All right, happy Friday everybody. Welcome back on our last day of the week And we got one more week left for the end of the month. Good to see you Norman. Good to see you all everybody on YouTube. Welcome back Good to see you mark Lawrence. I'll tell you we're getting a hell of a crash right now. Oh my god Bitcoin is getting hammered. I was just I was had a we always have a little meeting in the morning every morning With Josh Josh actually going to be doing a video on YouTube on Bitcoin You know that we're coming out with our first class to come out and start trading Bitcoin because you know what a lot of those a lot of those Bitcoin stocks is actually trade to have iceberg orders and Looking really forward to it but let me tell you there's a lot of slow those stocks taking some really big major hits and But you know when you look when you go back like You know 10 years when was that a dollar? It looks pretty damn strong looks pretty strong But let me tell you it's a big it's about what about 50% off We're down 2700 right now. We were down.   I love I'm being too negative But I always tell you the way the way this because astrophesies as opportunities So just be very careful just being cash be careful some of these long positions that you got I Mean I'm at a point to myself. I might have to get out a couple of them myself, but when you look at the Dow Regarding what happened yesterday, so you could see it just literally just like look at that Just literally just came back down really really hard a lot of nervousness now, you know what also there's You saw you hear what's going on in Russia, right? they're listening to the president United States is seeing how he's gonna react to it and You know what market does not like war. You know what I mean? It really does it so maybe the military stocks will but does not like it and It look it's getting close that they're worried about of an invasion and that could also shake up the market a lot So let's be really really cautious when it comes to that too but I'm gonna probably try to sit in a lot of my cash stocks and Kind of played by see what's going on, but let's talk about what happened yesterday Yeah, a couple of nice little stocks that moved yesterday Sophie was one of them Let's just bring this up right here and you can see Sophie had a really really nice move Just literally just started from my 30 did not stop and it went all the way to about 11 o'clock Did a couple of shakes, you know stop did a nice little shake boom stop went up It was a really nice trending stock nice little move wasn't a huge winner, but it was pretty decent It didn't you know it did what it had to do. We also had to stock LA ZR That one also right at the you know right 90m had that big spike and then back right off and then right around 9 30 Started trending up you see we're from 1460 up to 1660 nice little $2 move That that's was another one nice little move early and then just basically trade with the market Just came crashing down right after hit 410. It just came all the way down to $3 So you can see always taking a profit can't go wrong with that and then AD the AD GI nice little trend, but not the biggest most exciting sexy stock with the move of the two were So it wasn't the greatest day yesterday. We didn't have a lot that was going on But you got a lot that's going on today.   Look at that. We have to go back Literally, you know, even pre-pandemic Back in March when the stock was at the bottom of 300. I mean look at that chart It is just not looking too good right here You can see we're at major major support levels at Netflix too much competition on Netflix. You know skip your right I mean they got sling TV. You got you know Who you got who you got all these I came think of all of them But but yeah, they're having a lot of good competition out there. You know Netflix always has the niche You know where they make these they got out of the the DVD business, you know what I mean? And they started making shows which obviously been pretty good, but Yeah, I mean there's a lot of competition out Disney plus really put them, you know in advance to Disney plus Discovery plus I'm making just go on and on and on CTU plus why not, right? So anyway, yeah, you can see a stock's taking a big hit and another one I took a very big hit too is we all know what's going on Pelton So Pelton took it's just getting hammered. So Pelton did really good. Well with the pandemic and now they're cutting down Listen things expensive. It's not cheap the Pelton I mean so I mean down at $25 this thing was like literally on a great run-up. You could see that right here We're going all the way down pre-pandemic when we're on $17. I mean that is talking about a haircut I mean you're talking a stock from $17 to 180. That's almost a thousand percent Okay, a thousand percent and now it's right back to where it is So it looks like a public attest and support levels. It's still a pretty cool machine, right? Once again, it's all about it's all about, you know How these companies make money it's not about the machine. It's about the residuals. Yeah, that's what they're all focused on So anyway, let's talk about what is moving this morning I don't know what happened with this stock this thing came out of nowhere around five o'clock this morning We're from three dollars to twenty five dollars.  It's still trading 9.4 9.4 million shares Extremely volatile. It's still up a hundred and seventy three percent So from where it was at but stock is obviously doing pretty well it looks like you know for stock to do that in pre-market that looks pretty interesting and we'll see how it's going to trade when a market opens up, but Yeah, obviously nice nice move right there That's going to look like it's going to be pretty active when the market opens up another one that I kind of like I love was shocked this one had a really nice move to this morning and it backed right off It ran from like 460 up to about 640 came right back down. It's got great volume 5.9 million shares Tears size a little tight remember the biggest thing that we teach you at cyber trading, you know When you take our classes, we always focus on telling you, you know, there's the three T's tradable trend and trap The first T is the most expensive part of the trade. So you want to be really careful, you know on that T All right, so that's always want to be keep an eye on so you have that stock right there Well, we'll see but stop really doing crap right now, but we'll see how she opens up We know about Peloton. We know about Netflix and I do want you to guy keep an eye on DWAC This stuff we did great the last couple of days have a nice little run from the 40 up to almost 100 So she's kind of holding here the longer. She holds the better. It is so I know that they're going to be launching the In February we'll see how it goes. We'll see how it goes But you know, but another stock regarding not going back to Bitcoin So just bring up Mara. You can see where it's come up to some age support stock had a huge beautiful run Riot great run up. You can see it's down to 15 the highs were in the 80s But the big thing I'm going to keep an eye on is coin base. So it's obviously the wallet that the big brand name of all of them it is testing a The IPO low price. Okay, the stock is right now. You can see it It's testing a major support level the stock breaks this all-time lows The stock has got some major major major issues Amazon is below 3,000 Yeah, Amazon is that you know, when you look at Amazon though, just let you know long term It's had a major support levels, you know, obviously not before pre-dem pandemic at 2400 But you know what?  It's like Netflix You know what you want to be a good you want to be a good investor You got to know how to swing trade you want to know how to swing trade You better learn how to day trade first because if you didn't see the writing on the wall, you know You wake up one morning. What are you supposed to do stock?  So be very careful. What's going on the market? Markets down 154 is not looking too well. What is the lows really quick before we go? I Mean it down. I mean listen, it's not it's not down terrible. I mean, you know, it's not down huge You know what I mean when you look here long term, you know, you could see we're at 3400 is a pretty good support levels You know I'm saying So but some of these other stocks look a hell of a lot worse than what it's at even the video I just want to bring that up before we go The video also really took it a big hit too right here of trending down 350 I mean you could see that great runs. You know what I mean? It will correct or will crash well like I said I Think you know, there's a listen. There's a lot that's going on You got an inflation problem that's going on you got oil that's going up. It's got a problem. What's going on? You got you know, and you got What's going on with the with Russia right now? You know, so It's good. It's just it's just always remember to be on the positive note before we go catastrophes For all of us makes opportunities and that's why a lot of people like day trading. So just be very be prepared all right, everybody good luck today happy trading and If we see something we'll say something if you're watching YouTube Facebook live We'll be back here at 230 you can always do a trial and if you're new here to cyber group Remember, hopefully talk to the education advisor. Do not buy anything in the room. You're only here to watch Okay, and you know and just see if other people do well and to make it money doing it So hopefully this would be a future career. Good. Look everyone happy trading And we'll start commentary once the market opens up


