Good morning, and welcome to this internship program beginning. I am Deepak Phatak, my teacher here. I have formally retired, but I continue to be associated with the Institute. There are supposed to be a total of 90 students joining the internship program. But as you know, the examination system in different universities is not synchronized. And therefore, some of you might have just finished the exam. Some of you may still have some papers or something remaining. No, all done. You are lucky. There are some people who have gone for exam today and some people will be joining probably later. Unfortunately, we cannot delay it any further because you will not be able to complete so many weeks of time. So you come from which all states? How many from Maharashtra? What? Five. Which cities? Bombay, Nagpur, Pune. Restricted to metros. Okay. Next state. Let's go upwards. Gujarat. Which cities? You are also Ahmedabad. Then Rajasthan, Udaipur. Which? Jaipur. Which college in Jaipur? Oh, Elangamite. Then Haryana, Punjab, Jammu, Kashmir. Nobody. Delhi. One, two, three. Well, I can't say which place in Delhi, but which colleges you come from. Sir, colleges are hiding for a while. Oh, I see. So I should have asked two questions. Which state you belong to and which college you study in. Anyway, I think we'll have the details. I believe there has been a very rigorous process of selection. So all of you have been able to join this program either because you are high academic achievers or you did very well in the software contest. One of the two. In fact, even those who were selected on the basis of their academic performance, I believe they were required to take the software test, right? So you have to have some basic minimum skills. We here believe that both the conceptual knowledge and skills are equally important, otherwise you will not be able to build large systems and operate them, which is what we expect you to do professionally when you pass out from your colleges and do various things. The internship program is rather harsh, so I hope you are able to cope up with it. There will be occasions when you will yourselves be setting up deadlines and in order to meet them you will be working hard. But I suppose all of you are used to hard working, right? You can do night-outs easily. All of you are used to that, required. You all have studied different subjects in computer science. Most of you have completed third year, right? The second year students have a disadvantage that they might not have formally studied some of the courses. But anyway, that disadvantage is not very much if you consider the fact that the projects on which you will be working, whether you are in second year, third year or fourth year, many of those technologies you would not have studied anyway. So the idea is to be able to learn quickly, adapt whatever you have learned and use it to implement some meaningful systems. And therefore, do not be surprised if you get to work on a project of which you have absolutely no idea, including the underlying technologies. You will have to learn fast, learn quickly and adapt. How many of you have learnt anything about cloud technologies? Virtualization, VMs, virtual machines, one, two. But have you dirtied your hands with VMs? Have you set up VMs? Have you tried to use those VMs? I see, okay. The entire computing environment here is built around the cloud. And you will all have access to the cloud VMs on which you will be implementing your systems. There are multiple systems that we are using. So let me outline first of all the overall long-term objective with which our project staff has been working and will continue to work. And that will set the context in which individual projects will be done by your teams later on. First and foremost, IIT Bombay specializes in large-scale operations of educational services. So we offer MOOCs, all of you have heard of MOOCs. Some of you have done any massive open online course on any platform, whether Swayam or whatever or edX or Coursera. So you are familiar with those platforms. Here we build those platforms. We initially started by adopting the open edX platform, which was released in open source by edX Corporation in 2013. And we built our own platform called IIT Bombay X. This was a good platform. However, it still has some old architectural remnants. Although it is not monolithic, it is not very well-componentized. And software architecture-wise, many of the things which started prevailing in the industry in subsequent years were not incorporated. For example, microservices. Have you heard of microservices? No. The programming methodology that is used has been traditionally a waterfall model. Some of you might have done a course in software engineering. How many of you are familiar with agile development methodology? Where you are scrum masters and some of you have participated. The architecturally second most important thing is the extensive use of restful APIs. You know what is an API? Application programmers interface. Traditionally, if you write a program in which you call some functions, then calling a function itself is an API. But that function is written by you. And very often the function is not completely isolated from the rest of the code. So many of the parameters are not required because you have common variables, common arrays. You use same files, etc., etc. When you build systems around APIs, the important thing is to remember, is to ensure that the module that you write is completely capable of performing its functions solely interacting through message passing with other modules. So there is nothing like calling a function, holding it ransom and so on. Just pass a message and most of the activities are done asynchronously. API-based software development also permits your software to easily integrate with some unknown software which may come in future. Because while writing that software, you have provided enough APIs which other people can use. You define your APIs very clearly that this is the method by which you invoke this API. This is the information that you pass. This is the activity that will be done and this is the result that will be passed back. So once this is very clearly specified and your module works perfectly, then it is capable of interacting with other modules more easily. API-based software development has become the standard mechanism. Among several types of APIs, the APIs which are mostly used are called RESTful APIs. Have you heard the name REST APIs?  Now, so just to give you an example, you have heard of large systems like ADAR authentication, great controversy around it because of the privacy issues of data, but still as a system. You have heard of GSTN. These are very large systems developed in India by teams which were well versed with the modern architectural concepts and they have implemented RESTful APIs while constructing those systems. Have you heard of National Payment Corporation of India, NPCI, which actually does other based payments or IMPS? All switching of transactions, whether it is ATM transactions or settlement transactions, is done by MPCI. All their systems were traditionally evolved in the conventional way but they have been changing them rapidly. And you might have heard of Unified Payment Interface or UPI, which permits multiple service providers dealing with payments to interface with the NPCI systems. So you must have heard of BEAM application, for example. In short, use of APIs is now a standard thing and defining APIs in the software that you write and using APIs which other people have provided in their software is now the key method of building large systems. In fact, it significantly reduces the system build time. The traditional waterfall model requires anywhere between nine months to one year minimum to build a system, no matter how many people you put in. Whereas here, with the agile methodology, you can actually start delivering incrementally, even in three weeks, four weeks time. But to adapt to that methodology is not very easy. So that itself will require some time to understand. We will not necessarily be following the agile methodology, but we will be following a methodology which will force you to adapt parts of the agile approach by which you will be able to write some specs, implement them, test them, and again move forward in that fashion. So these are about the software technologies that you will have to use. Functionally, as I was telling you, we adapted the Open edX platform and we have extensively modified it to suit the Indian requirements. So we provide, for example, multiple language translations if available. The Open edX platform itself is rich in functionality. It permits, for example, randomization of multiple choice quizzes.  