We're here at the Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek Resort. How about a little bit of spirit, Sam? Do we have it out there? We're here today at the marketing tent just talking about what we do at the clinic and giving out some swag bags. So it's been a fun day so far. Dr. Viola is the HAD-US team physician. The Stedman Clinic is really excited to be here to support the entire program. And it's been fun to share that we are actually on the mountain helping the athletes today. We've met a lot of different people from all over the world. A lot of people come up and say, hey, Dr. Stedman did my knee surgery or talking about their great experiences at the clinic. With this being an Olympic year is really exciting because we're a part of it. We're up on the mountain. We're interacting with these athletes and we're really hopeful to see some of them in the Olympics. Yeah, it's going to be a good run for the American Grabist and all. One of the members of Davis meets me. They're coming down to put it down. In third place, representing the United States of America. Grabist, good dog!


eserves for future development and will have difficulty retaining skilled workers. The Scottish Government has proposed three key measures to support the industry. An investment allows to provide support for fields that incur higher costs to develop. That could support up to 26,000 jobs. A reversal of the increase in the supplementary charge that was implemented by the UK Government in 2011 budget could support another 5,600 jobs. The introduction of an exploration tax credit to help to increase levels of exploration and sustained future production. The introduction of an exploration tax credit has had a significant effect in Norway where it was introduced in 2005 when exploration was in gradual decline. Since then, the number of exploration wells has increased fourfold over the success of three years. If the UK Government fails to bring forward support for the North Sea oil industry, then Sir Ian Wood has warned that 6 billion barrels of oil reserves could be abandoned if there is no reform of the tax regime for offshore drilling. The North Sea is the second biggest oil and gas producer in Europe and has become a global centre for excellence for the oil and gas industry, with nearly £15 billion of export revenue last year. The power to retain that position is in the hands of the UK Government as the powers relating to taxation are currently reserved to Westminster. We need the Tory Lib Dem Government to act next week to safeguard the thousands of jobs that depend on the North Sea industry, create the correct investment climate for our future energy needs and provide a stable fiscal regime. We now move to closing speeches. I call on Gavin Brown to wind up on behalf of the Conservatives up to seven minutes, please, Mr Brown. I think that my colleague Murdo Fraser really hit the nail on the head in his amendment when he talked about what really being needed is a case of both Governments working together and Governments working together with industry to make sure that we get things right at the short, medium and indeed the long term. It's about everyone rolling up their sleeves, getting around the table, working out the detail and making sure that we get it right going forward, Deputy Presiding Officer. That's why when he covered the Aberdeen city region deal bid, why that was a very positive suggestion. Something that Oil and Gas UK have talked about, industry representatives have said that this deal would be worth about £2.9 billion of investment and it would help Aberdeen to build new infrastructure, essential for keeping the UK oil industry competitive, allowing it to be seen as a global energy hub and help to anchor the supply chain. That's the sort of thing everyone in the chamber ought to be getting behind so that we can try to drive things forward. It's why we need to hear from the Government about their energy jobs task force. What kind of a budget is this task force being given and what powers does it have? When I asked the question in a written question a month or so ago, the impression was given, or in fact the clear answer was given, that this vital task force wouldn't have any form of a budget. I wonder if that's changed and perhaps we'll hear in closing. It's why the Scottish Government could also look about using the powers that it has. Is there something that it can do about business rates, for example, to help Aberdeen? If Aberdeen and the supply chain more widely is struggling, could something be done with business rates in the short term to try and help the city and indeed the north-east get back on its feet? If the minister shakes his head, he always does that when he has the power to do something but is less keen to do so when he doesn't have the power to do so and perhaps he can explain why he was shaking his head at that point. Well, I will. The reason I'm shaking my head is that with the large number of visits that I've conducted to Aberdeen since the difficulties with oil price, not one business has raised business rates as an issue. That is not what they want. What they want is the decent tax deal that will bring back investor confidence in the sector. Presiding Officer, I don't represent Aberdeen, but I'm genuinely surprised—perhaps those who represent the area could speak for me—that not a single business in Aberdeen wants any kind of business rates. Well, I've given it to Mr Baker as a local member. Richard Baker. I'm surprised that the implementation of a business-based incentivisation scheme long-promised by the Scottish Government makes a real difference to business in Aberdeen, including the oil and gas sector. Well, that answer doesn't surprise me in the slightest, and the ministers certainly did. What about doing something with the powers that they actually have? We've heard, Deputy Presiding Officer, that fiscal measures are needed. Alex Johnson made the point. He made the point quite clear that the UK Government has already acknowledged that. That was acknowledged in the autumn statement, and we also heard in the autumn statement that the supplementary charge was being cut from 32 per cent to 30 per cent, but they went further by saying clearly that they aim to reduce the rate further to send out a strong signal that they are open for business. We hear about a fast-track consultation with industry to get a new streamlined, basin-wide investment allowance, looking very closely with industry running a full consultation, closing just at the tail end of last month to make sure that we get things right for the longer term. Things have deteriorated since the autumn statement, but that's why the UK Government has been working very hard behind the scenes. That's why it has been engaging deeply, and that's why I'm optimistic—without of course knowing for sure—optimistic that we will see further progress next week, so that we have a system that is fit for purpose for a mature basin, and so that we can maximise recovery. Let me turn to the Scottish Government, because I think that the tone of this debate was unfortunately set by the minister in his opening remarks, where he spent 80 per cent of his speech kicking the UK Government, basically suggesting—as he usually does—that the UK Government has got absolutely everything wrong, and the Scottish Government in its wisdom has got absolutely everything right. That simply isn't true, and it's not credible. This is the minister who said just two years ago that oil will last for the rest of the century. We all want this industry to last, but industry experts say that it