Hey Psych2Goers welcome back to our channel. Thank you all so much for the love that you've given us. Your ongoing support has helped us make psychology and mental health more accessible to everyone, so thanks. We also wanted to say a quick disclaimer and remind our audience that this video is meant for informative purposes only. And this video is not meant to provide professional mental health advice, nor is it to diagnose any condition. If you feel that you're struggling, please reach out to a qualified mental health professional or health care provider. With that said, let's continue. Addiction is a serious problem that can affect every area of your life. Your whole world can revolve around your addiction. Addiction is often associated with mental health issues, impulsivity, and having gotten involved with the wrong crowd. While this all can contribute to an addiction, it can also come down to having an addictive personality. Simply put, some people are more prone to addictive tendencies than others. In this video, we'll take a look at what addiction is and go over six signs of an addictive personality. So, what is addiction? Addiction is defined as having an intense interest or craving in a substance or activity that promotes pleasure, stress relief, and or performance improvement. Substance abuse can include alcohol, drugs, and even food. You might get addicted to certain hobbies or ventures such as gambling, sex, or exercise. While these substances and activities can range from alarmingly harmful to seemingly harm less, addiction is inherently problematic no matter what kind of form it takes. You usually have a strong craving or desire to partake in the addiction and will go through feelings of negative withdrawal when you're unable to do so. You may want to stop, but feel like you can't and have tried and failed multiple times to put down your habit. This addiction can get in the way of your relationships, your personal health, and your mental well-being. Here are the six signs of an addictive personality. Number one, you have a difficult time self-regulating. Lacking the ability to self-regulate is believed to be a part of an addictive personality. You may struggle to know when to stop in any given situation. While this can certainly apply to addictions such as smoking, drinking, gambling, and so forth, it can also crop up in any situation that involves a reward response. The search for pleasure and seeking out thrills can be intense, making it hard to give up on such a quest. Self-regulation issues tend to go hand in hand with impulsivity, making it impossible to know when enough is enough. Number two, you feel apathetic. You might feel apathetic for a number of reasons. Maybe it's the result of a mental health condition or perhaps it's because you have a risk taking personality and need higher level thrills to feel excitement. In any case, having little care for risks or consequences are linked to an addictive personality. When you feel that there's nothing much to lose, then it's easier to make a big decision that can have life altering consequences. Number three, you're impulsive. People with addictive problems may find themselves acting on impulse. Making quick decisions without thinking of consequences can lead to serious problems. Having issues with self-regulation can further escalate your impulsiveness, as well as feelings of apathy. Number four, you're related to someone with an addiction problem. Do you have someone in your family who might have an addiction problem? Genetics can also play a role in attributing to an addictive personality. In the same way that certain hereditary traits like eye color and hair color are passed down, addictive traits can also be passed down. You might even have a close relative who was also an addict and possibly even addicted to the same thing as you are. A mixed blend of genetic and environmental factors are believed to be the main contributors to addiction. But you might still develop an issue with addiction whether or not you had a relative who was also an addict. Number five, you experience other mental health conditions. Self-medication and coping mechanisms can become out of control and develop into addictions. Many people with addictive tendencies often have other issues in areas such as depression, anxiety, personality disorders and psychotic disorders. When your reward response is activated, you're flooded with dopamine, which is also called the feel-good hormone. These happy feelings can temporarily relieve you from your personal stresses, which causes you to want to return to your habits again and again. What started out as a coping mechanism can lead to addiction and other health problems as well as interpersonal and intrapersonal issues. And number six, you have other certain personality traits. Having an addictive personality is far from a one-sized-fits-all scenario. People who are adventurous and thrill-seeking may turn to substances or activities that elevate dopamine levels at a higher rate as they find it difficult to get the same feeling out of mundane or less risky activities. Similarly, people who are more disconnected and anxious may turn to certain activities in an attempt to cope with their feelings. They may try to self-medicate and numb their feelings with substance abuse or by picking up an addictive hobby. Obsessive compulsive types of people also have the potential to form habits and maintain them out of compulsion. Evidence suggests that addictive personalities come with patterns seen in other personality traits. Addiction can be consuming and life-altering. It's a complex, multi-layered issue and comes down to primary genetic and environmental factors. If you are struggling with addiction, we recommend that you reach out for help because addiction is treatable. What are your thoughts on the matter? Is there anything you have to add on the topic of addiction? Let us know in the comments below. Please like and share this video if it helped you and you think it could help someone else too. The studies and references used are listed in the description below. Don't forget to hit the subscribe button and notification icon for more Psych2Go videos. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time.


There's a party going on out there. I know, sometimes I have literally like 40 to 50 birds in my yard and on those things. Which that's great, but let's talk about the poop. There's actually not a lot. No, that's good. That's amazing. Oh, my dogs eat it, I don't know. Yeah, but they do, that's probably the thing you have back there.   Much, much better, depends on the bird. I've seen some big old honking bird poops. You haven't seen set poop? No, that's true. Juice!  Poop in your own backyard. Ah, anyways, you know who we are, you know what to do.  Yeah, ew. We're doing stand-up. Think of it. This is a, I don't think we've wrecked to the stand-up comedian. It's called MasterChef, a stand-up comedy by Karonesh Tullar. You said master and I didn't think chef was going to follow that. Yes. And the notes are no nubs. But the servant waits while the masturbates. What did you say, numb nuts? Numb nuts. I said there's no notes. Oh. So just go in and laugh. Here we go. It's good to be here. It gives me reason to get out of the house. Otherwise, I would have studied. My hobby is to be late. And to be passionate. Whatever happens in my life, I'm late. Good things, bad things, I'm just late. I don't even think about what's ahead of me. So I was at home a week back. And I got an SMS. In which I wrote, What are you worried about? Send Y for yes. And N for no. So I sent it. And I was making a new friend. So I got an SMS, Y. The phone rang, sir, are you worried about the fat guy? I said, why? What's your weight? I said, no. I don't know. I'm worried about the fat guy. This is his only wealth. Everything is healthy, friend. He messaged me by cutting the phone. Very witty. Very nice. I destroy all my time. On 26th, this is the prime of my life. And I'm wasting it. I watch something on the laptop every day. I've been streaming in Masterchef's 10-10 episodes. 10-10. I was watching season 8 of Masterchef Australia. And I saw the greatest act of bravery and stupidity that I've seen at the same time. There was an Indian contestant. Her name is Nidhi. The stakes are as high as they can be. This is the greatest cooking competition in the world. She fried the bhaji. At Masterchef. I was like, tie the newspaper and give it to Dhaage.  Celebrity chefs. And their minds are blown. They can't believe that someone sent it. Bhaji is so beautiful. It's so crisp on the outside and the inside. It's oozing with saliva. It's got such a lovely flavor. It's rustic and it's nostalgic. It's delicious. Nidhi, it's an explosion. It's a symphony in my mouth. I get Rs. 7 per person. These people are trying to fulfill their dreams. Otherwise, they would have never fulfilled their dreams. Just think about the other contestants. I was feeling too bad for them. They were working so hard. They didn't want me to fry the bhaji. They were making dishes that I would have to make for the FD. They were bringing me so many dishes that it felt like there was something. They were like, this is a homemade chocolate ice cream. It has white chocolate on top. It has dark chocolate on top. They were going to smoke it from the bottom and then they would say hi. They were like, pakodas. They were like, I thought I would make pakodas for them. I was watching this contest on TV and they were bringing me a plate. The contestants were so serious. They were so serious about what they had to do. The judges were going around and asking them, Claire, what are you planning to make? Claire is not messing around. She's like, all right, Gary. My protein is stuck. It adds a certain amount of sweetness to the dish. I need to cut that with some acidity from lime zest. But I also need to have a creamy element. So I might experiment with a cauliflower puree. And then later on, in order to balance the textures out, I might need to have a punch here. So might make a sesame twill if I have the time. Nidhi, what are you thinking? Chill, the weather is really nice. I was like, dude, I was laughing at Gary. Then I thought, whatever it is, at least we're not doing a job. We're not stuck in any office. What are you doing with my life? How did this come about? Now you live in a South home, in a family. You live in a bank. You don't live for too long. See, I understand why there's silence in the room right now. Because you guys are like, this is not the right place to forget the truth. And I'm here. And Mike is with me. So what do you need to do for a job? Join Bollywood. It's so easy. See, I understand if you want to be an actor or a director, you need to have contacts. No, it's not good. I'm saying it in a bad way. It can't be done anywhere. In 8-10 years, we'll be like, let's see what happens when we meet Dilruba Beva Fah Jaaniman. Say it sexy twice in between. It'll be a hit. Music director. Bad music director. No, it's not good. It's so beneficial to be an actor. It's good to choose from the internet. I can't get out of my house because of the kind of music that plays at public places.  Because 6-6 years of childhood, the sounds that come out of it, are better than that. Music director, all you have to do is steal from the internet. That's why I don't have respect for Bollywood these days. I have respect for the old Bollywood. They didn't want to steal from the internet and it won't happen. To steal, you have to book a flight ticket. They were legends. They used to go to the US with their own money. Elvis Presley's concert. Elvis came on stage. Who makes my heart beat like thunder?  Very funny. Really witty, really funny. Yeah, I like his delivery. Yeah. He's very, almost, not totally self-loathing at times. Right. But then he's just very sarcastic, very witty. I like him a lot. He's very, very funny. I thought it was going to be self-deprecating right at the outset and that's pretty much what we were going to do. Yeah. And like he was going to come back and end it with, and so I went and I laid down. But he didn't. He just started with that and then took it to these other places and you realize, oh, he's not self-deprecating. He's observational. Yeah. And very witty observational. Really good. Yeah. Good stuff. I like him a lot, man. I think there's only been one stand-up comedian that we've seen that we just didn't get the same. Yeah, just didn't get. There hasn't been anybody we haven't liked. Yeah.  Everybody's been good. Yeah. One where we were not really getting everything and especially early on there was a lot of stuff we didn't get. We would look at the camera and go, sorry guys, don't go. Yeah. Our subbers do help as well. All my stars, they help. But what I'm hoping, because anytime we used to see a stand-up, our first thought was, when are they going to be in LA? Yeah. For the past year and a half, we haven't even had the thought because of COVID. But now, starting to have the thoughts of, if not this year, at least next year, Yeah, next year. Yeah, we can start seeing some stand-up comics perform here in India. Yeah. We can actually go. Yeah. We're not like, there's so many that we love and would want to see and concerts as well. Yeah. Of people. Yeah. But anyway, it's always let us know what other stand-up comedians we should react to down below. Josh! Josh!


