Hello, my name is Roger Fernandez. I'm a Native American artist and storyteller and educator. I belong to the Lower Elwa Clalem tribe. We are known in our real language as Nixkleum, which means strong people. The English speakers couldn't say Nixkleum, so they call us Clalem. And so I come from the strong people. That's what Nixkleum means, strong people.   A storytelling teacher just tells you the story. You must find in the story what you have learned, because we're all different. We're going to learn different things from different stories. So I'm going to share a story with you that comes from our people here. Before I tell you the story, I want to clarify a couple of things. So you know when it comes to the story, you'll know this stuff. To the Native American people here, the most important being in the world is the salmon. Everything here relies on salmon for life.  Everything here builds its life around salmon. So to us, the salmon is the most important being in the world. And we around here, the Indian people, call them salmon people, the people who live in villages under the ocean. People like us who live in villages under the ocean, who become salmon, who put on salmon skin become salmon. They come up the rivers to feed the people who live on the land. So that is the salmon and the salmon people, the ones who live in the villages under the ocean. Now, they're doing something very powerful and special for us, so we have to do something for them. We do songs for them, dances for them, ceremonies for them. We honor them. And one way we honor them is we put the salmon bones when we're done eating the salmon back into the water because we want them to use those bones again to come back. So we return the salmon bones to the water. This is the way we show respect to them. So now you know these things. Now, when I tell the story, you'll understand that part of the story. A long time ago, in a village not far from here, there lived a little boy.  He was a really, really bad little boy. He was always fighting and lying and cheating and stealing, complaining, mean to the little kids, never did his work, talked back to the grown-ups. He was a really bad little boy. Well, in this village, it was a job for the children to take the salmon bones back to the water. And when the grandpa said, it's time to take the salmon bones back to the water, all the children, except one, ran up a pile of salmon bones, picked them up in their hands and walked out the door, going down the trail to return the salmon bones to the river. All the children were doing this except one. And you know who that one was, right?  He said, no, grandpa, I'm playing. Leave me alone. Grandpa said, this is a very simple thing. This is how we show respect to the salmon people. Do it now. He said, all right. And he went where the salmon bones were, but they were all gone except for a few little bones in the dirt. He scooped them up in his hand and he walked out the door. The little boy was walking really slow, following the children down the river. And pretty soon he couldn't see anybody and no one was around. So he threw the salmon bones in the bushes. He said, there, no one will ever know. Well, a few days later he was playing on some big rock by the side of the river. And accidentally he slipped and he fell into the river, the deepest part of the river. And he would have drowned except under the water, someone saved him. Do you know who saved him under the water? The salmon people. And they took him back to their village under the ocean and they took care of him. Very good care of him. They were kind and loving. They gave him good food. They gave him warm blankets.  And so that little boy said, I love it here. They're so good to me. I'm going to stay here forever. I will never leave. I'm going to live with the salmon people now. But one day something happened that changed everything. One day he was playing with the salmon children and he saw a little salmon girl and she was hiding in the rocks by the village. She was hiding in the rocks by herself and the boy looked at her and wondered, what is going on?  And she was dragging one leg behind her as though she had no bones in her leg. She couldn't lift up one arm as though it hurt and she couldn't lift it up because she had no bones in her arm. No bones in her arms, no bones in her legs. Right away that little boy knew what happened. He knew what happened. The bones he threw away into the bushes never made it back to the salmon people. And now this little girl was suffering. She was in pain because of him and he knew he had to do something. So he went to the salmon people and he said, can you take me back to my village on the land? I have important things to tell them there. And the salmon people said, yes, we'll take you home but if you leave us, you may never return. You cannot come back to our village. He'll be gone forever. And the boy thought and he said, it's very important. I must go. And so they took him back to the village on the land and he came walking out of the water, walking out of the water in front of the village and the people saw him coming and they said, look, the little boy's coming back. They thought they would never see him again. They thought he had drowned and they would never see him again. But here he was returning to them and they rushed up to hug him and agreed him but the boy said, wait, wait, stop. I have important things to tell you. First, that spoiled rotten mean little boy that you used to know, that is not me anymore. I have changed. I am a good person now. And I must tell you what I have learned. The things we do on the land affect the things that live in the water. The things we do on the land affect the things that