Good morning, and welcome to the first meeting of the Covid-19 recovery committee in the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament. My name is John Mason and I am convening the committee for the first two items because, as it turns out, I am the oldest member of the committee. I have to say that that was something of a shock to learn that. However, there we are. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all members to the committee and say that I look forward to working with you. For new members, I have to say that I find one of the most fulfilling things that I do in Parliament is the committee work and working with colleagues across the parties and with our clerks and with advisers and experts coming to meet us. I personally am very much looking forward to this committee and the months ahead. Before we move to the first item on the agenda, I remind everyone to please switch off their mobile phones or at least switch them to silent. We have no apologies from any members. We have all six members present here today. I now turn to the substantive business for this agenda item, which is the declaration of interests. If I can start with myself, I have no relevant interests to declare. I will now go through each member in alphabetical order and ask them to make a declaration. Can I remind members that you do not need to touch your microphone? That will be handled by broadcasting. First, Siobhan Brown will be followed by Jim Fairlie. Thank you, chair. Good morning, committee. My declaration says, per my register of interest, that I am a councillor at South Asia Council. Until May 7, when I resigned, I was a part-time caseworker for Alan Dorn's MP for Air Carat and Comic. Thank you, Siobhan. I will now turn to Jim and he will be followed by Murdo. Good morning, committee members and good morning everyone that is watching. I am going to just say I am delighted to be on this committee. I have no register of interest in this committee. Thank you very much, Jim. I will now go to Murdo Fraser to be followed by Alec Rowley. Thank you, acting committee. You are doing a fine job so far. Can I refer to my register of interest? I am a member of the Law Society of Scotland, although not currently practicing as a solicitor, and I own some property from which I derive rental income. Thank you very much, Murdo. I will now come to Alec Rowley and then after him, Brian Whittle. Thank you very much, John. I have no relevant interest to be clear. Thanks, Alec. Finally, Brian Whittle. Thank you, convener. I also have no interest relevant to this committee. Thanks very much, Brian, and everyone else. That concludes the first item on our agenda. The second item is to choose the convener for the committee. The procedure is explained in the papers that have been circulated. The Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish National Party are eligible for nomination as convener of this committee. The nomination of a candidate for this post does not require a seconder to support the nomination. Motion S6M-00393 confirms that it is to be a member of the Scottish National Party. Could I please invite a member of that party to nominate a candidate for this post? I will nominate Siobhan Brown. Thanks, Jim. Are there any other nominations? As there are no other nominations, I confirm that the committee has chosen that Siobhan Brown to be our convener. If anyone disagrees with that, it could be type N in the chat bar, please. As I see no one is objecting, I congratulate Siobhan Brown on being selected as the convener of the Covid-19 recovery committee. I now hand over to her for the rest of the meeting. Thank you, John. It is a true honour to be selected as convener of this really important committee. I believe that we should all take comfort that at least the word recovery is in the name of the committee, but we are all acutely aware of the responsibility that we all have on our roles in this committee, not only to Parliament but to all the people in Scotland as we work our way through the journey of recovery. I am really looking forward to working together with the works and all members. We are moving on to agenda item 3, which is a choice of deputy convener. In accordance with motion S6M-00393, the Parliament has agreed that a member of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist party shall be nominated for the post of deputy convener. Could I please invite a member of that party to nominate a candidate for this post? I ask any member wishing to make a nomination to please type R in the chat bar to request to speak. Brian Whittle, I would like to nominate Murdo Fraser. Thank you for the nomination. Do we agree Murdo Fraser as our deputy convener? If anybody does not agree, please put an N in the chat now. I think that we all agreed that Murdo Fraser is elected as deputy convener. Congratulations, Murdo, and I know that you bring a wealth of experience to the committee, and welcome you and look forward to working together. I look forward to working with you and the other members of the committee in the weeks and months ahead. Moving forward to agenda item 4 is our approach to developing a work programme. The next agenda item is consideration of our approach to the work programme. Members will see that clerks and spies have provided some background information regarding the committee's remit. Members have also been provided with a copy of a session 5 