My name is John Hamry. I'm the president of CSIS. And I want to say thank you to all of you for coming. All of us have had in our lives some remarkable educational moment. Let me share one with you that I had. This was back when I was the deputy secretary of defense. And I went to Bosnia. We still had all our troops in Bosnia. And I was talking with our commander there. And I said, well, what is it that you most need? What can I help you with? And he said, well, what I really need is I need about $10 million that I could use when I go around to have my soldiers go to a village. He said, if I go into a village and we come rolling in with tanks and everybody's got their guns out and you try to talk with a mayor, it's just nothing but suspicion. It's a very difficult meeting. He said, but if I can go in and say, look, mayor, I've got about $100,000 that I've got to spend, others, I've got to give it back, is there something you and I can work on together? Can we build a school or do something we can do? He said, it completely changes the landscape. And that was the first time I came to realize that well-designed economic assistance is one of the most powerful military tools we have. Now, we don't understand that in Washington. I learned that the hard way by talking to a guy that was working with it full-time. That's what led us to try to do the, well, it was a project four years ago we called Smart Power. And we asked Colleen Gale, and I asked another one of my military friends, Bill Fallon, who had been a four-star commander in this whole region if they would be willing to head up this commission, to say, how do we recover all of these tools that really, in some sense, are far more powerful than a gun? It led us to this commission. One of the recommendations in that commission was that one of the most powerful tools is health, global health. I remember seeing our popularity. And after 9-11, as a nation, we responded with a lot of anger and a lot of fear. And that led to military responses that, frankly, turned off a lot of people in the world. I'm not going to argue whether that was the right thing or not. What I'm going to say is that I saw what happened when that terrible earthquake hit Ache. And where our popularity was in the low teens, after we went in with military supporting health delivery, it went up into the high 70s and low 80s. And it just shows what the perception. So I come to this issue. I have many of you here come to it from an honest, genuine humanitarian impulse. And I honor that. I come to it from a national security impulse. This is good for our nation. It's good for us to have these tools in our arsenal so that we can do something about it. And when I see that we're going to spend $10 billion a year, I compare that to we're spending roughly $10 billion a month in Afghanistan, this is an investment we need to make. But that's a debate we're going to have in this country. And that's part of the reason that we launched what we call this Global Commission on Smart Health Policy. And one of the great figures of that, and we were so anxious to have her lead, it was Helene Gale. So can I introduce to you Helene Gale, who is now the head of care, one of my bosses at CSIS and the head of our commission. Helene, please come. Thanks, John, for that very warm introduction. And welcome to everybody. This is really fabulous to look out and to see this crowd here gathered and really very, very much looking forward to the discussion today. We're very pleased to have a distinguished panel, Congressman Keith Ellison, former Congressman Mark Green, Lois Kwam, the new Global Health GHI Executive Director. Congratulations. We'll see you six months from now if you still are smiling and happy about it. Tachi Yamada from the Gates Foundation, who has been a friend and a real role model for me for many years. Three of our commissioners from the Smart Global Health Policy, Karen Remly, Rajiv Venkaya, and Mike Merson, and colleagues from the Global Health Initiative. So we're really looking forward to the panel and the discussion that will come. We're here because, as John said, this is an issue that is critical. It's critical if you come from a sense of what's right and good to do or whether you believe that it is the way that we're going to have the greatest impact on peace, stability, and security around the world. But we come knowing that the US has been a real leader in global health for many, many, many years. And part of why we felt it was so important to have this discussion now is that we really are at a very critical juncture. As Steve said in the video and as we all know, these are really hard times. We have some really tough choices to make as a nation as we think about what does it take to balance the budget? What does it take to get us economically back on track? But at the same time, I think we recognize that this is not the area where we can choose to play it cheap, that we have made significant progress, whether it's looking at the 99% decline in polio that has come from the investments that the US has made, or whether it's the major declines in under five mortality, 35% declines in maternal mortality that we have finally started to see an impact over the years on one of the things that was the toughest. And I think some of the things we saw here in the film show that we really are starting to make real progress and see gains in even areas like emergency obstetrical care and things that for so long have been a challenge. So I think we're all here in this room because we believe that this truly is a good investment. Investment in human life, investment in our image around the world, investment in peace, stability, and security. And we want to really look and challenge ourselves to make sure that we are continuing to play the leadership role that the United States has played in the area of global health. I won't, there's lots more to be said, but I think at this point we want to get on with the panel and have a discussion with our group of experts that we've pulled together. Hope that you as an audience, we will also have opportunity for you as an audience to participate. And all of us leave here not only with our continued commitment to this as an area, but also thinking about how we continue to maintain the progress that we have made with these important global health advancements. So without further ado, I think I'm supposed to call John back to the floor and the panelists. Congressman, why don't we put you here? Put Mark, put you right in between.  That's up to you. You take care of that. So we want to get into this session. We're fortunate to have both Congressman Ellison, former Congressman Green, now Ambassador Green with us. And obviously what we want to explore in this session is the kind of climate that we're in in America right now. Let me start not with the Washington climate, but more broadly, Congressman, you used to have to go back home to Appleton and Green Bay to talk to your constituents. Congressman, you go back to Minneapolis. Everybody's afraid of their future. When you're afraid of your future, you start thinking about me. It's kind of a me time. And yet we're really going to have a conversation here about what do we do about people that are far away we don't even know. How do you motivate that kind of a sentiment? But before we do each, you probably have some things that you want to shape. And why don't you start, and then we'll come back to this question. Thank you, John. And Ambassador Green, it's an honor to be sharing the stage with you. And let me say thank you to everyone, including Steve Morrison, Helene Gale, and all others. My very good friend of many, many years, now helping to lead our effort in global health from the State Department, Lois Kwam. Give her a hand, please. Well, I think that it is certainly a time where there is a degree of uncertainty. There are no shortage of firm ideas as to what we should do. But it is a time when Americans of various backgrounds are thinking about what shall we do and which way shall we go. But there are a few things that I think are prevalent. One of those is that there is a certain amount of anxiety, John, about what is America's future?  We have the oldest constitution in the world. As much as we think of our country as young, we've been around for a long time. And there is a certain sense that perhaps we don't know if our place in the world is ascending, stagnant, or declining. And people have spilled ink on this topic. But one of the ways that we can project ourselves in the world as a nation that is still on the ascent is by continuing to play an important role in the health, security, safety development of the people of the world, particularly when Americans know that this is about 1% of our budget and if they are confident that the dollars spent for the things that we say we're going to spend it on actually go to the intended beneficiary. I'm lucky enough to have a father who is pretty dedicated Republican. And I'm proud, bleeding heart liberal. And we talk about these issues a lot. And I think the thing that both sides want to know is the dollars spent well. And so I think it's time for that conversation to take place. Nobody should be afraid of scrutiny. And everyone ought to be able to prove value associated with the American tax dollar. But I would submit to you that programs like PEPFAR, MCC, and a whole myriad of other ones that help deliver stability and good health to societies around the world are things that Americans will support if we take the time to actually explain it to people who are in a position to make a decision. And I'll say that the danger is the broad brush. We're just going to cut across the board. I think all of us have to resist this temptation to do this across the board thing. It doesn't make any sense that it's not fair. Some programs are more effective, more efficient than others. But I punish the good with the bad. It doesn't create the proper incentives to strive well. And so just as a preliminary comment, I just want to say I think the challenge before us is making the argument that we have to go through the budget as we are embarking on this budgetary process, not to mention the debt-sealing debate we're about to have and the CR debate we just had and will seem like we'll continue to have, at least for the foreseeable of the short-term future. I think the important challenge is to encourage people to look programmed by program for savings, for value, and for real impact. Please. Thank you. Well, Congressman, it's good to be with you. And John, thanks for the honor of being here. And this is an interesting day, an interesting topic, because if it's a topic that a proud Republican father and a bleeding heart liberal son can talk about, what's even more amazing is that a Viking fan and a Packer fan can actually share the stage and be civil to each other. If there is one thing that I can leave you with, one belief that I have as we talk about the challenges that we're facing, it's that this isn't a one election problem. I hear a lot of discussion about the partisan challenges, and they're certainly there on Capitol Hill. But I actually don't think that partisan challenges are leading to our current challenges. I think it's something more profound than that. I think these recent elections didn't lead to the challenges. Perhaps they exposed some of the challenges. I think the challenges that we really face as we look to build toward the future, John, as you're pointing to, is that we have to understand how much time has passed and how many elections have passed since the marvelous tools of PEPFAR and PMI, the foundation upon which GHI is built, since they were launched. And that to me is something that's important. I think what's happened is that in many ways we were spoiled by momentum and good fortune, if you will. We had a growing economy with revenues coming in. We had a grand, I won't even say bipartisan, nonpartisan alliance behind these programs that led to the ramping up of resources and the strong support behind these programs. But what happened