could last until 2050, at best if we get everything right, but Fergus Ewing thinks that it will last for 50 years beyond that. We then hear from the Government saying that we're going to get £7 or £8 billion a year from this industry from 2016-17 onward. Not only are we going to get £7 or £8 billion a year, but they believe that that is a cautious estimate. That clearly was bogus at the time, and it will be proven to be the case again tomorrow, which is one of the reasons why the Government has worked really hard behind the scenes to make sure that this debate took place the day before the GERS figures were published, instead of the day after the GERS figures were published. As Murdo Fraser asked, where are the bulletins that the Government said they were going to publish on a regular basis, telling us where the industry actually is? This is the Government that was extremely slow off the mark when the crisis hit. I look back over FMQs from the tail end of last year, and on 18 December, Kezia Dugdale asked the First Minister what security do oil workers and their families have this Christmas? The First Minister's response was that I will meet oil and gas UK on 14 January. They were asking for security, and they got a response saying that a month later, the First Minister will meet oil and gas UK. Deputy Presiding Officer, I added to that. This is also a Government that clearly hasn't kept on top of the energy jobs task force. I asked the Minister what happened in the last meeting, and he actually gave the impression that he didn't know. He gave the impression that he was pretty unsure of what had actually happened in that meeting, and I hope that he has managed to read the minutes in the intervening couple of hours and can give a better response in his summation. One of the reasons that I asked was this, because agenda item 2 in the first meeting was this. Scottish Enterprise, for whom Fergus Ewing is responsible, undertook a survey of their account managed companies in the oil and gas supply chain. Their survey said this, 43 per cent of companies believe that they are going to get an increased turnover, or the same turnover, over the next 12 months, with only 24 per cent expecting it to reduce. More people think that they are going to take on staff over the next 12 months and lose them, and get this. Six times as many companies were feeling positive about the next 12 months than those that were feeling negative or concerned. That is clearly a ridiculous survey for which the minister is responsible, but did he trash the survey when it came out? No, he shakes his head, he didn't. He decided that it should be circulated to everybody, and they should repeat the same survey a few months later to see what kind of results they get. They should focus on the powers that they have, and they should get on with the job that they were elected to do. I think that industry would be in a far better position than it is. Thanks. Now, Colin, Jackie Baillie, for around nine minutes. The coming seven days will be key to defining the future of Scotland and will be crucial to the oil and gas industry. Tomorrow, we will see the publication of Scotland's accounts, the Government's expenditure and revenue for 2013-14. An income from oil and gas make up a significant proportion of Scotland's revenues. That absolutely matters to our public finances, just as it matters to the economy, too. The UK budget will be the following week, and we have heard from across the chamber today of the need for action to be taken in the budget to support the oil and gas industry. Both budgets will be key milestones in the nation's economic future. Before turning to the support that the oil and gas industry need, I want to briefly touch on why revenues from the industry are just so important for our public services, and the Government has heard me on that theme before. The SNP Government will publish Scotland's annual accounts tomorrow morning. It will show how much tax was raised in Scotland in the last year compared to the level of public spending. In effect, it is Scotland's balance sheet for 2013-14. It is looking back. The impact of the plummeting oil price on Scotland's public finances is expected to have an impact in that year, although, to be frank, the accounts for 2014-15 are likely to be even worse, given that oil fell to below $50 a barrel at the start of this year. However, what is evident for both the previous year and this coming year is that, without doubt, our expenditure exceeds our income. The debate and the run-up to the general election is between two different forms of devolution within the United Kingdom, of course. Would she give us the list of developed countries where our income is not exceeded by expenditure? I am happy to waste some time doing so. The proposition before us is what Labour believes is the continuation of the Barnett bonus, which secures money for our public services, coupled with more powers for the Scottish Parliament or the SNP plan for full fiscal autonomy for Scotland while remaining in the UK. I see you nodding, because that is interesting. What that would mean is that Scotland would be responsible for raising all its own taxes in Scotland to cover all of our expenditure. It would mean scrapping the extra spending Scotland gets through the Barnett formula. We would need to rely on oil for the funding of schools, hospitals and pensions. Those are two very different choices. The risk of the SNP plan is illustrated today by a report from the Scottish Affairs Committee. It confirms that full fiscal autonomy, which is what the SNP wants, would result in a £6.5 billion black hole in Scotland's budget. I see Mr Swinney laughing. I do not think that that is funny, because that is equivalent to more than half of the funding for Scotland's NHS or the entirety of the school's budget. We either see huge cuts or an increase in taxes that would be in the order of £2,400 per household. We rightly condemn Tory austerity plans, but let us be frank. What we would experience with the SNP for full fiscal autonomy is in fact austerity max. It would be like taking the Tory cuts and then doubling them and inflicting them on the people of Scotland. I will reflect on that more tomorrow. I know that they are looking forward to that when the Government's annual accounts are published. However, I think that we would all agree that the oil industry is a great Scottish success story. It without doubt sustains thousands of jobs. It is central to our economy, but the plummeting oil price has put jobs at risk and it has hit our public finances. Let me turn to jobs. Lewis MacDonald pointed out the absolute significance of oil and gas jobs in the north-east of Scotland, in that that is all that those local communities are talking about. Indeed, the impact has felt all the way across Scotland. The oil and gas industry supply chain stretches across Scotland and the United Kingdom. Although there are, I believe, 133,000 jobs concentrated in the north-east that rely on the industry, Aberdeen North over 17,000 jobs, Aberdeen South over 56,000, Gordon over 46,000, there are, without doubt, people who work in the north-sea who are evident in every constituency in Scotland. Thousands of jobs have already been lost. The pace team is indeed welcome, but it is too late for those who have already been made redundant. I am happy to do so. I thank the member for taking intervention. I think that the member is confusing the loss of position and the loss of jobs. A lot of those people, for example, BP, Tim Smith explained this to us, a lot of people who lost their position were relocated