The culture for women in the Air Force and aviation as a whole I think is something that's evolving.  We have all these traditions which are great. However a lot of them are not very inclusive. So as we go forward in really getting more and more women into the career fields that revolve around aviation I think some of those traditions are changing to match the people that we now have there. I think there are some barriers for women becoming aviators. I think the most important one is representation. So you know we've got the movies, we got the fighter pilots and kind of the heroes that you can paint the picture of what it looks like to be a pilot in the Air Force or be an aviator in the civilian world too. It's predominantly male so like I know for myself specifically when I was a kid I saw the Blue Angels and I thought it was the coolest thing and I got their autograph and they felt like celebrities to me but there wasn't a female on the team and I never saw myself doing that. So I would lean towards you know what I want to do when I grow up it was things that I'd seen women doing. That was an awesome job in my opinion I just never pictured myself doing it and I think it's because I didn't have that representation as a kid. If you're growing up in a certain part of the country or in a household or a school where all you see or just males that are aviators or women doing certain things and males doing other things so you can get that impression as a young child that oh this may not be for you. So for me I didn't realize aviation was even a possibility until how I was much older. I didn't cross my mind as a kid. I think that there are definitely are some barriers to women becoming aviators. I think part of it is just a perception thing. I think that there are not a lot of women, young women out there that know that they can become a female aviator. I think that the idea that we still live in a world where we do specify that that's a female pilot and nobody would say that that says oh that's a male pilot. Everybody will specifically put that emphasis on female. I think that's part of the perception. You know we're in a space where we had to fight to be in this space. Women couldn't be in US Air Force pilot training until 1977 and then they couldn't find combat until 1993 so that's pretty recent and I guarantee a lot of those women didn't want to raise their hand and say if they were uncomfortable or if the space around them was built for men and not built for them. And I know a lot of us kind of still feel that way at least I do. You know if I'm the only female in the room and the room is not made for a female to be in there I'm a little hesitant to speak up if I need you know female flight equipment that fits me or allows me to do my job properly. That's something I've learned in my short four years of being an aviator in the Air Force is it's okay to speak up it's okay to say I'm different you know I can do the job just as well if not better than the men next to me but I need the right equipment and I need I need the support. In terms of getting into aviation making good choices is going to be the way that you get there and by that I mean being very deliberate in each thing that you do along the way. My advice would be to go for it don't let anybody tell you that it's not for you there's so many jobs out there and just try and figure out who you can talk to and learn more about all the different opportunities. I would challenge anyone who has a dream to just picture themselves doing that thing you know if it's just picture themselves in the uniform or flying the plane or doing whatever role they want to do if you can picture yourself doing it I think it makes it easier to go past those barriers especially in jobs like aviation where there are a lot of barriers it takes usually a lot of money or you know certain demographic or having some sort of privilege so we understand that those barriers exist and there are people who dedicate a lot of time and effort in most of their lives to kind of breaking down those barriers and creating that bridge to kind of close the gap so if anyone thinks there's a barrier that's too hard to get past I guarantee there are people out there that are trying to make that easier for them so they can be a part of the team as well. I'm hoping that one day we get to a point where we don't need a women in aviation week we just have aviation. I don't think that will happen in the near future or while I'm in the Air Force but maybe one day we'll just get to the point where you don't have to ask oh are you a female pilot or it's just oh I'm a pilot so I think it's great I think it's great that we're focusing on it I really enjoy I enjoy being able to speak to people about being a female pilot and I'm grateful to all of the women who came before me I'm grateful to the women who flew in World War II and weren't acknowledged at the time but have set that path forward I'm grateful to people like General Levitt who has really changed the way that women have been able to operate in combat she's the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat and without her who knows if I'd be sitting here I'm extremely grateful to the two other women that are in the fighter group with me here and I'm just happy to be a woman in aviation.


