George Beattie is innocent. Two years ago, those were the first words that I spoke in this chamber, and I suspect that all MSPs remember their maiden speeches, and I'm sure we all carefully consider what we intend to say. So why did I begin my time as an MSP by saying that George Beattie is innocent of the murder of a young woman called Margaret McLaughlin? Quite simply, because I firmly believe that George Beattie is the victim of a miscarriage of justice, a miscarriage that casts a dark shadow across Scotland's justice system and has done so for half a century. Before I get much further, I would like to acknowledge the attendance of some guests this evening. George Beattie is in poor health and cannot be here, but his elder brother Robert Beattie and Robert's wife Anne are in the gallery. Robert and his family believe that George Beattie is innocent. Also present is Peter Hill, the journalist who produced the BBC Rough Justice Documentaries, which first shone light on George Beattie's conviction. Peter believes that George Beattie is innocent. We're also joined by Bob Alexander and his wife, Elizabeth. In 1973, Bob was engaged to Margaret McLaughlin. Bob believes that George Beattie is innocent. Now let's go back to the summer evening of July 6, 1973. Margaret had left her family home in Carlux Glenburn Terrace to catch a train to Glasgow. During the short walk beside a small, wooded area known as Colonel's Glen, she was murdered. She was stabbed 19 times. The police officer in charge of the investigation was chief superintendent William Muncie, who happened to come from Carlux. Muncie was a celebrated detective, who reveled in his 100 per cent conviction rate for the crime of murder. He made his name by catching the 1950s serial killer Peter Manuel, who was hanged for the murder of seven people. Very quickly, George Beattie was in his sights, and less than three months later, George Beattie was convicted of murder. He was aged just 19 at the time. He was a cheerful, happy-go-lucky figure in Carlux. He loved train spotting and model railways. His sister, Ina, tells me that he is a big, softie, one of eight children he was doted on by his mum, Jeanne, who passed away five years ago. It's important to understand that George is of below average intelligence according to psychological assessments. Such tests found him to be a slow learner and with a tendency to provide elaborate descriptions of events. They also showed that he was prone to changing his answers when subjected to integrative pressure. He was interviewed alone by the police, which would never happen today. He supposedly confessed, telling a strange story about seeing men with mirrored top hats. I met George three years ago while working as a journalist with STV News. He was gentle and polite, almost childlike in his manner, and it was obvious that I was not face-to-face with some savage killer trying to play the system. Accompanied George that day was Peter Hill, the journalist. Peter was protective of George and passionate about his innocence. With an encyclopedic knowledge of the case, he did most of the talking. I refer members to speeches that were made to the House of Commons by the late Jimmy Hood MP. Alongside Peter Hill, Jimmy Hood campaigned for years to clear George's name. He savaged William Muncie in the Commons, ripping apart the police investigation and its lack of integrity. In the seven minutes available to me today, it would be impossible to go into the necessary level of detail. However, by today's standards, George Beatty would have been quickly eliminated as a suspect. By today's standards, there is absolutely no chance that he would have entered up in the dock of the High Court and from there a Berlinie prison cell. Put simply, there was no forensic evidence, no corroboration, his legal defence was woeful. Damningly, it was later found that police had suppressed evidence that supported George Beatty's innocence. Now, for many years, the campaign dropped off the public radar. The world moved on. Yes, I will. Graham Simpson says that there was no forensic evidence at the time. Has any emerged since? Forensic evidence that was relied on during the trial has actually since been discredited. There was a handkerchief with a spot of blood in George Beatty's possession, which was discovered to have not been Margaret McLaughlin's blood, but during the trial, it was suggested that that is what it was. For years, the campaign dropped off the radar. Then until 2020, when a criminologist, Professor David Wilson, who also happens to come from Carluck, published a book about Margaret's murder and having examined all the available evidence, Professor Wilson concluded that George Beatty is innocent. He went further, alleging that he was not, I quote, fitted up by William Muncie. Professor Wilson's book, Signs of Murder, is not just some rehash of old material. His investigations led him to the front door of a man called Les Jardin. He does not accuse Les Jardin of murder, who is now dead, so cannot defend himself. For detailed reasons set out in the book, he explains why Jardin is a more likely suspect than George Beatty ever was. The book triggered another significant event. After 47 years of silence, Bob Alexander spoke out. He told the media that George Beatty, a man he has never met, could not possibly have killed Margaret. Bob thought that by speaking out that this wrong would finally be righted and that he remains perplexed by the inaction of the authorities. People often ask me, did George Beatty appeal? The answer is yes, he did, but such with the narrow legal parameters of the appeal process, they felt tokenistic. They did not seem like a real quest for justice, a real quest for answers, but something almost performative. I would like to end on a powerful and thought-provoking quote. I think that in Scotland we have the view that we don't have the same problem with miscarriages of justice as elsewhere perhaps as in England, but I think that the reality from my experience is that we are just not quite so good or open at dealing with them. Those are the words of John Scott KC, spoken to STV in 2020. Last year, John Scott was appointed as a judge in Scotland's Supreme Court where he now presides. George Beatty is resigned to the fact that he will go to his grave as a convicted murderer, but time is running out.  I urge Police Scotland and the Crown Office to look again, and not just as a tick box exercise, knowing that the news cycle will move on and public interest will fade. They owe it to the people of Carluck, they owe it to George Beatty and they owe it to Margaret McLaughlin. We now move to the open debate. I call first Colin Smyth to be followed by Graham Simpson in around four minutes, Mr Smyth. Thank you to Russell Finlay for his motion on the 50th anniversary of Margaret McLaughlin's tragic murder. In any debate, any discussion of that tragedy, first and foremost, we should always be mindful that this is about a young lady aged just 23 years old, engaged to be married, who should have had the vast majority of her life ahead of her. Instead, on July 6, 1973, Margaret left her family home in Glenburn, Terrace and Carluck to catch a train to Glasgow to meet the sister of a fiancée at the time, Bob, to discuss her wedding arrangements. During that walk, Margaret was brutally stabbed and killed in what can only be described as a frenzied savage murder. Since then, Margaret's family are friends and her then fiancée have had to live with that loss for 50 years. I was less than one year old when this tragedy took place and, unlike Mr Finlay, I do not have knowledge of the events in debate then or, indeed, since that ultimately prompted his motion. However, I have the privilege of representing the south of Scotland region that includes the town of Carluck. In fact, I had the honour of being in Carluck recently to judge that the Gala annual parade. It is a proud tight-knit community. Speaking in recent days to those who do remember Margaret McLaughlin's murder, it was a tight-knit community back then, a community that was left shocked by this tragedy. As Mr Finlay's motion highlights, there have been many claims that the subsequent conviction of George B.T. was a miscarriage of justice. As we have heard, the BBC's rough justice programme highlighted serious concerns about the conviction. A new edition of his book, Professor David Wilson, went as far as identifying who he described as a more likely suspect, and Margaret's then-fiancy, Bob Alexander, who I know joins us today, has stated that he believes that George B.T. was innocent. It is a claim that has been made by Russell Finlay in this Parliament before today, but it was also made in the UK Parliament by my former colleague Jimmy Hood. Jimmy represented Carluck for 28 years, firstly as the Labour MP for Clydesdale, and then Hamilton and Lanark East following boundary changes. Jimmy felt so strongly about the issue that he held not one, but two adjournment debates in the House of Commons on the matter, the first in 1993 and the second in 1995. During that first debate on 3 March 1993, he told the House of Commons that, and I quote, there is no evidence concerning police conduct in the case that points to George B.T. being a victim of a miscarriage of justice on several levels. The aspect of B.T.'s case to which I refer concerns personalities, professional reputation, police bureaucracy and, yes, politics. Jimmy told MPs that he believed that the investigation was badly handled, and when George B.T. was charged on July 1973, the leading detective William Muncie was, and I quote, already four days into a botch-up on an investigation over which he had lost control. Jimmy recounted a number of what he said were mistakes that had been made, uniform police contaminating the crime scene before the leading detective had even arrived, journalists publishing a photograph of where Margaret's body had been found in evidence that was missing or allegedly suppressed. The treatment of George B.T. in the lead-up to being charged with murder was also a concern that Jimmy Hood raised in Parliament. George was charged initially at 1.30 am after six hours of interrogation, but was then brought before detective Muncie at the crime scene at around 5.30. George was unwell and had been awake for more than 20 hours, but was denied the doctor and subsequently charged again without a solicitor present. Jimmy returned to the Commons in 1995 to further highlight what he said were a number of failings and mistakes that he believed and I quote, cost George B.T. the best years of his life. He told MPs that police had never had to demonstrate the circumstances surrounding the interrogations with B.T. or the admission that they claim he made during this time. He pointed out that the Procurator Fiscal should have had the duty to make inquiries into those police processes. I repeat those points made by Jimmy Hood because they highlight the fact that there were concerns over this case from many people and from across the political spectrum. I am sure that the cabinet secretary will point to the fact that this has been dealt with through the courts on more than one occasion, that appeals process itself was not without criticism from Jimmy Hood and others. I return in closing, Presiding Officer, to my opening point. Above all else in this debate, what is at the heart is the tragedy and the loss of life of a young woman. Brutally taken away and at all times my thoughts are with those such as Bob Maggots family who knew and loved her and I am sure that I will still feel that loss 50 years on. Thank you very much indeed and I thank Russell Finlay for securing this debate today. I remember his maiden speech well. I was not familiar with the case at that time but I am more familiar now. We are coming up to the 50th anniversary of the murder of Margaret McLaughlin and it is Margaret that we must think of because she was the victim here and we must think of her family on that anniversary. I can tell you as someone who has had a relative murdered that that will never ever leave the family of Margaret McLaughlin. Russell Finlay is convinced that George Beattie is innocent. I do not know if George Beattie is innocent but what I have heard and what I have read is that there is enough doubt to justify there being possibly a retrial, certainly a refreshed look. In my family's case when we got justice my view was there was no justice, there is no justice in murder but justice must be served and in this case there is no justice for Margaret McLaughlin. She was brutally murdered but for the sake of her family and the sake of George Beattie and his family justice must be served. It is not enough just to convict the result has to be the right result, the right