Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach. I'm on Weight Watchers and I count calories and macros. Happy Friday. It is Friday. It is the weekend and it is time for this week's weigh-in, WW workshop topic and we'll set some goals for the next week.  Make sure your subscribe and your bell notification is turned on because we do a weigh-in every single Friday. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching where I offer personalized to you macros and calories as well as one-on-one coaching. If you would like to chat with me directly, highly recommend macros and calories. By the way, that's how I've lost well over 135 pounds. You'll also find links and discounts to my favorite things and come join our Facebook group. We would love to have you. So let's jump into my weigh-in, my week and the WW workshop topic. We had a really good week. In fact, I just got home from boot camp. I do go to boot camp every single Friday at 5 a.m. I actually go Monday, Wednesday and Friday and it reminded me that I wanted to share with you guys some new workout clothes that I picked up from Yvette Sportswear. I have a lot of Yvette Sportswear. I love their leggings, their sports bras and they've also put out quite a few pieces in their line for athleisure wear as well as a little bit more dressy pieces as well. So they've expanded from just being a workout clothing line, which I love. Now don't get me wrong. I absolutely love all of their workout clothes, but I did pick up a few other pieces from Yvette Sportswear and I thought that this is the perfect time to share it with you since I wore them to boot camp this morning. First, let's talk about the sports bra that I wore. This is going into the wash after this, but I love this so much. You'll know if you follow me why I love this. Look at the full coverage on the back. This is a long line sports bra, so it helps conceal any excess goodness on the stomach area. And for me, I carry a lot of loose skin in my back and I love a good long line full coverage back sports bra. This is the Echo Seamless Razorback Padded Yoga Bra. I have mine in the shade blue in a size large. It's made from 80% recycled polymide. These sports bras are eco-friendly for a green earth. It's a low impact sports bra that's great for doing yoga, Pilates and stretching. It is a light support bra with a v-neckline. And like I said, I absolutely love that it's a full coverage back. These are the types of sports bras that I immediately gravitate towards. This is so battery soft and comfortable. And even though it's a light support bra, I did great with this at boot camp. And we know that this area for me is a problem area and this kept everything in place while I ran, did burpees, mountain climbers, all the things at boot camp. I love this bra. I'm actually going to pick this up in a couple more colors. And these are the leggings that I wore to boot camp this morning. Oh my gosh, I love these. These are so flattering, literally shrink the size. I felt all spelt and thin in these leggings and the support and compression of these is out of this world. My thigh area is another problem area for me. I have quite a bit of loose skin and these leggings held everything in. I mean, these look tiny. They have a lot of stretch to them and they're very, very compressive. These are the shift high waisted, powerful running leggings. These are designed for high impact workouts. They're a super soft fabric and streamline shape to give you support. The high waistband also shapes and conceals the tummy area as well. And like I said, they have a good amount of stretch to them, but the compression is out of this world. I absolutely loved these leggings. Again, they held everything in. I also picked up these leggings because I love a good colorful leggings. I feel like you can express your personal style with fun colorful leggings. And this particular one from Yvette, I love. I have several pairs. These are the shift mesh yoga leggings. I have mine in a size large in yellow. These are soft and breathable, comfortable leggings.  The inseam of these is 26 inches. So you can see at the bottom of the leg, there is that mesh panel. So it's a little bit see through. It is only at mesh is only on the ankle. So there's no mesh on the actual legging itself. Just adds that little bit of fun to the bottom. These are also buttery soft. Even though there are lighter support legging, I still wear these to boot camp and I love how comfortable these are. Again, either of these leggings can be worn day to day or for working out. We have a lighter support and a high support. While I was on their website, grabbing some new workout clothes, I picked up a few of their more at leisure, stylish, everyday wear pieces. First one is this cardigan. Oh my goodness. I love this cardigan. I have mine in the color gray. It is full. It is a three-quarter length cardigan with pockets. This is the ship front open pocket oversized sweater. I have mine again in gray in a size media. It is incredibly soft and cozy. It's featured with a relaxed fit, two side pockets and hip bottom link that gives you a very chic look. I love that it hits right below the hips. It's a loose style for a relaxed fit. There's two side pockets, a front open and long sleeved. It is a knitted material and it is heavy weight. This is a really high quality cardigan for the price and I absolutely love it. This is definitely a go-to staple piece for me. I pretty much live in cardigans inside my house. As I've lost weight, I'm cold all the time. So I do love a good sweater and a cardigan. This could be worn to the office. This could be worn after your workout or like I said, just lounging around your home. Who am I buying white? I used to never wear white. I would always wear dark colors to camouflage but I fell in love with this sweater and like I said, I really wanted to add some more of their nicer, more designer pieces to my wardrobe. I love that this is a tie-waisted sweater so it definitely gives your body some shape. Again, this is something you could wear to the office. You could wear it out to eat. You could wear to the grocery store and again, you could wear it pre or post workout. This is the Shift Front Open Belted Hollow Knit Sweater. I have mine in a size large in white. This is an everyday sweater. It's designed in a knitted fabric that is incredibly soft and cozy. I love the triangle hollow pattern of it and the waist belt closure gives you a very spelt look. I love this and I love that it's white. It's a neutral color. I can wear it with everything and I am thoroughly impressed with their clothing pieces outside of their workout gear.  I absolutely love this. This is so weighted and heavy. This is a zip up sweater. Oh my gosh, I love this so much. This is the Shift Front Open Zip Hood Sweater. I have mine in a size medium in black. It's designed in a cotton fabric that's breathable and cozy. It features a combination of knitting techniques including paw holes, lap stitches and pick holes to help you show a very chic look. It's completed with a zip hood and it's a zip up front sweater. It's hip length. It's a looser style for a more relaxed fit and it is long sleeved. I love that there's a hood. This is something I have worn multiple times to boot camp because it's cold right now in the mornings and this is so heavy and comfortable and soft. I mean, I wish you could feel how heavy this is and how nice of quality it is. I love that it has the Yvette logo embroidered on it. I love this. I really, really, truly love this out of everything. This is probably my favorite piece even though I love everything that I picked up. I will link everything I showed you down below with some discounts.  