the series against the A's and the Mariners. I kept looking at the box scores and it was like An-Duhar a couple hits, Torres a couple hits, Voight would throw in his couple. It's almost like they were going back and forth and to look at the numbers and the ranks he has in his first year are remarkable. It really is Bob and it does say a lot about his consistency and about how unflappable he is. I say this a lot and we're in the final couple of weeks of the season but if you go back to spring training his job was taken away from him. The Yankees acquired Brandon Drury and Brian Cashman sat in the first base dog out in Tampa. I was sitting right there and he said well we believe the way that we're going to go is with Drury. They didn't say An-Duhar was being shunned, they didn't say they didn't have a spot but at that moment Drury wears their plan and that's how they started the season. This kid never moped, he never moaned and then once he got the chance to have the job back because of Drury's injury he never let go of it. He hung on to that job so much so that the Yankees were able to trade Drury and now you look at every at bat and just how lethal he is at the plate. To listen to Outlighter and John Flaherty, former Major Leaguers tonight, talking about how they don't see a hole in his swing. They don't see a way that they can attack him. That says a lot about a rookie and what he has been able to do. It does so he helps them get the win in the series opener.


Thanks, everyone. I'm the PI for this project and James Houghton lead this project along with you know, Jennifer Edinburgh and the CH as a partners We have we are talking about interdisciplinary Interdisciplinarity we have a big team here. We have a range of experts including a soil scientist modellers data scientist social scientists all together we worked in this project and Before I go into this project, I would like to talk about what is the rationale for this project and what we have achieved What future look like for this? so So the rationale if you look at the we know that a climate change is the biggest threat The mankind is facing and we are all aware of the greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for that increase in greenhouse gas emissions If I look at the Scottish green house gas in inventory where we are operating from This is the situation in 2019 The agriculture sits at the third position third biggest emitter whereas a domestic transport and business are the first and second position There's a lot of investment is going on in several other sectors What is the situation in 2020? One agriculture slowly climbing up to the second position In fact, there is a very little progress was made in the last several last two decades in Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture sector This is from several decades of data even though there are substantial reductions are achieved not from the agriculture sector This is lagging behind and these the Parliamentary report in Scotland specifically emphasizing on reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture sector So we can see overall it's only 1.1 percent increase Which is very modest and there is a lot of progress need to be done even across UK and if we want to achieve net zero all the sectors need to contribute and agriculture is not an exception and Agriculture is far lagging behind in the other sectors because there's several limitations associated with it One of the limitation is lack of credible and monitoring verification reporting system This is one of the limitation in achieving this So if you look at the background even though agriculture is a big source of climate and Greenhouse gas emission and also it's a great opportunity to see because the carbon and and there is a Technical potential for carbon sequestration is undisputable and there's a good consensus among the scientific community on this and these estimates will vary from study to study but overall there is a huge potential across in sequesting the carbon reducing the greenhouse gas emission and also Investing in agriculture and reducing the greenhouse gas in increasing carbon sequestration Actually provide a resilience to the system. That's a resilience to the food system, which is very important But one of the complications for this is soil organic carbon and the soil greenhouse gas emission Can cannot be easily measured which is a key barrier for implementing And achieving net zero So there are need for credible and reliable monitoring verification reporting system Especially for national reporting the way the national reporting is done is quite different from the way that is estimated Greenhouse gas emission is to measure the farm level This is going to pose problem as we go towards 2050 for the greenhouse gas emissions Estimations because we can declare the farm level. They are net zero at the national level They're not Again the national level they may declare as a net zero But at the farm level not because these methods are not aligned with each other So one of the aim for this project for is to what is the concept that look like if we align all these methods together Sorry, it's a jumping so and also one of the barrier for this is emission trading is completely jammed because of the lack of monitoring verification reporting system And also the track to a progress towards the net zero the farmers want to know How the farms are performing not now what is the direction? They are towards the net zero to when they reach 2050 if they adopt a management practice now How their emissions going to be by 2050? What is the direction of travel? Currently the market the whatever the tools available. They are not going to provide that information They provide only the current state what actually happening. So There is a clear gap here, which we need to fulfill. So that's the keeping that in mind bringing all that Digital technologies together we formulate the concept here where we can bring monitor at different scales using the sensors and process that information in near real-time and feed into the models by J cam for models and produce an output that could be used and guide the farmers and also Feed into the policy so We deployed sensors at two three different scales one is at the plot scale using the soil temperature my and also the other climate related sensors and also at the landscape level we use the drones to We run the drones to estimate the biomass of the crop so that we can estimate the carbon inputs into the soil and and also the national scale we have used the central in one and two we connected to the Google Drive Then we Looked at the management change what is happening really if the farmer of say that it's the Land is plowed. How can we validate that? Can we validate that information through the remote sensing? So that integration we we produce here So we integrate all the information not only that we integrated all the existing soil carbon and climate data For each land parcel level So what happens by this if we click on each land parcel we get all the information together What is the soil carbon stock with? Existing information how the climate going to be and what is the existing information associated with all the land parcel? So all we get together. So that's extremely powerful information in order to manage the lines So then we run this this one into the Model assembly. It's not one single model because if we use one single model There's a lot of conceptual uncertainty associated with it So we want to look at even the conceptual uncertainty So we use the peak in open source sift system and then embedded the DNDC, Baskara and Coast models and also we are intended to put more and more models as we go along currently three models are operating in this So we produce an output as I mentioned here. There are We are capturing the bio physical characteristic through the sensors But the still we need to know what's really happening on the ground for that we developed an app That's called the retina app. The app will interact with the end user. That's the farmer or the land managers We request them to input the land management information That means if they plow the land They just need to click one button so that we know that that particular land parcel is plowed and that information will Feedback into the system and keep the record of that and rerun the models Whenever there is a management intervention the whole system will read on and produce the output and immediately inform the farmer What is the impact so that we can influence their land management and also? Provide more information about how what the intended consequences of it So the app is used to provide the information to the farmers and also get the information Now the farmers are using a new software the muddy boots and others which farm management softwares If we we have in future plans to write an API so if we do that we don't ask any information to the farmer So it's all operate without taking any information from the farmer Collecting the bio physical information through the sensors and management information to the software so everything will be integrated So this is extremely useful for the many companies. They have a lot of forms in their supply chains They want to reduce their emissions They need an evidence and this tool can provide that evidence as we go along and it's scientifically It's very exciting because we can run the models iteratively several times And we learn about the system in a site specific manner So our models will get better and better as we go along more the system will operate and this will provide a unique opportunity in this case So overall how the system works we demonstrated this one two farms both are GM certain forms One is the cropline another is grassland. We deployed the sensors. We created a real-time dash dashboard You can see near our table. You can look at that and develop an app that app will kickstart run the models and integrate the other Information each land parcel level they get the information and also we doubt an algorithm where we guide the farmer for the soil Sampling and we can validate that information So I'm not going