Let us now look at how the services can be provisioned particularly the real-time multimedia services in IP multimedia subsystem based environments in NGNs. For that we will have to look at the traditional view, how IMS creates a horizontal view and what are the services which can be invoked from the IMS system. So once we say that we have NGN architecture with its complete set of services and functionalities, we are actually looking at the service provisioning from the horizontal view point that is. We are interested in using the underlying infrastructure coming from the transport stratum and the service stratum on top of that to actually use the services in a very repeatable manner without having to create functional requirements and services for individual user applications. For that horizontal architecture in NGNs actually implies that the services would be facilitated through service enablers which would be the common functions reusable and repeatable for a multitude of applications. Now this is actually a move away from the traditional view point which is known as the vertical implementation of services. Vertical implementation implies every new application comes with its own dedicated suite of services. So let's look at the vertical view with regards to the traditional services. So if each service has to be provisioned and that there is some kind of network agnosticism or an assumption that the network wouldn't provide us the services, we have to cater for each and every service and functionality at our own. In that case the vertical implementation would require services ranging from authentication, authorization, charging down to the routing and service provisioning requirements. So it means that traditional view would require a lot of duplication and repetition of certain services. But this is not what is desirable for that IMS comes into play. So IMS actually makes use of the effective and efficient implementations at the service and transport stratum to utilize and invoke common sets of services. It means that IMS actually would now be a set of common services which are not specifically designed for a specific or a singular service. So the consequences with that already available common sets of functions and services, whenever a new service would be deployed, it would result into some kind of efficient, short and immediate deployment. So we say that the time to market and the customer delivery would be improved. And then the overall service creation and service delivery would be facilitated and simplified to a great deal. And this actually means that in all the service providers, the NGN operators and the customer premises equipment providers would all have lower capital expenditures and lower operational expenses. So let's summarize what do we mean by the horizontal functional architecture for IMS in order to provide real time multimedia services. As you can see, we have the service stratum. The service stratum actually has the support functions like application support and service support, which are actually now connecting to the IP multimedia subsystem IMS using certain functional entities.  So in all, the point that we need to understand from this whole diagram is that the functions are being reused for any service with or any application which is utilizing the NGN architecture with IMS as the service platform. So you see here the beauty about this IMS is it is once deployed and it can be repeatedly used for other applications and user services.


This is stock number 10380. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2013 Chevy Silverado 2500 crew cab short box. This truck has the 6-liter V8 motor and has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. This truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. Granite Blue or Blue Granite Crystal is the color. Same color as GMC Stealth Gray. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the truck with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle quality and condition wise before seeing it in person. If you want to check out more photos of this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link right to our website so click that and check us out there. It has American Outlaw painted in polished aluminum rims. Cooper Discover ST LT 27570 R18 tires. Those tires have right around I'd say 60% of the tread left. Frame and underbodies and really nice condition. Very little corrosion. Front fenders in excellent shape. Granite Blue is one of my favorite colors on the Chevy's. Hoods in nice condition. You get the chrome trimmed grille. The factory fog lights. The front bumper is in really nice condition as is the lower valance. Passenger side fender. Didn't see any dents or dings on that. And the passenger side rim is about the same condition as the driver's side. No scuffs on those rims. As you go down this side of the vehicle you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. 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Alright guys, welcome to another exciting episode of come again. I'm Shannon really And here's shortly John's gonna be joining us via webcast World, I think we're probably only gonna do audio for him Cuz it's just a pain in the butt trying to read this read these stories and everything Alright, so Star-Lord meets his father and another new clip from Guardians of the Galaxy volume 2 You knew it was gonna happen. Yeah Bring the Celestials right to it Lev Schreiber was approached to reprise the role of sabertooth in Logan. I Think he would have made it a lot better than it ended up being yeah, I didn't like I didn't like the villain that much I didn't either And it was that easy to kill Wolverine why didn't do that a long time ago. Yeah that and I don't know. It was just kind of dull I got a lot of heat on this channel for my review of the movie See, I just watch it for x-23 for Laura because x-23 is awesome and yeah She did a better Wolverine than what Wolverine does See King Arthur legend of the sword. I'm really looking forward to that. Yeah, I want to see it looks good Which I've got the graphic novel of King Arthur in there. I still have to read I'm gonna read it to get prepared for it Not like there's much to get prepared for everyone knows the well Yeah, it depends on what what when you're reading because you have The one that's told from Merleau's perspective. Yeah, then you have the one from one of your perspective when it's lost perspective, right? There's so many different perspectives. It just depends on which would they actually go from Arthur's perspective Yeah, me personally the one I like the most with it is the sword in the stone To me that's cannon. That's King Arthur. Yeah and of course my Computer is screwing up with comic book movie calm because of all the ads they show on this thing It It won't load properly. Did you show they show so many ads on com? I see I see that now Um So did you watch any of the CW shows this week? I? Haven't seen it single one since last season. I Watched I watched them all Thursday Or no Friday And they were okay. I haven't been catching them on the day they air like I used to Just because there's so much other stuff going on that. Yeah, I've been working too much. So I've missed everything this year Tell the audience what you're doing now for a living Billy. I work for the post office now long days very long days So Supergirl see what happened on Supergirl She flew she used to you reason she'd be put some guy kissed a guy I'm not liking how this is I'm gonna have to do a lot of editing You can just spoil this for me. I don't care. I'll probably forget anyway, so Flash ran in circles arrow shot arrows The flash went to the future and then met his future self Then the costume the new flash costume. Yeah looks amazing. It's brighter red Okay, the yellow lighting bolts going across here. Okay, so it's like the one off of the DC Legends game Kind of that's pretty cool. I think John's getting ready to call in no Mike We never invited a Mike Microphone oh my lapel Mike that's missing. Are you there? Hello, John? What's up ugly? You know what my tie you just got out of church man. This ties awesome dude.  All right, so you're gonna have to talk a little bit louder cuz I can't since I can't find my lapel Mike We're just doing your audio So did you did you check around the Legos? I'm not surprised. Yeah All right, so live live Shriver Was approached about rea about becoming sabertooth again for Logan. What do you think about that? I'd like to to let me bring this camera a little bit closer So that maybe it'll pick up Not you you didn't want to see that no All right All right, there we go. It's a little bit better. It's a cat All right, so John, what did you think about how I re-edited your review? Have you watched it yet? review What review review on a Scooby-Doo meets Green Lantern Green Arrow. Oh, I didn't do much to it I just put the pages in the background moved your image over to the side of the screen Since John likes to film with his phone long ways rather than the normal way. Yeah Thank you now we can see All right, so today on the show we are gonna be reviewing Billy got comic here From C2 E2 is an indie comic. Can you see that John? Hyperaction featuring the resistance from big blue comics Wasn't a problem. I knew you liked him so That was just really cool when I actually got to meet him Jack squagger and I mean Jean we're standing right next to him nice. I think they're kind of salty cuz I mean Jean Old yeah, old he looks like he needs it like some serious Botox and He'd still look like a melted butter So also today on come again Which these are gonna premiere? In a few weeks actually these pop reviews cuz I've got I've got like 13 pop reviews lined up so far You don't want to come see my collection now So you want to pass those over here? So first thing video video your audio your audio video for us because we're pretty so Gonna be reviewing Felicity smoke my wife just bought this for me today from Mega replay I would let her review me Patty tolin Patty tolin this was on sale at mega replay for 4 49 Which is really cool still have it in the new movie, and I just bought this one from Billy today That is cool Supposed to be the C2 E2 exclusive because it came in the pop read box But I found him on the shelf. Yeah as well. So There really wasn't any C2 E2 exclusive Funko pops up there. Yeah, I've actually seen this reviewed once on on YouTube really Take the only one I haven't found in the wild with all the ones on the back has been Dr. Strange the Falcon he's the only one I have not seen because all this is is It's just a regular Deadpool that they just put a suit on well No, they they took the body from another pop Because it's the suit and then they just took the head from Deadpool and put it on Yeah, that's pretty cool Glare also Billy