Definitely check out their sportswear, their leisurewear and just their day to day pieces. I really love them. I am thoroughly impressed with the quality for the price and as always, I love their workout gear. It is 100% a staple for me. So now that I've shared with you all my new pieces from Yvette, let's jump into my week. So like I said, I had a really good week. I feel like I am killing my goals for 2023. I know we're only a couple of weeks into the new year but I have been doing so well just focusing on whole real food, getting in my workouts, drinking my water. I actually went and grabbed a water right before I started filming today's video to rehydrate after boot camp and I just feel really good about where I am in my journey. Like I mentioned in last week's weigh-in, this month is a telltale month for me. I'm trying to determine where I am. Am I at my goal weight? Do I still have weight to lose? Where am I gonna be towards the end of the month? And am I ready to declare that I'm at my goal weight and moving into maintenance? That is something that's really weighed heavy on my mind this month and I'm trying to do whatever I can do to really determine where I am in my journey. I've been loving all the foods that I've been eating. All of these recipes I've made with real whole food have really been satisfying and fulfilling. I'm definitely less crazy and less snacky, not only focusing on protein but the types of foods that I'm eating. So so far it has been a huge win for 2023. But before I jump in to my weigh-in, speaking of weighing in and tracking your weight, let's chat about this week's WW workshop topic and that is how to create a weight tracking routine. I always say that the scale is not the only measurement of success. In fact, for me, it's the least measurement of success. Taking pictures, taking measurements, how my clothes fit, how I feel in my body outweighs the scale any day of the week but it's still important to check in on the scale to make sure that you're not creeping in the wrong direction and to see kind of where you are when it comes to your overall weight. Sometimes the scale can ruin our entire day. Sometimes the scale can make it the best day ever. It depends on what number the little box reads. What you also have to remember about this scale is it measures mass. So it's taking into account water, lean muscle and fat. It's not differentiating between those different facets that make up our weight. So if you get on the scale and it ruins your day, here's some tips and tricks to help it ruin your day, maybe a little bit less. Number one, when and how often will you weigh yourself? Choose a frequency between once a day and once a week and then pick a day in time you can stick with like first thing in the morning. Number two, how will you boost your confidence before you step on the scale? Try reflecting on a non-scale victory since you're last weigh in and pump yourself up with music or relax with a few deep mindful breaths. What will you say to yourself when you track the weight in your app? Put the number into perspective. The scale is just one measure and consider encouraging words like I am strong or keep on, keep and on. And what health promoting action will you do after you step on the scale? No matter what it says. It can be as simple as drinking a glass of water or going for a short walk. You can even prep or pre-track your next meal. Write out your action plan. Days, time, location, I'll weigh myself. Before I step on the scale, I will when I track my weight, I'll say to myself and what I'll do right after weighing in is this. For me, I weigh in every Friday. First thing in the morning after I go to the bathroom, fasted. That is the indicating I do the same routine every single week. That's how we're going to get the most accurate number. Now, because I do have a fitness coach, I actually weigh myself every day, but I don't record my weight until Friday. Every day I'm seeing weight fluctuations. That is completely normal. Your weight is going to do this throughout the week. We're looking at what is that number once per week, once every two weeks, once a month. However, often you feel like you need to weigh in.  One situation that the scale can really wreak havoc is when we're in a plateau. When we step on the scale and it's the same number over and over again, this can actually have an effect on us called the ostrich effect. The tendency to bury your head in a sand to avoid potentially unpleasant information or feelings. So when we're at a plateau or when the scale's creeping up, we don't even weigh ourselves anymore. We stay off of the scale. And this is the ostrich effect. We need the accountability. We need to know where we are. We need to know if we're plateaued, if we're gaining, if we're losing. And that's what I mean by weighing yourself regularly, not necessarily every day or even once a week, but weighing yourself on a regular basis is important to your overall health journey. If you utilize these tips and tricks from WW, the scale can have a little less impact on how you feel after stepping on it. I hear this a lot from my coaching clients.   I binge eat. Don't do that. The scale is just a box with a number.  Focus on other facets like measurements, how your clothes fit, how you feel. I will tell you that my number on the scale is still pretty high. Enough that I am still considered overweight on the BMI chart. We don't go by the BMI chart, but technically I'm considered overweight on the BMI chart. I'm not overweight. I don't have enough fat on my body to get to the healthy weight on the BMI chart because it's just a number. And the scale takes in mass. And I have lean muscle. I don't have a lot of excess fat, but I have quite a bit of lean muscle and the scale recognizes that as weight. So you have to know what makes up the weight on the scale and that should help it not ruin your day. And if you have a good number on the scale, sure, it makes your day better, but again, it's not the only indicator of success. So definitely try out these tips and tricks from WW to let the scale have a little less impact on your life. So speaking of the scale and weight and weighing in, let's jump into this week's weigh in. Like I shared in the beginning of January is the month for me to figure out where I am in my weight loss journey. Do I still have weight to lose? Am I on maintenance? How is shifting my focus to whole real food continuing to get my workouts in, getting in my water? How is that going to impact me overall? Now, last week when I stepped on the scale, I was down a little bit in weight and this week I maintained and that is amazing for me because that's another indicator that maybe just maybe this is where my body wants to be. We're gonna see how the rest of the month plays out, but I am thrilled with a maintain. Absolutely thrilled with that. I know that maintenance is hard. I mean, I know that losing weight is hard. Trust me, losing weight is hard, but I have heard that maintenance is even harder. So the fact that I can maintain my weight just makes me feel one step closer to having a successful maintenance. And we'll see what happens next week, but I couldn't be happier with weighing exactly the same on the scale as I did last week. So let me know how your week was. Did you gain, did you lose? What are your thoughts on the scale?  Let me know down in the comments and if you're gonna utilize these tips and tricks to make the scale a little less frustrating. And of course, give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it. Check out the description box for Yvette. I'll link everything for you. All the discount information. Absolutely love it. Highly recommend. You'll also find nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my other favorite things. And don't forget, come join our Facebook group. We have a lot of fun stuff happening in the new year and we would love to have you. Happy Friday and I'll see you again in tomorrow's grocery haul. Bye.


Do you use a webcam or a DSLR to record your videos? Right now I'm on a DSLR, the Canon T3i. Now I am on a webcam, the Logitech C920, what I normally use to film the George show. I am recording at 60 frames per second and now I'm back on the Canon T3i. Which do you prefer? Is this better quality or is this better quality? Tell me in the comments below and tell me what you use switching back to the Canon T3i. This is me moving, this is a little bit motion. See how that compares now back to the camera, the webcam, the Logitech. How does the motion compare and we're back on the T3i? Tell me in the comments below if you use a DSLR or some other camera to record your footage. We would love to know what hardware you're using so we can all learn from each other. I also use the Blue Yeti, which is the microphone of choice. I've been using the Blue Yeti for a long time but before I was using the Blue Snowball. What microphone do you use? Tell me in the comments below. And what about your environment? I'm filming this in a condo. This is not a professional soundstage, although we are building professional sound stages. Do you record your footage at home or do you use a more professional setup with better lighting? This is just a standard desk lamp. I'm not using any fancy lighting. I would love to know your setup. Let's all help each other by sharing how we make videos, the best practices that we've learned so we can all grow together as a family, the freedom family. Because that is the spirit of freedom. Let's grow together. This is freedom and who am I? I am George, CEO and founder of Freedom. And you've been watching...


