What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. Rippin' 23, Bowman baseball, Jumbo 8 box, case break number 31, random team style. There's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find those on the website under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. So good luck here everybody, let's do it. And Jumbo of the first box. I'm gonna hit the Jujube Super. Call your shot right here. That's not the Jujube Super. Defusia paper, Kennedy Corona, 2-2-99 for the Stroves. Sarrio, Roja, Simon, Olmo, Santana. Chrome base there. There's Dominic Kanzone, refractor Otto, the 499 for the D-Bex. That's one there, Arizona. See if we can get his buddy now. That's right here, everybody's saying now. It's gonna come out of a blaster. It's gonna come out of a blaster. Imagine, dude. Greengrass, Jet the Met, Williams to 99. That's one there. You're gonna see nobody buy some of these blasters? Yeah, I know. It's cases and cases of blasters. It's gonna be back to 2020 where everyone's trampling each other at Walmart, trying to get blasters from Bowman. It's like, dude, what world do we live in? There's Nito, base. The world of blasters. Yeah. Three trips in a row, you cleared out Bowman. What's your best hit so far? You hit some nervuses, right? Hey, there's Vincent Peruzo, Lunar Glow, the Mets. The base auto right now is like 200 bucks. Yeah, dude, on rail. Right when he got called up, I'm like, up, there it goes. There they go. Those are going nuts. Bowman is a disease, he only cares about Bowman. Fair. Fair. Not wrong, honestly. Like the Drew Jones, Blue Mervis Auto. That's pretty solid. Blue Mervis is pretty huge. Luis Ravello for the Red Sox on the base auto. Nice one there. What's up, Timmy? Collier, Blue Lunar. Nice. The Colliers are still doing pretty big numbers, too. Spencer Jones base. Just last break, I don't know if you saw it. Orange, shimmer. Spencer Jones, that's massive, massive guard. Red Lava Fedco. I'll say ever since the Super Predator got pulled, like, number to five. Yeah. 25, that's pretty. That's what you want. The Golds, too, I'd say. Probably use your next, uh, Los Aromances. A few Golds, not big names. Eh, Golds are Golds, though, at the end of the day. You never know. With Golds, it's like you just put them in a box, forget about them for a bit, and then, like, hey. All of a sudden, it becomes somebody. Yeah, exactly. It's the name of the game with Bowman. Of course. Sina, Kyle Harrison, the Red Fractor for the bounty. I can't, it's only on drip, unfortunately. I can't do it here. Paper, EGai Rosario to 50 for the Padres on the rookie. Drink a berry. He can be a star, dude. Oh, yeah. He's gonna be good. He's in a good form, system. Good lord. That's gonna be, uh, Niko Piaka Grego on the Blue Lunar Crater to 150. Nice one there, Phillies. Piaka Grego. Piaka Grego, I mean, he's not like the biggest name in the products, but he's like, okay. He's not like, you know, a top 10 name or anything. Top 30, probably. William Sedania. This Bowman's got some cool names, though. Guys with with cool names. You know, William? I'm gonna change that. Cedric. That's the one drink. Like, dude, that's like 35 syllables. You see, that's the name your mom said. Hey, I want something good. That's it right there. That's it. That's, that's, that's what we're going with here. Yeah. Myroxendric.  That's another one. They're William. Love the name. They're William. Brett Beatty. Purple paper pattern is Christian Serda to 199. Roddy Simon. He's pretty good. Like, Myroxendric's pretty good, too. That's the funny part. Like, Gabriel Gonzalez on the Refractor. Nice one there for the Mariners. To 499, Refractor out of Gabriel Gonzalez. Gunnar Henderson rookie. Yes, sir. What's up, Haley? He's definitely a hold. Myrox, Martinez is pretty solid. That's definitely a solid one to have. Montez, another, another stud. He's like top five in the product. Martinez probably top 10. Ben Arroyo. Oh, uh. Michael Arroyo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, the Mariners are loaded in this, too. Lunar Glow, your Donny De Los Santos. Because they have what's his face, too. The guy we just pulled comes out as well. Yeah, Mariners are really loaded in this. Oh, my God. Troy Johnston, base, first auto for the Marlins. Josue de Paula, Spencer Jones as well. Yeah, Ruiz is pretty solid to the Angels. Jorge Ruiz, yeah. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah, he's, uh, another potential. Yes, Conner, I would hold. I would hold for sure. Like, pretty much most Bowman guys I would just hold for a bit. The old school red helmets are ugly. I like the old, I like the old Falcons.  Another Dominic Kenzoni, that time blue. Lunar Crater Auto to 150 for the Diamond Becks. Collier first. That actually, Mark. Nine bucks to grade 23 Bowman. Nine or start Darnold over in Lance. I'm gonna be pissed. Lizaro Montes, they might honestly. I was gonna say, I saw a tweet last night. It was like, or no, I saw a picture on a video on Instagram. It was like Darnold, CMC, and like Fred Warner or somebody. Pete Alonzo to 299. It was like, they were all at the Warriors game, like sitting courtside. And the comment was like, the, um, what's it called? It goes, Sam Darnold doing his best, Aaron Rodgers impression, sitting courtside at the game. And someone goes, the top comment goes, going to a basketball game. Is it Aaron Rodgers? Is it Aaron Rodgers? Like what? Like bro, he's just trying to enjoy the game. Relax. This is a refractor. Los Andros Rodriguez to 499. That was the one time you started going on the basketball games and you're like, that's my thing now. Yeah, I guess so. Aaron Rodgers and what's it called? Aaron Rodgers and David Bakhtiari, sat courtside at a Bucks game once.  Basketball aficionados. That is David Bakhtiari and Aaron Rodgers. Got a couple more orders to come in, see what we're down to now. We are down to six to go. Six and 12 guys, six to go. Thank you very much. Nothing against Rodgers. Oh, whoops. That's not it. That was the wrong.  My bad, my bad, my bad. Got the Cavs Clippers, Nick Spurs, Raptors, and Jazz. Six to go between that really quick, too. Gavin Cross on the Atomic. Nice one there to 100 for the Royals. His second moment auto. That's what they should do. If you have a second moment auto, they should put second on the top. So first. That would be nice. True, Joe. What's up? A lot of people like, I probably actually like him. Right, that's what I'm saying. At least you know what the time frame was, too. You could just work backwards and know what moment they were, their first is. It's like, ah, 2020 was his first moment. There we go. See, there you go. It's going to make sense. Make sense. Your paper pack right there. And you guys got like Marshall Luciano's like, eighth bowman on it. I legitimately feel like he's been a prospect since like 2009. Like the other dude's been a prospect for so long, but he's like so young still. It's unbelievable. There's a Blake. Brooks Lee. Lunar Glow. The name Raphael. There's True Blue. Braylon Bishop to 150 for the Pirates. You could just recap auto still, unless there's like a big, big like name color of some sort. I figured you knew that, but anyway. Josh Young. Green paper is Javier Asario. Two, three, nine, nine. First, five. There's Mario Shendrick. Classic piece of paper. Collar first. And Carlos Jorge. Goes away to Paula. There's Teal Shendrick. Gabriel Martinez to 125. Blue Jets. Purple paper, a pattern. Byron Buxton to 199. And How You Lee. That is green grass to 99. It's one there. Gorgeous seg on that too. There you go Phillies. It's not about how I Lee. It's about how you Lee. You're going to get a lot of that today. Just brace yourself.  Yes, yes, yes. Anything you can do, do it. Smeal de la Rosa. Thank you so much for the cardinals. Nice one there. Soda strum. Slice on September. Some of you guys really need to take a autograph sign. There's a couple in this that are terrible. Junior Tillian. It's the big one. He stinks. His auto stinks. Well, it's like some of them take it from like Juan Guerrero. Yeah, right. He was the teacher for that class. Yep. Good lord. The rule's gone in 28. Nick's gone in 27. Now to five to go in 27 now, everybody. Five to go. Cavs, Clippers, Spurs, Raptors, Jazz. Five to go. Teams are on sale.  Thank you, Nick. Fresh trash cans. Langleyers, Coloss. Who the buck's gonna hire? That's always a good question. It's a big, big, big opening. You see what Dame said about it? Michael Arroyo to 4.99. What do you say? He said literally doesn't win the championship one year. Dude, I know. Now he's firing the coach. I know. For the last three guys to win titles outside of State Fair of Black Fire. He was a nurse. Who won it with the Lakers? Clifford and then what's his face? Boonwolzer's got fired too. So a short shelf life in the NBA, dude. It's like, oh, you don't win the championship this year? I thought I got you into a playoff. Oh, it doesn't matter. Damn it. Overrated to that. Ooh. Yellow, Josue DePaola to 75. Huge guard there for the Dodgers. Let's go LA. Christopher B. Congrats, buddy. Nice DePaola. I don't have you go over this with a microfiber really quick. The top left couple dust bags. There should be one over there somewhere. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, there's a couple dust bags top left. I'm having Jay just go over that real quick and we'll get into a bag for it. Looks okay, but there's Lava, Javier Osaria to 3.99. Thanks, sir. All good to go now. That is Kyle Stowers on the rookie auto. That is base rookie auto. Nice one there. Oysters and margaritas. Kyle Stowers. Pressing Crawford first. Nothing Kyle Stowers is the next Cedric Mullins. Probably will be, dude. I remember that too. Like whatever year his rookie was. Cedric Mullins? Think so. Like 18 or 19. I remember he was like, if you got him you're like, dude. And you got him a lot. You got he was all over the place. That is Jose Perosa to 1.99. You should Chrome. Shea Whitcomb. Refractor. I think that's the fourth auto in this box. I think so. Nice. Nice one there for the Strowers. Shea Whitcomb. Space. There's Lunar Glow, Kim Collier. Nice one there for the Reds. Jacob Barry. Matt Mervis. Yeah, I remember it was Mullins and Ryan O'Hearn were the two guys that you get. It was like if you bought like a Jumbo, you're like, all right, I've only got four autos in this because one of those dudes coming out. We know that already. And now we'll get it. Senator Mullins is killing it. Yeah, dude. Senator Mullins is a stud. Absolutely a stud. All right, let's see how we're looking on number 27. Still at five to go, everybody. Hit seven of him at Ponsai. True. Turns to something. True. There's Kyler Fedko. Blue Lunar Crater to 150 for the twins. I pulled in the 10 case. We pulled four of this exact same card. Four Lunar Crater Kyler Fedko's. Well, there's four less now. Yeah. For somebody else. Now there's one less. Another one off the board. And just five to go. Teams are on sale for that as well. You guys would like a PYT. You were looking at the Cavaliers at 20 bucks. Clippers at 15. Spurs at 44. Raptors at 15. And Jazz at 44. Jazz are a steal at 44. $44 for the Jazz. You have Ochi, Bajie, and Walker Castlerados in there. Plus they probably got a vet of some sort that I'm not thinking of. Like Mike Conley always seems to make an appearance in Revolution. There's Amaran Void. Lunar Glow. I think it's Super Cracker time. I really do. Javier Rosario to 250. Yeah, we do have Almanac coming up tomorrow night. Ultra high-end hit draft style. It's going to be a good time, everybody. Matt Mervis. Merv the swerve. Ariel Monte. $4.99. Cam Collier. What's up, Jonathan? Junior Camonero. How you doing, buddy? I believe Brady House. Blue Shimmer to Mark Johnson to 150. Nice one there for the Pirates. That is going to be Tyler Soderstrom. Nice for the A's. Bowman Scouts top 100 to 99. Congrats on that there, A's. Tyler Soderstrom. Got to get your Blake sent off the Blake. There you go. You were here when Blake was here, right? Yeah, I was going to say. Jonathan bought Gold Shimmer from Bowman. The 50 of them. He's going to send it to get it signed. Got Matthew Wood for the Brew Crew base auto. Nice one there, Milwaukee Painter. Justin Crawford. I hope the DiBolo just kept following me because like yesterday with Matt. Everything was DiBolo. Hold the DiBolo. Hold that. Guess if you're top loading, just buy the Dodgers. It doesn't matter what. Break the bank.  