We're going to now turn to a problem that seems to me, from my perspective anyway, be getting a lot more media attention than it has in the past, wildlife trafficking. It's certainly a huge problem, multi-billion dollar problem, the third highest trafficking in terms of volume after narcotics and weapons. So certainly a scourge for developing countries. We're going to hear from three experts right now. I'm going to ask Gretchen Peters, Jackson Miller, and Sarah Prey to come forward, please. Can everyone hear me? I feel a little bit like Oprah, and I have to tell you, I love it. I hope you guys are ready to talk about your childhoods in addition to wildlife trafficking. Good morning, my name is Sarah Prey. I'm the senior policy analyst for Africa at the Open Society Foundation. Thank you all for being here and thanks to GFI for inviting me to participate in this. I do have to correct the record. I'm not an expert on wildlife trafficking. These two are, but I am happy to shepherd the discussion. Just a brief word on where Open Society Foundation is coming to this issue. Some of you may be familiar with the Open Society Foundation, where a global grant-making and advocacy organization founded by George Soros, we operate all over the world in about 50 countries, focusing on governance, accountability, and the rule of law. Many of you know, sort of, our traditional entry into this space was around transparency and accountability, particularly around natural resources. We were one of the early funders of the publish what you pay movement, and I think the natural evolution has now been to increasingly focus on illicit financial flows, and for example, our fiscal governance program, which is a grant-making program, is starting to look a lot more at these issues, and some of our regional work, most notably our West African Foundation, has been partnering with GFI and doing some great work, so take a look at that. But without further ado, I think we'll turn to our discussion. I think that the hope of this panel today is to look at wildlife trafficking, to be sure, but also to look at it in the broader context of transnational crime and illicit financial flows, and how this particular issue is part of a much bigger puzzle, what those connections are, and in light of those connections, what are the ways forward and the policy prescriptions they're in. So I think you have their bios, but just briefly, Jackson Miller is going to kick us off, and then we'll turn over to Gretchen. Okay. Thanks. May I use? You go for it. All right. Hi. Good morning, everyone. My name is Jackson Miller. I'm the lead analyst for Wildlife and Environmental Crimes at C4ADS. We are a DC-based nonprofit, and we specialize in data-driven research and analysis on illicit networks worldwide. I use the term illicit rather broadly, as our past work has dealt with a wide range of issues from tracking Russian arms shipments to Syria via Ukraine, along with examining the nexus of natural resource constraints and terrorism in the Sahel. And for the past couple of years, we've been delving into the drivers of transnational wildlife and environmental crime. But first, before I start, I'd like to thank Global Financial Integrity for not only hosting such a great event, but for also dealing with my slew of emails at 2 a.m. last night as I tweak this presentation. But to kick it off, so the global trade in illicit elephant ivory, which is what I want to focus on today, flows through a rather long and complex supply chain, primarily from Sub-Saharan Africa to markets in Southeast and East Asia. And depending on where one is positioned along this supply chain, ivory can acquire a variety of use values. For example, in the poaching leg of the supply chain, in the heart of the African bush, ivory for the most part takes the form of bush currency, right? Simply bartered in exchange for poaching weapons, ammunition, or in some extreme cases food and other means of subsistence. Moving up the value chain, if you will, along the trafficking leg, ivory has also taken the form of a financial or an investment vehicle for speculation. In fact, our research has suggested the existence of privately held stockpiles across the African continent and Southeast and East Asia, where investors are hedging a continually rising retail price. And finally, on the consumption side, ivory is a pretty unique retail item, right? With a consumer base all over the world with a variety of markets. And as you can see, from aggregating a series of ivory retail market studies from scholars like Esmond Martin, Lucy Vine, Vincent Nigeman, Daniel Stiles, along with countless interviews with people on the ground across the African bush, you'll see a vast differential of retail prices. For example, the price that you'll see in an African bush market for a small carved ivory item such as a bangle or a necklace in a market like in Dele in the Central African Republic is only a sliver of the price that you may find in an African urban center like Kissinggani in the DRC, which again is an even smaller sliver of the final retail price that you'll see in an Asian consumer destination such as Beijing, where auction houses last year witnessed prices skyrocket to $2,100 per kilo. And what you're also seeing is a trade that's characterized by value of these ivory products being extracted and also accrued by and large by consumers that exist thousands of miles outside of the African continent, largely at the expense of those local populations living in close proximity to elephant ranges. And Gretchen's work, of course, brings this point home, but wildlife crime does often converge with other forms of conflict and illicit activities. And I think moving forward, I think we both would like to bring the point home that wildlife trafficking and wildlife crime really does not exist in isolation as a purely conservation issue anymore. I'd love to talk about more specific details of these instances offline or maybe in the Q&A. But from our past research, we have found evidence to suggest that Sudanese-linked militias are involved in the ambush of not only park rangers but also mass poaching incidents of elephants. We've uncovered evidence suggesting that South Sudanese police forces are crossing transnational borders into places like the DRC and Garamba National Park to also secure ivory from endangered elephant populations. We've read accounts of Congolese army commanders providing weapons to rebel groups in exchange for ivory and gold. We've worked alongside Gretchen's firm building out allegations linking illicit timber operations with bush meat poaching in Central and West Africa, along with uncovering the nexus between ivory and copper smuggling in Tanzania and diamond and ivory smuggling in Botswana. Now apart from the fact that wildlife crime may exist and may converge with a series of illicit economies, when ivory flows out of the African continent, it by and large obfuscates itself within channels of licit maritime commerce and finance. So our global ivory seizure database, which has logged approximately 800 seizures, unique ivory seizure instances since 2009, suggests that by and large the global ivory trade nestles itself in licit maritime shipping lanes. So we estimate that annually the vast majority of the global ivory trade flows in as few as 100 to 250 containers per year, along a mere handful of key choke point container ports, along the Sub-Saharan African seaboard, Southeast and East Asia, along shipping lanes managed by a mere 10 to 15 companies. And as we've seen, wildlife traffickers actually use a very, a wide variety of means of physical obfuscation to actually, to cover their operations, to transport 500 kilos or several tons of this contraband across geographic boundaries, across these illicit supply chains. So we've seen ivory covered in shea butter, videography equipment, charcoal, peanuts, and even containers themselves physically altered to hide this contraband. Now if you will indulge me, let me provide a more specific example of a network of large scale ivory seizures that are loosely linked through a single logistics and transport network and also to provide you guys a bit of insight into how we approach this issue as an issue of transnational organized crime. So let's start off with April 25th, 2015. Overd officials at Lam Chibang Port in Thailand, which is a port right outside of Bangkok, seized 3.1 tons approximately of ivory products, obfuscated in tea leaves originally from Mombasa, destined for a company in Vietnam. Now when this ivory shipment was about to be transported from Mombasa, the consignee or the receiver of the shipment was actually changed multiple times, originally from a Dubai-based trading firm to a Laotian-based company to again a Vietnamese based, a Vietnam based firm. Now digging into our data sets using a variety of company, using a variety of public records such as company registers, trade documentation, customs reporting, and also local media insight along with I guess eyes on the ground, we actually were able to find that the vehicles that are used to transport this ivory to the port of Mombasa, the container freight station of Mombasa along with the exporters all match those logistic profiles of a seizure of 3.7 tons across two containers seized in Singapore a mere weeks later on May 16th this year. Now this same exporter at least shipped probably six containers in the past calendar year. The three containers that have been seized at this point all contained multiple tons of ivory per container. So there is a likelihood that what if you want to estimate probably three tons per container being unseized, we're looking at nine to ten tons of ivory products completely making its way through global shipping lanes undetected. Now digging through our past data sets we've also noticed that other vehicles and other transport mechanisms also match those that have facilitated the shipments of at least three large scale ivory seizures from 2015 seized at very distinct points of the ivory supply chain in places like Mombasa, Singapore, and Hong Kong. And it turns out that the consigner of the specific Hong Kong seizure that's referenced here of 1.3 tons also had previously been arrested and subsequently acquitted for their role in attempting to ship illicit copper products from Zambia to Tanzania in 2011. Now right here we're looking at a network that probably trafficked over 14 tons of ivory products from the single logistic and transport infrastructure. If we want to assume an average test weight of 3.7 tons along with if we want to assume that this quantity seized here represents approximately 10% of the total contraband being trafficked as in this 10% seizure rate being accepted by a variety of Western law enforcement officials, we're looking at elephant products coming from approximately 18,000 to 19,000 elephants. If we want to assume further that the three containers that were unceased also contain similar quantities of ivory then we're looking at up to 35,000 elephants killed and whose ivory products being transported in the course of two years. Now 35,000 is the majority of remaining elephant populations in key elephant corridors such as Mozambique. Now scaling back a bit looking at the 14 tons and assuming a retail value of approximately 14 USD per kilo taking the mean of several of the most recent mainland Chinese retail studies along with