How many of you record your gameplay in 4K? This is New World, the brand new MMO by Amazon in full 4K, 3840 by 2160 resolution. You can choose that in the bottom left corner of the YouTube video player, go to the highest setting that you can, so you can really appreciate the difference that a 4K gameplay video makes to your audience. It's all about standing out in YouTube to grow faster. One way to do that is to upgrade your gaming rig to support the full 4K resolution at 60 frames per second that we are playing at right now. You can see the detail when you look at the wood and the lighting and all of the reflections. That's amazing. You do not get this level of detail on lower resolutions like 1080p, which used to be good enough guys, but now the new standard is 4K. Amazon's MMO is still in closed beta. It will launch in full on August 31st. How many of you are planning to get it and make videos about it? We are. In fact, we have a full series dedicated to New World on www.mgn.gg. Check it out. I'm going to run around the game at this beautiful 4K and show you some of the highlights of this engine. Here is a regular urn or jug and look at the reflections. Look at how the light refracts and reflects from this. Just how I change my camera angle slowly panning up and down. You can see from the top to the side, it feels like a ray traced scene. I was so impressed when I saw this and there's a flame that adds a flickering light across anything that touches it and you can see it even gets a bit blurry. There's another player who just joined me. He's crafting. He is creating items from when he harvested. I'll show that to you later on in this video. I'm just carrying a wood staff with a shield and it's a fire staff. Look at this. These are like some colorful bunnies with some yawning huge lion. It's pretty cool. I bet these are pets you'll be able to get later on in the game. You see the smoke in the background. Here are two chimneys that are smoking in New World and you can see the sky is so beautiful and it's daylight. At night time you see the moon and you can run by moonlight. Here let's run through the town so you get a sense of all the other attractions and amazing graphics that New World has to offer. Here's the map view and you can see that I am in the middle of town and there's a bunch of banners. These are different factions. That green one was the Marauders faction. There are three factions. Just like in World of Warcraft there are two and here I am at the well getting some water. In World of Warcraft there's two. The Horde and the Alliance. In New World there are three. Marauders, the Syndicate, the Syndicate and the Covenant. And by around level nine you'll be choosing one. Here we are in the outdoors. Everything is destructible. Not everything but trees you can chop down, boulders you can mine, some plants you can harvest with your sickle. And again look at the beauty of this game. Here we have the daylight, the trees, the grass and the grass, the individual grass. What do you call it? Weaves. Stocks. They're waving in the wind. And there's flowers. You can't pick those but here's an example of something you can, what you can do you can skin a bear and someone else killed it. They just didn't want the hides so I picked it up just now. Let's run through the forest. Run into that the sun as it's setting and you can see the beams of light coming through the trees and it creates a mist. Here's something special. It is something you can harvest nuts. There are nuts on the ground but that's not what you were thinking and I actually meant this dragon glory. It's a higher level plant. You can harvest after you've leveled up your skill. And here you can see I did it. I have 90 harvesting and the dragon glory stem is in the inventory.  The fire moat is what I collected plus the dragon glory stem. Now let's do a little bit of combat. You see that wolf in the distance? You can either run up and start hitting him or you can use your gun. Now I have a musket. You have muskets and bows. Each have different skill trees and abilities and different amortites. So I'm going to use my musket but I have to equip it. Here it is in my inventory. I put it in as my secondary weapon. I put my long sword as my primary. Let's wield the musket. Let's aim and shoot. I'm going to hit him. I can miss. This is an action combat system which means if your projectile gets missed or they dodge that's a miss. No caps are needed in this game. So here I killed the wolf and I'm going to skin him. This is my prize. Some raw hide which I can use later in town to craft to make clothes. Either medium armor or cloth armor. Now let's have a look. Here's another dragon glory which is cool. Now here I'm showing you how I can dodge. Dodging is an important part of this game because if you dodge you take no damage. You can use your shield to block but that takes stamina. Stamina gets to zero then the shield is useless if it's taking hits. You can see I can now roll. Before I was just sidestepping now I'm rolling. This is a weight class. You can see here I'm medium but if I take off some of my armor pieces I'm in light weight class which allows me to do much longer and quicker dodge and mobility is so important in this game especially in PvP you want to be a light... There are turkeys. In the game they're one-shot wonders and I'm going to skin a turkey for its feathers. What do you need feathers for? To make arrows for your bow. It's very realistic in that sense where you can chop down trees even for lumber which you need to make arrows. Arrows and feathers together to craft your ammo for your bow. Here I'm chopping down a young chinoise. It's going to fall in the forest. It's going to hit me on the head but there's no collision damage.  Not in New World. I was actually glad for that because I have enough to worry about dodging projectiles and opponents. I don't need to worry about dodging trees bones. Here I'm collecting bushes. Even a bush you can collect for some wood. Very little bit of wood to get a lot more from the trees. Now let's look at a little bit more combat with strategy.   He's almost dead. I missed. See you can miss. You can hit me. I missed again. I finally hit him on the last drop. There. You can crouch. You can duck or crouch but go prone. Let me show you.  There I blocked. You see my stamina bar drop? I dodged that there and I did a hard lunge which finished off that opponent. This is a low level guy so he's very easy. Here I am prone in my underwear. Remember I took off my pants to be a light weight class. Let's look for something to shoot in the far distance aiming with my reticle. There we go. I found something I missed. I'm going to try again. She got him that time. Now he's coming at me. He knows what hit him. It's a low. And I didn't quite reach. He came very quickly so I'm going to switch to my sword and shield. I'm going to finish him off in a standard melee way. There's so much variety and I actually want to approach combat in the world. It's a class left system. You don't lose warrior, cleric, magic user, archer. You just start the game and depending on the weapons you choose to use you level up skill trees in that weapon. Here I am shooting with my musket so I'm leveling up my experience with the musket which will let me choose unique abilities which I have none of. You see the QRF keys are blank but as I level up my musket skill I'll get unique abilities that I can use with cooldowns to do even more damage. And here I am still in my underwear. You can see I'm a lightweight class so let's put on the rest of my gear so I'm no longer half naked. There I am. Now I'm a medium weight class so I won't be able to do rolls but I dodge just side steps. When you're in the heavy weight class you basically just shuffle left shuffle right. You don't even bother dodging with heavy armor. Now look, if you're environmentally conscious you can chop dead trees not the live trees. You're not deforesting the entire game. You're only getting your lumber from the trees that have fallen on the ground. Let's go get him. Now I can't reach him he's moving very quickly but I can shoot him. And I got him on my musket. You'll notice the 2.7 is my ammo. I only have 227 cartridges. After that I need to go craft some more or buy them at the auction house from other players. Now there is a wealth of unexplored areas in this game and you can go check them out as you see from it. This particular area is undead and I'm going to walk right in and make myself at home. Now these are higher level than the eds. I'm only level 15 and these undeads will be level 21. But that's okay. This is a skill based game with trees. It is not just about your level and about your gear it is about your tactics. And if you do your tactics well you can survive fairly easily in a higher level area. You can also beat. Oh here we go. Jumping. Food to get in some health. I got jumped. But it's an undead that crawls with like one hand on the ground.   