So, statistic show. Again, still five to go, I believe. Yes, there is. We got a number 28 to 11 to go. Five and 11 now on our Revolution PYTs. Cavs are a good price as well. Five to go. Vargas Simon Juan. Who? Simon Juan. Simon Juan. Yeah. Is he skinny? He's not skinny. He's skinny, but then SJ.  I'm Jim. That is base auto for the Phillies. Nice one there. Yeah, I know. I was there when that happened too. I'm pretty sure. You see, that's kind of wild. Seven autos in one box. There was one pack that had four autos in it. I'm drip a few days ago. Yeah. Yeah, there was a couple like that too. It was a wonky case. Yeah. Four autos. Good lord, dude. Matt Mervis. Yeah, two boxes had four autos in one pack. Yeah, Mervis blue probably. Mervis blue is pretty huge for sure. Especially right now? Oh yeah. Xavier Isaac Pink Paper to 175 for the race. Kim and Al Wagner. Gabriel Gonzalez to 125. Teal Shimmer Colormatch for the Mariners. Robert Sel behind that. There's Tommy Specht. True blue auto for the Rangers to 150. That's one there. That's Yosue De Palo first, I should say. I didn't realize until today that Justin Crawford is Paul Crawford's son. I did not know that. Really? Yeah. Yeah, because we were talking about like now we're looking at the point where like people that we grew up watching, how old are you? 25. 25, yeah. So people that we grew up watching like their sons are in the MLB now. It's kind of wild. Like Jujone, Jackson Holiday, like so on and so forth. And what's up, Scott? How you doing, buddy? Doing well, man. And Dylan was like, yeah, like Crawford. His dad was in the MLB. I'm like, who? Like is it? It's not Carl. Is it? Oh, Blake Lunar Glow. Nice one there. Red Sox. Pedro Amiris 125. Teal Lunar Crater, the Cubs. Like he was like, yeah, it's Carl Crawford. He looked it up. It's Carl Crawford's son. It's like, dude, what? That's terrifying. Oh, he's better than his dad, though. Yeah, I know. I'd be last longer than his dad. Dude, he was so, he was so fast. Do you remember how freaking, oh my God, that was so frustrating playing against him. Brock Jones, Refractor, a nice one there for the race, 499. He would just terrorize the Yankees with stolen bases, terrorize. There's Justin Crawford speaking of, he says his name too many times. He says his name too many times. And he pops up. All right. Hey, thanks, Scott, picking up the Cubs in 27. Pelicans Hornets in 28. So we are now under, Jazz gone in 27. We are at what, three to go now? Oh boy, we're at three to go. We are down to the Clippers, Spurs, Raptors. Two $15 teams. Clippers, Spurs, and Raptors. So two $15 teams and then the Spurs, I believe, are 50. I want to say, obviously you're looking for Solhawn and Brannum. Those are your two big Chase, rookie Chases. Nice, Chris. I'm 23. So yes, I am 23. I'm 23, you see. When I was like a kid, to be fair, so to rephrase that when I was like a kid. Like when I first, like, yeah, back in my day, back in 2006. Scores in seven years ago. Yeah, right. I was like, I was like seven when Trout was drafted. All right, to be fair, well, no, I was nine when Trout got drafted because he was, what, oh, nine? Oh, nine Bowman? See, I was nine years old when Mike Trout was drafted. I think if he was oh nine, then yes, that trucks out. Salvy Perez, the 250, purple paper. We've got, oh, come on, give him some color here. Face auto, Lazaro Montez, nice one there. Can you just walk in? Face? Oh, no. Yeah, they've kind of, sales have kind of settled out a little bit on the base autos, which is good. So I think probably just Mervis and Drew, I would say probably from Mags right now, up until yesterday it was just Drew. Refractor, Wilbur Sanchez to 499. All takes one color. Yeah, literally, look at Nito. Nito's the big one. Is he still up or did they send him back down? For the Angels, what else do you have? You just got to start throwing stuff in the wall and hope it sticks in LA. Sorry, UC, but yeah, that's kind of how that goes. Still up? He's got to hope something works. Blue Elijah Green, the 150, blue paper. Definitely not Joe Dill in Mickey Mon. Adele's getting there. Yeah, I mean Adele, he'll be like JP Crawford. He'll just take a little bit longer to really be good. But Moniac is just... I know. That was a mess, dude. Randy DeJesus, white speckled a 299. Nice one there. For the Angels. The Helu Redemption. Oh, cool, cool. I'm going to show everybody. True dream. That was it. That's sick, dude. This is one of the cards in Almanac tomorrow. Trish speaker, Ted Williams, dual cut. Look lit. That's in the previews. So we're not ruining any surprise. I'm going to ruin every surprise. This is like the third-lowest-valued card in the world.  Good God. Dang. Yeah. There's Lunar Glow, Max Wagner. That is a spicy meatball. I thought that was the card, a spicy meatball. So thank you, Lane. It's not even the best vintage, or I won't even actually call that vintage, but like old-school cut slash barrel or any of that. The Roger Marys is better. That's cool. That's like, there's Ambioris Tavares. That is base auto for the Braves. That's sad. You don't see a lot of Trish speaker cuts, dude. That's dope. That's really freaking cool. But you see babes, you see everybody else. Yeah, there's a couple guys. You don't see a lot. And for somebody who's like, probably like, what is he? I think he's top five all the time in hits still. I think he's around that four or five mark. If I'm not mistaken, base. No, no. He showed me a different one. He showed me a different one. That was the third lowest value in the run, which is still pretty big. Raptors off the board. Jazz Knicks, Cavs, and Spurs all off the board. Thank you, Tim. So I think we're down to just one. Yeah, just the Clippers in the next one, guys. 15 bucks. Just the Clips. Yeah, Speakers 5. Speakers 5, dude. All time in hits, which is like, a lot of people don't realize that, too. 3500. That's nuts. Last box. Good luck, everybody. Clips. You're always going to have, you could legitimately make a repack that like, we would just lose money on completely and people would still complain about it. Like there is just any, anything to go ahead. If I could have my time. I mean, this is what I've always wanted to do, man. Ever since I was a kid. So then, Raphael, that's a 125. I remember when I was like 13, trying to do my own box breaks on Instagram. Christian Sarada of 50 had people sending me money through the mail for their break spots. People just wanted, would just want to send and like, eventually I was like, dude, I don't want to do this anymore. Like, God, this is too much work. Like, bro, I'm like busy with middle school and I have them stressing about this right now. Like, come on, dude. Ooh, nice. Justin Crawford to 4.99. Congrats on that, Phillies. It's been a good, pretty solid case overall. I swam there. Very cool. Back when we had like, you have to use like Ustream and Periscope. There was no Instagram live. Yeah, there's no live anywhere. I remember like, nature breaks. I'm like, what, ah, no, what was it? Yeah. I remember Blah TV. Oh yeah, Blah TV was a big one. Yep, Spencer Jones. I remember Blah TV. That was fun. There was a couple. Couple channels that followed over there. Where's Lunar Glow, Luis Angelopunia? I think he's going to be bigger than mine. I kind of agree with you on that, actually. I kind of agree with you on that. I think he, I feel like he's higher rated though. All right, but he's a little older, obviously. So, uh, how you lead for the Phillies to 4.99? Good pat, a good box for the Phillies here. Nice one there, Phillies. Probably something like that would make sense, yeah. Because Luis Angelopunia was somewhere in 21. 21. Yeah. Old man or something, or, I think, or 28. Yeah, it has to be 21. And then Brian was number two. No, 20. Was he in 20? Yeah, he was in 20. Not, yeah, he must have been in bone chrome then, right? Lizarra Montes. He might have been in bone chrome. Nice, Blake to 2.99. White speckle. There you go, Blake. We got it's Red Sox, had a Lunar Glow, and now a Blake White Speckle. Yeah, the Kanji Sig on the, uh, how you lead. He does that on all of them, which is really cool too. Codeye does that with his. Sanya, that'd be dope. That'd be so dope. That'd be pretty fire, Steve. All vintage stuff. That'd be cool. Pink paper, 100 green, to 175. There's William Lugo. Purple to 250. Three numbered guards in this, or three numbered autos in this box. True purple, William Lugo for the Mets. Montee. There's Junior Kaminario. Nice one there. It's 3.99 on the Lava. Grats, Raze. Kaminario, I should say. And last pack of the Bricks. Good luck, guys. Yosue De Paula. Base, base, base, and base. Do a quick recap here, guys. Thanks again for getting this filled on up. We had base autos. They're going to be Ambioris Tabaris. Lizarra Montes. Amira Amboyd. Matthew Wood. Kyle Stowers, Rookie Otto. Samuel De La Rosa. Troy Johnson. Luis Ravello. Gabriel Gonzalez. Refractus, 499. Brock Jones. Shay Whitcomb. Howie Uli. Dominic Kenzoni. Tattoo, 99. Randy DeHase. 250. William Lugo. 150. Tommy Spex. Nico Puyaco-Grego. And Tyler Fedco. And Dominic Kenzoni. We add to 100. Gavin Cross. To 99. It's Tyler Soderstrom. To 99 as well. Howie Uli. Greengrass. I got you. I got you, UC. I apologize, man. Justin Crawford, 499. Refract your first thought for the Phillies. And the head of the break, for sure. Yo, Twaitapala, to 75. Huge hit there for the Dodgers. Nice one there, LA. I'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, we've got archives.