Aloha. Welcome to the Cyber Underground. I'm your host, Dave Stevens. Andrew will be our guest today. He's the co-founder of Integrated Security Technologies, protecting the businesses and communities of Hawaii and the Pacific region with industry-leading electronic security solutions. Today we're discussing the robbery of the Rolex store at the Bellagio in Las Vegas and the physical and electronic security that will undoubtedly be used to apprehend the criminals still at large. Only two of them are still at large. So that's how they apprehend them. They got one hour winning. There's a really funny story about that. These guys went in with a smash and grab at the Rolex store and they took a whole bunch of jewelry and they cared nothing of security. They put pig masks over themselves and they wore gloves and heavy clothes and they ran to a parking lot and got into a car which did not start. So they instantly caught one of the guys. Isn't that something? You can never tell what people are going to try. And the funny part is I think the Rolex store might have been a little bit complacent and they just thought there's cameras everywhere in Vegas.  But I think maybe they forgot about things like people always have smartphones.  There's probably a video that they can piece together from that store to the car to anywhere in the United States based on just smartphone footage uploaded to Twitter and Facebook in the hour after the robbery. Yeah and a car in Vegas too is well tracked. They have a lot of surveillance because of the type of town it is. So you know it's a guy who in my opinion that type of criminal first of all couldn't be stopped. They were going to commit that crime regardless of the outcome. They weren't worried about the surveillance from the perspective of at least trying to cover themselves and hide from the cameras. They didn't want to leave behind fingerprints that type of thing. So they watched CSI. They've seen the CSI episodes. Yeah they hoped that that was true. The clothing realistically Vegas is pretty locked down. Not much happens there that they don't investigate and figure out. I would imagine there's a lot of money floating around that city. There is and there's a lot of surveillance and there's a lot of great investigators and there's been every scam and every crime done or run there since the place opened for business. Most of the stuff these guys have tried to do there someone's thought of tried before. It's interesting how physical security I love the perspective of access control for example which you can't really use on a retail store. Because you need people to walk into your business so you've got to take that risk. I can't keep that door shut and buzz them in for example. So there's the assumption of risk so you have to mitigate that somehow. Typically you're almost left to insurance. As far as the physical security, the surveillance stuff is not going to stop that. Some guys came in, they just make it happen. They're not concerned about whatever you've done because you've allowed them in to the spot. Now maybe put fake Rolexes in there because I wouldn't sell a fake Rolex to a guy who wanted to buy one but maybe all the stuff under the counters is just those $100 what they call them full-exes. I think of things like that people like that what are Rolexes worth 10, 15, 20, 50 grand? They go up from there. They're hard to come by. If you can get a hold of them and get them out of the country and they probably had a place to take them and sell them already. That kind of stuff is fairly targeted. It's hard to say. Let's go steal some Rolexes.  Criminals get away with it. They look brilliant. We're talking about why am I learning cybersecurity when I can get away with 10 or 15, 20 million dollars and make that break to South Shore, France and just live off the grid for the rest of my life. That's 20 million dollars. They're not going to let that go. I don't care who you took it from. Someone's coming looking for you. It's not that you just live off 20 million dollars and fade into the nothingness. You're always on the grid somewhere. Someone's going to find you with enough money. What's 20% of 20 million? That's a good hit man. And a student, an unpracticed criminal. He's not a criminal. He doesn't have any way to get away. He's a student.  An opportunity shows up and he's having a bad day, makes a bad decision, whatever it may be. For some reason they take advantage of a situation that presents itself and it could be cyber. It could be that why are you poking around with some stuff and you find a vulnerability and next thing you know, wow, you're looking at a C-prompt. You're looking at somebody's bank account. Wow, got their password. I could transfer money. Who knows? That seems targeted to me. Situations arise. You're in the building. You find yourself behind somebody's computer and they haven't logged out. It's an important system. Maybe you can use that to get whatever you want and get out of there. Just information sometimes is highly valuable. Super valuable. Maybe you can tell me if this actually happens. I knew this happened a lot when I was in the industry. The physical security part of the security plan, if you even have a security plan, usually fell under facilities. Unfortunately. And the facilities guys aren't really IT. No. And if they need to fill a gap they might take a webcam that they buy it best by.  It's Wi-Fi enabled. Cool. I don't even need a string of cable. Let's just hook this up. Username, password, default. And I'm on the network. Now you have a brand new hole in your network with default credentials that can talk to any other device. Because the Internet of Things is made up of all these devices that have the lowest basic level of security on them. They have maybe a username and password. They have hardly any authentication. So when you get in your root level it's an admin. And hardly any of these devices will do any logging or notification that they've been hacked. And you can knock them off the network and reset them as you wish. Yeah, once you own them. Right. And once you own them you can use them to get anywhere. Or as it was done last year you can use them as a DDoS device. You can use them as a botnet and use all those devices. We were using webcams and refrigerators and DVRs. And those were the three biggest devices I believe I read that were used for a DDoS attack. Yeah. And all your audience may want to know that that's dynamic denial of service. So what occurred right? So these guys took all those devices and flood like your website so no one can get their embass stuff from you. Just for example, denial of service. And they flooded the domain servers. So all the websites. That was pretty smart. When you go and you type in the name of Amazon.com and you get that's translated by a server into an IP address and it points you to that server or bank of servers. And when you knock down that Amazon.com name and domain name server, Amazon.com is basically offline. You can't get at it. So they can't sell stuff and they sell $100,000 a second or whatever they sell. I would imagine they'd lose millions of dollars per minute. It's got to be crazy. You can't go down with a company like that. And the other thing or the redirect, the malicious redirect, you're going to Amazon.com and try to buy some tennis shoes. The next thing you know you're actually entering your credit card information into a tennis shoe site that looks like a tennis shoe site that looks like Amazon but it isn't. Somebody is capturing your information. Then you find out you bought four new cars and your credit card is blown up and you don't know why. What happened? It happens by the time you got out of the computer and walked away. People understand how quickly that malicious transaction becomes an illegal transaction somewhere else. Well all of us including the home users have now accepted other devices and other security into our home networks. I have my Wi-Fi network at home. I have my wireless router. I also have a DVR. The DVR I have no control over. It is somebody else's. However, it is on my network. What's in the DMZ? Well, you put it outside. You would think there's a way in through the DMZ. It's only netted. And there's a way in through the, you read about the BDTV signals. So there's several signals out there that the cable providers are running. There's nothing on them. So they're right into all the smart TVs instantly. That's ugly. I was just reading about that one yesterday. It's like, really? What do you do for your customers? All these openings that... Firewall it. Firewall it off. Yeah, it's just bad. So the webcams that are wireless, do you always plug them in? We just don't use them. Okay. Wireless is even worse. I mean, so what happened, this is my experience in the industry, our industry in particular, physical security, we used to... Wireless was developed because we couldn't get a wire. It cost 10 grand to cut through the concrete and do all the stuff we would have to do to run a wire. So wireless. Okay, so let's use wireless where we really just can't cost effectively get a wire there. And then what happened was everybody said, why run wire at all? So the whole industry went berserk. It started, so all the home alarm systems, a lot of devices adopted a wireless potential, a wireless opportunity. So you get a hard wire or a wireless. And that spectrum isn't owned. And it must accept interference. You know how you read the device? You know you ever read the tag on your wireless device from the FCC that must accept interference. Because it's not what they call a registered. You can buy bandwidth that's yours that you use from the FCC and you can pay it for a licensed bandwidth. If you don't, then it means it's available to everyone. And once that's the status of it, unfortunately, it can be broken with software defined radio. Which back when all this started, software defined radio you probably had to pay 100 grand for one. I don't even know. Today you can build it on a raspberry pi with open source software for $29. And tune it to whatever. And I can listen to the devices in your house talking to your alarm. Probably those little wireless contacts. And when you go to bed and you quit moving around, they all quit firing. So now I know, you're in that part of the room. That's the last one that fired and you went to sleep. So I can do stuff on the other side of the house if I wanted to, for example. So software defined radio is a different sort of a problem, but another easy to use hacking tool for a guy who wants to spend the time to learn how to use it and sit right out in front of your house. You can saturate the receivers and other things you can do just from an intrusion system perspective. And then when we go to the other, the wireless packets and you're aware of these tools like a web crack and once the other one that's kind of popular. So the idea is that if I can sit there in a wireless environment and collect enough packets I can kind of figure out the encryption. Even if it's encrypted, like SHA-1, there's tools out there now that can help me figure out what the encryption is, break the encryption and then the transactions that are occurring are available to me to capture. So I could perhaps capture the