The next item of business is a statement by Fergus Ewing on progress in delivering a sustainable aquaculture sector. The cabinet secretary will take questions at the end of his statement, so there should be no interruptions. I call on Fergus Ewing, cabinet secretary, please. I am pleased to set out to Parliament the progress that is being made to deliver a sustainable aquaculture sector in Scotland. Last year, the Environment and Climate Change and Land Reform Committee and the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee made a contribution to debate on the farm salmon sector. The committee has concluded that the status quo in relation to regulatory arrangements for the sector was not an option. The Scottish Government agreed with that conclusion, and today's statement demonstrates our determination to deliver the necessary changes to strengthen those arrangements. Before I describe those changes, I want to make reference to wild salmonids and the potential impact on them from sea lice in and around fish farms. We are, of course, extremely concerned about the serious declines in wild Atlantic salmon populations right across the north-east Atlantic. The reasons for that are multifactorial. We have identified 12 major groups of pressures that are impacting on wild salmon stocks, and we recognise that aquaculture is one such pressure. Sea lice, of course, are ubiquitous in the marine environment and have the potential to impact both wild and farmed fish. That is why we established the salmon interactions working group, which is making good progress in collating recommendations for a future approach to managing farmed and wild fish interactions. That group is aided by a technical working group, which is developing practical arrangements for improving regulation in this area, and its work is informed by regulatory regimes elsewhere, including Norway's. Discussions are on-going to develop proposals, and the group aims to issue those for public consultation this summer. I mentioned the developments simply to emphasise that we are serious about delivering a broad programme of reform and that the changes that I am announcing today are only the first part of that programme. The Scottish Government has completed its review of our farmed fish sea lice policy. Two years have passed since changes to Scotland's farmed fish sea lice policy were last introduced, or to put it into context one fish farming cycle in the marine environment. As a result of that review, we will be making the following changes to the current policy. Firstly, we will be introducing new legislation in 2020 that will require all marine fish farms to report a weekly sea lice number to the Scottish Government's fish health inspectorate one week in arrears. The sector has already recognised that it must become more open and transparent and announced its own sea lice publication plans in the last year. However, we will be taking action to strengthen the statutory basis of our sea lice regime to ensure that there is consistency of approach and to deliver confidence in the system. The introduction of legislation will remove any ambiguity with regard to reporting requirements and deliver more detailed information at salmon and rainbow trout farms. Crucially, it will provide data to monitor specific farms and issues as they arise, as well as allow for further policy change if needed. To ensure openness and transparency, each and every sea lice report will be published. Secondly, we will reduce the current reporting and intervention thresholds from next reporting week from three and eight average adult female lice per fish to two and six respectively. Those thresholds are an average of adult female lice per fish on the farm, calculated by following established counting and recording protocols. That means that fish farms will now be expected to report to the Scottish Government's fish health inspectorate at much lower sea lice levels, allowing for earlier intervention and enforcement action. We will publish an updated enforcement information sheet to this effect, which will include a simplified enforcement process. Thirdly, today I am also committing in the medium term, unless there is compelling evidence to the contrary, to a further reduction of the sea lice reporting and intervention thresholds to two and four average adult female lice per fish. That further reduction will happen if confirmed by a review of the evidence 12 months following the implementation of the new statutory reporting regime. I mentioned earlier that the changes being made to the intervention levels are being introduced following just one fish farming cycle in the marine environment. It must be recognised that those timescales are actually very short in terms of the fish farming production cycle, and we must ensure that farmers are able to adapt and make necessary investments. Finally, I am announcing today that we will explore how to introduce third-party independent checks on fish farm sea lice counts to ensure the accuracy of the information provided to the Scottish Government. Taken together, Presiding Officer, those new measures signal a major shift from self to statutory regulation. They also seek to move to an approach that supports prevention through robust and independent monitoring. This new sea lice management policy will not operate in isolation. All marine salmon producers will continue to follow the code of good practice for Scottish fin fish aquaculture, which includes points of compliance on sea lice and national treatment standards. Adherence to the code alongside voluntary monitoring and early intervention by salmon producers, as well as investment in new technologies, has resulted in the lowest annual average reported sea lice levels in 2018, since records have been made available back in 2013. The changes that I am announcing today will ensure that efforts to control and minimise the prevalence of sea lice will be maintained and indeed exceeded in future. The improvements to date have been supported by investment of £13 million of EU and Scottish Government funding through the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund since 2016, in 48 aquaculture projects that unlock more than £25 million total sector expenditure in innovation and new technologies to address the issue. Hydrolyser, thermaliser and perma-skirt technologies to tackle sea lice have all been supported in addition to cleaner fish hatchery projects. At the same time, the sector has also invested around £53.5 million over the past three years on lice-removing technologies. The review of the salmon sea lice policy has been progressed as a key strand of Scotland's 10-year Farmed Fish Health Framework. Work is also under way through that framework to ensure that we lead on information sharing, on support and we promote innovation in fish health management and deliver on other sea lice