And then I'll melee him.  So as I'm saying you can see that I'm only level 15. I'm only level 15. So I'm not doing so well. I still have a lot of practice to do this action combat. But you can see I'm trying to block and the blocking is not successful. If my stamina goes down instead of my health. You can see my musket has now gone up to level 2. This is because I defeated a higher level opponent so I get more experience points for my musket. And what's this? This is a rabbit. This is not a higher level opponent. This is a one shot wonder just like the turkey. But he's hard to catch with melee weapons. So you have to equip a gun and shoot him. You can use enough of crafting to get gear. Better gear. As you level up your crafting skill you have the ability to craft higher level gear. And so there is an incentive to continually harvest materials and level up your crafting skills so that you can get better and better items without having to pay for them from the auction house. So here we are at a high 20 plus level area. I'm going to walk right in and see what we see. So there are bosses. The bosses have a particularly like a different look to them. They have around that level icon is some extra design. But here you can see I just achieved something. Following the beaten paths I seen enough rabbits and bears and foxes that I was able to get an achievement. Now there you see level 20. You see that mark around his level? That shows that he is a special character, especially hard. I can go help this guy. Now of course as soon as I see his buddies are going to keep me so I need to take care of these guys first because you can see I'm only half health so I may die here. I'll try to survive. Level 21 versus level 15 and it's all about tactics. And here I did a shield block. Normally I block my shield and I'm doing lunges. That's a hard hit. Again good block with the shield. I'm almost dead. So I did a whirlwind to block it with my shield well and that's going to try to get him down while I just play safe. Again the shield bash and he got me and he's just a sliver of health left at death's door. Now a player can revive you. You don't need to be a cleric with the resurrection ability. Anybody who's not even in your party, any player can walk up to you and press E to help you up. Now the opponent can also finish you off in which case you must resurrect. Even since no one's coming to help me. Looks like that guy who was fighting the boss either beat him or was beaten himself. Anyway let's resurrect and you can resurrect at an inn which starts a cool down timer of 60 minutes or you can resurrect at your closest settlement which in this case is the same thing so it's better to just come to the settlement rather than use your 60 minute timer. That's one of the tips when you're playing yourself. Just choose the closest settlement so you can still do a fast travel to the last inn you were at when you bound yourself. Alright so here we are back in town. That was a fast travel point and again back to the beauty of the game. I encourage you to make all your videos at 4k so you can see smoke, reflections and the detail that's only possible at this resolution. And this is the new 1080p guys. It is 3840 by 2160. Exactly 4 times as many pixels as 1080p which is 1920 by 1080. Now it's night time and let's see how the world looks under moonlight. At town everything is quiet and you can see the starry sky above you and let's leave the town to look at this moonlit night and if I look up I will see the moon in all its brightness and you can even see how the light around my character changes and how the rays are shown as if it's individual ray tracing. I don't know if this is ray tracing but it looks damn good even if it's not and it's very different from the daylight look where this feels like you know as it should at night with moonlight. And there's people out when they should be sleeping fighting as they do and I can continue by harvesting to get my materials for crafting but yeah this is New World Night.  Now the taller it is the more difficult it is to chop so you may need to level up your logging skill. I am sufficiently leveled up to be able to chop this young tree and as soon as it goes down it's removed from the world. Now it falls as it should landing on the rocks as it should physics is pretty good in this game. Here we are back in daylight with the sun out beautifully rendered grass and trees and sky. I much prefer the day instead of the night. I hope you enjoyed this preview of New World in 4K and I hope you'll be creating 4K videos or 2K videos up your resolution guys and stand out from the crowd. And this is my new room. I'm experimenting it as a place to make videos. There is an echo so I'm trying to minimize it but yeah this is a new location. I may go back to my previous office for future videos but I wanted to try this one here and see how it is. I'll show you around. So this is my room where I still have lots of boxes and computers and it's my home in Dubai which you can see through there and yeah that's the outside which reflects right back to us because it's night time here. No moonlight as you saw in the game but it's still a nice place to work and live. 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TFNN, headline, news update. What about the trapman here, it does down 41 points at 27,608. This is the TFNN news update. I am the host of the Tiger Technicians Hour, coming up straight after this update. And the author of the opening call, dating newsletter. The S&P at this particular point is down two. What's really interesting is, if you look at the Dow, you see finally, and this is just intraday, we can't say that this is the close, it is intraday just after three hours, two and a half hours of trading. The MACD is down sharply, the stochastic on the left side, the daily chart is down 34%. And finally, you're getting the green nine period exponential moving average crossing underneath the 14 period black line right there. That's the 14 exponential moving average. If it closes like that for the day, it gives me a confirmation that the short position we put on just a few days ago might actually work instead of this residual strength that we keep seeing because that moving average refused to close down. We'll see what happens after this. As I said, the S&P, the S&P right now is down $1.70, that's no big deal, but it was up quite a lot earlier this morning. The futures were up sharply, about 12 points. The Dow is up about 132. So the S&P right now, 311168 sitting on the 14 period moving average, that moving average to nine exponential hasn't closed underneath, it's not even closed. You would have to see a pullback to about 30.3096 to see that turned down. So it's a process, that's what I said the other day. And talking about a process, the QQQ NDX down just $0.06 at 202.37 also made that high on the 27th, they all made highs on the 27th in the daily chart. Those weekly charts are still strong, so any pullback here I think is within the context of a much larger up move, because it's still only a leg C in the monthly chart. The IWM is trading right now up $0.30, once again, showing a little bit more residual strength than the others at 161.08, it is nicely above even the nine period moving average. And that weekly chart is actually starting to improve very nicely, that's very important. And gold is now up $4.84, it's within a range, remember we see it stuck in this range. Gold is funny enough, should be down quite sharply, and it is down 25 at 97.40, crude oil is up a little bit, and the TLT we'll talk about, spoke about it yesterday, we'll talk about it again today, filling in the gap from a few days ago. Council Chairman, most of the time congratulations are coming straight up, hold tight, hope to see you soon, have a nice day.