of a richer labour market and that you are part of an extensive supply chain means that the costs of going somewhere else are not negligible. That would be the trade-off that businesses are making. To the point that Jenny Stewart made, where a business to decide that it needed to be in European Union member states in order to conduct its business, I think that it would, among the options that it would consider, would be establishing an operation in that country specifically for that purpose, rather than necessarily taking its operation wholesale from London to the third country. Thank you. Dean Lockhart, did you want to come in on this financial point? It was actually another point. Right. I will bring you in in due course then. I think that John Mason has been waiting to get in with a new point. Okay, okay, another different point, yes. Although something has been touched already, I mean, we have talked about exports quite a lot, but primarily it was to go back to what Jenny Stewart said, touching on exchange rates, because I feel that that is something that has actually happened, the exchange rate has already changed. It strikes me that a lot of people seem to be very relaxed about this. So the first question is, well, if exchange rate goes down, does that automatically mean that exports go up? Can we just sit back and watch the whisky exports go up and up and up? What really is the impact? Jenny Stewart mentioned remittances back to other countries, which some people are living here and doing that. What happens but for an investment? Does that make it more or less likely that people invest in Britain if the pound has gone down and it stopped or is it going to go down? I mean, when I was younger, we laughed at Italy and Greece because their currencies were thousands to the pound. So I mean, it strikes me that an exchange rate is quite an important thing and it reflects the strength of the economy and creates an image around the world. I mean, people seem to be surprised that the price of tea is going up despite the fact that I don't think we grow any tea here that I've noticed. So of course the price of tea is going up and presumably the price of quite a lot of things are going up. And where are we going with that? Is that a factor? Clearly, the exchange rate and the fall in the pound has been very significant. A couple of direct implications from that. I think that people were surprised in the initial fall in the pound and then equities rose, so people didn't really understand why the stock market was going up when the pound was falling. However, what that reflected in a lot of cases was because, for a lot of companies, their income is denominated in dollars, for example, a lot of the oil and gas industry. Then actually a fall in the pound was pretty helpful to them and therefore share prices were going up. Absolutely clarify that. So if they sold a barrel of oil or something for so many dollars, that automatically meant that they got more pounds, so they hadn't actually sold any more or done anything? Right, I'm with you, right. So there's that impact. Clearly then there's potentially a positive impact on exports, although we haven't yet seen, in terms of the data, whether that's feeding through significantly yet, but that's important. The other is the impact on inflation, as you touched on so clearly, because we, as an economy, import an awful lot more than we export, then obviously if that, because of the exchange rate, then overall in the economy, the expectation is that that will then feed through into increased inflation and the Bank of England's inflation reports coming out in Thursday, but so far what they have suggested and others have said, well, we're sitting at inflation at about 1 per cent just now, it will potentially go up to 2.5, 2.6 over the course of 2017 and might even hit 3 in 2018, so the drop in the pound, that inflationary effect might take a while to come through, but then again it depends what the Bank of England does. The Bank of England has got their remit in monetary policy to impact is to target inflation, so there in a bind around, okay, we're keeping interest rates low, but equally we want to control inflation, so that's why the value of the pound is such a fundamental issue for the economy as a whole, but also for individual businesses. On the point of time scales that you said that's going to come through over time, is that partly because energy companies, supermarkets are buying ahead, so they fixed the price for a certain distance? Some of that, but yet other goods, it will be almost instantaneous, so we'll just have to see how that all feeds through. I think that Stephen Boyle, Dr Zuleig, Richard Marsh and then Dr Matthias wanted to come in, so perhaps in that order, if I ask Stephen Boyle to give his comments on this. On John Mason's point about the impact of the exchange rate reduction, so it's down about 15 per cent since the referendum, it's probably down closer to 20 per cent across this year as a whole, so there already has been a very substantial adjustment in the exchange rate, and let's assume for a moment that that was to be sustained, that there wasn't to be any recovery in that, then on the face of it, that represents a substantial gain, potential gain to exporters, that they can either take higher revenue for the same volumes or they can adjust their prices and take higher profits. There's another dimension to this, however, which is in, as Jenny Stewart explained, input costs are rising, and what we've already seen in the UK as a whole is a very sharp increase in input prices as a consequence of the exchange rate fall that's come through really quickly, so who wins and who loses in this context depends on the balance between your dependence on export revenues and imported costs, and there are some sectors like the drinks industry that have very limited imported costs, but very substantial export revenues that will clearly gain from this, and more generally the sectors that are going to gain look to me to be in the service sector, where imported inputs are not a big part of what they do, but they have some level of export. The losers look predominantly to be in the manufacturing sector because of the nature of supply chains, so you might be exporting, but you've actually got a substantial amount of imported input content. There are other types of winners and losers out of this as well, so again Jenny Stewart referred to what the average increase in inflation might be, but different types of household are affected in different ways by this change in the exchange rate, so if you look at where the input cost rises have been greatest so far, they've been greatest in things like energy, food and clothing, those are items that constitute a higher proportion of the spending of older households and poorer households than the rest of the country, so those are households that are likely to be disproportionately adversely affected. Final point very quickly, you might not see all of these points manifest themselves quickly, for example you might not see the change in imported export volumes because businesses hedge their currency risk, so they're protected against movements in the exchange rate for a period of time, anything up to a year or more. Thank you, Dr Zulaik. Just to make a couple of points on this, export performance depends on many factors and exchange rate is one factor, but depending on the sector it's very often not even the most important factor, it depends on a lot of other factors as well. You can see that very easily if you look at the experience we've had in Europe before we had the euro, you had a number of countries which periodically had competitive devaluations of their currency and it didn't solve their export problems certainly not sustainably. The other factor which is important is how responsive demand is, both demand abroad and demand in Britain to price, so if the price changes then will you get a big effect and generally at least on consumer prices there tends to be quite inelastic demand, so that means that the exchange rate loss which will be there will be passed on to consumers within probably a relatively short period of time. It's also important to note that volatility in itself imposes a cost, so it's not necessarily whether the pound is high or low, but if it fluctuates a lot it is very difficult especially for SMEs to deal with the costs of a fluctuating