The advent of the Ethereum platform in 2015 has worked to provide a virtual computing infrastructure for running applications on the blockchain. This new form of program is called a distributed application, or DAP for short. Ethereum was the first developer platform for building distributed applications. It was a foundational, general-purpose blockchain-based platform that is a Turing-complete virtual machine, meaning that it can run any computer code. Although Ethereum was the first and still the largest platform for building distributed applications, there are now others such as Blockstack or EOS, all of which provide the underlining infrastructure for building DAPs. Our working definition of a DAP is an application that runs on a network in a distributed fashion with participant information securely protected and operations executed in a decentralized fashion across a network of nodes. DAPs use open-source code, operate autonomously with data and records cryptographically stored on a blockchain. On a technical level, a DAP is very much similar to a normal web application, except unlike with a normal web app where the back-end code is running on a centralized server, a DAP has its code running on a distributed peer-to-peer network. A DAP can have front-end code and user interfaces written in any language, just like a normal app. As such, DAPs will often look and feel very much like regular apps and people will soon be using them in the coming decade without even realizing it. Like all apps, DAPs perform specific functions, whereas Bitcoin is a decentralized value exchange. A decentralized application aims to achieve functionality beyond transactions that merely exchange value. Many types of decentralized apps are starting to emerge as the underlying technology continues to progress. Already, we can see many DAPs that present alternatives to the existing popular web applications. Probably the most successful DAP to date is Steemit. Steemit is a blogging and social networking website on top of the Steemit blockchain database. The general concept is very similar to other blogging websites or social news sites like Reddit, but the text content is saved in a blockchain. Using a blockchain enables rewarding comments and posts with secure tokens of value. In this way, users can earn currencies for their posts and comments. Likewise, for existing marketplace applications like eBay and Craigslist, we have the decentralized version, OpenBazaar. OpenBazaar is an open source project developing a protocol for e-commerce transactions in a fully decentralized marketplace. Because the application connects people directly via a peer-to-peer network, it costs nothing to download and use it. Unlike sites like eBay or Amazon, there are no fees to list items and no fees when an item is sold. OpenBazaar is not a company like eBay but an open source project. Each user contributes to the network equally and is in control of their own storage and private data. Another example is Storge, which is a decentralized cloud storage application similar to Dropbox. Storge is based on blockchain technology and peer-to-peer protocols to provide secure, private and efficient cloud storage system. The application incentivizes storage providers and connects them with those who require it. Each file saved on the application is shredded, encrypted and spread across the network until you're ready to use it again. The keys to the database remain with the owners, meaning the data is not accessible by a centralized cloud provider. There are many other examples of DApps, but the general concept can be applied to any area that requires secure records and benefits from decentralization. These applications are automated, which means they can operate at very low or even zero cost. Because of this, DApps may be used to disrupt the existing platform economy as whole platforms like Uber or Airbnb may eventually be converted into DApps that run automatically without the need for the centralized platform. The advantages of DApps is that they're fully automated, have superior fault tolerance and trustless execution. These decentralized apps potentially represent the next generation of computing.


You've heard one voice of Papa John's for a long time, it's time you heard from all of us. That is right, students have been extremely vocal on this issue. They are saying that racial insensitivity has absolutely no place here. I believe it was the right decision.


We are giving away a Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom Switch OLED, a Tears of the Kingdom Collector's Edition, and a pin from PAX East. To enter that giveaway, all you have to do is get onto the pin comment and the description and click the link. We wish all of you luck. Winners will be chosen on May 12th. We're also on our road to 133,000 subscribers. So I would appreciate if you'd hit the subscribe button, drop a like, leave a comment down below, and maybe even hit that bell icon so you're notified of all videos. Today we get to talk about Kotaku again. And look, I don't like talking about these media outlets. I really don't.  Well, we had a story we published last week where a senior writer, Ethan Gash, at Kotaku put up a tweet that simply stated, it's preview day for Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom, a huge game I would love for Kotaku to be able to inform its millions of readers about firsthand. Unfortunately, Nintendo still has it blacklisted, it being Kotaku, from advanced coverage. A move, I would argue, is both unprofessional and coercive. And while Nintendo's done a lot of crappy things, in my last video, I went over in great detail the context for why Kotaku was blacklisted in the first place. And it really had to do with a Metroid Dread article they published the day after the game came out. And we're not here to debate the merits of that. There was a lot of debate in the comments over, oh, well, it's morally correct to pirate Nintendo games. And it's, you know, the brux of the articles doesn't technically say pirating, it just says emulating. It's just a professional courtesy. Nevermind the fact, here's the paragraph at the very end of the article, which very, very clearly stated, this is before they edited the article, to pirate old Nintendo games, which is technically an illegal act. I'm not saying that you shouldn't do it, I'm just saying that technically, it is them promoting something Nintendo hates, something that's also against the law that Nintendo has won lawsuits over, and then expecting Nintendo to play ball. I think sometimes outlets like Kotaku forget that getting review copies of games is a privilege, not a right. You don't get it just because you exist, you get it because you deserve to have it. And frankly, if you're gonna promote things Nintendo doesn't like, they're free to just decide not to give you the game. And you could argue just saying, talking about emulating Metroid Dread the day after it came out, give it a week, professional courtesy. Give it a week, give it two weeks. Let there be some distance from when the reviews just dropped, right? When the game just came up, but whatever, they did what they did, and that's why they got blacklisted. And for the most part, we can agree that the unprofessionalness here really wouldn't reside with Nintendo, although Nintendo has been unprofessional in the past, it really resided with Kotaku expecting to be able to do advanced coverage of a game after that. And they're not really being coercive at all here, they're just not gonna support an illegal activity. Now, that being said, the plot thickened and it thickened hard core yesterday. I don't, this comes from multiple facets. First thing, Ethan Dash, this exact same person we just talked about decided to post an editorial that was approved by upper management at Kotaku over on their website. This article says everything we're learning about Zelda Tears of the Kingdom from the leaks. Early playthroughs of the Nintendo Switch game have revealed a ton of new details. Now, I'm not gonna show you any more of the article because the article, I can't even show you the beginning text. Everything, it just goes and goes. It just goes ahead to the spoils. So much stuff about this game. Now, not story-wise, but gameplay-wise and like content that's in the game. Just over and over and over again, this article is going over a whole bunch of spoilers. Now, I want to explain something. This is them doubling down on the fact Nintendo won't give us review copies of games so screw you, we're gonna do this. Here's the thing. This article is exactly why Nintendo didn't give you review copies of games. You're gonna tell me this article wouldn't have existed anyways? Of course it wouldn't have existed anyways. Why? Because technically they are within their legal right to talk about the leaks. It is not illegal to talk about the leaks. You can report on them. There is a freedom of press stuff that'll, you know, laws in place that allow them to report on the leaks so long as they're not sharing where to get the leaks from, so long as they're not sharing, you know, direct links to the ROM and everything, Kotaku's fine and they definitely don't share links to the ROM. So they skirt the legal issues. But the thing is, this article is just another feather in the cap of yeah, Nintendo's never given you games again, ever. There's again, a lack of professionalism here. There's a reason. You're not seeing this article pop up at IGN. You're not seeing this article pop up at GameStop. You're not seeing this article pop up at Video Game Chronicle. Not even Polygon. None of these websites are daring to say let's gather all of these leaks that are coming from illegal copies of the game. People playing the game illegally. By the way, I'm not judging you if you're doing it. I'm just saying that's the truth. And then reporting on those illegal acts. I do think that there is something to be said that no other professional video game journalist outlet is doing this, just Kotaku. There's a reason Kotaku is the most blacklisted place in the industry. There's a reason that IGN Japan can make some mistakes with their demo coverage, but still get review copies of games. Why? Because they respect the companies that are giving them the privilege of getting the game early. Now these companies are not coercing them into giving positive reviews. It would be different if you were blacklisted for giving negative reviews of their games. That's coercive. This is not. You continually act unprofessional and then you call Nintendo unprofessional. It makes no sense. But it gets worse. Because here's the thing. I think when we're talking about Kotaku, we're talking about anything involving game journalism. I wanna note that I don't think all game journalists are bad people. Look, there's a lot of journalists out there I respect. I respect Brian Altano. I respect Peter Schneider from IGN. I respect Jeff Grubb. I respect one of the best investigators, maybe the only true investigative journalists out there, Jason Schreyer. And he used to work at Kotaku too. So it's not even about where you work. It just so happens that this seems to happen more and more at Kotaku, especially after Stefan Tattillo left, who's another person I respect. So this is what a surprise that the leader that I actually liked at Kotaku, left Kotaku, and it just seems to be getting worse. I don't know if they're just desperate for clicks, but Luke Plunkett. I don't know if you guys remember who Luke Plunkett is. He is a senior writer, author, and game designer for Kotaku, so he claims. I don't know about Kotaku designing games, but whatever. Maybe he's got a game design background, so that's one reason why they hired him. He posted a tweet and a couple of follow-ups saying very normal behavior. And in this tweet, it shows the article at Kotaku. Then it shows a Twitter response to this, so let me get this straight. You complain about Nintendo blacklisting you, then post spoilers based on leaks, who is being unprofessional here. I hope you go bankrupt by the end of the year with the way things are going, probably will. I will say that, yeah, that's a little too final. Wish people to lose their jobs.  So I want to know that he's making fun of this person. So then Luke Plunkett responds to his own little tweet there. It says, I'm years past caring what these people say. I mean, people with common sense. I'm simply aghast at the fanatical fervor, which is thrown in 2023. It's not fanatical fervor. You can't call Nintendo unprofessional for blacklisting your website, and then in return be extremely unprofessional to deserve the blacklisting in the first place, and then reaffirm how much you deserve the blacklisting. You're just being unprofessional. No other outlet is reporting this stuff. No other outlet was talking about emulating Metroid Dread the day after release, only Kotaku. If you're the only people doing it, and everyone else has access, maybe ask yourself, are we behaving in a professional manner? Is this tweet behaving in a professional manner? And then, I don't even want to show the image, but here it is briefly from Life Magazine. He put up there for the record. This is how I feel about publisher blacklist, and then he pretty much compares it to, you know, World War II times and some, I can't even believe he made the comparison. I don't even want to say it out loud. If you saw the image briefly on screen, you know what I'm talking about. I can't even, what kind of leap in logic, he basically just said, this is how he feels about publisher blacklist. He didn't specify Nintendo, but this is about Nintendo who has them blacklisted. He just compared Nintendo to that. What are we doing? How are people like this not fired? If I ran Kotaku, and I don't know Luke Plunkett, maybe he's a great guy, and maybe he's just got years and years of being beat down by fans. He just compared Nintendo to a situation that killed tens of millions of people because they're blacklisted for your own behavior. I don't even, what do you say to that? What do you even say? So like this is clearly something that is more representative of Kotaku on the whole because not only is Ethan Gash there, you have Luke Plunkett back in a while. Both of these are some of the best writers their website has. I think what happens here is Kotaku is as always, it depends sort of a laughing stock in the industry for a while, but what's happened is Kotaku is proving why people turn to YouTubers. And look, us YouTubers aren't necessarily the greatest things in SlySprite either, but this is bad. This is just, there are no words to describe what I just witnessed from Kotaku's writers. Whatever guys, I guess thank you Ethan Gash and Luke Plunkett and the rest of Kotaku who ever approved of the article going live, both back in the day of Metroid Dread and with this one. I guess thank you for the free content because you guys, wow. Just, I've been to journalism school. This is unprofessional to the nth degree. So anyways guys, thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video.


