In the name of Joe Fitzpatrick, we agree to. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed to. We now move to topical questions. Question number one, Christina McKelvie. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer, to ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the announcement of a referendum on membership of the European Union on 23 June 2016. Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop. The Scottish Government requested that the referendum should not be held on 23 June and are concerned that the referendum campaign will cut across election campaigns for the Scottish Parliament and other devolved Administrations. The decision on the date has now been made, however, and we have to move on. The conclusion of an agreement at the European Council last week means that the focus can now shift to the bigger and much more important matter of why our continued European Union membership is overwhelmingly in Scotland and the UK's best interests. The Scottish Government will continue to make the positive case for EU membership. In making our case, we will continue to emphasise that the EU is not just an economic union, important as that is, but a means of solidarity, social protection and mutual support between members. For more than 40 years, individuals, businesses and communities across Scotland have experienced the many social, economic and cultural benefits of EU membership. Those include jobs, significant investment, the opportunity of our businesses to trade across the world's largest single market, social protections such as employment rights and the opportunity to work in solidarity with others across the continent to tackle pressing global challenges such as the movement of refugees and migrants, energy security and climate change. Christina McKelvie. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer and in addition to all of those benefits that she mentions. Surely we should all agree that the European Union is not just about economic union, it's also about the social union that has delivered so many valuable social and employment protections for people across its entire territory. It is best placed to tackle those issues that don't respect national boundaries such as climate change and the recent refugee crisis. Cabinet secretary. Indeed, one of the strongest arguments for the European Union is the social Europe. Indeed, many of the aspects of the social Europe contract have been hard fought by those looking for protections for maternity rights, for equal pay issues and for wider agenda items in relation to the right to work and have paid holidays in terms of the working hour, week 40 hours, working hour a week. Those are all things that are very practical, very real and quite frankly leaving those issues in the hands of a Conservative Government outwith the protection of Europe and that wider social Europe protection is a risk indeed, but let's argue that positive case, one that takes us to develop the Europe that we want to seek and I think in seeking issues whether it's social Europe or whether it's an issue of energy security or as I mentioned climate change, a lot has been achieved but a lot more could be achieved and Europe remember was born out of a need for nations to co-operate rather than live in conflict and that is the Europe that we seek. Does the cabinet secretary agree with me that the campaign to remain in the European Union should learn lessons from Scotland's independence referendum and be a positive campaign and that's why it's better for Scotland and the rest of the UK to remain within the EU rather than lapse into scaremongering and fear and does she agree with me that everyone who has the right to vote in this nation should have the right to vote in that referendum? I agree and democracy is a very precious thing and there will be people that will be voting in our elections in May this year that will be denied votes in the European referendum and I don't think that that is acceptable. We also have a situation where in facing the European referendum people want to see a positive vision they want to hear the arguments we can make the arguments and indeed I think in Scotland we have a mature electorate that is very well politically informed and they will not accept scaremongering from either side of the referendum campaign and I think in Scotland we can actually conduct a positive argument that is detailed that does address the issues but also inspires people about the type of country we want to be but also the type of country that can contribute to a positive social Europe. Clare Baker Thank you Presiding Officer I do welcome the cabinet secretary's positive comments but it has been in contrast to the Government's initial reaction to the announcement of the date. Does the cabinet secretary agree with me that with such a short timeframe towards the referendum we must make the strong positive case instead of concentrating on personalities potential leadership bids and using one referendum to discuss another? It is now the time to get serious about the debate ahead. As was the leaders of Wales Northern Ireland our First Minister indicated the concern we had about that date but as I said in our answer the date is now set we can contribute to the debate in a wider canvas and people want to hear the views of Scotland I regularly meet Governments from across Europe interested in our arguments about where it can be and should be and when making our arguments for Europe we won't just be making them in Scotland or wider a field people will want to hear what we are saying in other countries across Europe I think that is the positive force of a democratic debate but it also takes our view as to what we can contribute not just what we can get and it should not be about personalities it should not be about other issues we should focus on the issues and by focusing on the issues and the big picture we respect not just the people of Scotland but the rest of the UK as well The cabinet secretary will be aware that the European and External Relations Committee is undertaking a far-reaching inquiry into implications of EU reform and evidence from many eminent witnesses would she agree with the sentiment of many of the witnesses that leaving the European Union will be bad for Scottish exports to the continent which are currently estimated at 11.6 billion and does she agree that also that one of the key components of the deal achieved by the Prime Minister is to increase competitiveness and reduce excessive EU regulations and red tape which will hopefully have a very real positive impact on SMEs in Scotland Cabinet secretary I would congratulate the committee on its very extensive inquiry I think it's provided a great platform to hear different arguments and indeed different perspectives Damian McGregor talks about one aspect which is to do with exports yes there are a large number of companies who want to invest in Scotland and indeed the rest of the UK because of access to the European market but it's not just about trade 300,000 jobs are directly or indirectly involved in the European exercise I think in terms of what he's saying in relation to SMEs I think that's very important indeed one of the ways to improve our economic achievements is to encourage more of our SMEs to export by exporting they become more innovative so I think that's another aspect in an argument but I do think I hope the Parliament will have the opportunity to perhaps debate or consider the outcome deliberations because the witnesses have been very eminent indeed they have been widespread I think that's another example of how this Parliament is conducting its inquiries into the European Union in a very positive and constructive way question number two Richard Simpson to ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reports that GP funding has been reduced by £1.6 billion over the last 10 years and the services has increased each year under this Government rising by almost £150 million from £704.6 million in 2007-08 to £852.6 million in 2014-15 this equates to a cumulative increase of £826 million since this Government came to power we're committed to supporting and developing primary care and the work of GPs it's an indispensable part of our community health service and the investment made to general practice is seen in a broader context we're investing in the whole of primary care and this includes increased investment being made in the ambulance service in 2016-17 and increasing the number of health visitors which will both have a beneficial impact on general practice as well as increasing our support for community based mental health services Scotland has the highest number of GPs per head of population of the four UK countries and under this Government has increased by 7 per cent we're transforming primary care including developing new ways of working with multidisciplinary teams that elevate the role of GPs as medical experts in the community and that's supported by extra investment of £85 million over three years through the primary care fund Richard Simpson Thank you cabinet secretary for that answer anyone listening to it will think we don't have a problem with general practice at all and there are colleges assertion that the rate of funding as opposed to the absolute funding has reduced by 1.6 billion is totally without any consequences can I just say to her that the constant reiteration of the increase in the numbers of GPs is actually distinctly unhelpful and unwelcome by the college of general practitioners and other GPs the number of full time equivalents which is what is critical to the workforce has only increased by 35 since 2009 when the population is increased by such that the requirement to even stand still with 2009 would have been 110 10 more I knew this to be a new contract but will she publish the principles that the Government will use to underpin that contract so we can have an open discussion about those principles cabinet secretary well first of all I would have thought more GPs is a good thing that would be welcomed by all parts of this chamber our calculations based on the published GPs spending outturn figures so this is the actual spend show GPs spend as a percentage of the total health budget has remained relatively stable in both cash and real terms over the last decade but Richard Simpson said I sounded like there were no challenges of course there are challenges which is why of course we are in the midst of negotiations with the BMA about a new contract a new contract that will deliver a new model of care for primary care in Scotland working along lines of a multidisciplinary team with the GPs being the clinical expert those discussions are going very well indeed very positive discussions and on the subject of positive discussions met with the RCGP on 9 February and again we had a positive meeting about that new model of care and how we work together involving the RCGP in taking that forward in terms of the principles of the new contract Richard Simpson will appreciate that we are in the midst of negotiations around that contract however I am happy to keep Parliament informed about progress of those negotiations but he'll appreciate that the negotiations are on-going and I think it would be premature at the moment to give any further information because there isn't enough to provide Parliament with an update but