Hello everybody. Welcome to today's live stream. So today like everybody's been talking about is Solana was down and now it is back up and we're gonna take a look at exactly what happened What potentially the problems were and of course the price action that followed so if you haven't heard so far? Solana has taken quite the tumble and It was a reason Was because it actually shut down and we've been doing pretty good quite honestly We've been doing great. We we had almost almost a full year of no shutdowns there's some slowdowns here and there and some some Some different things that happened in the background, but in all honesty, it was doing pretty good Except for this morning when I woke up and I got bombarded with messages that hey So on is down so on is down so on is down. What do you think about that? And I think well it's par for the course every time we think we know where the market's going and the next big thing In the next ETH killer we get slapped back to reality and here it is now Does that mean that the price action was awful? No, we'll take a look. So I just put this tweet out It's gosh, this was probably two three hours ago. Oh my god eight Almost four hours ago and I said hey well, we had a good run looks like Solana is down folks Let's hear comments from the non Solana chains and let me tell you when other chains go down there is no shortage of People who have invested in other chains to talk about how trashy the original chain actually is Steven just said it's brutal that's fine, and I'm gonna skip that one and and Some some are reasonable responses like Ella fader says hey the car goes 400,000 miles an hour, but there's a catch Gringo Hodel says it's probably not wise to base the future financial system on a network that can just Randomly shut down even though the products were with billions of dollars and more centralized and other big chains Someone else also said that they said that hey Treadfy is not gonna take this If if a certain changes goes down, you know at a moment notice and I said well in all honesty I mean, it's not what the stock market does every so often if there's a too much price action going going a certain way It just shuts down and no one can trade. I think they're used to it So they're actually in good company, but it doesn't excuse the fact that Solana did shut down today for almost six hours Avi says it right. He goes. I don't like being a hater, but but any other chain with that many outages Would have become a laughing stock in the crypto community, but somehow Solana is being excused and forgiven over and over again By the dip Chad says matters that ledger went down Nebly says hey, hex has been up 100% for all the time fully decentralized and then Marco Says it quite wisely says the real question when it comes down to is this where are you in blockchain? I came here for a placement for the financial system. Do you care if it's fast and unreliable system or some slower and more reliable system? I care and therefore I choose Cardano Over Solana. So before we get all twisted into the comments, that's fine People have their opinions and that's what makes the world go round. I will just say that The reason why we're highlighting this specific issue First of all, I own Solana and Cardano I own your own Bitcoin owner theorem is because for quite some time we have been lauding and applauding The greatness that is Solana, right and all the different mean coins are out there Not some people were pretty staunch that I hate this chain and they made no bones about it But we had highlighted just how good it was doing So when it goes down for six hours, you better believe I'm gonna talk about it because that's called balance And that's where everything becomes fair. So I sent this out. This is from a website soul scan You can find the link in the description. You can verify this data and data yourself And you need to see that under here on February 6 at 0948 UTC time 111 minutes almost essentially two hours There was no there was no transactions. No TPS, you know transaction per second nothing And then of course right now you can go and verify that. Yes, it's skyrocketed up to three thousand three point two Congratulations, and you've also look at soul scanner transactions You can see that this was the screenshot that I put in my X account to show people like look the most recent one was two hours ago So if anybody's saying no, it wasn't down. No, it was just a slowdown. No, it went down And of course right now we can see that yes Everything is going just fine less than a minute ago these transactions came through although I am concerned though because some of these transactions seem to keep You know if this is failing or if there's an error or what's going on But that's what's happening on Solana. Don't shoot the messenger. Just show me what the heck's going on What's happening? And then lastly you take a look at status dot Solana comm We can see that yes The outage began at approximately 093 UTC lasting five hours almost six. Let's round up So when anybody says it's a slowdown, you know wasn't really an outage It's an outage. Can we just agree that I don't know how many other places I got to find this But this is directly from Solana. It was an outage. It was just an outage. It was an outage However From Solana status it says block production on Solana main net resumed at 1457 following a successful upgrade to be 1.17.2 0 and a restart of the cluster by all data operators and don't let anybody say oh It just went down because they were upgrading that wasn't what it was Over here block production on Solana main net resumed at 1457 following a successful upgrade to be 1.17.2 0 And a restart of the cluster by valid operators Engineers looking to monitor performance on a network operations are restored and again the outage began at 0953 That was five hours ago, so don't tell me that it was just because of a upgrade Okay, we cool great. I hear what the price action did Absolutely nothing quite honestly, so we can see that it's a weird thing, you know, I find this quite bullish between us is That you know if bit legit, okay, let's just let's just say it. Let's just call it if Bitcoin went down For six hours What do you think would have happened to the price and you think the price would have rebounded? No, I think we're all on no one. We're not on the disillusion that there is a piece of centralization Little bit on Solana and of course everybody will say well the Nakamoto Coefficient and take a look at it But if you take a look at the validators and see how would they they're clustered together and who actually owns and operates those things look I'm not here to disprove of what you want to invest in I invest into it But I'm saying there is something to be said for when people talk about The different problems that it has Solana does have problems Bitcoin has problems Ethereum has problems Cardinals got problems Everything's got problems if there was a perfect chain everybody be using it We wouldn't be doing all this maxi stuff So that's just how it is and to prove my point to move them to move along is This it doesn't matter Sometimes how great a chain is and how good it is and how decentralized it is and how fast it is and everything else Sometimes you just get screwed finance just elisted Monero today and The price obviously tumbled 20% and they'll probably keep tumbling I don't know if it's gonna rebound or not But that's a big blow is that is that because Monero is awful. No, it's a great chain It does great things and especially if you're doing privacy transactions So why is it down 20%? It's because one exchange decided Hey, we're not going to keep having this and there's a probably a reason for that because the US government got their tentacles into them after they sued CZ and financed together and There was provisions made so I'm not going to delve into that cesspool, but I'm just saying sometimes It's not the greatest chain that wins Sometimes it's just happenstance and crappy luck quite honestly And then to prove my point further I put up this tweet and I said look I'm gonna take a tour across North America and Europe this year Which we probably will do now we are doing and I need recommendations for the best restaurants in your city because when I went to I've gone to Europe twice for guys For coin bureaus event to speak there and every time I went there I had the worst food because I got stuck in a bunch of tourist traps I said hey, what's what's in good place to eat and a lot of people but through CEO says hey, man If you're in Portugal sushi star with Thraria for beers to become DME. I'll do that. Yeah Crypto golfer captain Harams Harams and Sebastian Florida great food and then Chris Pax if you're in Boston anti restaurant North and it's fantastic and it is on and on mostly with people going Hey, hit me up for beers, which sounds good, too But a lot of people are just telling me like look this these are the greatest restaurants You need to go here and I get you they are great. They're probably awesome. They're probably super tasty Probably prices right ambience is fantastic. The cook is top-notch But guess what all these places pale in comparison to the winner and the winner is McDonald's McDonald's and it's not because McDonald's is awesome. Donald's is horrible. You know, it's just bad food however It's and some would say well, it's fast. Is it really that fast? Have you been to McDonald's lately? Try getting some food. It's probably actually kind of slow and some people say well, it's cheap Have you been to McDonald's lately? It's not even that cheap anymore It doesn't matter sometimes sometimes you just get one of the worst becomes the best just because of marketing and know-how and public hype and things behind it and that is why I'm always stressing the fact to diversify I don't care what You think is going to rule the world in in the future The truth and the matter is of what I can tell is that no chain is perfect right now I could be wrong. Maybe there's a perfect chain out there enlighten me in the comment section But this is why I diversify and bitcoin's the most battle tested. That's why I have mostly bitcoin So I know right now everybody is squinting their eyes to see if I have invested into their token And it doesn't matter Do you think I'm a genius? I'm not I'm actually not that smart I've just been here a lot longer than most of you And that's why I've been successful because I've stuck around and that's really all I gotta do It's just like the army. Just wear the right uniform show up and you get promoted. It's very simple The big thing is that when are you gonna when are we gonna actually gonna sell and that's it That's all I really wanted to talk about on this piece. So look, um Let me just think about that in the comment section and we'll go from there also Before we get into q&a. I've got a I've got a special guest rolling in and in a little bit And I wanted to talk to you guys about this Celsius so Celsius exit bankruptcy Apparently, it's happened right now. Aaron Bennett did has done fantastic fantastic videos On what's happening and of course, you know that, you know, you're getting your money back Everybody now it's not it. You're not being made a hundred percent whole and everything else There's a new one you just put out less than 24 hours ago Well, they just found another 1.2 billion and you're getting more money back. Hey, that's fantastic, right? So these are good news. However Once this happens and things get out of bankruptcy There are some other things we need to think about tax implications And that's why I brought my buddy on David from coin