Hi, I'm Tom and I'd like to talk briefly about lectures and supervisions at Cambridge. Lectures and supervisions are essentially your main contact time with teachers for your studies, and lectures are particularly important because they give you a nice structure on which you can hang the content of your reading when you're going about preparing for supervisions. They're also a really useful opportunity for lecturers to provide you with real current analysis of current problems in the law so that you're up to date as you need to be for your supervisions. It's useful in Cambridge that the lecture programmes actually run parallel to supervisions, so the content that you cover in lectures broadly corresponds with the work that you're doing at that particular time for supervision work. In one sense, lectures vary in terms of style. Lecturers have different ways of presenting their material, and this is partly because it reflects the differences between subjects, but it also perhaps helps to keep you on your toes and prevents subject matter from becoming too repetitive that the style is varied between subjects. Lectures last for around 50 minutes and may involve presentational devices such as PowerPoints or often lecture handouts which are physically printed out by the law faculty and distributed to students. They're also available online which makes it easy to type onto the lecture handouts while you're going through the lecture so that you've got a nice coherent and comprehensive set of notes when it comes to supervisions. I've mentioned supervisions quite a few times, but I think it's important to clarify exactly what it is that they are, and supervisions are small group teaching sessions which you share with around two to three other students and one professor. They're a really useful opportunity to go over particularly difficult areas of the law, and they also give you an opportunity to talk to a leading expert about the work that they do on a sort of small group basis. So it's a really useful opportunity to pick their brains and see what they think about a current problem with the law. It's also a very useful opportunity to learn from the other students and very often students will get together before a supervision and talk through some of the work so that they know roughly what it is that they're going to go over in that session and so that they're prepared for the questions that might arise in the course of the supervision. Supervisions are dictated by a set of reading requirements so you have a reading list that you go through and make sure that you read through the textbook and often also involve some questions at the end of the sheet which will help to indicate where it is that you need to focus for the purposes of the supervision. You then might read through some of the basic structure of the subject and then move on to some of the questions to talk about how to apply that knowledge in an exam situation. It's particularly useful as I've said that the supervision structure mirrors the structure of lectures so that you've got broadly similar content in both and what that enables you to do is make sure that you can get as far as you can with a subject before the supervision in terms of reading and attending lectures so that the supervision is really a springboard for further work which really helps to get your understanding of the subject as high as it possibly can be before your examinations later on in the year. In addition, supervisions are useful because they give supervisors an opportunity to talk about points of policy and issues which may not necessarily be so explicitly referenced in the textbooks so whereas the textbooks may be more useful for some of the black letter subjects I think supervisions are particularly useful where you're going over points which maybe perhaps to do with social policy or different incentives that may or may not be useful in a particular area of law so it's a really useful opportunity to approach the law from a much broader angle. Above all, supervisions and lectures and the way in which teaching works at Cambridge is particularly useful as it pushes you together with experts in the field and really gives you an opportunity to put your point of view on the table and have it considered seriously by someone who's a leading expert in their field. It's this unique combination of lectures and supervisions that makes Cambridge such a special place to learn law and for that reason I would very much recommend the experience.


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So here we are, we're out here in Cambridge, 2023. The TV's cranking, we've got a little diamond happening in the middle of the walkway here. We're going to talk to people about animal rights. Let's go. Are you a vegan? Vegetarian. Vegetarian. These are egg laying hens. This is the dairy industry. A vegetarian. No, this is the dairy industry. Whenever these places are investigated, when you're mass breeding animals, you're going to have horrible things happen. So what they do is they grab a male bull, extract semen from the bull. You know, very weird, bizarre, disgusting way.    These are secret cameras because the industry don't show people. They know that people mostly have a heart, so they have to keep it secret. They rape these animals and they rape her continuously and they take her calf continuously because they need to keep her pregnant to keep her producing milk. She has a little girl calf. They can produce milk, can't they? Because only the females can. What happens when she has a boy calf? They will get killed for meat or they can grow and become like for semen again. Anyway, they're going to get killed anyway because when they're not producing milk anymore. They will get slaughtered. The mother has a long, slow life of pregnant taking calves and then she's not useful anymore. Once she's not useful, she goes slaughter house, head cut off and minced into burgers. The dairy cows go to the slaughter house and get eaten too. So vegetarians still have a part. So I've been vegan for 10 years. I would never touch any dairy eggs because of what happens. So the eggs as well, they're producing these extra large eggs that are super agony. Yeah, they get exhausted and if... Everyone should at least buy medium or small eggs instead of buy eggs. I don't think it has to do with how big they are. I think it has to do with the number of eggs they're selectively bred to lay. So they lay 300 a year when they're usually in the wild laying egg eggs or something like that. I've been in these egg farms and you see chickens just there. There's nothing left of them because they're just laid egg after egg and they can't get any nutrition and they're just slowly suffering to death on the floor and then they all go get gassed. I've got a friend where I used to work. She used to go and mescube their chickens and she said it was incredible. They all knew the names.  They used to play football with the ping pong balls. Yeah, they're smart. They're like any other animal. But they've just been objectified to the point where people don't see them as another animal anymore. They see them as like... Suits them just now. Yeah, but look at the advertising.  They're always like meamed kind of thing. But they are just individuals that are bred into a system they didn't ask to be bred into. And then... It's not their fault. It's not their fault? It's not their fault. How do you feel looking at that? It's not nice, is it? It's not nice. Do you think animals should have rights? These animals? Like protecting them? Yep. Yeah, because I don't just advocate against the torture and the welfare. Also just killing them. Like even if they had a okay lie, I think it's wrong just to murder them, really. Yeah. Yeah. The reason I talk to like people walking past is because when you go into the supermarket, it causes this to happen. There's a causal chain. When you take something off the shelf, they replace it. And where do they replace it from? Everyone has a part to play in what goes on on these screens. These evil doers are only doing it because... People will buy. People will buy. You know, I have no issue with people eating meat. They should be ethical. What is ethical? I just think when they've had a life. Your friend with the rescue chickens, those ones, they're probably happy now. They're all answered into their names. So if I was to go and collect all them up and chop their heads off and eat them, would you think that would be ethical? Well, some would think it was. No, you. And just you personally? I would personally, no. So that's different to what you said to me before? Yeah, I don't know. I just have a belief that some people, it doesn't matter what you do, will never stop eating me. I know that. The only thing you can really truly do is explain to them, okay, are you happy to eat this meat knowing what it's been through? Or would you be happier if somebody was to spend a little bit more money and a bit more time?  It's like, what are those kind of things?  And those cows, yeah, people will still go and buy the best meat. Those cows have at least had three, four years of a decent life. Two years or something like that? Yeah. But how do you know? What they do is to lower the price and treat them worse as well. Because you could treat them better and give them a good life and then kill them after. I know you were against that. Is that justified? Justified. Look at what happened. Like, is it justified to kill someone if you give them a good life? It was someone that would refer to human.  