Well, after lengthy discussion on Monday night, this Bemidji City Council meeting, the Sanford Center's management company, VenuWorks, was awarded a new five-year contract. Josh Peterson breaks down the new terms of the contract. It's been an eight-year roller coaster ride for Bemidji Sanford Events Center with its share of highs and lows. After 90 minutes of discussion Monday night, the Bemidji City Council awarded the Events Center's management company, VenuWorks, a new five-year contract which city officials say was in the best interest of the facility. Keeping VenuWorks will provide that stability at the facility. We've had some senior management turnover in the past and we really want to ice that from happening again. One of the new contract's biggest selling points was VenuWorks' promise to invest $130,000 into the Events Center, beginning with a show risk fund. $50,000, what we're calling an event risk fund, so that will allow VenuWorks with us to book events that have a little higher risk than normal. One area being focused on is incentivizing and increasing lagging concession sales through the use of new technology. One of the commitments VenuWorks has made to the Sanford Center is an investment in a brand new POS system that's expected to help manage concession sales. It is going to be more user friendly on the employee side. We have a lot of non-profit groups that help us out and so it'll be much easier for them. It'll be much easier for the customer and so we're really excited about how that's going to work. Despite the investments made by the management company, there is still some opposition to the new five-year contract with VenuWorks. Councilmember Ron Johnson was the lone no-vote against the new contract. I find it real strange that we're actually wanting to enter into a five-year contract with a raise to a company that before we even get the results from a fraud audit on that very company. With the new contract set to begin next year, the hope is the facility will stabilize and grow success. In Bemidji, Josh Peterson, Lakeland News. The event center's new contract is scheduled to begin in January of 2019. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Welcome to Story and Arts for Children here at ACMI TV and today we have a wonderful story for you. My name is Peggy and this is my friend Little Bear. Yeah, what are you going to do today? We're going to have another story. What's it going to be about? It's going to be about this book that I wrote. It's called Becoming Friends with the Olschwab Mill. What is the Olschwab Mill? I don't get it. Well, it's this wonderful place in Arlington. Can we go there? Well, let's read the story first and then I'll tell you afterwards. I bet we could go there. But will you be a good listener? Yes, I want to hear all about the story. Okay, you sit here and I'm going to open my book and start the story. Okay? And I wrote this book two winters ago when it was very cold. Do you remember? Yes, I do. Well, I went into the mill and I got to go there and take photographs inside the mill. And then I made pictures on top of it about the people in the story. Oh, cool. All right, let's start the story. Years ago, two boys, Cody Ryan and his dog named Dublin and his older brother Jake, spent time at the Olschwab Mill after school. Jake was hired to sweep the floors and do odd jobs there. Oh, he's got his broom. Yep, he's got his broom. Cody had to tag along with his brother and amuse himself by reading books on the old wooden floors of the mill until Jake finished his work. Cody wished every day that he had friends to play with. But his only friend was Dublin, who often curled up and went to sleep near him. That was his dog right there. One day, when Cody decided he was tired of reading his books and wanted to explore the mill, he and Jake made a bargain. They shook hands on it at the bottom of the stairs. They agreed that Cody could roam about and explore the tables, the machinery, and all the interesting nooks and crannies in the mill, but he was not allowed to go upstairs. To the second floor, where adults were busy working. Since Cody had permission to snoop around the first floor of the mill, the next day, he decided he would like to begin drawing things that interested him. He jumped up on one of the big old tables, laid up on his back, and began to draw big circles. Suddenly, the wheels started turning in his imagination. Wow! Cody thought, have a great idea. I'm going to fill up my art book with drawings of these tables, the wheels, the old tools, and pictures that are coming out of my imagination. Yes, feels great. I'm not going to read my books right now. I'm going to draw. So feeling very excited about his brilliant idea, Cody began wondering about the first floor of the mill. In the next room, he noticed a man's hat hanging from the shelves filled with pieces of wood. He looked up and wondered, who had owned this hat and why was it left, hanging on a peg all by itself? Since he didn't have any answers, he imagined it be going to, excuse me, it belonged to a friendly man and his dog that had a job welcoming people to the mills years ago. Yes, that must be the answer. He recorded his question and drew his second picture in his art book. While Cody was in the room with the shelves of wood in the hat, he couldn't help stop noticing where there were large wooden frames hanging from the ceiling. Why didn't they have pictures in them? This seems strange to him. So he drew the oval frames in his art book, then filled them with a king. Someone's grandmother, a grandfather, and a picture of their wedding taken long ago. These were Cody's drawings. He was a very good artist. When Cody spied two tables in the corner of the mill with large metal wheels attached to them, his imagination took off like a rocket. There he was, standing at his command post with Dublin, ready for takeoff into outer space. Cody turned that table into a spaceship and he put it right into his drawing book. What an awesome idea. Now, just before it was time to go home with Jake, Cody wandered into a room that looked like a small office with a desk, a chair, and a safe. He could imagine being the boss of the mill who liked sitting at his desk, reading his morning paper, and drinking his coffee. As Cody sat there, he asked himself a question. Hmm, I wonder what really went on in this mill years ago. He didn't have any answers. The next afternoon, after Cody had visited the mill's office, he discovered a sea of creaky old stairs leading down into the basement. This set of stairs took him into the lower part way deep down in. Jake had not told him. He couldn't go down there. So when he opened the door to the basement stairs and turned on the lights, he was surprised to see a collection of dusty old machines gathered around each other. Instantly, he imagined he could hear their music worrying and buzzing as if they were playing together in an orchestra. Cody imagined himself to be the conductor as he waved his hands wildly in the air. Across from where the imaginary machine music was playing, Cody's eyes widened and he saw a large metal drum that was suspended from the ceiling. He peered down into what looked like a well while there was sparkling water all lit up by a light. He stood watching in amazement and imagined the fun that little mice might have had running about, peering into an eerie well in the basement years ago. Look at those jeweled little mice looking down. What did they think? Luckily, there was time for Cody to recall all his questions and drawings in his art book before it was time to head home for supper with Jake. Today, his curious mind wanted to add some facts about the mill to put into his art book. And facts are their thoughts about what really happened so far it's all been in his imagination. So as he walked along Mill Street heading home that day, Cody could see that Jake was tired. So he just asked him three questions. Jake, how old is the mill? And who owned it? What did men make in the mill? Years before you and I were born. Jake answered by saying, Cody, first, I learned that brothers named Charles and Frederick Schwab once owned the mill over 150 years ago. They made fancy oval frames on a wood. And you know what? I'm going to tell you more tomorrow because I'm really tired. Oh, that's fine. Answer Cody, but I still have some more questions for you. Before Jake started his work in the mill the next day, he knelt on the floor and he listened to more of Cody's questions about how milling machines were used to make the frames. Cody listened carefully as Jake began telling him how workers at the mill first made patterns for their oval frames. They traced them onto pieces of wood and then used machines to cut out the wood into four curved pieces. The ends of these pieces were cut into finger grooves that firmly fit together after they were glued at the gluing table. Then they used the tables with the metal wheels on them to tighten up the metal bands that were wrapped around the frames while the glue was drying. Finally, to give the frames a finished look, the workmen used large wooden blades that spun the frames around while tools were used to cut grooves into the wood. Cody listened carefully to Jake's frame making story. He thanked him and then suddenly he had a brilliant new idea. It was a memory game for Kib filled with photographs of the tables, the machines and the tools. He was so excited learning about them and now things began to make sense to him. All he needed was his camera. Each of the pictures would be cut out and pasted on paper showing two floors and the ground outside of the mill drawn like a map. So the following day, Cody was filled with excitement as he unpacked his camera. He began taking photographs of all the things in the mill. He needed for his game. Days later, Cody laid out all of his developed photos and started creating his old Schwab Mill memory game. Only one important part of the game was missing. Cody had not been allowed to go upstairs to the second floor. How? How is he ever going to finish his game? He thought he was stuck. Well, he wasn't. Because, luckily enough, just as Cody was working on his game, he saw a young girl named Suri from his class at school. She was climbing up the back stairs of the mill with her mother Meg. They were carrying Meg's artwork and a map of the mill that was soon going to be exhibited. Cody was excited to show them his art book and photos for his memory game. They were both very impressed by Cody's work and invited him to go upstairs with them. Suri could show him around. That would be okay, right? The invitation sounded just fine. So up they went to the second floor. From out behind a wonderful old wooden door upstairs, Cody spied