coming from ideas around kitchen tables or dragons den type things so the more we can do to encourage businesses in Scotland and not penalise them through policy then I think that would be really really welcome and I think the large business community would be very up for helping in that discussion I think there is a communication piece because any support that's given by Scottish Enterprise, by CBi by any of the organisations about setting up starting a business they look at your accounting processes they look at all your basics this should be brought into that conversation at that stage and it's really not a sledgehammer for a business that's already struggling with legislation and regulation but there is a cultural piece just to think about it from the start OK, thank you. On to a question from Andy Wightman Thank you, convener I want to ask the same question I asked at the previous panel we've talked about the Women and Finance Charter and you've given us some thoughts about the validity of quotas and targets and strategy etc and what the Scottish Government has been doing on this includes things like the Scottish Business Pledge the Fair Work Convention have you any views as to how useful those are and whether they could improve certainly we've got evidence from a gender that the Pledge on the Scottish Business Pledge covering this is almost meaningless and we have data problems with the national performance framework which still uses median full-time wages I'll echo one of the comments made in the earlier session that the various initiatives it's not a coherent structure and therefore it doesn't make a huge impact and the only organisations we work with who give or pay much attention to the likes of the Scottish Business Pledge are perhaps those who are tending for public sector work and they want to be able to tick the box and say they've done it but I wouldn't say certainly the client-based view or if it's had a huge impact as it currently stands I don't believe anything to add to that I think that's fair and that's what I've decided for decluttering in turn decluttering I guess making it very easy to understand what campaigns have teeth in which ones are cosmetic I think that would be my advice and the other thing to say but that is it's not to undo the good work that's been done in each of these areas so I've been to sessions where I've heard fantastic stuff that's happening in the Fair Work Convention the Scottish Business Pledge everyone's doing an awful lot of work they're just not doing it in a coordinated way it's going slightly off topic here but if you work if you're aware of the organisation Jail which is Glasgow economic leadership they're doing huge amounts of analysis so why is there a gendered pay gap why are women coming into financial services and they're leaving or why are they not coming in and then if you go to the likes of SFE they're doing a whole lot of things there's a whole lot of organisations doing a whole lot of work and sometimes you just wish somebody would join the dots and stop the duplication thank you that's very clear so obviously we know that financial services is a really high pay sector so there's good opportunities there for women but it's got obviously problems with its pay gap and it's one of the widest ones from the information that we were given today so if you're here in the earlier session you'll have heard we were talking about workplace culture and the leaky pipeline and all that type of thing and unconscious bias, microaggression all these things were coming out in the earlier session and a result of that is maybe that women in these industries clustered into certain roles often at the bottom, maybe into more administrative type roles so I suppose in that way then they're missing out on or they're not able to progress up the company so they're missing out on the progression they may be missing out on training opportunities and so on so in some of the evidence that we've had in the written submissions one of the organisations talked about this idea of having like a champion for this idea of trying to get women to progress up through the organisation at a very senior level so I'm wondering if you could give me some idea of whether you think that's something that's maybe happening in your organisation and the idea is this champion I suppose drives the culture down the organisation and maybe is responsible for maybe bringing in the sort of specific measurable programmes that we've talked about earlier to try and get change We have a CEO who leads a gender agenda and say maybe we have some to address the TRL, GBT and disability agenda so we all sit at our bank at school level very transparent in their actions so these individuals will be responsible for helping to develop the plan or strategy but also for its interpretation in the various parts of our business so that will include helping to pull through but also the things that you talked about earlier Tricia around it's about affecting every part of working the process so anything that touches on people it's not just about focusing on development programmes to move people up it's about that culture that attitude to the piece so we find having a sponsor helps it gives it weight people listen because it's a senior in the organisation but again it's one of a number of things having him in isolation he happens to be quite male having him in isolation wouldn't shift the dial again I'll go back to that point that I made earlier around it's that compound approach that's really important I think we also in the banks board have very similar arrangements I actually think that there's been a lot of very good work done at the board level the problem is that for the large majority of people it's almost unattainable there's been some good progress in non-executive director appointments that somebody referred earlier to the footsie 100 but this is really about yes having sponsorship at the senior level but it's about going into the organisation and enabling some very practical changes that allow people to make different choices going back to what I said earlier I mean most women don't decide they don't want promoted they just can't get themselves into a position where they see it as achievable they feel that it becomes too difficult and you know I've got a daughter, I've worked part-time I'm on the main board of a bank it's incredibly difficult and a lot of these roles demand a level of travelling a level of hour working and a level of just general disruption to your family life that is very difficult to maintain so those choices are real for a lot of people so very supportive of external at board level sponsorship but if that's not followed through with some very practical enabling strategies that really make a difference to the middle management layer and the team leader layer then I think that it almost worsens the problem that the organisation feels good about this sort of high level strategy but it's not meaningful in the way it's followed through so that for me is very, very important I would add to that that I would call that activation so we have a very active chairman managing partner in the UK it's not just him though, I think that's the point without substance below it people see through that, clients see through it you see through it, employees see through it so that's at one end of the scale but what you're absolutely spot on about visible leadership without that and whether it's just being one man or woman it has to be across the board I think the committee is also interested in global examples I see very rich ideas from lots of other countries, our own global chairman actions this talks about his daughters talks about so that role modelling is very, very evident and I think the more we can't do enough of that but it has to be real and it has to be authentic or people see through it and then those programmes that can be targeted and there needs to be lots of them because it's not one programme targeted at lots of different angles on the gender parity and outside of just gender in general they all add up to a bit of a movement and there'll be a correlation you won't quite be able to say it was one thing but you'll be able to say there was a movement in the right direction I think that's positive my final example would be schools back to education we haven't really touched on that in this session but I know you did this morning when I look at our graduates' intake then that's one measure and that's when I get the more school leavers what happens before then is fundamental in terms of their beliefs of what they can then do after that so I would welcome business involvement in the education conversation around how and again it's not just about STEM but in its broadest sense I've got a daughter who's an S1 at the moment and I'm horrified by some of her maths homework where the man gets poor paid more than the women in the problem solving test in S1 I think at this you're going to talk to these people about pain I suggest I am and I said what did you say and she said we pointed it out and you know there's an acceptance that that's what happens so if there's one little change we can make and change that worksheet but it's one little thing but it's all those really subtle messages from nursery up when you were speaking earlier we were making this distinction between organisations that take on PR or box ticking type exercises but nothing measurable is actually coming through so a number of you have given examples of programmes or schemes that you're running within your organisations in order to try and improve these things have you got data on whether these programmes are working can you point to are you measuring it, are you seeing success can you speak a bit about that a very high level it's the short answer a very high level we measure the impact on their pipeline their top three layers two years we've got evidence of progress excuse me, another big measure for us surrounding employment so through our annual opinion survey we measure leadership engagement and leadership index and employee engagement and it was interesting because the bank clearly had another tough year last year and inclusion was the only category in their engagement scores to have increased last years and we're now 10 points above the global financial services norm so we have got some real tangible evidence of change but I guess to Trisha's point earlier you know you can't direct or correlate that change to one thing we're doing it's the total effort that we're doing to change your organisation and I think the other important point for us and I'm sure for the others as well gender's just one part of inclusion we've got equal focus on disability equal focus on LGBT and our multi-cultural agendas so I think that's important you look at that in its entirety we can break that down further if it's useful in terms of any other measures that we can share I mean I think any large organisation will be able to trip out lots of examples of how brilliantly they're doing I think at the end of the day though we still have a very large gender pay gap and I think we need to get much more tough on the best, I think there's something about picking 5 or 6 meaningful points of data and tracking the improvements and holding people to account to our RBS and I can equally trip out lots of great things but the results I think speak for themselves and I think that the current trajectory shows I think was it another 50 years before we close it I just don't think it's good enough Your question was around can there be evidence that an answer was yes are we there, no we're not we're certainly not complacent about where we are and we know we've got a long journey to go but it's starting to track it's just going to be a slow burn I think there's early evidence but then it's for me it's about scale and consistency in breadth so I think yes we can give you positive examples they're still relatively early but I think 5 or 6 years in terms of my experience with my organisation but if I look at other businesses and clients in the UK they will have similar data so I do think there's a data set out there that would be very interesting to look at what correlates as I said but I think it's the scalability now and the commitment from the organisations to see it through that's what we've got to test I think the advantage of publishing the gender pay gap in the manner in which you've set out in December will give for the first time a degree of consistency and a lens that you can look at mean or medium and I think that will make the conversation much richer definitely Gillian Martin did you have a question Sturge? I hate to drag it down into negativity because today you've pointed to so many positive examples of what your organisations are doing and it's been really really interesting to hear that but it's been acknowledged that the financial services industry has got one of the highest gender pay gaps that's existing across all sectors we heard last week that if you even looked at it based on bonuses it's 83% which is absolutely a shocking figure I want to give you the opportunity to actually on record say why you think financial services has got such a large gender pay gap I don't sit here and represent the financial services sector of our business but I think from my observations of what I can see in many industries I think the examples will be similar they may be accentuated which I'll leave to the witnesses to evidence but the dynamics will be experienced in a large workforce almost a larger workforce than the bigger the problem seems to be sometimes so I think from that perspective and financial services as a bigger gap I think has the same challenges as any other organisation I've not got a huge amount to add to that on a personal basis we work through analysis so I can't provide a view on where we are with an RBS but I think there's a kind of legacy in your roles which plays out in the gender pay gap which is very different to