Hong Kong retail market studies and Vietnam market surveys, you know this contraband could be worth up to $20 million. Now I presented this network briefly in July but since then some interesting developments have taken place. Whatever this Vietnamese based consignee that had been the final recipient of the seizure that happened in Thailand in April 25th. Well just this past month in August after tracing the beneficial ownership of this company in August 13th approximately 600 kilos of ivory were seized along with 142 kilos of rhino horn originally from Mozambique were seized in the port of Da Nang Vietnam also consigned to this same firm. Now although the Vietnamese business register is incredibly easy to navigate and is incredibly comprehensive and easy to digest in terms of extracting information on you know directors and ownership of the company this identifying information was actually very scarce and it turns out several of these companies labeled here were actually established probably in March or April of this year. Now this leads us to assume potentially the use of shell or anonymous companies or establishing these commercial entities for the sole purpose of receiving these shipments. Days later after this ivory rhino horn shipment was seized in Da Nang another 2.3 tons of ivory obfuscated in timber was also seized in the port of Da Nang not originally from Mozambique but this time originally from Lagos, Nigeria and then days later a five ton wildlife product shipment was seized again in the port of Da Nang consigned to a company according to Vietnamese customs of having I guess a variety of business relationships with this original Vietnamese based consignee. Now this five ton wildlife product shipment contained approximately one ton of ivory products and four tons of pangolin originally from Malaysia shipped to Vietnam. Now stepping back a bit what can we do moving forward you know what can we do as Westerners or as Americans how can we approach how can we pursue action against this wildlife trade that largely flows along a Sub-Saharan Africa Asian supply chain. Well we have found that wildlife traffickers often maintain multiple bank accounts across disparate jurisdictions and what we're looking at here is the sales contract from a lay ocean based trading firm trafficking hundreds of thousands of protected species to another trade based firm or a trading firm in Vietnam. Now the lay ocean based firm is owned by a Vixay Kaosavang a loud based wildlife trafficker who actually has a one million dollar reward from the state department for quote I believe any information leading to the dismantling of his network. Now Kaosavang like this Vietnamese firm may have a global network of facilitators and also wildlife trafficking counterparts. If we want to look at this issue of wildlife crime is purely a conservation issue what's most compelling about this contract is the sheer quantity of animals that are being trafficked right but for our interests here that's not really the most compelling information right the most compelling information is this section here in the sales contract that states bank account information. So there's a number provided for an account at the Loud Development Bank of Paxon branch. Service level reading of this may suggest that all right it's just the nearest local bank nearby however this bank itself has approximately a dozen foreign core and spondent banking networks five of which are US based institutions if we want to now and if we assume that the majority of transnational financial flows especially from African Asia are denominated US dollars there is a high likelihood that this transaction that this capital did clear through a US financial or a Western financial system giving that jurisdiction a clear mandate to investigate these financial transactions further and it's this these financial flows and investigating into these financial flows even further that may yield a grander impact on diminishing the capacity of these key facilitators to continuing the trade because figures like chaos of on figures like this Vietnamese trading firm they may be operating several if not dozens of did of ostensibly disparate supply chains and if we focus tackling the financial angle then we can severely diminish their capacity to continue this trade and really make a dent an actionable dent in the state of wildlife crime today so I know I went a little over over time but thank you guys very much for indulging me and I look forward to your questions all right good morning I'm going to say many of the same things that Jackson just said in his excellent presentation my objective when I became involved in tracking wildlife crime was to follow the money and to and investigate the logistical and financial operations that were underpinning the major networks that are moving wildlife predominantly were focused on elephants and rhinos being poached in Africa and trafficked to Asian consumer markets now I want to just start by asking a hypothetical question why are traffickers smuggling wildlife and the answer of course is to make money yet this very simple point seems to be lost on somewhere in the range of 95% of the conservation community we found a huge amount of attention is being focused on putting up fences around national parks and private reserves putting more park rangers out to protect wild animals across vast areas of wild space and when we start of wild territory and very there are virtually no groups almost besides C4ADS and our team that are actually trying to follow the money and understand logistically how these trafficking operations are set up and the reason that this is important there's a number of reasons why it's important and as Jackson just said it's an area where the U.S. and the U.K. whose currencies dominate global trade can really start to impact this problem I believe but it's also important because there are so many so much fewer actors at this level when we started looking in we had a project last year that got off the ground twice and then twice got got 86 by the South African government we were going to be working with the South African government to help follow the money around rhino horn trafficking twice at the very last minute our project was cancelled when some uneasy politicians in the ANC government that currently is in power in South Africa decided they didn't want American financial investigators looking into the problem as closely as we were planning to so our project got cancelled not once but twice I still have the piece of paper if anybody wants to see it mandating me to work with South Africa's financial intelligence center on rhino horn trafficking but it's not even worth the paper that it's printed on so we've had we've actually had quite a lot of challenges trying to get governments in Africa and Asia to open up their financial records to us and help and let us help them look for what's going on but we've nonetheless working in open source and working very closely with Jackson's team at C4ADS found some quite interesting information I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the links that we've put together but but it's really important to look at the financial flows around wildlife trafficking if we intend to save these animals. Seizing ivory shipments of ivory is something that happens after the animals are already dead. One of the things that we have learned over and over again in virtually all the countries that we have done research on this issue in is that poachers can generally not finance poaching by themselves just as an example the bullets that you use to hunt great game like elephants and rhinos cost as much as twenty to thirty dollars per bullet your average poacher if you recall back to Jackson's doughnut that he presented in the last in the last presentation the average poacher is paid a pittance they can't afford to buy they can't afford to fill the tanks of cars they can't afford to buy cars to actually drive out to the parks where they're poaching so it has to be financed by somebody and we believe that if we can help cut the financing the poaching will stop second of all we are we are finding that traffickers are using the wildlife traffickers are using trade based money laundering and I want to give a shout out to my friends Rob Subirsky and John Cassara in the corner here because we we are all trying to help people who want to understand how transnational organized crime works in the world you must understand the extent to which value is moved through the global transport system in the form of commodities so we will we will regularly encounter traffickers who are in South Africa or Mombasa or Dar es Salaam or Zanzibar who are moving you who are also working as used car traders who also have import export firms moving agricultural products moving used clothing they're running hotels casinos cash based businesses that they can use to launder their proceeds and also and sometimes those import export firms are actually used to move the illicit commodities but as often as not it is a they operate these firms as a way to bring things of value back and those are their profits and there's very little understanding of how those systems work and we believe we can help African governments and Asian governments understand better how those systems work third of all another important thing that we're learning is that the traffickers engaging in wildlife crime are not just moving wildlife in fact most of them what we're finding are predominantly narcotics traffickers in some places like South Africa and Mozambique we're seeing a huge convergence with human trafficking to give you a really evil an example of a really evil case of trade based money laundering we've here have reports of women being trafficked into Africa from Asia and rhino horn moving from Africa to to Asia so Asian women being brought as sex workers and the value that is put on them is sent in rhino horn out to Asia so no money actually change hands and I can also say the other broad conclusion we can make from the from the work we've done so far is that is that corruption is probably the elephants biggest threat in Africa we have we're looking at this problem in a number of different countries in some places and and and everywhere we're looking at corruption is the single most important enabling factor for getting ivory for getting elephants or rhinos or other animals killed and getting the wildlife parts out of the country it might this might be the Park Rangers who get paid off to help poachers identify where the animals are it might be customs officers taking a payment to let a to let a container go through and in some places that we're working or we're investigating the the state itself is the primary criminal actor in moving wildlife and they're not just moving wildlife we the convergence with other narcotics with other illicit products in particular narcotics but also weapons is is profound I want to go through I don't have much time so I want to go through some of the incredible convergence that we have found as we've looked at our as we've looked into the networks across the continent we have we're looking at East Asian traffickers both Vietnamese and Chinese operating in South Africa's Mozambique Zimbabwe Tanzania and Kenya these networks have been found to be linked through multiple through seizure records through phone records through