inside the company or find another job somewhere else. Let's be very careful and not scaremongering our young people to join a thriving industry. I think that that is just not an accurate reflection of the position. Indeed, the minister answered a parliamentary question, indicating just the scale of the loss of jobs that there have been, and there will be knock-on consequences for the local economy and the supply chain too. I see the member shaking his head, but if he cares, I can refer him to the parliamentary question answered by his own minister when the debate finishes. I think that we need action from both the UK and the Scottish Governments. Let's be honest, both have been slower than actually was needed. I think that it was Lewis MacDonald that summed it up as too little, too late. I have to admit that I was surprised that the Scottish Government was so slow to act. I had expected that the biggest economic crisis unfolding in Scotland would have attracted both attention and peace from the SNP Government. It matters so much to our economy and our public finances that simply ringing your hands and pointing to delayed action by Westminster is frankly a weak response. Although that does not absolve the UK Government from taking action, it requires more of the Scottish Government. That said, let me welcome the potential that is represented by the task force. However, as Gavin Brown said, what budget will it have to operate with? What transparency can we expect from it? We want it to succeed, we want to know what is going on, but equally how much is being spent on ensuring that we protect apprenticeships because I do not think that any of that detail is out in the public domain and welcome the action that it is. Murdo Fraser raised the oil and gas analytical bulletin. It has been posted missing in action since the referendum and he is right to call for its return, so we can at least try to assess and forecast the challenges ahead. It will help us to understand impact, but we also need a full economic impact assessment so that our interventions are properly targeted. Idle Don said—I thought that he was joking—that the Scottish Government would support all ideas. We came forward with a resilience fund, it was costed, we identified the source from Barnett consequentials, a modest proposal put forward in the budget that would have supported sectors under significant pressure. I am genuinely disappointed that even such a modest proposal was not supported. A number of speakers on the Opposition benches have raised the importance of the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire city deal. That investment will help in shaping essential infrastructure development in the area and will also help the oil industry and labour support it. It would be good to hear, in closing, if the Scottish Government do too, and whether it will contribute to the investment package on the same basis as it did for the city of Glasgow. Many speakers have spoken about the fiscal regime. There is a desire to simplify the tax allowance structure and to reduce the headline rate of tax as there is to stimulate exploration, but it is not just about tax reductions. We also need to look at what we can do that does not just benefit profitable fields but extends the life of existing fields, a partnership between Government and industry. George Osborne delivers his budget next week. He must take the urgent action that is needed to secure investment in the North Sea over the long term. We need to make sure that both the Scottish and UK Governments take the action that is required to help the North Sea. We will support them if they do so, but they need to get a move on, because thousands of jobs are already lost and decisions are being taken to decommissioned fields faster. We need a better deal for the North Sea and we need a better plan for Scotland. I know that Colin Jones will need to wind up the debate. Deputy First Minister, you have until five o'clock. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I do not in any way want to cause any damage to Tavish Scott, but I have to say that I thought that Mr Scott's speech to the debate today was a most exceptional contribution to the debate. It started on a point that I think is essential for us to consider as we debate all aspects of the oil and gas sector. It was the point where Mr Scott made it clear that he refused to talk the industry down. There is a sense in all the discussion that goes on around about oil and gas, just a whiff that there is a desire to essentially pray on the difficulties that are facing the oil and gas industry because of the circumstances that we face because of lower oil prices just now. What also came out of the speech that Tavish Scott gave was the understanding of the fact that there are a range of different factors that have to be addressed to consider the circumstances of the oil and gas industry just now, the fiscal regime, the cost of running the industry and the infrastructure and skills issues, which are fundamentally an issue for this Government to take forward here in Scotland. Let me work my way through some of those questions and some of the other points that were raised by members in connection with this debate. First of all, on the fiscal regime, Gavin Brown said that the key point for him in this debate was that ministers in both administrations work together in this respect, and he will know, he does not need me to tell him that I have no responsibility for the fiscal regime of the North Sea oil and gas sector. However, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and I were able to have an entirely productive discussion about this last Monday in London. I was able to set out to the Chancellor, as the First Minister has done to the Prime Minister, the importance that this Government attaches to having a fiscal regime in the North Sea, which is credible and attractive. The fact that the UK Government is considering these issues, the fact that it has undertaken consultations, and the fact that it has very recently changed the regulatory regime in the North Sea indicates that it is patently obvious that the current fiscal and regulatory regime has been not fit for purpose. I welcome the fact that there is a new regulatory regime in the North Sea. That is a recommendation of Sir Ian Wood, which had to be taken forward, because patently it would not have been taken forward if the existing regime was not so inappropriate and so ineffective. I was able to set out to the Chancellor last Monday was the emphasis that this Government places on investment allowance, which I welcome the fact that the UK Government has consulted on that. We believe that investment allowance that exempts the proportion of the company's profits from the 30 per cent supplementary charge is essential. We think that there should be an immediate reversal of the increase in the supplementary charge implemented by the United Kingdom Government back in 2011. They partly removed that, realising the scale of the damage in the autumn statement, but it needs to go much further. I put to the Prime Minister the importance of the exploration tax credit to help to increase levels of exploration and to sustain future production. Amongst all of that activity, we have to ensure that there is not, as Mr Stewart said earlier, any premature decommissioning of fields, because that would be a real loss of economic opportunity for the country. I have been able to have that conversation with the Chancellor. We have used every opportunity to advance those arguments privately and publicly and I welcome the opportunity