They're not something. Do you think they're things? Some people do. Do you think animals are things? I don't think they're humans. No, they're not if they're human. I know they're not human. I asked if they're... They're a being, yeah. Yeah, if they're not a thing. I think they're referred to something like an object. I don't think they're objects. Yeah, I think exactly, yeah. So if they're not an object, then they're someone. Yeah. So there's someone in... Yeah, yeah, or someone, yeah. Well, there's someone experiencing their world. Like, obviously, you're having both different subjective experiences right now. I'm having a subjective experience. They're the individual having that experience. So it's not just animal suffering here. There's someone experiencing that suffering. If we gave them a good life, is it okay to kill them? If we just want to eat them, I'm saying. Well, after they died, then I think it's okay to eat them. Yeah. I mean, that wouldn't be an animal rights violation, would it? No, that's not so. So the thing is with humans as well, you're an organ donor, so using the organs for somebody who died. Yeah, consensually. And even if it wasn't on consensually, as long as the family didn't mind... Yeah. You know, I don't see an issue. Yeah, that's not a human rights violation, is it? No, that's not so. They're shooting someone in the head to take their organs against their will, and then breeding more of them just to shoot them in the head and take their organs. Even if you gave them a good life, do you think that would be justified? Oh, it's not justified now. Yeah. So in the animal context... Yeah, that's the same thing. You know, it's a smartphone. It's not. Yeah. If you ask people what meat do you eat, what eggs do you eat, are always humane, free-range, grass-fed, because they're advertising to these people they don't know. We go in there with cameras, suffering birds, this and that. My position is it's unethical to kill an animal if there's no justifiable reason to. I think that's like murder. And you can never be sure that the animals have been treated. They're units of production. You should go vegan. You know so much. You might as well be an activist. I don't know. Step by step. I want to like... How long ago did you go vegetarian? Five years. You said step by step. When's the next step? Yeah, I know. I don't know. To be honest, I'm not sure I will stop eggs. Why? Because like, for example, my parents have like... Backyard eggs. Yes. So for me, like, it's okay. Do you eat eggs outside your parents' house? Yes. Okay. But I like, for example, when I buy cakes in the grocery store or something... You don't check? Yeah, I check. I want to make sure that we have free-range eggs, for example, for biscuits or something. I don't want to buy it when it's not. But you know, the problem with the egg industry is they're pushing so many eggs out, they become exhausted and they go to the slaughterhouse. Yes. You don't eat meat because you don't want animals to be slaughtered. Yeah, but it's... But eggs laying hence still get slaughtered. I know, I know. But you know, it's more like it's less direct, you know. It's indirect, so it's easier to do. Yes, to do it. Yes. You stop eating meat, right? But as a vegetarian, because I talk to a lot of vegetarians, and I'm always curious, how can they still eat eggs and dairy? Is there another level of disconnect? Because it's not... Yeah. It's not the meat.  But I can eat things with that in it, because I don't make that same connection. I don't stroke eggs. It's not an animal. It comes out of them. No, it comes out of an animal. I appreciate that. But for me, it just feels like it's not quite the same connection. Yeah. I can disconnect that. But only to the point that I don't think about too much. This is not something you would see back in, maybe 2,000 years ago when we're no tribes, then this would never happen. But I think if you go back 2,000 years to the real existence of a human now, a human would live in the old days, that's I think how we should have lived, then you still... So, let's go back there. We have some cows. Let's just say we have some potatoes, and we're not in a survival starvation situation. We've got a choice to create crops and grow potatoes and plants and get our nutrition from plants.  Do you think that that's the right thing to do? Back then, yeah, I think so. Because that was to survive. Taking survival out of the picture. My question to you is, do you want to go back to the way we lived back then? Like where we were raising animals and killing them? Clearly we can't. But that way of living was a good... It was a justify. It was a good... It was a circle of life. So if we don't need to do it to survive, is it justifiable then? No, I don't think so. Yeah, yeah.  And then one day they'll have a great big barbecue and the pig will be there being eaten. I've seen. And that's really, really, really hard to get your head around but it is part of the culture and they do it. The only benefit I can see from it is nothing's wasted.  There are a few benefits, but I don't think the benefits outweigh the detriment, like the injustice.  I could say I ate them all, you know, Jeffrey Dahmer stuff. I don't think nothing went to waste. I know, I know, I know exactly. But it is ingrained. It is traditional, it's cultural, all those factors. But that's why we dislike people like yourself who do care. I know we can't solve all the problems in the world. There's a lot of horrible things, but... If just everyone made a slight contribution, I think it's just everyone. You're going to have, you know, a 25% population who aren't interested and that's fine and you can't blame them for it. But I just think if everyone else who can make a decision makes a decision, I think perhaps... The only people that we can count on are people like you because you've already given up me. Yes, I know. All these other people that don't care, we've got no hope because we can't rely on like a lot of people, man. Like you at least, you have something there. Then you put it to the side and say, that's my first step, step by step. But then 10 years go by. I always like to ask if people actually even care about animals. Some people don't. I think everyone knows Bucket Bear had it strong, but I mean, I think it's hard to implement change for many. Yeah. We couldn't, well, we could like individually you can, but these things are a major corporation to turn. Of course. And, you know, I can't stop all the wars, all the child abuse and all of that. So you're taking on the weight of the entire industry right now in your mind. When I talk about, hey, don't murder people. You don't go where you're, you're not going to stop all the murders, man. So I don't know if I've got... Yeah. I'm talking about personal accountability right now for what you do. That's a good argument. And no one's going to judge you out here for going and buying a steak. This is something that only you, your conscience can do. That's why it's a powerful thing. The more people that do change, like say you used to change today and you're like, you know what, I'm not putting my money into supporting these industries. And then you change 10 people over your life just by living that way and talking to people. You've made a massive impact. Think about over the course of your entire life, it's been 30 years from now, how many animals have gone to the slaughterhouse for you? They're loads, yeah. A few thousand, I don't really know the numbers. It's like, got to be a lot. That's not just the slaughterhouse, it's suffering, it's cruelty, and things that you just put in the back of your mind. No. There's no industry on earth that we do this to humans. There's no legal industry on earth where we do anything like this to humans. Legal, not legal, no. No, this is legal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because illegally it happens, bro. You can talk about there's bad working conditions, things like that, torture, slavery, and murder on a massive scale where we eat the victims. This is not happening to humans. No. No, and it's also not in our natural instinct. And when war crimes happen, when these murders happen to human beings, it's at our age and it should be, and we have human rights protecting us, but bad things still happen, they don't even have rights. I know. No, I think that another is a problem. Yeah, they don't want to change it, I think, because that's always the money, isn't it? Yeah. Who gives them the money? Yeah, of course. Well, us and, yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Well, thank you. You did. You used to give them money. Thanks for sharing this. Good to speak to you.  Take care. See you later. Are you Joey Kalbstrom? Yes. Well, of course. Hello. I'd like to recognize you. Who are you? I'm Ellie. Hello, Ellie. Are you a vegan?  I'm vegetarian. Oh, I know that you caused what happened to the animals on the screen. I know. It's all on you. I know. Not all on me. Yeah, no. You, you alone. Now, when are you going to go vegan? Uh, I've tried. What happened? One day. One, well, what happened? I was a meat eater at the time and I tried. Ah, now you have it. So now you went to meat eater to vegetarian. This is the middle ground for me. I'm doing my best. Is it really your best? I'm vegan. And I'm, you seem a lot more bright than me. Thanks. Yeah, I'll get there one day. Yeah. Maybe today. Change. Maybe this is your sign, actually. I think it is. It is. Maybe your conscience has been eaten out. You're like, maybe I'll see Joey Kalbstrom one day and he'll tell me off. Maybe. He's got it. Maybe. I'm going to France next week. So, I mean, it's fine. There's a lot of vegan in France. Amazing. You've gone to Paris? I'm going to South France. You just happy cow? Happy cow. It's the best app ever. You find vegan stuff everywhere. This is my issue. I've been to France before and all that exists on this cheese and bread because that's all I can find. Happy cow. Okay. Bless you. New vegan. Ellie the vegan. I'm going to change your Instagram handle.


