What's going on? I am Greg Sussman joined today by Tom Vecchio of FanDuel who's here to help us go over the top DFS plays or tonight in the NBA. What's happening Tom? I'm doing good with a four-game slate and it seems pretty clear and pretty straightforward We have a lot of good options across the board It's nice when it's this easy theoretically this straight up But of course things don't always go as it seems so tonight Let's try to break it down for everybody watching so they can win some money on FanDuel tonight Let's start out with some of your top studs on the board. We begin with Washington's Bradley Beale high price tonight But well worth it you say. Yeah We have this game coming in with a 230 point over under it's by far the highest on the slate and you know we get you know We look at you know Joel and B tonight that games down at 206 Which really puts you in a tough spot who do you want to spend up for and for me? It's Bradley Beale tonight It is a paced down spot against the Hornets But they're not gonna be dropping all the way down the Wizards right now We're up at fifth fastest the Hornets are down at 27th We'll see them meet somewhere in the middle, but Bradley Beale is that guy in Washington He's averaging over 21 field goal attempts per game over seven and a half three pointers per game His 34% usage rate is amazing 1.18 fangal points per minute Charlottes around middle of the league when it comes to fangal points allowed per game to shooting guards But ultimately we're gonna be seeing you know a generally good defensive match up The usage will always be there for Bradley Beale and he could do this in a losing effort You know 40 real points 55 fangal points exceeding 5x value and he's cheaper than Joel and B in a better game environment So for me it's all about Bradley Beale tonight High scoring game high total Bradley Beale the star for the Washington Wizards You know how great his usage is he's the guy you got a lock in your line of tonight despite the high price tag Jimmy Butler has the heat rolling right along in the Eastern Conference. He's obviously worth going with on tonight's late Why do you like Jimmy Butler despite his high price tag? Yeah tonight's late I think you know spending up for three players in the $9,000 range is the way I want to go about things and you know Jimmy Butler, you know looking like his old self I want to say back to you know the Chicago days Jimmy minutes where he is playing an Unbelievable amount of minutes 35 minutes or more in five straight games We all know that minutes equals money in NBA DFS and you know We look at his you know overall usage and production with the team a 20% usage rate is really modest But he's producing 1.12 fangal points per minute. So basically every time he touches the ball He's doing something, you know productive with it He spills up the stat sheet as he always does he has two triple doubles over his last five games He's shooting, you know 15 ish field goal attempts per game He has five or more three pointers and five of his last six come on with the fact He gets to the line all the time with ten or more field goals in five of his last six It's a pace-up spot against the Hawks. They are one of the bottom teams in the league against shooting guards We are looking at another 45 to 55 point game from both Beal and Butler tonight Which is why I want to lock both of them in even the small slate tonight Stoads and duds make some sense to be Butler Bradley Beal both locked into Tom's light of tonight So make sure that's the way you're going both cash and tournaments One more stole we want to mention. It's Damian Lillard for Portland facing off against the New York Knicks at home tonight Why do you like Dame Dalla? You know, he's one of those players that I always Fear not having enough exposure to just because we know his pure scoring upside is Phenomenal an insane amount of volume from the field 15 or more field goal attempts We're talking about six or more threes and six straight games the Knicks No one we have to fear defensively. It is a pace-down spot for Portland I'm not really too worried about that. But, you know, we look at Lillard Butler and Beal and Beal tonight. We lock in these three players. You're left with about $5,100 per player remaining That's doable on a four game slate and you're getting basically 150 points or so around there from these three players. So we want the matchup against the Knicks We want the volume shots from Lillard and I'm going with these three guys at the top All right, those studs clear on this small slate. Damian Lillard rounds them out here going up against the Knicks Do you know what Lillard's usage rate is? You know how they're a fast pace. He's got to be shooting it better He'll try to break the blazer skid tonight against the Knicks Let's go over to some of the undervalued players the sneaky guys the Duds, but you know the lower owned lower price players that you have to round out your lineup with You're going to start all these superstars. We begin in Atlanta with my man Kevin Herner back on your radar tonight. How come his back room is injury? You know kind of a weird season for him.  He's going to be limited to 25 minutes today, which was reported A little bit earlier. He saw 23 and 15 minutes in the past two games And I think this is kind of a by-low spot on him. He's only $4400 done. His role should be increasing We're going to see his minutes continuously bump up and that $4400 price tag is not going to stay there Uh, you know an 18% usage rate 0.83 fandal points per minute is modest, but he's mainly a pure score Doesn't necessarily fill up the rest of the stat sheet. They are eight and a half point underdogs and Let's go this hawks lineup is kind of lacking. Cam Reddish is not doing a whole lodge Jibard Parker is not playing super well right now. Alex Len is out It's really Trey young and then everyone else So they need some scoring and that's where herder can come into play tonight Kevin Herner should always be in play the minutes need to be there for the Maryland law And I think tonight given the injuries in Atlanta He should be in a good spot to contribute both to the hawks and to your fandal lineups Another undervalued player here on tonight's lead brings us to Jeremy Graham What do you like about Grant and his ability to go off tonight? First of all, his price is very cheap at $3,700 and more importantly his production and his role is actually increasing And yet his price is still, uh, you know, very cheap, you know in the beginning of the year Milsap They're starting power forward for Denver. We're seeing 30 ish minutes a game 70 30 60 40 time split when it comes to these two players We've actually seen Paul Milsap His minutes come down and now he's in the mid to low 20s in a lot of these games And Grant is basically in the same role. He is. He's just being more productive and what's best about this is Denver has basically a 5v5 swap when their starters come off the court So their second unit is Grant Hernan Gomez plumbly Montemores and Malik Beasley And Grant is carrying that unit a usage high of 24 percent along with 0.96 vandal points per minute Also combined with the fact that he shouldn't be seeing too much Al Horford because Horford will be off the court Grant and the second unit will be on against the second unit And he's producing 18 or more vandal points in four of his last six games playing about 20 minutes per game in all of these contests So under 4k and still producing 20 fantasy points. Sign me up You kind of know what you're getting from Jeremy Grant and as Tom said the price is under $4,000 It seems like a no brainer now He's not going to light it up by any means but he'll still be a worthwhile play on tonight's slate Where you're getting some somebody price as Tom mentioned under $4,000 with stats to fill out around the board Finally we wrap up tonight with Troy Brown of the Wizards. Why do you like Troy Brown? We mentioned Bradley Biel before we thought that brown as well in previous editions. Why do you like brown tonight? Brown and the Wizards, they're dealing with a you know, a ton of injuries. They still have Thomas Bryant now Moe Wagner is back at center. Their rotation is really mixed up and you know, brown should be there for a good amount of Minutest night in a very high scoring 230 point over under against the Hornets you know Isak Banga is getting the start generally for the Wizards at small forward but Brown is playing more minutes eventually and he's actually being more productive compared to Banga So I'm just going to take the guy even though he's not the starter and slightly more expensive I'm going to take the guy that is being more productive. He generally also plays when Biel is off the court There's some overlap at times just because their rotation is so mixed up over the past You know week or two, but he's taking a good amount of field goal attempts He can fill in the rest of the statue a lot. I mean this guy was a former top 15 first round pick The Wizards kind of got to get him involved in the offense when they can especially when Biel is not on the court So I'm taking a relatively soft matchup against the Hornets high over under game and a guy who doesn't have to compete for usage All right We'll see what Troy Brown can do and like you said you've been liking him for a while You know that at some point those minutes will be there the performance could follow Troy Brown a sneaky play on a slate where you need to find them again to get those studs in there That's going to do it for us here on the fan. No hurry up. We appreciate you checking this out Go play NBA DFS tonight follow Thomas picks and then join us tomorrow Where Jim Sonos will join me as we look toward DFS for NFL week number 15. Have a great night. Enjoy the games And we'll see you back here tomorrow