ledger who stuck around for me rambling on for 15 minutes about it about someone didn't come You didn't have to listen to to talk about tax implications. David. Thanks for stopping by man Yeah, it was good hearing about mcdonald's from you Hey, hey, man. I mean everybody says like like mcdonald's honestly. It's not that bad just you can't eat it every day It's just awful awful awful I would agree with that So so here's the thing I uh Let's go over this. So now we know that celsius is out of bankruptcy, right? So how does that with ftx and we talked about this last time you were on there But ftx and voyager and block fine all those stuff I don't know the implications But how does that work for taxes because we're are we like less than 70 days away from everybody having to file Yeah, and what is it? It's like february 6th today. And so here in the u.s. April 15th We got like a little over two months about 70 days Um, but what what does it mean? It's going to be similar to what we talked about with voyager, you know similar Things going on from like a bankruptcy perspective. And so for the users who have lost money Um and lost digital assets. It's important to One have records because you need to know what your cost basis was in the assets you had held up on celsius, right? So if I had $20,000 worth of bitcoin, let's say that was 0.8 bitcoin whatever it is, right? Um, and I get back let's say 0.4 bitcoin from celsius Well, my basis of $20,000 still applies to that point for bitcoin So that should I ever dispose of that bitcoin? I get to realize That loss or potentially gain, but i'm benefiting from that taxable Loss essentially right because if my basis is 20,000 and I wind up selling point for bitcoin for 10,000 I get that $10,000 loss Benefiting me on my taxes. And so at a high level, that's how it works There is nuance, of course in how they actually go about distributing The funds back to folks is it paid out and fiat is it paid out and crypto and actually I don't know Have you heard how they're going to do it? So on someone I believe it's for the international Customers they're going to go through PayPal And then for the u.s. Customers it's a little bit different. I think you're going through coin base Correct me the comment section everybody so PayPal one coin base and the other Interesting on the PayPal side. Are they paying out people in fiat currencies or I would imagine so because PayPal doesn't have a ton of crypto support Fiat I know they have some fiat. Yeah, so that's a good example where if you're getting paid in fiat You have it what's likely a taxable event because if you lost a theory of You know, let's say your base is in the Ethereum that you lost access to was $50,000 and let's say you get $20,000 worth of fiat back That's a taxable event and you realized $30,000 of losses Oh, so someone's correct me coin base international on u.s. PayPal. That's weird Okay All right. Well, whichever way it is. So whenever it happens, I'm happy to come on and break down how it's going to work I don't have the exact details right like I do for the voyager process But I'm happy to walk people through if they have any questions, you know Feel free to hit us hit up our team coin ledger. We're happy to answer your questions completely for free too Yeah, but I mean The same theory is the same if they have to sell your crypto and let's say That let's just let's just say for argument's sake that for PayPal They're just going to give you back fiat, right? So if they have to sell your bitcoin and they give it to you in fiat or even into a stablecoin because I Believe PayPal has a stablecoin now. That's still That's still a taxable event because you're taking it from one crypto Into another crypto and that is you're essentially selling it for some type of value in another form So it'd be that way and then coin base would be the same thing. So gotcha Exactly and so people are going to get lots is that they can write off on their taxes Which will reduce their tax income, which is good. Obviously the whole situation is bad But you can take advantage of the tax savings Gotcha So let's talk real quick about what you guys got going on over coin ledger So the last time you were on here. I got a lot of people asking me about this The portfolio tracker Because They want to be a part of that how again, can they be a part of the the portfolio track now if if no one knows It's very simple. You plug in your wallets. It's just it's a read only type of thing. I've already done this myself I've already gone through the process. It's not like they're going to be able to like steal all your crypto Let's hope not just kidding. So with that it'll show you like, okay, you're up here You're down here. If you sell at this point, this could be a not only a taxable event But a short term or a long term cap gains type situation And then it'll kind of like break down what your what your p&l is your profit and loss So what else first of all two things what else is going on behind the scenes with with with this with the portfolio tracker And how do they sign up for that besides the wait list? So To get the portfolio tracker something we've been building for now about a year and a half You know historically we've been very tax focused tax first But now we're essentially expanding our infrastructure to do more real time reporting show real time Here all your assets across all of your wallets. Here's where you're in profits. Here's where in your loss position Exactly what you said That product is right now Code complete. It's done. We're just going through the final phases of testing with it making sure that All edge cases are ironed out. There's no gaping problems. And so In the next two weeks, it's going to go to its formal beta launch But if you want access now All you got to do is simply sign up for coin ledger and ping help at coin ledger.io with your username saying Hey, I want access to the portfolio tracker and then our team will essentially just add your username email address to an automation on our side Which will kick out an email to you saying hey, here's your access to coin ledger portfolio tracker Keep in mind it's still beta. So we're still doing that testing ironing out things But you can get access to that now just got to go sign up and ping our team saying hey I want access with your email and we'll kick that off Gotcha. And then the big question. How much is it per month? So the portfolio tracker is free. So that's going to be a completely free product People can jump in, you know, connect their wallets. Like you said, you don't actually have to connect your wall You can just paste your address. We don't need any access of oh, sorry No no ability to steal any crypto But but totally free and then, you know, we monetize a k we make money by selling tax reports So if we do a good job tracking your portfolio and you like what we're doing, maybe you'll eventually want to buy a tax report from us Which is the business model Which is the business model, although I will just tell everybody like look if you've got Five or ten transactions or even at the 50, I think, you know, I don't think you really need this I think you can do it yourself But for me and for some of the other people who have been around for quite some time This is just There's only one commodity in the entire planet that you can't buy more of and that's time I will pay for time at every single chance I get because I mean, we don't know how much time we have on this planet So I will pay for this because I don't want to Roll through a bunch of of spreadsheets and do it myself and go over this and that I just sign up First of all, there's a there's a core feature. It's free And then if you have up to a hundred transactions, it's 50 bucks Investors a hundred and me I've got more. I'm not a pro, but I'm just saying I've got a lot of different transactions It's over 3000 plus it's 200 bucks And then I just send it over to my cpa and she does all the all the heavy lifting So that is uh it in a nutshell if you guys want to try it So that's what I've been using and David, we've been doing this. What this is our third year, right? Yeah, you've been an awesome partner of ours and This is your three with working with you so You know, it's it's fun to fun to keep it rolling and keep Building new stuff. I know Aristotle play this is Rob sounds like a home shopping channel presenter I gotta tell you it's not uh too far off


The next item of business is topical questions, and at question number one I call Liam Kerr. Thank you, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to commence its deposit return scheme on 1 March 2024. Due to the 11th hour intervention by the UK Government to change the parameters of Scotland's deposit return scheme, both to remove glass from the scheme and to add significant uncertainty around essential parts of the scheme, for example the 20p deposit and the costs to producers and fees for retailers, it is clear that Scotland's deposit return scheme in the scope and form passed by this Parliament cannot go ahead as currently planned. Over the last 10 days and right now we are urgently establishing to what extent there is a way forward for a modified scheme, its scope, terms and timescales. That crucially depends on whether the UK Government can provide timely, stable and reliable assurances on basic operational matters such as trading standards, the 20p deposit and producer fees. It also depends on to what extent there is industry support for an alternative scheme. I am writing to the UK Government today to ask for an urgent discussion about those conditions. I will update Parliament at the earliest opportunity with the outcome of those actions and what that means for Scotland's deposit return scheme going forward. I am not sure that the Parliament heard an answer specifically on 1 March 2024, but in any event the minister mentioned glass. Circularity Scotland, the scheme administrator, says that they believe that the scheme is viable to launch without glass. The First Minister claims that removing glass threatens the viability of the scheme. They can't both be right, so who doesn't know what they are talking about, the First Minister or CSL? The member and certainly the Conservatives are on very sugly ground when discussing glass, given that Rishi Sunak, Alistair Jack and Douglas Ross stood on a manifesto to put in place a deposit return scheme with glass. Not only are the UK Tories undermining our scheme with glass, but it looks like they are doing the same thing to Wales as well. Glass is one of the three main materials used to make single-use drinks containers, and it counts for more than a quarter of the containers. It doesn't make the same amount of business case to run a system without glass than it is. It undermines the fundamental point of deposit return, which is the environmental and litter benefits. Even the UK Government's own analysis of deposit return schemes across the UK showed that social benefits of reduced litter, emissions saved and the economy are increased by 64 per cent when glass is included. It is England that is the outlier here by removing glass from a bottle return scheme. We have much interest. I'd be grateful for concise questions and responses. Liam Kerr. We didn't hear much in that response. I think the implication is that the minister thinks that CSL doesn't know what it's talking about in that answer on glass, but in fact that answer was instructive, because over the past week the SNP Green Coalition has gone from mess to meltdown on deposit return. It has threatened to scrap it. It has tried to pick a fight with the UK Government and it