person has to be convicted so I congratulate again Russell Finlay and the various people in the gallery. It will be lovely to meet you afterwards. Thank you Presiding Officer. As we approach the 50th anniversary I would like to begin by joining others in this chamber in paying tribute to Margaret McLaughlin. At the time of her murder as we have already heard she was a young woman of 23 years of age she was engaged to be married and had her whole life in front of her and it is hard to imagine the pain and suffering that her friends and family felt at the time of the murder and continue to feel all these years later and I have no doubt that the trauma and the pain lingers through the generations and that it is not abated by the passage of time. Mr Finlay's motion draws attention to concerns that have been expressed that the man convicted of Margaret McLaughlin's murder, George Beattie, may have been wrongly convicted and note that there have been calls upon the police and Crown to reopen the investigation into her murder. I trust that members will understand that it would be entirely inappropriate for me, as a Scottish Minister, to make any comment on a specific case that is dealt with in the criminal courts and that of course includes this case and I will not be doing so today. With the greatest of respect to those members who have expressed their views and beliefs I do give advance notice that I will not take any interruptions. However I do think that it is important to help Parliament understand the independent checks and balances within Scotland's justice system where a person claims a miscarriage of justice has occurred. Firstly, Police Scotland are rightly operationally independent of the Scottish ministers. Secondly, the Lord Advocate is the head of the systems of prosecution and investigation of deaths. The independence of the Lord Advocate's decision in this role is protected by the Scotland Act 1998. The independence of both Police Scotland and the Lord Advocate ensures that there is no risk of political interference in the investigation and prosecution of crime. Any decision on reinvestigation of Margaret McLaughlin's murder is therefore not for the Scottish ministers. Equally, the processes for investigating and determining alleged miscarriages of justice operate independently of the Scottish ministers and it is not my place to offer any view on this or any other case where it is alleged that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred. Ultimately it is for the appeal court to determine in any given case whether to overturn a person's conviction because they conclude that it amounts to a miscarriage of justice. However, it might also be helpful if I outline the processes that exist to enable a person who says that they have suffered a miscarriage of justice to seek to have their conviction overturned. At one time, Government ministers, namely UK Government ministers, did have a role in deciding whether to refer criminal cases back to the appeal court for a fresh appeal once the time limit for lodging an appeal has elapsed. Indeed, in 1993, the then Secretary of State for Scotland, a member of the UK Government, referred Mr Beattie's conviction back to the appeal court for a fresh appeal and this appeal was not successful. Since 1999, when the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission was established, ministers have had no role in deciding whether a Scottish case in which it is alleged that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred should be referred to the appeal court for a fresh appeal. That properly reflects the fact that such decisions should never be subject to any perception that they may be taken for political reasons. It is for the independent commission to review and investigate cases where it is alleged that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred, either in relation to conviction or sentence. The commission has extensive powers to obtain documents from any person or organisation, including the police and Crown Office, and to request evidence on oath. Under a statutory test set by Parliament, the commission will refer a person's conviction to the appeal court for a fresh appeal if, after considering the application, it thinks that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred and that it is in the interests of justice for the case to be referred back to the appeal court. Where a case is referred back to the appeal court for a fresh appeal, it will then be for the appeal court to determine, like any other appeal. Since the commission was established in 1999, as at the end of 2022-23, it has reviewed 3,052 applications, of which 157 resulted in the case being referred back to the appeal court for a fresh appeal. Of those 157 cases, 137 have been determined by the appeal court. That is because some cases have been abandoned by the applicant. Of the 137 cases determined, 8-8 were successful, with 47 having their sentences reduced and 41 having their conviction overturned. I am aware that the commission referred Mr Beattie's conviction back to the appeal court on the grounds that there may have been a miscarriage of justice. In 2009, the appeal court considered this referral and upheld Mr Beattie's conviction for murder. The motion indicates that Mr Beattie does not believe that there is an available route to challenge his conviction. Noting that Mr Beattie has had two opportunities in the appeal court to seek to have his conviction quashed already, it does remain open to Mr Beattie to submit a further application to the commission. That would be on the basis that there is additional evidence to support a claim that there has been a miscarriage of justice, which was not considered by the court when it heard a previous appeal. In addition, it is open to anyone who believes that the commission has acted irrationally or unreasonably by refusing to refer their case back to the appeal court to seek a judicial review of this decision. I hope that the information that I have set out provides some reassurance to members that there are processes in place to investigate and review alleged miscarriages of justice in Scotland. I finish by once again offering my heartfelt sympathy to the family and friends of Margaret McLaughlin for a life taken far too soon.


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We began feeling sick after the rains abated, and the backyard remained a slick muddy mess where the grass hadn't grown back, and the foundation of our new in-ground pool filled to the height of my shins, even though the concrete hadn't yet been poured. Dad wanted us to accept that the illness was a cold we all happened to contract around the same time. I believed him at first, then my older brother reached a point where he'd vomit nearly every hour and couldn't even keep water in his system. No cold could make you do that, I thought. When Mom started puking all the time too, Dad called in a doctor. She suspected we all suffered from arsenic poisoning, that something contaminated our water supply. Her suggestion didn't make a lot of sense. We lived at the house for years without a problem before, but we were in no condition to disagree. We were brought to the hospital at the doctor's insistence, but they didn't find any arsenic in our systems. We didn't even have a vitamin deficiency, or any of the usual poisoning symptoms. No viruses that they could spot, no bacterial infections, nothing. Maybe the hospital aired did us some good, because we'd recovered in less than a week. We were a little thinner than before, obviously, but otherwise healthy. They discharged us by the weekend. Back home, Mom forbade us from drinking tap water. We didn't protest. Even though Dad had our well tested not long after we returned, and the results showed no arsenic or mercury or anything. I was still skittish despite the test findings. I wouldn't dare drink the water from our faucets. I wouldn't even wash myself in our house if I could avoid it. I'd opt instead for the mildewed, stallist group showers in the school gym in the morning. Failing that, I'd clean as much of myself as I could at a free sink in the bathroom. The rest of my family contracted the sickness again within two weeks of our hospitalization. The vomiting intensified. They started to lose track of the time or the date, and seemed confused if I engaged them in conversation. None of this happened in May. I remained relatively healthy, albeit less clean than I'd have liked. The water had to be the culprit. Nobody believed me, but I knew it had to be the water. One evening, I stood in the backyard to escape for a little while the retching sounds that had overtaken the house's usual quiet. I planned to call an ambulance for my family later that night if they didn't show any improvement. It was the right move, but it felt futile nonetheless. The hospital would find nothing medically wrong with them. They'd recover in a few days. They'd return home to repeat the cycle. Who knew how many times they could endure that? Probably no more than a few. If I could barely stand it even once. If my family were to survive, I had to find out what was the matter. But I didn't have a clue. I was as baffled as the doctors, if not more. So I waited in the yard, collecting my thoughts and the relative quiet of the outdoors where the sound of someone's disgorging stomach wouldn't scatter them. Thick mud choked what scant vegetation grew from the land around me. And only the balding pines at the edge of our yard showed any sign of vitality. Groundwater hung stagnant in the basin of the unfinished pool. Winged insects skirted its surface, their faint wakes quickly fading. I felt the entire yard was diseased and I imagine that my lungs drew in tendrils of my asthma with each breath. I couldn't stand being there. It didn't clear my thoughts. It simply replaced them with a different kind of nausea. I decided I'd take a walk in the woods. Anywhere would have been better than where I was. When I came near enough to take a closer look at the pines, they seemed even less healthy than I'd first thought. They seemed blighted, their branches dying and collapsing from the bottom up. They weren't alone, none of the plants I saw seemed in good health. Tiny saplings bent over themselves, rotting in their middles. Old oaks stood as barren as telephone poles, their broken limbs amassed at their feet. Out of morbid curiosity, I followed the decay where it seemed most heavily concentrated and winded my way through the woods along a path of dying plants. Before long, I reached a clearing in the trees. Nothing grew there except for a brittle grass that crunched and snapped like glass beneath my steps. Near the clearing's edge, I spotted a small triangular structure that resembled a poorly tended doghouse. I went over to it. The structure turned out not to be a doghouse, but rather a stone well, a wooden roof now in a state of collapse camped over it. A weed curled around its side, borrowing what little support the disintegrated wood could offer. I looked around for a bucket, but found none. Then I realized that the well had been littered. Dense wooden slabs boarded the well, although they too had decomposed heavily. They sagged in the middle beneath the steady pressure of a large stone. At first I figured the stone had been placed there to keep the slabs in place, but then I thought that the cover must have been quite weighty enough back in its day to stay in position of its own accord. With such an odd setup as this, the well only became more intriguing the longer I considered it. After scrutinizing it for a while, I thought I saw some kind of marking on the stone. Did it carry an inscription? I couldn't read it from my angle. For that matter, I couldn't tell whether the markings were English words or even Latin characters. I walked around the well, leaning in for a better view. I studied myself against the ruined boards. They felt slimy against my bare palms. They were also far more slippery than they appeared. I misjudged my angle and my hand slid out from under me. My chest thudded against the boards and I heard a wet, arthritic pop as the aging wood gave way. I felt myself tumbling forward downward. The illegible stone splashed far below me, invisible in the inky black of the well. I scrambled for a hold on something, anything, but the well's damp inner walls afforded no grip. My feet caught the lip of the well and my ankles strained to support a weight they were never meant to carry. I tried to remain calm and devise a means of escaping my precarious situation. I couldn't move too sharply as I relied solely on my unsteady balance and whatever protuberances my shoelaces might lasso if I fell any further. The blood rushed to my head and my vision swam. Down