to talk more about this because you can come to the table and look at the app how that works so So what are the overall benefits for this? Retina technology is that it's quite interactive real-time model predictions and also complete data traceability Which is extremely important in terms of net zero and also the carbon markets if they want to we need to trace Where actually the carbon is currently that's not data collection directly from the field without Any input from the farmer as of now we are a little bit in but we want to bypass that in future Real-time data driven science bring more credibility and transparency the carbon markets Real-time data visualization for informations at the farm level And also we are using tier 3 models than that year to currently what are the tools in the market? These are tier 2 which is very average emission factors, which is not necessarily provides the right information at the field level So and also it's a payway to the digital twins in the next step We can read on the models and identify a tailored Management practice that gives the minimum emissions and higher yields because we are able to predict Whole carbon nitrogen flows in the system crop yields nitrogen dynamics and carbon dynamics that makes it the system very powerful So throughout this project we have four levels of engagement throughout this project So we have engaged with industries and there are several industries who are interested in Sheva brothers Nestle, Agri-Carbon, New Valley In fact, we are set up. We are setting up a field trials with them very soon and also singe enter and several other industries We had a talk split in this process and also in public engagement. We have a Royal Highland show We presented an arable Scotland. We have a farmers engagement around 200 farmers visited this one And we have engagement with them and a scientific community We have presented across several places and also we have follow-on funding Some of the things we have developed in this project led to follow-on funding that and also at the policy level I have given numerous presentations to the DEFRA and also still we are engaging with them in the soil team and others And also we have Scottish government. We work very closely with and this is a Scottish Minister who is very interested in rural development minister. They invested 51 million to the farmers there They can provide them. They can support the farmers for the soil sampling So we are trying to utilize our system how this will fit into the policy in that context. So This is in the picture of Mary Gusion who is the minister of rural affairs and Looking at the market and the demand associated with it We decided to launch this one as a spin-out company, which is called the carbon extras Which we applied for Scottish enterprise and we are successful and they identified this as a high-growth and spin-out Company and then supported currently into this So our vision is to create more Empowering the transition to the net zero and provide the support to the both industry and the farmers at the end And also we have six billion hectares in in the world the under farming And it is quite scalable. So there's a huge potential I think it's all about how we move forward and this in the next step. So In conclusion overall Retina fulfills the functions necessary for monitoring reporting and verification system to accelerate their efforts towards an edge zero and the data We we create to its policies is enormously useful and to the policy because we can anonymize this data and Provide inputs to the policy, which will be a real time. Currently. There's a huge lag In the data that come from the field to the policy So that lag can be substantially reduced through this one the approach will enable the data flow from the field to the end user And help real-time decision-making That's all from my side. Thank you very much


This is our high precision inclinometer the II3 DHHC on one of our eval boards as I tilt the The sensor you can see the output changing and we are basically taking pictures of this tablet here, which displays pictures of food and We're using a neural network which basically can detect what kind of food is displayed We're highlighting one of our new STM32 products our new G4 series mix signal microcontroller. This is our first Mainstream product with the art accelerator, which is sitting between the flash memory and the core and offering you close to zero weight State performance running out of the flash memory in terms of hardware what we are showing here is our STM32L4 discovery kit. It's a board that is built around our STM32L4 Cortex-M4 microcontroller the discovery kit is officially supported by the major cloud providers


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Hello everyone and welcome to a showcase video! It is taking hours and hours to set this up, not because this is particularly that difficult, but because getting the skin for Indoraptor is really hard. And today we're going to showcase all the different skins and all the different variations. That is a total of 84 different skins, 12 like base colours with seven pattern variants. Again, I'll reiterate in the last video I mentioned about there being lots of different combinations you can do. People were kind of like, ah, but there's only one pattern. Don't worry, you'll be fine. There's a lot. There's a freaking lot. So in order to actually unlock all of these colours, you need to do a challenge mode on hard in Germany, I think it is. And that unlocks the Dr. Boo hybrids. That took me a good few hours to do. Let's just say that. And that's all I've been doing today. And then of course setting this up. So if we have a look at the map, there they all are. Oh, I don't know what happened with this guy.  I don't even know how. It doesn't even broken out. There's no escapes. It must have just phased through the fence. But anyway, well, I digress. I think we're going to start with Yukon River. The one time I wanted to show you and you're in the dark.  But if you want an Indominus Rex, that is just... Oh, sorry, Indoraptor, we should say. That is just black. It is this one. It is the Yukon River. It's exactly what you think. It's black. Now, I say this as if this is, you know, stuff you should know. However, there's a lot of skins that are, what it seems like in the hatchery, the same color. You have like Yukon. And then you have, what is the other one? Limpopo River, which are all like shades of black and gray. And you think there won't be much difference, but actually on the dinosaur, there is. So here we see the blank skin. Now we go over to Rainer, which is the orangey one. Now that's probably the closest you're going to get to the Indoraptor we know. And I think that's probably the skin. There isn't a movie skin for the Indoraptor. Or maybe there is, but I haven't done Fallen Kingdom yet. Oh, so I'm missing one skin. Never mind, one skin. If it is even in there, I don't know. But this is pretty much as close as you're going to get. Then we go on to a green, the Chal Corana. And you'll notice to start with, I sort of just end up just calling them Chal or Litho, because I'm not typing it all out. So what the amazing thing has been over the past with evolution, when it's come to Indoraptor, is when you change the skin, you change the stripe. You don't really change the actual base color of itself. But here you will. So you've got the next one, which is Lithobates, which is maybe more of a yellow. It's a yellow, but it's more of the screen accurate kind of look. Then we move on to Yukonra, the Pol Charana. Oh my God. This is as bad as Blum and Warhammer. Citadel paints with their color schemes. Then you've got Yukonra, the Papurana, which is blue. I don't even think it looks blue, actually. Or maybe it does, but you've got this very oversaturated blue there. It's as if you've just taken the levels and just cranked that up to super saturated levels, and it's made this almost color burn blue in there. And the final one for the Yukonra, the Pelioflax, which we'll just call that one green.  Not too bad. Now on to one that's like a, I think a gray, the Salvbart, which is a gray, but it also has this underlying green to it. And there you go, a little interaction with the Indoraptor there. But you'll also notice that the green is on, it's not covering the entire snout, but this is the blank. You would think that maybe this is a pattern on it. No, this is just a blank one. So we're going in the same pattern. So here's the Rana with a little bit of orange on it. You've got the, I think this is the green. Then you've got the Lithobates, which is, I think, like in Lycan is probably a green, sorry, yellow. Then the Pulcherana. Now, what happens sometimes with these colors is you'll notice the difference between that one, and I'm clicking the wrong button, and that one is it doesn't look like it has a pattern, but it is actually there very faintly on the tail in comparison to the blank one. And of course, Papu being blue, and then going on to the final one, which is the dark green. So basically when it comes to these color schemes, they don't look like they do in the hatchery. So for instance, the Papu, which is the blue, I think actually looks purple in the hatchery, but here it's represented by blue, which is kind of frustrating in a way, and even some of the quills you can see on the head have the coloring of it too. I don't know if they all do.  