to have had that discussion with the Chancellor. A very timely intervention, Mr McDonnell. I am very grateful. Does Mr Swinney agree with the proposition that we have put forward today that the Government can go beyond fiscal change and actively work in partnership with the operators of marginal fuels to ensure that their lives are extended? Of course, but what was more important in the contributions that we heard earlier on today is that the furthest that we could get out of Mr McDonald on this question was that he thought that the UK Government should look at fiscal changes. The time for looking is over. We need to know where people stand, and it has been patently obvious today that Mr McDonald and the Labour Party have no idea where they stand on the fiscal changes that are required. If they want to stand up and intervene on me and tell me if they support our three calls on investment allowance, on the removal of the supplementary charge and the introduction of an exploration tax to it, then I will happily give way to them. I am glad that Mr McDonald is now going to do it. I am very glad that Mr Swinney has taken my intervention. If he had paid attention to this debate going forward, he would recognise that when Ed Balls and Jim Murphy met the oil industry in Aberdeen in January, when they met them again today, they have made clear that they want to see action on the investment allowance from the UK Government. I am very interested that Mr Swinney in his remarks there a moment ago talked about the removal of the supplementary charge. Will he confirm that that is indeed in his position? On the supplementary charge, the increase in the supplementary charge is what we wanted to have removed. If I did not express that in that fashion, then I should have done so. Interestingly, there is nothing specific. Mr McDonald knows that he wants action. Of course, he wants action, but what action can we get specific about what it is going to be? Of course, I have given the opportunity for Mr McDonald to be specific, and he has not been specific, so I think that that just tells us a little bit about where the Labour Party is on this question. One of the other issues that Mr Scott raised was the issue of infrastructure and skills. Of course, that is material to some of the other comments that have been made about the role that has been taken by the Scottish Government in this respect. The Scottish Government has been engaged in discussions with oil and gas companies throughout our term in office. Fergus Ewing spends a regular proportion of his time in the north-east of Scotland in direct discussion with oil and gas companies, not in the past couple of weeks—well, he has done it in the past couple of weeks, because I have hardly seen him. It has hardly been here—since his appointment as the energy minister. Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise support individual companies and take forward investment, in the case of Highlands and Islands Enterprise, investing £10.6 million in 2014-15 and 31 account-managed companies active in oil and gas. In the Scottish Enterprise's context, funding the oil and gas sector to approximately £15.1 million through account management, innovation, manufacturing advisory service and regional selective assistance. That is the type of focused support that members would expect the Government to put in place through our dialogue with the agencies. We have supplemented that with support to skills through the energy skills investment plan and the establishment of energy skills Scotland, which has been put in place to support the development of appropriate skills in the oil and gas sector, including the continuation of our ring-fenced budget for 500 modern apprenticeships for the energy sector in each year of the current Parliament. We have added to that back in November with the supporting of the recommendations through the expert commission on oil and gas, the establishment of the oil and gas innovation centre, which is in place to ensure that we have proper support for a pipeline of innovative activities to support the development of the North Sea oil and gas sector. The Government will continue to do that and we will explore other ways in which we can assist on business rates. We are supporting 5,000 businesses in Aberdeenshire and 2,000 businesses in Aberdeens City. We have just invested £300 million over the past few years in health improvements in the north-east of Scotland. Of course, there is the £745 million investment in the Aberdeen western peripheral route, which I know will be a significant benefit to companies in the north-east of Scotland, with whom I was discussing this question only yesterday. The Government is committed to sustained investment in the north-east of Scotland and sustained investment in the infrastructure of the country. I am grateful to Mr Swinney for giving way. He may be coming to this in his closing remarks, but in case he is not, does the Scottish Government have a view on the Aberdeen city region deal and whether that should be supported? The proposals that have just been published, we will engage happily with Aberdeen about them. However, I simply put on the record the investment that the Government is already making before any of that comes along to show the scale of the Government's investment. That is before I get to the Aberdeen investment rail improvements of £170 million, the dualling programme on the A96 and a variety of other propositions, and the application of the business rates incentivisation scheme, which is currently in place and available in the north-east of Scotland. Those are some of the measures that the Government is taking to support the north-east of Scotland economy. We remain absolutely focused on ensuring that we do all that we can to support oil and gas. I think that we should follow the advice of Tavish Scott that nobody in this chamber should talk down the oil and gas sector in Scotland, because it represents a fantastic opportunity for the people of our country. Thank you. That concludes the debate on action that is needed to support the oil and gas sector. We now move to the next side of business, which is decision time. There are three questions to be put as a result of today's business. The first question is at amendment 12587.2, in the name of Lewis MacDonald, which seeks to amend motion 12587, in the name of John Swinney, on action needed to support the oil and gas sector being agreed to. Are we all agreed? Parents, not agreed. We move to a vote. Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment 12587.2, in the name of Lewis MacDonald, is as follows. Yes, 39. No, 79. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed to. The next question is at amendment 12587.1, in the name of Murdo Fraser, which seeks to amend motion 12587, in the name of John Swinney, on the oil and gas sector being agreed to. Are we all agreed? Parents, not agreed. We move to a vote. Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment 12587.1, in the name of Murdo Fraser, is as follows. Yes, 53. No, 64. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed to. The next question is at motion 12587, in the name of John Swinney, on the oil and gas sector being agreed to. Are we all agreed? Parents, not agreed. We move to a vote. Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote on motion number 12587, in the name of John Swinney, is as follows. Yes, 60. No, 58. There were no abstentions. The motion is therefore agreed to. That concludes decision time. We now move to members' business. Members who leave the chamber should do so quickly and quietly.


