I am genuinely curious what this new plant-based slop tastes like, you know, what they are shoving down the throats of, I guess, a fairly high percentage of the American population. Beyond meats and impossible foods have been all the rave in the media lately. We're going to go over to Burger King tonight and compare the impossible whopper to the regular whopper. At least I'm pretty sure it's the impossible whopper that has more of a ring to it than the beyond whopper. And this is kind of contradictory because I have a gigantic refrigerator full of local, high quality, grass-fed beef. A courtesy of Frankie's Free Range Meat. This is our beautiful local beef package, actually. Really amazing stuff. High quality, fatty beef.  So it's pretty late at night. I've had a long day and I figured this was perfect. I've wanted to do a more vlog-style video and I have a really bad pimple on my cheek from not sleeping. And I was like, well, if I ate this poison, I would have a bunch of these on my face. And I didn't really want to film something and have you guys say something and not be able to be more casual about it. So we're going to drive over to Burger King. There's one, I think about 10 minutes from my parents' house and they're open 24-7. But I actually called them ahead of time just to make sure the burger is cooked on the same surface that the other burgers are. I'm sure they thought I was like a vegan or something because I called them up. I was like, hey, and I was really excited.  And before I said that, I was like, oh, are you guys open till what time tonight? And they're like, oh, we're open 24-7.  The girl got a little giggle.  And they were like, yes. And I was like, oh, okay, that's great. So it was cooked on the same surface as the other meats. And then they said, she said, yes. So we're going to go over there, pick some up. We'll take it home and see how it goes. Probably a little too dark for you guys to see my car, but I drive an old Ford Taurus.  I don't really want to buy something nicer. It's actually pretty cold out today. I'm wearing a t-shirt and shorts. It's like 47 degrees and raining outside, but I guess I'm a little lazy. I'd rather wear this than put on sweats. It is a dark and rainy night for a dark and rainy occasion. I don't know if I've ever been to a Burger King in general. I'm not really sure. Hi, I'm good over here. Hey, what's going on? Can I get an impossible whopper and a regular whopper, just the sandwiches? Impossible and a whopper, anything else? No, that's it. Thank you. Some of you guys might remember we compared Wendy's Patties to McDonald's Patties last year for the Carnivore diet purposes. But before that, I hadn't been in a fast food restaurant for, I think, over 10 years. So this is not a usual occurrence. As I said, I don't think I've ever been to a Burger King, little on a lot of other fast food restaurants. I've never tried a whopper. I mean, I've never tried a Big Mac either, but $14 is a steep for this gym. I had two pounds of grass-fed beef while Frankie's free-range meat. I wonder how much of a metric it is between different fast food restaurants. Oh, that was quick. Thank you. See, now, stuff like that is what I worry about. If they made the sandwich that fast, how can... You know, they had the burgers already ready. I ordered an impossible whopper and a regular whopper. That just means that the burgers were sitting in a heating element or something, like under a lamp, and then they just put it in the bag and gave it to me. Because that was literally less than a minute through the drive-thru. That was ridiculous. Alright, maybe two minutes, but there is no way I was in that drive-thru for longer than two minutes. So, does it really matter if this stuff is fresh? I don't really think so with the amount of preservatives and shit in it, but I guess we better make sure it's hot when we eat it. I don't know about you guys, but driving when it's this dark outside in the rain, you know, like where the sky is completely black, this is difficult, man. I have good night vision, and I can't imagine the average person, you know, trying to drive on this at night. It's like pitch black. You've got people with their high beams in the other lane. All this for two poisonous burgers.   It shows you how much I actually value my advice. Maybe it's just the super high retinol content in a carnivore diet. The amazingly high animal-based vitamin A only found in animal foods that is allowing me to perceive this road unlike any human being before. That being said, that guy just flew past me in a BMW, and I'm sure he's not on a carnivore diet. But, I'm sure if I was in a BMW on the carnivore diet, I'd be going even faster than that. Just as I'm pulling down my street, there's this guy walking his dog 10.30 p.m. at night, all black, rainy, cold outside. One reason I don't own a dog, so what are you going to do? But we got the goods. And ironically, this is probably, is it worse for you than dog food? No, I think dog food is better for you, and it probably tastes better too. Speaking of dogs and dog food, in general, the standard American diet is far worse than dog food or cat food. If you ate dog food which is mostly meat, the nutrient content is definitely higher than a human diet, and it's probably less inflammatory.  I'm actually really excited about this. I wonder what that says about my life in general. I mean, I work a lot and I'm mostly doing things I don't want to do, but this is definitely the most excited I've been, I think in probably months, let alone weeks. So we got the goods from Burger King. Again, skeptical, $14 out the window. Well, compared to how much money I've spent in past vegan or carnivore goes vegan videos, which is usually like $7,500 in vegan food per video. This is a pretty cheap in comparison. So we got some nuts in this. The impossible whopper, flame grilled to perfection with the same meat that this, or well, the same meat that's in this whopper. That's kind of funny, isn't it? That you, they grill the burgers on the same surface? What are you gonna do? So the whopper is 100% beef, no fillers, no preservatives, America's favorite burger. The impossible whopper is flame grilled to perfection. Why would they compromise America's favorite burger with the impossible whopper? Who knows? Now, I've never had an actual whopper before. So I don't really know if I should try this first or this first, but we'll definitely go back and forth between the two. And I'm a beef guy, so we will have the regular one first. Possible whopper. So I just ordered just the sandwich. Like I didn't change it at all. So this is default how it comes. It's, they're warm. I wouldn't say they're hot. The appearance of both is pretty similar.  This one's sweating a bit of water. I don't know why there's water in here or what that is. There's some in here too, I guess. So it looks, I don't know what's on a whopper. I thought it was layered, but it's just like lettuce, onion, pickles. It looks like some type of sauce. I think there's cheese on it, but I don't see the cheese. Did they forget the cheese? No, I think there's cheese somewhere on here. Is there? No, they forgot the cheese. Did I have to say with cheese or does a whopper not have cheese? Oh well. Well, there's the burger patty. The plant-based burger is noticeably darker charred. Like the beef whopper doesn't have any charm works on it whatsoever, but the plant-based burger is like really dark black charred. So let's give this a shot. Smells like fast food. This is what the bag is really for. I mean to me, it just tastes like ketchup and pickles. So I don't really taste a burger here. I just taste pickles, ketchup, maybe a little onion. I see why this, you know, appeals to Americans. Ketchup is sweet, you know, pickles give that umami, sour flavor. I mean, I don't have a steak, but what are you going to do? So this is, let me actually see if this on top is cheese or if it's something else. Yeah, I think this is cheese. Oh guys, it says with cheese, but I don't see like a slice of cheese on it. So this is going to be the impossible whopper. I'm just trying to make sure I get everything in one bite like tomato, pickle. I don't know man, definitely a difference. I'm going to go in for that again. Yeah, that was uh, that wasn't enjoyable. Let me try the patties separately and see if I can figure out what that whop taste was. So obviously the beef burger, only ingredients in the patty are beef. I mean it tastes like fast food ground beef. I don't know what they do to give the beef this like specific flavor. In these uh, in these fast food restaurants. I've never had like cooked ground beef that tastes like this. Now I'm going to have a piece of the plant-based burger. They put so much like ketchup and sauce on this plant-based burger that it's like, there's no part of the patty without it on it. It smells, I can't tell what this smells like. I'm sure like one of you super