once there is I would be certainly happy to do that Richard Simpson I'm not actually asking for you to publish the details of the contract because I entirely understand that you can't do that but the principles of the contract what the general role of the general practitioners will be within the new model is critical to general practitioners understanding of where they go and critical to recruitment so can I just ask her then if I should be welcoming more GPs of course I am but the fact is that there are actually fewer GPs per head of population now than there was in 2009 time ever we have gone below the north-east of England which is the region with which we are normally compared by the Nuffield trust in terms of regional comparisons the number of GPs for head in Scotland is now lower than the north-east of England so would she agree with Professor Graham Wat who today has stated that 40% of practices representing 2 million patients are now in difficulty or is he also misleading or misspeaking and how does she reconcile the emphasis on primary care which is very welcome with the fact that the 2016-17 budget yet again cuts the share of funding going to primary care thank you Mr Simpson cabinet secretary I didn't accuse anybody of misleading anyone about anything what I said was first of all Scotland has the highest number of GPs per head of population of the four UK countries that is a fact but of course there is more to be done and as Richard Simpson quite rightly pointed out the national clinical strategy puts primary care at its heart in terms of the principle of the new contract the new model of care then there is no secret there it is very clear that it is based around a multidisciplinary team with a GP being the clinical expert we are doing a widespread testing of that through the whole of Inverclyde which will tell us the detail around how that will work in practice and will inform the contract negotiations but as I said earlier I am more than happy to keep Richard Simpson and the rest of Parliament updated on both the testing of the model in Inverclyde and the negotiations about the new contract as we take them forward thank you it seems that senior GPs are currently queuing up to express their concerns about the percentage fall in GP funding as a share of NHS resources and a lot in a senior partner at Aberdeen's Great Western Road medical practice who said that at the weekend the shortfall would mean there would be a deterioration of general practice and the service that we can offer to patients does the cabinet secretary agree with this comment and what if any contribution does she think that this funding issue is making to the difficulties in GP recruitment at the present time adding to what I have already said to Richard Simpson if you look at the draft budget for 2016-17 we are investing an additional £45 million through the primary care fund that means that the draft budget headline GP and primary care fund is increasing by 9.9 per cent over the year which is a higher percentage than overall health spending and a higher percentage on territorial boards are receiving so we are investing in primary care in terms of going forward tackling some of the issues of GP recruitment and retention that is exactly what the primary care fund is for is to help to overcome some of those issues it is very important we have a positive vision for primary care in Scotland which is why the new model is very important because we want Scotland to become an attractive place for GPs to come and locate and work here and we also want young medical students to choose general practice as their specialty that is why we are working very hard with both the RCGP and the BMA to develop this new model of care which I think will put Scotland at the forefront of leading the way with the vision for primary care I will call Jim Hume but it needs to be brief Mr Hume thank you very much the cabinet secretary said in her answer that GPs are indispensable but in January GPs to be dispensable their own words it is the RCGP that is stating that the budget has been reduced over the last 10 years by £1.6 billion therefore does the minister not believe that GPs need more than warm words if we are to avoid a 700 shortfall in GPs in four years time as forecast by the RCGPs cabinet secretary we will get on with the job of reforming primary care here in Scotland the RCGP with the BMA around the new contract to deliver that vision and far from eroding the role of GPs within that new model this new model will ensure that the role of the GP is the clinical expert allowing them more time to spend with their patients surely that is something all of us can agree on the next item of business is a statement by


In 1973, Eric Anton Paul von Daniken would publish a book that would change the world. Because of this publication, Eric is thought of as the pioneering advocate of the ancient astronaut theory. He was solely responsible for bringing the ancient alien hypothesis to public attention. His book, Gold of the Gods, included extensive research regarding a lost and very ancient city buried beneath most of Ecuador. In the book, he would detail talks with a man known as Janos Juan Moritz, a figure who had managed to extensively explore the abandoned ancient underground tunnel systems. The entrance to this forgotten world is entered through the Cueva de los Teos, the Teos Cave. While exploring, Janos claimed to have stumbled across a secret passage which led to rooms filled with mounds of golden jewels and coins, and a golden sarcophagus placed within an intact ancient metallic library containing books made from a strange metal. Janos' research suggested that the golden fortune, along with the sarcophagus and metallic library located within the artificial tunnels, had been placed there by a lost civilization with the help of extraterrestrial beings. And Janos Juan Moritz actually stumbled upon an ancient alien tomb, a tomb which had managed to survive many thousands of years without being disturbed? Not only were the claims within Von Daniken's book taken seriously, they resulted in the most expensive cave exploration ever undertaken. Stan Hall from Britain commenced upon this expedition in 1976 with the goal of finding the golden artifacts and hopefully an alien corpse. The expedition included over 100 people, including experts in a variety of fields, British and Ecuadorian military personnel, a film crew, and even former astronaut and first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong. The team also included eight experienced British cavers who thoroughly explored the riskier of ancient tunnel systems, successfully conducting an accurate survey of the complex, producing a detailed map of the buried city. Unfortunately, little evidence of Von Daniken's more exotic claims was found or remained. It is always a possibility that funded tomb robbers made it there first. It took over a year for Stan Hall to organize his team, a year which experienced a flurry of public attention directed towards what can only be described as drastically consequential claims. What's more, compounding evidence of the artifact's existence unearthed from these exact cave systems has miraculously been documented in the past. Not only had some of these mythical items been recovered, the artifacts had been bought and collected by a man known as Father Crespi. Father Crespi is considered a saint by some. He was born in Milan, Italy in 1891 and died in 1982. He was a Silesian monk who dedicated his life to worship and charity. He actually lived in the small town of Quenca in Ecuador for more than 50 years. He did not have much wealth, but what he did have, he used to help the less fortunate. He was an avid collector of what could now be classified as impossible artifacts. He would encourage those who needed money to bring him whatever items they could find within the jungles, and he would pay them for their troubles.  Some, however, brought to him from within these cave systems collaborate the stories of Erigvon Danikin. Not only did these particular artifacts collaborate the story, but they were often made from solid gold, exhibited language and visually illustrated culture of an as yet unknown but clearly highly developed ancient civilization. The collection also included several metallic books, inscribed with an exquisite unknown language. When Father Crespi's death, his collection was looted by unknown peoples. All artifacts of interest were replaced with obvious forgeries or simply stolen. Upon returning from their unsuccessful expedition, the lead researcher met with Janos Moritz, indigenous source, who claimed that they had investigated the wrong cave. Had the source been paid for his silence? What is interesting is the fact that the team's efforts were not entirely fruitless. The evidence of the cave systems they explored matched that of the descriptions given by Von Danikin. What's more, they actually unearthed zoological, botanical and archaeological features, items which are unexplainable for the geographical location, unless it was visited by a group of people capable of traveling the seas far before Columbus. What do you think of the Teos Cave's legendary Golden Burial Chamber? Was it all a hoax? Or did somebody get there first? The Great Sphinx of Egypt is the largest stone monolith statue on Earth. It took nearly 20 years to fully excavate the Great Sphinx. Since this time, the Sphinx has undergone a lot of restoration, no longer taking on the appearance of being unfinished, or to the Kieneride, severely eroded. Why alter such an important artifact? Why not preserve them in their found state? After all, we have no idea of what the builders initially intended them to look like. Just how old are these statues? Are they even older than the pyramids? I tend to suspect yes. Not only do they show evidence of millennia of rainfall, but also submersion under saltwater. But the most intriguing fact about the Sphinxes is their hidden openings. Openings I suspect were the reason for the quote, restoration. One of the outcomes of these modern manipulations upon the most important ancient monument on Earth was the concealment of hidden passages that dot the Sphinx's design. Many initial reports of the Sphinx included details of three or four openings around the Sphinx leading to complex tunnel systems containing tombs with alien artifacts. Something within these tunnel systems prompted the Egyptian government and even the CIA to step in and restrict access on the grounds of quote, the nation's security. What is a Sphinx? Why choose this creature to devote such effort into creating? A strange story about the Great Pyramid of Giza appeared in the March 2000 issue of the Egyptian magazine, Roselle Youssef. According to the article in 1988, French Egyptologist Louis Caporot discovered an alien mummy within a secret room found in a crystalline transparent case. It was believed to be a hybrid, which is a mix between an extraterrestrial race and human DNA. A papyrus found near the body tells of this being's encounter with the pharaoh Khufu. According to ancient codes, anonymous source at the Egyptian Antiquities Department, the mummy of what appears to be an alien had inscriptions upon the tomb that showed that this was being a counselor to the pharaoh and was named Asurune, meaning star or sent from heaven. The body was said to have been