What about this guy? Do you have, you have white. So it's like, oh, I guess I think that one is actually white, and you're yellow, so you have yellow. So for whatever reason, instead of having green on it, you have red? Oh, I don't know. It's strange because you think you know what you're going to get, but you don't actually, because the purple looks blue. Moving on to the Amazon rainforest, I think this is, where now we're in green, green. So when we see this on with the paleo, it's going to only faint in show. So now we've got a rammer, which is of course the orange on it there. This is actually not a bad combo. I quite like this one. The dark green with the orange on it's quite nice. Now on to the Amazon and the chal, which I think is a lighter green. In fact, you can just see it on the tail there. Fades in almost perfectly. Then light though, being the yellow, not bad, not bad. Pulch, now this is, I feel like, what is pulch? I don't even tell. No, pulch is a very light green. It's almost like a white, basically. Now onto the papu, which is the blue. Woo, a blue and a green. Yeah, I guess it doesn't look too bad. I wish you would turn towards the light. For whatever reason, this game has, they just have a code in their dinosaurs to be like, right, where's the most shadow? Yeah, let's face that way. So we can't even see it. Like, look at that. We're going to have to speed up the bloomin' footage. There we go. Beautiful. That's not bad. It's a bit contrasty. And now on to the green green. And actually, you can see that really well.  There we go. That's nice. And that is the last of the rainforest. I quite like it more with the green. Now onto the mangrove forest. This one being a darker green. A lot of these just keep the darkness of the snoot. But this one, I'm not really sold on it. It's very, it's already got, it feels like it's already got a pattern on it already. I've seen a lot, I think a lot of dinosaurs, I think, I haven't really tested it too much, but if they have a mangrove, it will look like this sort of. So that's a blank. The rana, which is the orange, does give a little bit of extra color to it. That's nice. Okay, that's a nice one. The chow being the pale green, I think. Yeah, you can kind of see that there. That's not too bad. The light green is also quite nice. And onto this being the lyther, which is the yellow, kind of makes it look like the underbelly is also just sort of going as part of the stripe. Not bad. And now, pulch. Where is pulch? That's more of a white one. That's nice too. And onto papu. Blue, I often find blue doesn't really work too well. Or at least it doesn't for me on a lot of these skins. It doesn't float marble. And onto mangrove, pelio. Or pelio, which is more of a luscious green. Again, it's a shame we don't have multiple patterns, but you've got all these different skin variants, and then you can slap on a pattern onto it with a different color. There's a lot, there's a lot. And onto Gambia, which is Gambia river basin. I can't remember which one is the one that you unlock doing hard challenge mode, but I think it's the limpopo, which you will get to in a second. Or limpopu. I think it's a popo. So the Gambia, more of a dark maroon red. Now, yes, I think I remember releasing something with this. And I can't remember what it was. I think it was the Tsukumamis in the Battle Royale video that had this color scheme. And I think it must have been Rana. Oh no, Rana kind of. Oh, the flip way. You can't really see it there, not too well. The child being the light green, then the white, or sorry, the yellow, now the white. White doesn't look too bad. Onto the blue. Now, how does the blue look with a dark red? Very contrasting colors. It's like an old fashion. I don't know, I'd imagine like an old leather, Winchester sofa being this kind of dark maroon-y red. And the blue. I mean, maybe. It's not winning me over. I'm winning me over. And a green works better. I think the blue is just way too contrasting. Onto the, I have to write them all down here because I didn't, at this point I was like, nah, I'm doing this. This one is the Sonarian Desert. Now, this one's quite nice. It's got that yellowness to it, but it's got a bit of orange as well. Let's move on to Rana, which you probably won't be able to see too much. In fact, it looks white. Yeah, I think Rana's the orange.   Oh, this one, these ones got mixed up. So actually, this one is the Rana. Because what you have to do is release them one by one because I tried to release them all at once and then the numbers were all mixed up and I was like, oh God, okay, one by one. So that one must be like litho or something. It's the, no, this was the Rana and then the Rana is actually the litho. Yeah, so the chal. Oh God, it's all confused. Anyway, you've got the light green. I don't know. Then you've got the yellow. Then you've got the pappu, which definitely hasn't changed. And actually, it's at a push. Blue and yellow complement each other, but it's that dark purpley bit. I think the dark blue, the color burn thing. That doesn't work for me. Another paleo being the green. Yeah, it's a tough sell. It's a tough sell. On to Death Valley, blank. This one, I don't know if this is the whitest. I think the Quillian Mountains is the whitest. So we're getting close to the albino interrupter that of course, you know, interrupter had a twin sister or something and that was supposedly killed or something like that. But I think Indominus Rex had a sibling as well.  On to the Rana there, not bad. A little bit of a limey green zest. Litho being the yellow. Yeah, not looking too bad. Valley pulch.  If you like the skin color and you want a pattern, pulch is your one. Pappu being the blue. It's like an interrupter gen two, a bit, but I think that's Quillian. And paleo being a green. Actually works a little bit better if it wasn't sleeping, but you kind of see it there. Now on to the great sandy desert. Wait, oh, this is Rana. Oh, right. This is the only one I missed. I miss great sandy desert like blank, but we'll basically see a blank with this anyway. Because I think I paused it and saw to the dog and then it came back and went, oh crap, where am I? Unfortunately, when you're incubating a dinosaur, it doesn't tell you what skin it has. So that'd be really nice if you put that in for a tea. And if you could nickname the dinosaurs before you release them, all so good. So here goes sandy chow, which is the lime green. And then we'll have the litho, which is the yellow. It's not so bad. That one works actually. I like that. That's my favorite from this so far, the sandy. Then the white, which I think this one lends itself quite well to these colors. Pappu being the blue. You know what? Yeah. Yeah, blue's actually quite nice with that. And paleo. Paleo, paleo, paleo. Green, maybe not so much. Now on to Champlain Valley. I think I'm saying these all right. Good Lord. This is a more, it's not as strong as the mangrove forest and not as green as the Amazon rainforest. It's kind of like an olivey green. We're going to the ranne. Not bad. We're going to the chow, which basically is its base color. And you can't really see much difference. The litho being the yellow. The pulch being the white. That one works. Oh, I like that one. That's nice.  And then the papu, which is... Oh yeah, you're down. Now I was going to say you're not blue. Hold on. Let me speed this up so we can see this one because this one might be quite nice. Go on.  You know you want to. Okay, never mind. Sit back down. Maybe for some people. And paleo, which is more of a green. Yeah, that one works. Bit too saturated. I think we hit it right with the litho, whatever the white one was. So here we go. Sale del Huasco. This one now. Okay, this one is now an olive. You don't even know as much of a difference between that skin color and then this skin color. They are pretty much the same. This one's obviously a bit more olivey. We've got the ranne version of it. That one works. We've got the chow version, which is the lighter green. Inoffensive. The litho being the yellow. Yeah, that also kind of works. The pulch, which is the almost white. Then the papu being the blue. Yeah. And then the green. The blues and greens are very contrasting. I don't really like them too much. Now Limpupo River. This might have been the one that was the unlockable. So it's a bit like the maroon, but less saturated. We'll look at it with the ranne on it. And of course it's in the shade, because it has to be of the chow. Get a nice view of it. Yeah, it's basically just a desaturated Gambion, whatever it was, I think. Gambion River basin. So a litho being yellow. Then a white. White looks quite nice actually. Yeah, the white'll do for this one. I'm not really sold on the color itself though. This is Limpupo River Papu. Oh, oh right. Okay, Limpupo River Papu one. It's the blue. Eh, eh, not really fussed about it. Same with the green. Not really fussed about it. Now Quillian is basically your albino indoor raptor. It's the whitest you're gonna get. That's whatever you're gonna do. Rana. So this one, do we have an indoor raptor that has this color? Is it like an indoor raptor gen 2 max level 40 just to world the game or something? I'm interested to see what the papu looks in this one. So Chal? Yes, that actually quite, that works because it's like a little tinge of green to it. And then having the stronger green on the yellow and the white just to fit it all together looks quite nice. Litho being a, oh god. Oh, there we go. It just flies. I love that interaction. I'm glad they're not killing each other. Very nice of them not to do that. Litho being a yellow on top of it. And this one's the white, the pulch. And you barely notice it. Like you only see on the tail with the interactive. This is a bit of a shame. Papu. Oh, come on. Yes, yes. It kind of works. The best one I think for the Quillian. And Papu works. Yeah, I'll take that one. I love that they actually added standing animations for this because in Evolution 1 it was very grounded on all fours. But this time can scratch itself. Pelio being the green one. And I think that sums it up. That is 83. But we missed one. Basically all skins. We're only missing the one that if it, if you do unlock it with Fallen Kingdom, then, I mean, it's basically just this. But, you know, a little bit different, basically, but if you've enjoyed that video and you want to see more, we'll probably do at least one more because I do want to see all of the Indominus Rexes. All the different skins we can have on that. But if you've enjoyed this video, leave a like, let me know in the comments if there's any specific dinosaur that you might want to see now that I've got this set up, and I know how to do it. And as long as I don't need to unlock any more skins for God, no. If you've enjoyed it, leave a like. And until next time, I'll see you later. Oh, bye-bye.