smeller people could, but it's not beef. I just can't put my hands on what this tastes like. Does it taste like meat? Tastes like meat trying, or like it tastes like meat that's trying to be vegetable. Unlike the usual plant-based stuff which is vegetable trying to be meat. This has like protein isolate that was made in the laboratory. This has canola oil, high omega 6 oils. You know the amount of chemicals, preservatives, additives and ingredients to make this plant-based patty taste good is in the dozens. And from a health perspective, this is far more inflammatory. Now both the whopper and the impossible whopper are without a doubt bad for you. I mean I don't think I have to say that, but you know you have this bun. I don't know what the bun ingredients are. I'm assuming it's like refined white flour which is made from inflammatory modern red winter wheat. Has 48 chromosomes. Type of wheat with a gluten structure that's not good for you. I'm assuming there's some type of vegetable oil in the bun as well. Maybe some preservatives. And even the water that's probably used to make these buns is in high quality. Then you have onion, pickles, lettuce, ketchup. Probably not too big of a deal. The vegetables, I mean there's no nutrients in vegetables. There might be herbicides and pesticides sprayed on the vegetables and stuff. But those aren't the biggest concern on this. The bun is definitely very inflammatory, gluten, carbohydrates refined, preservatives. The cheese product, whatever the sauce is on top, we can assume it's high omega 6. It's inflammatory, it's oxidized. The beef patty is the healthiest thing here. Without a doubt by far. Just beef in it. It's not grass-fed beef. It doesn't have the best nutrient profile. It's not free of negative things like atrazine or agrochemicals. So the beef is still a concern here.  The vegetables, probably not that big of a deal. The sauce or the cheese can be a highly processed low quality cheese. And then you have the beef. So in order of worst to best, bun, cheese, accoutrements, beef. This one, though, whereas here the beef is the healthiest thing, I would argue here the plant-based patty is the unhealthiest thing. So the plant-based impossible patty is the worst, followed by the bun and the accoutrements and the other stuff on here aren't that big of a deal. I mean, the cheese is worse than the accoutrements, but I guess let's, you know, I paid $14 for these burgers. So I might as well taste them a couple of times and see what I think. Hey, I see why, man. I see why. You know, a simple carnivore diet, the foods I'm used to eating compared to this. I see why people choke this stuff down all day. You know, I can put some horseradish and some cheese on my cheeseburger and enjoy it just as much. But the bun, the chemicals, the flavor, you know, the stuff people are used to eating in a whopper in these fast food restaurants. You know, they've really figured out a formula to get America fat, sick, and unhealthy and have them enjoy doing it.  So I had a couple more bites of the plant-based burger, a couple more bites of the whopper. From a taste perspective, the plant-based burger just doesn't have as powerful of a flavor. Like the beef doesn't really come through on the regular whopper, but the regular whopper tastes better because when you have the beef, when you have that more powerful flavor, it just brings everything else out. There's something in the regular whopper that tastes better than the impossible whopper. You know, despite the higher amount of charring and grill marks on that impossible burger, I think it has to do with the fat content of the beef and that fat that's in the meat giving it more flavor. You know, just going back and forth several times, even with the patty meat itself, you know, the patty meat didn't really have, they had a slightly different flavor, but it didn't really seem like the plant-based patty tasted that much better or worse than the beef patty from the taste perspective of like a fully cooked, crappy, you know, grain-fed beef burger. But in the sandwich itself, there was a noticeable difference when the flavors came together.  I would say maybe the regular whopper is 10% or 15% better tasting, but that's not much of a margin.  I think they're doing something better by not having beef, which is absolutely not true, but that can actually happen. That tends to be how things work. And as I was mentioning, you know, how they've engineered these fast foods to activate your flavor receptors. You have your sweet from the ketchup, your umami, your sour from the pickle. You have some creaminess from that sauce on top. I don't even know if there was cheese on this, but you throw cheese on that. That's another element. They've combined many flavor elements to trick your body into thinking you're getting nutrients because any food that tastes good naturally has nutrients in it. You take any fruit or vegetable, you know, fruit tastes good because it's sweet. It has calories. You can't jazz up vegetables without modern science and cooking methods. But if you take meat or cheese or dairy, natural, one ingredient from an animal, it tastes good on its own. That signifies to your body that it's something that can sustain us. So having these foods taste like this is so unnatural. Our bodies are just sucking it down, but there's no nutrients in it, so it's not satiating our appetite. I mean, that's the state of pretty much every food in America, let alone fast food itself. Even a lot of animal products, chicken, pork and beef, the way we're raising the animals now, it's not conducive to a high nutrient content. So what I can suggest to you guys is go to Frankies Free Range Meat, buy some grass-fed beef, buy some raw cheese. Hey, whether it's at Frankies Free Range Meat or your local supermarket, it's far better than this. Thank you guys for joining me. If you could please like the video, subscribe, hit that bell icon, and please share the video, it really, really helps me out. If you guys would like to support me further, as I said, check out FrankiesFreeRangeMeat.com. You can also check out Frankies Naturals, minimal ingredients, minimally processed hygiene and cosmetic products. Thanks again for joining me, guys, and enjoy the rest of your day.


Hi all, I'm Om Shankar. First of all a very big thanks to JSFU for giving me this wonderful opportunity to speak at their conference. I have been following JSFU for a very long time and I have known people who have inspired me and I've seen them speaking at JSFU giving wonderful seminars and tech talks and conducting workshops. So I'm very very glad that this is my first time opportunity at JSFU and I also got a chance to contribute to what JSFU is doing. About myself, I have been a web development engineer right from the starting of my career and I have been working with companies which are into the web. I was with Adobe Systems and then Walmart Labs and then right now I'm at Amazon as a web development engineer and a user interface specialist. So I build products into the web and most of it is most of the time and intelligence is spent in rendering the product into into the browser and that is nothing but your front end and then there comes a lot of JavaScript. So JavaScript has always kept me excited and yeah, so the topic I'm bringing over here is at this conference is WebRTC collaboration with HTML5 and JavaScript. I have been inspired by HTML5 when I was in Adobe Systems and they are doing a very good work in HTML5 and I believe that HTML5 is the key to the future of web applications. Right now we don't use just websites. We use web as application. We drag drop files into the browser. We play music like sound.com or any other website that you know. We also do a lot of things which are not just consuming the information. So we would say web has evolved really a lot and all of the all of this power comes from HTML5 features and HTML5 features stand on the JavaScript base. Why? Because most of the features that you work into HTML5 are only accessible using JavaScript APIs. So the very reason to this talk and why people should attend this talk is that it is related with JavaScript very much and HTML5 is the new happening. So all the JavaScript developers should not be refraining themselves from it and they should be very well apart of this new happening. They should contribute to the web. They should let the web move forward and bring in more features, more cool stuff so that we have a very, very good internet ecosystems in which we can deploy our applications and make those applications publicly accessible on multiple devices. A lot of things are there and I'm really excited by HTML5 and this talk would therefore only be successful to only those people who are equally excited by either HTML5 or JavaScript or both or at least they want to see cool stuff. So that's it to it. Thanks a lot and I hope you'll enjoy this talk. Thank you very much.


