Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. My channel out tremendously and helped me reach my goal of 10,000 subscribers by TFCon in October. Now on to the decals. And the set we're looking at in this video is for War for Cybertron Earthrise or Netflix Bumblebee. And this decal set includes three decal sheets, one on vinyl, one on foil, and one on white. So now, without further ado, let's take a look at Bumblebee both before and after Toy Hacks decals. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. In robot mode, straight out of the packaging, Bumblebee is a little plain. He's just yellow and black as Bumblebee should be. Paint applications include these blue eyes. Down here, he's got silver headlights and a black bumper. There's also a Tampagraft Autobot logo. This Autobot logo right here is a Toy Hacks decal that I added to kind of break him up because originally he was just all yellow and he really needed something. As you can see also, he's got translucent windows all around the chest and some silver right there for the wipers. And that's pretty much it for Bumblebee in robot mode. Here is also his weapon, which is kind of a silver chrome with a black back piece. And I'm showing this because there are Toy Hacks decals that's going to help enhance this weapon as well. So there you go, guys. One final look at Bumblebee in robot mode before and after. Bumblebee gets a few new decals to help enhance his robot mode. And the first ones you're probably noticing are the new window decals. But we're going to go over those more in vehicle mode. Bumblebee also gets brand new eye decals that really make his eyes pop now. Those are so much fun to put in, but very well worth it. Here on the shoulder, he gets new gray decals. Down here on the forearms, little blue decals. Down here on the belt buckle, he gets a blue decal. And down here on the feet, he gets chrome decals that go over the headlights. Also a hidden Easter egg, if you will, if you flip down the chest, he's got a decal that amazes the original Generation 1 Bumblebee artwork. So I really like that. That is cool. So that pretty much takes care of Bumblebee. Now his weapon gets new decals right here on the bipod. So when you separate that into the pistols, it makes it look like that is maybe a clip with some energy bolts. And the rear of the weapon now has this yellow and black decal that's supposed to represent a energon rod container. So you take this, pop it in Bumblebee's hand, swing it up over his shoulder. And it's to make it look like the very first episode of the G1 cartoon where Bumblebee is stealing the energy rods. And I think that's awesome. So there you go, guys. One final look at Bumblebee after. In vehicle mode, straight out of the packaging, Bumblebee actually looks awesome. He's got great paint applications. Right there you can see the silver rims, the black bumper, the silver headlights, silver details right there on the windshield wiper. He's got a TampaGraft Autobot logo there on the hood, painted door handles, which is, I think, a first in a mainline transformer figure in a long time. Back of the vehicle, he's got painted in taillights, a black bumper on the back, and tinted clear windows. Not a big fan of those because you can see all the robot junk there on the inside. He also has a painted VW logo right there on the hood. I love the looks of this bug mode, and I can't wait to see what Toyhacks does for you. So there you go, guys. One final look at Bumblebee in vehicle mode before. And after. And the first decals you're probably noticing are the brand new window decals. And I love those. Everything that covers up clear plastic gets an okay in my book. Now I noticed Toyhacks is really starting to get away from the cell shaded look to a more realistic window, and it works. I really like that, and I have to commend them for being able to cut that decal over the windshield wipers. That is really, really cool. He also gets new decals here on the headlights that kind of give it a blue tint. And what's really cool is for the wheels, if you pop the wheel off, Bumblebee now gets rotors. So that is really cool. You can actually see those through the wheel there. Now on the back wheel, pop all these off, he gets a rotor and shocks. So that is really, really cool. You do have to pay attention, though, and make sure you get the right rotor on the right wheel or the right area, because there is front and back. On the back of the vehicle, he gets a brand new license plate. I picked B127. You do have some options. You have, let's see if I can get it turned around here, Penny Racer and Bzzz. And I went with B127, and he gets an I Love New York bumper sticker. And let's see. One more. Right here, he gets a decal to give him a mirrored side mirror. So Bumblebee looks really cool now in vehicle mode. A lot of little details that add a lot to this vehicle. So there you go, guys. One final look at Bumblebee in vehicle mode after. The Toy Hacks decal set for War for Cybertron Bumblebee is a simple decal set, but one that really adds a lot of character to this figure. I especially love the window decals. They make Bumblebee pop both in robot and vehicle mode. I also like the hidden throwback to the original Generation 1 box art. The smaller details like the bumper stickers and license plate also really add to this figure. Now one thing I don't understand is why they didn't include an optional Autobot logo to put on the chest. As I said in the intro, I had a spare and that's what I used, but they didn't include one with this set. So hopefully you have one and you can do what I did with mine. Now guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews. Once again, this is Patriot Prime, signing out. Hoorah!


Welcome, traders, to another tip on our chart here with me, Patrick, and I want to draw your attention to interesting opportunity that may develop in the coming days, one of the Euro sterling chart here on the weekly timeframe, just first of all for me to show you this trend line that I'm watching, trend line back down from the post Brexit lows, and we're going to get a third test of that trend line. If we jump into the daily chart, the trading timeframe chart for me, what I'm looking for now is for prices to extend lower to test this trend line. So the area to watch this week is coming in around $85.90, we have the trend line, we then have predicted monthly range support $85.80, so pay close attention to how prices respond when we test, and if we test this trend line, looking for bullish reversal patterns set long positions, initially targeting move back into the midpoint of the range up towards $88.70. As always, traders plan the trade, trade the plan, and most importantly, managing the markets. Until next time, thanks very much.


