The River State Govna Yesungwe case, as anybody justling to be president of Nigeria, will also need to secure votes in rivers to combine with either Cano or Lagos to emerge victoriously. Govna Weke said this at the grand finale of the People's Democratic Party PDP Local Government Elections campaign that held at Ulako Ineche Local Government Area. Govna said such a pivotal position exceblees the importance of River State in the political scheme of the country and nobody will be allowed to undermine it. Govna All of you, what do you think of the National Party, the National Party, we don't finish. You understand me? See, in Nigeria, and that's why they tell PDP, what are they doing? They're not real. I don't know what to talk. No state has given PDP votes for the River State since 1999. In Nigeria, nobody can become a president. If you don't win, either Cano and Lagos are Lagos and Libas, or Libas and Cano. It was win. It was win. Govna Weke took a swipe at Seneta Andrew Uchendu for his uncanny comments in the media and wondered what courage he has to take against the PDP administration, which he said is ending the suffering he inflicted on his people. The Govna said it was regrettable that Seneta Andrew Uchendu spent several years in the National Assembly and close to the former administration and the state, but couldn't fix the road leading to his village. I was watching a rice television the other day. I hear we are two boys, Chief Andrew Uchendu, who was my classmate in school, and I had one other boy who said in the school. He said I told him to induct the former governor. I didn't know he had the potential powers to induct somebody. He was never a chairman of any committee, even to talk about indictment. So I don't know where that one would go from me. Govna Weke said H.A. will continue to be relevant in the political scheme of the state and be part of the process of discussion amongst stakeholders in deciding the next governor of the state. He urged the people of H.A. to continue to work in unison ahead of 2023.


You know, when the EU and other regulatory agencies started their campaign of bullying big tech into submission, I never would have thought that Google was gonna be the company to fight back against these regulations the hardest. So it's recently come to my attention that YouTube has been testing this new feature on the platform where if you visit youtube.com and you just so happen to be using the Firefox browser, you may experience an additional five second delay before your video actually starts playing. Now, I wanna point out before we go any further into this that this is an experimental feature that only a few users have reported seeing for themselves so far, so you might not be able to reproduce it yourself in the Firefox browser. However, I do have a video of this phenomenon that we're gonna take a look at that was recorded by vk6 underscore who first posted the video to the R slash YouTube subreddit, which the mods immediately removed for some reason. Yeah, this totally is not suspicious activity at all. And we're also going to take a look at the actual piece of JavaScript code that's hidden in the massive code base of YouTube's Polymer script, which is actually responsible for this delay in our favorite foxy browser.  So as you can see in vk's video here, they're using the Firefox browser with a number of add-ons that YouTube probably doesn't like mainly this one here, you block origin. Now, it's kind of weird because if we start playing this video, you can see that the test video here actually does play for about one second before it seems like his browser freezes or might make the user think that there's a network issue. But you can clearly see that the video actually did buffer, right? Like when he loaded up this page and kind of paused the loading of the page or whatever, the video was buffering in the background. So it is definitely not a network issue. And you can also tell that the delay doesn't actually kick in until after the JavaScript responsible or loading the video has actually executed. So obviously we get this pause for five seconds and then it plays again. And to make matters worse, I noticed when I was watching this video before I started recording that the buffering in the video gets reset. Like it's basically refreshing the page and appears to be refreshing the video and all of that. And this is an absolutely disgusting thing to do to people that have slow internet connections who might have to let videos buffer for a little while before they're actually able to watch them in HD in the first place. So then we go on to where VK spoofs his user agent just for YouTube.com and he's changing it to Windows Chromium. I don't think Windows necessarily matters. But anyway, he's changing it to Chrome, right? Chromium, Google Chrome, whatever.  No problems at all. Now let's take a look at the actual JavaScript code that's responsible for this delay because that's the smoking gun for evidence as far as anything's concerned. So of course YouTube minifies their JavaScript code but after running it through a de-obfuscator, we can start to get a better look at what's going on here. So in this function labeled SMB, we have some code that appears to handle the loading of the video, which I think kinda checks out with VK's video that we just watched where you saw how the YouTube video actually did load. It even played for one second, but then another function gets triggered that reloads the page and makes you wait five seconds. And that is down here in this set timeout function where it's running for five E3. So typically delays and things like that, like timeouts are measured in milliseconds. So this is really five times 10 to the third power milliseconds or 5,000 milliseconds or five seconds. And obviously there's more code throughout that makes this function only run on Firefox or probably just run on any non-Google Chrome browser but I digress. So now that we've looked at the evidence for this, let's discuss why Google is actually doing this or at least why I think Google is doing this. So most people probably know at this point that Google owns YouTube. And of course Google is also responsible for Google Chrome. But what some people don't realize is Google Chrome is powered by the Chromium browser engine. In fact, most of the popular browsers these days like Microsoft Edge and Brave, they're also powered by that same web engine. It's kinda like how you've got different brands of trucks like Chevy's and Ram's, but under the hood they could both have the same Cummins engine. Because of this, it can be said that Google probably has quite a bit more control over how most of the world browsers the web than anybody else, right? Because they control the web engine, which to some extent means that they control these browsers.  And of course, blocking ad blockers on YouTube has become one of Google's primary objectives as we've seen. But they really can't do anything about Manifest V2 and things like that on non-chromium browsers like Firefox, because they're using a totally different web engine. They're a lot more independent of Google. And so, the cat and mouse game of YouTube blocking add-ons like Ublock Origin and then the Ublock devs finding a way around that block could go on forever within Firefox, Safari and other non-chromium browsers. And all the while, Firefox and other non-chromium browsers could start gaining more market share as people start using them instead of Google Chrome because they're not allowed to have their favorite ad blocker. So what does Google do? They go, yeah, just make Firefox load our famous media site a little bit slower because Google knows that most people aren't gonna look into the JavaScript. They know most people don't watch my videos or read these tech articles. They're just gonna think that Firefox is arbitrarily slower for some reason and they'll happily jump back into the Chromium Gulag to save five seconds every time they go to YouTube. But to be honest with you guys, I really think that this move is a huge mistake on Google's end. I mean, I'm no legal expert, but I'm pretty sure that this is a gross violation of the EU's Digital Markets Act, or Digital Marketplace Act. It's probably even in violation of some of the laws here in Burgerland and considering that the two most valuable companies by market cap in the world, which is Apple and Microsoft, both bent their knee to the EU's DMA and they made their products less shit so that they would comply. Like they walked away, Microsoft, they're walking away from ad revenue.   So that tells me that despite these being the two most profitable companies to ever exist, despite their $2 trillion plus market caps, Apple and Microsoft do not want to take on the EU in a legal battle or be banned from the European market. So we're gonna see how this plays out. I mean, Google clearly wants to keep being evil, but at this point, they're pretty much begging to get themselves regulated, like heavily regulated or possibly even broken up into some smaller companies. But in the meantime, instead of sitting around with your thumb up your butt, waiting for the government to fix your problem while YouTube delays to load, you could be using a user agent spoofer like VK6 did. This is actually the same one that he was using, user agent switcher. I actually don't even think that this particular one is available on Chrome just on Firefox. But yeah, this is probably the easiest method to circumvent the delay. And you can also create a custom filter for UBlock Origin with this string right here that should also be able to bypass the delay without you having to go and install another additional add-on. So I hope that this video was helpful to you. If it was, please like it and share it to hack the algorithm and check out my website based on when where you can get awesome merch like this tie dye tour tee. I've got lots of other T-shirts and hoodies, electronics, and I'm actually going to start provisioning in-house electronics to sell on base.win very soon. So these are going to be things that I've actually installed the software to and shipped out myself. So if you're interested in that, be sure to bookmark base.win in your browser or subscribe to my YouTube channel with notifications on because I'm also going to be making an announcement here when I have the products ready. Have a great rest of your day.


Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm walking up that long slope to Denham station. This is Denham in Buckinshire, over there's a short main line. All we're doing today, as per the video's title, the Dangerous Bridges Gone, a couple of years ago I made a video here in Denham called Dangerous Bridges and Floods. If you want to see that, have a look at the link on the screen now, and what we did, we went and looked at some dangerous bridges, bridges that you either couldn't get across or you could, but it was a little bit dangerous to get across. Anyway, one of them, you can see, or you could see, from the Chilten main line when you've caught a train into London. And I noticed the other day, it appeared that the bridge had gone. Now, it's not anything to do with HS2, as per the reason the bridge has gone. HS2 does run quite close to here, but that's not actually none of the workings I'm expecting to feature in today's video. It's about half a mile over that way, the construction work for HS2. Anyway, so what we're going to do, we're going to go and have a look and just see what's happened, where that Dangerous Bridge used to be. And see if there's any sign of a new bridge being built in its place, because it'd be a bit of a shame if there isn't, because it was a really nice footpath when it wasn't flooded. Anyway, this is Denham Station. Always liked Denham Station. Used to come here when I was a child with my grandparents to watch trains. It looked a little bit different then, because I didn't have a footbridge on the platform in the middle. There was a bit like a mirror image of this on the other side. The most exciting thing I'll find about Denham Station, if you're not watching trains, is this side of the bridge underpass. It's the only station I know that has something like this. Obviously many stations have an underpass, but not quite like this one. If you didn't see my Dangerous Bridges and Flocks video, then you won't have seen this before. So I come down here and you emerge into this huge tunnel-like under the railway. So what they've done, and obviously wasn't existing right away, and then the station underpass kind of comes down to here, continues, and we'll see. That was where you went up to the other side. But it also accesses the path to houses that way, and then Denham Village that way. So that's where you used to go up to their platform. So it's a shame really they did demolish it, but I think now it's subsided. So that's why. Anyway, here we are, out the back of that huge arch under Denham Station. As I say, I think that is the only station I know anywhere that is quite like that. If you do not have another one, do comment and tell me, but I cannot think of one of all the railway stations I've been to. Anyway, so we get to here. Now, this is called the Pike Hill, this path. As I mentioned, it runs down to Denham Village, which is a very attractive village. I'm not going to go down there today. If you want to see my exploration of Denham Village, then do have a look at the link on screen. Now you'll be able to see what's down there. I can just hear a train. Anyway, that is the Pike Hill. If you look through the trees, you just see the class 1, 2, 5 and so on. Now, there's various footpaths here. When we last came along here, this one said closed. We went down there anyway and found the broken bridge, but you could just about still get across it. To say there's nothing to say, it's closed. So that's already interesting and intriguing. Anyway, I'm going to walk about a quarter of a mile down there and we're going to go and see what we can find. There we are. We are about a quarter of a mile down that path from where I was a moment ago. You can see there's one of the viaducts over the river Colm on the Chiltern Mainline. That way is going towards London. It's nice down here this time here, because with all the leaves off the trees, you can sort of see everything, which obviously in the summer it's basically green time. Not so easy to see with the parapet of the viaduct, but anyway, that was a Chiltern Rise class 168 heading north. I can see the river ahead of us. I don't remember this fence being here last time. I think this might be new, because over there that is Denham Golf Course, which you can walk across. That's not the Denham Golf Course that has the railway station named after it, Denham Golf Club. There's two golf courses in Denham. This one's in the village. This fence definitely wasn't here, and it looks like the fence is taking us as close to the river as we possibly can get. The river water looks very high, so probably the path we went down underwater is going to be underwater. The bridge was across there, and it was kind of broken in the middle, but you could still get across it. They're taking some slats out to try and stop you going across it, but people like me just managed to get across it anyway. So let's just have a look so we can see any evidence. I wonder if they've gone to all this effort to put this fence here, and this looks like a fairly well-walked path. Maybe there's a new footpath, which I don't know about. We'll soon find out anyway.  Probably in the summer that would be dried up, and then, again, dried up. I'm going to just follow it now and see what happens. So most of the area over there is Denham Country Park. Going back to HS2, well, HS2 isn't a run for Denham Country Park. They have been, basically, built a temporary road through the Country Park to take some of the material. And there's another viaduct similar to this one, which takes the railway over the Grand Union Canal and into Great London. That is where they take the HS2's construction machinery under the railway. This is interesting. Look, a public bridleway sign, and this is where the bridge was. It has completely disappeared. It's gone. We're not getting across the river today. Strangely, the fence ends here, and the path appears to be well walked on. So, you see in the lockdown, people did just go and walk around the golf courses, because golfers couldn't play golf. They effectively became unofficial public parks, and it was quite exciting. I walked around this one and one or two others, just somewhere different to walk. So, if anyone watching is local from Denham, I mean, I'm fairly local, but I don't actually live in Denham. If anyone knows what the plan is, we're going to get a bridge back. Because that walk on here, like I mentioned, takes you down to the Grand Union Canal, is a really nice walk. This time of year, it can be a bit underwater, so it's not really a walk you can go and do any day, but it was a very nice walk.  Today, just in case I had to do any wading, but I don't think I will. And I was wading through the water with stick, kind of feeling each hole, and it was only on the very last bit. I got to where I could see dry land. I stepped and I went right down like that and got a bit wet. It's this side. That's Oxford Rovers private fishing, so that's that way, so we won't go down there. So, yeah, it's a bit of a dead end, unless I go down there, which I'm a bit unsure to. Is that another train coming? No, it's a helicopter, I can hear. I was thinking, if there were no trees along there, that'd be quite a good view of the railway line from there. That's how I knew from the railway that this bridge was missing. That's why I wanted to come down here to investigate. Anyway, what I think I'm going to do is go down there to see where it goes. If I see anyone from the gulf, or something I'm told to go back, I will. Or, I don't know, I'm going to go up here to see what I can find. I've walked a little way down what appears to be a well trodden path here, a train. I don't think I'm going to get anywhere though, because look, we come to another body of water here. Someone's throwing a chest of drawers in the river. And with the river culling over there, I can't think there's going to be another way out. Or maybe actually that body of water, maybe that's just a pond. Yeah, it looks like I could go out there, but I'll be in the gulf of course. So I think what I'm going to do, I am just going to go back the way I came. But as soon as we're here, and it seems people have walked from here, let's just go and have a look, because I can see the river again. So we'll end the video down there. So yeah, it's been a bit of an anti-climax. I was sort of hoping to find out something a bit more interesting, or at least find some information as to what happened to the bridge. But we didn't. So again, the bridge would have been there. I mean, I fully understand why they took it away. It was broken, so it needed to be taken away. And maybe there are plans to replace it. Oh, there's a train crossing. So maybe there are plans to replace it. So, you know, maybe we will get to that walk again, but I'm a bit puzzled as to what's going on. Let's just go. Yeah, we're coming to a bit of a dead end of the path. There's a bit of a path going down there, but I said there's another bit of water. So I don't think I'm going to get anywhere by going that way. So thank you for watching. Hope you enjoyed this video. And like I say, if you know anything, if you know about the plan sort of bridge that's going to happen, then please do comment and tell me other than that. Thank you very much. Please feel free to like, subscribe and comment. And from River Cone on a winter's day. Goodbye.