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These mirrors do power fold in and I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. We'll take a quick look at the back seats. Back seats just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears. It does have the latch child safety system and when you get the crew cab you get three spots for the latch system. It also has the power sliding rear window with the built in rear defrost. Format is in nice shape, no rips or tears on that and it does have the ram bins where you can put ice and drinks or just store extra stuff. It does have removable containers for easy cleaning. Lastly you get two USBs, two USB-C's and a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in. Notice that that floor is completely flat and these seats do fold up for extra storage. Child safety locks on the back doors and the bottoms of the doors all look really really nice. We'll hop inside and check out the miles, the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see this one has 22,638 miles and you get a digital speedometer on that seven inch LCD display.  There's a whole bunch of stuff that you can change those to. It does come with the heated leather wrap steering wheel, part of that big horn level two package, cruise controls and gear selector on the right and Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. This one does have the 8.4 or 4C radio, it does have AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. You can do your heated seats and heated steering wheel here. You can also check out your backup camera and on these new rams they made the backup cameras HD so they are crystal clear with the grid lines there and everything to get you lined up and then you can zoom in right over the hitch to get hooked up to your boat camper trailer the first time every time.  You can project your cell phone to the screen on this one via android auto or apple car plane. We actually did a demo on android auto if you want to check that out, that video is in the upper right hand part of the screen. Down here is your eight speed on mac transmission, push button four wheel drive, more tactile climate and heated seats and heated steering wheel controls.  You get two USBs, two USB C's and an aux jack up here cell phone holder and then a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in down there, keyless entry with the remote start and you do get these sliding cup holders and coin tray. Passengers side format dash and seat are in excellent condition, this truck's never been smoked in and the headliner is absolutely perfect. You do get map lights up there, power sliding rear window button and home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems and auto dimming mirror. We'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. 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Hello, and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brenton today. We're on episode 142 of the Wizard101 death walkthrough last episode If you haven't checked it out already. We entered the glorious Azteca and in between episodes I defeated things for information and we're now talking to P'Ka'al Tess got fled into the maw. That leads underground. We're the hungry dead star When the Komachi Balba first appeared in the sky 10 cycles past the Aztecas or oracles pronounced doom So they fled underground to live in the mines and dwell among their dead The maw is the entrance to the caverns of the cenote But when the Shadow Queen arrived they're dead awoke and they were hungry Let us be closer to the city. Meet me in the Zocalo proper Okay See this is where Basically P'Ka'al stays for the rest of the time his wee little spot up here See yeah That's what I was yeah kind of surprised when he was there I forgot that he starts there and then walks over here But you know, this is where he lives P'Ka'al. Hello While the Shadow Queen has left the city of three winds her Umbra Legion has agents everywhere It is crucial we find Tess got three star down in the cenote and make sure he is safe you can get there through the maw Okay Let us here on out to the Maldin And we see what is out there In between episodes, I defeated some of these guys for information Yeah, they're not too hard. They have like 2,600 health I think. Um, yeah. Good job. Good job. Good job. Good job indeed. Good, good job. They're rent. Um, are we back in? Just, actually no, we're just gonna flee, you know, why not? Why not? Yeah, escape quickly. Kinda dangerous. Um, okay, and we will get some of that mana that floats around here. Yeah, mana is kinda really easy to get around here. It's just like, floating all up here. It's quite nice. There's usually quite a few big clumps of it as well, so that's always cool. Um, yeah, there we go. There's another one, and another one there. Does Prospector Zeke have a quest for us yet? I don't know when we can get that. He does. Yes, he does. He didn't just before, so he does now, which is cool. The UFOs. I ain't never seen one, but I wanna believe in them. There's Tekken say they're skittish in that they scattered all across these parts, but they might be pulling old Zeke's leg. Can you see if you can find them for me? I don't need you to do anything with them. Just tell me where I can find these UFOs. They sure are funny looking too. Some folks say they look kinda like a swamp gas. I'll let you be the judge of that. I don't know. I might get that later. That's a really interesting quest that gives a lot of gold. Not that I need gold, but that's cool. I don't know if that gave us a training point, but no, it doesn't. But yeah, let us, this time, head over to the moor. Yeah, so the UFOs are what we collect over here. They're just the same as every other one, really. Not too big a deal. I think we can go this way. Is this the safer way? I know it is up until here, but can we go down here? We can. Hello. Yes, we can. Cool. The maw is blocked off by a ton of rubble. No easy way through here. It looks like it was deliberately caved in by something powerful. Maybe the Carl Red Mask knows another way in. Okay, let us run on my back to Carl. Over here. See all these things.  Those are teleports to different areas. So yeah, they're kind of everywhere, which is really cool, actually. They're more spread out, which is, I appreciate. So basically anywhere you can't get from like this, from the Zocalo, or the three points, has a teleporter. So yeah, it's really good because you can't actually get too much. Blocked off?  