Live from San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE, covering QuickBooks Connect 2016, sponsored by Intuit QuickBooks. Now, here are your hosts, Jeff Frick and John Walls. Welcome back here on theCUBE along with Jeff Frick. I'm John Walls as we continue our coverage here at QuickBooks Connect 2016, gathering here in San Jose at a convention center, third annual gathering with a record crowd of more than 5,000 attendees. So the show continues to show explosive growth, which is, I guess you could say a lot about what Intuit's doing in terms of how it's growing its portfolio in terms of how it serves the business or the small business in the medium-sized business communities. With us now is Sasan Gadarzi, who is the EVP of the Small Business Group at Intuit. Sasan, good to have you with us. We appreciate the time. Thank you for having me. One of the keynote stars today. You were talking about some key themes, big themes about the company, about how we're going to help save time, how we're going to have more accessibility to money, and ultimately what we can do to deliver a better proposition to small business. So talk about that if you would a little bit about that theme on the keynote stage and how that applies to what you're doing in general with QuickBooks. Sure, sure. Well, one of the things that our customers have taught us is there's three things that are most important to them. One is time so they can actually spend running their business and the product that they're passionate about, versus all the tedious, drudgery things that it takes to run your business. The second is money. It's mind-boggling, the effort that goes into earning money, but how hard it is for them to actually get access to their money. And then last but not least is ways to help them grow their business. They're experts in their industry, but where they need help is ways in which that they can drive growth. And so everything that we do is centered around those three things. And it's what inspires us when we show up to work every single day. So a lot of obviously what we talked about today on stage was just very quick, we call ESPN highlight reels, of here's the innovation that's coming your way to either save you time, put more money in your pocket, or help you grow your business or your practice. What's amazing, as you say, as much as they work to finally get that sale, a lot of times, it's all the collection side for small business, a huge issue, getting paid. Did you all that work, sell it, have a happy customer, and then don't necessarily get their receivables in line? That's right, I know we threw a lot of stats out there this morning, but first of all, 80% of small businesses have some sort of a cash flow issue. And in that context, about 65% of them have invoices that are 60 days overdue.  And so obviously the innovations that we talked about on stage today were how do you get access to those funds right away? That's one element of it. The other element is, we have all the data of small businesses, and so we know what they're good for. And so we can deliver loans to them on the spot. If they have payables and they want to borrow on the payable to make payroll for the week, or they want to go buy more inventory to grow their business, we can actually fund them very quickly, literally within minutes. And so those are examples of what we showed on stage today, all in service of helping them thrive and achieve their dreams. I'd love to dig into that a little bit because growth actually exacerbates your cash flow problem if you're not managing it well and now suddenly you're selling more and you've got to buy to fulfill those obligations. But the fact that you almost have like a secondary market now for people to be able to borrow money without pulling all their paper together and trekking down to the bank and hoping they can get it because they actually have the real data, it's updated all the time and it's a different set of data, potentially more complete set of data for a lender to actually make that decision than the stack of paper that they bring down to the local bank. That's right. Well, you know, it's interesting you just set something that triggered a thought when you think about startups that go out and get VC money there's a reason why they have board of directors because the board of directors what they're looking for is one, do you have a growth plan but then how do you manage that growth? How do you make sure you have enough money? How much money are you burning per week and are you going to be able to maintain that growth? Small businesses don't have that. They don't have a board of directors that are actually helping them with some of those decisions. They may not be surrounded by a CFO or a finance expert in the office. And so part of what we're trying to do is just digitize and automate everything so they don't have to worry about that. And secondarily, I think to the point you made helping them with access to money at the point in which they needed. But I think even before we get to that stage what we're trying to do is help them by being that board of directors without having to have one which is to helping them manage their cash flow, their inventory because as they're on that growth curve it's one of the main reasons why they go out of businesses because they're growing fast but they're not managing their funds and they don't have enough money sometimes to make payroll, right? We've heard this stat from a couple of different sources but 50% of all small businesses fail in the first five years of operation and the use of accounting and an accountant, what that can do to increase your odds of being in business for the long term. So certainly you can see where all that is coming into play. You mentioned payments. So we think about Apple Pay, that was one of the announcements you had. Google Calendar, talking about time. And then Mx with the loan. So the power of these partnerships, I'd like to hear from you on that because, big names, right? Yes, yes. That I, if Jeff or I or anybody watching ran a little mom and pop operation in Morgantown, West Virginia, I've got Apple and I've got Google and I've got Intuit on my side. Talk about leveraging that power for small business. Yes, actually listening to you inspires me around what Intuit is doing for these small businesses. And it starts with our vision of having an open platform. It's less about what we innovate on that platform but our goal is to bring all of the innovation, whether it's our engineers or engineers outside of our four walls, bring all of that innovation on our platform so that in fact we can digitize and automate everything with Google Calendar. So we can go in and we know all of where you spent your time and help you easily with one click invoice your customers or to the example you use, be able to use Apple Pay Touch where you can immediately get paid. But that's because our goal is to have an open platform where we bring all the innovation of the best companies out there to you so that you can run your business on any device and you don't have to worry about which application it is but that we do it all for you. I just love the Google Calendar example because he does so many great innovations today or basically reassembling stuff that's already out there leveraging APIs and presenting it in a different way. And so the fact that you're taking advantage of Google Calendar, which so, so many people, you probably know the numbers use and then have that drive your billing, have that drive your time management and just take advantage of the data that's there or as Scott said, take advantage of the data that's in your phone. It knows exactly how far you went on that drive to the client. It knows when you left and when you arrived and when you got home. So to leverage a cloud platform with APIs to pull that data in and drive into seamless integration which makes too much sense, right? You know, it does and when you think about someone like Google where there's a billion people that use Gmail and most of them are using, there's a billion people that have Gmail accounts and over 60% of our customers use Google Calendar to run their business and so it's just, it's only intuitive to figure out a way, well, how do we automate all of that? So that the customer doesn't have to use QuickBooks for taxes and accounting then go to Google Calendar to see where they spent their time so they can figure out an invoice and then integrate it all together so it's all in one place, yeah. How do you all keep focused when your market, your potential market's so big? You know, you've got, I don't know, I read it was at 800 million possible businesses, right? Small businesses? That's right. So how do you look at what would be the reasonable growth trajectory and expansion your plans? How do you keep your eyes on the target? You know, and how do you determine that target? Yeah, it's a great question. Let me start with where you just ended which is there are 800 million self-employed and small businesses worldwide and you know, 97 to 8% of them actually are not using the cloud to run their business or their time and the way we prioritize is think about the countries that are the biggest opportunity to create virality by those that are using the platform and so we prioritize which countries that we're going after and really doubling down in those countries and that's where we really are able to focus our efforts in time because once we create this, what we call the network effect, the more small businesses and self-employed we get to use the platform, the more we get accountants to be able to see the power of the platform, the more they tell their friends, the more accountants are recommending it, you in essence create this flywheel effect of more and more going to the crowd and once we get that flywheel effect going we'll think about what's the next country that we want to go into? We're not that serial about it but our biggest focus comes from being clear which countries we're going to play in today and which countries for now we're going to wait till we get this network effect going. And now you've got this whole new way to work. You know, people that are giving up part of their house or apartment for Airbnb rentals or people that are driving in Uber for four hours, a couple of days a week. Again, those are all based on systems that are driving that engagement. Do you see that as just a whole new opportunity? You've seen a lot of growth in, I always forget the technical term for it. The gig economy. The gig economy. That's right, the gig economy. Which is a whole new and swelling thing and for a lot of those people, they're even less sophisticated on keeping track of their tax withdrawals than the small mom and pop store. That's the least been paying to social security for a number of years. So, another huge opportunity for you. It absolutely is, one of the myths is most self-employed are actually not part of the gig economy. It's the photographer that you may call on to come take pictures of your family or the landscaper that's a one person shop. That's 90% of self-employment. About less than 10% is the Airbnb's, the Lyft and the Ubers of the world. But that number is only going to grow over time. In fact, our view is, in this day and age, people will work at a company for three to four years at a time. We believe in 10 years, people will work for three to four companies in a day because they're workers and they're outsourcing their time to different companies. Three or four companies a day. A day because in essence, they're self-employed and I may work for you and do a job. I may work for you and do a job. That's actually starting to happen today except it's a small part of the economy. We believe 10 years from now, it'll be a huge part of the economy and that creates a huge opportunity for us because they're all self-employed, right? Before we head out, again, one of the big trend topics, artificial intelligence, machine learning. How do those come into play in your vision for the company's vision and the products and services that you think you can develop that can be put to use? Yeah, you know, in fact, we think there are two core competencies that we must have. One is an open platform where we integrate all applications into the platform, whether it's ours or somebody else's. The second is being amazing at leveraging the data, whether it's data from a PayPal app, a Square app, or our own app, and leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning so we can do the work for our customers. So we believe when it comes to data and artificial intelligence, that is actually one of two or three primary core competencies that we are building as a company and it's something we're not new at. We've been doing this for years. In fact, last year in TurboTax, we reduced the amount of time it took to do your taxes by 40% by using machine learning and we're now applying that within QuickBooks. I'd like you to reduce my tax liability by 40%. We can take care of that and I'm yours. At least get you to listen to the July deadline. If you just make less income, I'm sure that's doable. If you don't make it, you don't pay it. That's right. We mentioned ESPN earlier about the stage and all that. You made top plays today. No doubt about it with the keynote's address. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you for joining us here on theCUBE. We appreciate the time. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Back with more from QuickBooks Connect 2016 here in San Jose, you're watching theCUBE.