Hey, everybody, it's Brian. Welcome to the 142nd Qt tutorial. We're going to continue on with a QML in Qt Quick. This says Qt 4. I really all I did is I took the Qt 3, our previous tutorial, and just renamed it to Qt 4 because we're going to mess with this a little bit. Rather than waste your time retyping all this stuff out, I just wanted to reuse our code here because, well, code reuse is pretty awesome. So when we run this, we can see exactly what we were doing in the previous tutorial. We just have this big rectangle, this rec center, which is green. And then we have all these lime green squares that are anchored around. And we have a mouse area that fills the entire window. And when we click, ta-da, it shrinks. So really what Qt Quick 3, our previous tutorial was, was just anchoring on steroids. We went around positioning and showed how we can anchor things. So this tutorial is going to really describe the difference between parent-child relationships and anchoring and how they're impacted when you start doing animations. So we're going to close this. First thing we're going to do is import. And we're going to answer a question. I had a question from SnarkyBoy69, which is an interesting name, who said, now that we're doing QML, does that mean we no longer have access to any controls like buttons and sliders? Well, no. Actually, as you can see, if we scroll on down here, there is a whole list of Qt Quick controls. And we're going to just import controls 1.3. Go ahead and give it a good build just to make sure you got it. If you get an error message, then try a previous version like 1.0. It just means you won't have it installed if you get an error message. Then we're going to comment this out, our little mouse area here. And we are going to say slider. And just out of habit here, we're going to say ID slide. I messed up my elbow at the gym. It's making my typing all weird. All right, so we're going to run this. And you now see this beautiful slider at the top here. And you can move this around. So what we're going to do is we're going to wire up the events from this slider to this big green rectangle and rotate this thing. It's actually fairly simple. Very simple. I can't even talk today. Geez. Min value zero. Max value. And we'll say 360 because we want to be able to rotate this thing. 360 degrees. I want to say the current value is zero. Enabled just because. Why not? And then we're going to do our on value changed. And this is our actual, you know, our event. Now, remember our rectangle is called rec center. So we're going to grab this and we're going to say rec center dot rotate. I'm sorry, rotation equals slide dot value. So now we save and run this thing because we've anchored. What do you think is going to happen? Do you think all these are going to rotate with it? No, they do not. The reason for that is they are anchored, but they're not children. So we can move the mouse around here on the slider. But you can see they're not moving with it. That's the difference between a anchor and a parent child relation. To kind of solidify that, we're just going to grab a few of these here. And we're going to put them in as children here. So now we've got our rectangle and we've got our two green boxes as children. And these others are just disconnected anchors. So when we run this again and we start to rotate, you can see the two that we put in as children are rotating with the parent. But all the others are just simply sitting there. So that's the difference between an anchor and a parent child relationship with an anchor. You guessed it, if it is a child and it's anchored, it will move and animate with the parent. So some of you have probably worked with what is that called shockwave flash or is it macromedia flash? I always get those confused. And you're thinking, oh, that's what this is. I've got to make a bunch of vector graphics. Well, you can, but it's really not recommended. The recommended way is to actually use images because, as I've said, they're faster. So we're just going to cut that scroll all the way down to the end here. And, well, the whole thing will now rotate. Pretty neat, pretty simple. But it's one of those concepts you really got to understand in order to move forward in future tutorials. Now you understand that when you anchor, you're simply taking an object and positioning it with another object. It's different in the sense that you are not saying x, y. While you can say x, y, it's much different because it's not an absolute position, it's a relative position. And if it is a child of the parent, it will be modified with the parent. So quick, simple, easy tutorial, but a pretty high level concept that you need to understand. So that's all for this tutorial. Very short one, I know. Actually, kind of like it looks like a snowflake almost. That one just looks kind of drunk, but whatever. If you find this educational entertaining, be sure to visit voidrumbs.com. I will have the source code for this and all other tutorials out under acute, way in the back. And feel free to join the Voidrumbs Facebook group. There's 450 plus of us out there. All different languages, all different skill sets, and we just help each other out. Thanks for watching.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial begins as President considers coalition government. Extended lockdowns enforced to the Philippines amid a surge in COVID-19 infections, protesters' demand release of detainees amid COVID-19 outbreak in Bahrain's prisons. And in our video section, we take a look at the Amazon workers' strike and the organization of workers' let's struggles in Italy. In our first story, the corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began in a Jerusalem court on April 5th. The proceedings began following repeated delays due to the pandemic and the elections that were held on March 23rd. Netanyahu has been charged with fraud, bribery, and breach of trust in three separate cases. He has been accused of accepting gifts from businessmen in exchange for favors.  Netanyahu has denied all charges. During the opening statements on Monday, the prosecutor accused him of making illegitimate use of power and using favors as currency. The case was being held in front of a three-judge panel in Jerusalem District Court. On the same day, President Ryuvan Rivlin met with party heads as he decided or tried to decide who will form the new coalition government. Israel's fourth election in two years ended in a deadlock as per the results announced on March 26th. The Netanyahu led right-wing coalition, secured 52 seats, and the opposition parties received 57 seats in total. However, neither side was able to reach 61 seats threshold necessary for a majority. According to Israeli media reports, President Ryuvan stated that he could not see a way to form a coalition at the moment. He was speaking to the leader of the leading opposition party, Yesh Atid. The final tally of seats for the leading coalition parties is unconfirmed, as some are yet to announce their endorsements. This is based on the latest updates available at the time of recording. We now go to the Philippines, which has recorded over 100,000 COVID cases in the past 10 days. The country crossed 800,000 infections with over 8,500 new cases. The government has now enforced the enhanced community quarantine on ECQ till April 11th. This will be implemented over Metro Manila, the capital territory, and adjoining regions collectively called the National Capital Region Bubble. The lockdown was put in place on March 29th following a spike during the Holy Week. Local media reported that several hospitals in the metro region had reached full capacity in their COVID wards as of March 22. This has continued to rise despite extremely strict lockdowns and heavy policing. The government of President Rodrigo Duterte has been heavily criticized for its mismanagement of the pandemic. Experts have warned that people will be forced to leave their houses if the government does not provide emergency assistance. Local news portal Prapler announced that the government is only giving 1,000 Philippine pesos in cash or kind per person. This amounts to approximately $20. Several officials have also warned that the extended community quarantine will not be sufficient. They are called for an expansion of quarantine facilities, contact tracing, and mass testing. We now go to Bahrain where protests demanding the release of incarcerated persons, especially political prisoners, entered their forties on Sunday. Undress grew following reports of COVID-19 outbreaks in the already overcrowded prisons in the country. The UK-based Bahrain Institute of Rights and Democracy reported that over 60 cases have been confirmed in the Jawa prison. As reported by AFP, Bahraini authorities announced that only three cases have been reported in the prison last week. According to activists, the prison is a capacity of around 1,200. However, the number of people currently being held there is at least three times more. Those imprisoned also include several political dissidents. Several demonstrations were also held on April 2, which was marked as a Friday of prisoner's rage. Rallies were held in over 18 districts in the country as people denounced the persecution of activists in political prisoners. AFP reported on April 2 that Bahraini authorities would allow 126 people to serve their sentences outside prison. According to the public prosecutor, these people will finish the remainder of their sentences in a court alternative place. They will also be subjected to electronic monitoring. Bahrain's ruling al-Qalifa regime has drawn widespread criticism for its prosecution and persecution of opponents and dissenters. Human rights groups have also repeatedly pointed to the bad conditions in the country's prisons. This includes overcrowding excessive use of force and lack of adequate medical care. In March 2020, Bahrain had finalized the release of around 1,500 prisoners. However, as reported by Human Rights Watch, opposition leaders and human rights activists were largely excluded from this process. And now final story, we go to Italy. The thousands of Amazon workers took part in a historic country-wide strike. Supply chain and logistics workers, as well as drivers, went on a 24-hour strike on March 22. They highlighted the precarious working conditions, including high turnover rates and working hours extending beyond contractual terms. Their demands included COVID-19 allowances, health and safety training, and fair working hours for drivers. Here is Juliano Granato from Pateri Al-Papolu, the coalition, to talk about the strike and organizing