live in the water. We must respect and protect the house of the Salmon people. We must respect and protect the house of the Salmon people. And this is what that little boy taught his people from the time he lived with the Salmon people in their villages under the ocean. And that is all the story called Salmon Boy. And there are many ways to tell this story by different tribes, but it's always the same. A boy returns to teach his people something he learned from the Salmon. And I, again, as I said earlier, what questions come out of this story? How does this mean rotten, terrible little boy become a teacher of his people at the end of the story? How would you explain that? How did he change? What happened that made him change? At the end he said, the things we do on the land affect the things that live in the water. What did he mean by that? What did he mean? The things we do on the land, how could that affect the things that live in the water? You must think about these things.  I'm not going to give you answers. I'm going to give you questions. And I'm going to show you how to make a Salmon design, a very simple Salmon design. This is called Coast Salish, which is a name they've given to all the tribes of this region of western Washington by the saltwater. We live by the saltwater. We speak the Salish language. So we're called Coast Salish. And this is our art. And our art is very different than what we call the Totempole art from up north in Alaska. Our art is very different. And I'm going to show you. It's based on three shapes. So get some paper and pencil. We have three shapes we use in our art. Three shapes, all right? And if you can draw them, which I know you can, then draw them on the side of your paper kind of like I'm doing. The first shape is the circle. You can do that, right? Of course you can. The second shape is called the crescent, like the crescent moon. It's like the letter C with a smaller one inside of it. And it go any direction. And it be long and skinny, whatever it is. But anything that looks like that slice of a circle, we call the crescent. And the third shape is an interesting shape because it looks like a shape we know, but it's not that shape. What do I mean by that? One, two, three. Triangle, right? It's not a triangle. It's called a trigon. A triangle has straight sides and it has curved sides. So a curved-sided triangle. But to shorten that, a lot of the native art is called the trigon. And it looks like, again, anything that has three sides with curved sides like that. So those are all trigons. Those are our three shapes. Circle, crescent, trigon. And how do we make our designs? I'm going to show you a real simple way to make a salmon design. All right? First, you've got to draw the shape of a salmon. Or if you're going to make a bear, the shape of a bear, or the shape of an eagle, or the shape of a person. And inside of it, you put circles, crescent, trigons. That's how simple it is. So I'm going to make the shape of a salmon. This takes a little bit of practice, but you can do it too. So there's my salmon shape. All right? Pretty good. Now I'm going to put circles, crescent, trigons in it. Now, this art is not just based on shapes, but also what's between the shapes. Long, long conversation. But I'm going to show it to you simply.  By doing something, well, I could go like this. I could make a salmon eye like this if I wanted to. And that's what a salmon eye looks like. But I'm going to show you a different way. I'm going to make a trigon and line it up another trigon. And can you see a circle between them? So the artist made you see a circle by lining up two trigons. So not just the shapes of what's between the shapes. That's what I'm going to make my eye here. Trigon. I'm going to color it in so you can see it as a shape. Trigon. Like that. And I could put a circle in to make it look more like an eye. So there's my salmon eye. Pretty good. Now, the trigons look very nicely inside the fins of the salmon because they're already triangular. And I'm going to make my tail. Everybody makes their own tail design. One. Now my shapes don't touch each other. Always remember that. My shapes don't touch each other. And four. All right. But do you see between them there's a circle? Very good. So to make my fin up here, another trigon. Color it in. Whenever you do this design, color in these shapes. All right. So you see them as shapes. Not just lines. Then what would make a good shape for a gill? Ooh. A crescent. Looks just like a gill. So I'm going to make a crescent gill. I want to make the bones of the salmon. One. Two. Three. Four. Trigons. Color them in. This is your part. You can use your own imagination to make your own salmon now. You don't have to copy mine. I could make another bigger one like this. Another trigon. Then I could put some eggs in here. It's a mother salmon carrying the eggs up the river. So there's my mother salmon. And there's another one here. Like this. And more circles in here. And then I could put a crescent in here because I feel like it. And I could put a different trigon like this right here. Again, now it's your idea of what you want to do. So again, this is how we make our designs.  Person, animal, bear, eagle, whatever it is. Thunderbird. Inside of it you put circles, crescent, trigons. But it's not just the shapes. It's also what's between the shapes. So hopefully, again, that's a simple little lesson. Next time you see Coast Salish Art, look for those shapes, circles, crescent, trigons. This is how we make our designs. If you want to copy this, that's wonderful. But I also want you to make your own salmon design. Okay? So again, thank you very much for letting me share a little bit about our art with you.