all kinds of things that he could photograph. It felt nice to be with Suri, a friend finally, finally to be with who knew all about the mill. When they came to a set of large, round wooden legs displayed on the floor, they stopped and stood in front of them and stretched out their arms. They imagined that they were flying together on saucers in outer space. The fun had just begun when they passed a large picture of a lady named Patricia C. Fitzmorris. She was standing on the floor. Suri told Cody this lady and her friends saved the mill from closing up years ago. Oh, it almost wasn't there. Then the two friends came to a model of the mill and it's other buildings that had been made to remember how it looked years ago. They crouched down and peaked at the buildings from all angles. It was so interesting. They had so much fun talking about the old days, but they forgot to keep their eyes on Dublin. Oh, no, he was missing. This was trouble, maybe. But Suri and Cody started calling him, hey, Dublin, come here. Dublin. But then there he was peeking out from behind a special photograph of a man named David Graff who still makes frames at the mill. And then in a minute, Cody could hear a familiar whistle. It was Jake calling him from the first floor staircase. Oh, no, he might be in big trouble. So he tiptoed down the back stairs and escaped having to tell Jake where he was. He felt kind of bad, but he'd accomplished his mission. That night, as Cody was reading in bed, he had a terrible thought. Where? Oh, no, where'd he left his art book? He remembered he'd left it upstairs on the second floor of the mill. How could he ever get it back? He learned from Jake that the mill would be closed for two weeks. Cody went to bed that night feeling very sad and, you know, guilty. Several days when Cody was eating breakfast, there was an envelope that was left on the table next to his cereal bowl. He opened it up and found it was an invitation to Meg's art show and a young mystery artist. Who could that be? Well, on the night of the art show at the Old Schwab Mill, Cody was very excited to return to search for his art book. But when he passed musicians playing music on the first floor next to Meg's new map of the Old Schwab Mill, he had a clue who the young artist might be. Feeling very excited when Cody and his family entered the second floor gallery room, they couldn't believe what they saw standing before them. It was a display of Cody's drawings of the mill and photos for his memory game. They looked awesome and how did Cody's artwork ever move from his art book out into a larger than life pictures that everyone could see and admire? It was a mystery to be solved at a later time. Then, all at once, Suri Meg and a group of Cody's friends from school jumped out from one of the gallery rooms where they were hiding and began yelling, Yay, Cody, awesome Cody. And while holding up their hands, all the children promised to visit the new family room upstairs in the mill where they could have fun creating projects with Cody and play his new memory game. That night, Cody felt he had made more best friends at the Old Schwab Mill than he ever imagined. The end. So little bear, what do you think? Oh, that was awesome. I got every bit of it. I really did. He was a cool kid.  But look, I want to know where how we can get to the mill. Well, let's tell the people. Right after this story, there's going to be a little trip that we're going to take to the mill and you're going to be able to go inside it. Hi, here we are at the Old Schwab Mill. We're really here. This is the place where the whole story of becoming best friends of the Old Schwab Mill took place. And we're going to go inside and you're going to see all the places where they make frames and you're going to learn a little bit about the history. And it's a wonderful place for kids and adults. So come on with a little bear. Ready a little bear? Yeah, come on, come on. All right, come on. Let's go inside. Okay, so this area is the entry to the mill, the welcoming center. And it's really nice for people to come and get an idea of the history of the mill and what happens here and all kinds of literature and pictures of how the frame are made here. And this is the place where this was the area but they've done it over where little Cody was lying down when he first came to the mill with his brother. Do you remember in that story? And what happened was he was bored silly and he didn't like hanging out here very much. So he decided to go look into the other part of the mill to see what was going on. So come on, let's go look. Little bear. This is the area of the mill that wasn't in the book but it's a really fun place. Can you see and turn around? Oh yeah, cool. Nice stuff for kids. Yeah, it's a place where kids can come and make things. Oh, can we come back and make something here? Well, maybe if they'll let us but do you remember in the story, the hat on the wall? Where? Right over there. Oh yeah, I see it. Well, it's right here in the book and you know what Cody did? He made a picture of himself in that hat and he imagined that it was a hat that was left by somebody who worked in the mill years ago. Oh, that's really cool. I like it. What's all this stuff? Well, this is wood, pieces of wood that have been put in these little shelves. So maybe if they need to make a frame, they pull out the right pieces. Wow. And then what's this over here? Well, this is an old piece of metal and they have wonderful things all around the mill to show what it was like in the old days and what it's like now. Do you like this? Yeah, I do. It's cool. Really cool. Okay, let's go to another place, all right? Okay, we're going to go right around the corner. There are all kinds of good machines and things. You like machines. Right, right. Okay, let's go. So little bear, guess what I found? What? Well, this was a table where Cody was starting to work. He was working at this table and he was doing all kinds of things. Remember, he was going to take photos of all these wonderful things up on the ceiling and he was going to turn them into magic objects. Do you remember that? Yeah, I do. I really do. It's really cool. There's so much to look at. I remember he did this. What did he do? He lay down and he started looking at all the things. Yep, he did and his head went round and round and it was fun, right? Oh, I love this place. There's so much to look at. I think I might go to sleep though. Okay, you go to sleep. Little bear, here we are in the office. We got to sneak in. Oh, what's in the office? Well, it's a place where they do a lot of fancy work and they have to keep the papers on the frames they made and if they got money, guess what would they would do? What if they put it in this safe, this big old safe here? And the man who was the owner or the director, he would sit right at this desk and look at, here's Cody sitting at the desk. Well, why is he there? Well, I put him there for the story. But look at all these wonderful things that people can come and look at an old picture of the mill and a fancy old chair where somebody sat maybe if they wanted to order a frame and then their frames on the wall. Oh, this is nice. I don't really get all of it, but kind of. Yep, kind of you do. But this was definitely a very special place that they have kept in the mill for people to see. Isn't that cool? A little scale old fashioned one. And here's a little model of the mill. Oh, I like that. Yeah, want to go upstairs? Yes, let's go upstairs. Let's see what's up there. Okay, let's go. Okay, we're going upstairs, little bear. Come on, everybody. They're all kinds of good things upstairs to look at.  We're up here at the table that Suri and Cody snuck up to. Remember he wasn't supposed to come up here? Yeah, I do. We're here? Yep, right there. You see the table and they're looking at all the things on it? Well, you can look at all the things that they saw. Look over here, these nice buildings. Somebody made this model years ago.  And they're bringing the wood into the mill to make the frames. And there's a pond out there. And I think that's the water that maybe spun the wheel to make the machines work. What about over here? Well, there's a little man and he's coming in with a wagon and horses. Oh, I like that. And here's some more water. All kinds of things. This is a beautiful, beautiful model. And you know what? It went all the way back to 1700. Do you know what that means? No way. No, you don't know. That's okay. The people who come here love history. And here's some more history over here on the wall. And there are things that people wrote. And there are little pamphlets and information about the mill and pictures about what it was like when they made the frames in the old days. Oh, this is great. But this is more for adults. Yeah, this is for the moms and the dads who come. But you like the place downstairs for the kids. Right, right. Let's go look at something else. Okay, let's go this way. And there's even more to see.  Guess what? We're upstairs and there's all kinds of good stuff up here. Like what? Well, see this guy at the table? Yeah, what's he doing? He's over here because he wanted to make friends with you. Oh, I like him already. Well, you know what? He doesn't talk. But his name is Humperdink the Moose. Oh, he's funny. Can you talk? Nope, he doesn't talk. Can you move? Let's see.  He just wants to sit here with you because there were no animals on this journey. And I thought it would be fun to invite him to come. Oh, me too. Well, do you remember in the story? Yeah. When Cody had his art exhibit, it was up here and he had his beautiful pictures all over the walls. And now they aren't here, but they're these beautiful pictures of art. Beautiful pieces. Oh, nice. Who did them? You want to know? Well, I don't know them. I know, but they're beautiful. And this is the kind of thing that you will see when you come to the mill. Parents will and kids will. In fact, what? Next week, there's going to be, no, in two weeks. On May 6th, there's going to be a storytelling event here. And you and I are going to be here. It's all going to be about fairies. Oh, you have to tell me more. I will, I will. But right now, look at the beautiful pictures. Oh, I like them. I want to come back here again. There's lots of stuff. Yup, all year long. There's music outside and inside and concert. And I think a little dancing and fun. And oh, that's great. I love this mill. Yeah, I do too. And I hope all of you will come to the mill and become best friends of the old Schwab Mill. Want to? Okay, let's put you back here with your little guy. And you just sit right there. Okay? All right. You wait. Bye, guys. Bye, everybody. Come back to the mill. It's a wonderful place.


Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back to another video. Do you know what self-love is? It's more than changing your hair, getting a new wardrobe, or attempting to redefine yourself. Self-love is gaining an appreciation for yourself. Through the physical, emotional, and spiritual support you provide yourself with. It's not a fixed state, but can grow over time through actions that lead to maturity. Establishing self-love can be a long journey, but it's a vital step to improving your mental health and overall happiness. So, here are a few tips that may help you along the way. 1.  Sometimes, when you're struggling for perfection, you end up overlooking the fact that you're only human.  Instead, learning to forgive yourself for the mistakes you make and treating them as opportunities to grow is a step towards practicing self-love. 2. Be mindful Are the goals you set for yourself really what you want, or are they pushed onto you by society?  It arms you with self-knowledge that you can use to move forward. Some ways to practice mindfulness include keeping a journal, meditating, or just taking some time to self-reflect. 3. Act on what you need Do you know what gives you energy? What makes you happy? Perhaps you're feeling overwhelmed with needing to spend so much time with your friends or colleagues, but feel bad for wanting to step away. Choosing to go anyways may end up draining your energy and leaving you exhausted. That's why it's so important to identify the things that make you feel better versus the things that make you feel worse. Knowing what you need and acting on those needs is a form of self-love, and it can go a long way for your mental and emotional well-being. Which brings us to number 4. Set boundaries Are there certain behaviors that you're not willing to put up with? The purpose of setting boundaries is not to kick people out of your life, but rather to help you identify what is acceptable or welcomed in your life and what's not. Healthy boundaries help you filter out things that drain your energy, harm you emotionally, physically, or spiritually. A way to set boundaries is by starting with Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Figure out what you need to feel loved or accepted, and then work from there. Number 5. Protect yourself What type of people do you surround yourself with? Another way to practice self-love is to protect yourself. This may mean bringing people into your life who will be supportive and who contribute to your emotional, mental, and spiritual health instead of tearing it apart. Getting rid of fake friends or anyone who takes pleasure in your misery is important for your self-esteem and self-confidence. Number 6. Live intentionally What makes your eyes light up? What inspires you? Sometimes it's easy to just follow a routine in your day-to-day life to the point where you stop giving it much thought. But it's important to live life with intention and to make choices that help you move towards your goals. For example, if you intend to live a peaceful and healthy life, you need to make choices that support that goal. That may include learning how to meditate or starting to change your diet for the better. Number 7. Show up for yourself Do you scold yourself when you don't finish everything you set out to do? There will be times where you don't accomplish everything you plan to do. But acknowledging the effort you've given and the amount you have done is important. It's easy to focus on only your faults, but showing yourself kindness and compassion, even in how you talk to yourself can help overwrite some of the negative mental patterns you may have and help you feel loved and supported. Number 8. Practice self-care Do you tend to ignore your needs sometimes? Taking care of your basic needs is an act of love. Even taking a few minutes out of your day to check in and provide yourself with what you need can help you feel a lot better. Whether it's soaking in a hot bath, eating something healthy or even working out, practicing self-care can go a long way for your mental health and your happiness. Have you practiced any of these types of self-love? Let us know in the comments below. If you found this video helpful, be sure to like, subscribe and share this video with those who may benefit from it. And don't forget to hit the notification bell icon to get notified whenever Psych2Go posts a new video. The references and studies used in this video are added in the description below. Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next one.


Saddle tilt, what is the best approach for cyclists? How do you best protect your region down there for both men and for women, and what are some of the different types of saddles available to provide the most comfortable riding platform? All that coming up. So welcome back to the 26th edition of the RCA Training Tips Show where today, I'm joined again by the bike fitting expert, Neil Stambry, who's been fitting road cyclists for around 10 years in conjunction with being a sports physiotherapist. Now I've been meaning to do this for a while, and a channel supporter reminded me last week, and that is creating a playlist or series of all the Neil Stambry bike fitting videos, which you'll now find on my channel page, and I'll also provide a thumbnail at the end of this video, which you just need to click on, that'll take you directly to the playlist. Now please, if you're getting value out of these Neil Stambry bike fitting videos, don't forget to like them, and also subscribe and hit the bell to ensure you get notified of when videos like this go live in the future. Now saddle tilt, interestingly, according to UCI regulations, which changed in 2015, you can tilt your saddle up to nine degrees now, which many pro cyclists rejoiced about after the original legal tilt was only 2.5 degrees.  Why is that? Well, in today's video, Neil Stambry is gonna walk us through what you should do and how to find the best position for ultimate comfort and pressure release. Now very quickly, before Neil gets into it, you may have heard me in previous videos, discuss an opportunity to join the Beta Release Program for the up level road cycling course, which will be released at the end of October. Well, if you're keen to learn more about this Beta Program, I'm gonna be sending out an important email to my email newsletter list next week. So make sure you join that list, I'll provide a link below alternatively. You can download my free e-book for road cyclists looking to take their performance to the next level and you will be automatically added to my weekly email newsletter list. So let's get into it. Saddle tilt, highly individualized, very difficult to explain in a short YouTube video again, but I'll attempt to sort of outline a way that you can try and figure it out yourself a little bit and give you a bit of a rough idea of different types of saddles, roughly what angle you should start with. So in terms of saddle tilt and how it will affect your position on the bike, the logical, let's assume that the seat height and the setback and the reach and the drop are all pretty good. The further nose down you tilt the saddle, the more it will incline the person to be able to roll their pelvis forward or anteriorly rotate their pelvis. That can, that's quite logical. You know, tip it forward, they roll their pelvis forward, but at the same time, there's a tendency therefore especially at light load when they're pedaling at 100 watts or 150 watts or something, there's a tendency therefore to slip forward on this seat. There's also a tendency as the pelvis tips forward to load the upper body and have to push yourself back using your upper body and your triceps. Yeah, of course, a numb hand, I would have thought. Yeah, exactly right. So as the seat gets too nose down, you'll tend to load your hands and all that kind of stuff as well and experience excessive quad fatigue because your hamstrings might not be working well because the pelvis is rolled forward at a weird angle and that type of thing.  So as the seat gets too nose up, there'll be a tendency to roll the pelvis back away from that pressure, but assuming that the front end stays in roughly the right spot, eventually it'll start to cause pressure there whether you're a man or woman, it doesn't matter. When the seat gets too nose up, it'll cause trouble. Now at what angle does that occur? This is where it gets tricky. The angle where it occurs is highly individualized between each person.  There's a lot of other things which come into determining what seat angle you should ride with and then there's all the differences between different saddle. So for example, this is a specialized tupe, or tupei, I'm never really sure. Yes, tupe, but just on that, the benefits of tilting it down would be aerodynamic gains, right? Yes. Why would you tilt it up? You would, you almost never, almost never. The one major exception to that is brooks seats.  And almost everyone using a brooks seat is riding order axle, ultra endurance, or touring. And so they're sitting very upright anyway. So they sag back into the leather slings that support the seat bones. So there's no power benefits or physiological gains from tilting the saddle back like there is when you tilt it forward. Not at all. Aerodynamic gains. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, if we're talking about road bikes, generally not in my experience, there might be the odd exception to that rule, but generally not, no. So for a flat style seat, and the tube here is relatively flat. A lot of seats, like if we chose, if we looked at the manufacturer's saddles that they're producing, all the big manufacturers, there's a lot of seats that are shaped roughly like this, okay, where they've got a bit of a channel or a cutout and wings which spread out and drop away slowly at the edge here. And looking at them from the side, they're flat for the first half and then they have some type of slight rise at the rear. There's a lot of seats like this, like this heap, so many that we can't even mention it. So this is probably the largest category of saddles that you'll come across. Almost invariably, for anyone who's vaguely functional, who rides with a normal amount of drop to the bars and whatnot, the best angle to have these things on is where the front half of the seat is level or very, very close to level. So this is precluded by the fact that your bike has to be level when you measure it. Yes. So you must put the bike on a perfectly flat surface with a spirit level between the axles and make sure that the axles are level. Because if they're tilted down, if the axle, if it's one degree down at the front because your living room floor is on a slight angle, the saddle angle will be one degree down, yeah? So you've got to make sure the bike is level first. But a good place to start is to have one of these things, and this is a dodgy old Audi spirit level here. That's why you lent it to me for a number of weeks. That's why I lent it to you. Don't need this one. Don't even know how accurate it is. But if you put this thing level, and I can't see the little bubble there, but if you had that thing level, and you leveled the front half of the seat. Hands in the way of the bubble. Sorry. No, that's a hot thing. If you leveled the front half of the seat, you'd be pretty close to being in the ballpark. The saddle is patently then not level, okay? It's slightly nose down, and that depends upon how far the rear of the saddle rises up. And a lot of these, all these soil seats have got some type of rise at the rear. But if you get the front half of it level, you'll be in the ballpark. And then what you want to do is tilt it very slightly. It nose up or nose down from there to gain the optimum kind of comfort. If it gets too nose down, you'll find yourself starting to slip forward off it. If it gets, and loading your hands like we spoke about before, if it gets too nose up, you'll start to feel unpleasantness across the front of the seat. If you then throw your hands down in the drops and it's really killing you, and you think, well, I'm just not gonna ride in the drops, that's probably too nose up or it's just not the right saddle design for you. You need something which allows more ability to roll your pelvis forward and get down to the drops. So the drops test, I've just made that up then. It's not exactly high tech. But the drops test is a good one as well. If you're riding along at a solid load on the hoods and the seat feels fine across the front, but you go into the drops and it feels unpleasantly discomforting so that you can only really spend 30 seconds or a minute there, it's probably not the right saddle angle, it's probably too nose up. Or you need a different designed seat which allows more forward pelvic rotation to occur. And as you go into the drops, that anterior rotation of the pelvis will want to.  