Mae hyn oedd gyda'r unrhyw hwy Ao'r unrhyw ymddorol yng nghymru. Gaen dweud o bwrdd fod y cwestiwn faddy o'r gweithio bod mae'n pawb i ni peth i fywyr a'n gwneud o cwestiwn dweud ar ziwetur maes gael ac yn fanodol. Pwysig 1. Margaret McCulloch. Thank you, Presiding Officer—to ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to boost the economy in central Scotland. Cabinet Secretary, John Swinney. The Scottish Government has committed to boosting economic growth and tapping inequality across Scotland. In central Scotland, we continue to support economic growth with substantial infrastructure investment and help to businesses enabling them to grow and create employment. Businesses across central Scotland have benefited from £53 million of regional selective assistance since 2007, creating and safeguarding 7,000 jobs. Almost 2,000 employment opportunities have been created for young people through the Youth Employment Scotland Fund. A further 145 jobs have been created through £7.5 million support from the Scottish Government's generation capital grant fund. The Government will be aware of my concerns about the decline of the manufacturing base in East Kilbride and the impact that the withdrawal of Rolls Royce from the town later this year could have on the wider economy of the region. Could the Scottish Government therefore update me on their involvement with the multi-agency East Kilbride task force and explain how they and their partners are promoting the town as a destination for inward investment? First of all, I would say to Margaret McCulloch that the Government entirely supports the sentiments that she has set out of the importance of manufacturing industry for Scotland, particularly for towns like East Kilbride, which have a very strong track record in the field of manufacturing. The Government participates in the East Kilbride task force, which is run by the local authority, through our partners Scottish Enterprise and Skills Development Scotland and, through the wider input of organisations that the Government substantially funds such as South Lanarkshire College. The focus of the task force is on finding opportunities to deal with the circumstances that Margaret McCulloch raised in relation to the transfer of Rolls Royce's activities from East Kilbride to Redfordshire. The Government is also very keen to use the available devices through the work of Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Development International to promote East Kilbride as a destination for inward investment and to support the company base of East Kilbride to expand its activities through international business activities. Scottish Development International would be keen to support companies with growth prospects in that respect. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Tesco regarding recent closure announcements. This is a very worrying time for all those affected by the Tesco announcement to close four stores in Scotland, including the Superstore in Cercodi, with 189 employees. In the joint initiative with the leader of Fife Council, I wrote to the chief executive of Tesco offering assistance as part of efforts to reverse the situation. Scottish Government officials and Fife Council met Tesco representatives on 2 February to discuss the issues faced by the company and to express our concern about the effects the closures would have on communities, employees and their families. In addition, officials in the Scottish Government and Skills Development Scotland have been in contact with Tesco to offer support through our partnership action for continuing employment pace initiative for any employees who may be facing redundancy. I thank the cabinet secretary for that reply and also for his parliamentary response that I received yesterday. Given the fact that the recent round of Tesco closures and non-openings have accounted for 16 per cent share of the UK closures and non-openings, which is obviously disproportionate given that we have 8.5 per cent of the population share, can the cabinet secretary give a categorical assurance that there will be no successor tax to the public health supplement, which the Scottish Government was forced to abandon because it would make the retail sector, which is so important in this country, uncompetitive? The first thing to say is that the Government actively supports the retail sector in taking forward its developments. We enjoy good and constructive discussions with the Scottish retail consortium, who do a lot of very good work in advancing the interests of the retail sector in Scotland. Secondly, as a matter of record, I was not forced to abandon the public health supplement. I said that it would be in place for three years, and it came to an end when I said that it would come to an end just like I predicted it would be. As I am sure Liz Smith knows, who is an assidious follower of my every word, there are no provisions in the Government's financial plans to introduce such a supplement. In the recent times, we have seen, on one hand, a reaction against Tesco towns and in the other community coming together to save an anchor store in the Airtown Centre. Would the minister agree, however, that we all should be concerned by reports at the weekend of redundancies, potentially rising to 10,000, and that averting further job losses must be a priority in discussions with Tesco? We cannot disguise the fact that the retail sector and some of the major employment that is underpinned by not just Tesco but other supermarket chains is very significant now in the Scottish economy. Therefore, the example in Cercodi, where 189 job losses may well arise from the closure of this store, is a very significant loss of employment in one particular community. The other examples in Trun, which will be known to the Presiding Officer and in Edinburgh and Grainsworth, are not as significant, but they are in their own localities, significant announcements into the bargain. The assurance that I would give Margaret McCulloch is that, on every occasion, we face these difficulties, and we face employment loss from time to time in different parts of the country. The work of the PACE service, which Mr Ewing has led and which has been a subject of debate in Parliament, is focused entirely on ensuring that we can maximise employment opportunities for individuals that are adversely affected by those decisions. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to boost the economy in the Falkirk Council area. The Scottish Government is committed to growing the Falkirk economy and creating employment opportunities by working closely with our delivery partners, including Falkirk Council. Our commitment to boosting the economy was demonstrated by our approval of Falkirk Council's 67 million Grainsworth tax incremental financing project, which is expected to lever in £413 million in private investment, creating almost 6,000 jobs and hundreds of apprenticeships. I very much welcome the initiatives that are already under way, especially the Falkirk Grainsworth TIF, which will give a major boost to and allow exciting opportunities in the industrial sector in Grainsworth. However, Grainsworth is also a residential community and has recently announced closure of Tesco Metro, as the Deputy First Minister has mentioned, and Matheson's The Bakers in the town. Residents are concerned about the reduction in footfall in the town centre. Will the cabinet secretary continue to work with Falkirk Council to ensure that there is a bright future, not just for the industrial sector in Grainsworth, but also for the 18,000 residents who require a vibrant town centre? I appreciate Mr MacDonald's point. He raises an important question about the future and the vitality of town centres, which is an important consideration of the Government, not just in the much larger towns in the locality of Falkirk, but also in the smaller towns such as Grainsworth. The town centre action plan sets out a range of actions to help town centres to remain or to become vibrant. That includes expanding fresh start rates for small businesses, increasing opportunities for town centre living and agreeing the town centre first principle as part of our wider discussions on that question. I would also say to Mr MacDonald that the Government, through its work with Falkirk Council, in the economic partnership, will be meeting this Friday and the partnership will consider its economic strategy and Grainsworth vision, which I think will help in that respect. Finally, I think that Falkirk is a very good example of a community that has faced very significant changes in its economic base, has responded to them with tremendous courage and vision. Indeed, the combination of the visitor attractions in Falkirk between the Falkirk wheel and the Kelpas and the Helix programme are an example to us all of how real creativity and vision can be taken forward to improve the economic fortunes of people in our country. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Dundee City Council, Scottish Enterprise, Fourth Ports and DCom North Sea about the opportunities in Dundee for decommissioning oil and gas facilities. Minister Fergus Ewing, we engage regularly with relevant parties as to the opportunities that decommissioning provides. In order to maximise economic recovery from oil and gas fields, it is necessary that the UK Government acts to reinstill investor confidence. It is also necessary to avoid the premature decommissioning of installations serving fields that still have a viable life of further production of oil and gas. To avoid such premature decommissioning, it is essential that the UK Government deliver in their March budget a package comprising substantial tax reduction measures along the line of the package that I outlined to Parliament on 8 January this year. It is a very interesting answer, because nobody is suggesting premature decommissioning of any facilities. Indeed, my question was not about what the UK Government was doing but about the Scottish Government in this chamber. The last time I raised the issue that the minister told me that he had published his decommissioning strategy, the minister will be aware that Dundee City Council and his SNP colleagues there are engaging on this issue. Will the minister accept my invitation to come with me to Dundee and to meet all four parties that I have suggested to see how he can help them to facilitate getting opportunities from this multi-billion-pound industrial opportunity in Scotland? It is very generous of Ms Marra to extend the invitation, but in fact I have already had the opportunity to engage with Councillor Ken Gild, with Stan Yew, with Charles Hammond of Forth Ports and also with Scottish Enterprise staff, and I have had discussions with them. We have also published a strategy in October 2014, decommissioning in the North Sea review of decommissioning capacity, and it is plain that there are significant opportunities, as has been stated, but if Jenny Marra seriously believes that there is no risk of premature decommissioning of installations of the North Sea, then I am afraid that she is sadly mistaken because that is precisely the risk that oil and gas UK have been warning the UK Government about and a very substantial number of the existing over 400 installations in the North Sea because of their ageing nature and the relatively small deposits of oil and gas remaining, but still economically viable, face precisely that fate unless there is an appropriate and substantial tax reduction measure. I am hopeful that the UK Government will heed the more informed voice of oil and gas UK and other commentators in this regard when they make their budget announcement in March. I have a great fear of premature decommissioning. In that light, I would like to ask the Scottish Government, in light of the financial impact in the industry in Scotland, what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the oil and gas fiscal regime. I attended the UK Government pilot meeting, as I always do, on 13 January. It was chaired by Matt Hancock, the current UK minister with responsibility for oil and gas. At that meeting, I summarised the Scottish Government proposals that were set out in this chamber on 8 January, and I endorsed them to the UK Government and our colleagues representing the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties in this chamber. I thank the minister for his answer. Following the introduction of an exploration tax credit in Norway, the number of exploration wells drilled increased substantially. Can