was, with each election, quite frankly, we lost some of the institutional memory and some of the institutional leadership that crafted these programs in the first place. When you think back, PEPFAR was created, what, not even 10 years ago, and since then of the 100 US senators who actually voted on PEPFAR and had passed with, on a voice vote, as I recall, only 52 are in office right now. Of the 435 members of the House, only 225 are in. When you think about the leadership that we've lost, Dashel, Hastard, PEPFAR was reauthorized by Tom Lantos and Henry Hyde, God rest their souls. They've left the stage. When you look at the committees themselves, which were really crucial in crafting these bills, of the 19 members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who were on the committee helping to craft this, three serve today. And so what's really happened is, I think with these elections, we've turned around and suddenly seen the giants, if you will, the legislative giants of global health have left the stage. And so I think really what we have to do is go back to basics. I think what's happened to a lot of us is, we've assumed as we go to Capitol Hill, and there are some exceptions like Congressman Ellison, but we go to Capitol Hill assuming that there's a basic shared understanding of the value of these programs, of the benefits of these programs, when we engage in the discussion about the levels of resources that are necessary to make them strong and vital going into the future. And I think that's a mistake. I think instead we really do have to go back to basics. And we have to talk about why it is that we're engaged in the world. Why it is that we're involved in global health. Why this is not only the right thing to do, and I think we all believe that it is, but also as both of these gentlemen have talked about, why it's the smart thing to do. I would argue that the importance of these programs is not merely as important as it is. What we do for those in need around the world, we get an awful lot ourselves for it. When I had the honor of serving as ambassador, we used to talk all the time about diplomacy by deeds. And something that I believed in very strongly and continue to, you can talk all you want to, you can do all those op-eds and all those policy statements, and that's what ambassadors do. But none of that really matters, or none of that is comparable to the simple concrete fact of a PEPFAR funded clinic, or those bed nets that are getting distributed. As we look at GHI and the integration that is being proposed I think is so very important, the building of the lab facilities and the investment in that health infrastructure. To me that speaks more strongly, more loudly, more clearly about our values and does more to advance our image and advance our security interests than anything else that can be done, whether it be on Capitol Hill or at Foggy Bottom or wherever. And so I think what we really have to do is talk about back-to-basics, why we do this. And this video that we've seen in the trip that you put together is so very important because fewer and fewer policy makers, sadly, are getting the chance to see these things and there seems to be political toxin that goes along with traveling overseas and it's so unfortunate because there is nothing like seeing this up close and seeing it directly. And that's something that I think we really need to get back to and again, get back to basics and talk about why we do this. But you've opened up this question, Mark, as well as Keith, about a debate we're gonna have.  How does this issue stand apart and above from that as opposed to getting swept up as just part of the sound bites that sides use against each other, positive or negatively? I mean, we're gonna start with you and then we'll go to Keith. Well, first off, again, I think we need to go back to the basics as we take a look at the makeup of this Congress. We have an extraordinarily large freshman class and all the polling tells us that none of these elections were about foreign policy or foreign assistance. So in fact, I think you have a large number of members and not just the freshmen, but again, I think this is a multi-election challenge who I think are a good audience. I think they're ready to hear the message and I couldn't agree more with Congressman Ellison. These are programs that are working. And so if what drives you is effectiveness and efficiency of programs, I can take you to the islands of Zanzibar in Tanzania where we've seen child mortality and we've seen malaria infection rates plummet to the point where we're literally talking about crossing the threshold into something quite extraordinary that many of us thought wasn't even possible. So I think what we have to do is go member by member and talk about the value in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. Again, what we get for it and I don't think we should give into this notion that it's either hopeless or somehow overwhelming because of partisan challenges. I'm convinced that there are too many good arguments in favor of these programs, but that we have to make them. We really do have to go member by member and don't get caught in partisanship. That's too easy. I think it's much more open than that and much more promising. I agree. I think most people run for Congress with the best of intentions without regard to what their political orientation is. They go there to do good or to help the country. But I think we're in a time now where people want to see value. What is this doing for us? And those questions will certainly be asked and are being asked. And will continue to be asked all throughout 112 Congress. And that is good. Let us increase our gain and show how you can have a village in rural Kenya where years ago AIDS and HIV was a death sentence and now it is a manageable chronic illness. And these folks are feeling good about the United States. They can raise their own kids and supposed to see in an early gray. They can add to the economy. They can take care of their own needs. They can help solve their own problems whether they be water or malaria or whatever. And I think this makes a lot of sense. We do have to have be in a constant state of advocacy and justification. And at the bottom, there's nothing wrong. I think the real enemy is not any particular person or party. I think the real problem is, one, are we willing to make the case? And two, do we have a good case to be made? I think anybody who has not been using the public dollar well should be nervous. But I think those of us who are trying to say, look, the United States is the world's remaining superpower. We have the world's largest, not only military but economy. No matter what, all the talk about China, the United States still has an economy three times bigger than China does. And we have a certain responsibility in the world that has to be shared by the international community, but that we can't abandon. And I think if we show that this is a good value program that brings real value, I think we can succeed. And so you gotta put on your salesman hat and be able to make a good argument. I think we'll be successful. Washington's a town where 90% of the discussion's about inputs, very little about outcomes. We put in dollars, we don't know how to measure that output very well, and we kind of left the next year dollar input be a substitute for it. But I think that's changing, as both of you have said. So how do we get a stronger focus on outcomes? And how do we get out of this? I mean, we all use anecdotes, but anecdotes can be used to pull you down as well. So how do we do this? Congressman, you're in the middle of this. We absolutely have to build in metrics and outcomes as we set forth the program. As we conceive of the program, metrics and measurement must be built in from the very beginning. Because isn't it always like the last thing that we think about? We wanna go there and there and solve the problem. And of course, we're pretty sure our efforts will be effective except for when they're not. And so the point is that we need to be more sophisticated about measuring outcome and be more deliberate in the very beginning. That means data collection as we go. There are ways to improve the efficiency of measurement too. And I'm pretty certain that one of the elements is being deliberate in the very beginning. I'm mindful that the principles that were articulated in the video metrics were part of the presentation. That's smart. And we gotta make arguments to policymakers, people on Capitol Hill, everywhere, that look, we need to put into the budget because you can't just wish for good metrics. You have to pay for them. That has to be budget, that has to be accounted for in the budget from the very beginning. I am very optimistic when it comes to global health. I look at this as an area in which our policy is constantly evolving, constantly progressing and constantly building upon the good work of those who were in office before. I'm very proud of the tools that were crafted under the Bush administration, again with overwhelming nonpartisan support. And I think every administration and every Congress adds something to that. I think that the Obama administration, one of the elements that we're seeing that I think is a very useful contribution is an increased focus on monitoring and evaluation. And we're starting to see USAID building that in their programs. I think Dr. Shaw is on the right track and is making a great contribution here. And on top of that, we're also at a point in the history of these programs where we have results coming in. This is no longer speculative. We know that it works. And so now with these results, coupled with the increased monitoring and evaluation, I think this is precisely the time to take a look, a close look as the congressman says, and I absolutely agree with him. And we need to force every program to re-justify itself. That's the nature of the time that we're in. But I think when you look at most of these programs in the area of global health, I think there's a lot to see, a lot of good results and a great opportunity to fine tune them, to increase the integration, to build on it going forward. To me, that's a very exciting opportunity. I think every conversation I'm in these days in Washington, at some point, the word public-private partnership comes up. And half of the time, it's just a way to get a new buzzword to try to get your budget through. And the government isn't historically very good on public-private. We're good at regulating. We're not particularly good in encouraging and shaping. But I think this is one area there's been some exception. And you guys really are in the middle of that. I mean, how does, and of course, we've had the pioneering work of the Gates Foundation that's really kind of transformed this standing of global health in Washington. Where do you see this public-private dimension that's helping us with the budget battles we're looking at here? Is this a plus, and how do we make the most out of it? Keith, let's start with you. Well, I'll certainly say, the public-private partnership has been a tremendous plus. And I think we need to refine our use of these practices and get better at it. I do have a certain number. I'm worried sometimes, because I don't want government to ever say, well, this is public health and global health and public diplomacy and foreign aid are not the proper role of government. We'll just let the private sector do it. I think that is an inherent danger. But I also think that we're in these, we've worked well together and had good outcomes. I think we need to really put that on display. I mean, quite frankly, the public sector, whether it's the nonprofit or foundation sector or even the for-profit sector, because they're not encumbered by democratic processes, which I believe are necessary and important, they sometimes can be a little bit more nimble and quick. And yet at the same time, the public sector is critical because the public sector is, after all, the full weight and measure of the United States people, and has