The next item of business is a member's business debate on motion 2776, in the name of Craig Hoy, on decommissioning of torn gas nuclear power. That debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I would ask those members who wish to speak in the debate to please press the request-to-speak buttons now. I call on Craig Hoy to open the debate up to seven minutes, please. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I start by welcoming colleagues from across this Parliament from across the country to this debate. While today's motion centres on the future of torn gas nuclear power station in Dunbar, the benefits of torn gas are felt right across Scotland and beyond. Torn gas started operating in 1988 and EDF energy has recognised it as one of the most productive power stations in its fleet. Since it started generating safe, clean power, torn gas has produced nearly 280 terawatt hours of zero carbon electricity. That is enough to power every single home in Scotland for 28 years. The station has provided many stable, high-skilled, high-paid jobs since construction began in 1980. Today, torn gas is one of East Lothian's largest employers, with 500 staff, 250 contractors and a salary bill totaling £40 million per year. That is £40 million and more through supply chain-related jobs, which benefits families and the local and national economy. Torn gas has also provided much-needed apprenticeships for an area where too many young people still have to travel out with the county for training or skilled careers. Take the five new EDF apprentices who started last September. They will learn basic engineering skills in their first year before specialising in their trade in the second year. They will also get opportunities to gain life skills as part of the apprenticeship programme before completing the final two years back in Dunbar. That is just one of the many positive benefits that Torn gas power station brings to the south of Scotland region. However, as members will know, Torn gas is set to be decommissioned in 2028, two years ahead of the original schedule. The decision to bring forward decommissioning results from analysis from other sites that provided EDF with a clearer picture of the lifetime expectations as the station ages. The station is operating normally and safely, but it is coming towards the end of its natural operational lifespan. I would like to thank EDF for the undertaking that wherever possible, early and advanced employee engagement will provide career development and reskilling opportunities for those who work at Torn gas. There will be no hard cliff edge of job losses in 2028, although redundancies and redeployment are still likely to lie ahead. Just as happened at Henderson B, jobs will start to taper off as the defuelling process takes place before EDF hands over to Magnoffs to manage the full decommissioning process. I give way to Mr Whitfield. I am very grateful for the member to give way. Would he agree with me that although the jobs that are there within Torn gas are safe beyond the closure date, the chance of future apprenticeships and the skills that those young people have learned now are lost going forward because new apprenticeships will not be available after the closure? There is a very significant opportunity cost as the nuclear industry leaves the region that I represent. The opportunity for future skilled jobs will be undermined by the closure of Torn gas and the wider removal of the nuclear energy sector from Scotland. As Mr Whitfield says, the opportunity to give East Lothian residents skilled jobs in the nuclear sector is so too. I am sure that Mr McLean will rightly say what about renewables and so did friends of the earth in a briefing yesterday. Why can't we have both a future involving nuclear and renewables, a future that makes East Lothian the jewel in Scotland's energy crown, offering skilled and renewable energy jobs for now and into the future? I accept that the eventual closure of the present reactors at Torn gas was inevitable, but I do not accept that the end of the nuclear sector in Scotland is inevitable. I do not accept that the loss of the clean and stable energy supply that nuclear provides is inevitable. I do not accept that the loss of the skilled jobs in the sector is inevitable and I do not accept that the loss of the economic benefits nuclear energy provides to East Lothian and Scotland is inevitable. Instead, they are the direct result of the SNP and Green Party's irrational hostility to nuclear energy. The co-alation of chaos has got this wrong and they have not even done the modelling to assess the economic impact of their actions. If we want to meet and exceed Scotland's net zero ambitions, then nuclear power must have a role to play. I welcome the fact that East Lothian is now at the forefront of a significant renewables push, but renewables alone will not meet our requirements for stable, affordable clean energy supplies throughout the transition period. The Government is driving North Sea oil and gas into the ground, so it is utter madness to turn our backs on nuclear energy at the same time. Nuclear energy is reserved, but the planning system is not. The Scottish Government is using the planning system to scrap nuclear power by the back door. In doing so, it is setting itself on a mission to fail for its net zero emissions target by 2045. I have still to hear a well-reasoned argument for Scotland rejecting nuclear energy. The SNP Government's opposition to nuclear energy is playground politics at its worst. It is more about playing to the prejudices of the Greens than it is about achieving a safe, secure, sustainable and affordable energy supply. The SNP and the Greens' opposition to nuclear is the politics of the student union. The SNP has mistakenly conflated its misplaced attitude to nuclear energy with its misplaced attitude to nuclear defence. The tidal mantras about ban trident and burns not bombs are now influencing its views on energy. For reasons known only to itself, the SNP Government has sought to demonise the word nuclear, despite the safety and security that it provides to Scotland and the UK. Today, of all days, where would we be if the SNP and the Greens had their way on energy or, indeed, on defence policy? The Scottish Government should reverse its shortsighted opposition to nuclear energy. My party will stand up for the nuclear industry. We will stand up for the jobs of those people working at Tornes and the contribution that it makes to the local economy. I hope that fellow members, including the member for East Lothian and his colleagues, on the SNP benches will rethink their position. I hope that they will stand up for local jobs. I hope that they will promote sustainable energy and drop their opposition to next-generation nuclear energy in Scotland. Thank you. Before I call the next speaker, I remind all members who are seeking to speak in the debate that they need to press the request-to-speak button, not looking at anybody in particular. I now call Paul MacLennan to be followed by Jamie Greene up to four minutes, please, Mr MacLennan. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I thank the colleagues for bringing forward this member's debate this afternoon. I actually agree with much of what he has said today so far. Tornes has been one of the most productive stations in EDF's nuclear fleet and has contributed to the local economy, if that is no doubt. I visited Tornes after being elected in May and indeed had visited previously when I was council leader. I have also had two additional meetings with the previous and new station managers. I have known and know many people who work at the station just now. I commend the contribution of Tornes in terms of its electricity generation and its contribution to the local economy. What we need to ask now is what we need to do to ensure what is the best solution in terms of electricity generation and contribution to net zero and employability. Renewables produced a equivalent of 98.6 per cent of Scotland's electricity consumption in 2020, mostly from Rind. The Scottish Government will bring forward an updated energy strategy, which I am sure the Cabinet Secretary will touch on in the spring, and it will be no surprise that that will not include a change in position on nuclear power. That has been made clear by the Cabinet Secretary and by the First Minister. That will be alongside a just transmission plan. I am also aware of the increasing interest in the development of new nuclear technologies, such as small modular reactors, which has been mentioned in the chamber before. The Scottish Government, of course, will be due to bound to assess new technologies and low-carbon energy solutions and will continue to do so based on its safety case, the value for consumers and its contribution to Scotland's low-carbon economy. Encouraged, because what I think I have just heard the member say is that there is a possibility that he and his party will support the deployment of small modular reactors. Is it not true that, on this day of all days, it is wrong to continue the demonisation of nuclear as a word and as a source of clean energy? I would not agree that I said that I would support it. I said that it was due to bound, I think that the Cabinet Secretary and the First Minister has said that as well, and they remain doubtful, but they would look at it and it is due to bound to it, so that is not what I said. In 2016, Hinkley Point C, now nuclear power plant, received a contract for a different strike price of £92.50 per megawatt power, which is now increased by some 25 per cent since then. In January this year, the project was pushed back by a further six months and its estimated cost increased by another £500 million. Recent power price spikes underline the need to create better outcomes from energy investments, particularly those struggling with household finances. Analysis has identified that, in 2030 alone, Hinkley could add almost £40 a year to consumers' bills, whereas equivalent offshore wind could reduce it by £8. Significant growth renewables, storage hydrogen and carbon capture are the best way in which, just a second, to secure Scotland's future energy needs and to meet our net zero objectives. We have just heard in the chamber later on today—indeed, we heard earlier in the chamber in any case—that