Live from San Francisco, it's the Q. Here's your host, Jeff Frick. Hi, Jeff Frick here with the Q. We are on the ground at Pier 48 in San Francisco at the Top Coder Open 2014. The event's going on for about 14 years, getting hackers and people together to solve hard problems. It's really kind of a hackathon type of environment. That's all interesting and well, but we're here because they had a special extension to the program this year about really helping girls and STEM. High school girls specifically, they invited 200 high schoolers from about a dozen high schools to come and listen to women in the tech industry, talk about their story, really provide some mentorship and some leadership and some, just really basic. Let me tell you my story and ask questions. And so we're really excited here to be joined by Glenn Weinstein from Aperio. Aperio, thank you. The sponsor of this event, and he actually sat on the panel. I did. And you know, because it's great because you got to have guys involved too, right? We got to help the cause. So first off, welcome. Thank you. And thanks for inviting us up. Thanks, Jeff. So talk about, you know, we heard earlier you've been doing this program for 14 years. Yes. Why suddenly this extension? Yeah. Well, the Top Coder Open has always had some interesting side lights. The main event is the competitions. We're here to provide sort of an athletic competition environment for programmers. It's really the super bowl of programming. But this year, because we're the ESPN of tech, you knew that. Perfect. We come together. But we've always had various side lights and we thought it was important this year to highlight the issue of girls in STEM. We want more women in our industry. We need a better gender balance in this industry. And the place to start with that is to encourage girls who have an interest in technology to pursue that interest. Right. And that was the main idea of today's event. So how did you pick kind of the age, the format, the schools? How did it all kind of come together? Right. Well, we have a female executive who sponsored this event. She took this tiger by the tail. She organized it. And she laid out her ideas, which we all thought were fantastic, which were to invite local high schools, girls from local schools to see what's happening here, to see the competition, to see the idea that your technology skills can become a career for you. And in fact, a good career that is fun and is a well-paid job. So we wanted them to be exposed to that environment. We also wanted to expose them specifically to female role models. People in the industry, in the technology industry, that they could learn from and look up to. And not necessarily the CEO level of females. Right. Not just to Cheryl Sandberg. Right. We wanted them to see women in what you might call, quote, unquote, normal positions in technology companies. And that was the nature of the panel that we put together today. And great representation. We talked about earlier from San Francisco, the peninsula of San Jose, Oakland, the East Bay, a Girl Scout troop, really great representation. When we opened up this event to local high schools, we were overwhelmed with the response. We had to cut off the invitations fairly quickly. We did fill a capacity of 200. I think the event went so well this year that this may become a regular occurrence because it was a lot of fun for everybody involved. The girls in particular, I thought were, you could just tell, they were very engaged. They were listening. They were asking great questions. For whatever reason, this definitely seemed to resonate with them. Yeah. I think, again, I think you can't overstate the importance of having kind of, quote, unquote, normal role models that they could see themselves in that place. And I thought as evidenced by the questions being really kind of simple and really basic. Like, what do you wear to work? Really showed a trust and an engagement that they were there. They're listening. Right. We wanted it to be relatable. Women that these girls could see themselves as in five or ten years. Not an impossible dream, but actually a very, very possible dream. They ask questions like, how long does it take to get training? There's not a lot of knowledge.  Is this like medical school or law school? How do you become a professional at Google or Salesforce.com or Imperial? So we're just solving some very basic questions for them and making it seem as real and as achievable as possible. Yeah. I mean, it's interesting too because in the job market, you know, today there's a lot of jobs at the low end and there's jobs at the high end. But I don't know that some of these schools, if people really think about, can I get a job at Google? You know, is that really a real thing? Or is that just an application of my computer? So to get some women here that have that job, work that Facebook, you know, kind of connect the dots with the brands and real applications that they use every day with real people that have a job. That's right. We covered that on the panel. Each of the female panelists talked about, you know, what did they think they were going to do at Google and how did they get into technology? How did they stay with it? And how did their careers develop? And you also heard one of the questions from the girls was, what college did you all go to? We were all deciding about college.  So you can already see them starting to make the mental connections to, I can do that. Yes, I can get a job at Google. And here's how I get started on that. Yeah. And the other question which we've talked about in some of the prior interviews, but I really think it's insightful, was there was so much talk about passion and one girl asked about, well, I'm passionate about cars. And really, she, I'm guessing, never really put two and two together that a car is just a rolling technology platform. There's a lot of good technology going on in cars today and tomorrow. Right. My takeaway from that is that I think there's as much natural interest in technology among girls as there is in boys. For whatever reason, for various reasons, girls end up hitting some discouragements along the way. We're just here to remove that discouragement. We want to provide encouragement. We want to tell them, continue to pursue this path. There are great careers out there. There's a lot of support for you there. The trends are moving in the right direction and women are starting to take their rightful place. Yeah. And that was another big theme, right? It was having a support group, having, you know, people that are helping you in a mentorship base. And we've heard from some of the other guests, you know, there's a number of organizations that they can get involved in. That's exactly right. Now, you know, from my perspective as a period, I mean, we sponsor this event because we're sort of on the other end of this. We want to see more. First of all, we want to see more candidates, period. It's hard to fill technology jobs in this country right now. We're missing out on a good percentage of half the population. So very selfishly, a period is in this for the long term. We would love to see more girls major in computer science, major in technology fields, go to college, continue with that interest. And we want them ultimately to apply for jobs at a period. But that's our, and, you know, other technology companies. That's our long-term objective. So where do you go now? Huge success, oversubscribed. Oh my gosh, what do we, what do we start, right? I mean, can you take it to the next level? Is this something you're going to repeat? Do you have any ideas? You got to go back to the barn and think about it. Do you already have some stuff? We do have some ideas. So, a period's foundation is called the Silver Lining. That's our charitable foundation. Silver lining events have always been focused on kids, sort of by coincidence. That's always been the chosen area. And we have some events lined up next month that are specifically going to be focused on technology for girls that may not be in a position to get exposure to this at their high schools or whatever their environment is at home. We want to just try to broaden that exposure to technology and we'll be doing it through various regional Silver Lining events. And I think we'll be back here next year at TopCoder Open as well. Well, it's a great cause, Glenn. Thank you for taking the time out of your show, out of your space to set this up. I think it's a really worthwhile cause, obviously. Very important for us as well. So, and thanks for having us up to take a look. Thanks for coming. Our pleasure. So again, Jeff Frick here on the ground with the Cube at the TopCoder Open 2014, talking all about girls and STEM. Thanks for watching the Cube.


