The next item of business is a statement by Kevin Stewart on ending homelessness together. The minister will take questions at the end of his statement, so there should be no interventions or interruptions. We only have up to 10 minutes, please, minister. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer, and thank you for the opportunity to set out our ambitious plans to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. We have made significant progress in recent years in preventing homelessness, helping people before they reach a crisis. Homelessness applications have fallen by more than a third since 2010, with fewer families in unsuitable temporary accommodation, but we cannot be complacent. Everyone in this chamber and across Scotland has seen the rise in the number of people sleeping rough. That is, frankly, unacceptable in a country as wealthy as ours, and we simply are not willing to accept that. In our programme for government, the First Minister set a clear objective to eradicate rough sleeping. She also committed to renew and redouble our efforts in preventing and reducing homelessness by establishing a homelessness and rough sleeping action group, creating an ending homelessness together fund of £50 million over a five-year period, and investing an additional £20 million in alcohol and drug services. One of the most important pieces of legislation that Parliament has passed was the homelessness act of 2003. I am proud of the fact that Scotland is some of the strongest rights for homeless people in the world, helping many people who become homeless back into settled accommodation and a stable home life. In the last few years, much has been achieved, a 39 per cent drop in homelessness applications since 2010, and fewer families in unsuitable temporary accommodation, such as bed and breakfast. The Government has also invested heavily to ensure that Scotland is a new generation of affordable housing, with 69,000 affordable homes delivered, an end to right to buy, and more homes on the way. All that helps to provide warm and affordable homes and reduces homelessness, but more needs to be done to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping, and we need to recognise the causes and address the causes too. We know that the UK Government's programme of welfare cuts are making things worse, much worse. We have heard the evidence from homeless people, charities and, just last week, from the UK's national audit office, who concluded that the rise in homelessness across the UK is linked to the UK Government's welfare cuts. From the freeze on benefits to the benefit cap, from the changes to the local housing allowance, to the imposition of the bedroom tax, we have seen a series of harsh cuts made to the support people on low incomes rely on to keep a roof over their heads. The deliberate six-week delay before getting your first universal credit payment will make life even harder for some of the most vulnerable people in our society. The choices—and they are choices—that the UK Government has made aren't just morally wrong, they are also economically wrong. Pushing people into crisis and homelessness impacts on public and charitable services and serves as a barrier to those seeking to work or to keep a permanent tenancy. We know that councils and third sector organisations provide life-saving and vital support, and we want to do more to support what works and ensure the joined-up approach that people need. The time is right to build on our strengths and raise our ambitions. We must work together to ensure that our homelessness services have good links to other services, particularly mental health and addiction services. The £20 million announced in the programme for government for drug and alcohol services will boost capacity in the system. Close joint working across housing, social care and health will be crucial in maximising those additional resources to ensure that it supports people with some of the most acute need for joined-up support. Also important is our commitment to transform the use of temporary accommodation, ensuring that vital safety net works as well as possible for those who need it. We want our system to be a safety net that provides high-quality, safe and temporary accommodation to those who need it in a crisis situation. To that end, from October and following parliamentary scrutiny, we will reduce the time spent in unsuitable accommodation for households with children and pregnant women. Our commitment to delivering 50,000 affordable homes over the course of this Parliament will also play a significant part in reducing homelessness, but we know that housing itself is only part of the solution for many people. To meet more complex needs, all of our services must be better aligned, ensuring that stronger links between housing, mental health, justice, addictions, children's and young people's policies and the care system will all be essential to this endeavour. It is crucial to improve prevention and deliver better outcomes for those who feel that they are stuck in a cycle of homelessness and poverty. To achieve our aims and ambitions, as stated in the programme for government, we are taking forward two major initiatives. First, we are creating an ending homelessness together fund of £50 million over a five-year period to support homelessness prevention initiatives and to pilot solutions to deliver results. The substantial increase in funding demonstrates our absolute determination to tackle homelessness as a crucial part of building a fairer Scotland. Secondly, we will establish a short-term homelessness and rough sleeping action group to lead change and improvement in that area of work. It will develop recommendations in the actions, services and any legislative changes that are required to end rough sleeping and to transform the use of temporary accommodation. I am pleased to announce today that the chair of that group will be John Sparks, chief executive of the homelessness charity crisis. I recently met John and we agreed that there are four questions for the group to consider. What can we do to minimise rough sleeping this winter? What can we do to eradicate rough sleeping for good? What can we do to transform temporary accommodation? And what can be done to end homelessness in Scotland? That group will first meet in early October, drawing its membership from the public sector, third sector, social enterprise and academic experts in that area. John and I are clear that that group will be focused on solutions. We will of course also ensure that the findings from the local government committee's inquiry and homelessness are taken into account, both in the context of the rapid work to be undertaken by the homelessness and rough sleeping action group and in the longer term work of the homelessness prevention and strategy group. The committee's exploration of people's experiences of accessing homelessness services and the underlying issues that contribute to housing problems will be valuable in developing the solutions that are needed to achieve our collective ambitions. During my time as minister, I have spoken to people experiencing homelessness and housing professionals. It is clear to me that to achieve our aim, we need services that really place the person at the centre and treat them with the dignity and respect that they deserve. That is why I have asked John Sparks to ensure that talking to people with direct personal experience of homelessness is central to the new group's work. The role of councils will also be crucial in helping people to access their rights and need commitments from all levels of government, particularly against the background of austerity and welfare reform. We will continue to work positively and closely with COSLA and councils through the existing homelessness prevention and strategy group, which is jointly chaired by the Scottish Government and COSLA, to understand how we can support councils to deliver their statutory duties on homelessness and go even further to realise our ambitions. Irradicating rough sleeping and tackling homelessness is about individuals. It is about their fears and challenges, but also about their hopes and aspirations. It is the right thing to do both for those individuals, for our communities and for all of our futures. Building on existing strengths and learning from successes such as housing first and multi-agency partnerships provides a huge opportunity to take action, to reduce homelessness and to improve outcomes for some of the most vulnerable people in our society. It is an opportunity that we must seize, channeling the determination, wealth of ideas and passion on this issue across Scotland to make lasting change. Success, Presiding Officer, will rely on all of us working together across the homelessness sector and wider than that too, to take focused action and to drive relentless progress towards that ambition. The minister will now take questions on the issues that were raised in his statement. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I thank the minister for advance sight of his statement. His conversion to a sort of national strategy is long overdue. This is a major issue that concerns us all and should not be happening in a modern day Scotland. Shelter Scotland claims that every 19 minutes a household in Scotland becomes homeless, a shocking statistic. We have a homelessness crisis and preventing it will save money in the long term. Now I do welcome the fact that the minister has committed to working with the local Government Committee, who are doing our own inquiry into homelessness. I do welcome the formation of the strategy group. It is certainly a start, but can the minister say who else is in the group? Will shelter be there, if not, why not? How was the £50 million figure arrived at? How long will the group run for? When will they report? If they first meet in October, how are they going to make even the slightest dent on rough sleeping this winter? While cutting time in temporary accommodation would be most welcome, what is the target for that? A number of questions there, Presiding Officer. Let me start with the reason for this group. This group is about taking action on rough sleeping and homelessness and taking it as soon as possible. Mr Sparks and I are quite clear that one of the first questions that has to be answered, as I said, is what do we do during the upcoming winter to support folks who are currently rough sleeping to make sure that they are right and to make sure that the current shelters that we have in the country are able to deal with all the difficulties that folk face. That is question 1. The action group itself, as in the name, is a short-term action group. Mr Sparks is determined as I am to get answers to those questions as soon as possible, and they will report back mid next year. The group itself will be made up of a number of individuals, as I pointed out in my statement, from across areas that deal with homelessness at this moment in time. From public bodies, from the third sector, from academia, from folk who have lived experience of homelessness, that group will encompass a wide range of knowledge and a wide range of views. I can assure Parliament that we will announce the membership of that group as soon as we have confirmed with everyone who is being asked to join it that they can take part in that group. Pauline McNeill Thank you. I welcome much of the minister's statement, and I believe that it is about time that there was a national strategy on homelessness, so there is much to welcome. We will also work with the Government 100 per cent to halt the roll-out of universal credit and the six-week delay. We are with you on that. However, not all the figures are going the right way. Homeless applications are going up 10 per cent where applicants slept rough the night before. Will the minister accept that rough sleeping is going up and not down? Night shelters report that there has been a 94 per cent increase in the last two years, and charities are playing the role that the Government should be playing. Will the minister accept that rough sleeping has to be a priority? The role of local authorities, which is welcome in the statement, is crucial, but I am sure that the minister will recognise that there has been a cut to local authority budgets since 2011 of £1.5 billion and £170 million only last year. Will the minister commit to protecting local authority budgets that are stretched to deliver on homelessness? Without local authorities, we cannot deliver. I welcome the whole heart of the comment on the housing first model, and I hope that the minister could report back on that as soon as possible. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I certainly welcome Ms McNeill and the Labour Party's support on universal credit. Having to wait six weeks for any payment whatsoever could really destroy people and their families while they have to wait. I really do think that the UK Government has much to answer for in terms of its welfare reform proposals, which have been extremely damaging. I think that the national audit office report itself highlights the fact that, initially, the Department of Work and Pensions did no analysis on the impact of housing benefit reform. The subsequent research that it commissioned, which was at the instigation of opposition parties, did not establish how many of the household clothes that were now homeless would not have been homeless if it had not been for those reforms. The analysis itself was probably not worth the doing. I urge members to read the national audit office report, which is absolutely damning about the UK Government's situation here. Can you hurry along, please, minister? Presiding Officer, I know that there are many areas to cover, but let's turn to housing first. Housing first has worked in Glasgow and is working in other areas now. There is joint up working, which is not termed as housing first, which is also working extremely well. I think that we should learn from those exemplars and do what we can to ensure that local authorities have the knowledge to instigate housing first in other such schemes in their areas. Well, we are pushed for time. We have less than 15 minutes, so unless people are succinct, folk will get missed out. Can I have Bob Doris, followed by Alexander Stewart, please? Thanks, Presiding Officer. In relation to housing first, Tourney Point Scotland is actively involved in piloting the housing first model. Under initial evaluations, evidence is 50 per cent of participants demonstrating sustained positive change. Can I ask the minister how the Scottish Government can assist with potentially upscaling the housing first model at a significant upfront expense, but in the longer term it may improve outcomes and save public money? I thank Mr Doris for his question and interest. The upscaling of housing first, as Mr Doris rightly pointed out, is being piloted in Glasgow where it is to replace supported accommodation. We will look to the experiences there and elsewhere in Scotland where housing first is being trialled and decisions will be informed by those experiences. One of the most interesting things that is going on at this moment is analysis in Renfrewshire, which is doing analysis on costs and implementing housing first. I think that it will be shown that housing first is a spend-to-save proposal, which will actually save the public purse, but beyond that it will be getting things right for individuals who actually need that help. It is not just about the cost of the public purse, it is about the human cost of not doing this properly. Alexander Stewart, followed by Gail Ross. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The role of councils will be crucial in this process. What can the minister say to reassure us that front-line staff will be trained and given the resources needed to assist with prevention? Kevin Stewart. Thank you, Presiding Officer. As part of our housing options work, which has been on-going, which is to spread the wealth of knowledge and to export best practice, Government has committed to bringing forward a housing options toolkit, which will help front-line staff to deliver what is required for each individual. Over the course of the summer, I have met a number of organisations, including youth organisations such as LGBT Youth Scotland's Homelessness Commission in Aft The Streets and other organisations, to ensure that that toolkit contains all the right information and that folk who are working on the front line know of the experiences that they are likely to come across on the front line. Beyond that, Presiding Officer, I think that the key thing is the exporting of good information and best practice. The housing options hubs are doing good work in that area. I would be happy to discuss that further with Mr Stewart when he meets me tomorrow. Gail Ross, followed by Elaine Smith. The minister will be aware that homelessness can often be hidden in remote and rural areas, where we might not see as many rough sleepers, but things like sofa surfing are a huge problem, particularly for young people. Can I confirm that the ending homelessness together fund pilots and initiatives will take into consideration the unique challenges of rural homelessness? Kevin Stewart will look at a range of issues relating to rough sleeping and homelessness, drawing on all the available evidence and the views of people with direct experience. I recognise the particular challenges of rural homelessness, where homelessness exists but may not be as visible as it quite often is in urban areas. One of the key priorities for the group and for the fund is to help to address the complex issues that we face, no matter where we are in Scotland. I assure Ms Ross that the group will certainly be looking at that, and we will be getting to grips with the understanding of the problem of hidden homelessness, including sofa surfing, as Ms Ross has mentioned. Elaine Smith, followed by Andy Wightman. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and I am pleased that the minister recognised the work that was undertaken by the local government committee. The number of children in temporary accommodation increased by 16 per cent last year. What plans does the Scottish Government have to make sure that we do not see that number increase further? The First Minister and the Minister for Rural Affairs and the Constitution Presiding Officer, one family or one pregnant woman in unsuitable temporary accommodation is one too many for me. At the moment, 82 per cent of families or pregnant women who are in temporary accommodation in the social rented sector are not having to rely on other means. I want to see that figure expand. 82 per cent is not good enough, and the action group will look at that in some depth. As I said in my statement, we are going to bring forward the changes to the unsuitable accommodation order, which will reduce the use of inadequate temporary accommodation from 14 days to 7 days. That will be under parliamentary scrutiny in October, and we should initiate that quite quickly after that. I know that Ms Smith has a great interest in that issue. I have met her previously about that, and I am more than willing to do so again if she wants to talk in further depth, Presiding Officer. The minister reminds us in his statement of the commitment to deliver 50,000 affordable homes and claims that it will play a significant part in reducing homelessness. Given that there are more than 100,000 people on housing waiting lists, can you explain precisely what part the 50,000 homes will play in reducing homelessness? I remind the chamber that not everyone who is on a waiting list at this moment in time is homeless. Folk are on the waiting lists for various reasons for transfers to increase the amount of bedrooms or to reduce the amount of bedrooms, and not everyone on that list is homeless. However, this Government over the peace has already delivered 69,000 affordable homes since it has taken office. The 50,000 affordable homes target, 35,000 of those for social rent, has been recognised as the most ambitious house building programme since the 1980s. We have also put our money where our mouth is in this regard, with an investment of more than £3 billion during the course of this term in Parliament, and we will do all that we can to increase that supply. I would ask folk to remember that not everyone on a waiting list at this moment in time is homeless. Fulton MacGregor, followed by Mike Rumbles. Can the minister give an assurance that the push to reduce temporary accommodation will not be at the expense of moving people with other issues that should be addressed in advance with finding a permanent home such as debt, ill health or leaving an abusive relationship, and that we will not be replicating areas of England where you cannot refuse an offer of suitable settled accommodation? Kevin Stewart. That is a very interesting question from Mr MacGregor. My initial response is yes. We want time and temporary accommodation to be as short as possible, but I have been clear that the time needs to be used positively to identify appropriate, sustainable solutions. I will give an example. We have probably all had constituency cases where folk have gone into temporary accommodation social housing, where they have made an offer of permanent accommodation elsewhere, which is not suitable to their needs because they would be missing out on the family support that they require or other issues. It would be wrong for us to set a limit on the amount of time and temporary accommodation. It is much more important that we find the right solution for families at the very end and take cognisance of what they have to say rather than follow the English line, as Mr MacGregor has pointed out. Mike Rumbles followed by Jenny Gilruth. Does the minister believe that spending just £10 million a year for the ending homelessness together fund out of the £31,500 million in the Scottish budget is really the step change that we need to end homelessness? I would point out to Mr Rumbles that I have just mentioned the £3 billion that we are investing in housing over the course of this Parliament. Beyond that, the £10 million per year, £50 million, is additional money. There are already substantial sums spent on homelessness throughout Scotland. If memory serves me well, I think that at the Glasgow homelessness summit during the course of the summer, they estimated that they were spending something like £73 million on homelessness. That is additional money. We are putting our money where our mouth is. We have established the action group and we have put a budget in place before the action group has met. That shows our ambition to eradicate rough sleeping and to ensure that temporary accommodation becomes better. Can the minister outline his response to reports that half of all council tenants across 105 local authorities in receipt of universal credit are in housing arrears and how that will impact on future homelessness? I thank Ms Gilruth for that question. I refer back to the national audit office report that was published last week, which clearly shows that those dafft morally wrong welfare reforms are having a major effect on people right across the country. It is not just universal credit, it was the bedroom tax that we managed to mitigate and a number of other areas of business, where, quite frankly, the UK Government is failing in its duties. Beyond that, they know that they are wrong because they will not analyse what they are doing properly. Let us follow the policy line and beggar the consequences. I think that that is unacceptable and that this Parliament does and that the people of Scotland do too. The sooner that we have control over all benefits, the better. There will be a focus on pre-crisis intervention, where the potential for homelessness can be identified and addressed early and, in part, will require co-operation between Government departments. I think that if we are going to take a collective view in terms of dealing with this, the Tory benches should listen to what I have had to say around about social security, because at the end of the day a huge amount of the difficulties that we see across Scotland are folks who have been hit with sanctions or who have had their benefits cut or capped. I refer you, Presiding Officer, to a meeting that I had in Glasgow earlier on this year, where Glasgow City Council is identifying those folks who have been hit with a benefit cap who are in the private housing sector and trying to get them to move to the social housing sector in order for them not to enter into any crisis situation. It would be much better if that benefit cap was not in place, because neither Glasgow City Council nor other services would have to pick up the pieces that have been made by the Tories. To ask the Scottish Government whether the homeless and rough sleeping action group will examine particular housing challenges that exist here in Edinburgh, including the harmful and increasingly harmful impact of UK Government welfare cuts. I know that Mr McPherson has taken a great interest in the issue of homelessness in Edinburgh, and I am very pleased to be able to speak at a reception that he is hosting tonight for the Rock Trust. The short-term action group will identify actions that are required on rough sleeping and homelessness across Scotland, as I have said before. We will draw in all the research and evidence available to find solutions. We know that there are particular challenges in our big cities, including Edinburgh. We also know that that has led to the council and its partners, such as health working together, to develop innovative and positive practice here in Edinburgh, particularly for those with more complex needs. Beyond that, initiatives such as the social bite village have come to fruition here. The new group will help to identify what new practice exists. As I have said earlier, we will try to export that best practice right across the country. I hope that members will see real differences quite quickly from the work that the action group will be taking. That concludes questions on the minister's statement on ending homelessness together. We will move on to the next item of business. I give everyone a minute or so to change the seats appropriately.