Hello, I'm Stuart Stevenson and I'm the convener of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee of the Scottish Parliament. And we're just starting a bit of work that's looking at the role of conveners of our committees. So what do our committees actually do? They hold the Government to account, they look at legislation that's being proposed to Parliament and most importantly of all perhaps we take the views of the people beyond Parliament into account in all the work that we do. So what do conveners actually do? They're like chair of any meeting, they hold the meeting to order, they decide the order of business but more fundamentally they are elected by the committees and that's an important question. Should we appoint conveners in that way? Should we have a different approach? We already make sure that the balance of committee conveners reflects the political balance of Parliament so committees don't have a big choice, they've got to choose from a particular political party. But that's enough of that, let's actually have a look at some of the conveners in action. We're joined by Conor, by Laura, Charlene, Peter and Lana. We've invited you here today to share your experiences of the Scottish Welfare Fund and the committee will ask you a range of questions. We're keen to hear about what you think worked well and anything that you think could have been improved. I would remind members if they would to keep their questions short and to the point as possible and similarly answers that are short and to the point would be helpful in getting through the subjects in the time available. Can I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate on behalf of the Justice Committee, the League Committee in consideration of the Bill. I emphasise, I'm speaking as convener, not as an SNP backbencher, no doubt some folks will be pleased to hear that. So the convener's role is clearly an important one, you've seen them in action, seen what they do. But how accountable are conveners to Parliament and indeed to the public beyond Parliament? Should we perhaps be electing them from the whole Parliament to give greater authority and greater credibility to their role? Should we make sure that they continue to represent the different political balances in the Parliament? It's time for you to give us your views on how we should appoint our conveners. We want to hear from you, we're on Twitter, we're on Facebook and of course we're on this video, so let us know.


All right, so I'm a car guy and a lot of people that doesn't make sense, but I still love cars, cars are not that bad, as some people will say. My slides won't make a lot of sense to a lot of people, so if you get bored listening to me, just look at the pretty cars you have on the screen. So you can't tell someone their motivations are wrong or by a car, but I can tell you that your motivations are leading you in the wrong directions for that car. A lot of people today still look at car buying as this daunting experience and aren't buying the right car for them. Cars are an emotional experience. When you're buying a car, you're going to be angry, sad, trying to enjoy, and sadness in that car. So a car should mean something. When you're sitting in there, there's a lot of surfaces you're touching, you're going to go fast, you're going to go slow, and that place should feel comfortable to you, and so many people go out and buy just the car that Consumer Reports tells you to buy, or that the internet tells you to buy, or a friend has that car, so that's the car for you. No, it's not. There's a lot of cars out there. There's a lot of cars in every segment out there. When you're looking for a car, you need to shop for a car. You need to go test drive a car. You need to drive several cars, not just go to the Ford plant or the Ford dealer because your grandfather's uncle worked at the Ford dealer and you get a $5,000 discount there. No, that's a terrible reason to buy that car. That's not the car for you. What you want to do is you want to set up a plan. You want to go out, have a robin line when you go test drive, drive on city streets, highways, everything. Playing with all the buttons, touch everything in that car. Play with every switch. Make sure everything is comfortable to you. This is a car. You're probably spending a lot of time in this car. Even if you're thinking that I drive 15 minutes to work in bank every day, that's still 15 minutes every morning, every afternoon, every day for several years. So, again, pretty trust. Shopping for a car shouldn't be the same as a bikeway, I guess. It's kind of the takeaway here. You know, when you buy a bikeway, you just want something that works. And yes, that's true with a car. You want a car that works. That's why people buy Toyota Camrys by the boat load. But that doesn't make that car great for you. Again, you need to really play with it. You know, touch everything, sing your phone up, play with the knobs, figure out how to adjust the clock. You know, really make sure you're comfortable in the car. It's a car. You should love it. You know how it handles, how