is going to be reviewing This heavy thing Groot See that John. Yeah, you see that one. They still haven't found good luck All right, so in fact Any comics you've read lately John other than Okay, okay Nice Very nice There's the throne with his face and on the side and white background. That's the regular version Okay, I'm actually currently reading Dynamite's King Comics Right now I started with kind of started off with the first few pages What the hell are you doing? He's glitching Started off with King's quest by dynamite Which has the phantom flash Gordon mandrake the magician Prince valiant and a few others Yeah But in order to understand it I had to go back and read the single issues Four issues from each character Right now. I'm on King phantom number three. I'm getting ready to read. I just finished one and two Then once I'm done with that I'll get mandrake the magician Prince valiant and all those and jungle Jim I think is a part of it as well But the phantom in that time died during a King's watch at the very end of King's watch, which is the first part of the first chapter of King's quest and so now they Is taking over as the phantom until they find The true heir to the phantom But the way they do it makes Anyway, this guy who's taking up the role of the phantom Until they can find the true heir to the phantom legacy He's actually a really good phantom. All right, so anyway another comic I'm getting ready to read is the shadow now Also by dynamite comics It's the shadow Taking place in today rather than being back in like the 30s and 40s It actually takes place today. Yeah, so I'm getting ready to read that Huh Comixology Comixology Get you can get the digital downloads from Comixology. He's not getting hard copies. No soft copies He likes a soft copy By the way guys, this is not a sponsored episode But I recently tried this stuff and I am addicted to it. Yeah, it's a crack in it. It's called it's called body armor it's It's a lot better than Gatorade It's all natural instead of water. They use coconut water and just Tons of flavor It's delicious Total fat zero grams 70 calories 20 milligrams of sodium 350 milligrams of potassium how much sugar 18 grams 18 grams on sugars Carbs is 18 grams 18 and 18 It's not bad And it's delicious as that's the official sponsor We aren't getting paid by Pepsi You got the right one baby, uh-huh. I watched the old throwback of Michael Jackson When will kid bumped into him on the street when he's drinking Pepsi can of Pepsi No, it wasn't that doesn't die at Pepsi one with a Charles this is always on the street But for those of you who don't know let me switch this around real quick So we are talking to John this way here This is why we can't have it turned around because you're on computer John and We still need to be able to look stuff up on the computer if need be And then if we turn the computer around we wouldn't be able to see you either Oh, it's a bookmark That's pretty neat, but speaking of John Did you happen to check to see if you had any of those Harvey comics? I asked you about Yeah, Harvey whatever like yeah, I said yeah, I sent you a picture of What my friend is wanting Okay For those of you who know who have kids Yeah, I have a friend who has a another YouTube channel a very popular Kids YouTube channel he contacted me last night asked me if I knew of anywhere where that he could order comics off of and I automatically thought of John and I could have sworn I saw some of the Herbie comics. We had that one binder. What happened to it? That all them old books He might be interesting For those of you who don't know I mean I've been reviewing a lot of idw's ghostbusters lately Have you watched any of the episodes? No, what about you John?  I did right now? I am working on the mass hysteria two book storyline I Just reviewed mass hysteria one Probably next week. I'll be reviewing mass hysteria to The way I see it is you've got ghostbusters. You've got ghostbusters to ghostbusters a video game Which is technically ghostbusters 3. Yeah, then the mass hysteria stories from idw. I Consider those ghostbusters for they are that good there. They Follow the same timeline and everything they bring all they combine Both movies and the video game together Just they it comes full circle great stories highly recommend them Cool here that guy is John will Eventually be reviewing some masses universe classics figures if we can never get him out of the house and over here Good luck with that All right, so any more news you got for us John? No You are nothing So for those of you guys who don't know We have been busy the past month or so here lately with my other channel John's been helping me with it. So is Billy on occasion when I'm not working. Yeah Have a horror channel out now, which I told you guys about a while back It's It's called twisted zombie productions. We just did the season finale of the watching Which is a special half an hour episode? John was part of the big part of that I didn't really care for the Audio track on that though. I I like the more silent one See is because I didn't really care for the dialogue because I had to cut so much on that because John kept cracking us up Yeah I'm gonna start doing the script and you're gonna have to stick to it He can't even read a book without skipping ahead So, but yeah, we've been working on some horror videos. So check it out twisted zombie productions We shot we filmed one In Hell's Hollow here over by Greenwood Cemetery About a month or so ago. I have no idea what that's Yeah, so three That's actually name of the place. Yeah, it's over there in Lincoln Park by milken Didn't know that's what it's called. Yeah. Hell's Hollow. It's right behind Greenwood Cemetery It's supposed to be really haunted, but I'm Yeah Also John and I are getting ready to work on Collaborate on a video's and thought a horror anthology series for twisted zombie productions Yeah, my sixth son He's up all night. That's why he's sleeping on the catch But we're getting ready to work on a horror anthology series called tales from Hell's Hollow Which is gonna be very similar to like a cross between the Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt and it's gonna be hosted by Baron von Gulstein Who's that? How's you guys doing this at night or something? No, it's better. Disappointments better.   That'd be pretty funny What are you gonna do with Superman? Do you stop that right now? I Have a twisted mind. I can't help it obviously Kind of getting off the game point here. No, it's still comic book related This is made of crypto talk about his dog.  Ah, I can explain this. This is not that hard to explain Yeah, the new super boy. I can explain how this happened Red Sun Get a red sun lamp or one of the red sun rooms like they have like in the show Yeah, see they did however explain that Superman brought in Batman and Wonder Woman to the fortress for nine months or however long to kind of help out with Lois Pregnant all they need to do What all that do is give one of them chambers from Supergirl and There you go. Just put some you know some lace up and black light and annual repaintings everywhere Or just keep them in the dark for However long because he's a he's a solar battery. He needs a son for his powers and it'd take a lot longer He'd have to be enough like months And I think he's absorbed the Sun for years And if you consider some of the movies canon where he actually flew into the Sun Yeah, but in Final night the Sun was out for what 24 hours and he started losing his powers.  He actually snaps in So do the others oh By the way, I'm how was it meeting your idol? I see to eat you. She's so pretty I Got to meet Erica Henderson. It was amazing. I'm who it for those of them who don't know who is Erica Anderson She is the artist behind the unbeatable squirrel girl And one of the best caret person ever next to Stanley was your wife tells it off.  She loves the movies and she's been to her first comic book convention and now she's planning a trip to Wizard World She's planning our Trip next year to see to you too. Yeah this year. She wants to go to Wizard World.  This is like a geek link calm. You can they do D&D. They got all kinds of neat stuff That's what she doesn't play board games But we're gonna go to Wizard World But well, what we're gonna go to Wizard World because they've already announced to the people that I can't wait to meet Is Kevin Sorbrough and Dean Kane are gonna be there Nice, so that's gonna be awesome So they're gonna have Monal's dad yeah and Kara's adopted dad. Yeah, I'm not sure what else is gonna be there But those are the two big ones that are gonna be there this year From what they said, what do you guys think about? the guy who they announced Was going to be the next doctor Who's that? I don't know. That's what you said. Who's that? He doesn't look like Like he could be the doctor though. So let me let me bring it up I was hoping James Masters would become the doctor Complete with his spike accent That'd been cool. I want any pond to become the doctor any ponder Yeah, that'd be good too No, I'm not Patrick Stewart I would love to see Patrick Stewart as a doctor. He can't move around that good Shit, too He's used to sitting in a chair doing this have you not okay, maybe it's just I'm making fun of Patrick Stewart from Logan Now I know they announced him or they said He'd been signed on to be the Chris criminal Where the incoming doctor? Yeah, Chris Chimna. No, who the heck is that? Is he English? Sounds like he could be There we go, that's what we need we need a German doctor Have you know how he'll hydra Hydra, oh That's what I want to ask you guys. What do you think about the new thing they're doing with Captain America that he's Nope, they were not No No, you haven't seen it have you He actually has been a part of Hydra since before he became Captain America Marvel announced it No Marvel completely announced it that they're not memory implants that the implants came when he was injected with the super soldier that he Hated Hydra. He's been the greatest infiltrator ever They were not implants They just was slowly he finally something slipped somebody slipped somewhere or they found to bring all this up on being Hydra He's actually been a Hydra agent before he became Captain America, I don't like that this entire time.  