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The first item of business is afternoon's portfolio questions, and the first portfolio is Covid 19 recovery, and parliamentary business. I remind members there are a couple of groupings, questions 1 and 3, questions 2 and 4, both grouped. Therefore, I'll take supplementaries on those questions after both have been answered. There is quite a bit of interest in this portfolio and the next one, so the usual request for questions and indeed responses to be as brief as possible. Question 1, Sandesh Gohany. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will propose scheduling parliamentary time to debate strengthening the scrutiny role of the Parliament in holding the Scottish ministers to account. Minister George Adam. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I thank Dr Gohany for his question. the Scottish Parliament is responsible for all matters relating to its function and internal operation and is for the parliamentary bureau to recommend the plenary business schedule to Parliament. The Government would encourage any member wishing to propose reform of current parliamentary procedures to raise such proposals with the Standards Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. The Government stands ready, if invited, to discuss any reform proposals. Earlier today I met Donald Cameron to discuss his proposals for parliamentary reform and what was our very productive meeting. Dr Gilhane. Minister, parliamentary scrutiny is so important in a democracy, as it means that we get to challenge the Government on its failings. As we know, there are too many to count from this SNP Government. We know that the SNP do all they can to suppress scrutiny, as we have seen from their attempt to stop the public from viewing their leadership hustings. To disprove this notion, could the Minister commit today that his Government will not be taking away any opposition debating time? Minister, can you move the microphone slightly towards you, please? Yes, no problem. Most of that was complete and utter nonsense from the member with the great respect. As I mentioned in my previous answer, I had a very constructive meeting with Donald Cameron regarding his proposals and looked forward to his future proposals coming forward. One of the things that I would say to Dr Gilhane is that Mr Cameron did this in a very constructive manner. If he wants to work with the parliamentary bureau, I would ask him first and foremost to talk to his own business manager and take it from there. Question 3, Stephen Kerr. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will propose time for parliamentary debate on the effective scrutiny of Scottish ministers. Minister George Adam. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and thank you, Mr Kerr, for the same question. As I just confirmed in my answer to Dr Gilhane, I would reiterate that this Parliament's responsibility for all matters relating to its function and internal operation. I know that the minister is a committed and passionate Parliamentarian and that he is as keen as I am to safeguard the reputation of the Scottish Parliament. I also know that he will be very familiar with the obligations of the ministerial code. Yesterday, Minister Lorna Slater made no serious attempt to answer a question that was asked of her four times. There are other examples of ministers reverting to scripted answers even when they have bear no relation to the question asked. As the Parliament's man in the Government, will the minister remind his colleagues, as was highlighted by the Presiding Officer yesterday, that there is an obligation, more borne of respect than anything else, to fairly and squarely address the questions being asked of them in this chamber? Thank you, Presiding Officer, and I thank Mr Kerr for that supplementary question. On many occasions, Mr Kerr and I have had our interpretation of answers and discussions will have been entirely different. It is down to the individual as to what they interpret the answer to be. However, I, like my colleagues, take a role in Parliament very seriously, as does my colleague Lorna Slater. To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any potential impact on turnout at future Scottish Parliament and local authority elections of the introduction by the UK Government of voter ID requirements for elections to the UK Parliament. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and I thank Mr Allan for that question. The requirement for voter ID was introduced by the UK Government for reserved elections. Voters that devolved elections in Scotland for the Scottish Parliamentary and local government do not require voter ID. The Scottish Government remains strongly opposed to it and has concerns about the potential for confusion and disenfranchement of voters. We will look closely at the operation of voter ID in local government elections in England this May, and my officials and several electoral administrators from across Scotland will be attending some of the polling places as observers. Given that the incidents of voter fraud that this measure proports to tackle are extremely rare, as far as anyone can establish, does the minister believe that this measure has been introduced in good faith, or is it simply a way for the Tories to try and cling on to a couple of last remaining seats at the next UK election? I think that Mr Allan made his point clear there, but the introduction of voter ID will no doubt make it more difficult for some voters to participate. That is why this Parliament has rejected going down that route for all elections. Any policy that risks excluding voters should be, Presiding Officer, opposed. To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to increase voter turnout in both Scottish Parliament and local government elections. I thank Mr Doris for that question. Turn out at the most recent Scottish Parliament election in 2021 was at 63.5 per cent, an increase of 7.7 per cent from the election before. At local government elections in May 2022 turnout was 44.8 per cent, a 2 per cent decrease from 2017. The changes in turnout are a result of a range of factors and we have been seeing in the past voters will turn out greater numbers when they are engaged. That is not something that the Government can wholly influence, but our on-going consultation on electoral reform seeks views on how to improve voter registration and how to make voting more accessible. Votes must not just be cast in large numbers, they must also count. That is a concern that I have within Canal Ward in my constituency, which has more rejected ballot papers than any other council ward at the 2020 election three times the national average. I have raised those concerns constructively with the Electoral Commission. Will the minister meet me to discuss my suggestion that the Electoral Commission has a statutory duty to make an impact to reduce the levels of such ballot papers, as well as other specific ideas that I have to make sure that voters' votes are cast and counted and not inadvertently spoiled? I thank Mr Doris for that question. As always, I am happy to meet Mr Doris to discuss any of the proposals that he has, but I will reiterate what I said previously to Mr Doris in this chamber, which is that I agree that we must do whatever we can to ensure that no one loses their vote because they do not understand how to complete the ballot paper. I am pleased to hear that Mr Doris has constructive engagement with the Electoral Commission and others, who have a key role to play in supporting and educating voters. I will consider what more can be done on this issue and will take forward after electoral reform consultation closes. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how its Covid recovery strategy is supporting the tackling of health inequalities, including in relation to accessing key services such as dentistry. The Scottish Government's Covid recovery strategy is addressing the systemic inequalities that were exacerbated during the pandemic and includes a focus on the wellbeing of children and young people. Following restrictions on dentistry during the pandemic, we introduced a new enhanced examination from February 2022, targeting oral health inequalities, particularly in children. The latest statistics show that over 1.6 million NHS examination appointments were completed between April and October 2022, which includes 440,000 child examinations from February 2022. That means that we are on course for over 3.5 million contacts in the 2022-23 financial year, an increase of 40 per cent in NHS dental activity compared with the previous year. I am inundated by constituents who were not able to see a dentist during Covid and who now find that their NHS dentist has gone private, not dentists who have left or stopped practising just ones that will only see patients if they pay. Does the Deputy First Minister recognise the health inequality that perpetuates it? Will he use his cross-governmental role in co-ordinating the Covid response to see what more can be done in the time that he has left? This is an important issue that Mr Mundell raises. It is important that people have access to NHS dentistry services. People in some circumstances opt for private dental care and, in other circumstances, we have to make sure that that is provided. I know that NHS Dumfriesen-Galloway, in relation to the constituency points that Mr Mundell has raised, is focusing on improving the registration levels through the work of the local dental task force. I understand that up to 4,000 additional NHS registrations have been made available since the new year in the Dumfriesen-Galloway board area. That is an encouraging first step, but I recognise the importance of ensuring that there is an effective NHS dentistry service available in all parts of Scotland, including in Dumfriesen-Galloway. I have a number of supplementaries. I want to get them all in, but I want to ask brief questions and brief answers. First, Paul Sweeney. Can the Deputy First Minister please confirm when the Scottish Government will provide the British Dental Association with the costings associated with the revised determination 1 so that formal negotiations on payment reform can commence? I am afraid that I do not have that information to hand, but I will write to Mr Sweeney about it. We must face up to the reality of Brexit, given that more than 60 per cent of the dental workforce is European and, before the EU referendum, consistently well over 500 dentists trained in the EU and after registered in the UK. Will the cabinet secretary outline the measures that has been taken to mitigate those challenges with a view to sustaining a rural dental workforce? There is a general issue within our society about the availability of skills in the post-Brexit environment. We are seeing some of the hard realities about the contraction in the working-age population within Scotland, now presenting themselves. Those were things that were a substance of real worries 20 years ago. They were alleviated by our participation in the European Union and the free movement of individuals. They are now an acute threat to our society today, so we have to recognise that. In relation to the specific points that Gillian Martin raises with me, we have put in place a number of measures to assist in the recruitment and retention of dental staff for their fiscal incentives for newly qualified and trainee dentists. Despite the workforce challenges that we face, we remain in a positive position with relative strength of 57 dentists per 100,000 of population, providing NHS dental services in Scotland compared to 43 per 100,000 in England. I recently met local NHS dentists in North East Fife who report a significant backlog that they are having to work through. However, there is significant increase in decay because the patients have been waiting for so long. However, they are concerned that they will not be able to deal with the backlog because the cost of treatment is not matched by the fees that they are receiving from the Government. Will the Minister take it up with the health secretary to ensure that the new fee regime reflects the cost of treatment so that we can deal with the backlog? The Government reviews all those issues on an on-going basis. I look with care at the points that Mr Rennie makes, but I have to put on the record that, as I have said to Parliament on countless occasions, there are financial constraints in which we are operating. We are trying to support public services to the greatest effect that we possibly can do, but there will be challenges in dealing with the recovery from Covid and the significant backlogs that will exist as a consequence of the absence of treatment for so many people for so long. To ask the Scottish Government how its Covid recovery strategy is supporting third-sector organisations in rural and island communities such as Argyll and Bute to improve health support, including for people with long Covid. The third sector is supported across each local authority area through third sector interfaces, which offer a variety of development needs and provide a voice into local decision-making structures, including health and social care partnerships and integrated joint boards. Increasingly, third sector interfaces are involved in broken new services across boundaries and managing funds for local partners. For example, in Argyll and Bute, there are more than 200 health and social care-related services being delivered by the third sector with support from the third sector interface. I thank the Deputy First Minister for his answer. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we saw innovative community-led activity to support community resilience. That worked particularly well in rural and island communities of Argyll and Bute, where people have a strong sense of community spirit and social capital. For example, they know their neighbours and who might be vulnerable or at risk. The community planning structure has provided a framework for mobilising that support, but there is much learning that can be gained from putting power into local communities. How can the role and power of communities be strengthened for future community resilience? One of the most important points is that we need to make sure that we lose none of the ways of working that were so prevalent in our communities, particularly in rural and island communities that have been highlighted in the original answer from Jenny Minto. I think that those services and those approaches should be enabled by the work of community planning partnerships. One of the priorities of the Covid recovery programme board has been to work with the community planning infrastructure around Scotland, which exists in every local authority area, to bring together organisations and, through the third sector interface, to ensure that the availability and the opportunities of third sector activity to enhance that provision are clearly understood and articulated. I assure Jenny Minto that that work has a high priority within Government to ensure that the vital work of community organisations is significant as we take the steps to recover from Covid. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. If you would indulge me for a second, as I understand, those might be the last Covid recovery questions at which I will be shadowing the Deputy First Minister, I just recognise all the effort that he has put into that role over the past number of years and our mostly cordial exchanges here in the chamber and also in committee, which I am sure will continue with him on the back benches. In relation to the question, the Covid recovery committee has heard from long Covid sufferers including those from rural and island communities, who have been very clear in their view that the number one ask that they would have is for the introduction of long Covid clinics in Scotland to reflect what happens elsewhere in the United Kingdom. Will the Deputy First Minister consider in his last few weeks on the role whether those can be introduced? I am grateful to Mr Fraser for his kind remarks and I look forward to deploying what contribution I can make to Parliament in the years to come from the back benches, where I look forward to questioning Government ministers on the way in which they deport their responsibilities and to ensure for Dr Gilhane and Mr Kerr's benefit that there is proper accountability in Parliament. I shall ensure single-handedly from my parliamentary perspective. In relation to that, I recognise the substance of the issue that Mr Fraser raises about long Covid and long Covid clinics. Those issues are being examined to determine whether or not long Covid clinics are the appropriate way for them. What is absolutely essential is that anybody who is experiencing long Covid should, through their interaction with the general practice system in Scotland, be able to access healthcare services that will meet their needs. Their needs will vary depending on how long Covid has affected those individuals, but in all circumstances they should be able to have access to the appropriate level of care and support. I assure Mr Fraser that I will use my remaining period in office to ensure that that is the case. I can confirm Mr Swinney that Mr Ewing has a seat safely secured for you up at the back. Jackie Baillie Long Covid Scotland tells us that one in five Covid sufferers have actually been forced to go private for tests and investigations because there is a lack of access to NHS services. We now know that there are 175,000 people living with long Covid. That is three times more than when the Government announced £3 million for services specific for that. Will the Scottish Government increase the funding because that is what is necessary to help to support those with long Covid? If you will forgive me for a second, I want to make it clear that I will make my own choices about where I sit in this Parliament in the foreseeable future. In relation to the point that I will certainly sit nowhere near Jackie Baillie, I can tell you that. I am nothing but candid to Parliament. It is all part of my belief in parliamentary scrutiny and accountability, which I have championed all my days. Jackie Baillie asked me to increase the funding. I wonder if Jackie Baillie was paying attention to the budget, because the budget increased the funding to the national health service by £1 billion. It would not have happened if I had not taken the tough decisions to increase tax. Jackie Baillie is a piece of parliamentary feedback that is running commentary from Jackie Baillie who speaks throughout her answers when she is not listening to the answers that has been given carefully by Government ministers. She is also doing that again as I continue to give my answer and will continue on this farago of nonsense for as long as it takes me for Jackie Baillie to stop talking while I am answering the question. I may be here a long time. The point is longer than I anticipate being here. The key point to Jackie Baillie is that the funding has increased for the national health service and that can be deployed to meet the needs of individuals within our society, which is what it is intended to do. I am briefly Beatrice Wishart. I have met several constituents living with long Covid, some of them known as first waivers. They told me that they felt that the support was not there when they needed it. That impacts on family life, too, with breadwinners unable to work and children who are coping with the enormous change in their lives as a consequence of having a parent with long Covid. What more can be done to support those living with long Covid and those within their household? The key point is to make sure that, for those who are suffering from long Covid, they obtain the clinical interventions that they require. As I answered Mr Fraser earlier on, that will vary from individual to individual. It is vital that the increase in funding for the national health service is important and that it enables the health service to better meet the needs of individuals and their clinical issues. In relation to the family context that Beatrice Wishart raises, which is very important, there will be a wide range of services available in the community. I am very familiar with some of the carers support services in Shetland, which I have always admired over the years. There are very good community-based services that will be available to support families in those circumstances. It will be a mix of clinical and non-clinical interventions. Crucially, we have to make sure that that focuses on the needs of individuals and families that are right at the heart of the Covid recovery strategy. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, to ask the Scottish Government whether any post-legislative reviews of the coronavirus recovery and reform Scotland Act 2022 are being conducted. They are. The 2022 act includes a range of temporary justice measures that were due to expire in November this year. Under the terms of the act, ministers must review the operation of each temporary measure before it expires to inform a decision on whether it should be extended for a further year. If seeking any extension, ministers must lay regulations to amend the expiry date alongside a statement setting out the findings of the review, allowing for full parliamentary scrutiny. The remainder of the act comprises permanent provisions and no post-legislative review is currently planned. Can I also wish the cabinet secretary all the best as he returns to the back bench? The coronavirus recovery and reform bill gives Scottish ministers the power to release prisoners early, even before they have completed their sentence. That power was used disastrously by the Scottish National Party Government during the pandemic, where they released hundreds of offenders, at least 40 per cent of whom went on to re-offend. Yet, despite that, the Scottish National Party Government wants to give themselves this permanent power to release prisoners early in the bail and release from custody Scotland bill. Will the cabinet secretary commit to taking out the provision from the bail and release from custody until the review has been conducted or whether the power is necessary and whether the reform of the act takes place? There will, of course, be full parliamentary scrutiny of the provisions that Mr Balfour has put forward. There will be ample opportunity for that scrutiny to take place so that Parliament can determine those questions. Ministers will, of course, engage on that subject. Do you ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to propose the schedule of time for a ministerial statement on compulsory sale orders? Any proposal for government, business and Parliament, as agreed by the Scottish Cabinet, subject to consideration by the Parliamentary Bureau and in turn approval by the Parliament? I am aware that Mr Dunbar will have heard the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government speak about compulsory sales order during January's housing debate. The cabinet secretary highlighted the need for any new powers to be compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights and the careful consideration that this requires. I thank the minister for his answer. Compulsory sale orders when introduced will allow local authorities additional powers to deal with both vacant, derelict and abandoned land and buildings and will allow a greater ability to tackle private absentee landowners. That could mean that the eyesore of logi shops in my constituency could be taken over and turned into a useful community asset. Can the minister advise on a timescale for the introduction of CSOs? Thank you very much. As Paisley's MSP, I can feel the member's pain on this issue, but, as I mentioned, the ECHR implications for compulsory sale orders need careful consideration. I suggest that Jackie Dunbar contact the cabinet secretary for social justice, housing and local government to talk through the detail. It may be that compulsory purchase could be a suitable vehicle to tackle the issue in the meantime, but I