next login of that password, your user and password to the PC that's using that Wi-Fi network in the house, for example. And then those tools will actually knock that device off the network and then it has to reoff. Yeah, so it will emulate your wireless access. That's the ones we use in the hotels and stuff like that. Your home network's got issues. I don't know what the consumer grade is. I don't work in that industry. It's even worse. My industry at the commercial grade and DOD grade, the DODs truly doesn't let this stuff on. We run on different networks for a reason because you should and that's a practice that all businesses should do, but businesses can't really afford separate networks like the DOD can. So we've got to firewall that stuff off. Then the business owner wants to use a feature set that's built into the system. We're coming up on a break. I do not know exactly when it's going to happen. Well, we've got a second, but we've firewall that VMS off and then we let the feature come in via VPN. So we can do it. We just need to do some things to mitigate some of the risks. Hi, I'm Nicole Alexandreinos and I was born three weeks ago. Congratulations on being there for me for some of the few weeks of my life. I'm starting a new show, The Millennial Mind, every Wednesday at 2 p.m. for the month of April, where we'll go over some of the reasons why millennials are some of the most anxious and frustrated people at the moment. I'm Ethan Allen, host of Likeable Science here on Think Tech Hawaii. Every Friday afternoon at 2 p.m., you'll have a chance to come and listen and learn from scientists around the world. Scientists who talk about their work in meaningful, easy to understand ways. They'll come to appreciate science in a wonderful way of thinking, a way of knowing about the world. You'll learn interesting facts, interesting ideas. You'll be stimulated to think more. Please come join us every Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. here on Think Tech Hawaii for Likeable Science with me, your host, Ethan Allen. Welcome back to the Cyber Underground. I'm Dave Stevens, my co-host and guest today, Andrew Lanning from Integrated Security Technologies. Andrew, why don't you tell me, what is your company all about? What do you do for people to secure their devices and their hardware and their companies? That's a big question. We get calls because people have problems. A lot of times those problems are related to intrusion. So they wait until they have a problem. Or unauthorized access. Sometimes it's design work too. It just depends on the client. The more challenging ones are typically someone that's had a problem. They're really fired up. I've had some kind of break-in in my parking lot to a car. I want to get some cameras. I'm like, well, how do you want cameras? Because I had a break-in in my parking lot. I said, well, cameras won't really stop the break-in. They're just going to let you see someone who broke into your car. So what do you really want to do? You want to see who it was? Or you want to stop the break-in? A lot of times our work is education. Helping people understand that you need to control your perimeter. We come out of the military, so I use those types of ideas to help protect the commercial businesses in Hawaii. That starts at the perimeter. Now, perimeter if you own a huge lot is expensive. You've got a big perimeter to protect. Sometimes you have to fall back from your fence line perhaps to the building. Then we use maybe access control on the doors so that that's your perimeter. The actual physical building itself. So you're talking about the fence in depth. You have a fence. You have a door lock and something behind that. And even response in time so that the way I can detect something that I don't want to happen or want to know about then the more response time I have. So if I can detect it out of the fence line, I've got more time to figure out what it is as it's approaching my assets. Versus if it breaks in the door then there's maybe perhaps already on top of my staff before I've had much time at all to do anything. So just as an example. So we have to have those education things. A lot of stuff comes to us that's already designed and built by consultants in the industry and someone's building the building. So we will supply those systems. But the people that need more help are the ones that don't know what to do. They just don't have a problem. They're helping them to find that problem and understand how to address it in a way that fits their economy. Perimeter security. Doing security properly is not inexpensive. You can just throw up a camera and maybe that runs people off who've been doing something. That's a good tactic.  Put a hat on. Whatever it takes. So cameras are just not cameras have never been about security. Cameras have been about even today about 99% of the video in the industry is still used for post incident investigation. Now we've got analytics today. There's a lot of things that have developed and I don't want to take away from any of that work because it's good. We can do a lot more detection. Object moving in one direction say a driveway you're watching. Things should only be coming in. If something goes out, boom, we can alert on that. We're much, much better at detecting people and anomalies outdoors than we were just a few years ago. So that machine learning there's a lot of things that have brought that industry way, way up. Outdoor motion detection has for years been fraught with positives. Now when you address this with your customers, do you fall back to the NIST rules and explain to them what NIST is and how they set up these standards for certain industries? In the last couple of years the cybersecurity framework cybersecurity just as a word, cyber hardening, cyber maturity all these things have entered our industry because realistically for the last 25 or 30 years we hadn't done any of it. We used to be an analog business and we had RS485 communications which is serial communications like your old phone line just as an SRS232 but similar. We had coaxial cable with analog signals to the cameras. We got someone discovered internet protocol and someone figured out how to convert these company called Landtronics actually how to convert RS485 to IP. So all of a sudden we're on networks. Well we just went crazy as an industry and we started delivering all these great things right over your network and people loved it. The problem is convenience. Super convenient and a lot of functionality. The problem with our manufacturers really didn't take security seriously and so the chip sets that they used for example when all these devices wouldn't support protocols like we see in the IT industry. Your computer here can have a certificate loaded on it. It has enough horsepower to run a transport layer security when I connect to a device and I can use secure HTTP instead of just HTTP Hypertext terminal protocol. So we're talking about balancing that CIA triangle of the convenience integrity and the security of any given organization and they went way too far into the convenience area. Way too far. In fact they only went there. They didn't go with security at all. I mean seriously. Our industry did a terrible job of becoming a problem for the customer today. Once the hacking industry grew to what it is today and everybody can make money stealing information and selling that information all information became a target and now all these systems that lacked correct hardening really just lacked the horsepower to be hardened started taking a beating. And you were telling me before that the central control center for like a camera set and some other security devices if they all feed into the central security system you're monitoring all of them but then you have an update to make one more secure it might break your central command center so you have to upgrade that but then that might break your connection to the older system that hasn't upgraded to this new security protocol. Yeah so the firmware problem. We have a firmware problem in these devices and manufacturers got in the habit because it's inexpensive. Tomorrow libraries DLL so they would compile their firmware from existing libraries that were already broken or poorly written or had vulnerabilities in them. But they worked. They delivered video to the customer who wanted to see it or you could use your phone to open the door for example. The problem is it was very badly built and unregulated and no one paid attention to this. No one paid attention to this until a few years ago and so now our industry's having to correct itself and our customers who've been getting more and more functionality for lower and lower price points for many many years now all of a sudden have to pay more for us to go back and check on these you know run these types of scans like you're talking about and we're a guy company that does this and a lot of the devices we scan they blow up. I mean they absolutely can't even handle a simple in map scan for example. So they reset and then they reset and so when it resets it goes back to a default state. And you gotta set it again. Very bad. That is very bad. So brings into to light the standards organizations that we should be depending more on. NIST for the rules for example National Institute of Standards and Technology. Yes. And then also things like the IEEE would handle that. Yes. The Institute for Electronics. Those are the guys we ignored all these years. But they have those standards online. So if you want to build a device and you want it to integrate and be upgradable and have your firmware the most secure you go read the latest standard in your protocol and you should build it to those standards as people aren't. So the expensive stuff is same place. I mean seriously this the industry is from top to bottom. Just now are we just now I mean just now there's a big security show like honestly next week a big national security show and we've got I saw some devices last week that are now you can load a certificate on them. Now they only do TLS which you know Transport Layer Security is the latest version of SSL but TLS 1.2 is the norm and these only can handle TLS 1.0. And so that's a as you know a function of the type of encryption and the amount of processing it takes to do it quickly for the thing times out or blows up or whatever. So you know there's progress and I haven't been able to say that yet but I can I can say it today and I'll be back here in a few weeks and I'll be able to talk about hopefully more that I found in the meantime what we've been doing is you know scanning these devices making sure that all the extra FTP the ports are closed that aren't being used right if you're just streaming video out of a camera I don't need the email port open I don't need FTP open and so you know going in to make sure those are all closed so that this device can't be you know attacked through those ports and then documenting the type of encryption that's on it you know and understanding what it is and taking a look at and then documenting it right so we do that on the bench before we go install it in your business. Then when we install it we run the scan again to make sure nothing's changed. Yeah you gotta verify. Yeah and then we come back as a part of the maintenance plan we come back and do that periodically just to make sure that someone puts a webcam up that you didn't know about and just hooks up to the network or your administrators in their plane with the settings and actually it turns on FTP or someone hits the restart because the guard sitting there all night long nothing's going on he doesn't have anything better to do so he decides to start poking around. I can host a music server right here. Yeah exactly he's doing his homework he's bringing in a USB device stick and loading up some other garbage. Now I was reading some articles about the consumer electronics show that just happened in January. CES every year and that's all there about convenient electronics the newest greatest most convenient stuff and they're all about the smart refrigerators now. You can see the huge screen on the refrigerator door we can order milk and whatever this one had you know I saw believe it was a Samsung open the door and you put in the milk it knows because of the barcode on the milk when you put it in how much is supposed to weigh.  