buried with great respect and care and was accompanied by a number of strange artifacts made of a synthetic material that is not found in any other Egyptian tomb. Also, the source claimed it's unclear what sex it was, but it had unusual reptilian type skin, no external ears and overly large almond shaped eyes. The source claimed that the discovery has caused great controversy among Egyptian officials who want to keep it hidden until a plausible explanation for the strange mummy can be made. Numerous select specialists had visited the site. Regardless of the wild claims, there are indeed tunnels beneath the sphinx and they have been covered up by authorities for some reason. According to author Peter Tomkin in his book Secrets of the Great Pyramid, some Arabian authors have reported that Alma Moon found a sarcophagus with a stone statue in the shape of a man. They say that within the statue lie a body wearing a breastplate of gold set with precious stones, an invaluable sword on his chest, and a carbuncle ruby on his head the size of an egg, which shown like the light of day. With many of the tunnels beneath the sphinx being unexplored, but according to geophysical surveys containing large unknown metal objects, it is only a matter of time before Egypt's secrets are out in the open. Thanks for watching guys, take care. Locals who made the discovery led by Igor Kukushkin said that they initially believed that it was likely built for an ancient king or clan leader. However, upon realizing that a burial chamber was resting beneath this once enormous mausoleum and that it was found unopened, it has remained undisturbed for undoubtedly many millennia. Soon after the discovery, local authorities, along with rumors of the involvement of other international organizations, cordoned off the entire excavation, subsequently silencing the archaeologists for nearly a year regarding their remarkable finds, also preventing any further exploration of the ruins being reported. Just how long would it take for a once-grand pyramid to virtually erode away? And what sort of things were found within this tomb that would require a year-long cover-up? Information relating to the discovery of the pyramid and the subsequent burial chamber was initially filtered to the press, yet no further information regarding this amazing excavation was made public. After over a year of silence, the team have now claimed that the chamber had somehow been robbed some years earlier, conveniently leaving the oldest known pyramidal tomb on Earth empty for all the world to see. Additionally, a large debunking effort has ensued regarding the initial, and largely honest conclusions made by many scholars regarding the pyramid's possible age. Many initially concluded that the pyramid actually predated its more well-known neighbors, headed more than 6,000 kilometers away in Giza, by more than 1,000 years. Not too long ago when Osiris' tomb was rumored to have been discovered within Gaza, who was said to have been an alien god, a familiar sequence of events were subsequently witnessed shortly after this discovery also. Could there really be a conspiracy currently being undertaken by unknown powers to conceal the existence of ancient astronauts and possible past alien gods? With so many ancient burial chambers linked to incredibly important and lost segments of our vast ancient past, it is difficult to deny the possibility of such a conspiracy actually being played out in front of our very eyes. What do you think regarding the suppression of such finds? Are the accusations of a conspiracy sheer paranoia? Are these operations just protecting the discoveries from possible corruption? Or could there really be aliens buried within the tombs of pyramids that dot the Earth? Are there possibly even further afield? Thanks for watching guys and until next time, take care. This ancient cemetery within present-day Hungary has perplexed anthropologists for the past few decades. Amongst the remains of some 51 individuals was the discovery of many apparently human yet elongated skulls. Although many elongated skulls unearthed around the world are mysteriously absent human skull-knapping. Indicative of skull binding, an ancient practice once initiated at a young age. These skulls however do appear to have these natural human-knapping patterns. Yet the mystery of their origins, even after DNA sequencing, has merely deepened. Individuals including adult males, females, and children had, quote, artificially deform skulls with depressions shaped by bandage wrappings, end quote, making this place one of the largest concentrations of this cultural phenomenon ever found in Europe. Curiously, the strontium isotope ratios here are significantly more variable than those of other remains, including animal and prehistoric burials which have since been uncovered in the same geographic region. This indicating that these mysterious people lived elsewhere during their childhood, yet where they originally came from remains a complete mystery. Furthermore, carbon and nitrogen isotope data attest to remarkable contributions of millet in their diet. Although all the remains have now been dismissed as human, intriguingly some photographic studies of certain remains of particular interest are yet to be publicly disclosed. If human origins indeed be the case, it still does not answer the question as to where this ritual originated from, or why it seemingly permeated many of the world's countries, such as Germany, Malta, Russia, Hungary, along with many others. Were these ancient people trying to emulate a now-lost civilization? Possibly unknown ancient beings, they and many others throughout antiquity, not only perceived as but depicted as gods. Additionally, why are there so many mysteries surrounding this practice? Why is there such mystery surrounding the crystal skulls? And why are so many skulls we have personally examined seemingly absent normal human growth patterns? Were ancient aliens possibly found amongst these individuals within Hungary? We find the ongoing discovery highly compelling.


Welcome back to the great outdoors everybody. It is the day before Archery season opens here in Texas. I've been scouting right now. I'm sitting on this hay bell here Just taking some practice shots for the day. I'm sitting at 12 yards from a coffee cup Coffee cup is something I've had on my mind as I'm shooting. I Just found it on the ground, but it's been a nice little mental tool for me to practice my traditional archery Really primitive archery. There's no rest on the bow that I've built here. There's really nothing to this bow I mean, it's just a simple flat bow. There's no recurved or Reflex or anything on it. It's about as As basic as it gets I'm gonna take a couple practice shots here And then I'm gonna take you guys in the ATV to where this whole Traditional archery primitive archery journey began for me This is decoupage and it may just look like rocks But it's a piece of history. It's a look into the past. I've been on this deer lease for around three years It's an awesome place. It's in the middle of Texas You know a full of deer. It's got a lot of hogs has some turkeys But really the spark of this place is what we call the lookout and it's a cliff That looks over the Colorado River which runs through the middle of Texas And it's almost impossible to go to this spot look out and not imagine How the land was years ago and how the water cut through the middle of this part of the state and Created this big wall and for me. It was hard not to imagine How many other people have looked at this view before and when you go to the cliffs and you start to look around If you look closely you will start to see these little bits of flint that are laid all over the ground and There's spots that they're piled up sparks your brain to wonder. Why is that? Why is there this much? Decoupage all over the place right here and the simple answer is it's because the Indians put it there I got to thinking well, why would this be here? Why would they put this here was this a resource? And as I asked my other friends at deer camp They told me a little bit of history about the place and they told me about a book when I read the Empire or the summer moon that is what transformed the way I thought about archery and Native Americans and one of the big takeaways from the book for me was the use of the bow and how the Comanche Indians went from a Low-tier, you know low-level tribe in the Americas to dominating because of the horse and the bow the way that they use their bows and how they shot their bows was incredible and to hear stories of just a few hundred years ago of Settlers, you know people trying to pioneer the West being dominated by the Comanche Indians slaughtered It blows your mind you think how could they do that? pioneers had Guns what kind of bows were these how were they made that led me to get another book of Native Americans and bows and then eventually that led me to purchase the bow years Bible, which is a series of books that takes you from Literally a tree to a finished crafted Fully decorated bow, but when I actually started to craft my first bow, that's when I really gained the respect for original bow makers and how incredibly hard it is to make the bow and Then shoot it correctly And just become proficient at it. It's nothing more than just practice practice practice practice feel feel You just have to become one with these bows and every time I make a new bow or I go shoot a bow that I have I realize the Fred bear quote Archery is an endless endeavor you're always trying to Re-enact that perfect shot where you hit the bullseye and it is so difficult But it is addictive where you just want to do it more and more and along the way it has Made my my shoulders arms in my mind my muscle memory Just way better and now when I pick up my compound bow I shoot even better because I'm using all those principles that come from traditional archery now that I never learned and I never Started with it's like starting out with a high powered scope on a rifle And then trying to go to an open site So I may not even get a deer on this trip It could be years before I get my first animal with the traditional bow, but I'm gonna keep doing it I'm going to keep doing it until I satisfy That thought that has been in my head for over a year now of Could I do this? Could I even make a bow? And now I see the light at the end of the tunnel That I've gotten good enough That I think I have a chance to get a deer I'd be kidding myself if I Wasn't thinking about maybe making a bad shot I don't want to think about that, but the chances are so high So the animal could get away, and I'll have to deal with that regret and relive that shot It goes really deep. So This is the backstory of my archery journey It will continue for a lifetime And hopefully I'm gonna take this stick and send an arrow right through the heart and lungs of an animal All right y'all big time Decision right now. Where do we go? Do we go where I've seen multiple does coming in? Close Stephanie shot a deer last year a lot of dark great cover or Do we go where the buck is? We're going where that buck is so I took the small blind down I put in the big blind and I moved it By the feeder we're talking Invasively close. We are definitely gonna have a scent wall coming out Um, but we're just gonna have to cover up as much as we can.  