So I wanted to mount and resin a picture of mine's the wheat. I clamp one edge of the print down, and I lift up the other end and I just spray, spray adhesive. I take the clamp off the other side and I do the same. And I put a piece of paper on top so that I don't get glue from the edges onto the brayer. Nice. And I trim all the edges of the print with an X-Acto knife. I raise the piece off the tail top, make sure it's nice and level. So it's just equal parts, resin and hardener. You can just eyeball it. You stir really well, about three minutes. Just make sure that, you know, you're being thorough, you scrape the edges. I love this stuff. It's like clear honey.  So it self-levels.  The resin will fall off the edge, but that's what I wanted for this method. So when I just blow on the surface, I can see all the bubbles popping. It's awesome. Sometimes just to make sure I got them all, I just used a little kitchen flambé tart. I can just cover it up for the night. I will be back tomorrow to check it out. Perfect. Well, thanks for watching. And why don't you subscribe? We have so many projects coming up. See ya.


So much to do, so much to do. Good morning everybody. Another new day is upon us again. I just keep coming. And I'm out of water, that's the problem. Getting a whole bunch more stuff done today like usual. Trying to get stuff done. We don't wanna waste a single day. We, there's so much involved in buying a house and selling one. Like people don't teach us these things. We don't learn this stuff in school. And this is my, two, three, third house I've sold now in my lifetime and fourth one that I've bought. So I kinda know the ropes already. I know what's going on or what's supposed to go on but there's still so many things to remember. Yesterday when we were assigning our mortgage documents and stuff, we forgot about interim financing because we're taking possession of our new house just under a week before the new owners of this house take possession of this house. So in the meantime, we kind of own two houses, right? But we need, it's called interim financing. It closes the gap so that, because the money we make off this house has to go to help us purchase the next house. But technically we don't have that money yet until this house is officially occupied by the new owners. But we already are gonna be occupying our new house but we need the money from this house. You get what I'm saying? There's so much to remember, so much to do. So we had to quickly phone up our bank and ask them about interim financing because we forgot to do that. And they've been awesome. They've been awesome. They right-of-ways helped us out. Within a couple of hours, our lawyers had received the paperwork for our interim financing so that we can get everything going. Otherwise, we'd be homeless for a while because we can't take possession of that new place until we have the money to pay for the down payment and stuff, the full down payment. And we have most of it together already but we're also buying two properties, right? We're buying the house and the land. So we were short just a little bit and we needed a little bit off the sale of the house to just cover the little bit. Oh, it's just a headache buying and selling. I wish that there was someone along the way to sort of coach you, make sure you don't miss anything. Make sure you dot every I and cross every T, right? We already had a mortgage broker we were working with and the bank, they've all been great. They've all been great but there's so many things involved. And we've been talking to some of our friends that want to buy their first house and I'm trying to let them know it's not easy, it's doable. You can do it, but just let's go over the things you're going to need because no one tells you that until you need it. Anyways, so that's what I've been dealing with today. So that's all done. We have an appointment with our lawyers at three o'clock. They've got all the paperwork, everything is going to be legal and official then. And then that's it, that's the final step, the final step. Britt is at work right now, she's been working so hard to make up for the fact that I'm not working very hard because I can't, I can't just go on a trip and be gone for a week and a half when we're in the middle of all of this mess right now, right? It'll all be good though. It'll all be good. We're doing okay.  Three o'clock today, the final step other than physically moving our stuff from here to there. I'm excited, I'm excited. I was going to be home all next week to help settle in but since I'm home all of this week for all the paperwork that I forgot about, like I said, there's always lots to remember. I'll probably, I'll probably leave like Wednesday or something if I can next week instead of staying home the whole week to settle in and you know what? We'll get everything in there, we'll get the important things set up like the TV and get that all set up the bed and I'll take off to work and I'll let Britt settle in for us I guess and then the next time I come home I can enjoy the new house. That's just the way it is. We gotta work. We gotta get back to work. Anyone know what time it is? We packed all our clocks already. Let's know what time it is. What's the time? Don't wanna be late for this appointment. This one's important. Oh, they're all important but this one, this one's the last one. Let's lay down there. 122, okay, so we have some time yet. Good, good, good. We're almost done, we're almost through this. This guy's license plate. Oh my, there's a few more things to do. We gotta go to the bank, then to the lawyers and that's it for today. It's actually my mom's birthday today and we wanna take her out for supper. So we'll meet her up with her later. After all, this is all done. I'm not sure when she wants to go yet. I've been so busy all day but we asked her yesterday if we could take her out. I think dad's on the road right now. So didn't know if she had any plans or not. Can't stay at home by yourself all day on your birthday. Maybe my sister's have something planned too. I'm not too sure what's going on. Rick just got off work as well so she's just gotta go pick up Wiener's heart meds that he has to take every day with his food and then she's gonna meet us at the lawyer's office. Well, that's it. The last piece of the puzzle has been placed. Everything is now legal and official. We move on Monday. Here we go, another adventure. You know, we gotta keep life interesting, right? So I'm gonna go meet my mom at Big Smoke Barbecue or Big Smoke where the old diner used to be across from Southland in Steinbeck here. I'm gonna take her out for supper. Birthday supper. Oh, here's one of these, bye, bye. There he is, you wanna hear him? Got a stop sign coming up, you're gonna hear him. I used to be big into cars like this and little tuners. It's actually a pretty nice car but you know, it just doesn't compare to the sound of the V8. Once you have a V8, you just can't go back to the little four bangers. It's a nice car though, I'll give them that. When I was in high school, me and my friends, we were all about those tuners, you know, the Civics. I had a Cavalier, whatever a four cylinder. You know, see how tough we could make it sound. We didn't have the money to actually make it fast but we wanted it to sound fast, right? I like pickup trucks now. They're so much more useful. So this used to be diner on 52 and Brent worked here when it was still that restaurant. Now it's big smoked barbecue, smokehouse and grill and I would recommend it. You come to Steinbeck, stop by here. Brent doesn't work here anymore but man, do they make good food. You got the birthday girl right here. So probably can't hear. Yep. Yeah. Apparently my dad called her and sang happy birthday to her today. Yeah, he did. Yeah. You were just gonna sit at home all by yourself all day? Yes, I was. No, so we pulled her out and took her out for supper. Dad is not on here. She's always at my house. I told them that we got mom out for her birthday. She was just gonna sit at home. Taxes all day, thank you. Working all day on her birthday. And dad's coming home later tonight yet, so. Turn 35 again. You guys are getting pretty close in age there. I know. What? It's crazy. Well, I stopped at 28, I think. I stopped at 25. Okay. I'm a young-in, great little robbery. This big smoke is a great restaurant to stop at though if you guys ever want to. Nice to have a nice supper again. That is such an awesome restaurant. They make such good food. So now we head home once again and that's pretty much the day. It's 5.30 right now, but I'm getting tired. Unless I didn't sleep as well as I thought I did again last night. And it's okay, we'll make up for it tonight. And I've made myself available to work tomorrow, but I have to be back by Friday. So it'll be Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. We'll see if they can find something for me to do that'll get me back in time. I mean, if I leave tomorrow, I could go to Calgary or Edmonton. All depends what they have available and what they need, what they need to hold. You're not done yet.  