Yeah, so if you're having trouble with a flat style seat and you're getting frontal pressure. Which I was after the crank length change.  Yeah, traditionally I've used Sela SMPs for a long time. These are a great designed seat. They've got a lot of curvature depending upon the model that you use. There's a dynamic and a light 209 there which are some of the more curved ones. And these things are basically shaped much more like a human pelvis. And these will allow you to roll your pelvis forward more than one of those most of the time. Some people find them worse but they're the outliers, right? So these things operate on a totally different angle. Normally what you'll want to do with one of these things is level the bike and then have about a 14, see how it rises up at the front there and the front of the seat comes close to the spirit level again. You'll want to have about a 12 to 14 millimeter gap between the spirit level and the seat at the front. Think of it as one finger's width depending on how fat your finger is. So that's about the right angle and then you can tweak it from there in small increments. But it's extremely unlikely that you'll ever want it to be level. So where the two highest points of the rise are level that's very unlikely. It does happen occasionally if you've got a really upright rider but most of the time they'll want to be somewhere between 12 and 14 millimeters nose down at the front depending upon which model you've got. So these things need to sit more nose down than a flat style seat. How do you figure it out? Well, you've just got to go and play with it a little bit yourself, right? Get it in the ballpark. There's a million other saddles out there so I can't cover them all. But I think what you're telling me which I didn't really recognize was it's really about getting it as close to straight as possible but then tinkering it a little bit from a comfort perspective, what suits you as opposed to going for aerodynamic gains or going for extra power. It's all coming down to comfort and how it suits you. Yeah, generally speaking, I always tell my clients there's three critical things, three critical factors that you need to consider when you're looking at a seat. There's comfort, comfort and comfort. Right. And far behind that is other stuff like the slight aerodynamic gain of being able to roll your pelvis.  There are certain situations where you might wanna go crazy with the seat angle but for anyone, any mere mortal like you and me that's doing any normal type of riding, it's all about comfort and stability, right? And so using that guideline of if it's a style of seat like that, having the front half of it flat and then tweaking it very slightly from there, if it's an SMP, try for somewhere between one finger's width nose down and tweak it from there. These things in particular are extremely sensitive to angle changes. If you change the angle half a degree, they can feel terrible or amazing. They're very, very touchy. So don't be afraid to play with it a little bit is the moral of the story. And when you start feeling like you're slipping forward or loading your hands too much, it's probably too nose down. If you're feeling the opposite and you go into the drops and you're feeling pressure across the front that's hurting a bit there, it's probably too nose up. Yeah, tricky thing to explain and there's so many different seats out there that this can never work for all of them. If you're one, a special mention should go out to, if you've got a person who is struggling with perineum pressure and a lot of people that are searching for this, they'll be looking for saddle angle because the front of their perineum is hurting or they're getting numbness in there in their gentlemen's or ladies' regions during or after a ride, the best saddle that I've ever found for reducing perineum pressure is a saddle called the, it's made by a company called SQ Labs and we might put a link to this one in our video. The SQ Labs 612 Ergo Wave Active, it's a bit of a mouthful, is one of my favorite seats now. In fact, it is my go-to saddle now for reducing frontal perineum pressure. I've got one on my bike and we might take some photos of that or a short bit of footage in a minute and splice that in. But those things have a totally different design where you sit up on this shelf at the back and the back of the seat flexes and then there's almost no contact across the perineum. So the ability to unload the front of the seat with an SQ Labs 612 is exceptionally good. These are a close second, the SMP range. And behind that I find things like the specialized power saddles and the Shimano, the Pro Stealth, whatever it is that's very similar to the SnubNo seats. They're pretty good as well. And then fourth behind those is a flat style or a seat that's long in the front with a slight rise at the rear. With the SQ Labs seats, if you're having trouble figuring out saddle angles because of perineum pressure and numbness at the front, get your hands on one of those. They're not terribly expensive and it's a very unusual design but very, very effective for unloading the front. Yeah. Good.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss about the increasing and decreasing functions. We can analyze the function by its monotonicity. A function is said to be monotonic on an interval i if it is either increasing or decreasing in the interval i. Now we shall learn to analyze increasing and decreasing function graphically. Now let us look at the graph of the function y is equal to x square. We can determine whether the function is increasing or decreasing by viewing its graph from left to right. See the left side of the curve. Here the graph is decreasing i.e. the curve is moving downward till point with coordinates 00. From this origin i.e. point 00 the curve starts increasing i.e. it starts moving upward. Thus the graph of function f of x is equal to x square shows that the function is decreasing for x is less than 0 and the function is increasing for x greater than 0. Or we can say that it is decreasing for x belongs to the open interval minus infinity to 0 and increasing for x belongs to the open interval 0 to infinity. Now we are going to discuss how to analyze increasing and decreasing functions algebraically. A function f is increasing on an interval i if and only if for every a and b contained in interval i f of a is less than f of b for a is less than b. For example if we want to check whether a function f of x is equal to x square is increasing or decreasing on an interval i given by open interval 0 to infinity. Now here let us choose a, b belong to open interval 0 infinity such that a is less than b. Now let us take a is equal to 2 and b is equal to 5. Clearly here a is less than b and they both belong to the open interval 0 to infinity. Now here f of x is equal to x square. Now let us find f of a which will be equal to f of 2 and that is equal to 2 square which is equal to 4. Also f of b will be equal to f of 5 that is equal to 5 square which is equal to 25. Now here f of a is equal to 4 and f of b is equal to 25. We see that 4 is less than 25 which implies that f of a is less than f of b. So the function f of x is equal to x square is increasing on open interval 0 to infinity. Now a function is decreasing on an interval i if and only if for every a and b contained in interval i f of a is greater than f of b for a is less than b. Now if we again take the same example where the function given to us is f of x is equal to x square and we want to check whether f of x is increasing or decreasing on an interval i given by the open interval minus infinity to 0. Let us choose a b belong to open interval minus infinity to 0 such that a is less than b. Now let us take a is equal to minus 2 and b is equal to minus 1. Clearly here a is less than b and they both belong to the open interval minus infinity to 0. Now let us find f of a and this will be equal to f of minus 2 and this is equal to minus 2 whole square which is equal to 4. Also f of b will be equal to f of minus 1 and this is equal to minus 1 whole square that is equal to 1. Now here f of a is equal to 4 and f of b is equal to 1. Here we see that 4 is greater than 1 which implies that f of a is greater than f of b for a less than b. So we can say that the function f of x is equal to x square is decreasing on interval that is on open interval minus infinity to 0. Also a function f remains constant on an interval i if and only if for every a and b contained in i f of a is equal to f of b for a is less than b. For example if we have the function f of x which is equal to minus x for x less than 0 and 1 by 2 for x greater than or equal to 0. Now let us check monotonicity of the function on semi closed interval from 0 to infinity. Now let us choose a, b which belong to the semi closed interval 0 to infinity such that a is less than b. So here let us take a is equal to 1 and b is equal to 2. Clearly here a is less than b and they both belong to the semi closed interval 0 to infinity. Now let us find f of a which will be equal to f of 1. Now here 1 is greater than or equal to 0 so we have the value of f of x as 1 by 2. So here f of 1 will be equal to 1 by 2 also f of b will be equal to f of 2 and since 2 is greater than or equal to 0 and for x greater than or equal to 0 the value of f of x is equal to 1 by 2. So here f of 2 will be equal to 1 by 2. Now f of a is equal to 1 by 2 and f of b is equal to 1 by 2. So here we see that f of 1 is equal to f of 2. So we can say that f of a is equal to f of b for a is less than b. Thus we can say that f of x is a constant function on semi closed interval 0 to infinity. Thus in this session we have learnt about the increasing and decreasing functions and we have also discussed how to analyse the function by its monotonicity. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed this session.