police reports that we've had a chance to look at we've got a drug kingpin in Mozambique that we're looking at who seems to be moving tremendous amounts of rhino horn and ivory in addition to multi-ton consignments of narcotics we're looking at a trafficker in Tanzania who's linked to money laundering uranium smuggling and drug trafficking we're looking at jailed kingpin for ivory in Kenya who is also wanted by narcotics agents he was actually found hiding out when he was arrested he was found in the home of drug traffickers who were arrested in December by the Drug Enforcement Administration the team that logistics team that led that drove the containers of ivory that Jackson was talking about that was later seized in Thailand and Singapore that drove the containers of ivory out of the packing center and then diverted them and packed them full of ivory that team is also connected to those drug traffickers and the ivory trafficker in Mombasa we've also got trafficking networks out of Uganda that play a critical role in moving drugs guns and ivory through the center of the continent often moving drug or sorry drugs and ivory that is coming out of Central Asia sorry Central Africa the CAR Gabon and the Republic of Congo that are moving through these very sophisticated logistical operations in Uganda we're looking at Chinese road building and timber firms that are moving ivory under the cover of their regular commercial operations that are operating across Central Africa and in East Africa we've had great collaboration again on this pro on that research with C4ADS because they have many excellent Chinese speakers including our two attendees here today when we originally started looking at some of these Chinese timber firms they appeared to be 40 or 50 different companies when we start when they started doing the research into the ownership structure back in Hong Kong and Macau they found it was actually just three three companies it wasn't wasn't 45 companies it was just three of them they were owned by the same three sets of people so what looked like many many different operations were actually a much larger criminal enterprise out of China we're also whoops that all moved forward a lot faster than it was supposed to we're also looking at Lebanese and Nigerian traffickers moving goods by sea up the western coast of Africa they appear to be linked to drug trafficking networks moving cocaine heroin and weapons as well as probably people that we based on earlier information we believe they're also involved in people trafficking and the other thing that's interesting is that in police reports have have shown us that that seizures that have been made on both the east and western sides of the African continent have selectors in common so phone numbers addresses and so we believe that some of the networks that are moving these multi-time consignments of ivory of ivory off the African continent are actually operating on both sides of the continent now I teach about convergence and I teach about how how focused or how small these networks are at the transnational level but even I am surprised at the amount of connectivity we're seeing among all of these networks that are operating all over the African continent I really believe that if US law enforcement in the US intelligence community were to support an effort to go after these networks in a comprehensive way we would not only reduce a lot of problems and threats emanating from the African continent but it would actually be a fairly manageable number of targets to go after in a well in a properly resourced operation I think I'm out of time I'm just going to really go through very close this is really moving quickly all of a sudden we also have looked into seizure records and the connectivity between them again we were surprised by the extent to which big multiple seizures from multiple countries in Africa had important linkages there was a seizure that took place in November 2013 in Dar es Salaam data found there or evidence found there led authorities 11 days later to make a subsequent seizure in Zanzibar that led them to a network that operates out of now it doesn't want to go at all oh that led them to make a seizure later or that connected them to an earlier seizure that had been made in Malawi in 2013 and there are the whoops well I'm just going to make the point that there are also multiple connections between some of these major seizures that were made this year I also believe if we were to take the records from all of those seizures and this is an analytic project that has never been comprehensively done C4 ADS and us rely on the scraps that we can get African and Asian law enforcement to pass us or what has been put out in the news we believe that if this could be done at a law enforcement sensitive level working with our partners in those countries and we could overlay that data with data around weapons and narcotics seizures that have been made that we will start to really be able to hone in on these networks and on that I will finish thank you both you managed to lay it out in a slightly overwhelming way in that you know the problem is huge but also able to sort of narrow it down so that if we wanted to move forward I think you gave some practical solutions so I thank you for that so we only have about five minutes I know I have a question wanted to see if anybody in the audience did as well okay maybe Porter I'll just ask you to ask your question and then the gentleman behind you all asked mine and then you guys will have the last couple minutes to wrap up one question I have just a real quick one do you have local partners that you're working with or is this sort of a travel in get information head back here and then the gentleman behind you we definitely both both have local partners that we rely on completely it it takes a network to do something like this and we have partners both in Asia and in Africa and other parts of the world that we work with very closely I mean on a daily basis and thank God for Skype and WhatsApp we can we are in touch very regularly with our partners around the world right I mean we do our best also to rely as much as possible on official documentation and kind of hold ourselves to you know the highest evidentiary standard is possible before making any claims but of course and you know the jurisdictions that we're working with not all those records are digitized or available to us in Washington so we definitely rely on a variety of local a slew of local partners not just in the African continent but in southeast in East Asia as well and Dave our other wildlife crime analysts who's here we're coordinating with approximately 80 NGOs worldwide but also you know simply providing them analytical support as well so yeah Gretchen Jackson in your efforts to follow the money and value trails have you uncovered any links to Chinese underground financial systems networks such as you fight Qing flying money systems I've seen I've heard reports in Vietnam of consumers buying rhino horn using flying money to or they're asked to make a payment to order the rhino horn through through a Huala like or flying money like system and we see a lot of informal systems being used to transfer value and to and to pay people whether it's something like in Pesa in Tanzania or Kenya to to systems where people are paid in as as Jackson said in some sort of bush currency so they're paid in some commodity that provides them value so we do see that I would say we are really not anywhere nearly as far along as we would like to be in terms of comprehensively following the money as I said we had a deal earlier this year to be working with South Africa's Financial Intelligence Center we've been trying to negotiate agreements with other African governments but we you can't look at the money as you well know you can't follow the money unless you're working with the government and if you do you can I've had a number of times had people in Africa offered to sell me bank records but if we go and buy them then it doesn't become admissible it would ruin somebody's case so we have we we have been focusing our energy on trying to get a partnership with the with the government so we can start helping them to do and we have a background we are experienced to doing this we've are cleared to do it we so it's just finding that partnership and somebody who actually cares to to to pull the trigger and let us let us go to work maybe just a follow-up on that I asked you this yesterday in our prep call what what do you do when the government is complicit you know how do you approach it if you're operating in a country and you know it's clear that the that the illicit action goes all the way up to the top we what then is that when you have to rely on the international actors I personally think that at this point the the big traffickers in Africa will need to be pursued or targeted in a transnational operation probably led by the United States in the and the British governments I don't believe there's a single African government with either the judicial or prosecutorial capacity to to take on any of these networks and we've what few efforts we've seen to go after the high level traffickers have failed and mainly because there isn't the political will so I do think the US is going to have to play a larger role if if this government is serious about trying to save animals or even if they're not these traffickers are not only moving wildlife they ought to be taken out for the range of crimes that they're committing but but we're having but I don't think at this point it will be led by this is a problem that will be handled by African states on their own and there's a number of reasons for that but but largely it's a it's a question of lack of political will and in many cases where we're looking the state is the primary criminal actor and so you're certainly not good but but even you know I learned to do this stuff working in Afghanistan and Pakistan so I like to tell people that I you know learned about corruption right in the belly of the beast and it it even in incredibly corrupt environments you can find good people trying to do the right thing and we've been able to find really amazing people to work with in virtually every country we've been in so I don't have any doubt that this can this can be done it's just a question of some agency and government taking the lead on it and we don't have that yet we don't have that happening right and Sarah if I may jump in I think your question sort of compels or should compel everyone to think a lot more creatively about simply just the functional steps required to facilitate these kinds of illicit wildlife transactions right so rather instead of you know expending energies on you know targeting someone that may on the surface level seem untouchable what about you know the logistic capacity what about their access simply at these container choke points right correct both the Kenyan Revenue Authority along with the slew of Tanzanian rev Tanzanian maritime agencies all publish a list of both licensed and suspended freight forwarders clearing agents and exporters at major seaports like Dar es Salaam Mombasa and Zanzibar and all of those are available in the open source and so if we're seeing one or two freight forwarders or even a private container freight station for example in the Port of Mombasa constantly being used