what we were talking about earlier around occupational segregation so I can't point to any one thing is there anything culturally about that industry that you think may be a set trip has meant that that gap is bigger than say another sector like education I think there's more about the people who are in the roles I don't think you have many financial services institutions who pay light for light roles they don't pay differently based on gender it's just the sort of luck of male employees in the more senior roles which has a big progression I think the progression figures are hugely interesting so when the gender pay gap figures themselves are one indicator but your progression figures of where people stall are very interesting as well as a separate measure and we have also had clients and financial services working very hard to for example improve the gender diversity at board level and at senior level and they are struggling to get the candidates and they've had to go to specific agencies to try and get a wider pool of candidates rather than just fishing from the same pool and that's an on-going challenge so I don't think there is one factor there's just a huge historical number of factors that yes it needs addressed absolutely it's not acceptable but it will take longer because of the number of factors so do you see that the issues that were discussed this morning around STEM being quite similar to what financial services have to put up with in terms of women actually looking at financial services as being an attractive career for them in the first instance it's a factor I think it's one of the factors that will contribute to that I think if you look at the research that Jail have done they've done research about women going into study at university and financial services or that type of qualification that might lend itself to financial services a far smaller percentage than you would expect then go on to go into financial services and they're looking at it as what is the issue here there must be an image of our industry that is putting people off so I think that it's definitely a factor there I mean my experience is that the networks the sponsorship and the culture that exists in a lot of financial services organisation make it very difficult for women when they come out to progress there's some very practical issues most financial services organisation demand long hours travelling and it's just very difficult if you decide to have children when you step out to step back in I think also there's quite a difference between retail banking culture and investment banking culture when I'm always amazed as much as there's not many women in retail banking so I think that a lot of the things that you've talked about encouraging role models, networking, sponsorship and really encouraging people to be successful in that environment is very very important because it's very lonely I was listening to some of the evidence points this morning and one of the ladies talked to the fact that if you are the only woman in a lot of environments it's challenging and it's lonely and it sometimes can be very easy just to step away thank you Jackie Baillie We've obviously covered legislation culture change leadership I want to touch briefly on incentives because obviously the enterprise agencies do provide financial support for attracting say inward investment across a number of sectors including the financial services sector do you think that investment support should include conditions to tackle gender pay gap Why not? I mean I think the way that I would think about this problem is you should think about it it should always address that issue unless there's a very good reason for it not so my view would be why not It's quite interesting that you see some of the financial services organisations are now, they have it as part of their scorecard that when you're being appraised as a new executive and looking at what your salary increase will be for example to meet your targets in your area for gender diversity so that principle must flow through I would say that anything that makes the discussion broader and it's inclusive I think that's a part for me provided it's not here's an incentive that's about getting more women into higher paid jobs it can't be as blatant as that would be my suggestion but it's much more about the outcome of the business performance because actually what we're really talking about here is the performance of the Scottish economy economy, business economy and how we thrive and I think it's very easy to lose sight of that the whole point is if we have more diverse teams more women in different jobs and higher up grades at all levels of the organisation and there's a degree of choice in all of that, not every women in my business for example wants to be a partner they need to get to where they want to get to and fuel no barriers so I think if we've got to keep looking through the economy and business lens and therefore those incentives could be wrapped as an enabler to that rather than as a specific on its own the other point I would say is that the scorecarding one is a very important measure so as an organisation and we evidence this to clients as well all of these measures I'm talking about are on our scorecards all the way through the senior levels in the organisation, I think that's really really important and that changes the tone of the conversation so anything that you can measure incentivise and target with teeth I think was one of your points doing that I guess the gender pay gap is one element of it so it's gender parity per se but I hear you in terms of the individual component parts and I think it is absolutely right to wrap it as growing the Scottish economy because the potential to grow the economy by closing the pay gap is substantial and something we should be striving for one final question convener a number of other witnesses have suggested that perhaps a national strategy would both give you the co-ordination you're after but also bring a real focus to this area is that something you think would be helpful if you mean by a national strategy that it could also be a sort of 360 degree solution almost that starts with the education at very early stages so it's entirely joined up so it's not just about agencies being joined up but the full process I think that's how you will the only way you will actually deliver the change long term I would say that any stakeholder who has either an enabling contribution they can make is responsible for some of the outcomes or will benefit and that for me includes education all the way through to the large businesses in Scotland an integrated conversation and I'd go further than that and say it would be very easy for us to focus on because gender gets pressed it would be very easy for us to focus on that side of it and keep going back to the economy but I would love to see something coming out of the committee that says we're going to pull a cross-section of people together and I know that the committee is about policy, regulation, education, business and the shared accountability we've got the point on that is how do you align people around one purpose and one goal and that's got to be back to the economy thank you thank you may I ask would you agree it's not just about money in terms of making sure the numbers add up and if I can give it an example perhaps to put that in context employees or individuals working may actually want other things not just necessarily financial recognition but the possibility of flexible working hours reduced roles at certain points in their career and so forth and so on in NHS Lothian the GP practices being managed by partners some of them are now managed and then the GPs who work in those practices are on employee contracts rather than being partners in a practice because they choose they would prefer to be an employee now whether male or female and the reason for doing that maybe they don't want to work the hours that are required if they took up a partnership so people take decisions for a lot of reasons or may want other things and money so is it a question of just lining the numbers up or is it important to look at all of the different aspects of the employment situation for the individuals there are two different examples I think in the that you've just outlined one is a partnership model to a non-partnership one is probably not the best one I would choose I would choose more be careful that we don't trade flexibility for money so I think we have to be very careful what that conversation is but it's about that individual's choice and what they choose that they want to do making sure they are fairly and equally rewarded for that the example of the partnership one I completely understand which is about that correlation with a senior level type role but it wouldn't have to be a partnership it would just be any role that somebody wants to take a different pace of life or a different decision about if they're still doing the same role then they should still be paid equally for that but I think you're talking about different choices on how I run my life rather than trading money for something I just think we have to be quite careful the language that we use in that respect I think that that's a point that was made earlier so I agree with what you've said but I also hear you in terms of that total package but I guess the gender pay gap is the outcome of us having less women in senior roles it's not an equal pay issue so it's quite different so I can understand that debate as part of the equal pay it's not just about the pounds and pence it's about the total package but I think there is still a gender pay gap to address regardless of all those other things that are happening on the peripheral I think that providing choices for people whether they're male or female is very important and I think is a responsible employer there's no question that that's absolutely the right thing to do but I think in the earlier session one of the panel answer asked one of the members a question about you know you've got X number of women on this board but the board that really matters you hardly have any women and I think one of the questions that this committee needs to think carefully about is what outcome are we driving for here because if you truly want to change business you have to have more women CEOs or women in positions that really matter and I think you know there's a lot of great progress the FTSE 250 have appointed several women in the last few years I think they're nearly at 30% fantastic outcome on the surface you dive beneath those figures and what you realise that when you look at UK retail banking in the whole of the UK there are three executive directors three you know that's the difference between women on boards and non executive positions that are important and I think we should celebrate that success but I don't think we should pretend that if you really want to drive change you have to change business leadership and changing business leadership is really putting women in places where they make the decisions that drive business from the top of the organisation right down and that's CEO positions and executive director positions for me and in terms of the statistics we have to look at what additional hours to contracted hours people work for the amount of money that they are in fact earning well I'm just thinking in many roles people are contracted for a certain number of hours but the reality is to get to a higher position or higher level people often go above and beyond the call of duty or what by law in terms of contract they would be obliged to and I'm just wondering when looking at statistics go back to the original question perhaps as we conclude is that something that needs to be looked at as well because you know if people are not being rewarded for the additional hours that's a factor in all of this isn't it I don't feel equipped to comment for that actually until we see some of the data I think but I understand the sentiment of the question which is what's hidden you know what's hidden and what's over it I think it is a fair point that has to be considered because not just looking at treating women fairly we're looking at treating workplaces fairly and that's what be resentment if people feel they are being undervalued because they are working very hard so I think that is a factor that has to be taken into account but equally sometimes females can't do these hours because of extra commitments so somewhere it's very hard to give a yes or no answer to it I think that you have to look at it in the round all right well thank you very much to all of our guests and I'll suspend the meeting now move into private session


This is Brett with Summit Auto in Fond du Lac and Beaver Dam, Wisconsin and I am at the 2019 Chicago Auto Show and what we have here is a prototype for the all-new Ford Shelby GT500 Mustang. We can't get in it, they have it locked but we can take a walk around and check out all the cool styling cues that they're gonna possibly putting on this car, the Brembo brakes. Carbon fiber rims are pretty awesome, Michelin tires. Just a very cool looking car, you can see inside it it has the Recaro seats, very very good looking car. It has the huge carbon fiber spoiler on the back here, Cobra logo on the back, over the top stripe, just a really good looking car. It's creating quite a buzz here at the Auto Show, a lot of people around it, just a really good looking car. I know it's not a long video but unfortunately I can't get inside of it, just a really good looking car. And like thank you for checking out the video, remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel, which is youtube.com slash Summit Auto and like and share on all the videos and check out many more as we've done a ton of videos from the 2019 Chicago Auto Show. They'll be posted live later today. Thanks again for checking out my video and can't wait to see one of these that's not a prototype.


