which is a fantastic tool. It thinks in similar ways to Juju, but using Juju allows us to integrate it more deeply into all of the existing parts of the ecosystem that we've built over many years. So we'll have a charmed Cloud Foundry install. We will test that on multiple open stacks. If there are vendors in the room here who have their own open stack implementations, we would very much like to certify and test that on yours as well. This is not just for Ubuntu. The second product that we're going to work on together is a joint open stack and Cloud Foundry solution so that you can do what we're doing here, take servers in the privacy of your own garage and with one command, spin up both Cloud Foundry and open stack as one product, one solution, sharing resources, sharing databases, sharing infrastructure, super efficient, super fast, super lean. If you're interested in this, please email CloudFoundry at Ubuntu.com. There are folks here from Pivotal and Canonical who would love to talk to you about that. So what else? Well, how about everything? It is extraordinary how Cloud is coming to define modern enterprise IT. One of the things we added to Juju in this cycle was this idea of bundles, right? So charms encode a particular application or a particular service, but more often than not, the idea is bigger than that. You walk into a development office and you see a whiteboard and it has lots of boxes and lots of lines. Well, we call that whole set of things. We call that a bundle. And remember, you can make a charm, a Juju charm, and you can use inside of that charm, you can use any technology you like, Puppet, Chef, Perl, Bash, Python, however you like to write configuration files and organize that system, you can do that inside of the Juju charm, but you glue them all together with Juju. So this is what Juju bundles look like. I'm not gonna do that. I'm going to do a little tricky, so you just go to jujucharms.com, well, comingsoon.jujucharms.com, that's our kind of beta site. And what I'm gonna do is someone emailed me this bit of code over here, this is a bundle. And so I'm gonna take that and gonna drag that and just drop it, give it to Juju, Juju, feed it to Juju, and in minutes, I'm gonna start building this infrastructure. This is a very cool piece of infrastructure over here.  There's a bunch of publishing. You've got WordPress and various other bits and pieces going on in there. This is how people can exchange their thoughts, their ideas about infrastructure in the future. There will be lots of tools that do this, but we think that this is a little taste of what's possible when you start thinking about infrastructure as truly elastic, truly plastic. So I'd be able to edit this, mark it up, and then send it back to whoever sent it to me. Of course, I can also, let me see. Let me start from scratch. If I just wanted to do a deployment, the old fashioned way, I could go and say, all right, I wanna go and take my SQL, put my SQL over there, yeah, I'm just gonna deploy that. Take WordPress. Whoa, you get the idea. So these are tools that are really changing the way people think about rapid application development, rapid deployment, and DevOps. If I'm lucky. So this is our MAZ server, by the way. This is where we have all of these servers registered. This server is doing physical provisioning for those two clusters, and we've tagged the Dell and the HP servers. So we just use tags to direct the clouds to the right places. Okay. Now we ran a competition this last six months called the Charm Contest to see what people could do. And this bundle over here was the winning entry. Is Paul Tsar in the room? I thought there might be a chance that he would be here. Paul? All right, well, he is almost certainly going to hear about this very soon. So please, and he'll watch the video. So give him a huge round of applause, please. This was the winning entry in the Charm Contest. So what's he got going in this bundle? Well, this is essentially a monitoring system. And there's a very cool comment here from one of the judges. This particular combination, using Censu, Graphite, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, is replacing Nagios. And this is the sort of modern equivalent of Nagios for monitoring and management. And the cool thing about this is that it's designed to be plugged into any infrastructure.  And essentially all the logs get sucked over. You start to get management and monitoring. Super easy, super graphical. This is really sort of futuristic. Let me see if I can get up here. Okay. To celebrate the naming of the next OpenStack release as Ice House, we thought we'd do something fun. At our booth, we have a Juju bundle, which is an ice cream. And so you can come to our booth and you can order an ice cream using Juju. All you have to do is drag the bundle onto the canvas over there. Configure it the way you'd like it. Add some relationships. So if you want chocolate sprinkles, you can relate those to your banana ice cream. And then you can deploy it. And when you deploy it, a very nice person will make that up for you and give you an ice cream. Perhaps not as fast as OpenStack would feed you a virtual machine and a cluster. But nonetheless, I hope that you'll find that a sweet treat for breaks in your OpenStack adventure. So telcos and service providers are increasingly looking to OpenStack as the center of their open cloud strategy, the centerpiece of their open cloud strategy. We've been working increasingly closely with very large network operators, carriers. Deutsche Telecom in particular has a very pioneering effort to build a marketplace for SMB services. It's been a pleasure to work with them and they've been very kind to support us with this quote. But we are working with a very wide range of telcos and service providers. If you are in this industry, it is of particular interest to us. We're focusing on scale and we're focusing on performance and we're focusing on carrier grade OpenStack. So if you email us at telcoadabuntu.com, we'll be very glad to set up a meeting with you while we're here this week. And speaking of being here this week, it's a great pleasure to be back in China. As a relatively small company, it's very important for us to have relationships around the world with people who can provide insight, training, support us and support local customers. And I'm delighted that we have here today Dong Yi who will speak very briefly about the experience that her company TeamSun has had here in China. Now TeamSun, we started working together a few months ago and I was delighted with the training program. Please come forward. And so welcome and we look forward to hearing what you have to say. Hello everyone. Thank you so much. My name is Dong Yi. I come from TeamSun, the largest AT service provider in mainland China. We committed ourselves to OpenStack three years ago. And now we have OpenStack Technical Supporting Center. We offer free technical support, professional support to those who have interest on OpenStack. The center launched on the June 18th this year and so far we had already got 37 companies. They contact with us for the technical support and proof of concept. Among them, we delivered one project to one of the province of China, Mobile Operator, province level, province subsidiary. Maybe I speak in Chinese the same content for those from mainland China. Hello, friends from mainland China. I'm Dong Yi. I come from Washington. Washington is China's largest IT service company. We started OpenStack three years ago with the solution delivery. This year, June 18th, we founded OpenStack Supporting Center in China. From June 18th to now, we have 37 companies to find out how to use OpenStack to do their private cloud, how to use OpenStack to do IDC. The last sentence is that Tim Sa has a subsidiary in Hong Kong. The largest Hong Kong local IT company called Automated. The Automated committed themselves to OpenStack also. We are going to build the OpenStack platform here. Invite those in Hong Kong, they have their interest to see what kind of OpenStack can do for them locally. And we see the interest on OpenStack keep growing. That's a good news to all of us. Thank you. Thank you so much, Wendy. Thank you. This is an extraordinary sight to see so many thousands of people here. But you know, OpenStack is, we shouldn't forget that OpenStack is fragile. There are relatively, extraordinary large challenges for a relatively small team to resolve. So I wanted to briefly comment on what I think is gonna be one of the key questions that we have to answer over the course of this week. Now, I love this quote from Albert Einstein, that it's in fact easy to make things bigger and more complicated, but it takes courage to go the other way. You know, we should measure our focus by how much internal complexity we're willing to absorb. How many messaging systems do we need? How many databases do we need to support? And we should ask very clearly, do those add value or do they add complexity? And in terms of the scope of the mission, how far up the stack do we need to go? To me, it's very clear that innovation comes from diversity. And I think we want to enable an ecosystem that is diverse, that is competitive. There was a great commentary from James Urquhart on GigaOM saying OpenStack needs to think carefully about how it defines its mission. And this is a conversation for all of us. I have only one voice, but I think we should aim to let 1,000 flowers bloom, right? If we focus on making OpenStack lean, clean, fast, scalable and reliable, right? Extraordinary things will happen. And I hope that that's a useful thought as we go into this week. Now, we should have clouds up and running. This will be on our booth later on today. And I'd like to invite other folks who have OpenStack installers to a performance challenge. If you believe that your install of OpenStack will perform better on a workload which exercises both storage and compute at the same time, then we'd love to let those benchmarks fly. So thank you very much. Trust us with your cloud. I very much hope we'll have the opportunity to speak with some of you. If you'd like to set up a meeting with me or my team, email us at openstackadabuntu.com. Have a wonderful week. Thank you very much.


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