Find the alchemist Ypli Tailbiter in three points. He said it's different, but he might have a good idea for clearing a path. Okay, let's find Ypli. So yeah, basically, yeah, you're just kind of get, you're really just allowed to go anywhere from like these places, which is really cool because from, if we zoom out, like you can, you have to do like a lot of things that are just all connected together. So yeah, it's, it can be quite a struggle. And this is also a really weird world because I believe you kind of just go back and forth between areas quite a bit, which is kind of weird. Strange creature! Can you make an agreeable sound? Can you understand me? You need to get through the rubble to rescue Tezcat 3 Star? Into the maw? I can perhaps help you with that. If you will help me gather some ingredients, I can make you a strong concoction. Go to Lakwillow's Smoke Eye and ask for salt of stone. Then Kanaka's Sweet Chile for sulfur and Charcoal from Hoteca White Ash. And then, then you'll see Tezcat 3 Star. Okay, well let us hit over to Lakwillow's Smoke Eye. Hello! Shipley Tailbiter sent you for some sort of stone? I have some, this bin boiled down, filtered and sun-dried. Yes, you can have some, but well, make sure you don't stand to close when he performs his experiment. Hmm, who is next? Someone over the other side. Yeah, I would suggest kind of just sticking to here because you can get basically anywhere on this main sort of bit without going to the battle area. I say that as I'm obviously walking down the battle area. I think, yeah, we have to defeat these guys and this one's a struggle sometimes. And we'll see. You need some sulfur for Shipley Tailbiter? I would like to help you, little one. But the crazed underhorns took it from me. Perhaps if you confront them in three points you can get some sulfur from them. We are in three points, hun. I don't know why you say in three points because we are in three points. But it's always like confused me. But let's defeat a couple of these on camera and see if we get them. How much do we need? Is it six? That's a lot if it is. Yeah, I'm not going to do a dark pick just because if they don't come then I bother waiting. I literally got like max perp speed while I was waiting to get it one time. So they just refuse to come and I just don't use it. I can always use TC's or I could just not use them at all. How much health do they have? 2,600? I should kill anyway without it, which is good. Okay, and what's this? Oh, you think you are good with your mean deal? Well, think again, you know. Okay, that did 280, that was actually kind of good. I mean, you have three blades, should be fine hopefully. Okay, and what's these? Okay, boom, boom, boom. Okay, and scarecrow, scarecrow, hello. Sad, sad, sad, sad. Oh well, yep, they're dead, bye. It's good to know that we can kill with three blades at this stage.  Did not collect, oh my gosh. Well, I'll be back when I have collected three of these. Okay, I am back, that took forever. Yeah, that's a challenging one. But we got them, which is good. And now we're getting the white ash from you. Sheepley wants charcoal?  Does he want to burn us all to our end before the comet strikes us down? Yes, yes, you can have some, but I dropped it in my rush to get to safety. You'll have to collect it from three points on your own. We are in three points, I get so triggered when they say collect this. And three points, except we're in three points, so obviously where else would we collect it? It's just like, I don't know, it just doesn't make sense to me. Yeah, there we go. Okay, that was very easy.  You've got everything? Now with the salt of stone, the charcoal, and the lovely sulfur, we can make a strong concoction. Smells lovely, doesn't it? Take this carefully, carefully, and when you get close to the rubble, throw it hard and then run for your life. Boom! I mean, move back a safe distance, and then find Tezcat three-star in Sedote. I hope he isn't standing too close. Boom! Big but a boom! He is crazy. He needs some help. Um, okay. That's a lot of rubble to clear to get into the maw. You hope Sheepley's strong concoction lives up to its name. It sure smells strong, like rotten egg. Know the strong concoction with all your might, and then hunker down for safety. That was a big but a boom! As the smoke and dust clear, you can see a path into the maw. Okay, apparently we can. That was a very small but a boom. Um, special effects. I would rate that about a five. No, not even a five, a three. I meant to say three, but I said five.  Um, okay. Tezcat three-star. Hello! By storm, ice and fire. What kind of strange spirit are you? Not a spirit? Well, whatever you are. I hope you can help me. Our ancestors have risen from the grave, and they are hungry. I have barely been able to resist them. Do you think you could drive some Thunderhorn Zombies back to give me a respite? Okay, um, already one of these. Okay, I see how you are, Tezcat. Um, anyway, next time we will be in the cenote. It's really, really short, and then we go back out into three points in the Zocalo. Um, but yeah, next time we'll be in here. Um, see you. Thank you for watching. Remember to leave a like and subscribe. And if you haven't subscribed, press the little bell so you know exactly when I post another video. And remember, craft outside the box.


Hit to the level one, we'll see if it hits now. Spirit Bomb combo, if the theory's correct. He'll bounce right into it. Let's go. How's he going? Everybody dots and I hear back some more Dragon Ball fighters, rank matches. And this time we are continuing the week of Super Saiyan 4 Gojita, with of course something you know we had to do, the Spirit Bomb team. And of course we have both our bar building assist in the back and I will say this team is actually, nevermind, we got a clean hit. That's exactly what you can do it. You can see we go from zero bars to about three. I dropped the combo. That is fine though. Super Dash, I'm in the air. All right, good cooler, didn't do anything. But yeah, you can't really be throwing these assists out without getting a guaranteed hit. Like a beam assist like that would just wipe him out. But let's go ahead and get up to five. It's so steep. The amount of bar you're able to build with two meter building assist is actually insane. And of course for Gojita, it's also building levels. This is actually a guaranteed kill. Ooh. No way, you know it's not, it's fine. I want to be out in the Gojita anyway. One, two, oh that's fine. And we'll get him with a vanish. The reason I want to be out with Gojita is actually very important because obviously with the Spear Bomb combo with him, you need him out on the field in order to get the level one going. And we're going to get it right here. Hopefully anyway, we have to land on the ground, which means to be extra safe. We're probably going to do this to the level one. We'll see if it hits now. Spear Bomb combo, if the theory's correct. He'll bounce right into it. Let's go.  Goku, get another level with Super Saiyan 4 Gojita. And then just get that point character right back out. You just want to constantly be building those bars and levels with Gojita's level one. And of course the bar to actually land the four bar Spear Bomb combo. Oh, beer is why. All right, beer is going to go ahead and do his thing. Not too worried though, as long as we get a Super Dash. All right, build the meter. We can go ahead and cost the vanish. You can see we didn't, we didn't even really lose a bar. We just vanished for free. EP, we've locked those. Lock strings, finish safe. Oh, punish. All right, that was a mistake. I used both the assist without getting a clean hit. But a two H is going to be more than enough. Now we just need to switch Gojita in. If we switch Gojita in, that's fine. Oh, the full auto. I'm ending this with the Spear Bomb. There's no way I can't. Let's go. One, land, I think this is going to be it. I think this is going to be, oh wait, I couldn't do it. Base Goku is still on charge. That's fine, I'll just, you know what? It's a pretty fast Super, I'm doing it raw. Oh, now I'm going to do, oh, how did he stop me? Oh, too fast. Is that