Hi everyone and welcome back to the channel. In this video today, we're going to talk about travel restrictions to Alaska, what to expect and what you should know before you get there. If you're new here, welcome to the channel. My name's Habiba and this is Trekking Pels. And alongside with my partner, we spent the past month in the beautiful state of Alaska working from our Airbnb during the week and hitting the hiking trails during the weekend and exploring some of the most beautiful treasures of the beautiful state of Alaska. But before getting there, we did have a lot of doubts and concerns because the rules seem to be a little bit different from the lower 48 states. And so with that, we wanted to make this video for you guys to help you plan for your next trip to Alaska and share with you our experience. First of all, the rules are different between residents of Alaska and non-residents of Alaska. And we'll start with non-residents of Alaska. If you are coming to Alaska as a non-resident either from a different state within the US or from a different country, you are expected to fill a travel declaration form. This form is available online at covid19.alaska.gov. It's free, you go in and you enter your information including your first, last name, contact information, phone number, email. If you are experiencing any symptoms you are going to be asked to enter that information as well. What time are you entering Alaska? When are you leaving? How much time are you spending in the state? And this information is going to help the state for tracking purposes and to ensure that the state can easily reach out to you if necessary. Now on the top of the travel declaration form you are required to show results of your covid19 test assuming that you took a test before arriving to Alaska and I think that's the best option for a household-free experience. So let's imagine you took your test before getting to Alaska. When you arrive to the airport you're going to talk to a healthcare representative and you're going to show them your negative results and you are good to go. Now there are scenarios where you might arrive to Alaska but your results are not out yet. In that case you have to show proof that you took your test and that you are waiting for your results to be out and while you are waiting you are expected to self-quarantine at your own expense either in your hotel, Airbnb, family or friends until your results are out. Once the results are out you have to go online to the portal and upload the results of your test. Now let's say for some reason you were not able to get tested before arriving to Alaska. In this case there is an option for you to purchase a test at the airport at your own expense and that is $250. Now when we were in Alaska it used to be free for residents and no residents but as of August 11th the rules are different and it's no longer free for no residents. So just keep that in mind. Now when you get tested at the airport you will be asked to self-quarantine until the results are out when the results are out. If you are testing negative then you are good to go. Now once you are in Alaska you are also expected to take a second test within seven to 14 days upon arrival. So keep that in mind. If you are coming to Alaska for work as an employee you are expected to follow the plan that's going to be communicated to you by your company. There are usually collaborations between companies and the states to make sure that people are abiding by the rules and that takes care of the rules for no residents coming to visit Alaska. Now for residents who are coming back to Alaska you are still expected to fill a traveler declaration form. You are expected to show results of your test if you already took it. If you did not take a test before traveling there is an option for you to get tested at the airport and this one is free because you are a resident. If for some reason you are not able to get tested at the airport then you will be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days and this used to be an option for even no residents of the state but it's no longer the case as of August 11th and that takes care of the rules for Alaska residents coming back to the state. Now say for example that you tested negative you followed all the rules you did your due diligence as a good citizen and you are ready to roll and explore the beautiful state of Alaska. What is it like during the pandemic? As you know the state of Alaska relies heavily on tourism and so most of businesses related to tourist activities were operating and open for tourists and visitors. We were able to dine in in most of the restaurants in the area in Anchorage, Seward, all around the Kenai Peninsula. Most of the time they do ask you to give your name and phone number so that they can reach out to you and contact you in case they detect any cases in this particular restaurant. This is mainly in the big cities like Anchorage. I don't think that we were asked to share our information in Seward for example but most of the restaurants are going to be open. We were able to go to the rock climbing gym in Anchorage for example. There were some rules in place to follow but it was open for the public. The laundry mats were open as well. We were able to take a day cruise in Whittier to see some glaciers. They do operate at a lower capacity compared to usual but they were still operating.  We were able to dine in on board, drink while we are trying to keep our distance as much as possible and keep our faces covered. We were also able to take a guided tour to go ice climbing in Matanuska Glacier. There was no issue there. What I'm trying to get to is that most of the activities that tourists would come to Alaska for are still available to enjoy. Obviously there are also rules to follow when you are out and about. Make sure that you are covering your face if you are in the public. Want to make sure that you are keeping your distance between you and other people. You also want to make sure that you're not interacting with a lot of people. You want to keep track of places that you go to in case you have to trace back. You also want to make sure that you are washing your hands regularly. So this is pretty much it for what I wanted to share with you today. I hope that you found it useful. And if you did, please give this video a thumbs up and consider subscribing to our channel. We are trekking pals Habiba and Alex, amateur hikers and backpackers and we create video content about hiking, backpacking and adventure traveling. Thank you again for watching and we'll see you very soon on a new adventure.