simply for their access you know that could be another way to approach simply just extracting the physical capacity to actually transport this contraband but I think we would have to get the financial community involved as well if we're going to go that routing we have seen over and over that the traffickers in Africa have the trafficking networks in Africa have been incredibly responsive and adaptive to law enforcement intervention or perceived law enforcement intervention and so that we have watched them shift the activities from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar to Malawi and we're probably going to see a shift again soon because of all the activity that's been taking place in Mombasa and I believe that they have not been impacted because nobody's gone after their money the financing has remained in place and therefore they've just shifted their physical operations so last question and I know that we we have a couple more for the audience but if you'll indulge me the the US government both administration and Congress has attempted to take some policy measures and I'm wondering if y'all can talk about that I was at the Africa Brain Trust on Friday and Susan Rice mentioned wildlife trafficking in the context of you know the US working with African corruption so it was kind of under that subheading as it was when President Obama made his speech in Addis obviously we have the the national strategy for combating wildlife trafficking the Global Antipoaching Act from the US Congress you know Gretchen especially in light of what you mentioned where you know 95% of the community the conservation community at least necessarily doesn't get it it how do you see these policy prescriptions fitting in or not and then Jackson if you have any thoughts I think there's a number of ways in which the US government ought to look at this problem differently first of all it's not a conservation problem it's an organized crime problem and therefore when the US Congress designates money for this issue it should go to organizations that fight crime and not organizations that agencies within the government that do conservation I'm not saying there isn't a big job for for conservation agencies also and conservation groups globally but there really needs to be more focus and more funding for the people who fight organized crime and and who fight money laundering and that I believe has been under resourced and an unfocused aspect of this problem I also think that we have to stop stove piping these issues between drugs human trafficking wildlife trafficking guns smuggling because the traffickers are all working together so when we come to say the Drug Enforcement Administration and bring a pat packet of evidence about a trafficker and they say well we can't work with you because we're a one-mission agency that does drugs and we say well we don't care we're bringing you information about a drug trafficker that makes my head explode every time that happens we need our agencies to start looking at crime and crime networks and not you never see the drug traffickers say I'm not letting that guy carry my heroin he's a terrorist right and yet we'll we have agencies in our government who say well we handle terrorism not narcotics not organized crime it's impossible to divide these networks any longer they are engaged in a multitude of activities and our crime fighting agencies have to be as flexible and adaptive and multifaceted as their enemies are or we will fail powerful point checks and you get the last word no of course I mean so I couldn't agree more I think the most recent policy prescriptions aren't incredibly appropriate invitation to invite stakeholders that may not have realized that they have a tangible stake in wildlife crime and looking at it as an issue of transnational organized crime however I think you know you inviting so many new or ostensibly new stakeholders to the table unfortunately may also invite a whole new slew of bureaucratic processes and a whole lot of paperwork so I think in terms of each organization specific mandate and each organization's capacity I think as long as those channels of communication are kept open only then will we really see some pretty rapid intangible results other than that unfortunately I feel like we may risk being buried buried under a lot of paperwork so thank you I'm sorry we didn't get to your questions maybe I'll can have a coffee afterwards but please join me in thanking Jackson and Gretchen for our panel well thanks very much to our panelists Gretchen and Jackson and to Sarah for her very successful moderating of that panel what a fascinating discussion the detail is incredible great to hear from Jackson how beneficial ownership can be used the way it's used once you know the owners of companies you can actually track what they're doing Gretchen's comment about how whether some of these traffickers are moving guns or wildlife or or other illicit commodities reminds me of a conversation I had with a US Army officer about 10 years ago at the Central Command who was tracking gun running in Afghanistan and when I asked them how they found out where they're running the guns he said oh it's where they're running the drugs I said so you're seeing both at the same time and he said yes and I said so you're you're collecting both at the same time he said no no drugs is DEA we don't do that so it's it goes right to what Gretchen was saying it's gonna be looked at a holistic in a holistic way I think before we're gonna have any major impact on it


People often ask me about whether features I'm talking about are currently supported or, you know, they're super helpful and let me know that IE doesn't support the things that I'm talking about. Now, one resource I use all the time to double-check browser support is Can I Use, but I've had a few people mention to me that they're a little bit confused about it and how it works and what they should be looking for, so let's dive in and make some sense of it. All right, so this is the Can I Use homepage right here, and so what can you do here? Well, this is where you can type in the feature that you're looking for, since I look at CSS all the time, let's go and look up something like Flexbox, which we all use all the time to look at that amazing support overall. So when we look here, what can we see? There's a lot of information here, so let's unpack it a little bit. So the very first thing is the support for it, which for Flexbox is almost 99%, which you're pretty much not going to find much higher than that for most properties, and you can see that there's also the global support for it, and then here it says on prefixed, and so sometimes some properties, as you might know, if you've been writing CSS for a while, do require some prefixes, and you'll see that there's actually two values because what they do is where there's sort of exceptions or where things are partially supported or they're using like an older syntax or something like that, they put that in this different color. So really, if you're writing Flexbox and you're not stressing about things very much, it's about 97% support, and it's mostly because of Internet Explorer that's causing the problems there, that shouldn't surprise you too much. But we can see here when we're looking at it that there's a few different things. We can see this giant list of all these browsers, and it's like, wow, some of these, you might not have ever heard of KaiOS browser, for example, and if you hover on top, it actually says that global usage of it and it tells you is at 0.08%. So depending on what type of support you're after some of these, you might not want to be putting all your resources or worrying too much about. But if we go and look, just for example, Internet Explorer is at 1.1%. Did you realize that Internet Explorer is used by so few people? It's good to know. And this is all the way down at 0.02%. So you're like 1.3% of global usage for Internet Explorer for everybody who stresses about it so very much. And interestingly enough, another thing that's important here is they do have these little like two, the four, the four there, let's go and look here, there's a one. So there's a footnote. And when you hover on top, it tells you what it is. I can't move because it jumps over. So there it tells you what the footnote is. It only supports old Flexbox specifications and other stuff. It doesn't support wrapping. So if we go look here at IE 11, it says it has partial support because of a large number of bugs present and see no issues. So there are other things you can see down here, such as subfeatures. You can look at Gap property for Flexbox. That's interesting. I have talked about that in the past and it's a super amazing property that I'm waiting for browser support to get better for. And there's always the no issues section and here it talks about the problems with, say, Internet Explorer 11, which comes up in quite a few spots and in older versions of some other browsers, some no issues with it. It's only really Internet Explorer that still has some problems along the way. You can also get resources if you want to get more information, Flexbox playgrounds and other stuff, which is really, really cool that they have all of this right here. So actually, why don't we go? You can also do this test on a real browser, but if we do that, I do believe that you need an account. So unless you want to sign up for that. But let's go over to subfeatures and click on Gap because here's something that I have talked about before, as I mentioned, that isn't widely supported. And I think this is interesting to look at because this is how I know if things are going to be gaining support, such as the Gap property for Flexbox, which is coming soon to Safari. And so right now browser supports a little bit below 70%. Once that hits, that's also going to open up things in iOS. So all of a sudden, browser support for this is going to skyrocket.  