Happy Sunday everybody, it's Robin with Creativity RV. And behind me is beautiful Natarts Bay, Oregon. It's a beautiful day out here.  But I'm gonna run inside right now and do your Sunday morning view queue where I answer all the best viewer questions from the view queue the last Sunday. And I'll tell you today, we've got another great set of questions like inverses versus converters, potable versus potable, tow cars and all kinds of other stuff. So I'm gonna run inside now so you guys can hear me and get to all the best viewer questions. Good morning everybody, it is a beautiful summer and I hope you're all out there enjoying it. I know I am, isn't the Oregon coast beautiful? Thank you to everybody on Facebook and Instagram that have given me so many great suggestions of places to visit. Natarts Bay where I am now was a suggestion from a viewer like you, so I appreciate it. Hey, before I get to the questions today, please go over to the community tab on my channel because I have a poll going right now.  Let me know in the poll and in the comments. I appreciate it. In last week's view queue, I answered a viewer question about how inverters work and I described it like a Rosetta stone where the inverter basically takes the language that your battery speaks and then translates it into a type of language that your 110 household appliance outlets use and that went great. But a few of you asked what a converter was and I'll tell you, I got the best comment from somebody that explained it just as well as I could have. So I'm gonna go ahead and give that guy props right here. Writing the road one said, the converter transforms AC voltage to DC and an inverter transforms the DC to AC. And then he said this, which I thought was genius, both transform voltage, but in opposite directions. Converter is needed to charge the batteries from shore power and the inverter is needed to use the batteries to run items in the RV when you're boondocking. So yeah, when you're boondocking and you're not hooked up to shore power, the inverter makes some of your outlets work on your regular household appliance outlet. That's one tin. But if you go out to an RV park, let's say, you have a power tower outside that you plug into and that actually comes into your RV through a converter, which will charge your house batteries. So again, they do the same thing, like my friend here says, they just translate the power, but in two different directions. So wanted to give that guy props because I thought it was really great. You guys, I have to turn on a fan. I know it's not great for the noise in here, but sorry, I had to do it. It's getting too hot in here. You guys know how it goes. So the first question comes from Ms. my grandpa, Al one. She says, first I want to say thank you. Thank you for saying thank you. And she wants to know if I wish I had a tow vehicle. And then she goes on to say, it does take more time. I know, I think maybe a van may be best for me because I want to get around. And it's so funny that you asked this right now because you know, I chose a B plus and now a C that we're both around 25 feet because I want to be able to get into towns easily and gas stations and smaller spaces. But you know, to be honest, I don't break camp. It's just still too difficult or too time consuming to break camp and run into town. So what I mean is, you know, you have to put in your slide, you have to organize everything, make sure everything's secure and take all your stuff that's sitting outside and put it inside, that's breaking camp. And I don't want to do that to run into town. So I find that I don't go into towns or let's say museums or hiking trails or things like that that I want to, as much as I'd like to. So, you know, in my next rig, who knows? I might go to something that can tow a little bit better like a class A with a tow car. I know people that love that. Or I might go to a fifth wheel. I have been doing a lot of research lately on what travels better in the wind, what's the safest and what's the easiest to hook and unhook. So far, I'm leaning towards a fifth wheel if I change my rig again. Don't get worried. I'm not making any changes right now. But I do think about this. And so if you guys could give me your input on this, I would really appreciate it for people that have had more than one type of rig. I like the idea that the weight of a fifth wheel goes into the bed of the truck and the pivot point is right there. And I've seen people hook it and unhook it. It only takes a couple of minutes. I have seen some people that have a towed, meaning a tow car, like on the black of their class C. And that looks difficult if it's not four wheels down. And sometimes that can look like more of a hassle depending on what type of a car you're towing. So yeah, to be honest, I wish I did have a tow car. I have a friend that I travel with sometimes that has one. And God, it's so nice to be able to just run into town and do laundry, do grocery shopping without having to break camp and go into town. But you know, it's a trade-off for me. Right now I'm solo on the road. And so this is a good size for me because I work and I have a pet. I'm not sure that a van would be the right size for me. I think that might be too small for me. But this is the smallest I could go without being in a van. If I want any bigger than this, I would definitely have a tow or a towed car. Please let me know what you guys think. Next question. Okay, inner peace coaching. Said I'm wondering when book number three, seducing Sienna is coming out. Thanks, Carrie. And then Lisa said, I was wondering where your paintings are. I bet they're beautiful. Well, thank you so much. So look, you guys know when I first hit the road, I made my living by writing romance novels. And I planned to write seven in a series called the American Dream Love Story series where women chase their dreams and I love. And the first two I wrote, I loved. I thought they were fun to write. Seducing Sienna was supposed to be out over a year ago. It's half done, but I got sidetracked by doing all this video stuff and writing the book, Be a No Man, Change Your Life. I don't know, Carrie. I might go back and finish it, but I'll tell you right now, I've got three other books in the work that are non-fiction for you guys. And I've been working on a suspense series that's RV related that I'm hoping is gonna come out next year. But all of that takes a lot of work and a lot of time. And so for now, Seducing Sienna's been put up on the shelf as has my painting. I thought I would get my RV and paint more than I am, but I'm so excited about all the stuff that I have going for you guys here and on Instagram and Facebook and the books and the blog has a lot of content coming out on it. So head over there if you haven't already and please subscribe. So I haven't had time to paint, but you know, I get this question a lot. So I went back on the road to try and find what I had pictures of and I'll show you guys a couple of my paintings that I did a few years ago. Here they are. I use watercolors and I love that. And I have watercolors in my mind that I wanna do, that I just don't have time to do yet. But I see myself maybe in five years, sorry, the boy's into something. What are you doing, boy? I see myself in about five years doing something like that more. I made paintful time a few years. Who knows? I can do whatever I want on the road. And as usual, there's somebody staring at me out the windshield. I hate that. I got a few questions like this. Debbie Lighty, Liddy One says, good morning, good morning. Cannot wait for your video about your new Wi-Fi hookup. Okay, a few of you asked me about this because I did a video about three weeks ago now showing you guys the best internet Wi-Fi setup I've ever seen. I just happened to interview a couple that was in a class B and they had this great setup. I did buy the mini version of their setup and I've been on the hunt for cell plans, basically data only internet plans that I can use inside of this router that I got. I have found that and now I am working on it and troubleshooting it. I really wanna test it and do a really solid video for you guys showing you how it works and what the cost is and all that stuff. It should be out in about two weeks. So stay tuned for that. Thanks for all the questions on that. I think Katie Travel, Katie Travel with Woody said, I have already purchased my class A and loved the layout. The tank sizes and all the outlets but the times I've camped with it and I've driven, I felt really uncomfortable. I really thought I would get used to it but now I'm starting to question my choice. I'm an impulsive type and doing research but telling myself to give it 12 months before making a decision. Question, how do you find the used pleasure ways, leisure travel or Nexus Vipers? I've searched and searched and it seems most of the dealers only show new stock. Okay, I have also done a ton of research on this and I'll tell you, every brand is totally hit or miss. Like for example, I couldn't stand my leisure travel van. It just literally fell apart around me but I know other people that love their leisure travel van. So I think it depends on luck of the draw, like which one you get off the floor. I will tell you that I have never had anybody tell me about thinking about a pleasure way. If you have a pleasure way and you did not like your experience with that rig, please do put it in the comments below for this person. So she knows that. The Viper I'm not familiar with, I haven't interviewed anybody who's had that or heard anything about that. I think your idea to wait a year before switching is good, maybe give it six months. I know most nomads change the type of rig they have and I know people that have had every type of rig and I think that will be me because I don't plan to stop this anytime soon and I do wanna go out and drive. I can see people on hooking their boat behind me. I hope that's not too distracting but I'm here on the bay and everybody's taking off their canoes and getting their climbing gear out but I do see myself having every type of rig I'm planning to drive a fifth wheel on a class A and take you guys along with me while I do that soon so I can tell you how all the different rigs handle differently. I can tell you in my first class B that was 25 feet. Every time I took a right hand turn for the first two weeks or so, I went over the curb and I've heard people say this in every type of rig and then I never did it again so you might end up being more comfortable but also most everybody I've interviewed changes their rig once they've had some time on the road because then they know what their needs are. Some people like to move every couple days then a van might be good for you. The thing about a van is you do have to break camp more often and go into town because you need to dump your trash or you need to get food because maybe you only have a cooler or something like that. So when you have a van you generally can't camp as long in one place and if you go bigger from that like my size I can stay 10 days, two weeks without having to break camp but it's not as easy for me to get into town. So everybody put your comments down below. As far as finding rigs I would go to RVT.com or RVTrader.com because the first listings that you'll see are the new ones but then if you keep looking you can see the used ones that are for sale by owner and then you can also get a gauge on how much your new purchase might depreciate or your used purchase might depreciate over time. So you never know what might happen in the future. I'll tell you this though if I were on the road full-time as a couple like if Doug ever came with me I would go bigger. I know that there are couples that do it in a B but I would prefer to have a little more room if I were full-time with another person. A 25 footer is just about right for me and one animal. Wendy Nichols III says I have a question about campfires. How do you start yours? I'm full-time and have campfires about four times a year because I have no skills. Can you help? Okay, Wendy, listen. My friend Carol who I interviewed we actually met in a cracker barrel parking lot. I camp with her pretty frequently. Haven't seen her in about five weeks but she is the queen of the campfire. She is under boldly go RV. You can find her on Instagram or on YouTube. She's got a few videos just for fun of her cats and stuff but check out her videos on her fires. One thing I learned from her is how important the structure of the fire is and I wish I had some footage of it to show you. Now I knew that air was important.  