No security they're really on the refrigerator. They're doing the IPVO POE they're actually on the power line on the power cord of the of the fridge. And that's it. I think so. Yeah wow and just so long distance you have USB ports. Oh yeah. So you can walk right up and put a USB stick in there which is one of the biggest holes in security in the entire world. You know walk through a parking lot. Hey I found another USB. Any portable media. What's on this USB stick. Let's plug this in and find out. Yeah. Oh look I won something. I'll just fill this out. You know. Yeah it's the consumers are just being duped. I mean you know they just don't know and so as long as people buy this stuff it's going to continue to be made and continue to be sold. And you know it's a you know it's a sort of a buyer beware and you know there's a lot of people that you know are they all being victimized. Do they all have things worth taking. I don't know. I don't know. But I do know that they they're not aware. I mean I have entire industries that I talked to in the whole room. You know 1% or 5% of the companies are doing anything about cybersecurity or cybersecurity. C suites. Managers. Right. And so if they're not I know that the homeowner Right. Well you have to develop a culture with cybersecurity and physical security. Yeah. Everybody's got to be. It's kind of high mentality or it doesn't work. Everybody's got to know what's going on. Now you run integrated security technologies Yes. My wife runs it. I use text. I use text.net. Yes. Right. That's where you can see everything that Andrew does. Yeah. 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Rwy'n cael ei wneud ddweud o ddechrau'n gwneud o'r bwysig, mae'r oedd yn trefbyd ar y cwmhreit yn bod yn ei ddrefbyd. Felly, rwy'n gwael i dystry Spyderiaeth. Rwy'n gweithiwch ar gyfer rydyn niw chi'n gallu diwrnodd cyffredinol, fod yn personol agorod. Rwy'n gweithio gyda'r pryd, neddw i ddwynger y wylch. Rwy'n gweithio'r cyfromethau yn gwybwysig i ddweud hynny o edrych I warmly thank colleagues who signed my motion and facilitated today's debate on what I believe to be an important public health issue, and even more, I want to thank those intrepid souls who have stayed behind to hear the opening speech and those who are going to participate in this evening's debate. It has been a long day for us all. I thank members of the Cross Party Group on Scotland's health 2021 and beyond, of which I am Cole-Cannvenner, many of whom of the members are active campaigners against ynghylch o marktwn ffosechethau ar gyfer misrach, cyd- defensivell i fynd i fynd yma, ac mae'r perthynau ddeif ridicoli gyda'r e distracted. Mae sydd yn dweud y marktwn yw ymgwymon ffosechethau ar gyfer misrach, ddraswill. A wneud gan 22 gwahanol dweithio bwyll gweithredu bo butterfyn, yn Scotland, ac 683 hôpital edrychiyn. Those are not just statistics, they are people, families and communities deeply affected by alcohol harm. The first UK wide study COV et. ein waste, i mor reserthueth fynd, ac ble nad에rchuno i dd兩個 aspirant niac y pethau hRedd. Mae dd rowf i chi. Mae'r dd Hat download ddechrau, oherwydd gwasanaeth diwledd hiad, a'r ddraegau a chæll, a debuidd a chaeligwyr drws o'r cyfnodau ac yn arddangos o'r byn yn yr ysgol. Mae gweithio ar unrhywion sydd wedi yn eu cyfnod yn 2015, byw i gwybod dechrau yn ysgol, yn cysylltu, yn duodd a drïnwyr, yn ysgol ym 10 o bryd, chaeligwyr yn fwy o'r byn yn yr ysgol sydd ar gweithio'r byn ymol yn cyfnod o'r byn yn cyfnod, cyfrifol, ac iesgrim. Aelodau yn gwybod aeth yn ysgol, ond, when Dr Nathan Critchlow presented the UK-wide survey to the cross-party group on Scotland's health, he emphasised results demonstrating that in current drinkers, alcohol marketing awareness was associated with increased consumption and greater likelihood of higher risk consumption. Dr Critchlow's assertion is consistent with international research showing that children find alcohol marketing messages appealing, and that influences their perception of alcohol. We must all be cognisant of the fact that alcohol marketing reduces the age at which young people start drinking, increases the likelihood that they will drink, and the amount of alcohol consumed if they already drink. One sector where alcohol marketing is particularly prominent is sport. Alcohol brands are high-profile sponsors of major sporting events, viewed by millions of adults and children alike. Scottish Women's Football is setting a sterling example in its regard by taking a strong stance against alcohol sponsorship as part of their aspiration to represent a clean sport. As SWF chair Vivian McClann put it, accepting alcohol and gambling sponsorship would be incompatible with their role in promoting healthier lifestyles among girls and women and supporting them to make positive choices. Alcohol and gambling industry sponsorship represents major funding sources for grassroot sport. It is a very bold and admirable step to reject such financial backing outright. I hope to see more sporting bodies and teams following the lead of SWF on rejecting alcohol marketing. At the CPG in Scotland's Health February meeting, attendees unanimously agreed that alcohol marketing has no place in childhood. I wholeheartedly believe that all children should have the opportunity to play a learn and grow in spaces that are healthy and safe, free from exposure to alcohol advertising and sponsorship. Television advertising remains one of the biggest sources of exposure to alcohol imagery and commercial adverts for alcohol continue to be aired before the 9pm watershed. The Advertising Standards Authority will publish research on children's exposure to alcohol ads on TV later this year. However, according to the ASA's research, in 2017, children's exposure to alcohol ads relative to adults was 22 per cent, and that figure is too high. As colleagues will know, powers over broadcast advertising are reserved to the UK Government and therefore welcome Scottish Government assurances that they continue to urge UK counterparts to protect children and young people from exposure to alcohol marketing on television before 9pm and in cinemas or devolve the powers so that we can make the decision here in Scotland. Of course, we have powers to regulate other marketing channels, including public spaces, alongside digital and online routes, which is why I welcome the commitment within the Scottish Government's Alcohol Framework 2018 to consult and engage on measures to protect children and young people. Restricting school advertising is one of the world health organisations' three best buys. Most cost-effective methods are to reduce alcohol consumption and related harms across a population. Those restrictions ensure that vulnerable groups such as children and young people and those who are recovering from alcohol dependence are specifically protected from the impact of alcohol marketing. I trust that this is something that the Scottish Government will consider carefully in its next steps on changing Scotland's relationship with alcohol. There are lessons that we can learn from our Irish neighbours who last year signed into law the Public Health Alcohol Act 2018. That will do the legislation prohibits the advertising of an alcohol product in or on a sports area during a sports event. It also introduces a broadcast watershed ban on TV alcohol advertising from 3am until 9pm and radio programmes from midnight to 10am and 3pm to midnight. Another key tent of the new law is the introduction of a structural separation of alcohol from other products and retail outlets. That happens in many other countries, too. I will watch the act's implementation over the next three years with a view to pushing for evidence-led best practice here in Scotland. Looking more broadly at alcohol marketing, I note the cause from a number of organisations to end self-regulation in the alcohol industry, particularly the report that was published last year by Alcohol Concern and Alcohol UK entitled Fit for Purpose and Analysis of the Role of the Portman Group and Alcohol Industry Self-Regulation. The Portman Group was one of the key regulators of alcohol industry marketing and promotion in the UK with a core of practice that applies to the naming, packaging and marketing and promotional activity of UK alcohol products. According to the group's website, it is currently funded by eight member companies, one of which accounts for one and a half of the UK alcohol marketing. One shortcoming with the group's self-regulatory approach is its position that a drink may appeal to children if it resonates with under 18s in a way that it does not with over 18s. That narrow definition precludes taking action on drinks that appeal to the full range of consumers, including under 18s, and that places the focus of enforcement on drinks with a superficial appeal to young children likely to be less interested in alcohol as distinct from adolescence. The Portman Group and other regulatory bodies must move beyond the false assumption that underage drinkers are only attracted to childish imagery and accept that appealing to the youth market inevitably captures adolescence. Other criticisms of the self-regulatory approach include overtly, subjective decision making, despite the wide body of evidence available regarding purchasing and drinking behaviours such as the comprehensive research by Dr Critchlow already described. I trust that the Scottish Government will consider the shortcomings of self-regulation and its consultations on measures to protect children and young people from alcohol marketing and work with the UK counterparts to strengthen regulation where powers are reserved. The marketing of health harming products is an issue that involves organisations, ranging from the Scottish and UK Governments, to regulators such as the ASA, Ofcom and the Portman Group, to alcohol brands, advertising agencies, sporting bodies, cultural event organisers and more. One body cannot manage the multi-channel reality of modern marketing practices alone, and therefore ensuring that our children grow up in spaces free of alcohol-related marketing requires a carefully co-ordinated approach. Yet just because something is challenging does not mean that we should not pursue it. Just this week, we found alcohol sales in Scotland have fallen to the lowest level in 25 years, and data from NHS Scotland showed alcohol consumption dropped 3 per cent from 2017 to 2018, demonstrating the positive impact of minimum unit pricing, progressive action works. Let's build on the momentum from the 2018 alcohol framework, its commitments and the assertive rejection of health harming sponsorship by Scottish women's football and forced environment where children are free from the known harms of irresponsible alcohol marketing. We move to the open debate and speeches of around four minutes, please. Alison Harris followed by Emma Harper. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. As my party's spokesperson for children and young people, I am always pleased to be speaking on any issue that relates to the wellbeing of Scotland's young people. I welcome the member's debate, which gives us the opportunity to look at the measures that we can take to protect children from harmful products. Can I start by thanking the cross-party group on improving Scotland's health for the work that they have done on this topic and Kerry Gibson for bringing this to the chamber? As we all know, marketing is one of the most powerful tools used to persuade us to make purchases and buy goods. It affects trends and influences buying patterns. Even walking through the front door of supermarkets or any shop, the visual tool of marketing is all around us. Children are particularly drawn to it. Experts have pointed out that many children and young people often accept the information presented in adverts unconditionally without questioning. But parents do not need statistics to realise the significance of advertising in children's lives. We know that television, brands and commercial messages of all sorts are a large part of our children's lives from a very early age, and, as children mature, they will experience intense marketing along the way. The average eight to 13-year-old child is watching around three and a half hours of internet or television a day, and it is estimated that those same children make approximately 3,000 requests for products and services that they have seen either on TV or online each year. Research has clearly indicated that alcohol advertising and marketing have a significant impact on youth decisions to drink, and advertising plays a huge role in that. That, in turn, can be seen to contribute greatly in creating an environment that promotes underage drinking. I read somewhere not so long ago about a study of young people who were asked to respond to alcohol advertising. The study found that underage youths were drawn to music, animal and people characters and the humour in alcohol advertising. Ads like that were liked by youths in the same study and were more likely to be illicit responses from them saying that they wanted to purchase the brand and products advertised. Digital marketing has advanced beyond TV adverts, too. Popular social media stars put out posts here and there, telling their followers that a great time they have had using certain products. Although adults are perhaps minded to be cynical of their motives for this, some young people may take it at face value, a worrying thought considering the level of alcohol and tobacco that appears in social media posts. The link between advertising and youth trends is therefore evident, and the ways in which young people are seeing marketing is evolving, presenting new challenges to protecting them from harmful products such as alcohol. Alcohol knows no social bounds. It can affect anyone in society, and that can have and will have an knock-on effect on children. Regulation on marketing should keep up with technology, but I firmly believe that it is a balanced approach that we need to take. I think that we need to educate children that we have to respect alcohol, and possibly we need a culture change in relation to alcohol, because I am not just convinced that banning it from sight until children turn 18 is the way to go. However, I agree that alcohol marketing has no place in childhood, but let us remain open to combining that approach with a strong foundation based on education from an early age. I congratulate Kenneth Gibson on securing this important debate this evening and his excellent detailed opening contribution. The debate gives all of us across chamber the opportunity to discuss both the progress that is made in protecting our young people from exposure to the marketing of health harming products, and the opportunity to discuss what further steps must be taken as we move forward. I thank the organisation's alcohol-focused Scotland, Ask Scotland and Obesity Action Scotland who have provided the joint briefing ahead of the debate. As a former nurse and current deputy convener of the Health and Sport Committee, promoting better health for the people of Scotland is of great personal and professional interest and importance to me. Every person who loses their life or who has an adverse health experience due to inequality or overexposure to substances that are known to have a harmful impact on health is one too many. Indeed, research from the World Health Organization, Action on Obesity and the British Heart Foundation and others has conclusively shown that the more young people have exposure to harmful health substances such as alcohol, tobacco and even energy drinks, the more likely they are in later life, as well as potentially in their younger years, to use these products and consequently develop a range of health conditions that may have a profound effect on their health and day-to-day lives. That leads to significant cost to our healthcare services, therefore emphasising the absolute need to take pre-emptive action to address this issue. Presiding Officer, I am proud that Scotland is already leading the way across the UK on the issue of promoting better health of Scotland's people. Policies that were introduced by both this and previous Scottish Governments include banning tobacco advertising in 2002, banning smoking in and close public spaces in 2006, raising the age to buy tobacco from 16 to 18 in 2007, making prison smoke free last year, introducing rules on the supply and sale of vapour products in 2017 and the Alcohol Scotland Act 2010, which put into law a ban on multi-buy discounts such as three for two or 25 per cent off when you buy six. The Alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing Scotland Act, which Kenneth Gibson has mentioned also, has paved the way for the introduction of the pricing that we are already seeing looking to benefit Scotland and our people. Presiding Officer, that is a broad list indeed. Those are all policies that are working to aim stopping overexposure to alcohol and harmful substances for children and young people. However, we do have progress to make, and despite all the welcome steps outlined above, alcohol and high-fat food brands in particular are still highly visible in our everyday lives. Whether it is adverts on TV, at the cinema, on billboards or online, in magazines and newspapers, at the shops, pubs or sponsorship of music events, it is hard to avoid them and they are not discriminating of gender or age. The alcohol and fatty sugary food industries spend hundreds of millions of pounds every year on marketing their products. Although alcohol and unhealthy food companies claim only to advertise to adults, we know that the existing advertising codes are not adequate to properly protect children. In the absence of the ability to change broadcasting laws, I would like to encourage the Scottish Government, as I am sure it is, to seriously consider the asks and recommendations from the Scottish Health Coalition. Some of the key asks, which I think merit further exploration, include the prohibition of outdoor alcohol advertising in public spaces and the restriction of alcohol advertising to factual information in adult press and cinema alcohol advertising for 18 certificate films. I also ask the minister to continue to do all that she can to put pressure on the UK Government to bring about a reform of advertising regulations to better protect our children, young people and vulnerable adults from harmful substances. In conclusion, I welcome this debate. Once again, thank Kenneth Gibson for his motion this evening and I look forward to the minister's response. Monica Lennon, followed by Rona Mackay. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and thank you to Kenneth Gibson for securing what is an important debate. I feel like we have to see these things as customary, but I genuinely feel that it is a very important topic. I was glad to be at the cross-party group when some of this was discussed and it was a really good meeting. In particular, what the Scottish Women's National Football team was doing is very principled and it does send out a really positive message. I am going to keep my remarks mostly on the alcohol aspects of this. Colleagues will be aware that I do talk about this a lot, but I think that there is a lot of positive work happening here in Scotland, in the Scottish Parliament, with the Scottish Government and cross-party support to really change Scotland's relationship with alcohol. I think that we have seen some positive signs just today in terms of the monitoring and evaluating Scotland's alcohol strategy. I think that the fact that alcohol sales have reduced is very encouraging and, hopefully, that is a really important signal that minimum unit pricing is already having effect. However, we already know that alcohol is a death in Scotland and is higher than other parts of the UK. I know that no-one in this chamber would be complacent, but I think that the fact that there is so much support across the chamber—I think that 70 MSPs and 37 organisations signed up to the pledge that alcohol marketing has no place in childhoods and that all children should play, learn and socialise in places that are healthy and safe, protected from exposure to alcohol advertising and sponsorships. I think that we are in a really good place to work towards that. If I could pay tribute to a former colleague from those benches, Dr Richard Simpson, who did a lot of work on that in the last parliamentary term, and continues to advocate and sometimes will tweet me or even DM me to keep me on the right track or suggest things that I might want to ask Spice or ministers about. We are lucky that there are very passionate MSPs in the chamber who want to continue to make progress. If I can plug an event that I am hosting in Parliament on 19 September, that is a Thursday at 1 o'clock, and I am sure that many of you will attend. However, myself and Joe Fitzpatrick, the Public Health Minister, will be welcoming young people to Parliament from the children's Parliament, who are investigators who have been speaking to their peers across schools in Edinburgh about the impact that alcohol has on them and the fact that, when they get up in the morning, when they walk to school, when they walk through parks, when they are at the cinema, alcohol is everywhere. I also want to, in my final remarks, pay tribute to some of the charities out there who pick up the pieces