We started on the road to Copenhagen two years ago with the first Forest Day at COP 13 in Bali. At that event, our discussions focused around the exciting prospect of forests being incorporated into a new global climate agreement. By Forest Day 2 last year in Poznan, the center of gravity had shifted from whether forests would be included to how that inclusion should be shaped. And now, even though the negotiations are still ongoing, our deliberations today will not center on the specific points that remain unresolved. Instead, we'll be looking beyond the negotiations to the challenges that will face individual countries and individual communities as they begin to implement mitigation and adaptation strategies related to forests. It is immensely gratifying to have such a huge turnout for Forest Day 3 and difficult to imagine a larger gathering of people who know more or care more about the connections between forests and climate change. Many of you are here because you see great potential in the new mitigation and adaptation instruments to address long-standing challenges to the sustainable management of forests. Others of you are here because you're concerned about the risks of those new instruments, such as red, and you want to make sure that our objectives are broadened beyond carbon storage to include poverty reduction, fairness, biodiversity conservation, and protection of rights. Still, others of you are here because you want to share what you have learned or because you want to learn what others have to share. Some of you are joining us via the miracle of streaming media. And perhaps some of you are here in person because you didn't realize there would be a secondary market in Forest Day registration and that you could have made some money by selling your name tag to somebody on the waiting list. Now, let me ask for a quick show of hands. How many of you were present at the first Forest Day in Bali? How many of you were present at the second Forest Day in Poznan? Wow, we're happy to see such a high degree of continuity, but also welcome the many new faces that come with a doubling of the number of participants. In constructing today's program, the Forest Day 3 co-host worked hard to build on the strengths of past years, but also to respond to your feedback on how we could improve. We've introduced new methods to make the event more inclusive and interactive. And we deeply regret that due to the constraints of time and space, we were able to accommodate only a small fraction of the many individuals and organizations who volunteered to speak or co-host a learning event. But we've done what we could to make as much room as possible for you to participate. You'll note that there is only one C4 staff member with a speaking role in the entire program and that many of the other co-hosts have similarly limited their interventions. Instead, our role will be to listen carefully to the proceedings so that we can generate an accurate summary of all the presentations and discussions by the end of the day. We'll also be listening for the many insights that will no doubt be shared so that they can be incorporated into the research, development, and policy agendas of our respective organizations. In keeping with that commitment, let me now yield the floor to Mr. Trolls Lund Polsen, Denmark's Minister for the Environment. Prior to his appointment as Minister in 2007, he was since 2001 a distinguished member of the Danish Parliament representing the Liberal Party. The Ministry of Environment has been a full partner in every aspect of Plain Forest Day since our first conversations a year ago and has provided the financing for this lovely venue and food and drink during the day. It is thus my pleasure to introduce Minister Polsen.


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This is a Rosenbauer truck, it's about $430,000 truck. And it was purchased through a block grant that we were very proud to have. And we've got some very key people who actually apply for this footage grant, Ms. Tisdale, and we also have about the top of it as well. So again, this truck is going to provide coverage for this area here. And also the surrounding areas, this is just another two to help our firefighters do their job better. It's a brand new truck. We're very proud of it, and we're going to try to get every use out of that we can to make sure that this community stays safe. And again, we can't express thanks enough to Reston County for the purchase. This is not the first truck that they have purchased. And we purchased several trucks a few years ago, and it's just adding to that fleet to make sure that this fleet stay at the par, and to make sure we got the proper equipment that our firefighters need to make sure that we maintain a safe community. Again, just want to make sure that you provide them the most updated equipment. Because that's just so important in a firefighter's life to make sure you got the best of the best. And one thing I would say, you know, my head's off to both Reston County and the City of Columbia because they always try to provide the best of the best when we get equipment. They step up to the plate and provide us good equipment. So we're not lacking for bad equipment. So we appreciate that. I think it's very important you have to always update your fleet because obviously these trucks run a lot. This truck ran probably over 800 calls last year itself just from the station. So it's always important to update your fleet because you want to make sure that you first of all you got proper equipment. You got updated equipment so you can have a replacement. So it's very important to update your fleet. I'm Senior Firefighter Gonzalez. I'm the move-up engineer here at Station 30. Engine 30, we're very excited to have this new engine. We've had great success so far. It's been in service a couple weeks now and it's been a great truck. We couldn't ask for more. As they were saying that we run quite a bit over here. This location is fairly busy. Medical calls, fire calls. We try to keep the station and the apparatus as clean as possible. It isn't, this morning it was dirty. They run all night. They run all day. So every morning we try to keep it as clean as possible. Just it's more of a pride thing more than anything. Thank you Chief Jenkins and thank you to everyone who has come out today. Our firefighters and our fire services extremely important to Richland County. Even for the cars that are driving by right now they appreciate the work that our firefighters do. So the work that these these men and women do is really critical to our community. So we were excited to continue and extend the partnership that we have with the fire service to be able to help and provide the grant that has purchased this vehicle. It's going to service this community and other communities as Chief Jenkins has mentioned. Keeping everyone safe and we just so appreciate everyone coming out and it's exciting when you have the opportunity to christen a new vehicle and we thank you for coming here today.


If you still have the thoughts, still have the beliefs, and yet you still make conclusions about how you think a spiritual person would act, and so you kind of try to act like a spiritual person would act or should act, and there's still going to be a sense of fear or there's an awkwardness about it, trying to play the role or act it out. And so what's interesting is a lot of times I would just have people, I would talk with people who would say things like, oh I really am feeling more and more fearless and so I don't lock my car anymore and I'd say, well how's that experience going for you? When you go to town and you park your car and you don't lock it, how does it feel? And they say, well, I'm still a little concerned. Well, what does that feel like? Well, when I go about to the bank or to the grocery store to do my errands, I still think about the car. And I think about it just sitting there unlocked, almost like it's an invitation asking somebody to come in or something like this and everything. So I said, so that's where you have to really start to take a look at it. If you have continuing concern and you keep thinking about the car that you didn't lock, then there is a fear underneath and then that fear has to be looked at because you don't get any brownie points. It's not like Jesus is one. Very good. You've been away from that car for 15 minutes. Like, oh, extra brownie points for you. You don't get any brownie points. It's more like self honesty. How do I feel? How do I really feel? That's our barometer. We still have continuing concern. There's another part in the course in the manual for teachers where the question comes to Jesus, should healing be repeated? And basically it's the same thing. As long as you pray for a healing and then you have continuing concerns about whether the healing has actually happened or you pray for a healing and you keep watch out with your five senses, your eyes, to keep a close look out for symptoms, then he says, you know, you need to come back inside and it's not the patient that needs more healing. It's your own mind. If you have continuing concern about a healing then it's your opportunity to go to the Holy Spirit and ask for help. Ask for another way to see this. So when we talk about fear or subtle concerns and so on and so forth, that's the subtlety of the beliefs that there can be gradations of happiness or gradations of peace or gradations of fear. And really it's much, much more direct. What is not love is fear and there aren't all those degrees and gradations and when you notice yourself in a sense of minor fearfulness, that's the same opportunity as intense rage and fury. Just a little bit of annoyance, a little bit of upset is a perfect opportunity for healing. It's a perfect opportunity to just, you might say, fine tune your mind watching and realize that if you're a little bit annoyed or a little bit upset, that's still not peace. And the ego will tend to just minimize that and say, oh, it's not that bad. But it's worth, you're worth it. The message is underneath it. You're worth that mind watching, mind training. There's a line too of Jesus says, beware of the temptation, beware of the shabby belief he calls it. The shabby belief that neither you or anyone else is worth constant effort. So it's a call into vigilance. So when it's a big drama thing, it's easy to feel the fear that it needs to be resolved and everything because it's right in your face and you feel it bodily.  