actions, such as creating a sea lice modelling and farm connectivity action plan. A wider update on progress and all those strands will be provided to Parliament in due course. This week, SEPA also published a new fin fish regulatory framework. That framework seeks to strengthen the protection of Scotland's marine environment, enabling the sustainable growth of aquaculture in the right places, and will be implemented through improvements to the existing car licensing process. SEPA is now using the best modelling available so that they are able to better predict and monitor environmental effects. In addition to the introduction and the enforcement of a tighter organic waste standard, this improved modelling will mean that risks to the local environment will be better understood and can be better managed. The approach will allow the assessment of larger-scale impacts, including interactions with other farms, to be carried out. Tougher regulation will ensure that farms are sighted in the most appropriate areas. It also means that those sites that may have the potential to sustainably increase without threatening seabed environmental standards will be able to do so. Taken together, those measures demonstrate the progress that has been made to change our approach to regulating the aquaculture sector. They also show our intention to continue to work with industry and alongside our independent regulator to ensure that appropriate and proportionate action is being taken to allow the sector to grow sustainably whilst protecting our marine environment. Ensuring that growth in Scottish aquaculture is sustainable is key to its future success. In conclusion, we must continue to apply high health and welfare standards to ensure that Scotland can continue to produce a world-class and quality product that is one of the most eco-efficient and sustainable forms of healthy protein available to feed a growing global population. The cabinet secretary will now take questions on the issues raised in the statement. I intend to allow around 20 minutes. Can I ask those members who wish to ask a question to press their request to speak buttons down? I call Peter Chapman. We are followed by Rhoda Grant. I thank the cabinet secretary for prior sight of his statement. Let me be quite clear. I welcome this statement. The Scottish Salmon reports from both the REC and the Eclair Committee showed that the status quo was unacceptable. It is positive to hear of the progress that the salmon interactions working group and the technical working group are making. It is important to recognise that, if the industry is to grow, it must grow sustainably. I welcome the announcement of new legislation that will require salmon farms to publish weekly life numbers and the reduction in reporting and intervention thresholds as that follows on again from advice from the REC Committee report. It is important that those figures are published, however. Can I ask the cabinet secretary to outline when those weekly life number reports will actually be published? I appreciate the cabinet secretary acknowledging his plan. Time scales for the introduction of the legislation is short. It is important that fish farmers are able to forward their plan and make the necessary preparation and upgrades to make that happen. However, it is correct and important that the legislation comes into being early in 2020. I ask the cabinet secretary to give us a clearer time scale when, within 2020, the new regulations will come into being. Finally, the appropriate technologies are essential to carry out life checks, especially if they are to be done on a weekly basis. Can the cabinet secretary highlight what support will be made available to smaller fish farms that might not have the funds or infrastructure to achieve that timeously? I very much welcome the fact that, Mr Chapman, on behalf of the Scottish Conservatives, is taking that approach. That is very much appreciated and it reflects the cross-party support for sustainable agriculture that we heard in the major debate that we had on the committee's In response to his question, when will the legislation come into force? Parliament will be aware that uncertainties remain surrounding Brexit and the potential for changes in the legislative timetable. Those are practical aspects that the First Minister and the Minister for Parliamentary Business and indeed the cabinet must take into account. Given those uncertainties, it is not possible to be categoric at the current time. However, I expect that the legislation will come into force in 2020. I think that it may be helpful to Mr Chapman to say that my officials are considering the specific reporting requirements of new legislation and I can confirm that draft legislation will be put to public consultation for full scrutiny, open, transparent and straightforward. That is what we require. He raises a second question—I think that it was about support for those companies in the farm salmon sector that are smaller, that are perhaps less financially resourced than the majors, which are very robust and substantial companies by and large. We obviously will wish to see that all possible practical support is available to all those players who operate on that basis. However, I recognise that, across the board, there has been a tremendous desire, demonstration and action by all the companies that are involved to ensure that they are taking necessary steps, including substantial investment, to address the problems such as sea lice levels, amoebic gill disease and other issues in a robust and comprehensive fashion. I was very pleased that the reports indicate that sea lice levels last year, reported by the sector, are at the lowest level for six years. That proves that substantial progress has been made and I am very pleased that Mr Chapman has welcomed that. Rhoda Grant, followed by Mark Ruskell. I also thank the cabinet secretary for the prior sight of the statement. Aquaculture is extremely important for the economy of rural Scotland and therefore it is imperative that we get the regulation right in order to build an excellent reputation for our produce. It is not just the economy, it is also important for our health, as our diet often lacks enough oily fish. The cabinet secretary states that the technical working group is developing practical arrangements for improving regulation. Both the industry and those expressing concerns cite the Norwegian system as providing the best regulatory regime. It is both more streamlined but, crucially, it also focuses on animal health. Therefore, can I ask the cabinet secretary why delay in implementing a system along those lines of Norway? I do appreciate the support for the sector that Rhoda Grant has indicated. I do not think that it is a fair charge to say that we are delaying. Changes must be made with regard to the cycle, a two-yearly cycle, and I made that clear