worker-led struggles at Italy. The reasons they were struggling and they were striking was that they are protesting for work loads or work conditions, because they are a very hard condition. As in the United States and in the UK, they cannot be during their work days. So these are the main reasons. And the other important reason was for political recognition for the trade unions because Amazon all over the world has the same behavior related to the trade unions. They hate trade unions, Amazon hates trade unions, and they do whatever they can to eliminate trade unions from their workplaces. It means that in many workplaces, people are hired just for a few months, two or three months, because the algorithms on the management of Amazon, after three months, workers are not productive anymore. But apart from economically productivity, there is another reason. That is a political reason. They don't want to give time to workers to get organized by other people by trade unions. So the struggle was for living conditions, working conditions, but also for political reasons because trade unions need to struggle to enter Amazon workplaces, Amazon warehouses, but also drivers' companies that are mainly small and medium companies employed by Amazon. They have no power because Amazon has the real power, but drivers have to struggle together with Amazon warehouse workers. And on the 22nd of March, there was the first important day of struggle all over Italy. In 2020, there was a huge increase in workers employed by these companies in the Greek economy. For example, in Lombardy, in the north of the richest region in Italy, there was a judge a few weeks ago that had his sentence and he compelled the Greek economy companies to hire 60,000 people that were not employed, but they were contracted by these companies as autonomous workers. The judge sentenced them that they are not autonomous workers. They are employed by these companies. They have the right to a proper contract and to proper working conditions. Thousands of riders right now, and they are struggling from years. In the last months, they had also important victories. But there are many problems, obviously, in organizing with this kind of work because of the contracts, because of the working conditions that I was telling you before. But apart from the difficulties, I think the most important thing is that careers, academics, researchers, trade unions too, were telling us that with post-capitalist economies, there was no space for organizing. There was no space for trade unions and for political parties organizing these kind of workers. These struggles in the last months are showing us that the conflict in a capitalist world is unsurprimable. And the struggles follow the capital. Obviously, workers have a lot of problems, a lot of troubles in finding new ways to organize themselves, but finally they find a proper way. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back tomorrow with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch. Thank you.


You're looking for a robotics engineer job, but you have no experience and your major was Materia Science. Why should I hire you? Because I work hard. Hey guys, this is Dr. Nancy Lee. I have transitioned from fashion design into engineering schools and I got five offers and all of them had full scholarship. Then I also transitioned from engineering PhD in Materia Science into a robotics engineer. Then I transitioned from an engineer into a product manager in a tech company. Now I manage a team of product managers. I believe I have lost experience to help you guys transition from one industry to the other even if you do not have prior experience. So you should continue finish my video. I believe you're going to get a lot all of this video. I became the youngest engineering PhD in our program. When I graduated, someone passed me a job opening that they're looking for MIT PhD in robotics. At the time I was a BU PhD in Materia Science. So I met one third of the qualifications. So applied for the job anyway, eventually I got a job offer and beat out all the MIT PhDs. And few years later, I transitioned from an engineer to a product manager. And now I manage a team of product managers. People asked me Nancy, how do you make the transition? I told them that because I knew how to sell myself. Do you know that employers will never pay for what you deserve the pay for the value you sell to them. Lots of people like me, they are either engineers or international professionals were never taught how to present yourself in the interview as a future leader of the organization. We're never taught and how to sell your value to the organization. And we never taught how to confidently show your strengths. And I have been learning how to sell myself in the past 10 years because earlier in my career, I discovered this is a key cornerstone to accelerate my career. So therefore I've been honing the skillset in the past 10 years. So today, let me use my personal example about how I got the job, even if I met only one third of the qualifications. I did six different strategies. That's very different from everybody else. Hopefully you can do what I did and figure out your dream offer. What I did first is I did extensive research to understand what is required for this job. And in addition, I influenced other people to tell me behind the scenes what it means to be a robotics engineer working on specific things. What the job requires and what do they do in the day to day? What kind of challenges do they face? And those insider information is going to help me to prepare to bridge the gap to understand this is what they want. This is who I am. How can I best understand the job opening so that they help me to prepare for the job? And second, I start to bridge the gap between the qualification I had before and also what they are looking for. This sounds very simple, however, lots of people do not know how to bridge the gap. Let me give you an example. What they need to do is they're looking for MIT PhD to write proposals about robotics race funding. And once they raise funding, they're going to build a robotics prototype. At the time when I read this job opening, I know that what they're looking for is somebody who is capable of writing lots of proposals, who is able to sell their ideas. And I start to immediately dive in to tell them about my strengths. In this case is public speaking skills, and I am a very good PhD who's very good at writing proposals for my own material science stuff. So therefore I was able to sell those key two strengths I had. And at the same time, because I did my research for the first step, I read a lot about what's robotics, what's a concept, and what kind of challenges do they face in robotics industry specifically for the application I'm going to interview for. So therefore, when I talk about my key skillset and the strengths, the value to the companies I always mentioned, like strengths and also was able to talk about the challenges about robotics and my vision, my ideas and my concept about robotics. So therefore, when interviewers see me who is able to show her strengths of public speaker writing proposals and know enough about robotics and compare with MIT PhDs who know robotics inside out much more in depth than I do, but they lack other skills. So they decide to hire me. And the third thing I did different from everyone else, because I know how to tell my stories. This is very fundamental, listen here, because in my stories, I was able to emphasize my impact and my values. I know lots of you guys heard of this framework of STAR. Honestly, if you don't know STAR, you can Google the STAR framework for interviews. I do not teach any fundamental like this. I teach advanced knowledge. So Google what a STAR is. Now I assume everybody know what STAR is. Everybody will say, oh, I just use STAR framework to tell stories. Believe me, I have interviewed more than 100 candidates, their engineers, and product managers. Only 10% of them knows how to use the STAR framework.  Lots of people didn't know how to use the STAR framework in the perfect way to show their values. So let me tell you behind the scenes as a hiring manager what I'm looking for when people use the STAR framework. You need to do the three things. And first, you need to show your impact. And second, you need to be very logical. And third, you need to be very concise, telling your stories. What I mean concise is each impact, each bullet point is just one sentence. Don't keep on going long and long and long and long because interviewers do not have much time to listen to the entire life story of yourself, guys. So know how to tell your story is a key fundamental of other people to perceive you as a leader, as a provisor who is able to do the job very well. Number four is show your leadership. Think about this.  What does it look like in real life when you interact with people? So therefore, all the young candidates walking into job interview, you need to show your leadership style, your leadership potential, show them that I'm going to be the new leader in the organization sometime in the future. I'm here to learn and you are going to help me to grow as well. So leadership doesn't mean that you already lead a big team like I have right now. But what you need to do is you might have led student organizations or maybe in your volunteer opportunities, those are all leadership examples. Again, retail leadership examples use the right strategy methodology to tell the story. It's very, very important. And number five is show your personality. We do not want to be fake. We do not want to be the same. You want to be yourself. Very authentic. For example, I had my own personal brand. I am very outgoing. I'm very good at public speaking and also very authentic regarding who I am. What specific things I did was I was injured before the interview and I walk into the interview on crutches. I literally, I was like, oh my goodness. I was okay. I hurt my legs. If I went in with the attitude of pretending nothing is okay, no, it's not me. So I went in, I made jokes and told them how I got injured and also show them that I'm very resilient. Nothing can stop me from here. Some candidate will just cancel the interview and come back one month later. No, no, no. I came in with like crutches and cans. So this is who I am and people like my personality. So be authentic to show who you are as well. If you're introvert, you might show the outside of you, showing that you're very reliable. So be yourself as well, being very authentic. So number six is be confident and know your strengths. This sounds very simple, but lots of candidates do not show the confidence side of themselves. So do you know that during communications, only 7% is the words you say. Another 93% is how you say it.  