But if I do not know the answer and if my neighbor is answering that question, I can easily see that answer in type B or C or something like that. But by writing small Python scripts, you can randomize every question to an amazing extent. You not only shuffle the choices, but you even shuffle the numerical values and the code will correctly point out what is the right answer and so on. And even the explanations which are given by the system platform for wrong answers, et cetera, et cetera, can be artificially constructed by giving the key sentences, but variable names are depending upon the variation that is. Now these are the things that we use constantly in order to do online assessment. And that is why our online assessment without any supervision stands vindicated. We use it for training large number of teachers, for example. We train 10,000 teachers at a time where the teachers participate from one of the 500 remote centers that we have. And these 200-300 remote centers are connected to us using another open source tool called AVU, which we use as a, actually a virtual classroom tool. So it creates a virtual classroom of 300 locations and we can interact. But the advantage is that if somebody in Kolkata is asking a question, then that person in the entire class is seen and heard by the teacher here, but is simultaneously seen and heard by all the participants in all the remote centers. So it's like a large virtual classroom. We have tried to integrate aspects of such virtual classrooms into our embedded platform, which is open areas. Very recently in the last two years, an organization called X-Tep Foundation in Bangalore. Anybody from Karnataka here? One, which city? Mysore. Sorry? Mysore. Mysore, slightly away from Bangalore. That's okay. So this X-Tep Foundation, which was set up by Nandan and Rohini Nilayakani and Yadu Vada. This is actually a not-for-profit organization. And they decided to build a modern MOOCs platform, primarily for school education and school teachers. That platform is called Sunbird. Since they built it in the last one and a half years, they could use all the modern architectural concepts. So that platform is rich with APIs. That platform uses microservices. That platform is scalable horizontally. You know what scalability is. That is, if you have a software and you put multiple servers, the software should run in times faster. Does it always happen? No. Have you ever written a program which exploits, forget multiple servers, which exploits multiple cores in a single processor? Many times your program will use only one core. Because that is how you write, that is how the compilers work. That is not the way the modern systems are to be built. So they have used some architectural marvels and built a system. That system they have started using for school education. We propose to explore X-Tep because that is an Indian-grown platform. And this is the first time a major platform is developed in India and released in open source for the world. Normally we have been the net collectors of open source software, but we are becoming net givers in that sense. We use open edX and we will continue to use open edX for IIT Bombay X platform for at least one year more, maybe two years more. But our idea is to try and explore the X-Tep platform very, very thoroughly in all its aspects and identify functionality which we already know exists in other platforms. Not necessarily only in open edX, but in Coursera and Google course builder, wherever. And we try to enrich the functionality in X-Tep. So this is a direction that is sketched internally for our project staff for the next year and a half. And ideally I have always liked that students who come for internship should work on smaller projects of course, which they are able to do something about. But every time that small project should be part of something bigger. So that collectively the whole group can feel very proud at the end that they contributed so much to this last problem. This year primarily we have selected the X-Tep foundation's sunbird platform and it has some associated things like an open wrap. Some of you are electronic students? No, all are computer science. But you would have had some courses in electronics, right? How many of you are familiar with Arduino? Arduino is the open source hardware platform. So luckily you don't have to do any hardware work because the Arduino components come very easily. My colleague Rajesh Khushalkar has set up an Arduino platform which uses the back end sunbird platform to deliver at an extraordinarily affordable price the content and education to a classroom which does not have conventional setup. You know, you are familiar with labs. So if you have to access internet or any service on internet, what do you do? You need PCs connected on a local area network. In a classroom you need a projector. You need a server. All of this costs how much? Any idea? Easily about 10 lakh rupees plus. Now 10 lakh rupees, 8 lakh rupees might be a okay thing for a high-end engineering college. Is it an okay thing for a school? How many schools we have? Even if a school has to spend 2 lakh rupees and even assuming government sanctions 2 lakh rupees, what is the mechanism for the school to adapt and use this technology? The government rules require they do tender processing and so on. So for 2 years nothing will happen. Right from the beginning, Xtep said that we will try and solve this problem. The way they have attempted to solve this is through this open-rap device.  This device permits, first of all, a Wi-Fi connectivity to multiple devices. So you put that in a classroom and it becomes a Wi-Fi hotspot. 30, 40 mobile devices can connect to this. The teacher's mobile device can also be corrected. Because everybody is using mobile devices and the back-end software permits collaboration, you don't need a projector on the screen at all. Everybody sees once the teacher decides this is the lesson that everybody is doing. Everybody is doing the same thing. If you submit your answer, the teacher can directly see it. Because curiously, this Arduino-based device not only acts as a Wi-Fi device, but also acts as a storage server. So you can put relatively inexpensive HD drives.  Well, a lot. It does cost a packet, but certainly not in lakhs of rupees. However, there is no internet connectivity, maybe. Or internet connectivity may happen once in a day, in the night, or it may happen from some other town and not from my town where my school is. So what they have done is they have tried to put the basic elements of the sunbird platform software itself on that Arduino device. It is certainly not capable of permitting you to create a new course online, etc. But it can deliver a course. So suppose a course has been created in IIT Bombay or somewhere on that platform, then that course content can be delivered exported in a fashion which can be imported by another sunbird server and can be, let's say, sent to Mysore, which is your town. And let's say this school is in Shimoga. Somebody can actually go from Shimoga to Mysore, take that SD card, download the lessons for that school for that next week, bring that back, put it in that open-rap device and presto. The school is in business. All that you require is low-cost mobiles. So this is the approach. Arguably, even mobiles are not very easily available to high school students now. But in towns, they will definitely be available. And it is far more probable that mobiles will be available with students than a desktop or a laptop. Now what is true for school children? Is it not true for college students? See, imagine your college. How many students typically you have in a class? Sixty-hundred. If you have a large class, let's say teaching basic computer programming, you would have the entire batch doing that class, right? Maybe five, six teachers are teaching it differently. But still, what is the harm if that class can also use the mobile devices, use an open-rap in a classroom like this, and you all start working, no need of projector, no need of costly something. Now this is a pipe dream. This is not reality now. But this is the direction. Why I took efforts to explain this to such a large extent? It, of course, on every different topics, there will be different people who will be explaining different projects is because you must understand the direction of our efforts. The direction is to reach out at scale. The direction is to provide quality. And the direction is to make technology affordable, which people can use. By adapting open-source technologies, we have already eliminated license costs. Okay. We use Ubuntu. How many of you are familiar with Linux and Ubuntu? Many. That is good because we use only Ubuntu in our environment. Even our virtual machines have Ubuntu software. So this was one example that I gave. But there will be many more. The way, by the way, let me introduce my team, Aruna Adel. Aruna, can you please stand up? She is currently the senior most staff member overseeing the internship. She is assisted by Rajnikant. And there are individual project leaders who deal with different projects. You will meet all of them one by one here. Please stand. We have organized a lab which the computer science department has kindly granted us use of. But you have to be extremely careful about the use in the lab. So this is a facility which has been provided as a curtsy by the CS department to us. This is not our entitlement. Consequently, avoid the temptation of removing LAN cables and removing cables and so on and putting them in your laptops or whatever. In case it is required, always consult the person who is around. And under any circumstances, restore each and every connection before you leave the lab. Even if you have to leave the lab for half an hour, for one hour, for lunch, restore the connections, leave, come back, do whatever you want. That is a basic precaution because last year I remember the head almost threatened to stop use of that lab for interns. Because just two of the hundred interns misbehaved. Misbehaved in the sense that they were not careful.  