Oedd y ddaf yn unrhyw o'r bydd ymddiannol i'r geshyn cyddi, mewn gwneud y gwych ar unrhyw o'r bydd Arbryddoedd Gleiam Ddau, y ffilm 2015? Mae'n fglwm iawn i'r gweithio i'r wybodaeth nifer o siŵr a'r gwneud o'r byd i'r bydd rheswm i'r gweithio i'r busr deilog, yn eto sy'n deum o'r bydd a blin ei wneud o'r bydd, a'r gweithio i'r bydd i'r busr deamol i'r byd, os yw hefyd, o'r bydd The ninth annual WWF-inspired earth hour takes place this Saturday, March 28. For 60 minutes, 160-plus countries and territories will come together to create a symbolic and spectacular lights out display across the globe, aimed at highlighting the need to address climate change. Landmarks, including Times Square in New York, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, will feature and will be joined here in Scotland by Edinburgh Castle, the fourth rail bridge, the First Time, the Kelpies and, of course, the Scottish Parliament. With a critical international climate change summit due to take place in Paris later this year, the importance of earth hour 2015 cannot be overstated. We, collectively and as individual citizens, need to ramp up the pressure on world leaders to deliver a legally binding international deal, which in a fair and equitable way delivers on restricting global temperature increases to west than the catastrophe that would be two degrees. Just as we collectively and as individuals require to ensure that our own behaviours are those of environmentally responsible inhabitants of this planet, the need for tangible action becomes increasingly evident right here on our own doorstep. 2014 was the hottest and fourth wettest year for the UK since records began in 1910. The average temperature for 2014 was 9.9 degrees Celsius, one degree warmer than the UK's long-term average, fitting into the wider trend, which shows that eight of the UK's top 10 warmest years have occurred since 2002. As Bob Ward policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute and Climate Change and Environment put it, 2014 was part of a pattern and clear evidence of the impact of man-made climate change on the UK. The truth is that we are not responding, at least not to the extent that we here in Scotland have acknowledged that we have to. By 2012, only Finland and Denmark within Europe had battled Scotland's emissions reduction performance, but, as we all know, we are. Albeit the readjustment of the baselines is not helping, missing the early targets, and the trajectory from here on in gets much steeper and, therefore, far more challenging. However, the response to Earth Hour, although it face value, a symbolic gesture, suggests that the population increasingly is waking up to the situation. WWF found that 85 per cent of the adults who had been involved in Earth Hour last year had felt inspired by the event to do more to protect the planet. While it is a symbolic event, it appears to be making a difference in terms of raising awareness and inspiring more environmentally friendly behaviour. Since the UK first became involved with Earth Hour back in 2008, there has been a steady increase in participation at all levels. Last year, more than 1,000 businesses across the islands took part. In shooting, hundreds of buildings were switched off across the country, just short of 1,000 schools across Scotland participated reaching over 2 million pupils. This year, the task is to create bunting for the love of highlighting the campaign that was started by WWF as part of the 100 Strong Climate Coalition, which calls on people to share why they care about climate change by focusing on the many things about their lives that will be affected unless we tackle this global issue. It is not just members of the public that are ensuring enthusiasm for Earth Hour, either. When I lodged this motion, I never thought for a moment that it would fail to receive the level of cross-party support required to secure this debate, but it says a lot about the subject matter that multiple members from every single party within this Parliament supported it. There is no doubt that this consensus over the importance of Earth Hour is evident at local authority level. Let us give ourselves a pat in the back. Scotland is the first country in the world to have every local authority supporting the Earth Hour initiative. The Earth Hour 2015 local authority initiative requires councils to do the following three basic things—switch off, turn off the lights in their town halls, headquarters and other landmarks, take part, promote WWF's Earth Hour staff through emails and the internet, encouraging them to sign up as individuals and take part in the event on a personal basis, engage, make use of the websites, newsletters, Twitter, Facebook to encourage members of the public to sign up, demonstrating the support for action and climate change that exists in the local area. If the local authority does an additional three activities from a top-up list, they are a WWF Scotland super-local authority badge recipient. Those top-up activities include getting community planning partnership partners to sign up to Earth Hour, holding a major public countdown to the switch off event and talking to local businesses and organisations to get the lights switched off on iconic or important buildings or structures in the area. Can I use tonight's platform to urge councils to pay particular heed to that last point, especially in relation to businesses occupying major retail parts? I find it utterly galling the amount of electricity that is wasted lighting up shop fronts and vacant car parks in these places between the hours of dusk and dawn, where no one but no one is window shopping. Switching off for Earth Hour would be a start down the road which sees them reduce energy consumption and if security is a concern then they could direct the savings to provide job opportunities for people to guard the premises. Last year 14 councils were awarded the status of super local authority, my local council Angus is one of these. Angus council will be switching off council HQ, Angus House at Orchard bank, county buildings and the Balmashanar war memorial and they'll be joined in taking this action by Historic Scotland Arbro Dabi. Most schools in Angus will be involved doing various projects such as switching off appliances, signing up the switch off at home etc. Last year participating schools received feedback on their energy consumption during Earth Hours. Figures returned by the Angus carbon and energy team showed that one primary school had an overall saving of 62 kilowatts which would equate to £246,7 if continued over the year. This was equal to energy used by six houses in a day and the CO2 emissions of a car travelling 145 miles. The council themselves are using Earth Hours as an opportunity to raise awareness about energy use and giving staff details of how to reduce their energy use. The council are also encouraging community planning partners such as the Dundee Angus College, NHS Tayside Police Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Fire and Rescue to get involved as well. At that very local level, right across Scotland, we are taking that moment to think about and highlight the need for action on climate change and hopefully sending the message that as citizens of this planet we understand the need to change behaviour and if our political leaders take the appropriate lead we'll also have our support. Presiding Officer, I'll draw my contribution to close it because I know that there are a number of colleagues wanting to participate in this debate. As with tackling climate change, the more who can contribute, the better. Graeme Dey, I'm bringing forward this very important motion and I apologise to him and the minister because I was due to a chair of meeting that was starting at the Parliament at 5.30 but that's what happens obviously when debates start later than scheduled so I apologise for that but clearly this is an important debate and that's why I wanted to speak in it. As we know, Earth Hour is getting bigger and bigger every year since it started in Sydney in 2007 and as Graeme Dey has reminded us, Scotland should be proud of the part that every single local authority has pledged to take part in it. For example, this year, more than 100 iconic buildings and landmarks will go dark on 28 March including Edinburgh Castle, Stirling Castle, Glasgow, George Square and the Kelpies. However, Earth Hour was not started by WWF just to switch off the lights. It's a day aimed at raising awareness about climate change and is also a great opportunity to take concrete action with a global impact.  For example, Paris will be hosting the conference of the party's 21 in December 2015, over two weeks under guidance from the UN. The expectations of this meeting are high and reflect the urgency to contain climate disruption. In this context, Scotland has made bold commitments so far, and the Scottish Government has set an ambitious but necessary target of 42 per cent reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020. The fact remains, however, that reduction targets were missed for the third time in 2012 by a substantial margin of 4.5 per cent. According to the Committee on Climate Change, the Scottish Government will need to strengthen key policies to meet future targets. Therefore, the Scottish Government must continue and go further to make sustainability a key area of policy devolved to Scotland, including infrastructure and procurement, green housing, active travel and much more. The recent high-profile guardian climate change petition led by Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, echoes the wake-up call on climate change. We are experiencing from all over the world from scientists and academics to politicians. I want to highlight this campaign, because I think that the Guardian newspaper should be congratulated on this great campaign that they have had over the last three or four weeks. I think that the journalist Rob Edwards, who writes for a different paper, said that the launch editorial was the best editorial that he had ever seen on the subject. Alan Rusbridger, who, of course, is retiring soon, started a keep it in the ground campaign and calls for a civilisational wake-up call. Moreover, he said that it was time to disinvest in companies that seek to exploit fossil fuels. If I can just quote what he said in that starting editorial, he said that evidence shows that proven fossil fuel reserves are more than three times higher than we can afford to burn in order to stay below the generally agreed threshold for dangerous climate change. Fossil fuel companies are currently banking on extracting those reserves and selling them and are actively prospecting for more. If legislators continue to support through policy these actions, while at the same time purporting to prioritise carbon emissions reduction gardens, the situation will come as stalemate between global corporate energy interests and the wellbeing and sustenance of our children and our planet. It is well worth everyone looking at the Guardian over the month of March, particularly on Mondays and Fridays, because it has been a great campaign that carries on. In conclusion, climate change is having a hugely detrimental impact on the quality of life for Earth's inhabitants, human and otherwise. EarthHour is just one moment where we can come together and make the case for a cleaner and more sustainable way of living in our own small but significant way. Therefore, on Saturday 28, when the skies above our major towns and cities go dark, I hope that, as many members as possible and as many citizens as possible will show their support and switch off at 8.30 pm. I support the motion and congratulate Graham Day once again for introducing it. Many thanks. I now call on Stuart Stevenson to be followed by Jamie McGregor. Four minutes are thereby, please. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and, like others, let me congratulate Graham Day and thank him for making time available for this debate. There is a lot happening in the world. Ocean currents are slowing. The Gulf Stream is going to be a less significant moderator of the climate in north-west Europe in years to come, and that has already started. That is why we are seeing harsh winters. In the last five years, the temperature at our house in one year was minus 21. In another year, it was minus 19. That has been followed by two years of unseasonable warmth, in which, in fact, we were sitting having a barbecue at the end of February last winter. We are seeing greater variability in our climate, and that is not going to be good news for the long-term health of our planet. We have seen shrinking of the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps, and we are seeing increased eridification in particular in Africa. Of course, as I have said in many debates before, that is, in particular, a gender issue, where the majority of farmers in rural Africa subsistence farmers are female, and they are having to go further for water, and they are going to have to go further for wood that they are burning in the stoves. Very significant problems for real people. It is going to lead to mass migration and it is going to lead to deaths. That is not simply an academic argument at all. I should be doing my little bit in promoting earth hour. I shall be in the Shona staffers suite of the Count Plaza hotel next to the SECC at 8.30 on Saturday night. I am the quizmaster in a WWF candlelit quiz. It is, of course, associated with the SMP conference, but it is not on the SMP conference campus, so I extend an invitation to all who are listening to come and join us on this excellent occasion. I shall be in sparkling form, as I normally am, at these occasions. The motion that we have before us talks about celebrating the work of individuals, families and communities and highlights the work of Angus Council. It is worth saying that the two councils within my constituency, Abedincia, most, if not all, of the offices that Abedincia has will be switching their lights off, and that is good news. Murray Council has arranged that the Bucky town clock and the Cullen town clock initiatives are going to be part of this. Indeed, they have been awarded a super local authority badge. I have my disagreements with Murray Council. That is not a great secret, but in this particular policy area, they are at least taking the right kind of steps. It is somewhat ironic that this started in Sydney, because we now have a Prime Minister in Australia, of course, who has been deconstructing the efforts of his predecessor to address the issue of climate change, at a time when the states, in particular South Australia, have been doing very well. Indeed, we and the Government here lost our head of environment to South Australia, where he is now carrying on very good work at a state level over there. The conference of the parties that is going to be in Paris this year—I first went to the one in Poznan, as a minister, and then in Copenhagen—the UK, in particular Gordon Brown, refused to allow us to be part of the delegation. I am delighted to say that, since then, the Government has been part of the delegation and has been an active and effective contributor. Let me just end, Presiding Officer, with a controversial thing where I am in a single digit minority here. I think that the big thing that we should and could be contemplating is reducing the speed limits wherever they are in Scotland by 10 miles an hour. Costs are almost nothing to do. It is not going to be popular, but I do not care, I will be 70 next year. However, it will be one of the things that we have to get on the agenda, and I encourage people to think about that very seriously. I now call on Jamie McGregor to be followed by Cara Hylton. Thank you. I join Graham Day and others in commending the work of WWF for once again organising this year's earth hour. Indeed, for the positive work, they do more generally to raise awareness of climate change and the challenges facing our biodiversity across the planet. Like other members, I also encourage constituents in my region to take part in this year's earth hour by switching off-lights at 8.30pm this Sunday. An earth hour, which was established in 2007, is now a well-known event which raises awareness of climate change issues internationally and helps put the focus on this policy area. It is an hour when people can contemplate human impact on the planet, and earth hour always reminds me of the late Michael Jackson's earth song, the sum of the lyrics are apt. What have we done to the world? Look what we've done. And like pollution, quite apart from being a very significant energy issue, does spoil clear vision of the night sky, which from darkness is so breathtakingly beautiful, so it is a type of vandalism. The motion mentions the involvement of local authorities in earth hour, and I'm pleased all the councils in my region are taking part. In Argyllun Bute, the famous McKaggs Tower in Oban, will take its place in a display of darkness alongside iconic buildings across the gobe, like the Sydney Harbour Bridge. In Highland, where WWF have awarded the council a super local authority badge, in recognition of their enthusiastic support for earth hour 2015, Rutherford Barracks, Inverness Castle, Inverness Cathedral, Urcott Castle and Ellen Donnell Castle will all have their floodlighting switched off. Highland Council rangers will also offer a range of guided walks, and every school in the Highlands has been encouraged to mark the earth hour. In the Western Isles, the Lights of Stornoway War Memorial will be turned off while the Town Hall in Lowick in Shetland will similarly be darkened. I'm also aware that many other public agencies in my region are also joining earth hour, including HIE, Scottish Canals, Visit Scotland, NHS Orkney and SNH. This is good. The motion also refers to welcoming other nations, sharing Scotland's ambition on tackling climate change. While we would all agree with this, I have argued in this chamber before that Scotland could carry more weight in terms of persuading other countries to adopt tough climate change targets if we could point to meeting our own targets rather than missing them. Most notably on greenhouse gas emissions, targets that the Government has now failed to meet three years in a row. This lack of achievement emphasises the difficulty in translating rhetoric into reality. But to conclude, Presiding Officer, I again welcome the fact that earth hour 2015 will help to put climate change on the international political agenda. I agree with Graham Day that this December's parents conference will be an important milestone in international efforts towards tackling climate change. We look to the Scottish Government to work with the public and private sectors here to develop further practical policies that help individual consumers to make low-carbon, environmentally friendly choices. I know Colin Carter Hilton to be followed by Angus Macdonald. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I begin by congratulating Graham Day on securing tonight's debate and also congratulating WWF for their excellent campaign? On Saturday night from 8.30, I will be joining millions of people in Scotland and around the world by switching off the lights in my house to mark earth hour 2015, although we're having three young children and I don't think I'll be lighting any candles. I know that many hundreds of my constituents in Dunfermline and in the West Fife villages will be doing the same, and I'll certainly be doing my bit to urge constituents to sign up. As a Fife MSP, I was pleased to hear that joining the iconic buildings across Scotland that will take part in the earth hour are Dunfermline City Chambers, The Fourth Rail Bridge, Fife House, The Townhouse in Carcody and Saltaire House. NHS Fife are also taking part. I'd like to congratulate Fife Council on being so active in promoting earth hour this year to both council staff and the local community that the WWF has awarded them a super local authority badge. Earth hour gives us the opportunity to show we are concerned about what's happening to our planet. Climate change is not something that's going to happen in the future and it's not something that's in doubt. Climate change is happening right now and while it can be hard for us in Scotland to believe, right now our world is hotter than it's been in 2,000 years and by the end of the century, if we don't act, global temperatures will climb higher than at any time in the past 2 million years. We're already seeing the impact from floods here in the UK to extreme weather conditions in the US to droughts, poverty and rising sea levels affecting many developing countries. Climate change is already affecting our lives, it's already damaging our ecosystems and it's already endangering the livelihoods of millions of people around the world. Climate change affects the whole planet, it touches and it will touch every one of us in every country, in every continent around the world yet it's not an unstoppable tide and there's nothing inevitable about it. We've all got the power to act and to make a difference yet right now it's simply not happening enough. If everyone in the world consumed natural resources at the rate we do in Scotland, we need three planets to support us, not just one. Yet from the food we eat to the air we breathe to the fuel that we consume and the water we drink, we rely on a healthy planet to lead our lives and in the choices we make every single day, in our homes, on our journey to work and in the food that we eat, we can all take small simple steps that can add up to big energy savings. We can all live our lives in a more climate friendly way. Earth hour is not therefore just a one-off event, it's not just about switching the lights off once a year and doing nothing else. Earth hour is an opportunity for each and every one of us to think about the everyday changes that we can make to save the planet that we love and it's an opportunity too to demand concerted action to ensure that in Scotland we do meet our climate changing targets in future and that we play a role in the world stage in promoting climate change action here in Europe and across the world. Each and every one of us has got the power to shape and change the future of our planet and to make the day-to-day choices that will secure a better and brighter future for generations to come, so I hope that this year's earth hour is another huge success. Switching off the lights can only be the start of a journey. Together we can make change happen, taking action not just for one hour but every single day. We owe it to our children and to all that we love and value to act now and put a halt to climate change. I'd like to join other members in thanking Graham Day for bringing this motion to the chamber, highlighting the importance of WWF's earth hour and the importance of demonstrating support for people and wildlife, set in by climate change. I'm delighted to be supporting earth hour on the 28 March. I urge all my constituents, local businesses and organisations in the Falkirk East constituency to join me in my support of this initiative. This year in Falkirk East we'll see the lights going out on the Falkirk quail and the kelpies, as Graham Day has already mentioned, among many other