considerable resources as well. So we work well together, and I think we need to continue to study how we do better, and of course, we have some data to rely on, but we gotta keep the balance in the right order. Otherwise, I think things could go awry. I think one of the contributions of PEPFAR and PMI, and again, going forward, being built upon with GHI, is keeping it outcome-oriented. The basic idea that those that we seek to partner with and to help in the communities we seek to help lift in the lives that we seek to help lift, they deserve to get those services in the most effective, most efficient way that is possible. And on top of that, of course, the American taxpayers deserve to have their dollars spent in the most effective, most efficient way possible. And so I think with these programs, we've seen a partnering with the nonprofit sector and the for-profit sector, and the idea, again, is real simple. We wanna do this the best way we can. In many cases with programs, we're partnering with the faith-based sector. Why? Because oftentimes faith-based organizations can reach into parts of a country immediately, most directly, and so we don't have to rebuild or reinvent. And so I think this emphasis on effectiveness of how we deliver services is a very important contribution. I believe it'll go even higher with GHI. I'm going to say something here, because I don't want you to get blamed for this comment, but I also think we're in a period of time where the government's a little confused about whether they can work with a private sector because they're not sure ethically they're allowed to help the private sector. I mean, we've got to get out of that mindset that it's not a bad thing for the government to help, especially when it's a public good. And so Lois, this is good, but the hardest thing you're gonna work with all those ethics lawyers. You call me, I'll be the bad guy. Can I make one quick comment in that connection?  And I think we need to step back and review our ethics rules to make sure that they're up to date, they're clear, they're few in number, and that they're more pointed toward what people should do than what's gonna happen to you if somebody decides you didn't do it right. And so I'm talking about more like best practices, but I can tell you that if you look at most ethical systems, you know, that we have to deal with whether it's in Congress or anywhere, they're a hodgepodge because they're written for the occasion. And I think that we need to, this is a good time. I mean, that's part of what I meant when I said we need to refine our ability to work together. Part of that is what you said about ethics rules because quite frankly, ethical rules should be simple. We all should sort of have a sense of what they are, but you don't know what somebody did to really take advantage of a situation, you know, five years ago and before you were in Congress. And so you may not know that this sort of counterintuitive thing is something you can't do. And so this is part, if we're gonna work on building our public-private partnership, let's put review of our ethical rules on the list. Good call. We're running short of time and I just would like to end on a note. You, both of you interact, have your previous job and your current job, but both of you as elected officials interacted with people. And of course they come to you with selfish motives, but you also find a remarkable selflessness in Americans. You find, you know, I think the, as if you rank the benevolence of people, Americans are six times more benevolent than the next country. There's a genuine, strong impulse of humanity in this country. How do we bring that into this debate at a time when it's just such raw, you know, personal benefit that seems to be dominating our politics? How do we bring the nobility that as Abraham Lincoln said, the better angels of our nature to the front on this debate? Mark with you and then we'll end up with Keith.  And I hosted President Bush in Tanzania and was able to take him around to places in Dar es Salaam, to AIDS clinics. And to let him see firsthand the actual results of these investments that he had helped to make. And it was interesting to watch his reaction. And you could see that in some ways, it rattled him a little bit. And I mean that in the most positive way possible. It is not possible to embrace that mother living with HIV. And to have someone whisper in your ear, Mr. President, she is not alive, but for you, but for PEPFAR. And not come away from that. Again, rattled in the most positive sense of the term. I think what we need to do is tell the story often. But with respect to our policy makers, encourage them to go and see it. We can do all the papers, we can do all the memos, we can do all the briefings. And you know, I love the video. It is no replacement, of course, for getting that congressman to Kakomega district in western Kenya, or the highlands of Tanzania, wherever it might be. Because if people get the chance to see just what good is being done, a lot of these debates, I think, would get settled rather quickly. Everything Ambassador Green said is absolutely right. Let me endorse that idea. Sometimes, you know, you've been on the radio program and somebody says, well, congressman, it's real nice, you're running all over the globe. What are you doing about unemployment right here and feeling the blank? That's always a tough question. But we do need really people like you to help make the case that travel is important. It is a part of the job, and it's all of our responsibility. So let me just say that I think you're absolutely right. Let me also say this. It is important to make the security argument. It is important to make the trade argument. It is important to make the economic argument. All those arguments. But let us never fail to make the argument that it's just the right thing to do. Let's not fail to make that argument because you know what, people believe it. You know, I can tell you that sometimes people think that within our political party-based arguments that one side has a monopoly on compassion or whatever, the reality is that that is not true at all. My experience tells me that people who are of a conservative background are as compassionate of not more so than people who are on the other side of the fence. It's just that they're not sure that government's always the right way to express that. On the other side, you know, so we've got to have some sense that everybody is capable and wants to do the right thing. We just have to find the way that they can get it in the most effective way. And then let me finally say, you know, in terms of corporate America. Look, a corporation that is only out there to make money is like a human being that is only trying to survive. The best corporations are animated by high ideals, right? I mean, seriously, the best ones want to, I mean, Southwest Airlines, they want to give us freedom to fly, right? They, I mean, so my point is, let's set up the ethical rules in a way that allow everyone to do what they do best and give them the incentives to do that, making sure that certain things don't happen, you know, that this is not just a marketing thing, that there is some sincere and genuine interest in making sure that this country can develop its dairy industry so that people can have milk, you know, things like that. There are rules we can set in place to guard against the ethical abuses, but we shouldn't walk in assuming that they're gonna be that way and we should set the rules up in a way that basically put the incentives in so that the real benefit is accruing to the people. Just a few scattered ideas, but I've been thinking about this idea importantly because there's no doubt about it. In the world we live in, you know, the role of the corporate community is just too all-encompassing to simply say, you know, they're out to make a buck so they can't be a part of this, right? So we've got to find a way so that they contribute in the most effective way that actually meets our aims to deliver greater development and things like that. Actually, I think if you could argue that if you could create the conditions where doing well and doing good are combined, then all the incentives are properly aligned. It's the best of all worlds. Folks, don't you wish we had 535 members of Congress like this? Let's thank them with our applause.


Welcome to All Hands Update. I'm Pat after James Stillbeck with your headlines from around the fleet. The Navy is making changes to the Perform to Serve or PTS program. The changes go into effect February 4th and will align the Fleet Ride PTS and Career Management System Interactive Detailing or CMSID application windows. This will help sailors with order negotiation and improve system efficiency for career counselors. See NavAdmin 021-13 for the changes. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group returned to Naval Station Norfolk February 3rd after completing a composite training unit exercise or Comp2X. The exercise included several scenario-based missions including combat flight operations and replenishments at sea. The exercise aimed to ensure the carrier strike group can carry out missions effectively in preparation for their upcoming deployment. You can read more about these stories at Navy.mil. From All Hands Update, thanks for watching.


Mwneud fawr i'w ddweud y Llywodraeth Cymru, Paul Wheelhouse, Stuart Matheson, who is the senior policy adviser on electricity networks and regulation from the Scottish Government. We now turn to look at the renewables obligations Scotland amendment order 2018. I will invite the minister to make his opening statement. I thank you and the committee members and Indeed your clerks for allowing me the flexibility to appear late in your session today. I appreciate that you've had a long session today, so I'm grateful for your forbearance. The order before committee will, if approved, result in a minor amendment to the Renewable Obligation Order 2009 and before turning to the amendment itself. It might be helpful just to provide a little bit of background to the Renewable Obligation Order itself. There are three Renewable Obligation Orders, with one covering England and Wales, another for Northern Ireland and, of course, one for Scotland. Those orders place an obligation on UK electricity suppliers to source an increasing proportion of the electricity supplied by them from renewable sources. Renewable Obligation Certificates, or ROCs for short, are awarded to eligible renewable generators in respect of the output that they generate. Suppliers can then buy these ROCs and use them to demonstrate that they have met their obligation or they can pay a fixed sum into a buy-out fund for each ROC or Scottish ROC, the either can't or choose not to present. The obligation, as intended, has provided a hugely effective incentive for renewable generators with capacity across Scotland having reached 10.3 gigawatts as at the end of quarter 2 of this year. Indeed, the final figures for 2017 show that renewable generation supplied the equivalent of 69 per cent of Scotland's electricity consumption at a record high level, slightly higher than the figure that is quoted in the document itself, because since then we have had updated base figures. Successive Scottish Governments have largely maintained an approach consistent with the other UK obligations. However, there have been important exceptions where we have tailored the Scottish obligation to better reflect Scotland's particular needs and priorities. For example, in April 2009 we introduced enhanced rock bands for wave and tidal projects in Scotland and in April 2014 we introduced two new enhanced rock bands to provide additional support for innovative offshore wind projects in Scotland. The committee will recall that these devolved powers were curtailed by the 2013 Energy Act. The contracts for difference mechanism has now replaced the renewable obligation as a means of supporting new renewable capacity. However, although the obligations across Great Britain were closed to new capacity