good enough? Oh, is that good enough? I don't know if he's going to bounce the right way. Oh, he didn't tech. He didn't bounce the right way. You do need a good enough setup to actually get the Spear Bomb to go in the right place. But if they don't tech, I mean, the outcome is going to be the same regardless. I'll take it a hard first game to get. I mean, we only got it just the one time, but still, at least you could see how the strategy kind of looks like. Wasn't exactly polished, nice to meet you. And triple nice to meet you, Stamps. Okay, that is a formal introduction if I've ever seen one. All right, so we did a lot of DPs last time. Again, we do need at least one hit. Oh, beautiful 2M. Got am I plus on that? No, he's plus, I don't know why I thought I was plus. I know cooler's plus on that. Please don't run. There we go. Oh, such a good chance. Oh, both of our assist. I think it's fine though. They got the most of the bar, if not all of it. Take your time with those hits. Let the assist come back. We got six bars. I might as well spend three of it. We're going to earn that back relatively quickly with the Steve anyway. Bardock level three, what's the mix? I'm going low. Oh, I went low too quick. I'm going low again. Low again. Low four more times. Low, low, low. Well, eventually you're going to get guarding. There we go, another hit. All right, just, I think at this point, we're good on assist. All right, we dropped that. That's fine. Yeah, I think we're good on bar. I'm going to try to buy. No, still not going to be able to get Gojira in safe and sound. That's fine. We'll do it sloppily. Oh, bad, bad, bad dash. No. I didn't want to risk it. Oh, that's fine. We're going to get him anyway. And cooler is just one spirit bomb combo away from death maybe. He's pretty low.   All right, we're going to spark here. See if we can't get the hit. Come on. Do we need this? We needed this. We needed this. Goal. That's the setup. That's the setup. We love to see it behind the back. The pop up with the kick. Is it going to be enough? No, still too much health. Oh, base Goku. That's fine. I'm switching back into Gojira. This is for different reasons though. Now we're just going to build it. Oh, I've decided we're going to add this the old fashioned way. All right, we're at four. Oh, was that a tot? I don't know if that was a tot. We're going to get him out of there. Damn, we need bar. Well, I guess that's fine. We have base Goku. I forgot. We need bar. We're going to pull this off. He's taunting. Why are you taunting, dude? One, two. Oh, no.  The base Goku is charged up enough. The level seven's going to finish him off. And that was, it wasn't the cleanest game ever, but we did get to use the spirit bomb strategy a good amount of times. If we could just keep that up and set number two, I am very excited to see what we could get done. All right, we are heading into set number two and I am really hoping we're able to get a similar level of success. Obviously, it comes down to how often we're able to land those two bar-building assist. Oh, Broly, of course this isn't, I don't know if I'd call this a super competitive team. I'm going to do it right now though. The block string is good enough to get us there in time. Mash? Okay, I panicked. I panicked. I built bar. Oh my goodness, I'm just going to spend it. I'm going to spend some of it. That was nerve-wracking. Light. Hey, I'll take that. All right, we got to make sure to hit every combo we get a chance to do because we never know when we're going to get another chance like it. All right, spend three bars there. Get the hard knocked out. I am sweating, dude. This team is so, it really changes the way you play knowing that it's kind of just a 1v1.  I was trying to bait out that last jump too. All right, good down heavy from him into a C assist. So he's going to turn this into a lot of damage. Jiren assist as well. He was getting, he wanted it all right there. Whoa, what are you doing? Stop that. Get the bar-building assist out. Oh, it did go through. Let's go. Five and a half bars. This team is crazy. All right, but Broly, it is kind of time for me to leave. See you later. Please tell me I can do this. Please tell me I can do this. No, I couldn't, base Goku wasn't ready. That's fine, we only lose the levels. No, I did the base Goku. I just wanted to use his assist. Oh, that's fine. I build up a little bit of the level, might as well.  We're just making good reads now. All right, guard cancel that. I couldn't buy enough time to actually combo that. That's fine. No, never mind. He saw that one coming. Tried to lay the clutch reflect, and instead we are chilling out in the corner. No level three though. All right, get him off me. Oh, beautiful 2S. Oh, he did it again. I didn't think he'd be ready for it. Oh, I'm sweating now. I'm really going for the spear bomb. Level three, I've got to be ready to block. What's the mix? He also has a command grab. This is scary. Oh, get off me. We got him. That was sick. No counters. What? Why did that not work? Oh, no. Oh, but we still got the vanish kill. Why didn't that work? Maybe you have to combo into it. I'm not exactly sure why that one messed up. Maybe I was too slow on the original transfer. I don't know. That's huge though. Oh, beautiful jab. And this is Broly we're talking about. So it's command grab right here. No command grab. Oh, I wanted to mash so bad. Okay. No command grab. He did try to spar. Oh, no. Okay, at least Goji didn't get hit. Call him out for sure. This is the limit break, Broly. This guy's a monster. Level three.   Why did you do the wrong one, David? He scared me, dude. He's scared. I thought for sure he would just kill us. I don't know why he did the slow one. Okay, okay. I fell for it. I fell for the bait. Big hit. Big hit right there. All right, just level three with Gojita. Just spend all the levels we have. We're gonna need this command grab, I think. Don't hit armor buttons, Broly. Stop, what are you? He was mashing. He was trying to get out of there with armor. I can't say I disagree. Honestly, I can't, because I probably would have done the same. Maybe got a Lariat out of there if I saw it was gonna miss. But that was a great game for us. We dropped the Spirit Bomb combo, though. Why did that drop? That was huge. All right, we got lucky with the beginning last time. I don't think we're gonna get a similar. What? Broly's CSS is not as good as I originally thought. I can't believe you're able to mash out of that there. Missed my midi, and he was ready to punish. If you don't hit him for aim one, he's gonna be there. All right, in the corner. I'm looking for any mix. Oh, get him off me, use the assist. Five bars, spend three of it. Why not? We're gonna gain that back with the assist.  Broly just, I mean, Bardock just talking that. Block string, we're safe after that. And get the assist out, though. No, we lost him free. We lost him free meter, unoptimal. With this team, you really gotta make sure you're spamming those assists when they come up. Oh, we could have lost it right there. Oh no, at least protect Goku. I'm scared. Back dash, get out of there. Not trying to mess around. I'm gonna try to draw his attention away from the assist here. Oh no, we're dead. We're just dead, nevermind. The attention has been drawn. All right, he at least has to spend a bar, which is good for us. We have enough bar to go for the spirit bomb combo one time. After that, if we miss it, we will be pretty short on meter, but at least we get that first attempt. Aiding it out, just looking for anything. He's trying to fish out at two H. We're not worried about it. There we go.  