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Hey everyone shaper 1,000 here sorry about the wind But if I turn you this way the Sun's gonna be in your eyes My hair my first solo of 2024 We've been here many times. This is the Witlacoochie River. I wanted to camp on down That way But somebody had that spot taken but that's okay. So I'm gonna camp here We camped like I said before I had my hammock run between these two trees And I wanted to be down at the other place because of that shelter But someone's already got that taken up so and it's supposed to rain all night It's pretty much rained all day. So I'm walking through swamp weather swamp here and the picnic table Some will moved it firing someone moved it so it's farther away from where I wanted But I'm still gonna set my hammock up there and I'm going to I'm gonna put up a tarp. I'm just bought a cheap tarp Until I can get a regular Backpacking tarp that'll fit my thing, but I have an 8x10 here So we're gonna set that up. I'll get you set up over here and I'll just speed you up through that. Let's get the hammock set up Get the tarp set up in case it rains Then we're gonna get ready We're gonna do a little fishing. Maybe we can catch some fish. I brought some for supper That's not what's in there. I just saved a bag. This is freeze-dried spaghetti or Dehydrated spaghetti and I also brought Some ribs. I've been marinating all night. So I got some ribs in here so All right, let me get you set up and let's get and see if I can get this hammock set up without Getting it too wet and muddy because it is muddy But I'm gonna go in between these two trees right here because last time I had it set up here In between it was fine, and it's not real bad in here. So I Mean it's a little wet, but I got my boots on they're waterproof so yeah Let me get you set up let's get into this first solo camp 2024 stick around guys should be fun We'll talk about Bigfoot here in a little bit it is set up and I'm gonna put my stuff inside I brought a blanket to put down on the bottom because I don't have a Undercoat yet, so I'm gonna put a blanket down. I'm gonna put my air pad down and Then my it's always supposed to get down in the 50s Then I'll put my sleeping bag down in so Now I'm gonna do something this time I'm gonna put a tarp over this to come out so I can sit out here and cook or whatever Can't find the end. All right, so I shortened it up. I'm gonna put the long way out this way So I need to get some more cordage and I brought some poles for this thing since monkey can drop me off right there And I didn't have to hike in I brought a little extra stuff, right? Who wouldn't I mean if you got to use it Yeah, I'm in a campground, but I'm still camping. There's nobody here. There's One people down there. Well like two or three people, but you know one group right down there Other than that this whole section here is mine in there You know a quarter mile that way, so let me get to grab my poles. Here's my steaks. Well, here's my steaks Here's my poles. They're just old temp poles and They adjust out so This is what I used When I was when I made my This one gets stuck when I made my My trailer tent, so let me get these unstuck and get them extended out Yeah, I'm gonna put them in the corners here. All right, so I never sat this up like this before but Let's uh, let's give it a shot. That's got some shot cord wrapped around. It's not paracord I don't know where I got it or I Think I remember what I used it for but It's real stretchy. I got rope just in case All right, you get the idea. I'm gonna change that out for some of that white rope so I can see it better And then I think it's gonna be all right I should have probably went over the back of the tent more but It's gonna be all right just enough for me to set my chair under and get in out of the rain So I still don't have my bed roll in here.  Hang on a second Really humid out here probably inside the Lens cover I think so I'm gonna pull the cover off and clean it but There it is these decided work and then I can lower one corner Or both corners if I if I want to and then I've got plenty of room to sit in here and cook So I Couldn't went over Went over this more like so I got a lot of grommets here but If I have to change it later, I just got it in these little Carabiners here so that wouldn't be hard to change but Now I can put my bed roll in I wanted to get that put in or get the tarp set up because You know Look at like rain so And it can come down within five minutes. You're down here in Florida You Floridians know what I'm talking about Yeah, I could have scooted that back more if I wanted but that'll be alright like I said, it's not I don't have to worry about the tent You know, I've been in a downpour and that thing it doesn't leak This is just for me to sit under and cook or whatever.  I'm not sure what's going on with it I guess the humidity so if you guys remember our last camp out I was almost out of this stuff and It was just pretty much Like a lighter flame. I mean it didn't want to do anything So it's just about out so wouldn't bought me a new can of this last night Heck yeah, I ain't gonna run out now Because I can't use it. I Don't I've been through this bag three or four times and I don't know where My stove is it's not a big guy can build a fire, but I could have sworn This is my pillow Could have sworn I put it in there. Let me look some more found it. I Had already taken it out. I was like I could have sworn. I'd just seen it Well, what I did was I took it out and I set it up there. I set that down on top of it It was actually right there beside it, and then I moved that because I'm gonna set this little I Don't know it's supposed to be it's a tarp I want to set it on the ground so I can set this over there underneath the awning in case it starts raining then I'm gonna get guess get my Real My rod ready to do a little fishing will Will throw it out there and see try our luck at fishing then we'll talk a little bit about skunk ape Sam's quench bigfoot Very interesting stuff Okay, did you hear that? Hey stick around guys. Okay guys, so it's a little windy. It still looks foggy in that Let me see if I can do something about that It looks really foggy up here on top, but I cleaned the lens and See if that's any better. No, no better. Alright, so anyway, I'm getting hit. I just casted down so The last place we camped at you guys the very last camping video we did the last adventure of 2023 I Was at Pots preserve or I'm at Pots preserve now we were at flying Eagle preserve and I'm gonna read you a story about that later there was a bigfoot sighting out there a few years ago and Yeah, it's documented so supposedly true But got something hitting on here I'm gonna have my line unlocked because I Had to go over there and get the stand for the camera the or the tripod Dang it now. I'm in some weeds. All right. Let me get this casted back out I don't know what's going on with this lens. I don't know if it's just the way the Sun is They cast this out. Let me try that again without wrapping around the end of my pole about 15 yards But yeah, so that's supposedly Citrus County There's been more sightings than I thought here in Citrus County, Florida That batter oh Oh getting hit But like the three There's three like Texas, Florida and Ohio. Ohio.  Don't get me wrong. But like hundreds of sightings and I didn't think there was that many here in Citrus County because We're like on the West Coast West Central kind of in the middle of Florida, but on the West Coast Like I said before we're about 16 18 minutes drive from the from the Gulf Coast so but there's there's a lot of sightings Down in the Everglades, I'd love to get monkey to go down there, but she's afraid of them big snakes I'm getting a pretty good hit here See if I can get it Probably small. I mean Got a van Looking like they're wanting to come in and do some camping But I was going to do some big foot calls tonight But I don't want to do that with people down there because I know they could hear me especially being on the water Yeah, they're leaving Used to be able to drive back in here Not anymore when we first started camping here you could then they changed it because people would come in days like this and get stuck and Then they'd have their buddies come try to pull them out and then they'd dig ruts and it was hard for him to keep up mode like that so I Think my hit stopped. Yeah, it did you get this casting back out so But anyway, I got some stories screenshot it on my phone Like I said, these are actual doc documented cases of Bigfoot around this area now Pretty exciting. I know I've heard some tree knocks Over in there. I just heard like two more right before I turned you guys on That's probably when You know moving the trees around, but do I believe in Bigfoot? Yeah, you know, I mean Everybody says well, there's no proof technically there is But if you want to look at proof well absence of proof does not prove absence Wrap your mind around that, you know, I mean as far as that and Like ghost sightings, you know, not everybody's making this stuff up, you know, not everybody's hoax and everything So it's like, you know Like that it's you know, have you ever seen a million bucks?  Have you ever seen a million dollars sitting in a pile? How many people have but does that mean it doesn't exist? No, you know, it's not what that means Do I think there's something around here, I think there could be I Know there's been, you know, I've had a couple strange experiences myself. There could be Sasquatch around this area. I mean if bears can live around here because I know I spotted one at pot Flying Eagle Preserve and I that one here. So, you know, I mean, I've had two bear encounters in the past seven years, so And we're not that far far away So but yeah, we want to get the Fort Cooper to and check it out So that that might be our first this is my first solo adventure so Yeah, we'll have to take a day and go to Fort Cooper and check it out.  I didn't make anything I didn't stage anything and that's why I've been on hundreds of you know Paranormal investigations people like well, you know, what didn't you film at all? Why didn't you do a show out of it? Well, I'm not a show.  That's boring.  We're all youtubers. Let's act like it, you know, but yeah anything I have on my paranormal list You know is real unless like around Halloween time when I do those stories, you know, I tell You know fictional stories But if it's a made-up story, I will tell you okay This is totally fabricated I made it up But anything you see or any audio I have it's real That's what the camera captured or the recorder captured had nothing to do with me. You know what I mean Maybe I can miss construe something maybe, you know, well, it was that's not really what it was It was this could be could be as well. See let me know what you think down below But there was that one time that guy really pissed me off.   