Covid-19 committee's legacy report. Members will see that there is a suggestion that we delay making longer-term plans for the committee's work programme until after the summer recess, when we will know more about the other committee's priorities for scrutinising Scotland's Covid recovery and the Covid situation more generally. There are two action points for the committee to consider in paper 3 on the work programme in the meantime. First, there is a suggestion that we may wish to hear from the cabinet secretary for Covid-19 recovery in early course after the summer recess. The purpose of this session would be to provide an update on the Scottish Government's priorities and commitments for responding to Covid-19. The second suggestion in the paper is for the clerks to arrange a business planning session towards the end of the summer recess, during which we could explore our remit and scrutiny priorities in more detail. I invite members to comment on those two suggestions and to provide any other general comments about our remit or areas that you may wish the committee to explore further at future business planning sessions. Murdo, if you would like to go first, to the convener. Thank you, convener, and I thank the clerks and the SPICE for putting together the background papers that are very helpful. I would just like to support the two proposals that we have there. Clearly, we are about to go into recess for the summer. By the time we come back at the beginning of September, the world may have changed quite significantly, and I think that getting an update as soon as possible thereafter from the cabinet secretary would be very useful, and that will help to guide our future programme. In terms of broader topics, I think that looking at the economic situation with Covid recovery will be important, and indeed we will be looking at the situation in the health service, but I think that we have to be conscious of the fact that we do not want to overlap any work that other committees in this Parliament are doing. For that reason, I am sure that our clerks will be lazing with the clerks to other relevant committees to make sure that we are keeping abreast of what they are doing and not duplicating any work that they are planning to do. I am sure that they will do that at work, and when we get together in late August, that will give us a good steer as the sort of areas where we could usefully provide a contribution and which areas would be less useful. Thank you, convener. I think that we have broadly brought to what Murdoff said. One of my interests on top of that is how we ensure that, in parts of our recovery, our population gets access to physical and mental health issues. How do we kickstart the world of sport, for example, the world of physical activity? How do we ensure that that is part of mental health? How do we ensure that everybody gets access to mental health? I am warning everybody in advance that that is the direction of travel that I am interested in, and that would be part of what we do. Thank you, Brian. Is there any other members who would like to contribute, if they would like to put an R in the chat? John Mason? Thanks very much, convener. I echo what Murdoff said about the other committees. I am still just a little bit unclear myself where our remit ends and other committees start, because I know that I am also in the finance committee, and they will be looking at the budget impact of Covid, and I assume that the Economy, Economy and Health Committee will be doing similarly. My assumption is that we are doing all the stuff that the previous Covid committee did, looking at the vaccination programme and looking at any new variants. If something happens over the next two months during July and August—obviously, we hope that it does not—if a new variant comes up and there is a delay in the vaccination programme, would there be an option in exceptional circumstances for the committee to meet during recess if there really was a need? My suggestion would be that we would be happy for the convener and vice convener to make that decision. I think that that is my only question. I also very much support the idea of a planning day or business day, and hopefully we could meet in person, because I think that that is helpful for the committee, and it allows us to throw ideas around and do a bit of brainstorming, which I think would be good at the end of August. We are all probably going to say exactly the same things. There is definitely going to be a consideration of where the crossovers are. The specific areas that I was thinking about before we started this conversation were the economy, which sectors of the economy, hospitality, travel, health, and what areas of those are actually going to be specifically related to us. With that in mind, we should really be looking for regular updates from the clerks and the ministers who are relevant to those portfolios, and echoing what John said, we should be available to reconvene at any time if anything does happen. However, there are specific areas in the sections that I have just mentioned just now, which I would like us to be focusing on if it turns out that those are actually within our remit. Thank you, convener. I felt a bit compelled that I should say something, if nobody else did. However, I think that there are a few areas that we should be considering if nobody else did. I watched the select committee and Westminster