below, the snapped wood jutted from the darkness like a shipwreck. As my eyes began to adapt, I could detect liquid motions throwing back the reflection of the light above. I couldn't tell how deep it was, but it didn't matter. I couldn't bank on surviving if I fell in. Between the mass of broken wood, I glimpsed a disturbance in the water. It began to grow round and smooth, something was surfacing. An indistinct grey mass bobbed into sight and floated on the water. It seemed devoid of features. Until it flipped under its own weight and revealed its bloated face. It had eyes, a mouth, and a nose, but all of them had swollen horribly and seemed more humanoid than human. Its pallid skin stretched and shone tight from the years of fluid it had absorbed. Whispy silver hair trailed like lily roots from its scalp into the dark water. Its arms hung limp at its sides. It wore no clothing. I had never seen a dead body before, but somehow I knew that no corpse could surpass the revulsion this one instilled in me. When it moved, writing itself in one slow rigid motion, it stood in the center of the well. Water ran from its body, its head lulled as if its neck could not carry the burden of its waterlogged skull. Its viscid, sopping eyelids peeled back, showing two dark liquid spheres. They stared at me, into me, or perhaps past me. I held my breath, hoping it was blind, or at least that it hadn't noticed me. At the thought, the thing's jaw fell open, and a sticky, rasping noise escaped. A cold, putrid wind swept past my face, and I wretched. The air had grown noxious. My aching legs screamed for oxygen. It was too much. I lost control of myself, my arms began to flail, and I lost my tenuous hold on the well. I tumbled forward, banging my head against the stone wall. More out of reflex than volition, I stuck out my arms and legs, suspended like a starfish above the yammering creature. I could see it reaching toward me. Mercifully, some distance separated us. So as not to drop myself into the thing's outstretched hands, I carefully guided one foot up the well's wall. Then I did the same with the other. My palms followed them. I wouldn't chance more than half an inch with each motion. The creature seemed to recognize my intent. It let out a foul cry. And as it subsided, I watched the fallen boards begin rotting at a swift rate. I heard the sounds of small pebbles falling into the water. When one struck me on the back of a head, I realized that the well itself was decomposing around me. I doubled my pace. Soon my fingertips felt the mouth of the well, and I hoisted myself up, too frightened to look behind me. As I hurled myself onto the anemic grass, the wooden roof above the well collapsed, crashing into the basin with a sound like falling trees. Had I taken any longer, I thought that sudden hole would have been my coffin. Exhausted and nauseated, I staggered back to my house. I felt filthy, but I wouldn't dare shower. All I could think to do was call the police. I wouldn't tell them my full story. They never believed me. But I had, without a doubt, discovered a corpse. Surely it was worth alerting them to it. I told my parents what I told the police after placing the call. They were too fatigued and sickly to do anything to comfort me. Over the next couple of days, I brought the police to the well and watched them extract a gray, bloated corpse from its depths with a pulley. The body seemed thoroughly inanimate. They couldn't identify it as its face was too deformed to match any of their missing persons files. The coroner's office disclosed some pretty troubling findings. Apparently, the body had died long before it was deposited in the well as its skin had been preserved through some chemical process. Some routine analysis revealed high concentrations of arsenic in the corpse's skin. Apparently embalming bodies and arsenic solutions used to be a common practice long ago. As such, the coroner suspected that the body was from the Civil War era. He suggested this was where the arsenic poisoning came from. I started to wonder whether I had hallucinated my encounter. Nobody else had seen what I did and a level of disconnection from reality is not uncommon in cases of arsenic poisoning. But how had the body ended up in the well? Furthermore, why had somebody sealed it inside and what had been the purpose of the marked stone? Neither the coroner nor the police had answers for me. Then again, maybe I wasn't asking valid lucid questions. They entered the body in the local cemetery at the outskirts of our city. Its headstone remained blank. For a corpse that old, that far past identifying, they couldn't have done anything more. For many years thereafter, the burial marked the end of my story. Recently, though, I returned to my hometown to indulge a pang of nostalgia. Although I have no family left in the area, I paid a visit to retrace the routes of my childhood. I saw the old house under new ownership for several decades. The pool remained pristine. The lawn grew lush and green. The trees flaunted a verdant canopy. No evidence remained of the damage the plagued corpse had wrought, except for the images I held in my memories. When I returned to the site of the decaying well, however, I was startled to notice that it rested at a lower elevation than the old house. A gradual downhill gradient ran from my former home to the well. No contaminant could have traveled upward via the natural forces of gravity and runoff. And when I went to the city's outskirts to inspect the blank headstone, I found that nothing grew around it, not even weeds. The earth and its vicinity remained brown and bare. I walked away in a daze, watching my steps to keep myself upright. As I stared at the ground, I spotted a path of arid dirt snaking from the grave towards the town.


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering Spark Summit 2017, brought to you by Databricks. Well what an exciting day we've had here at theCUBE. We've been at Spark Summit 2017 talking to partners, to customers, to founders, technologists, data scientists. It's been a load of information, right? Yeah, overload of information. Well George, you've been here in the studio with me talking with a lot of the guests. I'm going to ask you to maybe recap some of the top things you've heard today for our guests. Okay, so, well Databricks laid down sort of three themes that they wanted folks to take away. Deep learning, structured streaming, and serverless. Now, deep learning is not entirely new to Spark, but they've dramatically improved their support for it. I think going beyond the frameworks that were written specifically for Spark, like Deep Learning 4J and BigDL by Intel, and now like TensorFlow, which is the open source framework from Google, has gotten much better support. Structured streaming, it was not clear like sort of how much more news we were going to get because it's been sort of talked about for 18 months. And they really, really surprised a lot of people, including me, where they took essentially the processing time for an event or a small batch of events down to one millisecond, whereas before it was in the hundreds, if not higher. And that changes the type of apps you can build. And also the Databricks guys had coined the term continuous apps, which means they operate on the never ending stream of data, which is different from what we've had in the past where it's batch or with a user interface request response. So they definitely turned up the volume on what they can do with continuous apps. And serverless, they'll talk about more tomorrow and Jim I think is going to weigh in, but it basically greatly simplifies the ability to run this infrastructure because you don't think of it as a cluster of resources. You just know that it's sort of out there and you ask requests of it and it figures out how to fulfill it. I will say the other big surprise for me was when we had Matej, who's the creator of Spark and the chief technologist at Databricks, come on the show and say when we asked him about how Spark was going to deal with essentially more advanced storage of data so that you could update things so that you could get queries back so you could do analytics and not just the stuff that's stored in Spark, but stuff that Spark stores essentially below it. And he said, you know Databricks, you can expect to see come out with or partner with a database to do these advanced scenarios. And I got the distinct impression and I have to listen to the tape again that he was talking about for Apache Spark which is separate from Databricks that they would do some sort of key value store. So in other words, when you look at competitors or quasi-competitors like Confluence Kafka or a data artisan's flink, they're not perfect competitors, they overlap some. Now Spark is pushing its way more into overlapping with some of those solutions. All right, well Jim can be a list and thank you for that George. You've been mingling with the masses today and you've been here all day as well. Educated masses, yeah, who are really engaged in this stuff, yes. Well great, maybe give us some of your top takeaways after all the conversations you've had today. You're not all that dissimilar from George's. What Databricks, Databricks of course being the center, the developer, the primary committer in the Spark open source community. They've done a number of very important things in terms of the announcements today at this event that push Spark, Spark ecosystem, where it needs to go to expand the range of capabilities and their deployability into production environments. The deep learning announcement in terms of the deep learning pipeline API, very, very important. Now as George indicated, Spark has been used in a fair number of deep learning development environments but not as a modeling tool so much as a training tool, tool for in-memory distributed training of deep learning models that we've developed in TensorFlow and Caffe and other frameworks. Now this announcement is essentially bringing support for deep learning directly into the Spark modeling pipeline, the machine learning modeling pipeline, being able to call out to deep learning, TensorFlow and so forth from within ML, LIB. That's very important. That means that Spark developers, of which there are many, far more than there are TensorFlow developers, will now have an easy path to bring more deep learning into their projects. That's critically important to democratize deep learning. Hope from what I've seen, what Databricks has indicated, they have support currently in API, reaching out to both TensorFlow and Keras, that they have plans to bring in API support for access to other leading DL toolkits, such as Caffe, Caffe2, which is a Facebook developed, such as MixNet, which is Amazon developed and so forth. That's very encouraging. Structure streaming is very important in terms of what they announced, which is an API to enable access to faster or higher throughput structured streaming in their cloud environment. And they also announced that they have gone beyond, in terms of the code that they've built, the micro-batch architecture of structure streaming, to enable it to evolve into a more true streaming environment, to be able to contend credibly with the likes of Flink. Because I think the Spark community has sort of had their back against the wall with structured streaming that they couldn't fully provide a true sub millisecond, end-to-end latency environment here to forward. It sounds like with its R&D that Databricks is addressing that, and that's critically important for the Spark community to continue to evolve in terms of continuous computation. And then the serverless apps announcement is also very important because I see it as really big, it's a fully managed multi-tenant Spark development environment as an enabler for continuous build, deploy, and testing DevOps within a Spark machine learning and now deep learning context. The Spark community as it evolves and matures needs robust DevOps tools to productionize these machine learning and deep learning models. Because really in many ways, many customers, many developers are now using, are developing Spark applications that are real 24 by seven enterprise application artifacts that need a robust DevOps environment. And I think that Databricks has indicated they know where this market needs to go and they're pushing it with their R&D. And I'm encouraged by all those signs. Okay, well thank you, Jim. And I hope both of you gentlemen are looking forward to tomorrow. I certainly am. And to you out there, tune in again around 10 a.m. Pacific time, we're going to be broadcasting live here from Spark Summit 2017. I'm David Goad with Jim and George saying goodbye for now and we'll see you in the morning.