You know what? I mean It's like you can't just tell somebody something like that, you know I mean if you don't believe in it fine, why are you why why was you so intrigued watch that video then you see what I mean? Trolls or whatever they don't exist you want to argue about well science proved that ghosts don't exist Science proved that that Bigfoot don't exist. No, it hasn't if anything We've got more proof that Bigfoot and ghosts exist than science has that they don't you know And they're the same people that pray to Jesus. I know I don't I don't get into that kind of stuff on my channel But just using that for an example Jesus died and you know, you're praying to him. What what? What I mean father son, holy ghost, you know, well, that's different Well, if you believe in one person that died and is now spiritual and living among it around us, you know Why couldn't it happen to someone else?  You got to think about but Okay, I'm gonna cast out again. I'll kick you on winning if I get a bite There we go guys, I didn't even know I had something on here. Oh Never mind. I waited too long to set you guys up Not sure what it was, but it felt decent Guys just went past in a boat and I was talking to them. They said they haven't had a couple bites, but that's it And I just went to reel in and recast and there was something on here so I moved you guys over here and He got off okay, I'm getting a hit There we go Fish on. Oh Nice.  Let me see. All right, let me see If I can get something to get him out of there, I don't think I Think I Think I left my good stringer at the house I mean, I could always use We'll get him out with this The owls are going to add it early 3.30 pound Cool. All right, let me get my pliers out They're pretty pretty long Getting idea here 21 and three-quarter cool All right, let me get my needle nose out get the hook out of him and we'll get cast it back out All right, here we go guys another mud fin He's hung up. I'm gonna wear this one down. I think he's about the same size as the other one Gonna be tangled up in that moss He might be bigger, I don't know try to let him go out a little bit to see if I can get him to wear it down a little bit All right. Well, since I don't have a net just to reach down in there. I'm gonna I'm gonna wear this one out Try to And I'll kick you back on when I bring him up here. We'll see what he weighs The other one what the other one way 3.30 Man, I heard something down here. I didn't see any I heard a big splash It was like somebody fell in the water and started swimming. It was probably a gator But I didn't see anything it must have been around that Cove back in there Whatever was was huge must had to be a gator chasing something or whatever All right, let me see if I can get him worn down. All right guys, I got him up here Let's see if I can get the scale in him If we can get it to zero or lock on there it is five to point two four Wow that's a That's measuring Hey, he didn't he didn't bite. I was just getting ready to build a fire and I see my my pole holder bending About 24 and a half inches Maybe 25 25 inches And five pounds Five and a quarter pounds. Cool. All right Let me get him back in the water Hi, it's a little windy, but Since how it rained all night and all day and it's nothing but a mud hole out here. I'm gonna go ahead and build a fire Got her going now. I'm gonna bring you back once we got a good fire going. All right fish on again This is what number three. I should be eating these things. Yeah, baby Another one. We're not gonna weigh him.  I Felt it too. He swallowed the hook All right, let me get the hook out I'll be back with you. I got it locked on at two point zero eight So two pounder She's had a nice gentleman. He lives over here on the water and Talked to him for a few minutes. Hell of a nice guy. So he's gonna check my channel out So if you watch this, it's nice meeting you Yeah, he said you got a nice primitive setup out here Yeah, yeah, I told him I said man I was gonna buck for two nights and this was the only night I could get but as you can see there's nobody here He was like they ain't gonna say nothing. He said where you from I told him, you know Just right in town here They ain't gonna say nothing to you. You want to stay another night? Stay another night. Nobody cares Which is true height. I'm gonna get this back in the water. I got to work on my fire again because still got a little bit of flame, but I Mess around this thing so, you know Alright, I'll be back with you. Alright, so I'm still mess with the fire. I mean, it's going but it's not going great Had a hit a minute ago But monkey's gonna stop out here after bit.  It was on a e-bike Rolling up. He's like you to youtuber. I See yeah, yeah, so I figured that camera and So hell of a nice guy. Yes, it's dark. It's a lot darker than what it shows in the camera because it's It's five after six right now So, but yeah, it's pretty dark over there in my in my little over there, so yeah, I'm gonna mess around with the fire a little bit more and I Think I think I'm gonna get some rain, but I'll be dry Inside my shelter there and my hammock Yeah, like I said, I've been pinned down out here It really poured and when blue didn't leak a drop So then the tarp I got it just case I want to sit out sit out there Cook or whatever. I'm just gonna cook on my little stove. I got it already screwed together and it's ready to go so But I'm not hungry right now. So I'm just gonna get back and tend to the fire is going pretty good Tend to the fire and then I'll be back with you guys If I catch another fish, yeah, if I've been eating that man Well that second one at five pounder that would that would have been enough for two people really That last one that two pounder, you know, it would have been enough for a meal just one meal for me But okay guys, I'll be back with you. It's had a major hit on that thing. It was going crazy And I was over here mess with the fire of course and well, it stopped. There's a bat Yeah, I don't think he's on there. I'll check check my bait anyway bait still on I Don't know what you guys can see and what you can I Did bring my big light it doesn't last super long, but I did bring a flashlight and You know, I've got I've got night vision Night vision eats the batteries up, but I think I've got enough for tonight So all right guys Again, I'll be back with you my hats all crooked Okay, it's a little windy, but I decided to cook out here. I got more room. Don't have to bend over as much and Yeah, I forgot my spaghetti All right, hang on. I got to go get my spaghetti. I'm gonna have to change your battery here in a few minutes because Down to 23 minutes, but hang tight guys. Okay Let's get this puppy fired up. I don't have any matches or a lighter. So there we go And I forgot my gloves too Don't go on it. That should be enough so I'm gonna let this come up to a boil. I'm gonna go get my gloves and I'm gonna change your battery just in case and We'll put our spaghetti that I made Or dehydrated in there One second guys Okay, there we go. I brightened up a little bit because I thought it needed it but He didn't okay, so the battery changed out Don't some of this in here Smells like I just made it. I might have added too much water That's all right because if I ruin it I've got backup. I've got some shoot Got some pork ribs over there that I boiled down Didn't boil them down parboiled them I guess and then I Marinated them overnight and some seasoning and some teriyaki sauce Bears what bears? All right, I'm gonna let that boil down And we'll see what my dehydrated spaghetti tastes like is that much We still got an hour and 54 minutes on this battery, but it goes quick man What's going on here? Okay, I've got this Boiled down It's rehydrating very well So while that's doing that I Just peeled some of this off the bone. I'm gonna put it on here. I Don't have any butter or oil or anything So I'm just gonna keep flipping it and I'll bring you back when it's time to eat. Okay guys, so we're gonna try the spaghetti first kind of anxious to see How much flavor it lost because I know the noodles turned out really good the noodles I did still hot Boner appetite Guys I Didn't make a spaghetti if I said I did I didn't monkey made the spaghetti. I all I did was dehydrated some Just like the day she made it might let it hydrate a little bit longer taste fine a little bear country, and I'm eating poor grubs and spaghetti I Got chicken gizzards and shrimp over here that I'm using for bait Haven't had a bite in a while. Try the ribs hmm Very good. All right guys I don't know where monkeys at I didn't hear any hornblown, but I wasn't paying attention. It's been really windy. You can't hear nothing. Then I had that running the stove It's 715 this is Friday the 12th by the way the 715 So either she's not coming Where she couldn't get in the gate now those are brand new locks down there, but usually there's a blue one That's but they have inscribed on it like REC for recreation So I don't know if she couldn't get in her if she's just waiting till later. I don't know But yeah when she comes out Well, I'll kick it back on regardless, but Yeah But after I eat we might adjourn over to the hammock and sit underneath the tarp So but yeah fires died down now because I was just burning palm fronds. They go up pretty quick So yeah All right, let me finish my supper guys monkeys here All right.   Okay guys. I'm back Monkeys here, so I'm gonna read Grannie yeah Starting to I'm gonna read one of these. I might she's trying to make me leave He said he had chest pains. Yeah, I'm having chest pains, but that's all right so this This guy was hunting around here Remember the place we came to at the very last time. Yeah That's where it was. Yeah, really. Yeah flying Eagle preserve the September of 2011 it says State, Florida, Citrus County. I Measured two tracks for you, but no pics. I got a camera phone now, but it says nearest town Floral City So it's kind in between Floral City and right and Inverness Nearest Road 480 Says observed I hunted in most of the Management areas in and around this the state. I was on a bow hunt in the Citrus wildlife management area. I Go out one hour or so before daylight. I may have read this before but I just find it interesting Hey, I I put my stand out the day before and just parked in pitch black dark area I Go out and walk to the other side of the SUV to get my stuff out Before I could do that.  