And we're going to look up one more CSS one, just because I want to show you, you know, if people complain about grid not being widely supported enough, but come on, if you're using a lot of things, you know, you're using Calc. It's not far off what grid is at. So for all those people that complain, you know, it's not so bad. But another thing that's good to know with can I use is it's not just for CSS. For example, if I put in modules here, I can see what browsers support JavaScript modules. So there we go. And you can see that that comes in. And we get a breakdown of which browsers do and don't support it. So that could be useful in making your decisions. Of course, there's other ways around that as well, which I'm going to look at motion path or yeah, it's motion path, which is using the offset path. And this is something I've been looking into quite a bit. It's really exciting. I don't have any content on it yet. The reason I want to come here, though, is often what you'll see is these little guys that have flags on them. So this is letting you know that it's implemented into the browser, but it's not enabled by default. And you have to go into the settings and then find the flag section and enable it if you want to test it out. So often before features are actually launched publicly and are implemented, they put them behind flags to make sure things are working properly. And then once all the little bugs and things have been ironed out and there's no more kinks left, then they'll push it into a public version. So usually if you see something behind a flag, it also means that it will be coming to a live version sooner rather than later, even though every now and then you'll find something that's just been behind a flag forever and it doesn't seem to ever be gaining support. And one more thing that I do want to look at is I think actually if we go back to flex, actually let's go to gap. I'm pretty sure gap has this where the gap property for flex box. If you look here, it's actually the same thing two times. And I find this happens every now and then and there's a little disagreement sometimes between them. And this is the gap property from flex box. And it shows you everything we were looking at before. But then if I go down, it says CSS property gap supported in flex layout. And it's not the same. This one's at 98.3. This one's at 68.3. This one's at 69. Here it's in the technical preview Safari. Here it's not, this one's not supported in opera. This one's saying it is supported in opera. And the big difference here is this one is from, can I use? And if we come down to here, this one is coming directly from the MDM and the browser compatibility data that is offered from MDN. So sometimes there's a little bit of a disagreement between these two. I don't know what the reason for that is, especially here where you see it's saying it's been supported in opera since version 70. And here they're saying it's not supported in opera. So I don't know why this happens. Usually if there is a discrepancy between the two of them, they're very, very, very small. So I tend not to worry about it very much. And it's less than 1% between the two here. And I find that's usually the case. So just if ever you see it come up two times, it's just, it's two different. Often the second one is coming from the MDN. And that's why there's this double sort of thing that happens. I'm not going to jump into everything here, but a few things that are interesting is the filtered one, which brings it down. And you can change the filtered in the settings here. You can change how it's getting filtered. But the default for filtered is any browser that has bigger than a 0.5% global share of users. And so if you click on that, it eliminates a lot of the extra information that sometimes can seem overwhelming. And it's like, do I even need to worry about those browsers or not? So if you click on filtered, it'll go to more of the browsers that are currently in use, rather than just showing you everything that's ever been out there and overwhelming you a little bit, maybe with too much information. So that can be good to bring things down like this. And for a lot of features, you'll also see that opera mini doesn't have support. And that's because opera mini for the most part is used on feature phones. And it's also very low, like it's trying to save on data as much as possible. It's just the way opera mini works. So a lot of features aren't supported on opera mini. So it is good to know that. But the user share actually I think is relatively low. But it's the user share of it is relatively low.  So they're not going to be getting a regular experience anyway. So that is something that you should be taking into account, but also not stressing maybe too much about but just being aware that some users, you know, there are a lot of people out there and 1% might not seem like a ton, but it's still enough people on a significant amount of people. So because of that, you do want to take into consideration, you know, you do always people worry so much about internet explorer. But honestly, like there's about as many people on opera mini or even more than they are on internet explorer. And that also is something else to think about is that not all of these users are on your website. And depending on how you have analytics set up and user tracking and all of that, it could be really important to look at these statistics for your own site, rather than looking at it for the global share, because depending on what your site is and who your audience is, these numbers can be wildly different. And maybe you're supporting internet explorer when nobody is using internet explorer, or you're not stressing about safari when really you should be stressing about safari because 80% of your users are on it for one reason or another. These are all users, not all the people that are on your visiting your website. So that is an important thing to take into account. But it's obviously a nice starting point when you're looking at when you're looking for all this types of information. Now, as far as what I take into account and what I'm really looking for is I don't use this to tell me what I should be using with my CSS. I don't tell I don't use can I use to inform me about what CSS or what technologies or features I should be using. I let it inform me about what my users have and what considerations I have to put into place. Now, I'm going to be using a lot of I like modern CSS stuff. And let's go and look like, you know, I've used clip path in the past a lot. And with clip path, I have to be aware that there's issues.  And then I start reading the notes a little bit on it. And I realized that it's using that I can use inline SVG, but I can't use external SVGs. So it's not the end of the world, right? So then, okay, it looks scary, but I don't have to worry about it so much. But then, oh, this one's only supported in Safari using WebKit. So I'm using auto prefix or it handles that for me. But it's just different things that I have to take into account. Like, okay, it's not supported in Internet Explorer. It's not supported in Opera Mini. So what are considerations, what would happen to a user that ends up on here where clip path isn't supported? Or if I get something where this is at like 70% support or 60% support, and then I'm looking at it going, okay, what is their experience going to be if this doesn't work? And can I build in a fallback for them? Or is there something else that I can do instead? And that's it. That's can I use.com. And as far as I'm concerned, it's an essential tool. And since we're talking about browser support, I have a video that does look into how we can use feature queries to use modern CSS features while also making sure there's a fallback for browsers that haven't got there yet. It's linked down in the description below if you would like to check it out. And that's it for this video. 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Is there a healthy way to be, at any point when you were single and sex workers and whatever, I don't know what you were up to exactly, but was it ever, could it be healthy? Is there a healthy way to want to have sex once a day in a potentially different way? You know, I think it is if both people are cool with it. Like- With sex workers, you would assume that they're cool with it, right? Or do you have a different opinion? I've always had good experiences with sex workers, but I fall in love quickly. Like I've always really liked them and like I find them fascinating and love talking to them and spending time with them. But I couldn't, in the marriage, I couldn't go out and do that because then I won't come back. Like I know I haven't cheated. Like if I watch porn sometimes, I wanna jerk off, I'll look at Twitter, there's a million videos, but I haven't gone into where I always went which was to cheat because I can't come back from that.  With everyone else, I did it. I've cheated. But even if you're not cheating, let's say you're single, you're not committed to anyone emotionally, do you think that there's a healthy way to do, even to just a different sex worker every night and is, and even like the fascination part where you're connecting with them. You could convince me that that's as healthy as anything. If you're doing it every, chances are, if I'm doing anything every day that I really don't need to do, chances are it's feeding some sort of addiction. So I guess by default, it can't be healthy.  What if you did it with a sex worker? Yeah, I mean, as long as you know, I would always find the same person and see them over and over and over. New people, sure, but you know, I always like seeing the same person over and over, but I guess that could be healthy as long as there's two people doing what they wanna do. Like with sex work, the thing that's scary is, how do I know? And I never thought of this growing up, I didn't know it. And then as you get older, you go, how do I know she wants to do this? How do I know she's cool with this? And then it starts to really bother you. So you just see people whose story you know. And I know people will go, you never know people's story. Yeah, you do sometimes. If you know someone for five, six years, you have a pretty good understanding of their situation and their life. So as time went on, it narrowed down to a very, very smaller group of people who I knew. And it just became easier that way. We knew each other. I was comfortable with them. I knew they were comfortable with me.  I've done it in addictive mode. I've done three in a day when I was in a manic state. And what do you, what's the point of that? Meaning when you say you're, literally you had a, you were having a manic episode and it was just, you, you wanted that. It's fighting the urge. It's tremendous depression or self-hatred. And you're just trying to keep the high going. It's addiction. And it's like, you know, I remember when Nikki and I broke up at one point, I was actually here in LA and I saw three, three, and there were all sex workers I had known for years. But I saw one and then me and her was fighting the phone and I ran over to someone else's apartment and I came back and I did the, it was just anything to keep me from crashing and then just being alone. Like a lot of it is you just don't want to be alone.   It's all fantasy. The feeling is not normal. You're literally giving yourself more dopamine. So it is a bit of like a dream state. So why, it's like alcohol or alcohol or what, any addiction, it's just, you kind of know what you're going to get and it's predictable. Yeah.  Like people know that like sexual behavior is selfish. Well, hey, you're just thinking to yourself, I'm not even thinking about myself.  Like I'm not protecting myself. I put myself in that situation. Right, there's like the self is not anywhere near. Yes, I hate my, I'm trying to avoid myself. I'm not doing this because I think I'm terrific. Yeah. And you're not getting, you're not getting much from it. You're not getting like status. You're not getting like, see this, see how sexy I am. Yeah. Paying people. It's, yeah, it is crazy. I mean, but again, a lot of, a lot of. But that thing you said about doing things for the right reason, because I've tried to write jokes about it and I never, they're never good enough. But if like, let's say strippers are all, they're all molested, they're all, so they're all there for the wrong reason. I don't know many comics that are there for the right reason. Right. What's the, tell me the difference. Yeah. And if you, if I always look at it like, when, you know, people can't have it, you can't say, hey, people should have their own agency if they, people want to throw those words around. And yet when someone makes decisions they don't like, they're like, oh, they're being victimized. Yeah. I don't know the difference sometimes.  