Hey guys, this is gratitude education here with a little bit of a business tip for you as a salon owner My goal is to make sure that every stylist that works for me is talking about things. They're gonna inspire your guests to come back quick We're gonna talk about a little thing called frequency of visit frequency of visit is something you can find Probably on your computer software. My favorite computer software is Millennium harm software Basically what we're gonna do with that is look at the number of how many visits per year your guest is coming in The industry average is four times per year So what can that do for you as a stylist or salon owner raising that number if you look at The first thing is your average client. So if the average client returns every 12 weeks, so that would be four times a year That's a $50 guest. Let's say $50 average ticket four times a year is $200. So very simple math We just take that same guests. We get them to come back every four to five weeks So that's our goal four to five weeks and we look at the single color same $50 client So we haven't upgraded them to anything They now come in 12 times a year. They're now a $600 client. So you're taking and tripling your guests right there That's the power of the frequency of visit Then we look at how do we get them to make sure that they're coming back soon? We need things that are gonna help pre-book the guests So at gratitude what we do is we have a loyalty card The loyalty card is something that we take we give our guests a card before they leave We write a date on it and as long as they come back by that date they get 10% off So we can pick a date in the future. So let's say they get a haircut We get them to come back within four to five weeks to get that haircut again If they use the card they get 10% off. So little things like that You can twist around make them your own and get your guests to come back in quicker Now average ticket average ticket is very simple to figure out You basically take your total services for the day and you divide them by the number of guests So let's say we have that $50 client that we were just talking about she's coming in now 12 visits a year So she's a $600 client The biggest thing that we can do is to really be a successful stylist is to make sure that you upgrade That guess so let's say it's a treatment in your shampoo bowl or some kind of upgrade to color or Just anything you can think of little tiny upgrades that are going to benefit your guests because that's really the goal is making their hair Better and making them developing a relationship with that guest so they come back quicker The simple upgrade now we have a guest single color. Their average ticket is now $85 12 visits a year now. They're a $1,020 guest so you went from a $600 guest to now $1,020 and that's just one guest in the salon So think about if you take your whole book and you do these little tiny upgrades the things that you never want to do as a stylist Because you're so busy and you actually make the upgrades one guest at a time You're going to see a big difference in your paycheck So let's break down what we've gone over so far the industry average single color is $50 If they're only coming in four times a year for that And you have 250 guests you're bringing in $50,000 a year. That's what you're bringing into the salon That's not what you're making so if you want to do what successful stylists are doing You look at your single color and get a haircut in there You upgrade them to a simple wash house upgrade now your average ticket is $110 Great average ticket 250 guests you get them to come in 12 times a year now. You're bringing in $330,000 That's the stylist that I would want to be and what I do with my staff is to inspire them to watch these numbers on a daily basis So we look at the frequency of visit we look at the rebooking We look at how many services they're doing per guest and we look at the average ticket So the cool thing that we're doing at gratitude salon education is we do a weekly contest the weekly contest is simple It's good for everyone at every level so that they can all compete friendly competition together So we look at their service per guest number their take home per guest number and their rebooking percentage The best part about this is whether you're a stylist that's been doing here for one year or 20 years You can compete against each other in a great way. So let's say it's a per guest contest So it's not this stylist brings in $2,000 more a week than this stylist It's how many services you're doing per guest how much take home Are you selling per guest or retail and how well are you rebooking your guests? Those are the numbers that are going to show you the future So what I want to do is not just tell you from my mouth I want you to hear it from the team that I work with on a daily basis So we're going to let them kind of share their stories and success that they've had with this I have really benefited from tracking these numbers because Retail was always something that I was just naturally good at it was something that made me a whole bunch more money But it wasn't until I had these other numbers brought to my attention that I really started to grow And I really started to watch You know my paychecks get bigger and I think one of the biggest ones for me was the rebooking Because it made sure that I not only was making money that day But I was helping to build insurance that I was going to get a paycheck four weeks from now Which I love because now I don't have to worry quite so much And it's just gotten better and I know that my future is just going to get better because I'm helping to build it today I always like to make sure my take home numbers are nice and high Because when my take home numbers are high that means that my guests have plenty of product at home to make sure their hair is looking good So they're walking a walking billboard for me It's also going to allow them to remember me every single time that they use that product So it's almost as if they're getting a flash of my business card every time they style their hair What I love about tracking our service per guest number is it allows us to refocus on the guest in our chair And being able to share with them every experience that our salon has to offer Being able to upgrade them to a conditioning treatment when their hair is feeling dry really Adds loyalty to your client. They want to see so for me personally as a stylist The numbers really helped me because I can look at them daily. I can look at them monthly I can look at them weekly to set my goals as a stylist for that next quarter So that I can reach the levels that I want to be at So there you have it hearing it from the best team I have ever worked with the gratitude education team They're working every day to become more and more successful That's why we're here to share with you guys some of our ideas tricks And you know, one of the my favorite sayings is make your own luck and it comes from a guy Skateboarder rob deerdic the thing I like about that is that's really what this industry is all about Is creating your luck don't wait for it to come to you Good luck. Hope these ideas help you out and please follow us on gratitude education Follow us on facebook gratitude salon education And we will hopefully meet again soon come up with more business ideas together and enjoy these tips


Ok, let's talk in this tutorial how to check whether a string contains a substring in JavaScript or ECMAScript 6.  For example, I will search for substring lin inside this string. In order to do that, we're going to use new method presented in ECMAScript 6. It includes method, I want to print result to the console, so I will say console log and inside our console I want to use my string and call upon it includes method and inside it as an argument, I'm going to provide a substring which I want to search in this string, I want to search for substring lin.  That's all in this lesson, don't forget to subscribe to my channel, see you in the next tutorial, bye.


Hi, hi. Tense ni amelina mia wapen labokan masmo ni anihiau ki naskuntana wau. It's an honor for me to be here, and I also like to acknowledge the territories of the Missaga New Credit here, whose land we stand on today. So, I come from the Tarzan. That's my home community, and it's been really intense to see the changes that we have seen, even since I was a child. Our community is having the inability to have access to clean air, clean water, and just, you know, in 2011 we had one of the biggest oil spills in Alberta's history. It was 4.5 million litres, 28,000 barrels spilled onto our traditional territory. And it was really a very difficult time to be, to experience that, and it's not something that I actually wish upon any other community across this country that is along the Energy East Corridor Pipeline, the Kinder Morgan, the Enbridge, the KXL. Because what happened is that my family texted me and told me and called me and said, we can't breathe, our eyes are burning. We're nauseous. They had to shut down the school for a week and a half. And it was, you know, a very difficult time because the government wasn't giving the community a proper emergency response plan, so our community didn't actually know what was happening, what they were being exposed to at the time. So, you know, it was only five days later after the federal election that the community was told of the immensity of the spill, it was one of the biggest in Alberta's history. So, these are the kind of legacies that we see from dirty fossil fuel expansion. And this is what we need to transition away from in a just transition that communities like my community can no longer be sacrifice zones. Like the Athabasca Chippewan community, the Denne, the Metis, and the Cree communities in the Tarasans are no longer the sacrifice zones of, you know, the progress that we call for Canada development. And so, Canada needs to accelerate to transition from destructive climate polluting sources like the Tarasans and towards a green and just economy that so many of our communities desperately need to see now. The time to act on climate is getting shorter and shorter by the day and our communities deserve justice. For many of us from impacted communities, the choices are literally life and death. It's time that Canada stopped burying its head in the Tarasans and brought about the just transition. Workers deserve to be with their families. Workers should not be flying across from coast to coast, leaving their families for three weeks out of the month at a time just to go work in the Tarasans. In Canada, we are so well positioned with such highly skilled workers to make that just transition. There are the economic alternatives for our families. Even in the Tarasans, we can build a different kind of economy, a clean and green, you know, with clean energy and green jobs that are not compromising our communities. This is what we need to see for national leadership on climate. With immense solar potential in Canada, it is disappointing to see that Canada is not a leader in solar production in the world like Germany. We have a huge opportunity to transition even in places like Alberta which actually has the highest solar potential across this country. A just transition needs to prioritize communities like First Nations that are already being impacted by dirty fossil fuels. A just transition means our communities will no longer be the sacrifice zones. And this is why this summer, in my home community, I will be implementing a solar installation to help power our community in the Tarasans. Everyone and every roof can be a part of the solar solution. Solar energy production is spill-proof and emission-free. Canada should aim higher and set a goal to commit to power 100% of its power coming from renewable energy. We've been looking down for far too long and we've been digging the bottom of the barrel. And we must now turn our gaze towards the sun and realize the true potential that is available to us here and now. We must choose to build healthy and vibrant communities before it's too late. We are seeing Indigenous and non-Indigenous people as alike being galvanized by the sun. So please stand with us and help us build this positive solution-based economy across the country. And we must do it now without waiting for governments to decide to do it for us. Panel by panel, we will show politicians what true leadership is. And this July, we will unite to show support for this vision. Thank you very much.