currency, so stability has a value in itself which I think we are going to see is still under threat because when you look at the exchange rate at the moment the exchange rate still moves predominantly with events in the political sphere, so whenever you have a consideration that Brexit might be harder you see a further deterioration of the pound, if people think there's a chance that the UK or parts of the UK stay within the single market then you see an improvement, so it depends a lot on the politics and whatever the final outcome is going to be if we are truly moving towards a very hard Brexit then I would expect the pound to fall even further. Thank you Richard Marsh. It was just a quick point. I think we're in danger of having a room with several economists all agreeing with each other, but it was just to follow up with Steven Wells' point. There is some data out there from the Scottish Government's input output tables which looks at the balance between what you export and what you import, so you can actually look at some of the winners and losers and do a quick list and towards the top it is absolutely, it's the food and drink type sectors with whisky at the very top of the table because it exports a great deal of its output and it uses the natural resources from within Scotland, so it just intuitively is potentially a big winner. Towards the bottom of the pile would be sectors around energy, as Steven's just said, but you've also got in there sectors like health and public administration that have quite significant purchases from outside of the UK in specialist equipment and plant. That actually exports very very little because it's public public services, but there's no particular, I think it was quite difficult to say whether Scotland would be a winner or a loser from this position, but what I'd note from the stats are there would be some significant winners within specific sectors of Scotland's economy and there would be some sectors that are going to have to source things from outside of the UK and the point made by Fabriant, they've got very little choice over this. It would require some fairly significant changes in the economies of Scotland and the UK to adjust supply chains. Thank you. Finally, Dr Douglas. Just a quick point. Much of what I want to say has been said, so I think that this just sort of reinforces the importance of better understanding where Scotland fits in global supply chains because we can't really answer this question of what the change in the currency, how it will affect exports and so we actually know what the global supply chains look like and can understand within sectors how those changes might play out. Thank you. Now, Richard Leonard had a question. I wonder whether any of our expert witnesses have got any examples of actually existing companies who are making contingency plans. I mean, Jenny's mentioned as early as quarter on next year, Fabian Zoolog talked about perhaps over time there would be a potential disinvestment. James Scott spoke about the extent to which some of the commanding heights of the Scottish economy are now foreign owned, which you would expect would lead potentially to a branch plan approach, a possible retrenchment, which also leads me to ask the people around the table whether they think that that now makes it even more compelling that we have an industrial strategy which looks at how we plug the gap in the medium-sized enterprises, how we try and develop the indigenous industrial base and become perhaps less reliant on foreign direct investment as a way of transforming the economy. Dr Zoolog. I think it's very difficult to say when the disinvestment will happen, but I would say that at least for larger companies, I would be astonished if there's no contingency planning. That would be a failure towards their shareholders if they're not doing some contingency planning at the moment, whether that means that they will plan to leave or not is a different question. But I think that in the long run we will see an effect on investment. It does mean that there will be more reliance on indigenous growth, how that can be best promoted, I think is a big question, both technically and from an economic perspective. The kind of industrial strategies we've seen in some countries have not worked particularly well in growing medium-sized companies, also for medium-sized companies. It is generally the case that the international market is very important. They are not just oriented towards the national market, so the question is if you look at successful countries like Germany with medium-sized businesses, they are very international, so the question is how you can internationalize those kind of companies. On top of that, I think there's a big question about what kind of industrial strategy will even be possible, both within the UK framework and in the WTO framework. There are big questions about what kind of instruments you could use and also what the response then would be from other countries that will very much react to the kind of industrial strategy that Scotland or the UK puts into place. Jane Gotts. Just to add to that, I think that it's too difficult a question to answer in this context, but it's important to have that blend. Scotland's been phenomenally successful in recent years in terms of attracting foreign investment, the best foreign investment outside of London in the UK in terms of attracting overseas businesses into Scotland, so that should always be a priority to try and maintain that. At the same time, look at where the potential gaps are in our economy, look at where there are opportunities for Indigenous businesses. The other thing to mention that we've not talked about—and it was John's point earlier about where the opportunities are—the tourism sector. I know that we mentioned it briefly, but with the drop in the pound, there is a huge potential to grow our tourism sector. Of course, it's a double-edged sword because we know that there are a lot of European citizens working within the tourism sector in Scotland. How do you manage a potential boom in tourism because of a falling pound at the same time as making sure that we've got enough people to service that industry? It's not questions that we can answer just now, but they all have to be on the table for consideration. Dean Lockhart, you had a question. Thank you, convener. It's a question for Dr Roy. Dr Roy, in your submission, you quite rightly challenged policy makers to examine the policy opportunities that may open up as a result of Brexit. I have two questions for you. First of all, with the report that you prepared for the EU committee a couple of months ago, am I right in thinking that this report only looked at three Brexit scenarios—the Norway model, the Swiss model and the WTO model—and did not take into account a potential upside coming from new trade deals with countries such as India, China and the US? The second question is, we've heard about potential opportunities across different sectors. For exports and different sectors across the Scottish economy, how can we best explore those opportunities going forward? I think that it is incumbent on policy makers to address both the challenges but also the opportunities arising from Brexit. What steps would you recommend that we take going forward as a committee to explore those opportunities? On the first point about the modelling, what the modelling does is look at essentially what could be the potential impacts from different trade models for Scotland and the UK in a post-Brexit world. We are quite clear that what it does is isolate what is the impact of Brexit. What is the implication of having less trade integration with your largest international market? That is what it does, and that is essentially the modelling that we do. You are entirely right. You then get into things like, okay, what might be the potential policies, what might be the different things that could flow from that? The reason that we do not model that is that there is no clarity about what Brexit will be, let alone what policy opportunities might come from that. We need to put it in context with that as well, so it is entirely possible that we could have trade deals with other countries outside the European Union. We have to put those numbers into context as well, and it is entirely possible, and it is ways that you could potentially improve trade into those countries. However, if you take somewhere like Australia, for example, where we know that there have been hints and stuff about potential trade deals with Australia, it is just supposed that we would increase our exports to Australia by a third. That would be equated to less than 2 per cent of total exports to the EU, so yes, we can get trade deals with our countries, yes, we can expand there, but we have got to put it in context just to the relative size. The second point, and it has been touched on a wee bit in the questions here, is that there is quite a difference between something like a single market and free trade deals, or trade arrangement