has been caught misrepresenting one of Scotland's leading drinks producers. Can the minister tell us why does she think that division and conflict will be more productive in rescuing her scheme than collaboration and co-operation? I must absolutely highlight to the member and this chamber some of the misrepresentation that we have been hearing from particularly the Secretary of State for Scotland. His accusation that glass would be used for aggregate is completely untrue and demonstrates a complete lack of understanding in how deposit return scheme operates, or indeed how our wider recycling legislation operates. The misrepresentation from Alistair Jack on the process agreed, on adhering to common frameworks, the lack of timeliness with decisions on VAT on trading standards show that the UK is not acting with good faith here to support Scotland's scheme going forward and is in fact doing everything possible to undermine it. Myself and Circularity Scotland are looking at how we can take an alternative scheme forward in Scotland because the one that this Parliament passed has been shot down by Westminster. We were looking at an alternative scheme and I will report back to Parliament as soon as I possibly can on what that alternative may be. The UK Government has shown nothing but contempt for the Scottish Parliament and using the Internal Market Act of Effectively Rewrite Devolved Laws. As Professor Aileen Macarque has alluded, there is nothing in the Internal Market Act nothing that makes Alistair Jack the arbiter of what goes forward. This should have been done through the common frameworks. As a result of the UK Government's misguided intervention on U-turn, can the cabinet secretary say how much investment from Scottish business has been lost? Hundreds of millions of pounds of investment to prepare for the launch of the deposit return scheme across a range of businesses is now at risk unless, as a result of the UK Government's 11th hour intervention in our deposit return scheme, the exact figures on investment are held by industry but published estimates suggest that retailers will invest up to £200 million and producers have invested around £100 million for the scheme. Alongside that, contractors to Circularity Scotland, such as Biffa, will have invested significant funds with some estimating this at around £80 million. The minister will be aware that sites Scotland has concerns on how blind and partially sighted people will be able to access and take part in the deposit return scheme. Just last week, sites Scotland received a letter from the minister's officials, but that failed to address the issues that they raised. Will the minister take the concerns of sites Scotland and others seriously and use the delay to the deposit return scheme to ensure that blind and partially sighted people are able to take part in the scheme? Of course, any deposit return scheme must be accessible to every single person in Scotland, and that is true no matter whether they have disabilities or other impediments to make that more of a challenge. In particular, for non-sighted people or people with difficulty with sight, the design of reverse vending machines is absolutely intended to take that into account, and the intention, if a scheme is to go forward, is to work with retailers and handlers to understand how they can best support customers who are using a manual return point. I can refer the member to the equalities assessment that was undertaken as part of the deposit return scheme legislation. Maurice Golden Thank you, Presiding Officer. Both the minister and the First Minister have reaped havoc on the deposit return scheme. So can the minister tell us today when the missing gateway review will be published? There have been a series of independent gateway reviews undertaken throughout the design of the deposit return scheme with the most recent carried out in March. The Scottish Government is considering carefully the recommendations from this review and will share those and its response with the net zero energy and transport committee soon. Gateway review teams normally speak to between 12 and 15 interviewees. For this latest review, reviewers spoke to 45 people, including CSL, a range of producers, retailers, wholesalers and hospitality representatives. Liam McArthur That is a shambles that has been used in the making. All last week and over the weekend, we heard threats from the Scottish Government that if the UK Government did not back down, then DRSs would be dead in the water. The Scottish Government appears now to have back down, so does the minister believe that that will add to the confusion and add to the loss of confidence in the proposals that the Government is trying to bring forward? The member will appreciate that the UK Government has now blocked the scheme as passed by this Parliament. The devolved powers of this Parliament were used in 2020 to legislate for a deposit return scheme. That is a scheme that included glass, a scheme that clearly set a 20 pence deposit and other guidance to industry as to how the scheme was to be interpreted. The UK Government has used the internal market act—some might say abused the internal market act—to impose changes on this devolved matter. Changes at this very late stage in development of the deposit return scheme that we now have to properly assess. Our scheme, as this Parliament passed, cannot go forward. We know that that is the case. Is there an alternative scheme that can be made from the pieces that the UK Government has left us? That is what we are rapidly assessing with business stakeholders and with Circularity Scotland. John Mason. As I understand it in Wales, Mark Drakeford is taking a very firm line and arguing that glass should be included in their scheme. Can the minister explain why Scottish Labour is being so weak on this matter? Indeed. On matters for which the minister has general responsibility? There is no answer. Minister, you can address the question to the extent that you address matters for which the Scottish Government has general responsibility. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Labour used to be a champion of devolution as an opportunity to address a democratic void in Scotland and to ensure that Scotland could strike out on its own path if the Scottish Parliament, elected by the people of Scotland, chose to do so. It is exactly what Labour in Wales is doing by designing their own DRS to include glass, because they too understand the environmental and economic benefits of doing so. Wales is at an earlier stage than we are in deposit return. It has not yet passed the regulations, and once it comes to drafting their regs and doing the detailed design, Wales will very likely face the same barriers that we are now dealing with. Brian Whittle. I ask what would the impact be on glass recycling, including non-scheme articles of rolling out separate kerbside glass collection to those councils that currently do not have the service. The member will appreciate that the substantial change to deposit return as imposed upon us by the UK Government not to include glass is something that we are doing the assessments on. We are trying to figure out whether the scheme is viable to go forward in Scotland, and that includes looking at how this impacts recycling rates. We know that kerbside recycling rates tend to only get glass up to about 63 per cent. Deposit return can get glass recycling up to 90 per cent. That is a substantial reduction in broken glass litter and a substantial reduction in carbon emissions. That is why we know that including glass is a good idea, but, of course, now that we cannot include glass in our scheme, we are going to have to undertake a detailed assessment. After the delays and grandstanding between the UK and Scottish Government, we deserve better than this to get a viable DRS scheme, both the UK and the Scottish Government should get round the table as quickly as possible, especially given that Circularity Scotland today said that the scheme could go ahead. Over the past two weeks, I have asked the minister repeatedly, has she explored all the options? The minister will be aware that, over the weekend, I wrote to her urging to meet with GS1 UK, the only company in the UK that can provide globally recognised barcodes for profit. The minister has failed to meet GS1 UK and not for profit company, who have a solution that could at least reduce the burdens on industry in delivering the scheme and that most changed the conversation on the international market exemption. Will the minister commit to exploring every solution and meet GS1 UK immediately so that we can get a scheme that works? I have reassured the member repeatedly that we have looked at every possible option for carrying forward a scheme as passed by the Scottish Parliament. We know that that is not possible due to the limited exclusion passed under the internal market act. I will be writing today to the Secretary of State to ask for an urgent meeting tomorrow to deal with the operational matters to see if we can get the UK around the table to discuss those things. I am not hopeful, given their track record, how long it took them to make a decision on VAT but they still have not made a decision on trading standards and that they changed their own minds both on glass and on whether devolved nations should be able to set their own scope very late in the day. I can also remind the member that barcodes are not part of the regulations passed by the Scottish Parliament and are therefore not part of the legislation that we can consider here. The UK, because it has different powers, may include barcodes in their scheme, but we do not know because they have not passed the regulations yet. It would not really help anything for me to discuss it with a barcode manufacturer. Can the minister confirm that she is drawing up a modified scheme without glass? Does she think that modified scheme could be up and running by March next year? The member will appreciate that removal of glass is a substantial change, and that question that he asks is what I am working through right now. The Conservatives are betraying their own commitments on DRS because they see undermining Scottish Parliament as more important. To decide whether we can go ahead with an alternate scheme without glass is a very substantial decision. The First Minister and I will be meeting with industry representatives tomorrow. I am attempting to get a meeting with the UK Government urgently to decide whether that is feasible for us to go forward. Last week, Labour's First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, criticised the UK Government for renaiging on a 2019 agreement that allowed Scotland and Wales to establish our own DRS schemes, which include glass. Westminster's Tory Government wants Wales and Scotland to wait for an English scheme, but what assurances has she had that there will actually be a DRS scheme in England? When will it be up and running, and what the rules for interoperability actually will be? The member will appreciate that I am unable to answer that question, because the UK Government has not passed its regulations. They say a day of 2025, but we have not seen any sort of critical pathway to making that decision. They haven't got a scheme administrator in place. They haven't even determined whether their deposit will be 20p to match ours. They can't even answer basic questions about interoperability. They say that we have to adhere to their rules, but they haven't written the rules yet. Will the deposit be 20p? Will the producer fees change? We cannot answer that, because the UK Government has taken away our power to do so. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the reported demonstrations in south US due to ferry withdrawal. Before moving to the very important matter of ferry services to south US, I want to acknowledge the news this morning that my colleague the former Minister for Transport has tendered his resignation from post. I want to thank him for his work. I want to wish him well and ask that he is given the space to recover from the matters that he has very bravely spoken of this morning. Moving to the substantive question and the important matters in hand, I want to acknowledge very clearly the dissatisfaction and upset that is felt. Ministers are very well aware of the strength of feeling from engagement that we have had, including from the former transport minister's recent visit to south US, and from meetings including with the south US business impact group. Technical issues with major vessels and delays to the annual overhaul programme have led to cancellations of sailings and, regrettably, communities. There are some that have been more impacted than others. Ultimately, south US evidenced this by its demonstration on Sunday. The fact that it has lost confidence in CalMac is clear to see. We have expressed our disappointment at CalMac at how the communications and engagement have been handled. I have been very clear that no stone must be left unturned in addressing the issues for the US. I have asked urgently that CalMac review the route prioritisation matrix to ensure that it reflects the socioeconomic impacts that pertain in particular to fragile communities such as south US. I also wish Kevin Stewart to speedy recovery. I say to the cabinet secretary that this is not a problem with comms, it is a problem due to the lack of ferries. The blame for the lack of ferries sits squarely at the door of her government. She must stop passing the buck because south US has lost confidence not in CalMac but in the Scottish Government. She must be concerned when she sees a third of the population of south US demonstrate their displeasure. If 200,000 local people descended on this Parliament protesting, the Scottish Government could not possibly ignore them. Businesses are going to the wall because of this Government's failure to provide ferries. Will she now compensate them? The operational matters on the running of the ferry network are for CalMac, so it is only right that I reflect that in this Parliament. However, I will not prevaricate on the point that pressure in our ferry network is as acute as it has been. Ministers empathise deeply with communities who have been affected. We understand their frustration. For our part, for what we are responsible for, we are working in the here and now to press CalMac on the prioritisation matrix, which I mentioned in Ms Grant's initial question, on communications. I understand that that is perhaps the tip of the iceberg, but it is important nonetheless for day-to-day activities and on ensuring that disruption is as minimal as possible. All the while, the Government is working to find and to procure new vessels, additional vessels for the network, with six vessels due on the network in the coming years beginning as soon as spring. On the matter that the member raises regarding compensation, those have, understandably, rightly been raised many a time with this Government. We have looked at the penalty deductions that are made in relation to failures on the network, and my view is that we should continue to use that money to reinvest in the ferry network. If I can give an example of how that is working to date, the £9 million cost of the charter of the MV Alfred, which is currently providing resilience on the route to Arran, is partly funded by performance deductions from CalMac of around £1 million to £3 million per year. I think that it is right that that money continues to be used for that purpose, because we can see how it adds resilience to the network. The cabinet secretary is well aware that CalMac cannot build ferries. The Scottish Government can build ferries, and she says that she has paid £9 million for a charter. That could have bought the boat for £9 million. Here in Edinburgh, businesses were rightly compensated due to disruption when the tram line was being built. The Government have clawed back £2.5 million last year alone from CalMac and penalties. She could create a resilience fund from that money that was clawed back to help businesses who are going to the wall right now because of her Government's incompetence. It seems to me that it is out of sight, out of mind. If it happened in Edinburgh, we would not get away with it. If it happened in the south of the United States, just forget it. I think that when I will continue to engage with communities on that and indeed press CalMac to do likewise, I think that what communities want most of all is a ferry service that is reliable for them so that they can get on with their lives without having to worry about the disruption. Disruption, which I flatly acknowledge, is causing upset and disruption, but that is why I have outlined why, with the powers and the gift of the Scottish Government noting that operational matters are for CalMac, we are doing two sets of work. One is pressing CalMac in the here and now to improve the resilience in the service, to improve communications, to test that prioritisation matrix, to make sure that it takes into account all matters that are important to islanders and, at the same time, using powers within our gift to procure and to bring vessels on to the network. For example, since re-election, the Government has bought and deployed an additional vessel in the MV Loch Frisia. We have chartered the MV Arrow to provide additional resilience and capacity. We have commissioned two new vessels for Islay and two new for the Little Mint Shrewts. That is before we speak of 801 and 802 due to being delivered from Ferguson's. I recognise the work done by Mr Stewart as minister, not least through his recent visit to South Uist. South Uist is a community that has had reason to feel that CalMac has been treating them with disdain. CalMac says that the decision to abandon ferry services to the island was essentially due to their prioritisation process, but that is a process that takes no account of the fact that it is the same route, the same community, the same businesses and the same individuals who constantly bear the brunt of disruption. It takes no account of the relative economic fragility of the place and takes no account of island circumstances. What can be done to challenge and reform this matrix, this process that is depriving South Uist of its ferry and ensure that South Uist stops being the default decision for cancellations every time there is disruption? I mentioned that the former transport minister had met the South Uist business impact group on Thursday last week. Discussions in that meeting did principally centre on some of the issues that Dr Allan has rightly narrated, including that route prioritisation matrix. To help address those issues, ministers have pressed CalMac on the need to review the current matrix to ensure that the points that Dr Allan rightly makes are part of that. I expect that to be done in consultation with the ferry community board and with community representatives with really deep consultation with them. This afternoon, we will meet CalMac for an update on the work that we have asked them to do, both on the substance of it and how they are ensuring that communities are consulted as part of the process. Donald Cameron Thank you, Presiding Officer. On behalf of those benches, I wish Kevin Stewart a swift recovery. Several small businesses from the US have contacted me calling for compensation due to lost earnings as a result of the ferry crisis, stating that regular cancellations and rerouting have resulted in cancelled bookings and a real fear for their future. I have asked the First Minister, I have asked Kevin Stewart, and I have now asked the Cabinet Secretary for the sake of those people and their livelihoods. Will she revisit the Government's position on the issue of compensation? It would be wrong of me to be, as candidates I have, about how much we understand the frustration of island communities and then to close myself off to having discussions about anything that communities would be calling for. I recommit Ministers to having conversations such as those that we had with the South US Business Impact Group, such as those that we are having with CalMac, but I reiterate that, which I said in a previous point on compensation, that I do believe that what islanders want most of all is for the Scottish Government and for CalMac to focus on improving the service in the here and now and for the future, so that reliability on that service is not something that communities have to worry about on a daily basis. I have narrated already how some of the penalty deductions that are made from CalMac are utilised to provide that very resilience that everyone so much desires, and I believe that that is the right way to continue to address the issue of financing improvements, albeit that I am listening to everyone with a view on this matter. Thank you. That concludes topical questions.


What's up everybody, Jason here with JasperysCaseBrakes.com. Happy new release day. It is 2020 Panini Certified Football Release Day. This is a 12 box case break. Pick your teams number one, actually. What was I looking at? Pick your teams number one. We're also giving away a certified box, $300 certified box. I think we have a little cheaper on our website, but I think everywhere around here, online and in-store, a lot of them are at $300, but we have a pretty solid price if you want to do crystals, but value around $300. So if you buy two or more teams, you get entered to win. So again, in this break, you buy two teams. You get one entry into that giveaway. You buy four teams. You get two entries. You buy six teams. You get three entries, et cetera, et cetera. We'll ship you the box sealed. And again, we'll randomize the customer names and alphabetize them and see who gets into that randomizer whoever has two or more teams. So there you go. And this is a 12 box case break. Just want to show you guys the list of customer names I bought in. Ron got the last one. We'll do the Packers as well as the Eagles. And the case is a huge 24 box master case. I don't know if you guys can see it behind me. So I'm going to open it up over here just cause it's pretty decent size case. And we'll choose left or right as well. You guys can see the case right here. 24 boxes. Let's open it up. Inside of the case, this will be the right side of the case. One, two, three, four, five, six.  Right here. Four. So it'd be one, two, three, four, five, six, the right side. Next case will be for the next pick of teams. What's up Chris? You got here just in time? That's right, you did. You did, you did. Yeah, I would have gone on earlier actually. But usually depending on how the shipping situation is of course, sometimes we get the releases a day before. So you'll notice that if the product is here, almost likely go on much earlier than usual, like around nine or 10 in the morning. But if it doesn't get here the day before then, kind of no reason for me to go on unless there's a product already sold out. So I usually just go on around 11 cause that's kind of like the usual time when our UPS driver gets here. But luckily I was about to go on at 11 and it actually got here right on time. I was like, cool, sweet. So yeah, I was able to come on early today. But yeah, from now on guys, I mean, every new release that comes out Wednesday or Friday, I'll be coming on early. So my days are usually Friday, Saturday, but I actually just moved closer over here to the area, to the beach area. So I'm like about six miles from here. So easy for me to pop in on a Friday, even a Saturday if needed. I can't break for a couple hours. Finally don't have to do that. 35 mile one-way drive, 75, 70 mile round trip. What's up, Ron? I know, man, I got you some Iggles.  