My name is Sam Vatni, I am the author of Malignant Self-Lover, Narcissism Revisited. How does the narcissist react to a new addition to the family, a new brother or sister, a newborn child, even a new pet? At first, the narcissist perceives his own offspring or his siblings as a threat to his narcissistic supply. He competes with them for the attention of his mother or later his spouse. They intrude on his turf. They invade the pathological narcissistic space that he's so laboriously constructed. The narcissist does his best to belittle them, to hurt them even physically, to humiliate them. When these reactions of his prove ineffective or even counterproductive, the narcissist retreats into an imaginary world of omnipotence. There follows a period of emotional absence and detachment. The narcissist's aggression, having failed to elicit narcissistic supply, the narcissist proceeds to indulge himself in daydreaming, delusions of grandeur, planning of future coups, nostalgia, and hurt.  The narcissist reacts this way to the birth of his own children or to the introduction of any new focus of attention into the family unit, and this includes, as I said, even new pets. Whomever the narcissist perceives to be in competition for scarce narcissistic supply is relegated by him to the role of the enemy. He treats these new additions to the family as enemies from their inception. Where the uninhibited expression of aggression and hostility is illegitimate or impossible or unacceptable, the narcissist simply stays away. Rather than attack his siblings and later on his children, the narcissist sometimes immediately disconnects, detaches himself emotionally, becomes called and uninterested, or directs transformed aggression and displaced anger at other members of the family, for instance his parents or his maid or spouse. But not all narcissists are like this. Some narcissists see an opportunity in the calamity. They seek to manipulate their parents or their maids and spouses by taking over the newcomer. Such narcissists monopolize their siblings or their new born children. This way, indirectly, they benefit from the attention of the Isgana. The sibling or offspring become vicarious sources of narcissistic supply, proxies of the narcissists, conduits through which narcissistic supply flows. The more attention is given to the new brother or sister, the more attention is given to the new born baby, the more the narcissist busks in this attention. It becomes his narcissistic supply by virtue of his association with the new born baby or with the new born sister or brother. Consider an example. Imagine a narcissist who has become father. By being closely identified with his new born child, this narcissistic father secures the grateful admiration of the mother. His spouse or his mate says, what an outstanding father my husband is. The narcissist thus assumes part of the credit or all the credit given to the achievements of his new born child or his new born sibling. This is a process of annexation and assimilation of the other. It is a stratagem that the narcissist uses in most of his relationships. He swallows, he digests, he assimilates the new born child, the new born sibling and thus becomes one with them. As siblings or progeny grow older, the narcissist begins to see their potential to be edifying reliable and satisfactory sources of narcissistic supply. Suddenly, they are no longer threats. Suddenly, they have become promising potentials. They can be his sources of narcissistic supply. His attitude then is completely transformed. He cultivates the siblings or the children whom he believes can become reliable, long-term, faithful sources of supply. He encourages them to idolize him, to adore him, to be awed by him, to admire his deeds and capabilities or even his misdeeds, to learn to blindly trust and obey him. In short, the narcissist encourages them to surrender to his charisma and to become submerged in his shared psychosis, his folie de grandeur. It is at this stage, when the narcissist has transformed or is seeking to transform his new-born siblings or his new-born children into sources of supply, it is at this phase of the relationship that the risk of child abuse is at its height. Narcissists have been known to engage in emotional insist, up to and including outright, full-fledged, physical and sexual insist. The reason is that the narcissist is auto-erotic.  He is attracted mainly and solely and exclusively to himself. His siblings and his children share genetic material with him.  Moreover, narcissists perceive sex in terms of annexation. The partner is assimilated, he becomes an extension of the narcissist, fully controlled and manipulated object. Sex to the narcissist is the ultimate act of depersonalization and objectification of the other. He actually muster base with other people's bodies, he doesn't have sex in the mature sense of the word. Narcissists prefer minors and little children. Minors and toddlers and youngsters and infants pose little danger of narcissistically injuring the narcissist. They don't usually criticize the narcissist or confront him. They are perfect, they are malleable, they are abundant sources of narcissistic supply and the narcissist derives gratification from having relations with them, even coital relations. They are adulating, physically and mentally inferior to him in experience and dependent bodies. They allow him to feel superior, omnipotent and omniscient. The narcissist allocates to his siblings and to his newborn children roles. The allocates these roles explicitly and demandingly or implicitly and perniciously. And these roles are best fulfilled by youngsters whose mind is not fully formed and not yet independent. The problem is that the older the siblings or the offspring, the more they become critical, even judgmental of the narcissist. They are better able to put into context and perspective his actions, to question his motives, to anticipate his moves, and the narcissist does not like this. As they grow up, as they mature, these siblings and children, these erstwhile sources of narcissistic supply, often refuse to continue to play the mindless pawns in the narcissist chess game. They hold grudges against him for what he has done to them in the past, when they were less capable of resistance. They can gorge his true stature, talents and achievements, and realize that he lags far behind the claims that he has made. This brings the narcissist, this insurrection, this insurgency, this resistance, criticism and confrontation, these new behaviors in his erstwhile sources of supply bring the narcissist a full cycle back to the first phase. Again, he perceives his siblings or sons and daughters as stress. He quickly becomes disillusioned and devaluing. He loses all interest, becomes emotionally remote, absent and cold, rejects any efforts to communicate with him, citing life pressure and the preciousness and sacredness of his time. The narcissist then feels burdened, cornered, trapped, besieged, shackled, suffocated and claustrophobic. He wants to get away, to abandon his commitments to people who have become totally useless or even narcissistically injurious to him. He does not understand why he has to support them or to suffer their company, and he believes himself to have been deliberately and ruthlessly brought into this situation. He rebels either passively-aggressively by refusing to act or by intentionally sabotaging the relationships, or actively by being overly critical, aggressive, unpleasant, verbally and psychologically abusive, or even physically and sexually abusive. Slowly, to justify his acts to himself, the narcissist gets immersed in conspiracy theories with clear, paranoid and persecutory use. To his mind, the members of the family conspire against him, seek to belittle or humiliate or subordinate him, do not understand him, all the time he is growth. The narcissist usually finally gets what he wants, and the family that he has created disintegrates. He is either sorry to see this happening due to the loss of narcissistic space, or relieved and positively surprised. This is the cycle. The narcissist feels threatened by the arrival of new family members. He tries to assimilate or to annex new siblings and new born children. He obtains narcissistic supply for them. He overvalues and idealizes these newfound sources. But as the sources grow older and independent, they adopt anti-narcissistic behaviors. The narcissist then proceeds to devalue them and discard them. He feels stifled and trapped. He becomes paranoid. He rebels and the family disintegrates.