Those were actual true things that happened and He all that's why he kept trying to enlist in the army He was trying to get in to be able to get information about this because they knew the doctor was there that could do the super soldier So and they knew he knew if he could get in he would get picked for it Because he was the weakest and he would do all this stuff for everybody else And that's what got him in to get picked for the super soldier so I hope they don't make a movie out of that They will you know they will They'll turn controversial at the moment they'll turn him Controversy sells Eric Bishop miss every bitch. I'll set it best. I don't like it. Nobody likes it, but it's that's what it is Fuck Marvel Well, yeah, you see they do that then We'll see what if they do this with Well, I see this is how you do with Chris Evans if when his movie contract ends with the Falcon becoming Captain America This is how you bring him in that's Captain America and you get the female Thor that's what I'm thinking with Ragnarok is gonna be so good Because I know that guy from work I just wish they'd show built a better a bill Because he was there as well But this is how you bring in all these other virgins of people and that's how you work in the new mutants the defenders So you bring everybody in How'd this go by your man? No, see I was just reading No, see what I was reading. I was just reading it with Logan After days of future past the original X-Men trilogy that was made does not exist That is not canon anymore all new Wolverine with Laura Yeah Shannon needs a hug I'm stressed Hugging hugging through mice. Well, no, you stay in your space. I'll stay in my space. Oh wait, that doesn't exist anymore There is still my space, but it's all music now. Seriously. Yeah Oh All that work I haven't been on in five years, but all that work All right guys, so We're gonna go ahead and bring this video podcast to an end And I think we're gonna go ahead and review some more of these pops I'm I gotta get home. So I guess the pay-per-views on the night and it's yeah Screw wrestling Yeah, it is at least every 30 days He just won the title at WrestleMania He just wanted to wrestle mania. That's only been like 28 days He's not defending until the next pay-per-view. That's raw. He's on raw not smack down This is a smackdown pay-per-view. Why they got like go bro get back in the shape. Oh, that'd be a good fight You know Ron Strowman is Kind of If you're gonna do that you need to buy If you're gonna do that then you go back and strip Bruno San Martino of his eight-year run because they only defended it four times a year That's why he was able to hold on to it for eight years Anybody that's held the title the only person that's actually defended the title every 30 days or more or less has been CM Punk It's like that's why I don't consider Hulk Hogan or Bruno San Martino's records valid And it's not just because he's the second city Satan. He's the greatest wrestler ever It's the fact that he actually defended any title he ever had in any company that he was with he defended Yes, they like he well, he said it best with his pipe bomb He's just a spoke and he knows the wheels gonna keep on turning without him there and it sucked And I actually got to see him at C2E2, but I wasn't gonna say anything to him because his handle was there And I didn't feel like getting knocked out He's both the same size of me, too. That's I remember. It's like wow, dude He's really not that much bigger than me So anyway guys that was fun again for this week We'll see you again later Like I said, we've got pop reviews coming out every Tuesday And if I can never get John out of his house and over here to film We'll have more regular podcasts He could do it better than I can. I don't work all the time. So I get like one day off a week. I'm lucky It's usually Sundays and I'm tired because somebody keeps me up all night playing D&D So take care guys and we'll be back with another pop review John will be back at some point with some Masters of the Universe classics reviews So Have a good one


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What's going on guys? I'm here with Nicole today Nicole wave. Hi. What's up? What's going on? So Nicole has been and I'm so happy she reached out to me in the comments on my YouTube channel Saying the experiences she had with her three pregnancies So although Nicole had some problems early on in her life related to diet and various problems Eventually at a later point in her life. She did try Having a pregnancy on both a standard diet a vegan diet and then back to a paleo diet So she has three very interesting and different Experiences that we can kind of relate to the importance of having animal foods in the diet in regards to Ease of birth pregnancy health of the mother's milk and health of the child So I'm going to kind of let Nicole take it away here Starting with I guess, you know, what happened when you're trying those diet pills, right? Thank you, Frank. Thank you for the nice introduction that you did for me. Yes, I started like a dieting yo-yo dieting in my early teens and when I was 16 so throughout my 15 that year 15 to 16 I was taking diet pills and Then I ended up having an appendix my appendix removed. So it was quite an emergency surgery and then I kept still like dieting because Like I couldn't lose weight properly. I would always gain it back Like my my diet was heavy on carbs like I would say in Italy We do eat a lot of grains and stuff So I would have like a bowl of cereals or eventually a croissant before school for breakfast and then pasta Maybe a for dinner like some some cheese or something like that But not that much more bread or legumes things like that because I think in the 90s That the focus of the diet in order to lose weight is that you have to go low fat. So I was really low fat For all these years and I was over exercising over training doing just a lot of cardio Basically and then eating very little fat very high carb and what's happened at 23 After all these years of like your your dieting and low-fat diet I ended up losing my period for quite a while more than a year And so I was hospitalized at 23 for like having a lot of tests done on to me just understand why I was not ovulating so and Eventually they couldn't give me an answer but basically I just kept being on birth control pills For many years because first of all I had bad acne and second It was just the only way to get my period because when you are on birth control you kind of have this a fake cycle let's say and Then after that I started to work on for a cruise line so I went on cruise ships for quite many months at a time and Like the work kept my mind off my dieting and things like that because just I wanted to reach my goals made make a career out of it So the diet and the physique and all my let's say obsession a little bit I put it aside, but Still it was always at the back of my mind and this was for a couple of years and then at 26 I stopped and For work like on the cruise and I got engaged to my husband and we were in London at that time and I just thought I mean we want to start a family so I need to be healthy I need to focus on other things in life. It's time to move on. I felt like I always had this keen mentality Like I always wanted to look like my mom because she's she's a very tall woman and very slim just by nature with no effort So I always had this like I want to be this clean, but I I understand like that That was a bit silly and a bit too much. So I Tried to be healthier But for what was my let's say my my opinion of of eating healthy And so at the time I got pregnant at I was 28 Sorry to interrupt you, but At no real point throughout your life. Did you eat a substantial amount of meat or fish? Are you able to remember maybe was your mother's diet similar to yours? Well, no, it was more balanced because my mom always say moderation is the key for everything So she said she said that my diet was extinct because I would stay away from animal products as much as I could Especially meat. I had this thought that meat was fattening was not good for you. So I would rather go for some low fat cheese Then have a proper meat So maybe meat was something social for me like out of social situation in a restaurant or In a friend's house, then I would eat some meat, but it was not my Not my desire. I would say that meat was fattening and bulky So I would say no, maybe I had like low fat yogurt with a ton of sugar in it I thought that was healthy. So that was my my animal food very very low fat and As little as I could I was focused much more on grains whole grains are so good for you brown rice brown pasta This type of thing Do you know if your mother like really ate a lot of animal foods for like maybe eggs for breakfast a lot of fish for dinner Do you know? No, I don't know that but She ate anything and in in small quantities But she always had butter in the fridge butter I would never touch it But she always had it in the fridge. It was available to me, but I had no this is just way too much fat. I can't Maybe I would have like a more olive oil or not this type of fat healthy fat I thought just butter is evil red meat is evil So yeah, very different. I changed my mind completely Which is great. Yeah, so let's go back to the you were when I interrupted you you were about to talk about the first pregnancy Yeah, then I started to practice a little bit more of a intuitive eating sort of things through this pregnancy So I would say that I still was quite heavy on carbs But I would eat and I would crave some cotta cheese So some dairy I would crave that and I would try like this British dairy which is really good like cheddar And maybe sometimes I would go like to to find the more the more more tasty ones or Like not so commercial to go a little bit more gourmet on these things So I would have some animal food occasionally meat Like if my husband would cook because I didn't even know how to cook meat Like Except from like breast chicken on a grill nothing special. So I started yes to follow a little bit is our advice of moderation is the key But I remember like having almost never like red meat. I would Really not not have that So I would say vegetarian type of pregnancy But you were craving you were really acting on those ricotta cheese and cheese cravings. Yeah, yeah And those are pretty with those very those are very strong and frequent Yeah, exactly.  