How do you work with the fear in that regard? Because it's not as big, it's very small. How do you work with it when it's that small? That's my question. Yeah, if it seems small, it seems maybe we'll say it's more subtle. But you start with the feelings and then you take it down. Do you have an example of something that's just very subtle? Yeah, it's interesting because we were talking about the car. I was in the group. I was the one that locked my car up and I noticed I'd been doing that but there was nothing really a value in there just some clothes and shoes. So I put my purse in there, unlocked the car and rolled down the window to let it air. But like you said, my thoughts are with the car still. So I'm thinking about that and there's fear there. It's nothing big, but it's also like I'm thinking about my wallet, about my visa. If somebody stole it, I'd have to do this, I'd have to do that. So this is a very practical experience for me. But there's nothing big, there's no drama. But it is small. It's the same as you were saying between a big drama and a small little thing. But it's activated that concern. So how do I now work with that? Yeah, I could say there's a line that comes to mind from the course that says whenever you feel the need to become defensive about anything, you have identified yourself with an illusion. So when we feel, even if it's a little bit of just a thought that comes every once in a while or a mild concern or a little bit of mild worry, nothing intense. Just a little bit of minor worry. If you follow that, those thoughts, then what you will follow them down to is a self-concept or an image that was made to take the place of the spiritual reality or the spiritual self. So the guidance and the prompts that we receive from the Holy Spirit are designed to unwind and to unravel us from that make-believe self-concept, to really wash it away through the rinse cycle, just wash it and wash it and wash it until the stain is gone. An example is years ago I was taking a trip east from Cincinnati through Ohio and through Pennsylvania towards the east coast and I had two friends with me and we stopped on our way up Ohio from Cincinnati. We stopped around Columbus and had lunch and then we drove across and I think we were just getting ready to head over to the next state which I believe is West Virginia and we pulled in to get some gas and the two ladies I was traveling with went inside to go to the restroom or whatever and then I paid and when I came out to the car I could just see it on their faces. It was not a happy sight at all but they both looked concerned and worried and so forth. I said, well, what's happening, what's going on? And my friend Resta had said, well, I lost my purse and I don't know where it is. She was kind of trying to go back in her mind to the different places we had stopped. We had stopped maybe for gas or a rest area and stopped for lunch and we probably had been driving for maybe four and a half hours. She had quite a lot of concern and so we were just getting ready to pull out of the service station, the gas station and I said, well, I think we just, I'll just pull the car over and let's just go into prayer and meditation because it seems to be the most helpful thing. So we pulled over, we went into prayer for two or three minutes and then she just burst into laughter after a few minutes of the meditation and I said, what happened? And she said, well, Jesus appeared to me in my meditation and he was wearing my purse. It was a green purse and Jesus had it on his shoulder and so she laughed and so that was the symbol of the opening to healing in the sense that it was kind of like the symbol for her was, don't worry, I got your purse. Don't be concerned at all. On his shoulder, I got literally I'm wearing your purse, I got your purse so don't be concerned.  And then I said, okay, was there any other feelings that came with it and she said, I can't think of any and I said, I'm getting a feeling that you're to call your husband back in Cincinnati and she said, oh, ooh, her face kind of winced at the thought of calling her husband. She was in the process, she was in the process of separating and this is the very thought of calling him and saying, the purse isn't here, I don't know where the purse is. My feeling was just inform him so that if somebody finds the purse or whatever and they call with the contact information in there that there'll be somebody there that knows what's going on and she was like, oh, because that's where it started to get at how the purse could be used is that there was a bit of a distance I don't want to call him, I don't want to be embarrassed, he'll tell me, if you've done me, he'll give me the third degree if I call him and just tell him about this and yet that seemed to be those were the niggling little thoughts that had to get exposed that she didn't want to expose with her husband and so when we prayed on it the guidance was to do that she did call, she did kind of share share of all with him and everything and then we continued on the trip and we made it all the way to the east coast I think to do a Course in Miracles retreat gathering there on the east coast and sure enough she had left it at a Wendy's in Columbus and somebody had got in there and there was some piece of information had called her husband and said, we found this person yet it was used as kind of a backdrop for exposing private thoughts that's how it works it's not that things happen to us good or bad in the world it's just that everything's an opportunity for us to expose the fears expose the doubts, expose the beliefs and learn to not judge the form which we've been accustomed to taking things on, taking it personally feeling bad feeling like we're not worthy of being and so these things are just real backdrops so in that sense it's good, you can see that it really serves because there's one level which is what seems to be happening in form and then there's the level of the mind which is where you have to pay close attention to those thoughts and feelings and emotions and if you do it enough then you'll find that they merge that it seems like there's a world outside the mind but it's actually not out there it's actually it's synonymous with mind it's like when the Course in Miracles when Jesus says all illness is mental illness he's really saying that all problems are out of the mind that you actually do not have any physical problems you don't really have interpersonal relationship problems you don't really have health issues with the body you don't really have issues with what could happen to you with the environment or whatever it's all mental but it takes a lot of mind training to experience that it's all mental and yet that's what you want to do is practice with whatever is arising because that's how you're convinced in the end that it's all mental so that's good.


We're starting out day three in the Octobooth with Lindsay Anthony and they've got a product that looks pretty fun here. Why don't you tell us about it? Yeah, so I'm with Octa and we create mobile accessories to really unlock the portability of your tablet. So we have two new kits that we're displaying at CES. We have the links right here and then we also have the spider monkey. And what's really neat about these is they use interchangeable components to create the best kind of tablet mounting solution for you.  That one's really great for tucking underneath your bed frame or your couch cushion to allow your tablet to kind of be right in front of you without having to hold it. Let me break in for the audio listeners. It's a, looks like a big coiled cable sort of thing that's flexible but allows you to wrap it. They've got it wrapped on a pole. They've got it mounted on a desk just kind of in an arc. And that is probably the funnest piece I've seen so far. I love that one too.  So I love that one too and it is great whether you're using it in the kitchen for a recipe right in front of you or like I said on the couch. Completely flexible angles and everything. So now this starts though with a piece that goes onto your iPad or your other kind of tablet. What is that piece called? Well let me tell you. This piece is called the spider component. So it's really neat. You can see all the gears inside. I'm glad you showed the gears. The gears are cool. Putting the plate there. Yep. And what you do is you just press this octa button and then these actually ratchet out to grab the sides of your tablet. So I'm going to demo it right here. By the way this is a round puck maybe three and a half four inches in diameter and she pressed one button and these things kind of flew out. It really looks like it's alive and now she's pulled it out to fit on either side of an iPad mini in this case. So you kind of ratchet it right around and it'll grab the sides and then you just push in until you can't really hear it click anymore and that's how you know it's secure. So once you have the spider on that's when you can you know attach any of the other components.   I get it. So you just connect these. You make sure that the prongs line up, twist it into place and then you just lock it in and voila. Now you have it. Now I didn't see the lock. How did you lock it? I'm sorry. You just turn this right here. Okay. So it looks like a band-up mount but then it's also got a lock on it just to be fully secure. Just be extra secure. Yep. And then. Can you do that around your neck please? Yes I can. It's like a safe for boa constrictor. I just like to abuse people. It's just for the fun. See what I can do. You can read like this. That's pretty cool. So these products have just been announced today the spider monkey. They were announced at the end of November. This is just the first time we're showcasing them to the public. But yeah, we're so excited and. So how much do products like this cost? So the links is 99 and this one. The links is the clamp? Yes. The links uses this clamp where you actually bend down this jaw and then bend up the jaw and then this will clamp on to any sort of surface, flat, round, irregular, a pole, pretty much anything. This one was an honoree of the CES Innovation Award this year and it's 99 and I'm sorry. That's without the spider? No, it comes with it. Okay, great. Yeah, so this one actually comes with three components, the clamp, the bridge and the spider and that's 99.99 and then the spider monkey that you saw earlier is 79.99. Does that come with its own spider? It does. Everything comes with the spider. All these, both these kits do. If someone wanted to look into the Octa products, where would they go? They would go to octa.com or amazon.com. Oh, nice. So it's O-C-T-A.com. O-C-T-A.com. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.