the UK SCC climate change recommended renewables-based energy is the best way of reducing exposure to volatile price rises. That was just announced today. I'll give way. Thank you. In case I might be pre-empting him, he hasn't yet mentioned jobs. Has he yet grasped that it is the job of a member of Parliament to come to this Parliament and to defend jobs in its constituency, not to throw them under a bus? Of course I'll come on to that. The recent Scotland-wind leason announcement of 17 new projects is, of course, extremely welcome. A total of just under £700 million will be paid to successful applicants in option fees and past to the Scottish Government for public spending. There will also be multi-billion-pound supply chain investment in Scotland, and I'll touch on that later on. The potential power generated will provide for the expanding electrification of the Scottish economy that has been moved 10 heads zero. Of course, once leason agreements are officially signed, the details of the supply chain commitments that are made by the applicants as part of their supply chain development statements will be published. I've already met with SOEC and Scottish renewables on issues that I'll touch again on that in a second. The recent Scottish renewables supply chain impact statement revealed that wind energy use could see its capacity increase by 231 per cent in the next eight years. The report was also found that the sector could triple in size by 2030. The sector already employs 23,000 people. The more long-established offshore wind and hydropower industries are also worth £2.4 billion and £915 million respectively during 2019. What do we do locally? On 18 March this year, I'm convening a meeting of energy companies looking at the future of employment in the sector in East Llywain. The meeting will focus on skills and labour, supply chain development, manufacturing opportunities and community benefits. All the organisations that I'm going to mention just now, I've met with them individually. The following companies will be attending are Inchcape, Sea Green, which includes SSE and Total, EDF Renewables, Scottish Power, EDF Nuclear, Scottish Gas Network, Community Wind Power, Viridor, Skills Development Scotland, Department of Work and Pensions, Scottish Enterprise, East Llywain Council, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh College, Scottish Engineering, Scottish Renewables, Scottish Government and Unite. Those will all be coming to the meeting on 18 March. I know that you took interventions, but we need to have other. I've taken a few interventions. Yes, I know, but we have time to move on. I've given some latitude because of that. Please now bring your marks to course. Those will be the series of meetings that will look at the opportunities that renewables will bring directly to East Llywain. Every worker who works at the State of EDF remains with the company, every single worker. In conclusion, the transition to renewables offers East Llywain many opportunities and increased employment, supply chain development, manufacturing opportunities and community benefits. As those will then constituency MPs, I'm clear that this transition needs to be managed well and requires constant engagement with all. I'm worried to do that and will continue to do so. I now call Jamie Greene to be followed by Martin Whitfield up to four minutes please, Mr Greene. Thank you. I thank Craig Hoy for this debate. It's allowing members who have had or hosted nuclear energy facilities in their region to participate, not just East Llywain, of course behind us and be power station in my west Scotland region. It wasn't entirely uncontroversial in its origin, we should be honest, but it has grown to be a great source of both debate and pride for the people of North Ayrshire in equal measures over the years. But whatever your personal or political views, it undoubtedly has led the charge in delivering reliable, low-carbon and cost-effective power to homes right across Scotland and beyond. It first opened in 1976 and that plant has provided 46 years of energy generation and employed hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs directly and indirectly and important apprenticeships. I think that we all owe them all. Every single worker there is a huge debt of gratitude because they and their families were welcome and they and their families have become a fabric of the community and society in my region. At its peak, this power station could provide enough energy to power 1.7 million homes. Over its lifespan, Henderson B has saved 224 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over traditional carbon energy creation. Of course, members will know that cracks start to appear in their actors in recent years and that rightly caused concerns. I was the first to hold regular meetings and calls with civic agencies, the plant, its owners and local community interest groups who all had concerns, but its doors have now closed and the defueling process will commence, at which point the plant will be handed to the nuclear decommissioning authority. However, whilst we are losing this facility, I really think that there is an exciting potential on the horizon here and it is there that I want to focus my brief comments. North Ayrshire Council, along with partners at the University of Glasgow, the private sector and others, are currently bidding to host the UK's first nuclear fusion facility in Ardir near Ardrossan through the UK's STEP programme. That is a bid that I, and I hope that those benches and other benches will support as well. We have all received briefings, I am sure, in advance of this debate, which slightly diminished the importance of modern nuclear technology towards our efforts towards carbon zero. I respect people's views on that, but what makes the Ardir bid so different is that it will operate using nuclear fusion rather than nuclear fusion, and that is the key. When fusion creates energy by splitting nuclei into smaller particles, fusion does exactly the opposite. Effectively, hundreds of millions of tiny reactions every second can provide a massive amount of energy, with very small amounts of fuel used. That sounds technical, but it is important, because fusion is efficient, safer and cleaner. It is also cheaper, cabinet secretary. One kilogram of fusion fuel could provide the same amount of energy as 10 million kilograms of fossil fuel. Just think about that for a second, because by 2050, the world will be using twice as much electricity as it is today. We know that populations are rising, we know that living standards generally are rising, but so does the amount of energy that we use rises. We must ask ourselves a very simple question. How on earth are we going to provide for those energy needs? Given the current events, it reminds us of the fragility of that supply, gas in particular. Prices were on the rise, and I have no doubt that they will be on the rise further. It is all very well extolling the sanctions on energy companies in one part of a debate in this Parliament, but then bemoaning the energy crisis and the cost of living in another. Both are viable arguments, but viable solutions must equally be found. I am really short on time, so I apologise. I wish I had more time. I am not advocating that nuclear is the only source of energy. No one doubts the importance of renewables in Scotland. It is one of our environment's great assets, but the reality is that we are simply not there yet, Deputy Presiding Officer. Renewables alone simply cannot and will not fulfil all our energy needs right now. Electricity perhaps in the future, but gas less so. We are still using it, we still need it, so we either extract it or we buy it. I want to mention this, because there is a real lack of interest and enthusiasm from the centre benches, not just in North Ayrshire, but across Scotland. There is a lack of strategy for bringing the so-called green jobs on the ground. Where are the jobs that will replace the people who work at Henderson? I want to cement Scotland's reputation as being at the forefront of scientific excellence. Let's make progress towards net zero. Let's make progress towards rejuvenating. Mr Greene, could you please bring your mic so close? Let's secure energy supply first and foremost. Let's not look back at this as a missed opportunity, cabinet secretary. Please listen to our request. I am very grateful, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I thank Craig Hoy for bringing this member's debate today on such an important aspect, both from East Lothian, the south of Scotland, but also for energy provision across Scotland? As we heard, Tones was began to be built in 1980, but first started generating power only eight years later in 1988. It has been one of the most productive plants in the fleet, generating enough zero carbon electricity, the zero carbon that we are all striving for to power every single house in Scotland for 28 years. But it is now working beyond its original expected 25 to 30 year design life. These are designs from the 70s. It's like going on holiday and hoping you don't get an old-fashioned Boeing 747 that's been riveted together. And it is a tribute not only to the 550 EDF staff on site, plus the 180 full-time additional staff that are there, but it is also a tribute to the skills and the knowledge of those who are in charge, both at EDF and above in those that enforce the regulations over our civil nuclear fleet. Electricity production will end in 2028 following inspection, modelling and operational experience gained from across the United Kingdom and indeed further. The decisions that are taken are being based on evidence and knowledge, but founded in the requirement for safety. It was a tribute to Jamie Greene for his tribute to Hunterston B and the information that was learned during the cycle of that fleet on it, because safety lies at the heart of the nuclear power industry and has done from day one. And that is why to convolut the nuclear power for the production of electricity, safe zero carbon electricity with that of nuclear weapons is really to do a disservice to a highly skilled industry. And talking of the skills in the industry, I would like to spend a short moment congratulating Lisa Hilfarty, who at 26 was named the station's apprentice of the year last year after four years of