The Biosha State Government has flagged off its Made in Education Summit as part of efforts to reposition the sector. The plan is to meet global standards with the formulation of strategic policies and the adoption of a 15-year framework. A correspondent JCCC completes the report. I believe that what will come out will be beneficial for all. I hereby declare this Biosha State Education Summit 2022 open. Governor Doya De Redeclaring, the Summit Open. The theme of the event is optimizing the delivery, performance and sustainability of outcomes in the education sector. With over a thousand stakeholders in attendance, the Commissioner for Education, Gently Mela, highlights the expectations from the Summit. Our education is a passport to the future. For tomorrow, belong to those who prepare for it today. This is exactly what we have gathered here to do. We trust your judgment and will place appropriate emphasis on your expertise and opinions as we build our educational plans, policies, blueprints and strategies for the next 15 years. What is key to us is that we must move up the rankings to anywhere between the first and the sixth. What is a new trajectory in education? We are talking now in these days about technology-assisted learning, which constitutes educational planning, educational documentation. Former President Gulok Jonathan is keynote speaker. He'll cover some problems bedeviling the education sector. In his functional education is key. We must make education very functional in Biosha State and we'll start from the primary and we are trying to develop what we call, now the state has modified and they are going that proper direction, but what we call a teacher's retraining institute. Because then I saw that a number of people teaching at the primary school level, we have not really fit to teach. Then the NC Distant Learning too was a big problem to me because when I visit some of the sites, some of the instructors themselves are supposed to be students. Other stakeholders comment the state government's move but urge the Ministry of Education to fully implement every policy that will be formulated. I urge all of us stakeholders to also look to improve the delivery and accessibility of quality learning resources by leveraging unsustainable ICT solution. ICT and data-driven learning is the new normal. The program is continuing with technical sessions that will lead to the adoption of a 15-year framework. Just to say, plus TV news, Yanagwa. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Thanks for coming. I hope you're having a great Drupal con so far Unfortunately due to covert regulations and me feeling under the weather. I can't join you in person Thankfully the organization was able to get me up on screen, which I'm super happy about And also they allow me to attempt virtually to help answer any questions through that with the live Q&A So first things first, let me introduce myself. My name is Ronald. I'm a lead developer at open social Which you might know from our Drupal distribution I'm working with Drupal now for over 10 years And I would love to share some of our newfound knowledge with you all in this case It even has a fancy working title project cable car First I would love to set the stage by giving you some background information some necessary context for the what and why of this all We will obviously dive into the military monoripositories. What are they? What's the differences? Our pain points and what made us reconsider our approach and give you some of the learnings we got along the way For those of you who are not familiar with open social, we build community engagement platforms Basically digital spaces that empower your members to connect share knowledge and spread ideas and Open social is an open core product. It all starts with an open source group of distribution Which comes with all of the essentials you need for your community platform This is available for you on Drupal.org or through github where we do our active development as it is open core We also offer a range of proprietary extensions as we say at open social these turn your platform into a powerful purpose-built tool We also do custom enterprise work on top of that whether that's an integration with the one-off custom tool You're using or change requests tailoring the community to your needs in the end It's all built on top of the open source distribution So basically that means you could see our open core and SAV model as a layered sphere At its core we have the Drupal distribution basically everybody gets this it's always there On top of that we have a default setup as I like to call it It's basically configuration and modules permissions, etc. There's an extra layer that all of our customers get For example, our customers don't really need all of the capabilities that a site builder in our open core version might need Then the next layer is the extensions marketplace It's basically there for our customers to enhance the default product with extensions and tailor the community to To their needs and make sure that we solve their use cases and last but not least We also do customizations and integrations and if you combine all of that you basically have open socials flexible customizable offering So with that context in mind getting back on track Multi-ammono repositories, what are they? Both mono and multi repositories have one thing in common They are a strategy to host and maintain your code base Where a mono repository uses a single repository to host all of the code for multiple projects Multi repository has those projects in entirely separate repositories whether that's BitBucket, GitLab, GitHub Separate so at first glance the difference might not feel like a big deal But the decision you're making will very likely have quite the impact on your development workflow So let's take a little deeper look at these two a Multi-rapo was the standard way of developing applications within open social and probably in a lot of companies You know a repository for each application or project or product logically split into its own project makes sense It also gave a lot of autonomy right teams could make their own decisions on what they needed to solve a specific use case within that repository And it also came natural to us You know put a module or set of modules together solve a certain use case get that in one repository It basically screams what we do on Drupal.org and be mindful It also has a lot of benefits regardless of what we're talking about today that we went from multi to mono There are a lot of benefits to this For example the performance. It's a very small chunk of code that you're working with so it's easier to maintain performance within an IDE much faster It's quicker to iterate You know from product owner or customer request to adding that value into your project You don't have to really worry about the rest or any potential third-party library conflicts You don't know about it's all external contracting that you have to deal with So any conflicts for that matter That are now isolated in your code instead of breaking down or grinding development to a halt Basically, you isolate it into that repository and it only that repository breaks and not everything else Also being able to tag individual versions for a project Made you able to ship value fast right once it's merged your work. It's tagged and released You can basically deliver that value to your customer by that release Instead of needing to wait for the rest of the product. You can just release it at its own fast pace And of course last but not least as you're working per repository. You can also easily revoke or add access To the repositories and to those working on that specific package So that's not really bad. Is it? Now let's take a look at the mono repository on the other side of the spectrum It's basically set up to increase visibility and transparency You're working in one repository together so you can see everything that's going on from other teams everybody working In that repository it basically by nature promotes collaboration You also have the single source of truth Everything in the main branch should work right? Everybody's working from the main branch and it should work And you're releasing from the main branch as well Every project or package in that mono repository all very likely gets the same version once released So you have a single source of truth one commit tagged with the version that you can go and look back to So you can see what's going on if something breaks And if you're working in one repository for your projects, you can just Set up your code quality standard for that repository and it will work and run for all of the projects inside of it So you don't need to worry about having to update quality standard checks within every single project on its own your developers basically gets very Standardized consistent experience and imagine having to refactor a big chunk of code across multiple projects Potentially opening up five pull requests or more over Different projects having to worry about administration and planning and releasing Now every project is in one repository So you don't need five different pull requests You can just fix it in one and make sure that you add the impact for the entire mono ripple Ultimately, it also helps with code sharing and dependency management, right? You have all of the dependencies in your mono ripple So you can ensure that if you update in dependency you update it for all of the projects living inside of mono ripple Or make sure that you can easily share code between projects So I guess you can say that both of these strategies have quite some pros and with that also some cons Now let's take a look at how that plays into our product at OpenSocial In order to maintain these layers of flexibility from a code repository strategy perspective We need to dive a little bit deeper than this image We'll tell you because what this image doesn't really show is what a typical customer from a code dependency management perspective Our development perspective looks like and how our teams can work with that So let's take that towards a typical customer in OpenSocial like I said everybody gets a distribution So we have a we have a version of the distribution installed Default configuration on top and a given set of extensions in this case just five, but it could be any number of extensions All of these extensions live in their own happy little private repository And then using Composer and in our case private packages We can install update downloads the dependencies as necessary for a specific version All good. It works Imagine there's a new customer customer B. They've almost got the same set of extensions However, they also requested for some custom celebration notification based on a user's birthday and who doesn't look Who doesn't like a good birthday party? In our case the case of OpenSocial that might mean that a developer First need to enhance the distribution potentially with a new team component The distribution is a new minor version Then the developer needs to update the birthday extension with a new functionality Potentially it's not backwards compatible So they need to release a new major version and finally there's some customized work for that customer Perfect. So we solve their request and we've added the value and we even enhance the product at the same time So why is this an issue if you look closely to customer a They have the officer 65 integration enabled and unfortunately the work done in the birthday extension Breaks the sink between office and open social the team working on the value for the customer Missed that they weren't aware of the integration in their workings And now basically customer a is left behind and additional work needs to be done before they can update to the same version But who does this where do we plan this? Is it the problem of the initial development or is it a product problem probably the letter, but how do we deal with that? Basically after years of scaling and growing into that situation as we outlined just now We we've noticed quite some pain points coming from this and I've noticed three down for you to try and summarize them First development happened within an extension While that makes the iterations faster and easier it also means that the impact is noticed in a later stage You know, it happens on the deploy And for the range of the entire products any potential interoperability Between the extensions or dependencies that needed to pay it were also only noted at the later stage This basically led to estimations missing out complexity Quality issues because we needed