with other countries, because what a single market gives you is a level playing field to have that trade as well. It means that there are rules to stop exploitation of workers, it means there are rules to harmonise product regulation, etc. Yes, you can enter into a trade deal with China, for example, but what might be the worker rights in China for goods that are being exported into the UK? Would you want to enter into a trade deal with that? What might be the implications? We have seen all the challenges around TTIP and the potential concerns that people have had about American companies coming into public services. Your point is entirely right and entirely correct, and that is what we are encouraging people to start to think about. It is okay if Brexit happens and we know that it is going to introduce headwinds to growth rather than meet growth enhancing. What are the potential policy opportunities that you can do to mitigate the worst of those effects and to look at potential opportunities to do things differently? You have to start to get creative to think about what policy levers have the Scottish Government at the moment that it could do things differently, what potential policy opportunities might come from greater devolution that might come down the line. If we are prevented from having VET or excise duties in the past because of EU regulations, what could happen if those were to be devolved to the Scottish Parliament? What might you do differently if you have a greater suite of fiscal powers? What might you do with the powers that come from agriculture? That is when you have to put those opportunities in context. Even with all those things, Brexit will still be a headwind in growth. However, the reality is that, if Brexit is happening, you start to have to look at what you do about changing policy in response. Thank you very much. In your blog earlier this week, you mentioned that we should not let Brexit overcloud everything else. Some of the challenges facing the Scottish economy have been there for years, and I welcome that. Do you agree that, while Brexit is a possible headwind, there are structural issues in the Scottish economy that we need to deal with and that have been there for years? I agree with that statement apart from the phrase that Brexit could be a possible headwind. I would probably say that Brexit is a headwind, but you are entirely right that the structural challenges that we have had in the Scottish economy around our internationalisation, the growth of small to medium-sized companies, have always been there. Brexit is not going to help to address that, but it is an opportunity to take a fresh look and a frank assessment of how we start to address the structural challenges that we have had. Before I bring in some of our guests, I would like to give Ash Denham an opportunity to ask. That was a question about long-term implications and short-term implications, and I will try to bring in the rest of our guests as we come to the end of our session. Thank you, convener. It may be that my question has been partially covered, but I just want to reflect as well. The Fraser of Allander group this into short-term considerations. We have seen newspaper headlines in the last few weeks crowing about the predictions of economic doom that, where forecasts have not quite come to pass. Obviously, we have already touched on the sharp fall in sterling, which probably would fit into that category. The Fraser of Allander quote that they have put in regarding this is that we should be wary of expecting to see any immediate changes. I suppose that my question is that, even though we maybe have not seen the full impact of Brexit come to pass yet, that does not mean that it is coming. I am wondering if you would reflect on when you think that we might see some more impacts. Short-term challenges are really quite complex. If you speak to most economists, there is a relative consensus about what the long-term headwinds of something like Brexit will be because the stuff that we have spoken about today around trade, investment, access to skilled migration, etc. What happens in the short-term is much more complex, as we have heard about companies that tend to wait and see what is happening. They tend to be driven in the short-run very much about today-to-day supply and demand things, so what their orders are like, what is happening to interest rates, what is happening to the exchange rate in the short-term. Those are things that dominate very much in the short-term. There are lots of things happening on the positive side, which will help boost the economy and lots of things that happen on the negative side, which will turn out to be more difficult. If you look at what the average of forecasters are saying about the outlook for the next week while most people think that the economy would be slower in 2016 as a result of Brexit because of the uncertainty the data that we have had so far. I would caution that and say that it is what we have got so far. We have only got the first three months after the referendum. A lot of it is based on model data and so on, but putting that aside, the data that we have got has surprised on the upside, but most economists are predicting that the real challenge will come in 2017 and 2018. That is when the decisions on investment start to kick in. If you made a decision to invest in 2016, you are unlikely to throw everything out immediately because you will wait to see greater clarity. What is the next decision? What are your expansion plans like? They might be cooled slightly, so you would expect to see things beginning to trickle through more into next year and the year after. That is why, in our forecast, we are thinking that 2017 will be slightly more challenging for Scotland in 2016. Most independent forecasts, if you look at the ones that the Treasury produced, are talking about 2017-2018 being slightly more challenging than 2016. The key thing with that is about what happens to inflation. We know that inflation has risen up to 1 per cent. Even in the Bank of England's report in August, they were talking about inflation rising to 2.4 per cent in 2018. That really starts to kick in about household consumption and what it means for households going forward. I will just pick up one really quick aside about that. Stephen made the point really well about the impact on different households. One of the things that we have not spoken about is the potential impacts on the poorest households. We know that they typically face the highest increases in terms of food prices, energy prices, etc. When you start to think about what might happen in autumn's statement about what is the future outlook for welfare, we know that a number of benefits plan to be frozen is at higher inflation. That makes the challenge to people on welfare benefits all the more difficult. A pay award in the public sector of 1 per cent is challenging, but when inflation is 0.5 per cent, it is still a real-terms increase. If inflation rises to 2.5 per cent, that pay award of 1 per cent suddenly starts to become much more difficult. That is when you start to see the potential challenges coming through to consumption, not just investment, but actual consumption in 2017 and 2018. If we just talk about specific helpful measures that either the Scottish Government or the UK Government could do in the short term, so the Bank of England currently has cut interest rates and the Scottish Government has launched its 500 million growth scheme. Is there anything else that any of our panellists would like to suggest? Perhaps we could answer that question as part of our response. I think that Jenny Stewart wants to come in. Perhaps you could address that question as part of your closing remarks, as it were. We have talked about the short term when packs not being as significant on business investment. There is so much that can still change. We are looking at reduced improvement next year, so those are changing. Interestingly, the forecast for 2017 has gradually been shifting up a little bit as more positive data has been coming through. Originally, in the weeks post-Brexit, people thought that the UK economy, the consensus was about 3 to 5 per cent for next year, whereas now the consensus is hovering about 0.7 to 0.8 per cent for next year. If we continue on relatively positively, then that has a good starting place for next year. On the business investment, I was going back to Richard Stewart's point about that. I do not want to give the impression that it is suddenly going to fall off a cliff. Businesses will be thinking through things. They will be making contingency plans, but we will have to see what happens going through, particularly the autumn statement, will be impacting. On other points, I just wanted to throw in that you might want to consider. We have not talked much about skills yet. Clearly, that has been a significant issue in the Scottish economy. We have some significant skills gaps, which may be made worse by Brexit, particularly around construction, but