skilled training. Along with Lisa Murray-Gilvery, Conrad McNeill, Thomas Somerville and Paige Gull all qualified as apprentices, now able to take those skills and trade around the world. The problem is that the replacement for those apprenticeships, if the Government's policy is no to nuclear per se, then they must have something else to offer those young people. The problem is that at the moment it simply does not exist. Martin Whitfield. Absolutely. That's why I took the opportunity to pay tribute to those apprentices who've been through a highly skilled course around the whole of the UK, not actually supported by the apprenticeship fund because they were travelling to England for part of their training, but shows the commitment of EDF to the young people into going forward. The closure of Tornes will mean a shortfall in the capacity, and this has to be filled. And in part, and in all probability, it's going to be filled from the open global market from gas and from places such as Russia. This is going to prevent more ambitious emission reductions that will threaten Scotland and the UK energy security going forward. I know that time is short, but I very quickly want to pay tributes to the CNC, the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, who have protected our nuclear fleet and do so in some of the worst conditions that the weather can throw at them. They do so to keep us, to keep our plants, the fleet safe but most important to keep energy security here in the UK, and nuclear power needs to play a part in that zero carbon future. I rise to make a very small contribution regarding the final part of Craig Hoy's motion, where he calls on the Scottish Government to review its blocking of any future civilian nuclear energy projects in Scotland. Marie Todd MSP set out the Scottish Government's position in the John O'Groats Journal last week. She rejected nuclear power as she said it is high cost to consumers over other options, is high risk in terms of safety and is not sustainable. She went on, we must focus on reliable energy sources that align with our net zero ambitions. I believe that the renewables plan has set out in the Scottish energy strategy offers just that. Not unusually when stress tested, her arguments lack foundation. She is apparently unaware that the Scottish Government confirmed to me earlier this month that it has no strategic transition plan from Scottish-generated nuclear energy to renewables. How she knows that nuclear does not align with our net zero ambitions is extraordinary, given that the cabinet secretary told me that it is not currently possible to distinguish between types of generation or fuels in order to break down CO2 emissions data from energy generation sources in Scotland. As Craig Hoy flagged, the Scottish Government will not replace Tornes and Hunterston yet has done no modelling of the impact on energy bills and the cost of living crisis, so her cost claims are spurious at best. Finally, Marie Todd justified her position by stating, I believe that the vast majority of the public is back my position. I respectfully suggest that she reviews some UGov research published in the run-up to COP26, which shows in Scotland that 65 per cent are in favour of a role for nuclear in the energy mix, with 13 per cent against and 20 per cent don't know. She also said that nuclear was high risk in terms of safety, yet there have been no major nuclear safety incidents in the UK industries 46 years. Anyone who has done their homework knows that all current operating stations have extraordinary levels of built-in redundancy and new reactors are designed with even higher levels of safety built-in with further enhancements as the technology has moved on, all whilst being subject to one of the most robust regulatory regimes in the world. Next, on the economics over other options, the price of power from Hunterston B until it retired and Tornes is about £45 per megawatt hour. Wind contracts for difference historically average around £90 to £100 per megawatt hour and have only recently reduced to similar levels to Tornes. In terms of build costs, the UK Government's proposed regulated asset base model will lower the cost of financing, which Paul MacLennan will be delighted to hear the national office is saying would have reduced Hinkley's costs by 40 per cent. In addition, wind turbines only operate 25 per cent to 40 per cent at the time. When they are not operating without nuclear, the grid has to use expensive gas to fill the void. Nuclear stations operate more than 90 per cent of the time, requiring far less backup. Finally, on the waste, bear in mind that the nuclear industry is the only one to pay for and clean up its own waste. EDF and the UK Government have already set aside £14.8 billion to decommission and dispose of waste from the existing power stations. An increasing fund, equivalent to about £2 per megawatt hour, has been created to cover the cost. The amount of waste produced by nuclear is also very small. Almost all radioactivity is in a tiny fraction of the waste called high-level waste. Over the lifetime of the station, there is one dishwasher tablet worth of such waste for every person in the UK. A short contribution to this debate, but one that I think is necessary if only to add some scientific and data-driven fortitude to a Scottish Government position, which is anything but. Members in the chamber have illustrated the challenge that Scotland faces with energy in future. With Scotland using more nuclear power than any other UK nation in 2020 at 26 per cent, the forthcoming ending of generation at Tornes and the already cessation of generation at Hunterston B this year presents a significant challenge to the resilience of Scotland's electricity grid. Given that the country will need four times as much clean power by 2050 to hit net zero according to the climate change committee, 38 per cent of that clean power needs to be from firm, reliable, always-on power sources, regardless of weather conditions. We are faced with a stark choice—reliance on gas or the utilisation of new generation nuclear stations, whether in Scotland or in other parts of the United Kingdom. It is as simple as that. Therefore, we are presented with a choice. I do not think that the choice simply is the non-secutor presented by other members such as Hinckley Point C. I am not a fan of the European pressurised water-reacted technology. I think that it is a dog of a design and deeply problematic. It is a symptom of the domination of the British nuclear industry by the French state. However, we have other opportunities presented to us not just to look at new technologies but to build an industrial renaissance in Scotland by being at the forefront of the energy industry. The father of nuclear physics, Sir Ernest Rutherford, in 1933, mentioned that the energy produced by breaking down the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from transformation of those atoms is talking moonshine. We hope in the next few years to get some idea of what those atoms are, how they are made and the way they are worked. Even Rutherford's statement illustrates how great minds fail to anticipate the evolutionary direction of their own discoveries. The conversion of matter into energy, like all scientific discoveries, can be used for good or for ill, and it is for us to make the right choices. New types of nuclear reactors have significant potential to improve safety, reduce waste and reduce cost. Those are the three principal threats to public acceptance of nuclear power generation. That opens up the prospect of making an important contribution to the strategy for future emissions reduction. Scotland should support the development of such nuclear power technology. Nuclear generation has very low CO2 footprints, but most existing nuclear plants are not suitable for coping with variations in grid demand and cannot contribute to restarting the system after a grid failure, because the presence of the grid is required as a prerequisite for the reactor to start up. We should seek to design nuclear plants that are more commercially competitive, reliable, flexible and exploit inherently passive safety features that can contribute very significantly to capital cost reduction. Those ambitions seem to be a tall order, but new fourth generation reactor technologies should be able to deliver such a vision. One example is molten salt reactors, which are designs that are now showing great promise in a number of countries. Those designs have the potential to achieve large cost savings by removing the hazards that could lead to explosive release of dangerous fishing products into the atmosphere. In the hierarchy of approaches to safety engineering, hazard elimination, barn reduction and likelihood, or mitigation of consequences of the hazard itself, normally prove to be the most cost-effective strategy. That is where technologies such as molten salt come into their own. There are other favourable features of molten salt reactors, including the salt and steel corrosion problems that are eliminated by chemical-reducing properties in the coolant formulation. Refueling can be carried out on-load and unpressurised for the reducing capital cost. Maintenance of long-lived radiactive waste is much easier and cheaper, since the radiactive waste with fairly long half-lives is converted into much shorter half-life isotopes. A range of fuel types can be used. For example, thorium fuel has the potential to be used when uranium reserves begin to run out. The UK legacy stock of plutonium can be used for new fuel production. Re-use of plutonium as fuel would have immense strategic value as a contribution to removing and reducing proliferation of potential weapons material. Molten salt reactors can also be factored and produced as road transportable modules. There is a potential utilisation of new technologies that can build a supply chain in Scotland that would crowd in wealth and opportunity. If the nuclear industry had not evolved from military imperatives and had developed independently, molten salt technology now under development would probably be regarded as a dream contribution to the challenges of reliability and carbon reduction for the electricity system. That is the opportunity to be presented with if we reassess fundamentally what nuclear energy can present for this country. I urge the cabinet secretary to broaden his horizons and consider these emerging fourth generation technologies. Scotland can be the lead on this globally, and we should seize that opportunity. Thank you. I now call on the cabinet secretary Michael Matheson to respond to the debate. Around seven minutes please, cabinet secretary. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I congratulate Craig Coyne on securing time for this important debate on what is an important facility in Scotland at Tornes and the power that it has provided to Scotland for more than 30 years and will continue to do so for the next couple of years. I recognise the very valuable role that the workforce has provided over many decades and the important role that it plays within the East Lothian community points, which were highlighted by Craig Coyne himself, by Paul McClearn and also by Martin Whipfield in their contributions. Clearly, it is a facility that has now set a timeframe for the period to come offline and to move into decommissioning phase. A key part of the work that we have taken forward in the course of that is through Scottish Government agencies working in partnership with the national decommissioning agency to look at what support and assistance can be provided to the workforce as it transitions away from being a nuclear facility to other opportunities. However, of course, as we are now at the point where this is a facility that is now planning to come offline in 2028, we need to consider whether Scotland's electricity supply remains secure as a result of the loss of output. That is why the national grid conducted a detailed study into the effects of the earlier decision to end production at Tornes. As a result of the closure of that particular facility, the study from the national grid, which is responsible for ensuring the security of supply, is that Scotland's system remains secure with some mitigations that need to be put in place, a key part of which is including increasing our own capacity. In addition—let me make a bit of progress first of all—our own energy sector has been in transition for some time now. We are very clear as a government. Our priorities are renewables, storage hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, which we believe provide the best pathway to Scotland reaching its net zero target by 2045. We have been making very good progress in taking that forward over recent years, particularly with the expansion of greater renewable capacity. We now have the equivalent of around 98 per cent of our electricity, now coming from renewable sources. We want to build on that and develop that further as we progress further forward. I will give way to Mr Kerr. I am not entirely convinced by some of the statistics that we have just heard, but going back to the point about national grid, does the cabinet secretary not recognise that all of national grid's future energy scenarios include nuclear? In relation to the UK, yes, it does, but it is not here in Scotland in terms of security of supply, which is what the study specifically addressed. Can I just say to the member—I hear from a surgery position, as ever with Mr Kerr, in questioning details on those matters—in relation to 98 per cent, where exactly does he think that figure came from? It comes from the assessment through the national grid. Let me just give you some of the details. Scotland currently is a net energy and electricity exporter and, in 2020, exported 20.4 terawatt hours of electricity, the equivalent of powering every household in Scotland for 26 months. Scotland imported a little over one terawatt hour in 2020, meaning that the net export of electricity from Scotland is 19.3 terawatt hours in 2020 alone. That is a record high level, a reflection of the investment that has been made into our renewable energy sector, which is why it is a priority for us going forward. That is why we are very fortunate as a country to be in a position where we have such extensive potential to develop our renewable sector. That is why it is important that we build on that and we make progress on that, because it not only helps to decarbarise Scotland, it will help to decarbarise the UK and beyond. I will give way to Mr Horwit. I thank the minister for giving away, just for clarity and to address the point that Marie Todd said. Does the minister believe that nuclear power, particularly the station at Tornes, is safe? Yes, I accept that it is a safe facility and that there is a very strict regime around that. However, it is also wrong to try and give the impression that there is no risk associated with nuclear power. Fukushima took place in 2011, not that long ago. We need to be mindful of the risk that is also associated with it. It is not risk-free, but it is a very safe facility. Excuse me, can you resume your seat for a second? There is far too much. Mr Horwit, you intervened in the cabinet secretary and he gave you an answer. From a second position, you continue. That is not the way to do it. Seek another intervention or listen to what the cabinet secretary says. Thank you very much. I hope that I have answered the member's point. Let me also point to the first phase of Scotland, where the approach that is being taken by Curnaceate Scotland demonstrates an ambition from the sector to deliver some 25 gigawatts of offshore wind across Scottish waters. I think that that is a real testament to its confidence in the approach that the Scottish Government is taking in investing and in supporting our renewable sector, and to make sure that we also secure the jobs and the benefits that can come from that. I also want to turn to the issue around the idea about the cost impact of the nuclear sector. If we set aside the waste and environmental concerns, nuclear power is well recognised as being poor value for customers. It is an expensive form of electricity to produce. The evidence that was provided by the contract awarded by the UK Government to Hinkley Point C, which Paul McClellan made reference to, is that the price for generating is £92.50 per megawatt hour. You can pair that with the electricity that is generated from offshore wind. It is currently at £39.65 per megawatt hour. The assessment is that, under the UK's forward look in future generation, the cost in 2030 to each household bill, as a result of Hinkley Point, is potentially £40, in addition to the cost as a result of that programme alone. Whereas, in the equivalent of offshore wind, it would actually be £8 less per year. I will give way to Mr Tair, who can stand in his feet this time and ask a question. I am very pleased to take the opportunity to stand in my feet and ask a question. Paul McClellan raised the prospect that you, cabinet secretary, in your duties as responsible for energy, would consider, with an open mind, the possibility of small modular reactors. Some of the issues that you have been discussing are addressed through the deployment of small modular reactors. We have heard some of the excellent speeches on the engineering and science behind all this, but there is a real potential benefit in SMR. Will he look at this with an open mind as a benefit for Scotland? The reality is that small modular reactors are a change in construction type, but the technology is by and large the same on a smaller scale. As we have set out in our energy strategy, under existing technologies, we do not support new nuclear energy provision. Although there is a change in scale in nature of its construction, in terms of the principle of the nuclear process, it remains the same. It is not a new technology in that sense. I will give way to Mr Tair. With the cabinet secretary accepting, as I outlined in my speech, that the transformational effects of such technologies as molten salt can introduce passive safety so that it is a revolutionary change in how the nuclear industry would operate, massively reducing the capital cost of stations. Even looking at the supply chain, Rolls Royce is interested in building a heavy-pressure vessel factory in the UK, £200 million of investment. The member for Glasgow province said that he has not even met the company to discuss the prospects that have been located in Scotland. That is a supply chain opportunity—heavy engineering and advanced manufacturing. Could that at least be something that the cabinet secretary considered taking up proactively with Rolls Royce? I am sure that Ivan McKeeble will respond to the particular point in terms of pursuing anything with Rolls Royce through inward investment. However, the position of the Scottish Government in relation to the existing technologies that are available for fission nuclear energy is not consistent with its energy policy, and that will not change under the review of our existing energy strategy. That includes the small reactors that the member made reference to. I thought that it was an interesting point that Liam Kerr made, and that was in relation to the costs that are associated with the decommissioning of nuclear energy, made reference to the significant amount of money that EDF has set aside to cover nuclear decommissioning. Who does he think has provided that money? It is us, customers. We have provided that money through our bills. The cost of decommissioning is not something that is picked up by the companies in some philanthropic approach. It is based into the cost and is added on to our bills as a result. To try and give the impression as though decommissioning is something that is picked up on by the commercial companies alone, is factually incorrect, because it is met by the additional costs that are put on to customers' bills, and that is why it is a poor deal for the taxpayer. Even if you take somewhere like Hunterston A, which stopped producing electricity back in 1990, it has still been through its decommissioning process. The cost of that is fixed into people's household bills. That is why the costs of nuclear energy are well recognised as not being good value for customers. That is why the Scottish Government's focus is on making sure that we invest in renewable energy, ensure that we make the best use of Scotland's natural assets and ensure that we do that in a way that is consistent with Scotland reaching net zero by 2045. Thank you, cabinet secretary. That concludes the debate. I suspend this session until 2.30pm this afternoon.