I wanna speak to us concerning the warfare world view. I ask you that you engage with me with your mind, with your heart and with your soul. I have made references to this before in their messages. One of the reasons I wanna share about this because it will put a in perspective, one of the reasons we do what we do in regards to supernatural deliverance and healing. I do wanna give credit to the person that highlighted or like made a name for this that I borrowed this from and this is a theologian and a pastor, Greg Boyd. He has a book called Guard at War. Anything that has to do with war, that's why when Kenneth was sharing that today I was like, ah, amen, my message. And so the warfare view, there's notes on the U-Version Bible app that you can follow, but let's dive in. The war for the blueprint view, so there's two main views that many Christians have. The first one is the blueprint view. The blueprint view is that everything is happening right now is the result of God's divine decree. And the devil, if he's involved in anything, it's because God has ordained him to do that. Thickness, death, tragedy, poverty are all part of God's blueprint plan. To explain suffering and pain, we use phrases like there's a purpose for everything. His ways are not our ways. God is teaching us something.   There's a bigger reason for that. We just don't understand.  There must be a reason for that. God is teaching us a lesson. God is in control. He is causing all of this to work out for his glory and for his goodness. So that is the blueprint view. There are scriptures that could signify this to be true. To explain suffering and pain, we use those phrases. That God is in control. Satan is an alish. He's just a little pet. I know he's biting everybody on the way, but God is holding him back and everything serves God's glory. There's another view that I believe that as a Christian, we have to adopt and as Hungry Jen, this is the framework that we operate from. And that is the warfare view. The warfare view says we are in a cosmic conflict between good and evil. Satan's will and God's will. Satan, demons and evil people have their own will and they are responsible for their will. And what happens on this earth is not consistent with God's character as revealed in Jesus. Meaning, if you wanna know who God is, you don't look at Job. You don't look at what happened with the tsunami or the famine. You look at what happened in Jesus. Every Jesus didn't promote starvation. He fed the multitudes. He didn't allow the storm to kill people. He stopped the storm because God is revealed in Jesus. We believe through the warfare view that God does not will evil. He is not evil. He is at war with evil. And the nature we see today is no longer natural. In the beginning, the food for animals was not other animals. Animals did not eat animals. Animals ate the grass. It was later on when the sin came into this world that the nature and the animal world became affected. That's why creation cries out in groaning for the revelation of the sons of God. Meaning what happens today with the wind, what happens today with the waves, the floods, the drought is not God's created natural order. The world is unnatural. How do I know that? Because I see in Jesus, he stops the waves. He doesn't surrender to them. Jesus, he resurrected the dead.  He came into crash in the clash with the kingdom of darkness. Early fathers, apostolic fathers, they held this view up to the fourth century. Actually, the view of early fathers for the first four centuries are very simple. All sickness is demons. All natural disasters are called by the devil. There was no like, oh, maybe I'm not sure. Some of it is natural. Everything was demonic. And they simply waged war until St. Augustine. St. Augustine came and he started to propose and God blessed his soul. He did such a good job for Christianity, but he also infused with this idea that God gets the glory through all the evil somehow, some way God still uses that for his benefit and there is some truth in that. But what it started to do, then the Constantine came, the emperor who made Christianity legal and who took the cross from Christians and gave him a sword, not spiritual sword, physical sword. And instead of waging spiritual warfare, the church started waging crusades. And we saw everything as God's blueprint and now we're in charge of this earth and now we start killing other people, killing other religions and all of this stuff and that's when everything went sideways. And hungry Jen, and for those of us who diminished, we must understand a few things. And for the remaining time, if you're taking notes, I want you to write this down. Number one, life is more like a Normandy beach than a Disney vacation. It is immoral to act like you were on a vacation when you are in fact in the war. When you are on a vacation mode, you ask the question, why do bad things happen to good people?  You make a fuss about it, you threaten to leave a bad review on Google reviews or Expedia or Orbitz, you're like, this is a bad hotel, I paid for this, I deserve a good treatment. Nobody has that attitude in war. When you are in war, you don't expect, you're not surprised that bad things happen, you're surprised that good things happen.  When you are in war, you're grateful for the smallest good thing that you see there. Why? Because in war, bad is normal. Good is not. So as a Christian, if you think of your life, especially those of us who live in America, who believe that, you know, a Christian life is supposed to be good and Jesus came to give us life and more abundantly. Yeah, yet Jesus died. Yet his disciples were eaten by lions. So what kind of life did he came to give? He first and foremost came to give us spiritual life with God. We have to embrace a warfare militant Christianity because it is the only view that will make sense of the suffering and the trouble and the evil we see in this world. And I believe it is the only world view that will give us the tools of what to do when we see injustice in this world. Instead of blaming God or blaming ourselves, we take this and we turn into a war. Not against the Democrats, not against atheists, but against the spiritual forces that we were commanded to fight. Amen. I was privileged to reclaim my childhood by visiting Disney many years ago before I was married. And Disney is a magical place. That's before they, you know, started to do all that they do now. And so when I was there in Florida, it was beautiful. Everybody treats you right. Now, if somebody did not treat me right, I would make a fuss about it. Now, I was fortunate and also, I have never been to war, I've never been a soldier, but I have heard the stories I heard today from the men that I am surrounded with, great men of God. And when I hear their stories, or if you watch a World War II, what happened on Normandy Beach, you will find out that the scene in the Disney and the Normandy Beach is very different. And some of you see the stuff that is happening right behind me from the movie Saving Private Ryan, is that the scene is very different. And I want to tell you something. Christian life is more like Normandy Beach. In fact, not only Christian life, life on this earth than at Disneyland. Get rid of the Disneyland vacation mindset. It's not real. It doesn't exist. It will exist one day.   I'm going to do all the right stuff. You will still live in the world that there is battle. Paul says to Timothy, therefore you must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who enlisted him to be as a soldier. Matthew 1112, Jesus says, this is our savior from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent men take it by force.  He's saying in the spirit realm, everything's changed. And he says, listen, wake up. I want you to update your software because you are not on the vacation. You are no matter how much you quote it, name it, claim it, blab it, grab it, do everything right. You are still in the war. I know in America we don't see rockets flying over our head, but right now in the spirit realm, we see rockets flying because people are taking their life.  Cancer is taking their life because sickness, disease, and pestilence is taking their life. Why? Because we are in the war. Abuse is running rampant because evil is still fighting even in the United States. But my friend, I'm gonna tell you something in just a minute, we're on the winning side. Number two, I want you to write down the second thing is the church is a warship, not a cruise ship. Matthew 16 verse 18, the time where Jesus talked about the church, he says, but I say that you are Peter and on this rock I will build my church. And you will think Jesus will say, and my church will be having a nonprofit status. He says, and the gates of hell will not prevail against the church. So the only reference Jesus makes about the church is actually about war. He's not talking about social work. He's not talking about the church, just building hospitals and helping the poor, though that's what the church will do. He says, the mark of my church is this, is there will be gates and my church will be pushing against it.  That's war, my friend. That's conflict, my friend. That's not pacifism. That is not the church defending its gates.  My friend, we are not a cruise ship. We are a warship. Our savior is the captain. Our savior is the king of kings, the lord of wars.  