also around looking forward. We touched on the digital agenda and technology, so that might be something that the committee wants to look at. We also have not touched on the higher education sector at all in the discussion so far. It will potentially be significantly affected by the freedom of movement issue, because, as I understand it, something like 16 per cent of staff and 25 per cent of researchers come from other EU countries. As a sector, it is certainly worth looking at, because it contributes significantly to the economy. What is important to emphasise is that it has not happened yet and that it is not scheduled to happen for two and a half years. The effects that we are seeing are anticipation of what people are thinking, not the effect itself. The effect itself will only be felt after Brexit has happened, and then it is a long-run dynamic effect, which I think is much more important. It is the interplay between innovation, between freedom of movement, between foreign direct investment. All of these will play together to have a long-term, in my view, significant growth reduction effect on the UK as a whole. At the moment, there is still quite a bit of speculation that there will still be, for example, parts of the UK still in the single market. There will still be questions around passporting, etc. If that does not come true, we will see a further effect, because, as the markets start to anticipate a harder and harder Brexit, the bigger the costs are going to be. That is, I think, what we would expect going forward. I think just one other point on what the committee should do. I think one of the issues which tends to be neglected a bit in this discussion is the relationship between the UK and the rest of the world. Not the UK-EU relationship, but what actually happens in foreign trade. There is a huge potential. Certainly, there is a very high uncertainty about what will come afterwards, and there is a huge potential for damage in that. The question of assuming that there might be free trade agreements with all these places around the world, that might be the case, but that is quite a big ask to negotiate. It takes a lot of time, and it will require quite a lot of giving up on the UK side to actually get trade deals with these places. If you look at something like the trade deal which the EU has just concluded with Canada, it is a huge book. It is 2,600 pages, because that is the big difference between being in a single market where you can have a level of paying field or having to negotiate access on every individual point. That is a huge area where I think the UK Government needs to be pressed more to say what are the contingency plans for the day X, which is the day after Brexit happens, because all of the current trade deal and the schedule of the EU will no longer apply to the UK on that day. Dr Margulis, perhaps you could also address the question of what the Scottish Government could be doing about this at this stage. I just want to echo how much of a Herculean task it is going to be for the British Government to not only renegotiate its trade relationship with the EU, but also with all the existing 50 countries that the EU has, and the EU's preferential trading agreements with that that the UK currently enjoys. What we are looking about is a safe estimate several decades of just renegotiating the current access that the UK currently enjoys. The idea of upside down the road, we are talking decades away, because the reality is that the UK has not negotiated a trade agreement since the late 70s. It has no capacity to negotiate these agreements. The reality is also now that it is a much smaller economy. It does not have the leverage and negotiations it did have as the EU, so when it does strike new deals, they are likely to be not as good as the deals that currently has. Nobody is getting in line to sign trade deals with the UK. It is not that important of economy globally. It is not the country that most other nations are lining up to trade with, so I think that there has to be also some realism of where the UK sits in the global picture. In terms of long-term things that the Scottish Government can do, I think that it is really important to start a consultation process with stakeholders across sectors to get a better sense of what their concerns are and also identifying the kind of measures that will need to be put in the interim just to replace the types of supports or benefits that the UK currently enjoys under the EU, which might disappear when it leaves. These are things like agricultural subsidies or state aid. It cannot assume that it is going to be able to use the same things going forward. It is an interim measure of figuring out what kind of mitigation capacity it does have. In a very narrow sense, I think that one thing that we can do is stop obsessing about Brexit. I say that for this reason. What Graham Roy's work and his colleagues' work shows is that, at its heart, Brexit presents a growth challenge. It makes the growth prospects of Scotland's economy poorer than the otherwise would have been. However, we have been on a journey for a long time to try to improve Scotland's rate of growth, and I think that that just provides a further stronger justification for doing that. What does that mean in practice? Above all, it means that, on the side of government, at the margin of continuing to change the balance of spending when decisions are being made towards investment, which means that they are away from consumption. That is difficult to do, but investment will pay off in terms of longer term growth. Specifically around dealing with the narrow or Brexit-related issues that arise, my judgment would be that, if we have, for argument's sake, a fixed pot of money that we use for the purposes of promoting internationalisation, that money is more productively likely to be spent in future in export promotion than it is on the attraction of foreign direct investment. I think that we will wind up there, because we are at the end, certainly, of the time that is available to us, and we would not want to be accused of obsessing about Brexit. Thank you very much to all of our guests. I will close the session there.


I had 10 kills total. I think I took three while I was pretty stimulated and I really didn't notice much of anything. Throughout the rest of the days, I tried them in varying doses and I just didn't feel too much of an anti-anxiety style effect versus all of the other ones. And I've tried every single compound in this bundle and all of them have some sort of degree of anti-anxiety help or tiring that they give me. But I didn't really notice too much with this compound. Again, it's more towards general health and things like that improves blood supply to the brain, lowers total cholesterol, normalizes post-stress behavior, restores sleep, weight cycles, removes cognitive impairments.


Hello, and welcome to our Speculation and Vacancy Tax Tutorial. This video will show you how to access the Speculation and Vacancy Tax Credit available to non-residents of BC, foreign owners, and members of satellite families. To begin, go to the eTaxBC home page at gov.bc.ca forward slash eTaxBC. Log on to your eTaxBC account using your username and password. If you have not yet enrolled or accessed eTaxBC and do not have a username and password, you will need to do so before following the steps in this video. For more information on eTaxBC enrollment, please refer to our website. At the bottom left of the screen, click on your Speculation and Vacancy Tax account. The tax credit for each Speculation and Vacancy Tax year needs to be applied for separately. At the bottom left of the page, select the period you want to complete the application for. So for example, to apply for the credit for the 2019 Speculation and Vacancy Tax year, select the period 31 December 2019. Under the I want to section at the right side of the screen, select Access Tax Credit application. And again, under I want to at the right side of the screen, select Start or Change my tax credit application to begin a new application or to make changes to a previous application. The screen you now see is the first page of the tax credit application. It explains what information you will need to have on hand to complete the application and includes important information on who is eligible for the tax credit. It also shows you the total amount due for all of your properties before any applicable tax credits are applied. Once you have reviewed this page, select Next. You will then begin entering your information into the tax credit application. This video on how to access the non-BC resident tax credit application is now complete. Due to the individual specifics of each application for tax credits, this video does not go further into the tax credit application. If you have started your tax credit application but need further assistance, visit our webpage at gov.bc.ca forward slash spec tax. You can also choose to contact the ministry directly by phone or by email. Thank you very much.


