Well there's a science mystery in the shape of landscapes, both here on Earth as a tool to understand what environmental conditions were there, what happened when, but then especially applying to other worlds, Mars, the moon, Venus, the surfaces of asteroids, icy satellites, places we are now becoming exposed to as we try to unravel our local neighborhood in the universe. So at the scale in which those landscapes provide clues to tell us what happened and whether environments might have been habitable, a good place to look for life on another world, take Mars. That really excites me because it's kind of forensic, it's mathematical, so the first problem is how do you measure it? What do you need to know? Train geologists on Earth can look at some say, oh yeah, river ran there, the stand came in, blah blah blah, and there's a story and you go, wow, how did they know that? I mean it sounds like Sherlock Holmes does landscapes or CSI does rocks, so one needs to be trained. So how can you break that problem down? What is it about the shape and the texture at different scales that tells you about what's going on? The same way the clues at a murder scene would or whatever, and one can break it down that way and in many cases it comes down to geometries and math and geometry and simple measurements of shapes of things at very fine or different scales to build the information, the database, the data set to solve the problem. And nowadays that works on Earth and we're applying it to Mars. One of the things I've done in my career is apply that method as a way of remote sensing planetary landscapes to understand how the shapes of planets, the landscape forms we see, got to be the way they were. When one compares Earth and Mars and Venus, we see different assemblages of landscapes and so by measuring their topology, what's up and down at different scales, one can unravel how they might have gotten there. On Earth we can tell, we have other clues, we can go touch them, hit them with a rock, drive over them, but on those other worlds we're at the hands of robots or spacecraft in orbit, so we have to do it that way. So what that involves is measurement, the mathematics of measurement, we make some of the measurements that I've been working my whole career on using laser instruments that measure the distance from a spacecraft to the ground to inches as the spacecraft moves miles per second over the ground. And you put that together and say, how the heck can I get anything out of that? But thanks to math, we can put together, solve a few equations and boom, now we have the landscape. And now I know that that cargating landscape was where water once was versus another one where sand blue and I've now started to build a picture of environment. So I'm a student of the landscape using higher water math and measurements to build a picture that then I cast back and forward in time to understand the past and also to predict the future. And on Earth it's important to have predictive ability, is that big storm going to flood New Orleans or the barrier islands or California? And on Mars can I tell when the water was there long enough to maybe provide an environment that could have been conducive to life? Would that be the first place to go look for the right rocks to interrogate with other methods? So that's the thought process. Break the problem down. What do you need to know? What are the fingerprints? What are the clues? How do you measure them? And so in many cases it's the engineering of measurement systems. It's the mathematics of how you put together those measurements. Sometimes it's statistical. We don't know. There's lots of varieties. Mother Nature is infinitely creative. So we have to sort of classify. That one is this most of the time and that one is that. And again it's the detective work problem. And that's really what science is. Creative detective work to get to how and why things work in the bigger context of fundamental questions. At NASA we ask questions like are we alone? Is Earth like the only life out there? Many of us think no way. But we have to demonstrate progress in that question. What's our destiny? Where are we going as a planet, as a state of the universe, as a solar system, as a piece of a galaxy? Where are we going? What's the destiny function? And how do we get here? How did the current state of Earth in a solar system in the Milky Way in this universe get to be the way it was? And what are the grounding fundamental laws that Mother Nature used to make this time and place and state? Those are big problems. So you break them down. And so science, detective work with tools, often mathematics, good writing to describe the results because if we don't convey them, not too good. And to communicate them. Both verbally and meetings on the web. Now with social media, lots of new mechanisms to do so. So I mean, science is alive and well.


Here's the difference between bulking and cutting, and it's important to understand that this is really the difference about the food intake. Bulking in order to gain as much lean body mass as possible, you want to be in a calorie surplus. You have to have additional calories that your body can use to turn into new muscle tissue cutting. You have to be in what's called a calorie deficit.  Really the big difference between the two is that one is a bulk with calories surplus. The other, the cut is in a deficit. Other than that, there's no difference. Then people say, well, okay, well, then do the workouts matter at all? Yes, they do, but we have to look at the most important factor when we're looking at what's going to build the most muscle and what's going to preserve the most muscle. It looks almost identical, and I'm glad you specified the difference between the two. It is all nutritionally is what you got to consider the most when approaching it. The training itself, again, is going to look pretty similar when it comes to, because you're trying to build muscle, it's the same process.


The final item of business today is the member's business debate on motion number 10744, in the name of Murdo Fraser, on objections to Tala Avaha Windfarm and NPF3. This debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I'll be grateful if those members who wish to speak in the debate could please press the request-to-speak buttons now. I call on Murdo Fraser to open the debate around seven minutes, please, Mr Fraser. Can I start by thanking colleagues from across the chamber who signed my motion and allowed this debate to take place? I also welcome to the gallery those who have come along to watch the debate, among them members of the John Muir Trust and people from the local community in Rannach. The trust, the Rambler Scotland and the Mountain Union Council of Scotland have all been vocal in support of this motion, as has been the local campaign group Keep Rannach Wild. I appreciate that it is unusual to have a parliamentary debate on a live planning application. I also appreciate that, in responding to the debate, the member's remarks on the subject will be somewhat limited, and that he will not be able to say anything that will prejudice the outcome of the planning application. However, there are important issues that are raised by this particular application, which I wanted the opportunity to highlight and allow Parliament to discuss those issues. In my view, and that of many other interested parties, the TALA application represents a test case to determine whether the Scottish Government is serious about protecting our wild land. The proposal is for 24 turbines of 125 metres in the Moorland area between Loch Rannach and Loch Erecht. Crucially, the turbines that are proposed for the site would be erected in an area that is identified by Scottish natural heritage on their map as wild land. Anyone who has visited the location would understand why that is. Rannach Moor is at the very heart of Wild Scotland, and there are views from over 30 Munroes and Corbets that should be irreversibly affected if the application got the green light. I use the word irreversibly, because although the turbines might themselves be temporary, the infrastructure that goes with them, the tracks—I understand that in this case it would be some 12.8 kilometres of access tracks—would be visible for a lifetime if not longer. A few weeks ago, I climbed some of the hills to the north of Ben Alder. This area is as close as we get in the central highlands to a true wilderness, and it would be a tragedy to see it despoiled with an industrial development. Today's debate is not only important for the communities in the area around the proposed Tala wind farm, but for the 41 other areas across Scotland that are identified as wild land by Scottish natural heritage. Their unspoiled status is also now in question. I use the term our wild land deliberately. Scotland's wild places are a gift to everyone in this country and should not be sacrificed for the sake of some additional megawatts of renewable energy, particularly when existing and consented renewable energy projects are very close to reaching the 2020 electricity generation target. The Tala application is attracting a huge amount of interest both locally and nationally. The Scottish Government has received nearly 1,000 statements in opposition to the development in contrast to just 23 in support. Those statements have come from all parts of the country and, indeed, internationally, but locally there is also opposition to the application. A recent survey undertaken by the Rannach and Tunnel Community Council showed that three quarters of local residents are in opposition to those proposals. Many of those in opposition have livelihoods that are dependent on tourist revenue, earned thanks to the natural beauty of the area. For example, there are over 30,000 people a year climbing the popular Shehalian mountain, and walking tourism is a major contributor to the local economy. Diana Gabaldon, who is the author of the Outlander book series, now, of course, part of a TV series being filmed in Scotland, has also voiced her opposition. She has said that you cannot put a price on our landscape, and if approved, this development would be both a tragedy and a disaster for wild Scotland. In their submission to the application from Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH highlighted the significant damage that this development would have on the Rannach, Moor, Peatlands and Blanket bog, features that have been identified as nationally important under Scottish planning policy. SNH has also given a damning verdict on the diligence of the environmental statement that attaches itself to the application, and SNH believed that, if approved, the Peatlands and Blanket bog resource would be permanently lost. This is important because Peatlands are carbon sinks, and destroying them to build wind farms is an illogical move that could result in higher, rather than lower, carbon emissions. I would like to concentrate for the remainder of my remarks on the question of SNH's wild land map and what that means. Just over two months ago, the Scottish Government released its third national planning framework, which included a commitment to protect 19 per cent of our landscape from onshore wind turbines. When announcing NPF3, the planning minister at Mr Mackay assured the Scottish public that, we have taken steps to ensure that no wind farm developments can go ahead in our cherished national parks and national scenic areas, and we have strengthened the protection of wild land. Of course, the TALA application will be located just two kilometres