in my opening statement. With regard to Norway, I am often questioned as to why the Norwegian fish farming industry works in a different way. The Scottish Government's sea-lice compliance policy does not operate in isolation. It acts as a backstop on occasions when things go wrong. The two systems are different. In many ways, the system is said by third parties to be robust in Scotland, but there are areas where we need to improve. One of them is the regulation of sea-lice. That is why I have taken the steps today to make the announcements that tighter standards shall be introduced. I am pleased that the industry has worked closely with us in developing the policy. I am pleased that the industry and stakeholders are working on the various groups of the fish health framework and the various sub-committees, including in relation to Wild Salmon. I think that working together in Scotland and in particular listening very carefully to practical ways in which we can make progress is the key. However, today it illustrates that we are taking steps to tighten the regulation with regard to sea-lice. I am very pleased that the industry has welcomed the approach that we are taking. Mark Ruskell, I have 10 members and I have 13 minutes, so I ask you to be neat with your questions so that members get in. Mark Ruskell fell by Tabush Scott. I thank the cabinet secretary for prior sight of the statement. He will be aware that there is still a serious concern with large fish farms being granted consent by being broken up into two or more applications when they are operating as a single farm, which means that cumulative environmental impacts are not fully considered. SEPA has said that the new modelling… No, I would like your question please, Mr Ruskell. Will the cabinet secretary commit to reviewing existing farms that were granted permission under multiple applications using the new modelling that SEPA has just announced to give an accurate picture of their impact? I think that the existing system contains provision for monitoring, as we well know, and what we are doing today indicates that tighter standards will apply in relation to sea-lice. That is one of several aspects. I also covered in my statement, as Mr Ruskell heard, the measures that SEPA is taking with regard to the use of treatments. I am very pleased that the industry has invested very substantially in alternatives to treatments, in thermalisers, in cleaner fish, in skirting and in other techniques. The progress that it is making is very substantial. I do not think that I can agree to Mr Ruskell's request. I note that SEPA has suggested a different form of modelling. It is there to bring that forward and put it into action. We look forward to working very carefully with SEPA to achieve the shared aim that I hope we all support of an increasingly sustainable aquaculture sector in Scotland. I thank the cabinet secretary for his statement. He will be aware that the Norwegian industry is trialling a mechanism to filter fish medicines out of the water that are used to treat fish. Will he immediately ensure that those trials are replicated in Scotland to the benefit of the marine environment and to industry? Will he reject any further consideration of a fish farm feed limit per farm, given its well-known damaging consequences on fish quality, given again, as Norway has demonstrated? I welcome Mr Scott's support as always for the sector. He is a stalwart supporter of the aquaculture sector. It is extremely important in his constituency. We absolutely welcome the development of Benchmark's clean-treat system that has been trialled in Norway. I am delighted that there are already discussions with Scottish regulators regarding a Scottish trial. It is not up to me to decide whether that trial should go ahead, but I think that it makes sense, as Mr Scott has indicated, that we should be trialling new innovative products and techniques that can help to secure the objective that we all share of a sustainable sector. With regard to the feed limit, I am advised that SIPA is considering whether moving to using a feed limit or retaining a biomass limit to regulate fish farms. Over the next three months, SIPA will consult with all interested stakeholders on those options. I am very pleased that they are going to engage substantially with industry. I am sure that Mr Scott will ensure that the companies operating in his constituency will play a part in those discussions. Jaleigh Martin and Fulva Edward Mountain. Salmon is one of our most important food exports. Can I ask the cabinet secretary how the industry has performed this year and what the industry is doing to improve its environmental sustainability credentials? The industry is performing well. It directly employs more than 2,000 people and contributes around £220 million in gross value added to the economy. The wider impacts across the supply chain are estimated at £620 million in GVA and 12,000 jobs. The jobs are, as I have said before, very well remunerated. The average annual salary in the farming sector is around £34,000. Many of those jobs are on the edge of the periphery, where there frankly are no other alternative opportunities of this type. That is extremely important. With regard to their spend, the company's sector as a whole has contributed enormously to improving their operation and sustainability. Moe Wee has invested around £100 million in its Calacan feed plant and £26.5 million in a new hatchery at Inchmore Glen Morriston, which is the privilege of opening. The Scottish Sea Farms has invested around £58 million in its new hatchery at Balcaradown. A recently announced that it will invest £1.2 million in new feed barges. The Scottish Salmon company has invested substantially, as has Cook Aquaculture, Galeforce and others. That is an industry that is investing very heavily and those investments are directly going to improve the sustainability of aquaculture. I welcome the general thrust of those proposals, which I believe will help fish farms to become better neighbours to those who share their environment. Is there a plan to increase enforcement once those proposals are brought in? We know that enforcement in the sector has been poor in the past—very poor. Obviously, enforcement plays a part. The higher standards are primarily intended to further drive forward and improve practice. I should say that, although we have tightened up from three to eight to two to two and six, the actual performance of many of most of the companies is far, far higher than—Mr Mountain shakes his head, but I am afraid that the facts that I have indicate that the actual levels of sea lice found are very, very much lower. The question of enforcement is important. Enforcement must be taken independently by those responsible for that, and that will continue. I am not sure that I would accept the thesis that Mr Mountain makes, but I would say