Jesus. Coming around, is he coming around? Yeah. Chevy, where'd you go? Chevy. Oh, you almost hit a tree. Watch where you're going, bud. Oh, what a move. What a move. Here he comes. Chevy, Chevy. He gallops like a horse. He's so big, you can just hear him coming. Shakes the ground. Get him. Diesel, I got a stick. Yeah, I got to cut up this tree if we have time this week yet. If not, the new owners didn't mention anything about this tree laying in the backyard. So I'm sure they want the firewood and they didn't mention anything about it, but I'm still gonna try to get it cut up at least and we'll see if we have time. Hope so, but it's gonna be quite a week. Lots to do. Always right beside me. Best friend, eh? So that was it for today. It seemed to go by faster for me too as well. I know that I'm making this a little shorter than my past couple of ones as well, but the day did seem to fly by for me as well and we got everything complete now. Got to take mom out for her birthday supper and came back here, we continued packing and getting the hugs ready a little bit. Little Brit continued packing. I was getting a few other things done and it's coming quick. So tomorrow, I'm making myself available at work. Tomorrow's Wednesday, so I'm filming this yesterday for you. So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I'm available to work. So I don't know if they've got some local stuff or some regional stuff, just a Regina in back, maybe Calgary Edmonton in back. I don't know, I'm gonna make myself available to see if they have anything for me because I'd like to get a short trip in before the weekend yet. We shall see. If they don't have anything, I guess we'll just be sitting here at home talking to you guys. Well, I'm gonna be talking to you guys. Anyways, I'm gonna take you with me. I'm tired. I'm gonna end this right here. I'm gonna put this together for you so you can watch it tomorrow. Thanks for watching today, though. Hit that subscribe button. Sorry, I'm so tired right now. I can't even really collect my thoughts. It's been one of those days. Talk to you later, everybody.


So Neely, have you ever heard of the Pomodoro technique? Doesn't it have to do with like tomatoes or something? Kinda. That's what we're talking about today on The Journey. So to actually answer your question, Neely, the Pomodoro technique is a time management method that was created by Francesco Cirillo. So when did the tomatoes come into play? So Pomodoro is actually the Italian word for tomato. So when Cirillo was a university student, he used to have a tomato-shaped timer and he would use that timer in short intervals so that he would be more productive. And typically, these intervals are broken into 25-minute segments called Pomodoros. So how can I really use this in my day-to-day to be more productive? So choose a task that you need to accomplish, set that timer for 25 minutes, and then use that 25 minutes to really focus, get that task done, and when the timer goes off, take a five-minute break. Only five minutes? That's it. Okay. However, after four Pomodoros in a row, take a longer break, so about 20-30 minutes. Yeah, or really however long it takes you to recharge. If you're good after 10 minutes, great. If you need the full 30, that's okay, too. But we all know distractions are a major part of life. So if you do get distracted by a coworker or yourself, your phone, you have to end the Pomodoro there. So there are a lot of ways you can start doing this. For instance, you could just use the timer on your phone. But Cerillo, he said he liked to actually use that tomato timer because winding it up actually confirmed your dedication to the work. So I'm a little bummed that there weren't any actual tomatoes in this episode, but I do feel like I'm going to be a lot more productive with this. Let us know if you're going to try this technique in the comments below. And go ahead and like this video and subscribe to our channel and hit that notification bell so that you can be reminded whenever we've posted a video. This is The Journey. See you next time.


Hi, NMPI. Hi, NMPI, I brought you by Digikey. Thank you, Digikey, for making this thing possible. It's from analog devices. Yes. Return IonMPI spotlight. We've done analog devices. And well, now, this is actually a maxim part, but analog devices and maxim barge. So it's analog devices slash maxim, but picked one logo. So this week, we're going to be talking about the Max 777, 89, and 87 chips. This is so hot off the press, there aren't even photos of the chip. It's in the middle of this avalboard there. And this is an all-in-one power management chip that can do USB Type-C power delivery syncing, buck charging of a large battery pack, and then boosting back up to 5.1-ish volts. So let's talk about what this is. So in the days before, in the Dark Ages, we had power packs that would plug into your wall, wall warts, and you'd have to pick different DC jacks. You see, like, there's six different jack types, 2.1, 1.3, 0.9, and you'd have to get the polarity right. And then you'd select the voltages. And this is a selectable one, but usually you don't get to select the voltages. And this caused a lot of problems because people would plug in the wrong voltage. So you had to protect against that. And then also you would have the right amount of current available. And basically, you ended up lugging around from apartment to apartment gigantic boxes of power bricks because you can never remember which one went to which. If you threw it out, you're like, I'm never going to get it again. Last few years, we have been working as engineers to try to replace those power bricks with USB Type-C. So here is USB Type-C laptops slash tablet charger that can charge almost every device. And you see on the output, it can do 5, 9, 12, 15, or 20 volts. This is a nice, chunky power supply. It can do up to 65 watts, 20 volts at 3.25 amps. So I think it can power a small laptop, a big tablet, any kind of phone, any kind of watch, any device from the house. So ideally, people would use this in the USB-C cable to charge their devices. And we're starting to see that, starting to see more devices. Here's like a power delivery sync chip that can talk to your power delivery source, the Woolward, and say, hey, I want 12 volts at 2 amps, and it will get that voltage. So whether you need a low voltage or high voltage, whatever something in between, up to 20 volts, you can get it. And this has been great for your devices that you're buying from your laptops to GPSs, to mobile phones, et cetera. But there's other devices that could benefit from this. Here is, say, a USB power pack. Probably everyone has one of these. This is a pretty chunky one. There's three ports, two USB-A outputs, and one micro USB input. In this case, you can charge this pack, takes a couple hours, because you can only draw maybe an amp from the 5-volt power supply to charge the, I think, 6,000 or 8,000 milliamp hour battery inside. And then you can supply two 5-volt, one or two amp outputs. But a lot of stuff these days, even like this overhead that we use has a built-in battery. A lot of devices have very large built-in lithium ion, lithium polymer, lithium comal batteries. You need to charge them. And once you get to 2,000 milliamp hours or larger, it's very hard to charge them over a 5-volt power supply because, let's say you, first off, most 5-volt power supplies are gonna give you two plus amps. USB is only gonna max out at one amp. But even if you did want to draw that much current, let's say you had a power supply that did 5-volt 2.5 amps, the 2.5 amps across the cable is going to give you a drop that might make your charger not be able to sync the full amount of current because you sync 2.5 amps. You have a 0.1 ohm resistance to your cable, both directions, now you've dropped about 0.2 volts. You know, maybe the power supply droops also. So now you're getting close to 4.5 volts, not enough headroom to charge your LiPoly battery, considering all the other dropouts you might have with your transistors and your chips and sense resistors, et cetera.  