the minister advise us if the UK Government has indicated whether or not they will follow Norway's example and introduce an exploration tax credit to boost our oil and gas industry and to protect jobs? I can tell Mr Stewart that the UK Government has not shared with us its tax proposals in the budget. To be fair to the UK Government, at said pilot meeting, it has indicated, and the Treasury's civil servants indicated, that consideration has been given to introducing some measures that may encourage exploration. The question will be whether they are sufficient. Mr Stewart points to Norway that they introduced measures in 2005, an exploration tax credit of 78 per cent. Since then, drilling has increased fourfold, and they have discovered two enormous fields, including the Johann Sferdrop field. Finally, the arrysma-take is simple. Exploration companies can do four drillings in the Norwegian North Sea for the cost of one exploration drilling in the UK sector. That cannot be right, and that is why we have called on the UK to adopt the Norwegian model. On financial impact, the Scottish Government statistics released today on public sector revenues shows that, for the last quarter of 2014, there was a 55 per cent drop in Scotland's revenue share of North Sea oil, and that was before the price of oil dropped below $50 a barrel. Can the minister advise how much that means in money terms to the Scottish budget? Does he agree that the Barnett bonus, in this case, is clearly preferable to full fiscal autonomy so that we are not exposed to billions of pounds less revenue for public services due to the drop in oil? No. However, I can inform the House that, per the proposals that I announced in the 28 January and, according to the analysis carried out by Professor Alex Kemp of Aberdeen University, possibly the most respected academic commentator in the UK, an investment allowance could support between 14,000 and 26,000 jobs a year. The reduction in the supplementary charge could support up to 5,600 jobs per annum across the UK. Those are the realities of the matter. We are having a running commentary, Presiding Officer, which is as relevant as the question was, because the answer is this—and I will conclude with this—that the amount of tax revenue in future will be substantially by determined by whether the tax measures that the chancellor introduced in March will be sufficient to reinstill investor confidence. Investor recovery can only happen if there is investment, and investor confidence will only happen if the tax reductions are sufficient to do that and show that the UK has learnt the lessons of the several tax hikes delivered by that party in 2002 and 2005 and those parties in 2011. Will the minister publish a new oil and gas analytical bulletin with updated revenue projections? Minister, until such time as we know what the tax measures are going to be, it is impossible to speculate on what the revenues will be because it is impossible to know what the investment will be. Let me inform the member of one of the many visits between 10 and 15 private visits to operators that I have conducted in Aberdeen or mostly Aberdeen in the past several weeks. One of them outlined precisely to the nearest million pounds the amount of reduced investment in the UK—between £500 and £1 billion—one company, the precise amount of reduced investment in the UK continental shelf as a direct result of the hike to the supplementary charge in 2011. That is why we must wait and see what the tax deal is before we speculate about what the tax revenue can possibly be. Question 6, Neil Bibby. As the Scottish Government what action it has taken to improve the economy in the west Scotland region? The Scottish Government has committed to supporting sustainable economic growth across Scotland, including in the west of Scotland, with infrastructure support and ensuring effective business support. In the past year, there were 17 regional selective assistance awards worth more than £8.5 million in creating or safeguarding 1,109 jobs. Over 350 jobs will be created through the recent awards from the Scottish Government's regeneration capital grant fund. Neil Bibby. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. The cabinet secretary will be aware that the minister for business recently rejected Renfrewshire Council's proposal for an additional enterprise area based around creative and cultural industries to be established and for Paisley town centre to be identified as the first enterprise zone in the steam. An enterprise zone in Paisley town centre would build on the existing creative and cultural strengths Paisley already has and be a welcome boost to the area in terms of creating jobs. I therefore ask the cabinet secretary if he will reconsider his Government's decision to reject the council's proposal, which would help revitalise Paisley town centre and the local economy. Mr Bibby will be aware that the Government set out its proposals on enterprise areas some years ago. We set out that we would take forward a limited number of enterprise areas. We would also take forward other inventive mechanisms to encourage investment like the tax incremental finance issue that I discussed with Mr McDonnell just a few moments ago. There are a range of different ways in which the Government has responded to the aspirations within local communities to deliver a stronger economic future. The logic of all of that is that we cannot have enterprise areas in every part of the country because, if we do have that, they will lose the value of trying to tackle particular issues. If I say to Mr Bibby that one of the enterprise areas is down in Ayrshire, focused on the life sciences sector, bringing great rewards to the Ayrshire economy, which is a very strongly challenged economy within Scotland. The final point is that, right across the country, we provide direct support principally through measures such as the small business bonus scheme, which will be substantially helping companies in the areas in Renfrewshire. There are estimated 2,475 business premises that are either paying zero or reduced rates under the Government's small business bonus scheme, which is directly beneficial to the local economy in Renfrewshire. Many thanks and please could I ask everyone just for brief questions and answers again. Question 7, James Kelly. To ask the Scottish Government how it allocates money from the budget to capital grant funding for projects. The spending review establishes the overarching spending priorities for the Government, while the infrastructure investment plan sets out priorities for investment in the long-term strategy for the development of public works in Scotland. The annual draft budget statement gives effect to those strategic spending plans and reflects progress as measured by the Scotland performs framework and the on-going process of debate, engagement and consultation on key areas of government policy. The draft budget is then subject to a number of months of consultation and scrutiny. Individual portfolios, public bodies, local authorities and other spending bodies are best placed to determine project-by-project capital grant allocations within the strategic framework. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. Can I ask the cabinet secretary to examine how capital grant funding commitments could bridge spending review periods? That would allow match funding to be introduced in projects such as the University of the West of Scotland Lanarkshire campus in Hamilton. If progress could be made on that project it would bring undoubted benefits not only to the area itself but also to the Lanarkshire economy and the wider Scotland economy. There is a substantial point in what Mr Kerley says, which is about long-term planning on capital projects, with which I have absolutely no disagreement at all. If I take, for example, the period that we are in just now, the Government has financial data that will provide us with clarity about our capital and resource budgets until March 2016. We have been able to offer a longer time period of certainty because we have had financial information about this current period since the commencement of the financial year in 2011-12. We have, by and large, had about three years of programme funding to enable us to undertake such activity. On the capital programme, what I said to Mr Kerley in my initial answer was that the priorities of the infrastructure investment plan structure our decisions about the projects that will be supported, and that essentially pre-commits spending reviews recognise that some projects take longer than just one year to build, invariably they almost always will do. Where we can set out longer-term financial projections, the Government will do so. I hope that Mr Kerley understands that my ability to do that at this moment is restricted by the fact that I do not have any further sight on our financial allocations beyond March 2016. I ask the Cabinet Secretary, the finance secretary, to clarify the capital funding for the Anson High School in Lerwick, which has been subject to the uncertainty caused by the change to EU rules from last September with regard to the Scottish Futures Trust. Is he in a position to outline not possibly today but to me at some point in the near future when the timescale for funding will be clarified on that project, given that financial closure was due to be completed in the next couple of months? I am very happy to brief Mr Scott on all of the issues with which we are wrestling on this question. His command of it is substantial already, but if he wishes to learn more about it, I am delighted to share ever more of the detail with him. We are trying to resolve this issue as quickly as we possibly can do. There has been a change to the European statistical accounts and that flows through into the United Kingdom's accounts and it has a flow through into the budgeting commitments that the Government is able to make. One thing that I would say to Mr Scott is that I absolutely categorically assure him that the resources are in place to support the Anson High School. The issue that we have to address is how the statistical analysis is concluded. That work is under way. I have already shared that information with Parliament of the work that we are undertaking. I commit to updating Parliament on this question in due course. If Mr Scott would welcome further information, I would be delighted to provide that for you. To ask the Scottish Government what representations it has made to the UK Government regarding the feed-in tariff for hydroelectricity schemes. Since June 2013, I and my officials have raised our concerns that the feed-in tariff scheme for hydro power is defective. I have done so on seven separate occasions, but the UK Government have refused to agree to make amendments to the scheme. I thank the minister for that response, but obviously not for what he has just said about it. Is there a risk that if amendments are not made that the Scottish industry will actually lose out as a result? Well, yes, there is. We have a proud record of hydro schemes with 1.5 gigawatts of capacity, nearly 90 per cent of total UK hydro capacity. We have consented since 2007 19 hydro applications and a further two pumped storage hydro applications. The investment is worth more than £13.8 million to Scotland. However, the flaw in the feed-in tariff mechanism has led to industry expressing to the UK Government its concerns that after a glut of hydro developments in order to beat the next cut, next digression reduction of 20 per cent possibly, there will then be the real risk of a massive curtailment of further investment after the glut of applications are delivered. That is the worry. I have been unable to persuade the UK Government to amend the scheme, although we have had courteous discussions and they understand the problem. I am hopeful that a planned review in 2015 will, however, let sense prevail and correct what I believe, Presiding Officer, is not a political issue but a technical defect. To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the cut tourism VAT campaign. VAT is a reserve matter that the Scottish Government recognises. The case made by the cut tourism VAT campaign has long highlighted the current disparity in the high VAT rates levied by the UK Government when compared to the rates of our European competitors. Tourism continues to remain a vital part of Scotland's economy and this Government is committed to driving growth in the sector, including by minimising factors that have a negative effect on Scottish tourism competitiveness. I wonder if you can advise me of any evidence from elsewhere in Europe that might support the growing clamour from all sectors of the industry, not to mention 100 plus MPs, for the UK Government to act in the best interests of tourism across these islands and cut the VAT rate to allow the industry to compete on a level playing field with the rest of the continent. I can, as it happens, share such evidence. In 25 of the 28 EU countries, they enjoy reduced tourism VAT with Lithuania amending its rates this year. In fact, only Denmark and Slovenia have higher VAT rates than the UK, where the rate is 20 per cent. Ireland, in particular, has reduced VAT on tourism from 13.5 per cent to 9 per cent. That was supposed to be temporary in May 11 but, in fact, it remains in place now because of the benefits that Ireland has enjoyed as a result of cutting VAT on tourism. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress since the most recent meeting of the open-cast mining task force. The group has made progress on both main objectives of securing re-employment and progressing restoration work. The Scottish Government has urged the UK Government to give positive consideration to a proposal from industry that would enable further progress on restoration. Can I thank the minister for his answer? Can I ask his efforts to deliver a scheme that will extend the rebate of carbon tax levy, which currently extends only to slurry, to also apply to coal mine restoration? Yes. I have been working closely with Ian Coburn of Hargreaves, the author of the proposals. I understand that he has had constructive discussions with HM Treasury. I have had telephone discussions with both Matt Hancock and David Mundell and, Presiding Officer, at a fortuitous and accidental encounter with the chief secretary to the Treasury in Granton High Street on Saturday, where we both coincidentally happened to be campaigning in connection with another event. I took the opportunity to lobby the chief secretary to the Treasury on this matter. I also understand that there is an element of cross-party support in the chamber, or I believe that to be the case, from parties across the chamber, not the Green Party who are absent, but I think all other parties possibly. I very much believe that this proposal offers the real possibility of making a very substantial progress on tackling the restoration problem of our opencast mines that have been cold out in Scotland. I welcome the progress that has been made and I am also a supporter of the principle with the Coburn plan, and I am delighted at Fife Council last month to put a paper through their executive. I have put in a motion to try and get a debate in this place. Would he support that motion and support that we have a debate in here in terms of how we move forward? I believe that ministers are not allowed to support or sign motions, and for that reason only I would not be supporting it. I think that Mr Rowley makes the point well that there is a cross-party support for this. The proposal that has been put would allow almost all of the restoration task facing Scotland to be done. It would involve extending the exemption for slurry to restoration coal. It has considerable support within the industry, and it comes at a time when the coal price has fallen further, leading to serious questions as to whether there will be further redundancies in the sector unless the proposal is enacted. I am working with David Mundell, Matt Hancock, Danny Alexander, Alex Rowley and Murdo Fraser, who is not here, to see whether there can be a cross-party approach and that that will be implemented swiftly. Otherwise, I fear that time may well be again. Question 11, Rod Campbell. To ask the Scottish Government how it will assist businesses in Lucas following the departure of the RAF. The Scottish Government strongly disagreed with the UK Government's decision to reduce the number of RAF bases in Scotland from three to one and with the decision therefore to end Lucas Row as an RAF main operating base. This Government, together with its partners, including Fife Council, is working to assist businesses across Fife with investment and support to help them thrive. The minister for that answer, the minister may be aware that some businesses in Lucas are experiencing very significant drops in trade following the departure of two RAF squadrons last year and before the arrival of the army later this year. To date, it is my understanding that the UK Government, despite requests, has not been forthcoming in providing any financial assistance. Will the minister now agree to come to Lucas to discuss matters with the business community? Yes, I received an invitation from Rod Campbell and I am most happy to accept it. I also had the opportunity to have a discussion with the deputy leader of Fife Council, Lesley Laird, Councillor Lesley Laird, earlier today. I look forward to meeting and discussing the matters with her colleagues as well in a cross-party, non-partisan basis. I do think that the MOD does have a responsibility to communities when it pulls out of them. I hope that it will discharge those responsibilities. I think that people feel that there is a very clear moral responsibility and one that they must ob-temper. I will continue to work with Mr Campbell and colleagues across other parties in this chamber to persuade them so to do so, but to do everything that we can to assist businesses and individuals who may be affected by the decisions that the MOD has taken. To ask the Scottish Government how income tax powers recommended by the Smith commission can be implemented. The Smith commission recommendations on income tax powers and the UK Government's response make it clear that income tax will be a shared tax that will continue to apply on a UK-wide basis. As such, the implementation of the Smith commission's recommendations on income tax powers is largely a matter for the UK Government. The Scottish Government will act co-operatively to implement those changes. Cabinet Secretary for his answer, does he agree with me that without full control over Scotland's finances, this Parliament will always have difficulties trying to make the type of life-changing decisions needed for the betterment of the people of Scotland and with the limited powers that are currently on offer? There is a substantive point that relates to the fact that some of the measures that Parliament might wish to take forward. I happen to have a conversation with some external stakeholders earlier today about the issue of childcare, where some of the proposals that they were advancing would require changes to the United Kingdom tax and benefits system to enable them to have real value for the families that would be affected by those proposals. That illustrates the point that Mr Adam makes. It is only when we have the full and combined integration of the responsibilities that we can take some of the transformative decisions that our country requires. Presiding Officer, to ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made in devolving the powers of the Crown Estate. The Smith commission's recommendations are clear that the responsibility for management of the Crown Estate's economic assets out to 200 nautical miles in Scotland should be transferred to the Scottish Parliament. Once the Crown Estate has been devolved, we plan to develop a new framework for the management of those assets and the associated income. We are continuing discussions with the Crown Estate and the UK Government to ensure that the draft clauses on the Crown Estate properly implement the Smith commission's recommendations. Parla will bring together stakeholders in the early stage of the development of a new framework for the management of Crown Estate assets in Scotland. I thank the Deputy First Minister for that answer. Coastal communities have asked if proceeds of offshore renewables of associated cables and pipelines at more than 12 miles offshore will attract revenues for their use. Is it the cabinet secretary's intention to make sure that coastal communities will be able to access revenue from the proceeds of offshore renewables, including those items, at more than 12 miles offshore? The Smith commission's recommendations will enable us to make sure that island and coastal local authorities receive 100 per cent of net revenues generated from Scottish territorial waters adjacent to their coast. The arrangements for distributing income generated from the Crown Estate rights at more than 12 miles offshore will be developed in Scotland by Parliament with input from stakeholders once the powers are devolved. I can assure Mr Gibson that they will be full and extensive consultation with coastal communities in that process. Briefly, as you can, please. I just briefly say that some tenant farmers in the Crown Estate and Murray are concerned that their voices will not be heard during the consultation process moving towards more devolved powers for the Crown Estate. If we will ensure within Murray that the rural portfolio, the tenant farmers and all local stakeholders will be involved in the process going forward. I think that Mr Scanlon makes an important point that the debate about the Crown Estate is often just considered about the offshore activities. Of course, there are many onshore interests of the Crown Estate and it is essential that every one of those interested parties has the opportunity to participate in the consultation. I give an assurance that that will be the case. To ask the Scottish Government what additional funding has allocated to Fife Council to protect services. The Scottish Government has provided Fife Council with a total revenue funding allocation of £683.1 million in 2015-16, which represents a like-with-like increase of over £3.5 million compared to its funding for the current year. In addition, Fife Council will receive a capital grant allocation of £42.1 million next year, which represents an increase of £3.8 million compared to this year. I thank the cabinet secretary for his answer. Can I ask the cabinet secretary if the leader of Fife Council has signed up to agreement to protect teacher numbers through additional funding that will be made available by the Scottish Government? The Government has made clear to local authority leaders that we require their response to our proposals that were set out in the budget in Parliament earlier this month. By this coming Friday, I look forward to receiving confirmation to that effect from local authorities around the country. To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to boost the economy around Inverness and Nern. The Scottish Government has invested heavily in health, education and connectivity in the Highlands and Islands. Specific examples include the £30 million design contract for the A96 Inverness to Aberdeen dualling programme, including the Nern bypass, and the £30 million investment by Hans-Anne's Enterprise in Inverness campus. The investment complements work that has been taken forward across the region to deliver sustainable economic growth. Does the cabinet secretary share my view that infrastructural transport projects are vital drivers in stimulating the local economy? I welcome the Scottish Government commitment to dual later in N96 between Inverness and Nern. However, it is crucial that rail on neighbouring Inverness to Aberdeen line is dualed as well. Does the cabinet secretary agree? There are a number of developments under way to support the upgrade of the Inverness to Aberdeen rail link. It is an important connection that will form part of the Government's investment programme. We announced £170 million of investment in March 2014 in the Inverness to Aberdeen railway. That will fund improvements to increase the number of trains, to improve signalling, to lay infrastructure for new stations and to enhance timetable services. I appreciate that you are not in the chair for questions. I seek your advice regarding who determines whether a question is irrelevant, whether it is the Presiding Officers or indeed the ministers. This afternoon, we have heard from Fergus Ewing who determined that a supplementary question was not relevant. That was not ruled as being out of order by Deputy Presiding Officer John Scott. As Mrs Kerlin knows because we have said many times before, I am not responsible for the answers that come from ministers or anybody else. The next item of business is a debate on motion number 1-2-3-2-5 in the name of Jenny Marra on protecting Scotland's communities.