that we take enforcement very seriously indeed. The steps that I have announced today that the process will have an independent audit aspect will increase the transparency that everyone, I hope, supports. Can the cabinet secretary outline why a phased approach is being taken with sea lice numbers and how have the chosen figures been arrived at? The phased approach is taken because we believe that that is the correct approach to drive forward best practice, while enabling companies to alter and improve their practice to enable that to be done in practical terms. We have indicated the tightening up of the regulation today, and I think that that is something that the companies regard as welcome in order to demonstrate the good work that is being done, further to improve fish health in Scotland. Claudia Beamish, followed by Kenneth Gibson. I welcome the commitment today for compulsory public reporting of sea lice data on a farm-by-farm basis and other measures. That reflects an amendment to the agriculture bill that I had six years ago but was rejected by the Scottish Government at that time. Also on the welfare of farm fish, can the cabinet secretary reassure the chamber that any plans for closed containment will be fully tested against animal welfare standards and that, on the other end of the scale, seaper shift to encouraging applications for larger fish farms and deeper waters will not simply disperse the fish, faeces and medicines more widely in the marine environment, pushing it out of sight and out of mind? That is on the edge of being too long, but never mind, cabinet secretary. Yes, I can confirm the impacts on all forms of the marine system, including marine life, will be considered very carefully. I can assure you that all aspects of providing a sustainable aquaculture industry in Scotland will be considered in relation to future applications. Kenneth Gibson, followed by Jamie Greene. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Can the cabinet secretary confirm that any provision that is being taken forward will not impact adversely on businesses working closely with the aquaculture industry, such as W&J, Knox and Kilburney, founded in 1778, which employs 130 local people, cleaning and repairing nets and is at the forefront of developing technology to stop lice, penetrating into fish tanks and dissuade seals in non-lethal ways from eating the fish. I think that it illustrates the point that the jobs are not all on our coasts on our islands. Many of the jobs that are sustained now by this industry are inland, in our towns and cities, and throughout Scotland. It is an important Scottish industry. It is not solely confined to the periphery, and companies such as W&J and Knox are vital to the excess of industry. Seal management is our priority, and Mr Gibson has eloquently pointed out the improved practices that the company and its constituency are contributing to achieve. Jamie Greene, followed by Alasdair Allan. Cabinet secretary, you used the words, tough the regulation will ensure that farms are cited in the most appropriate areas, but one of the recommendations by the committee was to address the issue of relocation of historically purely cited farms. What special assistance will be given to fish farms that want to relocate but are facing regulatory or financial barriers to doing so? Cabinet secretary? The appropriate location of sites is a material factor taken into account in all applications. That approach will be followed by the various parties involved, as Mr Greene knows, in the question of the operation of existing sites, as well as the appropriate sighting of new sites. Those are very much matters that will be taken into account. If Mr Greene has any particular concerns, I will be very happy to hear from him about them. Alasdair Allan, for by Maureen Watt. In light of his welcome announcements today, what steps does the cabinet secretary intend to take to promote closer working between SEPA, Crown Estate Scotland and other agencies? Well, I think that my colleague Roseanna Cunningham has joined me and has pointed out that she has responsibility in respect of SEPA. I think that we all, and the Crown Estate, she adds. I think that we all accept in the Scottish Government the duty of all public bodies, Scottish Government agencies and regulators, to work as a team, working together, achieving our different purposes in the case of regulators' statutory functions. As I am sure is an uppermost in the minds of members, all regulators are bound by the terms of the Regulatory Reform Act 2014, in particular, in section 4. Maureen Watt. The key to success in this relatively new industry is innovation. A great example of this can be seen in the creation of the international centre for aquaculture research and development at the University of Aberdeen with its innovative farm to fork approach. What other investment in our ladling institutions throughout Scotland is going on in this area? What very substantial investment is going on in respect of research, as I outlined in my initial statement. That investment is seen in bodies such as SAC, the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre, headed up by Heller-Jones, which does excellent work. As well as the Scottish Government, having invested around £13 million in research, that has levered in £25 million from industry. Recently, my colleague Roseanna Cunningham has enabled the investment of £500,000 into research about how we improve the general issue of interactions between wild salmon and other multifactorial issues. We are investing heavily because this is extremely important to Scotland, both as an industry and clean environment. Both objectives go hand in hand.


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You have a great one Huh, how do you like it? I actually like it. It's not bad. This one we got it through spark So it's like a new thing that they opened up for Walmart and uh sam's club But it's not bad. I get to kind of do my own thing. Yeah, sometimes you have good days. Sometimes you have bad days but Yes, ma'am You too We are here to jump off this order number two what it do. We came to this house before Jumping like it's hot I know I have the eggs on one of these bags I have to do this carefully. I don't know why probably The eggs was on here like a goofball like a goofball ball, but I did I'll hit it with the eggs right here Look up here Hit him with that photo, but y'all already know it all Let's go Order number eight. We're trying to get to this cake sam's club for item 6.5 miles for 16 63 get with me baby We are here to jump off this sam's club order Hello How you doing? She has the phone. I'll give you these first You got it? Yep Order at number nine we ought to grind to the end of time So watch us shine, baby We're about to get all the way sparked up two orders seven miles for 20 26 We're trying to get rich. We stacking these chips. What you doing? Let's go Drop off order number one. Let's get it done Jazz whoever. Yes, sir Okay, excuse me They elevate her in Okay, thank you very much sir. I really appreciate it. Hello Are you Jeanette? Yes, ma'am. It's said Stephanie. Yeah, Stephanie. She's in the car. It's my it's my partner.  