it feels. It should bring you joy to be in that vehicle every single day, even if you just needed that car as an appliance. So, kind of check on me tonight. Yeah, so just because a car guy tells you what car to buy doesn't mean that's the right car also. So, when I tell someone what car to buy, I'm going to give them a list of cars. Because again, everybody is different. Just because I like one car doesn't mean you're going to buy another car. I love the cars that are on the screen behind me, but it doesn't mean any of these are the right car for you. I love wagons. It doesn't mean a wagon is right for you. I like small fuel-efficient cars. It doesn't mean it's right for you. You might have kids. You might have dogs. You might play sports. You know, there's a lot of things to consider when you buy a car. People don't think about it.  Those might not really apply to you, though. You might keep something that's got a bit more zip or has a character, like a Volkswagen Beetle. And you know, a lot of this applies to new cars, but it's the same with your buying a used car. If you're buying a used car, there's millions of used cars out there, too. You're not stuck buying just that one $2,000 car that you found on Chrysos. There's tons of that out there.  Stop treating the car like an appliance. Like it's just a tool that you're from point A to point B. You should get from point A to point B in joining yourself, in comfort, relaxed.  So, yeah, that's why you should enjoy a car. That's why you bought the wrong car before. Because you've just gone out and thought, alright, I need a car. What did I have before?  Who's got a good deal? Good deals.  When you're buying a car, that's an investment. Go out, find the right car for you. Think about it. It's 2013 and you should still be scared of going to a dealer and dealing with a big, bad, scary salesman. I like to think we're all slightly more intelligent than that. To get over those fears of sitting there at a car dealer and intimidating the test drive cars.  They're still a wonderful thing.


The Baltimore Fleet Week and Air Show will host ships from around the Navy visiting Baltimore's inner harbor. The ships include a cruiser, destroyer, amphibious transport dock ship, expeditionary fast transport ship, and the commissioning of the Navy's newest class of destroyer, pre-commissioning unit Zoomwalt. Fleet Week gives the community a chance to interact with sailors and experience the new technologies of the sea services while watching flight demonstrations from the Blue Angels. I can't wait to meet the sailors, get to experience how life is on the ships. Just love to hear their experience about working on the ships, how life is. It's just really cool to see them in person. Instead of just pictures in a book or online, it's awesome. For more information about Fleet Week, visit Navy.mil.


Five studies have been performed on breast cancer survival and soy foods, involving more than 10,000 breast cancer patients, and those who eat more soy live longer and have a lower risk of the cancer coming back.  Fewer than 10% of breast cancer cases run in families, but when they do, it's most likely mutations to one of the tumor suppressor genes, BRCA1 or BRCA2, that defend the integrity of our genes. They're involved in DNA repair, and so if either one of them is damaged, has mutations, chromosomal abnormalities can result, which can set us up for cancer. This idea that we had tumor suppressor genes goes back to famous research in the 60s that showed that if you fuse together a normal cell with a cancer cell, the cancer cell doesn't turn the normal cell malignant, rather the normal cell suppresses the cancerous one. Tumor suppressor genes are typically split up into two types. They're gatekeeper genes that keep cancer cells in check, and caretaker genes that keep the cell from going cancerous in the first place, and BRCA genes appear able to do both. That's why their function is so important. Until recently, dietary recommendations for those with mutations focused on reducing DNA damage caused by free radicals, baiting lots of antioxidant-packed foods, fruits, and vegetables. If your DNA repair capacity is low, you'll want to be extra careful about damaging your DNA in the first place. But what if we could also boost BRCA function? In my video on the topic, the last one I did, I showed how in vitro, soy phytoestrogens could turn back on BRCA protection suppressed by breast cancer, upregulating BRCA expression as much as 1,000% within 48 hours. But does that translate out of the petri dish and into the person? Apparently so. Soy intake was only associated with 27% breast cancer risk reduction in people with normal BRCA genes, but a 73% risk reduction in carriers of BRCA gene mutations. So a healthy diet may be particularly important in those at high genetic risk. Meat consumption, for example, was linked to twice as much risk in those with BRCA mutations. 97% increased risk, instead of just 41% increased risk of breast cancer in those with normal BRCA genes. So, same dietary advice, but just more important when there's more risk.