Exit to buy time. Level one, level three, that should work. I don't know why it didn't work the first time. It did, it connects, okay, good. Big damage he might spark, we gotta read that.  Oh no, right into the Jiren assist, don't panic. Oh, how did that lose? Oh, help us, Gojira. Oh, nice vanish to beat that, that was sick. Oh, I was gonna say, tell me he didn't, dude. Got him, blink at this guy, Gojira. Gojira just blinks and it does damage. That was sick. All right, and we also need Goku to build up his own spirit bomb. Baiting it out, he's probably gonna super dash here. There we go, we can punish that. Please hit. It missed, it missed. I knew, I knew I was too slow on that. I knew I was too slow, he's gotta reflect that though. He didn't reflect, and we're safe, at least we're safe. The spirit bomb beats that, let's go. This should do enough, and it is going to. That was sick. Oh man, this team is actually so much fun, that was so sick, the way it cut through the key blast. But I think we're going to call it here. Hopefully you enjoyed it. If you did, definitely try this team out. Me and yourself. And let me know over on Twitter or in the comments how it goes for you. I'm actually really curious to see what you all think of this team as well. Why you're down in the comments though, if you enjoyed this video and the channel, make sure to hit the like button and subscribe, because we are going to be doing a ton of videos like this, and you can check some more videos out if you wanna watch those videos right away on your screen right now. Other than that, I've been dotted with it, and I will see you in the next one.


I would like to see web series that are dealing with the format of web presentation and making sense of it and trying to persuade you to stay online with that program by offering something that's innovative, that's interesting and that has to do something with life and with the presentation of that kind of life that you present. A web series that unites all these features, Jan Distermaier mentions and would also have followed all the rules given to me in 2008, we discussed before, is the original web series web therapy. Web therapy starring Lisa Kutrow has been streamed since 2008 and consists of five seasons with about 15 to 18 episodes each. It equally offers short episodes, a very limited range of characters in each episode, mostly even only two persons, and a strong hook. Part of the hook lies in Lisa Kutrow's fame due to her role as quirky Phoebe in France, maybe you have seen her, and her immense comedic acting and timing talent as web therapist Fiona Wallace. What for me made this hook a hold in the first minutes of the pilot episode is this main character, an unexpectedly self-absorbed and impatient therapist. Fiona Wallace uses iChat to host therapy sessions mostly due to being able to restrict the time and patient connection far better than in an actual practice or clinic environment. Each episode concentrates on one web session with a patient, however three consecutive episodes always deal with three sessions with one, just one, and the same patient. Jan Distermaier also explains another innovative piece of web therapy that forms a huge part of a possible hook, that shows self-referentiality. But what's so self-referential about web therapy? Well the title, it's web therapy, it's about a therapy on the web, the video chat therapy, which is so using the web presentation being part of the web presentation. It's showing the interface of that web chat in the beginning of the series. So it's dealing with the presentation models of its presentation models and the problems. I mean if you have something so intimate and important like a therapy session in a video chat or in a video transmitting process on the web, that is something which is I think it's funny from the beginning. What is very interesting about web therapy, especially considering this self-referential attitude, is its current swap to TV. Starting out as a purely web-screened series in 2008, that by the way can be watched freely on the site like linked here, TV channel Showtime acquired the series for TV where it has been screened as a half-hour sitcom since 2011. To achieve the half-hour TV format additional scenes were shot and included in each episode. This opens up a very interesting topic, the blurring of lines between web and TV formats that we see today. We have definitely arrived at an interesting question. When is an audio-visual series, a web series, and when is it a TV series? Is the content defined by its broadcasting platform or instead does the platform lose its importance in the definition? HBO's Game of Thrones for example became internet's most streamed series last year. Opposed to that you as internet streaming platform Netflix has developed its first original series with House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, that in their narratives and production value are no longer recognizable as made for web looking cheap or something but completely equal, dramatic and comedic TV series. House of Cards for example features Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright Penn, well-respected Hollywood actors. Also 2013 has been the first ever year in the history of US American Emmy Awards, the Awards for Best TV Productions, that has seen a nomination for a web-only show for Best Drama Series with exactly this series, House of Cards. So does that mean the TV series is a web series now or a web series is a TV series? Does the platform still matter? Why and how? Well I'm interested in your opinion so please discuss.


This paper presents a comprehensive data-driven modeling experiment, evaluating multiple techniques including neural networks, genetic programming, evolutionary polynomial regression, support vector machines, M5 model trees, and k-nearest neighbors. It also proposes five datasets from Canada and Europe for use in the modeling experiment and discusses the results and analysis of the experiment. This article was authored by A. L. Shorbighi, G. Corzo, S. Srinivasulu, and others.


Biopolymeric nanoparticles, BPN, are polymers derived from renewable or non-renewable sources which are biocompatible, biodegradable, low toxicity and immunogenicity. These particles have gained widespread interest in biomedical applications such as tissue engineering, drug delivery, imaging and cancer therapy. BPN can be synthesized through various fabrication methods including emulsification, ionic gelation, nanoprecipitation, electrospray drying and more. The main goal of this review is to explore the potential of biopolymeric nanoparticles for medical applications. Proteins, polysaccharides and synthetics are all types of biopolymers that have been used in recent years for medical purposes. Additionally, the fabrication techniques of each type of BPN are discussed. Finally, the future prospects and challenges of employing biopolymeric nanoparticles are explored. This article was authored by Radhakrishnan Sreena and Arputharaj Joseph Nathaniel.