I'm not gonna scout I don't want to put any more scent out there. I'm 75 confident in my shooting at this point It's like every time I go out and I shoot myself bows. I'm learning. I'm still teaching myself I'm teaching my body. I'm teaching I'm trying to build that muscle memory Still after you know, I've been shooting these things for Seven months. I think we're gonna need a little luck. That's enough jabbering. I think I'm nervous talking Let's cook up some protein And let's go sit in the morning for opening day Come on, baby It's peaceful It's beautiful out here. It's cooling down And hopefully that chilly weather is going to bring them in in the morning Even though we don't have any antlers at our hands right now That was one of the coolest signs of my life Just being that close to that deer It was amazing. I mean anything that I did Movement-wise it was it was huge. Everything had to be so incremental And if the first shot that I missed I couldn't even get the camera In position. I was trying to put you guys behind me And that wasn't working deer kept looking up and It was in a spot where my elbow Was hitting the camera So I put it off to the side and then you guys couldn't see the deer I'm standing the deer at one point was 10 yards And I was like, oh my gosh, I need to just take the shot So I put the camera over by that time. It was already back to 12, but Close enough close enough I was amazed at the at the ducking Even though those these bows are so quiet You know and this bow is about 45 pounds It's plenty. I think penetration power Really curious to find out but the deer ducked ran off. I cannot believe it came back I mean it came back within minutes. He sat at 20 yards forever. I was like, that's just too far I can't take that shot. Obviously. I just missed it 12 And then finally he came back. He came back and his his head was like behind the fence I was like, this is perfect. You know, he's he's head down in the core not paying attention And I I have no idea guys. I mean I just saw the arrow Fly off into the sky. Rick Shane in the sky. I was able to recover one arrow We'll have to resharpen the broadhead But this is this is odd to say but I have a sense of relief After that hunt And really after that second shot it was It was there was a disappointing You know 30 seconds when that deer took off and then I started to see it come back And that gave me a sense of hope again, but then after I missed the second time it was just like, okay I need more practice. I need more training at this And and it was a big question that's been on my mind for You know over six months I'm not getting choked up. I promise Over six months that I've been thinking about Can I build a bow good enough to do this?  And then running through the situation in my head. This is how it's gonna go, you know, practice practice practice practice It reminded me of the first time I went Deer hunting with my compound bow like I didn't know how to site it in I didn't know I didn't know what to do really. I just went and got one and Tried it for the first time And I I missed terribly. I mean, I missed Like 10 feet over the deer's pack and then my second shot My second attempt at a deer. I shot it in the neck. That was my first bow um Bow deer was shooting it right in the neck completely miss All the vitals although the next pretty vital jugular because I got the deer but That that showed me man. I need so much practice like this is so much harder And the traditional bows just take it to a whole another level guys So although I can probably hit that coffee cup You know a couple times out of five six arrows Of I need to be where I can hit that coffee cup Every time and feel confident about it and not be guessing and even though I shot right before I went out this morning And I hit the coffee cup one time. The other shots were pretty close felt good about it. Confidence was good When you get there and you're 12 yards from a deer and you can hear it breathing and then you're trying to pull the bow back and I don't know everything just goes out the window and you you rely on the muscle memory and I probably Didn't do the things that I've been training. I don't really know like it's just kind of lost in that moment And there is nothing that I found in in the outdoors That is more exciting than being close to a white-tailed deer with a bow I've been 100 percent I have you know caught bass over 10 pounds I've seen elk in the woods like that's super exciting, but there's something about Being super close to a white-tailed deer with your bow that It just does it for me. It just does So like I said earlier This right here is a lifetime endeavor archery is a lifetime endeavor. I'm glad I didn't wound the animal I'll say that Uh, will I take this out again? That is the big question That deer Is going to be hanging around.  I've seen this deer around So do I Try to re-attempt this just practice all day go out or Do I pick up the compound? like that's That's the big question right there, but even if I don't accomplish The goal of getting a deer with my bow that I've made myself this year. I promise you It is going to be on the list every year until I do it. It's just one of those things and When I'm ready, I mean I'll feel it. I'll feel ready, but right now It's like it'd be amazing if it happened But I'm not a hundred percent confident And I think you need that confidence for sure So I'm going to leave this video to marinate right here guys, and I'm going to do some thinking Uh, big decision to make I'll probably shoot 200 arrows by the end of the day and try to work some things out May end up taking the compound. I don't know but Just got this deer that he's a great management deer. I wanted to get him last year He'd be a great one to start the season off with the archery Get some meat in the freezer. So We're going to stay stay on the hunt. So stay tuned Thank you guys for uh for watching this video and all the other videos in this series and if you want to Check out any of the bucks gear That I'm wearing or check out any of the new stuff I'll leave a link down below and you can use my promo code as well It's in the description. You guys can save 10 off that site any time with my promo code. So Thanks for tuning in. Hope your arrows are flying straighter than mine, and I'll see you on the next one Well guys We may need to call an audible


I paid a dollar and took the best offer of $295 and the buyer paid shipping. Uh oh. No, I'm kidding. That is incredible. $5 into $225. I'm telling you. Hey, fellow buddies, thanks for watching. I'm wearing a little pony. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. Hey, fellow buddies, thanks for watching. All right, it is time for Share Your Best February Bolo. And these Bolo's come from my Bolo Buddies Facebook group and my Bolo Buddies YouTube members. So what happens in this video is I post this screenshot in the group, the Facebook group, and they all come and share their big money Bolo's that sold in February. In this video, I'm going to tell you where they got it, what they paid for it, and what it sold for it.  Thank you all so much for being here. My name is Courtney, also known as Bolo Buddies. And I teach about Bolo items, items to be on the lookout for, items you can hopefully buy low and sell for a profit on this channel. So be sure to check out some of my other videos. I have a wide variety of different things that I do to help everybody learn what to look for. So this first item comes from Nina's jewels and this is their YouTube channel. I will link their YouTube channel and their eBay store down below. If you hear me shout out a channel, that means they are a Bolo Buddies YouTube member level two. So if you would like to join memberships, you're welcome to do that. There is a join button. And if you don't see that there is also a link in the in the description of the video. No pressure to join my channel is completely free. Everyone is welcome to share a Bolo. But if you would like that shout out and that link down in the description as your perk, you can join at level two. So let's check out this first Bolo purchase for $2 at a garage sale sold for $90 on best offer. They went to the went to the town 30 minutes east of us. So shipping was not expensive. It's always funny when you sell stuff like in the town over or, you know, like within your area, like, Oh, I know where that is. I've been there. There was a lot of interest in these shoes. They are Kohan men's 11m gray pinstripe hiker shoes and their boots. So their boots sold for 90 bucks $2 and a $90. I'll take those margins any day, right? Bought this at an estate sale for $40 sold in a month for 100. Oh, no, no, no, no, not 100. Bought it in an estate sale for $40 sold in a month for $314.96 plus shipping. What? This one comes from Picker Money Flipper, and that is their eBay and YouTube. Wow. It's a vintage 39 inch brass horse head coat rack. So it's a coat rack like that you hang stuff on. That's incredible. 40 into 314. Awesome. The next one comes from Bola Buddies member piece of scrap. And this is her YouTube channel. She said, I paid $4.25. I'm going to have lots of bloopers on this one. I cannot talk tonight. I paid $4.25 at the Goodwill sold on eBay promotion for $79.39 plus shipping. And if you guys are looking to learn more about clothing, piece of scrap definitely does clothing. So check her out. It says cinch Western wear quilted puffer vest medium full zip flannel lined cowboy men's sold it for $79.39 right here. And she has great key words for like for her titles and her descriptions. Definitely check her out. All right. This one comes from Bola Buddies member. It's all goods 94 and she is also selling on whatnot under the same name. So go check her out there. If you guys are not on whatnot, I highly recommend you check it out. I am Bola Buddies all over there all one word. I do have a link down below. It is a referral link. And if you guys use that link to join whatnot, you're going to get $15 to shop. That is free money. There have been a lot of people that are buying things on that platform to resell on eBay. So it is definitely possible. So go get that free money, buy something, and resell it. I challenge you. All right. So what did she sell? She sold this clock. It is a George Nelson style unbranded yellow black easy read untested clock. Found this clock at Savers for $5 sold after 10 months for 130 plus shipping and the item is untested and unbranded just looked cool. Okay. Learning moment here. I don't like calling people out, but I don't want anybody else to get in trouble from seeing something in a video that I did. So when she put George Nelson style, that is not allowed because that is keyword spamming. So let me give you an example of one that's very popular. There's actually two that are popular. Number one is Tiffany lamps. Those really beautiful stained glass lamps that look like Tiffany lamps. People will put Tiffany style. Another one is the Kugie or the Koogee sweaters. People will put Kugie or Koogee style in the title when it is an off brand and eBay will get you for keyword spamming. Now this one is a little bit different because I don't know what George Nelson is. I don't know if this one is keyword spamming or not. I'm gonna say it is, but I don't know because I don't even know what George Nelson is. It's more those like high dollar things that go for big money