Did you build trust and everything together composed of the other 93%. So therefore, when candidate already has written script of this is my leadership stories, I already memorized everything. But when you deliver the same story, would you be able to carry the other 93% of the key component? And in addition, lots of candidates, when they went in, like lots of you guys watching this video, you may not have the right experience exactly for what the job is looking for. They internally feel like they are not confident because you only met one third of the qualification. That's was because you haven't discovered your strengths, your values yet. So lots of my students in my book can, for example, I can see clearly their strengths as what they bring, it's like diamond in the sand. But to themselves, they didn't see that that's their unique value. They didn't know how they talk about their unique value to be perceived at the diamond inside all the sands and everybody looks the same. So that's what I help others. And that's how I help my students to achieve the other 93%. So if you're interested in learning more about how to sell yourself, how to be perceived as a leader and how to tell your stories at interview, you can check out my book and that's what I specialize in and helping engineers and international professionals. And especially for international professionals, English is not your first language. That's very, very difficult for you to even communicate very clearly about your value, even answer the same questions. So I'm there to help you because I have been there before and I know how to conquer those challenges and turn them into a stress. So I have developed a system, the cheat sheet and help you guys to identify as a gap and hopefully can convert who you are and match the sell your value to the company. So you can find the cheat sheet in the link down below and hopefully you can use it to land your dream job. And finally, please remember that you do not need 100% of the qualifications. What you need is only maybe 60% was asking for the other 40% is about how to sell yourself. If you want to know how did I get to put a manager offers with no prior experience, I'm going to make a new video like that. And in addition, I'm also going to make new videos about how did I became the youngest engineer in PhD, you might be interested. So make sure you subscribe. Once available, I'm going to put it right here and you will be the first one getting notified when those new videos are out. All right, good luck with your job hunting. See you next time. This is Dr. Nancy Lee.


Dear students, I welcome you in the course of Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and Disease and Making. This is module number 176 and we are going to discuss how to reduce symptoms of stress. Remember that being a toxic handler, you have to deal with the stress all the time because people would be vomiting and pouring their stress on you and you are there to absorb all that stress and make them normalize and calm. For that concern, there are different things that you need to focus upon. For example, when you are there to reduce the stress, you may have to go for meditation and that meditation would bring the mindfulness in you and that meditation exercise, that that focus exercise is going to bring in you the points where you have to turn your attention to and where you have to focus upon for your further well-being and for your own mental well-being.  The third thing is that you may need to go for exercise.  Another aspect with which you can reduce your stressful hours and stressful moments, it can be healthy eating. Your eating habits that should be very much carefully taken because your right intake is going to give you the energy boost. When you are there to deal as a person who is there to be acting like a toxic handler and who is there to deal with the stress of the people around him or her. Now remember being a toxic handler, there are certain ways in which you can go for your stress relief and that stress relief that stress relief can be done with your empathy and concern because the toxic handler is always there in taking care of other people. He is always or she is always trying to put him or herself in their shoe to find out what are their issues and what are their emotions and if you are having the right amount of empathy and concern. The second thing is that a toxic handler by nature thinks that helping others is his duty. He needs to discuss with others so that he or she can come up with the right solution of their problems and their situations. Another important thing related to a toxic handler is that toxic handlers are not self-centered. They are not only thinking about themselves but their focus is that they have to think and deal with the other people and obviously when they are thinking and working about others then they have to think more about themselves and they don't want to predominantly demonstrate themselves in their focus. Another important thing that is associated with a toxic handler is that a toxic handler is always there to work for the well-being of the other people and to work for them. So remember one thing, a toxic handler needs to be careful. He or she is going to deal with the people or the people are always having certain level of anxieties, burnouts and frustrations. They have got their own thinking patterns. They have got their own psychological complexities. They have got their own inferiority or superiority aspects which will have to deal with a toxic handler. Dear students, if we conclude all this then remember that a toxic handler can only help others if he or she knows how to take care of himself. Because if you cannot focus on your own self, how do you claim that you are going to focus on the other people? Thank you.


The final item of business is the member's business debate on motion 12335, in the name of Willie Rennie, on flood management. This debate will be concluded without any question being put. I would ask those members who would wish to speak in the debate. Please press the question speak buttons and I call on Willie Rennie to open the debate up to seven minutes, Mr Rennie. Seven-year-old Amelia burst into tears at the bottom of the stairs in our house as the still unwrapped Christmas presents were swallowed up by the flood. Caroline watched her house flood, knowing that there was nothing that she could do to protect it. She lost family pictures, personal effects and her home. Soon to be married, Nina had a buyer for the house and was ready to move to a new chapter in her life. But within minutes, the lady burning Cooper burst its banks and flooded their homes with muddy, stinking water. Their distress has now turned to fury. Fury at all the talk, but no practical action. We have had talk about flood studies, management plans, strategies, capital programmes, planning enforcement, gully examination, attenuation schemes, SUD schemes, the promise of consideration of the possibility of government grants. If talk could hold back the water, we would never have a flood in Cooper ever again. There has been lots of sympathy, but the residents do not want sympathy anymore. They know that it is often used as cover for when those in power have nothing else to offer. Instead, when the minister stands up, I want her to announce that the victims of storm Garrett will get the same grant money that the victims of storm Babet have received. Just because the Met Office judged the storm yellow, instead of amber, did not stop the floods. I have been told for months that it has been seriously considered, but how long does it take to consider a small grant scheme? Please give them the money that they deserve without any further delay. The section action that I want today is direct support and clear advice for farmers and land owners along the Eden catchment to slow down the water's speed of flow upstream and to get it away quickly when it gets close to homes and businesses. Some people call it a catchment plan, others are river basin management plan. I do not really care what it is called, we just need a plan and it is going to be an action plan. Despite all the good evidence about managing catchments, there is no plan, no money, confusing advice and a costly application process if land owners want to do anything. Land owners are told by SIPA that removing silt from the river does not really work, but they say that there is no ban and permission can be granted. It is confusing. There is now a view amongst farmers and land owners that they will be wasting their time applying for permission. What we know and what we now need is for some public body in partnership with locals to identify the bottlenecks and the opportunities on the Eden and its tributaries and to secure the necessary permissions so that the farmers can get the work done on their land. That action should be based on the best advice and evidence. We need a comprehensive approach because there is little point in one farmer getting work done in isolation. The whole river system from bottom to top needs to be considered. If those further up remove silt, for example, but those further down do not, the water will have nowhere else to go and will flood the homes again. Up stream we need the same urgent proactive assessment of the potential for fields and burns in the land to slow down the flow of the water and reduce the loss of valuable topsoil in some location. The advice needs to be clear. Do trees make a difference? Are buffer strips wide enough? Does organic matter in the soil help? Do swales and reservoirs help? Should certain sections of land only be grass, which sections should