Yes, ma'am. I have them right in my hand. Um, it can tell Dordette I'm I'm legally blind You want me to say everything? Yeah If you tell them I've told them and told them when I order. I'm legally blind. You know, I can see A little bit, but I have to take my Phone and go in to my machine turn it on and try to read it and I can't answer it So usually they call me and then they can buzz I buzz them in And but now my friend Ralph is down there for coffee. So he I told them they texted me So he goes to the door and answers it. You know, yeah, that's okay But I if he hadn't done that would you have um Would you have uh called me on the phone? Yes, you do. That's what I do. Yeah. Oh, okay Oh, I think I need you to sign ma'am. Oh, thank you That's because a couple times they left it at the door and I didn't know it and I couldn't give him a tip So I said, so just let me Oh, here it is right here J. W. Alrighty. Thank you, Jeanette. You have a great one You're welcome And I always saw I do not charge tip I always I always tip cash At least five bucks. Okay, depending on the order, but I just I want to make sure that they would call me. Yeah, if if he wasn't downstairs. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Jeanette. You have a great one Okay, I will We are here to drop off order number two what to do stuff like this. I think I'll follow So How you doing? I'm fine Just want to make sure you open the door for you. Okay. Alrighty. Thank you. You have a great one Order number 10. We trying to get it in but they don't want to see us win, baby It's just wings tropical smoothie three items 4.5 miles for 9 50 get whipped We are here, baby. Hopefully you got it together Look at the good food. We're the good food So you guys know both these orders are going to the same house So that's the only reason why we took it Because I definitely wouldn't go for two orders for the 54.5 miles even though it's still like a little bit over $2 a mile Still I'm having pick up for loose jay. Oh, we ready Oh Thank you very much. You have a good one Then we are here to drop off this chili and tropical smoothie, baby We're gonna chop up the smoothie. What's the good if you ever been there? You can try it is definitely banging Chopping like it's hot. Definitely try it on out. How you doing? You have a good one. Let's go Order number 11. Thank god for his blessings McAllister deadly two items 1.9 miles for 6 25. Let's drive. Guess what, baby We had to go over time a little bit, man So they've been going actually been going kind of slow when usually uh, Wednesday are supposed to be A faster day for the uh, all the way sparked up orders, but this what I gotta do what I gotta do So we can get this 200 plus a day to get these haters around supposed to be ending the video right now But I'm look I gotta get this money first. I ain't going in till we get this 200 who's running. Let's go How you doing? So I have a pick up for Nick. See So I'm talking about you have a good one, sir We are here throwing this McAllister deli get in my belly, baby Have a delivery for Nick. Oh your nick. Oh, okay. Here you go, sir. You have a great day Order number 12 we trying to prevail Walgreens 4.9 miles for 11 48. Let's skate. Let's get this cake. We can't wait and ain't no debate Let's go Oh, let me explain to you guys what's going on. What's going on is they do not have That's uh, Canada dry diet. So I'm waiting for them to take me back now Hopefully they get something else if not We can just I don't I have no clue They don't have that many options in this store for some reason and none of the Walgreens It is what it is. It ain't one of they sometimes we can get it. Sometimes we can't let's go Sarah and I That's lemon though I don't want to get her That Let me text you We are here to drop this over each order. It was a disaster. I'm gonna tell you guys what happened right? It lets the car Something like this. Hi. Oh, wow hit him with that photo Smack don't be out Let's go Okay, are you guys ready to hear why it was a disaster doing that last over each Shopping deliver it was the customer customer wasn't bad She would probably back fast and everything But the problem when it was when I went there They didn't have the Canada dry a diet the diet Pepsi a 12 pack. They did not have that So I text her and asked her when she wanted me to substitute it with uh, they had they did have Canada dry With the ginger ale and lemonade. So she said yes, that's fine when I tried to substitute it though Do uh over east it I cannot substitute it because the item costs more than the previous item This one cost 7.99 and the previous item cost 6.99. So they would not let me substitute it So what I had to do was ask her is it okay if I just get her two two leaders and stand and she said that's fine But it was critical because this is my first time ever happened and gets This is my first time having problems with that With the substitutions I think they just allow people to put substitution in maybe they do maybe they do I'm not sure because I've never used uber eats on the other end. So I really don't know but It's burned up in this joint. And guess what we got another order, baby order number 13 We bought to get this green all the way sparked up two orders 11.6 miles for 23 59 We ought to grind to the end of time. We bought the shine. Let's go Just like that. We are here to jump off order number one. Let's get it done I got dark dogs growled up. He's barking at me and all that I don't want any problems with anybody. All I want to do is hit it with that photo Doorbell Let's go Like down. We are here to drop off order number two. What it do, of course. They had to have some water, didn't they? He had to get some of that water This is rain doorbell call when you get here. So I'm a rain doorbell Hit him with the phone or you already know though And just like that it is the end of the video. I hope you guys are doing the content Guess how much we got today 208 63 get with me, baby We got that 200 plus a day and we kept them haters away But I must say it went kind of slow So I don't know spark and these you keep on give me them orders. Keep on give me this money, baby Because we ain't trying to act funny But I see you guys on the next one as you guys can see I meant the gas station gas enough for tomorrow Because we ain't playing we about to get to this money, baby I hope you guys enjoyed the video make sure you like subscribe button Make sure you give me a thumbs up and lock in tomorrow or whatever thing Do not step those ads tomorrow. We get to this bag. We go it.


This is when the narcissist comes back, the narcissist may have discarded you and acted as though they were moving on to something better or greater. They wanted you to think that they were so much happier without you, as though you were the cause of the problem and now that problem is no longer a part of their lives. And although narcissists are good at planning and coordinating the element of a situation to produce a desired effect, sometimes they really do believe that they're on to something. They really do believe that they've struck gold, only to late to discover that they were sold a dream after they had sold that same dream to you. Narcissists are very gullible. They are easily persuaded to believe something. It is actually very easy to manipulate a narcissist in the love-bombing phase. They will believe whatever you tell them. They are more willing to trust a stranger over their own family. So whatever you display to them, they will believe to be true. It is very easy for someone to deceive a narcissist. It is very easy to give them a mistaken impression. To make them believe there's something that they're not. Because the narcissist wants to believe that they've finally found their perfect supply. That's all the narcissist ever wanted. Someone they can use to meet their own needs. Someone they can use to hurt you. That's all the narcissist is thinking about when they target a new source. But they didn't expect that source to do the same thing to them. They didn't expect the source to be lying to them. Cheating on them. Using them for their own selfish needs. Using them to hurt someone else. They didn't expect their new source to be doing any of that. Because maybe the new source sold them a dream. They made them believe something that wasn't true. They made them believe there was something they're not. And the narcissist was eating it with a spoon. They were loving every moment of it. Without ever suspecting that maybe they were being taken advantage of. When the narcissist finally realizes that the new source was deceiving them. Naturally they will be very angry. They won't want anything to do with that new source anymore. They know there's no future. In something that started out as a lie. They know that they cannot trust the new source. And now they also want to get revenge. They want to get back at the new source. And the easiest way for them to do this is to come back to you. But it's not because they love you. It's not because they care about you. They're just going to use you to get back at the new source. Maybe they lied to the narcissist. Maybe they cheated on them. And now the narcissist is really mad. They want to get revenge. And they just see you as a tool. That they can use to do that. The narcissist thought the grass was greener on the other side. But they do sometimes get tricked by other sources that may be narcissistic. Narcissists can be very vulnerable when they discard you. When they look for other sources of supply. They can be very gullible. And anyone can manipulate them. Anyone can sell them a dream. Anyone can lie to them. Or cheat on them. And just give them a taste of their own medicine. That is when they will come running back to you. That is when they will try to use you. To get back at whoever hurt them. You cannot entertain the revenge hoover. You cannot let them back in. Because they're just going to do the same thing all over again. Only this time. It's going to be worse. They're not going to love or respect you or anyone. They're just going to use you as a puppet. To punish someone else. Thank you for watching. I hope this video bears it with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. Check out the new Narx Viva website. At www.narxviva.co.uk Where you can read my blog posts, book coaching sessions and join the support forum. If you would like to donate. My PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching inquiries. You can email me at coaching.narxviva.co.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


I'm Wendy Peters Moschetti, Director of Food Systems at LiveWell Colorado, and I'm with Dwayne Wharton, who is the Director of External Affairs from the Food Trust, which is based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And for those of you who are here at our Heel Summit today, you know that Dwayne was our keynote this morning and kicked off the summit with a lot of words about sharing his own personal experience and professional experience and sort of what brought him into this world of food justice and advocating at many different levels to remove barriers to access to healthy food. So we have this opportunity to sit down and talk a little bit more about a lot of issues that you brought up this morning. Yep, happy to. Great. So we had a little bit of time when you were done talking to address some questions. So some more questions have come up that we'd love to dive in a little bit deeper with you about. Sure. So a first sort of set of questions that I'm really curious to hear more from your perspective about kind of fall into this bucket of sort of restriction and regulation and issues I think of that people don't like to talk about a lot because people like to talk about how do we promote access to healthy food and how do we incentivize new grocery stores and how do we bring in farmers markets and one thing that you brought up is you brought up a couple of things. You brought up food swamps. So this notion of having sort of this overabundance of less healthy sort of food environments, corner stores and liquor stores and convenience stores and you also brought up soda taxes. And so issues that bring to mind a lot of like how do we and when do we and if do we do actually restrict or regulate parts of our food environment that may not be as health promoting. So some questions that came up specifically were about the soda taxes that you brought up that have passed in Philadelphia itself. So some questions were about can you talk about soda taxes as an anti-poverty measure and as a follow-up talk about how do you respond to the argument that these taxes might be regressive. Yeah. So the unique thing about Philadelphia I think is this approach to the tax itself. It failed twice under prior administrations to pass when it had primarily a health focus. So this new administration decided that health was not the priority but it would really focus on anti-poverty measures. Interesting. So pre-K slots. The revenue. Correct. The revenue itself. Address anti-poverty efforts initiatives in the city. Correct. Interesting. Yep. So that's you know universal pre-K so 2,000 kindergarten slots for children giving them an early start in life with the idea that it pays off later on was important. The improvement to our infrastructure like our parks and our rec centers and our libraries which are in dramatic disrepair. Yeah. So that was how the administration chose to kind of frame the need around the tax itself. As a public health organization you know the Food Trust really maintained that health is our reason for supporting the tax itself. So as you said you know we do try to provide pro-incentive support to businesses fresh through financing initiatives and support to healthy food retailers at corner stores but this tax is a little bit different. We understand through history that you know when you do tax items using tobacco as an example we see a decline in tobacco use particularly with young kids who are more price sensitive. So with that in mind adding a bit more cost to this product soda which really has been overly marketed to young people, overly marketed specifically to young people of color and underserved under-resourced communities to begin with. So we you know decided that we were going to support this measure solely to try to improve health to get these kids to drink less soda but also we looked at the revenue that would fund Pre-K as being an excellent opportunity to improve long-term health. Absolutely. You're channeling that right back into prevention. Correct. So by the time they're teenagers they have that foundation so they're making different choices perhaps anyway. To understand this also is that there are lots of complementary efforts that were in place in Philadelphia so for a decade we have been already working with food retailers to help them sell healthier items and healthier beverages so when the tax you know was enacted we felt the need to double down on those efforts to help them mitigate their fear of loss of revenue. Absolutely.  