where it's gonna getcha if you keyword spam. So be really, really careful doing that. So again, I don't know what George Nelson style means. So the next one she sold is this lava light red glitter cap 32 watt wizard moon and stars black base works. And she found it at a garage sale for a dollar looked at cap, knew it was vintage. Oh, looked at cap knew it was vintage sold after nine months for full asking price of $125. She is definitely a Bolo finder and she does a lot of toys. And I know she was doing vintage media like cassettes and stuff. I don't know. I know she was going to a storage unit to get them, but just some crazy Bolo's that she was selling over on whatnot. People were definitely going to make some money on that media. If this one comes from Bolo buddies member childhood finds and it says I got it for free from family along with many other duck stamp art prints. This sold in about six months for full asking price. It was easy to pack and ship. It's a 1996 Nevada state duck stamp with print with stamp Klein Felter sign numbered 329 of 2000. This is what it looks like and she sold it for $45 and 95 cents plus shipping. This is a good one. I worked within a state sale group for 15 years. I bought this empty heart candy box probably eight years ago and finally listed it this February. I gave a dollar for it and it sold for my full asking price of $149 and 99 cents. One just like it sold for more, but I listed it so close to Valentine's Day that I decided to sell for a lower price to get it there ASAP. It sold within a couple of hours. I was extremely happy. I haven't received any feedback or communication, but hopefully they are happy too. This is what it looks like. These vintage candy boxes can definitely be a Bolo and stay tuned for a video. This one comes from the Rebel reseller. This is her YouTube channel and if you are not following Rebel, she is fantastic. Her and her husband are a reselling team and they just sell awesome stuff. They do specialize in plush or I should say she does. He picks up some other cool goodies also, but definitely check out their YouTube channel and their eBay store. She said, this is why I love picking up vintage plush. This is a large carnival style plush. I am in a lost plush Facebook group. That helps people find toys from their past. I happened to notice that my frog listing was being shown as an example of a plush someone was looking for. She did end up buying it from me and sent me the most heartfelt thank you I've ever received. I paid a few dollars for it at either an estate sale or the Goodwill Ben sold for $35.83. This is what it looks like. It's a common wealth frog plush green orange 21 inch tall 1983 carnival stuffed animal toy and I will say the carnival stuffed animals a lot of times they get passed over because usually they're a bread and butter and a lot of people will not pick them up. So this is awesome that somebody was looking for this and Rebel was able to get it into their home. I'm going to have to ask Rebel about that lost plush Facebook group because I am intrigued and interested about that. Here is another one from Rebel. This came out of a large box lot of HO scale train accessories we picked up at an estate sale might have two dollars in these and sold it for $42.25. Life like HO scale hoe scenic vehicle car truck lot and it's by Bachman and this is what they look like. This one comes from Ohio treasure hunters no YouTube channel but there's an eBay store and it is linked down below. I bought five of these at Walmart on clearance for two dollars and fifty cents each so this is a retail arbitrage sale. I actually sold two of these this month at I'm sorry this month on for full asking price at $79.99 and the other for best offer of $67.99 plus shipping for each wow paid two dollars and fifty cents on clearance at Walmart unbelievable Lottie London eyeshadow palette vampire diaries love sucks discontinued and new huh makes you want to look at the clearance right wow that is awesome. I picked this up at a rummage sale for a dollar and sold it in less than a week for full asking price of $199.99 this also comes from Ohio treasure hunters it is an opti shot infrared golf simulator by dancing dog golf swing analysis check it out pretty cool right and another one here I picked this up at a thrift store for eight dollars and sold it in a couple days for full asking price of $149.99 plus shipping it is an omron hbf 306c fat loss monitor body fat percent analyzer bmi check it out 149.99 where do you say you got that at a thrift store wow I usually walk past that section of the thrift store maybe I need to start looking found this Herman Munster toy figurine at the Goodwill for $2.99 and took a best offer of 100 I just as I got I'm sorry as I just got laid off and need the money and didn't want to sit on it and wait for more like I would have done usually still a great profit for sure so what she's saying is she had it listed for $199.99 but because she was just recently laid off she went ahead and took that best offer of 100 so yeah certain circumstances may make you change the amount you end up taking for an item 299 into 100 is still a great profit and a quick flip and this is what it looks like all right this one comes from the funky pickle thrifter and if you want to see some amazing what sold videos go check her out that is her youtube channel and I will link her ebay below but she specializes in jewelry but she is a bolo finder in general she said weird looking jewelry is always worth a second look especially when it's also designer signed I found this crown trafari john brooch at a yard sale for a dollar or two it's a rare little item she finds the best deals she sold this for $125 plus shipping how incredible was that and it is a uh alfred felipe pearl face from the 1940s it's beautiful she said of course that it that is beautiful is worth a second look I got this for maybe five dollars at a thrift store I had never heard of the designer um anna tolly an a toli before but this set was one marked sterling silver and two obviously gorgeous oh my goodness five bucks at a thrift store sold it for $225 and it's rock crystal quartz briolette pendant sterling silver earrings and and 925 so it's a necklace and earrings set and she has great keywords go check her out you can thank me later because she's incredible all right bought at the goodwill for five dollars listed for 67 took a best offer of 55 it sold within a week this painting is not very well done and I suspect it was painted by a student however it is an original oil and a nice frame a manageable size and a nice composition wow student painted and sold it for $55 check it out it says original signed oil painting um oh cloistered none or noon walled garden vintage frame canvas uh oh no i'm kidding this one comes from donna 2445 she is a bolo buddies member and um her ebay store is impressions created she said this sweater was purchased at courtney's whatnot sale paid 3986 including tax and shipping asked 122.99 and took a best offer of 95 buyer was all in for 112.15 so she bought it from me on whatnot and let me tell you i knew this was a bolo when i was selling it at my whatnot show and i want to bring good stuff to what whatnot i want to bring items that people can sell for a profit um am i necessarily selling to the reseller i say no but i start my prices at prices that i feel are reseller prices but you know it really just depends on how much the item gets bid up for she paid 3986 for this but she flipped it for 95 so is that a huge profit not a huge profit but i'll tell you she sold it pretty quick i couldn't believe it when i saw it on the post so it is a design options embroidered butterfly sweater cardigan st patrick's day easter so she put those key words easter and st patrick's day in there which probably helped sell it but it was a beautiful sweater with these butterflies and sequins and beads it was awesome and i knew that it was a bolo when i sold it and um but i was thankful and happy to get my 39 dollars and 86 cents i paid five dollars i think if i remember correctly at a garage sale for that one and it has been sitting in my money pile literally sitting and i'm like i'm never gonna list this i'm just gonna bring it to what not then i don't have to do pictures i can just hold it up and sell it um i ebay store leo's treasures and she said i found this frank creche santa in the basement of an estate sale and it was very dusty and alone on a shelf i bought it because it was signed and numbered after researching i found out it was done by north carolina artist named frank creche i paid a dollar and took best offer of 295 dollars and the buyer paid shipping wow that's incredible look at it frank creche santa shelf sitter resin it's resin sculpture signed and dated rare and hard to find leo's treasures you nailed it with that one girl that is awesome congratulations such a cool find and what she paid for it a dollar a dollar into 295 that is so great this one also comes from leo's treasure she said i paid two dollars at a local thrift store for this vintage jim shore santa toy maker i took a best offer of 79 and the buyer paid shipping and this is what it looks like all righty we are going to stop there thank you all so much for being here thank you for watching if you guys are not on whatnot again bolo buddies down below there's a referral link get your 15 dollars to shop uh donna just proved that you can buy things on whatnot and flip them for a profit and she bought that from me so um thank you again for being here there's going to be some videos popping up here and here and a video and a subscribe down below so be sure to subscribe if you haven't already and thank you so much for being here let me know how you found the channel hit that thumbs up be sure to subscribe and thanks for watching