encourage Aberdeen City Council to make contact with officials in the Scottish Government to discuss this further. That concludes the portfolio questions on Covid-19 recovery and parliamentary business. We will now move on to the next portfolio, which is finance and the economy. I encourage members who wish to ask a supplementary to press the request-to-speak buttons during the relevant question. To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to define green jobs, including green energy jobs, to help to ensure that investment and resources can be targeted to achieve a low-carbon economy. The Scottish Government included a green jobs definition when the green jobs fund was launched in 2021, with the aim of supporting businesses and their supply chains to help them to better transition to a low-carbon economy. That definition ensured that suitable projects could be identified and that all green jobs created over the life of those projects accurately measured. Skills Development Scotland has highlighted that we talk much about the technical and practical skills that are required for our new economy, but rarely address the lack of meta-skills, working with people, problem-solving and so on. Those skills are in abundance in jobs that should be considered green jobs, those in health and social care, culture for example. Those are low-carbon jobs and will remain the foundation of our new low-carbon economy and society. Will the Minister commit to redefining green jobs across all sectors and also to engage with workers, especially those with fewer opportunities for retraining and re-skilling, who already possess the meta-skills necessary for the success of Scotland's new economy? The member raises a very important point, and I will certainly reflect on the argument that she makes. As she will be aware, there are several definitions of green jobs at the moment, not just in this country but throughout the UK and Europe and the rest of the world. Indeed, at UK level, the Scottish Government has been engaging with the Office of National Statistics who are currently reviewing their definition because the current definition is out of date and with the efforts towards night zero and all the new jobs that are being created, it is really important that we have an up-to-date definition of green jobs. I will certainly take on board the points raised by the members when we move forward with this debate. A lot of interest on this question. I will try to get all the supplementaries in, but they will need to be brief as all the responses first to Liam Martin. Thank you very much. The ministers will waive my report on just transition which outlined the issues that oil and gas workers have in transition. Could you provide an update on the work that the Scottish Government is carrying out to achieve taking down those barriers for them transitioning to low-carbon jobs? As the member will no doubt be aware, we have our just transition planning framework, which is a world-first and our first sector-based plan, which is the draft energy strategy and just transition plan. It is currently under consultation until May. I know that the member, Julian Martin, takes a very close interest given her constituency interest in the offshore industry in northeast Scotland and I urge everyone to submit to that consultation. We are also working with communities, businesses and workers as we develop further sector-based plans, with drafts being published before the end of the year alongside the climate change plan. That will cover areas such as buildings and construction, land use and agriculture and transport. There is a lot of work taking place to meet the concerns expressed by Julian Martin. Liam Kerr An independent report suggests that this Government's approach to achieving net zero will cut Scottish oil and gas and low-carbon GVA from £19 billion to £12 billion by 2050. As a direct result of a reduction in jobs, conservatively, estimated is going from £57,000 to £32,000 by 2030, and those jobs that remain will be on a far lower average salary. Therefore, rather than gaming definitions to appease the green coalition partners, does the minister agree that this Government's time would be much better spent revising its threadbare energy strategy? Can I tell the member that I spent a great deal of time talking to companies in the offshore sector and energy sector in the north-east of Scotland in the member's region perhaps more than he does? What I hear back from them is that they see massive job opportunities in the journey towards net zero. Indeed, RGU and other institutions have predicted that we could have a net gain in jobs in north-east Scotland if we get that right in the coming decades. Irrespective of his party's policies or my party's policies, the north-east province is in decline and, therefore, those jobs have to be replaced. That is unavoidable, and that is why it is so important that we have a just transition and make sure that, over the next 20 years, we have good green jobs for people to move into and transition into so that they can continue to be in employment. The spring budget review cut £68.5 million from the net zero budget, due to a lack of demand. Although the number of completions is down, the number of surveys last year was 20 per cent up. Does that not suggest that, rather than a lack of demand, there is a lack of ability to deliver on that demand that is throttling back our delivery against the key and vital funds to deliver net zero in Scotland's buildings and homes? Patrick Harvie, the minister of responsible, is putting together a very ambitious plan in terms of decarbonising buildings and homes in Scotland that has the potential to create thousands and thousands of new jobs across all our communities in Scotland. However, I should highlight the recent research that was published by Skills Development Scotland, working with Warwick University and Strathwyth University, that says that in Scotland we now have up to 100,000 new green jobs in this country. There are other reports that say that Scotland is ahead of the rest of the UK in terms of progress over the creation of green jobs. I think that we are in a good place. There is a lot of work to be done, but there is evidence there that we are creating good green jobs in this country. To ask the Scottish Government what its initial assessment is of any potential impacts that the Windsor framework may have on Scotland's economy. Clearly, the Scottish Government welcomes this framework in terms of its importance to wider relations in Northern Ireland and between the EU and the UK. Some businesses that trade with Northern Ireland may face fewer barriers to trade. That might provide welcome relief for Scotland's world-renowned seed potato industry, for example, which has been harmed so badly by Brexit. However, the framework does not resolve burdensome Brexit barriers for Scotland, while Northern Ireland, of course, will still benefit from being part of the single market. Scotland must get the right to choose her own future that does take us back into the EU with all the benefits that will generate. Many of us for many years have supported the specific needs of Northern Ireland, recognised how precious peace is and the need to restore a functioning democratic assembly at Stormont and welcomed the breakthrough on this issue, which is needed to remedy a problem of the UK Government's own making. Does the minister agree that it would be blinkered to not understand that this will have a knock-on impact on Scotland's economy? Although many of us are of the view that full access to the single market for trade is an unbelievably special position, a prize, as the Prime Minister puts it, are there any short-term measures that the Scottish Government can take to protect Scottish SMEs from the competitive advantage that Northern Ireland now has? The Windsor framework clearly represents a welcome improvement in conditions for the Northern Irish economy, which will now have lower barriers to trade with businesses in Britain. That could benefit the many Scottish businesses trading with Northern Ireland, however, we should not forget that Northern Irish firms will continue to have a competitive advantage over Scottish firms trading with the EU because of their access to the large and lucrative single market that Scotland was forcibly removed from. That is just another of the many consequences of Brexit, the only solution to which is for Scotland to rejoin the EU as an independent nation. The Scottish Government continues to provide support to our businesses as is in focus on delivering our 10-year export growth strategy, a trading nation, which remains firmly focused on the recovery and growth of Scotland's exports through values-based trade and our trading relationships with the EU remain central both now and in Scotland's future. May I indulge your patients again and the minister's patient? This is the first formal occasion in the chamber since John Swinney intimated his intention to step down as Deputy First Minister that I have had the opportunity to wish him well in the future. Whether in education or in finance over a very long period of time, I have certainly enjoyed our feisty exchanges in this chamber, even if we have seldom agreed on anything. Does the minister, in relation to the Windsor agreement, at least acknowledge that one of the benefits is a much-improved working relationship between the UK Government and the EU, which is something that his colleague Mr Swinney has often called for? As briefly as possible, minister. Yes, indeed that is the case and I think that I have made clear my answer that we welcome the agreement. Clearly it remains the case that there are still restrictions and fewer, but there are still some restrictions with trade to Northern Ireland. Of course, as the Prime Minister himself said, it puts Northern Ireland in a very advantageous position with regard to having a foot in both the UK and EU markets. It is a position that we believe is a competitive disadvantage of Scotland and it is something that Scotland should be able to realise as well. Thank you Presiding Officer. I would like to ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the implementation of the fourth national planning framework since its adoption on 30 February 2023. Presiding Officer, I was delighted to adopt NPA 4 on 13 February. It is now part of the development plan and will be influential in all planning decisions. In just a short time, good progress has already been made on key actions from the delivery programme and I have published a letter outlining transitional arrangements to support early implementation. I will shortly lay regulations in this Parliament setting out the arrangements for new style local development plans and so complete the reforms of the development planning system. NatureScot has recently published guidance to support application of NPA 4 policy on biodiversity and further guidance, including on 20-minute neighbourhoods and short-term lets, is in preparation. I thank the minister for that answer. NPA 4 could be the key to making Scotland's places more sustainable, livable and productive and it is indeed heartwarming to see progress in the effective delivery of these new policies. As councils begin reviewing their local development plans to align with NPA 4, can the minister outline the new planning system will accelerate Scotland's wellbeing economy? Minister. Our national spatial strategy will support the planning and delivery of productive places where we have a greener, fairer and more inclusive wellbeing economy. We will actively encourage investment where it is needed most by rebalancing development, playing to the economic strengths and opportunities of each part of Scotland. NPA 4 encourages councils in the preparation of local development plans to allocate a broad range of sites for business and industry, taking into account local economic strategies and priorities. That also supports broader objectives of delivering a low-carbon and net-zero economic recovery and supporting community wealth and