We know it's going to hurt your revenue but trust me it's going to be okay. Years of relationships were saying we're here to support you, we're doing all these other issues. It was interesting that the data is coming out that it isn't necessarily hurting revenue so soda sales are down and there's some questions around that and whether or not it's going to kind of meet its fiscal goal to fund the programs that it intended to fund but sales and stores are not down so they're selling more. Right so that's what we're seeing so that's something that we'll continue towards. And have you seen then a coalition of these stores and retailers sort of come on board and be advocates for this work as well or are we not there yet? We're not there yet. There are a few who have really been champions for this issue for health reasons for just wanting to become a business that is more sustainable not only for their fiscal health but for the health of their communities because these customers need to stay around and continue to be customers. So we've had some owners that live in these communities. Correct and they do care. Right so we've had a few but I think that there's been a lot of backlash from some businesses and from the beverage industry around this but we're holding strong. And interestingly enough then you do see I think some of beverage industry and other you know partners use some of what you think would be sort of our language as advocates that these are regressive. Yeah it's really interesting. So it is interesting so how do you typically respond and sort of say we're not restricting choice, we're not being discriminatory against low-income populations, we're actually removing barriers that have been put in place for low-income populations. What are some talking points? Yeah that's that's really a challenge especially when you look at the amount of resources that the beverage industry has put to spin that message you know first labeling it a grocery tax it's not a tax on groceries it's on beverages that have added sweeteners. Right. Period. Or in the case of Boulder here locally our one example it's a tax on a distributor. Right yeah. Correct well the same actually is how it's structured in Fallofi as well. There's no tax on thirst you know fruit juices, milk, water all of that. They're all available. And things that are going to be better for you in the long run. Yeah yeah absolutely great. So another some other questions I had were about sort of your comment you made about food swamps yeah and where we and we see it I think this is a universal story right across the country I think urban suburban rural communities where you tend to see a congregation of convenience stores and corner stores and liquor stores and quite often in under resource communities communities of color and so some questions I always struggle with as well is then what are like politically feasible right viable strategies that we could have to address some of that like you know what I mean do we or do we continue to do what the food trust has been doing for years and we work store by store and we promote and we incentivize we never get to a point where we actually start talking about regulation restriction and what are you know what I mean what are our policies yeah it's interesting so everyone loves the free market and free enterprise and I think one thing is that there was this notion that many of these communities did not even want healthier options right so that they could not have success selling these items in their communities so that's a myth and it's not true there's a tremendous demand not only for healthier items but people are even pushing it further looking at more sustainably grown you know things that are more local yeah things that are organic and community people know what's good for them yeah of course so I think that we all want to feed ourselves and our families good healthy right so it's a broken model at this point right so there's an over saturation of unhealthy foods and poor communities if you look at many communities that are more affluent you don't see stores selling tobacco yep you don't see stores with the primary focus on selling junk food yeah they sell items that are going to be healthier for communities and the expectation is that the more affluent want and can support these things but we know that that's not true yeah that everyone wants and deserves to have the same quality absolutely and access to these items that's right we all eaters and spend money on food and we everyone wants to feed their kids healthy food so I'm not sure about like regulating the number of right restaurants that can operate in a certain neighborhood right but I but we know that you know we're talking about promotion of unhealthy items billboards and signage and radio messaging and television ads targeting these unhealthy items to youth and you know underserved under resorts communities yeah marginalized groups that really don't need that junk yeah and that's really problematic when that's your target audience and you know we're looking at like soda taxes now and you know the declining sales of soda here yeah in the states yeah but they're looking at other regions across the world yeah to pick up that slack yeah we look at fast food yeah actually not being the preference for new businesses in many communities people want food that's better and healthier for you but we see a growing market in developing nations as well so we're just kind of passing on these bad habits to people who aren't even resource and prepared to deal with them as well so our last set of questions were really shifting to sort of how to do policy advocacy work and you talked about this in your talk this morning you show this whole pyramid of change right from the CDC yeah from the CDC right so at the very bottom of the pyramid being the sort of highest impact mm-hmm change is really about policy and systems level change where right where it's not where a lot of us have always sat so um you know it live while we're an organization that we're a statewide nonprofit and we are trying to do more and more policy advocacy work but we dabble in a lot of different areas right we do we run some programs we try to do policy work we um we work with partners so one thing I'm wondering about is how do you to be an effective policy advocacy organization what does that relationship look like with actual on-the-ground work can you be an effective policy advocacy organization if you're not actually running programs and on the ground work and how do you best inform sort of your policy agenda yeah does it does so I think I'll borrow something from folks from the hunger community who look at feeding the line while ending the line and I think as the food trust has approached this work in a comprehensive way we've looked at the need to have balanced approaches so programming around education around improving the food environment but also the policies that are needed to ensure that those programs won't be needed that's right that's right right so the bottom of that pyramid right we're talking about yeah I think you know highlighting areas around poverty alleviation and improved education and housing resources I mean those are real big policy issues that need to be addressed and you know the issue around health and socioeconomic status can't be avoided and until we improve people's conditions in life then we're not going to move the needle on their health so fair wages are so important adequate housing yeah access to medical care yeah like all those things as well as increasing access to healthy food and physical activity all those things have to work in tandem if we're really going to try to build a culture of health right and I would assume that it means a lot of organizations working together because it's also a lot to ask of one organization you just said there's over a hundred employees of the food trust yeah but we don't do it all and you don't do it but you do you do the programming all the way to policy but it's a lot to ask of one organization we do a lot and it's because we have great dedicated staff who really work hard and believe in the mission but we partner incredibly with the Department of Health and with you know philanthropy and lots of other public health organizations and the community so I think that's really important we can't do this alone and there are going to be so many things that we're not going to be able to get to someone else has to pick that up yeah and we'll support that and hopefully they'll support our efforts as well absolutely I think that'll continue to be our challenge here at Livewell as well is how do we continue to be a voice for policy advocacy but work with the partners that can help inform that advocacy agenda because we don't we don't know it all makes a lot of sense so thank you so much for your time all day today um and have a good safe trip home I appreciate it thank you very much


Now the sun's starting to disappear behind the clouds. It might be a good time to raise a question. Either you agree with Plato or you don't. Either you think that there is such a thing as a form or not, or at least Plato's conception of it. At least Plato's conception of it. That form is known through reason, that it is objective knowledge, that it is the universal, that it is eternal, right? Or not. You reject at least one of these four, if not all four. Okay. Well, what do you think? Is Plato right? Or is he mistaken?