north of the Lochranach and Glen Lion national scenic area. At the time, I cautioned that those guidelines did not go far enough, as developments would still be possible on wild land. That was confirmed by comments from the Environment Minister, Paul Wheelhouse, in 2013, who said that, and again I quote, that, sorry, wind farms could be built on wild land, but only if substantial mitigation were put in place. Many will have seen the recently published map from the John Muir Trust, highlighting the visual encroachment of wind farms across most of southern and eastern Scotland, and, indeed, increasingly in the highlands. If approved, the TALA wind farm would substantially add to the parts of Scotland from which wind turbines would be visible. One of the truly wild places in Scotland would join the long list of casualties that have fallen to the impact of wind turbines. I would like to hear from the minister today, in responding to this debate, that this is a site unsuitable for the development of this nature, but I appreciate that he is prohibited from making that particular statement. But instead it would be helpful if he could clarify the precise status of the SNH wildland map and in what circumstances renewable energy projects would be permitted on the wildlands identified. The Scottish Government talked tough on protecting wild land, and this application represents its chance to prove it. We have heard a lot from the SNP over the past week about honouring vows and promises, Deputy Presiding Officer. It is now their time to honour their commitment to protecting Scotland's precious wild land. Many thanks. I congratulate Murdo Fraser for securing this evening's debate. Although I am not a local member for the area affected by this particular wind farm proposal, it gives me an opportunity to revisit an issue that I raised in March of this year in relation to the failure of NPF3 to set out how much we can protect our wildlands. In that debate in March, I noted that the NPF3, the main issues report of April 2013, stated that, in addition to our nationally important most scenic landscapes, we also want to continue our strong protection for our wildest landscapes. Yet for all of those welcome words, there was a removal of the core area of wildland map from NPF3. That would be a very grave omission in my view, and it is one of the main reasons why the debate that Mr Fraser has brought before Parliament this evening has to happen. If we do not recognise the need to protect our nationally important and scenic landscapes, then those areas of Scotland will continue to fall victim to the onward march of the renewables industry at the expense of our natural environment. Let me make it clear that I am not opposed to wind farms in principle. I fully accept that wind farms have a part to play in our future energy production capacity, but I am far from convinced that the right balance is being struck between their development and protection of our wildlands. As I said in March, I cannot agree with Scottish renewables that NPF3 presents significant risks and would create a barrier to the economic and environmental benefits that renewables could bring to Scotland. The reality is that it is not the renewables industry that is at risk but our natural landscapes if we fail to ensure their protection. If we do not cite wind farms appropriately, we will continue to lose more of Scotland's greatest natural assets. If the plan for the proposed TALA wind farm is approved, it will undoubtedly transform Rannach for the worse. It will, as Murdo Fraser said, adversely affect views for more than 30 million rows in corbets, with the wind turbines being visible from the west highland railway line and the A82, which, as everyone knows, is the main tourist route through the west highlands. Now, if a developer was to suggest building a multi-storey building taller than Glasgow's red road flats on Rannach Mwya, it would get laughed out of any planning committee. Yet here we have a proposal to put turbines taller than those flats on just that natural landscape because we have no proper control of the sighting of wind farms in Scotland. The threat that that would pose not only to this particular highland vista is concerning enough in itself but the harm that will be done to rare bird species is equally worrying. The proposed development is also located almost entirely within an area of deep peat and priority peatland. That habitat is identified by the Scottish planning policy 2014 as being nationally important and worthy of significant protection. Rannach's reputation as natural beauty is the main drive for tourism to the area and it is hard to see how that reputation will not be damaged. It is one of Scotland's last great wildland areas and we need to protect it as a major test for Scotland's planning framework. If it cannot be protected by using NPF3, then what other wildland area can be protected and what one will be next on the agenda of our renewables companies? Many thanks. I now call Rob Gibson to be followed by Neil Findlay. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate, although I did not sign the motion because I cannot agree with the motion that was put forward. I think that we should look a little bit at the history of the Loch Rannach area. If we think about it over a period of 300 years, we are talking about what was a cattle herding in a small tenant area that was swept away by the 1745 uprising. Fortunately, the Forfeited Estates Commission managed to save part of the Black Wood of Rannach in the south side of the Loch. As the Forestry Commission says, it is one of the largest areas of ancient pine forest that once stretched across Britain and Europe and which we would hope to expand again. A correspondent with Alexander MacKenzie, who compiled his history of the Highland clearances, informed MacKenzie that, in the 1830s, there was a large amount of clearance taking place along the north side of Loch Rannach, and he details the places, some of which are in the estate of Talavie. If he recognised that those people were removed and that, indeed, there were still some families there, you have to then come forward to the discussion about the Crofting Bill in 1885. The members for Perthshire, Barbampshire, Bute and Aberdeinshire kept their areas out of the crofting law. The crofting law ensured that there would be communities there, and indeed in most crofting areas there still are communities. What a pity that Rannach side wasn't one of them. Today's landlords know that shooting and fishing alone won't pay their running costs, hence their look for other forms of use of their natural resources, such as wind applications. That is also set in the context of a renewed concern for land reform. Indeed, the land reform, which I hope will see taxes on land owners of such large properties, including Talavie, and it's one such example that, if they have some income, could be directed in the form of taxes that they probably don't pay at the moment and perhaps pay in another country. Forestry and hydro schemes gave employment after World War II, but the local population kept dwindling. Today, just over 30 pupils are to be found in the local primary school and nursery. Presiding Officer, it's very likely that 99 per cent of those young people will leave their home area for education and careers and never return under the current system of the economy. Should local people not benefit from the development of natural resources such as wind power? Should they not have the benefit of a cash source that is constant and isn't relying on the potential cuts in local government funding, the potential cuts in national government funding, which are threatened by the Tory Lib Dem austerity programme that is set to buy even deeper now in the next few years? No, I don't want to take any interventions. What we have is a fragile community that should benefit under Scottish Government spatial planning guidelines. To be a low-carbon place, yes. To be a natural place to invest. A successful and sustainable place and a connected place. That's how the planning minister and the environment minister saw the issue. They told the RACI committee at the time of the NPF3 in their view that the identification of land as a core area of wild land does not mean that there is a ban on development taking place. Development can still take place as long as it can be done in a way that is fully mitigated and the environment can be protected. The clinching factor is the inexorable pressures of climate change. The clearances removed the small farming economy. The lure of the city robs small places of their most basic services.  I've climbed Shehalyan, Benalda, Mulavuri and many other of those hills. The distance between many of those things and any proposal for such a wind farm are things that we have to take into account. I therefore think that it's a pity to pity the plumage and forget the dying bird. As far as I'm concerned, I think that the socio-economic issues that take into account the potential for a small community expanding, not dwindling, is something that has to be looked at very seriously. The proposed wind farm is not in my region. It will not particularly affect my constituents on a daily basis, but the consequences of its approval, if that happens, will be felt far and wide. If it proceeds it will be viewed as having met the conditions for the new planning framework and Scottish planning policy, which stipulate that any significant effects on the qualities of those areas must be substantially overcome by citing design or other mitigation. How on the earth can you design out the impact of 100m-plus high turbines against the background of one of Scotland's most rugged and wild landscape? That is a very basic question that we have to ask. I want to take the opportunity to speak in this debate to highlight the concerns of my constituents about their landscape—also a very different landscape from that around Loch Rannach. For the people of villages such as West Calder, Curt Newton, Addiwell, Longridge, Fault House, their landscape is just as cherished. It is an insult, whether that comes from planners or whoever, to infer that their natural heritage is any less value than any other natural heritage. It seems appropriate at this point to refer to a letter that I have kept for around 15 years. It is the evidence presented by Mrs Mary Allison of Black Ridge and West Lowland to a planning inquiry into an opencast co-application affecting the village that she grew up in. Mary's contribution is as relevant today in relation to wind farm development as it was then in relation to opencast development. I would like to listen to what she said. She said of the and inverted commas experts paid to provide evidence to any inquiry. Many of the presentations heard prior to mine have the lure of scientific objectivity. However, I would contend that those presentations do not give us answers. They provide a collection of research facts that are neither wrong nor right. They are simply facts that have no meaning until we bring our values and our judgments to their interpretation. The wind farm developer in this scenario has a set of corporate values, the Government's set of political values and the community's set of community values. None of those values are free, neutral or objective. We see each in a different light because we each stand to gain or lose different things from the proposal. I would contend that the community can only lose. Any economic gain will be short term while the longer-term consequences will be negative.  