But again, you don't wanna have that special power pack with a special DC plug that gets lost. Thus, the analog devices slash maximum max 77789 and its friend the 77787, they're like sisters, they're fraternal twins. This one is the standalone version can do three amp charging over USB type C. So it will request from the USB type C power delivery source up to 12 volts, which is nice because then again, if you're drawing three amps, if you droop from 15, you know, 12 volts, okay, now droops one amp or whatever, you still have 12 volts to buck down to charge your battery. Three amps, you can easily quick charge in an hour or two of very, very chunky battery. And then it also has a boost converter so it can generate a reverse boost from that battery. It can generate 5.1 volts up to 1.5 amps. So handy if you're making those battery packs or if you're just using a device and it needs a boost converter as well. So this is the standalone version, the 89. There's also the 87 looks very similar but this one has I squared C control. So use whichever one makes more sense for your setup. They're both pretty autonomous but then you can configure them for how much current, the floating voltage, whether you want the boost converter on, et cetera. So this is the block diagram. This is the standalone version. So the standalone version, you see it connects over USB-C, uses the CC pins and those are used for power delivery. It also connects to DP and D and the differential data pins. And the reason it does that is there's pre-USBC, there are some power supplies that use the data pins to communicate how to configure and get the higher voltages. I think it's called BC 1.2, so it's pre-USBC. You have the one inductor that's used for both buck from the USB-C down to charging the battery up to three amps and that inductor is also used to boost up to V-System which can be up to 5.1 volts, 1.5 amps out.  You can set different voltages and different currents and then whether you want to buck boost, buck boost both on the go, detection mode, all that good stuff. This is the I2C version, the 89, very, very similar, same overall functionality, except instead of setting the state and floating voltages and currents with resistors, you have I2C connectivity, both still have LEDs that indicate status, so it's kind of handy. With the I2C version, you have a register map, all the same functionality, but of course, you're not using resistors, so you can customize it on the fly as needed, but you have to have a microcontroller. So if you're making a basic battery pack or something that's standalone, let's say you are making an electric drill, you want to have charging, USB-C charging of the drill power pack. You'd use a standalone because maybe you don't have a microcontroller in there, but you have something like a tablet or a phone or another smart device. You have a microcontroller anyways or a microcomputer, you might as well do the configuration over I2C. Usage is pretty simple. It's got current limiting and overcurrent protection. It's meant for big batteries, but you could use it for smaller ones, just set the current limiting to a lot lower. I think it also has multiple different float voltages available from 4.1 up to like 4.4. I know that depending on your cathodes, I tend to only use lithium polymers, but I know that other batteries have up to 4.4 volt floating. So it will support those, whatever battery type you use, but only single cell, by the way, will not do 7.2 volts. It'll only do 3.7, 4.2 approximate single cell lithium chargeable batteries. Yes, so it does USB-C detection with the CC pin. It will automatically configure to get the most power available to charge. I think it'll probably try to get higher voltages because again, less droop over the power supply. It also does this BC 1.2 detection. I mean, I personally have never really used this, but I think it has to do with the resistors that Apple used to use for their pre-USB-C, pre-lightening power charging cables where they use resistor dividers to indicate, like light resistors to indicate to the device how much current is available. I know that this also, the chip also has the ability to detect when the voltage is starting to droop a little bit too much. It will lean off how much current it's trying to source from the power supply so it doesn't get into like a voltage current collapsing cycle. If you do use the data pins for detection of that BC 1.2, they do recommend, I think it was the Max 4809, is a switch you can use to select who gets access to the data pins, whether it's your microcontroller for native USB support or this charger chip. Honestly, I think probably best to leave them disconnected and just use USB type C, but it looks like they have the capability available to add both, so you choose which one you want. Only downside for me at least, is that it's a VGA 0.4 millimeter pitch. So you will need to, I'll show the layout, you'll need to have pad via in pad. So you're gonna have to use a fairly, not advanced, but not the cheapest PCB you can get on the market or to handle it, I think four layer boards as well are going to be needed. This is the recommended layout. So you'll see some of those pins on the inside, the setting pins, not the power pins, you do have to go through the pad and down to another layer to get them out. So there are other chips in this generic family, not like this particular 87 or 89, that come in like a QFN style package, not quite QFN, but QFN-like. So if you don't need a VGA, there are other Max, look for Digi-Key Max 777, you can see the rest of the family, maybe it's gonna have quite the current capability or like all the configurability, but it's available in a non-VGA. That's on Digi-Key. It's in stock, 16,000 of them. You can absolutely get these. So check this out, this is the 89, but again, there's also the 87, depending on whether you want I squared C configuration or standalone. And that's our MPI this week. MPI on MPI.


Ah, much better. Hello guys, Cryptogrounds here. Welcome back to episode 1.7 of the Unity Idol Game Tutorial series. This is the 2021 edition, and I hope you guys are all doing well. If you enjoyed this video, make sure you smash the like button, turn on the bell for notifications, and subscribe to my channel if you enjoy this content. Anyways, let's get right into this. So I am using my own image right here for this button. And as you can see, it doesn't look great. It has weird corners and it just looks like it was slushed and it just looks terrible. So how do we fix this? Well, it's really easy actually. All we got to do is go to your original image, which for me is called button three. So this is an image that I imported into the assets folder project. And I'm just going to go to the inspector, click on sprite editor. And you can see you have this panel here. And here, or in this window, basically what you're going to do is drag the corners here. So then you can see this green line right here. And you basically want to crop out the corner sections here, like this, so that all the roundness is inside this little section right here. You want to do this for the opposite corner. You could adjust each side accordingly, if you need to, if they're uneven, just make sure you have all of the curved stuff inside this little cut right here. And when you're done with that, just hit ply. And then after that, go back to your button that has the image and go to image type, go from simple to sliced. Okay, so now it looks like this. So this also doesn't look very well. Now this is where our customization comes in. So you see this pixel per unit multiplier here. So when you increase it, it does something like this. So now it looks more like a real button. However, what if you want less roundness and you also want like a thinner border, or, you know, this may look okay as a panel, but for some people, they might not like it. What you can do is simply just keep increasing this. And as you can see, you can go on forever. And it looks like this. And this obviously doesn't look good. But there is a point that it might look good for you. So like this looks good. This looks pretty good. Something like this also looks pretty good. Something like this is not acceptable.  That is it for this video. I know it was very simple. If you want more information on image slicing, make sure you check out the video in the description below. And if you learned something new, if you liked this video, make sure you smash the like button, make sure it turns blue, subscribe to my channel if you're new and turn on notifications for future live streams and videos. Anyways, I'll catch you guys in the next one. I hope you guys have a great day and night. And thank you guys so much for watching. Peace.