Okay that said let's dive into it. An accounting method is a set of rules used to determine when and how income and expenses are reported. So your accounting method includes not only the overall method of accounting you use but also the accounting treatment you use for any material item. So you choose an accounting method for your business when you file your first income tax return that includes a schedule C. So when you first start out you want to make sure that you get your accounting method correct when you start out because again the IRS gives you some leeway to choose an accounting method but once chosen then they're going to want you to stick to that accounting method you may be able to change but it might be a little bit burdensome to to make the change you might have to request an accounting method change and so on. So after that if you want to change your accounting method you must generally get IRS approval if you want to do that you can see the change in accounting method later. So kinds of methods generally you can use any of the following accounting methods you got the cash method you've got an accrual method and then you got special methods of accounting for certain items of income and expenses in essence a combo method in essence a hybrid method in other words you might have for example your expenses being paid on a cash based method your revenue on an accrual based method because of the industry you're in for example. So you have combination method using elements of two or more of the methods so that's a combination method the special methods could you could have special kind of accounting treatment for certain things so for example if your normally revenue is recognized on an accrual method when you earn the revenue but there's sometimes there's deviations from that when you're in a kind of situation where you do long-term contracts like in construction of like a building or something like that meaning you're not going to complete the actual building for multiple years possibly does that mean you shouldn't record any of the income until you actually complete it and then you've got like revenue recognition principles completed contract or percentage of completion kind of methodology that can come into play but that's usually for you know larger companies oftentimes that have those long time long-term kind of contracts that might be industry specific many small businesses might be in a situation where they're using a combo of accrual versus cashed methods because for example they might have to use an accrual method depending on the industry if they have to do the work before they invoice a client so you must use the same accounting method to figure your taxable income and to keep your books so in other words the iris is going to be skeptical if you're saying i'm going to use an accrual method for my books but a cash method for my taxes why would you do that it looks like you're just doing that in order to cheat on your taxes somehow because it would be easier to use a cash method for both your bookkeeping or your accrual method for both sides right so the iris is going to say hey look whatever method you're using to keep your books that should be primarily the same method you're going to be using to do your taxes now how would the iris know what methods you do your books with well they would have to audit you in order to basically know that but in principle if you're doing one accounting method on your books and then you're totally changing the accounting method from accrual to cash or something for taxes it looks like you're doing that to try to avoid taxes some way and that's why the iris wants you to use the same method that you would use when you do your normal bookkeeping for taxes so also you must use an accounting method that clearly shows your income clearly the iris wants an accurate accounting method so if you have accounting methods that are not accurately showing income then that's not a good accounting method business and personal items you can account for business and personal items under different accounting methods for example you can figure your business income under an accrual method even if you use a cash method to figure your personal items in other words most of your deductions like on a form 1040 for example on on the schedule a and above the line deductions and whatnot are on a cash based type of system that doesn't mean that your business income on a schedule c can't be on an accrual method generally when we're talking about the business income that's kind of separate than the rest of the tax return which may still be on kind of like a a cash based system oftentimes so two or more businesses so if you have two or more separate and distinct businesses you can use a different accounting method for each if the method clearly reflects the income of each business so now you've got two schedule c's because you're you're doing two different businesses possibly a married couple for example they have two two businesses or a sole proprietorship that has two distinct businesses one it might make sense to have an accrual method and the other it might make sense to have a cash basis method you can use two different methods because they're two different businesses we should be keeping the accounting separate for those two businesses so they are separate and distinct only if you maintain complete and separate books and records for each business


Cyngorol mewn cyntafol o unrhyw o'r Swinidog arweithio i gwelltyn nhw. Felly, rydyn ni'n fawr i gael reifat peth i'r ddioedd i ddweud. Rydyn ni'n ddweud â'i cyfrifysgau ysgrifesfaith안 hefyd, rydyn ni'n ddweud â'r reddydd am gael ddeilant gŵr am rhwynt-o-ddeilad amdolol i ddweud ar gwrth diwrnod ysgol, ac rydyn ni'n ddweud ar ysgrifesfaithan busnes i ddweud a fawr i arnyn nhw. maes yma hwnnw yna gan gwybod ein gwybod ffremdd. A atgoi'r ysthysgau a'u gwisi ar weithiau Ffongolans yn gweithio. Dwi gwybod, hynny, nad oedd rhaid i gwisiau i chi i gwybod eich stori fusiom a'u gweithio'r pwynt ar hyn nesaf. Rwy'n ysthysgau i chi gyrfa mwy o'r proses datblygu, ac rwy'n cymdeinidio'r sydd yn ddig مشag yng CONI yn dweud ddim yn gweithio'r ysgrifennu Fylmingoland's first formal application was lodged and dealt with four years ago. The application was for a tourist resort and a massive scale, sitting on the banks of Loch Lomond at Balach on what is currently largely publicly owned land. The plans included 125 woodland lodges, largely to be situated in the ancient woodland at Drumkinan Woods, as well as a hotel, a waterpark, a monorail and more. Iconic lock side views were to be interrupted by buildings that local residents quite fairly described as garish. Publicly owned land was to be used to generate profits for a private company based hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire, which certainly would not be reinvesting it in the local community and economy. Fylmingoland's own environmental impact assessment was made for particularly grim readings. Speaking of, among other things, damage to ancient woodland, pollution of standing and running water, red squirrel and otter fatalities and a host of other environmental concerns. That was from their own documentation. As you may recall, local residents and I formed the Save Loch Lomond campaign, through which we lodged over 60,000 objections. That made Fylmingoland the most unpopular planning application in Scottish history. We were joined in objecting by the Woodland Trust, Rambour Scotland and Weston-Bartonshire Council. The application was so clearly contrary to local and national planning policy that the national park's own planning officers recommended that their board rejected it. Rather than face that loss, Fylmingoland withdrew their application with just days to go before the hearing. That was in 2019. We knew that they would come back, so it was no surprise that a fresh application was lodged last year. That application was for 127 lodges, two hotels, a water park and monorail, up to 21 apartments, a brewery, a pub, a restaurant, a boath house and all to be served by 393 parking spaces. They tried to squeeze almost as much in as they did the first time, but into a smaller space. They told us that the ancient woodland at Drumkin and Wood had been taken out of the application and lodges moved elsewhere on the site. By any suspicions that Fylmingoland had turned into tree huggers, thanks to our influence for short lift, the details of the plans still showed that an area of Drumkin and Wood, marked in the application as area 10, was earmarked for destruction, as were sections of ancient woodland alongside woodbank house and the proposed boath house. However, even the supposedly saved bulk of Drumkin and Wood may be endangered by those plans. They are currently under the ownership of Scottish Enterprise, a public body. Should planning permission be granted for the site, Fylmingoland can get the woods too. When they were still speaking to me, that is some time ago, Fylmingoland told me that the economic viability of the site rested on being able to develop in the ancient woodland. It is hard to believe that should they take ownership of the woods or even a long-term lease, that they would not seek at some point to exploit them for financial benefit. Last year's plans were seriously flawed, left so many questions unanswered and made a number of contradictory claims. On my behalf, the planning and environmental law expert Ian Cowan submitted a detailed letter of objection flagging every one of those issues to the national park. In response, for which I am grateful, their planning department essentially put the process on hold, demanding that the developer resubmit a number of documents and respond to 16 requests on everything from clarification of contradictory statements on parking provision and ancient woodland loss to how the proposals could possibly meet the high bar set by national planning framework 4. Just two weeks ago, Fylmingoland responded, so that is a timely debate. They have reduced the number of lodges planned to 104 and parking spaces to 372 to allow for the staff and service area to be relocated from area 10, the bit of ancient woodland. That is welcome and I want to congratulate the local residents who worked really hard to protect that bit of drumkin and wood. The ancient woodland does not safe from sell-off and, as is described by the woodland trust briefing circulated to MSPs, other sections of ancient woodland are still under threat. There are so many flaws in this third attempt at a proposal. It is still much bigger than the visitor experience space that is owned in the national park's planning policy. It would be a scar on a world-famous landscape. The landscape and visual impact assessment admits that there would be adverse effects. Fylmingoland keeps telling us that there would be no negative impact on access, but that is simply impossible to achieve. You cannot turn a popular public space