Hey, I'm Tracy Burns here with Jim Kramer down on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Jim, busy weekend overseas, French elections, Brexit talks. What do you think? Look, I think that we've been buying a European index play for action alerts because we're so excited. I think that this turn in Europe started a couple of years ago. I think France is wrecked. I think the French economy could be strong. People have just written it off. That's a mistake. You get some unity over there. It's good. It's not really hard to call. I still think that their interest rates have to go up because they've got inflation. That's worrisome. Also, overseas, the Paris Air Show, Boeing. Boeing is just going up and up and up. I wonder if it doesn't sell off on how many orders they have. Although, I do think they're going to have really great orders. The stock is almost at 200. If it does pop to 200, I would be a short-term seller, long-term holders, just own it. The hedge funds like to buy it ahead of the Paris Air Show, and then they sell it on any news. That's just always been the trend. We go back to D.C. Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law holding this big tech conference. What do you hear? I thought it was very interesting that I think a lot of this is the cloud, and the government is only 3% to 4% on the cloud, which is really absurd. The amount of money saved on the cloud is usually $1 versus $4, so if the government wants to save a lot of money, they've got 6,000 data centers. That's completely insane. There is just a ... I think this is ... If they take this seriously and get the government to be on the cloud, there will be billions of dollars saved, so I'm actually kind of bullish on what their goal is to do. Fingers crossed it happens. Speaking of D.C., any thoughts on a Janet Yellen replacement? You know what? I am trying to figure out exactly who would be ... Gary Cohn is heading it up. I don't think Gary Cohn is going to point himself, but this is one where you look around and you say, you know what? There are some people who have been around for a long time, and maybe they are interested. Look, who do you want? You want a Jamie Diamond. He's not going to take it. You look back and you take a look at some of the people who were a Republican statesman. It's been so long. I mean, Pulse is not going to come back, so I've been trying to noodle on it, but I just ... There's no obvious candidate at this very moment. There were not a lot of very pronounced Republican bankers. I wonder if he doesn't reach someone in the Senate, someone who is sophisticated about banking. But right now, I think that they're devoid of people who would really be remarkably obvious, is the way I would put it. Mark, you would go to the roof. Jamie Diamond came out of the woodworker. Of course. I mean, Jamie, I think loves, loves, loves his job. And I think that my Corbett at City loves his job, Gorman loves his job. It might be interesting. You know, no, no, it's just very, very difficult to think about who might be in there given the fact that it's been, let's say, such a long time and you was just this continuum of Bernanke to yell and ... Jay Powell would be fabulous. I think Jay Powell is amazing. I could throw his hat in the ring. I could throw Bill Dudley's hat in the ring. Both of those men are terrific. All right, so today on the show, you were talking oil, gas, cabin. Yeah, I mean, it's really interesting that you could have a very important deal where you see EQT by rights. The beginning of what I regard as a much necessary consolidation. I would have thought the consolidation had more to do with oil. It's one of the reasons why we own Apache for Action Alert and Simrex, which has been very, their stocks troubled. Business is doing great. But this is natural gas. This is Utica and Marcellus acreage, very cheap. They're making money. I mean, one of the things I think people have to realize is you have a $1.12 all in for the price of natural gas. You see the price of natural gas is three bucks. You've got pipes coming to the east, pipes coming to the south. You already have some pipes in. Natural gas, what's happened is it used to be, come in from the Gulf and go up to the northeast. Now it's going from the northeast to the Gulf and that's mostly for manufacturing for export. And it's going to the east and that's mostly for heating. And so it's a cleaner burning fuel, obviously. This is, I felt, the beginning. The next one, if you wanted to buy low cost will be capital oil and gas, it's a $10 billion company. Or maybe capital oil and gas feels like they should do something. But I wish people would understand. I know that owning anything oil and gas has been the death knell for any fund. But this is an important deal. Everyone's overlooking it. Take a look at capital oil and gas. Take a look at Southwestern. I'm not going to say Chesapeake because there's too many people in Chesapeake. Keep waiting for something to happen. But Chesapeake is a good company that needs a very cold winter. We got an Alibaba conference going on tomorrow. Yeah, David Faber's going to go. Alibaba's a buy, period in the story. I mean, I just think that, by the way, they do $20 billion in groceries. So think about what could happen with Amazon. You do 20 billion. And I think that Alibaba has got the greatest growth of any large cap company, obviously plus 40%. I think it's a great trading opportunity to buy Alibaba today. You have Lloyd Blankfine on tonight. Yes, and we're going to go pretty far ranging with Lloyd or everything from a government intervention to the way that we bounce back after the Great Recession to the economy, to China, to whether investment banking, whether Goldman Sachs' business model. What does it mean? How do you get a premium multiple? Would you work at Goldman now if you're coming out of school? I know Lloyd for many, many years. Want to talk about the culture of the place. Want to talk about government Sachs and what happened there and how when we joined Goldman we were expected to do public service and then suddenly it got a bad name and now it looks like it's getting a good name again. Talk a little about Gary Cohn. We had a lot of things to talk about. We'll do two segments. We don't do two segments but we're going to do it with Lloyd because he's such an important figure in the financial firmament. That is awesome. Everybody tune in to Mad Money tonight. Jim, thank you.