The only decision from Depaltingham has been to press himself back into the low-mide. The desire has forced him to clear his field. Critchley chess today, low-detection today, 2-3, Salford comes in, he's off going, Critchley now. Rode that change, slips it through, and he looks in behind! Naly scored! And Salford! Oathbridge, by a goal to him. And here he starts from the front foot, now to the EJ that we've been talking about, pressure. They're on the front foot from the first minute, and that's where Robert Oathbridge goes on the front foot, comes in, crosses high, goes through a 50-50 challenge. The whole team have been in it, and that and slides a beautiful pass, a beautiful goal was come in, they've had 2 or 3 chances, actually probably 4 chances. They're getting in, they're playing with real intensity, and this is a really, really strong, Bradley City performance at the moment. I would go as fast as say, as it's the best I've seen in the season so far, this first 15 minutes. Maybe at 6th in the World Cup. It was a clever finish, just to poke it through the legs of the onrushing Tom King.


Welcome back to another CapCut tutorial. This one is going to show you how to do a voiceover with AI or with that robotic thing. Why would you do this? Well, you know what, if you're trying to record something and you want it to be in another language, or maybe if you're doing it in English and English isn't your first language and you have a strong accent, there's a million reasons why you would want to use a AI voiceover. Let me show you how to do it the easy way using both an iPhone, iPad, Android all at once. Let me show you what I've got here. I'll show you the example.  Presto. Obviously, that was a female AI, it was just an AI that I used in the system here. It's not my voice. Let's go ahead and delete that. Let's go ahead actually and start from scratch. We're going to start from the beginning. So I'm just going to X out here and we're going to go to New Project and let's go from the beginning. I want to go ahead and select a 10 second clip. So I'm just going to go ahead and select this one here of the puppy dog, hit play. And when you want to hit play, there's obviously no audio on this, right? So there's no audio. So how do we make the original AI, here's the way to do it. Go ahead and type, you're not going to probably believe this, but click the text button. And when you do that, now we're going to add some text. So I click the text, now click add text and now write in whatever you want it to say. Kingston is a good boy. He really is, okay, good. Again the spacing doesn't matter and then hit check mark. So whatever you want it to say, or again, I know this is text, but we're going to turn this into audio in a second here. Now we've got our little text in there. Now click on it again. You're going to see text to speech. If you go down to the bottom, you'll see text to speech. Click on that and it's going to give us a whole bunch of options. For this one, I'm going to go with, I don't know, charming female. Click on that and now hit the check mark. When you do that, it's going to generate this speech to text. We're almost there. Now hit the play button. Kingston is a good boy. He really is. All right. That's great. Now there's a chance that this is good enough and this is all you need to do. You typed in your text and then now you've got the written text and you've got the audio. But if you don't want that written text and you just want the AI voiceover, we've got to go another step. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go ahead and export this. So I'm just going to go up here to the top right and that little arrow with the line underneath it. I'm going to click on that and you're going to see it says exporting. All right. Once it hits 100%, we have to save this. So I'm going to click on the other, the three dots that says other. And when I do that, I can go down to save video, make sure you click on save video. All right. We've saved the video. Now that's important. I'm going to click on this done button. We're back at the beginning. Now watch, click on new project. Click on that 10 second video like I had the first time and hit play. There's no audio in there, right? But I want to add in that voiceover. Kingston is a good boy type stuff. The next step, and this is crucial, hit the add audio. Now click on extracted and we are going to extract that audio from that video we just made. So the one we just saved. So let's go with, which one was it that I just saved? I think it was this one. Let's go with this one. No, actually, no, it's not. It is, where is it? It's this one right here. Sorry guys. Kingston is a good. Adding that. Now you're going to see here in the bottom it says extracted. Let's hit play. Kingston is a good boy. He really is. He really is. That's how you do it guys. That's how you add in your own AI, using your own text, using just cap cut. Thanks for watching. Got a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.


Mae ymddiannau bydd ymgyrchu'r cwrdd iawn, yn maes wrth datblygu i Gwysigol Cymru, yn cyffredinol â'r cwrdd iawn, yn credu lleiwyr cyffredinol, ac yn cyffredinol a tyfnod y rhwng Fyrdd yn hawdd ei ddechrau gwrdd iawn. Mae'r cyfrifiwyrfa'n cydynt Cymreifydd yn ei gwrdd iawn. Mae'r cyfrifiwyrfa'n cyfrifiwyrfa'n cyfrifiwyrffa'n cyfrifiwyrfa'n cyfrifiwyrfawr Gowda'n mynd i ni, wrth gwrs, o'n cael ei bwrthegarau ar gyfer Llywodraeth Cymru, ystod y bydd e'r cyfrannu, gorffoddol. Mae'n gawr i gydig i ffromboogi ar gyfer Llywodraeth Cymru a'r cy慮 wneud o haith i'r bwrthegarau Llywodraeth Cymru, yr unig o'r deall ydwyn이 agaig i gael i fynd i'r gwaith. Mae'n gawr i gael i'r gwaith wrth gwrs a gennym, welch i gael i'r bwrthegarau Mae cyflwyll yng nghylch yn fawr. Cymfor y ysgolio mewn yr ysgolio'r byw o'r propofysol y 100 yddiol, ond y cyflwyll yn adrwyst llef, amladd, ond ein welfau a'r ysgolio'r byw o'r wych. Ersgolio er llefodol y gl coronavirus yng Nghymru, ond y gwahog yn cael eu cyflwyll sy'n ymgyrch ysgolio'r cyflwyll. Mae gyflod hynny'r drwy'r cyfrifau ysgolio cyfan gyda hiad o'r 11 y Llywodraeth, my concerns about that and to request information on the current intentions in respect of the bill and I'm currently waiting on a response to that from Deputy Secretary George Eustace. I thank the minister for that answer. This bill was supposed to include bans on the trade and hunting trophies that threaten the conservation status of species abroad and the domestic sale and advertising of experiences overseas like elephant rides that are cruel to animals. Will the minister join me in expressing revulsion at the practice of trophy hunting and practices at perpetuity animal cruelty and does she agree with me that we can pursuits of a handful of Tory peers should not decide the approach to the rights and welfare of animals? I would absolutely join the member in condemning some of the objectionable practices that this bill so importantly seeks to address because the Scottish Government is absolutely committed to the highest possible standards of animal welfare and as set out in our programme for government we had promised to work alongside the UK administration's on legislation to control the important sale of products that raise ethical concerns. Now this bill would have brought in the necessary requirements simultaneously across the UK to address these conservation and animal welfare concerns and the UK government even tabled these proposals as demonstrating UK leadership at international level 2 but sadly the UK government has failed to deliver these really important safeguards and have not only let down the people of Scotland but they've failed to prioritise the welfare of animals in this country as well as abroad. To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made to establish a Scottish agency to create a fully functional all species data system for the registration of all livestock births, deaths and movements within Scotland. The final element of the Scottish multi-species database system for the recording of cattle births, deaths and movements went live on 4 October last year and the system was built and is operated by the Scottish Agricultural Organization Society under the name of Scott EID and I would really like to acknowledge and thank the cattle sector as a whole for their support during the development of the service. Since the go live day 10,000 keepers have signed up for the Scott moves plus platform registering over 282,000 calves recording 914,000 cattle movements and notifying over 477,000 deaths at abattoirs electronically and those statistics really highlight an important achievement in the delivery of the improved traceability for disease prevention and control as well as opportunities for enhancing efficiency and provenance in the livestock sector. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. Given the importance of traceability and provenance to food safety, what difference will the agency make and what advantages does it offer farmers and crofters? In addition to the enhanced livestock traceability and protection of the food chain, essentially what the Scott EID system provides is benefit to Scottish cattle keepers such as the bovine viral diarrhea eradication programme and the Scott moves system for within business movement recording the Scottish beef potential eligibility checker that provides evidence that animals have been born, raised and slaughtered in Scotland too. The system will enable the introduction of the electronic identification of cattle, the creation of an online holding register and the removal of cattle passports. Electronic identification combined with the Scott EID systems will enable that real-time data transfer and sharing through the production chain from farm to farm and abattoir and feedback from abattoir back to farm. All of those components are really key for improving economic and environmental efficiency in the livestock sector and they will, of course, support trade within and outwith the UK. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, to ask the Scottish Government what action it takes to support the food and drink supply chain in order to increase the percentage of Scottish products in the food and drink that is responsible for supplying to local authorities, NHS boards and other public bodies. Public procurement is an important tool that can be used to transform food production and supply, strengthen local economies and tackle climate change. We continue to support the Food for Life programme, which has been funded by the Scottish Government since 2012. It is now operating across 18 local authorities, including Glasgow, and it is making sure that more children than ever before across Scotland are getting that access to fresh, local and sustainable food on their dinner plates. Our local food strategy consultation had a focus on harnessing the buying power of public sector procurement to encourage better access for local food producers. Consultation feedback from that will be used to inform the next steps in this area and that will be published late in spring this year. Brian Whittle I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer and I wonder if she agrees with me that through supporting and enhancing the public food procurement process to ensure that the maximum level of food in our public services is locally produced within the UK and especially Scotland, the Scottish Government has a major tool to tackle food insecurity and better health outcomes, especially in our younger population. Over above that, it can also make a major contribution to less food miles, therefore better environmental outcomes. I agree with what the member said. I think that that is where the next steps from our consultation on the draft local strategy will be critical in doing that. I think that it is also important to recognise what we have seen through the food for life programme and just how successful that has been. As the member said, there are many benefits to that local procurement. There is the health benefits, and there is also the very strong economic incentive and benefits that we see from that. Some of the independent research that we have conducted on that has shown that for every £1 spent on the food for life programme, the social and economic return of that is over £4. We know that there are so many added benefits from that. That is why we intend on ensuring that we roll out the food for life programme and that we eventually encompass all local authorities within that because we know the strong power that it has in helping to tackle some of the very severe issues that we see. I wonder whether the cabinet secretary agrees with me that it is unfortunate that Mr Whittle's United Kingdom Government colleagues have negotiated disastrous trade deals, which have completely undercut Scotland's lamb, beef and pork markets and made way potentially for cheaper, lower-quality products to be imported, and that Mr Whittle's concern for the food and drink supply chain might usefully be directed towards those who are actively undermining it? I absolutely share the concerns that the member has just expressed there, particularly in the trade deals that have been negotiated by the UK Government, because there is no doubt, and we know that it will undercut Scotland's high-quality red meat sector with the UK, Australia and New Zealand trade deals, essentially facilitating the mass import of cheaper and, in many cases, lower standard food into the UK market. The Scottish Government has consistently called on the UK Government to ensure that imports of agri food arising from free trade agreements are produced to equivalent standards as those in Scotland, but unfortunately we have not seen those protections built in. I have written to the UK Government on a number of occasions expressing my significance concern with the UK Government's approach to agriculture in those trade deals, and right across government my other colleagues have done the same. To ask the Scottish Government what measures it is taking to support the pig farming industry in Scotland in response to reported rises in the cost of feed, electricity, diesel, labour and technology. Rising farm input costs are significantly impacting all sectors of Scottish agriculture. We have set up the food security and supply task force jointly with industry to monitor, identify and respond to any potential disruption to food security and supply. Responding to recent market disruption in the pig sector, we had provided an initial £715,000 to producers through the pig producers hardship support scheme, and then extended that with a further £680,000 worth of support. We have also assisted the sector with a private storage aid scheme for pig meat from November 2021 to 31 March this year. She will recall that we recently met Jamie Wiley, NFU's lead on pigs in Scotland. At that meeting, he also raised issues that reserved to the UK Government, such as the need for proper border controls to monitor pork imports and for the English language requirements for overseas butchers looking to come to UK to work in our staff staff process sector to be relaxed. What discussions have you held with the Scottish Government in regard to the reserve matters and their impact on Scotland? First of all, I want to thank the member for contacting me about this and for extending that invitation to meet with Jamie Wiley at his farm. It was that visit on farm that really hit home the severity of the issues that the pig sector is facing at the moment, with the significant rises in all input costs, as well as the ever-changing date for implementing border controls on imports and visa requirements were also raised as a significant issue. On that issue of visa requirements for overseas butchers, we are clear in our position that the current immigration system just isn't responsive to the labour market requirements. That is a point that I personally raised with the UK Government on a number of occasions, and I know that the Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development together with his Welsh and Northern Irish counterparts, had written to the UK immigration minister in February calling for immediate changes to the immigration system to try to address the on-going labour shortages across the UK. I would also like to touch briefly on the point about border controls, too. Again, that was a point that was raised during our meeting, and we continue to engage with the UK Government regularly over those issues, and we expect to be doing more of that in the coming weeks. In light of the announcement that had been made today, there is to be a further delay to import controls on EU goods by at least another 18 months. Delays not only put our exporting businesses at a competitive disadvantage here in Scotland, but they do present a real biosecurity risk, which I know will be of significant concern to our pig industry, as well as the wider food and drink sector. To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support the creation of new rural jobs, including in nature restoration. Scotland's national strategy for economic transformation contains bold and ambitious actions to deliver economic prosperity for all of Scotland's people and places. We are committed to delivering good, secure and well-paid green jobs. Through the future and climate emergency skills action plans and our continuing work via the action plan for nature-based skills, we are investing to ensure that people of all ages in our rural communities have the right skills to meet our current and future needs. I thank the minister for that response. According to modelling by RSPB, nature restoration projects such as woodland creation, peatland restoration and deer management could create almost 8,000 new jobs across Scotland, mostly in rural areas. On a local level, I welcome the Cairngorms national parks authority's new five-year draft plan to regenerate their native woodlands. Can I ask the minister how the Cairngorms national park plan will contribute to the creation of green jobs within the park? I thank the member very much for the question and for her excitement about the green jobs that we will be creating in rural areas. The Cairngorms national park partnership plan sets out a bold vision to restore nature in the park, tackling the climate emergency and building a wellbeing economy that works for all the people of the Cairngorms. That is driving investment and creating green jobs within the park. Initiatives contained in the plan include encouraging contractors to diversify into the programme of peatland restoration in the Cairngorms, expected to support seven new posts in the immediate future, and the Heritage Horizons programme, led by the park authority, is expected to create 11 new jobs in woodland expansion and climate mitigation work. I thank the minister for that response. Given the great potential for nature-recovering Galloway and the support of all parties and over 30 candidates in the local elections, how will the minister ensure that the process for national park designation adequately reflects the huge amount of work that has already been done so effectively to make the case for Galloway being Scotland's third national park? I thank the member very much for the question. I am very aware of how proud Galloway is of its natural heritage and how keen people there are to see the national park. Of course, there are many parts of Scotland that would also like to see our new national park or, as we have in the Butehouse agreement, at least one new national park created. Very shortly in Parliament, we will be bringing the plans for that process to create that park and to have that consultation that we need us to wear that park to be, but I am very proud that the member has brought the question today. To ask the minister how the annual nature restoration fund is delivering benefits for Scotland species, woodlands, rivers and seas, as well as improving the health and well-being of local communities. At COP26, we announced the new £55 million multi-year commitment to the nature restoration fund as part of a wider Scottish Government commitment to an additional £500 million in our natural economy over the course of this Parliament. This year, we are investing £13.5 million in nature restoration. The fund is now supporting land-scale multi-year, multi-partner projects that deliver transformative change to drive forward nature recovery, working across Scotland, including in the Cairngorms national park where I have visited some of the schemes, and creating the security needed to support new green jobs, reinvigorating local communities and reinforcing Scotland's green recovery. It is focused on outcomes that address the main drivers of the decline in biodiversity, overexploitation of the natural environment, habitat loss and fragmentation, and invasive non-native species, particularly rural biodiversity. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its discussions with the UK Government regarding food security and supply. The Scottish Government has and continues to hold numerous discussions with the UK Government departments on a variety of topics relating to food resilience. I wrote to George Eustace and devolved administrations on 4 April, requesting an urgent four nation summit, particularly on the issue of the impact of rising fuel prices, because we know that that is putting significant strain on the food and drink industry right across the supply chain. In a meeting with the Secretary of State on 20 April, he agreed to the request to hold a summit and we had a short initial meeting last night. At that meeting, I raised a number of issues currently facing key food and drink sectors, including seafood and agriculture, as a consequence of rising fuel prices. I thank the cabinet secretary for her answer and for joining me on our visit to Dundee cold stores last week, where we did hear about how rising energy costs are placing additional strain on such businesses, with expectations that such will result in higher food prices and make it more difficult for them to compete with European food producers. I am pleased to hear the positive engagement with the UK Government on that matter. Cabinet Secretary, Martin Kennedy, the president of NFU Scotland, has stated that, without proper support, we would be looking at food security concerns that we have not seen since World War 2, as he urged shoppers to vote with their feet and support local produce to avert future food shortages. What assurances can the cabinet secretary provide that the Scottish Government will continue to work with farmers and the wider food supply industry to ensure that we are provided with the necessary support and seek to ensure that the UK Government does not shirk from its responsibilities in those matters? I just want to assure the member that we are doing absolutely everything within our power to ensure that we have that security of food supply, as well as trying to tackle and mitigate against some of the significant challenges that we are seeing right across the food and drink sector. I thank the member for the invitation to visit Dundee cold stores last week, because I think that what struck me about that was just the truly astonishing increases in energy prices that they are facing. That is happening right across the piece and businesses are struggling. There are no two ways about it. In particular, in relation to energy, powers relating to energy markets remain reserved, and Scottish ministers have repeatedly called for the UK Government to urgently take further tangible actions to support households. That includes reduction in VAT, looking at targeted support for those on low incomes and for nations discussions to try to develop an effective response to the energy bill increases. What is really frustrating is that we see other countries taking action. When we look to Europe, for example, in France, they have limited energy prices to 4 per cent, and in Germany, they have been giving rebates of €300. We continue to engage with the UK Government, with off-gem and energy suppliers, to look at ways in which we can try to alleviate the impacts that are being faced right across the country. I would again reiterate that we are using all the powers and resources that are available to us to support people in Scotland from the cost of living crisis. S&P Government can now act and use the devolved powers in this place to help farmers urgently. Yesterday, in the rain committee, NFUS Scott Walker agreed with me that a moratorium on large-scale forestry could be in place to prevent the further removal of productive agricultural land. Can the cabinet secretary tell me and my party what the Government position is on implementing a moratorium, rolling out track 1 of the test programme and temporarily suspending the EFA component of the greening requirement? I want to state that this Government absolutely supports food production and we recognise how important and vital our food security is, and that is why we established the task force. I am not going to pre-empt the work that is going to come out of that, because there will be recommendations that we will have to take consideration of. We have had three meetings of the task force so far, and we are due to have another meeting, and there will be recommendations that come out as a result of that. However, in terms of some of the other actions that we are taking to, I think that it demonstrates the need to really accelerate where possible the actions that we can take to help to build resilience within our agriculture sector. In particular, the member talked about the roll-out of our track 1 programme, which will be starting imminently, where we will be rolling out our carbon audits and soil testing too. All of those measures are absolutely vital in helping to build resilience within our food system and we are not wasting any time in implementing them. I am very grateful to ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that the agriculture sector plays a leading role in delivering a net zero Scotland. The vision for agriculture outlines our aim to transform highway support farming and food production in Scotland to become a global leader in sustainable and regenerative agriculture. We will consult this summer to inform the introduction of an agriculture bill to deliver on the vision. We are taking early action though. The £51 million national test programme will build on a range of support, including grants, advice and research, to support our farmers and crofters to learn how their work impacts on climate and nature. I am very grateful to the cabinet secretary for that answer. The Scottish Government, UK Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland executive jointly announced plans to establish the UK emissions trading scheme, UK ETS, from January 2021. The consultation is currently open on a UK emissions trading scheme. Does the Scottish Government agree that it is essential that our farming communities have effective carbon calculators, recognised in their role of carbon sequestration and are able to participate in carbon trading market? As the member has indicated, the consultation is currently open on this and I would encourage all of those with an interest to take part in it, and of course we will carefully consider the responses to that. Thank you, that concludes portfolio questions. Question number eight has been withdrawn, so that concludes portfolio questions. There will be a slight pause before we move to the next item of business.


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