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel! So obviously I'm so excited for today's video because I'm going to be reviewing the all-new Natasha Denona All-Nutrile Beba Eyeshadow Palette. She finally released one of her big eyeshadow palettes and I cannot be more excited. So if you want to hear my review on this palette as well as see a tutorial on the look that I'm wearing, then just keep watching. First of all, I just wanted to say thank you because we hit 10,000 subscribers on my channel. I cannot believe that 10,000 people want to listen to me talk about makeup. That is so beyond what my mind can fathom, so thank you. As a celebration, I did pick up two of these guys, so one of you guys is going to receive this palette in my giveaway. So if you want to be entered to win this palette, just stay tuned till the end of the video and I will tell you the rules and what you have to do. But anyways, let's just get right into the review. So the major facts about this guy, of course, this is the Natasha Denona Beba All-Nutrile Eyeshadow Palette. It is $129. It is available right now starting today at Sephora.com as well as in stores. And then of course, Natasha Denona.com, though her shipping is so expensive if you order from there, at least for me, to my house. It does say online that Sephora, but that this is an exclusive. It doesn't say anything about whether or not it's limited edition. So I imagine if this sells well, it probably will not end up being limited edition. This is described as a must-have, multi-use, 15-pam palette with the most essential colors. So let's go into the packaging. It is the same hard pan that both the Tropic and Sephora palette came in. I love this packaging personally. I find it to be much more sleek, a little bit more compact, and just much more professional if you ask me. It's also less chunky. So it is this very almost white lilac shade, super, super light. And then it has in very subtle letters, all neutral. And then of course, Natasha Denona Beba Palette. And then of course on the back, you can poke a needle through these little holes and you can take the eyeshadows out. If you ever wanted to put them in a separate pan, if you're traveling or for whatever reason. I just love that you have that option. You open it up, you have a big, giant, you have a very big, giant mirror. And then of course, you have your 15 eyeshadow shades. And what I do also prefer about this hard packaging is that the names are just right there on the palette. You don't have that dumb sheet of plastic that a lot of her other palettes have that I just find to really get in the way of me just digging into the shades. So this palette is designed to have three different tones of neutrals. So you're supposed to create any type of neutral look that you want. From an everyday simple eye to a really sexy, smoky eye, you can do it all with this palette. You can also do a really nice bronze look as well. You just can get a whole range of neutral looks basically with this palette. So the top row is the more brown shades in this palette. The shade Cocoa, which is that third color, that chocolate brown is actually also in the Tropic palette. It's a good basic color that you want to use for many other looks as well. So I'm not mad that this is repeated in this palette. So this is the more neutral toned browns in the palette. Natasha said she tried to make the transition shades in particular very unique based on their undertones. The only shade I would really describe as unique is the shade Prairie right here with a little bit more of a yellow undertone. I love shades like that. I don't necessarily know that it is unique, but it's definitely the most unique in that row. So the second row here are going to be your more warm toned neutrals so you can get really pretty warm brown eyes.  I wish I would have filmed it for you guys because it was a gorgeous look. And then the last row of course you have your cool tone neutrals where you are going to get a deep smokey eye or just give you the ability to really deepen up a look. Since they are all neutral for the most part you can really get them to work with any color inside the palette. Of course the cool tone is going to be a little bit more difficult to work with the rest of the palette. But the top two rows for sure you can definitely mix and match. So the finishes in this palette are majority matte which I found very interesting. Natasha has such a beautiful shimmer formula. She has flopped on some of her shimmer formulas but the shimmer formulas that are in here are not a flop. They are her typical amazing creamy buttery shiny shimmery shades. So if you're scared that you might get some of those shimmers in here you're not. You're getting the good Natasha shimmers. But you are only getting three of them. So this is a majority matte eyeshadow palette. So 12 of the shades are matte finish and then three are her metallic finish. Now she has two different types of mattes in this palette. Eight of them are her powder matte formula which are so beautiful. They blend great. They are very soft so you are going to get some kick back. So just be aware of that and use a light hand. And with those powder matte shades you really only need to use a light hand because they are extremely pigmented and extremely blendable. Now four of these are her cream to powder formula. And honestly I have to say I wish she just didn't bother putting this formula in this palette. I'm not a big fan of her cream to matte formula. It's not that they don't work. They blend just fine. But the shade you see in the pan is actually much much lighter and less pigmented than what it actually looks like. Now I'm not saying they don't work. I use the shade tone today as my all over transition shade. And it is a beautiful shade. It blended out gorgeous. But just know the color is going to show up like three to four shades lighter than it actually looks in the pan. And at that point I'm just like why even bother. Just use your matte formula and put a lighter shade in if you're that concerned with it. It is mess free. I will say that. So if you do want to transition color and you don't want the powder all over your face. You may like this cream to powder formula. Also if you have a very heavy hand with makeup you also may like this cream to powder formula. In my opinion it just doesn't do it for me. I've used a couple of these in my outer corner with a blender brush. Don't even try it. It's not going to show up at all. The only way you're really going to get these colors to show up on your eyes is if one you use them as a transition shade. Or two you apply them with your finger. There was one dud shade in this palette. And that is the color tar right here. I mean you may like it. But it shows up like this on my finger. And then I can hardly even see where that is. It's right here. Hardly get it to show up at all. And that includes on my eyelid using a finger and in my transition area. It is so sheer that it almost matches this light gray here. There are some upsides to that formula but I just don't find it necessary. I would rather just have 12 of her gorgeous powder matte formula that blend beautifully. They're just unnecessary you know. But anyways that's just my opinion. They also don't really feel like a regular cream when you rub your finger in it. I mean they are soft and buttery and they feel different than the matte formula because there's not a lot of kickback. But it just feels like a non-pigmented powder to me if you ask me. But that's just my two cents. You might like her cream it's a matte formula. But it's not my favorite. I can get it to work. But if it's not going to show up on the eyes like it looks in the pan I just... Also another downside to the palette is I feel like some of the shades are quite similar. I feel like she should have played around a little bit more with depth in the palette. Or tones. There's just a lot of different shades of brown and I feel like she could have been a little bit more adventurous with the tones. For example I feel like seed and cocoa weren't necessary to have both of those. Freckle and buff I feel like it wasn't necessary to have both of those. It wasn't necessary to have tar and sculpture in the same palette. Pasha ran. I just feel like she could have been a little bit more adventurous. I know this is a neutral palette. But it's Natasha Denona and I feel like she really can play around with those weird undertones and make it work. One thing I did forget to mention there is one cream to matte powder that I actually like. And this is the spot shade. This is her first time doing her black in that cream to powder formula and it is good. I don't know if you noticed in the swatch but it is so black and it blends out so seamlessly. So that I had no problems with the pigmentation at all and it blended beautifully. I think I prefer this to a normal matte black just because it's a lot easier to work with. You don't get that fallout and it just blends out better if you ask me. So I will say that black in that cream formula really really good. The rest unnecessary. So that about covers all of the textures that you're going to find in this palette. So Natasha on her Instagram she basically said as I stated earlier she wanted this to be for everybody for somebody going to work or somebody who wants a really glam smoky eye. It's just neutrals all you need in one palette. Now one shade that I do think she's missing is she does have this skin tone cream shade but I think she could have had a lighter one as well. I feel as though that would have been a good addition for me because sometimes I do like to put a light cream just all over my eye to clean everything up. Other than that the other colors that she put in I feel she did a very good job choosing them. I really do think of all her eyeshadow palettes. This really is an all in one neutral eyeshadow palette and if you're into neutrals this is it. This is really really good. I do wish you put more shimmers in there and took back some of those mattes because her shimmers are so amazing she could have gone and added some beautiful gold some more champagne and just different shadows with different textures and finishes but other than that I'm not complaining.   