So guys, I am back with another Halo Infinite video and today guys, I bring you the location of four individual audio lugs within the sequence, the enter the command spire campaign mission. How's it going guys, my name's DPJ and if you do enjoy the video, leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more, be sure to subscribe. Also guys, I'm giving one lucky person a chance to win any game of their choice. To be in the chance to win this giveaway, simply drop a like on the video, leave a comment down below, make sure you are subbed and have those notifications turned on. I will pick a winner from the comments section of one of my Halo videos, so the more of my videos you support me on, the more of a chance you have of winning, so good luck everybody. Okay so you will eventually come to the beacon area and you will have a mission called this sequence. It is a part of the multi stage mission but the first part of this is you have to enter the command spire and to do this you need to travel about this area and gather data from four different spires. Now even these spires are audio logs, now they are actually thousands of meters apart but today I will be giving you the fastest way in which you can do this. So when you initially get to this area, you will first initiate this door and it will tell you that you have to actually go and gather more information, more data. So basically first up you need to take out all the ads in this area, there's no two which words about it, so take out all the ads here, you'll notice there are bridges you can't get across, then you have to go back to the door, activate this and it will tell you like I said to go and gather more data where you have to go to four spires and these guys are literally spread out thousands of meters apart.  So once you've done that guys, you want to travel to this part on the map right here, dislocation which is the first spire which is the top right one, so you want to fly here guys like I said it's about a thousand meters away about 1500 meters away, so what I recommend you're doing when you get here guys is obviously land a little bit of distance away from this place because the adds will just literally shoot down your banshee and you need that to travel to the other spires, so you want to literally land a I don't know couple hundred meters away from the spire, jump out your banshee and take out the grand adds and make your way up to the spire door but you will have to take out all the grand adds around the surrounding area to enter the spire so you do have to take them out, so once you've taken out all the grand adds guys just enter the spire via activating this door and you come down you'll see the audio lug is right here guys it is as simple as that. So from here guys we're going to travel to the second beacon which is this one north of the area so you obviously want to go back at this first spire which I probably suggest you grabbing the data while you're here as well for the actual overall objective so dude even though you might not see me do it I'm actually doing it guys so yes just I think you go around one other corner you activate the some some device and you get the data and you want to do that with all four of these spires we're actually going to today just to make things a lot easier on yourself so yes once you've done that come back out of this main room this main building I'm going to travel to this spire north of this small area so you want to go back to your benchy and then fly here it is like this one is literally 2,000 meters away it's quite a distance quite a mission you want to be actually careful here because there will be other benches within the sky trying to take you down so you want to try your best to avoid them if possible I mean if you got land somewhere to take one out by all means do that there's no problem at all and same thing with this one guys you want to land obviously not right next to this because enemies will blow up your bench and you don't want that so you want to land a little distance away from it then take out all the ground troops as you see me doing because like I said you can't enter this spire until you do that so you definitely want to do that guys and I'll get back to you after speed but this fridge we go back into the spire okay so if in this spire it's literally guys right at the bottom of the ramp so you do want to grab this one and again guys like I said when you in this spire make sure you activate and gather the data for the overall mission here okay so the next spire or the next beacon we're going to go to I call these spires I don't even know why I'm just an idiot but yeah the next one we're going to go to is south of the area so you want to go back out guys and head back to your banshee now behind this one there's actually an art a Spartan Corps which we'll grab to was may as well we're in the area guys save us coming back here later grabbing it well obviously bring a guide on all the armor cause the other audio lugs the schools that around here all that I'll bring guys on obviously guys as I do as I do so yes obviously you want to make sure this is marked on your map as well so we know where you're going but yeah you just want to fly here and I'll catch you back when we get here guys okay so again you want to land away from the spire because of the beacon because the ads would just take you down so yep take out all the ground as I just see me doing speed this up get it over and done with and then we just enter this beacon once you come in here guys come down come around the corner and you'll see right there guys and again while you're in here gather the data from this beacon for the overall mission okay so the last beacon is the left side of the beacon waiting right now but before we go here guys we want to obviously grab that Spartan Corps which is around the back of this building I probably could have grabbed this before we're in there but you know just as easy now so now you want to go back to your banshee and you want to head to the final beacon which is about 1500 meters away now here on the way here actually there are a couple of other banshees as well as another audio log which we are going to grab so you want to land up on here on this hill take out the ads in this area just to make it easy for yourself last our speed that up once you've done that guys the audio log is right here as you can see pin pointed on the map from here guys you may as well grab a fresh banshee just in case yours has took some damage and you want to travel on fuel about a thousand meters away again to the final beacon now once you get near this guys again you obviously want to land away from the beacon to take out all the ground enemies and a few that will fly in on their ships take them all out then you'll get access to the final fourth beacon and with this one guys just come down ramp go right follow the way around and you'll see right here and again guys while you are here grab the data from this beacon for the overall mission so you gain entrance to that command spyar and there we have it guys for more audio logs you don't want to miss if you are a collector like me these are the sequence enter the command spyar which is a multi-stage mission these are that part of the multi-stage missions for audio luck so grab these while you can guys and I hope you enjoyed the video if you did leave a like really helps me out if you're new around here want to see more halo be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one


for Fatima. It's played short. Looking to get it back to Sheevs. It goes in. It's gold. It's in the back of the net. It took a deflection. Well, well, the 10 man of Fatima, they have equalized Sheevs with a shot. It took a deflection away from goalkeeper Romain and it goes into the back of the net. It's won all. Well, it had to take something like that out of the ordinary to beat Romain in the goal. The shot came. Sheevs cut inside. Let's have a look. Yes, surely something they practice on the training ground. Little deflection. They needed that little bit of fortune. Things haven't been going their way today. Well, they're going to push now. Should they settle now, Rodin, for a 1-0 draw? At least get a point.