What's up guys? It's another review video today and we're going to be looking at the popular supplement from Dreamleaf, Lucid Dreamleaf. They've sent me something called Ashwagandha. Now this is a supplement which I've mentioned in previous videos because this is a very special type of supplement. It's an adaptogen. And like I said before adaptogens are naturally occurring compounds which can help you regulate stress. They make you feel calmer, they make you feel happier and they generally sort of keep your body at a certain level of stress. You know, imagine it's like a thermostat, if you take adaptogens they help you keep your body at a certain level of stress. Make sure that when things happen that would normally stress you out, it brings you back down and makes you calm. And that's how they work. They're adaptogens, right? They adapt to you. So really I just wanted to explain a bit more about this. This is the bottle that you can see here. Obviously it's very nicely designed, nice logo, just the same logo here as Lucid Dreamleaf, which is the owl eyes, I think that's really cool. Firstly a couple of things that I just thought I'd point out very, very obvious things which you might be interested in. These are vegetarian capsules. I'm a vegan myself, so I like that. Obviously vegetarian, for things like this I make an exception because you know, you can't be perfect all the time and it's quite hard to actually get a supplement, especially a good one with a vegan coating instead of a vegetarian. That being said, these pills are very easy to take. These are very small. I don't know about you guys, but I find it quite hard to swallow big pills, especially multivitamins, especially if they're not coated. They taste horrible. However, these, these are fine because they're tiny. You can swallow them with a glass of juice, smoothie, whatever it is. So the actual full name of this is, obviously it's Ashwagandha, withenia somnifera, and I think I'm saying that right. But basically the way this works, the way Ashwagandha works, OK, the idea is you take them any time throughout the day. You could take nothing else until two o'clock in the afternoon, take one of these when you feel stressed and it would start to work, or you could take it at the very start of the day with your normal, new tropic stack and it would work throughout the day. The actual reason and the way these do work is that they contain naturally occurring choline and various amino acids, which help to regulate your stress levels. They help to balance out your hormones and make sure that you don't experience huge spikes of stress. OK, now that being said, my opinion is that you shouldn't take these if you need to have a stress response. OK, so an example might be say if you were about to do a really important exercise, maybe you were about to have an important match and you needed a sudden boost of adrenaline and all these sort of stress hormones. That's an example of a time you need to feel stressed, right, because it helps you perform better. With Ashwagandha, it levels that out so you would feel calmer. Now, there's a debate as to what would be better. OK, so let's say if you had a really important basketball match, right, and just before your match normally you pump yourself up, maybe you do a shot of energy drink or have a coffee or take a new traffic or something like that. If you took Ashwagandha before, it would obviously negate those effects and make you feel calm. So there's a debate as to whether you'd want to feel calm and level headed in an important match like that, or whether you'd want to have the adrenaline and the sort of energy rising, which would make you, in theory, be able to perform better as it has done throughout history, the fight or flight response. So really what I'm saying is you can decide. Say if you have something important where you need to perform in an intense, short-focused burst, like a sports match or something like this, a fight maybe, then maybe it's not a good idea to take Ashwagandha before because it will calm you down and make things less intense. It depends on whether you want to have a calm, level-headed approach or whether you want to have an adrenaline-fuelled burst of energy. That being said, most of us don't have important sports matches every single day. So this is basically fine. You know, there's almost no side effects at all that I'm aware of anyway. It's a naturally occurring compound and it's very easy to use. You just take it with or without food with some water. You don't even need to use the water. I just can't swallow pills without drinking some sort of liquid at the same time. So I hope this has been helpful for you guys. If you would like to get a great price, I have links in the description for this. Or you can go to howtoliter.com and look for the supplements post. It'll be all obviously in one of the links there. And that's pretty much it. I'll see you next time.


What's up everyone, it's your girl Kenty here from Layton Sports Cards and I am ripping 6 box F1 mixer 2022 tops chrome formula one hobby and light number 21 random teams again here's a look at the random results again you can always find these at LaytonSportsCards.com underneath the results tab links also in chat for you all right good luck good luck on light boxes first again light boxes have 16 packs a box good again let's get these basketball breaks filled out we've got three of them coming up after this F1 break max for staff and refractor carlin it is a four box mixer four box break not really a mixer i'm saying album we've got purple checker flag groin asani uh 51 of 199 there four doms kind of does a pick your team format and the teams are discounted we've got purple and green colomant novelac future stars next again you're looking for the translucent case hit make shumak your way right there's an auto per box sidel refractor as well as the stained glass with the autos low color number color ocon refractor still some great teams left too i got checker flag louis hamilton grand prix again they range from 14 bucks up to 110 so wide range of teams available in different price ranges as well louis hamilton on the way rape we know if you have any questions need any help or guidance to find in those on the site again the link's right in chat for you as well if you're looking for it williams racing refractor brave here in about 30 minutes or so carlo sign speed demons it's definitely easier help getting those filled you sold one awesome nice so down to seven i believe now we've got fastest pit stop award pit stop award for red bull purple future stars predrick vesti for a rt grand prix 76 of 399 and got way rave gunther steiner for haas rari refractor hamilton at russell rari refractor fernando alonzo refractor it's vettel kevin magnuson way rape base us back here of lightbox number one Mercedes and alexander albon on the pink for williams 32 of 75 there is a little dimple on the bottom of that car right there as you can see we'll send a box here for williams again let's refresh this next break hock celtics pacers pelicans thunder kings and wizards seven to go on the next break seven to go again that's a four box break pick your team style all teams are on sale thanks again to those of you who have taken spots not already taking spots and breaks earlier today tune in and support the stream we really appreciate it we've got golden purple kevin magnuson for the haas a racing team latifian albon i can get this back there we go way rave mix shumacher for haas refractor lando norris staff and refractor ar t grand prix staff and la claire george russell refractor Sergio Perez speed demons george russell way rave Mercedes hope everyone's having a great saturday astin martin we have a orange charles la claire for ferrari 22 out of 25 there you go ferrari hunky c beautiful orange there wow congrats on that one we'll mag that for you orange little claire it's been a minute since i pulled orange out of this especially these light boxes have been crazy they have short print in an orange now wow franando alonzo speed demons kiki piastri we've got botos refractor and purple for staff in grand prix winner 171 of 399 uh shumacher way rave williams racing refractor this is a tp alonzo car right the glaren refractor he's a third in qualifying we made a third nice we've got um chucker flag makes shumacher for haas kind of like a cool color match too uh louis hamilton grand prix winner a valetary botos and red bull racing we got three more teams awesome three more teams coming in thank you all so much speed demons pierre ghastly and green way wave sabastrin vettel that is 69 of 99 get you an updated look here what teams are man what's up pale state appreciate it uh louis hamilton grand prix winner and north's and riccardo refractor got pacers thunder and wizards just three to go now thank you all pacers for 44 thunder which i'm still surprised looking for some giddy tray man uh that's 109 and wizards for 29 just three teams left there is the link for you again thank you all so much gotcha thanks tracy i appreciate that you did well in um bowman earlier today some nice yankies in cardinals hits for you lecleron signs we've got vettel refractor and many diamond future stars liam lawson 76 of 299 got daniel riccardo way rave mcglaren refractor alp refractor carl of sign speed demons yeah the uh rs to 50 yeah that was a very nice hit for you got mixed shoe marker refractor and yuki and ghastly way rave lando norris driver of the day signs we got another orange coming botox we got orange wave f1 driver for alfa rameo who's got an alfa rameo that's gonna go isaac in sorry driver of the day that's sick eight of 25 rimi rinconin you go orange wave that's sick two oranges back to back boxes wow red bull refractor refractor of louis hamilton refractor got triggered flag botox alfa rameo ray rave yuki sonoda staffing refractor of logan sergeant vettel speed demons hamilton and russell we've got purple george russell from Mercedes on the portrait 54 of 399 purple and green daniel riccardo driver of the day mcglaren alfa rameo refractor Giovanni way rave pier ghastly alfattari refractor yuki sonoda last back here of the light boxes we'll get into the hobby alba and speed demons all right wizards pacers thunder still left y'all just wizards thunder and pacers there is the link for you breaks right after this now time for the hobby boxes it says look for autographs and 18 packs per box good luck let's see another red auto that'll be something refractor of caylin williams on the future stars speed demons lois hamilton loins racing refractor rare we've got purple sebastian vettel for astin marvin 396 of 399 ghastly yuki got a max for staffing refractor red bull we're stopping saying it wrong right we're stopping no we're stopping yuki sonoda refractor i hear it go both ways got orange and red charles leclerc sick color match there for arari yuki speed demons refractor astin martin alfattari mini