from April of last year, they will continue to run until 2037 for eligible projects. The order will now turn to the content of that for the committee. When the UK renewable obligations were closed in March 2017, changes were introduced that allowed generators to add capacity at accredited sites. This additional capacity would not be eligible for rocks, but nor would it affect the eligibility of the existing capacity at sites. However, article 17.4, within the Renewable Obligations Scotland Order 2009, has the effect of preventing any accredited hydrostations from adding capacity where that takes the declared net capacity of any such station above 20 megawatts. Our remending order will rectify that. It will allow hydrogenerating stations in Scotland to add extra renewable capacity while retaining their eligibility for Scottish rocks, only from the originally accredited capacity at their site. It will allow any generators who choose to do so to increase their renewable capacity and production without creating any additional costs for consumers. It will also bring hydrogenerating stations in line with all other technologies and allow them to compete on a level playing field. In conclusion, convener, we expect that this order is likely to have limited application, since it will only be of relevance to hydrogenerating stations that were accredited before 2002 and which have the ability to increase their declared net capacity above 20 megawatts. However, although its impact may be modest, it nonetheless provides a means to encourage additional renewable electricity generation in Scotland, and I believe that it is an equitable and sensible amendment. Before I formally move to the motion that we recommend in the order, I will of course be happy to respond to any questions that you or your fellow committee members have, convener. Are there any questions from committee members, Andy Wightman? We have received some evidence from SSEs who are responsible for the vast majority of the power schemes that have downgraded from a capacity exceeding 20 megawatts. My understanding is that SSEs have sold all its hydro assets to Drax. Scottish Power has sold their assets. SSEs still retain them. Ah, okay. Sorry. Apologies. I got it wrong. You have come up with scenarios—low, central and high scenarios—about the likely impact on generation. What are the kind of factors that will influence that? I think that, in fairness, Mr Wightman has raised a fair point. SSEs, we think, are unlikely at this stage to make amendments to their seven sites out of the eight that have had their capacity curtailed as part of the impact of the previous policy position. We do believe that one other developer, Simech, who has the Kinloch-Leven hydroscheme, which is serving the former Alcann spell to Liberty and I own at Lochaber, will potentially do that. The factors that we will play into this off-gem have made a point that, in order for this to be compliant, they will need to be either separate metering to fully record and make sure that there is not an overclaim on the rocks or, alternatively, they will pro-rata allocate over the total production from the site revenue through rocks to that part, that component or proportion that is eligible to receive rocks. That may individually, the developers will have to take a judgment as to whether that leads them in a better or worse position. I will be down to a commercial decision in the part of Simech as to whether they go ahead with this in Kinloch-Leven, but, at least, by removing this barrier, it allows them to make that decision and to potentially take it for it if they believe that it is the right thing to do. Similarly, SSEs have not ruled out doing it at some point in the future, but at this stage they have indicated to us that they are not likely to proceed. The overall impact will be modest, potentially an additional 10 megawatts of hydrocapacity at Kinloch-Leven. If all sites were to go down the route of reinstating the original capacity, that would be an additional 55 megawatts of hydrogenerating capacity that would be added, but with no additional cost to consumers, and that is an important point, that will be the case. The bottom line is that the order is removing a barrier, but it is up to the private generators to decide whether they wish to take advantage of that or not. Absolutely. Mr Wakeman is absolutely correct about that. I appreciate that this is about hydro schemes. Is there any likelihood or any chance that this could have any impact on constraint payments in the control wind sector? We do not believe so, but that is a clearly important point in terms of the capacity that is on the grid at localised level. There has been some discussion around the increased capacity needed at Lochaber to allow any increased capacity in hydro plant to actually transmit electricity to the grid. I believe that that is a commercial matter between Slymic and, in this case, SSE, as to the investment that is needed. We do not believe that there would be any direct impact, or at least I am certainly not aware of any, although I will ask my colleague Stuart Matheson just to confirm if that is the case, in that there are individual contractual relationships between developers and the distribution network operators as to receiving good capacity. There is already an arrangement in place, so if you liked those, trump any additional capacity that came in, you would have to argue for that separately with SSE and not eliminate the previous arrangements that there were for existing sites in the area. I do not believe that there would be any impact, but if I was your forbearance convener, I would maybe invite Stuart Matheson just to comment on that. I guess our assumption would be that, as part of that decision making process, Slymic would consult with the local network operator, which in this case, as the minister said, is SSE networks as to the available grid capacity. That would be part of the decision making process, the assumption being that, for Slymic to proceed with the project, there would be sufficient grid capacity available for them to export additional energy. In terms of impact of constraint payments, it would depend on whether there were wind generators in the vicinity that might be competing for similar grid capacity, but our assumption would be that SSE networks would only support that particular project if there was sufficient grid capacity for additional hydro generation and existing wind generation. If I might just add one point to that. Mr Hawker-Johnston, in the case of the Kilnillocleven site, if it is upgraded, then primarily that power will be directed towards the smelther itself. It is obviously a very energy intensive process and therefore there is a high concentration of demand for electricity in that locality. Therefore, the occasions in which transmitting net electricity generation into the grid might be quite limited. Initially, at least, given its own needs for electricity consumption, I suppose that the issue would be whether the smelther did not operate at some point in the future. Clearly, there would be an issue about unused capacity locally having to be transmitted into the grid, but hopefully we will never reach that point. Any other questions from committee members? Is there a reason why this was not done before? It is a good question, because it has been raised a number of times by individuals who have queried why this particular provision was in place in the first place. It would be fair to say that the derating of the plants was an unintended consequence of the original legislative change back in 2002, which was intended to allow a strand of activity to take place that would help the hydro fleet owners to reinvest in renewing their estate. The order actually helped to unlock significant investment from SSC and Scottish Power in renewing their existing hydro fleet. Therefore, it had a positive effect, but the unintended consequence was that several sites derated their capacity in order to come under the 20 megawatt threshold. That meant that we arrived at a situation today where we got this unfortunate barrier to them growing their output at a time when the world needs us to generate more renewable energy. It is an odd anomaly. I think that hopefully this regulation will remove that anomaly and that it will be able to operate on a level playing field with all our technologies. Well, if there are no more questions from committee members, we will move to the formal debate. I will invite the minister to formally move the motion. Does anyone wish to speak in the debate on the motion? If not, I will put the question. The question is that motion S5M-14103 be agreed to, are we all agreed? Finally, in light of timing, I will invite the committee to agree that, as convener, along with the clerks, I will produce a short factual report of the committee's decision on this and arranged of it published.


Some might say that Eugene Bostick's most memorable job began long after he retired. His golden years saw him take on quite a unique role, that of a train conductor for rescued stray dogs. However, the Fort Worth Texas native never expected his life to take such an unorthodox turn. It was the heartlessness of others that forced him to take on the duty of helping needy pets as he couldn't bear to see abandoned dogs being left to starve on the streets. We lived down on a dead-end street where me and my brother have a horse barn. People sometimes come down and dump dogs out here, leaving them to starve. Bostick told the Dodo. So we started feeding them, letting them in, taking them to the vet to get them spayed and neutered. We made a place for them to live. He's taken in countless abandoned dogs over the years and even gone one step further and caring for them. Apart from feeding them and giving them a safe home, the retiree also thought it would be nice to be able to take them on little trips with him and show them the sights. And that's how the idea of a dog train was born. One day I was out and I seen this guy with a tractor who attached these carts to pull rocks. I thought, dang, that would do for a dog train, he revealed. I'm a pretty good welder, so I took these plastic barrels with holes cut in them and put wheels under them and tied them together. With this special doggy train ready to embark on little adventures, Bostick began taking the nine dogs in his care around town once or twice a week. Residents would often spot them go puttering down quiet streets or through the forest near their home or stopping by a local creek for some fresh air in the adorable train. And no one loves it more than Bostick's doggy passengers. Whatever they hear me hooking the tractor up to it, they get so excited, he said. They all come running and jump in their own. They're ready to go. As Eugene Bostick and the dog train became somewhat of a local attraction, stopping for photo requests from locals became a part of their trip routine. Posting a photo of the adorable group on Facebook, Tiffany Johnson wrote, This is the coolest guy. He rescues stray dogs and every morning he takes them for a train ride by our building. I finally got the courage up to ask if I could take his pick. Love this and had to share. She also set up a GoFundMe campaign for Bostick to help cover the expenses of caring for the dogs. This sweet man rescues dogs from the streets by taking them into his home, feeding them and taking them to the vet and loving them. He's been giving to these dogs for so many years, so let's give back to him by helping him with the expenses it requires to take care of these fabulous furry babies. May God bless this wonderful sweet man, she wrote. With Bostick's story touching the hearts of everyone who came across him and his furry friends, the campaign raised a total of $17,052. For Bostick, however, nothing beats bringing a bit of joy to a handful of dogs who'd been through so much. I'm getting up in age, I'm 80 now, so I suppose it can't last too much longer. But I'll keep it going as long as I can, he said. The dogs have a great time, they just really enjoy it.