That's why you'll see like teepee fires like this that a lot of people do because air gets in there. If you can't get any air, put some rocks down and put the wood on top of it and that will give you some air pockets. Now you guys know I have a fire every morning if I can. I go outside and I read a book and what I learned from Carol is she actually will stack two big logs.  Two big logs like this over maybe some rocks are just on the ground and then two logs on top of that that are pretty big and then the center area she fills with kindling and she lights that kindling with a fire starter and she gets that going really good and then she puts other little ones on top of it. So this big fire burns out to the big pieces and that works amazingly well. Though when I'm with Carol, we do go through fire with it pretty quickly and it's funny you should mention this because for about four months now I've been trying all kinds of different homemade fire starters and at some point I'm gonna do a video on this but the ones you buy in the store are so expensive. So when you go to the laundromat, grab the dryer lint out of the dryers because dryer lint is one of the most flammable things and I save that in a big Ziploc bag and use it as a fire starter. You can also use candle wax on just about anything. You can drip candle wax on like really dry pine cones or you can drip it on the cardboard center of a paper towels or toilet paper or I've done this, you can shove lint inside of those drip candle wax on the top and it'll keep it burning forever. I mean stick it in there. Also oranges are flammable. Didn't know if you know that. Rubbing alcohol is flammable. Flour is flammable. One of these days I'm gonna actually do a video and tell you guys what's flammable inside of a rig because it's really interesting. Like for example, you shouldn't be using regular household cleaners inside your RV because they can be flammable and there's propane and gas in here but that's for a later date. The other things you can use as fire starters are Doritos believe it or not they burn and you know the stuff you get at the store. I think the key is stacking it right and also leaving air pockets. Yeah girl, if you like a fire just do it until you get the hang of it because that's one of my favorite things and I'm a morning fire person. I like to get up early and go outside when everything is waking up and the birds are singing and the flowers are like stretching up towards the sun. I like that better than campfires at night but each is own. What do you like? Tell me. Vicky1 says, you have the most informative videos. Thank you, thank you Vicky. I'll be going mobile at the end of the month. Do you have any advice on how to calm my nerves? Ha ha, booze? I'm kidding, don't drink and drive Vicky. Yeah, you know what you're feeling is probably excitement. I find that we're so dulled in our ordinary lives. That sometimes we can't discern those feelings. I know when I first hit the road, I felt what I thought was anxiety but it was really excitement. So yeah, there's gonna be a mix of that. Embrace it, enjoy it. And like I was saying to the last lady the more that you drive, the more that you do stuff, the easier it's gonna be. You know, if you want to in the beginning just go a short distance, go to an RV park, go to a National Forest campground where there's other people. I find that RV people are some of the friendliest people in the world. It also changes by geography. Some places they're like so friendly, you're like this is weird and other places nobody looks at each other and that's weird. But 80% of the places I go, everybody's super friendly. If you have a problem, there'll be somebody there to talk to generally. You make friends really fast when you're camping and I wish you Godspeed and good luck on the road. What an exciting time for you. Let us know in the comments for the next VUQ how it went. We'll all live vicariously through you. Okay, now this is an important one and I get this question a lot. Phyllis Chansey has a question about health insurance and you guys know that I have an entire video dedicated to health insurance. I think it's in my top 10 videos start here playlist. If not, I did it about eight months ago. Now I'm gonna tell you right now I'm not licensed in insurance anymore. I used to be licensed in health insurance also. And so I'll give you some ways to maneuver around but I cannot give you any advice on coverages myself because I'm not licensed. But I get this question a lot about all these new companies that are shooting up since some of the Affordable Care Act rules were changed about a year ago. A lot of new companies have been sprouting up. So Phyllis Chansey says, we are looking at joining the Road Life Project. It's 5.99 per month to join in on health insurance. Okay, well I'll tell you, I have never heard of Road Life Project and for the book I did a lot of research about health insurance and just added new things and checked all the information I had for the most recent book update which was in June. So I had not heard of them. They did not come up in my research. So I'll tell you, I went into their website, found as much information as I could for you, watched a webinar and I don't know. I think you're saying 5.99 is what it calls to join Road Life and then through their membership you have access to health insurance and I'm gonna go like this because here's what I think is important after looking at that website that you look into and the same is true for any of the other places that people are going. The webinar that they had was a sales webinar. It was a sales pitch trying to get people to call the 800 number to talk to an agent that could go through their needs and advise them and give them a product. Now, they don't sell all products so I don't know if you'd be getting the widest range of information or choices. I don't know, maybe you do but they do say in the webinar all the healthcare options listed they may not have. So that's one thing, right? The other thing is that you have to actually join their website. As far as I could tell, if I'm wrong, somebody let me know. You have to join to get access to their company that they work with that does the health insurance. Road Life Project doesn't do health insurance. They're partnering with another company who's going to write that insurance for you. What I'd wanna know is where do you find your declarations package or your description of benefits? If I could have seen that, I would have read it for you and tried to help you decipher it. There was no information about the actual product. They said something about it being a $5 million lifetime cap but then they said there were three different plans. They also talked about like critical illness plans and accident plans and that led me to believe that they might be an indemnity kind of a plan. It may not be real insurance. So for you guys out there, health insurance as a quagmire, it is difficult but if you go to my health insurance video or into my book, I have tons of links that you can go to to find out what's available in your state, rules for the ACA, other options. I think I have seven ways to get health insurance on there and one thing that I want you to think about is that it says that Road Life Project has a health plan. That may not be health insurance. They don't have the verbiage qualified plan. Now, maybe they just left out the word and they do have a qualified plan but a qualified plan means that it meets the minimum requirements of the Affordable Care Act meaning that like all kinds of things are covered as a minimum. Like let's say you need to go to rehab. Gives like the last lady you're drinking to calm down. Just kidding. The Affordable Care Act set out some minimum standards that they wanted health insurance to have because there were some fly by night kind of unregulated companies out there that were hurting people but a lot of people don't want to pay for all the stuff that is minimum coverage in the Affordable Care Act. So one, find out if they're a qualified plan meaning that they meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act minimums. If it's not qualified, then it may be something called a limited benefit plan which has coverage but it's way, way, way reduced coverage. Like the amount of things that are covered are crazy low. So you might think, oh yeah, I'm paying this great rate and I don't have to pay for all the stuff that's in Obamacare but then you find out you have some kind of cancer that's not covered or something like that. So I don't know because we can't see the coverages. They may be offering you something called a fixed indemnity plan which means they pay you a set amount for something that happens like you break a leg, you get $1,000, you get diagnosed with cancer, you get $5,000 but it doesn't cover your insurance, your medical bills, it doesn't pay the hospital. They literally cut you a check. Now, those types of plans are great if you have a regular health insurance plan and you have like a $10,000 deductible which a lot of them do. Some people choose to take the really high deductible on their health insurance plan so their monthly premium is lower and then they pay $30 bucks a month for one of these indemnity plans to offset that deductible if something happens. See, this is why you need to really talk to an agent that has a full range of stuff that you can get or go to healthcare.gov and talk to one of their counselors also. I'll tell you this though, if you're going to go with Road Life Project and you become a member and you call that health insurance broker which is probably who you're gonna be working with, find out where their plans are registered and then look up the insurance commissioner's website for that state. So let's say they're registered in Colorado and you're a resident of Colorado, you can go over to the insurance commissioner website in any state and you can find out usually what people think about that, what their ratings are, if there have been complaints, they have to file with the insurance commissioner so they'll have all their coverages there. Call and talk to an insurance commissioner health plan person. I find that they answer in about three minutes, most of them have life people and they're there to help you as a consumer. So that's a way to protect yourself. Get the coverages and writing and actually read it and see what the difference is between that and another plan and then make your decision. If you do go with it, please do come back and say how much it was, what plan you chose, if you were able to get the benefits packages that tell you what's covered and I will tell everybody in a future view queue. Okay. And finally, you guys, I'm gonna tackle this, potable versus potable because Zev for 8281 said, LOL, I crack up every time you mispronounce potable. Love your videos. You look awesome and happy. Thanks. Okay. So look, I was pronouncing it potable. Then I went to my very first campground and a ranger told me it was potable and then I did a video called Water, Water, Water, Six Ways to Find Water, which you can find in my playlist and somebody got on me for calling it potable. They said it was potable. So I actually did do some research in this after your question because no matter what way I say it, somebody gets on me in the comments. So it turns out that the proper pronunciation is potable, like P-O-H, to bowl, potable. And it's because it comes from the French word potare. And the sticky part is that there are other places like in the UK that say potable, although some places say potable. And a lot of our military says potable, like P-A-H potable. So you hear a lot of people say potable and then people that say potable wanna say potable like me and then potable to potable. You say potable, I say potable, potable, potable.  Let's just say it the way we wanna say it. But thank you for making me look it up. But it actually is potable. And I'll tell you, if I run into somebody in the military and they say potable, I'm not gonna correct them. I just think that there is different ways to say it, but the correct way, in fact, Zephyr is potable. Thank you for telling us all. So that's it, you guys. If you have a question that you'd like to ask me for the next VUQ, please do put it in the comments down below and I'll get to it. And please, if you do have a comment or a remark about something that was discussed in this video, let's all learn from each other and put it down below. Don't forget to go over to the community tab on my channel to answer my latest poll question, which is, are you on the road yet full time? Check me out on Instagram, Facebook, subscribe to my blog. There's a lot of great content coming out there as well. I hope you're all having happy travels out there this Sunday and be free.