But I got you, man. Jeremy Chin, number 299. Majestic Rookies T. Higgins. Nick Chubb, number to 450. Also, guys, let me check really quick. No veteran commentship, so. It's just like a veteran comment like this, that won't ship, but all the other inserts and all that will ship. LaMichael P. Ryan, little relic there for the Jets going to Chris. And Derek Brown, autograph to start us off to 199. Little 2020 CD lamb, he's actually really cool. Miles Sanders, Nate Stanley, out of 99. Little Marquise Brown. And, well, there you go, Ron.  There you go, very nice. And Jerry Judy, relic for the Denver Broncos. That's nice as well. What's up, Dan, how's it going, man? Kyle, yes, this is case numero uno. So case number one, little Jonathan Taylor, 2020. Yeah, I just, they just don't, well, certified's kind of like that. They just don't, they didn't get a lot of photography this year. That's the problem. This year was a little bit different. And if they did get this, this is all cropped in. There's no way that this guy was already like that. It's just all used to filters and stuff. And now thinking about it, they were so lucky that they were able to still able to do the scouting combine. That's right before COVID just hit in March. It's like right at the end of February, I remember that. So they were lucky that Tim would get photography for that, at least, because if not, they'd literally be in their college like uniform just fully. As soon as we pass some of these other products here, it's just gonna be all pro-uniform eventually. And I'm pretty sure right now, Panini and just NFL in general is just taking photos like crazy of them training, even if it's in their practice jersey, but at least training in their pro-NFO jerseys. Because it's a little different here, guys. We would have went to the Panini rookie photo shoot in LA like we always do every year. And they would have took a lot of great photos there. But since they had to cancel it, this year was kind of tough. Who is this? Ben Denucchi. Our Denucchi. What do we have to do with that? We got Karrion Johnson. We got here, out of 75, Dan and Jones. Little John Taylor 2020. That David Tyree? Come on, David Tyree. I think we talked about this. Look at that autograph. Come on, man. We understand you made that amazing catch in the Super Bowl. But come on. All right, New York Giants going to foul. AJ Dillon, little patch to 2.99 for the Green Bay Packers. That's double last bomb. Oh, they're going for Ron. Yeah, if you guys want to get case two going, I'm down to do the second case as well. Christian Fulton. What's up, Tyler? How's it going, man? Chris Godwin. And Deshaun Jackson, little patch to 1.49. Man, I've been seeing some crazy connection between him and Wentz, as long as he doesn't tear his abdomen again. Collide to Edward Hilaire. Look at that, to 1.99, little two-color patch. Some good autographs to start off, guys. Kansas City Chiefs, that's going to rhyme. So far, the certifiers look pretty sharp, guys. Yeah, the 2020 design cards have a really, really nice design to it now. Nice feel as well, right? It's like some Joker type of colors right there. Andrew Thomas, look at that, little Tom Brady. Stars. Sony Michelle, to 1.99. And Cole McDonnell had a phone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tennessee Titans, T. Higgins. And a nice three-color patch for the Raiders. That's Brian Edwards. You got Tonya Gandhi-Golden and that Raiders patch auto was for David. Derek Brown, Darren T. Nevins. Little Jaylen Hertz, 2020. And Justin Jefferson for the Minnesota Vikings, what a conner. All right, next one. So find two autographs and two memorabilia cards per box on average. T. Higgins, Lugarner-Minshew. Little pro duck right here. Justin Herbert, ooh, this 2020 Justin Herbert is a beautiful looking card. I need that. Who has a charger? It's Joseph. Let me know if you're selling that. It looks really nice. Tyler Johnson, wow. One, two, three, four, five-color patch and autograph out of 349. Let's go into Michael Blunt. That is, can you even see the name for it? Detroit Lions, though. Jason Huntley. Let's go into Aaron. What's up, Aaron? Nice smell. Let's get you some Akuta CD Lamb Relic for the Cowboys. Let's go into Jeremy. And a one out of five for the Patriots. There you go. Asiasi, Keeshaan Vaughn, and Chase Claypool. Another 25 little patch. All right, next box, guys. We've got KJ Hamler. And I just feel like this guy's just gonna blow up for the Denver Broncos. Little Tua Tagvaloa. Little Marquise Brown to 450. You want some Jordan Love, no? Brown? Let's do it, man. Let's do it. Another Derrick Brown autograph to 199. Carolina Panthers, it's going to Derrick. Derrick Henry, nice little patch there, number to 50. One off to Jersey, number 23 out of 50. Cole Kmet, to 199. Jacob Eason. Eagles, it's going to John Hightower and Eagles. Or sorry, this is John Hightower. It's going to Ron and the Eagles. Chris Long, Patriots edition number 75. All right, what do we got? What's the patch auto? And it's Denver Broncos, Jerry Judy. Little three-color patch to 149. Denver Broncos, that's going to Rick. All right, you guys, next box. We are halfway through after this box here. So we still have half the case room. This is a full 12 box case break. And again, we have these available for personals as well. Later on with Teddy in about two hours on jaspies.com. Live on Jaspies Breaks on Instagram. Amy McFarlane, Chris Godowens, Ceele of Approogle. LaVisca, Dante Johnson, to 99. True Juice Miss Schuster patch to 50. Collin Johnson, Little Rages, 14 out of 99. Aaron Jones, Relic, another Herbert, 20-20. And Justin Jefferson, to 225. There you go. Minnesota Vikings going to Connor. All right, next one, guys. Russell Wilson, Ross Blacklock, Houston, Texas. You got Van Jefferson for the Rams. Little John and Taylor, 20-20. Byron Jones. And a C.D. Lamb autograph, 15 out of 50. Rookie Roll Call. Very nice. There you go, Jeremy. Whoa. Joey B, thought that was a patch out of there for a second. Little Joe Burrow, just a patch tray with the bangers. Same. So I was like, ugh. I was the same way. I was like, damn. The patch still has to be right here, patch auto at least. And it's Tyler Johnson. Another one, two, three, four, five-color patch and autograph to 4.99. Next box, John and Taylor. Denil Hunter, to 75. Joshua Kelly, oh, that's the patch auto. It's a 4.99. One, two, three, four-color patch for the Chargers. Marquis Brown, K.J. Hamler. Josh Jacobs, to 2.99. Are we gonna get two patch autographs in this box? I feel like that one should have just been a relic. Lewisco, 20-20. No, it's just a relic. Tyler Johnson, which just flipped around this time around. You're not in Bryce Harper. Josh Jacobs, Chris. I don't know, he could explode. In my heart, it's gonna be Miles Sanders. But I know Christian McCaffrey will probably be up there and other running backs. For the Patriots, we have an autograph here. Oh, another Joe Borrellic. Marlon Davidson, Cam Akers. Brandon Ayuk, number to 50.  That's a Jersey number, 11 out of 50. Little eBay one-of-one. Who has a 49ers? I does. Antonio Gibson. Jared Judy. Clyde Edwards-Hilaire. Freshman Fabrics, a little two-pillar patch in auto. Yeah, I don't think he has a hamstring injured, to be honest, Kyle. I just, I think that the Eagles just probably listed him as a day-to-day hamstring issue because I think he's ready to roll. I don't know if you could just give someone a day off without like, or multiple days off without specifically saying he's injured. I think he's ready to roll. I just don't think they wanna use him in practice anymore. Chase Claypool. Well, we did our fantasy lottery last night here at Jaspeas and ended up coming in third, which I'm kind of mad that I came in third because I feel like I know I'm gonna be able to get Sanders and I'm a big homer and I just really feel like he's just gonna explode this year. Obviously, if healthy, I think that's anybody's, anybody's, anybody could explode obviously if they're good enough and if they're healthy enough, but like, I don't know. I feel like I have way better options now, but I'm afraid that if I pass them up on third, I won't be able to get them later in the draft. Cause not only am I an Eagles fan, Nick Jaspeas an Eagles fan, Boston Mike's an Eagles fan. I was just like, one of those guys is gonna take them if I don't take them. And we just do a straight up PPR. So I'm just like, I probably have way better options, but I just, I don't wanna pass them up just cause I like to get at least one or two Eagles players on my fantasy every year. I don't care. And I feel like this year I definitely need to have him. Cause I know Christian McCaffrey is going first, Teddy got Christian McCaffrey on mine. I know he's getting him. I don't know what Sean's gonna do. He's probably gonna get the best available too. And it's me and then Joe. And then I think Nick is like number 11 or something. Nick's like, let's swap. I was like, I'm down to swap, but I'm afraid you're dancing to get him like an eight or something. Austin Davis. Taysome Hill, number to 75 for the Saints and Denzel Mims, it's 249. Call it. I guess I won. It's just a single color patch. I want to say I can squeeze in some green right there, but I can't really tell. Jets, Jets, Jets, going to Chris. DJ Moore out of 50. Kenneth Murray. Stud, Stud Limebacker. Delvin Cook, patch to 2.99. Melvin Gordon. Devin DuVernay. All right, two more boxes guys. And again, I'm here to about one ish. Usually Joe gets here around one, one 15 if anything. So call it a solid hour after I'm done with this to either potentially get another certified in to get potentially maybe a different break in. We're down to eight left on the Chronicles two box fat pack break. Team all still at three left. And if you get the thinking of another certified, certified still at 11. But again, stuff has been pretty strong, pretty solid stuff. And not a bad box price at the moment. It's true. That's what you're going to get with Delvin Cook, right? Especially fantasy wise. He's either just going to tear it up and be one of the best fantasy players in the league and or might have a serious injury and be out most of the year. Tyler Johnson. David DeCastro out of 50. For the Steelers, it's going to raw, or sorry, on Michael Olychee. And the Michael P. Ryan, the 249. Tyler Johnson, 189. Jordan Brooks. Devin McCordy. Little Patriots, fabrics of the game. We got a little gold. 69 to 25, Matthew Stafford. To a tug of the law. Another Michael P. Ryan. Relic. There you go, Chris. Stocking up on your jets. Stock, stock, stocking up. Last box, guys. So yeah, this break tip in about like 39 minutes. Call it like 40. After I'm done with the video and the wrist cap, maybe 42. All right, good luck, guys. Last box, Mojo. DuVernay. Chris Godwin. Cole McDonald. Out of 50 rookie signatures. That's a thick-looking car. Titans with that one. Little Jordan Love 2020 for the Packers. And Zach Moss. Little four-color packs to 249. Bills. Chris, there you go. Challenge Jones. LaVancheson. Debo Samuel, fabrics of the game. DJ Moore. And Jerry Judy. Zach Moss to 25. Another four-color patch. There you go. And there you go, guys. That was the