be given up for flood plains? Where could flood storage ponds be located? The Tweeds Forum partnership in the Edelston water demonstrates what can be achieved, but I repeat that advice to farmers elsewhere is confusing and conflicting and there is no grant scheme other than for droughts and riverbank restoration. If ministers are honest, they will admit that nothing is getting done in most of the country, so it is all just talk. Today I do not have my hand out for a large costly flood prevention scheme. They have their place, but I know that money is tight and that they take years. What I am asking for is smaller, faster and relatively inexpensive measures combined with a long-term plan to better manage the water courses and prevent floods if at all possible. It is a plan with relatively modest funding attached that is required. I have been to lots of meetings in the past few months, meetings with residents, businesses, farmers, environmentalists, anglers, landowners and so on, and they have all been packed. Although there are anxieties about how the possible clearing of rivers would be done and the impact on fish stocks and biodiversity, there is so much common ground. I know that there is a path to getting the catchment working to prevent flooding as much as possible and to have an ecologically healthy river, but there is nothing proactive planned by the authorities. That is apart from Fife Council, with another flood study that will take years, then even longer to decide on action, then planning, funding and construction.  It does not feel like an emergency if you are a flood victim in Cooper. It is not just Cooper. There have been floods in Dunshelt, in Mochde, in Shreffmiglowe, in King's Kettle, in Frookie and in lots of other communities. It has not just happened once, so they live in constant fear that the water could come again any time of the day or the night. They know that the climate is changing and that there are more extreme weather events, but they also expect those in power to act, to do everything possible, not to give up on them. The good news is that Amelia will soon have a little brother or sister. Let's make sure that he or she doesn't live in the fear of floods in the years to come. I move to the open debate. I thank Stephanie Callan for going all the way back to my office for my card and your staff for providing one meantime. Flooding is an issue that countries everywhere are grappling with. Climate change means that flooding and other natural weather-related events are becoming more frequent, more intense and more destructive. We only need to look at events of last year. 2023 was the hottest year on record. That profoundly impacted the global water cycle and contributed to severe storms and flooding. The most potent example was Eastern Libya, devastated by storm Daniel, which killed more than 5,300 people and affected Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and Egypt. Across every continent, flooding last year killed tens of thousands, displaced hundreds of thousands and impacted millions of people. Closer to home, the most severe and disruptive weather event was the storm rabbit, with seven lives tragically lost. Hundreds of homes and businesses were flooded with break-in, particularly affected after defences were overtaught by South East River. Infrastructure was damaged, farmers lost crops and livestock in around 30,000 homes in North East Scotland lost power during the storm. Unfortunately, we have to prepare for an increasing frequency of such events in future years to come. Analysis from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research shows that climate models may significantly underestimate how much extreme rainfall increases under global warming, meaning that extreme rainfall could increase more rapidly than current models suggest. It is a place to see the increased need for investment in flood defences recognised by the Scottish Government. In the last year, Scottish ministers invested £61 million in flood defences, compared with the £4 million allocated in the first devolution budget. Since 2007, the Scottish Government has made a total of £814 million available to local authorities for flood protection schemes and other actions. Indeed, £48 million a year has been invested and an average by the Scottish Government, compared with £12 million a year under the previous Labour-Liberal-Scotish executive. It is not just talk, as Mr Rennie asserts. Even allowing for inflation, this is an almost tripling of much-needed investment, which has enabled major flood defence schemes in my constituency. The Upper Garnock Valley flood protection scheme is now virtually finished with only a minor remedial and landscaping works to be completed in spring. The area is a long history of flooding going back to the late 19th century, and I will recall when the River Garnock burst its banks in 2008 with the emergency services from a cross-north Asher called to the devastated streets. In 2020, a flash flood wrote off my car in Glengarnock as I found myself sitting in the driver's seat in three feet of water. The £18 million scheme provides mitigation options that have extended flood protection to 600 at-risk properties in Kilburni, Glengarnock and Dalrai, and a number of major businesses. The £48 million millport flood protection scheme on the end of September began last spring. Work is progressing well on the construction of an offshore breakwater, which will create a calm area of water with completion due this summer. That part of the work is essential to our proposed marina in Cumbria, which is an Ayrshire growth deal to be constructed. Also on the millport with the millburn flood alleviation scheme, the project will be tendered this year and constructed next year, providing protection for up to 124 properties in the island and for a 1 in 200 years flood event. Sadly, the reality is that it will not be possible to prevent flooding everywhere during extreme storm events. When prolonged and intense rainfall does overwhelm drainage systems, it is vital that there is an appropriately swift response. Given the increasing frequency of flood events, organisations of the Scottish Water need to up their game. With recent case, what I found them responding regrettably slowly compared to in previous years merely offering a phone number for constituents to call. That is simply not good enough and contrary to the ex-inservs provided just months ago. We must also do more to raise awareness of flooding risk and increase the insurance uptake. In Scotland, the responsibility for protecting property from flooding rests with the owner is estimated that 284,000 properties in Scotland are at risk of flooding rising to 394,000 by 2080 as a result of climate change. Despite that, I am in my last few seconds. Despite that, more than a quarter of households have no home insurance, with building and context premiums rising, a whopping 36 per cent last year, a figure that will only increase. Those most likely to not be covered by the most vulnerable in our society, the elderly and low-income households. I mean, it is a look to see how we can protect them, not just the properties. I thank Willie Rennie for securing time for this evening's debate on such an important topic. For those flood-hit communities struggling to get back on their feet in my region, it feels as though the magnitude of what happened still hasn't hit Hamzae use of this Government. The Scottish Government's ministerial task force met one month after Storm Babette reaped havoc in the north-east. Communities were left in limbo for weeks, but the First Minister still managed to stage a photo op on River Street in Breakin within 48 hours of the storm. Four months on, the people of Breakin and communities across the north-east are still hurting. The fall-out from the flooding is still being felt. Repairs are ongoing. Homes continue to be uninhabitable. Businesses are trying to make up for lost time. Vital infrastructure has been badly affected, such as Mary Kirk bridge in Aberdeenshire, with repairs due to get underway next month. Following Storm Babette, as many as 82 businesses contacted Angus Council looking for help, and upwards of 300 properties in Breakin affected by floodwaters, 57 council-owned properties still require significant work before they can be reinstated. We've recently learned that Angus Council's interim claim for the bellwine scheme is £6.9 million, but that's just for immediate emergency response, not the recovery phase. Meanwhile, for many, the grants available for residents and businesses haven't touched the sides of what is required. These adverse weather events are costly, both financially and emotionally, and they're happening more and more with a record number of flood alerts issued by CEPA since 1 September 2023. This Storm Babette, some areas have been hit again by flooding, such as cottages in Castleton, which flooded in October and again in December. For these residents and many others with their properties already compromised, this isn't going to stop, it's going to keep happening again and again. That's why I've engaged proactively with communities throughout the north-east on building resilience since I was first elected in 2021. Willie Rennie's motion rightly focuses not just on what has happened but on how to get better management and how to better manage the risk of flooding in future. Information that I received from Angus Council via FOI has confirmed that no climate change adaptations have been made to Breekins flood defence scheme since 2018, when the updated UK climate projections were published. It's all very well having flood protection schemes in place, but maintaining the defences and making sure that they take account of updated climate change projections is key to protecting our communities. I'm very interested to see the final output for the Scottish Government's national adaptation plan later this year, but it's vital that local and national partners work together now to make sure Scotland is not on the back foot when it comes to flooding, when lives and livelihoods are at risk, good enough, isn't going to cut it. We need gold standard protection to keep our communities safe. I thank Willie Rennie for securing debate. It's a very important issue that impacts constituents in our neighbouring regions. Severe weather events are becoming more frequent with each passing year.  