Be very careful about it. I think you are being given accommodation in the hostels. So because Chhatri is the person who coordinates the logistics activities here, he along with Rahul. Rahul? Oh, he is outside. So in case of any problems, you can connect with him. About the work ethics, we are mad people here slightly. We believe in 24 by 7 work. I don't expect 24 by 7 work by ordinary mortals. Even my own colleagues sometimes cough at me. I have a very nice thing written in my office. Somebody, you know, people keep coming and waiting for me when I'm discussing someone. And I have whiteboards where people write things. Someone had written a very nice epithet saying, you don't have to be crazy to work in this place, but it helps. So I would expect all of you to be crazy enough and committed enough because you have to achieve two things. You have to learn as much as you can. That's the primary objective. That's the reason why. And second, you have to contribute with the best of your mind. And you cannot contribute by just working alone well. You have to work in teams because that is how some big things are achieved. I typically divide the day into three parts. There are 24 hours, eight hours, eight hours, eight hours. Eight hours a day, I must do honest to God work. If I'm being given an opportunity to work, minimum eight hours a day, I must work. I must contribute. I must not do anything else. I require eight hours a day for personal administration. I will need five hours of sleep. I'll need to eat food.  So you require eight hours for personal administration. Some of us may require 10 hours, who might be sleeping longer. What is the average hours that you sleep for? Six to eight hours. Six to eight hours. God bless you. I'm 70 years old and I can't afford that luxury even now. Be careful. You know, very simple logic. Of course, you need sleep. But every hour that you sleep, you're not able to utilize that hour for any positive implications for yourself and for the society. Simple as that. So my advice will be whatever is the number of hours you're used to, don't hurt yourself, but try to reduce on the average some part of that time.  By the way, I used to sleep for six to eight hours. And given opportunity, I like to sleep for 10 hours whenever possible. But that happens once in some time. So I become like a camel, you know, who can go without water and then drink water after a long time. But nevertheless, try to minimize that time because then you can use it. If for nothing else, at least for seeing a movie, you need to be awake while seeing a movie, right? So water. That still leaves us eight hours. And I would like you to use these remaining eight hours of the day very, very meaningfully. Use this time to learn something more. Use this time to learn about each other. Use this time to learn the ethos of this place. You know what distinguishes IIT from other institutions? Nothing. Same people. Do I look different from you? Do my colleagues look different? Students here also don't look different. But collectively, they represent a different ethos. And that ethos does not come automatically. That ethos is ethos of energy. That ethos is ethos of self-confidence. That ethos is ethos of doing something. Solving a problem, no matter how hard the problem. I would like you to take part of that ethos with you when you go back and try to inculcate it amongst your own colleagues and in your own institution because I genuinely believe that any institute in the country can become as good as any IIT. There is no reason why it cannot except for the people. And the people are faculty, staff and students. And students are the mainstay. One of the reasons why things don't change is because you don't request for change. You don't ask for change. You don't ask for being challenged. You are happy solving conventional problems which are asked in the examination. How many of you have complained to your principals and your teachers that why are some questions being repeated from previous years' exams? Why are simple questions being asked? Have you ever asked them? No. You are very happy and comfortable when simple questions are asked in exams. Being able to get challenged, being willing to get challenged is one part of this ethos here. I'll just, I still have 10 minutes so I'll just tell you a story that is an anecdote that happened with me when I was a young teacher. I had just joined the computer science department. In those days Ph.D. was not available in computer science. So some of us who had done M.Tech were appointed as teachers. In fact, rest of the institute used to laugh at us. They used to say, because without Ph.D. you're not considered a faculty. Nevertheless, some students were very close to me because I used to be a chess player in the institute team earlier. After I became a teacher I used to be the coach for the chess team. And one of the chess players in the team who was in third year came to me after a terminal exam with a question paper in electrical fields. And he gave me that paper and said, Ph.D. how do you solve this? Question number 3. I read that question. Immediately understood that I can't solve it. So I returned the paper and told him, I am a computer science professor. He was not impressed. He says, but your basic degree is electrical engineering. Then I had to admit that I don't know how to solve that question. But since I was a teacher I said, why not we go to the creator of that problem? Let Professor K.C. Mukherjee who had set up that question paper was teaching that course. So both of us went to his cabin. And when Mukherjee from his cabin saw both of us coming with that question paper dangling in his hand. He started smiling, asked us to sit down, looked at me and said, Question 3, Ph.D. I said, yes sir. He started smiling. He didn't say anything. So the student asked him, sir, what is the answer to this question? So he looked at him and he said, I don't know. And he was shocked. I mean a teacher who had set a question is telling him, I don't know the answer. Then Professor Mukherjee turned to me and said, Ph.D. this is actually part of a unsolved research problem which for last 10 years people are struggling to solve. Nobody has been able to solve this. But you know this batch is so smart, I thought somebody will solve it. So I put that question. What would have happened if such a question had come in your university exam? I passed my undergraduate education from Indore University and I remember what would have happened in 1960s. The vice chancellor would have been get out, syllabus ke baar ka soval puja. Do you think something similar will not happen even today? It could very well happen. It didn't happen here. The concluding part of the story is more interesting. That evening, majority of the people were, you are in hostel 4, right? I will remind me to find a book called Madhouse. I have a copy. I have only one copy. I circulated. They are the hostel 4 rights of 70s who have written a book of anecdotes of things that happened in IIT and in hostel 4 particular. So this actually happened in hostel 4. They were having a milkshake party in the evening. These kids from KC Mukherjee's course. You don't understand the significance of milkshake party. A milkshake party, milkshake was the costliest permitted cold drink on the campus in those days. Nowadays you have fancy stuff. So a hostel would throw a milkshake party only if hostel did something extraordinary like if it won an inter-hostel hockey tournament or somebody won a debating trophy, somebody did well in exam something and the hostel would celebrate. And these kids were having a milkshake party when the general secretary walked down and he was mighty surprised. He says, I am the general secretary of the hostel. I don't know what great thing has happened. Why are you having a milkshake party? And you know what answer he got? Oh, he says, you don't know? The great KC Mukherjee thinks that we can solve unsolved research problems and therefore we are celebrating. That is the ethos of this place. Never be cowed down by hard problems. They will come. In fact, you are going to be leaders in technology provision. You are not just going to be ordinary people. I mean, you have come through a very tough selection in your own colleges first and now to this place. So the leadership role cannot be fulfilled without being ready to take up challenges. So take up these challenges and enjoy life. So remember, eight hour, eight hour, eight hour. Eight hour on as to God, whatever has been prescribed individually and jointly, you must do for the project. Eight hours to ten hours you must use for your personal administration because you must enjoy life here. But six to eight hours try to use it for benefiting yourself by understanding the ethos of this place, by learning more about each other, by jotting down things which you think are important, by exploring something else which is related to whatever project you are working on. No harm if you, in this spare time, talk to some other group and find out what they are doing because they might be working on some other interesting technology. Learn as much as you can and benefit maximally. That's all I have to say. Thank you so much.