landmarks. It's great to see those landmarks being used to highlight this important issue. Our lone piper and a blues band at the kelpies will announce the switch-off at 8.30pm on 28 March. I'm in a bit of a quandary, Presiding Officer, whether to attend that or whether to attend Stuart Stevenson's quiz night at SNP conference. Across the world, nations face a range of challenges from climate change and energy and water security to tackling extreme poverty. However, the biggest challenge is surely climate change. That's why, in 2009, as we all know, the Scottish Parliament passed our world-leading legislation on climate change. Scotland has shown that, when we have the powers, we're prepared to lead. I know that our country in the world has said itself that demanding emission reduction targets that Scotland has. In addition, Scotland's climate justice fund is already making a difference to the lives of climate-affected communities in Tanzania, Rwanda, Alawi and Zambia. The devastation caused by extreme weather events and the link to climate change will surely feature high up on the agenda of the next session of the conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. However, it must be a wake-up call to world governments. I'm sure the minister, if she's attending the Paris convention, will call on them to share Scotland's ambition on the issue. In the fields of international development, human rights, action on climate change and climate justice, Scotland already has a well-established international reputation. In 2014, thousands of people across Scotland joined hundreds of millions of people in other countries across the world in switching off all non-essential lighting on and within buildings. The Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament and my local authority of Falkirk Council will play their part again this year, and we anticipate a great response from the rest of the public sector, too. Now, WWF's earth hour is an extraordinary annual event that focuses the world's attention on the steps that we need to take to protect it. As a supporter, I am committed to taking more action to address climate change and other environmental threats. However, I do not consider myself to be an environmentalist but a pragmatist. I enjoy the benefits of a technologically advanced and industrialised nation, and I would not agree with any action that takes a regressive stance in this area. However, my pragmatism extends to the acknowledgement that, with the benefits of technology and industrialisation, comes the downside of climate change. Within my constituency of Falkirk East, there is the largest container terminal in Scotland, Scotland's only crude oil refinery and a number of proposals for fracking currently suspended by the moratorium. However, there is also the hills and farmland of the Braes area, multiple wildlife reserves, woodland and parks. It is this balance between environment and industrialisation that I feel we as legislators must get right for all our benefit and for the benefit of future generations. In closing, it is clear that climate change is an issue that will give us many challenges in years to come. Scotland can lead the way with legislation that will ultimately help to mitigate the effects of climate change, as well as providing a sustainable supply of energy and a technologically advanced economy. Earth Hour provides a moment in time for all of us to think about what more we can do to address climate change. I believe that a moment in time is not enough, and I would call on all colleagues in the Scottish Parliament to continue to provide cross-party support for the aims of the Climate Change Scotland Act 2009 and any other legislation that helps to prevent climate change. I thank you and I now call on Sarah Boyart to be followed by Rod Campbell. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I also congratulate Graham Day for raising this debate with us tonight and say that I think that we have had some excellent speeches so far tonight, Presiding Officer. I am very proud of the fact that every local authority in Scotland is taking part this year. I think that that is hugely symbolic and I think that it is definitely worth highlighting. I know that my local authority, Edinburgh, is one of the super local authorities because of the work that it has done and the initiative that it has taken. As part of its darker skies policy, it has already reduced the number of city monuments that are illuminated at night. I think that that is a good example of Earth Hour creating an all-year-round impact. However, the iconic buildings and the leading organisations in Edinburgh that are taking action this weekend should be put in the record. It is not just the castle or the Parliament—important though those are—there is the Royal Yot Britannia, the fourth rail bridge, the National Gallery of Scotland, the RSA, the Palace of Holyrood House, public sector organisations such as the Apex House with Scottish Enterprise, the Scottish Funding Council office, hotels such as the Balmoral and the Caledonian Hotel, the Cameroot Obscura, St Giles, Cathedral and St Cuthberts, Heart of Mdlothian Football Club and Edinburgh University. A range of key buildings in the city will have their lights off for an hour on Saturday. It is an act of symbolism, but it is also an act of solidarity with the people who, as Cara Hylton, are already being affected by climate change. There is a lot that we can celebrate. This year's Earth Hour is important, as Graham Day said, because it is in the run-up to the Paris talks. There is a huge amount that we can be proud of in Scotland, but, as Jamie Mcgregor said, we need to focus on what more we need to do to meet our own climate change targets, which we have missed three years in a row. Yesterday's Climate Change Committee report, its fourth annual publication, sets out some of the challenges that we face, but sets out some of the policy areas that we could really make a difference on if we act now. WWF has rightly called for significantly greater policy effort. It comments that it remains difficult to pinpoint a policy fingerprint on the emissions reductions that we have seen since the introduction of the Climate Change Act. Let us focus on energy efficiency in Scotland. For me and Edinburgh, tackling our tenements is a huge challenge. We struggle to keep our tenements wind and water tight, but making them more energy efficient, we have to raise our game. We need more low-carbon heat networks across the country so that people have energy-efficient and low-carbon heating for the future. We need more on low-emission transport, more electric cars, more active travel and walking. For Stuart Stevenson, Edinburgh is looking at lower speed limits on selected streets, so other parts of the country will be able to learn from that. Across the public sector, CO2 targets to reduce our emissions. I noted today that Glasgow City Council is signing up a deal with the Green Investment Bank that will see 10,000 streetlights with lower energy emissions and half the amount of energy that is being used to light the city. There is a huge amount that is being done across Scotland, and there is much to be proud of. We need to have more in terms of land use action, particularly in terms of forestry, farming and peatlands. Part of that is about good advice and guidance, part of it is about leadership from the Scottish Government, part of it is about using financial resources to create the win-wins, where we have carbon emission reductions but green jobs as well. That has to be the prize for us in Scotland as we play our part across the world with the symbolism of EarthR, but the solidarity of EarthR 2 to focus on what we can do so that all of us in Saturday night are switching off our lights for an hour, but we are taking part in a global movement that says that climate change needs action and that Scotland can lead the way and play a full part in reducing our climate emissions. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the subject of world earth hour 2015, and, like others, I congratulate Graham Day on securing this debate. I also congratulate and applaud the work of WDDF in relation to this matter, and I wish Stuart Stevenson all the best on Saturday in the chairmanship of the quiz. Earlier in Graham Day's speech and indeed in the motion, he referred to the number of countries participating in this year's EarthR, and the importance of this year's events, particularly ahead of the rather grandly named 21st session of the conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, which takes place in December, and has a symbolic act there for EarthR is, therefore, not only unique but extremely appropriate. Whether at a local level at home or in the workplace or even at a traditional level, turning the lights out provides a visual opportunity to display support or draw attention to those who do not. When then marks across Scotland, including not only this Parliament but Edinburgh Castle, the Kelpies, the Fourth Road Bridge, and dare I say it, Cooper County buildings fall into a temporary darkness this Saturday night, they will be joined by other landmarks in other cities and places across the globe, perhaps rather better known than Cooper and Angus, but, nevertheless, the sentiment is the same. I'm especially pleased to see that NHS Fife are taking part in this year's EarthR, and, as Cara Hintland has already mentioned, that Fife Council joins Angus Council and others in being awarded a super-local authority badge by WWF as a result of their enthusiastic participation and support for EarthR. Events such as EarthR help to encourage people to take stock of what is a global issue. Some many suggest that climate change could overtake all other issues as an issue of importance, as effects become more apparent and have increasing consequences around the globe. At the UN climate silent in 2014, Barack Obama said, as we probably all remember, we're the first generation to feel the effects of climate change and also the last generation to be able to do anything about it, and how true that is. We have found ourselves in Scotland in some ways in the unfortunate but privileged position of being able to instigate change. Change is, however, unlikely to happen overnight or with a single action, but it can occur if we make many little changes in our everyday lives. How many people, for instance, regularly leave the lights on or television when they leave the room? Just a few years ago, those things would not even be thought of as an issue, but as people become more conscious of the problem, however, I believe that they're more willing to implement the small changes in their daily routines, which, together across a significant number of people, will make a significant difference. Clearly, there are colossal challenges that cannot be met simply by using energy-efficient light bulbs or not leaving the television on standby. Equipping ourselves with a clean, reliable energy source is essential, and whilst other nations and states have perhaps moved without even pausing for breath into the use of another carbon-based resource in fracking, I, for one, am pleased that the Scottish Government is taking a bit of a more considerative approach and has instigated a moratorium on granting planning consents. Scottish Government's ambition by 2020 that renewable sources will generate the equivalent of 100 per cent is, as we well know, well on the way to being achieved, with renewable sources now exceeding 44 per cent of gross electricity consumption. That is particularly good when compared with other areas of the United Kingdom, where the proportion of renewables is far less. However encouraging those figures are, there is no scope for complacency. As Malcolm Chisholm has already mentioned, we have failed to reach the emission standards targets that we've met, and so there is absolutely no room for complacency. However, I believe that we continue to make big steps in the renewable energy market with our vast potential for wind, wave and tidal power. Keeping this issue at the forefront of our minds is, I think, important. This one event is a small symbolic gesture. As Cara Hilton has said, it should not be seen as a one-off, however. Nevertheless, I hope that, if you can, you will mark this occasion on the 28th at 8.30pm by turning your lights on. Thank you. Thanks very much. And we now move the closing speech from the minister, Eileen McLeod. Seven minutes or thereby please minister. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and can I start by adding my congratulations to Graham Dave for bringing this important debate to Parliament and for highlighting the success of WWF's earth hour in engaging with a mass audience worldwide and encouraging hundreds of millions of people across our planet to stand behind environmental issues. As the Environment and Climate Change Minister, I am delighted to add my own congratulations to WWF and to all who are taking part in earth hour this coming Saturday evening, and I wish their efforts every success. I also look forward to seeing Angus Macdonald and Stuart Stevenson taking part in the Candlewick quiz that we hosted by WWF at our party conference. I am pleased, too, that the motion has commanded support from all sides of this Parliament, and I think that we should all continue to take pride in the very fact that the Climate Change Scotland Act 2009 was passed unanimously, because it demonstrates very clearly that the Scottish Parliament is prepared to show international leadership on targets that are aligned with climate science. I agree with Malcolm Chisholm that climate change is one of the biggest challenges that the world faces, and also with the comment from Rodd Campbell about the importance of consumer behaviour. As noted in today's motion, 2015 is a particular crucial year for mobilising the international effort. In December, as many members have highlighted, Governments from around the world will meet in Paris and agree a new global treaty on climate change. I will attend Paris and I will be pressing for the highest global ambition. One of my earliest ministerial duties was to attend the conference of the parties in Lima in December last year, where I met with many international figures committed to addressing climate change and challenging the international community to deliver a new global treaty to match Scotland's high ambition. I agree with the comments from Graham Day that we must ramp up a pressure on our world leaders. Just in the last few weeks, I have met and discussed climate action with the Irish Minister for Natural Resources and the French ambassador to the UK. Earlier today, I met and discussed climate change ambitions with the Quebec Ajaum general to the UK. I will be aware that yesterday, the independent committee on climate change published its report on Scotland's progress. I very much welcome the report. It shows that Scotland is outperforming the UK as a whole in reducing greenhouse gases as a result of the innovative and effective action that we are taking to achieve the most ambitious climate change targets in the world. Since 1990, gross Scottish emissions have fallen nearly 30 per cent compared to 24 per cent for the UK as a whole. The report also recognises the challenges that we are facing as a result of the methodological changes to how estimated emissions are calculated since our targets were set, which makes achieving them more difficult. Scotland's targets are not easy, they are challenging and there is much still for us to do, but we are making good progress and that good progress against our targets was recognised in the climate change report, particularly in relation to renewable energy, where, for example, in 2013 Scotland's generation from renewables was equivalent to 44 per cent of Scotland's gross electricity consumption. However, we have the ambition to do more. Last year, the Scottish Government established the Cabinet Subcommittee on Climate Change, chaired by the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, a clear demonstration of our collective commitment to climate change at the very highest level within this Government. That commitment is evidenced by the range of work that we are taking across the Scottish Government that is making a difference on the ground. There are now around 600 publicly available charging vehicles in Scotland for electric cars. The percentage of household waste that was recycled in 2013 was 42.2 per cent. In terms of the budget, we have increased our investment in energy efficiency out of £20 million. That should have a positive impact on how we tackle climate change emissions from housing. Just this morning, my colleague Derek Mackay announced a £10 million boost to active travel, bringing this total budget for active travel this financial year to almost £36 million. That latter is an excellent example of Scottish Government funding that has delivered multiple benefits from emissions reduction to healthier lives. Of course, Scotland's actions alone are not enough. Earth Hour is important in this regard because it sends a co-ordinated message in support of action on climate change from grassroot levels around the world. The Government gives an annual grant to WWF Scotland to ensure that co-ordination happens within Scotland. A number of members have highlighted some of those public bodies and national organisations that are switching off their non-essential lights, including Edinburgh Castle, the Forthbridge, the Falkirk wheel, Stirling Castle, Island Donning Castle, and our very own Kelpies. It is fantastic that every one of our 32 local authorities will also be switching off. Last year, three of them won the local authority champion awards, while another 12 who went the extra mile, including, as noted by Graeme Day, Angus Council, were awarded super-local authority badges, as well as Fife Council. Earth Hour has demonstrated that, when we act collectively, we have the power to make a difference. I agree with Sarah Boyack's comment that this is a symbol of solidarity with the climate vulnerable around the world. I also want to pick up on a comment that was made by Graeme Day when he referred to the For the Love of campaign. The First Minister has received many hundreds of emails and letters, and I have written on her behalf to stop climate chaos Scotland and to thank the supporters for all their many actions on climate change. I welcome this evening's debate. I thank Graeme Day again for bringing this important debate to the chamber tonight and for all the excellent contributions that we have had across the chamber from members highlighting how important Earth Hour is and how Earth Hour is being marked in the local communities. I would like to close with two points. First, I congratulate all those who are participating in Earth Hour. Everyone involved is making a huge difference, and secondly, to call on everyone to participate not only in Earth Hour but to work with us to realise Scotland's ambitions on climate change here in Scotland and on the international stage. Many thanks and I thank you all for taking part in this debate, and I now close this meeting of Parliament.


Hi everyone, happy Thursday. I'm Joe for jaspyscasewrakes.com We're starting off the day with 2022 Panini gold standard football six-box half-case pick your team number four a lot of great stuff Just dropped yesterday And there's the second half of the case right there number four marked all those four so you know they're from the same case Big thanks everybody who got into the action here If you got a rooftop next to your name that means you won that spot in the team random filler Thanks to those people who got involved there and thanks to the people who bought their spots straight up Danny. You've got a Star next to your name. That's the last spot mojo star According to Jaspy legend 70% of the time Last spot mojo hits 100% of the time so for whatever that's worth. All right, and away we go There's the blank card that I'm going to use right there to hide the hits Slow play a little bit. If you're just joining us check out our latest poll Who's going to win the Thursday night football game tonight? Against the spread a lot of votes pretty close forty forty eight percent taking the road dogs Pittsburgh plus four and a half 52% currently taking Cleveland minus four and a half. All right, there's Corey Davis nine out of 99 Wayne with the Jets and There's Terry and Davis price to 49 for the 49ers Victor You might get some more looks right over time is Eli Mitchell being out It's Chuba Hubbard Gold Rush Relic to two ninety nine one thirty four out of two ninety nine And that will be for Scott and the Panthers That AJ Dylan a white gold relic For the Packers one oh nine out of two ninety nine That's mark s with green babe on the board Payton Manning piece of his jersey 186 to 199 Hall of Gold Relic. 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There's Keenan Allen for the Bolts eight out of 25 Reach for the sky sky more 92 out of 399 Someone's poison the watering hole It's for Danny and the Chiefs and here a little likely story Isaiah likely Ravens To 199 it's gonna be for Nestor and the purple birds Diego's been conditioned to get Kyle Pitts on every redemption Sam Howell oh Sam Howell autograph There's everyone see what the redemption was No guessing I guess That's the 49 that will be for Jerry and Washington I think you guys saw it right yeah, it's James and Williams rookie Jersey autographs double for the Detroit Lions mmm James and Nick with that one Yeah, there's a snake in my boot might be I Think James and Williams might be maybe a few weeks away and closer than we think to seeing some NFL action I think he's been working out and practicing a little bit been Running routes making cuts a little bit closer than we think that'll be also hashtag good for the hobby Lions look at all right after the first couple weeks so having extra weapon added to that team could be Could be interesting. 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That's gonna be for Bradley the Falcons And we got a triple relic an autograph Garrett Wilson 109 out of 149 What a week to he had what a what a week to the Jets have that could be an interesting Be an interesting team to keep an eye on this year Joe Flacco turning back the clock a little bit that goes to Wayne stock and the Jets It's good though. You know you give give Zach Wilson No need to rush him back from from that knee issue So as long as Joe Flacco can do Can't expect week two Joe Flacco all the time, but you don't want week one Joe Flacco either You get somewhere in between Give Zach Wilson some extra time to rest Eason back onto that team. I think that'd be great All right, we got AJ Turrell third 19 out of 30 dirty birds We got Darius Leonard for the Colts to 25 That's Greg with the blue horseshoes Slow start for the Colts is here.  It's Justin Fields 131 out of 299 That is for Robert and the Bears Charles Woodson nice 11 out of 199 Hall of Gold Raiders edition got a Derrick Stingley junior autograph to 25 that'll be for Patrick and the Texans And we've got a breeze hall. Oh three color patch. That's nice An autograph 37 out of 49 for Wayne stock and the J E T s Jets Jets Jets And there you go pick your team four in the books another solid gold standard break Let's Flip back over to the list here. Everyone gets a shot at the 400 points. Let's gather everybody's names one through 32 My mouse wakes up a little bit. There you go. Welcome to the show mouse All right, let's get all the names in there and name on top After six one and a five six times. We'll get the extra points one two three four five and Once more six than final time and that'll be for Pat Wolf. There you go Pat after six 400 points going your way a little consolation prize there. Thanks for watching everybody I'm Joe for jazzy's case rakes calm and I'll see you next time for the next football break. Bye. Bye