I'm like, I can't do this if I don't know the difference because I just don't want to contribute to somebody else's demise. Yeah, exactly. It's like go to strip club.  And then on the other hand, it's like, I don't know, we all got to work. That's just the best way they could find to make money and or take the sexual attention part. We're getting perverse attention on perverse attention. It's not maternal or it's not from our family and it's not from our spouse or partner. So is that bad attention? Yeah, I never know. Like strip clubs I actually never really liked but just because it was so, you know, you just, I knew where it was going to go nowhere. Like even in my delusion, I knew that was, I mean, there's too many beautiful women. There's too many guys with money. Like I don't stand a chance here. If I was, if I was, you know, if you're David Lee Roth fine, but I never liked strip clubs for that reason. But I've dated a few strippers and, you know, I mean, they were like no different than anybody else. They were making money. They were making a lot of money. And the women I've known were fine doing it. Yeah, well, that's the thing. But that's what you're saying, like critics would say like, no one's fine doing it. That's also, that's critics. And some critics would be, there are people that don't want to do it. You're right. But to say that no one's enjoying it or no one wants to do sex work is basically saying that if they make a moral decision that I find objectionable, then it can't be legitimate. It couldn't possibly.  You know, when you're using sex, like you're using any other drug, when you're using it, and it's not just with other people, I mean, most of my stuff was with pornography and these hours of edging and jerking off and numbing yourself. I mean, you're doing it for the wrong reason. The bottom is basically that you're just languishing in this place where there's no connection with people. There's no, it's always like, I realize, it's funny. There's an example like, what sex addiction is this? Dr. Drew had a show. He did all the alcohol shows, but you don't know about sex addiction. And there was a drummer and I don't remember what band he was from. But he said that he was in this rehab and he, for sex. And he goes, you know, the last time I spoke to my mother, I rushed her off the phone so I could masturbate and she died.  But he didn't know, but he just wanted to get back to jerking off. And I thought, that's what sex addiction is. That's what it is. It's not always the things you read about or that you hear about on the news or guys getting busted with prostitutes or all of these. It's the way that you short change people in your life.  You know, there's weird, that to me summed up what addiction is though.  Your priority is just getting to that weird state instead of just like a good- Having a nice conversation with your mother. And I've never stopped thinking about that weird little moment. And I've gone to meetings for sex addiction, which helped tremendously.  And he always says, go make memories with your wife. Go make memories with Nikki. And I think about that a lot. I love looking back at our old photos and videos. And I'm like, yeah, this is what I'm doing. I'm making memories with my wife.  But I still fall into the porn sometimes. Do you have a limit? Like do you have a rules? Do you have a rules for yourself? No, because again, I know I'm just gonna, I'm looking at different things and then one will hit me. It's like just, you know what I mean? That little search you do on porn, all of a sudden you find the one and you lock in. It's in the atmosphere. It's in the air. It's like a joke. You're searching and you're reaching for it without looking. And then there it is and you have it. And that's the wording. That's how it is with porn. I'm looking through this one and that one and that one. I look at a lot of Escort websites in England of girls I'm never gonna see. That's so funny.  I do, yeah. And there's some great, great trans sex workers in England. But I just look and I'm never gonna go and do it. It also is kind of safer because I know they're not people who like an access. I can just look at the pictures and the things they write. You're relying on your cheapness to kick in. And be like, well, I'm not flying. Exactly, how many miles do I have in America? Hey, did you like that? Did you like that? Yeah, did you like it though? You want more? Don't wanna work? Would rather watch videos of me grab acid with people?  This is like when the weatherman says there's a high parenthesis coming in. I'm not really used to the green screen.


Big ups to Mojo. We've tracked south from Garson down here to Lumsden. It's sort of in the northern south in the area and for the dashes I don't think too many of us have been here before so it's been a fantastic experience. This morning at Garson, we gave them a bit of a hand wipe by doing some digging and helping out with some jobs. We've come to Lumsden School. There's about a hundred odd kids here. What the principal, Mr Watson, was most interested in was the interaction with people from outside the community and particularly people from the north on that were from completely different backgrounds. So the dashes got to spend a good half an hour to get to know a small group of students from Lumsden School. So why did you do the bashing for seven years? Why did you do bashing for seven years?   And whilst it was grand for the kids to catch up with us, I'm pretty sure that the dashes got a heap out of it as well. In fact, it was a really exciting experience for us just to catch up with these guys and just to get back to ground roots. Things are pretty simple for a six or a seven year old. Do you want some Masamba? It was a great opportunity for the kids to experience interaction beyond our bubble. I suppose we are in a bit of a bubble here in Lumsden and we've got a lot of people doing some great stuff. We've got some charity for kids particularly. And it's about to have the opportunity to interact with these kinds of people and find out what they do. It's just a good experience for the kids. Then we went on and did a couple of activities with them, in particular a relay dash. Now what this exposed was what really would have been going on about the whole time, which is preparation. We did a bit of jump jam with the kids and I think it really exposed the fitness levels of a few of the dashes out there on the court today. But to Lumsden School and Mr Watson, thank you very much for making our day. I hope we brought a few smiles to your faces but you certainly brought a few to ours.


Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. It is Wednesday So it is another what I eat today to lose weight on my WW I am on the blue plan and I follow a clean approach to the program Which basically means that I eat whole real clean food as much as possible I follow about a 90-10 approach to clean eating So you're gonna see some really good nutritious good for you full of good ingredient food throughout today You're also going to come along with diesel and Lola's day. You're gonna see a couple of hauls I'm gonna share with you a couple of my new favorite things. We have a lot of fun in store So if you want to see what I eat today to lose weight on WW stay tuned Good morning guys today, I'm gonna try the popular whipped coffee. I will put this recipe on my website But I'm excited to try it nervous yet excited. So for whipped coffee You need to have instant coffee. So you guys saw me haul this from Trader Joe's This is just the hundred percent Colombian instant coffee. You're also going to need sweetener of your choice I'm gonna do the monk fruit Hot water and then you can flavor it if you'd like so I decided I'm gonna do the vanilla So kind of make a vanilla coffee. You can either whisk it with one of these electric whiskers I bought this off of Amazon. I'll link it down below for you guys or you can whisk it by hand It just takes five minutes if you do it by hand. So this is definitely Really really good to have and these are super affordable You can whip pretty much anything with these and then whatever milk you're gonna use as the base of your coffee I'm gonna use this cashew milk and a bowl to do the whipped coffee. So let's get started So for the whip coffee, the first thing we need is two tablespoons of instant coffee. So there's one And there's two and then we also need two tablespoons of hot water So there's one Oops ain't quite get that full. There we go two tablespoons of hot water We're gonna go ahead and add a little bit of vanilla because that's the flavoring I want for my coffee and then lastly you need two tablespoons of whatever sweetener You're using so I am gonna do a monk fruit so there's one and Two and then you whip it. So I'm gonna use the electric one And I'm just gonna whip it until it's nice and foamy and again, you can't just use a whisk You just have to whisk it for about five minutes by hand and people were just saying that it gets really tedious So I'm glad that I have this little electric mixer. So oh look at that already. Oh my gosh, look at that It's already getting thick and creamy. Oh, I'm so excited Okay, so I'm gonna continue whipping until this is done and then we'll put together this whipped coffee So here it is look at that It's thick oh yum, and I have one cup of my forager cashew milk again You can use any milk that you want so it's very simple You're gonna take that cold glass of your milk and we're just going to scoop our whipped coffee right on top of that Oh my goodness This looks so good So excited. All right, look at that. Oh my gosh, that looks so beautiful Wow, I am really excited about this and then you simply just stir the whipped portion in with the milk And you have whipped coffee. So this is two smart points for the milk. Everything else is zero I'll have to let you guys know on the screen what I think what it looks like all mixed up I don't know if you guys can see that very well, but it's Really good. It's strong so definitely make sure you're putting in some sweetener or cream or something because It definitely is a very strong bite of coffee, but it's really really good and something different I did go ahead and add a couple of ice cubes as well to mine just because I wanted it to be a little bit colder But yeah, definitely would make this again. This recipe will be on my website. So definitely check it out What's happening here? You can't see your pretty face lola She's so weird.  