break. This was certified football to 12 box full case break. Picker team's number one on our website, jaspeascasebreaks.com. Again, I'll do a little hit recap for you guys. So a lot of numbered cards coming out in here. And the 2020 cards being pennies-leaved. Right. Very nice stuff here. So there you go. All this will be top-loader for you guys. And let me separate. So we're at these relics with the patch autos and stuff. And then we'll recap this really quick. Still says processing, man. Wait, no, this says it's follow-up. Yeah, it's still processing, man. I don't know why it's taking this long. Usually it's uploaded by now. Sorry, man. I don't know why I forgot yesterday. But it's still processing, man. I don't know what's taking a little too long. Sorry, man. Hopefully soon. I know sometimes with these hour-long videos, it takes a little longer than usual. But I do have a hit recap video at the end, Jason. So unless you want to watch the whole video, you can. I usually do the hit recaps at the end of the video, so you can just skim through it, but sorry, man. It's the first time in a while I forgot to upload a video. It should be up there soon, man, sorry. If for some reason in the next hour, it still doesn't upload, I'll delete it and re-upload it again if I need to. But it should be uploaded soon. It's already been an hour, so. All right, guys. Just quickly just top-loading these autos and then we'll go a little recap here at the end. Does it really? Oh, we'll give it a shot, Jason. Maybe for some reason you just can't see it, but with the link, maybe it does work. Here, let me drop it again. If it works, great. If it doesn't, then I think it's still processing. Plus, we record at a pretty high quality, so I'm assuming that the video quality is probably not gonna be the best, because it looks right there. It says video quality, it's just SD right now, so it's probably not the HD 1080 or 720, whatever we use. All right, cool, guys. I just wanted to top-load all this stuff. So a little recap again, just top-load of this, just because it's a little jersey number, 11 out of 50 here for Brandon and Iuk in the 49ers. Here's all the relics that we got out of here, guys. So, Devin McCordy, we got Evo Samuel. Omagopyrin, DuVernay, we got Antonio Gibson, Tyler Johnson, Josh Jacobs, little Joe Burrell, to $199, another Joe Burrell relic there. C.D. Lamb, DeSean Jackson, we got Chris Long, Derek Henry, a gold, Chase Claypole, Justin Jefferson, Derek Henry, A.J. Dillon, we got Jerry Judy, Juju Smith Schuster, and P. Ryan again. And then here were the autographs, some patch autographs that we got out of here. So we got Cole McDonald, 250 Auto, C.D. Lamb, we got David Tyree, David DeCastro, Tyson Hill, Josh Yu there for the Patriots, Dino Hunter, Yonte Johnson, Derek Brown, Kyle Long, Cole McDonald again. One of the bigger RPAs we got out of here we got a 225 was Jaylen Hertz, Clyde Edwards-Hallaire, we got ourselves a Brian Edwards, got a nice five color, Tyler Johnson, Jerry Judy, Justin Jefferson, another Tyler Johnson, Joshua Kelly, Clyde Edwards-Hallaire, we got Denzel Mims, little Michael P. Ryan, Zach Moss, and a nice little relic here of Zach Moss 25. So there you go guys, that was a little recap of certified football 12 box case break picketing number one on our website. We have another case in the store. Check it out guys, jaspyscasebreaks.com. So down to eight left, if we can fill that up guys, I'll break that right now. And then of course, other breaks are really close to filling as well. So appreciate it guys.


So, my name is Lance, I'm the current Keystone PTL, and I'm joined by Colleen Murphy, she's the newest addition to our Keystone core team, and today we're here to talk to you about the Pyke project update. So quick outline, we're going to give a brief introduction into what OpenStack identity is, and kind of what roles it fills within OpenStack deployments. And then we're going to go into what we accomplished in Okada, what we want to achieve in Pyke, and then look down the road to the next couple of releases. And then we should have plenty of time for questions at the end, so feel free to use a microphone, but we'll have plenty of time, so if you have feedback or questions, we'll take those at the end. So now I'll hand it off to Colleen for a brief intro. Okay, so if you're new to OpenStack, you're not sure what we're actually talking about when we say OpenStack Identity, we'll go over that really quickly. So the Keystone project is the shared service for authentication, authorization, and auditing. So it's the project that's responsible for users, faking sure users are who they say they are, that they have permissions to do what they want to do, and for leaving an audit trail for security managers to review. It supplies identity information to end users and services, so it implements that off-layer that so other projects don't have to deal with that. And it acts as a broker between OpenStack and other identity services, so whether that's your LDAP directory or a federated single sign-on service, it can translate users and those external services into users that can use OpenStack. And as of the last user survey, it had a 98% adoption rate, meaning it is possible to deploy an OpenStack cloud without Keystone, but you really wouldn't find it very much in the wild. So now I'll go into what we accomplished in the last cycle. So one of the big things that we got done in this cycle was easing the burden of long-running operations. So for a long time, operators had the problem of needing to run some sort of long-running operation that involves service-to-service communication. And in the middle of the operation, the token might expire and that would cause the whole job to interrupt. And people were working around this by increasing the lifetime of tokens, but that didn't always work, and it's just also inherently less secure. So what we've done to help ease this problem is we're allowing services to present users just expired tokens to other services in conjunction with a special service token. And that way, if a user starts a job with a valid token, they can finish the job with the same token. One of the major changes that came in this cycle was making the Furnet token format the default format. So the traditional UUID tokens were at random strings stored in a database. They were validated by just reading from the database. The Furnet token format was introduced in Kilo and it's a non-persistent format, so there's no interaction with the database. There's no need to replicate across clusters, and that helps improve scalability. It lowers your database traffic, so you're not putting so much load on your database servers. And it's just easier database management, because you don't have to clear out these token tables anymore. And we were concerned about changing the format to this improved token type, because it does require a little extra setup. And we didn't want to surprise operators with this. But at the Austin Summit, we got positive feedback that when operators plan upgrades, they plan them very carefully. They read all of the release notes and config management helps take care of all these problems. So we got the positive feedback that this was going to be a net positive for everybody changing this default. And a lot of the work that we did making Furnet, making it ready to be the default token provider, it forced us to really think more carefully about how we're dealing with tokens. And that allowed us to make smarter use of token revocation by cleaning up how we were simplifying how we were validating tokens that allowed us to clean up a lot of these unnecessary revocation events and help reduce the flood of notifications. Another thing is we improved the usability of our PCI DSS feature. So in previous cycles, we'd enabled account controls to help satisfy PCI data security standards. And this cycle we built on that by making it easier to use. So we created an API for password complexity requirements. So it makes it easy for tools like Horizon to query and display password requirements and also to do some client side validation if they want to. We created an API that enables tooling for admins to query for users with expired passwords or passwords that are about to expire so they can help notify users that's happening. And we enhanced PCI related notifications by adding reasons for the notifications. So for example, if a user is locked out of their account because they've had too many failed authentication attempts, the reason for that happening is more obvious than the admin can notify the user of what's going on. And there's gonna be a talk on Thursday at 4.10 in room 311. It's gonna be all about this PCI DSS feature. So if you're interested in that, if you need that for your corporation, that's gonna be really informative for you. All right, another thing, we enabled multi-factor authentication. So we now have the ability to enhance user account security by requiring on a per user basis multiple authentication mechanisms. So for example, requiring both a password and a time-based one-time passcode. And we sort of avoided adding this for a while. We were punting the responsibility off to federated identity services. But we've got feedback that users really wanted this for native Keystone users. So that's something we were able to accomplish in this cycle. Federated auto provisioning. So what that means is there used to be no real straightforward way of assigning federated users roles and projects. We were able to do it via groups and some people had some hacks to sort of pre-populate the database with IDs from federated users before the federated user had logged in. But we've now enhanced our mapping rules to actually make it a first-class feature to link federated users to projects before they've had to log in. Even dynamically create projects if we need to. And the last thing here is we've made the V3 API the default in our integration gate testing. So the V3 API is the domain aware API. And this has been sort of a long time coming because all these, all the OpenStack projects have for a long time made these sort of hard coded assumptions about the old API. So we finally sort of chased all those down and resolved those. And having this while gate tested it is gonna help ensure stability of this API and get us further down the road of deprecating the old V2 API. And so with that, I'm gonna hand it back off to Lance who can talk about what's gonna come up in the future cycles. Cool, so now that we know what we've talked about in Elcada, let's focus on what we're working on in Pyke. One of the first things that we did as Pyke development opened was move all of our default policies into code and registers those in code. As a result, we're also documenting them better. We understand that there's a lot of issues with policy and there's gonna be a long road to fixing that. We're making progress on it, but what this does today is that it makes it easier for operators to maintain their policies and not have to keep duplicated our default policies in their files. They can trim those down and they can run with only the overrides that they absolutely need. I'll kind of touch on how that sets us up for some future policy work that we're gonna be looking forward to in the next couple releases. If you were in the PTG in Atlanta, we had a lot of good discussion around quotas. And it all kind of boiled up to a unified limits implementation. Since Keystone is the thing that knows about projects, it makes sense to associate the limits to those projects in Keystone. And so what that's gonna set projects up for or services up