Another beautiful day in the Canadian wilderness guys.  We've already caught Walleye, we've caught pike we've caught crappie. We've caught the smallmouth of course I think today me and dad are just gonna go enjoy ourselves in the Canadian wilderness It's the sights and the sounds and just soak it in we're gonna take you guys along My name is LFG and I'm gonna be your tour guide for today Sitting on the old 60 horsey army right here giving the old gas giving her a go gonna trim her down all the way Make sure we get on pad quite safely Make sure to keep all arms and legs in sight the vessel at all times Don't forget your crawler harness. We're about to go catch some walleyes folks This little motor skier, but eventually we'll get there guys till then Enjoy some slow-mo b-roll of this beautiful place. So here's what I enjoy About this like ooh, look at these boulders. I Like just going down the bank and catching Whatever, I mean this lake's not known for giant smallmouth tons of three-pounders in here You can literally just go and catch smallmouth pike walleye perch not really crappie crappie is a special deal you can catch all those species in the same type areas and Just pick you can have like three or four rods and then just oh, yeah, that looks grassy. I'll throw that I'll get some pike right there. Oh, look at those boulders. It's catching smallmouth. This point looks good Let's catch a walleye for a short lunch. You can do it all right here and the fishing is good It's especially good this year. I think So that's what we're kind of doing up here. Just enjoying whatever nature gives us out here in the great outdoors LFD has messed up He's hooked himself. I have pain Oh, oh my gosh, dad, that doesn't work. That's not working. Oh Geez oh Oh My gosh, it's really in there. Yes. That's in there. Dang dad. Well, you didn't even say anything.  Oh god. Are you going through the other side? Oh my god dad What what can I do here? Okay, are you going to stick it through and we're going to cut the other side? Yes, that's what I have to do I was through. Oh Thank god. Oh geez If you give me a stick to bite on or something That's a bad one dad. I know guys. I love my dad He's a little clumsy though. I left. He's a little clumsy He never goes anywhere without a a pair of cutters with him because he's hooked himself more than one time this this happened This hurts I pulled it through Let me know in the comments if you've ever done this. I have actually never hooked myself like this I've hooked two people. They were my really good friends. I apologize. I but it's been a long long time He was so calm. He's like, well, I've hooked myself. I thought it was just, you know, kind of under the skin It was deep. So all right, we got to get this out Okay, what is the plan here? You're going to cut the other side. I'm going to cut the barb off All right, show us how it's done. So this ever happens to any other fishing freaks All right. Yeah, you have to pull the barb all the way through Make sure you get it all the way through. You got to get that barb. See the the barb. Oh, yeah Watch your lips Oh god, I think I got some skew Watch your eyeballs Oh, yeah, I think it actually did hit the camera. Oh Now you can pull it through clean hard part is done All right, show us those plot those cutters that you always carry gotta have some of these if you don't The fish may hook you and be flopping around and jerk it through your skin like this grab it Don't hook yourself.   You're a real man. I just want to give you a fist pump.  Oh, thank god, it didn't go in. Okay Dad be careful. Oh Just be careful. Oh, all right. If we catch a pike, I'm gonna be handling it. Okay, especially if it's got treble hooks That's a deal. Everybody hit the like button for LFD. He's a he's a champion out on the water He he still he keeps after it doesn't let a little treble hook get him down. Yeah, you gotta keep going There's a big one out here somewhere Oh, yeah Oh, he grabbed it. Yep, that's where he was Came up and slurped it Oh my god, as soon as I saw him he was just right on it We actually saw a boil over there He said to dad I was like, I bet it's a smally guarding an area So I just threw in that general area and boop They are beautiful Return him back into the water See you buddy There it goes So first spot we pulled up to you know after dad's got his Hook out of his leg Gets going throw in a little top water and we're seeing a few fish on beds, but These black flies they bite too Seeing a couple fish on beds not committing to the top water So I want to show dad a new technique weightless warming at the surface using super light Finesse gear and I got a new bait to show you guys So you already know we've been working on uh Gugging baits for a little while and I only brought a few up here But one of the baits is a smallmouth bait and it's a finesse drop shot Well, basically a finesse worm, but what I'm about to do and show dad is to to hook it wacky rig and fish it at the surface And just shaking it like I did with the cheeto worms that you guys saw those orange worms I'm going to use that same technique except it's on these fish I'm sure they're going to munch it because they won't fully commit to the top water while it's sitting over there But that worm shaking Uh, I can't stand it. Let me show you guys how this thing works Perfect technique. Thank you. I've never done that before That's awesome dad.  Wow That's the old dragon drop Sweet little finesse worm for this stuff That's cool. All right, dad. Let's let this beautiful fish go Give me five on that one. Is that fun? It was Fun watching me at it on top, huh? Yeah, you know the cool part is there's another one like 20 feet next to it Yeah Got it. Oh my gosh Two casts, two fish. Let's go find some more. That is cool. I've never done that That's the literally the first time I've ever done that Pretty awesome. The floating worm These are the baits right here y'all. So you're always going to have straight worms and you get a pack of these And uh, that is it right there. Look at that. Just a little doozy That's like a green pumpkin pearl color. It's good for a lot of situations, but Super high quality plastic guys Stuff is good really good So let's get another one and give it an angle Pretty fun to sight fish for him He was a little finicky though. I think all these pockets in here are going to be good That's a cool smallmouth bait perfect for this little technique Right here. That's the rig right there. The thing is so light. I'm using braid to it floats And literally you can just shake it on the surface and it's looks like a little dragonfly or something twitching up there Oh, here's one Always got it Came up and grabbed it. That's cool. So visual Oh, we threw the worm He threw the worm. There's not many in existence right now Look at all these big boulders here dad. This is 9 pound braided line And stuff floats and it's super sensitive And this is a medium light jackhammer This rod's phenomenal.  Love you Yeah So that technique right there is literally like fishing topwater, but you're just fishing a worm I saw that fish coming And I slowed it down so he would he would come up and nip it, but I have no idea if it was on a bed It could have been Well dad, how many eagles have you seen land in their nest While you're hearing the loon sing in the background that close Never that's the first one for me. That is awesome. We literally said today. Let's go explore what the lake gives us Let's go explore nature Doesn't get any better than that. I was trying to chase a couple of bald eagles They're so big and they fly so fast and cover so many miles looking for fish out here But that was incredible just seeing that the fishing is great guys but Honestly, it's it's about soaking this kind of stuff in when you come to places like this And these loons are awesome. They sing to each other when one is under the water and I love the sounds that they make it's really neat and they're beautiful birds And it's kind of the the staple of up here. I feel like when you're in canada You hear those loons and they make just such a distinct sound and it echoes against the rocks and It's just awesome. It's awesome guys Do I have the fish the fish you said couldn't be caught? Oh, we just bit up a bug too Look at it. Look at all the stuff. He's spitting out The fish that couldn't be caught LFD says There we go drag and drop He was a little trickier. I'll give you that stand it in the shadows I'm about a little boat flip buddy. Yeah Look at this dad. Look at the crawfish pincers down his throat Isn't that cool? Look at that guys Let's see right inside there crawfish pincers That's awesome Okay, I think I have shown you the quintessential Canadian Rainy Lake experience right here, but I think we're gonna wrap this video up right here And we're gonna go after some more pikes my PB pike is over 40 inches. Dad's is just under Thinkers was like 37 36 38. Yeah, something like that. See how he bumped it up a couple inches That's the LFD way people up here need to learn how to respect the pike Super bullet fish with giant jaws ready to crunch anything that comes in front of it. What's not to like I love it dad. I think you just summed it up dad's legs gonna be okay as well You took one for the team early shook it off and you played like a champion.  Let me know in the comments if you've ever hooked yourself for someone else I'm sure there's some great stories out there And thank you guys for tuning in. 