Rwy'n credu i'r next item of business, which is topical questions, and we have one question today. It's from Bruce Crawford. Thank you, Presiding Officer, to ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the ruling by the European Court of Justice that the UK can unilaterally revoke article 50. Cabinet Secretary, Michael Russell. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The court's ruling is a hugely important decision that provides clarity at an essential moment. People in Scotland overwhelmingly voted to remain in the EU. That continues to be the best option for Scotland and, indeed, for the UK as a whole. Thanks to the efforts of Scotland's parliamentarians—let me name-check them—Andy Weintman, Llyr Ros Greer, Joanna Cherry, Alan Smith, Catherine Stuyler, David Martin and, also to name-check Jolyon Mon and the legal team, we now know beyond doubt that remaining in the EU is not only the best option but one that can clearly be achieved, and the Scottish Government believes it should be. Bruce Crawford. I thank the cabinet secretary for his response. It's a very important ruling by the ECG. Will he join me in congratulating the Scottish politicians involving securing clarity, at least on one aspect, as far as Brexit is concerned? Does he agree with me in the light of the ECG ruling? Given the total chaos that exists at Westminster, it's time for politicians to use this ECG ruling to find a way to end this Brexit madness and the potential of a no-deal scenario. Cabinet secretary. I do agree. I think that it is very difficult to find words that adequately express the sense of chaos and dismay at Westminster, and the real sense of dismay within the country at large—I've just been meeting some stakeholders who are confirming with me that investment by them and by others will simply not take place, because there is just no idea what is going to happen next. The ruling makes clear that there is a route to revocation of the article 15 notification. It must be unequivocal and unconditional. A second EU referendum, including the option to remain in the EU, would provide such a way forward. We've always said that remaining in the EU would be the best outcome. Of course, we've offered compromise after compromise, particularly in the form of the membership of the Single Market and Customs Union. There was continuous to be options to minimise the damage of Brexit to Scotland, but we need to decide how to move forward. We need to be clear how to move forward, and that provides much-needed clarity. I have named check those involved. I paid tribute to them. It was not an easy decision for many of them to be involved. Many of us wondered what the outcome would be. Now we know that we should use it. Bruce Crawford I thank the cabinet secretary again. Given the chronic leadership vacuum that exists at Westminster over Brexit and the serious damage that is being forced on our country, what has Scotland's Government's view on whether a way forward can be found that can command a majority in the House of Commons? Does he believe that the time has come to put the people in charge and let them democratically decide their own future through a people's vote? One of the most extraordinary things in the process has been the sight of the Prime Minister rampaging up and down the country—well, in Scotland, within half an hour's travel of Glasgow Airport, which, for her, counts as rampaging up and down the country—and now going off to the continent to talk to people, but never saying that the people who count are the voters themselves. That is what now needs to happen. The people of Scotland have already been clear. They voted overwhelmingly in 2016 to remain in the EU. That remains the best option. I have to say at this particular juncture where we are, with the chaos that we have seen, and, as the member said, the leadership vacuum, then quite clearly a second referendum would offer the opportunity for Scotland's views to be respected rather than be ignored as they have been throughout this disastrous process. For that to happen, it would seem clear that the current Prime Minister needs to get out of the way. She is insisting on pursuing her deal even though it makes Scotland and the UK poorer and, indeed, in circumstances where there is no deal. The deal has been rejected by this Parliament and the Welsh Assembly. It would have been rejected by the House of Commons if it had been given a chance to vote on it, and even the House of Lords had to suspend its debate. It is absolutely clear that the Prime Minister is not going to lead anybody anywhere. What we need is an expression of popular will, and that can come about now by the so-called People's Vote. Adam Tompkins will answer three supplementary questions. First of all, I would like to thank my fellow petitioners, Joanna Cherry, Ross Greer, David Martin, Jo Mo, Alan Smith and Catherine Stylard. I would also like to thank our legal teammate in O'Neill QC, David Welch QC, Maya Lester QC and Elaine Motion, chair of Balfort Manson. Finally, I would like to thank those many members of the public who have contributed to our crowdfunding. The Court of Justice says that the UK can revoke the article 15 unilaterally, and that the purpose of that revocation is to confirm the EU membership of the member state concern under terms that are unchanged. Given that the Advocate General for Scotland on behalf of the UK Government has consistently opposed this action for a year, can the cabinet secretary recall a Government in the past that has gone to such length and such expense to oppose the right of the people to find out their legal rights? It is difficult to find a parallel, but it is difficult to find a parallel for this entire UK Tory Government, which is completely unique in how it is operated, particularly uniquely anti-democratic. Let me repeat my tribute to those who took part in the case, Andy Wightman and his colleagues. They have done an important task. They have done a task that at the beginning did not seem to be possible but has now proved to be possible, and they have contributed enormously to the process, all of them, and I pay tribute to them. The important thing now is to look forward from this. There is a route open, the route has been opened up, and as Andy Wightman has said, it is also withdrawing the notification and remaining on the same terms, which is extremely important. In those circumstances, I again urge the UK Government to take that very clear step. Three things struck me about this curious judgment. First, it is very much rooted in state sovereignty, and that is to say in the sovereignty of the United Kingdom state. Second, the court says, paragraph 66 of its judgment, that a member state could revoke notification given under article 50 to leave the European Union if expressed through its democratic process. Does the minister accept that there has been no democratic expression in the United Kingdom that article 50 should be revoked? The third thing that struck me when I read the judgment is that the notice to revoke must be given in accordance with the member state's constitutional requirements. That is a phrase that the court uses several times in its judgment, notably paragraph 73. If the minister has taken advice, he says that this judgment adds clarity. It seems to me that he does the very opposite. If the minister has taken advice on what the UK's constitutional requirements would be to revoke notice given under article 50, are we talking about a ministerial power to be exercised under the prerogative? Are we talking about the requirement of an act of the United Kingdom Parliament, or does the minister consider that we would need a fresh referendum for this matter to be complied with? It is extraordinary that the member who I acknowledge is a very clever man requires to question the basics of democracy every time he gets up to speak in this chamber. What we have just heard is sophistry. That is all it is. The reality is that there is a way out of this enormous mess. It is a way that the member might have welcomed that because he has claimed—and I do not doubt his claim—that he voted to remain. It clears up the mess that his party has made at Westminster. I think that it is entirely clear. I do not regard this judgment as curious. I regard this judgment as telling us something that we probably already knew, but it is useful to have confirmed. As Mr Whiteman said, it took an awful long time because of the actions of the UK Government. It is absolutely clear that there should be a democratic expression of will. It is absolutely clear that the constitution requirements were met. That is not a surprise. The democratic expression of will could be a resolution of the Parliament, of course. It might be an encouragement for a people's vote, of course. If the member is encouraging that, I am glad to hear it. The second one is that, if the UK Parliament, if the people of these islands, of the people of these four countries say that they do not want to leave the EU, that is enough for me. I think that they should be allowed to say that. Pauli McNeill Does the cabinet secretary agree that the ECG decision simply means that the UK Parliament is sovereign over the question of Brexit? I realise that there is not much time left before the Christmas holiday period, but can the cabinet secretary outline if there are any meetings scheduled with the UK Government? Finally, does the cabinet secretary think that the arrangements set out in Scotland's place in Europe 2016 and the light of various events that have happened in the last few months require some revision? On the final point, we have constantly developed and revised and built our arguments. That is the right thing to do, but the basic thesis is correct. If the UK Government was to accept a compromise, the compromise that we proposed was, we believe, the best alternative to actually leaving. That remains the case. Given the mess that is now existing at Westminster and the way in which the Prime Minister and the Tory party have led it, the point that I am making now is that I suspect that people's vote is the clearest and best way to move forward. However, Scotland's place in Europe argues that a strong case and that case still stands. In terms of meetings with the joint ministerial committee, discussions are taking place about one to be held before Christmas, but there is no confirmation of that at the present moment. I am not entirely sure what it would discuss, because I am not entirely sure what the Prime Minister is resolving by going and talking to people who have already said that there will be no renegotiation. However, of course, we are always willing to have a conversation. In terms of sovereignty of the UK Parliament, this is something that I cannot say I am fond of. Devolution is a careful balancing act in which the devolved parliaments of these islands dance around the concept of the sovereignty of the UK Parliament. It was interesting to see yesterday that Liam Fox is now denying the sovereignty of the UK Parliament because apparently only the Government matters. In those circumstances, I think that you have to say, it is the Tory's understanding of democracy that is at fault here, something demonstrated beyond any doubt by the question that we had from Professor Tomkins. Thank you very much and that concludes topical questions today. We will move on to our next item of business, which is a debate on motion 15096, in the name of Fergus Ewing, on sea fisheries and end-of-year negotiations. I would ask members who wish to contribute to this debate to press their request-to-speak buttons as soon as possible.


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