Chinese court has upheld the death sentence placed on a Canadian for drug smuggling. The decision is coming a day before another court is due to rule on the case of another Canadian accused of spying. Back in Canada, lawyers are making a final plea to convince a court there not to extradite the chief financial officer of telecoms giant Huawei to the United States, where she faces charges linked to violating sanctions. Meng Wanzhou was arrested on a warrant from the United States on charge with misleading HSBC holdings about Huawei's business dealings in Iran. She says she's innocent.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. Happy Saturday. Coming out to you with Jaspy's 12 box MBA Bublé mixer, bubble mixer with a couple of good giveaways. Look at this. At the end of the break, we'll re-randomize everybody's names. New dice roll, new list and all that jazz. Name on top, we'll get the Larry Bird, Julie's Irving Magic Johnson, graded PSA five, look at that. That's pretty sweet, right there. Look at those recent sales as well. And the second name, you saw that Zion up there, right? The second name down will get a BGS95 Zion Williamson rookie card, that's pretty good too. That's not too bad of a giveaway in this little 12 box bubble mixer. A lot of good bot, let me, you can get some nice stuff out of these boxes here too. Big thanks everybody right here for getting your spot straight up and congrats to the winners right here in Salo. We did four Salo packs and they went quickly. 40, 41, 42, three Salo packs. So congrats to those people there. Thanks for getting in. All 30 teams are in. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Three and a two, five times for each list. One, two, and fifth and final time. After five, we've got Brandon down to Brandon. The spot he bought straight up and a spot he won. Three and a two, five times for the team, one, two. And fifth and final time. After five times, we've got the Pacers down to the Cavs. Now, there's a number of different years, so I would encourage everybody just to be aware of what boxes are in there and trade at your own risk. All right, so Brandon with the Pacers, Mac McCarthy, Mike McCarthy, coach, Mike McCarthy with the Miami Heat. Stephen Kay, he got the Bulls. Oliver with the Knicks, Sean with the Grizz. Nice. Francis with the Pistons, DJ with the Celtics, Danny with the Kings, Adam with the Wizards. Brandon, last bottom mojo with the Thunder. They've been playing some good basketball. Zach with the Spurs, D-Mon with my Lakers. John with the Warriors, Sean with the Jazz. Matthew with the Sons, Chris with the Trailblazers. Josh with the Hornets, Kevin with the Hawks. Danny with the T-Wolves, Kim Soo Min with the Nets. Sean Matic with the Bucks. Courtney, he got the Nuggets. Brandon with the Sixers. Zach Paul with the Raptors. Richard with the Rockets.  Brandon with the Clip Show. Danny with the Magic. Tice with the Mavs. And Brandon with the Cavs. Mavs, Cavs on the bottom. All right, so let's sort by column B. Let's box these up right here. We're gonna pause the video when we come back. We're gonna see if there's any trades and then the break, stick around. All right, welcome back, folks. There was a trade, look at that. We got a trade, trade alert. So let's swing down here really quick. Let's make the font a little bit bigger. So Danny is out of the King spot and he's in the Nix spot now. Put a T next to there for trade. If you're following along at home, if you wanna see who draws first blood in the trade.  Kings fan. So there you go. I think that worked out nicely. A lot of trade chatter, but no other deals were done. So let's go ahead and print and rip. Trade window has been closed. Let's do that. And remember, we got these. If you're like Joe, I got randomized a crappy team. Or once we go through this, we're at a bad break, Joe.  Guess what? We got a chance at these. Name on top, we'll get that. Second name, we'll get that. So two out of the 30 spots that we sold in this break will have a shot at those cards right there, which will easily cover the spot if you bought it straight up. And if you wanna spot it, I mean, that's even greater return. All right. So there it is. 12 box NBA Boublé mixer. There's everybody right here. Thanks everyone for getting in. There's the final print out. Happy Saturday, everybody. Thank you very much for getting in. Man, Brandon, we've been pulling some heat left and right out of the baseball, out of the basketball, everywhere. Hopefully that trend continues here. I guess we'll start with, I kinda wanna get some of these, this bigger box out of the way, huh? How many do I have? 12, one, two, three, four, five, six. Let's get these multi-packs out of the way. 17, 18, Donner's Optic Basketball, sello packs, multi-packs right here. So I think Boston should kinda have their ears perked up. Jason Tatem opportunity these. Among others, but as per usual with breaks like this, vet commons will not ship unless you're Yanis, Lebron or Kobe, and second-year Luka Donchiches. Otherwise, veteran commons will not ship. All rookies, of course, will obviously will ship. Vet parallels will ship, vet inserts will ship, all inserts ship, and of course, the hits, autographs, and relics. Got baseball on in the background, giant stuff, two nothing on my Dodgers' NLA, fourth inning Kershaw, so on the mound. Lavering a little bit, although you guys, that was a nice strike out though. A lot of basketball action happening today. Do we turn off some basketball while we're doing a basketball break? Where's this Bucks Mavs game? Oh, ESPN? Stand by, folks. You got too much sports now. There it is, NBA basketball. No, no shot tonight. He was here till like six in the morning today. He's not a robot, I'm afraid. The Suns, are the Suns gonna snag an eight seed? Ladies and gentlemen, Phoenix won 119 to 112. They beat Miami, we're a pretty good team. My Lakers, who have locked up the one seed in the West, think they took the foot off the gas. They fell to the Pacers 116 to 111. In double overtime, Denver beat Utah 134 to 132. That looks like an exciting game. Clippers beat the Trailblazers 122 to 117. So they lost, which I like, because I don't want my Lakers facing Chris Welty. Yeah, I don't wanna see the Trailblazers. No thanks. No thanks. And I finally got the game on ESPN, Bucks are up 73-62. Brandon's saying that Mavs won a big run, we're down 11, but now up nine, not to half. But yeah, I'm definitely nervous. Lakers, it's almost like they practice not defending the three. Perimeter defense has been a difficult thing for the Lakers. Gotten even worse with Rondo out for another week or two. And with Avery Bradley opting out, which is understandable. I think he has like a kid with some respiratory issues, so he didn't want to risk that. I get it, but yeah, that's just gonna sting. That's gonna hurt.  So there's nothing to do about it. KCUP has to step up. I've seen him play defense before. You know, Caruso's gotta step up. Everyone's gotta step up. Maybe Playoff LeBron has to step up, play a little extra defense. But I don't know. I feel like the Lakers could beat the Trailblazers in the seven game series, but I feel like they're just gonna get real worn out, you know, going into another series. So they're not exactly the youngest teams. Yeah. No, you're right, Chris. Lakers' guards have nothing for Dame and CJ McCallum. It's gonna be tough. And they got Yousef Nurkage, healthy. They got that Collins kid healthy. They got Skinny Mellow, you know what I mean? So there's some challenges there. I mean, really, yeah, Hassan White's eyes on that team now too. Really, I think a lot of it has to do with, you know, LeBron's gonna do LeBron things. He'll be fine, right? It's gonna be Will Anthony Davis. Will he step up and dictate the pace of the game? He's gotta be a little more aggressive. You know, he's gotta be more aggressive with the basketball and impose his will on a team, on any opponent. And then there has to be like some defense that has to be played. And then a third option has to emerge, whether that's Kuzma, Townhorn Tucker. All right, good luck, everybody. 17-18 stuff, here we go. It's Devin Booker. He's been playing some good basketball. There's a Fox in the Box, Deer and Fox, Rated Rookie. That'll be for the Kings, Ollie on the board. There you go, Oliver, that's his guy. Just a base, right, Jackson. Sundarious Thornwell, Tony Bradley. Man, Josh Jackson kind of, a little wasted opportunity. Right? I feel like he was gonna be, not wasted opportunity, wasted talent maybe. There he is, there's Zach Collins. Milsab, there's T.J. Warren. That's not rookie T.J. Warren, but man, he has been playing some great basketball, great bubble basketball. There's John Collins, Dwayne Bacon. Terrence Ferguson, Markel Fultz. We've got Sheldon Mack, Sig Sirius, Warriors. We're not Warriors, Wizards, different W team. Adam Kelly with the Washington Wizards. Giannis with the purple, I think, background right there, purple border. It's a different parallel, nice Giannis. Going to the Bucks, Sean, even those non-rooky Giannises carry some value on the secondary market. Court Kings Giannis. Is Giannis on the screen right now? No, Spider-Man is on the screen right now. I feel like Dallas, if not this year, maybe next year. You know, if you get Luca Donchich growing into a man body, right?  