I do have a video called dairy friend or foe But it just pretty much summarizes that it literally has all the fat soluble vitamins in it So dairy in itself can pretty much be a nutritionally complete source for you know pregnant woman craving something But I guess the next thing is to go over is the kind of like the I guess the delivery experience, right? Yeah, exactly the the pregnancy was fine. I was on a healthy weight I didn't gain a lot of weight. I was feeling healthy and fit and the The delivery itself went well. I had a natural delivery in the hospital The labor wasn't too long overall as for a first baby And after so when the baby came it was healthy. It was a healthy weight And so we started this the breastfeeding process right in the hospital and then at home because I really wanted to breastfeed I I thought It's such a like a peculiar thing mother and baby is so special If I want to do that. I didn't buy any formula just in case or things like that I really wanted to to give it a try and and then a little bit I was a little bit overwhelmed because everybody tried to give me advice. You have to drink this you have to do that Don't eat that it's gonna make him gusty or quality. So it was a little bit overwhelming and at the end I decided that my diet would be A big bowl of brown rice with some greens Goodbye And then maybe a little bit of meat because at that point everybody was telling me you have to eat some meat To have a good amount of good milk nutritious milk so I would listen to these people and Start to incorporate some chick and nothing special really I could have done better on animal food And so this was my diet and you stopped like all the cheese I didn't crave it that much and you know that that is this controversial Thought that dairy makes the baby fussy because of the casing in the milk So basically the the cacin protein Goes in the milk and if the baby can be allergic or it can give me give him colleagues So with dairy I was really really cautious because I didn't know if it was true or not Some midwives tell you it's true some some tell you no it's not It's actually very good for you because it will make the milk fatter So the baby would be happier So I didn't know I went for the the safe one which was chicken But the bulk was this was great that this sticky brown rice They told me this is the best for lactating women But I could see that the baby was not very satisfied with my milk It would latch constantly and I know that in the first week the baby latches constantly It's normal just to make your milk come but he was upset. He was a little too much But still I I mean we managed to go through these stages and when the baby was five months I would start him on solid So then my milk was not that much of an issue because it was start eating food But I could see actually that my milk was not that Fatty because I would pump some Put it in the fridge and at that point after a few hours you can see that the milk You have the fatty part at the top and the watery part at the bottom And I could see that my fatty part the layer of fat on top of the milk was really little And I would try to eat more fat to make this layer thicker So I would I would eat nuts and seeds and avocados a little bit and that wouldn't help and When I had my first baby I had A helper a lady was helping me and she was really On into microbiotic So that's why she was suggesting me how to cook this grain how to Prepare them and then eventually feed them to the baby So I put my baby also on this microbiotic type of weaning Let's say I could have done better also But I was always afraid to put the baby on a strict vegan or vegetarian diet Yeah, so just to be clear You were on this like chicken rice and spinach diet for like five months and then about five months into The breastfeeding period when you started weaning the child is when you met this microbiotic woman And that's when you kind of went vegan.  She would eat and I would eat then like big big bulk big bulk of cereals and legumes cooked in a certain way for very long and They basically she ate some fish here and there, but I would say that her diet was pretty much vegan And this what got me into veganism. So if microbiotic is healthy, then vegan must be even healthier So I started my journey into the vegan diet at that point about six seven months after my first child is born And I tried different varieties of it Like being heavy on fruit or heavy on starch because I would follow Dr. Matt Dougal as well like he's on youtube on his channels So heavy on starch heavy on fruit and then more got on a try to be higher in protein So more legumes more soy But I would say overall I felt fine But I had some symptoms looking back then like the bloating And then my cheeks would be really red and around my mouth I would be really red and I didn't know what was wrong like Veganism is supposed to make your skin glow and things like that So I I had some issue but overall I really I was convinced of the diet But what does your mother say when you were feeding him the grains? Exactly. This is my first child that I went home and I had these sachets of amaranth and Corn and this and that and she told me oh your boy's not a chicken. Give him some food Yeah, because and she was right so When I got pregnant with my second And overall the breastfeeding thing went on for three years with my first boy So overall I could say that I kept tough with it because I know it was nutritious for him Was healthy at least on the immunity part of thing like not to get him Let him be sick that often thanks to the The immunity that is in the breast milk So when I got pregnant with my second I was already two years into veganism in different varieties of it and The pregnancy I would say it was 95% Vegan I would say because I had cravings for butter and salmon especially so fat Any more fat and I would act on those cravings. Ooh that faro island scottish salmon, man on the grill Yeah, I went on like on the best quality I could find because I know that salmon can be can be a little bit toxic if you if you don't source it at the best So I went for a high quality salmon and butter carry gold I always had this this butter even for my my husband and and my other child And I saw I went for this food But that was really a minimum amount of the food I was eating overall during the during every single day But I would have this craving and I would I would eat maybe at that point I would eat a big amount of it like a Too big Spoonfuls of butter a big piece of salmon. So there were still some scents in you left like even though you were vegan You you were like my body needs Yeah, you know, I still have some some common sense and I I felt guilty because I mean if it's the baby that is asking me this because throughout these two years prior I was fine. I didn't eat anything any animal food Uh So, yeah, I was I was Feel confident that the baby needs that and I wouldn't feel guilty For like cheating on the vegan diet because you know, it's not my religion. I would do it for health Because I wonder what the vegans would tell you what would they tell you to eat? Eat some coconut and supplement some algae oil like is that what they would have said Exactly. Well, I had a lot of coconut oil and things like that. Yeah, but it's not the same I mean coconut oil is is great. I still have it in my kitchen But I do have butter and I eat it regularly and because I want it now I I feel I'm more in tune with my body because I eat what I want It's not that I have to do a lot of preparation before like Prepping potatoes and this and that is just it's so much easier and it feels more natural that I just want a piece of meat With some butter just have it it's quick It's good for me and I feel it So Back to the pregnancy. It was during delivery Things were starting to get a little bit more difficult Definitely more difficult that with my previous one, which is strange because usually the body knows what it's doing at its faster and easier But the baby was suffering his heartbeat was going low For every contraction and it wouldn't go back up. So they're starting to be worried and eventually the Team came in and they were talking me through a c-section So we were very close to that but at that point I was almost in the process of giving birth So they gave me a chance. Let's say and then the baby came out Fine in a in a good span of time. They were happy with that. So I avoided the c-section, but it was very close so the baby the baby's born at this point and He is not crying, but you know that at this five 10 seconds that seems so long because you just want to hear This this this voice, you know this shout so the baby would hesitate to cry and then I the baby would cry and They would give him to me And I could see that he was cold and he was blueish He didn't look really all right, but he was apparently And but they took Some a blood sample from him to see if something was wrong And that first night actually the baby never slept which usually after birthday sleep They are fine the first night the first 24 hours. They are quite sleepy But the baby wouldn't sleep I would hold him all night and I could see that he was thirsty like coming around this mouth I would give him the breast obviously, but at first you don't have You just have colostrum, which is basically a few drops of a very thick consistency and it was thirsty So at the in the morning I called the midwife immediately I was quiet during the night, but then I called her and I said please check on my baby because he's not right He I think he's really thirsty so have a look and Really in that in that minutes maybe after 10 minutes the pediatrician came in in my room With the results of the blood test and the baby basically had very high hematocritus It was really dehydrated and the the condition is called polycytemia Basically, basically the red blood cell count. It's too high way to very thick blood Very thick So they took him away and he went to npicu to intensive care He was there for five days on a drip until he recovered until his blood count Came back normal But then I would we would go to the hospital every week or every two weeks for checking on him for like two months And in that time I was Presceding him, but it wasn't very successful. I mean with the first I struggled a little bit the first couple of months, but then it went better And in this case it was the other way the more we were into it the more it didn't work and by didn't work. I mean that Also through pumping I could see that my supply was low And the the fat was low on the milk And overall it was like making him cranky making him fussy.  I would eat old Nuts and seed and seeds and this and that and I thought it was great my diet and it took me so much effort to prepare my meals while caring for two children And my mother-in-law was here in Malta with me at that time and she told me doesn't he called sorry To telling you that but this diet is not good for him. He's affecting him. He's gassy You should eat some meat. You should eat some fish just normal things And I remember craving bone broth so bad even though I almost didn't know the taste of it But I had this craving But I wouldn't go for it. I would go for vegetable stock instead, which is not Quite much the same and I would just give up breastfeeding basically and I went for HA formula and this was a Dr. McDougall suggestion because he says that in one of the lecture not to put the baby on soy formula But to put him on HA formula That's what happened The baby was fine overall, but I really missed that I didn't breastfeed It's like maternal bond That I have with my other two children. I don't have it with him. So that was really disappointing But still I I would keep going with veganism at this point And eight months into that Well, I was having postpartum depression and I was I was treated for it. I went on antidepressant About four months after the baby was born. I started SSRI or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors this type of Of antidepressant because I was feeling. Yeah, really.  