It is exposing our communities to ever-greater risks. The Dundee and the broader north-east are certainly not known for heavy rainfall, but in recent years the frequency and severity of storms has increased dramatically. The impact of flooding is devastating for families. Homes are ruined, livelihoods are destroyed and lives are put at risk. That disruption and upheaval caused when a property is flooded also brings significant costs. In the midst of a cost of living crisis, this emergency expenditure is something that most households and businesses can afford. It's right that the Government and local authorities step in to support residents at a time of such great need. What I have heard from constituents and councillors in my region is that that process has been far from smooth. It's imperative that the Scottish Government does learn the lessons for the future as severe storms become ever more frequent and takes a proper strategic approach to helping citizens as required. The devastation that Storm Bobet brought to Angus was clear to see with breach and particularly badly affected. SNP-led Angus Council announced £10 million of funding following Storm Bobet, and that money was very welcome, but five months later we're still waiting for the majority of that money to materialise it. I would appreciate if the minister in closing the debate could advise what the Scottish Government can do to support Angus Council in delivering that funding to those who actually need it. I'm certainly happy to fund it. I thank Michael Marra for taking my intervention. I wonder if you could outline what his views are. We know that local authorities have a role to play, we know that the Scottish Government has a role to play, but there are other public agencies that need to be involved in these discussions as well, as well as ensuring that we have local community accountability. Does he agree that all those people, all those agencies, need to be in the room together to ensure that we have a holistic approach to flood resilience? I certainly agree with Maggie Chapman on that point. It's vital that the Government uses its convening power as much as its financial power to make sure that those things are approached strategically. We have to think about, as other members have set out, the long-term consequences of those changes. We have to make allowance in budgets to ensure that we have money set aside for those instances, and it has to be commensurate to the size of that. I'm sorry, I can't at this moment in time, I'm going to make some progress. So road closures across funding of £1,500 for households and £3,000 for businesses as a result of Storm Babette was also very welcome, but only properties with indoor damage were eligible. That money is a lifeline for people, but many residents sustained damage to the exterior of properties and have not received any support. Road closures have meant that other roads in the area are being used more frequently, increasing the demand for maintenance work through the displacement of traffic, but money has not been made available for those repairs on alternative routes, which are a consequence of the floods in themselves, of course, as well. So it's clear, as members are describing, that a more holistic view must be taken about the true impact of flooding on a community. Across Dundee and Angus, many constituents live in areas that are susceptible to flooding. Only recently, Cleaverhouse, parts of Milamains and other areas around the Dictayburn were flooded in Whitfield, where old Toll loan was flooded by the 50. It's clear that those impacts are taking place. Beggars believe, frankly, that Dundee City Council are continuing to try and build a huge secondary school on a flood plain that's been identified as such since the 1960s. I fear only that that's going to cause more trouble in the future. But residents have faced repeated disruption from flooding. I forced them to evacuate their homes for a time and many businesses have been lost. So it's a really important debate, and I think that if we can bring a clear view to the fact that we need a more overarching strategic approach that brings agencies together and makes sure that that funding is available, and I would echo some of Willie Rennie's calls to make sure that his constituents receive the urgent support that they require. I join the others in welcoming Willie Rennie's securing this debate today. Actually, it is a great issue of importance and one that is coming up just more and more every year now due to the storms that we're getting. The focus of Willie Rennie's motion and much of the wider coverage on this issue has been on communities such as Brecon, which are unfortunately just devastating levels of flooding. This resulted in severe damage to homes, businesses and amenities in the area. It also very sadly resulted in loss of life, and I want to offer my condolences to those families that were affected. I welcome the action of members from across the Parliament in calling on the Government to provide additional financial support for the homes and businesses affected. Actually, I agree with Mr Rennie's points about the need for more funding for proposed prevention and for protection of this in the future. However, whilst the Government eventually took action for those most impacted by the storms, communities in Argyll and Bute were less fortunate, where the unnamed storm of 7 October and stormed Badritt, which hit Scotland one week later, caused extensive damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure. It was both disappointing that residents and businesses in Argyll and Bute were not eligible to access the stormed Badritt recovery grants and that, as I understand it, Argyll and Bute Council were not invited to attend the stormed Badritt ministerial task force. Given the impact that that has had on communities in that area that I represent, I would be grateful if the Minister may be able to provide some clarity on those matters in her closing remarks. I do welcome that Argyll and Bute Council were able to access bellwind funding to assist it with the clearance of impacted roads, but it is worth noting that some local roads still remain out of service several months later. One road, the A816, saw more than 6,000 tonnes of debris block the road, but over 200 metres it trapped two vehicles in the process, but fortunately nobody was hurt. While Argyll and Bute Council have managed to open an emergency diversion route under convoy, the main A816 remains closed to this day to the worry of many of those in the community. Roads like the A816 are not just essential access points to a community, but support the local economy, and many locals have raised concerns about the ongoing effects to their businesses. Other sections of roads, including the A815 and the A83, rest and be thankful also witnessed smaller landslips. The A83, rest and be thankful, was an issue that my predecessor Donald Cameron campaigned on extensively. I welcome the fact that progress is being made, albeit slowly, to deliver medium and long term solutions. However, major weather events such as the storms of recent years highlight the need for greater urgency to deliver the much needed replacement for this critical stretch of road. I want to take this opportunity to praise the council staff, particularly those in the roads and infrastructure services team, who acted swiftly to put in place contingency measures and provide regular updates to local residents. Deputy Presiding Officer, the recent storms are among the worst to hit communities, and the increasing frequency of such events not only reinforces the need to continue to meet our environmental targets, but that greater investment in weather defences is still needed. Scotland has a unique geography. We are rightly proud of our rural and island communities, but we need to support them fully with the infrastructure projects that provide for access, emergency and the economy. Those projects need completed now, not later. Our local authorities are often the first to respond to such adverse weather events, especially in communities across the highlands and islands, so it is vital that they are properly supported and funded and that the communities such as those in our Garland butte are not left behind. I really do hope that this debate is a reminder to the Cabinet Secretary and to the entire Government of the need for fair funding for councils and emergency funding to all those who find themselves in need. I now call Michelle Thompson to be followed by Richard Hamilton. I will comment before I start, which I was trying to intervene to Mr Marra. I recently obtained an insurance quote, and one of them asked if I could confirm that my house was no nearer than 260 metres to any watercourse, which is a very, very good drive and a seven-iron to give you a sense of the distance, and I suggest that that is the shape of things to come. Anyway, I speak today in this debate as a constituency MSP for Falkirk East. Of course, this includes Grangemouth, and therefore I reference the vitally important Grangemouth flood prevention scheme. That is the biggest project of its kind to be embarked upon in its progress. The process and outcomes will have a far-reaching impact on other flood prevention programmes, and I certainly do not underestimate the scale of the challenge that we face. I note the efforts with thanks of Jacobs, Falkirk Council and other key stakeholders thus far. The estimated benefit involves 2,760 residential properties, 1,200 non-residential properties, 6,025 people and 23 kilometres of roads. The impact of not doing, as we have seen adverse weather events increase, is incalculable given the importance of the location to Scotland's GDP. As the cabinet secretary notes, and I quote from a letter that I received from her in January of this year, the GFPS is exceptional in terms of scale and financial cost. It is the largest flood scheme ever proposed in Scotland, with a current upper cost estimate of £650 million. It is also worth noting that the wider coastal management