for later on is consuming that limit information to make consistent quota usage across OpenStack. We've had a lot of really good discussion about it. We're in the progress of proposing a spec and getting that implementation fleshed out for Keystone. And that's something we're gonna be targeting for this release. Another thing that we want to do with projects is add the concept of tags. So if you've used Nova or Neutron and used resource tags, you're gonna be doing that same thing with projects. We're only targeting the project's resource initially, but it's a very big use case. We've had it come up several times. So we'll be doing that in bite. Federation integration testing is a big one. The last couple releases we've been working on getting the plumbing in place to do integration testing, that's there. And so now we really need to increase that test coverage, make that better. And going hand in hand with that, Keystone has supported rolling up grades since Newton. The last thing that we really need to do to assert that tag is to get it tested in the gate. The good news for us is that OpenStack Ansible and some of the other communities in OpenStack have done a lot of great work to get that integrated into their gate already. So we can reuse a lot of that code to get every patch that's proposed to Keystone tested in a rolling upgrade fashion using containers. Which is, that's really exciting. Like we can stop breakages before they happen or before they merge. So that's a big accomplishment that we're gonna be looking forward to in bike. So let's look ahead to the next couple releases. Something that we need to do is provide some sort of standardized default rules and we can't do this as just Keystone. It's not just a Keystone project. We need to talk about this across OpenStack services and really come together and start solving it as a cross project initiative. And a lot of the other projects are really starting to see that. And that's going to be a great thing to eventually get out the door. OpenStack's made a lot of evolution in the last five years. The policy that we use hasn't. So that's gonna be kind of a really good thing to have. And along that same vein, we want to improve policy security. So if you know the admins issue that we have, you're either giving up all the keys to the kingdom. Adam's sitting right over there. 968696, 968696, yeah. You're either giving up all the keys to the castle or you're not giving users enough delegation to do the things that they need. And I would argue that both of those violate the principle of least privilege. So we need to fix that. And I think our first step is defining what that end state for policy looks like in five years, in two years, right? And share that with other projects so that we can start bite-sized increments to make that thing happen. We've had a lot of good progress on it. So we've dedicated meeting time every week to just talking about issues with policy. So that's gonna be something that we're really looking forward to in Queens and Rocky. And we also have a talk on a proof of concept that Adam is working on. So catch that tomorrow at 430, it's in room 311. Yep, so if you wanna see it, if you wanna give feedback, we'd love to hear it. Go check it out. Another thing that I kind of touched on with the pike release is hierarchal limits and quotas. This is really gonna set things up for services to consume this information in a new release or two and really smooth out a lot of the quota usage across to OpenStack. Which is another big problem that's OpenStack-wide that we can focus on and kind of help enable other projects to make it better. And so my shameless plug to John Maxwell. If you're familiar with his stuff or if you're familiar with 101% principle, I found it that really applies to what we're seeing with quota and what we're seeing with policy. As the OpenStack services or as these project development teams are noticing these problems, we're coming together. We're finding common ground on things that we agree on and we're dedicating effort to those things. We're not focusing on the conflict and it's really paid off in the last release or two. Because we're making some good progress on things that have been issues in OpenStack for the last five years. And for me that's really exciting. That's gonna be a lot of fun to continue doing in the next couple releases and I'm looking forward to that. One other thing that we talked about in Atlanta was API keys. With all the federation work that we've been doing, we've been, right? We've been doing a good job of trying to isolate the authentication from the identity, right? And so as we kind of took a step back in Atlanta and looked at all that, we saw a really good seam to natively support API keys. Which is gonna give people more security. You don't have to have passwords in config files and all that kind of stuff. There's a bunch of really good benefits of it. We have a spec proposed. I don't think it's going to be making it into Pyke, but we certainly have it staged for a subsequent release. In addition to that, one of the good federation use cases is native SAML support. We have a proof of concept up for this. We had one of our developers do a bunch of great work with SAML. He understood it, put together a great proof of concept. And so that's something that we want to incorporate in a subsequent release as well and where this really makes sense is if you are, if you have a customer and you give them a domain and you want to give them domain admin and you want them to manage their own identity providers. They have different sources of their identities for their employees and you want them to come in via different ways. They don't have to ask the cloud admin to go re-roll Apache configurations in order to make that happen anymore. Instead, they can do it over the API, which is just going to be another alternative to the Apache stuff. Like if you're using Apache to do federation today, I think that's another useful thing that we can give operators as another tool for their federation toolbox. In addition to that, with the concept of API keys, I kind of talked about isolating authentication from identities. So with OpenStack deployments today, it's becoming more possible to authenticate via federation, authenticate via LDAP. And maybe you have a local user in your SQL database. We want to try and find a way to link those accounts so that you can come in through different methods of authentication and still be tied back to the same resources. That way you're not duplicating your identities. And as always, continuous integration testing. That's important to us, like performance stability. Like those things are key tenants that we need to be focused on as an off project. So building that out now that we have a good framework in place is paramount and that's going to be a recurring theme as we keep moving forward. So with that, we have time for questions. If you have any questions, feel free to use the microphone. Otherwise, we can repeat them. Native SAML stuff, and you mentioned that they have a customer and you give them a domain. But I'd argue that it's not just for customers if you're someone kind of a provider. I mean, for us, we want to do that just with our own internal users and projects. And especially when we get API keys, they need to be able to manage that themselves. Absolutely. That's a great point. It's not just useful to domain admins or people that you're delegating that responsibility to. It's a much easier method of operation for operators to.  Just on the changes that went into Ocata around the Federation stuff, on the mappings. So now with the final stuff, in my testing up, I notice that the IDPs have to be unique per domain. Actually, unique in the whole service, essentially. It's not just unique per domain. It's in a way that that can be worked around in some way so that we can still use domains, still use Federation, but just have a single Apache config. OK. Well, we had to associate domains to an IDP in order to make that something that could happen. But I'm super interested to hear your use case for that. We'll just have multiple domains and everybody using the same IDP, essentially. OK. Yeah, that would be something that I would like to sit down and work through that a little bit more. If you could say something to people that are looking to contribute, what would it be? Well, we have our project onboarding session tomorrow. I think it starts at 11. Upstairs, I forget the room. But come to that. I'll be there. So that'd be great. And we need contributors. Like we have a bunch of really cool work staged. And we need the hands to do it. So feel free to come stop by our IRC channel. We're always willing to help and get new people involved. Awesome. Thank you.


Hello everyone welcome to another video. I just wanted to make this video to say thank you so much to everyone who got behind me and shared the recent video that I made inside a pig slaughterhouse. It was a very disturbing experience, very hard video to make, very hard video to cut together. Took me a long time and I appreciate everyone getting behind me and sharing it around and it's actually, even though it was censored, it's actually doing very well views wise considering what's been happening lately on my channel. So thank you so much. We can really, when we get together we can really get the message out there. Now I've just arrived back to London here. I've set up my office. I'm ready to put out some content. Now recently in Australia there was a big piece that was aired on the largest Primetime news channel in Australia. Now I want to respond to this piece. I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to respond to it. I haven't watched it but I can only guess how bias it really is just judging by the trailer. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to leave the video linked below this one. Thank you so much to everyone who shared it with those who need to see it. It's very powerful footage, very, very powerful footage. I mean this is what people would say is quote unquote a Schumann slaughterhouse. I mean they're stunned really quickly. They're stuck in the throat. All standard practice. The guys knew we were in there filming so they were you know doing it by the book. Still horrific. I'll leave that video linked down below. I've got a lot of content for you guys to come. I just wanted to really thank everyone, every single one of you who's got behind me and supported me. All of my Patreons. This is just another leg of the journey for me. I'm really not slowing down. I mean I have my peaks in my valleys but I'm going to consistently go as hard as I can and really see this through. So thanks again guys. We've got a really good community here on YouTube. I love my YouTube family. I love my Instagram family, my Facebook family, everyone. I just love the vegan family you know. We all just come together and beautiful. So many compassionate human beings out there. So yeah just a video to say thank you guys and we'll be doing some responding to this TV program thing soon. I'm not sure how I'm going to do it just yet but I've got to watch it and we'll see how we go. Thanks a lot everyone. Thanks for sticking by me. Thanks so much for sharing the video. It's linked down below. Share it around and I'm just really excited right now to get some videos done and get some content out there and get make and impact. All right let's do it. I'm pretty bad inside of there and they go oh no. No you don't. You don't know to you see it. Then you know. Slaughterhouse footage doesn't lie. It's very honest. There it is. Right there.