Oh Ace is free and it only took just need going to the ends of the earth in terms of our army and Everything to do it, but he is free and I'm sure he's ready to wreak havoc on the Navy So go go included ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the channel We have episodes 481 and 482 of our one piece watcher today and things are really looking up for us, bro It's just madness though ace is free But whitebeards like on his last legs basically it's the entire army is gas We're gonna hop right into a drum of fat like on this one. Let's hit like a million likes. I don't know and let's get started He's free, baby, but he's about to just solo everybody He's safe He did dude ever since he got to Amazon Lillia and found out I can't tell if he's happy or not Yeah, Kobe is he really is awesome Shoot them as they wait you guys don't say a chance on the ace is free. I swear to God He's throwing mr. Three Let's go say the chance I'll look at them all together even mr.  He's unleashed Looking out for his brother. Yeah He's I let me show you what's up So a lot more Navy men know the six powers than I thought previously It's not just limited to like the cover ops of the Navy use that against black beer, right? Oh Man, it's gonna be a fight out though either way Not for real their mission is accomplished now. They just have to make it out But they only have the ones like paddle ship left.  They really do look like brothers man.  Oh my god Alchegy's probably more gas because he's been fighting for a bit Like you cannot be serious, bro. You genuinely cannot be serious You're not going to be Oh my god, I'm gonna freak out. I'm gonna freak out. I'm gonna pass out. I'm gonna freak out.  Oh Haha, oh Bro, his hair Dude his like Buddha form is sick, though The flamingo's just here for the chaos. I love him so much bro. I just as a character. He's so intriguing a Guidoo he's pissed Yeah, do something about a trash Is that the ship It's paddling through concrete Well, that's a getaway vehicle like actually who's manning it Finally is redeeming himself my god We get away vehicle. I'm lightheaded, bro.  I respect it It's something it's anything at a boy Evacuation Elmo's fire God feels so good to see and be able to actually fight back man. Oh No, oh no They're implying target of a kind new the whole ship.  I Kind of grabbed the wheel. Oh my god broken.   It's all those from the old era. Oh my god shanks and buggy No He can't man.  Oh like even before he was a captain. Oh My gosh, it's locks. No shot.  Why beard is the coolest character ever in anything I've ever watched Let's just go to the next episode dog episode 482 Oh my god, but no dog Like there has to be some way he makes it out of this. There's some miracle some goddamn miracle Luffy wasn't even colored. What just happened there?  He cannot tie here, bro.  Three do something anything eternal gelled at a boy I can't with this man.  I ideal smell Dog even I couldn't tell you I'll be honest. I I Mean he's pretty on the brink right now, but yeah, there's no way you can do anything buggy. I'm sorry man He's just tired man No way wait buggy sticking up for this nail is gonna have him come out. Oh My gosh, no shot. He feels for buggy. Oh my god He didn't even want the snail to come out Are they gonna see this look even the snails like happy to see him The moment I kill white beard dog, there's no shot. He's actually committing to this. Oh My gosh, we're actually gonna see what's happening. This is not what's in Goku once.  Oh my gosh. No I Need as many people to make it as possible bro. Hey, come on brother. You have to Exactly that's why all you have to leave He just wants to support him as long as he possibly can before they do leave so a white beard can achieve what he wants to achieve He bows to him God damn sign of respect Yeah, get in there buggy, I swear to God They're all just running man. Oh my gosh Fine.   Oh my god He did keep peace I suppose you're on fish man. That's what Jim base said Doko I see exactly who a kind it was now even though he was just introduced this art my god Stabbed by a fool Dude if anything no, it does the opposite of empty of anything.  He's gonna just whoa, I kind.   He's right there He only cares about ace and Luffy oh Oh Why beard what is that?  It was his necklace beads This arc is killing me bro. This arc is exhausting. It's just turn turn turn left right left right left right I can't keep up. Okay. So how does that work if his fist goes through it?


is remote closing actually a good career? Now, this is an incredibly popular career that you probably keep hearing about over and over again from YouTube influencers and people on Instagram, et cetera. And in this video, I'm gonna be breaking it down, explaining exactly what a remote closer is, how much they earn, the demand for the job, the job satisfaction, as well as the X factors that come along with this career. And then at the end, I'm gonna give it an overall score from one to 10. So if you appreciate me doing this type of video, go ahead and let me know by gently tapping that like button and let's jump into it right now. Okay, so first of all, what exactly is a remote closer? Basically, this is a professional that works in sales and helps to finalize deals, right? So you have several different types of sales people. You have what are known as setters and then you have closers. And this is typically for high ticket products. So we're talking about solar, software, insurance or high ticket coaching or consulting programs. And the setter is the person that originally talks with a prospect and they make sure that they are qualified to buy the product and they also make sure that this is a person who's interested in the product.  Then the closer is the person that they get on the phone with for a longer conversation and they're the one who actually closes the deal. Do it now, do it now, shake my hand. Yeah. Now closing typically requires higher levels of skill. It's also more stressful and you can typically make more money. But it's also a bit harder to get into. A lot of the times people who go into this type of career will start off as setters. And by the way, this position is known as a ton of different things and it's gonna be different depending on the industry that you're in. For instance, if you sell coaching and consulting you might be known as a high ticket closer. And if you're selling software you might be known as an account executive. And in every industry the position is going to be different as well. But now let's go ahead and talk about the earning potential. And by the way, if you're interested in getting into this career I'm actually going to be hosting a one day live event workshop where I'm gonna be spilling all the beans on exactly how to become a remote closer. Because I do think this is one of the absolute best careers you can go into if you're the right type of person for it. And this is going to be a live Zoom session with me. You'll get to talk with me directly and ask me questions. And there'll be a presentation component where I'll be spilling all the beans. And then at the end you can ask me any questions that you want. And I'm trying to make this as affordable as possible. So I priced it ridiculously cheap and you can check it out down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. And by the way, it will be going live exactly three days or 72 hours after this video goes live. So you can check the date by looking down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. And if for whatever reason you're not able to show up for the event or if you see this like three weeks from now and obviously if the event has already happened the same link will allow you to access the recordings. Now let's go ahead and talk about the earning potential. Yeah, no money. Remote closers make about $75,000 a year according to Glassdoor.com. And there are many remote closers that make over a hundred thousand, 200,000 even over a million dollars a year. A million dollars. Again, it depends on the position that you go into and there's certain positions that are gonna be much more lucrative than others. And that's why I recommend going into the right specialty which is what I'll be going over in the workshop. So high ticket sales specifically which is basically where you're selling some sort of online course, coaching, consulting or service gets paid around $122,000 a year. So it really does pay to go into the right niche or specialty. So when it comes to the earnings potential and especially since you do not have to have a college degree or previous experience this one is phenomenal.  Don't give me money, my name is Lord. Next, let's talk about demand. The career of remote closer is expected to grow at about 8% over the next 10 years, which is excellent. And you can see that it's on a steep upward growth trajectory. Now this is one where if you look it up on a site like Glassdoor, you might not see that many positions open. So for instance, Glassdoor says there's about 2,600 and that's good, but it's not great. And the reason for that is because this is one of those careers that doesn't really have an established infrastructure. There's not even a name that everyone agrees on. It's called like 10 different things. But with that being said, me being in the trenches knowing this sort of thing and studying this thing all the time, I can tell you there is a ton of demand for this career. But with that being said, you do have to know your stuff. Closing is not something everyone can do. It's probably not something everyone wants to do. This is definitely not going to be a job that's gonna be great for just about everyone who goes into it. But when it comes to the demand, this one is amazing. I demand satisfaction. Next, let's talk about satisfaction. So there's basically zero data on the internet on the job satisfaction for remote closers. But with that being said, sales is one of those jobs where you either love it or you hate it.  