Our savior is the lion of the tribe of Judah. Hungry Jen is not your grandma's church. It's a battleship. But your grandma is welcome. But your grandpa is welcome. But your kids are welcome because there is room for everybody. Amen. Now for those of you who are like, man, I just like peace. You cannot experience genuine peace if you're not in war. There will be no peace if you don't understand what the scripture says. My friend, that church, that's why if you come to church and things are rowdy and things are a little bit crazy here, why? You did not come to a cruise ship. You have come to a battleship. We battle. And there are those photos. What kind of a church? Some of you used to go to a cruise ship churches. I'm not gonna diss them because I like them, okay? I envy them, all right? I wish to be like them, but I don't have the luxury with people like Christina who come here. People like that cannot be set free in the cruise ship churches because cruise ship churches are afraid of demons. They're afraid of healing the sick. They just wanna say, pray for God to give you strength, my friend. We wanna come against sickness. We wanna come against demons. We wanna come against the evil. Not only outside, but inside of a person. Why? Because we are a battleship. We are not a cruise ship. Come on, somebody. Number three, are you keeping up with me? Number three is the war is won, but the battle still rages. So I'm gonna share something that, and it's a very difficult theological concept. I'm gonna break this down. It's a very simple terms. Hebrews chapter two verse eight, it says the following. You have put all things in subjection to his feet. Somebody say all things. So that means everything is already under the feet of Jesus. And then it says this, for in that he put all in subjection under him. He left nothing that is not put under him, meaning nothing that is not under Jesus. And you're like, amen, I name it. I claim it. I confess it and I possess it. And then there's this part. But, and the author of Hebrews puts a but there, but we do not yet see all things put under him. So it's this thing that theologians called already, but not yet. Now, let me illustrate it from the Normandy Beach example. The D day was the day that the battle, the war of World War II turned tide. When the forces, the German forces, the Nazi forces were broken, but the war did not get finished on D day. It took at least one more year before the D day turned to a V day. And what happened 2000 years ago was the D day. It was the defeat of the devil. Jesus broke his back. The war turned the tide. From that point on, Jesus says the kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent man, meaning there is a face that rose up in God's people. We're no longer victims. We are victors. We're no longer just running away. We're going forward into all the world and making disciples of all nations. We're to tell everybody in this room, there is a V day coming when Jesus will ride into this earth on a white horse, where there will be no more suffering and pain. The curse will be no more. He will wipe the tears of everybody's eyes. There will be no more sickness. There will be no more disease. God will finally accomplish justice on this earth. My friend V day is coming. But we are in between the D day and the V day. So what would happen with these soldiers who would fight after the D day? There was a sense of a spring in their step. We're beating. We're winning. We're beating the enemy. That's exactly where we at right now. We're pumped. We're excited. We're spreading the message of Jesus Christ everywhere. Why? Because Jesus beat the devil. But we don't see that yet because the V day is still coming. Amen. Number four, what does this mean? I am in the ward. There's a ward taking place. The church, Jesus declares about the church for the way applying warfare view and Jesus defeated the devil, but yet he's not fully gone. What does this mean for me? Very practical. It means I'm a soldier. I am not a survivor. I'm not a slave. I'm a son, yes. But in the spirit realm, I'm a soldier. That's why ministry can learn more from military than seminary. Military represents ministry more than anything else in the world. Why? Because Paul uses the analogy of a soldier for a minister. Not an analogy of anybody else. Why? Because there has to be a militant. I am not talking about angry aggression against people. That is not what the Bible carries. But this militant mindset, few things I wanna highlight. One of them that we are soldiers and we are not slaves. We have to pray prayers of revolt, not prayers of resignation. Because I'm a soldier, I have two ways I can pray. If I believe that behind everything is God's reason and God's will, God gave me cancer to teach me a lesson. I'm not sure what the lesson is. He's not sharing the lesson. It's been 20 years. I'm still waiting for the lesson, but I'm pretty sure there's a lesson. If you believe in that, then you're not going to pray against cancer. You're going to pray a prayer of resignation. Lord, I'm sorry, please help me to beat it and guide the hands of the doctors to remove cancer because I know it's your gift for my life. That's gonna be the prayer of resignation. Now as a soldier, that is not the prayer we pray. Even if you use the phrase of the Paul's thorn, you have to understand Paul's thorn, Paul pray three times against the thorn. Because the default position of every soldier is not to surrender, it's to subdue. It's not to accept, it's to attack. Even your body goes into an attack mode when the bacteria hits it. Your body goes into an attack mode when some kind of a sickness attacks it. I want to challenge you today. If you have a sickness, if you're battling maybe with an addiction, listen, rise a soldier inside of you. Wake up a soldier inside of you. Go into a prayer of revolt and rebellion. I'm not talking about rebellion against God.   I come against that in Jesus' name.  I break the grip of that rebellion, or I break the grip of that pride over my life in Jesus' name.  I'm not gonna explain to you why I'll get to you later. Then what you do is God pretty much is telling you, waste your ammo on the other target. Paul didn't get the thing from God.   Now God says, I'm gonna infuse you with ammo for another target. I'm gonna still use you. See like for example, if I take the issue of my eyes, I pray for a long time that God will heal my eyes in the sense that one will look like the other. There came a point where I really felt in my heart that God's like, Vlad, waste, spend your ammo on the other target. Meaning this thing is not gonna get solved. Not because I don't want to, there's stuff we're not gonna get into right now. It does not mean that this is the default position for every person. It just means when I have revolted and revolted and revolted and nothing happened and God clearly said, hey, let's put this to rest. That does not mean that now every area of my life has to be an area of resignation. We have to revolt, not resign. Amen?  Don't get resentful against your commander. I used to look at Samson in a negative light and every time bad stuff happened to Samson, Samson went on the revenge spree. He went into this like Rambo style, just killing anything that moved. And I was like, man, he's not a man of God. He should have just controlled his emotions. And then I reread his stories a few days ago and I've noticed one thing, Samson never took vengeance on the people who caused him that suffering. For example, he marries a girl and then his best friend takes his wife and marries her. You would think the revengeful thing would be to kill your best friend. He didn't kill his best friend, he killed Philly scenes. He always took vengeance on the enemy that was behind the apparent enemy he saw. They took his eyes and Samson's prayer is God, please help me why so I can take vengeance. See, when you don't have a worldview of warfare, you will take vengeance on your spouse, on your children, on your government and on the people instead of the real enemy that's behind that. God wants us to develop an attitude of revenge. If we don't keep a healthy revenge attitude, we will develop resentment against him. Listen to me again. If we don't have a healthy revenge, meaning somebody dies out of cancer, God, why did you take it? God didn't.  And you say, cancer, I'm gonna wage war against you. With the name of Jesus, Moin Jesus is against cancer as you are against cancer.  God is also wanting to partner with us and turn our anger against cancer. Addiction, turn your anger against addiction. Maybe your spouse is battling with pornography.    Set the fillet in fields on fire. Not your spouse on fire. Maybe your child is battling with something right now.  That is the benefit of having a worldview of warfare. The spiritual battle doesn't only have physical symptoms, it also has mental strongholds. It's easier to see the battle out there in the sickness, in the demons, in the famine, in the starvation, in the racism, in the murdering of the babies, in murdering of people. It's easy to see the battle there. And sometimes God uses us and accomplishes his kingdom to help us win the battle there. But the battle then gets inside when then there is those demonic thoughts in our head, those parasites. That's why Paul tells us not only to do wage warfare in the spirit realm, he tells us to wage warfare in our mental realm, your thoughts. And while you can get the demons out and subdue them and then you're realizing you got them roaming free in their own head space through negative thoughts and you gotta bring them down. I just wanna encourage you today. If you adopt a warfare mentality, you will experience more vacation feeling that you will know what to do with. If you strive for vacation life on this earth, warfare will smack you so bad and it will bring you back to reality. So let's start with the default position. We're victors. We are in the Normandy Beach. Our Captain Jesus Christ is not somebody from heaven looking down on earth and says, I know how you feel.  He's the man who went through with us, walked on dessert, got beaten, rejected, whipped and he got the keys of hell and hades and now he's leading and he says, listen, I'm God but I know what you're going through. We're gonna win together. I'm not just on the outside guiding you. I am living on the inside through the Holy Spirit. I know what you went through. I know the suffering and the pain that you're going through and I got you back. Not only I can forgive you of your sin, help you overcome your sin, but listen, I will help you to overcome whatever you are going through. And if there are losses or casualties that we experience, he walks with us beside. He doesn't dump us and we don't get bitter.  You get angry at your enemy.  He's the one you need the most and the enemy wants to confuse you and say, blame him the most so you can withdraw from him and then the devil toys with you like a cat with a mouse. This madness has to stop. You have to remove the scales of your eyes and understand that God is not your enemy. He's a good God, he wills only good and when we screwed up, he sent his son, Jesus Christ, dying across. And when he saw that the sacrifice of Jesus is good, but we still need help, he sends his spirit. Jesus poured his life out for us. The spirit got poured out. Can you imagine how God loves you? Not only he loves you, he says, I love you. He lets Jesus be poured out. When you pour something out, it empties itself out for you. His spirit gets poured out for you. Listen, God got you. God loves you. I know probably should have said it in a more of a nicer tone, but he loves you. He really, really, really does. Thank you so much for being a part of this community. If you're interested in learning more about Hungry Gen, our internship, our conferences, deliverance and so many other things, go to HungryGen.com for more information. And as always, remember, better is not good enough, the best is yet to come.