strategy and modelling for fluvial events is undoubtedly linked to whatever is designed at Grangemouth. Therefore, certainty and progression is necessary, not only for Falkirk East residents but also for neighbouring local authorities. A number of consultation events have been held on January of this year, and Falkirk Council agreed to move to the next step in the form of scheme notification. After that, the outline business case will be developed. However, the funding elephant remains in the room. The current status in terms of the split of funding that the Scottish Government bears the cost of 80 per cent of the programme and the local council 20 per cent seems to me to be unachievable by either party. Rightly so, the cabinet secretary states that the Scottish Government utilises the entire annual local government general capital grant is simply not feasible. Therefore, I understand the rationale for removing the scheme from this cycle of funding and allowing the Scottish Government to make progress on a variety of other schemes. Various funding models and options have been developed by the council, and the cabinet secretary has asked her officials to pursue a task force model and engage a Team Scotland approach. That is welcome, but serious conversations need to be had regarding funding to allow for the clarity in the staging. I, in a previous life, was a programme manager, and I was always very aware that without a clear line of sight for phases, considerable sums of monies can affect being wasted. It is not unreasonable to assume that the pathway to completion may need to be elongated, reworked and will inevitably turn out to be much more expensive, but clarity needs to be found for the initial stages and on-going dialogue for subsequent stages. I am entirely sympathetic to the predicament that we all find ourselves in, and I note thankfully that the Scottish Government has no plans to claw back with £4.5 million underspend by the council for the scheme, although I understand as yet that there is no clarity on what, if any, conditions may be attached. To that end, I am grateful for the cabinet secretary agreeing to meet me to discuss the GFPS in the near future. My final point is regarding other stakeholders who have an interest in this area. Those include RSPB, Climate Fourth, Bug Life, Nature Scotland, etc. It will be vital to have proper co-design and a full engagement process on plans for mitigation and biodiversity compensation and ensure any environmentally negative consequences of the GFPS scheme are considered. The last thing anyone wants to see is objections from what should be partners in the scheme, and I hope to see their full involvement. I thank Willie Rennie for bringing this very important debate to the chamber. He shares the catchment management approach that I have been advocating for a number of years. We all understand the significant impacts of the flooding events that have had such a devastating effect on the safety and livelihoods of those who live in flood-hipped communities across Scotland, particularly over the years in my constituency, such as Hoik and Newcastleton. Storm Arwyn in November 2021, Storm Babette in 2023 and most recently Storm Garrett in 2023. Every major flooding event has an utterly devastating effect to local communities, and that is why each and every one of us are here tonight. Whilst flooding itself is not preventable, our preparation has to be much better. We cannot afford to lose any further housing stock. We cannot afford to lose key food-producing land, and we cannot afford to let our salmon stocks go extinct. That is not only from flooding, but from drought too. It was quite interesting yesterday because I met the Tay Gillies Association in Blegary, who are concerned that climate change is bringing significant droughts in late spring and summer, causing extremely low flows in our rivers and tributaries, and that is having a significant effect on the salmon spawning grounds. It just seems so ridiculous that we cannot get this right. We have too much rain sometimes, but not enough at other times. I agree with Willie Rennie in terms of the Government initiatives to mitigate the risks against flooding. I agree that so far, to us, it appears that it is all just talk. We know that the words from the Scottish Government have so far been fairly hollow. Their pledges have been lost in a vacuous echo chamber. Sadly, communities have suffered as a result of what this Government has so far not done. They have been wholly unprepared for the flooding events. With each storm, another stark reminder of the shortcoming of what the Scottish Government is doing is evident. In terms of what the SNP may say that flood prevention schemes have taken time to develop and construct, I do not dispute this point, but they have been in power since 2007. The 42 formal flood protection schemes proposed for 2016 to 2021. Only 15 of those schemes have been completed with an overspend of £25.8 million as of January 2024. That overspend pales in comparison to the estimated overspend of the remaining projects that are still under development. Striking examples include an estimated overspend of £87 million in Musselborough, £59.4 million in Stirling and £308.5 million in Grangemouth. At what point will the Scottish Government admit that their current plan is not working? That is why this motion is so important. They are failing to deliver a coherent plan to mitigate this risk to protect residents, to protect vulnerable species. They are leaving our flood-prone rural communities in the dark. In the 2021 manifesto, they pledged to tackle flooding by ensuring that trees, woodlands and natural resources play a key role in flood prevention schemes. However, this year's budgets show that the eggs funding to farmers has been cut by £17.6 million, leaving farmers without that key support, without farmers being able to be part of the solution. Again, in response in this chamber in February, the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands outlined the Scottish Government's commitment to consider flood prevention in the round. I would like that the Cabinet Secretary would be able to, if possible, update the Chamber on Mary Gougeon's commitment to a meeting with key stakeholders, regulators and farmers, which she said was taking place in March. I would welcome an update on that. I welcome the calls to explore the benefits of a regional catchment management approach to flood mitigation, as stated in the motion. A catchment approach utilises local and expert knowledge to deliver a sustainable plan to tailor what is needed. Such amazing projects such as the Find Horn catchment project or the Edelston Water project led by Tweed Forum are a shining example of natural flood management. I know that I have only four minutes, so I have gone over time, Presiding Officer, but I just want to complete the argument that I do not believe that the Government are taking the right approach. The expected costs for physical flood defences are close to £1 billion. Natural flood defences can provide a real, and as Michael Morris used the word, holistic approach as an alternative, Roger Cross, formerly of the SNH, believes that concrete-based approaches are ineffective and out-of-date. On that note, I think that we need to ensure that we protect communities, protect our endangered species and protect biodiversity, and we need to ensure that this Government delivers meaningful protection for those communities. Thank you, Ms Hamilton. I now call Stephen Kerr, who will be the last speaker before I ask the Cubsic to respond. It is a pleasure to follow Rachel Hamilton, who I think has given an excellent speech. I thank Willie Rennie for his motion. I would also like to agree wholeheartedly with the speech delivered by Michelle Thomson. I would like to continue in the same vein, because last week I, with many others, I am sure attended a public consultation for the Grange Mouth Flood Protection Scheme. Listening to the experts and the local community, the message was crystal clear. The Grange Mouth Flood Protection Scheme is not just an optional project, it is a lifeline. The total cost at current prices of the project is £672 million. As Michelle Thomson said, Falkirk Council is required by legislation to fund 20 per cent of that total, and it is just not realistic. Falkirk Council cannot afford £134 million that the Government, that the legislation expects them to stump up for the scheme. That is the same Falkirk Council, by the way, that is so underfunded by the Scottish Government that they just had to tap into over £20 million of reserves just to keep the lights on. Members will know that I am not the greatest fan of the SNP Falkirk Council, but on this issue they are in an impossible predicament. The SNP Scottish Government must confront the reality steering them in the face, because Grange Mouth must be a national priority. It is a life blood of our nation, generating 4 per cent of our country's GDP, responsible for 8 per cent of all Scottish manufacturing, 30 per cent of all of our exports move through the port at Grange Mouth. The Grange Mouth flood protection scheme would save at least £2 billion. The economic impact assessments on that probably need to be kept live, but it is at least £2 billion in damages, including, as was mentioned by Michelle Thomson, at least 2,000 residential properties. I thought that one of the most compelling aspects of Willie Rennie's speech tonight was the human dimension of all of this, as we have seen at Breakin, in particular as a result of Storm Babette. Let me just say that I cannot think that it would be possible for us to leave Grange Mouth in this vulnerable position in the hands and in the finances of a local authority as I think it is on the edge of bankruptcy. Tess White mentioned Breakin and Babette. I have just mentioned it. Unfortunately, the Scottish Government does not have a good record of responding to crises such as those that occurred in Breakin last October. I would specifically draw attention to one quote from a freedom of information request that I obtained that showed that the chief executive of Angus Council wrote to the Scottish Government on the 31st of October saying, and I