A lot of the shades are dupable I will say that but I just I don't have a palette that really has all of the different tones of neutrals in one. So individually I will say these shades are definitely all dupable for me however just a palette that has all of these colors in one is something that I don't have.  Though I don't love 100% of the eyeshadows in it all of them are really really good if not better. It's just three of those cream to mattes that I think I would have preferred to be replaced with something else but they still work just fine and they are beautiful transition colors you just you know I just got to be picky and say something in my reviews. I think I had it made it clear already I do really like this palette so I'm going to go into the tutorial of how I got this look. So I started off with the shade tone and I applied that all over my crease. The tone is the cream to powder formula so as you can see it applied very light to my eyelid blended beautifully I did really like that as a transition shade and the giant beautiful blending brush I'm using is the Wanga 16. It is perfect it really picks up those cream shades very well. So I then took the shade Tusk which is that cream color and the Esum W25 and I just placed that right over the concealer that was under my eyebrow to set it. I would have preferred the shade to be just a tinge lighter but that's definitely me being selfish it worked completely fine. The next shade I went into was Prairie I had to use that shade I love those mustardy yellowy brown shades so I used the Wayne Goss 18 brush and I just lightly placed that on the inner and outer corner and then blended that all over my crease beautiful shade so buttery smooth so pigmented adding a little bit more depth I went in with the shade Cocoa and I applied that to the inner and outer corners of my eyelid and then once they were blended out I did kind of make a windshield wiper motion to meet the two but I wasn't really too focused on that I really just wanted the depth in my inner and outer corner then I really wanted to add some depth and the real point of me using the shade was to show you how amazing it was so I took the shade spot which is the black shade on a Morphe M507 and I really just slowly blended that in my inner and outer corner now I honestly think I would prefer this look without the black but I did want to show you how amazing the black was and how seamlessly it blended really really love this shade then I took Shine which is more of a champagne metallic shade and I just used my finger to apply that to the lid oh my gosh these shimmers are so buttery smooth and so shiny pretty gorgeous when Natasha does it like this these are one of the best metallics if not the best metallic in the game so I just applied that all over my lid with my finger and then I went in with a small bullet brush and I went into Monroe which is an even more ivory metallic shade and I applied that to my inner corner underneath my brow bone and I also kind of padded that right into the center of my lid to really add a gorgeous glow I went up camera I did the rest of my face makeup and then I took the Wayne Goss number 20 brush and I started off with Prairie that yellowy brown and I applied that all over my lower lash line and then I of course went in with Coco and put that right on top and then I finished the rest of my makeup if you're curious what else I'm wearing it of course will be linked down below in the description box around everything together I'm going to give you my thoughts on this palette I really really do like it if you have a lot of eyeshadow palettes in your collection I don't think you need it but if you're a Natasha fan and you're a neutral lover and you've been looking for an all-neutral Natasha palette I think you're going to like this this is really really good quality and I think it's very very easy to use the formula it makes it easy for everybody to use and the layout makes it easy for you to create a look I really just think this is a very user-friendly palette I really like the colors that she chose I don't have a palette that has all of these colors in one so this really is a go-to neutral palette you know if you're tight on money and you have a lot of makeup you don't need this you can save your money you'll be okay but it is a nice luxury to have and I'm more than happy that I picked it up this is way better than the Tropic palette if you were fearing that I will say though if you have the Safari palette and then another palette or two of Natasha that has her shimmers you could skip out on this palette because the Safari does have very similar neutral tones in it and then of course if you have other palettes with her shimmers you don't need just the three shimmers in this but you know what I don't regret buying this I'm really happy with it so overall I would say I give this palette an 8.5 out of 10 taking away points because I want more shimmers I don't want the cream to match and she could have played around with some more of those undertones and then neutrals but other than that I mean who am I to say Natasha is a queen so you got it girl so let's get into this giveaway now I just wanted to kind of squeeze it in so that only my really loyal subscribers are really here for it you know I just don't want those crazy giveaway hunters so what you have to do first of all you need to be subscribed to me of course on my channel here and you also need to be following me on Instagram as well my Instagram name is morgan turner makeup if you follow me there like I feel like I post pretty good pictures on my Instagram and I'm worth following at the very least I also give extra tutorials as well on my Instagram so some of you asked me to create tutorials palettes and a lot of times I actually already have that on my Instagram so you know win-win situation so all you have to do down below is I want you to comment your favorite Natasha Denona palette that has released thus far the one that you love the most and also put your Instagram handle in the comment as well so that I can message you on Instagram that is how the winner is going to find out this contest is going to end a week from today so that is going to be March 22nd I'm so excited about having my first giveaway I wanted to do a Natasha Denona palette for my very first giveaway because I feel like Natasha Denona as a brand has really helped me grow my channel and my audience I know you guys love Natasha so why not gift you guys the newest palette because I know a lot of you already have most of the palettes so as always thank you guys so much for watching I really hope you enjoyed this video and found my review helpful I look forward to seeing you guys in the next video so that means you need to subscribe and yeah just thank you 10k that's crazy have a great day guys bye


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Hello and welcome to the session. My name is Mansi and I'm going to help you with the following question. The question says an analysis of monthly wages paid to workers in two firms A and B belonging to the same industry gives the following results. Now, number of wage earners of firm A are 586 and for firm B are 648. Mean of monthly wages for firm A is Rs 5243 and for firm B is Rs 5243. Variants of the distribution of wages for firm A is 100 for firm B is 121. Now, first part is which firm A or B pays larger amount as monthly wages and second part is which firm A or B shows greater variability in individual wages. Now, here we see that mean of monthly wages for firm A is Rs 5253 and here also we have Rs 5253. So, let us start with the solution to this question. First of all, we see that for firm A monthly wages 78 of wages that is sigma is equal to square root of variance. So that will be equal to square root of 100 and that is equal to variation for firm A will be equal to standard deviation for firm A divided by mean for firm A by 100 that is 10 divided by multiplied by 100. So, this is the coefficient of variation for firm A, firm B we see that number of wage earners is equal to 6.8 multiplied by 5. Variation is equal to sigma that is equal to square root of variance to square root of 121 that is 11. Therefore, of variation B divided by mean for firm B multiplied by 100 and that is 11 divided by 5253 on calculating this we get 0.21. Question was which firm A or B pays out larger amount? The amount is Rs 307. The first part of the question is part was which firm A or B shows greater variability in individual wages. Now, we see that coefficient of variation for firm B is 0.21, 0.19. Since coefficient of variation for firm B is greater than coefficient of variation for firm A, therefore our answer to the second part is also B that is the firm B shows greater variability in individual wages because coefficient of variation for firm B is greater than that of firm A. So, this is our answer to the question. I hope that you understood the question and enjoyed the session. Have a good day.