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I'm arranging for a TSCM team It's okay, just leave everything else packed Sean Look son, I know you want to get everything up and running Once you join that computer club at the international school, you're gonna have an internet access Yeah email Sean hey look, I know it's not easy leaving your friends behind Changes and always a bad thing. You got a chance for new friends a whole set of new experiences It's gonna be a truly great adventure. All right. I just need you to hang in there for me. Can you do that? Yeah, yeah, I can do it dad. I mean he's gonna be fine. He's taking time. I'll see you in a little while Well, thank you so much for coming Welcome, this is Mallory told me what a big help you are so I really appreciate it. Thank you Don't you worry mrs. Martell. I will make you and Colonel Martell feel right at home. What do you want me to start? Well Actually, I was just about to go into my son's room and move the computer So why don't we get you set up in your room and then we can go straight over from there? Okay? Yes, my brother taught me something about computers. Oh great. Oh, yeah, he's been dying to get on the computer I trust you're all settled into your new home. Yes, I'm personal effects were just delivered My wife is just now getting acquainted with her new helper Our security officer has just been briefed by the information assurance evaluation group So we are sensitized to the need for tighter measures with his advice I'll be more aggressive on the security measures as well as wait for TSCM team to check the residents as well as the facility good Good, you can't be too careful Have you met your counterpart at the Acre stand research facility Colonel Hamid? He's the new director and has strong personal ties with President Koshrat Our agenda unless there's anything else you care to discuss. No, I believe we have covered all the points But Colonel Martell We have not had an opportunity to formally welcome you and your staff to our facility and since we are concluding our first Joint staff meeting. I thought it appropriate to mark this event with a token about a steam For you and others will be delivered to your very professional staff. Well, thank you very much, Colonel Hamid It is an honor to accept this on behalf of the team We thank you very much for your cooperation and value your friendship. Thank you very much and thank you and Thank you. It's a nice surprise Teams do in I need them here pronto. Have them do a sweep Make sure it's clean. Yes, sir Hey, how's it going? Great. How are you pretty good?  Yes? She's running somewhere. Mom somebody's at the door for you Oh, you would not believe the chaos that it's Aggy can you set the table please and she has been such a big help to and I can't even tell you I don't know what I do without her and hold on one second Who are you? We're expecting more boxes. Yes, ma'am. I'm Billy Joe Hendricks. I'm the M.C. RS Offer ambassador hunter. Yes, sir And then we'll get better this team started immediately in my residence before they do the facility My wife is looking forward unpacking Bob how are things going at the research facility? Well, sir We've almost finalized the terms of reference for the inspections But the counterparts are having some trouble locating our requests to report sand access to certain data They're not cooperative, sir. That's something we got a straighten out. We are sir. We're making good progress. I Have some sensitive intelligence to breeze sir one issue concerns president Tosh rat Recent sign indicates that the Abu Bakar group has regenerated itself and might have penetrated the acre stand government We also have a human report that suggests that the group has access to chemical and biological agents from that penetration We don't think gosh wraps involved at all, but we do think that he is the target of an assassination plot. Are you sure? What's the source the intel is good. It's singing from NSA I'm sorry for interrupting mr. Ambassador, but you said you wanted to leave early for the reception. Yes. Thank you Martha Mack can we continue in the car? Of course, sir Play we were here six months before furniture arrived and believe me. It took forever to get it all in bed I can't wait to get everything straightened out and organized In fact, those people have already been here, but I promised my husband Bob that I wouldn't unpack anything until after they left Who are you talking about?  Oh, how's he doing? Thank you, Eddie He's you know having a few adjustment problems, which is to be expected It's one of the reasons I wanted to meet with you and I would like that very much. Thank you. Yes Martell yes, I'm done for the day. Okay Feel confident that last night I found a woodblock audio device at the house We need to get another sweep team out here ASAP. That means you'll have to go over the same areas again We have to get it right this time No one can discuss this next team coming out here unless it's in this conference room I agree They could well be that they found out somehow that the last team was here and they turned off all the devices We can't afford to compromise this team. Has anyone noticed anything else unusual? Well come to think of it Heather


Yn oeddan ni, ychydig yn dda. Mae gynhyrchu, mae'r gweithio, a'r gweithio yng Nghymru o'r Llywodraeth Cymru. Yn oeddan ni, mae'r gweithio'r Gweithfyrddol. Mae gwneud amser Sue Wellington, ac mae'n gweithio'r gweithfyrddol Gwyrddol. Yn oeddan ni, mae'n gweithio'r gweithfyrddol, ac mae'n gweithio'r gweithfyrddol. Mae'n meddwl o'un hwnnw, Cymru. Y ddigonwyd hwnnw, i'r dweud y gwybod y rôl wedi'u meddwl i'r gwybod sy'n meddwl i'r ddigonwyd i gyd, y Llyfrgell, John Williams a ein mildwyd yw'r sefydliadau ar yr wyngwneb, Milwyd. Cymru yw'r wyfwneb, sy'n meddwl ydw i'r haveidau a'r regomendau. Cymru. Lawrence, mae'n gwybod i'r ffeinio. Dee weithio? Diolch imbryd. Diolch. Diolch. Yn yogi, cyfaintaeth o'r hyn o'r busnes yma o'r ysgrifennu. If an interest subsequently becomes apparent later in the meeting, please would you raise it at that point. Anybody got any at this moment? Lost shaking heads? No. Thank you. Right, moving on to item three, is the minutes of the previous meeting. We have the minutes of the meeting held on 29 September up for approval today. Does anyone wish to make any amendments to the minutes? Or are you all content? Councillor Carlson. I will abstain on this because I wasn't allowed to meet him. Fine. Thank you. Thank you. No arm waving, hedge shaking or anything. So minutes of the meeting held on 29 September are approved. We now come to item four, community chess, which is our substantive item of business today. Before I hand over to Emma to present the report and applications, I understand we have a public speaker. We're joined today by Melissa Santiago Val. Hello, Alyssa. Welcome. Melissa is from so positive who we've granted funding to last month and as well as in previous years. Melissa is going to introduce herself and tell us about what her group actually does. Thank you. Over to you. Thank you so much. I'm really delighted to be able to have this opportunity. I'm sorry I'm not there in person, obviously being only down the road, but we are running a community chess event this afternoon actually at the Aikerman Centre in Cambridge. It's a small group. It's part of the sustainable food festival in the city, but I'm delighted that we've got two South Cams volunteers and four members of South Cams community and taking part as well. Thank you so much, Laurence. If you could just pop that onto full screen, that's brilliant. I'm just going to give you an update on who we are and what we do. It interested me that actually all four of us are in South Cams on this photo. There's three volunteers who joined us at various different stages in our journey. Thank you, Laurence. Next slide, please. Who are we? We're a really small South Cambridgeshire-based charity and we help people to mend and repair. We do upcycling and repurposing of clothes. Really the aim of this is about our mind being calmed to improve our mental health and our wellbeing and help our planet. Thank you, Laurence. We are wanting to enable inclusive communities. That's what we do. The people that we work with are generally the people that we work with have got co-existing issues around their isolation, around their mental health, around discrimination, around their circumstances financially. They're often a mix of those and they're often accessing multiple services. We want to be able to bring those people together through creativity to be able to help them find ways of dealing with their mental health and taking more control of their own mental health as well. We do that through social prescribing, which is something we've really tried to do since we've started. Thank you. What you're allowing us to do as a small charity, and I say we're a small charity, so in Cambridgeshire we are one of many charities with an income of under £50,000 a year. We've only been running for two years. I set the charity up myself when I was furloughed and wanted something to do to