It was really hard to take care of the kids and Yeah, I struggled and eight months After my second baby is born. I got pregnant with my third And this was really overwhelming It was not planned and it was really overwhelming because I just had, you know, these moments. I realized I have to do something I have to change or it's gonna be really tough because I I can barely keep up with Can you imagine to keep up with three? So I thought like I need to change up things And my husband would also support me on that And about I would say I was about four months pregnant. I switched I made that switch almost overnight because I I understood what what I needed and what I wanted And even before veganism or before microbiotic before everything I heard about dr. Weston a price That he was a dentist. He traveled the world. He would look at this traditional population eating their traditional food and how they were healthy thriving So I thought, you know, maybe this guy was into something so I would just look back try to gather some some information also agianus wonder planet I I watched some of his videos and read something On this primal diet and I just changed completely and I am so much happier and the pregnancy was great I gained my energy back So I was able to take care to be pregnant and at the same time take care of a toddler and almost five years old and I would say that my symptoms went pretty quickly. I was start to feel better Mentally like more calm Relaxed, you know, just just feeling normal again. It's like I was always angry like anger was a big one for me I would really Freak out real quick and this is of course not good when you have children. You need to keep yourself together at all times That was hard so the mental clarity and the calmness is started to came back real quick And I would eat butter. I would I would eat red meat for the first time It was also, you know, I almost a new experience going to the butcher to the butcher and ask for this type of meat It was also new for me, but I just you know, I just did it. I said this is good for me So I tried liver and butter and slowly I would incorporate more and more eggs. I would almost never eat eggs So try to find the best organic eggs I could get and eat them I felt so nourished And I would say I would cut back on greens and vegetables and fruits Almost drastically and feeling way better. My skin went like The redness it calmed down so quickly and I thought it was the tomatoes, you know, these like They are nightshades. They're really harsh even on the digestive system and I would eat a lot of them They are really cheap in here in Malta so my skin went like The texture of it the thickness which I could see immediately my skin was so much better And my hair starting growing healthier my teeth. I would struggle with my teeth.  I felt confident enough that I was really feeling better And the delivery went really well. It was real quick I checked in in the hospital at 8 30 p.m And the baby was in my arms at 9 45. So real quick delivery really healthy baby Healthy looking nice collar nice and chubby healthy weight And you know, I would just Cruddle him and that it would latch and everything went so smoothly Really, I was so glad for the first time. I really enjoyed because Never had colleague is the first one out of three. I have to say never suffered of colleague And it would just be content overall And happy and I did the same experiment.  I'm eating a smaller portion of food But in this food that is all I need more nutrients Exactly. It's more nutrient dense. That's the thing And even now that I am starting to give him some solids I am following the western a price principle for winning children So he is having even apart from the make very different food from his brother. So And he's overall the more most content, baby. I've ever seen it's really great So I will keep breastfeeding as long as I can As long as I feel comfortable and things like that and yeah, this is my experience Do you want to go briefly over the western price like what you actually feed your baby? Do you want to talk about that for a little bit for any curious mothers? He says Well, the principles are that you have to give him animal food as a first food Not starch as opposed to the standard like feeding schedule because they don't have amylase So they just did so it would upset them and it would cost to pay them So not even a sweet potato is great Until the baby is about eight nine months Um, so this is the principle while on the opposite side animal food is really easy to digest Especially, you know, it is properly cooked and blended. It's really easy on the baby's stomach.  These are the foods to start the baby on not Uh powder rice. I don't know. It's called baby cereals. Not this type of they talk about like do they talk about egg yolks and fish eggs too? Exactly. Yes egg yolks when the baby which is about One this because of allergy problem. So if the baby has a reaction to the egg and is just Five six months old then it's better not to risk it and introduce it later But definitely after the year they need to have Uh slightly cooked egg yolks is highly recommended and fish So, I mean what that pretty much achieves is you know, you're making sure the baby has plenty of vitamin a for development You're making sure the baby has the omega 3 fatty s is the dha in higher amounts And by consuming those foods in your diet yourself, you're ensuring that the breast milk has those nutrients too It's both for me and for him. So he's having this healthy food From two sauces, which is great. I'm really happy Did you want to touch on uh in umbria? They have some very traditional dishes, don't they? Yes, they are very very very good. We have very very good pork Because still a few families do that in their in their home, you know They they like they grow the the pork for one year and then they butcher him They butcher it at home and they would eat some parts really on the spot They would cut it open and some parts of the intestine They have to be even like just a few minutes after After is that and uh, you will eat them on the spot and then they would start, you know To process everything and we eat everything of the animal. There is almost no waste From life from our whole the whole animal So we have pork we have Sheeps so we have like ship milk And cheese that you can get Very high fat very high yeah Exactly and like healthy animals Healthy animals these animals are grazing They are like out Like they're out in the sun. They're grazing. So the the products that you're getting from them. The meat is really healthy. It's really good So then you had the baby goats too and the wild boar Exactly wild boar. Yes, because they are they are like pests, you know, they are everywhere So they actually encourage people to hunt them down because otherwise they create problems So white boy is a big one, but not everybody is able to process it in the in the proper way Even the Like even the grains you're eating and a lot of the produce you're eating Like there's a big belief in Italian wheat as opposed to other wheat Yeah, definitely when I would go grocery shopping, I would always go for Italian pasta I mean, and I mean Italian wheat grown in Italy even because of the difference A pesticide that they use in Italy. There are a little bit more strict. There is no glyphosate Then I don't know if now muntanto came to europe through the buyer So I don't know now how how they're gonna get away with with everything but definitely we we think that they Wheat grown on Italian soil is the best That was what I would go for but definitely in larger amounts Too much too much of it That's what us italians are shorter than everyone else all that week exactly because we eat a lot of grains and we do It's true So nicole, is there any Like messages or anything else you wanted to touch on? I mean, I think we really covered this and your whole story really well and got a lot of the points across from You know the evident problems you had when you were younger on a plant-based diet lacking in kind of animal foods How that translated throughout all three of your pregnancies and just some really interesting things that were thrown in there from You know the fattiness of the milk to the ease of the birthing process to even the traditional foods Yeah, well You know on youtube these vegan mothers are quite popular It's unfortunate Unfortunately what I eat in a day and these and that but now looking back and with the perspective that I have on things now I can see that these diets are extremely poor and extremely dangerous both for them and for the child and I know that some Vegans mother they ended up having a quite cranky child. I don't want to make names or things like that but the The child is fussy is making Is crying too much is Is never settled and I think it's lack of nutrition Like in the video that you you put up some days Yeah, because the baby is hungry because it doesn't get the fat soluble vitamins But I believe that these women get cravings because it's part of the pregnancy You do get cravings. So I just hope that they Even if they want to do it behind closed doors that they would would act on those cravings The unfortunate thing is they might justify those cravings as just part of pregnancy and say, oh, I don't need to eat those foods and I think overall if you know, we're going to do anything I mean just to keep it really positive and hopefully open these women up to the importance of these vitamins I mean And I just said that, you know, if you don't feel like eating meat Which might be a shock if you're an ethical vegan or things like that just to reach out, you know for egg yolks Some collagen powder protein powder, you know, these type of things butter Because you do need I mean a pregnant woman do need Does need this type of food You're not and especially I would say a breastfeeding Mother because eventually when the baby's in the womb, it would get it would deplete the mother The mother's body and get what he needs Eventually, but then when he's out, he needs this type of nutrition And you know in italy there were cases where babies like some children died from the vegan diet Oh, no, we could yeah, I mean you guys can google that stuff and it's it's really unfortunate and You know, we we literally have, you know, we have babies that are even dying in some cases you guys can google There's many many examples on youtube of Vegan moms having problems