in their interviews with Mr Cummings recently. It is easy to be a Professor behind sight, as has been said before in the Parliament, but it is clear that Governments in the UK were not prepared for a pandemic, and you might say well why would they be. However, to make the mistake once is one thing, but not to make it twice. Therefore, there are issues around how Governments prepare, and how do we in Scotland prepare, given that we are told by scientists that this could become more frequent. Are we better prepared? There is that issue. The issue that Jim mentioned there, I think that it is about—I would actually like to see us get something quite early in the committee when we come back on this. It is really strange out there, because you can go into some places and you meet some people and it is almost like everything is back to normal. For some industries, for some key sectors, that is the case. Indeed, there are people who have worked throughout that. However, there are other sectors where clearly it is not back to normal and it is not going to be back to normal any time soon, so aviation comes to mind as I think one that. Absolutely jumps to it, yes. Who knows where we are going to be? I think that it is those sectors, the sectors that Jim has such an interest in, but all those sectors where we need to know what challenges are facing and what key sectors are worst at. I think that we need to know, because the Government needs to know that fairly quickly. Where will the additional support be needed? Even if we did open up and got back to zero later in this year, there will still be sectors that will be absolutely struggling. I think that the committee having a better understanding of that would help us in our work and help us to focus on holding the Government to account and supporting those sectors. Thanks, convener. Thanks, Alex. I think that you raised some really valid points there as well. Just moving back to the suggestion that during recent recess, as we know with Covid, it is a very fluid situation and hopefully we will not be called back. Are members happy in agreement that if there was an emergency situation that we could reconvene during recess? Everybody happy? I will speak to the clerks about that and they will be in touch with members. Is there any other comments that members would like to make? Going back to what Alex was saying, we want that certain sectors have been specifically and very detrimentously affected by what has happened. I think that it would also be very useful. I think that this is something that the committees have done. Forgive me if I am being naïve. It would be useful to get the people who are directly affected. Whether it is the people who run the airports, hospitality events, big festivals or restaurants or hotels, we want to hear from them so that we know exactly what it is that they need in order to recover. The point that Alex made was that it is recovery. How do we recover from that? We need to know from those industry bodies what it is that they need to recover. One of the things that is probably going to come up in health is how do people recover from long Covid? I do not know if we will touch on that, but it is something that I know that we have learned about 80,000 people who are now living with long Covid. Do we look at that? Do we have to include that in our remit as we go forward? Getting real-life experiences is vital to taking the committee forward. I am in agreement with that. I wonder if there might be a bit of a blur between the health committee and ourselves, but I am sure that the clerks will direct us in the right direction regarding our remit. Is there any other member who wants to contribute? Thank you for all your comments. We are all agreed to hold a business planning session and to take evidence from the first deputy minister in due course. The clerks will take notes of the suggestions of the business planning day and will provide further information and arrangements of members in due course. Thank you to everybody. That concludes our first meeting of the Covid-19 recovery committee. I now close the meeting. Thank you.


Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. Welcome, Weirdos. I'm Darren Marlar and this is a Weird Darkness bonus bite. After more than 23 years, last Friday, an arrest was finally made in the Long Island serial killer case. Rex Hoyerman has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder. I'm going to tell you the story as it's written by our friends at the lineup who have been covering the case for more than a decade and I'll place a link to the original story in the show notes. The whole story began with a 911 call. A panicked woman inside a stranger's home, someone more than one person is after her, trying to kill her. Two men's voices can be heard in the background. The woman screams. She runs out of the house. Her cell phone, still in her hand, still connected to 911, records everything. The desperate pounding on neighbors' doors, the cries for help, the sound of flip-flops on pavement as she flees into the pre-dawn darkness of Oak Beach Long Island. After 23 minutes, the call cuts out. In the early morning of May 1, 2010, the last time anyone sees Shannon Gilbert alive. Seven months later, a Suffolk County police detective training his canine makes a grisly discovery. Skeletal remains wrapped in a burlap sack and buried in the sand next to Ocean Parkway, the