You know, if we got Healthy Porzingis, look at that aggressive move on Giannis right there. You got Healthy Porzingis. You know, they've got some outside shooting with Seth Curry. They add a couple other pieces. Cuban will spend money, right? He can get some free agents there. You know, another good draft. A smart draft, a free agent or two. Ooh. Okay, maybe upgrade on the outside shooting says Chris Weld, he's there. But if you can get that. This is the exclusive stuff from 1718. All of these, of course, will ship. All right, so we've got a Raider Rookie Zach Collins and a nice Giannis right here to another Giannis. Blue Velocity, maybe? I'm not sure what they're specifically calling this, but all right, what should we do? Let's get that Mega Box way back there. Let's stay in that 1718 mood. David Downer saying, Nick's fans must hate watching Porzingis putting in work like this. Chris Weld, he says, I'm a Nick's fan. He's too soft for New York. Is he too soft for New York? When are you guys gonna get rid of Dolan? I feel like that guy just is like the hamstrings. Hamstrung, hamstrings. The potential for the New York Knicks. He's not leaving, but. I mean, you hear the stories about how like KD and Kyrie didn't want to go to the Knicks. And then years before, like, you know, because of Dolan, and then years before, you'd hear a little story about LeBron and Dwayne Wade didn't want to go to the Knicks and build a super team there. It's such a great history for that team, but come on. Like, Dolan cares more about, seems to care more about like the flash of being an owner, like, yeah, and his band. He's not gonna, he's not really, you know, working with former stars. Nick's history is not really being taken care of there. Nice Donovan Mitchell. So, I don't know, but he's never gonna sell, right? Yeah, he's never gonna sell, that's the problem. Donovan Mitchell raided rookie Sean Maddock in the Jazz. Jason Tatum raided rookie, nice. And that red-yellow pattern there. There you go, DJ, with the Cs. There you go, man. Now, just in time, I think you have, you're 808, right? DJ's 808. Using the old 808s, that classic bass drum sound.  These are pretty cool, okay. All right, well, what should we go? Yeah, let's stay in 1718, totally certified. Rex, what's up? You went through a box of basketball last night, found a Siakam select rookie, nice. Thomas Bryan, who's been playing all right for the Wizards rookie. A Gary Trent Jr. prison rookie. Well, the SGA's really nice, and the Yanis, of course. It's a good haul.  Dig through your old boxes of Jaspies basketball cards from when we weren't really selling too much basketball, and no one really cared that much about basketball hobby-wise. Take a look, you may find some treasures. Rex is finding treasures. I know Arthur Peruse said he was digging through some stuff, found a random silver Dirk Nowitzki. And he was like, man, Joe, when I got this from you guys at the time, dollar or two, silver, right? He's like, now it's like 20 bucks, 20, 25 bucks. Jax, what's going on? I don't know, we're only a couple boxes in 808. There's Aaron Gordon's 99, Yanis. So yeah, DTurk, what's up? So yeah, it's worth digging through your old stuff, ladies and gentlemen. There's Tyler Leiden, rookie roll call autograph for the Nuggets, that's gonna be for Courtney. Oliver, did you do a little clean as well and find some treasures? A Kauai rookie card, Harden Hollow, that sold for 750, not bad. And we got totally certified. Fabric of the game, Jeff Teague, nice low number. Look at that, four out of 10. T Wolves, that's gonna be for Danny. Westsawoondude 299. Yeah, I mean, look at what's happening, Rex, with TJ Warren. Some Pacers players opted out and now by default he's getting minutes and now he's shining. So now the hope is that guys like TJ Warren continue to play. Let's go, should we go here? Let's go here. All right, this is 13-14. I don't know how much of an impact the NFL will have. And I don't think a lot of people, not a lot of players have really opted out of the NFL season. I mean, only what, less than a hundred out of the hundreds of players that are in the NFL. What's 50 times 32 or something like? All right, plus practice squad people. I think basketball, just with just five players on the court at a time or for each side, I think guys like TJ Warren have more of an opportunity to make a bigger impact from the get-go. Football's a little different, I feel. Unless it's like a running bag, unless like, Ezekiel Elliott lops out. I think with a lack of guaranteed money in the NFL, a lot of players aren't opting out. Carmel Lund, 349. Arvita Sabonis, a little extra chalk on here.  And we've got, look at that. Look how young he looks right there. And skinny. Giannis Antedicumpo rookie card out of Panini Crusade. Someone look this up. Give me some sold prices on this. Bucks, Sean Matik who won this spot in a solo-pack break. Gets this Giannis rookie card. This could grade out nicely too. That's very nice. Kawhi to 249. Dirk Nowitzki, Anthony Bennett, Joe Dumars. Raymond Felton to 249. Andre Drummond, Terence Ross. And Zach Randall, that's a nice patch there. Grizzlies, that's gonna go to Sean. Ow, four to $900 says Ray Hughes. 6.99 says David Downer. A 9.5 listed at 1700 Canadian. That's crazy. There's Olnick to 249. Miles Plumlee and we've got Ish Smith. Kemba to 349 for Charlotte. Bill Walton, Kevin Durant. Are we Clayton saying that Giannis is 150 raw? There's Nate Thurman, one out of three. Golden State Warriors. John McCall with the Warriors. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. Shar Jefferson. We've got Wolters and Beasley. Yeah, looks like Clayton is right. On July 22nd, that same Giannis sold for 175, but graded a Giannis, BGS 95 sold for 700 bucks. That's pretty, that's still pretty nice. 150 on July 6th, but a PSA 10, 750 bucks. There's another raw Crusade rookie Giannis onto the Combo, 180. Yeah, it's pretty nice though. 180 for another one, the same Giannis that we pulled. 160 in June, so there you go. But yeah, those are sold prices. I'm looking at 130point.com. Searching eBay sales, searching all sold, sold items. It's not a bad price. All right, let's move into, move into some of this stuff. I'm not sure what I'm gonna close with. We'll go 1819 now. Maybe that crept up to 227 on August 2nd, says my tower. All right, here's a hanger box of Donner's Basketball, 1819 edition. So this is SGA and Mo Bamba, Trey Young, Luka Donchichir. Mo Bamba for the magic, that'll be Danny. SGA, that's still Clippers edition is rated rookie, so that'll go to Brandon. Triple J, these are the green borders right here. Not numbered. All right, and then Donner's Basketball Blaster. Can you imagine that Giannis starts developing and I think he's been shooting outside a little bit more, but if he continues to develop, like a security tag here, if he continues to develop an outside shot, it's crazy. Crazy things that he could get better. I know, I just saw them break down the wall that they're using to stop Giannis. That's the thing, that's why Giannis needs to develop like a credible outside shot. And then, I mean, how are you gonna stop that guy? Lopez, Brooke Lopez missed that three, but isn't it crazy how Brooke Lopez just worked on a three point shot and developed a credible three outside shot? I think that probably extended his career like a few more years. My Blaster Box, Clippers, SGA, Brandon, and an orange Willie Collie Stein, no number? No number, nice parallel though. Yeah, you can't stop. I guess when, yeah, I guess when you can get to the hoop in like two steps and they're like two dribbles from half court. Corbin Simmons out for the rest of the year. Deandre Aten been quietly playing some really great basketball, folks. He's been doing good. That's for the Suns, that's gonna go to Matthew Shearer. And what, Gary Tran Jr. right here doing well? Chris Trailblazers, I think there was another one in there too, that'll ship. I mean, it's almost, there's Donchich, nice. There you go, Mavs, Tice with the Mavericks, Luca Donchich. Was it another SGA that I missed? Oh, I'm sorry. All those will ship, those rated rookies. I'm just trying to catch as much as possible. Grace Nallen, rookie jerseys for the Jazz, that'll be for Sean. Derek Rose, Kevin Knox, Vanderbilt. It's Grace and Allen getting minutes? All sorts of things happening here. Let's stay in that 18, 19 mood here. Donner's Optic Basketball. All right, here we go. Another 18, 19 Vox, so more Trey Young and more Luca Donchich opportunities. Good luck. You gotta nail that shot, DiVincenzo. And he's gonna foul that guy, right? Because now he's mad. Giannis drives in, kicks it out to DiVincenzo. He misses a wide open three. He chases after that guy, and you know he's gonna foul him, he's pissed. Yeah, sure. Zach, I will, if I see one. The one vet common request of the day. Non rookie TJ Warren, but there he is. He's been playing some good ball. Another SGA, Triple J, Mo Bamba, Bradley Beal to 65, Kevin Huter. There is the Trey Young rated rookie. That's for Kevin, who was lamenting that there was no Trey Young in the previous box, but here it is in this box. Gotta save those, those hollows. Colin Sexton, Rose Grayson Allen, we're talking about him. Johnny Cueto with no hitting the Dodgers through five. I feel like Johnny Cueto, like kind of has a Dodgers number every once in a while, but wait till the Dodgers get to the Giants bullpen. All right, what should we do? I mean, we'll close with that origins back there. Let's get some of this prism out of the way. This is 1718 prism. So we're going back in time again to 1718. Yeah, I feel like Dan or somebody was talking about, there were some Simmons to Cleveland rumors, trade rumors, but like for who? I feel like there's some like next level numbers that kind of say that, and maybe I'm totally wrong about this, but I feel like there's some next level numbers that say that Ben Simmons, the Sixer's offensive efficiency with Ben Simmons on the court is actually sneaky, low key, not good. He's as an individual and healthy, I feel like he's good, but I don't know if he really connects with the, with that team. And I don't know if that's a team chemistry thing, a coaching thing or something like that, but I feel like that idea has been kicked around a little bit, which is why I think they moved him to forward as opposed to point guard, I think, in the restart. There's emergent Donovan Mitchell, Silver Tim Hardaway, Joanne Evans, Silver, guess we gotta save all these silvers. You never know what these guys can turn into. Goes to the Clippers, still Clippers addition for Blake. And we've got some purple, is that Kings or Lakers? It's Kings, De'Aaron Fox, a Fox in the box. That'll go to Oliver, who got his Kings in a trade. D-Mon and David Downer are saying, you would take, D-Mon saying lots of picks and Darius Garland. David Downer would take Sexton Garland, couple firsts for Ben Simmons. It's interesting, that trade rumor is out there. D-Mon, though, is just like, listen, Ben Simmons, mad overrated. What would the Philadelphia reason and be, oh, free up some cash for Philly? Oh, interesting. They want to keep him beat. Yeah, I don't think the surgery helps the Sixers leverage unless they just want to give them away cheap. Nice Tatum, base Tatum. Not a silver, but still nice. I feel like the Sixers are so close. Like, there's something, there's just like, they're like a step or two away, I feel like. You know, there's just one or two clicks away from things just locking into place. Base Tatum, Celtics, DJ with that one, 808 in the chat. Yeah, no worries, man, thanks for getting in.  They were doing excellent at home, so something's not quite right there in Philadelphia. But like, they're so tantalizingly close. Do they say that every year? No, there are some years where they were just bad. Those are just, as an outsider, there are just some years where they're bad. But I feel like this year, to me, I feel like they're like a piece or two away. Yeah, since Post, like, trust the process. They should have kept Jimmy Butler 116, but I feel like Jimmy Butler kind of saw what was happening in Philadelphia. He didn't like something about Philadelphia, you know? Maybe it was a mentality thing, I don't know. Because remember when everyone was like, lol's Jimmy Butler, he says he wants to win, and then he goes to Miami, and everyone thought Miami was garbage, right? Miami's not garbage. They look pretty good. So I don't know, maybe just something didn't click there for Jimmy Butler. Michael Kidd Gilcrest. Want me to sleeve this Brad Stevens here? 808, the Brad Stevens Silver, Gray's coach of all time. A little bit of glue right there, which can be cleaned off. Maybe you should have kept Foltz as Derek Ratton. Yeah, and that Foltz-Sixer's relationship was weird. Foltz kind of had the yips. Here's Harry Giles. And then the Sixers were like, he's not healthy, and he says he was healthy, and then maybe Foltz messed around with his shot that summer. I don't know, there was something weird there too. It was Pink Pulsar, Harry Giles, 1942. So I don't know, something's not quite right there. Nice Kobe, RIP. Watch MB had to Miami. See, that would speak volumes about the Sixers' organization. There's Derek White, Spurs, Zach Nguyen. Rookie Otto. I don't know, it's interesting. Does Jimmy Butler really want to be the alpha though? I feel like he distributes all right. If he trusts the guys, and they play as intensely as he does, you know? I've seen him defer to like Kendrick Nunn, and the big three-point shooter there, Derek and Tyler Hero. We'll see. I feel like the Sixers are close though. But I mean, things can shift in the NBA so quickly. The landscape can shift so quickly, quickly. Only five players on the court for each team, you know? So one or two players can, nice move by Donetsch. Good shot. Donetsch. There's Donovan Mitchell. Rookie, Donovan Mitchell for Sean and the Jazz. Dallas up 98-91, nine and a half left in the fourth. A long three nails that too. He was like two steps, let's get that fly out of here. Two steps behind the three-point line. I was like, it's so good. Luke Donetsch doesn't even have man body yet. Do you realize that? Like he's like 19 years old, he can't even have a beer. Like he's got, he has baby fat around him. Isn't that nuts? He's got baby fat on him.  All right, I thought you were younger than that. Time flies. All right, so now he can drink, but like 21's still really young.  He can get more fit, that's crazy too. All right, this is also, this is still 17, 18. We hear a couple of base cards on the bottom. Yeah, all right, let's see what we've got. We've got Noah, Nerlin's Noel, Paul George, Gordon Hayward. We've got Zach Collins, level one rookie. We've got Steph Curry right there. Latin maybe? We've got TJ Leaf, level three TJ Leaf for the Pacers. Dirk Nowitzki portraits to 175. Utah Jazz, Tony Bradley, fresh paint, on-card autograph. Yeah, Giannis was the opposite. Yeah, if you look back on that crusade card that we pulled in here, I'll do a recap at the end. There's Sean Maddock. He was really skinny, skinny Giannis. He built up a man body too. Cavs forward, LeBron James. That goes to Brandon and the Cavs. But yeah, Giannis was super skinny when he got into the league. There's had a 299. It's crazy, crazy to think that Luca Donchich could just physically just get better. Sons. Can you tell by the height and weight? 66206, Sons. Did you guys see the name? 66 is kind of short. I'm sure we can figure that out. Short for a basketball player. Not short to me. Guard size. Now, Josh Jackson's kind of big, isn't he? He's, Josh Jackson's got to be more than 66. I think Josh Jackson was playing forward, perhaps? I don't know either. No, he's not that much taller. Josh Jackson's 6'8". It's Devin Booker. Was Barkley 6'6"? Barkley was not carrying 206, though. Yeah, we got to put a three in front of that, maybe. There you go, that'll go to the Sons. Nice box hopper from Matthew Shearer. That's where we're giving away the name on top. We'll get this, second name, we'll get this. So if you're like, man, Joe, I've been getting crushed on this break. Remember, you still have an opportunity to win those, and we still have origins, 1920 origins left, too. Jet is endorsing the Chakarone Pizza. What is the difference between a Chakarone Pizza and a Peperoni Pizza? Like a standard Pep. All right, and now we're into 1920, Donner's Optic Basketball. I think this is a retail box, so I think an autograph is not guaranteed in this. If I remember correctly, right? The orange boxes were retailed. I think I have a box list here. Yeah, I think this is a retail box. Whoa, I don't know if I want that, Zach. It's just larger, it's just Chak-sized. It's bigger, more cheese and more Peperoni. Is it like extra large? Like, what is it? What is that? Large, extra large? I guess I could look it up. It includes Icy Hot and some general car insurance. Someone told me that when Chak was young, like the general insurance was the only insurance company that would insure his mom's car or something like that. And so now he does general ads for free, something like that. Maybe not for free, but for not that much. Less his usual rate. Juan, I never would have known if you never told me. I don't mind. Do you watch the same TV show every day? Do you eat the same food every day? Oh, bull bull. The guilt got to you, it's okay. It's all right. There's semi-Ojole autographs. Injury series auto for DJ and the Celtics. Yeah, Chak does sell, he's like paid men. They'll just do everything. J-Dog, what's going on, hola? All right, this is 1920. There's LeBron James Lakers edition for Demon. Come on, no John Morant, no Zion's here. Second-year Donchich. Then Chris Welty said Mitchell Robinson he likes, likes his game. Ask and ye shall receive. Rated rookie, John Morant, holo. Here I was whining about, just whinging about where the big hits. There's one right there. That goes to Sean Maddock, who won this spot in Mosaic Selo 340, got randomized the Grizzlies and the second to last box gets a John Morant holo. I think, let's actually have, I haven't looked at John Morant holo prices in a while. Let's go to 130point.com. We're not affiliated with them, but they do a good job. Daunris, Optic, John Morant, holo, I guess will be my search. Loading search results. Raw, on Saturday, August 8th, that's today. 541 Pacific, that was two hours ago. Best offer accepted, $430. They were asking five. They were asking 499.99, they got 430. Another person was asking six, accepted for 70. PSA nine goes for $500, PSA 10 goes for $1,800. And there's the second year Donju, which I think do okay on a secondary market too. Okay, origins. Last break of the day, this box slides out, yeah. Or last box of the break, that is. There's a couple of base cards on the bottom, yeah. We'll use that blank card to hide some of the hits a little bit. All right, we got Aaron Gordon to 99, Magic, Danny. We got Cam Reddish for the Hawks, Kevin. We got Nassir Little for the Blazers, that'll be for Chris. We got Goga Battazze for the Pacers, he's gonna get some minutes here, Brandon. Got Lonzo Ball for the Pels, I like the art here and the backgrounds I think look really cool. And the final two hits of the break, we got Ronde Hollis Jefferson, seven out of 49, Origins Memorabilia, that is Raptors Edition going to Zach Paul. And the last one here is gonna be RJ Barrett, the guy on the box. Jersey Ann Autograph, 92 out of 99. I feel like he still has some great upside. That goes to the Knicks, Danny Connell, on the opposite side of that Kings trade. Nice, nice, RJ Barrett, R, P and A. No points or anything like that to randomize. Excellent, good break. Thanks everyone, let's randomize this off to somebody and then we'll do a quick little recap. Let's flip back to the screen right here, so everybody gets a shot at it, from Kevin and the Hawks out of Adam and the Wizards. And the top name is gonna get the triple player one and the second name will get the Zion. Nice, good deal, good giveaway in this one. All right, let's roll it, let's randomize it, a full 12 times, top two names after 12, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. Good luck everybody, and 12th and final time after 12. First off, everybody from three down to 30. Thank you very much everyone, thanks for getting in, really appreciate it. And the winners, Zion, BGS95, good subs, goes to Josh Zetz, Josh, how many times did I call your name during the break? Zero, there you go, edges are at 10, centering, corner surface at nine, five. That's pretty excellent actually. All right, and the name on top gets the PSA five from 1980 tops, scoring leaders, Bird, Irving, and Irving, Maddie Johnson. And it's Zach Gwyn, there you go, with a cello pack. Gwyn, Zach Gwyn, I don't think I called your name too often, if at all during the break. Maybe that one spurs auto or something like that. I don't know, but you get this one as well, which actually sells for a little more than that to be honest with you, which is kind of crazy. Maybe not so crazy, look at these guys, these guys are pretty good. All right, there you go, and yeah, here's another look at this, Josh, yeah, Josh's like, you said my name's Zero Time during this break. That's why these meters are great, folks, still have an opportunity at this, even if the break itself was kind of bad. So there you have it, quick little recap, I guess, yeah, I've got an hour long break, quick little recap, not too bad here.  And Giannis was nice as well, I gotta grade that, Bucks. Some Tatum's, Mitchell, Deer and Fox right there as well, so pretty solid stuff, great stuff, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks everybody for getting in, I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com and I'll see you next time for the next break, bye-bye.


Welcome back to my channel guys. It's your girl Coco styles and on this channel. We talk about beauty fashion lifestyle and styling So today I have a quick little I guess you can say a haul I did purchase quite a few things fall is here And you guys know got to get your jacket game on point So and I got some boots that I wanted to show you guys one of the boots I'm not too sure if I'm gonna keep it And I'll tell you why when I unbox them and then I have some stockings that I purchased from Sheer text I'm tall so I usually struggle when it comes to finding tights that actually fit me properly that are not too baggy So I'll show those I am gonna pop in videos as I try everything on Because I don't think you're going to be able to see the entire full All right, I am so this jacket It's a trench coat a Leather trench coat from cost it is a hundred percent leather and It's an oversized An oversized leather jacket. It doesn't have any hardware Which I love and the reason why I love that is because You can wear any type of hardware on it I need to bring my other mirror back in here so I can see over here But here's the jacket I'm gonna come a little bit closer just for a second so you guys can see there's no hardware on the jacket That's my sweater The back of it. It's so wrinkled. I'm kind of annoyed. You guys know how I feel about packaging I'm kind of annoyed at cost the way they shipped it so it's been hanging for a few days. It still has wrinkles in it I'm gonna see if I could um Old school for my old school people you would stick it under like a mattress Overnight and just kind of like lay it out or whatever. It's it's the it's the bottom, but the thick belt The belt has no hardware again. Like I said, I love that part It's made really well sleeves are long It has like some detailing right there. I like the whole jacket is pretty much the same As far as I've been stitching Here's the back of it. You just tied up and show you guys and I believe this is a large I think this is a large So That's how the back of it looks and then the front I'm not even really tired. I'm just going to put it in the pocket It has pockets Really really nice coat. Um, if you are looking to buy a trench coat That is leather if you Don't want a full leather coat the Frankie shop has one But I think they're out of stock. It is very oversized and it has some detailing it has shoulder pads I wanted something a little bit more Sleep this sweater is so thick under here Yeah, so that's Park is pull this in However, you want it. I didn't pull the tight But if you want to pull it tight, you can and however you want to All right Again, this is the jacket. I love it because it doesn't have any hardware and This is a large So if you wanted to put Shoulder pads in here you could Amazon does have them They look okay, but I think they are detachable So if you didn't want to wear it and then again the back, this is a really really nice coat guys Like this Definitely check them out. I'm sure I got a large Let me just read some of the specs all for you It's hot in this room Let's read some of the specs. I got a large Let me show you guys the inside It's kind of close so you guys already know so it has like a little layer there Inside it's just a thin layer. It's not there's no lining or anything like that This is the belt simple belt I Like simple stuff like this that'll make an impact on any outfit that I wear This is dope You guys are you gonna know I like leather I'll do faux leather But I would really prefer leather for stuff like this that I know I'm going to have for a long time Stuff like this, you know, some things I could do faux leather leather pants aren't bit much because they are expensive but So that's the jacket. Let's make sure this is hung up properly properly. And yes, this is a large So I did get a large It's made in Turkey And the price of this one was 890, which I think is really good for a full leather coat It's hard to find full leather guys. It is like it's just it's hard And I'm trying to think is this jacket I think that's a beacon The only other jacket that's full leather is that other tan color when I showed you guys before So that's this jacket. No hardware very sleek Very nice If you are interested in this, I would say get it Especially if you're a person that likes to switch up your hardware If you like silver and you got gold buttons, you're kind of like stuck. I don't know. I just don't like to mix it to but Definitely get you this jacket Um I'm just gonna go to the to the tights that I got stockings And I'm gonna actually show you guys a video with this one With with these on I'm moving over here because I'm sure I'm gonna insert something And I'm gonna show you guys the boots when I have the boots on with these So one of these I'll probably pop in a picture of the styles I got the double I think it's called double Modern double seam sheer rip resistant tights And then I got these I got these in an extra large guys. I because I you know Sometimes being tall the struggle is Pulling things up and them not getting past my thigh. I'm not the biggest girl But what happens is It just doesn't get far like I needed to Um, and then the other ones it's just a They sent me to Oh, this one just has the seam in the back. So remember the old school tights seam in the back This one has front and back which I wanted. I wanted to try both Um, and they both are an extra large and the little packaging is cute.  Let me see. Can you guys see that? Look at the little packaging One has a little door game.  Um, and these are made in brazil uh, they are like the ivory color And I got a size 11 So Here's here's my issue They're not ugly. I like them I'm not used to a round toe So let's slide I'm not used to a round toe It's different So one defense one should I keep them you guys let me know But I have an idea Of how I want to wear these Um, and I'll probably try it on with the the jacket and the pants if the pants are not super wrinkled Um, but Jesus, they're so bright. But here are the boots.   They do have that That hidden zipper that I always talk about that I like Um, I think they're really cute. So I when I show you guys the photo The video, of course, I'm gonna pop it in for you guys to see but Yeah, I don't know what you What do you guys think I'm gonna pop them on in the video and go through it Nice heels. The heel is nice Let's see what else And they are called in stretch leather. So they're called marsh marsh harsh Struct leather ankle boots and they're by Ted Baker and these were I believe 260 I don't know. I'm on the fence. I'm gonna try more of my other thing and see how I really like it I have a lot of things that's this color It's just I like this color from camo that can go with this from blush that can go with this um Like olive green can go with this Huh, what else a lighter Freakin I want to say white but like a taupe um Pretty much anything. It's a neutral color. So both of these So I'm still holding on to the to the receipt Once I try one again, I'm gonna I'm gonna be sure and then the final thing that I got was these chunky boots by Gia pernil And I don't know how to say her last name test bit. I think she's an influencer if I'm not mistaken Um, and these are her chunky her chunky heel boots Her chunky boots now. Here's the thing with these When I got these I like the packaging it's pretty cool Good dust bag. I actually really like these dust bags Um, some brands have like they don't have nice dust bags. I like this one. This is This is bright guys. I'm gonna um, I'm gonna turn it down. So Just so you guys I won't be looking like washed out and stuff um nice dust bag And I'm gonna bring this up before now And these are the chunky poops I was never into these because I got some bigger feet. However I like these they are not too Big as far as like the um The Prada boots these are perfect for me not too wide Um, but I'm gonna tell you right now. I had to get them stretched and I'm gonna tell you why So what he did was he's softened the leather for me They're still the boot is still the same in same condition This is still fitted if you have really thick calves You're going to have trouble with this and I got these from Farfetch You know this low tag right here But he's softened the leather to where it's easier for me to get them on I don't think he actually stretched the boot itself Um, because I didn't have an issue with that I have a high instep so I struggled to get them on and even the back was like so hard back here So I pretty much got them to stretch it and soften up the leather So I will pop in a video with these on as well and I'll keep the stockings on with it so you guys can see But these are super cute and these were Look at how much these were I'll I'll link these below, but I've seen a really nice pair from Donnie They kind of similar to this but guys there's a whole bunch of brands out there You don't have to spend a lot of money on these but I will say this Try to get some that are leather Okay, so that's all I have for you guys today. What do you guys think about these? Should I I'm gonna keep these Should I keep those? those ivory color ones But I'll pop in some videos for you guys so you guys can see it How I'm actually gonna wear this I'll link the jacket I'll try to link something similar that is less money Um, that's still of a good quality. I'm not mad at vegan leather It just has to be a good quality vegan leather Those pants that I purchased They're not the best. I like them because they're long, but they could have picked a better vegan leather um, but These guys if you have wide I'm gonna say it again just for the folks Who may have missed it if you have wide calves? These are not for you If you have super wide feet, these are not for you If you have a slight high instep you can get that part stretched out a bit Um, but definitely if you have wide calves, no, there is no so you guys know my camera died. I can't um But yes, if you have wide calves, these are not for you They do not have the additional elastic piece if you have a high instep I would say just go and get them stretch just a bit To give you some leeway to get your foot inside. So I'll show you guys these on my feet But that is it guys. So let me know if you guys think I should keep the other boots I'm gonna pull them out just one more time So you guys can see them One more time. Oh man, it's so bright. I'm gonna get a better view for you guys I like them. It's just that they're so round toe But I think they're cute. They're very very round toe. I don't know We'll see I'm gonna put them on again and check them out. But that's it guys That's all I have for you guys today. I'll let you know how this heights fit um In the in the captions and the whatever you call it how these fit if they are to the size Like I said, I got an extra large because I am tall Um the jacket. I love the jacket if you are looking for something like this Definitely go to cost I will find something that is similar that does not have any hardware That is vegan and then I'll find something that is Full of it. I may not be as much but this may be the cheapest because it is leather. So That's all I have for you guys today. Let me know what you guys think. Hey, if you stay this far Watching me Do this, um, make sure you hit that subscribe button. Let me know what you would like to see I am always open for suggestions guys. I have a slew of things to do But we only have but so much time So make sure you're following me on instagram my cocoa styles and why and cocoa styles and why I see In my blog cocoa styles and why see in my styling services cocoa styles and why and if you stay to the end of this video Please comment cocoa. We see you and I will catch you guys later. Bye guys