stop my mental health plummeting even further. I live with anxiety and depression myself, and I also have several co-existing physical health conditions that I juggle. For me it was a case of I want to be able to do something useful in the community. I put together with a friend of mine a mask project during the pandemic and we started to make masks to raise money for the NHS. Obviously there was a great need for masks, not just among the public but among community groups. We started making masks and we made actually 14,000 masks, and we raised £40,000 for the NHS. Most importantly, during this process, we realised that sewing was really helpful to our communities in sewing our communities together, stitch at a time. We had 50 volunteers working with us. That's what we're doing. It's not just about people taking part as participants, it's about volunteering, which is one of mine's five ways to wellbeing. It's about connecting, it's about learning, about giving, being active, learning all the time and taking notice. We are always encouraging people to be mindful of their sewing. Thank you. Just a snapshot of who we are. We've actually just had our AGM, so it's our second year. In our first year, over the first 18 months, we had an income of around £20,000. A year later, after a lot of support from yourselves and other grants, in fact, I'm just going to look up my figures. I've got figures here about how many grants we've actually had. In the last year, we've had 17 grants. That means that I've spent personally a lot of time applying for grants. It's a big part of what charities have to do. We really do appreciate the support of South Cams because it enables us to have some running costs that are covered as well as offering some community events to people who are in South Cambridge here. That's so important because there just isn't enough happening in the villages and in rural communities for people to feel connected. Obviously, everyone has different interests. Not everyone is interested in sewing, but a lot of people are, and it's something that's really, really picked up in people who want to express their creativity. We've got a lot of volunteer hours, which is marvellous, and I'm very pleased that a lot of those volunteers come from South Cams. 2,440 hours. My own volunteering is still very much part of that because I am not salaried and I am only able to be paid project funding that we invoice through projects. So it's really, really a big, big learning curve for us. And we're very grateful for the support of our local CCVS helping us move forward as a charity so that we can deliver more services. And we are very successful in what we're doing in that we get amazing feedback. But for this presentation, I focused on our community events, which is what you've helped us to fund. Thank you. So these are some of the community chess projects that you've helped us to fund. So we've got events there from the Mosque Wellbeing Day that we had about 25 different families doing Sasha Co embroidery, which is a type of slow stitching on denim and workwear originally. It's really mindful and very easy to pick up. We were also donated lots of kits by a very specialist embroidery company and we used those to do some events. And one of those in the middle picture is at Shelford Library and we did festive mindful embroidery with them last year. And with the lampshades, we're using upcycled fabrics. Sustainability is a really big part of our ethos. And we're always trying to use existing fabrics and donated fabrics or fabrics from other charities like Emmaus and the Reuse Centre in which in near Ely. So in the lampshades picture that is at the hub in Camborn. And then we've also got another event there at the Ackerman Street Centre where I'm going this afternoon, as I mentioned. So there's some of the community chess projects that you've helped with the materials costs for. Thank you. And there's a few more photos. These are actually from Monday. We took part in the Let's Go Circular event at the Grand Arcade in Cambridge, which is a platform really for all local organisations who are working in the circular economy to try and change things for people to become more sustainable in their choices. So we made denim planters from upcycled jeans and plastic waste from bottles. And this was a fantastic activity particularly because it was designed by one of our participants. So co-production is really important to us. We involve people who have experienced the difficulties that we're trying to support. And we have such a variety of people coming to us. It's amazing.  When can we talk about them? And that is very much part of what we're doing and that is about taking ownership and being involved in your community. It's a non-gender specific activity. So as you can see, we've got Adam. Adam has come along with his partner who has also done some sewing before, but they hadn't done this sort of activity. So it's about opening up new creative avenues for people to manage their wellbeing. And obviously we're using plastic and textile waste creatively. Thank you. So our feedback, I did actually pull together some feedback for today. We had 24 respondents out of the people that have all together done our community chest events over the last three years. Obviously we haven't finished the ones for this year. We've only just started those, but we have got some. And everyone is feeling 100% feel more socially connected. And I think that is so important. That is what we're here to do. And they also link sewing creativity with wellbeing. And just this week alone, we have 13 South Cams residents taking part in our events. And these are just our community events. Thank you. So our ethos and why what we're doing is useful for our mental health is because it gives people an opportunity to do these things. We want people to slow down and take their time to actually have time for themselves and be in this moment. And sewing allows you to do that because it gives you a sense of creative flow. I don't know if this is something people have heard about, but it's proven and there are lots of studies coming out showing how this is very useful from Harvard and also from mind. And a variety of other studies are coming out showing how this is very useful. So the state of creative flow is achieved through doing a repetitive activity, but which is still using your brain. But it is enough for your brain to rest and carry on being creative. And it's a very restful state and is shown to actually lower your respiratory rate and be very calming. So that is what we're trying to achieve. Thank you. These are just some of the quotes that we've had this week. And again, these are from the community chest projects. So they're not specifically aimed at people who are our core sort of audience who might find going to the Grand Ok difficult, for example. But we have other services that are social prescribing. Amazing feedback. And I can actually share those with anybody that's interested. Excuse me. So, yeah, it's just about bringing like-minded people together facing on mental health and sustainability. It's lovely to hear these. Thank you. We have just the last one there. It's again, it's about intergenerational opportunities as well. So some people may have learned sewing when they were a child at school. Sadly, we don't do that at the moment. But it means that people can pass on those skills within their families and also learn them so that they can then pass them on. But I think it was great. I saw this particular family really struggling one of their children and they were fantastic.  And for us, it's not about just completing an activity. It's being able to just take part, try something new, maybe get some ideas. And we always follow up with video tutorials, for example, and extra resources that people can call on. Thank you. I just wanted to mention that as an organisation South Cams District Council, if people are interested in supporting us in other ways, we do do wellbeing events at your workplace. And we've done some for the National Lottery. We've done some for an advertising agency in Cambridge in London. And we've done one for Hamilton College in Cambridge. So we offer wellbeing events. We can do them by Zoom or we can come into offices. So that's again, something that could be important for you as an organisation. And also we have opportunities for people if they're interested in supporting us doing running or other community fundraising. And obviously, if anybody is interested in sewing and has skills that they're interested in passing on to their community, we would love to hear from them. And just want to say, thank you so much for funding our projects. It really is amazing that we have this facility and I'm really grateful to have the opportunity to talk to everyone today and tell you a very small amount about what we do. But it does make a really big difference. Claire's one of the people that's been coming to us since we started really. And it's just been amazing to see what she's doing. We have two participants that have now set up their own businesses in some way using