y gallu i gyd yn gwybod i chi i wneud i ddim yn gwneud. A'r next item of business is Members Business debate on motion 10590 i ddweud Alexander Stewart on RAF100, the centenary of the Royal Air Force. The debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I would ask those who wish to speak in the debate to press the request to speak buttons now. I call on Alexander Stewart to open the debate for around seven minutes, please. I'm delighted and grateful of the privilege of being able to open this historic members' business debate this afternoon. I paid tribute to all who have chosen to attend and support in the public gallery this afternoon. 100 years ago this month, King George V authorised the creation of a new branch of British military, which was formed in response to the growing role of air power in warfare. That was created by merging the aviation branches of the Royal Navy and the British Army together on 1 April 1918 into a single service, which was to be known thereafter as the Royal Air Force. Expanding rapidly from its conception, the world's first truly independent air force, the RAF, brought in and has sought and fought in major issues from the Second World War. It's most famous campaign being the Battle of Britain when, in July to September 1940, the RAF fought off a hugely superior German air force, denying the Luftwaffe air supremacy over Southern England and therefore preventing the German invasion of Britain. In May 1941, the Battle of Britain came to an end. The then Prime Minister Winston Churchill said of RAF pilots, that never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. By the end of the war in 1945, the strength of the RAF was nearly 1 million personnel. At the start of the Second World War, two of the first-ever Royal Auxiliary Air Force squadrons, 602 City of Glasgow squadron, and I'm delighted that we have a number of current personnel with us this afternoon in the chamber. Also, in squadron 603, the City of Edinburgh resulted in the exceptional skills that they had and the airmanship of 602 and 603 squadrons, because they were instrumental in the RAF's success of ensuring that the Luftwaffe was dealt with. That particularly took place here in Scotland when they dealt with an aircraft over the river forth on 16 October 1939. Scotland was, and still is, considered strategically extremely important for the defence of the United Kingdom. Indeed, the RAF constructed and operated an enormous infrastructure north of the border with RAF Lussiemouth in Murray and also Leukers in Fife. The level of RAF activity in my region of Mid Scotland in Fife during the immediate aftermath of World War 2 was unprecedented and the history of the lasting legacy of the activity should forever be remembered. In 1942, the RAF regiment was formed to protect airfields from airborne troops and at the wartime peak employed around 60,000 personnel. Today, the regiment continues that vital role of defence and also the exceptional training and the humanitarian work that they have done and continue to do, and I pay tribute to them for all that they have done during that time. I am delighted to. Alexander Stewart. I am sorry, Alexander. I cannot stay beyond what is much longer. I have got to meet him at 1 o'clock, but I want to make one point. First of all, my son was in the RAF and it was never a prouder moment for me than when he passed out at RAF Halton a number of years ago. The point of training was that he wanted to pick up, because I think that the training that he received there and the values that were instilled in that young man stood him in great stead for future employment. That is one of the great things that the RAF still do today. I congratulate you for bringing forward this debate today. Alexander Stewart. I would concur with Mr Crawford. As I say, there is no doubt that the exceptional quality of training that is provided gives individuals the opportunity to unlock their potential for future when they are no longer even with the service. The RAF was supported in wartime by the women's auxiliary air force, as well as the Prince's Mary's nursing force. However, the passing of the Army and Air Force Women's Service Act in 1948 created the opportunity for permanent peacetime role for women in the armed forces in recognition of their incredible wartime contribution. That led to the women's royal air force being formed on 1 February 1949, which offered women a full professional career in the air force for the very first time. Since the end of World War 2, the RAF has been involved in many operations that have been vital for the survival, the stability and the peace of many nations and peoples throughout the world. From the Berlin airlift in 4849 through to the huge issues within the Cold War and supporting the Royal Uster Constabulary in Northern Ireland from 69 to 2007, assistance in Belize, Malaysia, conflicts with reference to humanitarian work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, operations and logistics that took place in the Falklands, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Libya and relief flights in Kenya, military intervention in Sierra Leone, Accra, Iraq and Afghanistan. They are endless, but also the evacuation issues that they have dealt with when dealing with Beirut, humanitarian and also the earthquakes in Pakistan. As I said before, they do so much. It is notable that the history and the host historic part of the scenery is to be marked and known as RAF 100, in a programme that will salute the century of RAF forces, a wide range of local, regional and national events that will take place across air shows running from April to September. Indeed, to mark our commemoration here, our own Presiding Officer hosted a fantastic reception in the Parliament recently, and we had Air Chief Marshal Stephen Hillier as the main guest. RAF 100 is also being celebrated in many parts of the country, in many regions of Scotland. The Ancosome Association on Saturday 26 May hosted the RAF baton relay, where they will ensure that the Spitfire Memorial on the former site of RAF Grangemas will be a fly pass and ban take place. The RAF will be holding a fully manned RAF display on the historical situation and have aircraft at the Science Centre in Glasgow, giving people the opportunity once again to view, see and take part. My own contribution is the honour to secure this member's debate today and welcome, as I said, personnel who are here today. I look forward to the contributions from other MSP colleagues here this afternoon who will speak in support of the fantastic, highly professional and tireless work that the RAF has continued to do. In conclusion, the hallmark of this great anniversary will be a Royal Air Force sentinie parade in London on 10 July. I personally congratulate Royal Air Force on reaching this 100-mile stone and operations that they have been involved in, and I will say to everyone in the past, present and future individuals who have endeavoured to ensure that this contribution has maintained and gone forward. I wish the Royal Air Force all the best for at least another 100 years. Thank you. We move to the open debate. May I have speeches of around four minutes, please? Tavish Scott, followed by Richard Lochhead. I thank Alexander Stewart for initiating this debate and share the sentiments of his remarks about the role that the RAF has played in the past and will play undoubtedly in the future. I also apologise to Mr Stewart and the chamber for having to lead this debate. By one of the ironies of life, I have a meeting with one of Mr Brown's colleagues about RAF Saxford, or what used to be RAF Saxford enunciad. It is just one of those things that occasionally happens. I just want to make a couple of reflections about the role that the RAF played in Shetland over the war period and since then. I suppose that the first thing that I should say is that one of the more arduous duties that local members may have played is taking on the speaking responsibilities at the annual Rafa dinner for the battle of Britain. I was told and advised on this prior to the first time that I was asked to do this in Llerwick. It was an occasion when those who had put so much into the role that their Air Force had played in the defence of our country let their hair down to some extent. It would not automatically follow that by the time that I was asked to speak, they would be completely in control of their faculties, which is a great relief to me, never mind to them in getting through that occasion. However, the point of the Rafa club that still does exist in Llerwick is that it is a place of calling for many more younger members of the veterans community from the RAF who still meet to discuss old times and to remember those who are no longer with them. Sulunvo in Shepham was the coastal command squadron airfield for the flying boats in the Second World War. Indeed, I found out the other day that on 4 November 1939, Sulunvo became the first location in the British Isles to be bombed. No damage was formally reported apart, I am told, from the death of a rabbit. That was not a great loss, I can assure you. The complex was added to when a nearby airfield was completed at RAF Scatster, which to this day continues to fly helicopter transfers to the west and east of Shepham for the oil industry. Sulunvo is today known, of course, for the oil terminal rather than for anything else. Two notable events among great acts of heroism and bravery during the Second World War. The first was Flying Officer John Cruikshank, who was awarded a Victoria Cross for a successful attack on German U-boats during the war, despite being injured as he attacked and managing to bring his aircraft home and indeed circling till daylight in order to land and save his crew successfully. The second one is the crash of the RAF Cantolina in the Island of Yell to the north of Sulunvo, when she came back after searching for the Norwegian coast for the turpots. I spilt up on the wings, the weather was pretty awful and the aircraft crashed, mostly all three of the crew survived and the state they were in had some remarkable achievement that they did survive, given that they landed in the middle of Yell, many miles from any house or residence. The only other point I wanted to make is that that goes on. When I was first elected, we still had the Cold War, and RAF Saxford enunced was the radar dome that kept an eye on the Russians. It's coming back. Sir Stephen Hilliart, that Alexander Stewart rightly mentioned, came up to Shetland in January to view the £10 million radar dome that links to both Lossymouth and Collinsby in Lincolnshire and provides both NATO and the RAF with forward warning of the Russian aircraft that are flying close to airspace that is, in this sense, part of the UK's responsibilities under NATO. It is a source of concern, I suppose, to me and to many others, that I thought we had gone from the Cold War period. I didn't think that would ever come back when I was first elected. Here we are now today in circumstances where we are putting back radar and defence to cope with a threat that, in the modern world, I simply thought had disappeared. For that and for the role that the RAF played, I share Alexander Stewart's sentiments about the continuing role in the world that we live in. I congratulate Alexander Stewart on his speech and for giving Parliament the opportunity to commemorate and celebrate the RAF's centenary and commemorate the service given by thousands and tens of thousands of men and women over the past hundreds of years to defend their country and to participate in many other valuable tasks. Many of whom made the ultimate sacrifice. I also say that this is an opportunity to celebrate the role of the RAF in Scotland and, of course, my own perspective and my constituency of Murray. I should say that I enjoyed the BBC programme RAF 100, which was hosted by my constituent Colin MacGregor, former tornado pilot at the RAF Lossymouth, who continues to live and work in the local community. Some people might say that Elgin has a lesser-known brother, Ewan McGregor, as well. It was good that the two Scots were hosting that programme, because Scotland has had a big influence on the Royal Air Force. We should not forget that it is David Henderson, a Scot, who was set to have written a report in 1917 that went to the UK Government, making the proposal for the Royal Air Force, which was formed in 1918, but it went in the name of course of General Christian Smuts. A Scot, of course, is credited with writing that report, and we should remember that. Today, we have a Scot and a former Kilmarnock Academy pupil, Sir Stephen Hillair, who is currently the air chief marshal and chief of the air staff. The RAF has fulfilled many important duties defending our country and promoting humanitarian effort around the world over the past 100 years. Some, of course, may be controversial due to decisions taken by the political masters, but the service of the men and women has always been characterised by dedication and professionalism, and that can never be questioned. Many of the tasks have been vital, like the Berlin airlift in 1948 and 1949. By 1939, no victory on land or sea could be achieved without superiority in our skies. Of course, the Battle of Britain 1940 is, in many people's minds, what defines the achievements of the RAF and perhaps the service's high point, and, of course, the detailed landings that have not been successful in 1944 without having superiority of air cover as well. In Murray, throughout the generations, over the past 50 years and between 1,500 years, people have been used to seeing the Buccaneers, the Shackleton, the Jaguars, the Tornadoes, the Typhoons, the Nimrods and so on in the skies above our local communities. Many of those planes were part of the navy, but the one constant feature over that time has been the presence of the RAF in Murray. Today, we can still see the abandoned airfields and all the buildings and so on and so forth that places