And it's no surprise that sales is the most common career that millionaires and billionaires have in their past. And many people credit much of their success to starting off in sales. So when it comes to satisfaction, this is definitely not going to be for everyone. Well, I tell you, I don't feel like entirely satisfied. A lot of the time sales is very high pressure. And if you're not closing the deals, you probably aren't going to be making any money. We're out of money. And so you basically always have to be dialed in. This is not one of those jobs where you can kind of take a half day off. But for the right type of personality, this is an amazing job and you're absolutely gonna love it. Julie. So for instance, for me, sales was probably my number one favorite job that I ever had. And I didn't end up doing it forever, but I absolutely love the time that I spent doing sales and it taught me so much. So when it comes to satisfaction, this is definitely mixed, but for the right type of person, this one is amazing. Next, let's talk about X factors. And this is basically how likely this is to be automated by AI or outsourced somewhere else and how flexible the job is, as well as what kind of in-demand skills does it teach you? Well, the first thing I want to talk about right away is this is one of the easiest jobs to work remote. So I know a lot of people want to work remote and this is one of the best jobs to do that with. And when it comes to AI, there's absolutely no way that this job is going to get automated. When it comes to outsourcing, there's no way it's going to be outsourced. I have business owner friends that have tried to outsource these types of jobs to the Philippines or to India and it just does not work out. So the attitude is not going to speed things up any bit at all. If you are selling to Americans, for instance, you're probably going to have to have American sales reps. Then when it comes to flexibility, this is one of those jobs where you might start off in this position and work your way up within a company and nobody knows a company's customers better than the sales rep. So it totally makes sense. And on top of that, it's a position that's going to teach you in-demand skills that you can use in just about any industry working for any business out there. And there's a lot of different careers that this type of skill set is going to feed into. And on top of that, it's going to help you if you want to start a business in the future. This is probably the number one skill that you could possibly learn when it comes to starting your own business. So when it comes to X factors, this one is absolutely off the charts, incredible. So for the overall score, I'm going to give this one a 9.5 out of 10. There's no such thing as a perfect job. This one does have its downsides but for the right type of person, this one is incredible. And like I said before, if there was one job that you can go from making $0 to making $100,000 a year with no college degree, no previous experience, no like lucky background, like being born into a rich family or anything like that, this is the job. And like I said, I'm going to be diving deep into this in my workshop, which I will be doing exactly 72 hours after this video posts. So definitely check that out. The link's down in the description in the pinned comment below and I hope to see you there and it'll be awesome to meet you. And by the way, if you haven't seen it already, I did make a video on 21 of the highest paying work from home jobs and you can check that out by clicking right here.


now today. And I want to be real clear about what we're doing here this morning. This is not about a rush to judgment. This is about lady justice. There's a lot of conflict in our community. And I feel that personally, the place where I love live and serve Tophie Club in Denton County. I love that community. But I'm from South Oakland, and I graduated from South Oakland High School in 1987. So the question is, how do I and how do we deal with this conflict that we have? And I think that's where we turn to Lady Justice. We take a look at Lady Justice. Oftentimes we see her with a blindfold and we see her with scales. The blindfold stands for impartiality and the scales have the balance between the protagonist or the antagonist of those who are making an argument for or against in a case. So what do we stand here saying today? What we're saying today is we just want to see justice, sir. I'm 48 years old. I have a son who's 21, a daughter who's 19, and a daughter who's 15.  There were a couple of young clergy in our conference who were that same age. So I can't imagine the shock or the horror that Alice and John must be going through. But I think as a result of our gathering today, we just want her to know. We want the community to know. We want this area to know. This is not about a rush to judge. This is about lady justice. No matter what we say, the process, the process is going to continue. The process is going to continue. So we just kind of pray that we are looking for Lady Justice. That


Numerous fatalities and serious accidents have occurred when individuals working or operating equipment near a high wall were struck with material that fell from the high wall. To increase your awareness of high wall safety, let's follow this supervisor as he makes his rounds at his operation. How you doing? Oh, fine, and you? Real good. Come on over here a minute, would you please? Sure. Haven't seen you around before. You with Acme Tire? Oh yeah, I'm Bob Johnson. I just started with Acme about six weeks ago. It's changing a broken stud on the hub. Ah, Dan Wilson, I'm the superintendent here. Did somebody give you site safety training when you came out today? Yeah, when I checked into the office, a guy ran me through it. Hard hat, safety glasses, you know, the whole works. I think his name was Jack Reed or something? Yeah, Jack Reeves. Yeah, he's a plant foreman. Anything about working between a machine and a high wall? Yeah, yeah, he did mention several things. Why is there something in particular? Well, yeah, we've got a policy. When we have a machine close to the wall, we try to move it away, or at least move it around so that we don't have anybody, you know, in harm's way working between the machine and the wall in case something should come off. I see, so you're saying I should have had someone come and move this loader before I started working on that side? Or better yet, just move it across the road. You sure know how to get to a point across. Hey, Don Dan. Pretty good. Come over here a minute. What you doing here? Cutting a piece of pipe for a temporary board. Did you think about maybe bringing that out away from the high wall here? No, I don't think it would take that long. It would be a little safer if you did. Alright, I'll go get some help to move the pipe. Okay, good. Alright. Thanks. Boy, what a day. First that contractor between the high wall and the loader. Three times today. What is it today? Everybody's working under a high wall. Calm down, Dan, before you have a stroke. What are you talking about? Well, you're the third person today that I've found working under a high wall. Don't you know you could get hurt or maybe even killed? Well, you're right, but that's why I did a visual inspection of all the high walls around here before I started.   Well, that's true, but if you look behind you, Jonathan's right there. Okay, Mack, you did it by the book. But can we do something to make this a little safer in the future? Well, we could put plugs and receptacles at the pumps, but they have to be weather-proof and rugged and they're really expensive. Well, maybe so, but it would make the job a whole lot safer. You know, you can replace a cable, but you can't replace a light. Remember, to protect yourself when working beside high walls, always keep the equipment between you and the high wall. When possible, move the work away from the high wall and do not use the base of the high wall as an area for storing supplies or parking equipment. Always do a visual inspection of the high wall, looking for loose, cracked or unstable materials. For more information about high wall safety, visit our website at www.msha.gov.


The Addo state governor, Godwin Obasaki, says the security situation in the state is relatively calm, explaining that efforts were ongoing to sustain it. Obasaki stated this while reviewing the state security situation for the month of July after a joint security beating with all heads of various security agencies in the state. According to him, the reports considered show that security environment in Addo is relatively calm. Commissioner of Police in the state, Philip Obadu, also corroborated the governor's position.