for informal recreation into a densely packed, branded and privately owned holiday lodge park without a loss of the freedom to roam. A busy attraction with 372 parking spaces certainly is not compatible with the park's net zero objectives or the Scottish Government's policy of reducing car usage. We are all well aware, too well aware, that Loch Lomond and its communities are overwhelmed by visitors travelling by car through peak tourist season. Speak to any resident of lusts or Balmaha or Balak about the stress of dealing with everything from inconsiderate parking to genuinely dangerous driving and antisocial behaviour. We want people to enjoy Loch Lomond, but we must acknowledge that some of its communities are simply at breaking point. The last thing that any of us would want is the kind of oversaturation of tourism leading to deep seated hostility from residents, which destinations such as Barcelona have experienced. The park is doing excellent work to make visiting the area more sustainable and supporting local residents who are struggling with the impact of high visitor numbers. I know that the minister will not be able to say much about a live planning application and I recognise that that is not his portfolio area, but I would appreciate if he was able to speak a little bit more about the good work that the park is doing to encourage sustainable use. There is one other area about the national park and the park authority that I want to encourage the minister and his colleague Orna Slater to look into. Normally, with a controversial planning application, objectors would be able to contact their councillors directly and make their views heard. Even though councillors on the relevant committee—the planning committee—would not be allowed to express an opinion on the plans, the feedback from residents is an important part of the process. It is unfortunate that Loch Lomond and the Trossach national park is the exception here. Unlike any of the more than 500 other councils and national parks in the UK, the park does not publicise direct contact details for its board members. I know that many of my constituents want to address board members directly, and the fact that they have no means of doing so leaves an unacceptable democratic deficit. The views of the community in this particular case are certainly beyond a doubt. We have had two local surveys now showing opposition by a margin of around three to one. Fomengoland's chief executive said that if the community did not support them, they would walk away. It is very clear that the community does not support them, yet here we are again. Residents certainly do not trust Fomengoland's grand claims. Not only would the substantial increase in traffic on already busy local roads clearly be to the detriment of the community, there is very little belief that the claimed economic benefits will materialise. Fomengoland initially promised 300 jobs for the area. That number is plummeted as the years went on. The eventual impact assessment for the 2019 application stated that the equivalent of just 28 net jobs would be created in the region compared to if Fomengoland did not go ahead. Of course, many of those would be seasonal. The community is not hostile to development. I would certainly welcome the redevelopment of Woodbank House, for example. Fomengoland's are too big, too destructive and come from a developer whose behaviour should frankly disqualify them from playing a role in the life of our national park. The community is not short of alternative ideas for some of the sites, but those can't be taken forward for as long as Fomengoland's exclusivity agreement is in place. With that to be dropped, I think that Scottish Enterprise would get a lot out of actually speaking to residents about what they want. Like in some cases in Drumkin and Wood, for example, that would be for no development to take place. Much-loved, well-used community green spaces are worth protecting, especially when they are also the gateway to our world-famous national park. In closing, 43,000 objections have been lodged to the latest application. The Woodland Trust in Ramboire Scotland has joined us in opposing it once again, and the national trust for Scotland has now also come out against the plans. We are all motivated by a deep love for Fomengoland and a passionate desire to protect it. We have beaten Fomengoland every turn for seven years now, and we are ready to do so again one last time. We are going to save Fomengoland. Thank you very much, Mr Grahame. I now move to the open debate. I call first Jim Fairlie to be followed by Pam Gosel for around four minutes, Mr Fairlie. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I would like to thank Ross Greer for once again bringing this issue to the attention of the Parliament. As the MSP that is lucky enough to have luck leaving on my doorstep, I know only too well the strength of feeling that myself and many of my constituents hold towards these iconic beauty spots. There, my work involves supporting those attempting to deliver long-term solutions to the local community so that they can continue to enjoy the lock and see the ecology restored. Today's topic ever concentrates on Loch Lomond, one of Scotland's two national parks, a place that has an emotional meaning for generations of Scots and visitors alike to our country, and where it's Bonnie, Bonnie banks, mark it as a place of worldwide wonder. It's 20 years since Scotland's first national parks in Loch Lomond in the Trossachs and the Cairngombs were established. In that time, the parks have responsibly faced up to diversity by biodiversity and climate crisis issues, managing facilities for visitors, promoting responsible access to the land, and assisting in developing sustainable communities. It's clear to me that those who are entrusted with protecting our national treasures know what they're doing. All those who have been to Loch Lomond and witnessed its charms could easily understand why a big business or developer would want to take advantage of the site and try to capitalise on the popularity of this national treasure that welcomes millions of visitors each year. It's right that we sit in this Parliament to debate this topic, given that it is a site of huge significance to so many people. Ultimately, we are also correct to accept that this is a decision that is best taken locally by those whose lives will be impacted more than Government ministers or MSPs who would visit the Loch and its surrounding beauty spots. The decision that will be taken by the park authority board includes elective community representatives and local community councillors, and it is those people that we should trust to fully understand and appreciate the issue. In order to maintain its prestige, the national park does impressive work each year, working closely with communities, land managers, local businesses and the third sector, and individuals who are aiming to support biodiversity and improve the health and well-being of the local community. The current Lomond banks plan is in the planning process and in full agreement with the idea that park authority closely assesses whether or not this development has an impact on the environment and the local community. Furthermore, those who are making the decision will consider if it complies with the Scottish planning policy of the national planning framework that Scotland adopted in February and has become the statutory part of the national park development plan. MPF4 will guide Scotland's net zero spatial planning journey over the next decade with the aim of delivering sustainable, livable and productive places. It is clear that if the proposals are to be successful, their application meets the spirit of MPF4 and meets the needs of the national park and its local communities. The previous Flamingo land application was withdrawn as a result of dialogue between the developer, the park authority and the local community in Baloch and south of the Loch Lomond. I am hopeful that today's discussion during this debate in the Scottish Parliament reassures the public and all those with an interest or a bond to the park that any development will only occur after serious consideration by the rightful decision makers on the grounds that it strictly complies with MPF4 and the park authority's serious considerations. I, for one, will follow this project with interest. As a west of Scotland MSP, I am honoured to have part of the Loch Lomond and the Trusach national park in my region. Last year, the member Ross Greer secured debating time to explore the live planning application of Loch Lomond Bank's development. I felt, then, that it was important to remain neutral. Now, Presiding Officer, the member brings this issue to the Parliament yet again, where the planning application is still alive. As such, I would hope that all contributions to this debate are respectful of the fact that due process is still to be played out. When I spoke in last year's debate on Lomond Banks, I made the point that these developments can often have a positive outcome for the local community, but only when the local community is allowed their full say on the project. With that in mind, I am pleased to see that the Lomond Banks team has been working constructively to address the concerns of residents. That work is reflected clearly in the revised application that was recently submitted to the Loch Lomond and the Trusach national park. Important revisions include those relating to the environment and local infrastructure that Ross Greer draws attention to in today's motion. In my last contribution, I also outlined concerns about anti-social behaviour and littering. I welcome that in their legally binding Lomond promise document, the developers have committed to deploying monitoring systems and employing suitably qualified staff to manage any anti-social behaviour within the development and its immediate surroundings. However, littering and waste management is one aspect of which further clarity would be welcomed. Another outstanding issue is that of the natural environment. I welcome the significant reductions in accommodation density in the revised plans, as well as the moves to ensure that there is no reduction in their input to biodiversity value. However, as the Woodlands Trust has highlighted, certain areas of ancient woodland remain at risk even under the revised plans. I also welcome the promises to work with local businesses and community councils to ensure the local community sees the potential economic and social benefits of this project. The social value portal proposed by Lomond banks would be a key part of measuring any potential benefits. Despite further assurances from Lomond banks, concerns around local infrastructure such as roads remain a pressing issue for residents. The staggered check-in and checkout times that Lomond banks have proposed as a solution to that promising, but we would not know how effective that system is until the development has gone ahead. As I remarked last time, I am not opposed to developments such as this by default, but it is vital that the concerns of communities are fully heard. As such efforts to liaison with stakeholders are welcomed, they cannot be one of actions. This will have to be a continued process of going back and forth to create a balance, and further concessions will likely have to be made. Although there is still much work to be done, I remain hopeful that, through constructive engagement system, it can be developed whereby it complements the local area rather than detract from it. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. Let me start by congratulating Ross Greer for securing this debate as it gives me the opportunity to speak about the constituency that I am very proud to represent. Lomond is a most beautiful place, with some of the most breathtaking views in all of Scotland. It is because it is so special to my local community and to visitors from across Scotland, the UK and the world, any development must be carefully considered and properly scrutinised. Members will be aware that Lomond banks, otherwise known as Flamingoland, want to develop a tourism project at Loch Lomond. It is going to be a multi-site development, centred at West Riverside in Baloch, which, incidentally, is land owned by Scottish Enterprise, so the Government has an interest, but that development will include self-catering lodges that tells another accommodation. The first planning application, as Ross Greer outlined, was withdrawn. The second application, recently revised again, has taken on board some of the feedback that is given very clearly by the local community. Let me reflect on some of that feedback. I conducted a survey of Baloch and, indeed, the surrounding area. There was a 12 per cent return rate of several thousand survey forms issued, and of that number, 31 per cent were in favour, 68 per cent were against, and in 1 per cent it was unclear whether they were in favour or not. There was a further survey conducted by the local community council, where the number against was even greater than the ones that I had identified. However, of most interest to me, when you analysed the responses, was that whether you agreed or disagreed with the development, people in my area had similar concerns and made similar observations. People did not want development at Drumkin and Woods. The briefing from the Woodland Trust, which has already been quoted, notes that the resubmitted documents are an improvement in terms of impact on ancient woodland, but, as Ross Greer pointed out, concerns remain and need to be addressed. People in my community wanted to be sure that the impact on the economy would be a positive one. Good jobs paid at least the Scottish living wage, not on casual contracts, and local businesses should benefit as part of the supply chain. There has been positive work by Lohman Banks to address this, and I recognise the pledges that they have made to the local community. I would expect nothing less. However, my local community also wanted better infrastructure, and the roads dealt with it. However, I have to say on this point that there has been little movement. In the summer, at any point when the sun comes out, there is regularly gridlock on the A82 at Stonymoreland roundabout. As people head to Loch Lomond, that becomes worse when you get past the roundabout. Traffic on the A811 is also affected. It does not take much traffic for the road to grind to a halt. Adding extra vehicle movements and adding extra visitors with the development of this size will have an impact. The developers say that there is minimal impact. They say that they will encourage active travel, and they will provide incentives for using local rail services. All that sounds really good. If I am going on a self-catering holiday, I am taking my car, filled with what I need for the week or the weekend. The reality is that, when you get on-site, that might be helpful, but the movements of people coming on and off-site will have an impact. Local knowledge matters at times like this, so people need to be clear about that. For the avoidance of doubt, let me be very clear. If the application is to pass the routes infrastructure needs to be addressed, or frankly, the application should not proceed, that is an absolute red line for me because the local community has borne enough with the existing route infrastructure. Finally, given the controversy generated by the application, that is likely to end up with ministers, whatever the decision of the national park. I am conscious that Lorna Slater is the minister with responsibility for national parks, but I believe that that would be a matter for the planning minister. Can the minister confirm that my understanding is correct? Although I am not even sure if the bute house agreement will still be in place by then, who knows? However, what is clear is that local people cannot be expected to just put up with more traffic on already difficult roads. The developer needs to work with Transport Scotland and Western Barcher Council to stop further traffic misery being piled on to local people, or the application should not succeed. Thank you very much, Ms Bailey. I now call on the minister to wind up the debate, minister, for around seven minutes. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I am happy to have the opportunity to close the debate on Ross Greer's motion. I thank him for bringing the motion and to all the members who have taken the opportunity to make their very valid points on the record. It will, of course, be a bit difficult for me to comment much further, as members will recognise, than the Minister for Parliamentary Business did last time this subject was debated in June. As I understand it, the planning application for Lomond Banks is still live, and, quite rightly, as required by the Scottish Ministerial Code, ministers are restricted from commenting publicly when live planning applications are doing so could potentially prejudice the final decision of, therefore, unfortunately, we are unable to take interventions. Applications for planning permission are dealt with in the first instance by the relevant planning authority. In this case, that is the Loch Lomond and Trussex national park authority. Planning decisions within the national park are required to have regard to the national park plan and to be in accordance with the national planning framework for, along with Loch Lomond and the Trussex national park's local development plan, unless material considerations indicate otherwise. Recognising and respecting the important role of the planning authorities in making decisions on future development in their area means that it is rare for ministers to intervene in a live planning application, and they will do so only where matters of national interest are at stake. To confirm Jackie Baillie's point, I understand that the planning minister would be the relevant minister in where that to happen. However, what I would like to acknowledge is the interest that members have in the project and in the wider running of our national parks. The Scottish Government is also a strong supporter of the work of our national parks in conserving and protecting Scotland's nature and biodiversity to make the parks a great place to visit, live and work. Both Loch Lomond and the Trussex national park and Cairngorm national park continue to go from strength to strength in preserving Scotland's unique nature, while also supporting local communities, businesses and visitors. Recognising the value that they bring and the potential that they have in helping to address the twin climate and biodiversity crisis that Scotland faces, the Scottish Government has committed to the designation of a new national park by the end of this parliamentary session. I am sure that members are aware that our national parks have a number of duties and driving objectives, including supporting their tourism economy, but the underpinning name of the national parks, which takes precedence in any decision-making, is to conserve and enhance Scotland's natural and cultural heritage. I am confident then that the park will apply the same in its assessment of the Lomond banks project. It is one of the reasons that these decisions can take so long, because there is a rigorous process of scrutiny, and the process is transparent with information on the application that is published on the park's website. The opportunity is there for anyone to submit formal comments on the application. Ultimately, any decisions made are transparent and will be made in line with the park's four aims, to conserve and enhance natural cultural heritage, to promote the sustainable use of natural resources in the area, to promote understanding and enjoyment of the special qualities of the area to the public, and to promote sustainable social and economic development of the communities of the area. As I have said, the first of those will be considered above all others where there are potential conflicts. In listening to the views that are expressed today, I can tell that there is a lot of passion around the project. The park has indicated that updated information has been received at the request of the authority, and there is currently an opportunity for further comment. The most appropriate and impactful way that members can make their views known on the subject would be to feed into the process formally by submitting formal comments directly to the Loch Lomond and Trossach national park authority. That can be done through the official planning portal on their websites by emailing them directly or by sending a written letter to their headquarters as the process is transparent correspondence is published alongside the application on the portal. I take on board the comment made by Ross Greer with regard to contacting board members. I can inform him that board members can be contacted through the board's email address. In my understanding, on the other point that you raised, is that board members are not subject to the same provisions in the local government act in that regard with regard to email addresses. Comments in the form of formal representations can be submitted until 30 March, in which public comments can continue to be submitted after that date until a short time before the park authorities' members meet to determine the application that is advisable to ensure feedback is submitted within the statutory timeframe. That will help to ensure that the park authority is able to consider all information and representations as quickly as possible and in advance of the park authorities' meeting to determine the application. I thank members once again for their thoughts on the project and for the opportunity to close the debate on behalf of the Government. Thank you very much, minister. That concludes the debate and I close this meeting of Parliament.