road that leads to Ocean Beach. But it's not Shannon. The remains belong to someone else, so the police keep searching along a quarter-mile stretch between undeveloped Gilgo Beach and the gated community of Ocean Beach. They uncover three more burlap sacks, three more bodies. None of them, Shannon's. The search for one missing person would soon end the search for four others and start a desperate chase for the Long Island serial killer. Like Shannon, the young women discovered in December 2010 were escorts who had advertised their services on Craigslist and Backpage.com. They were in their 20s, petite and willing to go on outcalls to meet clients. Marine Brainerd Barnes went missing in July 2007. Melissa Barthelamy was last seen in July 2009. Megan Waterman disappeared in June 2010. Amber Lynn Costello left for a date in September 2010 and never came home. The police still looking for Shannon, continued to comb through the marshes and thick bramble alongside Ocean Parkway. By April 2011, they discovered six more sets of remains. Four women, the toddler daughter of one of the women and an Asian man dressed in women's clothing. Two sets of remains were eventually connected to female torsos that had been discovered years prior in the woods near Mannerville, a town 45 miles east of Gilgo Beach. Another was linked to a pair of severed legs that had been found in a garbage bag on Fire Island in 1996. Ten bodies, ten mysterious, violent deaths, evidence linking each of the nine adult victims five identified or unknown to the sex trade. It was a nightmare come true. A serial killer or killers have been using the remote barrier islands off the south shore of Long Island as his dumping grounds, but police still didn't know what happened to Shannon. In the end, she wasn't far from where she'd last been seen. On December 6, 2011, 19 agonizing months after she called 911, police discovered Shannon's purse, jeans, shoes and cell phone in a swamp on the eastern edge of Orchard Beach. A week later and a quarter mile deeper into the marsh, they found her. In perhaps the most bizarre development in a case full of them, Suffolk County detectives quickly determined that Shannon's death was not connected to the other ten. Their theory, supported by the testimony of the two men whose voices can be heard on the 911 call, Michael Pack, her bodyguard and driver and Joseph Brewer, the client who paid her to come to Orchard Beach was that Shannon had been suffering from a bipolar episode or in a drug induced panic when she ran through the neighborhood screaming for help. Disoriented, she entered the swamp and stumbled through it for more than half a mile before she collapsed and drowned or died of exposure. Death by misadventure, the police called it. In the definitive book about the early years of the investigation, Lost Girls and Unsolved American Mystery, which I will link to in the show notes, journalist Robert Kolker notes that the official explanation of Shannon's death was practically Victorian in its view of prostitutes, as if she had died of sorrow or fright or sadness or heartache. Police seemed to be saying that Shannon Gilbert had died because her soul had been wrecked asunder by a life in the streets. Shannon's mother, for one, wasn't buying it, and she had reason not to. Two days after Shannon disappeared, Marie Gilbert received a phone call from a man who identified himself as Dr. Peter Hackett. The former surgeon with the Suffolk County Police Department said that he lived in Orchard Beach where he ran a home for wayward girls. Shannon, he claimed, was recovering under his care. Three days later, Marie heard from Hackett again. This time, however, he said that not only had he never had any contact with Shannon, he'd never called Marie in the first place. Phone records proved the latter claim to be untrue and when Shannon's body was eventually recovered, Marie became convinced that Hackett was somehow involved. His property led directly to the swamp where her daughter was found. His former colleagues at the police department were equally certain that Hackett had nothing to do with Shannon's death or any of the others. His wife and children were home with him on the night Shannon went missing and besides, he had a history of making false claims about his involvement in police matters and other newsworthy events. Michael Pack and Joseph Brewer were also cleared of wrongdoing. Their accounts of Shannon's disappearance fit the official version of events and neither could be connected to any of the other victims. Suffolk County detectives were back to square one. So they put Shannon's death in a box labeled Cruel Twists of Fate and turned their attention to the four women found in December 2010, the Gilgo Four as they came to be known. These women had names, boyfriends who were with them in the days and nights before they disappeared, clients who found their ads on Craigslist and Backpage.com, families who filed missing persons reports when they never came home. But the women had secrets too. Melissa Barthelomy refused to let her on-again, off-again boyfriend drive her to Long Island the night she disappeared. Amberlynn Costello's roommate, Dave Shaler, knew that she spoke to the same man three or four times on the night she went missing and that she finally agreed to meet him for $1,500, a much higher amount than usual. But Dave didn't know the man's name or where he lived. And