It was gone By the time daylight rolled around there was six or so more cars that had come through And wipe out all the tracks that I could have found This was the first of five incidents of it Two weeks later, I moved my stand to a different area due to all the other hunters I went out an hour before daylight again and parked Got in my stand. Oh No, oh No, we gotta go hang on guys. Okay. We're back It was pouring we went underneath the thing and then I realized she don't have a chair So we came to gotten the truck. Yeah, so where was I? Okay, right before daylight I heard a call unlike anything I Have ever heard before I have heard hoops or hoops. I have heard hogs Deer and all types of animal calls including bears Okay, including bears This call wasn't was not like any of them as the morning went by More cars and hunters came to the area. I heard something big running towards me and It sat down 20 to 30 feet in front of me On the only blind spot I had I Waited for about 10 minutes and figured another hunter had sat there So I cleared my throat to see if it was human and it got up and ran off real fast I couldn't see it Two or three weeks later. I decided To go fishing at the Gulf and was driving past the area I hunted at When out of the wood line a big hairy black big foot ran in front of me with my bright lights on It took three leaps from wood line to wood line The run is what floored me the knees almost hit the ground before it came up Again and out to the side of its foot Okay, and It says also noted the dome-shaped head That's this is flying eagle here And noted a it had a dome-shaped head He was by self Flying Eagle Timing conditions early morning Environment there are freshwater pits and ponds nearby in lots of different woods. This is a follow-up investigation It says I spoke with W. K Over the phone and he showed several encounters with me that occurred between 2010 and 2011 On one occasion W. K Stated that he arrived early to set up his tree stand after parking and Getting out of his okay, so it's just them, you know going over What what he had had told them so Okay, the latest Encounter happened very recently when W. K. Found a long set of tracks running parallel to the forest road he stated that half a mile of It eventually met with two other sets of tracks He described the tracks as being about five and a half Foot five and a half feet Between the toe of one print to the heel of the next print I'm five foot seven so about my height only that was its stride, so it's taken five foot strides It's pretty big That's tall that's more of a stride than you are tall. That's one step. Yeah Yeah, that's pretty big Let's see and that the footprints were any straight line not staggered as with human tracks he also stated that the tracks never went on to the road and That there was no arch noted on any of the tracks W. K. Took care careful measurements of each individual's tracks Gave me these dimensions the track. He followed was 18 inches long eight and a half inches wide and the toes and At the toes and five inches wide at the heel The track was 15 and a half inches long These are the track dimensions that they that he had seen The next track was 15 and a half inches long seven and a quarter inches wide At the toes and three and a half inches wide at the heel The third track was eight inches long and four inches wide at the toes These smaller tracks were found alongside the 15 and a half inch tracks So maybe a parent in a juvenile maybe the third would the third track Okay, unfortunately W. K. Did not Have a camera with him when he found these tracks He did take a few pictures with a cell phone But stated that the pictures the picture came out too blurry to be recognizable Also in the with the kuchi state forest it's it's a With the kuchi state forest that's where the the Cemetery is we want to yeah Well, the with the kuchi force goes down into Was the Sumter County and right? It's huge It's 500,000 acres of Pristine pine swamp and hardwood forest that's a that's a half a million acres Yeah Which includes spring-fed ponds river streams and abandoned mines And I'd be fine and is home to an abundance of wildlife This track of butts other wildlife Sanctuaries which added to added together creates a massive natural corridor That extends through much of central Florida corridor. So it's kind of you know a Big place they can go And there was one I was reading In the Ocala State Forest to or Ocala Forest, I Don't know what town, but that's a big forest too. Yeah, it is, but it's not as big as this area Let's see. I'm gonna have to bang the camp Say one Hernando city here Lakefront Drive near US 41 in March 1961 the Boy Scout troop I belong to was camped on Gilcrest Island What's that sound familiar in Lake Sala of Popka Citrus County Florida near Hernando City the the days or the days activities included hiking swimming camp craft night games and Finally on Saturday night the ever-popular campfire the camp out was very exhilarating and When lights out came All found it easy to fall asleep as junior assistant Scout master It was my responsibility to make sure every one was in their tents All right, let's just do this Oh Yeah, and was in their tents and and secure for the night As a boy of 17 years of age the position was one of importance and was not looked upon lightly The day's duties Were completed about 11 30 p.m. I Walked for approximately 15 minutes from the campsite down a moonlit path with a flashlight to take my evening Constitutional the return trip was uneventful and it seemed Unusually quiet for a location normally filled with the sounds of frogs crickets and occasional bump in the night I think I'm sick. I Decided to take a shortcut through the forest to bypass a Bend in the trail and came into a clearing with what appeared to be a stump. I reached a distance of About six feet from the object when it stood up the creature was five to six feet tall weighing about two hundred two hundred to three hundred pounds. I Was six foot one inch tall and weighed 120 pounds The figure in front of me was much broader than Then I was very long and heavy arms Okay, it was much broader than I and it had Very long and heavy arms. The moonlit source was behind the creature. So Consequently eyes or facial features were not Dissurnable The light revealed a body glistening with long hair what seemed to be an eternity But was only a few seconds we Stared at each other and then he was gone the creature ran with a long fast heavy stride as It crashed through the palmettos until it could be heard no more the campsite was still Was still when I returned frightened I went to wake up the scout master and he suggested a good night's rest and all would be well in the morning That's I'm gonna read right now. All right, I'm gonna get off here for a minute.  Oh Man, I am fogging up bad. Look at that. Oh jeez Hey, so Mama talk me into going home So I'm going home So that's gonna be the end of this video. I'm gonna come out in the morning We got everything except the hammock and the tarp We're gonna come out tomorrow and get that and do a little fishing right? Yeah, so She said she would leave her phone with me, but then I don't have my phone to read my story, so I guess our next thing we're gonna have to get is a satellite phone That way if I needed help I could get help because there's as you saw there's nobody there and the nearest person Is up here and I guess they weren't here when she came in were they no So just the camper was there so I Don't like him being by himself. There's other campers in there. I know Yeah, people help if there's someone getting some trouble, but yeah Heart condition and he's out here and saying he's having heart problems Yeah, I don't know what it is. It's just having pressure on my chest again, so But yeah, so I I just have to get a satellite phone and that way all I'll be safe He's back What I said, he must be back because he's got a fire Yeah Okay, I saw that white van there pull in earlier. Oh, did you get turned around back there? Yeah, yeah, they pulled back there and then turn around you got them on videotape, so But yeah, so I'll have to get I'm just gonna there's no way around I'm just gonna get a satellite phone I'm not supposed to be doing honestly Any of this stuff at all.  I said if something happens post this video tell my story She didn't think was funny So all right guys well, thanks for watching Maybe I'll have a fishing video for you tomorrow. How's that? Yeah, so yeah, she's got a new rod So I don't know if you got so that video, but she got a new rod and so she wants to try it out So we'll definitely do some fishing so Tomorrow I think no one's gonna mess with that hammock And we got everything all the you know like my pack and all my camera stuff and all that of course, but So the only thing that's out there is my hammock in the tarp. So but it'll be alright. Nobody bothers anything out here. So Yeah, all right guys. Well, thanks for watching. Sorry. I had to bail but Monkey made a good point, you know, I You know if you're having a heart attack or something or a stroke you can't yell So nobody's gonna be able to hear me So Yeah No, so she's got a point. I had a satellite phone I'd be alright because even her phone see my phone still I don't have my phone turned on guys. So No, not yet, so we're at the gate, but yeah, so I don't have I don't need my phone turned on The gate is wide open. So we're not gonna I'm not gonna worry about it. So Yeah, I just Yeah, that's a good point But yeah, my you know and her phone is spotty back there Sometimes you got to walk around to get service which You know if I'm having a stroke or heart attack I'm not gonna be able to walk around holding the phone up looking for service So, all right, I gotta get my seatbelt on she better miss me and let him go for now mark So thanks for joining guys Man, it was a beautiful night out there too, wasn't it hun. Mm-hmm. It was one beautiful night back in there and Yeah, but I had the tarp and you know my My tent my hammock tent don't leak.  That would have been I would have been out probably before Or maybe around midnight. I probably would have been out. Yeah, you think so with that rain. Yeah But that's okay better safe than sorry, huh? All right guys, well again, thanks for watching appreciate it and monk say bye Hi So and thanks for listening to my my story, so I'll go ahead and just going home put this get this up for you tonight and See you see it tomorrow or maybe tonight if you're up late enough So, all right guys, I'm gone for now. We'll see you in the next one. So if it's not raining too hard, we'll We'll we'll do a little fishing tomorrow So yeah, we'll come out in the morning do some fishing for you sink trout or a new pool We'll see you in the next one. Bye. Bye guys and take care