I miss y'all so much I miss creating content. I should have had pre-recorded videos, but I've been vlogging my you know recovery, but At the same time, honestly, I'm not doing a damn like I'm not doing anything But watching movies in the house like going my massages and going home period like nobody's seeing me But yeah, so if you're new here. Hey girl, my name is Kyra and don't forget to like comment subscribe So let's just hop right into it cuz I miss y'all so we just don't get into the video Today I'm gonna be doing a BBL Q&A. I'm currently well I'm almost gonna hit four weeks this week Thursday on the 11th and y'all been having asked me a lot of questions So I'm like, you know what? I'm just gonna film a BBL Q&A and I'm also new to this like I'm so happy Like I met a massage lady Here in Chicago. Well not here in Chicago, but I'm in Chicago. She has really been Um Educated me on the whole like BBL process compressing all that making sure my body is contoured the way I needed to be In order to like my results and fall in love with my body, you know so I'm just so grateful that she has helped me along the way and Yes, so I'm still learning and everything too. I don't have all the answers I'm just gonna let you know that right now. I don't have all the answers But I'm going with what I know. Oh, yeah, but before we even hop into the BBL Q&A I'm gonna talk about this face mask I've been using because y'all I'm not even gonna lie to you. I haven't been in the mood for nothing I haven't sometimes that first week. I wasn't even in the mood to take a shower. Like, um, yeah I was just like I'm over it. Like I was over it. Like I was just didn't have any energy. I didn't have no energy I literally was letting myself go. I was gonna do my hair I was not do my skincare.  I need to get back on my grind. I need to detox my face So I've been using the see the temi detox mask green tea blend matcha lemongrass and clay When they reached out to me and wanted to work with me I was looking at the ingredients in the face mask because I don't just put anything on my face So I need to look at the ingredients contains the lemongrass, which is a good anti-inflammatory which is going to Make sure like if you have like an acne flare up, it's going to calm your skin down Clean out your pores and this has been doing the job for me.    Like I'm not sitting.  So I'm gonna apply The face mask so we can hop right into the video. This is the mask and this smells like lemon And it's also cruelty free and all the ingredients in here are 100 clean.  That's not gonna benefit me, you know, and I've been using it quite a bit So and I put this on real thick real thick, you know, like me No, see See, baby see Yeah, y'all, I just cannot believe I was literally letting my skin go.  Uh, so anyway, I'm just gonna hop right into the questions And y'all ask so many questions. It's crazy like so many like I can't like I just There's so many So i'm just gonna go through the important ones and yeah, so Hey, so first question. What made you want a bbl? I basically wanted a bbl because I had really bad hip dips y'all like I had Disrespectful, but anyway, I had really bad hip dips in It was just not cutting it for me. I just really wanted that full Hip look for me to feel like a overall Woman, you know what i'm saying? I wanted that coke bottle shape.   I don't care That's why i'm so open with what i'm doing because I really don't care about what people have to say So and if I did I wouldn't be doing youtube.  So do what you want to do Period like period period period do what you want to do for you. Okay, and nobody else because That's period next question Did the anesthesia make you nauseous when you woke up? No, surprisingly I did not throw up the um our ends that were taking care of me. They thought I was gonna throw up because when Um, they came back to our hotel. They were telling my mind like precautions. She might throw up But I did not throw up when I woke up from the anesthesia girl, let me tell you how cold I was I was literally shivering. I was like Like I literally could not stop myself from shivering. I was just like what is going on in And like you're in this room full of other girls that already had their surgery So there was a girl next to me and she was like, uh, like I didn't have my contact so I didn't see nothing I was literally blurry, but I know that girl was looking at me looking crazy Girl and when I woke up I was like call my mama call my mama and I was like Literally my lip was literally shaking like like that like Girl, it was the craziest feeling ever like I could not stop shaking Like I was so cold and then the nurse ended up putting like a little warm blanket on me and she was like, it's normal You'll be fine.  Like if you watched my bb a video, you would know like Too much going on But I just personally do not want to recover with other Girls around me that already had surgery moaning and in pain. Like that would really annoy me And these days right now While I'm recovering I get easily annoyed like I'm easily annoyed. I'm frustrated. I'm uncomfortable.  Don't Don't mess with me. So I just don't like the fact that Other girls would be around me recovering.  I'm just like Oh, like I'm not eating that I would like literally starve in a recovery house like So I want one, but I'm so scared of the pain. How bad does it hurt one to ten lol? Honestly, it did not hurt like I was in um, I feel like it was more Soreness than pain because I'm really I have a real high pain tolerance. So I feel like It wasn't pain. It was mainly soreness like Like you just went to the gym. I know people be like, oh my god, it feels like I just got hit by a bus Or I mean I'm gonna die, but everybody is different, but for me it didn't feel like that. I just felt like Um, it wasn't a lot of pain for me. So I took a like a g every every time um my nurses came and got me from my um appointment Like she was telling me like you could tell Who's really takes care of their body like who's more healthy and who? um Is not healthy just how you recover So I would really highly suggest you put drink green smoothies to eat Take your vitamins like I was literally on point because you know, I had covid So I was trying to get my body to recover from that so I could get the surgery because I was like, girl We can in this surgery like you waited too long. We we got to do this. I worked out a little bit I wasn't doing too much because I didn't want to lose weight I wanted to just you know sweat to get you know the virus out of me or whatever I had to do so Yeah, make sure you're taking care of your body before surgery. Um, so you won't have um Like you'll be able to deal with the pain. That's what I should say What's the first outfit you're gonna wear to show off your new body outie, honey You got the way to see gonna make sure you follow me on instagram One has a low pain tolerance and wants to be beyond you think I can handle recovery I think you can if you take care of your body. Well, like I just said What was the worst part of the whole experience the worst part of this whole thing is honestly Probably the massages. Honestly, even though you're supposed to get them. I was literally dreading them I was like But I was literally taking it like a g because I really wanted that fluid to get out of my body And every time I went my masseuse was like, you're so strong. You're so strong because I think people I've seen a girl get her massages and she was literally crossed over like But I was literally like come on. Let's do this. Like I was literally looking up And before my massages, I made sure I ate something and I was hydrated because Fluid is leaving your body.  That's what makes people faint.  Y'all like What what some advice you would give that no one really talks about after getting the bbl Something that people never talk about. I feel like is that Once you get off that table and you start in your stage one fire Don't rush the fire process And I feel like a lot of girls be in a rush to get in that stage two fire like my stage two fire just came this week and I invested um Well, this one I have on was gifted to me But it's still custom and the other one that's coming was over 200 dollars And it's still custom and I still just wanted to Um wait it out with the stage one fire. I wasn't in a rush to like go to a store in Miami and get a Faha just so I can start seeing my shape right away. No, I wanted my body to heal on its own Like I didn't want to rush the process. Um Because honestly my body was still in shock. This is like a major surgery So I wanted to take my time and don't compare your results to somebody else and don't look in a mirror Because I was looking in the mirror.   Um So that's why when I got back home, I just took my stage one fire to the um Alterations lady and she took it in for me three inches But I literally stuffed my fire so I could compress real good and it's it's paying off. So One thing I would just say is just don't compare your results. Don't rush the process. Um And don't rush the fire and don't try and rush into like a stage too far Like relax, you you'll get there. Who is your doctor? So my doctor is was dr. Williams at 305 plastic surgery and um Yeah, 305 plastic surgery and the reason I chose him is because he is a he specializes in hips and honestly I wanted hips and I already knew I was gonna walk out with a butt.  So that's what I wanted and that's why I chose him and it's crazy because um Wait And it's crazy because they had reached out to me And they told me that was gonna like wanted to work with me and I was like, oh, okay And that's cool because I'm looking at the doctor at your facility Bay, let's get it. Let's go. So and that was like The beginning of um, no that was like the end of 2019 because I wasn't I wasn't really for real But then I was just like, you know what let's do it And that was when I made the decision in March to go ahead with the process I was falling in love with his results when I was looking at, um The girls on the page. So I was like, okay, I'm gonna just go with him And they want to work with me anyway. So let's get it Let's get it. Let's get it. And now that my doctor wasn't even popular back then. He was not popular This man is booked until 2022 So that's crazy That's crazy But make sure you do your research on the doctor that you want Just because I went to dr. Williams. Don't mean that you should go to dr. Williams. Um Do your research at the facebook group see what the girls is talking about because you really want to get All the information you need before you choose a doctor. How are you feeling? I'm feeling fine. Like I'm doing good Did you remain awake during surgery? No girl. I was not out. I don't know. I don't know why people will want I think it's cheaper. I guess um to not go under the anesthesia But I don't know who would want to be half awake during that surgery. Like I think I seen tokyo styles post his um bbl on his um Instagram and he was awake. I'm like, what's no like put me to sleep I do not want to see that my surgery was literally in like a second He literally put whatever he needed to in the ivy. I was out like a like Period put me to sleep I don't want to see that How was the pain afterwards? How was the plane ride home? So basically y'all know the uh, COVID um, a lot of people aren't at the airport. So my plane the plane wasn't even packed So good thing me and my mindset in the bag It was um, we were the two people in our row and then the um row across from us.  