during pregnancy and then even after the pregnancy they'll start feeding the kid Soy when it's only a few months old and at what point do we ask? You know, how blind do you have to be? Really, you know, it's unfortunate and I mean if babies dying and them being unhealthy and developmentally delayed And these vegan women noticing all these problems they're having if that's not enough Then you know, what is you know at what point is it gonna? At what point is it going to be so extreme that? You know, what are you going to have to like I don't want to mention thing I'm sure there are many many women who have been in the unfortunate position of having miscarriages, but I think you know, that's that's a bit of an understatement with if we look at and there's some data and statistics that I've posted on twitter I think in the past month or so Showing how miscarriage rates have gone up infant mortality has gone up You know autism is rates are going up child cancer hood rates are increasing and I ask myself every day You know at what point are people going to start saying, you know, this shouldn't this be getting better shouldn't you know What's what's going on? And I mean, you know removing animal foods and reduction of animal foods kind of correlates directly with a lot of these negative things that are happening I agree with them. I don't know. I couldn't imagine anything worse that puts your child's life at risk For what I think it's part of it is just people are so ingrained They're ingrained in convention. They're ingrained in what we've been told our whole lives And it's almost impossible to get out of that You know, it's this is not like a discussion about necessarily religion specifically. This is not a discussion about diet It's so hard to get away from your culture and what you've been taught your whole life That I think uh, you know over 99 of people will never probably even more than that We'll never ever kind of break that tradition, especially in regards to their diet Um, Nicole, did you have anything else you wanted to touch on? Well, that's all the symptoms that I had on a vegan diet. They are gone. So The mental health Was a big one for me plus the bloating the fatigue The skin problems just the skin Not looking right My hair looking thin my teeth looking yellowish It's gone.  I mean Pretty hard to deny something like that. But what are you gonna do? You can't really convince people. Um, I guess, uh, I guess that's really gonna we're gonna wrap this up I did want to thank So many of you guys for watching and I do want to say it again to keep everything on a positive note But uh, you want to say goodbye to everyone?


The next item of business is topical questions. In order to get in as many people as possible, I'd be grateful for short and succinct questions and responses. I call question number one, Maggie Chapman. To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the reported use of tackling during the recent protests in Glasgow. Cabinet Secretary, Keith Brown. The right to peacefully protest is not only a crucial component to the success of COP26, it is a right that is fully supported by the Scottish Government. As we enter the second week of COP26, Glasgow has lived up to its proud tradition of activism and of peaceful protest, and that is a source of pride for the whole of Scotland. The policing of the summit is of course an operational matter for the chief constable who has been clear from the start that the planning and delivery for the event would be compliant with human rights legislation. It would facilitate peaceful and lawful protest and ensure public safety. Maggie Chapman. I appreciate that operational matters rest with the chief constable, but this Parliament sets the limits within which the police can operate, and it's important to understand the Government's position in relation to those limits. The police officers declare to, and I quote, uphold fundamental human rights and called equal respect to all people, end quote. I am concerned that some of the tactics deployed during the COP have not taken account of those important principles. The use of tackling tactics on peaceful protesters seems wholly disproportionate. I've read reports of journalists kettled for hours with no access to water or toilets, and of a young mother with a baby in a pram trapped in a kettle. It can't be right that children are being kettled. Does the cabinet secretary think that kettling is a proportionate tactic to use when dealing with peaceful protest? Cabinet secretary. I should say that I've had daily conversations with Police Scotland throughout COP26 and regular conversations beforehand. I am satisfied that they have tried extremely hard to make sure that they have facilitated protest and that their response is being proportionate. I think that there have been 300 different protests. The vast majority, according to Maggie Chapman's own words in her letter, quite rightly to Police Scotland, acknowledge the fact that the vast majority of protests have been peaceful and accommodated by a flexible response from the police. In relation to the points that she raises, I should say that the independent review group met on 5 November to discuss some of those issues, which has been raised subsequently by her but also by others beforehand. It meets again today as well to discuss those issues. It's right that they should do that. It's also right that the member should, if she has concerns, write to Police Scotland. It may be something that the police authority looks at in due course as well, but I am satisfied. From all the conversations that I've had from Police Scotland that they have tried to be as proportionate as possible to facilitate protest and certainly to work within the bounds of legislation set for them by this Parliament. Maggie Chapman. I thank the cabinet secretary for that response. At Saturday's climate march, one particular group of marchers was subjected to a police kettle from the moment they arrived at Kelvin Grove park without clear cause. As the march passed through the city centre, the kettle group were halted by the police and prevented from moving any further. This in turn prevented thousands of other marchers behind this group from continuing with the march. There were miners in this kettle and this group just wanted to continue marching along with everyone else. Can the cabinet secretary confirm the legal status of kekling in such a situation? And whether or not he has any concerns about the conduct of the officers involved? Many of whom, as colleagues in the chamber can confirm, did not seem to know what was happening or who was in control. Cabinet secretary. I would first of all repeat to Maggie Chapman the point that I made about the independent review group, which has on it of course John Scott and also some of the organisations which made complaints along the lines that Maggie Chapman has just mentioned. I am advised that that was a very constructive meeting. The police would defer to that as moving containment. He would also say that where they have done this is because, in one example, the protesters that had sat down in front of the march were stopping the rest of the march from taking place and presenting a danger to the public. I would say that, as I have mentioned already, it is open to any members of the Parliament, indeed anybody, to make a complaint to Police Scotland. It will be for them to address the points that have been raised. I think that the independent review group containing many of the people, for example friends of the earth, who have made raised concerns, has had one discussion on this. It is having a second discussion today and I hope that that is how these things can be resolved. Russell Findlay. Thank you. Will the cabinet secretary join me in condemning those who try to antagonise the police into confrontation and commend the brave officers for stepping in to stop disruptive protesters? Cabinet secretary. Mr Findlay, that is a good point. There are examples of officers having spray paint, or at least liquid, sprayed into their eyes and then reverting back to the front line immediately afterwards. There are examples of officers being hit over the head with banners, many of whom are goaded. That applies to a very small minority of the thousands of people that have been involved in this march, but it is wrong and I would condemn it and I would praise the officers concerned. Collette Stevenson. To ask the Scottish Government what actions Scottish Government and delivery partners have taken to support peaceful relations at COP26. Cabinet secretary. We fully recognise, of course, that there should be a clear dialogue between the protesters, police and others, and I would not underestimate the extent to which this happened long before COP26 started. The dialogue has included discussions at the marches themselves at COP26, and they can help to de-escalate tensions and allow protesters to exercise their right to protest while maintaining public order. That is why the Scottish Government has funded the Keeping Our Cool initiative, which is ensuring that independent mediators are present at protests at marches throughout COP26 and are able to intervene wherever appropriate to facilitate dialogue between protesters, police and others to achieve positive outcomes. Question 2, Jamie Greene. To ask the Scottish Government to comment on reports that emergency workers were assaulted whilst on duty during bonfire night weekend. Cabinet secretary. The Scottish Government is appalled that anyone should make such despicable attacks on emergency service workers and our thoughts are with those who were injured. I am pleased to have been informed that all are expected to make a full recovery. Both Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service have reported that call numbers were significantly down this year. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has specifically advised that the number of attacks on crew fell by a third. However, there is still an unacceptable level of antisocial behaviour within our communities relating to fireworks. I am engaging with our emergency services as they debrief and analyse the data to ensure that we maintain that downward trend in call-outs and maximise the protection given to those who are called out. I am committed to bringing forward the bill that was announced in our programme for government to implement the remaining recommendations of the independent fireworks review group. Jamie Greene. I thank the minister. The front bench is right to condemn attacks on police both at COP26 and during bonfire night. It is really a great shame in our society that it happens year after year after year. Although the numbers are going down, any attack is still unacceptable. The attacks of the weekend were horrific. Police and fire crews were assaulted with fireworks, golf clubs and one required hospitalisation. Parliament 2 must send a strong and simple message to the public that attacking our emergency service workers is simply not on. In that tone, why the Scottish Government will not support our proposals to double the maximum penalty for assault under the emergency workers act from 12 months to two years? Minister. The misuse of fireworks in our communities is not acceptable. I believe that that message has been sent out very clearly, both from this Parliament and from all our partners, including the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Police Scotland. For anyone who is misusing fireworks, that line is very clear from our prosecutors and from our courts that people who offend will be dealt with robustly. We condemn any attack on our emergency services and it is a relief as I was able to report to the chamber that the personnel that were injured will be able to make full recoveries. It is hoped that on-going police inquiries will identify the perpetrators. Where we have powers, we have acted. That applies to fireworks and it applies to sentences for attacks on police officers and firefighters. We obviously have the Emergency Workers Act of 2005 and that supplements the common law and has specific offences that can be used, which carry a sentence of up to 12 months in custody. We are always prepared to keep the law under review, as I am sure the member would be aware, but we have no real evidence that sentencing rules are encouraging criminality. To help bring those offenders to book, I would encourage anyone with any information about the senseless attacks on our emergency services or about any wider disturbances that occurred to contact the police. They can do that either directly or they can do it anonymously through crime stoppers. Jamie Greene. The minister wants some evidence that the current common law legislation is not enough. Let me give the minister some evidence. Last year, assaults on emergency workers rose to an all-time high of over 8,000 incidents. That was up 600 year and year. If that is not evidence, I do not know what is, minister. In 1819, 160 people were convicted under the Emergency Service Act, which in Scotland carries a maximum sentence of just 12 months. If you couple that with the presumption against short sentences, the end result is that fewer than a third actually went to jail for assaulting emergency services workers. Other parts of the UK have rightly doubled that ceiling from 12 months to two years. Let me ask again, why can't we do the same in Scotland? As I said to the member, we are always prepared to keep the law under review. I do not have evidence that sentencing rules, and I mean that sentencing rules are encouraging that criminality. We have a range of tools that the police and the prosecutors can use and for offences of this type and for serious offences, there are obviously imprisonment of up to life imprisonment. The courts have at their disposal the tools, I believe, to be able to prosecute those offences appropriately. On the misuse of fireworks, I am sure that the member is aware that the Government is committed to bringing that under control. We have a number of short and longer term legislative and non-legislative action in order to curtail that. We have set up the fireworks review group to look at how Scotland's regime of sale and use of fireworks could be improved. I am committed to progressing those recommendations. We have obviously changed the law this year and the early signs are from the gold commanders that I spoke to last year that that has had a positive effect. We have also funded a number of public awareness campaigns and we have also funded trading standard officers for education and enforcement. This Government is committed to curtailing the misuse of fireworks and to creating a regime both in Scotland and legislatively that will improve Scotland's relationship with fireworks. I would like to begin by acknowledging that call out numbers this year were down. However, much work still needs to be done. As such, what progress has the Scottish Government made in implementing the recommendations of the independent fireworks review group to ensure that fireworks are used safely and appropriately? Yes. The Scottish Government set up the independent fireworks review group and that was chaired by the former chief fire officer Alastair Hay. That was to undertake a thorough review of the evidence on the sale and use of fireworks, including data on the impact of fireworks use in Scotland and look at international case studies. I welcomed the group's recommendations last year and committed to progressing those as soon as possible. We have already legislated to implement a number of recommendations, which means that this year, the times of day and the volume of fireworks that can be supplied to the general public are restricted, as are the times of day that fireworks can be set off. Following a consultation this summer, we will shortly be introducing primary legislation to implement the group's remaining recommendations. Together with the non-legislative actions that we are also progressing with our partners, we are aiming to deliver a fundamental change in the culture of Scotland's relationship with fireworks to better protect both our communities and our emergency services. That concludes topical questions. I will allow a moment while we rearrange ourselves.


So you learned about masturbation from a cis hetero male And he was like, that's not true.  What? Stevie Bobby! This is like such a long-awaited collab on my channel I've been asked about you constantly and you're such an inspiration and a force in this field So I just want to say thank you.  Oh god, well for me it was way late.  Oh wow, you just got to pop it Yeah It's like self exploration helps you learn so much about yourself and before that I literally thought I was like I'm not like other people like I don't have feelings for people like We're like I don't know so you saw yourself as almost like asexual for a while where it just never no I didn't I didn't know that sex is supposed to feel good I thought that it was just supposed to feel like a chore So I was compared like sex with men for me is like washing the dishes are doing the laundry It's not repulsive, but it's like not fireworks and not exciting And so dishes are repulsive first of all so gross So you were sexually active before you considered yourself sexual. Oh, yeah, so how did that happen?  Mm-hmm So now I don't have to keep saying I'm a virgin were you sick of it for like feeling teased or just like Not feeling you could relate to people like what about it made you feel like I'm done with this I think it was that I felt more like the older I got The more ostracized I felt and because I grew up in a place that's abstinence only education girls lose over journey much younger and so like You know most most of my friends and girls I went to school with were having sex at like 12 13 14 So yeah by the time I was 17. I was like, I'm the only one left I remember the first time I like got a crush on a girl that I was worried could be a crush because you know Of course you look back and you're like, maybe that was a crush But I was on my senior English teacher But I was I had already like been living on my own and I was already 18 and I was like in Ohio Like I moved away to a different state and then my best friend kept catching me staring at her and was like Are you a lesbian? Really? Yeah, and I was like no and then I was like This is just a one-time thing right and then the second thing was happening I got my first pap smear And she like put her fingers inside of me to like feel my ovaries on both sides Obviously it wasn't sexually aroused. It wasn't sexually arousing to me Although maybe it is to some people But I just couldn't stop thinking about the fact that a woman's fingers were inside of me And I kept like I was like telling my boyfriend about it like why can't I stop thinking about her?   What was he a good boyfriend? Yeah, he was very sweet. Do you look at that and say that was a positive time for my sexual self?  I was still like I was still on not homeless too So I was like trying to get it together and like figure out what my career was gonna be trying to like be able to afford food and housing and shit, so Yeah, it was it was rough in every area except for sexually I feel like that was when I was masturbating the most getting to know what I liked And you started your channel in your twenties too. Yes Well, I actually made my first video in 2006 and like I had a different channel So like I made some comedy vlog my first video was about how women should masturbate more. Oh, nice So you already knew what you wanted to do. It's so funny.  Oh now? I'm an expert in this area. Oh, I still don't feel that way I really feel like I'm just like a peer educator and because I'm like I don't go I don't go and try to teach myself at like an actual institution to like why I matter though What's the difference um?  You were comfortable with your body and you identified yourself Accurately sexually that's amazing. I think that takes a lot of people 30 more years on top of that Like those are all really big accomplishments But yeah, I don't think that you have to have a degree to like be an educator But I don't think that I have made choices to make this like a like a like a lifelong career for me mm-hmm So I think that like peer education and like sex entertainment has kind of like that's what I would really call my web series But yeah, I don't know I did it because I didn't have it if you were to teach a class of like steve's top five things to know about sex to Have a great sex life. What would you put in that class? Oh my god?  Do you say spreading? I forget what the what you're supposed to say now. I Like distributing It's sharing now.  Oh, yeah Yeah, so I have right now. I wish I would have taken it back in the day because it was probably worse But right now I have like three avoidant points in one anxious point Like 80 points or something. So yeah, I definitely lean towards avoid it.    Yeah statistically All right, so we're doing five lessons. We only got to two So that's fluid exchange and then we did actually attachment theory creating your own safe sex circle Especially if you aren't in a monogamous long-term relationship Yeah figuring out what your rules are and figuring out how to advocate for yourself.   I never do you use dental dams. Do people use dental dams?  I hate saying no, but no, right.  