Setti, can you hear me? Hey, Rich, how's it going, buddy? Hey, how you doing, Setti? I'm doing all right. Nice move. I'm doing great, man. We got to, I got some news for you. Are you ready for this? Yeah, go ahead, tell me. Okay, so while we were waiting, I wanted the member to put in the chat how many shares they owned. Okay. So we have 66 people here. Do you have a guess of how many shares 66 people own on this live stream right now? A guess? Yeah, do you have a guess? 500,000. 750,000 shares held by the members on the live stream right now. That's incredible. Well, listen, guys, thank you so much. That's amazing. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, yeah, it really is. I was hoping for like one or 200,000 and there's members with 100,000 shares, 80,000 shares, 25,000 shares. 10,000 shares. And the stock's been going up while we've been live too, waiting for the event. That's incredible. It's amazing. How's the event going today? Listen, it's just tremendous here. I mean, a real testament to the team down in Vegas. I think the booth looks absolutely wonderful. Like hands down, I think it's the best-looking booth we've got at the entire show, which goes for miles, by the way. And over the last three days, it's just been wonderful to start meeting, again in person with retailers and wholesalers from around the country. And the interest that we've been getting has just been tremendous, right? Like you get all of these people that come in and they see the product, they start understanding what it is, and it's just, my God, I need to sort of start carrying this product. So I think that this has just been a really good exercise for us. And it's definitely something that we're gonna keep doing now that things are starting to open up a bit. So we're very grateful that we've finally been able to start getting out and meeting people in person. Are you guys selling cigarettes at the event? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're actually placing orders at the event. So we've got retailers and wholesalers that are coming in, some might be dependent, some might have a small chain of stores, some might be wholesalers, but the interest that we've been getting has just been awesome. So we've actually been booking sales. I think next week we'll likely have some updates in terms of that for this event and the event that we did last week. And again, like the good thing is you get these guys coming in, they get excited about the product, they get to learn more than just having somebody come into the store. So I mean, they can see it, feel it, touch it, interact with the whole team here. And what that does is, once they place their first order, because that's all it is, but just placing their first order, we get to put them in a database and then just keep following up and that's how you get reorders. So you have the sales that'll come out of the event, but those are one-time sales, right? That's the first of what ideally is going to be a number of different sales as you start getting through reorder rates. So whether they're going to reorder every couple of weeks or every month or whatever it might be, it's just great to kind of put the product onto the shelf and start getting it in front of consumers in a much more aggressive way. Yeah, the event is looking beautiful. The booth looks great. How did you guys design that? Do you guys get a design company? Because that box up there, that is very visible. I love it. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you have to go out of your way to not see it. But that was all designed in-house. So you've got a lot of great creative members on the team and I think they really hit it out of the park with this one. It's just, and listen, I've been in the trade show business before so I've seen really impressive booths and when I saw this one, I'm like, wow. So it takes a lot to kind of blow me away and this one definitely blew me away. Do you have a team of people working the booth with you? Is there some sales people or is it, like how many people are working the event right now? What do we got in there? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, about eight people working. Wow. So yeah, yeah. And tomorrow's the last day of the event? Tomorrow's the last day of the event? Yeah. Is there gonna be some awards? Like I know you guys won first and second place last week, will there be awards at this event this week? I'll find out from Joe. I'm not entirely sure. But regardless of whether we went or not, I'd say that we did extraordinarily well given the interest of the people that are coming through and the ability to start booking some orders. So I think it's just been great. You have an update on the NASDAQ? Any news about getting listed on the NASDAQ? A lot of shareholders getting very excited about that. Yeah. Again, it's just a process that you go through.  It's just the way it goes, right? So we're probably in that second round of questions now. But from what I've seen, everything's, again, still seems to be on track and it's kind of in line with how things sort of progress as you move over. You gotta imagine, there's a lot of companies that are looking to try to list on the NASDAQ. So you still have to kind of wait your turn, so to speak, but I think things are progressing quite nicely on it. A lot of questions from the community about Crossmark. Do you have an update on what's going on with Crossmark?  I mean, you started to see more stores coming online in Ohio and I think in the next few days, we'll probably have some more updates in terms of stores throughout various other states, but things are progressing as they would, right? It's just really an exercise. They go out, they talk to retailers, they help get the product onto the shelf and that's what these initiatives are also intended to help out with. So I'd say that overall, things are going well. I have a lot of questions, Stati. Yeah. Sorry, Stati, I have a lot of questions about the recon-based material that is replacing the current-based material. Or is it going to be sold additionally to the current one? No, I think once we have it ready, it will replace it. Now, we'll likely put out some news on it in the coming days or maybe a week or so, but basically, there's a lot of, like when we did the market research, a lot of people liked the product, but there are still certain pain points that I thought in the long run would be better to solve now than when you get sort of this broad-scale distribution. So again, it's not really, there's no magic to it. If you want to succeed, just listen to your consumers. So when you listen to them and they say, hey, listen, I love the product, but I really wish I could do this or I love the product, but I really wish I could do that. And if there's ways that you can solve that early, then you're just providing the market with a fundamentally better product. When you look at, say, Joule as a comparison, well, I think for the first 18 months, Joule didn't really work because if you put it in your pocket upside down, the whole thing would leak out and then the device would short circuit. So it took them almost two years to figure out how to fix that problem. We saw that, as you started to progress, again, people love the product, but hey, can we solve this, can we solve that? We were able to solve it in a matter of months and that's really what I think the new base material is gonna allow us to achieve. So our existing product is great, but the reason, in my mind, is just leaping bounds at the head of where we currently are. So I just think that once consumers really touch it, they're gonna love it. There's so many customers and so many shareholders that absolutely loved that.  And can you kind of tell some, we've got 83 people watching right now. We're up to 814,000 shares, Sethi, from the people that are on the stream. So that's, okay, so just to give that in person. Yeah, so 83 people, 814,000 shares, that's an average of 10,000 shares per person. And that's like at these prices, that's $36,000 average person invested that's on the stream right now. That's incredible. We gotta do something for the shareholders, Sethi. Is there a way that we can give away some t-shirts, give away some samples to some of these members? Cause everybody wants some merch. Everyone's asking you Rich, I want merch. How do I get merch? We gotta do something for these investors, Sethi. What do you think? 100%, 100%. I think we talked about it before. So I mean, just reach out to me after the live cast and I'll put you in touch with the guys in Vegas. We'll get some stuff printed and we'll send it up and you can distribute to the community for sure. Wow, another 30,000. So we're up to 844,000 shares on the live stream. Guys, maybe we can hit a million. Maybe we can hit a million shares on the live stream and the stock's been going up since we've been live too. So this is great, loving it. Can you talk to the community about where you guys are at? Because I keep telling everyone that you're just in the first inning and I know you've said it before, but can we kind of talk a little bit about the future of TAT? Philip Morris just came out and said that in 10 years they don't even think they're gonna be in the cigarette business. What does that mean for TAT? Well, if they wanna leave their customers behind, I think I'd be more than happy to take them. Yes, yes. I wish them the best, but realistically, they can say it, but I don't really foresee that happening.  So just because Philip Morris wants to say, hey, we wanna stop selling cigarettes, well, listen, wonderful. I wish you nothing but the best and I'll make sure to come in and help service the customers you leave behind because I know for a fact, you're not gonna get them to switch over to an I-Coast or a vape on mass. You get them moving over there, but oftentimes they end up moving back. Now I'm not saying that those technologies aren't valid. They are, but I think they all coexist in one sort of ecosystem, which is why I think for the first product that we launched, having a combustible, which services the vast majority of the market is a smarter way to go, then just tackle something that requires a tremendous amount of more work in capital. Now, that being said, that doesn't mean that we wanna look at some of these other technologies down the road, but for right now, I think the market really is on the combustible side from what we're seeing. The customers that are coming in, they definitely think that this is a product that will resonate well with their customers and that's where they're starting to place orders. But again, if you kind of take a look at the market, the market is like the Mount Everest markets, right? Again, I've said this 1,000 times. Tobacco industry is almost a trillion dollars a year. To put it in perspective, the global bottled water market is only $250 billion. So Tobacco's four times the size of water. And for us, again, it's a Mount Everest of market and we're barely getting to base camp. So there's a ton more room to go. Absolutely. Check this out. We're up to 949,000 shares, $292 billion. We're gonna crack you into the level. You know, we got 105 people on the live stream set. The people are just rolling in, rolling in. When we first started talking, we talked about having a $5 billion market cap. And I think you're at about a couple hundred million market cap. So to get to a $5 billion market cap, we still have the 20X from today's prices. Is that actually a possible thing? Is that something that is possible? Do you foresee that as something that can actually happen? Do you truly still believe that $5 billion market cap is a possibility for TAP? Of course. I still think it's a possibility. I think anything is a possibility. When you take a look at a lot of the other companies in the space, they're worth significantly more than $5 billion. So yeah, I think it's possible. I don't think it's something that happens tomorrow. But I do think that as you continue to start building momentum and you start servicing your clients and start building a lot of traction that way, sure.  I don't think anybody, what did GameStop reach? How many? Probably 30, 40 billion something? Ridiculous, right? Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. So yeah, I mean, it's possible. Anything's possible, especially when you have a product that is disruptive and changing the world. We have a lot of questions about getting TAD in Canada. Any movement there? I mean, I'm in Canada and people are like, I got a pack here. And people are like, Rich, can I come and visit you just to try one? Any news on when we could potentially get TAD in Canada? Well, look, we're still working with Health Canada. Like in Canada, the product is regulated. So it's significantly different than it is in the US. And in Canada, they don't distinguish between cannabis and hemp. So they kind of look at it all the same way. So even if you want to bring a product in like TAD that is not really a cannabis product at all, it's a tobacco replacement product. Given what components are, it still gets covered under that act. So there's a lot of work that has to go back and forth to help Canada to help them understand what the product is, what it's intended to do, does it sort of fit within their guidelines because they'll have very strict guidelines in terms of what products can and cannot have. And we just got to make sure that we abide by those regulations because you could sort of cherry-rigged solution and get the product in into the country. But if you're not doing it through the proper way or the proper channels, you're just setting yourself up for a massive defeat, which I don't really want to do. I agree. Why would you want to take a loss? And we're up to, just so you know, Seti, we're up to 1,054,417 shares with 105 members on the chat. That's incredible. So over a million shares being held just by the people on this chat right now. Pretty loud, eh? That is insane, but it's great. I think it's a real test to a lot of the support that you've given us and then sort of helping your community members understand the story, introducing it to them and us working together to keep them updated. So thank you for that. And well, thank you. You guys make us look good too, right? Like the company has to deliver. And there's so many companies out there that say they're going to do something and they don't necessarily deliver. You guys are literally delivered on everything you guys have said you would do. I remember sitting down with Tatt before you guys were even public and they showed me the cigarettes and they showed me the ID and the concept and I said, wow, okay, if this works, this could literally change the world. And here we are a year later. You're at an event. You got this beautiful booth. You guys have been at Floyd Mayweather events. I love how you guys think outside the box. Can you talk a little bit about that? Are you guys going to consistently think outside the box? Is that part of your marketing strategy? Or have we seen the end of thinking outside the box? Or is this just the beginning? No, we haven't seen the end of thinking outside the box. I mean, once you kind of are able to do it, then you just keep on doing it. And I think that's exactly what we're going to do. There's always new and innovative ways in which you can get the message out to consumers. We've got a lot of very interesting opportunities in the pipeline. And yeah, once we start executing on those, then I think you'll start to see that the thinking outside the box isn't exactly at the end. It's rather very much so at the beginning. You guys look like you're having a lot of fun there. Do you have any messages for the investors of the community before we say goodbye today? Well, listen, I just wanted to thank everybody for their support. I think it's been a ride that we've all been on together. I think you can see now the brand actually starting to come to life. And this is why I wanted to do this interview from the show with all these people and the booth because it's one thing when I tell you about it, it's another thing when you can actually see it. And I hope that that gives people a lot more confidence in what it is that we're trying to do and that we're actually going out and executing on those strategies to get it done. So I think the future is very bright for the company. And again, I thank everybody for their continued support. And especially you Rich. So thank you very much for all the hard work that you've done in helping bring this story to your investor base. Hey, my pleasure, Seti, keep up the good work. We'll let you go. I know you're busy. Thank you for your time today. And thank you guys for watching the audience. We're at 1,057,217 shares. Just with the audience that's watching today, mind boggling a million shares. Can you imagine that? That's like over $3.6 million watching right now. That's pretty cool, eh? Very, very cool. It's absolutely incredible. Super, super amazing community. None of this is possible without you guys, the people at home. Thank you guys and thank you, Seti, for all your hard work and dedication for being the leader of this incredible story which has evolved into not just a story, but a product that is now selling. And you know what I keep saying, Seti, is like, can you imagine when this product is in every single gas station and every single corner store in the world? What's Tak gonna look like then? A little different than it looks like now. Yes. All right, thank you, Seti. Seti Coscarella, the CEO of TAT Global Alternatives. Have a great day, Seti. We'll talk to you soon, my friend. See you guys. Thank you, everybody. Thank you for watching. Remember, Rich TV Live is strictly for information education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything that we talk about here on Rich TV Live. Always invest in the best. The best is blessed. And you deserve the best. And TAT, in my opinion, is absolutely the best. Thank you guys for watching. I told you guys, we bring you the winners and we bring them to you first. We brought you TAT first before anybody else pre-IPO June 2020 at 41 cents. Today they're trading over 360. Just on this live stream, a million shares owned by members. Congratulations to you guys at home.  I love you. I appreciate you. Have a nice day, everybody. We'll talk to you soon. It's your boy, Rich from Rich TV Live. And I'm out. Peace.


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A strange thing that narcissists do, this is something that can be very confusing, it can be very hard to understand. When you see that the narcissist has moved on to another situation, because it makes you wonder what was so bad about your relationship and what is so good about this new situation that they are now in. There may have been some things they complained about with you, but now they are tolerating those same things with this new person, or they are doing things with them that they never wanted to do with you.  But this new person isn't on your level, so it seems very strange. It doesn't make any sense to you, because they said that you weren't good enough, but look at what they're involved in now, they're in a worse situation. But the reason for this is because you overcompensated. You took excessive measures in attempting to correct and make amends for the areas of weaknesses. You invested in something that was not of the same amount of value as you are. They talked the talk, but they didn't walk the walk. They spoke convincingly in a way to please and impress you, in a way that appeared to be true and real. They said they were going to do things, but they never did what they promised. They never walked the walk, and this new situation is no different. They're not acting in a way that agrees with the things they say, because they're not of the same quality as you are. People will gravitate towards like-minded people, they will seek out and hang around other people they perceive as comparable to themselves. Birds of a feather flock together, so they will gravitate back to those same types of people, but they got in with you because they pretended to be on your level, or you made an exception for them, because you overlook the people that they associate with, as it says in a Russian proverb.  International Speaker Jim Ron famously said that we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with. The people who they choose to spend time with should reveal to you who they are. It should reveal to you their likes and interests, their values and principles, but they will tell you that they like the same things as you do.  They're just seeking their own level.  They pretended to share the same likes and interests, like they knew how to maintain a relationship with you, but then they started falling behind. They were ineffective, because they were not qualified for the position of being with you, so it was too much for them to manage. It became an inconvenience. They liked the benefits that came along with it, but they weren't up to the mark. They weren't good enough for it, so they decided to not participate in it, which is why when you meet someone new, you need to judge their performance, otherwise you will end up with these types of people who are not what they started out to be, who are not doing what they were doing before. They're not as productive or effective, they skillfully and dishonestly positioned themselves in your life, and that is why they eventually ended up going down to a lower level, until they ended up ghosting you, because they knew that things were about to fall apart if they were expected to have any responsibility, so they decided to go somewhere where less was expected of them, somewhere where there were less requirements, where less is needed of them, where there is lower standards, where less is expected than what you expected from them, and that is why they end up with someone who is not as good as you expected, someone who is of a lower standard, because they went down to a level that they can deal with without difficulty, a level that they can control, because while you may have been a more important and powerful person who could give them what they want, it was a difficult situation for them, it was beyond their ability, they wanted the benefits that came along with it, but they weren't good enough for it, they weren't as good as you expected and wanted, they weren't qualified for the position of being with you, so they removed themselves, which is actually saving you time, energy and money, but you may be trying to keep them on your level, you may be trying to prevent them from falling, because you believe that there is something good about them, maybe you remember how they talk the talk, so you're expecting them to follow it up with action, because you haven't accepted that it was all fake, but if you want to remain self-sufficient and free from difficulties, you need to have the effectiveness of productive effort, if they're lacking in performance and productivity, there's going to be problems, it's going to affect you, so you have to let them go, they're only going to weigh you down, they're only going to oppress you, they're going to keep you in subjection and hardship, they're going to cause anxiety and distress to you, and they're going to hinder your progress, so while this may be a strange thing that narcissists do, you need to recognize how it is actually very beneficial for you, thank you for watching, I hope this video resonates with you, please like, comment, share and subscribe, if you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in a bit of description, coaching inquiries, you can email me at coaching.narcsurvivor.co.uk, thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny dollar, this is our advance our advance Oh, yes, I think I do Yeah, you know this sounds like double talk to me.  