He stretched it out. Isn't quite healed enough for us to take his wrap off, but He's pretty cozy too. Oh, hi. Good morning, sweepy So here's my breakfast for today. I'm keeping it really simple I have one really small banana cut up I have one slice of the trader joe sourdough Sprouted sourdough bread. I love this bread as you guys know and it's two smart points per slice Underneath my egg here. I have 52 grams of avocado Which is three smart points and one egg with a little bit of everything But the bagel seasoning on it and then of course I have some water So my breakfast is five smart points total three for the avocado And two for the bread. So this is today's breakfast. My thrive order came I wanted to let you guys know it came pretty quick considering everything going on. So good job thrive So I went ahead and stocked up on some of my new favorite snacks and I also grabbed a few new things So let's take a look at what I grabbed from the thrive market. First thing I picked up was this four pack of coconut water I've been using coconut water a lot in my smoothies and this was a really really good price These are the big cartons and there's four of them in the box I will be putting the prices and points here on the screen for you guys So I grabbed that also you guys know, I love the mary's gong crackers the seed ones I didn't realize she had these real thin Crackers and I love her garlic and rosemary seed one. So I'm excited to have these I thought these would be really good to put hummus on or to use in a dip And there's no wheat and these they have excellent ingredients just like all of the mary's gong crackers Products do their ingredients are really really really good. So I picked that up Also, this is another new find. This is the lucy snack and go packs of gluten-free chocolate chip cookies I had to pick these up because I thought they would be convenient because they're individually packaged So you can't really overeat them. So here is the nutritional information Really really good ingredients in these as well So I picked those up just to have on hand easy to take with me if I'm looking for a sweet treat And again portion control is huge Also, another new thing is the thrive market gluten-free yellow cake mix since I'm no longer eating sugar free I wanted to have a cake mix on hand for a recipe idea that I have So this is just gluten-free yellow cake mix It's made with almond flour and the sweetener is coconut sugar which is best in class So I grabbed that Also, you guys know, I love these lily bees brownie things. I've talked about these a ton These were in my snacks video. If you haven't seen that video, I'll link that down below for you guys I tell you all of my favorite ww snacks and this is one of them These are the lily bee brownie things and this time I picked up the salted caramel I've never tried this one and I grabbed two bags of those and then I got just the plain chocolate Which is going to be just your classic brownie and then this is the flavor I've had before that I loved and this is the chocolate mint. These are really one of my favorite Sweet treats and they're really good for you. The ingredients are fantastic They're pretty low in smart points if you watch your serving size Paleo grain-free really really delicious. So you can see I like them. I have five bags So that should definitely last me a while another snack that I love that I also featured in my snacks video Are these patience fruit and company organics The one that I showed you was the dark chocolate cranberry and this is a new flavor for me This is the dark chocolate and raspberry. They're these yummy little chocolate clusters Oh, they're so good you guys and they have excellent excellent ingredients They even have fiber and iron in them So really good option for a sweet treat and again I just wash my portion and I can easily work it into my points And this is the one that I had last time This is the cranberry or the dark chocolate and coconut and they all have cranberry in them So this one is just subbed with raspberry and that one with coconut Really excited to give the raspberry one a try Also, I decided to give sun butter sunflower butter a try I talked about this in one of my videos where I just mentioned wanting to give sunflower butter a shot All that's in here is sunflower seeds. So great ingredients No added sugar or oils and it's in this really convenient squeeze pouch And it's just their creamy version the thrive market brand So I'm excited to try that. I'll report back. Let you guys know what I think of sunflower butter From the patients fruit company. I also grabbed cranberries So I did not want to take the points for the full sugar Plus they have a lot of really bad oils and craisins the reduced sugar are equally as bad So I found these and these are from that same company. These are whole cranberries But these are sweetened with apple juice. So your sweetener comes from that There is simply cranberries apple juice concentrate sunflower oil, which is less than 1% It is not expel or press but because there's very little in there and for cranberries This is a great option. So I picked that up And then I grabbed two packets of taco seasoning. I love the thrive market taco seasoning And again really watch your ingredients on the sorbet taco seasonings. They are not generally very good But this one just has whole clean ingredients. So really excited about having those again And I loved the ranch dip from the primal palette. So this time I picked up the french onion I thought this could be used for dressing dip or This would be a great seasoning in meatballs or meatloaf or anything you would Put Lipton onion soup mix in and this just has much better ingredients. So here's your ingredients literally onion Salt garlic chives parsley. So really really really good ingredients. So I got free packs Of those so that is my thrive order if you're interested in thrive down in the description box I do have a link for 20 dollars worth of free products when you join the thrive market They ship for free and they usually give you freebies I don't think they're doing it right now during this situation because they're just inundated with orders But once things go back to normal, you always get freebies in your order So it's great to try new things for free and not have to pay for them So highly recommend the thrive market. You guys know, I love it. I show it all the time Go ahead and click the link down below check out their membership options You guys will not be sorry best prices and thousands of great products. So here's my lunch today I made a big salad, but it's a very unique salad because on my salad. I actually have About a cup of fresh papaya I also have some of the trader joe's organic baby lettuce mix on the bottom and then over here I have a mixture of One of the sabentinos paleo organic and cracked black pepper chicken sausages I bought these at costco. These are amazing They are four smart points and then I just have some roasted veggies That have butternut squash beats and a little bit of broccoli and the only points on that is for the avocado oil So that's one smart point and then on top I have my homemade Clean eating ranch dressing so easy you guys. It's a pack of primal palette ranch seasoning mix From the thrive market some whole milk yogurt and a little bit of lemon juice And you have ranch and it's only one smart point per serving So I have one point for the ranch one point for the veggies four points for the sausage So my salad is six smart points. I seriously cannot wait to eat this. It looks so good for dessert after lunch I'm going to have three points worth of these lilybee brownie things in salted caramel I've yet to try the salted caramel, but I love the chocolate mint so incredibly much These are grain free. They have absolutely Fantastic ingredients. I mean best in class ingredients and you can have a little over half of an ounce For three smart points. So that is what I'm having here. I'm telling you these are so good They are like the little crispy corners of the brownie. They taste that amazing So I'm gonna have three points of those if you want to pick these up You get these on the thrive market again. The link is down below for that. So this is my snack Flash rest of my lunch. Well. Hello Can I help you? What you want, baby? What do you want? She's in here because I'm cooking Aren't you? Yeah, so I wanted to share this with you guys I mentioned this in my favorites video that I was probably going to get myself the duval Flat iron because you know, I'm literally obsessed with the wand. I love the wand so much So I bought this and I want to show you guys kind of how this comes when you buy it It's so pretty. I mean who doesn't love pink everything and this is the actual curling wand I've actually already used this. I'm going to insert some pictures as I talk to you guys about this Here on the screen so you can see my hair straightened and my hair curled with this flat iron I love it. I seriously love this wand. I think it's so pretty the pink color of it So the plates on this wand are awesome. They're a tourmaline ceramic plate So they kind of provide like a cushion when you're straightening straightening your hair So it doesn't tug on your hair and it just provides kind of a smoother Less frizzy overall look to your hair, which I absolutely love It also has professional heating elements. They're precise. They also release negative Ions, which is something I'd never heard of before but the reasoning for that is it helps lock in moisture Seal your hair's cuticle layer and minimize the damage and you guys know I've talked my hair is dry And frizzy so I need something that isn't going to make that even worse And I love the variable heat setting here on this wand So you simply turn it on and off this dial here allows you to adjust the temperature It goes as high as 450 degrees now my other flat iron goes to 250 so that's pretty crazy It's fully adjustable temperature so you can get the optimal heat for your hair So if you have like thinner finer hair, you probably don't need to go to 450 But if you have really thick coarse hair like me you want to be between maybe 350 and 450 It also has a 360 degree swivel cord. Do you guys see that? I love that I have been trapped with flat irons and wands in the past where the cord doesn't rotate So you're constantly moving your arms and rotating the the tool itself I mean, this is great. It literally does a complete 360 which I absolutely love that So that is my favorite pieces of the duval wand you guys This is probably one of the best straighteners that I have ever ever purchased and the Duval wand is on sale right now for 70 Percent off. Yes 70 with my link. It is not an affiliate link But you guys get 70 percent off of the duval wand So click the link down below that makes this one less than 30 dollars You seriously cannot buy a styling wand that isn't a piece of junk for 30 dollars So this is the salon model. Oh, actually it says that right here So this is the professional salon model you guys this I'm telling you this is The wand and the straightener you got to have them both. You can actually get them both for 70 percent off I'm going to put both links down in the description box for you guys But yeah, I can't believe how great my hair looks the straightening is perfect The curls I like that I can get a more beachy wave. I can get a tighter curl Absolutely love love love the size of the plates Love it. So highly recommend both the straightener and the curling wand. Look at this already I just bought this and look at How beautiful this has already started to bloom. I have it here in my kitchen window I bought this for three dollars at Trader Joe's you guys. How beautiful is that? I think it's just really cool that you can see the roots And it's already blooming into a beautiful flower three bucks if you guys have a Trader Joe's nearby for my afternoon snack I'm going to have a peanut butter built bar. This is one of my very very favorite flavors of the bill bar This keeps me nice and full which is awesome. It has 170 calories 20 grams of protein Seven fiber three sugar and seven fat. So with all the protein and fat and fiber It definitely keeps me nice and full one of my favorite bars That