not all missing persons reports are treated the same way. A child disappears from the bus stop, it's national news. A prostitute doesn't come home the morning after a date, nobody cares. The fact is investigators didn't put much effort into finding Marine, Melissa, Megan and Amber when they were first reported missing. They were sex workers and drug users, women who willingly put their lives at risk for a few hundred dollars. It wasn't until they were found buried in the sand at Gilgo Beach that anybody thought to look for connections between them or conduct extensive interviews with their friends and acquaintances or carefully examine their phone and internet records. By then, the trail had gone cold. The most tantalizing piece of evidence was a series of phone calls made to Melissa Bartholomew's sister Amanda in the weeks after her disappearance. Seven calls made from Melissa's own cell phone, each lasting less than three minutes. The same voice every time.  Quote, do you think you'll ever speak to her again? The man asked Amanda in his final call. A few seconds later, he answered his own question.  Then he hung up. The calls were made from busy locations near Midtown Manhattan and Massapequa, New York. On more than one occasion, police pinpointed the cell phone's signal and used surveillance cameras to try to identify the caller. But it was fruitless. The locations were too crowded, too full of people on cell phones. The caller seemed to be taunting, not just Amanda but police as well. If he was indeed the killer, his awareness of criminal investigative techniques matched certain clues about the murders. Like the fact that on the nights they disappeared, each of the Gilgoth Four received calls from untraceable burner phones, and that some of the women had left their own cell phones behind when they went to meet their dates, as if they were doing so at someone's request. Investigators even surmised that the location of the dumping site, which straddles Suffolk and Nassau counties, might have been chosen to exploit the rivalries and miscommunications that often occur between police departments. But there wasn't much else to go on. Only six of the ten sets of remains were positively identified. The bodies were in various states of decomposition, making it difficult to pinpoint time and manner of death. DNA evidence appeared to be scarce or non-existent. Police initially suspected that multiple killers had used the Gilgoth Beach area as a dumping ground, before concluding that all ten corpses were likely the work of one man, a sophisticated and elusive serial murderer whose methods evolved over a 15-year period. Detectives wouldn't say it on the record, but they were beginning to suspect that they were hunting one of their own, a cop or ex-cop, someone with extensive knowledge of law enforcement techniques, a frightening possibility, although it helped to explain how he went undetected for so long and why he stopped when Shannon Gilbert called 911. Or did he stop? Several years passed since Shannon Gilbert's desperate night in Ocean Beach led to the discovery that a serial killer was terrorizing Long Island. After the initial media frenzy died down, Suffolk County police went silent. They told reporters and family members that the matter was still under investigation, but refused to say more. In the absence of official developments, amateur sleuths set out to solve the case. They poured over autopsy reports, phone records, police statements, psychological reports and maps, and posted comments on sites such as websleuths.com and Reddit. In some cases, their theories were so detailed and convincing that they informed the work of investigative journalists such as Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills, whose A&E documentary series, The Killing Season, is a must-watch for anyone interested in the case. Other noteworthy reporting on LISC has been done by 48 Hours, People Magazine investigates, Rolling Stone and Vice. In recent years, a few tantalizing clues have emerged. The first involves disgraced former Suffolk County police chief James Burke, who led the department from 2011 until 2015 when he was arrested for beating a robbery suspect and interfering with the ensuing investigation. Burke had long been rumored to have blocked FBI efforts to aid in the Long Island Serial Killer Investigation, or LISC, investigation, and shortly before he went to prison in 2016, an online escort came forward to claim that she had had rough sex with the police chief at two cocaine-fueled parties held in an Oak Beach house in 2011. The FBI continued to investigate the tangled web of corruption that surrounded Burke at the Suffolk County Police Department, could it lead back to the Long Island Serial Killer, or to the truth about Shannon's death? The other even more promising avenue of investigation points to the direction of a Long Island man who is already serving two consecutive 25-year-to-life sentences for murder. In 2014, John Biltroff, a carpenter and married father of two, was linked by DNA to Rita Tengredi and Colleen McNamee, two sex workers whose bodies were found in Suffolk County in 1993 and 1994, respectively. Biltroff lived near Manorville, New York, a few miles from the spot where the torsos of two women found near Ocean Parkway in 2011 were initially discovered years prior. Biltroff's lawyer denied that his client was the Long Island Serial Killer, but