like Dalachai and Milltown that played important roles in the last war. Of course, today, we still have the RAF Lossymouth. We also had the RAF Llyconlos, which closed in 2012 as an RAF base, but today the RAF Lossymouth continues to thrive as Scotland's only operational air base. It also played an important role in the Second World War in various ways, but perhaps most famously, the 29 Lancases that took off from there in November 1944 comprising squadrons 617 and 9 sunk the turpots in Norwegian waters. As I said, the RAF Llyconlos sadly closed in 2012 after 73 years as an RAF base, but the RAF Lossymouth continues to expand. Even today, as we have been speaking, the closure of the ceremony has been taking place at the RAF Lossymouth over the cutting of the turf for the new nine P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft that are going to be based there to join the typhoons that have moved in to take over from the tornadoes, and we are also getting a new squadron soon of the typhoons as well. RAF Lossymouth has continued to play an even greater role in the defence of the country. That brings other benefits as well, such as Boeing, for instance, which is going to be building at RAF Lossymouth and creating new high-skill jobs there, so I am hoping that it will be spilled over for the local economy from that centre of excellence that will be developed over time. In closing, I just want to say that the RAF has helped to find many of Murray's communities. The former personnel, of which there are literally thousands, and the current personnel, of which there are also thousands, play a vital role in the local community, they are part of the local community, they contribute to the local community, and I hope that positive relationship continues in the future. I join other members in wishing the RAF a very happy and prosperous 100th birthday. Liz Smith, followed by David Stewart. I thank my colleague Alexander Stewart for bringing this debate to Parliament on what is undoubtedly a very historic occasion. In the War Museum in Valletta, one of the biggest visitor attractions is a Glouster Gladiator biplane known as Faith. It is the sole survivor of the trio of biplanes, Faith, Hope and Charity, whose pilots, virtually single-handedly against all the odds night after night, hour after hour, defended the tiny island of Malta in some of the darkest days of the Second World War between 1940 and 1942. For me, it is an airplane that symbolises not just the ordeal of the RAF servicemen and the people of Malta who stood courageously against the Axis nations, especially when all looked lost, but also the skill, determination and indomitable spirit, which has been the hallmark of the RAF for the whole century of its existence. Indeed, I do not think that there is anything that better exemplifies the distinctive character of the RAF, which prides itself on ensuring that all its personnel pull together as a team in order to deliver effective air power, no matter the challenges or the environment in which the squadrons may find themselves. At the recent centenary event in Holyrood, which many of us had the great privilege to attend, it was very clear that the abiding strength of the RAF, whether it is to be found in the most senior officer or in the most junior cadet, are the strength of its leadership, the expectation and the delivery of the highest professional and personal standards, and the strong strength of tradition. We all owe so much to the RAF, whether that was in the darkest hour of the Second World War, or is it combines today with the other armed services to defend this nation in an increasingly fragile world and to strengthen international peace in its stability. When seeking new recruits, the RAF says that it wants men and women whose personal qualities of integrity and respect reflect the core values of the RAF. It wants men and women who will respond to a demanding way of life, who aspire to excellence, who share a sense of duty and commitment and who recognise that the life of another person may depend on them, as might their life depend on themselves. My own interest in the RAF is as a result of my father's World War 2 service in Malta and laterally in Sicily. He was a corporal in one of the squadrons that faced the ultimate challenge of standing four square against the siege of Malta between 1940 and 1942, including many months with little food or any other comfort, which battled against all the odds to hold off the relentless bombing of Italy's regia aeronautica and then Germany's Luftwaffe. No fewer than 3,000 raids took place on Malta's towns and ports in the course of two years, with 15,000 tonnes of bombs being dropped. It was extraordinary what the RAF and indeed the people of Malta achieved as the unsinkable aircraft carrier, the term that Winston Churchill used to describe the island. Fighting alone against the Italian air force between June and October 1940, just as their colleagues were about to do battle of Britain, the six volunteers who flew the Gladiator biplanes, Faith, Hope and Charity were the epitome of the RAF and all that is meant to this country. As members know, the combined determination of Churchill and the chiefs of the air defence staff in the face of pressure from France to sell out on Malta was the reason that the Allies were subsequently able to defeat the Axis in the Mediterranean that the second battle of El Alamein in November 1942 was successful, which in turn allowed Allied landings in Morocco and Algeria in Operation Torch. Little wonder, then, that the RAF was held in such high, precious regard. In the modern era, RAF officers and their families would be the first to admit that so much is owed by the supportive charities, the RAF Association, the RAF Benevolent Fund, the RAF Charitable Trust and the RAF Museum. I was personally delighted to learn that, thanks to the assistance of those charities in order to mark the centenary, the 14 war memorials dedicated to airmen from the first and second world wars will now have heritage protection, including those that commemorate the most decorated world war one pilot and the first pilot to shoot down a German zeppelin. I was also delighted to learn that, in the centenary year, the RAF is supporting a new programme designed to encourage far more young people into STEM subjects in Scotland. Something that we know from the evidence in schools, colleges and universities is so desperately needed and that, in a very short timescale, I hope that that will happen. The journey from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal National Air Service on 1 April 1918, when each had just around 100 aircraft, balloons and airships, to the high-tech service that the RAF is today, is quite remarkable. In the excellent documentary recently presented by Ewan and Colin MacGregor, whose parents live in Persia just a few miles away from me, the 100 years of technical change has been shown in its fullest measure. But so, too, was the dedication, the professionalism and the heroism of RAF veterans who were interviewed. We all owe them so very much. That biplane faith, which stands alone but proudly in Valletta's War Museum, will, for me, remain the enduring symbol of the RAF. It is their courage, their will to win and their spirit, now being passed down through the generations that is the mainstay of the RAF. And indeed, in this country, we must celebrate this centenary. Presiding Officer, I want to congratulate Alexander Stewart for securing this afternoon's debate and for his comprehensive and very thoughtful speech. The message that will resound across the chamber today is that we all owe a debt of gratitude and honour to the RAF and the role that they play in the defence of our nation. I would echo Poppy Scotland's words when they say, we thank all those who have served, are still serving and their families for their service and sacrifice. Presiding Officer, a little more than eight years ago, I brought to the chamber a member's debate to discuss concerns about the possible closure of RAF King loss. The cross-party campaign was supported by all the party leaders at the time, Alex Salmond, Annabelle Goldie, Tavish Scott and Ian Gray. I argued then and I argued today that armed forces personnel have a social covenant with our country at times of peace and at times of war. During times of conflict, I always remember the lines from John Maxwell Emmons that are repeated every remembering Sunday across Scotland and beyond. When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today. The importance of the social covenant was best illustrated to me 26 years ago when the American naval base at Danone closed with the loss of 1500 American personnel. The local community rallied round and set up a dynamic economic committee that received European and government funding support to diversify the economy and provide new jobs. Like most members in the chamber today, my interest in this debate is personal. My father did his national service with the RAF King loss as a fresh-faced 18-year-old over 70 years ago. During my last year of school in the Highlands, I thought seriously about joining the RAF, but instead I chose the less hard-ass conflict zone that comes with clear in politics. However, during my time in Westminster from 1997, I relished the opportunity to serve for the RAF for two terms as part of the armed forces parliamentary scheme. I want to put in record my thanks to my friend Sir Neil Thorn for his initiative in setting up the scheme in Westminster. Of course, I welcome the scheme that we have in the Scottish Parliament, and I hope that members from all sides of the chamber will volunteer to take part in it. During my involvement with the Westminster programme, I had direct experience of RAF King loss and Lossy Mouth, as well as a memorable week in Basra in Iraq, which is still etched in my memory. As part of the scheme, I flew in a Tornado fast jet, a Nimrod Marsheim aircraft and a Sea King search and rescue helicopter. On my last day with the RAF, the Sea King was involved and had to attend an emergency in Glencoe. I vividly remember flying a few hundred feet above Loch Ness on the way to Glencoe and observed at first hand the bravery, expertise and professionalism and the pilots and the windscrew as they saved the life of a young Swiss mountaineer who had fallen and suffered severe facial injuries. My experience was a brief snapshot, but it gave me tremendous admiration for the armed forces and for veterans. We should always remember that people do not stay in the armed forces forever and are responsible to people who have served our country and does not stop when they leave the service. The covenant that we make with those in service community does not stop when they rejoin civilian life. It is also important that we bear in mind that as a country we have invested a great deal of money in training our servicemen and women and that, although we have a duty to ensure that they are looked after, we have a duty to ensure that the investment in skills and training is not lost to society. That is just one reason why it is so important that we ensure a high-quality transition from the services to civilian life. I warmly welcome the debate to mark and salute the centenary of the RAF. The RAF 100 will have a wide-ranging group of community, regional and national events. Let us all unite today and congratulate the RAF and praise the personnel of the past, the present and the future. Thank you. The last of the open debate contributions is from Maurice Corry. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I am delighted to speak in today's debate to mark the 100th anniversary of the armed forces youngest and most prestigious military branch. I reminded of the comment of the RAF representative at the recent Armed Forces and Veterans Community Cross Party group this week, who said that although they are the youngest service branch, they are the best-looking. Being a former British Army officer, I could not possibly agree with such a comment, but, nevertheless, I admire their spirit and determination. Nevertheless, I thank the RAF for the many times that I have flown with them, particularly to and from operational areas and within it, with the RAF support command over the years. Today, I would like to thank my colleague, Alexander Stewart, for bringing forward this member's debate on such an auspicious occasion. It is right that we take a moment to pay our respect to the esteemed organisation of our RAF, our Royal Air Force, and those who have and have the privilege of serving in the ranks. Despite being the youngest service, it does have a proud and a very Scottish record. It is demonstrated from the earliest days of the RAF in having Britain's first operational air station near Montrose and during the Battle of Britain as the RAF stood as a final line of defence against the Nazi invasion led by the Scotsman, Air Chief Marshal Hugh Douding, and in more recent times the RAF's response to the Russian threats against our airspace, which has been based out of Scotland and the RAF Lossimouth. I want to speak a bit more about the modern RAF in Scotland. Of course, it is its main operating base in Lossimouth and Murray, and it is growing with the additional support of the squadron of typhoon fighters on the way alongside the new P-8 Alpha Poseidon aircraft, which is also to be based there. All great news for that part of the country, as it means more investment in jobs than local community, to which Richard Lochhead so rightly referred. I am sure that that will include the new STEM programme, as well, which my colleague Liz Smith referred to earlier on in this debate. Lossimouth is a central part of the defence arrangements for the UK and it is home to the quick reaction alert units, whose job is to defend our airspace from incursion, in particular from the Russians. It also plays a part in our responsibility to our NATO allies by being part of the Baltic air policing effort, again deterring operations from