sewing and others who are volunteering with us and have progressed to designing activities and another person who's now running their own group that they had set up with funding from mind as a result of doing a course with us. So these are the results that you can see and we're very grateful. Thank you. I think there's just one more and I think it just says thank you again. No, that's it. If you want to get in touch with me, there's my email. Thank you, Felissa. Does anybody have any questions? Councillor Cahn. Very inspiring presentation. I just wondered, do you have any men participating because all the people in the pictures I've seen of women, do you manage to participate? Oh, you didn't spot Adam there. Yes, we do. I mean, I would say looking at our data so far, we've had around 80% of participants have been women. However, and this is a big thing for me, I have actually put in for funding through central government for the National Suicide Prevention Fund and I've worked very closely with Joe Davis who's our Suicide Prevention Manager in the local authority here. Obviously that's a bid, but that is actually aimed at middle-aged men who obviously are one of the groups who face the biggest suicide risk and especially as a risk factor in this area has been identified as them as well. So I'm very keen to do that. We have a bid called Men's Hems that we would be running to offer a very practical group, a bit like Men's Sheds to have a space where men can come and learn practical skills like just things like sewing a hem, mending a seam, sewing on buttons, how to make simple school uniform fixes if they're in single-parent families. This can be very helpful. So yes, and we do have men. I've had, I've got a man, a young man who's on our Ukraine refugee program. We do several of those through the city area committee funding as well. And we've also had a young man who's a refugee and he's, he did a summer sewing taster day. Amazing talent. I really want to get more. So if you're interested in joining us, that would be fantastic. Thank you. Councillor Samford. Thank you, chair, and thank you, Melissa, for your presentation. I must admit I'd never heard of so positive until your application came before us last month, but it seems an excellent charity for Southcams to stand behind. This may already be in the works, but I'm wondering if we can put out, can our comms people to put out a press release which will obviously make your charity known to more people and also demonstrate that Southcams is spending council taxpayers' money on good causes. Certainly, Councillor, will you hand? Yes, we'd absolutely love that. Thank you. I just wanted through you, chair, to thank Melissa for a presentation. Very interesting. It's great to see what you're doing. I'll picking up on what Councillor Samford said. I will mention it to our comms team. So you may, you may just get a call. But thank you very much for all you're doing. Thank you so much for supporting us. Senator. Thank you. Hi, I just wanted to say... Oh, she's gone. I am still here. Sorry, I was just turning that off. I just wanted to say, well done for making something negative like the lockdown into a positive, and thank you for all the masks you made for the NHS. Oh, that's really kind of... Thank you. Can I add by thanks? Can I ask you one question? I'm in the process of trying to declutter a very good friend of mine who has an awful lot of craft equipment of every type shape and description. Do you take that sort of material to help you with some of your classes? Absolutely. So actually this year we've actually taken on in total, we've got 25 sewing machines that would have gone to landfill that we've mended and sort of found repairs and it's for. We work with the repair cafes at Cambridge Carbon Footprint quite often as well. I can take some materials, but being a really small charity, literally you're looking at the only person working for it. It is quite tricky to take lots of materials because we don't have any premises. So my house is very full, but we are very grateful for things that we know that we can use in upcoming services. So maybe if you could email me, Councillor Wellington, and then I can maybe have a chat with you about that separately. But we can take donations, but we do ask if people are wanting to donate sewing machines that they first take them to the repair cafes that are available. It also encourages people to think about their choices before they just pass things on. It's about taking that ownership. And it's the same with textiles. I think people are very happy to just take things to charity shops, which is great, but they can often end up in landfill in a developing country. So we're trying to get people to think about those choices as well, not you yourself, but just everyone, all of us, in me included. Oh, I can add to your sewing machine collection about this three. And so many others. Oh wow, okay. So yes, I will. Thank you, that's lovely. Anybody? Thank you very much. We will follow that up. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for your time. Bye. Right, back to the agenda, ladies and gentlemen, and on to community chest. And Emma, would you like to tell us about Melbourne Community Hub Management Group? Okay, thank you, chair. So we've had four applications this month. That's a total of £8,000. One of these is a deferred biodiversity projects last month. So I'll go straight on to page 11, which is the Melbourne Community Hub Management Group. So the Melbourne Hub, it's leased to Melbourne Community Hub Management Group by the Parish Council. It's been open for 10 years, and it provides many services for the community, including NHS Outreach and Surgery Overflow Clinics, the community library, office space for the Melbourne Parish Council, a state-of-the-art meeting room, and a community cafe. So the increased demand of the hub services now requires constant use of the outdoor space. But in order to do this, it needs to be adapted to make it more attractive. So they've got a project in mind, which is obviously including more hard landscaping, more space, secure storage, and green landscaping. And you can see there's a map that, well, a diagram showing the vision of the project. Total project costs for this project are £11,224.83. £2,000 has been requested from the community chest, and that's to go towards the landscaping costs. They've also received some funding already from Bruntwood SciTech. That's £5,000, and £4,224.83 will be met by Melbourne Hub Reserves. We've got support from Councillor Joe Sales and Sally Ann Hart. Thank you. Thank you. Any comments from any members? Bill? Councillor Henry. Thank you. I wonder if I could just ask a question of Emma. The community chest budget, the remaining budget. Just looking at that, £16,667, that's got to last what, another six months, is it? Five months, yeah. Melbourne Hub is a fantastic facility. Absolutely fantastic. And ordinarily I wouldn't have any hesitations to support it, but they have had quite a lot of funding from us, and it is a very well-established thing. I'm just a little bit concerned that the budget, the budget we know we may well find ourselves in the position at the end of the financial year of having some very, very good applications, and there's no funding in the pot. That's my concern. I'm not saying no, but I'm just opening that up for a debate, really. Any other members like to comment on that? It's extremely difficult, and it does end up with being first-come, first-served. Unless you've got, I think unless there is clear evidence that it's unsuitable for whatever reason, we are really obliged to follow our procedure, as I understand it, Emma. Sorry, can I come back? Yeah, I'm not saying no by any means. It's just a slight concern, but I certainly would be quite happy to support it. I think the recommendation is that we should support it. It's just an observation, really. Anybody? Anything? We haven't got councillor John. Do you have? Oh, hello, John. Sorry. Hello there. I mean, I wouldn't worry about that. As you see, overall there is quite a bit of money in the total budget for the grants committee. So we haven't got to a situation yet where we need to be worrying about that. I mean, we do have a rule that you can only apply once in a year. So it may seem that the hub is always here for money, but actually it hasn't, you know, if it had come to us in this financial year before, then we would have turned it down. So it does follow the rules. And as you've said soon, you know, we have to follow the rules to be fair to everybody. I'm happy, Chair. Happy. Yeah, councillor Cull. Yes, I'm happy. I recommend simply that it's better to have spent all the money during the year than how many left over at the end of the year. Indeed. So can I look around the committee members and see a general nod? We have a general nod. Thank you very much. Move on then Emma. Thank you. Page 13, we have active with Parkinson's Cams. It provides a very specific type of exercise class to address the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. It now supports 41 people and it provides three