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Red Hat Summit 2016. Brought to you by Red Hat. Now, here are your hosts, Stu Miniman and Brian Graceley. Welcome back to theCUBE. SiliconANGLE Media's flagship program. We go out to all the great enterprise technology shows, help extract the signal from the nice. I'm Stu Miniman, joined with my co-host, Louis Brian Graceley. As I mentioned, we've got three days of coverage. This is the day two kickoff. We're gonna have Paul Carmiere, who's the president and keynote speaker this morning, joining us shortly. But just wanna kinda set the stage. Yesterday, we had some great segments from the executives and customers and some of the partners here. Red Hat is over $2 billion worth of revenue. Still got some strong growth rate in their standard product lines and they've got some great emerging products that are growing there. Our take on the announcement so far is, I think Brian, containers, containers, more containers. So, what's your take on the morning keynote so far? So, there was three big pieces to me. One was, Paul talked about, it feels like everything's changing at the same time. Things are not only becoming software. We've got public cloud, we've got private cloud. He talked about open hybrid cloud. In essence, the core piece of that was when everything's going crazy like that, you can't expect one company to sort of be able to innovate, harness it and do everything. You've got to build on community. Paul highlighted that. Spent a lot of time highlighting the breadth of the portfolio. It's no longer just RHEL and JBoss. It's containers, it's platforms, it's storage, it's application developer tools. So, spent a lot of time on that. And then they did a really nice job, although it took a while to get to, but really kind of showcasing a demonstration that says these are how all the components play together. This is what it looks like when you've got modern applications, when you're making changes to modern applications based on feedback. So, they did a very nice job, I think, of sort of highlighting when you've got this kind of chaos, how do you have to deal with it? Kind of reinforces Jim's thing. And then showing the technology breadth and showing it in action. Yeah, it reminds me, I think back to Paul Merritt said, that you need open source and you need those communities to really help accelerate both the innovation and the development of what's going on. Used to be before, a couple of companies would make a technology. You'd build some standard. It would take years to a deployment. We're really seeing a squashing of those cycles. And Paul Cormier said this morning that fast pace of change would not be possible without the power of open source development. So, definitely an area that we've kept a good look on. Brian, we've got a little bit of a chance to go through the expo floor here, some different areas. What's your take on this kind of ecosystem versus some of the other shows that we do in cloud and infrastructure? Yeah, I think a couple of things. One, we are seeing a lot of blurring in the ecosystems. We see a lot of the same companies in terms of large vendors, whether that's server vendors, software vendors like SAP, server vendors Dell and HP and Cisco and so forth. But there is a very good mix of open source ISVs. We're seeing SaaS companies, so we're seeing that part of the model here as well. We're seeing people putting Linux on arm. So, every one of these shows has their own sort of uniqueness to the community, but we are seeing the trends are coming together. It's about mobile, it's about moving faster, it's about cloud native, it's about software defined. I think what we're seeing is the leading companies that are running these shows, they're driving these communities more so than maybe we would have seen in the past with the hardware driven shows. Yeah, absolutely, we've got another setup of theCUBE down the road at the Hadoop Summit, and one of the keynote speakers there from Microsoft is the same person that's giving a keynote here on the program. So, definitely, we talked to Jim Whitehurst yesterday, talked about Hortonworks is another publicly traded open source based company. So, lots going on there. Brian, we've got lots of good guests coming on. What are you looking forward to today? Well, I think today a lot is going to be two big things, containers, as you talked about, a lot around application developers, really people understanding, what do all these buzzwords mean, cloud native, hybrid, DevOps, microservices? We're going to get some reality checks with that, and then we're going to see, what's important to developers? How was Red Hat helping them go faster? How are them doing it in a more secure way? So, those two themes are going to be really strong today and then obviously we'll see what the ecosystem partners have to say that are going to come in the afternoon. Yeah, absolutely. Red Hat's got a nice Dev Nation show that I believe it's the third year they've been running that show. And heck, in the keynote this morning, they had this cool little thing that it was, they had a video game that everybody could play and due to the kind of platform nature, the way they rolled it out, they could make changes to the game, they could add things and move teams. And one of the developers that was running it, he had like this red and like blue, like colored beard, definitely what you expect in an open store show, yeah, absolutely. All right, so we've got lots of coverage here all day. Stay tuned to SiliconANGLE.tv. I'm Stu with Brian Graceley and you're watching theCUBE.


Great, so let's look a little bit. Now we talked about all the different architectures, and it was very fast. Let's talk a little about what the effect is. This graph is really nice at highlighting this. So what do we have here? On this axis, we have the runtime basically that we need for training something. And on this axis, we have the top one accuracy. And then as the size of these dots, we find how many parameters there. And look at that. Relative to a lot of models that came afterwards, AlexNet actually has a very large number of parameters. And VGG even has more parameters. And they have a lot of parameters. And they are eclipsed by later models. So what do we have here for the later models? Now, it almost looks like there's a certain frontier here, where at least within this range, having more runtime allows you to be better here. And what we see is that there's a little bit of a tradeoff. Now, look a little at these outlays here. There's MobileNet, these very small number of parameters, actually very good performance. And if you have some time, I highly recommend looking at these. But this gives you a little bit the flavor of the tradeoffs that are here. None, of course, by now we are constructing even much bigger models than they had back then. But in a way, these models with top one accuracy around 80, 75, 80 percent provides incredibly good performance on the ImageNet dataset. We can consider it solved in a way now. Okay, let's talk a little bit about other applications of ConvNets. The first one is, of course, we can use ConvNets for image recognition. And there's, of course, by now a lot of different products that do such things and recognize objects. We can use ConvNets for style transfer. Let's talk a little bit about style transfer. Now, you can say, here we have an image, we would like to be able to render that image in different modern art styles. Now, what do we have? We can say that content, what is there, is measured in a way by the deeper layers in the neural network. Whereas, what about style? We can say the style of an image is measured by the local correlations between feature vectors at lower levels. For example, what does that mean? Now, like, if we have a style like that, it means that nearby points tend to have similar color. It also has, if there's a stripe here, the stripe will tend to continue. And we have that here. We have that in this style. It's very different with respect to the distribution. But we can still say style and good approximation is something that's a local property. And then how we solve that deep learning style. Well, we define a compound objective that contains one. We want that the high levels are similar. So we want to minimize the content difference between the new image and the content template at the high levels. And we want to minimize the style difference between the new image and the style template at the low levels. And then putting that together allows us to do style transfer here. We can use it for image segmentation using something that's called units where we take an image. We basically go and do the convolutions as we go down. But we then also go back to high dimensional data using up convolutions. And what we do, but we have the side channel, like where we basically allow the input image to also be used. Such architectures are very good when it comes to, say, segmenting biological cell membranes. So what do we have here? We have up convolution. And it's an example of how to make fully convolutional networks, which go from pixels to pixels. Up convolution, what is that? In a way, it just means up sampling. Another image, we go from a lower dimensional space, maybe one where we'd normally get to by using a max pool. And we then up sample it and then apply a convolution. It allows for the refinement of up sample by land weights. And it goes along with decreasing the number of feature channels. And it produces the kind of connections that we have in the U in this architecture. Now, confidence are being used for face recognition. So I give you a database of K persons. You get an image, an input image. And your goal is to identify the image of any other of the K people or say that it's not in there. Now, like, I want to know, have I seen this person before? And if so, what are the other images where they're in? So in that case, we would want to have one shot learning. Now, like, I cannot give you 1000 images of Conrad. What I want to do is I want you to learn about images and then be able to take one photo from Conrad and generalize. You want to recognize a person given just one example. And we call that one shot learning. So if you train a network, no, like one way of doing that is give take that one image and train on it. But of course, that wouldn't produce good generalization, because you just have one training example and one output. And if a new person joins, you would immediately have to retrain your whole confidence. How can we solve this kind of problem? Well, the idea here is that we instead of learning to recognize, we want to learn a similarity function. And then we can solve that one shot learning basically outside of the confidence. And what I want is similarity metric that tells me how similar is this photo from this photo when we can say if Conrad is visible on both of them, I want it to be similar. And if Conrad's visible on one of them and Lila's visible on the other one, we want that they are very different to one another. And we can then say, well, if that new image is sufficiently close to another image of Conrad in some embedding space, we will call label that image with Conrad. And what we usually do is we use networks called Siamese networks to solve that problem. So what's the idea there? We have a network that takes one photo, it goes to the confnet produces a function of vector at the end, we have another image goes to the same neural network produces a vector at the end. And then we can define a distance between the two images. And that distance is basically the distance of the outputs of the network and the two norm between those two vectors. And now what's the goal here? We want to go through that. We have the parameters of the network that basically define how that output depends on the image. And we want to learn the parameters so that if the two photos are of the same person, the distance should be small. And if the two photos are of different people, the distance should be large. And we often use these triplet functions for it, where we take an anchor, one image, another image of the same person and an image of the of a different person. These confnets will all be the same. They're the same mapping of image to embedding. And then we have the triplet loss, which is basically the, basically we want the similarity to be high between the, between between these two. So we want them to be similar. So therefore we have that positively in here. We want these two to be dissimilar to one another. And then we want to have a sudden maximal gain that you could get here. Just so that the network can't specialize on basically just taking a small number of anchor positive samples and weighing them very strongly. And that's why this basically cuts off at a certain maximal value that you can have here. And now, why don't you try and understand that approach using the facial recognition exercise?