Scotland's wellbeing economy. I will lay regulations in the Parliament shortly, which will set the arrangements for preparation of a new generation of place-focused local development plans, which we will support with guidance on how councils can deliver on the ambitions in NPA 4 through their own plans. I would like to ask the minister if planning advice note 2011 and associated technical advice note 2011 on noise will be updated as part of the fourth national planning framework, and if so, will those take the World Health Organization noise recommendations into consideration? With some substantial changes being made through the reform of our planning system, including a new policy framework in NPA 4, I recognise that there will be some discrepancies in existing planning guidance and advice as a result. There will remain aspects of existing guidance that will still be useful for reference through the new planning system and policy approach, and over time we will review the historic advice as appropriate. To ask the Scottish Government what the cost of the public purse will be of private finance initiatives and public-private partnerships in 2023-24? The latest published data shows that the total estimated payment cost of private finance initiative and public-private partnership contracts is £1.46 billion in 23-24 and £1.41 billion in the year before that. There is an increase of around £50 million. Broken down, we see a cost increase in PFI contracts of £47.6 million in NPD contracts prior to 2010 of £1 million and in NPD hub programme contracts of £1.8 million. The majority of PFI payments are index-linked and rise by inflation each year, while most NPD and hub payments are not, making them less sensitive to inflation. I thank the cabinet secretary for that reply. While he is standing down from government now, I hope that he will soon return. Does he share my concerns that the 75 remaining PFI and PPP schemes will now cost an additional £770 million to the termination of the contracts, all to be borne by the taxpayer? What does that say about the financial recklessness and short-sightedness of Labour and the Lib Dems who bequeathed those schemes to the people of Scotland 16 years ago and for which taxpayers would continue to pay for many years to come? I sympathise entirely with the point of view and agree with the point of view that Mr Gibson put forward. As Mr Gibson will know, the Government brought to an end the PFI scheme because it simply did not deliver value for money. We introduced more affordable schemes and, as well as stopping the excessive profits, NPD hub payments are largely not index-linked. That is a crucial point, which is at the heart of the question that Mr Gibson puts to me, the folly of linking the PFI schemes to inflation, which benefited those providing the finance, has resulted in an inflationary climate in excessive profits being made, which were baked into the contracts by the Labour and Liberal ministers who approved those contracts. Those are fiscal folly, and I am glad that we have taken the measures that we have taken to reduce the drain that they represent on the public purse if they have been carried on, but we are paying for the legacy of those mistakes. The SNP liked to point the finger at wasted expenditure from decades ago, but its track record on the front is not exactly glowing. What lies behind this question is the relative inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the Scottish Government's ability to deliver projects. Therefore, what is the Scottish Government doing to ensure that financial assessments are carried out to provide best value for the public purse? I have absolutely no idea what that question was about. I was up in Aberdeen this morning. I did not go on the Aberdeen Western peripheral route. Mr Burnett is sitting right behind beside Mr Stewart, the Aberdeen Western peripheral route. I saw the junction, I did not go on that route, I went to Robert Gordon University, beautiful building. Aberdeen Western peripheral route delivered. I came down the road, I came over the Queensferry crossing. Where did that come from? Where on earth did the Queensferry crossing come from? Delivered on time on budget by this Government, and Mr Stewart should thank us for it. Question 5 Stuart McMillan Thank you to ask the Scottish Government what financial support, in addition to local government settlement, will be allocated to Inverclyde Council in 2023-24, and how that compares to 2022-23. At this stage I can confirm that Inverclyde Council will receive £201.9 million to fund vital day-to-day services from the settlement, which is an extra £5.3 million or 2.7% compared to 2022-23. In addition, it will receive its fair share of the undistributed sum of £329.8 million, which includes the extra £223 million announced as part of the stage 3 of the budget bill. All councils, including Inverclyde, will receive additional funding from individual portfolios in year over and above the local government settlement, but it is too early to say how much and how that will compare with the current year. Stuart McMillan I thank the Deputy First Minister for that reply. The Deputy First Minister will be well aware of the economic and social challenges that Inverclyde faces, and with the Clyde green free port bid narrowly missing out on becoming one of the two free ports in Scotland, I would like to ask the Deputy First Minister what additional support the Scottish Government can and will provide to Inverclyde to attract investment to the district, and will the Scottish Government still consider a detailed business case from Inverclyde Council to help address the 40-plus years of managed economic and social decline in my constituency that has suffered from? The Deputy First Minister I understand the disappointment in the Inverclyde area at the unsuccessful bid in relation to the green free ports process, but I assure Mr McMillan that a rigorous and dispassionate process was undertaken by Scottish and United Kingdom Government ministers and officials in that respect. There are a range of measures that are taken forward to support the Inverclyde economy, the Minister for Business, Trade and Tourism and Enterprise continues to engage with the Inverclyde task force. Of course, there is the city region deal for the Glasgow and surrounding area, which delivers substantial investment in the Inverclyde area. Obviously, there is investment that will be taken forward through the Clyde mission, which will have an effect on the Inverclyde area into the bargain. However, I would say to Mr McMillan that the Government will consider any further measures that are suggested by the council as we work to try to improve and strengthen the Inverclyde economy in the foreseeable future. We have three more questions on the order paper. I want to get through all of them, but the responses and indeed the questions need to be slightly briefer, and I will not be able to take any supplementary question number six, Mary McNair. To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any cost pressure on council budgets relating to private finance initiatives and public-private partnership contracts. The Government recognises the challenging financial circumstances that local authorities and indeed the entire public sector are currently facing. Those challenges were considered and reflected in the Scottish budget decisions, which will provide local authorities with nearly £13.5 billion in 2023-24, including over £793 million of additional revenue funding. The Scottish Futures Trust continued to work with local public authorities in Scotland to assist in making savings and improving performance across PFI and PPP contracts. Figures provided to me by West Dunbartonshire Council alone will need to pay £15.9 million a year for many years to come. By the end of the contracts, it is estimated to have cost £437 million. Going on double the council's total revenue budget for education, social work and other services, does the First Minister agree with me that the new Labour-imposed funding mechanisms continue to be financially depilitating to councils, draining resources that could be spent elsewhere? Mary McNair makes a very fair point. The financial burden of those contracts is a millstone around a number of local authorities in Scotland. Those contracts are far too expensive, and they have far too much cost over a longer period of time, and the costs are now having a very real effect in eroding the budgets of local authorities at this time. To ask the Scottish Government how much local authority non-domestic rates bills will increase following the revaluation of public sector properties based on rebuild costs using the 1 April 2022 tone date? All properties will be revalued on 1 April 2023, including those in the public sector. Revaluations redistribute the tax base to reflect changes in the market circumstances and ensure fairness for all ratepayers. Many public sector properties are revalued using the contractor's method, taking into account rebuild costs, which have increased since the tone date for the previous revaluation took effect. A revaluation summary report, which will include information broken down by property class, is expected to be published on 23 24 once final values for the revaluation have been made. As I said, the contractor's method for determining rateable value using the real costs of recent new buildings is now passing artificially high values on to councils that are now facing spiralling non-domestic rates bill. In South Lanarkshire, the bill has gone up by £2.9 million. Can the minister ask why the Government is using that method and passing on increased bills to local authorities at an extremely difficult time for them? As a member will be aware, the matter of attrataining RVs for non-domestic properties is for Scottish successors who act independently in accordance with the legislation. With regard to the funding that has been provided to local government this year, it totals £13.5 billion, which is over £700 million above what was indicated in the RSR. Question 8, Alexander Burnett. To ask the Scottish Government how the Scottish budget 23 24 will support the economic development and prosperity of the north-east. The Scottish Government is fully committed to supporting the economic development of the north-east. The budget will reflect a continued investment to ensure a just transition to net zero that supports business growth and creates job opportunities. That includes the £500 million just transition fund, £379 million for the Aberdeen city region deal and side package, £180 million for the emerging technologies fund, £100 million for the green jobs fund and £75 million for the energy transition fund. Alexander Burnett. The SNP may claim that it is delivering for communities in the north-east, yet its policies undermine Scottish business. Policies such as the deposit return scheme will bring economic ruin to firms across Scotland, and one small business in my constituency, Essence of Huntley, is facing costs of £20,000 to implement DRS. Why should businesses in the north-east trust this SNP Government when time and time again they proceed with damaging or incompetent policies? I just outline to the member the unprecedented package of support for north-east Scotland provided by the Scottish Government, and on the other issues mentioned by the member, ministers will of course continue to listen to business, but I suggest to the member that he speaks to his own UK Government who is holding back the Acorn carbon capture project, which will create thousands of jobs in his constituency in north-east Scotland, or indeed his Government should match the just transition fund provided by this Government to the north-east Scotland, given that they have taken over £300 billion out of the North Sea. Can they perhaps give some of that back to invest in the north-east of Scotland's future? Thank you very much minister. That concludes portfolio questions. There will be a brief pause till the front bench is to change before we move on to the next item of business.