diamond sebastian vettel 295 of 299 got vettel and stroll got gold checker flag coming up yuki sonoda it's gonna be uh denis hauger for prima 35 out of 50 this gold checker flag there however what's going on f1 has been hot lately let me tell y'all Sergio Perez refractor and we've got going to mcglaren hpc of 25 mcglaren lando norris there you go hp we'll mag that one for you beautiful hit refractor ocon saw two more hobbies to go refractor mercedes carlin we've got future stars jack duhan for duosie 137 of 199 guanyu future stars frederick vesti on the checker flag refractor leclerc signs got a denis hauger refractor all right hobby box number two and y'all still looking to fill up these mosaic basketball three teams left again we had pacers wizards and thunder still can't believe the thunder in there one of the bigger teams probably top three three to four teams we've won out of that thunder and the burgundy right man hamilton russell arari refractor luis hamilton grand pre-winner did you thank you tracy good luck for stopping good luck let's call you a big giddy refractor thea poucher so what just wizards and pacers left then right carlin we've got purple estabon ocon for alpine 51 out of 399 lando rickardo stop in yeah williams racing refractor refractor nicolas latifi yeah ready green kevin magnusen for haughts christmas colors there daniel rickardo so let's see yep just wizards and pacers pacers 44 and wizards 29 that gold wave count up gold wave of auli compwell on the future stars there you go compost 48 out of 50 gold wave there got philly baidrugavitch on the future stars and refractor auto f2 racer of theo prescher for art grand prix back-to-back boxes with autos one is going to hpc there you go taking on both autos there you go hp heck yeah i believe you got the last two spots in this too closer mojo there lance stroll we've got mercenaries um mini diamond pier ghastly 220 of 229 299 sorry yeah that's sick i think it'll it'll continue to rise here james especially with the season uh starting back up got checker flag j q's and refractor alonzo an ocon stop in we've got kevin magnusen refractor last pack box two refractor of restock box here and there is the link for you two teams left that breaks right after this one let's get that filled out wizards and pacers two teams left both under 50 bucks kevin magnusen we've got purple checker flag for nando alonzo for alpine just the pacers now just one left awesome no one's going after duarte it's a pretty solid rookie for the pacers refractor of resort but we got red checkered flag max for staffing come on alpine rick e red checkered flag of vernando alonzo wow we are killing f1 this morning that one is four out of five congrats on that one rick that's a second red flag i pull for rick now he kills f1 he gets in almost every single one of our rakes to craft one congrats on that rick uh louis hamilton on the purple and green grand pre-winner hamilton speed evens refractor haas add in a rickardo driver of the day mini diamonds charles leclerc for ferrari 274 of 299 refractor schumacher and magnusen we appreciate that tracy yeah they're marinating that's for sure i'll throw a male rookie yeah jazz is like what a 19-dollar team or something like that you got pure ghastly refractor one of the last week's breaks with the celtics i pulled a gold tatum we've got haas refractor people forget that there's nice low number vets there's a nice vet checklist out of this too plant stroll refractor yeah teams under 110 bucks got the opushera on the checker flag norison rickardo refractor got them from all three breaks nice hawk thanks for support thanks for that total wolf refractor good luck on those two refractor alkene refractor okon last factor we'll do our recap we've got alfattari refractor all righty what another amazing f1 break there wow you'll do recap we've got our numbered cards and our mag screen's going to be the 99 we've got sebastian vettel astin martin pink 275 williams racing of alexander albon our golds took 50 future stars denis hauger prima future stars ollie codwell composts we had orange wave of uh kelly raconan for alfa romeo 25 the opushera on the refractor base auto our arp grand prix then we had the orange charles la claire to 25 ferrari the red checkered flag for nanzo alanda alonzo for alpine four five and then the orange lando noris formic laren that one was 13 out of 25 insane break there thanks again everyone for the fill we got mosaic coming up in a few thanks everyone


Yeah, it's me again talking about data hub, which is a initiative that started in leads to combine global data sets. So just like a quick overview. So, and the data hub was idea came to life back in 2016 when there was a workshop in leads where we invited researchers from different countries to think about the people and data and how we can work together. So some of the outcomes from that workshop was like that we want to create a hub where we can foster collaboration. Think about how we can share data at much data but not just like short term but also long thinking a long term monitoring. And think about how by combining these data sets we can ask new research questions and provide evidence for policy. So, I will put a link to that to the website and in a bit but then, so the data hub as initiative has two sites at once like the public site where you can see our director, directory of researchers and different projects. We're also showcasing the data sets like for example this research, this people map. So you can access to people and data sets, either created by the University of lead so we don't all with our partners. Go back. This is taking a life of its own. So one of the things so we have the data packages, and we have also public when to start a publication showcase from a technical point of view with big data hub like the database. It's a database that runs on us shirts and SQL database, and it's a web, web based secure application, which has a different levels of depending on the users it has different level of functionality. And also it has a modular design. This was key for when we decided to decide for the design of the database because we during the first meeting we realized like there's lots of data out there, but we can't upload and manage everything on one go. So one of the things we decided is important to have a modular design so we can look at which types of data we want to upload to the database in a standardized format first, and then think about which other types we want to add. So it's like the data, the database can grow. And so it's an example of what the database looks like once you log in. And I'm going to give an example of how we work in partnership. So one of the things we did is like in partnership with IUCN. We develop a module for the eyes on the book project, which looks at what happens in the pitlands monitoring pitlands, but it's like a citizen science initiative. All the types of data that we have is also we can have wells and eyes on the monitoring site so what we have to make decisions that we decided that we can call the pitlands site at landscape level and under that landscape level pit site, which you can see here so as a landscape level, you can have different types of monitoring strategies so we can have well so surveys. If you're using eyes on the book, you can have the rose roads, or the surface level roads, and one of the important things we had to think about is, because we were working with citizen science so the people who work on eyes on the book that the field what happens in the field, but you collect in your field sheets, or whatever app you're using to collect data in the field has to translate into what you can see on in the database. This is an example of the field sheet or some people collecting data related to a rose road, and how it looks when you put it in the database. And be one of the things when creating the database also happens with all the other types of applications is that you have to think about accessibility how people other people are going to use the data. And because this is the eyes on the book is a citizen science initiative that module. The data can be made publicly available, but it also has an opportunity to keep the data hidden because we know people want to do some quality control before releasing it. It's different to the data that people are storing in relation to the wells, because lots of it is done in partnership sometimes with companies like Yorkshire water so the data has to be kept on their embargo for longer periods of time. And one of the things we work is like something that is really nice and useful when you go into a site that is having photographs. And it's like showing here how for the data how we created a module to a blood photographs related to a monitoring site. But it's not just photographs we also allow the functionality allows for 360 BR images. So if you have a headset, you can actually put your headset your Oculus Rift and then walk around your pizza and side, which is kind of nice. And the other bit of the functionalities that we have an advanced search so you can type different, different search options for example you can look at the site name or condition type, and then the search will give you out some different types of data. And if you want to look at this example at the photographs, it shows you the photographs which you can then download. These are the things that we've done, because this is, we want people to use the data hub and it wanted to be a community, community led initiative. So we have lots of videos on tutorials on how to upload information, how to access it how to share data, one to one depending on what you're doing. So you can visit our YouTube channel where wherever all these each level of functionality is explained with a video. And I'll go back to my previous conversation I was talking about elixir so one important thing that working on the development of this, this initiative and the application for the data management is that I realize that is very important to get to a community more training on research data management, because we're all doing data management but not in a structured way, and particularly for me this initiative was a bit different because with the eyes on the book we're working on volunteers and citizen science scientists so I think it's very important to make them aware of their contribution that not just that when we're working with volunteers is not just a, what, what do we call it parachute science where you go as them to take the data and then you leave them on the volunteers to me, make sure that they understand the contribution to the data collection analysis process and to value what that what the information that they're collected is going to have an impact on science and policy. So that was quick. Thank you. If you want to find out more about the data hope you can scan that the QR code and if you have any questions just let me know I'm here.