classes per week. But they've identified a problem that there's no provision for those that have reached stage three of the disease. In this stage, often people have what is known as freezing so they can't walk takes a while from to sort of get off the ground as such. And obviously this comes with exhaustion as well. And obviously these people, some of those people that were in the initial classes have now progressed to this stage. And as social contact is vital to support these people, they would like to provide a new seated class for eight people. This will be a one year trial project. Total project costs are £4,900 and £2,000 has been requested from the community chest. Breaking down, this is for an instructor, venue hire and resistant bands and soft balls. They've made an application to source and parish council for £1,000. Since this report was published, this has been successful. So they'll get £500 now and then also £500 in the new tax year. And then what they will also do is apply to Parkinson's UK in six months time. Although they made an application just recently, it's actually, they found out that it had been allocated all the funding so they couldn't get any funding at this particular point. So the aim is to get a one year trial project going. We're still waiting for support messages from a couple of our councillors on this one just to flag that. But I'd welcome any comments, thank you. Thank you. Disponting that councillors haven't responded. Do we, you've chased them? Yes, Jane has. We've chased them quite a bit. I think obviously this does happen from time to time. Obviously holidays and all that kind of stuff as well. So what we tend to do is, if a decision is made today, before we actually, supposing it was agreed to fund, we would obviously contact them again before payment is made. That's the kind of process that we would follow. So you are. There does seem to be an increase in the number of people with Parkinson's lately. I seem to know an awful lot more people than I used to. And one of the symptoms has always been that they walk into a corner and they can't work out, had to turn around and walk out of it and they freeze there. And it's quite horrible for them. Any comments from members? Councillor Hanley. I hope I didn't miss it, but you say that they've asked for £4,000 from the Parish Council. Have they had a response from them? Yes, that's just been confirmed. £1,000, yes. Thank you. Right. Since you too. I don't see any problem with this. We'll use the board. Everybody nodding happily. We're all nodding. So that one's agreed. Okay, move on. Thank you. Page 15, we got new to the village rooms. These were gifted to the village almost 100 years ago. So the building includes a hall, stage, kitchen, toilets and includes Wi-Fi and is available to hire 365 days a year. The kitchen is regularly used for events such as coffee mornings, the monthly lunch club, annual harvest supper and fundraising events, parties, receptions, et cetera. So replacing the kitchen units would provide a more functional space to cook and prepare food and they've been given a second hand, almost new kitchen which consists of cupboard units, sink and surfaces and this has been donated free. However, funding is still required to cover the cost of removal, transport and fitting of the kitchen and this includes the electrical works and the plumbing and you can see a picture there of the kitchen that they're going to install. So total estimated costs are £2,200 and £2,000 has been requested from the community chest. You'll notice there's a £200 contingency in that breakdown but they've said that any additional funding over £2,000 will be covered from existing village room funds. They've also had one fundraising event which raised £750. We have support from councillor Dr Mitchell Williams and councillor Louise Padden. Thank you. Thank you. Can I just ask, is this a parish council or is it a village meeting? Because it's quite small, isn't it? And I just wonder whether they, we haven't heard from the parish council because they are relatively small and might not have had a meeting. Newton, I haven't got the figures at the moment you had. I don't know if our democratic services people could help us. Parish council, thank you. But so we haven't heard from the parish council yet. In this case, I don't believe they have requested anything from the... Oh, sorry. Oh, yes, we do have support. They are in support but I think funding-wise, I don't believe there's any funding that they're going to provide for this. Sorry, they are in support but funding-wise, there isn't, I don't think Jane is there, I don't think we have any. Yeah, I think they're going to ask them but nothing has yet. Nothing has yet. Okay, councillor Hanley. On the face of it, I'm happy with this. Just a question, there's nothing to stop us from actually supporting basically the payment of professional services rather than a capital item. You know, we're paying, we're going to be paying for electrician plumber services rather than for a capital item. I hope that's not a problem. I don't think that's a problem, is it, Hanley? I think in the rules of the community chest of being a start-up in the fact that this is a new project for the village rooms, the revenue costs can be included. Just to get the job done basically, isn't it? Yep. Sue, can- You can mute John. Yeah, I have two issues. Well, first of all, can someone explain to me what a charity commission custodian is? And you actually, locally, manages or owns or leases this place because I'm reading, it says the newton rooms don't own or lease the property. So who does? And it says here it's a charity mission custodian. Well, what does that mean? So I'd like to understand the ownership of this place. And the second thing is that I don't like nice rounded figures because it suggests to me that someone actually hasn't gone out and got proper quotes. This is just their assumption as to how much it's going to cost. So I would like to see proper, you know, costed figures there before we agree to pay anything because it could well be that the removal, for example, removal and transport of kitchen units, we're looking at them. You could probably hire a van, a large van and put them in that van. And it certainly wouldn't cost you £500 if it was done by volunteers. So I have a suspicion that these figures are purely guesstimates and I want to see what it will actually cost. So I'd like them to go out and source, for example, an electrician and get a quote from the electrician to tell us how much it's going to cost to fit. So at the moment, I'm not persuaded to agree to this. I'm not going to reject it, but I think I would like to see more information from them. I particularly would not want to understand what a charity commission custodian is. I understand where you're coming from. They do say that it's all estimate and they haven't had... They may be able to get volunteers to do the work. Anybody else's thoughts? Sorry, do you need a... I mean, I'm happy to propose that we defer this and get that information. I'm happy to be the proposer of that. Anybody happy to defer until further information? Okay, thank you very much. Moving on to deferred biodiversity application. Thank you, phase 17s. It's from Cambridge Pass, Present of Future. I remember from last month this was deferred. And what they wanted was £2,000 from the community chest to assist with the woodland management costs for Wonderbury Country Park. And I think basically the request that we went back to them was basically if they wanted a specific item that the funding could be used for as opposed to a contribution towards the total project costs. So you can see I've provided them a quote from the applicants. They have said that they would like the funding to go towards external contractor costs. This would be for tree surgeons and hire in specialist equipment such as chippers to dispose of wood and brush. For obviously the tree work. So thank you. Thank you. Councillor Williams, you've come back online which may suggest that you want to say something. No, no, apologies, no. Right. Anybody, any members want to say anything? I'd rather feel it is against quite a high figure of work. But it is a bit a continuous figure of work. It's not a particular project that we are funding. It's an ongoing support. And I'm not sure in my head and I'm happy to be told differently that it really complies with our idea of paying a grant towards a particular project. And thoughts? Peter, Samford. Yeah, thanks Chair. I pretty much agree with you that they have expanded the explanations since last time that it is just £2,000 towards their project pot. It isn't something they can stand in front of and say this is where Serf Camp's money was spent. So I'm a little uneasy with this. Yes. Yeah, I agree with Councillor Samford completely. What are other members? Dr. Cym, Sengita. I can see what you're saying and I agree with you. The general woodland management costs are quite large and it's only a tiny part, obviously, but it'd be perhaps common that it might be more sensible if they'd taken a specific element out of it. For instance, the vector in trees which you could then accord it to. So perhaps they ought to think about how they apply. I'm sure there is something one could support there and it's a very worthwhile project that we're doing, but I think you need to agree with you. You need to identify exactly what it is. I'm not against the principle. I think it's lovely to... and provides lovely settings and keeps our country so beautiful, but it is like a bottomless pit and we're just throwing another £2,000 into it. And I'd really prefer to have seen a proper project that, you know, even if they just said it's those two trees we're treating and it'll cost £2,000 to sort them. A maybe... Can I propose a deferral again? Or would you prefer to say no, thank you? Or even yes, please? Sinjita. Maybe I think I would prefer a deferral because maybe they can identify something. Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm not in favour of deferral in a second time. I think we should actually refuse this, but encourage them to come back with an application which kind of meets, you know, I'm sure that Emma can relay our concerns to them and that they can be a little bit more imaginative. Yep. Okay. Are we in favour? We've had a proposal for a deferral. I mean for a refusal. All in favour? Okay. That's where we go. We're done. I mean, no, no, we're not quite done. Right. So, that's the conclusion of the business, the community chest. Sorry, wrong. I do believe we also had a recommendation having to do with the FIB, so we might have to hand back to Emma for the other part of our recommendation today. Not in my... Okay. Back to Emma. Thank you. Just one last little recommendation that you'd like you to consider is regarding the criteria in Appendix B and this is in regards to defibrillators. You'll know that we've included defibrillators into the guidance. They are eligible provided the associated accessories and ongoing maintenance and training will be funded by the applicants and that they are accessible all times. We recently made aware of something called defib finder which provides up-to-date information on defibrillator locations. I've had a look at this and it's a fantastic website where you can just literally put in a postcode and you can find out where nearest defibrillators are. We thought this would be quite good to put into the guidance along with the defibrillator section to say that anybody wanting to apply would know before making an application where the nearest defibrillator is. Thank you. Are members happy with that? So more guidance for defibrillators. Yep. Thank you very much. So we move on to the next meeting which I believe is going to be held on the 1st of December. It's scheduled for Friday the 1st of December. You mean we're going to have it on a Friday? Oh, good. Thank you. Any other business? No. Thank you very much and we've made it just in time to build a hop off for his meeting. Hello, John. Yeah. See you then. Thank you very much. Thank you.


So today people we take a look at another new legendary to the game and it's called the smug. It's a high-period SMG and it does have some uniqueness about it. Could it be top tier? Today we check this thing out and find out what it's capable of. How's it going guys my name's DP Jane today I bring you another BR3 video if you do enjoy living a life really helps out and subscribe if you do want to see more. Also before we go any further for all your gaming needs no matter the platform we play on amazing prices and incredible weekly deals check out G2A linked within the video description. Okay so SMG is one of the exclusive weapons which drops from the new takedown at the Guardian Bridge and it drops from the last bus scourge the invincible. Now I know many many folks out there are unhappy about this new raid and many many aspects of it to be honest guys I have a separate video coming discussed in the many arising problems since the latest update the raid is included in that video so stay tuned for that but all problems aside this new high-period SMG the smug what's special about it well damage is amplified while the weapon shield is active. We can see also this mayhem 10 variant is quite strong offering 5,440 damage decent accuracy handling could be a bit better reload speed on the slower side fire rate for an smg is pretty slow also and a mag size I'd say is average obviously many of these stats can be adjusted via your build and buffed upon so for the most part what we have seen here doesn't really reflect how this may work or play out in combat as we've seen with many many past weapons so it's special trait of having amped damage when a weapon shield are active this comes into play when you're aiming down sights and the damage bonus you get from this is around 50 to 100 percent mark I mean using it in certain instances it seems 100 percent using it in others it seems about 50 percent which is decent either way if you think about it now from what I have experienced so far I would say it's a weapon which is probably benefited today in most having barry active means you take way less damage meaning you can make the most of this thing while aiming down sights and in my opinion the playstyle and to make the most out of this weapon having a vault hunter which could be buffed to move a little quicker would also be beneficial as obviously if you stay idle taking damage while aiming destroys this weapon shield means this effect won't last long at all so moving around helps moving around at speed helps more vault hunters like amaru and moles I feel this won't be a wise choice and due to the fact you are for the most part always going to be taking damage so the benefits of the amped damage won't come into play as often as you like now using it within the slaughter shaft I do feel it lacks that punch we see from weapons I like the chaos and before it's no I mean my variant doesn't have an elemental effect on it which plays a major part in this weapons damage output within the slaughter shaft but I also feel gearbox is scaling and how I do think they messed up on many aspects of the game since the latest patch which didn't need to be touched all the bugs and many other things come into play probably a little bit with this weapon in a way performs and for the most part is actually quite good yes watching this it seems quite weak but remember the enjoyment I have on this is far from the best the fact it doesn't have any elemental offerings either for that damage output which by the way drops offering all elements it would only make this weapon much much better so from what you're seeing within the gameplay footage in the background now I wouldn't base your opinion on the weapon from this I ain't because I've seen what it can do with burns and so much more this I can straight away see being a very decent weapon all things considering if the roles are right for said builds the question is is this worth your time busting your balls trying to get it via farming niggardian takedown I'd straight up say no I have almost everything from the new raid and I will straight up state the current state of the raid and how difficult it is for many I feel the end game reward on this side of the game in its current state isn't worth the grind in my opinion the only thing you're missing out on not having this weapon is a new name other than that I don't feel this thing offers much more than what you can find elsewhere without busting your balls trying to obtain the thing the raid confirmed by gearbox is a little under harder side all things considered and they are confirmed to be making changes so if I were you I'd wait for said changes to take place which I think would come in early next week just because in my opinion how hard this thing is if especially if you're a solo player it's more or less impossible to obtain these things because the last boss is so hard I mean why would you want to do on any of the mayhem mod apart from mayhem 10 and mayhem 10 in my opinion and where the major problems are so overall thoughts on a smug high peering smg it is in my opinion a very decent smg one I feel will become a top tier weapon once everyone gets a hold on it but it isn't really in my opinion anything truly unique on mine blowing or game breaking like we've seen in the past with certain weapons and how they've played out and become it's a new name in a pool of a million things but right now in my opinion you ain't missing out on a said new name and it can't wait until things are sorted on that note we have come to the end of the video if you guys enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out if you have this weapon and have an opinion I didn't let me know it down below in that comment section if you're new around here want to see more boilers be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload content notifications on by hitting that bell button also if you want to become a member of my channel you can by hitting that join button I do appreciate that support again thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on 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