quote, "...it is concerning almost two weeks on that no officer in the Scottish Government has contacted myself to ask how we are coping as a council or discuss how the Scottish Government can lean into the recovery phase of Storm Babette." Now, Deputy Presiding Officer, this is simply not acceptable. Why, when the urgency of a situation is so clear, why did it take the Scottish Government so long to respond? That is in the same vein as the questions that I think Willie Rennie was rightly asking. If I may borrow from Winston Churchill, I think that those are situations that require action this day, that something that this Government needs to improve its performance in respect of action and delivery. Let me conclude with four questions if I may, Deputy Presiding Officer, in light of the financial straight jacket that Falkirk Council is forced to live with, what further financial commitment is the Scottish Government prepared to make to support Falkirk Council to move the flood prevention project forward? What economic impact assessments has the minister received or commissioned in the event of a catastrophic event at Gramesmouth involving the port, the industrial complex and the communities affected? Does the minister agree with the figure that Falkirk Council has produced in its assessment of the economic impact of such a catastrophe as being at least £2.4 billion? I think that that is an important number because it puts the level of the investment required for the scheme into the context of what happens if we do not make this investment. My last question, which I hope the minister will take the opportunity to respond to, is what discussions she had with UK ministers about the Gramesmouth flood protection scheme specifically given the strategic economic importance of the port and the industrial complex. I conclude by saying that the slow response that we saw in Babette is not good enough. That cannot be a slow unraveling because the consequences of inaction hurts communities, hurts people, hurts our economy but, above all, hurts our people. Will the minister please see a step change in response to this impending crisis? I thank Willie Rennie for bringing this member's business in an issue of great importance to me and one that I can tell is of importance to members across the chamber. I should begin by recognising the dreadful impact that flooding can have in household businesses and communities, as was very well narrated by Willie Rennie. I also thank those who have worked tirelessly over, in particular, the recent winter storm period to support their communities in recovery. I am quite clear that flooding is Scotland's most significant climate adaptation challenge and the damage from the 10 named storms that we have seen this winter makes clear the impacts of climate change in Scotland and that they are increasing. I say that they are increasing because the number of properties across Scotland exposed to flooding is expected to increase by nearly 40 per cent by 2080, meaning that many more communities will be exposed. Reducing the exposure to risk and planning to do so is absolutely critical. It will undeniably require considerable investment over many years. Taking just this budget settlement, for example, however, one that members will have heard ministers narrate a great deal that it was the most challenging we have faced in the devolution era. Despite those circumstances, I was pleased to be able to negotiate significant uplifts for my flooding protection and coastal change budget line, which will increase by 42 per cent in the year 2425 to 91 million. That is vital because councils are statutorily responsible for designing and building protection schemes in their communities and the Scottish Government supports them financially to do that. In that regard, councils have delivered 15 flood protection schemes for local authorities since 2016, with five due for completion in the next few years through that co-operation between local authorities and government. That is the on-going annual funding that supports councils to fulfil their statutory obligation. However, in extreme circumstances, the Scottish Government can and will provide additional support. StormBabbit, as has been discussed this afternoon, was one such example when the Met Office issued two highly exceptional red warnings for rain. Those were issued for the first time since 2015, when members will remember Storm's desmond and frank. Babbit led to hundreds of properties and businesses across four local authority areas suffering inundation. I personally attended every single score meeting during the immediate onslaught of the event, and the Deputy First Minister and I set up and run the Babbit task force in the aftermath. That task force agreed a package of additional financial support for residents and businesses. Again, the first time that additional package had been required and negotiated since Storm, Desmond and Frank. That is the emergency support that we are able to provide. It sits atop that, which the Scottish Government already provides, including the Bellwins scheme, the Scottish welfare fund and where occupiers of businesses are flooded out of their properties, the council tax and non-domestic relief schemes offer empty property relief. Just to give a bit of context on claims to Bellwins in 23-24, I will do just after I have finished this point, the Bellwins scheme has been activated five times with a total forecast expenditure of £19.6 million. I will give way to Willie Rennie. I am just sure that she is aware that people in Cooper are watching this debate this evening. What they want to know is the answer to my two questions. One, will they get the grant support equal to that provided in Angus? Secondly, will there be a catchment plan for the river Eden supported by the Scottish Government and its agencies? I am very happy to work on the issue of the catchment plan on the more immediate point about support to households in Willie Rennie's community. I absolutely have sympathy with what was experienced and that was communicated to Willie Rennie at the time. We have since reached out to Fife Council to have an idea of the impacted communities and I remain open to providing funding. If Willie Rennie wants to come and meet with me about that, he is very welcome and I will continue to speak with Fife Council about the impacted communities. I can hear Willie Rennie speaking from a sedentary position, but truly my door is open. He should come and meet me about the impacts. I am a little short of time, but I will be happy to. Willie Rennie, I am sorry, I am shaking my head because this is what has been told for two months. Those people are desperate, they are out of pocket and they need more than sympathy, so is the minister going to end the consideration and just give them the money that they deserve? I do have sympathy, but that is not the extent of what I have. What I am saying is that I am happy to continue working with Fife Council as I have been. I rely on Fife Council to give to me the information about impacted communities, as I rely on having meetings with local MSPs about the impact of that. Again, I offer the opportunity for Willie Rennie to come and meet me about the impact in his community. Something that Willie Rennie also mentioned in his intervention and in his contribution was the issue of whole catchment management. I believe that that approach is at the heart of sustainable flood management. We know that water does not respect property lines or local authority borders, and that is why the Flood Risk Management Act already sets out that there are a number of actors involved here. I am hoping that our new strategy will do is something that we would all agree is required when there is an incident in our constituency, and that is to oblige all of those different actors who have responsibility when it comes to flood risk management, be it local authority, be it SEPA, be it roads, be it the Scottish Government, to collectively work together in the interests of responding to the immediate event and to helping communities in the aftermath. If I have some time in hand— Yes, indeed. Yes, I will take that time. Rachel Hamilton. Thank you to the cabinet secretary. Can you tell the chamber why just 15 of the flood prevention schemes have been delivered by the Scottish Government since 2016 out of a total, as you mentioned, of 42? Why was he overspend £25.8 million, considering that this was way before inflation, and the block grant has continued to increase every year on year? I am afraid that Rachel Hamilton simplifies what is a really complex issue far too much there. I set out that, according to the statute, it is local authority who has got responsibility for flood risk management, and the Scottish Government arrangement is that we fund viable schemes up to 80 per cent. I have mentioned that we have funded that to the total of £42 million per annum over a number of years and have added an additional £150 million over the course of this Parliament to support local authorities in doing that. I understand that it is challenging for local authorities. We know that these schemes can create a diversity of views in communities, and there are myriad reasons why they are complex projects. However, I am absolutely clear about the fact that we will continue to work with local authorities to protect our communities. I am conscious of time, and I do want to conclude. I want to just be absolutely clear by reiterating what I said at the start, which is that I know that climate change is creating and worsening the impacts of flooding in our communities. It is the single greatest adaptation challenge that we have in Scotland, but that is exactly why the Scottish Government is investing hundreds of millions of pounds in this multifaceted, complex yet vital area. It is why we are complementing that investment by working to bring all of those with responsibility for this together. I am doing it in government. I have done it in my constituency, and I know how frustrating it is for representatives across the chamber when you are in the heart of an incident. We all know the human impacts of flooding and the increasing risk, and I want us to work together to respond to it.