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Hello, everyone. My name is Daria Grudje. I work as a site reliability engineer currently at APRE. And I'm also a co-founder of Cyber Magnolia, a growing women's tech collective in the Czech Republic. Today I wanted to talk to you and share a couple of tips and tricks that I have on how to be more effective and have more fun working as a junior in a technical role. When preparing this talk, I was thinking mainly about people who are either students or working in their first position in technical roles in software engineering or web development. But I believe that a lot of these will be useful also to people in non-technical roles as well as more senior. So the origin of the talk actually is a blog post because personally I got a chance to be a junior twice. I changed career into engineering a few years back and I feel like the second time around I had a chance to approach this experience more mindfully. And I decided to write down my own experiences and learnings as well as the result of conversations with my friends and colleagues and the feedback that I have gathered from my either senior colleagues at work or my managers on how to be more effective as a junior. The blog post got a little bit more popular than I expected, so I decided to try it as a talk. And I'm super curious how you'll like it. I'm really waiting to hear whether it works. So let's get to it. I will start by introducing the outline real quick. We will talk about how to make it easy for other people to help you. The managing app and the importance of that. Ownership and how much everyone should display it at work. Sustainable learning and how to make sure that you continue learning throughout your whole career. And self-care and well-being, something that not many people still talk about in the professional context. Before we dive into the talk, to everyone out there who identifies as a junior, I wanted to pause and acknowledge this one thing. You're awesome. What you're doing is really hard. Yes, it's fun. It's also really hard. Starting your career, particularly in a technical role, is not as an easy thing. There's a lot of stuff to figure out. So kudos. Keep up the good work. First up, we're going to talk about how to make it easy for other people to help you. Why is that important? Because the better you get at it and preparing everything, the less time you will take from your more senior colleagues, which will mean that they will be more likely to help you in the future. And as a result, the whole team will benefit you, your senior colleagues, and everyone around. And the first thing to remember about when you start a new interaction with a new mentor, ask them how they like to communicate. Whether it's adding all of the comments in the pull request or setting up a meeting or writing in a particular Slack channel, write it down, remember and stick to it for the future. Do the legwork. Before you go and ask for anything, write down the commands that you use that got you into trouble or search for answers on the internet. For example, copy paste the exact error message, paste it into the search engine and see what it pops up. Collect all those useful results. You know, if you need to talk to your rubber deck, I totally have wine here. And there's a good chance that by this point, you will figure out the problem yourself. If not, however, then when you go and actually do the ask, start by presenting your problem and your hypothesis. Figure out what might be wrong. For example, I think there's a problem with the error handling in my code. And then share all those results that you prepared, because there's a good chance that this will actually be enough for them to solve your issue. And if nothing else, it will really prove that you did the work and you were serious about helping yourself, people will treat you more seriously. Second, managing up. When we think about managing someone, we mostly think about this top down approach of either team lead managing the team or the project manager managing the people. The thing is that managing people above you is a critical skill that's important and it grows in importance, the more senior you become. It's good to start training in the beginning because this allows you to make sure that people around you help you achieve your goals, whether it's finishing your task, getting your promotion, switching to a different project, learning something new, it's a really important skill. So if it's possible, pick your own mentor for each task. When the moment will come when you will be assigned with the task and there may be a discussion of who should be the person who will be reviewing your code or giving you final approval, ask for a specific person, make your voice heard, make sure you participate in this decision. And when you pick that person, look for someone who's considered an expert on the topic. Say you would want to improve the performance of certain queries in a MongoDB database. Look for the person who's a Mongo expert because this way there's a better chance that you will learn best practices first and you will learn them faster. This is something that I've learned painfully on my own skin and also observed around. Avoid having two equally important code reviewers. It happens to me that I was developing a new script and the person requesting them was our architect, but since it was the first serious job I was doing in Python, I asked a colleague of mine who's a Python mentor to also give me his tips. What I spent most of the time doing is managing consensus between them because one of them was really focused on how maintainable this code will be in the future and how other people will be able to contribute to it and how readable it is. The other one was mainly interested in how well it will perform once deployed into production. Impossible to satisfy both took a lot of energy. Avoid it. Avoid it at all costs. Ownership is next on our agenda. What it means really for you is that for every test that you get, you are the project manager for it. It's really important. What it means in practice is that you're responsible for both proactively communicating its status and for delivering the task. From the perspective of the person who assigns you the task, it's really ideal when they can just hand it over to you and trust that you will either deliver it on time. If there's any delay, you will communicate that up front so they can respond to it. If you will need any help, you will ask for it, ideally figure out who's the best person to give it to you. It's fantastic to work with people like that. Everyone enjoys it. Everyone remembers it for years. You want to be this person and really this is the way to do it. And next up, apologies. Sustainable learning. If you haven't done this already, this is really a good time to figure out your own learning style. So, for example, whether it's watching conference talks, or reading books, or maybe creating some proof of concept by yourself with a new technology, you should know it by now and remember it and use it. The next part is to figure out the schedule, how to make sure that this learning happens regularly. And something that my boss recommended is either to set a specific hour during the day, let's say 2pm after lunch to work with something new, something that you don't really work on the job, or dedicate half of Friday for that learning and make it a quality time. This is pretty important. You want to make sure that this is set up so you don't even have to think about it. It happens automatically. And because of that, you want to make sure that you do learn something new every day, more or less. You notice that days go by and you haven't really learned anything new because all the tasks you do are repetitive. There wasn't a new technology and new approach. Then maybe it's time to go back to point one and review your schedule and your learning styles. But if this continues for a longer period of time, I really recommend going and talking to your manager about making some changes. Sometimes maybe just switching tasks or switching teams. Sometimes maybe it's necessary to switch the company altogether to make sure that you learn this, that you learn new stuff. Why is that important? Because as your career progresses, there will be more and more personal life responsibilities. And maybe it's still possible to cram some extra projects on weekends. This will get harder with years. So it's really an advice from all their colleagues to make sure that this is part of your work. And the last point of the whole presentation, self-care and well-being. This really starts with an advice that I got from one of my senior colleagues who was leaving work day after day and saw me sitting at my desk in late late afternoon. And at some point he decided to come to me and say, you know what, I'm going to tell you this, you're the only person in charge of preventing your own burnout. So think about whether you really want to be spending the evenings at work. I think it was a super good advice. And I thought about it really seriously afterwards. And it's really, really true. There's absolutely nobody else, not your manager, not your partner, not your colleagues, whose well-being and self-care will be as important as it should be to you. So take care of yourself properly. Which means that on bed days, remind yourself of things you're good at. Most people, most of us mortals, we have those moments when we feel like we suck at everything or we're really not good enough or not technical enough, whatever. So we prepared for that moment. Something that I recommend and I did myself is that take a piece of paper and write ideally with your handwriting all of the things that you're really good at. Whatever it is, whether it's baking blueberry muffins, maybe you have great times on running 5Ks or maybe you're really an awesome gamer. It's really important to know those things, write them down. And when this moment comes out, I carry it in my wallet. So when it comes out, I just take it out.  You know, okay, I'm pretty good at doing muffins. So maybe it's not so bad. It makes sense. It really will help you when the moment comes. And if you ever hear yourself actually saying stuff like I suck, pause for a second and ask yourself this question. Is this something that you would tell your friend? There's a good chance that you wouldn't.  I'm totally not capable of doing this. There's a good chance you will say something like, I don't think so. I think you just had a bad day and maybe you're tired and you cannot figure out this task, but the world doesn't end here. You get a chance to do it again tomorrow. You'll do better. It's okay.  Try to talk to yourself. You're your own best friend because it will really change how you feel about yourself and will give you more energy to really tackle problems going forward. And know what helps you recharge and do it regularly. It's really important because if your personal energy levels are at 100% and then go to 80, it's much easier to top them up than when it goes all the way to zero and working all your way back from that point. So it's important to know and write down particularly if you're in the good place in your life at the moment. The stuff that you enjoy doing. So maybe it's hanging out with your buddies. Maybe it is playing the computer game. Maybe it's hiking somewhere, going for a run. Write this down and also the way you set up a sustainable learning schedule. Make sure that you do those things regularly and particularly if you find yourself feeling less energetic, do one of those things that will recharge you. It's really, really much easier and it will help you. I think we see it particularly now when everyone is working from home and it's really tough. It's really important to have a procedure like that. And that's it. If you'd like to dive deep into the topic, I have prepared a couple of resources. I will share this slide deck like other speakers, but also you can find me on Twitter at Daria Grudin where I shared the slides. If you have any comments, questions, I'm totally looking forward to answering them now in the Q&A or somewhere on Discord or on Twitter. And so thank you very much for your time and your attention and good luck on your own journey. Thank you.


A suspect in Tennessee died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound while on the run on Sunday after a series of shootings that killed four of his female relatives and seriously injured a fifth person. Police said officers found the body of Mavis Christian, 52, in his cart during a manhunt following shootings at three locations in Memphis that left three women and a teenage girl dead and a teenage girl critically wounded. The Memphis Police Department said police said Christian was related to the victims but could not immediately specify how they were related. The names of the victims have not yet been released. Memphis police officers responded to a reported shooting on the 100 block of Howard Drive. Police found a woman with an apparent gunshot wound who was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators determined there were two other connected fatal shootings.