Suffolk County prosecutor Robert Biencivilla said in 2017 that Biltroff was a suspect in at least one of the murders. The police have neither confirmed nor denied Biencivilla's statement, but reporters had amateur sleuths have helped to fill in some of the gaps. In 2017, Melissa Bartholomew's mother said that her daughter had a lot of calls to Manorville from her phone in the period before she went missing. And in what could be either an eerie coincidence or a circumstantial proof that Biltroff, an avid hunter, stalked his victims and has a higher body count than is currently known, Melissa's best friend at the time of her death was Rita Tengretti's grown daughter. In some ways, it felt as if the solution to the case of the Long Island Serial Killer was close at hand. The breakthrough in the Golden State Killer investigation, which relied on the latest DNA matching technologies, had given hope to cold case detectives all over America. After the Suffolk County police cleaned house in the wake of James Burke's arrest, the FBI officially joined the Long Island Serial Killer investigation, bringing new resources and the most advanced profiling techniques to bear. No one in the public knew how much evidence they'd gathered at that point, how close they were to declaring the case closed. Viewed from another angle, however, the mystery was more baffling than ever. Why, for instance, were law enforcement officials still refusing to release the tape of Shannon Gilbert's 911 call? If her death was indeed accidental and was not part of the larger Long Island Serial Killer investigation, what were detectives trying to hide? And what to make of the independent autopsy paid for by the Gilbert family, which concluded that Shannon did not drown but was likely strangled to death? Was it a red herring or proof that her death and the Long Island murders were connected after all? In January 2020, investigators shared a previously undisclosed piece of evidence in hopes of revealing new leads in the Long Dormant case. The photographic evidence depicted a black leather belt found at one of the crime scenes, a picture of which you can see by clicking the link to the story in the show notes. In Boston, the belt of the letters WH or HM depending on the angle you view it from. Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart declined to say just where investigators recovered the belt, which one of the victims it was linked to or even the belt's size. She did clarify, however, that investigators believed the belt was handled by the suspect and that it did not belong to any of the victims. Could this be the clue that finally breaks the case? Only one thing is for certain, someone perhaps more than one person spent 15 years killing people and dumping their bodies on a remote stretch of the Long Island coastline. When the killer or killers is finally identified, 10 families and maybe more will finally have answers, but they will never have their loved ones back. Then came Thursday, July 13, 2023, three years later. After years of searching for the elusive Gilgo Beach Killer slash Long Island serial killer, July 13, 2023 law enforcement arrested Rex Hoyerman in Manhattan in connection with the investigation. Rex Hoyerman has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Melissa Barthelamy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello. Investigators are still unsure whether all the murders are the work of one individual or multiple killers, but they are one step closer to bringing justice to the victims. Although there is not much currently known about the suspect, he is said to have been born and raised on Long Island and has lived in the Massapequa area his whole life. The suspect was arrested after the update about the belt was released, so it very well may have been the clue that broke the case. When Salem Roanoke took a job near his family's new home as a hired hand in the Texas Hill country, he anticipated learning the rancher's trade, but a series of strange events, shocking murders and unholy revelations divert him down another path. 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A human beings have to construct their lives all the time thinking about how to earn a living. An earthworm, a grasshopper, a bird on the tree, all of them earn their living, isn't it? With such a big brain, you're supposed to do something little different than just earn a living. Earning a living should be the most basic thing. With a millionth of your brain, you can handle it. But we have raised earning a living to the heavens today, unfortunately. Entire system is about how to earn a living, how to earn a living. This is a way of completely destroying human intelligence. This is a way of tarnishing human genius in every possible way because how to earn a living has become the greatest thing in the world. Why people are driving you in this direction is because they've built one fake economic engine which they have to feed all the time. They have to feed it all the time. Because of this, we are sacrificing our children as a fuel for this economic engine that we have built. It is time, at least a niche amount of children are not concerned about how they will earn their living. When I was growing up, not for a moment I had this thought in my mind, how will I earn my living? My father used to be worried, what will happen to this boy? There is no fear in his heart about anything. One day I turned around and asked him, when did fear become a virtue? I'm saying, we are bringing up children with this fear. If you don't pass, you know what will happen to you? Continuously fear-based education that if you don't get this many marks, you're finished. Eighteen thousand children in 2015 have committed suicide in our country. When our children commit suicide, we must know we are doing something fundamentally wrong. There's no question about it anymore, isn't it?  