the Russian state. Alongside a host of our activities and work, such as providing planes and men for the operations in the Falkland Islands, operation shader in the Middle East as host for exercise joint warrior and also hosting a mountain rescue team in Scotland. There is a lot of happening in just that one location, but Lossimouth is not the only RAF presence in Scotland. It stretches right across the nation. Scotland is home to four of the RAF reserves squadrons, namely the 602 City of Glasgow squadron, 603 City of Edinburgh squadron, 612 County of Aberdeen squadron and 2622 Highlands squadron. They provide a number of vital areas of the RAF emissions support, force protection, police and the RAF regiment and medical support. Of course, as the military comes to rely more and more on the reserves, the importance of those units to the RAF can never be underestimated. Scotland is also the home of number six flying training school, which gives flight training to both the RAF universities air squadrons and the air experience flight, which both give young people the opportunity to learn to fly and give them an insight look into what a career the RAF could entail. Finally, the RAF is also reopening the radar head at Saks of Oil, which my colleague Tavish Scott referred to in the Shetland Islands, which is a welcome investment of £10 million and will keep our country really safe. Having experienced and served up there some years ago in Inside Right, I know fully well what the job it has to carry out, which is extremely important in protecting NATO and our force from the Shetland Islands right through to Turkey. Deputy designing officer, as you can see, the RAF history with Scotland is very deep and meaningful, and the RAF has a very real commitment in Scotland today. I am sure that its future will be well connected very strongly as our country today and as well in the future. I now call Keith Brown to respond to the debate around seven minutes, please, cabinet secretary. I thank you also to Alexander Stewart for tabling the debate. I am delighted that it has been a very supportive and interesting debate in the chamber, which continues to recognise the work of all of our armed forces, but in this case particularly the RAF, both past and present. We are celebrating the formation of the RAF on 1 April 1918, the first independent air force in the world. Also born out of necessity a hundred years ago, the Royal Air Force continues to lead the way, as we have heard, whether that being combating modern threats to our security or delivering humanitarian aid around the world. Essentially, we are in the midst of a terrible conflict, the likes of which is quite difficult to understand and envisage today. Towards the end of the First World War, the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy air service were merged to form the Royal Air Force, and during the Second World War, the RAF expanded, as you would expect very quickly, with aerial defence provided, among other things, by the elegant and instantly recognisable aircraft, the Hawker Hurricane and also the Super Marine Spitfire, including of course during the battle of Britain, which has been mentioned by a number of members. Today, the RAF continues to defend our security and airspace through the quick reaction alert capability 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from RAF Lossymouth and RAF Connings Bay. As well as being the home, though, to the quick reaction alert north, RAF Lossymouth in Murray is also home to three squadrons of typhoons, and I am sure that local communities are looking forward to welcoming more RAF personnel and families with the arrival of a further typhoon squadron, and, as has been mentioned by Maurice Corry, the Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. The RAF family in Scotland, of course, extendens well beyond the communities in Murray, with the presence maintained at Lucas and Fife, and two Royal Auxiliary Air Force squadrons based in the central bell, all of whom have a warm relationship and close ties to their local communities. During that to 100 years, as you would expect, the RAF has changed a great deal. The women's Royal Air Force was created on 1 April 1918 at the same time as the RAF following the formation of the women's Auxiliary Army Service and the women's Royal Naval Service in 1917. The First World War also saw the formation of separate women's services for the first time, and women, of course, played an integral role during the First World War, and although the three services were subsequently disbanded, they were quickly reformed for the Second World War. In the 1990s, the separate women's services were subsumed into the main services. I mean, I see women work alongside their male counterparts in many very roles. The RAF has now opened all roles to women, the first of the three services to do so. The Royal Navy, of course, has had women's service at sea since 1990, and the army has lifted the ban on women's service in close combat roles. Many of the contributions today have drawn on the personal experience of individual members and at the risk of boring some of those who attended the event that we had with the RAF hosted by the Presiding Officer a couple of weeks ago. I will just recount briefly my experience. I think that if I had three times I have been obliged to hitch a lift with the RAF and the first of those was returning from the Fault in Darn's Conflict in 1982, when we got a lift back from Ascension Island to RAF Lookers. I do remember as a shy, modest retiring marine not wanting to mention the fact that the chairs were all facing the wrong way on the aircraft, but there was very good reason for that for health and safety reasons. At the second time, I was on a trip to Norway again from RAF Lookers, and what struck me at the time—perhaps it's unremarkable for the RAF—was the ability to land the Hercules aircraft on a completely snow-bound airport, the skill that that involved was remarkable. The last and perhaps most memorable time was to have a chance to go into a tornado, as Dave Stewart had done, which followed on from the RAF coming to the Parliament here, having an open day and winning a ballot to be the person in the MSP that got to go up in the tornado. To my extreme disappointment, I passed a medical with flying colours, which meant that the pilot could do whatever he wanted, having to observe the 200m floor, but everything else was open. Usually, the next question that follows is followed by the answer three times, and I will not go into that any more. However, what struck me at the event was the modest, understated manner and very evident competence of the pilot, professionalism of that pilot, the way that he did various things in there without really thinking about it to any great extent. Such was the level of training and practice that had been experienced both over the North Sea and on mainland Scotland. It is very impressive, the personnel that is being produced by the RAF. Building on the success that we have seen, we have now Eric Fraser in the role as Veterans Commissioner here in Scotland. A number of members have mentioned, in particular, Dave Stewart, the need to capitalise on the skills the investment that the country makes and the skills and the competencies of our service personnel, particularly the RAF. Going back to the points that were made by Richard Lochhead, I was struck by two RAF personnel who left the RAF but stayed in Lossiemouth, developed a product that was then able to go into the American defence market and have created a business there. Maurice Corry and I have talked about this on a number of occasions. We really have to do much more of that to keep that huge level of concentration of skills, keep it in the local area for the benefit of the local area. The RAF, along with the other services, provides career opportunities for engineers, aircrew, medics and many other professions. Service personnel gain a variety of transferable skills during their military careers. Often, some of our job, and I know that this is true for Maurice Corry as well, is trying to tell some service personnel how experienced, how capable and how useful the skills are that they have gained, how relevant they are to Civvie Street. Many of those skills are in very high demand in commercial organisations throughout Scotland, perhaps even more so for RAF personnel than other personnel. I am keen for every part that the Scottish—yes, of all the years. Whilst you are on the subject of skills gained, would you join me in congratulating the RAF on the work that it does with young people? We actually have the biggest air cadet organisation in the world and I was fortunate to serve as a flight attendant as a squadron commander with the air training corps. I have to say that the RAF does a superb job in supporting young people. In this year of the young people, I think that it is particularly fitting that we celebrate RAF 100 and the year of the young people that same time. Keith Brown I would certainly agree and point out that I am wearing the year of the young people badge today, but I could also say that my twin nieces both served with the air cadets. Not with any intention of actually going on for a military career, but they got a fantastic amount of experience that they had, so we are certainly joining the commendation of what the cadet service does. For my part, I am very keen that the Scottish Government continues to focus to help people leaving the armed forces, put those valuable skills into practice, and to succeed in their chosen career. As we mentioned already, I think by Alexander Stewart, that on 10 July, in London, the RAF will be on show for a centenary parade and flypast, and I am sure that there will be an excellent celebration and a fitting testament to all serving personnel taking part and to the many RAF veterans who will turn out in support. Many events are also planned for Scotland, including the Scottish National Air Show, an RAF family's garden party, and many STEM events, science, technology, engineering and maths for young Scots, to encourage the take-up of those subjects in their schools. For my part, I am very pleased that I have been provided with the opportunity to pay tribute to the many women of the Royal Air Force in this centenary year. It will be for them a busy and exciting time with many events, both official and unofficial. I would imagine that most fun has to be had at those unofficial events, some of which Tavish Scott referred to, and they will stoke up many memories for the years to come. I would encourage all those who are able to do so to become involved in those events and to enjoy the well-deserved spotlight on the RAF. I hope that the chamber will join me in congratulating the RAF on reaching its centenary and to wish it, as Alexander Stewart has done, to continue success for the next 100 years. That concludes the debate, and the meeting is suspended until half-past 2.


Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food and I am here today with another unboxing from 50 States of Mind. Now this is the third box that I have received from this company and I will make sure to link the other two videos in the description box so you can check those out. But if you're not familiar, 50 States of Mind, they send you a box from a state each month and they send you special food items or little knick-knacky things from small business owners in that state. So this month the state is Florida and I'll jump right in. I did want to mention that in each box they send you a description of the companies that are in that box and the item from that company. So the first thing in the box is from a company called Wonder Maid and these are flavored marshmallows. This company was founded in 2011 by a husband and wife. So I'm not going to actually be tasting anything. I just want to show you all what's in there. So this is the front of the box and this is the back of the box right here and the next thing is a sucker from World Honey Mart. So this looks pretty good. It's a honey sucker and it's made with pure raw honey. So that looks pretty tasty. The next thing in the box is, oh this is pretty, Honey Bell Marmalade and this is from a company called Davidson of Dundee and they're located in Dundee, Florida and they are a family of citrus growers and they make all sorts of treats from oranges, tangerines and grapefruit and they also make chocolates and things like that. So got this and it looks so good. See that? Okay. So the next thing is also from Davidson of Dundee. It is assorted citrus delicacy candies. So here they are and I can actually smell. I smell it through the bag. It smells really good. So I got that and then I got something from the Naples Soap Company. It is a Florida key lime bar and I love soaps and lotions and stuff like that. So this is right at my alley. It has a very faint lime scent and it's a pretty decent size bar, four and a half ounces. So excited about this one. And then the next item is from Anastasia's Confections and this is what it looks like. They've been around since 1984 and this is a coconut cashew crunch. No, coconut patty. It says creamy coconut with rich dark chocolatey coating. Oh and it's key lime flavor. I didn't see that. See it's key lime. So I got that and then the next thing is from Naples Popcorn Company and this is a mix of corn, I'm sorry, of cheese corn and caramel corn. So I love popcorn and I love those flavors. So excited about this and then the very last thing in the box is from a company called Handcrafted Gifts. It's a little trinket box. Let me see if I can open it for you guys and this is what it looks like. It has a little fish on it. It's a little wooden trinket box. So that's that. All right guys, so that is everything in the box. I hope you all enjoyed this video. If you did, please make sure to give us a thumbs up and if you have not subscribed to our channel, I certainly hope you'll do so. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time.