Where I come from, the communities that made me, those are valuable to me and could never be recreated. That is the same irrespective of where you live and beauty and the value that we place in our communities and the higher of the beholder. I love, for example, the five sisters, Shale Bings and West Lothian, just as much as I love the landscape that is being discussed here. We may be here to debate the construction of a wind farm in Rhanakmur, but as of today, in my area, 12 wind farms housing 83 turbines have been given approval to go ahead and are operational in West Lothian. The problems with the Scottish Government's wind farm policy, and I fear that this may happen in the wind farm as well, is the problem of over-concentration. When one application succeeds, the developers pile in with a whole lot of more applications and communities feel under siege. It is a free-for-all, and I fear that it will get worse under the new planning policy. That is not to dismiss the necessary move towards renewable energy. It is vital that Scotland plays its part in reducing carbon emissions. However, one of the main issues with all of this is ownership. The application is by Eventus BV, a Dutch company, probably a Dutch multinational. The applications in my area come from Spanish, French, Italian and Danish multinational. A recent one came from an Austrian prince. None of them are owned by the community, none of them are owned by local government, none of them are owned by the public sector. Therefore, the money flutters off to the boardrooms of Madrid, Paris, Rome or Copenhagen or wherever. I believe that what we need is a national special plan that avoids the over-concentration and the ruination of natural landscapes such as this, while ensuring that, where we have wind farm development, communities are rewarded for wind technology being applied in the area. We need a plan that takes into account everybody's views in Scotland, each voice-giving and equal footing, each community's view respected. The Scottish Government must be careful, because its imbalanced and mismanaged pursuit of renewable energy targets is turning people against renewable energy, and that is a very dangerous thing. All I would say is that some of the applications in my area are as likely to turn people against wind farm development, as this application is in this area. Presiding Officer, as has been mentioned, the ministerial code is clear that I must take particular care to avoid conflicts of interest when dealing with planning matters, including the granting of energy consents. This is the second time in recent months that a member's business debate has come forward, which focused on a live planning application. It is well known that ministers cannot comment publicly on live planning applications as this could potentially prejudice the final decision. Given that, I have concerns that such debates have been conducted. I should also make it clear that the Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, who cannot attend today, takes decisions on section 36 applications, and rightly as the code states, I cannot express an opinion publicly on a particular case that is before ministers for decision. Following the debate this evening, Presiding Officer, I will be seeking to write to the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee to seek their views on whether the guidance on motion and amendments can be reviewed in light of the Parliament accepting motions for debate on live planning applications. Moving on, any current planning decisions should not be considered as setting a precedent. Future proposed developments will be assessed on their own merits, given the unique circumstances of each case and always in the context of relevant policy and guidance, of course. Neil Findlay. So all this talk about an open Parliament, discussed in the debate and the issues of the day, we are now going to get a political fix that avoids people to discuss in the very issues that all those people in the gallery want to discuss. I think that that is quite an unfortunate intervention when what I am trying to do is to uphold the integrity of the planning system, and that should work in a way that inspires confidence in the system. If we indulge in quasi-judicial matters in the chamber, then that risks even the rights of objectors within the planning system as well. Murdo Fraser, to his credit, has raised issues of concern in due parliamentary process in terms of the committees and studying national planning framework 3 and Scottish planning policy. Mr Findlay has not taken the same approach in terms of supporting the changes to SPP and MPF 3. I suggest that, if you object to Scottish planning policies, you do it on the basis of policy objections in the right place, as opposed to trying to use mechanisms that may be counterproductive to those who you seek to represent. In terms of the statement, I think that I need to make progress on the issues that have been raised. If you want to come and later once I have made the further progress, I am happy to take you then. Let me emphasise the clear position that I set out when I published the national planning framework 3 and Scottish planning policy this June on all matters that I appeared before the Parliament and offered to return to the committees of Parliament on any matter of policy. MPF 3 is quite clear and I quote, national scenic areas and national parks attract many visitors and reinforce our international image. We also want to continue our strong protection for our wildest landscapes. Wildland is a nationally important asset. The pressing challenge of climate change means that our action on the environment must continue to evolve, strengthening our longer-term resilience. A planned approach to development helps to strike the right balance between safeguarding assets, which are irreplaceable, and facilitating change in a sustainable way. We must work with, not against our environment, to maintain and further strengthen its contribution to society. In setting that out in MPF 3, supporting delivery of a low-carbon place, the new Scottish planning policy provides clear guidance and clear guide to preparing spatial frameworks for onshore wind energy development. Parliament did not comment on the detail in the policy, but it called for greater clarity in SPP. Let me be clear again, the Scottish Government has stated that wind farms will not be acceptable in national parks and in national scenic areas. That is our policy. I also set out in SPP that I expect significant protection to be given to national and international designations such as nature at 2,000 sites, other nationally important mapped environmental interests such as wild land and an area around settlements where visual impacts need to be considered. That is our policy. Proposals outside of NSAs still have to be assessed for their impacts on landscape, including effects on wild land. Not only do those new policies provide certainty about our natural heritage interests and parity for our communities, but they set out a very clear approach to planning for onshore wind that I expect to see in development plans across the country, an approach that is appropriate to the scale of development. I am very grateful to the minister for giving way and setting out on the record what he has just done. I wonder whether he could specifically address the point that I made towards the end of my speech. In what circumstances would he see renewable energy projects being permitted on areas that are designated as wild land? I do believe in. I am being very careful to avoid reference to any live application, but I believe that the detail is set out in NPF-free and SPP, where all those considerations have to be taken into account and a judgment made. I reinforce the point again that one decision is not precedent for another. Every case must be judged on its merits with all the relevant material considerations to hand. It would be wrong for me to pick a live application or a hypothetical situation to make the policy point when I believe that the policy guidance is much stronger than was there before. I have a number of organisations, including the John Muir Trust, that agree with that point that the guidance there is much stronger and much more supportive of the environment than was the case before. It is the responsibility, on a related point, of planning authorities to prepare spatial frameworks. Since the publication of SPP, many frameworks are now in preparation and my officials are working closely with planning authorities as those come through our development plan gateway and as proposed plans head towards examination. We are working closely with our environment agencies, industry representative bodies and planning practitioners and all others across Scotland, either face-to-face and gatherings at events or by conducting research on the impact of onshore wind. We will continue to draw in the verifiable evidence to implement those policies in such a way as to ensure that we steer development to the right places so that the benefits are not outwead by the negative impacts. In relation to climate change and decarbonising our electricity production, the Scottish Government has made its energy policy a top priority and has achieved great progress, despite being limited in terms of the responsibilities. The industry has expanded rapidly over the past decade, bringing millions of pounds of investment to local areas throughout Scotland, empowering often-remote rural communities to the tune of some £13.5 billion since 2010. The renewable sector now supports at least 11,695 jobs in Scotland, around 3,000 of them in skilled engineering jobs alone. Some companies report rising tender activity over the last three months, showing scope to return to the same workload level of 2013. Reducing energy demand by 12 per cent by 2020 and focusing on energy efficiency are important elements of our efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. We want to meet at least 30 per cent of overall energy demand from renewables by 2020. I hope that members will share with me the importance for the direction of travel in relation to renewables to strike the right balance. Climate change is a huge challenge and we saw in demonstrations across the globe just last week. Climate change mitigation is a European obligation, and domestically our climate change legislation needs to secure decarbonisation of the energy sector and are pinned by efforts to meet a range of targets that I have just mentioned. By no means do I infer that all onshore wind proposals will gain planning permission of the 310 wind turbine-related planning appeals since May 2007. 194 per cent were refused, and 168 per cent were allowed. Ministers refuse or modify inappropriately-scaled wind farms routinely, and ministers will consent appropriately-scaled and located wind farms too. To demonstrate our balanced approach, Parliament lead looked no further than the policies that are supported when I published MPF-free and SPP. They are designed to secure the right development in the right places and to protect our natural and built heritage and communities in equal measure. That concludes Murdo Fraser's debate, but before I close this meeting of Parliament, could I just say that I do note the minister's intention to write to the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee about the issues? That is a matter for the Scottish Government. However, with regard to the debate this evening, parliamentary business, including members' business, was agreed by the Parliamentary Bureau and by the Parliament.


Mr. President there's no doubt you know that you are adored abroad because of the aggressive way you're marketing you know this country but at home even with the many successes that you have tabulated there is growing discontent among some of the electorate on the citizens how do you explain this and related to that recently you lamented that some of the ministries were underperforming what decisive action are you taking and being a senior journalist a very quick one this is important Mr. President recently you advised you're pretty set breaking the rules of the as a senior citizen say the moderator is a since you have been up you have abused me sir and I can I take that one thank you sir Mr. President recently you advised your predecessor to retire from politics how significant is this what would be the impact on the country's governance and what is your reaction to those calling for a reconciliation mean meeting meanwhile the former face family are complaining that they're being harassed thank you Mr. President. growing this content at home I take note of what you say but in a way I've touched it already that there is a process there's some pain as you reconstruct the economy Frank at least you're old enough to know what happened towards the late no in the late 80s you know what happened younger people may not know that story it sits in there you can look at the graph the pain was there and when change took place in 1991 again numbers online just check that Frank you see that that pain continued from 1991 election when zombie and decided it's time to move to another team of public sector managers 19 is all was exacerbated 19 after 1986 elections Frank 19 no 1988 I'm wrong my apologies 1982 years later there was a food riots there then the elections were brought forward by three years instead of elections happened in 1990 by two years I think 1993 or so 1991 but after the change for President Chiluba may he saw rest in peace who now brought in different policies to address the failure of the government of 27 years younger people don't know that and that's where we have sometimes a bit of responsibility to teach the young people how bad we were and why we should not allow ourselves to go back there and we did allow ourselves to go back there in a few years it's not right so you see Frank 1991 elections take place you're checking on that shit right the problems of restructuring the economy linger down and 1994 we went down by growth dramatically but President Chiluba had already started planting the seed digging the foundation you heard me talk about digging the foundation here four years later from 1991 three years later the fruit was not yet ripe and we dipped down and started again it takes a bit of time so that's my answer to your question is zambians to understand that graph that we're on the right path any reversal to what we're doing would damage us as a nation and I think that is what I would say around the discounted the discounted is a build-up of the damage that was done 10 years earlier and we are healing that damage as it happened to President Chiluba may so rest in peace we take President Chiluba for granted he's gone but today you have no cues for meaning for buses but it took up to 1994 1995 to see that fruit but today some bands want to see the fruit in one year eight months but the seed is there that's what I would say you tagged another question the only one allowed to do that and the performing ministers ministries I think you have noticed some changes we're making I actually said maybe not to the satisfaction of everybody but we are also a fair leadership when you come from depression like that you know that the civil service itself got affected over the years in underperformance but we've changed as many as possible we'll continue to do that that's why we put a program like PPDF PDU to assist those that are willing to change Frank those that are not willing to change I'm afraid we have to part ways because our interest is service to the people who elected us into office that would be my comment but I also encourage citizen you know something that we don't know let us know tip someone tip someone third question Frank you raised was about retirement that was purely illegal issue purely illegal issue I started with myself that when I've done my time I'll return go and look after gods the gods are waiting for me they need my attention and I love them so much and I think they love me because you can see how they multiply when we give them more time and attention only more serious not it's a legal issue you cannot be in retirement and yet you're in politics the load does not allow that at the beginning Frank we talked about restoring the rule of law isn't it this is part of the rule of law so who is offending who now a church is not offending any individual targeting anybody it is a law that is being offended you cannot be in politics yet you are retired and you are is receiving retirement benefits which is anchored on the law that says you must retire I hope I'm making myself clear let me extend the answer to your driver loaded question the law is clear when the president former president retires they must not stay in politics and the emoluments they get are based on the law and they are provided for in the law today I see a headline in one of the newspapers to say no HH light it wasn't 13 policemen it was 8 okay I asked the secretary of the cabinet is here is there I said please can you deal with that me I'm given information to interpret the law the law is clear but in this case if there was misinformation it's a cabinet office is that my problem it's a cabinet office so what we've agreed with the secretary of the cabinet he will clarify today that statement what does a law say how many policemen were there but what I know that even 8 is offending the law even 4 is offending the law because the number is 3 so now you can see the malice in there was a malice that HH light honestly speaking you can see how we've reduced things the substance of the matter is not 13 or 8 the substance of the matter is that has the law been offended the law has been offended it's not HH Frank because you're a good man on that day I was not around when that halabu happened and in the morning the insults were going at HH insults by colleagues that have been in politics for a long time I just smiled never answered never answered in the afternoon the charge was laid a complaint from a citizen a citizen who is infringed the law below rights a citizen who is infringed in this country called Zambia territory has a right to complain and their complaint must be heard that's in the Bill of Rights minister am I right and the authorities be it a court or so don't have a choice the word is obligation am I right minister I may miss the exact word but it's obligation Frank to act that's the rule of law but why were the insults directed at HH am I the one who complained am I the one who received four hundred dollars I don't know I don't know they won't be laughing to do that inch to inch but the insults were loaded to me and social media was very excited the charge was laid that nothing to do with any minister the president it had to do with the law based on what the law says so you can see so and to claim that HH is harassing a family is not true Frank you know sometimes citizens we must be fair to each other sometimes sometimes we must analyze things in a fair and objective manner between the two of us who harassed who let's be direct now between my colleague is here and HH who is who harassed who who is harassing who peacefully is living there the policemen are there when there was a robbery there it was found out the people who robbed him where he's on cadres who discovered that it is a police the very police I was not allowed to use Chipata Airport Frank I even asked I was on the runway for three four hours there during campaign time official campaign time my colleague instructed that I must not be allowed to use airports how do I know the footage is there it's there but citizens choose to ignore all of that and start pretending that HH is harassing the former president I have no intention to do that I was never brought up like that my brain doesn't work like that maybe what people are having difficulties to accept that I'm not harassing anybody who harassed me I think that's where the problem is but get used to that that my brain works differently I should have been dead long time ago everybody knows that everybody knows that it's there so now citizens can we be fair with each other if it was being harassed would he be joking on the roads public roads if I joked Frank like that I went on a road line in 2011 July 2011 I was a dead man you all know that but we brought the rule of law protecting everybody you talk of pangas since we took office have you ever seen any pangas in the streets being sharpened in the streets can we be fair as citizens and call things by their right names my brother is free if anyone is tampering with his freedom I'm the first one to step in to protect him I'm the first I will be the first one all we are doing is to follow the law Frank when I leave office I don't want the taxpayer to pay me money and I'm still in politics I'm still running up and the matters in court and the court is bringing these issues out not me they're arguing on their own there so how do I become the problem now and we are the solution Frank let me tell you why I did what I did and for the people of zombie once we are declared winners on the 16th I guess I'm right 16th of August I think it was 16th of August 15 was 16th of August I knew Frank that if I did not provide leadership there will be deaths and killings in the compounds and in the villages because they were our colleagues treated us killing people maiming people come to God there bullets missing us taking Loris Banda and leaving his young children and wife taking Joseph Kounder taking some and summer bullets if I did not do what I did on that day Frank at the community house and said nobody will revenge nobody will avenge nobody wage war against the fellow citizens citizens will have died and this country today would have been a different country you don't recognize it and I knew the blood will be on my head I will never allow that even against those who would have wanted me dead I don't wish my colleague anything Frank I'm available to talk talking is the answer I've always been available I don't want to review many things here because I'm responsible my colleague and I talk be known to you but what he said in public is a different matter so how do I deal with such a situation someone is not telling the truth there there are crimes that were committed before and conversations took place how to treat those issues within the law I advise this treat this within the law but citizens are not aware but someone goes on the platform and says there is no communication now the day I review if it's necessary you'll be shocked we must repent sometimes we must repent so that society becomes normal I think the danger and the pain that is there that there is no abnormality there are no commanders there are no bangers there are no guns that is making some people miss access to cash illegal cash I can tell you that I'll put my foot down that will not be allowed I think we may close this press conference we've said


The Honorable Minister Tato Seri Setia Haji Ali Binabong, Minister of Primary Resources and Tourism for the Kingdom of Brunei. Honorable Ministers, distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen, a very good morning to you all. On behalf of the Government of Anuatu, I would like to sincerely thank the Government of Brunei for the great hospitality rendered to us and for organizing such a wonderful summit, including the wonderful show during the gala dinner yesterday. It is with great pleasure that I stand here today as Minister responsible for the forestry sector in Anuatu to deliver the statement on behalf of the Government and the people of the Republic of Anuatu. Anuatu is an island nation with a total land area of 1.2 million hectares, of which 60 percent is forest. The land is made up of 83 main islands and supports a population of 270,000. Anuatu's forests are one of the few renewable natural resources and third largest natural resource after the ocean and land. Forest and forest products are important for providing daily livelihood needs of the 80 percent of the population that resides in the rural areas. For instance, the national population census in 2007 revealed that 95 percent of Anuatu households depend on fuel, wood, as a primary source of energy. Forests provide a range of goods and services freely, and that is why it is sometimes referred to as a free supermarket and a free hospital. However, continued supply of high quality goods and services will depend on the sustainable management and use of these resources. Anuatu is ranked number one as the most disaster-prone country in the world. Due to its exposure to extreme weather events, most of which are associated with impacts of global climate change. Sitting on the ring of fire, Anuatu is exposed to frequent earthquakes, rocking the nation on a regular basis, causing damages to property as well as the environment. Its location south of the equator and surrounded by a vast ocean puts Anuatu as a high-risk country to tropical cyclones, which occurred on an average of two to three cyclones per annum. One of the fears ever recorded in Anuatu's history was the severe Category 5 tropical cyclone PAM, which ripped through the country on the 13th and 14th of March, 2015. TC PAM destroyed agriculture, livelihood, and everything in its path, including forests, and caused loss of lives. The El Nino event, which follows on right after the cyclone, causes further destruction to food, livestock, and water, and, of course, the forests. However, despite these extreme events, a few months later, Anuatu was listed in 2016 as the fourth happiest country on planet by the happy planet index. Vanuatu is part of the world's rainforest. According to our records, up to 700,000 hectares of land area is covered in forests from mountain to lowland forests. Most of these forests are fragmented due to natural disaster and rural development. To preserve this natural beauty, Vanuatu is progressing towards placing 200,000 hectares of natural forest under protection. Development and management of Vanuatu's forest is guided by forest policy and the sustainable development policies and planned currently in development. Apart from the requirement for sustainable management of the natural forest, the policy requires Vanuatu to establish 200,000 hectares of planted forests by 2020. Achieving this target will place Vanuatu on the route to self-sufficiency in forest products. To achieve this target, Vanuatu has endorsed the Planned Forest Act, the Planted Forest Act in 2015 to facilitate development of planted forests. In Vanuatu, agriculture and tourism are the two main sectors that drive its economy. However, we are mindful that increasing the area of planted forests and protected forests could have a potential impact on agriculture. Vanuatu is aware and mindful of the initiatives taken by the global and regional organizations and agencies to combat deforestation and address land degradation through forest landscape restoration initiative such as the Asia-Pacific Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative Regional Strategy and Action Plan, which will soon be adopted. We applaud the mission and vision of Rainforest Alliance because Vanuatu believes that sustaining livelihood of our people depends on the sustainability of resources with livelihood hinged on.  Vanuatu is also taking actions to address this. The Vanuatu government has, in 2014, developed a climate change policy to allow itself to tackle climate change challenges. Being a least developed country, Vanuatu does not have the capacity to manufacture renewable energy equipment, but we will be planting trees as a weapon to fight climate change. To put this into action in March this year, the government of Vanuatu has launched three initiatives. The first is the decade of reforestation initiative, which is from 2016 to 2025. The second is the National Forestry Week, which is from the 21st to the 27th of August to be an annual event beginning in 2016. And the third is the National Tree Planting Day, which is the 21st of June to be an annual event beginning also in 2016. I can happily inform that during the National Tree Planting Day, this year, Vanuatu has planted 24,994,000 seedlings. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, the health of a forest and well-being of our people that depend on forests are in our hands. Let us therefore stand united and support each other in protecting and sustainably minus this remarkable resource which provides the world with clean air and water every day and brings comfort and peace to the heart, mind and soul of mankind. It is true that we are different nations, from different nations, but forests that occur in forest nations have only one name and that is known as rainforest. Vanuatu will continue to require financial and technical resources to enhance its ambitions towards achieving sustainable landscape management. Let us therefore stand united and share our experiences and resources to promote equitable management, use and protection of the forest. Honorable ministers, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your kind attention.


This study examined the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines by measuring antibody titers in individuals who received multiple doses of the vaccine. It found that antibodies declined over time, but those who had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 showed higher antibody titers than those who had not been infected. Additionally, the study demonstrated that the third booster vaccination was effective in increasing antibody titers. This article was authored by Hiroshi Kusunoki, Michiko Okosa, Rihita, and others.


This paper investigates the use of deep convolutional neural networks, CNNs, for classification of complex wetland classes using multispectral rapid eye optical imagery. Seven popular CNN architectures were evaluated, including DenseNet-121, Inception-V3, VGG-16, VGG-19, Inception-ResNet-50, and Inception-ResNet-V2. The results showed that the full training of Inception-ResNet-V2 provided the best performance, achieving a classification accuracy of 96.17%. This was significantly higher than the other CNN models tested, which ranged between 74.89% and 93.57%. Additionally, the results demonstrated that the integration of Inception-ResNet modules is an effective architecture, for classifying complex remote sensing scenes such as wetlands. This article was authored by Masood Mahdi-Anpari, Baram Salihi, Muhammad Rizzi, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


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So, what do you like in a person? Many of us would initially respond with things like, someone tall, or I like green eyes. Well, what about those times you look at people you've liked in the past and thought to yourself, but they don't all look alike? Or you've encountered someone who seems to be your ideal in every single way on paper, but you meet them and wonder, who are you? The answer to that mystery is that attraction is based on three things. You consider them approachable, believe in positive factoids about them, and if they make you feel good. If the trifecta is incomplete, this could lead to not being attracted to the person, no matter how Hollywood-esque that smile is. Here are six psychological things that make you less attractive. 1. Being sleep deprived No matter how much caffeine you swill, sleep deprivation takes a toll on everything. This could ruin the first impression meeting with someone. When you first meet someone, you have a limited amount of information to decide your next steps. Should you get closer, or should you back away slowly? As humans, we rely on sight initially to give us that quick initial assessment. So if you show up looking like a haggard potato, your selfie or Instagram buddy potential isn't the only thing that's less than stellar. Other attraction factors like the appearance of health and trustworthiness also take a hit. 2. Body Smell That bio is one thing, and there are plenty of products and methods to avoid it. But ever think about a similar body odor? This goes deep and comes from your DNA. We have something called a major histocompatibility complex, or MHC. They are a group of genes that do coding to help out the immune system, and they influence body odor. So bathing yourself in cologne doesn't change anything. Studies have found that women were more attracted to men with dissimilar MHCs to their own. This is hypothesized to encourage gene variability, thus a stronger immune system. 3. Excessive Focus on Appearance Hey, we're all into looking good and feeling good. You do you and love yourself for it. Just don't let it go overboard. Sure, initial encounters are strongly influenced by physical attractiveness, but that's fleeting. No matter how much of a hottie they appear to be, if all they care about is their self-image, that becomes a repulsing factor. It's true that in the end, we need substance. And if all we're getting is air, we're a hottie. 4. Not Being Humble When you get a win, do you crow that it was all you, that you're just legendary and single-handedly did it all? Or do you credit those who helped you? Friends, teachers, family, and maybe even that one-cash year who would stay five minutes late every shift just to make sure you could get some food at the end of the night. Humility, also known as a modest view of oneself, was found to help not only start but maintain romantic relationships, with humble partners being scored as more attractive than arrogant ones. So, although we like to contribute for the good of the cause, we still want to be acknowledged for our part, whether it be a project or a partnership. If that recognition is usurped, where it's only their name on the credit reel, we tend to feel cheated, betrayed, or used. 5. Overly Smiley Or Too Proud Related to the previous point, this is all about how you hold yourself or appear in pictures. If you look pompous, puffed out and arrogant, or over-smiley, it gives the same vibe as not being humble. This type of nonverbal expression implies that perhaps that smile can't be trusted, and that pride may override the well-being of anyone other than themselves. 6. Contractive Body Language Turtles are cute, but it's because they're turtles.  Don't try to turtle yourself. It was found in a study between several universities that people become more attractive when their posture and bodily display are more expansive, like open arms and a non-hunched back. It singles welcome. The opposite of that, contractual body language, like crossing your arms and legs and hunching over, decreases desirability. This is conveying a message of, don't come close, I'm closing myself off from you. So if you want to welcome people in, go ahead and put your body into it. We used to think attraction equals physical beauty, but we know now that attraction is a complex thing involving the whole person, inside and out, flaws and all. Which of these things have you noticed in yourself, or others? Have you tried changing anything, and how did it work out? We'd love to see you get into some good conversation below, and if we could humbly ask for a like, that would be super appreciated. Thanks for watching, and catch you next time.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. Taurus came out with a handgun that I never saw coming. I'm actually shocked that they came out with this handgun. It comes in this big, huge case. It's priced right. It is chambered in a, shall I say, ongoing caliber that has become very, very popular in the last seven or eight years. And I just didn't see it coming. I felt like the GX4 series, the G3 series was doing so well that they wouldn't produce something like this, but they did. And you can see that in a big, large case, it's a full-size handgun. So let's check it out. What did Taurus do now? They're always up to something. And here we have the TH10 chambered in 10 millimeter. It has some features that are common with Taurus as well as some different things that we're going to talk about. And if you go with this, it comes with two additional back straps and two 15 round magazines. This is loaded. We are going to weigh the pistol as well as a lock, paperwork. It's very nice case. So we'll get this out of the way and talk about the TH10 chambered in 10 millimeter. This is an all ambidextrous gun. So you look at the thumb safety, the slide stop, the magazine release is located on both sides of the handgun. And when the thumb safety is engaged, and we'll show clear here, because I do have a mag in there, the trigger lock and the slide locks. Nothing is happening. So you could carry this cocked and locked just like that in a sweep of the thumb and it's in single action, even in double action. It will lock up both the slide and the trigger. It has that grip that is very common with Taurus. Some gritty texturing there, as well as the back strap. Full size grip, obviously it has 15 round magazines and some bumps in there. I wouldn't say they're grooves, but they're bumps for a full three finger contact, plus some, a lot of real estate there. The magazine release is ambidextrous. The left side of the pistol, it's rather stiff. But you drop it with the trigger finger and it just comes out easier on this model, anyhow. There it says Taurus and on this side, it says TH10, 10 millimeter auto. 15 round magazines. It's a double action, single action handgun. So in single action has a nice clean trigger pull with a fairly short reset. Check this out. So I like those single action guns. Reset seems to be a little bit shorter. Double action is heavy, but I think they did a nice job. 15 round mags, ambidextrous, serrated black rear sight, pinned in front dot, MSRP 531. And the recoil spring is pretty heavy. And that's what you would expect with a 10 millimeter. A lot of people use 10 millimeter as a four legged problem they have when they're out hiking in the woods or whatever. You know, they come across some game there that maybe not game, but four legged creature that they feel they need that additional power. And it takes stronger components to put together a 10 millimeter and priced at 531. I think it's pretty nice. Not a lot of, actually zero slide motion, very tight handgun with a two slot pick rail. Nice overall feel. Let's go ahead and take a look at the disassemble here. Very easy disassemble with those takedown levers. And there's a look at the frame. It has a dual recoil spring and a four and a quarter inch barrel. I don't think I mentioned that four and a quarter inches. And then here we have the firing pin block right there. It's got a little shine to it. And then when you put it back together, this is very tight, by the way. Not just the magazine release, but that spring is very tight. And then we wanna make sure everything is downward as we reassemble. And this is what I'm talking about right there. And then it's reassembled. Nice single action trigger pull. All right, I think I mentioned five and a half pounds. But let's go ahead and get it on the scale because I have this mag loaded up with 15 rounds. So we'll do that. The unloaded weight that the magazine inserted is one pound 12 and three quarter ounces. We move that to just ounces 28 and three quarter ounces. But if we go with the loaded mag, we'll see we're looking at 38 and one eighth ounce. So a full size gun, 15 rounds, you're getting some real good capacity in 10 millimeter. Why do you suppose Taurus came out with this? I'm actually pretty shocked. I think that they recognize that the 10 millimeter is still growing. It started about eight, nine years ago. You started to see Glock come out with some 10 millimeters. People were kind of shocked by that.  Taurus got into it with this full size TH10. They made it ambidextrous. A matte finish on the slide does have the rail there. Nice overall grip with additional back straps. Little extended beaver tail as well. And a very nice trigger pull. The Taurus TH10 can't wait to get this to the range. I love shooting 10 millimeter. It punches you back a bit, but that's what you expect with a heavier load. A 40 plus P plus P in many cases, but the 10 millimeter has grown. It is growing and Taurus met the demand with the new TH10. If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.


In the beginning of April, Forbes reported that the Biden administration was actively considering cancelling student loan debt of up to $50,000. And after nearly two months of deliberation, predictably the Biden administration has decided that they're not going to do the popular and sensible thing. It's a no. Now as Zach Friedman of Forbes explains, according to the Washington Post, President Joe Biden will not include any student loan cancellation in his annual budget. Which is expected at the end of next week, only contains major policy plans that have already been released by the Biden administration. It's another major policy setback for student loan cancellation. As a presidential candidate, Biden called for Congress to cancel up to $10,000 of student loans for student loan borrowers, but hasn't enacted any policy for student loan cancellation through an executive order. And that's his issue. So it seems as if he doesn't want to cancel student loan debt via executive order, if he's going to cancel anything, he wants it to be done legislatively, but yet he also isn't really fighting to get rid of the filibuster. And even if that were the case, he doesn't want to cancel more than $10,000. So yeah, this is a bad idea. In 2022, what Democrats need is one surefire thing that they could point to and brag about to get young people motivated to come out. They can say, look, we canceled $10,000, $25,000, $50,000 worth of student debt. And if you want more relief, come out and vote for us and we'll do something else. We'll do X, Y, Z, but they're not choosing to do that. And people are rightfully speculating whether or not they even want to win. As Nathan J. Robinson of Current Affairs points out, it's insanity. One for the, my God, they must be trying to lose file. Think how easy it is to make the case for voting Democrat to a young person who has $10,000 less debt because of you and how much harder it is to make the case to a young person who expected that and was lied to. And that's exactly it. If you run on the most progressive policy platform ever, you have to deliver on at least some promises, but it's been a couple of months into Biden's administration and he's already walked back key promises. The public option. Have you heard about the public option? No. When it comes to deportations, even though initially he tried to halt deportations for the first 100 days after a court blocked that, well, he ended up going on to be as terrible as Obama when it comes to the issue of deportations. And on Israel-Palestine, also predictably terrible. So the thing is Biden has to put up, otherwise in 2022, Democrats aren't going to fare too well because they need turnout to be high. They need to not to be higher than usual, considering all of the voter suppression efforts taking place in Republican controlled states across the country. So you need more people than ever to come out. And Joe Biden isn't giving people that much of a reason. Yes, he's done some positive things. The COVID relief package, the $1,400 stimulus that was supposed to be $3,000, that was helpful. Even if he did go back on that promise, his handling of COVID-19, his rollout of vaccinations has been good. But really what you want to do is motivate young people to get out and vote with the Democrats always fail to mobilize. And the easiest thing you can do is just cancel at least $10,000 of sit-in debt via executive order. He should be canceling a $50,000 worth, but even just $10,000. I mean, that's objectively good for young people, right? You can't deny it. It's less than it should be. It's less than Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and any other presidential candidate, but it's undeniably a good thing, even if it is just an incremental step. But he won't even do that because he wants to have it take place legislatively. OK, well, if you are still trying to work with Republicans on every single thing and you're unwilling to take executive action, then don't complain when you lose ground in 2022. Because this is what's going to happen if you refuse to actually be bold and meet the moment.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the Matreaction Arsenal 5 Everton 1 at the Emirates. It has done this god forsaken horrible season has ended. It ended probably how most of us expected it to. Listen Thursday night was when Everton season ended. The effort by everyone that been putting you know Everton were playing the fifth game in two weeks today with a squad with injuries and players not fit. You know they put everything into the last few weeks. It was always going to come short against the team who are a young team with good mobility hungry at home and had something to play for whereas we weren't and we didn't and it ended like I said pretty much how we expected it to. The manager made a few changes back of it in goal for Pickford, John Joe Kenny come into the side, Jared Branthwaite into the side, getting in some minutes and we feel Tom Davies was back in the field. Deli started the game and Arsenal started on the front foot and to be honest it never really got off the front foot. They were quicker sharper than us. They looked like they were really up for it. But they were awarded a penalty that was, I think it was the wrong decision. There's another occasion when Everton have been done by VAR. Alex O'Woby did motion towards the ball with his arm to be fair. But it hit him so high that that isn't handball. It hit his evidence sheet at the top of his sheet which isn't a penalty. When you put it next to Rodri's which wasn't a penalty either, maybe Rodri's was the correct decision. Who knows? That today was not the correct decision. It shouldn't have been a penalty. I can't deny Arsenal didn't deserve to leave by the way. It was dispatched comfortably by Martin Elly and then Everton done what Everton do which is can see goals very quickly in quick succession. Arsenal got a corner ball in, really shocked and defended from Everton, flicked on at the near post and Niketi had a simple error from two or three yards out to make it 2-0. D'Corey went off Donny van der Beek, come on Everton started playing a little bit better. Damari Grey had a shot which Ransdale saved and then the Blues got themselves a goal. Go played by Dominic Calvert-Lewin, working his way across, giving the ball back again. He fired it out across the box and there was Donny van der Beek to side foot in for his first and probably last Everton goal to reduce the area to 2-1. We came out for the second half and Arsenal blitzed us to be fair. We still did concede some poor goals. The third goal, going to sleep off a corner and letting Cedric put it in. I thought it was really poor goal keeping by Begavitch as well. Why he's on his knees for a shot that's rising when he's six for five. I don't understand, I honestly don't understand what he was doing. That made it 3-1, you know on four and then five. One of those isn't it? We just, you know, 3-1 it was game over and obviously Frank Llanpard used it then to give Isaac Price some minutes. I don't know if he wasted two half chances really to do something a little bit better. He'll be better for getting those minutes in his legs in the Premier League. Anthony Gordon probably wasn't so bad to me to be honest on that. Nothing against Anthony and he's had an excellent season. I think I would have put Rich Welsh on and just got him some minutes as well. But the man has made those changes and we were comfortably beaten by Arsenal. They were by far the better side, thoroughly deserved the win. They finished fifth in the Premier League and they just showed today that there's a huge amount of work now for Everton to do off the pitch for Frank Llanpard to do. This squad needs massively improved and today proved that. We need to do our business in the summer. We need mobility, quick, pacey players in this side who can get around the pitch. I think if we do that we can look forward to a better season. But that isn't really for today. It was just get it done, fulfil a fix yet and get it out of the way and that's what Everton did. We were comfortably beaten, there's not really more to say. Man of the match, I'm not really going to give a man of the match. I think the fans actually are going to be the man of the match. Made the journey down there again, supported the team. Even a 5-1, they started singing Spirit of the Blues. Just brilliant fans, just brilliant support so there we go. So yet 5-1 defeat, fans man of the match, thank God the season's over. Huge thank you to all of you that have tuned in and watched these match reactions throughout the season. So thank you very much, it's been a horrible season. But thanks for all the support. If you haven't subscribed please do so, we're very close to 60,000 now. And if you want more videos why not become a patron. We're going to be here all through the summer as well. Obviously doing transfer stuff and pre-season stuff and all of that. But I can say quite happily that this is the 21-22 season done and I am not disappointed to see the back of it. It has been awful. Thanks for watching, see you later.


Polymer-based electromagnetic interference, EMI, shielding composites have been developed rapidly over recent years due to their excellent properties such as light weight, flexibility, and low cost. However, these composites often lack the ability to combine high performance and multi-functionality. To address this issue, three potential solutions have been proposed by researchers and our team. Firstly, efficient conductive networks can be constructed to improve the shielding effectiveness of the composites. Secondly, multi-interface designs with light weight and multi-functional compatibility can be optimized to achieve better performance. Finally, the future development trend of polymer-based EMI shielding composites is prospected. This article was authored by Yali Zhang and Jun Weigu.


The camera is all the way at the end of the table, and I can't quite see if it's a focus But the box is around my face, so I'm assuming it's in focus. Hopefully. Hello. I Wanted to film I was gonna just film like a little update video just because I had things to say And then I sat down to record it in my office where I normally record stuff And I was like what if I just went outside with the dogs the dogs are playing in the yard I was like what if I just went outside with the dogs and just set up a camera and Use this handheld mic, and it's easy peasy. So that's what we're doing. I can't see if it's in focus I didn't test the audio to see if the levels are correct. Everything looks correct Relatively I'm not even using a tripod. I'm using a monopod and it's pressed up against the table So if a strong gust of wind comes over and my whole camera setup is going down So hopefully that doesn't happen, but I just kind of wanted to make this video to just say Thank you and to let you guys know that I appreciate you. I feel like I haven't done a video like this in in a while I Did a little bit of a video of me just talking Maybe like a month ago. I played power wash sim It was after me and mark played and it just got me thinking about a lot of stuff And so I had a very like honest talk about everything that'll be in a card Up there if I remember to put it there or maybe it won't be But I just kind of wanted to Sit and talk and just say thank you. I made a challenge for myself In the month of August to upload every single day Because I hadn't had a solid schedule like that in a really really long time And so I made a challenge to myself because at the end of the month It was my 10-year anniversary or our 10-year anniversary But I wanted to make the challenge to myself to upload every single day like I used to And I just it wasn't I don't even know why necessarily because now I'm I'm sort of up the mindset of It's more quality over quantity in my like I'd rather make better videos than more videos And I've kind of been like that for a while not saying that my videos have been like crazy much better That's a sentence for a long time now. I haven't been like, okay I'm just gonna make sure there's any video up every day And so I made a challenge to myself to try and upload every single day in the month of August And and I did hats off to Justin and nerve Lee though They're the real hero like I record everything but editing is way harder than recording is and that's where the actual finesse comes in And that's what makes like a Bad video a good video and a good video a great video is in the edit So it's really like hats off to them But I just wanted to say thank you for all of the like the tremendous amount of support in August You know, I think a lot of it has to do with me Being consistent in uploading every day and like that helped a lot But like the channel hasn't done Like numbers like that in a while not saying that everything is numbers related at all But it was just really cool seeing how supportive everybody was and seeing everybody excited about a video every single day And that was that was really really cool And so going forward. I want to I want to do more of that I'm not gonna dedicate to every single day Because it's it's just not something that I want to do But I'd like to upload most days and I think that getting into that groove of Uploading every day was really nice and like I even though I was like, okay I need to get a video up today.  There was a few like bullshit uploads like that But uploading every day it got me it got me just like excited And I was actually like pumped to be recording and I was having a lot of fun And I was getting back into the groove of everything and I really really really loved that And so going forward I kind of want to have more of a daily schedule not every single day But like trying to get a video out every day ish And then if I can't get a video out for a day or for a few days then I'm not gonna stress about it But I think that me Uploading more regularly helped my brain a lot like I was getting up at like 6 30 every morning And I would have my little me time in the morning I would have my cup of coffee I would go and see what I needed to record for the day I would upload that day's video and make the thumbnail and stuff and it was just really nice I just felt really productive and when I feel productive I feel really good And so August was a really really great month and it was really fun I I filmed a lot of really fun videos that I really loved And the community was just like all of you guys were so pumped about everything and so supportive of everything And that was really really really awesome And again huge huge thank you to Katherine very tired cat One of my best friends in the whole wide world for editing the ten-year montage I was so excited about that video And I'm I'm super happy with how it came out I'm very proud of it even though I didn't well I guess I did make all of the content that went into it, but I didn't edit the video I feel weird being like I'm so proud of that video because I feel like I didn't do anything But I did make ten years of content that was used in that video So I can give myself a little bit of credit But Katherine did a really really fantastic job with that video And the wind got taken out of my cells a little bit because as you guys know the video got age-restricted And so I edited sort of like a petty version to upload which was ten years of crank gameplay But it's heavily censored so YouTube doesn't age-restricted But exciting news the video has been un-age-restricted I got into contact with some people at YouTube Which I feel very lucky to be in that situation And I wish that it didn't have to be like that because I did technically get special treatment And I talked about this in that other video that I made about YouTube I'm very grateful for the help that I received from YouTube and they were very helpful but it does kind of suck that I get special treatment and That's not normally the way that it would go about it And if you have an age-restricted video that shouldn't necessarily be age-restricted Then you're just kind of left in the dust But any who they un-age-restricted the video after they went into detail about what in the video Was age-restricted? It was a seven second montage of me saying fuck over and over again and they did not deem that Age appropriate which if I'm being honest I kind of think that they just said that and they were like yeah, it's this part because I Don't I don't I don't think that that video should have been age-restricted at all like at all at all I think I if they had hit me with the if you're not familiar YouTube can hit you with a limited ads feature where the video isn't age-restricted But they don't deem it to be ad-friendly because of this that or the other thing if they had hit me with That I would have understood that because there is a lot of swearing throughout the entire video, but age-restricted I don't I don't I don't think that that falls in line with that if I'm honest the main reason why I was upset about that though is Because I was really excited for that video and I thought that that video and it still is But I wanted it to be a staple of the channel. I wanted to use it as My like if you're not subscribed here's the video that comes up kind of thing And I wanted it to sort of do rounds a bit and just show like hey Here's ten years of this thing that I've been doing And when it gets age-restricted one, you can't use it as your channel trailer to It severely throttles the views obviously And if I can be selfish for a little bit, I wanted that video to do really really well like I I Really wanted that video to go above and beyond and I think that it would have if it had not been age-restricted Because I did the YouTube premiere of it and everybody in chat was so Excited about it and it was so much fun getting to watch that with you guys live And the thing that I'm also pissed about is that because it was age-restricted the live chat replay No longer exists because that can't exist on an age-restricted video apparently So that is a bummer because I can't go back now and watch the video and look at the live comments because I wasn't able to Look at everything because there was a bunch of comments, but now I can't do that. So that's cool But yeah, I'm a bit bummed about that because I really wanted that video to do really well But now it's under age-restricted so if you feel like going and sharing a bit I mean if you feel like going and sharing it with everybody that you know love I mean I can't stop you regardless of the age-restriction on it. I really was so happy with the feedback and The amount of love that was on that video because everybody that could watch it Really really loved that video And as they should because it was a really great video and Catherine did such a good job just highlighting everything on the channel in the last 10 years and what a fucking What a task to put on Catherine But you know like I said Catherine is one of my best friends and that is the kind of thing that Catherine actually really Catherine loves tedium and if you give her 10 years worth of content to comb through You know, she's gonna do it really well And a part of her is really gonna love it And so Catherine did a such a good job So make sure I'll leave Catherine's Twitter in the description So make sure to go and give her some love and go and go and watch the video Even if you've watched it already go and watch it again because now there's no age-restriction Okay, you don't have to do that. You can do whatever you want and go but yeah, there's been a few changes as well that I just kind of wanted to Talk about not even just say like this is a thing that's going on What are the things that are going on in the month of August? I guess was it August? Maybe it was before but it really started kicking into gear in August and this month The crank gameplays clips channel now exists, which is cool. And then also cranky bots is still a thing I haven't streamed as much obviously Because I was uploading way more But now if you go into the channels section also just as a rule of thumb if I ever make another channel That's related to crank gameplays. You'll know that it's actually mine because I will have put it in my Suggested channels tab on my channel.  And so that's kind of fun. Yeah, I'm just feeling really good I'm feeling very grateful for Just the the position that I'm in and I feel really grateful that I get to do this as my job still 10 years later I mean I haven't been doing it as my full-time job for 10 years But 10 years after I started I'm doing this still and I'm still loving it and I'm doing it as my job And I just feel very grateful and so I wanted to say thank you for all the support And I wanted to also say don't have chance But I wanted I wanted to say thank you for For everybody who got a signed poster.  I signed 3,500 during the stream or just under 3,500 I can't remember I signed 4,000 in total because Originally there was 10,000 But I think that was that was a very lofty goal, but I was still so insanely surprised with 4,000 people then getting the signed posters, which was amazing And so now if if you missed out on the sign posters or if they were a bit too pricey for you we now have the 10 year the same poster just unsigned for $15 and I told the the merge company because It's the 10th year of cranking plays. We're just gonna leave those up until they sell out For the next for the next year. So you don't have to worry about like you don't need to get it right now Those are gonna remain up until they sell out. I don't know how many of them are well. I Guess there would be 6,000 of those But I don't know how many are left because I don't know how many we've sold anyway It's not important if you want to go and grab the signed the unsigned on that's not signed. I didn't sign it You want to go and sign the on if you want to grab the unsigned poster you can do that there's also shirts and hoodies If you want to check out those as well you can yeah, I'm I'm just I'm just excited There's been a lot of stuff going on, you know with August there was everything going on just day-to-day I was very very busy and then I also a couple days ago now just got back from Korea. I was in Korea With Mark and Amy and Mika and Mark's mom And it was super super fun And I had a really really great time It was it was wonderful But that was super fun and now I'm back And so just gonna get back into into making videos And so sorry for the for the last few days not having really anything But jet lag hit me a bit harder than I thought that it would coming back going there I was totally fine, but coming back it hit me pretty hard So I'm still kind of recovering a little bit And then the last thing that I wanted to say is I made a post about it a while back But there's been memberships enabled on the channel for a bit Memberships are basically like the same thing as like a twitch sub So it's like four or five bucks a month And for a while it was just a way to Monetarily support the channel if you felt like doing it But you didn't really get anything other than like some emotes and stuff like that And so I was like well, I want to give people Who are doing that just something? And so I came up with the idea of Of just doing members only series Once a month where I just go and play a game that I wouldn't play On the channel because it probably wouldn't do super well And so right now I started alien isolation Which is a game that came out Way long ago, but I never played it and so I was like oh, that would be a really fun game And so now every month I'm letting you guys choose between like four or five different games that I want to play And then you guys can vote on it and then we'll do Whichever And so we're doing alien isolation this month But it's been really cool because it's I had this like weird realization while I was recording it where I was like wow, this is really going to be like old YouTube in the sense that you know the the video as of now I think has like maybe 100 views There's like 10 comments on the video because there's not a ton of members And so it's just been really cool Seeing that and like making this like it's like a two hour long recording It's been a way that I've been like warming up in the morning I'll just go and record an episode of alien isolation I say this as if I've been doing it I've done it once but it was a nice way to start my day and I plan on doing that going forward. Okay It was just kind of nice because it was just like oh, I just Record an old-fashioned kind of let's play. There's barely any editing The thumbnails and the titles are not I don't have to make them like clickbaity or anything like that So it's just alien isolation part one and the thumbnail is Alien isolation and it says part one in big red text so then people can see which part they're watching Um, and so it just kind of feels like old YouTube and the comments There's not a ton of them so I can respond to basically every comment Um, and there's no spam because it's everybody who's a community member So the comments are all genuine. It just feels really cool and it feels really nice. Um, and it's kind of Brought me back to when I first started to where I was actually able to interact and stuff. Um And it's really cool And I do have I do have a a few more plans on uh, some things to do for members I think going forward with um, I've been uploading like bigger videos Every few Saturdays and I want to make it a weekly thing where every Saturday video is like a bigger video So it was like the bartending video that I did with Eddie Burback or the drag queen video that I did with Persephone recently Or when meek and I went to the farm those kind of videos. Um The playlist is called crank gameplay has gone wild. Thank you to community member cutie for The suggestion of what to call that playlist crank gameplay has gone wild I think it's fantastic title But all of those videos usually I upload those on a saturday And so, you know, we film for a couple hours usually but then it's cut down Usually to a 20 or 30 minute video And so going forward, um, I'm gonna have Justin or nervely whoever's editing it because most of the time the way that they edit They do like a rough cut down of everything and then they go back and put in the big edits and then trim more fat Um, and so I asked them about it and I was like, hey, would it be possible if You guys just export the first rough cut Where it's like an hour and a half or whatever an hour an hour and a half of footage Before you trim all the extra fat before you add in the edits Um, what if we just export that and we put it up for community members?  Oh god, you kind of get a directors cut version And a behind the scenes kind of thing my memory card is almost out. Oh, I have four minutes I don't have to rush that much. So yeah, you kind of just get a little extra extra Directors cut if you will where it's like minimal editing, but you get You know, almost the entire recording session and some stuff that we cut out and stuff like that Um, and so they were down for that because it's like, yeah, it's an extra fun little video And it doesn't require any other work on their part other than just exporting another version of the video. So Very very cool. Lastly. I just want to um I want to extend a thank you to like it's very weird being able to say this now, but My entire team You know, I'm the one that records and uploads and stuff like that and I'm the face of the channel But I really really want to thank Justin and nervly and jocelyn and parker and everybody At scp with the merch and just like everybody who helps me out day to day They're sort of more behind the scenes Obviously because again, I'm sort of the face of this and I'm on the videos But nothing would be possible without them. Um, and I'm just really really really. Thank you I I'm really really thankful. Um, and so I want to I I want to just say thank you to them Um, because nothing that I do would be possible without all of those people and uh, especially in the last year They've helped me so much like not only expand the the channel But just like make me a better person. I think, you know, like working with more people you Learn how to just like be a better Creator and like I am people's boss and so I've learned how to try and be a better boss And I'm still trying to learn how to be a better boss and communicate better and just I'm just very thankful for the people that I get to work with every day. Um, and uh, the people that That help make the channel what it is including you guys. So thank you so much for being here I'm gonna go before the sesty card fully runs out. Um, But expect more fun videos soon. Thank you for everything and, uh I'll see you tomorrow Bye


So, welcome to Big Data Spain. This is the seventh edition and I think every year we say the same. It is the best edition we have made. So, I will let Carmen to give all the data, all the insights.  So, please, Carmen. As Oscar said, welcome everyone to the seventh edition of Big Data Spain. We launched this event in 2012 with 220 people and today we are gathered here with more than 1,500 people and 90 of the brightest professionals of Big Data and AI. Today, Big Data Spain is one of the most important Big Data events in the world. The second in Europe after the Strata conference. It's been a long path, a passionate path and we hope this is just the beginning. This year comes packed full of new things. The first one is that we have named the event AI Technologies for Smart Business. This is like that because we have a whole track dedicated to AI, being machine learning as the major topic and also because this is the first year we are going to have talks about business. In fact, one-third of the talks will be related to this topic. The second new thing is that we have designed a new space, a new area that we have called Ask the Expert in order to connect you with the speakers. Also, after each track, you will be able to give feedback using the Big Data Spain application. By doing that, you will help us to improve the event and your name will be entered in a raffle. And since not everything is about work, today we will have a social opportunity with food, with drinks and of course with music. AI, you could say that it is the best word for this year, last year. And we think it will be the best word for the next 2, 3, 4, 5 years. So it is very important. We are going to talk a lot about AI during these two days. But we are going to talk about how to use AI, how to get value from AI in a very pragmatic way. And this is in reality Big Data Spain technology and how to get the most of that technology. So this is one of the points we wanted to explain in this introduction to the Big Data Spain. It is about to talk about technology, to talk not only by us or the speakers, to talk between you. There are 1,500 people here. You have to talk to share, to share knowledge, to learn. And this will be the real value of these two days. So please talk and socialize. Going back to the talks, Big Data Spain is a unique event because you will enjoy in one place talks from the biggest software manufacturers. Companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Mesosphere, Red Hat, IBM, Confluent, Stratio, Databricks, Oracle and Talent. At the same time, we will have talks from big companies, from startups, innovative companies, as well as talks from universities. The most relevant names of the year events are Matej Saharia from Databricks, Paco Nathan from Devlin, Holden Karau from Google, William Benton from Red Hat, Ian Robinson from AWS, Nuri Oliver from Vodafone, Elisa Martin from IBM, Elena Alfaro from BBVA and Tema Alonso from Telefonica. As we can see, there is a significantly larger number of female speakers. It's 20% of the speakers this year versus a 9% last year. As you can see, there are more than 80 talks this year. So Carmen just mentioned some of the most important ones. I am going to mention the other ones. It is a joke, so we can continue. But you have all the talks in the agenda. A very important point here. Between each talk, there is not a long time. So please read, decide what are the talks you want to go, because you will have between 5-10 minutes to go from one talk to the other one. So please check what are the talks you are interested to go to make things smoother and really to go faster. Because otherwise it will delay, people are centering into the rooms and this is not the good way to do it. So please read all the talks that are there in the agenda, decide which ones to go and move faster and smoothly. And since we are not only interested in technology, we are really very interested in people, especially in children. This year we have a special collaboration with the Ronald McDonnell Foundation. Instead of including a big data space in merchandising in the gift bag, we have preferred to make a donation to the Ronald McDonnell Foundation. We invite you to visit their stands in order to get familiar with their social work. And also we have a special talk from Nuri Oliver about how to use big data for the common benefit of all. Technology and AI, there is always a big concern about that we are sort of generating unemployment. And if this is going to be good for society, but we are very positive, hyper-optimistic, so we think that always technology has improved the quality of life of people. So we think this will be the case and also this is very relevant for us because it is about to apply technology to improve social matters. So this is really very important and we recommend you to go to these talks and to think about this and to participate in these type of initiatives. And finally we want to thank our sponsors and we really hope that you all enjoy Big Data Spain 2018. This is about to gather people with a common interest. I think that everybody that is here is really interested in big data and AI technology. So it is about, as I said, talking between you to be really useful, to help, but also to enjoy. The talks, the people, the organization, everything was designed to make it as easy as possible because technology sometimes is hard and especially to enjoy. So we would like to finish this introduction to the Big Data Spain, to the 7th event. The best one we have prepared just thanking all the organization, all the people that has made this possible. So I think it is a level not three, but four plus four then. Thank you everybody. This is perfect and we will enjoy a lot. So thank you.