Yeah Yeah So normally I I just have like a three-month waiting period Where you don't fluid exchange with anyone else and then get tested at the beginning and the end and then we can fluid exchange but Then if you hook up with anyone else, even if it's a casual thing Then we go right back to the beginning of the three months or you wait three months for them to like create a safe sex circle Mm-hmm, and I think I've talked about that before That's awesome I mean, it's great to have an actual system because people again like you said like the goal is to have safe sex But the reality is that you just want to connect with people like finding that bridge in between to an actual strategy is really hard for a Lot of people especially again if you're part of a community that doesn't have accessible safe sex tools that are palatable Because yeah, a dental dam is not necessarily like maybe it's just also marketing because the condom feels a lot less Robotic than the dental dam does yeah, I mean how many people do you know that use condoms when they're sucking dick?  Oh my god. I have no idea. But like the first girl I ever had sex with We were they were doing a little bit of kinky stuff and also I like I was in college And I lived on or in my bedroom.  Yeah, so like during the sex my beds were like everywhere My air mattresses were ever my clothes were everywhere and then I lost my snake for like a month It leaves a lot to the imagination.   I don't even know how to describe why it was so bad.  What what does that feel like? What is an out of? I don't even remember it like that Yeah, yeah, exactly. It was just like that is how I Was like what is even happening?   Yeah, I think yeah, I think that um, I Think that anything can be learned, right, but I think that people's general Desires and like things that they strive for like their natural selves can can just be compatible or not compatible with your natural self, right? So I don't know at this point in time if somebody came to you and said Stevie How do I have the best sex of my life? What advice would you give them? Oh? God, I've literally no idea how to answer that just well How would you answer for yourself like how how would you tell yourself? Okay?  You're doing pretty good though For somebody who started late you figured it out pretty early. I think I started it around like Six and I didn't really figure it out until I was like maybe 23 Wow Yeah, I kind of figured it out in pieces Then you would figure out a truth and then something like someone would tell you something that would deny your truth So you would suppress that then you would go on a different path and then rediscover that was actually true What you knew at six years old and so I feel like mine was like a lot of flip-flopping, but it feels like in a way yours was almost like Yeah, definitely Yeah, definitely that For sure and we're still going Keep learning new shit I'm gonna turn that into a high five


Welcome to the SNAP, the segment where we answer frequently asked questions in a very rapid fire format. So let's get right into it. On today's SNAP, we are going to be discussing how to maintain your dynastache. Now just like our previous video, how to maintain your long bodies and stems, it's very important to wax your wood people. If you don't wax your wood, it's going to dry out and it's not going to look as nice. So it's very important to do so. You just need a couple of things. You need your dynastache, some dino wax, and some paper towels or a cloth. Now as you can see with this purple heart dynastache that I have here, instead of purple, it looks more brown than anything else. It needs some TLC. So to start, take your dino wax, open up the container, and put a little bit on your fingertip. From that point, you simply just massage it into the surface of the wood. You'll want to do this on all sides, the top, the bottom, you can even go over the magnet, it's not going to hurt it, and at the end, you can always wipe it off. So in conclusion, you can see that these two identical dynastaches look vastly different, simply just due to the way that one of them has been maintained and cared for. Thanks for watching The Snap. Be sure to check out all of our other videos on our channel, and be sure to comment, subscribe, and ring the bell to be notified when we release more great content.


Dreams have always been a fascinating part of healing and even healers and physicians throughout history. I mean, even in ancient times you had the Asclepians and these various temples throughout the world where people would go, sometimes imbibing substances or sleeping where there were gases seeping, and pray for actually a healing dream to help them with their chronic illness. I love this idea of praying to the gods or prompting the subconscious whatever word you want to use or whatever your beliefs are. I love this idea of utilizing dreams as one of the useful therapies or one of the useful breadcrumbs for finding healing again. So in this video I thought I would share some very basic low level insights on Chinese medicine and dreaming for health or for illness. Hey guys, Dr. Alex Hein, author of the health book Master of the Day and Doctor of Chinese Medicine. Now before we jump into this video, there's two very important links right below. The first is if you'd like to join my weekly video newsletter, there's a free guide, four daily rituals that can potentially help you add years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine. In addition, the second link is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally or online via telemedicine, there's a link right below this video to my clinic, my private practice and how to reach out to me. Now there's definitely a link between dreams and pathology to a certain degree. You know, one of those things that most people report is as they get over that 30, age 30 hump, they notice that they get indigestion more often and they get insomnia more often. Now, one of the interesting correlations is how often indigestion and insomnia are linked. Most people I know over the age of 30 will say if they don't sleep well, you know, one or two times it's because they ate too late or they ate too much. And often people will also say that they get weird dreams when they're indigested. Like if they're getting too much reflux or just their stomach doesn't feel quite right, they'll have light sleep, vivid dreaming or they'll just frequently wake up.  About 10 years ago I was living in China and at that time I was with all these international students where we would study hard and we would party hard. So we would go to our Chinese classes during the day for four or five hours. In the afternoons we would study in some of the cafes and then a few nights a week we would go to the clubs in China. Now I had this experience where any night I went out and had a few drinks with my friends and went to a Chinese club, I would get back really late, really tired and I would always have dreams of tornadoes and jets flying and loud sounds and fires and it was really weird to me because eventually I began to develop this association between having a few drinks, going to a club and bizarre vivid dreaming and I never understood why that was until many years later. But I thought I would jump into some of those associations that some ancient medical techs of ours and some ancient doctors talked about as general loose associations between dreams and specifically pathologies, right? We're not talking about in a Jungian subconscious sense. We're talking about dreams can be indicative of certain pathologies in Chinese medicine, certain organs that are affected with pathologies. So let's talk about this link between dreams and certain organ pathologies. You know in Chinese medicine we have a couple different theories of organs and how they relate to emotions and seasons and pathologies but one of the most interesting things is how these pathological emotions relate to actual dreams themselves. So I had a very vivid experience of this. I was 21 and I was traveling with the Tuareg so if you know the Berber some of the last remaining nomads, real nomads in the world. I was in southern Algeria on the border of Niger and I was doing a vision quest and part of my vision quest was that these Tuareg nomads left me alone for five days on a sand dune in a little cave with no food for five days. So I was fasting and meditating and praying and when you're having eaten in five days I'll tell you the number of dreams I had about food. One night I had 12 dreams about food and thought I was going to become the next Martha Stewart.  I mean I've never experienced anything like that. And so it's clear even on a basic physiological level if you're starving you will probably dream about food right? It's like if you have a stomach ache or if you have a toothache sometimes that carries it into your dream. Let's talk about what specifically that could be in terms of these organs. You know again they're not one-to-one I personally would never use these alone for diagnosis but they're just an interesting facet of Chinese medicine. So when the disease or illness is in the kidney sometimes people have dreams of drowning or being in water or feeling panicked. When the disease is related to the liver sometimes people have dreams of anger or aggression or they feel like you can't move almost like if you're restrained or held down. If dreams are related to the spleen this can be dreams of food which is what I talked about or even swamps or marshes. So the pathological factor associated with the spleen is dampness. So bloating and things like that and flamminess etc. Now regarding the heart the dreams can be a fire or catastrophe or apocalyptic like scenarios. When it comes to dreams related to the lung dreams of flying or soldiers or odd metal objects are things that were reported in these ancient texts. So some of these are more obvious than others you know like with the heart. In Chinese medicine a lot of psycho-emotional or sleep disorders are associated at least in some part with the heart. Some people completely associate them with the heart and so it's obvious that if there is a catastrophe or the world's ending the heart being the emperor of the emotions it's obvious that even if something is just imploding in your life that it could be related to the heart at least temporarily. So again these are related to Chinese medicine's approach of always looking at what are the relationships between things. Never what is just this one thing you know just because your toe hurts you're probably not going to have some dream about some weird unrelated thing but the point is that we look for the patterns because then anything can be anything if you're not looking for a pattern but when you look for a pattern you can see how things are often related and not that they are just these random disparate things but that there actually is a link and when you try to understand that link you can help you understand the root cause of what's going on. 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