We're glad to have you with us this morning. Pleasure to be here. And Michael will be making a statement at CSIS this morning that will be available on our website. So it's been 15 months since you've been on the job in the wake of Macondo. You've done a variety of different things over that last year and a half, including reorganizing the Bureau, setting up new regulatory standards for safety and operations and protocols, recruiting new people to fill the capabilities. As you look back on the last 15 months, what are kind of the major challenges and maybe accomplishments that you'd like to think about? Well, you've just touched on some of them. I came in in the midst of a crisis. The oil was still spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. So we faced the immediate challenges of dealing with that and the immediate aftermath of that, including the deep water drilling moratorium. And then very quickly, we needed to turn to reorganizing the Bureau, which I'm going to talk about in more detail today, to really allow the missions of the multiple missions of the agency to be pursued with the kind of commitment, dedication, and focus that MMS historically was not allowed to give because it had too many and some conflicting missions. So those are the circumstances under which I came in. The reorganization really from the beginning has been the long-range goal. And we're delighted, obviously, to be approaching the completion of that, which will be just a few days from now. But I think what gives me and my team the most satisfaction is the sense that we really have accomplished a tremendous amount in terms of enhancing the safety of offshore drilling, enhancing the environmental protection associated with offshore drilling, tightening up ethics standards, and really giving a change to the culture of the agency in a way that I think the agency needed. The reorganization has done another thing, which is we created a number of new and very important functions. We brought in some very talented people from the outside to inject some new blood into the organization. So it's a body of work that not only I, but my entire team, we're very proud of. The Gulf is safer in terms of process protocols, safety equipment, containment equipment. What are the prospects for international cooperation? They're excellent. We've actually done a lot of work on the international front. We have a series of programs that we work with the State Department to provide technical assistance to various countries that are just getting into the game of offshore drilling because we think it's important to help them as they enter into this world. We're also dealing quite frequently with our regulatory counterparts in the North Sea and elsewhere to see what we can learn from them and what they can learn from us. So the level of international engagement that we're now involved in, I think, is at an all-time high, and we're determined to keep that up because we think it's in everyone's benefit to have that at a high level. Not to say that there will ever be necessarily international standards that are universally applicable. That's not the goal here. The goal is to learn from one another. So the question on the Arctic, a special set of circumstances, what's been your experience when you look at the risks in the Gulf of Mexico versus the Bulfur or the Chepche? Well they are very different, obviously very different kinds of environments, both in terms of the amount of exploration and development that's taken place historically and with respect to the kinds of challenges that exist. And so we have been focusing very closely and very carefully on the special challenges presented by the Arctic and in particular with what to do in the event, unlikely event, but the event of an oil spill. And so we are focusing very intently on those issues and are determined to be satisfied that there are credible plans in place in the unlikely event that there is an oil spill. Lots of things are different. The depths at which wells would be drilled, much less, pressures lower, but we've learned all too painfully from the condo that low-properability, high-incidence events need to be taken into account when evaluating both plans to drill and applications to specific permit applications. And so we are going to continue to focus on those as we move forward in the Arctic. Excellent. Michael, absolute pleasure, right man, right time. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you.


the effectiveness of various normalized difference vegetation index, NDVI, time series with different spatial and temporal resolution was evaluated for seasonal wetland classification using satellite-based wetland mapping. Results showed that NTS with finer resolution were more effective in the classification of seasonal wetlands than those with coarser resolution, and generally, HJR1 NTS performed better than fused NTS. Future work should focus on constructing satellite image time series for highly dynamic characteristics of seasonal wetlands to improve spatiotemporal fusion models.


You don't just get ice cream for free. You gotta hurt it, all right? So if you get something to begin with, you don't complain, all right? Coach, where are your NFL-issued flipped flops? They are a part of the coaching uniform you know. Josh Allen is our quarterback, okay? Yes, he was on the cover of Madden and somehow we pulled him away, all right? But you know how I've done it time and time again by playing EA Sports, Madden NFL, all right? And EA Sports, Madden NFL 24. You can go and you can pre-order it and you can play Madden three days early. Maybe y'all learn something from once in your lives.