to rush compatibility work in And and with these amount of extensions There's basically no real overview or ownership on Who is going to fix it how to deal with that how to make sure that we know beforehand what's going on? Obviously there are contracts, right? So we tagged it with a major version that will tell that there's something breaking potentially But it's still very hard to make sure that you tell this and then still your own product is suffering from it at a later stage Obviously we grew to over 100 extensions that by itself is already a challenge Not all of these extensions are sales related. Some of them are enablers or helpers or rappers but you can imagine that these extensions themselves have dependencies and You can imagine the pain coming out of that, you know, just look at that image that you see on the right It's a dependency wheel of all dependencies of our extensions and Our distribution so basically all of the dependencies that we use if a customer would enable everything But they wouldn't enable everything likely they would enable a subset So it's really difficult to test that combine that make sure that Everything is taking into account And we grew into this dependency hell so to speak with none of the extensions really knowing or understanding What the other extension does and it wasn't necessary in a multi repository, right? And last but not least Was also good to notice that the level of flexibility that we offer with the customer request the customizations The deadlines that connect to that It kind of demanded sometimes to update individual customers Which led to these version differences on different customer platforms Which ultimately then we're led then led to support unscalability issues, you know, if a ticket came in It was really hard to understand The root cause analysis Or actually perform the root cause analysis because it could be on a different version It could be that it's fixed in a newer version The customer just needed an update but the update couldn't go through because another extension was missing Compatibility so we kind of put ourselves into this or we grew ourselves into this big pain pot So we needed to fix this so this year after Drupal con North America in Portland We were working remote with a couple of colleagues and myself in San Francisco And we were discussing these pain points and we came up with project cable car the working title and named after the famous cable cars riding around in San Francisco and We set ourselves out to fix these pain points So what did we want to achieve? One of the bigger things is we wanted to get ownership We are all working on open social as a product even though it's an extensions or an open source But it felt like we were all siloed and focused on solving a specific need instead of enhancing the product We also needed more productivity and quality focus as I'd like to say and and reduce the amount of production issues coming out of this big pain point So with more structure for releases towards customers Even though that means sometimes they have to wait a little longer as the development It's not necessarily going slower, but it's released in a slower pace towards them. That would give us more control We would gain back control on our predictability there There would also be no reason for us anymore to have our customers out of sync Know with all of these variations and extensions we offered the quick cycles of adding value a lot of the work Came together for us on a deep line, which is quite right on this image that you see And it's we noticed that it's way too late for us. We wanted to shift that left, right? More to the left more to the early stages the earlier that we encountered the impact or the potential problems that Less costly it is for us to solve and a monorepel would help us with this With a monorepel we would at least also know everything and everyone is on the same version from the same source giving us more control not per se in reducing the amount of production issue but control in Either helping out with the root cause analysis because everybody will have the same version So we don't really need that administration layer of checking which version and if it's already fixed Or prioritize the tickets because we know that there's made potentially five people with the same issue or Write tests to make sure that it never happens again because now we have the opportunity where extensions are Running next to each other in the same source so we can have them test testing together basically So ultimately this monorepel will give us the tools to set ourselves up for success And that's something that resonated the most with me personally Is that with the monorepel we can also focus a lot of our efforts on tooling and and do even more than what we're just thinking about You know, we just started this So how did we do this? Actually going from a multi to a monorepel is a matter of moving all of your projects into a single repository Right, that's that's the only thing So we've created the best script based on all of the extensions that we have and the magic Is just native git So I think the most magical is the git retreat and it allows you to merge information into an existing index Giving all files a prefixed file path for the merge Fancy words for it allows you to merge a project into a new monorepository Specify a new path for its files and make sure that the history and the files reflected new path correctly in our case That became html modules extensions also allowed us to do some cleanup You know, we don't need the big bucket pipelines or get the actions per extension It's just now in a monorepel. So we only needed once and we could clean it up And we have our first monorepel release, you know at the time of writing the proposal for triple con Prague We were barely starting on a proof of concept and now we have our first release So we don't really have the results yet of how this is going But at least we want to share with you some of the lessons that we've learned along the way Luckily, we also didn't have to do everything from scratch So I want to highlight two tools that really stood out and helped us First of all made by the creator of php rector. It's a tool called the monorepel builder It helps you in all of the aspects of maintaining a monorepo from releasing to migration to dependency management to Automation It's all symphony based so you can plug and play away with all of the knowledge Your organization might already have with working with Drupal and symphony It's really key for for our work And we didn't really discuss how we install our dependencies at open social on our customer sites It's not necessarily something for the monorepo debates But I do want to bring this to the presentation as a tip for you to work with private packages It's by the creators of composer And it allowed us to easily switch From serving our projects from the multi repo towards the monorepo and even have to have a way to support either or so We could have a customer still on the monorepo while working Still on the multi repository while already releasing others on the monorepo And it also ensured we could roll back easily and make that switch But I think the biggest lesson we've learned and are still learning is the new mental model Because our entry point of development was usually always one extension Either a new or an existing one and from there we could work our way through the product Now our entry point is the monorepo. It's basically the entire product Even though it's a good thing and it helps us with what we want to achieve You know that mental model change is something you shouldn't underestimate And with that in mind you really need to plan this Because the technical implementation is very likely the easiest the change in development pace Migration or switch to the monorepo for your customers The planning the new mental model is likely the bigger impact of this all We don't have any data yet At least that's what we took into consideration and I feel like we did that right So ultimately is a monorepo something for you question mark Looking at facebook google netflix uber Or a little closer to home symphony. I think they all use mono repositories. So it must be the best approach, right? Hopefully by now it's clear. There is no one sites fits all answer It all depends on your requirements The best approach may well change over time even for us And I think key is to keep in mind that these strategies will ultimately change your organization or a reflection of your organization So make sure that your organization is ready for this change and it changes it for the better So before we dive into the questions I want to take a moment to bring your attention to the contribution opportunities I'm helping others greatly appreciate it and I will be super grateful if you could let me know any feedback You might have about this presentation And now it's time for questions


The fun thing about CES is the really really interesting things you can find here. I'm with Miriam Marsato of Acoustic Arts and this is an audio podcast as well as video. So what I'm looking at is a hexagon of little tiny circles and Miriam's going to tell us what this is and there's going to be some fun audio in this. Yes, sure. So this is directional speakers called DA. It has been done by Acoustic Arts which is a French startup dedicated to innovation and what the DA does is target the sound in a very specific direction which means that if you are standing within the beam of sound you can hear the audio content. If you just have a step aside you get out of the beam you have no sound whatsoever. So what I'm looking at here is like I said it's a hexagon there's maybe what a hundred of these little I think they're little voice coil actuators with little tiny parabolas on the top of them and let's see we're going to have Steve pass the microphone in front of this speaker so you guys can hear the difference. So Miriam's going to hold still Steve's going to move the microphone. Yes, so this is to demonstrate the directionality of the speaker. So obviously that's not a sound you would want to listen to. What would be the usage of a speaker like this that is so directional? We work a lot for museums. They want to prevent from sound pollution and so they can target sound without additional noise. We work for commercial centers and shops in general and they want to target sound in some very specific zones. We also work for transportation especially for people who cannot reach visual information and for POS which is publicity on store they cannot use sound apart from this directional speaker which enables them to put the sound in the audio content without sound pollution too. So the main idea is to let one person hear what they need to hear and then a person right next to them can't hear anything at all. It can be funny or useful or very tricky but all the time people need sound and need specific sound in some specific zones and that's the solution to everybody who needs sound but not everywhere. Like right now we're in one of the loudest environments around so the fact that you can hear this so clearly is really really interesting and the phase and amplitude that we're going back and forth through this has been really cool. So when will this product be on the market or are you working with big companies? How is this going to work? You mean on the market for the time for sales. It's already on the market for three weeks now so that's very new. For the time being we do direct sales but in 2017 we set a distribution network all around the world and that will increase the possibilities of everybody because we're only a six people team and yeah we definitely need distribution network to get bigger. All right right this is really really interesting. I love stuff like this. My husband and I are both engineers so we of course got a big kick out of this. I think you could save some marriages with one person being able to listen to TV and the other person isn't listening right? Yeah that's another market that we're trying to start right now. It takes longer time than the OEM market what we do. We don't sell the speaker itself strictly speaking what we do. We integrate the direction of sound into some devices like a television, like a car. But that will be more in the coming three, five years so it will take a longer time. But yeah television for just one person will be something. And they allow clock on only one side of the bed too. Right right exactly. Well thank you very much this is very interesting and again the company is Acoustic Arts with a K. With a K absolutely. Thanks. Thank you.


We all know you need to find fans for your music, musicians to collaborate and play shows with, and be friends with.  In this episode I'm going to show you one of the main techniques I use to find community for artists and build up their fan bases by finding where they belong. Hi, I'm Jesse Cannon and this is MuseFormation. So with the intro video to this playlist, the first thing I talked about was finding community. Since I see it as one of the most important parts of building a fan base in music.  But I want to talk about actual deliberate things and practices and techniques I do to build up an artist's fan base and the people they connect with. There's a reason I lean so heavily into this. I'm lucky enough that I'm constantly making these cool audio documentaries for Atlantic electoral records on how their artists built themselves up. And what I always see is that some part of their origin story is that the community around them came together. I've also seen it in my own practice as a manager. I've worked with so many groups to build them up to a big fan base. And the key of how they get from zero to hundreds of thousands of fans is finding the community that nurtures them and builds them up. We have to remember that whether it's artist endorsements, connections or fans just telling other friends of theirs about your music. That is how you actually build up a fan base. This is why I go so hard on talking about finding the like-minded people who you will team up with and the fans who will boost you up. It's so important to find the right place where you belong because those people are so much more likely to build you up rather than just randomly DMing people and taking shots in the dark all over Twitter all day. Like so many of these idiots do in my DM box. We have to remember that when you're going through Reddit subgroups or Facebook groups or any other message board or Discord chat or whatever. This is where you'll meet the cool people you'll do collaborations with and cross promote and they'll announce your songs when they come out and you'll announce theirs and you'll build each other up together. I know so much about this. Since the bands I managed back in the day Man Over Board and Transit had such a tight knit community that people still talk about it to this day. In fact, we still have a message board that's thriving today with 30,000 people on Facebook that I literally started building in 2010. I even think about other ways that this really helps people out. You know the group the chain smokers. Oh, sorry, there's some awful taste in my mouth now. In a video with Future Music magazine, they actually talked about a really smart technique that they used to do. They would go on the hype machine and constantly listen for inspiration but they'd be scouting the artists who were smaller and up and coming and then they would do collaboration tracks with them and that's what built them up to where they are today. This is Finding Community and this is what you should be doing. So that's what we're about to get into is I'm going to show you how I would do this and how I would find community if I was a brand new artist starting out. So you're probably wondering how do I actually do this and what does this look like while you do it. So I'm flipping over the screen because I'm going to actually show you what I do when I first start working with a musician to find this community that's going to bolster you up. The first step is what I like to call Identify. So what do I mean by Identify? We need to identify what type of music you're making and what are the acts that are similar to you.  We're going to say since I'm wearing my Sick Defend 100 Gecks shirt that the group sounds like 100 gecks because I feel like that's a good place to start from an obscurity standpoint of that. It's not a lot of groups sound like this. So it's not like we're doing something that's super broad and it'll give us some good answers and show you what it's like when you're making music that's not the easiest to define. So if you look here I've started a spreadsheet. So first off we got artists, we got the sound and then we got locations and all those things are going to be things we're going to try to think about when we identify acts. So we're going to want to identify other acts that are under the genres that we fall under. So we're going to say that In Cell Hype Beast is kind of hyper-pop-deconstructed club or whatever these dumb genres people are talking about on the internet are. And we're going to say I'm in Brooklyn, New York and maybe we'll make another obscure place like let's say Evanston, Illinois. Actually let's back up. Let me show you how I found these targets. So what I did is I'm like alright In Cell Hype Beast sounds closest to 100 gecks. So I went over to Spotify and I said fans also like and I put all of these ones into a list. I listed some of them and made sure that I sound like them and some of them I don't. And so then I added those all to my list over here and that gave me a start. Now here's a fun thing. If you sign into your Spotify for Artists page you can actually go and look at who other people think you sound like and who other people are listening because it'll show up right there at Spotify for Artists or just on your Spotify page right here if you're not in Spotify for Artists. So that's a great way to start. But there's some other ways we can identify this stuff. For example we can go into Bandcamp and we're going to say while we'll probably search for all those bands and we'll try to find their other collaborators and stuff like that. We'll first go in here and say music tagged with Hyperpop. Now if you have a two word genre I would also encourage you to take away the space sometimes and see what happens. Every one of these searches has different little weird things that they need from you to make sure that you get the right search results. So as you can see though Bandcamp is very excited about Hyperpop. It's even telling you some other things that are commonly tagged with it. PC music makes a lot of sense. Bubblegum bass is definitely a thing I've heard. Post-pop absolutely. So what I would do is the first thing I would click around these and see if these people sound like you. If they do sound like you I would start putting them maybe on another list in another column of like the people you found. And we're going to probably target them too and do further searches on them. But these will also probably be people that you're going to contact to collaborate with. Trade shows with just in general try to see what's going on with them. So I would listen through these things see what happens. You know if we click on the first one. Well look at that it turns out they're in the same city as me Brooklyn so that would make it really easy. Now the one problem is I doubt that Emo R&B is actually going to be what I sound like. So I have a feeling this is not going to go so well with a match with these guys but you never know. So regardless I would go through this tag and then I would also punch in the artist. So like if we punch in 100 gags let's see what happens. There we are. Okay so they have a nice thing for their record. So then another thing we can do is as we can see they've collaborated with AG Cook. So maybe I'm going to add AG if that's not an injury reserve. I'm going to definitely add that to my targets and see if this sounds good. And this is all how we start to find who's in the community. So I should say particularly the reason we put Evanston Illinois a small town in is that you can search towns and find clues on band camp and all sorts of other places about who else is in your local community because we have to remember it's not always about being a perfect genre match because sometimes your audience is going to overlap with people enough that it's worth it for you to reach out to them even though you don't sound the same as long as you feel like you got some sort of connection with them. So I would constantly keep searches and watch local venues and follow the places people play on social media and start investigating those groups and add those to your targets particularly that's a super super smart thing to do and yes that's hard to do in Brooklyn but you start to learn where like in a big city the groups like you play over time especially your Google alerts and stuff like that will tell you that over time and you can find those artists and you can find more people you should be reaching out to particularly around you because that's going to be your real friends you actually hang out with and collaborate and you can see. So then I would probably do the same thing on SoundCloud. So we're on my SoundCloud page I'm going to put in HyperPop.  Okay well Slater was one of the people compared to Hundred Gecks so this might be a perfect thing for us to look at. I would list this playlist and see who you find in there. Another crumb on the bread trail here. I would be scrolling through these and trying to find who is in your genre and who is going to have the sounds like you. So next we can go over to Instagram same idea. So as you can see I already searched for HyperPop and I can hit follow right there and that's going to give me posts from the HyperPop hashtag. I can scroll through see who's following following people start to get to know what my community looks like. Next I'm probably going to go over to YouTube. So let's do that. So YouTube can be important not for just finding the music but you know as we see there's some people making playlists of this so we can find more artists. But also a great thing that can often happen is that you know let's put in yet again Hundred Gecks. I bet you if we scroll for a little bit so for example they were on Fish Center. So you know that you could probably try to approach Fish Center and my echo good they were reviewed by Anthony Fantano. Now there's probably tons of other vloggers who have reviewed them but I would be starting to make a list on my sheet of I'd go further down and start putting in people who are vloggers and make all sorts of different thing categories in here. Maybe this is better to do on one of these verticals like vloggers. Anthony Fantano is probably not going to review you if you have no fans since he's the big dog and amazing at what he does but for a good example this is a great thing to have. I'd keep scrolling through see who else is right. You know this guy did a reaction video maybe they'll do one to you and laugh at your music like he's clearly doing the 100 Gecks. And yeah and you could go pretty deep on these searches like sometimes you can go 10 pages in and find tons of vloggers and yes they may only have 200 views but those 200 views can be potential fans and a way you build this haystack of a fan base. So another thing we should talk about is I mentioned before the chain smokers with Hype Machine. Hype Machine is a great place to look but instead we're going to probably look for actual artists. So let's put in Hannah Diamond since that's one that I was targeting. So the main thing that we're looking for on here is if Hannah Diamond's been posted about for some blogs because what Hype Machine traditionally used to do is it would aggregate the blogs that are talking about certain artists and then you start to know who may write about you. So for example this Hannah Diamond thing was written about on Tiny Mixtapes which is a great blog. So then we see Tiny Mixtapes thing and they tell us their web address. So I would be going back into my spreadsheet and writing blogs. So this would be one that you're going to hit it with a pitch for your next single and put on your press for list. So now we have some clues there. What about Reddit which is an amazing place to make friends and meet people in your community. So let's do 100 gecks. Well they have their own subreddits so I would definitely be joining that if I was signed in. PC Music sounds exactly right that they're there. I see they're getting posted on hip hop heads, indie heads, pop heads, Fantano Forever. All these little Reddit subreddits are people talking about so it's probably places that you should be participating if you want to start to be a part of that community. I would also do this search on Twitch but I'm going to admit I'm an old Brooklyn hipster not a gamer so I don't know quite much about doing this. Whenever I try to do Twitch it doesn't work out so well for me but I would do it if you know what you're doing on here. Next, Tweetdeck. So Tweetdeck is a product of Twitter and what's interesting you can do with Tweetdeck for example is you can go, let's do hyper pop. Let's put it in quotations too because I think that's going to give us a better result but I may be wrong. So what Tweetdeck will do is it'll show you everybody who's writing about hyper pop. So this is a cool thing because you can just open this from time to time when you have it and then you can either one start following people who write about it. See, give us some experimental hyper pop. Well you're like hey I got experimental hyper pop so either one you can follow this person or two you can go under here and you can add them to a list of potential fans and I would make that private because I know you don't want to embarrass yourself and then it's going to ask you to do this and there you go and now it has this person's tweet so you're going to see this all the time. So let's say you find a vlogger or a blogger you can make other different lists for all those people and you can watch and scroll and start up conversations once you have something to say to these people. What about Satan itself, Facebook? I would be going in and let's see if there's a hyper pop Facebook group since the best way for Facebook to help you is usually pages and groups. So as we can see this might be something this might be something this might be something I would follow these things maybe I would and I'd click around see if they're worth following. These pages don't look very pertinent to what hyper pop actually is as a genre but now we got groups. Not seeing anything good but not every genre or micro genre has a Facebook group but you know you're from Brooklyn maybe Brooklyn DIY groups NYC DIY music that's definitely one I would be joining I would look around your local area I would also put in obviously we're going to put in at some point 100 gecks so they got a group for discussion truck posting there's a truck in their video so I'm sure that's something I would be joining these and starting to get to know people so we're saying this getting to know people thing we have to remember what this actually is this is genuine interactions no goddamn fire emojis no spamming people with the links to your music please please please try to make genuine connections with people because that's the only way they listen to your music you are wasting your time plugging in fire emojis onto people's posts that never worked in the first place and it especially doesn't work in 2019 so we're going to collect all these communities you know we're going to write down all the places and we're going to regularly go to these so now that we have all this stuff identified what about how we keep collecting all of it yes we're going to regularly visit Twitter and we're going to do all the searches for all the different artists we've identified and we're going to put them all through all these different filters we just discussed and also things like Google Alert so what is a Google Alert Google gives you this free service where you can get alerted every time something happens so here's a bunch of the ones I actually have it's an old record label I used to consult for my books name is my name I used to manage this band Man Overboard and here's a good trick is you can put minus things link way to as a song called Man Overboard I didn't want to hear about that definitely don't want to hear about oceans or boats it'll take all that out well when that works at least I'm going to say deliver it to useformation at gmail.com since I want to know it and then they will email me every time somebody mentions that and then I will know about it which is really really helpful since what that's going to tell you is all these different vloggers who are posting when there's posts in different reddit boards and then you can still keep building up that spreadsheet of all the community and I would just keep adding all that stuff to it now a pro tip is you can make a separate gmail address just for those google alerts if you don't want this to annoy you all day or you can filter that in gmail so that you can just read it and skip the inbox I'll make a video about that some other time anyway I would be adding all that stuff into google alerts there's another free alert system that you can do called talk walker that picks up totally different stuff than google I would be doing that too what these talk walker and google alerts actually look like are things like this as they'll email you whenever somebody is writing about the things you put in so here's a group I worked with called the setting for mashes that is writing a press release that got on a blog about working with me this one mentioned as you can see is very very expensive but I will tell you this is the best one for this but as you can see it's not the cheapest and it's not really worth it since you can't put a lot of different alerts in that much money which is fucking ridiculous but if you're running a big label or management company this could be totally worth it because this tool is awesome and there's tons of more expensive tools and in fact if you have a good google alert tool that you really like please hit me in the comments because I love trying these out so we're going to regularly go in and you know when you start to run dry with this some of the stuff you do is search again and you're not going to run dry very often you're going to go and read it you're going to always have these communities to go into each day and start meeting people reading and finding more places that groups like you played that there's blogs and blogs and people you can collaborate with another thing you'll find in these alerts is discord chat addresses that you can join you'll find message boards that exist as bulletin boards as well there's so many different things in these alerts feel free to be broad in your searches and trying to find communities since people are not limited in what they listen to so another thing with all these artists you're doing make sure you follow them on instagram, facebook, twitter all the things soundcloud and watch what they're doing you're going to get a lot of your marketing inspiration from looking at what these other people do and you also want to make sure you're participating in the communities that they participate because there's probably a reason that they're participating and going so hard on those is that's probably where their fans are especially if they're successful you want to watch for the new emerging places that they're starting to use like if you see a service and you've never heard of it that might be a good hint to check it out because they probably know something about that service growing really fast since they probably have a team that's hip and wise I would devote at least 30 minutes to this a day 300 days a year and make this a very high priority since if you listen to interviews about how most artists get breaks today it's for the people they meet in these communities and you've got to make sure you're devoting the time since this is where so much of your growth is going to come from this is so easy to do while waiting in line while you're in a car going to a show whatever it is, whatever you have a boring moment in life while you're watching some terrible tv show that you shouldn't be paying much attention to or whatever that's it, if you like this video though it's just like this but first, am I missing anything? did you see anything in this video that I didn't explain 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Mr. President, how could so much be going on inside your White House without you knowing about it, sir? That's right, my friends. Mr. President, as it was going on several thousand miles away, as a result of the testimony by Federal North, they'll ask for a much larger fund to aid the Contras this year. And do you think the prospects are better? I know that's not a question on the hearings, but I think my position is well known. A disinformation campaign from the Sandinista government has kept the American people from knowing a lot of the truth about that situation down there. And I think the most decent thing this country can do is to continue to aid the freedom fighters. To the tune of how much? To the tune of how much? $300 million? $105 million? But you are going to ask for an increase? I'm going to ask for support in the Congress. Do you think that North has helped you on that? Very kind. Hey, Alan, we're saving a seat for it. I'll be there.  We waited on you. I never want to miss a wicked statement of the situation. I guess the meeting is underway. Well, we want to thank you for giving us your responsibility, which from the very beginning was obviously a very great one. And as we got into it further... Before you go, we should get individual problems. Thank you, Mr. President. Oh, my gosh. That's my problem. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. How are you doing? Are you preaching today? No, I'm not. This is a beautiful place. Thank you, sir. I'm going to Harlem. I've done my duty here. Anybody... I talk with... Rangel, but the... I have to keep pushing. He's got a lot of work to do. He's got a lot of spout. I'm going to run over to him. Mr. President, was it right to fire Oliver North and let Admiral Poindexter just resign? I am going to be making a statement and all of this series is over. And then I will be ready to talk, but I don't think I'm going to get a comment until... Where does the buck stop, sir? Poindexter said it stopped with him. I'll make my comments when it's all over. Are you angry about Admiral Poindexter's not having told you about the diversion of the calls, Mr. President? Again, I'm going to save any comments until the whole hearing is over. Mr. President, do you feel that you were deceived by some of your advisors at the time? No comments. Where's Meese? Let's go, please, gentlemen. Hello. Well done. I finally heard from Donaldson. A couple of weeks ago, I've been traveling and taking a message to the people that we need to redouble our efforts with regard to economic freedoms and fundamental reforms and a balanced budget, one that's the result of reducing wasteful spending rather than raising taxes that make the center of what we're trying to accomplish. We sit here today, I think both houses in the Congress are thinking of a hundred more ways to reduce taxes, and they've only got one way to cost spending. Pat knows all about that. Last week, Jim Miller sent out a memorandum asking each of you to find additional ways to reduce the cost because of the deterioration in the deficit since I submitted my budget in January of this year. I've asked Jim to give us a status report on what the situation is and to talk about how to get these additional savings. There you are. Thank you, Mr. President. If we could look at the piece of paper, the little...


Alrighty! So we were just sent something that we are not sure is real and I thought I'd share it anyways and have you guys evaluate if you think it's real or not. This was sent to us anonymously, so I cannot validate if this is real or not. We chose as a team, it took a while to decide if we should release this or not because we never want to release something that looks too fake. But I will say these documents or this document does match closely to that of what Wonderland's blueprints looked like. So we did think it had some valid, it looked pretty real to us. But there definitely is some weird facts to this blueprint as well, but we can see underneath that there's more documents as well. So there's more pages, it looks like it's at a meeting room. And yeah, we're assuming that this is probably at the meeting room where this coaster got approved or was pending approval with the town or the city, whatever it's in. But right off the bat, if I had to take a guess, and this is a wild guess because these blueprints, it's a weird angle, there's a lot going on in it. It looks like some sort of, I can't even guess, it looks almost like some sort of launch coaster, maybe even a hyper coaster. I mean, comment down below what you guys think. This is so hard to make out from the angle it's on. I have no idea if this was purposely sent to us from Kennywood or to throw people off or if this was, if it's fake even, it could potentially be fake. Or if this is real and it's just a little difficult to read, there's a lot going on. I will say that it's definitely Kennywood on the blueprint, I can tell by the attractions around it.  So it's very strange. But definitely comment down below what you guys think. This has definitely been a really weird teasing campaign. As you know from my video I just released, I was like, oh, why couldn't this document be sent to me at any sooner? But all the anonymous source said is that they trusted us with releasing it. And that's about it. It looks like it was in a public board meeting that these were obtained in. It looks like some sort of town city hall meeting by the looks of the furniture around it's on like some sort of pedestal thing. So I mean, it's very difficult. You guys decide if you want to believe these are real or not. We are not saying these are real. We were just sent them and we thought, okay, you know what? If it's fake, you guys will decide if it's fake. If it's real, then we'll release it and everyone can see them. But yeah, hopefully this is real. Kennywood's about to launch either the second portion of their teasing campaign tomorrow or announce the coaster tomorrow. Whatever they're going to do, there's more to come tomorrow. So we'll have to wait and see. But yeah, hopefully you guys, I guess, enjoyed this potential leak.  Sometimes you are going to have, I guess, fake news or stuff that isn't necessarily real. And it's up to us to, and you guys to decide if it's real or not. So comment down below if you think this is real or fake. Give the video a like. Subscribe if you haven't. Share the video. And thanks for watching, guys. Have a good one. Bye.


The Nigerian military has again expressed regrets over the drone attack that killed and injured many people at Tudumbiri village in Kadena state. Director of Defense, media operations Major General Edward Buber said they had learned from the unfortunate experience and also assured that the Nigerian military would continue to conduct its operations in consistency with international laws and rules of engagement. While dismissing the insinuation, the lack of inter-service synergy could have led to the mishap. He said that military operations were being conducted nationwide, jointly with the Army, Navy and Air Force. Amin, while the chief of Army staff left in Nigeria to read what John says, that Andrew and Amin will continue to be responsible and responsive in its engagement with the society. He stressed the such commitment and the ongoing end-of-year exercises and operations have strengthened its objective to combat in piracy, oil theft, banditry, kidnapping, terrorism, insurgency, secessionist agitation in orders. He made these known at a closing press briefing, exercise, claim, sweep, declaring the Kedja Continent free of exploded ad-nances. Plus, Tiffinio's correspondent has more. The chief of Army staff is in new representation by the commander, engineer, co-major general, Philip Womoseller, who served the Nigerian Army, will continue to be responsible and responsive in its engagement with the society and with other invaluable attention. Today in the markets, these include ground penetrating radar-detention systems, drone-propagated chemical clearance of vegetation, as well as remote-controlled exclusive order disposal robots. Addictionary, the best Nigerian Army personnel in exclusive order disposal and armed-nation tactical experts from the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Army orders were included. The efficient mobilization of these men and equipment resulted in a timely search, recovery, and disposal of 2,055 ordnance women ordnance of various calibers from the Contability Service. The blast epicenter, measuring over 1,055,000 square meters, is now safe and secure for immediate productive development. The coordinator of exercise, please speak, will double as the acting director of explosive search and disposal of one of the engineers informed that during the period the current operation was not a single order was delegated or accidentally delegated at the program's site. In addition to the safety of citizens, we are also forced to assume a minimum of three years to guarantee the answers, very much the name of the Nigerian Army personnel from the Nigerian Army. In accordance to international best practices, as well as quality assurance, the sites will be checked by the United Nations Ministry of Sports, the State Department of Human Services, and criminal, political, and international and nuclear enemies. The facility is set in India, but there was one hundred and fifty-five thousand square meters, and it is set inside the site's plate, unifying any item of the year to be found in the search. I am happy to therefore announce that the site of the 2009 nuclear explosion is now clear of any form of an exploded ordnance and will be behind the table to do any possible future developments. I would like it during the three-month program and to come into the space, so I'm also pleased that my area is secure now, so it's secure. Clear from any hazard, any identified hazard or potential hazard, you know, one of the common characteristics of a bogey area is that some certain hazards have been identified. Of course, the area will now have a clear certificate of safety. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


YouTube channel this is Daniel Rose out here. I'm always looking for interesting things happening in Jerusalem and especially in the realm of food and drinks. So recently I was coming back from Tel Aviv and I spotted an interesting site on a grippist street which for those not familiar with Jerusalem is one of the main streets in the city center running parallel to the world-famous Shukumah Nehuda and the site of the distilling still was unmistakable because I visited a fascinating whiskey distillery in Ireland in the summer. This place is called Thinker's Distillery. They've been open for business for approximately one year. They're doing gins, they're doing vodka, they're doing whiskey and it's all being distilled as you can see in the backdrop here right here in Jerusalem. I came in today to speed firstly try out their products. I'm trying, I've just tried their gin and tonic. I've never had a gin and tonic that I didn't like but this was particularly enjoyable. Craft Gin is of course a very very rising scene but I came here to speak to Michael Genosar who's the Chief Operating Officer and ask him what they decided to set up a gin distillery and a distillery in Israel which is of course a land better known for its wine than for its spirits. So I'm here joined by Michael Genosar who is the Chief Operating Officer of the distillery. Michael thanks for joining me to talk about spirits in Israel. So firstly starting with basics how long has this distillery been in operation? So we officially got our licenses in March of 2020 but since COVID hit then we were kind of waiting for the right time to launch so we officially lost the place in January of 21 so a year ago. So I was looking at your website and you have an interesting mix of products. I tried your gin which was great. I know you guys also do a vodka and you do a whiskey so how did you decide on this and are you focused in more one spirit over the other or equally across these categories? Our thought here in thinkers is that Israel is not your typical place to set up a distillery. We don't have a lot of water we don't have a lot of grains. What we do have here is a lot of technology so that kind of that thinking and that kind of idea helped us set up that motion of let's set up a distillery that can do basically everything. You can do vodka, you can do gin, you can do whiskey and and there's a lot of science into it, there's a lot of technology into it but the basis of it is all the same for all the different spirits. So it's just a matter of how do we do the best possible spirits using all the elements and all the technology that we can have. You have here in your location which is located on Agrippa