If children have to take their own lives, there is no worse thing that can happen to your society, isn't it so? Is there a… is there a worse thing that can happen to your society?  Can you ever recover from that I'm asking? This is the most horrible thing that can happen. And this is happening because in our country ninety-eight is past mark. Yes. Even if you get ninety-eight, parents will ask what happened to the other two percent. So we as educators, if we are really responsible human beings, we need to turn this around. It's very, very important. And this is a crucial time. All these years, there has been a certain economic deprivation in the society where they wouldn't listen to anything. Earning a living was everything. At least we are on a threshold of an economic possibility. This is the time to change the mentality of education. This is the time for the parents and the children to look at it little differently.


In the last video, we have seen an example of how you can take your source code and deploy it onto OpenShift by using a process called source to image where we picked up a builder image which is a PHP and we put the source code together, OpenShift built an image for your application based on your source code and the build and the build image it pushed the application image into a repository that is running on this OpenShift environment and then it took that same application image Docker image and it deployed that as a part. So we have an application that has the PHP front end running as a single part and this is that part, right? This is running your application the front end and we also have a database part that is running your MySQL. So now let's look at how this whole thing comes together like as a developer you need an experience where you can make code changes frequently and you want to push those code changes into OpenShift and let OpenShift deploy those code changes seamlessly without worrying about all these things that are happening behind the scenes, right? So let's see how the entire workflow from a developer standpoint would look like in this video. First thing we'll go to builds and let's look at what is here. So the source control repository is mapping to your GitHub and then what you see here is triggers and here you will find a GitHub web hook URL. Let's copy that. Now take this web hook URL go to your source control repository and configure it there. So I'm on the GitHub for my project and I'm going to settings here and in settings I see the web hooks option and I want to add a web hook. Now I'll paste my URL here and then I want to disable SSL and I want to add the web hook. Now we have configured our GitHub repository now to push the code changes in if any or commits to this repository if any to the OpenShift environment. Now let's test that. I'm going back and let's look at the application. It looks very bland. There is no it's just displaying the users from the database. There is no formatting nothing. So let me make some small change to this DB test of PHP. I'll go to the place where it is displaying this data and I'll edit it make some small changes like I want to say the user ID I want to display this before each user ID user name for each user name and there is a mistake here. I want to fix that. I want to include a line break here. So let me commit these changes. I'll say added labels before I commit. Let me show you what we have here under the builds. You'll see there is one build that was done before right now what you'll notice is once I commit these changes an additional build will get triggered automatically. I just committed the changes. I'll come back here and see GitHub has pushed those changes to OpenShift using that web hook URL and it automatically triggered a new build here. Now this build process will happen just like before. So I can the build name is DB test 2. So I can look at the logs here and see what's going on. It has by this time it has actually built the image and it has successfully pushed that newly built image into the OpenShift's Docker registry. Once the build is complete, the part is updated with the new code changes. So if I now refresh my application, my changes are here. It's as simple as that. So to summarize what we just did, I took the web hook URL and I configured that in my source control repository and as I'm making the code changes and committing those code changes to the GitHub, which is my source control repository, using that web hook, the source control repository or this pushing the changes to OpenShift and OpenShift automatically triggers a new build and it uses the same PHP build image to complete the new build and it will push that application image into the OpenShift's Docker registry and once it is pushed, it will trigger a deploy process again and once and it will take the newer image of this application and it will deploy it onto this part and the new changes are seen here. Thanks a lot for watching.