How much time and effort do you spend developing the future leaders on your team? It's probably not enough. Welcome back and congratulations on taking one more step towards becoming one of the great leaders of tomorrow. One of our most important responsibilities as leaders is to develop the skills, talents and abilities of everyone on our team. Companies and organizations that have a strong culture of great leadership place a lot of emphasis on developing everyone in the organization to become a leader. Now you may be asking yourself what's in this for me? Developing new leaders takes significant time, energy and resources when there's already a lot to get done. But developing leadership skills on our team can help our team members lead each other through day to day tasks which frees us up to focus on more strategic areas that are beneficial to the team. Additionally, having some depth and key leadership skills on our team can help us avoid a crisis or help empower our team members to respond to a crisis while we provide overall guidance. Like anything associated with leadership, there are challenges and hurdles to developing new leaders on our team. The first challenge is often a financial one. Many companies and organizations have scaled back significantly on the amount of money they have available for training and most of that is dedicated to the technical skills they need to keep their mission running. The second challenge is time and how we often don't even seem to have enough time to complete our basic mission let alone take time to train and develop new leaders. Finally, sometimes there are people on our team who just aren't interested in doing any personal or professional development let alone developing themselves and becoming strong leaders. Fortunately, there's ways that we can overcome these hurdles. If cash is an issue for you, one of the things we can do is to select an article from online about a leadership topic or issue and have our team read that article. Bringing our team together for a guided discussion on this topic is a free and easy way to show our team the types of leadership skills we'd like them to have. Pulling our team together on a regular basis to have this kind of discussion is one way we can also overcome the time hurdle associated with leadership training. Dedicating an hour of everyone's time even just once a month and putting it on everyone's calendar is a great way to use a little bit of time to do some leadership development. An activity like this one can even generate a desire for learning and a passion for leadership among the members of our teams. If we are genuinely interested in the development of leadership skills in the members of our team, they'll pick up on that enthusiasm and embrace it. We can show how actively dedicated we are to our team members' personal and professional development by actively listening, providing constructive feedback and letting them openly to air their views about leadership without any personal judgment. It can be tempting to spend all of our leadership development efforts on one star performer, but this can lead to a single point of failure on our team. Finding ways to include everyone in our leadership development efforts provides more flexibility for our team and helps them solve problems better on their own. The most important thing to take away from all of this is that one of our most important responsibilities as leaders is to develop the leaders that are coming up behind us on our team. How we approach that responsibility will affect the performance of our organization for years to come. If you found this useful follow us on Twitter and Facebook and check out our website. Click off on the globe to the right and that'll get you subscribed to our email list and that'll bring all of our content direct to your inbox. You can also join us for an interactive discussion every Friday morning at 10 a.m. Pacific Time on Blab. Thanks for watching everybody. I really appreciate it and remember the future is out there. Lead the way.


Well, there's been a lot of hooping and holler in this week in the water arena for the 2017 NCAA World Finals and nobody's been on the receiving end of that more than Austin Shepard, the newly crowned world champion on deluxe checks. Congratulations to you, Austin. Thank you.  You know, I mean, it's a great accomplishment. It takes a lot to do it all year long, not just for the going and the showing but the juggling your business. It's a great accomplishment. It's a wonderful title, but it means a lot. Well, it is a great accomplishment and you've won world champion before. You've won horse of the year. You've won just about everything, if not everything in the wheel rogers, but it still doesn't lose its significance to you. No. I mean, that's everybody's goal and to win wherever you go, but it feels great to win. You know, we put so much into this. I mean, there's so much that goes into it, not just me, but our entire crew and our owners and our horse and everything and to be able to get a title for them is more important than for me. People have really been loving this horse.  You know, there's a lot of them. I mean, the first two nights here in the World Finals was awfully fun. The McCurry Finals at the Congress was a lot of fun. There's been numerous runs, but I mean, the first two nights here was probably as good as it gets for me. Okay. Yeah. So you're top two, you got two, two 33s. Tell us what the runs were like when you're sitting on that horse and you're getting that kind of run and the crowd's going wild. Can you describe it to us? You know, when the horse does that, I mean, they're so into it. It's really a neat feeling because you can feel that horse wanting to win because we can show as good as we want. We can do the best job training showing to feel that horse wanting to win like that. It's incredible. And it hasn't been an easy year for you because you and Tatum Rice have been going neck and neck for most of the year. Does that make you raise your game or does it just add more pressure or both? It does. I mean, I think Tatum and I have had excellent years. We've enjoyed each other's company. Our families have spent a lot of time together and our friendships gotten a lot stronger when we were talking yesterday. It's the first time two horses have ever won $100,000 in the same year in the open. So that means we had a pretty good race going. You know, like back this summer, he and Clint Allen and I were all in the top three at the Derby and the four-year-old and we were kind of joking, you know, we were teaching each other how to show. Deluxe checks. Tell us about this horse and how the horse held up over the year. You know, I'm not really sure. We showed her so much. I'm not sure how she did it, but she was always sound. She was always bright. She always gave her heart every run and honestly, I think she's an excellent horse and I think a lot of her durability and how sharp she stayed is Seth Holcomb that works for me. He lived with her all year. And the last time I won the world in 2011 on Betty's a Cat, Seth got that horse ready too. So I think he was a huge part in it. Now you came by this horse. You've had the horse most of its career, correct? Yes. We bought her as a yearling out of the sale here and a Randall Ward that works for me wrote her as a two-year-old and I've shown her ever since she was a three-year-old. And I believe it was a pretty good deal when you bought it. So imagine the value you've put on it now. Yeah. I think she's maybe gained a zero or two since we bought her. Yeah. Just one or two. How do you choose when, you know, you've got a big stable. How do you choose which horse you're going to go haul on? Or is it really the horse that dictates to you and you think, okay, I've got to take this horse on the ride? It's the horse and it's the owner's goals too. Amanda was pregnant this time last year and she told me, she said, you know, which Amanda showed this mare a good bit during her aged events. She said if you would take her and try to qualify for the World Finals and show her at the major aged events, we would stay off of her all year. And you know, at the beginning of the year, I just went, I wasn't really trying to win the world, but, you know, we looked up in the spring and we were ahead of a pretty good bit and decided to try to do it. And how strategic did you have to be, especially because you had Tatum breathing down your neck? Did you have to match his shows, you know, go the same shows, I mean, or did you have to, I don't know, go somewhere else? You know, we cut together a good bit. I mean, we kept up with each other all year and picked at each other all year. But you know, I just went as much as I could and did as good as I could. And I tried to manage my horse and my business. I would like to have gone to the McCreary's on the West Coast, but I couldn't take my entire business, plus my fertility horses out there. So luckily we had some shows in our area and that helped out. I mean, you've got two horses in the semifinals and the fertility. You've won here the World Finals. It's it's a huge credit to you because you're on the road and you've got horses to train, aged, aged event horses. It's it's a juggle. And as I say, it's a huge credit to you to get it done. Yeah. And I mean, most of them were very understanding. I mean, sometimes I wouldn't be there when they practice at home or they understood what we wanted to do. And I had great help at home. The guys that helped me at home. I mean, the guys on the road that have helped me take care of it. I mean, it took a village to do it. It wasn't just me. OK, so what are your goals now? Looking forward, obviously you've got this fertility coming up. But you know, long term, what are your goals? I'd like to make dirty finals this year if possible. But I mean, long term, I just want to do as good as I can do and do as good a job as I can do. I mean, ride as good a horse as I can ride. See where it all happens. I mean, I I enjoy every bit of it and, you know, hopefully one day I'll be able to help Kate and Kaylee do the same thing. Sure. And they're on their way to following in the footsteps of their dad. Thank you very much. Congratulations to you, Austin. Thank you.


Big expectation that I had when I broke into Analytics was that I was going to get to use a lot of fancy tools and a lot of cool software. That's kind of true. I really just use SQL and Excel for most of my work. SQL and Excel are super great tools to use and I love them very much, but I kind of had this expectation that I was going to be using some more fancy things like programming languages and the cloud and other things and I just didn't get to do that for many years. I think most companies besides big tech companies or some Fortune 500 companies, but even including some of those are just not as advanced with their software that they're using. So they're not using the latest and greatest that's out there. They're using what works for their company and oftentimes it's kind of outdated solutions a little bit.


Let's continue our discussion about teaching our students how to self-edit their writing. And in this regard, it's important to point out that which kinds of errors we can ask our students to focus to give weightage most. So we can make our students recognize major patterns or categories of errors. And in this regard, how we can do that, of course, through the use of certain activities and tasks, which encourage students to notice, to make conscious efforts to find out. So as language teachers, we need to train our students to recognize different types of errors. For example, errors of nouns, errors of verbs, errors of punctuation, sentence structure, word formation, and preposition. This is just for your facility that I have listed some of these errors here, but there are certain other, for example, the right use of article, which you can explore yourself. So teacher's job is to help students focus on the patterns of errors or the categories of errors rather than the individual's, because if the students are asked to notice each and every error, they might feel discouraged, right? So and again, remember, taking into view the notion of heterogeneity that a class is bunch of different students who have diverse needs. So we have to personalize self-editing instruction according to the personal needs of the students. These categories may depend upon, as I said before, students' needs. So the focus should be on errors that are frequent, whether they are at the content level or at the form level, or which the students feel ashamed of, which are stigmatizing. So we need to train students to practice in terms of finding out these errors in sample essays. We can, this can be helpful and the strategy in terms of bringing essays in the classroom and showing it to the students and asking them find out errors in that sort of, this is diagnostic technique and this is very useful in terms of teaching them to self-edit their errors by recognizing error types, then the use of peer editing exercises. For example, one student work is given to the other to edit. One group of students' works is given or given to the other group of students. So this may make students to become aware of their own writing, to become aware of writing of their peers. So in this regard, we need to give a comprehensive instruction to the students on major error patterns and this may not, this is not as simple as it appeared to be, rather this is messy because each class is a set of different types, may have different types of errors and each class, each student may have different needs, different lacks, different wants, strengths and weaknesses. So for example, if the student have get most repeatedly they make errors in the past tense and the present perfect tense, we can identify it, we can help them recognize it and focus on this one and this kind of strategy needs to be incorporated throughout the writing course. This hasn't to be taken as a standalone strategy, rather it has to be incorporated in each single lesson.