I don't remember well look it up. It cost your company seventy-five thousand dollars. Hey, hello Vance tonight and every week day night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. That's truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to four state insurance company Wilmington, Delaware Attention, Mr. Don free chief investigator claims division since your office authorized me to conduct certain inquiries based on new Information supplied by Aaron Vance. I'm billing you accordingly The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Todd matter Expense account item one one dollar and eighty-five cents one phone called a Don freed in Wilmington, Delaware to discuss the burglary that had occurred six months before in the Long Island home of Norman Todd The case was a complete stalemate the police and the insurance investigators had been unable to locate the thieves or trace any of The loot which included jewelry silver and wearing apparel that had been taken from the residence. I Requested Don to forward whatever details they had along with an accurate list of the stolen items and complete descriptions Expense account item two two dollars Care fair to and from the office of International Adjustment Bureau where I refresh my memory concerning Aaron Vance a Good look at the files, and I remembered him well back in 1947 He'd been involved in a well engineered swindle of the semen clothing company almost got away with it And it was my investigation and testimony that finally put him behind the bars Vance yeah, you haven't changed a bit you have sure I have you took seven years of my life away from me Did you do what I told you to on the phone people like you don't tell me what to do France Come on in Nice place you got here now like it sit down Tell me what's on your mind look dollar don't treat me like a con huh even if I am one I'll sit down. Yeah, I'll have a smoke with you. I'll talk with you Okay, okay Thanks It's just that everybody everybody's doing it treating me like that even my wife Went over to see you the first day. I got out. You know what she wouldn't let me in the house She gave me $40 and told me to go out and get a decent job Work hard she said in six months if everything is okay, and you're not in any trouble You can come home to me and the kids and if not she says I'm gonna divorce you What do you want me to say? Offer me a seat invite me to sit down. I'm a human being too. Sure. Thanks again Well Why I thought about it a lot You know if you hadn't been out to get me eight years ago. I Might have had you over the dinner maybe we could have been friends. Yeah, maybe Now what's this all about Vance? Okay, I Can't get a job. I'll have to go in business for myself. I need a steak. That's why I called you go on Now did you do like I like I asked you to look up the Todd case? I call Warmington about it. There's nothing new happening I'm happening. That's something new And I can help for a price. All right, go on But I want my name out of the picture. Could you fix that probably I'd have to talk to the police sooner or later All I'm asking is your promise to keep my name out of it. Otherwise, it's no go Tell me something about it before I make any promises Vance Fair enough You got a list of stolen items not yet won't be here until tomorrow when it gets here You'll find it was a mink coat night a lot. I think most of it was jewelry But it was a mink coat labeled from Zellaback furs in New York and the inside lining carried this serial number two seven three five six All right, take it easy Vance Expense account item three two dollars and fifty cents another long-distance phone call to Wilmington and Don freed who verified that the serial numbers Furnished by Oran Vance fitted those in the stolen mink coat. I Explained how I'd come about the information at hand leaving out any mention of names Freed talk with his boss and phone me back a half an hour later You can go ahead and work as a five thousand dollar reward posted five thousand Suppose it's nothing Okay, Vance, you're in business. How does it work? You tell me where the coat is and who has it and I'll handle it from there If it turns out to be anything you'll get paid for it all I've had so far as talk I'll tell you where the coat is and who has it but before I do that you give me a check what a check for 2,500 you dated two days from now I'll give you a chance to look into it and see if I know what I'm talking about and you can stop payment anytime within two days If my tip doesn't work out mm-hmm on the other hand, I'll have the check and bye-bye where to Homeward Indiana my plane leaves in an hour. I may want you around for some questions. No, I'll give you the tip That's all you ask somebody else the questions Well Okay, what's the matter you afraid sure? Haven't you noticed I'm a stool pitch. I Noticed and it worried me But I arranged for him to have the post-dated check in return for which he gave me a name and an address Gloria Tierney 1231 East 57th Street, New York City Expense account item for three dollars cab fare to the airport. I Saw Orin Vance off on a westbound plane to Indiana 45 minutes later. I boarded flight 37 for New York Expense account item five eighteen dollars eighty-five cents the cost of getting me from Hartford to New York. I Checked in at the new Western and went directly to the Metropolitan Police Station where I asked if Gloria Tierney had a record a Check in the police files revealed that she was not listed About seven o'clock. I had a bite to eat and then I walked over to the 57th Street address a small apartment building I'm looking for Gloria Tierney. Oh, you have the wrong apartments right across the hall. I was over there No one answered. Well, she must be out. I'm the manager here. Would you like to leave your name? I'm Johnny dollar, but I wonder if you could tell me where to find her no No, I can't but I'll be glad to give her your name and ask her to call you. Oh, that sounds fair enough I'm at the New Western Hotel. Oh You're from out of town. Yes An old friend of Gloria's No, no, I'm just on business. Well, I'll tell you came by good fine By the way, how long has Miss Tierney lived here? About a year why oh Just wondered. Thank you Johnny dollar New Western Hotel. That's right. What a minute here take my card Insurance sort of The apartment house manager it said Ethel Stromberg on the mailbox smile politely and closed the door. I Went outside the building and took a plant across the street I waited around for about three hours and saw no one go in or out of the building. I went back to my hotel About midnight the phone Johnny dollar. Hello, mr. Dollar. I'm mr. Dollar. You left word for me. I'm Gloria Tierney. Oh Yes, mr. Tierney. I intend morning. So I thought I'd better call you tonight. I hope it isn't too late Not at all, mr. Ne What's it all about? I'm an insurance investigator. I'd rather tell you about it in person I think so. Yes, could I see you tonight? I could be there in 15 minutes. I don't understand I'll come right over I was there in less than 15 minutes But things weren't all right. It's a matter of fact things looked all wrong Gloria Tierney's apartment was dark and she didn't answer when I knocked on the door. I tried it. The door was locked Now look here, I don't think you have any right to bother. Oh, it's you. Hello, mr. Stromberg Well, where's glory? I don't know you don't know she was waiting to meet you Well out here in the hallway she came in tonight and I gave her your message and then she went in and called you and then came Back out and said you were coming by. Well, she's gone. Well, that's funny. Tell me. Did you hear anyone out here? No Well, maybe she went down to the drugstore drugstores closed. Oh, yes She'll probably show up. Yes probably You look worried mrs. Stromberg. I am Gloria didn't seem like herself when she came in. Oh, what do you mean? Well, she was nervous and upset. I think she'd been crying. I don't know uh-huh. Oh, I hope she's all right Yeah, so do I you're sure she isn't outside waiting for you. No, I didn't see any well. I'll look again You see her Not a soul Had she been drinking no course not. What was she wearing mrs. Stromberg? Oh, she had her coat on Her mink coats. Yes. Well, how'd you know about her mink coat a friend of mine? I'll take a look around out here. I'll come with you. You know, of course. She might have got a second look Is that Gloria? Well, yes, I think so something's wrong with her. Yes The girl crossing the street in the mink coat weaved slightly from side to side as I got close to her I could see she was a pretty girl in the late 20s blonde hair dark eyes She hardly looked up as I came up to her just stopped and stood there weaving slightly Mr. Annie, yes, well, can I help you arm Johnny dollar? Please come on. We better go inside Yes What is it? He struck me. You want he struck me And I Come on Easy easy now Thank you very much You okay?  Yes, right away, you know, let's see if we can Don't try to talk Laurie. I don't try to move. We'll have help here in a minute There'll be another intriguing episode in our story of the Todd matter tomorrow tomorrow the same old business of murder But with a brand new twist Join us. 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Here I have two triangles. They kind of share a side and I need to identify the congruent triangles by their names So I've got a triangle on top a triangle on bottom It doesn't matter which one I start with but I'll just start with the top one for fun so I've got let's say triangle ABC and To start off it doesn't really matter what you name the very first one I just happen to go in alphabetical order now triangle ABC is congruent to which triangle The order of the letters that you pick is very important here I started with ABC start at a head toward B and up at C I'm gonna follow the same steps to name the second triangle in other words I'm going to follow along this segment that has one congruence mark and then I'm gonna follow down this other segment with two congruence marks. So start at a head towards C So for the second triangle, I'm gonna follow the same method just Down the other direction start at a head toward D and up at C So that triangle is named a D C Here's another example We can start with the triangle on the left or the triangle on the right doesn't really matter which one you start with I think I'll start with the one on the left. Let's say triangle PQS and which one is that congruent to? so we start at P and Angle P that angle is made up of a Segment with two congruence marks and a segment with one congruence mark So that tells me angle P is corresponding with angle R So I know that the second triangle's name will start with R Now I go from P to Q which follows along this segment with one tick mark So that means I'll have to follow from R along the same segment. So PQS and R QS Take a minute and try this next example on your own. Here's one possibility M and O is congruent to QPO There are other possibilities as well That's another possibility Can you think of another possibility? Let's take a look at another example Lastly, so we've got this triangle down below here. Let me just shift up a little bit We're dealing with triangle RTV, let's say So what are we going to name our second triangle if we start at R? That angle is made up of a congruence segment two and three And so I need to start at angle U The reason is it's also made up of a segment with two and three congruence marks So R corresponds with U Now we moved from R to T to V So R Towards T Head up at V Again, we're gonna start at U We're gonna move along that parallel line and end up at V So it should be U Sv and those are those congruent triangles


This video is sponsored by One Football, One Football's app makes it easy to keep up to date with transfer news, scores and stats all in the one place. To download the One Football app, click the link in the description, the app is free. This video is sponsored by One Football, One Football's app makes it easy to keep up to date with transfer news, scores all in the one place. As soon as that second half started, it was just clear that they were going to score. Changes weren't made fast enough, that's on the manager. The players on the field, a lot of selfish plays, a lot of bad, inconsistent play, a lot of giveaways, very disappointing, very frustrated, pretty upset by how the team played today. I thought there was a lot of poor play out there for many different players. I thought Wolcott could have come off at half and I would have understood it. Bernard was pretty invisible again today. We're in a run of bed form right now and again, we can't attack. We have these pacey wingers and we're not using them to full effect because we don't have a target man or a number nine to get in behind the defense. And we're relying on Rich Arleson who is not at this point in his career or maybe ever will be a center forward. Meno was lucky not to get a red card and sent off. I first fell just outside the box late in the first half. I, you know, Kevin Friend messed up again and I thought that would be his second yellow and he'd get sent off. Fortunately, he wasn't. But I mean, everyone was just, go men's didn't look great, Ghana didn't look great, although he may have gone off with a knock. Just a very hard game to watch today, very, very poor. I thought the substitutes came on, didn't make much of a difference. I thought Coleman was hot and cold, Wolcott I didn't care for. You know, Cityton missing a penalty. I don't know if that's not his forte. I've seen a miss penalties for Everton. I've seen a miss penalties for his nation. Maybe that's not his thing. And if we're not going to be playing Banes, which I'm fine with because Luca Dean was one of the best players out there for Everton, which is a low bar, this particular week. But if, if that's not Siginson's thing, then see if Rich Arleson can do it. See if Bernard can do it. If any but Jang Tosen, you know, all these guys came from teams where they were the man someone has to have some experience taking penalties. Again, Luca Dean, one of the few highlights I thought there was a little bit miscommunication on one of the goals for Wapford. But as far as I'm concerned, he made up for any defensive failings the minute he put that ball in the back of that because we didn't deserve a point today. But I sure do appreciate one. So that's, that's my opinion of the game. Hopefully you guys can leave comments or questions down below. Thanks.


Hi, all. Welcome to my talk, Getting in the Zone, ButterFS on SMR HDDs and NVME CNS SSDs. My name is Johannes Thumson, and I work as a Linux Kernel developer for Western Digital Research and with me is Damien Lemoyle, who is my team lead and also Kernel developer at Western Digital. Hi, everybody. As a short outline for today's talk, I'll start with a high-level overview of ButterFS and then a bit of on-zone block devices. Then I'll talk about using ButterFS on top-of-zone block devices, and last but not least, some further enhancements we have in the pipeline. First of all, what is ButterFS? ButterFS is a general-purpose copy-and-write file system for Linux. It's based around the concept of copy-and-write B-trees, which allows it to easily have things like snapshots and sub-volumes. It also has some advanced features like transparent data compression with LZO, Zapplib, and C-Standard. Check sums for both data and metadata using CSC32XXHashR256 and the Black2B algorithms. It also offers built-in rate support with the rate levels, rate 0, rate 1, rate 10. Technically, there's also rate 5 and 6, but that's broken. So it's discouraged for use, and it has its own backup utility with ButterFS and receive, which can send a stream of changes between two sub-volume snapshots. Then what are zone block devices? Some block devices are most commonly found today in the form of SMR hard drives. That's Schengel's Magnetic Recording. The zone block device interface is defined by the SCSI-CVC and ATA-CAC standards. On the zone block device, the LDA range exposed by the device is divided up into zones. These zones can either be conventional zones, which accept random writes.  Then once the data has been written, the write pointer advances, and the next data has to be written at the write pointer again. To write data before the write pointer, you have to reset the complete zone, erase all the data to rewind the write pointer to the beginning of the zone and start writing again. That's a constraint that users of zone block devices must be aware of, and that sequential write rule cannot be broken because the device will simply fail the write. To simplify this operation a little bit, when NVMe CNS SSDs were standardized, the concept of the zone append operation came around, a zone append is basically a nameless write. That means you write your data to a specific zone, and the device places it at the write pointer and tells you afterwards where the write pointer has been. Unfortunately, the zone append operation is not defined in SCSI and ATA, so we had to write an emulation for the SCSI driver, which came in kernel 5.8, and just recently for the device method stack, Damian wrote a similar emulation, so we can have a unified driver stack in all of Linux. Using the zone append writes means basically, you can just do writes in any order with some minor constraints, and the device will never fail these writes, but you have to be able to handle out-of-order completions. So what had to be done for ButlerFS to support zone block devices? One thing was the superblock in ButlerFS is the only fixed location data structure that did not get updated via copy and write, so that data structure had to be changed to a log-structured manner. So we use two zones, a ring buffer and always write the new superblock at the end. The right pointer, once both zones are full, we restart from the first zone, so we always crash consistent and have the new superblock at the device right pointer. Next, we had to align the block groups to the actual zones, and write a zone-extend allocator that doesn't append only allocation and to avoid random writes within a zone. Then, starting with kernel 5.12, we are fully functional now, which means we use zone append for all data writes. We are able to mount the file system. What's not yet working is we don't have any support for rate or as allocated yet, but there are plans to do this, and there is no support for the no-cow mount option because that simply won't work with some devices. Currently, we are in a stabilization phase. There is automatic reclaim of dirty zones that was merged with kernel 5.13, and we are working on bug fixes for all the corner cases we found in testing. Next here is an overview of the data write path of Butterfus. As you can see, there's lots of parallelism. There's normal writes that can't be compressed writes, and then there's delayed allocation. All this has introduced a lot of asynchronousity, and there's a lot of potential for unintentional reordering, which would then fail all writes to the device. That's why we had to use zone append for the data IOL submission. So the new allocator only needs to reserve blocks. It doesn't really care where a block gets written on this. It just needs to reserve it in the more or less right spot in the correct zone, and the device will handle most of the magic on itself. Once the biosubmission process got completed, the file system gets notified from the block layer and the underlying SCSI or NVMe layer, and we know where the device is written, the data, so we can update our metadata, which in Butterfus always gets written after the data got written. So there's no problem with the metadata. The metadata needs to be synchronized, though, so there's a metadata log, which means that we can only have one process writing metadata at the time currently that maybe could be changed in the future. So now to something practical, but using Butterfus on some devices. So first of all, why should you use Butterfus on a some device? Or why should you use a some device? Anyways, there's an increase of capacity with some RHDDs, or you have better predictable latencies because there's no background level, background device level garbage collection in NVMe CNS SSDs. There's also a better isolation of workloads in a cell device. With the ability to use Butterfus natively on SMR drives, there's also no need to use the device as a map for DM zone target, which was used as a translation layer to serialize writes, which means there's a lower overhead all in all. And there is the chance to natively use upcoming CNS drives, which is currently under development in Butterfus. The prerequisites for using Butterfus on some devices is kernel version 5.12, Fedora 34 currently ships 5.13 as an update as of this week. Butterfus prox 5.12, that's also good in Fedora, which ships 5.13. And then the BLK ID from the Utah Linux package has been patched to detect the new log-structured super blocked. These patches are upstream in the main branch, but there is no official release tagged with the version containing these patches. But these patches are relatively easy to backport to a local RPM. So for really using Butterfus on a zone block device, you could check if your device really is zoned and look at the zone properties. We have a block zone utility, block zone report, depth SDA, or if it's depth SDA. But that's a totally optional step could be left aside. Next thing is to format the faltersome with Butterfus. Currently, you have to use the dash M single dash D single. Options to make affairs to, because only the single profile is supported. And upstream didn't like it to be the default profile on a zone device, because defaults are hard to change in the future. So you have to explicitly specify the single profile for data and metadata. And then make affairs Butterfus will perform some reset on all device zones and write your initial file system data. Afterwards, you normally mount the file system, but currently you have to use the dash T Butterfus option for detecting the file system until the latest BLKID code has reached all distributions. And the mod utility is compiled against the BLKID to automatically detect the file system. And there are some upcoming improvements, which we are working on. First of all is NVMe CNS support. NVMe CNS means our NVMe CNS SSDs are some namespace NVMe SSDs that give you more predictable command latencies due to no device level garbage collection in the background. You gain a better isolation of workloads, because there's no FTL flash translation layer in the firmware that decides to do things while you are writing. SSDs offer a similar zone device interface to SMR HDDs, but with some changes. For example, you have no conventional zones, meaning you always have to write sequentially to all zones in the device. And not LVAs are actually or may actually be usable. A CNS SSD may have a capacity of a zone smaller than the actual zone size. This means there are changes needed in the extent allocator of the file system, which track the number of active and open zones to not strangle the device limits. And then we have to differentiate between the zone size and the zone capacity to not allocate over devices or a zone's capacity. And finally, my personal pet project, the clustered parity rate is something I promise for over a year now to start working on, but haven't had the time yet. On the clustered parity rate, the old data you write in the stripe gets uniformly spread across the devices in the rate volume, which helps decreasing the rebuild stress in large arrays. And with some devices typically being relatively big in the tenths of terabyte region, the stress for rebuilding on the single devices when you have to rebuild an array is pretty big. Then we also have the chance of adding new encoding schemes like read Solomon code or NDS codes, which increase the overall fault tolerance for multi-disk failures. And all this requires introducing a new B3 in Butterfus because there's only 13 of them, so let's add a new one. That one, that change will allow us to do so. A PEN writing on a zone file system. So we don't have any implicit calculations anymore, but have real metadata on disk where our data lies. That also benefits known zone Butterfus rate setups like the traditional rate 5 and 6, which are discouraged because they suffer from the rate right hole and data loss can occur with these rate levels on Butterfus. So with the introduction of the stripe tree and the declassivity rate, this problem can also be fixed. Yeah, this concludes my presentation. We still have some time left. Are there any questions? There's the question if we see any performance problems with Butterfus. Do you mean Butterfus overall or zone Butterfus versus non-zone Butterfus? Yeah, Johannes, go to the Q&A tab. Yeah, see the Q&A tab, OK. To answer Neil, why aren't we running Fedora because corporate laptop, corporate IT? And I am running Fedora. It's on my right here. It's hidden from the camera, but it's patching and building and doing lots of things. I'm actually running Fedora on some test systems and open SUSE on some other systems. And to answer the question, how bad rate 5 and 6 is and when it will be good, well, I would use rate 5, 6 code in production. Surely people can run it with a UPS and won't ever have any problem. Other people will suffer problems, but there are some architectural errors in the code which we simply don't want to fix, but just switch to the new scheme with the rate stripe tree, which adds the new translation layer between logical addresses and device physical addresses in the file system. And journal that to be figure safe. Yes, or not really journal, but have an audit write. When will the rate stripe tree get added to Potterfist as soon as I have time for it? Hopefully it will be this year. I promise it for several years now. I hope to start the end of the month with the actual coding. But the next question is any improvement on Butterfist encryption? I have heard rumors about it. I don't know if how public these rumors actually are, but there's people working on it. Will we add stuff for Butterfist with some block devices to Anaconda? OK, so in the 19th century, right? Yeah. I'd say it should work out of the box if it's not a boot drive. It's a boot drive. We also will patch grab so that grab can find the super block. If it's not a boot drive, we'll have to check the Anaconda code if it's using the correct default block group profiles for data and metadata. But that should be all needed to change if not completely mistaken. Once we have Libia in place, I don't see any difficulty in that. Yeah. And eventually, yeah, we can even patch grab to be able to boot from the NS SSD training that our FS. Or even an SMR drive if you want really to boot from NSD. I think it doesn't include boot because grab doesn't support the encryption, most likely. I've never looked into it, but that would be my guess. The question is, is there still nothing to include for volume while to install? It's not in boot, but no why? Again, my answer is probably because, oh, Debian boot does that. OK. Well, I don't know. I don't think you can do that. We are mostly working on kernel stuff. So this throw, we are kind of not your honest, but it's me. I am a beginner on distro work. Well, I haven't done a lot of distro work either. I did work at a distribution, but never done any distro work on the kernel work. So yeah. OK. So for information, LOX format is not yet supported on SMR and DNS. So the near answer is because Debian uses LOX1 and for uses LOX2 and grab just caught LOX2 support. So related to zone storage, LOX format is not supported on zone storage, even though you can run VM creep on SMR and DNS drive, but not with the LOX format. And the reason is that creep setup, the utility, doesn't write the super block sequentially for the information for the LOX format. It doesn't write sequentially. So that, of course, creates problem if you don't have a conventional zone at the beginning of your drive. It simply counts format. So I was working on fixing that, but got the URL then we haven't finished. But yeah, that's something that can easily be fixed. DM creep does support zone devices since 505.9. So that's the question is about performance after four to five years of usage versus ButterFest versus XFS and EXT4 that ButterFest feels slower. Yes, indeed, ButterFest is slower than XFS, at least. For architectural reasons, we do copyrights, yada, yada, and there's the bookend extents are slower. There's some problems we can't address. There's some problems we can't address for performance of ButterFest on a zone device versus on a non-zone device. With all the performance testing we have done, we are relatively on par. There is things that aren't completely on par on a zone device versus a non-zone device, but it's relatively on par. I would also add that after four, five years of running an HDD, I would recommend to change to HDD. Then there's, will ButterFest get support for layered rates? What do you mean by layered rate? Oh, like a red zero on top of red one or the reverse? Yeah, like what rate 10 basically is? No, actually, the most common I've seen is a red zero of multiple red five volumes. Is that what you're asking, Neil? No answer from Neil. Well, while we are redesigning some parts of the rate code, we could at least look into it. I'm not sure everyone will be happy with that. Yeah, I'm personally not a big fan of layering reds like this because things can break. If you have one bone that dies, then everything can die. So that kind of defeats the purpose of reds. It has to be done properly, but then I would say that a proper erosion coded volume can achieve the same level of performance and protection that a layered red would with less complexity and probably better performance. Yeah, I think we are over time, isn't it? Yes, we have four minutes over time. OK, thank you very much, everybody. Thanks, bye. Thanks, Jonas. Bye.


We live in a remarkable time, the era of the Anthropocene. It's an era of dramatic human shaping of the planet. These figure depicts nine critical planetary boundaries, which we calculated to estimate a safe operating space for humanity. Inside these boundaries, Earth's critical systems are more likely to remain stable. Yet we've already crossed four of the nine planetary boundaries. This map of where we've crossed one of those boundaries for phosphorus shows that the global boundaries mask considerable regional heterogeneity. They also take a largely biophysical approach to problems that inherently are ecological, economic, social, and biophysical together. By contrast, solutions to these complex problems are often local or multi-scaler, and they inherently integrate across those complex economies, ecologies, and societies. And my work at McGill is based on the idea that by collecting examples of these success stories, which we call bright spots or seeds of a good Anthropocene, by understanding what makes them successful, we can help build better human-environment relationships that stay within planetary boundaries. So a good example of this is work that was done by Josh Sinner. He looked at bright spots and coral reefs. What he found was really interesting. The coral reefs that were bright spots and that they harbored healthier fish populations weren't ones that were remote or where fishing had been banned. Instead, they were ones where societies were integrated into the reefs and had built social norms and institutions to help manage them more efficiently. We're collecting these bright spots from around the world. They're existing initiatives. They have a variety of world views and approaches, values about what the world should look like. But they're all examples of success stories of human-environment relationships. For example, one of our bright spots is called Health and Harmony. It's a project in Indonesian Borneo that works to reconnect healthy forests with healthy people. And they do that by providing free health care to communities in exchange for commitments to reduce deforestation. And in the areas where they work, they've seen a 68% decrease in illegal logging and an improvement in all human health indicators. So far, we've collected about 500 of these bright spots from all around the world. We've built a database of information about those bright spots. And that database includes information about the issues that are being addressed, the novel solutions that are being applied, and what we think makes these bright spots so successful in the places where they're working. If we look at those bright spots in detail, we see that they take a number of different approaches. So some, for example, use novel design and technology to reduce ecological footprints. Other ones use local approaches to improve sustainable agriculture, work regionally to improve access to power or resources, or change worldviews through novel educational formats. They tend to cluster around six different critical ideas like green urbanism and agroecology. And when we look deeper at what makes them successful, we find a few things. For one thing, like health and harmony, they're reconnecting natural and human ecosystems that have been ruptured by global change. And for another, they're reconnecting people to people and helping build stronger communities. So we wondered whether we could take those seeds in addition to just understanding what makes transformation successful and think about as we move from the past through the present and into the future, could we use them collectively to envision more positive futures, better anthropocene. The scientific bodies and governing bodies that are responsible for critical global issues like climate change, which is the IPCC, or the ecological future of the planet, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, have spent decades building scenarios, trying to understand what the future of the planet is and how the kinds of decisions that we're making today are going to lead to different sorts of futures on the planet. Thus far, most of their attempts have led either to these sort of dystopian visions of hardship and collapse on the one hand or to these sort of utopian fantasies that overestimate the power of mainstream approaches to create the kind of real change that's needed to get to those visions of a better anthropocene. So if we want to build a world that stays within the planetary boundaries, it's going to require that we understand how these complex systems of economies, ecologies, and societies are interlinked and that we use that understanding to help shift them towards a better system that stays within these planetary boundaries. And that's going to require some pretty significant change. But that change is going to be based on the world of today. And we see our seeds of a better anthropocene, our bright spots, as a sort of pocket of a better future that's already in existence today. And as pockets of that better future, we think that we can use them to not only understand how transformation and change happens, but to build better visions of future pathways. So it's been said that we can't build a world that we can't even imagine. So what I want to know from you all today is what's your seed of a good anthropocene and how can our seeds collectively help us envision a better future? Thank you.