So unless you're living under a rock that I'm sure by now you've heard that Kanye West will indeed be running for president And he made his announcement on July 4th So there's a lot to say about that But I'm not gonna get into that in this video because I think that that deserves its own separate segment But what I do want to talk about with regard to the Kanye story is the response to Kanye West's announcement namely from actress Deborah Messing And in fact, I'm not entirely sure that she's an actress She might she might be a singer or both maybe either way doesn't matter her response was it was problematic to say the least So in response to Kanye West's announcement, she tweeted out. He's playing Jill Stein. He's trying to take young black voters from Joe Biden It's disgusting. Yeah, that's gonna be a big yikes from me. What's disgusting is this tweet because what is the implication of this tweet? It's insulting.   At least that's the subtext here So what you saying is Unacceptable, right? It's racist. Why would you also assume that just because he's a rapper Young black voters would be inclined to support him even if they don't know what his policy positions are But I mean anything that I've heard from Kanye West with regard to political rhetoric I mean, he would probably appeal more to older white evangelicals So I hate what you saying here because it really over oversimplifies politics and it's just intellectually lazy It'd be as if Pete Buttigieg announced that he's running for president under some third-party run And she'd be mad because all of the LGBTQ plus voters will all of a sudden gravitate towards Pete Buttigieg When you know for me as someone from the LGBTQ community I would find that deeply insulting because we're more complex than that We actually value substance and obviously the same is true for young black voters So for her to say this, I mean it's just a bad take and obviously she was called out for it So Nina Turner responded saying you just can't stop dipping.  One black voters are not owned by anyone our vote should be earned every election cycle Two we can think for ourselves and don't need your help Three sometimes it's best to stay out of family business Tesla and Figaro tweeted Deborah messing assumes black voters will vote for Kanye West because he is black shakes my head The level of disrespect is high with this one to which killer Mike responded saying to that She thinks we are trained dogs sis and Nina Turner shared a quote from an author Which really speaks to a bigger issue here There's this double standard because when it comes to white swing voters You see at least the last two Democratic Party nominees craft their entire platform around appealing to those people But they make no effort to reach out to black voters right or the left in general But when we're talking about black voters, you know, they don't have to meet black voters and earn their votes Black voters have to follow through and be there for the politicians, which is never acceptable So this is the quote from the author Candy J shared by Nina Turner Which reads while white swing voters are largely treated like political free agents who must be persuaded to vote for candidates They like Ibram candy discerns on the Atlantic that people of color and young people are treated like political cattle Who must be whipped into shape to turn out for candidates? They often don't like candidates and campaigns routinely change their profile to better attract the white swing voter But people of color and young people usually find that the change has come at their expense as candy astutely sees it Young black voters are encouraged to vote while white swing voters are encouraged to vote for candidates Now Nina Turner responded to this quote saying this right here hits the nail on the head We must project the notion that black voters or voters of color. Oh folks a vote our votes must be earned Are we free agents or not inquiring minds want to know and that's exactly right now? Debra Messing is the exact kind of liberal who Probably has read Robin D'Angelo's white fragility and if she has indeed read that book like I'm assuming she has most liberals have Then what is one of the core points of that book? I mean the title is white fragility It's getting white people to not instinctively overreact and be insulted when somebody points out their racism and rather than trying to you know Be defensive and say no, I'm not being racist What you should do is listen to Voices from people of color and try to learn and grow from their experience and let them educate you But what does Debra Messing do in response? She doubled down and she made matters exponentially Worse for herself because she responded to all of the backlash Saying oh, please Nina Kanye is an avowed Trump supporter Trump's numbers have plummeted Trump doubles down on his racist platform at Mount Rushmore and 100 days before election Kanye is going to announce now I thought you were smarter than that Nina Clearly it is an attempt to help Trump buy it and swap the African-American vote in the South Kanye has millions of young African-American fans It's not racist to say that Kanye can take Biden-leaning voters from him It's numbers Statistics if you want to use this to grab your spotlight by all means if you really care about the African-American community Having their vote counted. I'll have Stacey Abrams call you when I speak with her this week So hold on. Let's just reverse for a moment Debra Messing just said I'm going to have Stacey Abrams scold you and educate you on this issue Are you serious?  Oh my god The audacity of Debra Messing someone with an estimated net worth of 25 million dollars Trying to rich-splain and white-splain the issue of black voters to Nina Turner One of the most influential black leaders in America. I mean the goal on her This is what money does to you, right?   You're just dense.    Yet you continue to insult black voters Further since you are into numbers and statistics Over 40 percent of young black voters prefer progressive policies over popularity My original reply to you was not about Kanye and his intentions to run for president But about you minimizing black people's power at the polls Lastly, don't you ever fix your mouth to question my love for my people? I have been a black woman all my life and finally she ends with a gif of her saying hello somebody.  She came up with a bad tag. She doubled down She got demolished and that's the end of the story Nope, we're not done because she kept digging believe it or not. Let me repeat that She kept digging and she tripled down. She tweeted out Oh Nina Nina Nina Turner your historical bitterness that Bernie lost the primary by four million votes has skewed your reading comprehension I said the kanye stunt was trying to help trump whose numbers with african-american voters are abysmal fact not racism By using his fame to take young african-american votes away from biden whose numbers with african-american southern voters were astronomical another fact Sorry, I know they're inconvenient. I never said that black voters were a monolith.  Let's think sorry, Nina I'm not going to stand by and let you write a narrative that doesn't exist I'm incensed that you would suggest that I'm trying to divide two black women You accused me of having no respect for black voters. It is laughable I reference stacey who is an inspired leader whose governorship was stolen through voter suppression and is spearheading an effort To ensure african-american people aren't disenfranchised Would I be following slash supporting slash led by stacey if I was this racist minimizer? You slanderously paint me to be the answer is obviously no. It's laughable. Let me just pause She's literally using the I have a black friend card Wow Nina there are so much more important things going on that i'm going to now focus on I am not interested in supporting this bit of drama you have constructed just a reminder Trump is a white supremacist who is doing nothing as we reach 130 000 deaths by covet 40 million unemployed It has done nothing to protect our soldiers from being assassinated for 100 k by putin to name a few catastrophes coming out of this administration I sure hope you have learned from 2016 and will put our country and the safety of her most marginalized first this time So you're explaining all of this to nina turner as if she doesn't know the threat that trump poses And notice how she's kind of walking back her original statement Oh, I never said that just the black voters would fall for uh kanye west and vote for him Except what was that tweet again? She says and I quote he's playing jill stein He's trying to take young black voters from biden. We saw the tweet You don't get to do revisionist history What do we can literally go back a couple of days on your timeline and see what you wrote?   I don't agree with for black women I like I use the black friend card and demand that they go check another black woman Moreover, I don't respect the agency of black people, which is why I am very comfortable ascribing my beliefs onto black people Especially if they do not act accordingly I am that white liberal that congresswoman shirley chism Malcolm x and reverend dr. Martin Luther king warned about and the sad part is I don't even know it My lack of awareness is linked to my white privilege and neoliberal cloak Confession is so good for the soul.  You are like most neoliberals who believe the status quo is okay and that all the suffering in the world started in 2016 You lack the courage to deal with the fact that black people poor people working class people and other marginalized groups were catching hell Well before 2016 you prefer conformity and illusion over righteous critique and substance You are dazzled by a type of politics that celebrates being better than trump without understanding how critically dangerous And lo that bar is you are as frederick douglas described among Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground Know this you are messing with the wrong one because I am that one in ten thousand Now because she got checked once again and quite frankly embarrassed by nina turner She didn't directly respond to nina turner But instead she passive aggressively retweeted people who were shitting on nina turner for example She retweeted this from a lady named rita and it says you cannot reason with nina turner She is toxic bernie as in 16. She'd rather see trump win than anyone but bernie win She'll play the race card if you try to reason.   That is incredibly embarrassing for Debra messing and will she take the l in future? Bad tags probably not but at least you know we can make fun of her. I guess so there's that um yikes


I just cry all the time. I'm dead inside. Yes, this is true. Ha ha!  Corbin, as with me as always, is this...  Idiot? Nope, this.  What's true? Just this. Rick's single. If you're new to our channel, go and smash the like button, subscribe, and ring that little bell to be part of the notification squad. Please follow us on Instagram, Twitter. Today we'll be reacting to our third ad. I will link the first one right now that we reacted to. Wow. I know. Amazing. Still impresses me. And the other one. Two in one reaction. How does he do it? Magic Man. But today we'll be reacting to the, uh, it's called Google Search, Google Reunion ad. This is the one you all requested the most in those videos. And thank you for explaining the ads, because when we did the first one, it was like, are your commercials all four minutes long?    Okay.  So, this should make Rick cry. Let's just, uh, make it easy on him. Okay. Yeah. Very sweet. I thought it was very sweet and touching. Did I want to make you cry? No. Wow. You're heartless. No, of course I didn't cry. I mean it got a little warm inside, but there wasn't anything that was tear inducing. This one was more on the nose than the other ones. Yeah. Yeah. There wasn't a surprise. You kind of saw it coming. Absolutely. It was still very sweet. Yeah. It was, the other ones, basically, I don't think they were ads. Right. They were short films. Yeah. This one was average. This was an ad. Google. Right. This is what you can do with Google to reunite with friends. Yeah. Pretty straightforward. Very good. The other ones, they weren't really about what the product was selling. No. Not much. It was about human connection. You didn't have the logo on. Understanding or anything like that. Right. So, that's why it was more like a little short film. Right. Right. All that kind of stuff. Very sweet. Very nice. Actually, from the tool. Yeah. Because especially some of the close-up stuff they did with them was great. So yeah, that was great. Please let us know what other. Watch. We're going to have comments that say, you idiots, this was an actual reunion of these two guys. Probably. And if that's true, I'll freaking cry. Yeah. Please let us know. I'm sure you will. Yeah. There's other ads that we should react to that will make him cry. Yeah. Let us know. Better.  Other than spicy food. I don't have a soul. That's true.