What is up guys? Alright, so sitting here at my local What day is it today? It's Thursday So I've got five weeks and two days until the show Crick's going well Right now I'm feeling hungry as I do most mornings It's just a feeling that I'm going to get used to And it's all worth it at the end of the day I actually, funnily enough, I'm actually getting comfort And feeling hungry because I know I'm doing the right things Because it's not going to be easy getting shredded So yeah, I mean, if I said I was a 10% body fat A couple weeks ago, well who knows, it might be a 9% It might be under 10% I'm actually trying to find a Jaxa scan place in Christchurch So I can get one But I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to Most of them are just for bone density So it's weird They don't see it as a feasible option to test your body fat Unless it's like a specific place to do that Like a place in Melbourne So we'll see about that And then As always, I'm going to go from here Just round the corner into any time fitness And go smash the workout Yeah, holidays half over Fuck it sucks It's insane that it's been nice to just be able to chill I've had a base where my dad lives I've just been able to stay there Wake up whenever I want Go for walks Have that place to prep my meals Just chill out if I want So it's been really good And I haven't had to worry about work That's been a bonus So yeah, I mean The mood's awesome I'm getting excited More and more excited as the days go on for the show There's no way I'm pulling out I can't wait As far as training goes While I've been here I've been training every single day I've been weight training in the mornings And with cardio afterwards If I don't weight train in the mornings I'll just go and do a walk first thing And Basically Quite a few or good nights I've sort of had to save my macros Throughout the day so that I can Eat a nice dinner with the family So like for example last night We went out to have some superlarkies I just ate protein throughout the day I ate about 60, 80 grams of protein Maybe like 60 grams of carbs And a few grams of fat And then I went out and had that dinner And knew that I could be sweet But then what happens is After the dinner I do still have those guilty feelings Even though I am within my macros So then what I do is on the way home I'll go past eating time fitness And either do another cardio session Just to keep on top of it Just to make sure I'm This is serious shit So either cardio or I'll go and smash Another weight session That'll be probably the better weight session Because I've already had this food in me So theoretically it'd be best If I could weight all day, have a big feed And then go and train but I can't wait I just want to train first thing in the morning I want to get out of the way so that's just me And that's what I'm going to do now After my coffee So Here it is now Two sweetness Read the coffee news And I'll see you in the gym Music Great mentality, it's a great mindset When I start bulking again I reckon this is going to be something I continue And that's really funny because I went For years saying cardio wasn't necessary And it's not really but As far as your mindset And as far as setting up your day right And Giving yourself the best opportunity to Be positive etc I think the walk is definitely a good thing to do So that's what I'm doing today Five weeks out What day is it today Friday today So Yeah, you saw me train some shoulders Yesterday And today We've got some exciting things to do I am going to Go and pick up my first samples Of some t-shirts That I'm getting designed That's why I really wanted the logo Before I came to New Zealand Because I knew that I was going to go And try and Sort out some t-shirts, sort out some Apparel that's more so for me Just to wear like in my videos Especially the ones where I'm facing The camera all the time So that's going to be awesome I've got a couple of different ideas With the font that I'm going to be using And I know the colors and stuff so I can't wait to show you I've put my order in, told them what I want So I'm going to go pick it up later today And that's exciting A bit of self promotion in the gym Never went astray So yeah, I'm just rolling with it Jake does fitness, who knows where it's going to end up I've told all my family about it They all know Where I've showed them the videos and shit They're all really supportive, which is awesome And It just makes me even more Keen to sort of get back to Australia As soon as I can Start A personal training certificate Because no point Having all this branding And products and stuff If you can't even Work with a client So I think that's what I really want to do I talked to a few personal trainers In a couple of gyms here, like pick their brain a little bit Um And they said They also said, you know, how many personal trainers are there At your gym?


With control of Africa, the Allies looked north to Sicily, target for invasion. Sicilian enemy hands meant domination of the Mediterranean shipping lane. Sicily hours, the Italian mainland was with an easy reach. General Eisenhower was designated supreme commander. General Alexander, deputy commander. Admiral Cunningham, naval commander. Air Marshal Titter, air commander. General Patton, American ground forces. And General Montgomery, British ground forces. The Italians had spent five years fortifying Pantelleria to guard Sicily. Major General Doolittle's African Air Force blasted Pantelleria from early May to mid-June, dropping 6,300 tons of bombs, morning of June 11, troops of the British First Infantry Division approached Pantelleria. Even as the assault boats moved toward shore, part of the Italian garrison capitulated as a result of air attacks. After the landings, 11,000 Italians became willing prisoners of war. His Axis planes from Sicily attacked our supply ships again and again. In spite of considerable damage to shipping, equipment arrived to repair Pantelleria's airfields and fast underground hangars for the assault on Sicily. Meanwhile, our planes launched daily attacks on Sicily, from Newly Won Pantelleria, Malta, and North Africa. The tempo of bombing, especially on shore defenses, was intensified as the day approached. On July 9, 2,250 sorties were made, raining 600 tons of bombs on Sicily in one day. Meanwhile, at ports from the United Kingdom to Alexandria, troops and equipment were loaded for D-Day, July 10, 1943. The pattern after a final inspection of American forces boarded his flagship, the Monrovia. General Eisenhower flew to Malta for a last-minute conference with Admiral Cunningham, General Alexander, and Air Marshal Tedder. Then 3,000 ships awaited the signal for departure. Troops to make the initial assault were aboard the speediest vessels. As the armada left Africa, Patton's American force was designated the 7th United States Army. Combined with the British 8th Army, it formed the 15th Army Group under General Alexander. Unexpectedly, a summer gale struck the convoy after several hours at sea. Smaller vessels began to fall behind. There could be no landing in such a rough sea. A high wind would blow up airborne troop carriers. Last-minute plans were made to delay the invasion and orders were flashed to the fleet. By late afternoon, the sea leveled off with the coast of Sicily only 90 miles away. Orders for delay were canceled. With the word go ahead, troops reviewed the tactics to be employed, and each unit was briefed on its mission. Three hours ahead of the main assault, the airfield at Fonte Olivo was to be captured by units of the 82nd Airborne Division. At 0245 hours, the three main forces, given the code names Dime, Scent, and Joss, were to land on the beaches. The Dime Force, mostly the 1st Division, was to land east of Jaila. The Scent Force, mainly the 45th Division, was to land at Scoliti. The Joss Force, the 3rd Division, with Combat Command A of the 2nd Armored Division as reserve, was to land on both sides of La Cata. The rest of the 2nd Armored Division and the 18th Regimental Combat Team of the 1st Division comprised of floating reserves. All landings were to be simultaneous, extending the beachhead with all possible speed to line yellow from Palma de Monte Chiaro to Calta Gironi. The British 8th Army was to capture the airfield at Pacino and the port of Siracuse. Making contact with the Americans at the left, the British were to take a 2nd port at Augusta. Assembled up to July 1943 achieved complete tactical surprise. There was little opposition to the 1st landings except near Jaila. Instead of landing where enemy coastal defenses were formidable, we struck where the enemy thought the water too shallow for our craft to unload heavy equipment. Floating causeways, an ingenious method of bridging from ship to shore made the landings possible. A well guarded secret, the causeways proved successful under baptism of fire at Sicily. Still mesh landing mats were laid on the sandy beaches. More than 80,000 men, 7,000 vehicles, 300 tanks and 900 guns were landed the first 2 days. Without the then new amphibian trucks called ducks, the invasion could never have been maintained. Our forces used 700 and the British had 300 more. There was some shell fire from enemy artillery back in the hill. No counter-attack developed at Jaila beachhead. By the end of D-Day the beachheads were consolidated to a depth of 2 to 4 miles. La Cotta, D-Day objective on the left flank, was taken by the 3rd division. D-Day plus 1 as General Patton came ashore, reports revealed a total of 72 American dead for the first 24 hours of a major invasion. While our troops pushed toward line yellow, the Luftwaffe struck vainly at our supply ships. For the next 2 days there were repeated air attacks. The ammunition ship, Robert Rowan, was hit by a bomb which fell through an open hatchway.  From the artillery and the rough mediterranean left beach littered with supply casualties. Italians ordered to hold us until German armor could drive us into the sea, surrendered by the thousands. At the extreme left, American 3rd division units fought toward Campo Bello and Palma di Monticchiaro, who began to meet German delaying action in minefield. Major General Truscat, 3rd division commander, led the drive on line yellow. There was only minor opposition at Campo Bello. 3rd division troops pushed on so that by nightfall of D-Day plus 1, the left flank of the American sector was secure. By late afternoon of the same day, the 45th division took to the enemy airfield at Comiso. In the center, at J.L.A., this enemy column was caught by our fire along the road. Here the 1st division met sharp enemy resistance. Enemy casualties at J.L.A. were also given emergency treatment by our medics. One phase of the operation, the movement of troops by air, departed widely from the plans but contributed significantly to success. Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division took off but were scattered far from their original objectives. On the 2nd night after D-Day, a disaster occurred. 23 out of 170 troop carriers were shot down by our own anti-aircraft fire during a German air raid. By 12th July, D-Day plus 2, our beach heads were secure and General Headquarters was established in Sicily. On the left, the 3rd division had reached its objectives on line yellow. In the center, focal point of the enemy counter-attack, we were 8 miles inland, although a gap exists. On the right, the 45th had seized Ragusa and made contact with the British 8th Army, a continuous line across the southeastern end of the island. As snipers were being routed from buildings just beyond the town, our rapid progress on the entire left flank far surpassed expectations. By the 3rd day of the campaign, the prisoners were becoming a serious problem. We had expected stouter resistance from the Italians on their own soil. By D-Day plus 5, line yellow objectives were raged all along the line. The 3rd division pressed on almost to Agri Gento. Agri Gento fell the next day. The 3rd division pushed on along the coast, seizing Porto Empodo Clay. Simultaneously, the 1st and 45th divisions advanced on Calzani Setta in central Sicily. The town was taken by the 45th on the next day, while the 1st moved on east toward Enna. Almost in the exact center of Sicily, Enna was strategically important. Here, with roadblocks, mines and other obstacles, the Germans put up stubborn rearguard resistance. By July 18th, as the Germans began a general withdrawal to the east, a provisional corps of the 82nd Airborne, 2nd Armored and 3rd Divisions was formed to cut Sicily in two and secure the western half. Following this plan, the 3rd Division moved inland from the coast, driving north for Palermo, capital of Sicily, mopping up German rearguard elements. To the southwest, over roads repaired by Italian prisoners, the 82nd Airborne and 2nd Armored Divisions speedily occupied town after town to overrun the western half of Sicily. On July 20th, Siaka was entered. The same day at Menfi, the Italian garrison joined the throng cheering the Americans. Castle Vettrano's slogan, the army is a sure guarantee to the country's destiny, misfired for Mussolini. Following the military maxim, marked separately, strike together, we closed in on Palermo with three columns. Palermo promptly gave in as Italian General Giuseppe Molinero surrendered all his forces unconditionally to General Key. Palermo, which was relatively undamaged, men of the 2nd Armored and 3rd Infantry Division, tired and grimy, paused for the first time in 13 days. Palermo Harbor, the most important in Sicily, was temporarily useless. 44 wrecked vessels blocked the forbs and channels. And we had knocked out another strong air base. By July 24th, the 3rd and final phase of the campaign opened against the enemy in the northeastern end of the island. Cleary Drive up the coast swept up more little-known Italian towns like Castle Vettrano. The Italian army continued to disintegrate, while our advance pushed for the German evacuation point at Messina. General Eisenhower arrived to inspect Palermo, our most important conquest, and a future base for 7th Army operations. Hander arrived in time to see the look spot that challenged our occupation with heavy raids nightly, for which we had bombed barely a week before, was now a target for German planes, while we worked to clear it for our youth. An elaborate smoke screen system was thrown up, and stealing vital targets. This defense measure proved effective. The harbor partially cleared, Palermo became an evacuation point for the wounded. The water ambulance evacuated the wounded to a hospital ship waiting in the harbor. In record time, the severely injured were receiving expert medical treatment in North Africa. About 6,000 casualties were evacuated by air and sea. The majority were enemy soldiers. Italian motorcycle corpsmen eager to surrender rode their own vehicles to a PW collection point. Outside Cerrami, Generals Bradley, Lucas, Patton and Roosevelt conferred in preparation for the all-out assault on the enemy. The 2nd Corps reinforced was designated a spearheadly strike. The 9th Division in reserve in Africa came up via Palermo to support the 1st, while the 3rd relieved the battle-worn 45th. On August 1st, the 3rd phase of the Allied offensive sprang into action. Americans attacked in the northern sector from San Stefano to Troina. The Canadians in the center, the British to the south. After four days of continuous fighting, the British smashed through at Catania. Americans at Troina faced the toughest battle of the campaign. Situated in a superior defense position, the hilltop town of Troina was the key point of German resistance. The town held firm against 1st Division thrusts and air bombings for five days. The enemy took our blasting, counter-attacked 24 times, fighting for time to withdraw. On August 6th, a 9th Division patrol, which had outflanked the town, reported Troina abandoned by the enemy. Troina had suffered the fate of so many towns located in the path of war. On the coast, San Fratello still held up. A surprise amphibious landing behind the German line, the first of three such end runs, resulted in the capture of the town. From this point it was a chase to the Messina Peninsula. The enemy, in full retreat, attempted to hold us back with demolitions and stubborn rearguard actions. Along the coast, we moved up heavy equipment by sea to bypass blown-out bridges and mined highways. Without these amphibious operations, enemy demolitions would have caused weeks of delay. The 9th Division moved along the coast from San Fratello, and made contact with the British near Rondazzo, deep in the Messina Peninsula. Piper Cubs, used as artillery observation planes, radioed locations of enemy positions which were promptly fired upon. Enemy demolitions were highly effective on the highways of the steep cliffs in northeastern Sicily, slowing our advance. Despite the speed and resourcefulness of our untiring engineers, the Germans gained time to fall back on Messina. Last days of the campaign were a race against time. Two more amphibious moves to cut off the German escape did not bring us close enough. In the final drive, more and more wrecked and abandoned enemy equipment lined the highways. Captured enemy film tells the story of the German evacuation from Messina just prior to our arrival. Masters in the art of withdrawal, they used small craft to carry their troops across the narrow strait, undercover of a mass concentration of coastal guns. Despite the intensity of our drive across the island, over 100,000 men, equivalent to more than three German divisions, and almost twice as many Italians, with considerable amounts of supply, reached the Italian mainland safely. The last of the Nazis pulled out during the night of August 16th. At daylight the following morning, we entered the city of Messina, the usual contingent of Italian soldiers who were expected to hold us back surrendered. The harbor had taken a terrific pounding, first to stop access reinforcements, later to obstruct German evacuation. The fall of Messina, 38 days after the landing, marked the end of the campaign in Sicily. Our next offensive would be against the boot of Italy, only two miles across the water. The Allied military government first operated in Sicily. Military government officers, including Colonel Poletti of New York, followed the frontline troops to take over administration of the island. Sicily was now an Allied base of operations. Strict regulations were enforced, including confiscation of all weapons. To battle starvation, stockpiles were established, tidying the people through the winter, until Sicily could begin to produce again. A rigid system of rationing and price control was set up. Hidden or hoarded wheat was dug out. Disease, the inevitable result of war, was brought under control. Force were re-established, and even the accused learned about justice. Banks were reopened and a new financial system established. Freedom of the press was restored. Slowly life in Sicily began to resume its normal pattern. In December 1943, President Roosevelt paid tribute to the men living and dead, whose fighting spirit and sacrifice freed Sicily.


Catoctin Furnace is a remarkably intact early 19th century village. So we have the Museum of the Iron Worker, where you can see artifacts made at Catoctin Furnace, and then items used here. We now know that the majority of the workers were African American, and this is probably one of the few, if not the only, place in the United States where you can experience the story of industrial slavery, and that is one of the things that makes Catoctin Furnace unique. So visiting Catoctin Furnace, and particularly the Museum of the Iron Worker, is a way to come face to face with history. It's a dark and difficult history, but it's one that can be explored and some degree of understanding and empathy can be experienced here at the Museum. Monoxy National Battlefield is a microcosm of the larger American Civil War, in the sense that we have many enslaved individuals on these farms here in Central Maryland, while also from 1863 on we also have a recruiting center here down at Monoxy Junction. Approximately 500 African American men are going to come from Frederick County itself. These would be part of approximately 200,000 African Americans that would enlist in the Union War effort by the end of the American Civil War. Approximately a tenth of the United States Army is African American. With the deep connection to American slavery here at Monoxy National Battlefield and the farms that make up the Battlefield, part of our ongoing research has been trying to establish connections with the descendant population from those who were enslaved here, allowing us to not only research more into the individuals but give light to some of the history and their stories that have been lost in time. Art Society stands for African American Resource and Cultural Heritage, and what we do is want to disseminate and educate citizens, anyone, about Black history here in Frederick County. I lead the walking tours for Saturday of each month at 11 o'clock through downtown Frederick, historically the Black community here in Frederick, and we begin and we start out on Carroll Creek. Our founder Mr. Lee, there's a bridge here on Carroll Creek that is the Lee Bridge, Mr. William Lee Bridge, and he was a bridge in this community here in Frederick, and then we travel through Mullinick's Park and we begin to walk down All Saints, which was the epicenter of Black life after emancipation and probably up until the late 20th century. For anyone who wants to learn about the history, especially of downtown Frederick, All Saints, the Black history here, please join us for our walking tour on the Fourth Saturday of each month.