built bar has also I have been really liking the nut base bars Even though they are four smart points instead of three I feel like for me they keep me more satisfied and full So I've been choosing them if I need them to sustain me a little bit longer And my husband isn't going to be home until late tonight. So we're going to be having a little bit later dinner So I'll gladly take the extra point for the sustainability and keeping me full and satisfied So again, this is the peanut butter. It is four smart points If you're new to bill bar, there is a separate link down in the description box That will get you ten dollars off your first order Take advantage of that while they're offering that promotion because that is a steal That makes these bars less than a dollar a piece and you cannot find another protein bar That tastes as good as these for less than a dollar And if you're a returning built bar customer, my code here on the screen gets you 10 off in free shipping It's a reusable code So save it because you can use it every time you place an order So four smart point afternoon snack I went ahead and picked up a few more things from the event sports Where i'm really excited about three of the four things. So this sports bra. I bought it does not fit me It is too small The girls don't quite fit in here. I think this sports bra is adorable This is the limitless zip front crisscross bra. You guys this bra is 25.99 I love the zip front. I was hoping I could squish them in by unzipping it, but Didn't happen. It has this nice kind of breathable mesh here at the bottom But what I loved about this bra is the back. Look at how adorable this like crisscrossy Strap is I just think that that is so cute Unfortunately, it did not fit me So I may exchange it for a bigger size or I may give it to my mom or someone else as a nice gesture But this is actually a high impact sports bra This makes it easy to put on this crisscross design kind of highlights your back curve And it's reliable and supportive during high impact workouts, which is why I picked it out So gosh darn it. It doesn't fit I also picked up this anywhere mesh tea because it was a stellar price. You guys 18 bucks for this shirt I like the mesh breathability here up above and it even has the mesh along the bottom So I really really really like that that you can get that breathability It's long that it actually covers my butt for the most part, which is great And the back of this is super cute So it has again the mesh mesh v net v in the back, which I love With this stitching and again the mesh at the bottom Super flattering kind of brings you in makes you look a little bit smaller And then I also love I forgot to point this out that it has this kind of mesh up the side as well This shirt is really cute and only $18. I couldn't pass it up. It's a nice breathable material Can't wait to wear it to do my jazz or size. So this is the other bra I got I'm obsessed. This bra is so comfortable. There's no clasps zippers. You just pull it on over your head This to me would be kind of an everyday sports bra, which I've been looking for This is the limitless sports bra crisscross razor back plus size addition Which is great for me because the girls again you guys So this is made with a high elastic fiber and it gives you light support during kind of low-impact workouts But again, I love that it's kind of an everyday bra and look how cute this is This is the front of the bra this crisscross crisscross design and then the back again There's no clasps or anything. So the back is just your traditional sports bra, which I really like as well So I love this. It looks like it comes in three colors white green and black Love it. This is going to be an everyday go-to bra for me and it's $24.99 $24.99 And the holy grail the thing I am most excited about is this shift light full zip jacket Oh my gosh, I am obsessed. So first of all, it has a hood with kind of a really soft lining Look at this zipper. It is the kind of zipper. That's waterproof. So no water gets in there It's a really really soft material. There's a couple of zip pockets I love this feature that you can put your thumb through I love this jacket. The inside is so incredibly soft like fleece So it's lightweight with a smooth fabric It offers all day comfort front pockets to keep your hands warm Keep your items in. I love the cute little event logo right there. It has some nice black piping along the bottom This is the back. So it's just very just a plain jacket in the back But then of course you have the hood which you guys I love this jacket is so cute I had to get this. So this was kind of my my splurge on this yvette order. So this jacket is $85.99 But I do have 15 off everything you order from Yvette So if you use my code, you can get this jacket for 15 off you guys I love this. I wish it came in other colors It actually only comes in this gray because I would buy more it is that nice and that comfortable Highly recommend the jacket for tonight's dinner I'm making asparagus quinoa salad with feta cheese And we're going to pair this with I'm going to have one of those sausages that I had for lunch So we can eat up the leftover sausages and then I'm going to air fry some New chick on the block chicken and I'll show you that when I go to put that in the air fryer But let me show you what is in the asparagus quinoa salad with feta cheese First you're going to need quinoa minced garlic a can of garbanzo beans or chickpeas Lemon you could use a fresh lemon or lemon juice scallions aka green onions some asparagus Feta cheese and last but not least some salt and pepper. So let's get started on this salad Also some oil. So I'm going to be using some of the chosen foods avocado oil So the first thing we need to do is cook our quinoa super simple I put one and a half cups of dry quinoa, which makes three cups cooked again. This is my quinoa from costco I really like this quinoa. It's pretty awesome And then we put in three cups of this organic chicken broth also from costco. So you want Double the liquid to the quinoa and I like my quinoa cooked best in broth. It adds much more flavor than water So we're going to get this coming to a boil and we'll chop up our veggies All right, so we're going to cut up our scallions. We want to cut these really really thinly And then we're just going to chop up the asparagus as well I'm going to put both of those in a bowl and we'll have those ready to add to the quinoa when it's done So I have my oven preheating to 400 on my cookie sheet lined with parchment I'm going to put my cut asparagus. So we're just going to put that out on our pan Then we are going to add one teaspoon of the avocado oil Just right over the top of the asparagus and then I like to just kind of give it a quick mix up with my hands Just to make sure that I get that oil all over all of the asparagus And then we're going to add a little bit of salt and pepper. So we're going to add pepper right over the top And lastly just some salt again right over the top as well And then this is going to go into the oven until the asparagus is cooked through in a small bowl We're going to go ahead and put one quarter cup of lemon juice We're also going to be putting two tablespoons of avocado oil into that And then we're also going to add two cloves of minced garlic And we're going to go ahead and give that a stir and this is going to get set aside I forgot to mention we're going to add a little bit of salt and pepper as well Then we'll go ahead and set this aside. I changed my mind and for my husband I'm going to go ahead and have these in my freezer forever I won't eat them because they don't have clean enough ingredients But I thought my husband would like these these are the cooked perfect chicken meatballs This is basically what they look like. So I just put them here in my little air fryer I don't know if I've shown this to you guys yet, but this is a copper chef. It's so cute It's literally like a very very tiny air fryer. I got this on amazon for $39. I'll link it down below for you guys I love it for small amounts of food because you know, I have the big oven style And really when I want to cook just a few meatballs like I do tonight Or if I want to cook a couple of breasts of chicken or just a small amount of food This is absolutely perfect for that super easy to use So i'm just going to go ahead and put it on 20 minutes And turn it up to about three or 400 and voila you hit the start button and you've got an air fryer Again, this is the copper chef Literally love love love this. I'll link it down below I think it's great if you just want a super small air fryer while the asparagus is cooking I went ahead and added one can drained and rinsed Chickpeas to my bowl as well as my cut up scallions to this I'm going to go ahead and add the quinoa. So this is about three cups of cooked quinoa We're going to give it a stir and then once the asparagus is done We'll add in that and our dressing that we made and last step is topping it with the feta cheese So I just pulled the asparagus out of the oven. We're going to go ahead and add it To our bowl and then the last step is adding in the dressing And the last step is to go ahead and add in that dressing that we made Give it a stir and then right as serving We'll drop in two ounces of feta cheese. All right. So here's my dinner for tonight I have one of those same Sabatinos chicken sausage links that I had with my lunch for four points And then this is the asparagus quinoa salad with feta So one sixth of that salad is six smart points on both blue and purple And is eight smart points on green. Nope. I was wrong It would only be two smart points on the purple plan because the quinoa would be zero points But for me on blue, this is going to be a 10 smart point dinner a four dessert tonight I'm going back to my pre Clean eating roots and having a parfait. So first I used one of the two good yogurts This is the coconut. These actually have really good ingredients. No added sugar and they are non-gmo These are two smart points. I also used the so delicious cocoa whip in place of that free ready whip I have two points worth of the cocoa whip And then I have one of the orange Cakes actually the smart cakes and smart buns have really good ingredients So I'm going to put one of these on there for one smart point And I did have one point worth of whipped topping not two and then two of the two good yogurt So this parfait is a total of four smart points. Thank you for joining me on another what I eat in a day to lose weight on I hope you enjoy diesel and lola all my food for the day a couple of my favorite products And of course tonight's dinner, which was amazing that recipe is on my website The link to my website is down in the description box Also is where you will find the links to all of my favorite things and the flat iron Huh, I love it that I shared with you guys today as well as the link to head on over and join my facebook group We'd love to have you be part of our community over there So make sure you head on over and join us You're gonna find all of that information right down below in the description box if you're new welcome I'd love to have you stick around and join my youtube friends and family All you have to do is hit that little subscribe button and the bell So you're notified when a new video is uploaded. 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