when children are affected by alcohol in hurtful ways, whether that is through, sometimes, what we think about as experimental underage drinking, but actually when alcohol affects the family. I want to pay tribute to Blameless, who is a charity-based Hamilton Ackies football stadium, and if she has not been able to get along so far, I am sure that she would warmly welcome the minister along for a visit. In fact, the doors are open to anyone. It is quite difficult for children who are affected by alcohol harm to get support. There used to be groups such as Alatine, but it is not really accessible to young people anymore. I think that the fact that we are having this debate and there are these forums is really important, but hopefully we can keep doing everything that we can in Scotland to really raise the bar and make sure that all of our children and young people are protected from health harming products. Children and young people are incredibly receptive to marketing messages, whether direct or subliminal. We all remember what it was like when you reached a certain age and you think that you tried to be a grown-up and at that stage drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes or any product that adults use seems attractive and cool. The reality is that, as the helpful briefing from Alcohol Focus Scotland tells us, drinking during adolescence poses risks to long-term health and wellbeing, both by affecting important brain developmental processes and by establishing drinking patterns that can continue into adulthood. Alcohol consumption during adolescence may also have a heightened effect on mental wellbeing. For example, it can be associated with higher risk of self-harm and suicide attempts. The fact is that adolescence is more susceptible to intoxicating effects of alcohol due to its physical immaturity and lower tolerance levels. We all know that the effects of alcohol can result in anti-social behaviour, which belight communities. As Monica Lennon said, MSPs, the Children's Commissioner and many third sector organisations, including children in Scotland, children's first Bernardo's, have all supported the pledge that says that alcohol marketing has no place in childhood and all children should play, learn and socialise in places that are healthy and safe, protected from exposure to alcohol advertising and sponsorship. Despite ever more stringent advertising restrictions and restrictions, young people are exposed to the marketing of alcohol through the broadcast media, the internet and sports sponsorship. At this stage, I applaud Scottish Women's Football that Kenneth Gibson mentioned, not only for having a fantastic team and taking us into the world cup tournament. I wish them the best of luck tonight and their magic against Argentina, but for refusing to accept alcohol-related sponsorship, that is a truly progressive, sensible approach that I would dearly like men's football authorities to take on board. The Scottish Government can lead the way in transforming this damaging culture. The commitment in the Government's alcohol prevention framework to consult and measures to restrict alcohol marketing to protect children and young people is hugely positive, as was our minimum unit pricing initiative introduced last year. Alcohol-focused Scotland is working with the children's Parliament to explore children's thoughts and feelings about alcohol and how it impacts on their lives. Findings should be reported later this year, but children and young people must have a say in any initiative that promotes their health and wellbeing. Of course, we know that it is not just alcohol marketing that poses a danger to young people. It is junk food, high in fats and sugar. It is body enhancing products, slimming pills, influential video games and much more, all designed to target a young demographic who are likely to be influenced. Successful marketing relies on targeting the audience, finding out what products have most to feel to a certain demographic. I am pleased that the advertising authorities are more responsible now and aware of promoting products that appeal to young people. We have made some strides in that area, and I hope that it continues. Can I conclude by saying a final plea to retailers? Please do more to keep harmful products away from our young people and our future generation. The last of the open debate contributions is from Brian Whittle. I congratulate Kenny Gibson on the screening time in this chamber. I know that we are late in the day here, but I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak to him. I am passionate about him. We are talking about a background of an exponential explosion in both ever more sophisticated marketing tactics and access to products that are eminently harmful to our children and young people. I know that the motion specifically focuses on alcohol consumption, but we could quite easily speak about excess consumption of high-sugar food and drink, drink products or high levels of caffeine in drinks or fast food, processed food or perhaps we could even include the overconsumption of video games and social media controversial. However, since we are focusing on alcohol, we should applaud, as we have done already, the Scottish Women's Football for their stance against alcohol advertising. The argument against that, of course, is that it will be difficult to replace this revenue in the associated sports. However, I am sure that Kenny Gibson, like me, is of the era where the likes of motorsport and snooker were heavily sponsored by tobacco companies, remembering the very famous JPS Lotus team, for example. They made exactly the same arguments back then when legislation banned that kind of advertising. However, as we know, the sky has not fallen in those sports and they have gone on from strength to strength. In fact, Formula One is one of the world's most cash-rich sports these days. I would suggest that sport is entirely the wrong environment to promote such products because their consumption has exactly the opposite to the positive effect that sport can bring. Perhaps the stance that the Scottish Women's Football team has taken will show the way for other sports when they are considering this kind of sponsorship. I think that I drive to tackle many of the impacts of consumption of health harming products. We have to acknowledge that there are many factors of which this parliament could affect. For example, we know that the premises where alcohol can be purchased are disproportionately prolific in the least deprived areas, in fact, some 40 per cent higher in some cases. How this place and local authorities agree that licensing of such premises gives politicians the ability to influence access to such brands and their associated marketing. Furthermore, we also need to look at the home environment and how children and young people are exposed to alcohol there. I met alcohol Scotland a couple of weeks ago who told me that they had been speaking to children of parents who have alcohol issues and asked what they would want. The reply that was most frequently given was that the children wished their parents would abstain from drinking until the children had gone to bed. That should raise many flags with us. I think that the children are looking for parental attention that most take for granted. They are losing out on opportunities to have access to activities both indoors and out in a family and community environment. Those behaviours are learned, so we need to consider how we can break that destructive cycle. Monica Lennon I am grateful to Brian Whittle for giving way. It is just to put some figures on it. It is estimated that around 51,000 children and young people are living in a household where alcohol harm is an issue. We are not just talking about a few children, but we are talking about how we can fill Hamden stadium. Does Brian Whittle agree with me that that is a particular area of focus that the Government should be looking at how we support those young people and reduce stigma so that they can get help? Brian Whittle I agree with that. I am going on to say some of the ways in which we can tackle this, because when we are talking about deprivation, poverty and food poverty, that has an impact on that, and any kind of parental alcohol or drug abuse has an impact on that. It is a very important thing that we need to deal with. My final point is that the other side of the debate is how we encourage better choices and behaviours. Limiting the marketing of health harming products to our children and young people is commendable. However, are we doing all that we can to market and promote health-enhancing behaviours? I suggest that there is a lot more that we can do to make such opportunities more accessible and affordable with respect to our background or personal circumstance. Adopting that kind of approach this Parliament could really grasp the preventive health agenda and deliver policies that catch our poor health outcomes further upstream, not only offering a better budget spend but, more importantly, far better long-term health outcomes. How we help to build our communities and support it to our communities is extremely important in this challenge. Supporting the third sector will be key, giving communities the opportunity to play, to take part in sports and physical activities, to art, drama and music will have a significant impact in tackling the issues that we are discussing now. I will finish now, Deputy Presiding Officer, as much as I would love to say in this particular that it is important to debate. Once again, I thank Kenny Gibson for giving us the opportunity. I now call Claire Hawke to respond to the debate for around seven minutes, please, minister. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I am pleased to close for the Government this evening. I commend Kenneth Gibson for bringing this motion forward and highlighting the importance of protecting our young people from alcohol advertising. I would also like to add my thanks to the cross-party group for its important work. I want to begin by setting out the distinct challenges that we face in Scotland. Since the 1980s, we have seen substantially increased alcohol consumption and consequently high levels of alcohol-related harm. On average, every adult in Scotland drinks around one-third more than the lower-risk guidelines of 14 units per week. That is a range of serious consequences that are on average 22 alcohol-specific deaths every week in Scotland and 683 hospital admissions. Behind every one of those statistics is a person, a family and a community. That was the motivation behind our 2009 alcohol framework, which has been successful in taking steps towards a healthier relationship with alcohol. We have banned irresponsible promotions of alcohol, lowered the drink-drive limit and implemented our national alcohol brief intervention programme. We have taken significant steps over the last decade. Our refreshed alcohol framework, which was published last year, builds on a decade of progress and sets out 20 further actions to prevent harm. Our approach is rooted in the best international evidence. At the heart of our new framework are the World Health Organization recommendations to tackle affordability, availability and attractiveness of alcohol. On affordability, we have taken bold action, and I am proud to serve in the Government that implemented our world-leading minimum unit pricing policy in May last year. As members know, the annual monitoring and evaluating Scotland's alcohol strategy report was published today. That includes alcohol sales data for 2018, with eight months of post-minimum unit pricing sales. The volume of pure alcohol sold per adult in Scotland fell by around 3 per cent from 2017 to 2018. That is the lowest level for 25 years. Those are very promising signs. I want to take an intervention. Brian Whittle I thank you very much for taking an intervention. Within those figures, are we able to look at the impact that minimum unit pricing has had on deprivation and rather than just the average? It is very important that we look behind the figures. Are we able to do that? I am not clear if we are able to do that. From my understanding through hearing the chief medical officer talk about this this morning, the very first of those figures, so we are certainly going to have to compare data year on year. I am pretty sure that there are more figures coming out in September. If that is incorrect, I will let the member know, but I am pretty sure that he will be aware that I am covering for the Minister for Public Health. I now want to turn to the attractiveness of alcohol. Like other members, I am shocked by the sheer volume of alcohol marketing that children experience. The University of Stirling survey referenced in the motion found that half of young people surveyed had seen at least 32 instances of alcohol marketing within a month. That is at least one each day, and that simply is too high. It is clear that the current self-regulatory system for advertising is not providing adequate protection. Many of our European neighbours already have a stronger approach. Ireland will introduce mandatory restrictions from November this year. Our new alcohol framework contains two significant actions on alcohol marketing, to press the UK Government to restrict television and cinema advertising of alcohol, and to consult on a range of measures including mandatory restrictions on alcohol marketing within our devolved powers. We know that children still spend large amounts of time watching television with alcohol adverts aired prior to 9pm, and regrettably powers over TV advertising are outwith the control of this Parliament. If Westminster remains unwilling to act, we will press for the relevant powers to be devolved. We can, however, take action on other forms of advertising within our devolved powers. When children and young people travel around their local areas, they are exposed to alcohol adverts on billboards, buses, bus shelters and digital screens. The University of Stirling research demonstrates that a quarter of young people see alcohol billboards on a weekly basis. We also recognise that the marketing landscape has changed substantially with increasing prevalence of the internet and social media usage. Digital marketing often utilises new, more innovative methods. Our young people are particularly exposed as they spend more time online and are more likely to be active in social media. Young people grow up in a digital world and face a new set of pressures, and I have seen the effects that that can have in my portfolio. We know that social media can have negative impact on young people's emotional wellbeing and that there are connections to other things such as body image and disrupted sleep. I recently announced that we will co-produce advice on what healthy social media use looks like and that it will be created by children and young people for children and young people. We are providing funding of £90,000 to make that happen, and I am delighted that the successful applicants were the Scottish Youth Parliament and the Children's Parliament. In developing our proposals on alcohol marketing restrictions, we are similarly committed to co-designing with children and young people. Policy to protect young people should be developed with them, not imposed upon them. Turning to alcohol sponsorship of events, I join other members in applauding Scottish Women's Football as an exemplar here, having pledged not to accept alcohol sponsorship. Marketing is a diverse area with many views and impacts to consider, and we will engage with all interested stakeholders and take their views into account. I am very encouraged by the consensus in the chamber this evening on protecting our children and young people from alcohol advertising. I know that all the party leaders have signed the alcohol focus Scotland's pledge for an alcohol-free childhood. The Minister for Public Health will welcome further discussions with members as our proposals are being developed.


What is this from? There was love all around, but I never heard it singing. No, I never heard it at all, till there was you. It's a trick question. Schindler's List. Josh! Hey, welcome back to our Steve Draxson Corp. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, more juicy content, the exhibits we're holding to the accounts go like button. I thought it was weird that they put a love song with the Nazi in them. It was, it was, it was endearing, but really strange to have him sing that to Oscar Schindler. No, it's both, most people actually know it as a Beatles song because they did a rendition of it, but it comes from The Music Man. The musical, The Music Man. My brother was in that. Yeah? Who do you play? Cause I did The Music Man, I played Tommy Gilles. Music, is that the one with? With Harold Hill. Barnaby, the Barnaby, is that one? There's no Barnaby that I'm aware of, unless it's a very, very small role. No, he's the kid. That's Tommy Gilles. Oh, the one who sings Oh Ho, though well, Fargo. That's not Tommy Gilles.  Oh, please let it be for me. His name may be Barnaby. I think it is. Okay. And yes, that's, that would be also from The Music Man. Because he was short. And he played a child. Makes sense. It was a high school production. Anyway. It's today, I think it dropped last night. Yes, it did. The RDX official trailer. Yes, official trailer. With, say, these names for me. Shane Nigam, Anthony Varghese, Niraj Madhav. And forgive me for mispronouncing any names, please. I don't know what one of those is which, but one of them is the guy from Combalanji Nights and that horror film last year with The House. The horror film with The House. You'll recognize him. Okay. The Malayalam film, that was but something. Anyways, all right. But we actually met the producers of this. That's correct. We sure did. Which is really cool. It's not a paid review. We just met them. There are no paid reviews here. Yeah, we don't do that. Or paid reactions. Doesn't happen. Has that, anybody ever offered it? No, yeah. I keep waiting. I know. It's such a prevalent thing. No one's ever done that. The only thing I've ever gotten on Instagram are messages that are just a random copy and paste that say, we've looked at your Instagram account and we like your style. We think that you would do really well with our sunglasses or our purses or our shirts and I blocked them. Yeah, I keep waiting for somebody to offer me lax upon lax, but they just, they haven't yet. Yeah, napping. Here we go. Oh, great credit for the film editor and the DLP and the action director great sound effects. Good Lord. Turn to the West side story. That looked like Menominarie. But they get it.  Wow. I can't want to see that in theaters. Please. OK, hold on. I just I need to go back to this moment. While you do that, guys, it's difficult to get breakaway glass to break and shards. Shard. Yeah, shard. In shards, it typically breaks away in little specs. That's the nature of most breakaway glass. I don't know what they did. Maybe they taped it. That was spectacular breakaway glass. It was just huge shards of glass, which is what it would do. Are you nine? Yes. That was an amazing trailer. It's fantastic trailer. It gave me vibes of Menominarie. Of course, which I guess it felt like it right from the first opening shot at the carnival. It felt like the climax of Menominarie, which tell me that's not a shout out. Yeah, I believe they are the producers of Menominarie. Correct. That it has to be a show. Yeah, it's a little. It can't actually be. Wait, is that? That's not Tavino. That kind of do look like Tavino's eyes. It does. Does it? It does. I don't know. Great trailer. I love the sound when they're getting whacked with the nunchucks and the sticks. And I love the freeze frame credits that go to Slomo for the DOP in the action direction and the editing. It gave me vibes of Menominarie and the Battle of Brawls. Yeah, yeah. In terms of like stylish fight scenes and all that kind of stuff, like that theater fight scene in Battle of Brawls. It's so funny. They talk so many times, they being the ones who don't like violence in cinema in America because there are still those who say we're too violent. And then India says, hold my beer. It's so great. It's a best fight scenes. Let me let me know what you think. Is that Tavino Thomas? It's definitely a shout out Menominarie. Like it's hands down just the way he has his things. It had that freeze you've got at 122. I love the subtitles because that would be a great log line for a film. They could be unhinged lunatics. Yeah, yeah. I'm super excited. I am too. I hope we get it in theaters. Please. Because I would love to see something like this. Everything about it looks amazing. We know the actors are going to be really, really good. I like that actor a lot. He's becoming one of my favorites in terms of like especially one of the younger actors in India because he does a very good job at not only action but also very dramatic performances and making you care for his character. Yeah, a lot. What was the release date? Did it show at the end? I think it's the end of August just like the other one. Did it say home or was that the other one? I didn't see. That's why that's why I'm asking because I didn't see at the end. I was so happy with the trailer that I didn't even think to see if it said anything. This, ah, when is that? Yep, I do not, I don't know. You looking it up? I was just going to look up RDX on. Okay, I'll look up when Onam is. August 25th. Got it? Great. Okay, so coming up is the same day as the other Malayalam film. Yeah, it's a period of time. It's August 20th to the 31st is when that lasts. So that's two, I mean, I don't know. I don't know how big they are in terms of like what the Malayalam ministry considers big but they're two that I'm anticipating I want to see and it stands for Robert Donnie Xavier. Not to be confused with Robert Donnie Jr. The life of three mysterious individuals takes a turn as they faces get exposed. So maybe they were in the masks. Maybe it's a Manominar universe. Could be. How exciting. The director is Nahas Hityas. I don't recognize it. Sam C.S., why do I know that name?  Okay, yeah. Anyways, that was great. I'm very excited. I want to see it. I hope we get it. The action trailers have just been great. Yes, I agree. The action has been just. Yeah, this summer has just been fantastic. So let us know what you thought about it if you're excited for it and anything else we need to know down below. Josh!