You're watching News Made Easy. I'm Anindya Chakravarty. This is our new show where I'm going to take one big story every week and try and make it as simple as possible so that everyone can understand it. Because all of us need some information, some credible information about everything that matters to us. That's the only way democracies can work. In fact, I'm going to try and make it as simple as possible for even a fifth grade student to be able to understand it. Because after all, citizens need to know whether they're young or old. So we're going to kick off the first episode by focusing on something that all of us have been wondering about, all of us have been worried about. And that's the coronavirus vaccine. Keep watching. So as you know, India has approved two vaccines against the coronavirus. One is developed jointly by Oxford University and AstraZeneca. And it's being produced in India by Serum Institute. And it's called Covishield. And the other, somewhat controversial, is Bharat Biotech. That's called Covaxine. It's being developed not just by Bharat Biotech, but also by the Indian Council of Medical Research. Now to understand how these vaccines work, we have to first understand how our bodies get infected by viruses and bacteria. Think of our body as a city with many buildings, some are houses, and others are factories and offices which keep the city running. This city is always under attack from invaders who want to take over the buildings, use the food inside to live and multiply. We can't see these invaders because they're super small, a vast number of viruses and bacteria and other parasites which are always around us. Once they pass through the borders of our body and enter the bloodstream, they can quickly enter our cells, use what's inside to replicate and create more copies of their cells. These copies then break out of the cells and flow through the blood, looking for more cells to infect. And the part of our body that's under attack stops working in the way it should. Luckily, our bodies have an inbuilt defense mechanism which helps us fight viruses when they enter us. And one of the first lines of defense that the body has is, you got it right, snot, runny nose, a blocked nose and a wet cough, which doctors call productive cough. The snot in our nose makes it tough for these intruders to get through our nose lining and the runny nose or an occasional sneeze pushes them out of the body. The second immune reaction is fever, which does two things. It slows down the viruses and bacteria from spreading because they don't work well at higher body temperatures. Also, fever is a signal to our immune system that something is wrong and it has to start working. That's when special soldier cells in our body begin their counter attack. The cells create specific antibodies to target the invading bacteria or virus, disarming them and even killing them. Our body stores these antibodies and our immune cells also remember what these viruses and bacteria look like so that when they come and attack us again, the immune system can quickly counter attack and expel them from our body and stop damage. Now, the problem here is that more often than not, you need to be infected at least once by a virus to become immune to it. But something like COVID-19, you don't want to be exposed to it. You want to already have the immunity before you can be exposed or infected by the coronavirus. Now that is where vaccines come in and how do vaccines work? They try and look at ways to disarm. Disarm the virus or the bacteria. In the case of SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 virus, vaccines target their spike proteins. These are the tulip-shaped spikes that cover the surface of the virus. They look for proteins on the surface of our cells inside our body that they can latch onto and then enter through the cell membrane. So if these spike proteins can somehow be disarmed or blocked, then it is possible to stop the coronavirus from replicating inside our bodies. That is exactly what the coronavirus vaccines also try to do, including the two vaccines which have been cleared in in-depth. They basically insert the coronavirus' spikes in certain different ways into our body but in an harmless fashion. They cannot replicate, but they could still present the spikes for the body's immune system to recognize them and the immune system to kick off. A special type of soldier cell called antigen presenting cell picks up these spikes, digests them and then pushes out fragments of these spikes on its surface. Another type of immune cell called helper T-cells recognize these spikes and trigger an alarm calling immune cells to come to the infected region and fight the coronavirus. There's another type of soldier cell called B-cells. To understand what they do, imagine a tray full of Lego pieces with different shapes. B-cells have hundreds of types of proteins of different shapes that can lock onto intruding proteins and pull them into themselves. In the case of the coronavirus, the B-cells take in the spike fragments and again push them out on their surface. If a helper T-cell bumps into these spikes, it can trigger the B-cell to pour out protective proteins known as antibodies that exactly match the coronavirus spikes. These antibodies quickly lock onto invading coronaviruses and stop them from entering other cells in our body. Not every T-cell is a helper. Some are killers. These killer T-cells can seek out any cell that displays coronavirus spike proteins on its surface and destroy them. So the vaccines create killer T-cells and antibodies in our body even before a coronavirus infection can take place. So that means if we're ever exposed to coronavirus, the chances are that it will not be able to do much harm to us and we'll be able to fight it off pretty quickly. Right now, no one knows how long these vaccines will work. That is why they come in two doses. The first to begin the process of making antibodies to fight the coronavirus and the second booster shot to make the immunity even stronger and hopefully last longer. Some scientists believe that the immunity created by the vaccines may last even after the killer T-cells and antibody levels in our bodies drop. That's because of another type of immune cell called memory B-cells and another called memory T-cells which could retain information about the coronavirus for years, even decades. Now, normally vaccines take years to develop. They have to go through various stages of trials for many months, many years over many people and only then do they get clearance to be administered to the wider population. But the times of coronavirus are very different. This is a completely different animal. The pandemic has shut down everything. It has made us wear masks any time we go out in public and stay away from each other. We mostly locked inside our homes without meeting our friends and larger family. It has stopped us from travelling and it has literally broken our economies. That is why every vaccine across the world has been approved on an emergency basis this time. It did just a few months of tests on real volunteers. Now, if you look at India, we've gone one step ahead. Bharat Biotech's co-vaccine has been given clearance even before its third phase has been completed. The third phase, which is needed to find out whether it's effective or not. Even its second phase, which tells us whether the vaccine is safe for humans or not, hasn't been fully processed. The data is still to be fully processed but it has been given emergency clearance and that has worried many scientists and doctors which has made them a bit nervous. The government says that the Bharat Biotech vaccine will be given only to those who are willing to take it or willing to participate in the trial. So it's in a trial mode. There are questions even about the vaccine being produced by AstraZeneca and Oxford in India by Syram Institute because it's still not clear from the data what dosage is optimal. Is it two doses or one and a half doses? So there is some confusion there as well but the bottom line as of now is that most doctors, most scientists agree that it's better to get the vaccine right now, two shots even if it has some small, minor side effects here and there than be infected by the coronavirus and get COVID-19 which can have long-term impact on your health. That's our first episode. We'll see you next week again.


the content with content cookie? I'm excited. Very well. You're baking the instant cookies. With cookie prototype. Half bake type. Yeah. Half baked. Half baked. Definitely half baked. So this is our customer. Good. Yeah. Customer. Okay. Now. Prepare to be. The names. Now here we go. All right. Here we go. Here we go. Now. Da da da da da. Boom. Okay. So now we're happy. So here are all the assets as it were from that we built today are here on the stage, which is also conveniently from. They're bright. Thank you. So what? So maybe I'll take advantage of this moment to make. So what? So on the eve of the sunrise of GDPR 24th. What would be like kind of like very realistic, not a stretch to take the work that was seeded today and make it ready for maybe more like announceable demo. Demoable. What do you think? Well, Sam. I don't know. It depends on the scope of what we're trying to accomplish. I definitely think we can have something that works in as newsworthy. It is unlikely to extend to the extent of I think what we've talked about we'd like to do. From a from a demonstration capability of a user controlled consent involvement through the Chrome extension, the amount of technical work is not it's more than an hour, but it's not insurmountable. And we could actually have a shipping thing that people could use to plant their own cookies where they wanted. And that would be pretty powerful. The extent of the vision we've talked about, but it's kind of a fun start. Okay. So I think we can also, you know, produce that chart. Have something that is verbiage that hopefully will have already been vetted with our partners or future partners in this, including EU people that Robert is talking about. A point Robert was making was privately earlier as we were all talking about this is that countries like Poland, any community speaks Polish, talk in Polish, are well equipped at the country level to deal with this stuff and we can help them out. In other words, they don't know what to do with the IAB, but we do. And we can give them this and they'll say, that sounds cool. That's what we wanted to have. Right. So, your information commissioner would be very happy to get the time and the partnership. So, the ICO, the DICs or the ICO as we're usually all. Are you all familiar with the demo washing? Okay. For those of you who may be not familiar with the demo washing, I used to work for the Tachi semiconductor. And in dealing with the Mades, with the Japanese nuclear wars, there was never any tension with the meetings because everything was decided ahead of time. And meetings were less ratified. A consensus that was arrived at by demo washing, which is where you get consent basically at the social level. Okay. We're all agreeing that this is what this is about. We can do some demo washing before this thing. That's basically what we want to do by talking to the privacy commissioner of Poland or of Switzerland or of any of these other countries at the same time. We're also talking to Corey Doctorow and the EFF and Wendy Seltzer at the W3C and other friends in different places like that so that they're all in kind of alignment with what we're trying to do here.  Thank you very much for getting us going on with this. And Jessica Rich, who we're overdoing, getting in touch with. And she would, I think we show her what we did today. We're, yeah, plus other friends to be dating. A few more. A few more. That's the other thing you could do. If you could turn each of those customer comments, says things to have a corollary, which is a worldly ball, or each of those CMPs to see how close they get to what customer comments.  Oh, yeah. Grading. Right.  And interesting thing about this. Those are called digital too. Yeah, no, it's that. So they have to get into the digital aspect of life as opposed to just being on it. All right. So that's what you call the privacy worldly ball for consumer reports. Exactly, yeah. That's their little thing there. Yeah, you know, where they have it done, you know. The guy's name was Worley, I think. Oh, really? That was the designer that came up with the little ball. The little doughnut. We used to be part of the logo, but then they took it out of the logo. Yeah, but it used to be how they rated things. Yeah. We had a really awesome member in our presentation. Those are hard people. The same thing I knew, we've been. The Harvey Ball. Harvey Ball, Harvey Worley.  Yeah. Part of both of you are doing that. Okay, same thing. Okay, upload it. Thank you. I'll remember that for the next few days. I didn't remember it was called Harvey. So basically to summarize where we're at here is we kind of have the we have the code side of this, and we have the text side of this, I guess, which is our not our expansion of our reconciliation of IAB categories of what the GDPR wants, and then turning that into a document or what. I would think like a cookbook would be appropriate so that people could see here's how you set these cookies, get the Chrome extension, here's how you implement them on your server. Here's like what it is. I do. Yeah, let's do that. Your flow chart is about both. I mean, something which is content, which could be streamed, which is someone doing a narrative about what this was about, which we tried to achieve just as a talking bad. Okay, so if you're a media cookbook male, I'll make a cookbook. I'll make a cookbook. Yeah, so the cookbook, the all the comments cookie cookbook. Customer comments cookbook. Customer comments cookbook. Customer comments cookie cookbook. See this past lifetime.  Customer comments cookbook. Customer comments cookbook. And then second issue is, is there anything you want to do? Yeah, just something like that in the store, just to sort of talk about it. I mean, then eventually the sub market is talking about, which is how do you then take what we've got here and bring it into the world and actually consent, right? Because right now we're trying to fix the advertisers view of how to manage personal information. This is it really concentric, and we're trying to get them to move that way. So maybe at some point in the future, we actually revisit hacking the consent receipt itself as a tool to be used here as well. So right now, all that we're doing is we're providing a better, it's not really a consent cookie. It's really a user interface cookie improvement for all intents and purposes. So data design here, which data does it? So maybe at some point in the future. I mean, I think that's a lot to do by May 24. Let's take a look at what we have. So I'm going to add a follow-up event to the site. If you click it, I've taken the precaution of making a repo so I have a place to do stuff. If you look at the convenient direct link to GitHub, you can actually get things done. Then you can see we have issues. And so here's a couple of tasks. Make a hookbook, a flow chart, some step-by-step instructions, two paragraphs with an overview, and the wondrous advantages doing it this way. Oh, excuse me. And then the second thing that was making a YouTube thing, which doesn't seem achievable, or if we didn't do anything, we could do it on the day itself, like that could happen, what we do. Right. Right. OK, so David, excuse me. Oh, I did not hear you. We're going to just sing for the rest of you. Very good. OK. I did not know that. OK, so David, I don't hear. Mr. Pup, I don't hear either or not. But have you kept up with what we're doing here? He said I made it back on. He said that three minutes ago. That was a launching. You want to hear it? Yes. David, are you there? He's probably trying to figure out how to turn the sound down. Oh, that's you. Yeah. David, it's not on mute. Yeah, I just want to make sure he knows that what you're typing up right now and where it is that's used to be. I'll put up a link for all the people in the chat. Yeah, we're going to. Here it is. 3, 4, next steps. Oh, Dr. Ward, on the 2th act. Next steps. 4. I'm calling it summarized E. Because that would actually be an A. Because it's an A. There we go. So that is now here. Here we are. Whoa, that's tricky. There we go. So I put it right here for everybody. Oh, there you are. There, can you hear me now? There you are. Hello. There's now two of you on the screen. Hold on. Killing that one. We only hear one. Yeah, that's true. Oh, I know, but just fan with them at home here. Yeah, sorry, I was testing out an arm laptop. It's not surprisingly, extremely slow. All right. Yeah. Hey, what's up? So anyway, we have, we're just finishing up and we have links to all of the interesting work that we're doing here. So Mary has a suggestion of the write up for naming. Our name? Oh, yeah. For user terms. For user terms, okay. Which is really what we're driving for. Because we've been calling it a consent cookie. Yeah, I said no, but just. So that was the point that I was making. I think she nailed it, right? Yeah, and the thing is, I mixed feelings with a user. Data subject cookie, but data subject is like, what is the subject of the data? But the, I really love the literativeness of the customer car most good because I could look. Sure. Sure. But I think it's important for us to understand that what we pack was really the user terms. Not really consistent. Yes, that's correct. I think that's the one point. Yeah, we're not doing that. Which is, this is a huge step forward because one of the big problems clearly is users don't understand the terms to which they're agreeing and GDPR does anything that should do that. On the GitHub page, is there a summary statement of what it does to so we know that people look at it? So I added the article, like the GDPR. And Mary's keep going, right? I think just making sure you're being heard. Did you guys decide today whether we were going to add bits to the cookie alongside the IAB ones or are we going to try to redefine the IAB ones? That was an open question at IW. We have a table, see if you bring the table up and put it on the screen. So we took with the IAB's interpretation what the IAB wanted to do and the customer comments column saying with the GDPR citation column to the right of that saying here's what we want these things to do and they're complying with the GDPR. So the answer is yes and we have a table for it. So their bit one or their bit four would be our bit two in this case. Purpose is bit two, personalization for them. Purpose is bit two for us is tracking. So we're literally keeping their bits, keeping their protonym and then substituting our terms as Mary referred to. Why scramble them? I'm just curious. Why is their tracking one our whatever bit? Why aren't we trying to map closely to there? Right, so their personalization one which isn't really personalization, it's tracking. So what we're trying to do, the way that we tried to hack this was to take their purposes and features as they define them and make them user centric as opposed to advertising centric. Not changing the format of their cookie so that these are some technical options of ways to hack it. Great, so I'm on the hackmd.io notes. Where do I find that table? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll further take that. Oh, it's down a technical hack. We're treating the display as a transparency component separately from the consent or the authorization component. We treat them as separate vectors. But we don't have to your point yet like pros like entry-ree paragraphs that overview it. But we have that as an issue. We have a link to their registration process for those over here. CMPs. But this is in the other thing, right? Oh, I see what you're saying. Is there anything added to it? It doesn't exist. Understood, okay. God, I love their Orwellian double thought or the double think of, they call it personalization but it's just tracking. What's personal? So we have a... Oh, there it is. Okay, so here, Dave, you can see it is... I can. Okay, so we're... We're looking at the same part. So we're saying, yeah, the hope would be to flesh that out a lot more. Yeah, the lawyers are going to flesh out the... But we're also saying in column three because the promise was that we don't want that. Not that we want that. Right, so... It kind of flips when we were describing it. Sometimes you're using the negative, sometimes you're using the positive. Yeah, so moving that. Yeah. What are you requesting? Yeah, that's true because we're saying we're using the first person voice everywhere but in that role. I don't want. So can you change that? No, because if I make changes now, it won't be reflected. Yes, you can. Nice. So the first person was like... Well, it's all first and second person. It's my or it's you. Yeah, or I. So... No... No, usually. So one of the points here was for... It's not like we want them to change what they're doing. We want them to actually be more clear and transparent about what they're asking. Yeah. Tell the truth. All right. And then I think a further step would be to... But you see that on the right here, we're right to object. So what we want to say there is more profiling through tracking. Right. If you close the question, do you accept personalization? Yeah, that sounds fine. I'd love to have my name and not have the time. But what they're really asking you and what we're trying to make clear is are you okay with tracking? No, I'm not okay with tracking. So previously if you were asked a question, you would have inadvertently perhaps said yes. Now if you're asked a question with the clear customer comments you know how to... You've got a much better chance of answering the way that you should. My point though is that if somebody's coming to this for the first time and reading it, there's this one square where it looks like I'm saying okay to something and I'm not objecting. I'm right to object. I'm not objecting to GDPA in order to track it. So that's why I'm just... If you're going to say what you're saying, the point that's captured in this somewhere but I'm not sure it's made clear enough is that I want to treat the ability to define the language separately, independently of the ability to specify the fault policy track. So we captured that somewhere up towards the top but it didn't make it into the table. I think that we did. The table is much more limited in scope. So at one point when we were talking about the Cook You Replace button or whatever I said that we had a choice you know you could click a button that said simply accept customer comments the faults and then there would be another button which was the invitation that Joyce sends to Doc which is accept customer comments proxy cookie or whatever we're calling it cookie hijacker and so those are two separate customer comments branded things that do very different things and customer comments could be either one or both. So the customer comments says is what is our translation of their language customer comment default is what the policy should be. So related to and there was often so PBI could be one and customer comments could be the other. So my suggestion is we have we copy and paste this table and we have one the interpretation of language and the other be what customer comments says. Customer comments has two roles. So both columns start with customer comments so we two columns yeah so we add a column we add a fourth column a fifth column probably between columns we do that yeah so customer comments says is the translation and then customer comments recommends would be the other recommends is default recommends recommends by default okay oh I see I think I can but I don't know if I can I'll just computer but I can't okay customer comments customer comments customer comments customer comments customer comments just the most recent customer comments well how do you usually make a table? I don't know so I don't know I know how to do it in excel so in excel I would say just make it wherever you're most comfortable or I would see what you're most comfortable with can I see a document here so we put that mark down on the top one down to the table that's the table I think but it isn't okay this is not that this is not that one this is this is getting out for it there's not this one yeah that one okay so let me clean this up a little bit but similar I think what I'll do is I just put html but let me what I want to do is change it to mark down so it's simpler to edit because html is kind of a very edit I think I think a pretty good version of it tables are up a little bit tougher so writing p html and I want to do html to mark down are you going home today or are you hanging out? are you going to take the train what's your train?  I flew in last Saturday and I'm flying back on Saturday for this? so when do you start? next fall but my plan is to show up here so right now I'm working with very high intensity, high stress that I fell into because I met some evening private equity so I met some guys in a bar and they told me like literally this isn't like what happened but I finished at the end of the day and then like mid-June I had to show up and start finagling we're a year or a bunch this summer well like I said if you're just going to find yourself you're going to find yourself you're going to find yourself but I would tune in the cyber law people to you yeah that's why I want to spend the summer to do just that because once one hell gets going I think I'm going to have no other play that's what we do tomorrow is fine tomorrow is fine I fly back Saturday night I'm just going to do an intro for Elefant because she's a big star it's really interesting the whole point is that it doesn't work and to me personally this is the tip right now it's not happening but nobody knows exactly how it works there's so many aspects frankly, mind blowing once you start getting do you know about Epress? yeah, you're talking about that there are a bunch there's like five years I'm lost they have no way you can vlog it I have a question no, the three bunch that's right what are you talking about are we done? we're done we're not we're going to tell you we're going to tell you we're going to tell you we're going to tell you we're going to tell you we're ready to tell you we're gonna tell you we were when he got into Aoteに and he came with us and he came to get it I think the response was I don't think it's worth it if I can get the chart that was exactly what I was worried about two months in Boston no it's no way it's not important And it was complicated. Yeah, yeah. Like, you can't say it. Yeah. And the wildlings that I found and I saved it in the picture and I even put it in the library. It was just, you know, we were asked to do a group and this was like last week. You know, we just, we just went and said, some other people, we just put the library in front of the library and we put it in the library. Yeah. And I thought, well, next, this was the class of Thursdays, so I'm probably going to ask them to pick it up and see if they can get it to themselves. So, you can fly back Saturday, Saturday. You can fly this morning. I'll be right back. Okay. Yeah. And I'm free talk for this kind of stuff. Yeah. Okay, so. I'm not sure what you're talking about. You can do a lot of stuff. You can choose. And you want to get the cycle to the library. That's nice. We have your room now. That's great. And we need the real stuff. We need to write the room down. We have the real stuff. We have the real stuff. We have the real stuff. We have the real stuff. We have the real stuff. We have the real stuff. And if you want to see what you're writing, you can see your email up right there. Um. Um. You can do that. Oh. Yeah. Do you like the back-to-back? Okay. That's a good game. So we're going to head up. Thanks again to everyone. Okay, thanks so much. Say hi, to everyone. Say whatever I can. Or in the same security space, I like the code to your private I see Okay Oh This is not editing there He's editing like You know it's translates And then customer college translates and then customer commons recommends So those are the two Marry to one Yeah, well my wife's actually the legal she's a JD SJD, but her PhD is an anthropology so So she's really It's a legal PhD That's I guess it's for letters Yeah, so doctor doctor doctor something like that and the J is technically a doctor too. It's a turn over you, right? Right. Yeah, so doctor doctor doctor. It's funny. It's most most jd's don't like to be called doctor It's like it feels pretentious. It's pretentious. It's like it's very much like if you went to Harvard You don't drop the age bomb Everyone here says oh, I went to school in Boston. Yeah, yeah, we're exactly okay Yeah, and we're like south Cambridge Between central border my case Yeah, that's opposed to Here here here is I like to say My son very transverse from an IT to Harvard. Yeah, which I do with both places goes up So if you go to school I Just South That's it customer comments. Oh customer comments translates Don't recess recess instead of says it's translate We are Want to add a column also no, that's no is the added comment is customer comments. Oh, we don't have to add a column Where everything the customer commons recommends is in alignment with the relevant GDPR Well, well close enough for now So in other words the categories are The row is Yeah storage of information Information you can you can say see see all three hundred forty pages of GDPR It's only 88 pages So I think I think there's another part of the of the GDPR that sort of would apply There's tons that that would apply. I think I really just started this No, not that one either I think it's actually restrictions on processing of personal data This would be and I think technically yeah, that's 18 right right the restriction of prophecy crossing article 18 Right to restriction yeah, yeah, the data subject shall have the right to it. That's what's there. Oh, it's 18 18 and 17 Restrict an arrays. I figured it would be the two most. Okay. Well, you're gonna be right about a muscle Yeah, that's right Did you did you read it to a point? That's what it says Did I read do you share it? Let's share it just 18 with everybody so you can hear it. It's written very plainly It's I'll help you can check it or do you mind checking it into the read me or somewhere so we'll keep it alone in pre-code We all have to do the research so much. Oh, so the individual articles are just 18 specific Yeah, I think so because that's it's really about restricting processing in primarily and then so it says the data subject Shall have the right to obtain from the controller? Restrictions of processing for one of the following applies So the first thing I'm brought us down before we get there is the right to obtain from the controller Okay, how do you obtain a controller this hack provides a mechanism by which the subject can inform the controller of like a method for restricting but what they want restricting instead of like it's the way that we're doing it is through a cookie It should be like a method of exercising your right to Inform the controller of a restriction So that's assuming that the controllers in the workflow in the cookie purchase not to give it It is not here. That's probably one highlighting this And so what but nonetheless is a mechanism for controllers that find that they choose to use this So this is where I think the notices and receipts of Mark will be referring to become a lot more useful because as an example as a result of Implementing that cookie it generates a notice which you don't which was which somehow gets to the controller Then that's that you know, then then you close the loop here. I mean what we're again what we're doing here is we're Rather the language they had had no indication that You have to write to notify the data controller about what you wanted to achieve We're saying you can keep this this will You should be able to notify the data controller because article 18 as you just said says that you should be able to do that We're not saying that that takes place But we're saying that that's what we customer comments wants to have occur, right? So so we haven't implemented the technical means to accomplish that we face and highlighted the outcome we want to achieve and whereas before the outcomes were Completely divergent from anything like what we're describing now now at least that the outcome is pointed in that direction right, so I think it's so it's like swinging the You know If you're if you were sailing it would be changing your compass heading right Right, and this is one example. There's the certification thing we talked about There's the member state data authorities and there's there's a ton of stuff we can say can you plug into this right now? We're early enough that no one else has all right, so let me see if I call it possibly no one else's it's um That under gene care mechanistically step number one would be data Subject under our 21 objects to processing of data for direct marketing Just like subsection 3 and then and then under 17 or whatever the restriction was 17 is ratio, right? Which under 18 so 18 then said what so what it says is um So I as far as I understand The right to restriction applies after you've checked that right So I think you can object to several things. So for example, you can object to inaccuracy And you can have Any data that is reported about you Updated to reflect the truth. So the one I'm looking at is subsection 3 it says under right restriction We're the So the whole thing says the data subject you'll have the right to object on grounds relating to his or her particular situation at any time The processing of personal data concerning camera, which is based on blah blah blah And then when you go down to section 3 where the data subject objects to processing for direct marketing Or this is the data the personal data for no longer be processed for such purposes So I'm pretty sure the add tracking part and the tracking is like Like the commercial abuses is for direct marketing thing Maybe something could be for aggregate understanding the market or something like that But you could say it was custom proof customer service if you wanted to just I guess yes Some of the some of the age conditions But the thing that I think feel like is at the center of like the heart of the man part Is that people find it super creepy when you're tracking me for stuff? And then oh my god now I'm getting at for blunders I'm gonna add some of these answers on that that direct marketing these seems to be like point blank Right, I think and also it has its own subsection Well, I think a lot of what so a lot of what we're taking on here So we should meet so, you know, I would go right through the document do a search for marketing direct marketing So see which sections specifically have those terms in them and then map those sections to the The purpose is a feature Yeah, I would do I would do direct marketing and then Yeah, no if you give it This is the point you're making guys is tremendous if there are direct links to direct marketing language in the GDPR Those are here then that gives us a much bigger cudgel to to assuage Or anyone else Like we're talking about the Harvey Balls, right? Talk here about having like clear icons that are recognizable Yeah, that help users understand what they're consenting to. Yeah, maybe Harvey Balls are those Or check or any of some set of checkmarks.  Yeah, but I think whenever we say look What we're doing is a and that exact concept is in article X. I think that gives us a lot of Yes, right and that's useful in this People


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