Street this massive, massive wall full of barrels which is great and I couldn't help but notice I'm a huge fan of the Hebrew calendar so you have it stamped Jerusalem Israel 2018 5778. So Michael we have here before us four different types of two different types of gin. There is a vodka and there is a bourbon whiskey. Tell me what are the differences between the gin and what are these tell us about your product line. Two types of gin. One's gonna be a London dry style gin or we call it Jerusalem dry and while the other one's gonna be a more of a New World gin and it's called Israeli Sunset. So different botanicals kind of different purposes for the gin one's gonna be better for cocktails such as more and more of your classic cocktails and the Israeli Sunset the New World gin is kind of be more of a floral aromatic kind of gin better for gin and tonics perhaps. The vodka is a one liter bottle and it's it's called 4060 and it's 4060 because it's 40% alcohol obviously and 60% water and the water is important because we produce our own water here the distillery we're using Israeli technology to make our own water and it basically helps us preserve the original flavors of the raw material and really makes a better vodka. We end up with our whiskey bourbon which is just introduced this week it's a three and a half eight three and a half years aged in in American oak barrels here in Israel everything was was aged here and barreled here and bottled here and we love it. You mentioned botanicals for a someone like me who's more a gin consumer than a gin connoisseur the only thing I know about gin is that it's made from juniper berries so I presume there's other botanicals involved and what are those. So every gin in the world has to have juniper inside in order for it to be known as gin and from there on you could use whatever botanicals you want essentially. We are from our our thought is not to go crazy in the number of botanicals we want the right number of botanicals to give you like the right taste. The Jerusalem dry is gonna be really centered on juniper citrus lemon peel grapefruit and gonna be very very right down the middle kind of stronger on alcohol content but also drier. When the and the Israeli Sunset has two major botanicals that really affect the flavor it's rose petals and strawberries. The rose petals of course plastic Middle Eastern touch. Yeah well you know it's not it's just it's a matter of using the best possible botanicals from wherever they may come. If they're the best here in Israel I'll use them we actually designed the the Israeli Sunset as kind of rose meaning kind of a really kind of light fun kind of drink and and the rose petals and strawberries really fit into it. And I mean Israel for for those who sort of think about Israel and alcohol probably think wine right. Israel is known as a wine country especially in the last few decades as a new terroir. So the whole concept of Israeli spirits I would say to people is kind of a bit more surprising. So how far do you think the spirit world in Israel is at the moment especially versus Israeli craft beer which my observation is sort of quite commonplace or really really taking off for the last number of years. Well that's exactly true. I mean you're looking at wineries you probably have more than 500 wineries in Israel and you know Israeli wine across the world is regarded and renowned and doing great job. Breweries like you said probably more more than a hundred or hundred twenty breweries and just adding up spirits distilled you know distilleries are it's in the beginning there's about 10 distilleries in Israel some of them do whiskies. Are you the only distillery here in Jerusalem? Yes in Jerusalem in the city definitely we're the only distillery and I think it's really kind of a beginning of an industry everyone's kind of still figuring out what they want to do but there's a lot of there's a lot of good vibes there's a lot of good energy and people trying to do interesting stuff but we're seeing what the wines and beer were able to achieve and for sure we could achieve the same spirits. I've been in your location for about 40 minutes and we've been trying to start shooting this and a whole plethora of people coming in we have some tourists some locals you have a lovely stock room over there with lots of pallets so it looks like a lot of this product's going out the door.  For now for now I'll give you the small batch because it's just the beginning. Right here in Agrippus we have a visitor center we do tours during the day everything is pre-ordered pre booked in advance and we've got all kinds of people coming through it's gonna can be people from the bar scene it could be people that are coming on a company outing it could be just people who want to just go out and experience something new so we sell through our visitor center and the store here but we are also selling through our distributor all over Israel and we're in stores and bars and restaurants and hotels and about 400 different retail retail places. El Al we're also selling on El Al flights and and this year we're going to start exporting for the first time it's going to be into the US market and from there on we're going to be looking for more export markets. So this visitor center is on Agrippus but once you see that kind of classic copper it's hard to miss it and you guys do a number of tours so what kind of tours do you offer? Any fun loving spirits people are invited we do all kinds of tours more beginner stuff and then more of advanced as well the idea is really to showcase what what the alcohol world looks like the spirits world what we do different how to our how does our technology come into place the stuff that we're producing here so it's a tour that's very does all of explanation explaining going on tastings of course of the different spirits that we're making different cocktails how we could use the spirits in a different ways and and we see that that is a wide range of people that are interested in this kind of experience from the Israel that could be tourists that could be really from all over the place everything goes through our website you pick the day you want to come in the time the type of tour or you know call us what I was going to be here and of course we're in Jerusalem so speaking about kosher presume all the products are certified kosher everything certified kosher the place itself is certified kosher we do we don't we we don't have a kitchen here but we do serve food here through the different restaurants for the Shook so if people want to combine food with it you know we're happy to give that option as I mentioned for those who don't know Jerusalem you guys are okay to literally one minute from the Shook so you can come here for a drink or a pre-drink and a tour and then go get some amazing food as well so you mentioned that this whiskeys you've just launched it a couple of weeks ago and you're beginning to export to the US what else are you guys expecting in 2023 so we're going to be adding a new gin so we've got two they're gonna be a third gin there's going to be another type of vodka so it's going to be actually probably an overproof vodka so higher on alcohol what what what percentage of the big question 52 52% is very very strong but extremely smooth there's something to look forward and there's where's rum in the making in the in the works actually we're really looking into rum and that's like in the next year and a half that's that's the three major thing that the nature of products are going to be working for those crazy people who are interested in the world of spirits past 52% absence any plans for stuff like that no that's not I it's not in our plans I don't know what will happen but that's like that's less of our of our you know what we're looking for Michael thanks so much for the info I mentioned you guys can be found on thinkorsdissillery.com that's where people can buy the products that's where people can book the tours anywhere else different stores all over the country just look us up on the web on the social media you'll find a lot of outlets are you are you in duty free at the airport and duty free but we are on a lot of flights if you make it to the airport you're probably going to find us thanks so much Michael thank you thanks for watching the video if you are interested in great spirits including gin and you're visiting Jerusalem I definitely recommend checking out this place it's located on 88 on a gripper street they also have a website which is thinkorsdissillery.com and tours can be arranged and you can also purchase some of their great products thanks for watching


This report summarizes the proceedings for day two sessions one and three of the two-day public workshop entitled Regulatory Utility of Mechanistic Modeling to Support Alternative Bioequivalence Approaches, which was jointly sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA, and the Center for Research on Complex Generics, CRCG. Day two focused on the topic of oral PBPK as an alternative bioequivalence approach and its potential use in supporting risk assessments and bio waivers. Presentations included current status of oral PBPK, case examples, and challenges and opportunities in this area. Additionally, panel discussions on the utility of oral PBPK in both new drugs and generic drugs from regulatory and industry perspectives were summarized. This article is authored by Feng Wu, Yousef Musa, Kimberly Reigns, and others.