I fell asleep woke up And it was time to go Well, I had to get back in the bbl pillow, but Yeah, it wasn't that bad But I feel like if I had arrived the bbl pillow the whole way I would have been irritated So with airbnb's massages nurses flight and the surgery how much did it cost? So the airbnb That I originally got was three thousand dollars three thousand dollars to be in a hood and And then um, obviously we couldn't stay there and I couldn't get my money back right away. So Um, I had a page to move to another um Hotel and then um, I had to pay for my massages. My massages was like 400 dollars um, and then the nurses um, they have packages on their website, but And I also tipped them really good because um, some of the stuff that was doing they didn't have to do flight I had to pay for me and my mama. So I don't know how much that was because she booked it. Um, and the surgery um My surgeon it costs. I think he's ten thousand dollars now, but I'm not even gonna flex with y'all I'm working with them. I worked with them. I don't know why some of these um influencers be like They won't tell you they worked with the doctor, but obviously you are working with the doctor because you're making a post Nobody was born yesterday, sweetie. But yeah, so I was I didn't not pay ten thousand dollars for my surgery and off It was like a little fee Yeah, it was like a little fee. It wasn't nothing major. So with that three four Five Five hundred. So yeah, it was around roughly eight thousand dollars Eight thousand dollars So yeah, so so yeah, make sure y'all are financially able because you never know what's going to happen like the airbnb situation Like just make sure you're financially able to you know Be able to and then obviously like food and like groceries and stuff is like minor but I still just prepare for the worst. You never know what's gonna happen. So make sure you're financially able to you know Have but if you feel like you're not gonna run into any complications, you should be fine. But um You just never know. So make sure you're just financially like prepared to um Get the surgery because you just never know the doctor give you exactly what you wanted So and then also there's another question in here. Um What picture did I use for my wish pick?    So he gave me the look that I wanted Um, but no when I try to show him my wish pick Um, he was like, no, I don't do that. So I just had to show him one of his worked One of his work that he did on a girl I loved how her hips looked and I showed him the girl and I was just like I want my hips to emphasize and So I got naked in front of him or whatever He was like, okay, I'm gonna give you as much hips as possible And then I'm just gonna put more volume in your booty period. I was like, okay cool He never said he couldn't do what I asked him to so Um, and I was already comfortable with him. I trust him to get me like a good shape or whatever. So He did do what I wanted to do but in the beginning I was it was a little iffy but because it was just Like when I first came out of surgery, it was just asked and I was like, where's my shape? Where's the shape I was looking for? Where's my og line? And It developed over time. But so like I was saying you can't really rush the process It's really a journey like for real recovery time. So they say um, it takes like for For like if people like go back to work It usually I guess you can go back in like three weeks, but I was not having that and I told him I'm not going back for like a month So because I'm not going to be walking around waking up early putting my body through stress and just now So six months to a year um And then I can sit on my butt um at month three Um, but as six weeks, it's okay to sit down on something soft But not for a long period of time But I'm still not gonna sit on my butt because I do not want to lose my volume I just don't want to mess with it and I'm gonna be mad because I'm not Girl, this process was not easy. So I'm not going letting it go to waste Did you have to lose our game weight before your procedure btw love you love you too And I just gained weight during the quarantine because honestly, I was supposed to get my Surgery back in april and then quarantine happened and I was like, you know what forget it I'm gonna just gain some weight gain a little bit more weight so I can have more volume So yeah, he never told me I had a gain or lose.  Miss you baby?  Where's my shape and my waist wasn't in yet because obviously I was in my stage one five So and I and I didn't have my phones and stuff in because I wasn't like my masseuse in Miami she was putting telling me to put the phones in or whatever and the iron girls But the masseuse here in Chicago. She really Helped me a lot. She was like girl. You good.  You need to get that tighten. You need to put these many phones in boom boom boom And I was like bet and I she I took what she said to me and I did that she A$AP so then my waist started to go in and then my hips started to spread and it was just It's getting there baby like currently I'm 45 inches on my hips and I'm 28 on my waist So and I'm gonna show y'all my um, but then with my phones everything on so you'll see how wide my hips are even with the phones and everything and it's It's amazing, but yeah at first I did I was crying. I was like, oh my god, where's the shape? So, yeah, don't get discouraged. This is really a mental game. It really messed with your head So did the doctor advise working out before surgery or is that the choice of yours? um, no, he didn't even tell me to work out, but he says on his page keep working out until um, the day of your surgery like, um, if you are if you do regularly work out But I chose to do that on my own just so my lungs were ready to, you know Go under the anesthesia and you know, my body was gonna be in shock. So I really wanted to Prepare myself and just just be try to be overall healthy.  I went to um The squeeze lady chorea though. She's in my bvl video. I put her instagram on the screen How do you feel having a bigger but sometimes I really hate the attention Um, I don't know. I haven't got any reactions yet because I've been in the house Um, but I just feel like I didn't do this for attention. I did this for me Um, because I don't even like attention. I don't like when people stare at me. I don't like it. I just be uncomfortable I'm like, uh, what you're looking at. But um And it feels normal It just feels good to have hips and just put on my clothes and just it fit how I want to fit Like it's just full where I needed to be full like I just love it.  I cannot wait to show y'all. I cannot wait to show y'all. Um, what it looks like in clothes Because it just looks so good. I damn never wanted to cry.  Like it's crazy. Like I love my body before don't get me wrong, but girl Get your nigga.  So okay, so I try to eat healthy fats. Um, right after surgery they say to feed the fat So you want to eat like fish avocado eggs protein baking like turkey baking stuff like that sub high in protein, but You don't want to diet. Like honestly, um after surgery, um, your metabolism is gonna work girl It's it's fast at this point because your body I don't know what it is I don't know how but your metabolism is fast because girl. I've been going to the bathroom every hour after I eat I'm on the toilet. Like Don't try and diet. Um So yeah, I don't eat Like right now I'm not on a diet because I just want to feed my fat and stuff like that But I don't eat like a lot of carbs um Just try to eat healthy fats in like A lot of eggs protein salmon stuff like that Um, and I also get b12 shots. I don't know why some girl I don't know why people don't talk about this But I have not seen anybody get a b12 shot. Um in any bbl except for me Um, because I knew about b12 shots. I was getting b12 shots before And um, I don't know if you will watch my bbl video But um, aliyah explained one of the our nurses. She was seeing how the bbl b12 shot preserves the fat In your butt. So I got that right after surgery and I do get that shot once a week in my arm But yeah, so I just get a b12 shot once A week so you can preserve the fat Which pain medicine did you take and did it help? So I was not my mind did not want me to take a percocet Because she thought I was going to get addicted to it I don't know how people get addicted to percocets, but I guess the feeling but me personally I would just not But um, I ended up taking a percocet for the first two days Um, because the nurses they were like, no, she needs to take a percocet because her body's in shock She's gonna be in pain. So just let her take it. So I took two the first night and then one Um, the second day and then after that I really wasn't in pain. So I really didn't need to take any pain meds Like I said, I would literally prepare myself for this. Um, I only took a pain med like two days and I was it and then um I was just taking my antibiotics into The days were out. So But you can use Tylenol extra strength or um, they say to take a Tylenol before you go to your Massages, but I didn't I just ate something and Yeah, like I said, y'all I was holding down like a G like I was I was getting through it. Okay Like Because it's not really pain. It's just sore You know, so asked me about my arm label um For you to get um results in your arm. Like oh, you need to stay compressed like look how small my arm looks But um, you need to compress. Um, as you can see it's still Swollen right here. It's very very tight the arm like oh, you just want to stay compressed I know it's irritating at first Um, because it's so tight You will just don't want to sleep in it. You don't you just want to take it off You want your arms to breathe But I swear to you if you find a good masseuse and um are compressing really good Girl, you're gonna get the results that you want and you start to get used to I'm starting to get used to wearing my arm compression now, so It doesn't bother me anymore, but it really did bother me in the beginning. I was just oh my god This is annoying. How long did it take for you to move good without much pain? Um, the second the second day I got up and was moving the girls was like, oh my god You up and moving But the pain really it wasn't really pain but on the third day The week of surgery like after I got it like I was so weak Like I think my blood pressure went so low. I was literally getting my lips was literally purple I was just like I was just not In the mood to do anything. I was just real weak. I was just uh, I was just not Feeling it and yeah, but I really didn't have that much pain. It was just me Not having the energy like I was just not in the mood to do anything like I was just In it to win it. Um, would you do it do it again? Are any recommended or recommended? If you want to do it go for it. Um, it's not an easy process. Um It's so annoying, but I don't know if I would do I don't know right now I don't want to do this thing again. I don't know how people do this back to back But you never know I might get kids or something and you know, I might you know one of the life of like Mommy makeover me. Okay, but um, I don't know kids that But I'm just saying you never know.  Um, somebody else said um Did you have like a um A break now moment. Um, I really didn't I was just in shock that I was just like, oh my god.  I was so nervous. I was so Nervous y'all especially at pre-op pre-op I was so Nervous Um, how do you respond to negative comments about your bbl? Um, I feel like I don't really get negative comments. I mean people be like, oh, why did you do that? You already had a good body. Woo. Woo, but it's not about them. It's about me I just ignore whatever people have to say.   I don't care What anybody got to say about me if you want to go but I really don't care about what people say I really ignore the comments.  Okay What is your body reveal? I'm probably gonna do a body reveal. Um Probably next week. Um with no foams or anything. I'm gonna still have my phone But obviously I can't really do new shots on here on the internet But I'm gonna make sure that you see the shape and everything and all that But at the end of this, I'm gonna show y'all what my butt looks like in my hips and stuff like that with the foams and stuff on Is your confidence higher? I feel like I'm not gonna feel My confidence until I get dressed until I get my hair done until you know I get like a full face beat. I feel like I'm not gonna feel it until you know I'm feeling myself. You know what I'm saying? So It hasn't hit.  You know, I'm saying I'm gonna walk in a room a little different Were you nervous that you were actually getting it done? So, okay, so the day of the day before surgery was pre-op That was the day I was really nervous. Like I was so Like I'm like, oh my god, I can't do this.  Like what if I don't get up? I was like, what if I don't get up like what if I don't wake up because I was really nervous because you know, I had COVID And you know, if you did not know COVID is in your lungs, that's why people with asthma and stuff They can't get through it because it's Muke is built up in their lungs So I was a little nervous Because I had it and then I was just like, uh, it's my it's my body gonna be able to get me through the anesthesia It's gonna wake me up like I was just going through so many emotions and then All this stuff that was happening like the air bnb. Nothing was turning out right So I'm like, oh my god, am I supposed to be doing this right now a up surgery? I actually wasn't nervous at all, but I had to keep it together. I literally was crying I was crying the night before like I didn't even tell my mom I was just crying like and I had my glasses on and I was just like, oh my god Like I was just so emotional like I was just so emotional and then um, but the day I had surgery I was not I was just like I need to keep it together because I don't want her to be worried about me um Because she can't come in because you know, it's COVID so I just had to be strong And when I got to my surgery, um, I really didn't have no time to think about the surgery. I was just like, um I don't know how many ccs. He's he used.  I looked down.  He don't leave nothing behind my arm skinny girl And he put all that in my thighs and my booty. So but yeah So, um, I'm gonna answer a few more questions because there's so many and if you have any more just leave in the comments If I didn't answer any of the questions that you had Um, so I'm right now. I use vitamin e oil. Um, aren't vitamin e oil cocoa butter and then, um Vitamin e cocoa butter. I'm also gonna use the ambi cream once the scabs peel off I'm gonna use the ambi fade cream the fade the dark martens. Oh, have you been getting your massages? What's using the bathroom like after surgery? Okay, so for your massages I get I recommend you get six before you leave miami or wherever you're at. Um, if you're out of state Um, and then when I got back home, I wanted to do 10 because I say um Recommended 10 so I just booked 10 massages with my home girl. That's in chicago. I love her. She's so good y'all She's so good. Uh, she's been doing so the magic on me and when she See me like my results himself.  I have seen in a while I was like really and she was like yes, and then she was like you need to show them how you're compressing So make sure you watch my vlog where I show y'all how I compress because girl Um, that's how I was compressing in my stage one fire, but at the end of this video, I'm gonna show y'all How I compress in the stage two, but I did not show y'all how I stuff it, but it's really just The same the two on the side and then the one in the front and then the ab board and then my back board and then the five so But yeah, um, so I'm getting 10 Um, I get three a week one on Monday and then Thursday Friday because it is in Chicago and I do have to commute But after I get done with my 10 with her I'm gonna do like at least once a week like for a good another six weeks And then after that like after That I'll probably go like once a month And then I'll probably find somebody that does like specializing like body contouring and stuff like that So I don't look bloated and stuff like that Um, the post op care is so important y'all y'all gotta The post op care is what is gonna make your body Contour and shape and you're gonna see it or you're gonna see your way shrinking when y'all should waste shrinks Your hips go out and that's when you're really gonna see your shape So make sure you're really staying in your fire for 24 hours of the day Like I don't play no games over here. I'm not playing so because when I pop out, baby, I'm gonna pop out So and I'm not playing like I'm literally not playing so yeah, um in the post op massages for her, um In Chicago, I got like 10. So I paid her 700 and like I said, um getting a bbo It's an investment and then also post op care Our investments as well.  It's so expensive or whatever Find a way to pay for that shit because you get one body and one body only So make sure you take care of it and yeah answer are like what do you really need for a bbo and um I feel like for me personally all I really needed was my stage one fire, which I got from the facility Thumbs at board compression socks, um my arm compressions, um Arnica jail for the bruising. I still have a little bit of bruising, but not that much Just on my arms a little bit, but most of the bruising on my body is gone. Um, what else the arnica tea you do not need Um the urinal you definitely need a urinal going to the bathroom for the first two weeks No, the first week Um, I depending on my mind to put the urinal right there and I just peed because I couldn't been over But now I just open up my thigh because it has like a slit and I just Go over the toilet But it's so annoying because sometimes my pee be going It be going anywhere I wanted to go like and it be getting like little drops on like the thigh like on the zipper part where the opening is and it's annoying and girl But it's not that bad, but you're definitely going to need a urinal and then also what else do you need? um pee pads like those doggy pads because you're gonna be leaking um anti-bacterial soap, um well pdi beet juice, um I drink a girl. I'm so tired of pd light I do not want to see another pd light, but I try to drink at least one a day But I try to drink a lot of water because you want to get that fluid out of you naturally my camera zane But you want to get that fluid out of you if you like leave, um Out of state and you still got a little bit of fluid Um, you can pee it out naturally And so you just want to keep being hydrated and so you don't get fibrosis or nothing like that So I'm trying to figure out what else I got to say because my camera's about to die You don't need diapers. You don't need um Half of that list you don't even need like for real so but anyway, so I'm gonna wash this face mask off because it's about dry And um, I'm gonna show you what it looks like after and I'm gonna charge my camera So yeah, I'm just gonna remove this a mask and I'm gonna show y'all the The glow so yeah, like I say if you have any more questions is DM me on instagram. I'm real active I'm not shy. I respond to people and then also if you want to leave a comment in the comment section. I will definitely respond so A young girl. So let me just wash this a mask off because it's about time And I'm gonna come back in a second and show y'all Okay, so I just washed off the mask and look how glowy my skin is like I Am telling you this mask mask has literally saved my skin So all the mask details will be in the description box below and like I said, it really helped me Detoxify my skin and like I said the main ingredient that I really really love in here is the lemongrass because it's an anti-inflammatory So it's going to Really help clean out my pores. I did have the bumps and like what my skin was going through it helped Reduce like the redness of the the redness of the pimple. So it helped it go down and now it's gone and it's so smooth and yeah, so Make sure you check this mask out.  So Yeah, girl. So I'm going to show you all my body right now I look a mess in this pre-recorded film in this pre-recorded clip, but y'all are gonna see um What's behind there and what's you know in the front? So Yeah, so yeah, I'm just gonna roll that clip So this is what the front looks like imagine these Board I'm like three foams in here. I add board and then I'm binder. So yeah But yeah, it's it's there, baby. Like what? But yeah, so this is what I literally live in for 24 hours of the day. I don't but Anyways, y'all Thank you all so much for tuning in. Like I said, if you have any more questions, leave them down below But anyways, so thank you all so much for watching this video I hope you guys enjoy and do not forget to like comment subscribe And I can't wait to pop out So we coming through with the looks. Okay. We coming through with the vibes The bariariari No, I'm just kidding But um Yeah, and y'all I love y'all so much and I will see you on this video


Hello, welcome back on my YouTube channel. In this video I'm going to explain how to use PDAL-Wrench to process point clouds from the command line in an easy way. You might have observed in the previous videos on point cloud processing QGIS that every time when I executed the point cloud processing tool, it also shows the wrench command in the log. The arguments from the dialog are parsed to this command and then executed. The PDAL-Wrench repository on GitHub has a readme file with more information about PDAL-Wrench. It explains how to build it from source code and how to use the most common commands and their arguments. In this video we are going to try a few commands. In this example I'm going to create a digital surface model in raster format for the center of Delft derived from five point cloud last styles downloaded from geotiles.nl. The steps that I'm going to follow is to create a virtual point cloud layer from the last styles. Then I'm going to clip these last styles to the boundary polygon of the center of Delft that I've digitized, that's the red line. And next I'm going to interpolate the point cloud for that part of Delft using triangulation. To use the command line I can open a terminal in an easy way by right clicking on a folder in the browser panel and choosing open in terminal. Let's see which files are in this folder and there I see the last styles and the boundary polygon. Let's try to use PDAL-Wrench here. Unfortunately, it doesn't recognize the command. The command is not included in the path and that's probably because it might cause DLL conflicts. So we need to give the full path to the command in order to use it. For Windows installation the PDAL-Wrench.exe file is located in your osdo4w folder. You can use tap completion and under apps you join us. And when you execute PDAL-Wrench.exe from there you can see that it works, it gives you the available commands. To make it easier to use PDAL-Wrench and not write the full path I'm going to create a batch file that I can also reuse later. I create it by using copycon PDAL-Wrench.bat and then I write this whole path to PDAL-Wrench.exe and copy it with right click I can paste it here. I add a space and then percentage star which means it can take arguments that are given after PDAL-Wrench.bat. Then I press enter and control Z and then again enter and now the file is saved. Now let's use our first command to create a virtual point cloud from the tiles. So I use PDAL-Wrench which will use the batch file that I just created, the buildvpc command and it needs as a first argument the output file name. I'll call it delft.vpc and then I add the last tiles that need to be merged into that virtual point cloud. You can also provide a text file with the file names. After completing the command I press enter and it creates the virtual point cloud. The next step is to clip this vpc with our merge tiles to the boundary polygon and I'm going to use the PDAL-Wrench clip command with as an input delft.vpc that we've created in the previous step. Then the argument polygon equals boundary.shp for the shapefile but you can also use a geo package layer here and I define the output name and I'm creating again a virtual point cloud with the name delft-center.vpc. The advantage here of the virtual point clouds is that I'm not creating a lot of new huge layers on my hard disk but just virtual point cloud files which are much smaller and the final step is to interpolate this result to a raster using triangulation. So I'm going to use here the PDAL-Wrench to raster thin command as an output file name I give delft-dsm for digital surface model.tiff. As resolution in this demonstration I choose one meter and specify the amount of threads to be used on my computer and I choose here 16 threads and as an input I use delft-center.vpc Then I execute the command by pressing enter and this will take some time. Let's check the result in QGIS. I drag delft-dsm.tiff to the map canvas and there it shows up. With single bump pseudo color I can change the RAM. Now it would also be very nice to have the center of delft available as a point cloud just clipped to the center and back in the terminal I'm going to use the command PDAL-Wrench merge which makes not a virtual point cloud but a last file from the different tiles. So I merge the tiles together and I call the output delft.last and I add all the input tiles and I press enter to execute and that takes some time. The next step is to clip this last file to the boundary polygon and there I use again the PDAL-Wrench clip command but now I apply it to a last file. As an input I use delft.last from the previous step and then I define the polygon which is the boundary shape file and I define the output file name as delft-center.last. After pressing enter it will execute and this also will take some time. Then we can visualize the result of the clipped point cloud in the QGIS 3D view. In this video you've learned how to use PDAL-Wrench commands to process point clouds from the command line. The advantage of command line is that you can automate procedures. You can combine different commands in a batch file to execute them at once.