I think it's really worth remembering that the Olympic and Paralympic Games is the biggest event that will be shared by people in this country within living memory. The games are not coming back to this country in the lifetime of most people that are alive today. And I think we must remember this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to showcase all that is just fantastic about this city and this country, whether it's the diversity, the creativity, the multiculturalism of London and the UK. And of course, it's the tolerance. But if you look at the business opportunities where world-class British businesses have that platform and the global reach not only to help deliver a great successful games domestically, but to reach for markets in other big sporting events for years to come. There's something really important to remember about London. No Olympic city has ever delivered a games with such a large proportion of its population travelling by public transport every day of the week. There are something like 12 million public transport journeys made every day in this city. So we actually do this on balance pretty well. Clearly, there will be separate challenges that the games will produce, whether it's about traffic flows or people journeys. So making sure that with our partners Transport for London and the boroughs, we really are working in a very focused way to mitigate actions in place in the hot spots. We know what those hotspots are. They're going to be St Pancras. They're going to be Kings Cross. They're going to be Canary Wharf. And we just want to make sure that we've got our traffic demand management planning really solidly in place. And the good news is that the right people are asking the right questions. They're all facing in the right direction and doing all the things that we need to do between now and the games to make sure that we create precision in the Olympic route network. The athletes need to get to the start line on time. The journalists and broadcasters need to be able to get their images out with precision. And the people that are making the games work are the ones that are able to get to those venues to make the games work. So it's precision, but it's also about allowing London as best as possible to work for people that are not involved in the games. And I tend to really think of that as business as unusual, because again, this will be the first time in 64 years that the games will have come to this city. We know Canary Wharf, for instance, will be a hotspot. We've already, through Transport for London, started talking to the 25 big corporates in Canary Wharf. Some 80% of people within those organisations have already agreed to work flexi-time. Simply put, they won't be getting on the tube between 7 and 9 in the morning when people will be going to those venues. We want them to avoid the tube on the night, for instance, of the opening ceremony, when we know lots of people will be using that route. But for other companies, to think about whether they've got their headquarters or their satellite businesses on any of that route network, on any of the venue, near the venues, on, for instance, the cycle course, whether they can actually start really helping their teams, their staff, their colleagues to figure out how they can plan around the games. And of course, a lot of people in those organisations will probably, I hope, be taking their holidays in order to coincide with the celebration. So there are some really practical things that we are doing at the moment, in conjunction with Transport for London, and also making, you know, asking businesses that rely on deliveries, getting freight, goods and services into their venues, if they're on any of these route networks, to figure this out in advance. And communicating through Transport for London as early as we can as to what the routes look like, what these extra demands are going to be, and helping businesses plan around it. Between 2000 and 2003, Sydney, Australia, generally, picked up a tourist dividend of about $3 billion. So first of all, you want people to come to your city feeling charmed, looked after properly, service levels as high as you can possibly get, so you get repeat business. Tourism, very, very important. But also, even in Beijing, eight years after Sydney, Australian businesses, off the back of their expertise and success honed at the Sydney Games, accounted for about a billion and a half dollars worth of consultancy business. So it is absolutely instinctive, if you think about it, that a company that has successfully been delivering a large part of a very complex project, which is the Olympic Games, are likely to be the companies that the next games go to, because first of all, they will be up to speed with that technology and the way the movement has the games have moved. They will also have the hands-on experience, particularly with people within that organisation that have the skill sets to go on and do that again. And already, our partners, companies like Deloitte, companies like BT, some of our infrastructure partners, have already won themselves contracts in Sochi and at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.


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They're outstanding handguns and we're going to head over to the table and check that out and you can let me know if you agree with my choices. CZ handguns are so well built. They're known for reliability and longevity. Many shooters will tell you they have thousands of rounds through their CZ handguns and it's still functioning like a well-oiled machine. The manufacturing tolerances limits the recoil. When shooting a CZ it is so smooth there is no doubt about that. They are extremely smooth shooters and then you add some weight on top of it like these metal frame models I'm showing right now. Here's the Shadow 2. It not only limits the recoil within the manufacturing however the weight also limits the recoil making it extremely accurate. Here's an all steel frame Shadow 2. Here's the all steel frame SP01 and then even the aluminum frame Rami feels like a full-size handgun when firing and it is nice. Known for being incredibly smooth shooters the CZ models they're amongst the best out there and that is why they are so often copied. Love it. You often hear people say the CZ 75 has a very low bore axis and what that means is that the shooter's hand is very close in relation to the slide and the barrel. Why is that? That's because CZ uses a reverse slide rail design. If we look here the slide just moves like glass but if we take a closer look you can see how the frame just hugs the rail on the slide and what's the advantage there? You're looking at a lesser degree of muzzle flip. Less muzzle flip keeps the shooter on target and that's why so many people love the CZ design because the ability to stay on target means so much for quick follow-up shots for transitioning between target to target the less muzzle flip the better the more accurate it is and this design right here with the slide rail system creating a low bore axis certainly helps in that regard. Yeah I love this handgun. The ergonomics on the CZ pistols feel great when gripping. They fit most hand sizes whether it's a polymer frame model or the metal frame models people love the way the CZ feels and that is important but equally important are the triggers. Here we have the shadow two and people rave about the trigger here. The single action is at three and a half pounds and it resets right there. That single action trigger is amazing and the double action is really nice but let's take a look at a poly model polymer frame P10S and we will see this has a five pound trigger does have a trigger bar safety right there but a very nice crisp trigger pull with a very short reset. People rave about the CZ triggers and that is why they are so smooth so nice and once again it adds to accuracy and people love accurate handguns and CZ is among the best. Yeah that's a great shooting handgun. Shooters love choices they like to have the options that will suit their carry style their shooting style whatever CZ certainly offers that. If we look at the SP01 and the thumb safety design it's can be carried and cocked and locked and it's very much a common platform for 1911 shooters you simply drop that thumb safety and you are in single action. Nice design a lot of people like that they prefer a thumb safety nothing happening there drop and you could fire away in single action. They also have a decocking design right here in the SP01 Phantom as well as many others it decocks the hammer into a quarter cock which allows the shooter to not have a full double action pull like a partial double action pull compared to a full double action pull where I'm feeling tension right there compared to right there and I think that also provides a safety for anybody who would carry that but if we look at some of their polymer frames CZ you know they they have some frame colors flat dark earth and so forth that people love they like to suit their own personality they have optic ready handguns that are so popular these days they've offered them on many other models especially the polymer frame models and shooters are loving that so the options the choices are out there with the various types of handguns that CZ have a lot of people say I want a CZ handgun I want to fit me perfectly and they can certainly find that in the CZ line of pistols see how the SP01 does CZ offers a large variety of handguns all shapes and sizes you name it CZ produces it and I think people love once again options and choices to suit them I'm going to roll through what I have and you can let me know if you you like my collection we'll start right here with the CZ Shadow 2 love this handgun a lot of people compete with it over here we've got the SP01 all steel frame over here we've got the SP01 Phantom same design pretty much with the exception this is a polymer frame model the uppers will work with each other CZ 2075 Rami unfortunately they have a limited production on that right now but this this little subcompact gun is so nice feels like a full-size handgun CZ P10C and the CZ P10S they now make a CZ P10M a single stack 9 millimeter handgun that is very small and we'll see what CZ comes up with in the future but they do have a large variety they offer various options for the shooters and I think if you're picky enough where you can't find a CZ handgun to suit you then the problem is with you because they certainly have it if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe