Here's my salary progression in the tech industry. My very first job outside my PhD program is working as a systems engineer for Shell Oil. I was getting paid at $90,000 per year with 10% bonus, so total is around $99,000 per year. Then my second job I broke into product management. I was getting paid $135,000 salary as a base with 20% bonus that run up to almost $160,000 per year. And then every single year I continue to get promoted and getting paid more. When I left Verizon as a product manager, I was getting paid around $200,000 per year in total compensation. And then I became a director and my total salary became over $300,000 per year. All those companies on the East Coast side of company and never work in Silicon Valley, I believe people in Silicon Valley and they're getting paid even significantly more about 30% higher than the East Coast company just because the living expense is 30% higher. Which company do you want to know about regarding their salary? Like and subscribe and watch the next video about tech salary.


Felly, y dyfnodd gyfreiddiol y mynd i'w glidofnodd ni'n gweithio'n cyfrifio'n gweithio'r cyfrifio hynny, roeddaeth cyfroprosio fwy gwrs, rydw i hynny. Rhyw dechreu dda ni wedi'w gyfreiddiol iaith i ddechreu am 11 mlynedd. Rhyw dechreu am 11 mlynedd,�r Roderic Campbell. Rhyw dechreu am 12 mlynedd hynny? Rhyw dechreu am 12 mlynedd hynny. Rhyw dechreu am 12 years, Rhyw dechreu am 40 mlynedd y jwg ddigio ar gwaelid, ond Dr Alex Wolff, the University of St Andrews, has advised maybe Olaf Guthrusson, a 10th century king of Dublin and Nathumbria, has started Scotland collaborating with colleagues in Ireland, for example, on a seminar at Edinburgh Castle in autumn of this year in the prestigious European Association of Archaeologists Conference in Glasgow in September 2015. I also visited Dublin's Abbey Theatre and later met the chairman, Brian MacMahon. I also met Jimmy Deanehan, the Minister of Arts, Heritage and the Gail Tax, who hosted our joint event at the Stole Writers Week, celebrating the writers Maurice Walsh and Neil Gunn, and I look forward to welcoming Mr Deanehan for a reciprocal event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on the 13th of August. Roderick Campbell. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer and welcome her comments on the role the University of St Andrews played in the archaeological find. Can she advise what lessons can be learned from Ireland's approach to culture, particularly perhaps in relation to broadcasting? On broadcasting, it is very interesting if you look at Ireland's experience, their national broadcaster RT supports broader culture, providing, for example, two orchestras, two choirs and a string quartet. That, of course, is on top of delivering four television channels, four national radio stations broadcast over the spectrum and a further five digital radio stations together with digital services such as the RT website and the RT player. Their budget is around £286 million, which, of course, is smaller than Scotland's current licence fee resources of some £328 million. Question 2, in the name of Mary Fee, has not been lodged, so the member has provided an explanation. To ask the Scottish Government what the implications would be for the common travel area of an independent Scotland. Scotland would remain a part of the common travel area, but as an independent country in its own right, as noted in Scotland's future, it will be in the overriding interests of the rest of the UK and Ireland for Scotland to remain in the common travel area. While supporting fresh talent, as introduced by Jack McConnell and any other similar immigration variations, is it not the case that membership of the common travel area and the absence of border checks is incompatible with a significantly different immigration policy? If the minister doubts that, will he consult the Republic of Ireland Government about the operation of the common travel area? What I will do on that exact point is to read a quote from the Irish Department of Justice spokesman in January of this year. The common travel area in no way alters our control over immigration or visa matters and who can and cannot enter or reside in Ireland. My suggestion is, as much as we will discuss in due course with the Irish Government, I suggest that Malcolm Chisholm does the same. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Dundee City Council regarding taking forward some of the plans in the Dundee City of Culture 2017 bid. I met with Dundee City Council on 9 January to discuss Dundee City Council's plans for its day of culture bid. I was delighted to hear about the council's plans to develop a new 10-year cultural strategy. Since then, the council has had a series of meetings with a range of officials and partners to progress their plans. Dundee City Council is on a pioneering journey that embraces culture and creativity to promote regeneration and to tackle wider social issues in a range of innovative ways. I thank the minister for her answer. When the Inverness bid for a city of culture failed in 2007, at that point, the Scottish Government stepped in and committed a substantial amount of money to ensure that some of the events would go ahead. Dundee City Council has said that some events will go ahead. Can she tell me which events will be going ahead as a result of her meeting on 9 January?  Quite clearly, decisions about what will go ahead in Dundee is actually for the council and its partners to determine as to what should go ahead, but I can say that I have been absolutely committed to Dundee City Council in terms of its cultural progression and the activities that can take place. I have already spoken to our national collections and our companies, also to Creative Scotland and the whole series of events, where funding comes from those organisations to take the plans forward. There are many very good programmes and initiatives that can still carry forward, but I cannot tell the member in terms of investment in Dundee, £125,000 from the Scottish Government to the Aspire programme, which again is using dance, drama and music for the young people of Dundee. Again, part of the culture bid is going forward in terms of the different plans. Of course, the V&A support, which is extensive, in terms of the funding also in relation to the different organisations, Dundee contemporary arts, £580,000, Dundee repertory theatre £1 million over, and Scottish Dance Theatre £800,000. Very strong programmes that currently exist, if you add on top the commitments from Creative Scotland, Event Scotland and all the different companies and indeed the collections in their support from Dundee. Dundee, probably compared to any other city, has the vibrant initiative and vision led by SNP-led Dundee council but supported from all our partners. That is what the national government does. It brings everyone together and that is what we are delivering for the people of Dundee. Question 5, Rob Gibson. Thank you, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government what importance it places on using traditional music to promote Scottish culture around the world. The Scottish Government places great importance on the promotion of Scottish culture around the world and traditional music plays a key part in our work. The Scottish Government supports the traditional music sector through Creative Scotland, which disperses more than £2 million each year to organisations, individuals and festivals that directly form part of the sector. By supporting events such as Celtic Connections, Creative Scotland enables artists and musicians to promote their work internationally. In addition, Creative Scotland supports Showcase Scotland. As a result of performing at Showcase Scotland, Scottish artists are, for example, appearing at the Jodpery Rajasthan International Folk Festival in India this October. Rob Gibson. Cabinet Secretary for that answer. The Scottish Government has been giving an international showcase itself at major world events for Scottish musicians such as traditional musician Julie Foulas and classical musician Nicola Benedetti at the official handover of the Rider Cup in Chicago in 2012. Can the minister explain how the agencies such as Visit Scotland, SDI and the British Council work in partnership to promote Scotland abroad as a distinctive creative nation connected to the world in Creative Scotland's 2014 plan in 10s? Well, this year Creative Scotland will be publishing their international strategy and they will be working with the British Council, Visit Scotland and SDI in developing that. A very notable partnership that is very important is the Scotland and Venice visual art showcase at the Venice Biennale. That is a partnership between Creative Scotland, British Council Scotland, the Scottish Government and the National Galeries of Scotland. However, in promoting Scotland internationally, we are looking forward beyond the year of homecoming to future years, themed years, including that of architecture and design, and Visit Scotland in terms of promotion will also work with that. I also note the member's keen interest in promoting traditional music in particular, and that is very much part and parcel of the promotions that we deliver. I am very excited about the connections that are being made. To ask the Scottish Government what the set-up cost of an international development agency would be in the event of independence. The Scottish Government has undertaken a range of work to prepare for the transition to independence. Our approach is set out in Scotland's future. Pages 343 to 350 explain that a number of factors will influence the size of that one-off investment that Scotland would have to make in terms of transition to independence factors that include, for example, negotiations that would take place between the two Governments. As the Government has continued to reiterate over the past year and a half, if not longer, that we were prepared for those discussions right now if only the UK Government would come to the table. How does the minister respond to concerns that the set-up, running and transaction costs of a new international development agency could detract from aid spending and lead to aid fragmentation? Surely development jobs in Scotland and UK aid spending as a whole is better protected through pulling resources to administer the world's second biggest aid budget, not just from Whitehall but also from DFID's offices in East Kilbride. The question is completely of its own tone. I have said to other UK Government ministers that they have tried to use the poorest people in the world as a political football that is a very unwise move indeed. We have given a guarantee in Scotland's future that, if there are any aid projects that might possibly be affected by the transition, we will actually take care of that cost. It is the Scottish Government, not the UK Government, that has said that they will enshrine in law that 0.7 per cent commitment to the world's poorest. If she has any influence over her colleagues who have been in government for 13 years and have never met that pledge once, I would ask her to do that if she can. With great pride, my colleagues and Government have done just that. The international development agency of an independent Scotland cannot replicate everything that the UK currently does in relation to external affairs. What would the international development agency of an independent Scotland not do? No, I think that that is absolutely incorrect. It is not about what countries are necessary and how many countries you are working in and how much impact you have. We have said that we work currently in seven countries and we look not to work in too many more countries. The impact of what we do with a small budget of £9 million and £3 million with climate justice is world-renowned. We have had Banky Moon, UN Secretary General, Desmond Tutu, and former Irish President Mary Robinson commend the work that the Scottish Government does with the limited resource that we have. My appeal would be to Annabelle Goldie that she should have more ambition for our country in any department in government, but particularly in the ambition that we have shown already in helping the world's poorest. Question 7, Paul Marston. Thank you, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government what its assessment is of the budget of independence and funding available to creative organisations through the big lottery fund. Following independent Scotland, we will continue to receive a fair share of the national lottery ticket sales to support good causes, including the work of creative organisations. In independent Scotland, all decisions about the distribution of good cause money will be made in Scotland to ensure that the needs of local communities are met. The big lottery fund in Scotland supports communities and the third sector, and its role in relation to creative or cultural organisations is limited to the projects that deliver community benefits. General Arts lottery funding, amounting to £34.9 million in 2014-15, is already devolved to Scotland and delivered by Creative Scotland. Paul Marston. As the minister will be aware, allocation of funding is currently via the Barnett formula. What discussions have taken place in respect of the funding and arrangement, and what other discussions she has had with the national lottery organisation? At present, the licence to run the national lottery is held by Camelot Group PLC and is in place until 2023. The Scottish Government does not intend to change that arrangement, but clearly for other aspects that are more centralised, it would then be the opportunity for Scotland to do similarly what we do with Creative Scotland in terms of the arts and culture fund is to have all the decisions about the distribution of lottery funds made in Scotland. I have held meetings with Camelot. To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has sought with consular representatives to explain its case for Scotland leaving the United Kingdom. Ministers regularly meet members of the consular corps and discuss a range of subjects. Following the launch of Scotland's Future, the Minister for External Affairs and International Development held a briefing for consular representatives in Edinburgh on the 27th of November 2013. I held similar events with diplomatic representatives in Brussels and London on the 26th and the 27th of November. We know that most Scots are unconvinced by independence and the decision will, after all, be theirs. In a week when the Swedish Government has expressed concerns, the former US Secretary of State, President Obama and now the Chinese Premier, can I thank the cabinet secretary for her answer and urge her in the Scottish Government to redouble their efforts, which are clearly having the opposite effect to that which they would intend? I think that it is quite noticeable, for example, in Sweden that the Prime Minister said that we have a lot of experiences and referendums throughout Europe and we have learned to respect the results and not to speculate in advance. I think that the point being made about premier leasing the respect that the choice you make also in terms of what Barack Obama is saying, but ultimately the decisions that are made are to be made by the folks there. The people who are best placed to make decisions about Scotland are those who care most about Scotland and that is the people who live here. David Cameron seems more than happy to engage with every country that he can about Scotland's independence, apart from in debates with the democratically elected First Minister of Scotland. I think that the people of Scotland find that that says more about the Westminster Government's approach to Scotland internationally than anything else. Question number nine, Alison Johnstone. Ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the away aspect of its legacy 2014 Scottish Sport Relief Home and Away programme. Thank you, member. For the question, the Scottish Government is funding four projects in sub-Saharan Africa through the first phase of the sports relief away programme. The first phase of the programme is worth a total of £2.5 million, including a Scottish contribution of £1.25 million. The projects are based in Malawi, South Africa and Uganda, working to improve housing conditions to support people whose lives have been affected by conflict and assist in providing education for deaf children, but also developing a second phase of the away programme together with sport relief and making a further announcement on that in due course. Alison Johnstone, I welcome the projects and the Scottish Government support for those projects. The United Nations recognises that sport is a universal language that can be a powerful tool to promote peace, tolerance and understanding. How can the games help to strengthen Scotland's global links and solidarity between people in Scotland and elsewhere? Will there be opportunities for children in Scotland to learn about the away projects and to understand why we are supporting them? Alison Johnstone makes an excellent point. I have seen myself through the first phase of the projects and what an impact it is making, but the international development work that we are doing and the engagement through sports with some of the poorest in the world is not just being done by the Government. It is great to have, for example, the SFA involved in that, as well as other sporting agencies. I think that she makes the very right point, the very correct point, that perhaps there is a lot more that we can do to reach out to children here so that they understand the efforts that they can make in order to connect with other children in the poorest parts of the world. That is something that I will reflect on and see how we can do more of. To ask the Scottish Government what the value is of art treasures, paintings, artefacts and national treasures that it or the Scottish National Gallery holds. The Scottish Government does not hold a current valuation for the works of art which it holds. The hoardings comprise loans and purchase works, although there have been no purchases by the Scottish Government for at least 10 years. The National Gallery of Scotland does not have current market valuations for all of the items in the collection, which is made up of almost 100,000 works. Individual items in the national collections are only valued when there is a requirement to do so, for example, for loans out, which will require commercial insurance. I thank the cabinet secretary for her answer. Can I ask the cabinet secretary and can she tell me what the current value of artefacts, paintings and national treasures, out presently and loaned from the Scottish Government or the Scottish National Gallery, is at this time? There are no artworks out and loaned at present from the Scottish Government. The value of works that are loaned out from the National Gallery of Scotland is currently just over £1 million. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to address the rising cost of rent for housing. The Scottish Government is investing in social housing at rates that help to keep rent levels low. Scottish social housing has always been based on a principle of affordability to tenants in low-paid employment without recourse to benefits, a principle that we believe should be upheld. That is why, in July 2013, the Scottish Government increased the subsidy levels for all social housing by £16,000, which enables councils and housing associations to keep social rents affordable. Also, in outcome, 14 of the Scottish social housing charter, the Government requires social landlords to take account of what their tenants can afford when they set rents. Rent levels in the private sector are set at the market rate and will reflect local market conditions. I thank the minister for that answer. Under the SNP Government, housing associations have been starved of vital resources. As a result, housing association tenants have a natural fact in Scotland, seeing their annual rent rise by an average of £830 since the SNP came to power. When families are struggling with the cost of living, does the minister think that that is acceptable? In terms of the private rented sector, does the minister accept that increasing rents are an issue in the private sector, too? Will the minister support Labour's proposal next week to cap rent rises? As I said in my initial response, the Scottish Government has increased the subsidy to social landlords to allow landlords to be able to keep rents at an affordable level for their tenants. In terms of the Labour amendment to the housing bill, Neil Bibby is well aware that that was a substantial legislation that Labour is asking for. It introduced a very late stage in the bill, and only after Ed Miliband introduced it in England, it was not something that was introduced to any other stage of the bill or in any meetings we had. However, we are taking forward reform of the private sector tenancy regime, and we will be looking at rent levels as part of that consultation. In terms of looking at rent caps to help those in the private rented sector, I was interested to note the expert group on welfare welcome that idea, stating that rent should increase in line with inflation, but not above it, at least for the duration of the tenancy. Is the minister disagreeing with the views of her own expert group on welfare? I will repeat what I said earlier. We have been looking at the reform of the tenancy regime in the private rented sector. We set it up with a stakeholder group covering all stakeholders. They have now made recommendations to the Government, and we will be consulting on a detailed policy proposal for a new tenancy regime in autumn as part of it. I will say it again, that it will explore issues relating to rent levels. That is the appropriate way to do it is by consulting, discussing with stakeholders, receiving the evidence in the proposals, and then going out in consultation, and not throwing it in as a last-minute thing, as James Kelly is trying to do. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress with the construction of the Borders railway. The construction of the Borders railway remains on schedule for completion in June 2015, with passenger services available by September 2015 following a period of driver training. We do, however, continue to examine possibilities with Network Rail for completion ahead of those timescales. I thank the minister for that response and welcome the project's continuing progress. The minister may be aware that it now takes an hour longer to travel from Hoiq to Edinburgh via public transport than it did in 1969. Borders rail will deliver an undoubted economic boost along its route. The First Minister said in April that Borders rail will act as a catalyst for the restoration of the rest of the historic Waverley route. Will the minister commit today to commissioning a feasibility study into the extension of Borders railway to Hoiq, at the very least, to support a town that, of course, was most affected by Beeching's Cats? The member is quite right to highlight the benefits that will flow from this project, not least because people disconnected from the railway network for nearly 40 years will be back able to use the services that will be both frequent and moderately priced. In relation to further extensions, what I would say is that we found it very productive to concentrate on the project in hand, to make sure that we get that done as quickly as possible on the right and the best possible way. The question that he raised about further extensions was raised last night at the cross-party group and I undertook to look into that and get back to the person concerned. I am happy to copy the member into that correspondence. Mark Griffin is about the Borders railway? Certainly, as far as I understand, the First Minister has already committed to a feasibility study on extending that line in the future. Can the minister say whether that would lead to the line being double-tracked across its whole length and whether there will be significant engineering works to the current package if any extension was proposed? Minister, it was a bit of the Borders railway. Indeed, it was, Presiding Officer. I just say that, obviously, part of the current project will be double-tracked, but it was essential to get the cost-benefit ratio, which was necessary to go ahead with the project, to make it, if you like, wash its face. Had we committed at that stage to double-tracking the entire line, it would have completely skewed the cost-benefit ratio. Further decisions on double-tracking in future would be taken at some time after the project itself is buried in. The same applies, as I have just mentioned, in relation to possible extensions. The First Minister has mentioned that that is a possibility, but we are concentrating on making sure that we get this project done as quickly as possible. To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made with the redevelopment of Stranraer Harbour Waterfront. We are committed to supporting sustainable economic growth in Dumfries and Galloway by working closely with Scottish Enterprise and Dumfries and Galloway Council as partners in the South of Scotland Alliance. We welcome the good progress that has been made by Dumfries and Galloway in taking forward the work of the Stranraer task force with identified investment in marine and community projects. The Stranraer and East Pier design brief has been developed to guide the regeneration of the former terminal site. Together with Scottish Borders Council and Scottish Enterprise and Dumfries and Galloway Council, it is developing a rural economic development programme for the area. The redevelopment of the Stranraer waterfront is a key part of that ambitious vision for growth in the south of Scotland. I am grateful to the cabinet secretary for that response. She will be aware that the site is now being tested on the open market and we all hope that that will have a successful outcome. However, if no buyer is found, would the Scottish Government consider further direct involvement such as the creation of an enterprise zone in Stranraer to encourage the investment that is so desperately needed not just for the enhancement of the derelict waterfront itself but also for the local economy? I am sure that we will appreciate that I am not in a position nor would it be appropriate to give specific commitments around specific proposals about that right now. I hope that that came through from the spirit of the answer that I gave earlier. The Scottish Government is very committed to working with partners in Dumfries and Galloway, particularly around some of the projects in Stranraer that it is talking about, to find the best way forward in relation to the regeneration of the area. We stand ready to discuss with partners what the best approaches might be in particular circumstances. I am as always happy to meet the member to have those discussions in more detail as well, if that would be helpful. To ask the Scottish Government how it encourages the availability of affordable housing in the private rented sector. Our housing strategy confirmed that we would support a substantial expansion of intermediate or mid-market rental properties to complement social rented housing and ease the pressures on it. We are doing that through a range of initiatives, including grant subsidy to RSL subsidiaries, the empty homes loan fund and the national housing trust. I thank the minister for that response. One in four people who rent privately live in poverty. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that private renters in Scotland spend 23 per cent of their income on housing up from 18 per cent just a decade ago. In order to improve the situation of the 300,000 household who find themselves in this position, Scottish Labour has proposed a cap on rent rises and an introduction of a standard three-year tenancy agreement. Why won't the Scottish Government support those measures? In terms of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, it also reported that households in Scotland spend a smaller share of their income on housing costs than they do in England. The same report also found that poverty rates in Scotland are also lower than 10 years in England. I will refer the member back to the answer that I gave earlier. The Scottish Government is taking forward reform of the private rented sector tenancy. We will be consulting on a detailed policy proposal for a new tenancy regime in autumn, and part of that will explore issues relating to rent levels. We will do that in taking evidence, consulting with our stakeholders and allowing Parliament to give detailed scrutiny to any proposals that we put forward. To ask the Scottish Government when it last met Transport Scotland and what issues were discussed. Transport Scotland is part of the Scottish Government and meetings with ministers occur regularly in the normal course of business. In July 2012, the Minister for Transport announced substantial cuts to the Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement programme. Can he confirm which improvements were removed from the programme when phase 1 is due to be completed, and can he update the Parliament on a timescale for any future phases? I think that the member may recall that we announced at the same time that around 80 per cent of the original works proposed for the previous budget of £1 billion should be delivered for the new budgetary price. There are some parts of the programme that are being phased. For example, the Edinburgh Gateway was part of that phased approach. I expect to have completed the electrification itself, which was completed by 2018. Further works are falling on, which will be completed by 2019. However, that is a very substantial investment by the Government in this, around £850 million, which will lead to improved services between the Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement programme, increased number of passenger spaces available, and improved the environmental cost, which is incurred by rail travel. In response to a question last week regarding the Levenmouth rail link, the minister suggested that neither he nor Transport Scotland had had any contact from Fife Council regarding this project. As the leader of Fife Council did in fact write to the minister on 28 May, and the letter was acknowledged by the Scottish Government, could the minister now correct the record and acknowledge that representations have in fact been made by Fife Council on this matter? Of course, if that's the case, I'll do just that. However, I think that the question that I was asked was whether we'd had representations saying that that was to be the priority of Fife Council. We had no record of any correspondence. If it's the case that something's been missed, I'll write to the member and confirm that. To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting the building of more affordable homes in the rural communities of the Highlands and Islands? The Scottish Government has allocated over £53 million to Highland Council and the three island authorities for the period 2012-13 to 2014-15 to build affordable homes. The Scottish Government provides higher subsidy benchmarks for rural areas and west highland island authorities and remote rural orgyll compared to the city and urban developments. We have supported the small communities housing trust rent-to-buy model, which provides affordable housing for rural communities in Highland. I thank the minister for that answer. As well as constructing new homes, many constituents want to see empty and dilapidated homes bought back into use for affordable rent. Is the minister confident that the empty homes loan fund is as effective a measure as the previous rural empty properties grant scheme? Are there any plans to expand the scope of the empty homes loan fund? The empty homes loan fund has already approved projects in the Highland and Islands, and £4.5 million has been offered to over the £4 million that was originally set for the fund. Highland has £400,000 and the western isles have £155,000 allocated. We are looking at the empty homes loan scheme and we are always looking in discussion with local authorities and stakeholders to see how we can encourage more and more owners to bring their properties back into use, because that is something that we all want and I am willing to engage with the member in that if he has got something more discussion than that one as we go forward. In 2008, the Scottish Government launched the Rural Home for Rent scheme at a cost of £5 million. Can the minister tell us how many homes were built using those funds and if any review was carried out into the scheme? I do not have the figures at hand for that, but we did run the Rural Homes for Rent scheme as a pilot project that provided grant funding to rural landlords for affordable housing at the mid-market rent level. The funding could be used to renovate empty properties and build new homes, and it was popular in some parts of Scotland. We are aware that some people have looked for the reintroduction, but there were difficulties with that scheme. If the member has any specific questions on that scheme, she is willing to give me the questions and I will respond to them. To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with cycling organisations regarding improvements to cycling infrastructure. Both myself and officials speak regularly to cycling organisations regarding cycling infrastructure, and the outcome of the most recent discussion was the allocation of an additional £7 million funding for cycling and walking infrastructure projects announced on 10 June. Last week, in partnership with Surstrans, the Scottish Government allocated 84 Commonwealth Games legacy cycle rights to businesses across Scotland, adding an additional 840 cycle parking spaces in workplaces. Given the growing appetite across Scotland for cycling infrastructure that makes cycling an easy and natural choice for everyday short trips, what message does it send out to cyclists and tourists visiting Scotland that Network Rail has banned cycling from Waverley bridge down into the station with cyclists having to use the narrow pavements already often congested with walkers and totally unsuitable for prams, buggies and bikes to pass each other? Will the minister take this matter up with Network Rail and ask them to urgently review this decision so as to permit safe access to the station for cyclists and much more customer friendly signage to be established? The message that it sends out is that Network Rail is very concerned about safety within the stations that it owns. I am informed by Network Rail that the decision to close both ramps to all users other than delivery vehicles has been necessary in order to create a more secure station, providing a number of benefits, including a safer interface between passengers and vehicles, as well as improving the air quality. The recently completed improvement programme has delivered new, fuel-accessible entrances to the station at Coulton Road and Market Street with additional cycle parking at the west side of the station. It is in everyone's interest that we have safe and secure access to the railway, and I am sure that Network Rail is already aware of those particular issues. In fact, I discussed it with the route manager for Network Rail last night. I am happy to further raise the issues that the member has raised, the issues that he has raised in relation to concerns about cycling access. I share Mr E's concern. As a regular commuter, I have to say that the new arrangements could not be more inconvenient, and I regard myself as reasonably able-bodied, but they now require access to taxes, for example, without any cover in times of heavy rainfall. What are elderly people or people with disabilities meant to cope with that? Part of the issue is the fact that Waverley is relatively unique in being effectively underground. It does not have any other stations that are in that situation. It has been very concerned to make sure that the safety of passengers and people accessing the railway is paramount. We have had a very serious fatal accident, as you will know in that regard. That is a background against which Network Rail has taken forward those proposals. There was access by taxes before that point, but they found out that that is a potentially dangerous, as it proved to be in the instance that I mentioned. They are further looking at this. I have had representations from Edinburgh City Council on the issues that they have raised with me on their behalf to Network Rail, but I think that their primary interest has to be safely accessing and coming out of the railway station. Of course, there are at least two taxie ranks very close by, as soon as they come out of the station. As I said, we will raise those issues again with Network Rail, but I think that they are doing this for the best of reasons. To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the report below the breadline, published by Oxfam, Church Action on Poverty and the Trussell Trust. The report contains some important messages showing that a combination of changes to the social security system, low wages and rising living costs are contributing significantly to food poverty. It is unacceptable that anyone in a country as prosperous as Scotland should have to rely on food banks, yet both the Food Aid report that we published in December and the recent report from the Parliament's welfare reform committee showed that benefit changes and delays are leading more and more people to turn to food banks. We are taking action to support those who are most in need through our £1 million emergency food action plan, but we simply cannot mitigate all the changes that are coming from Westminster. We need the powers of independence to help to build a fairer society, including actions to address low pay and a welfare system better suited to Scotland's needs. I thank the minister for that answer. Does she agree with me that it is important that organisations such as Oxfam and the Trussell Trust should be able to draw attention to the perfect storm that is brewing with regard to the poverty experience by far too many people across the UK, which was also highlighted in the Scotland's Outlook campaign led by SCVO, without fear of being shut down, as is in the case of the Trussell Trust, or reported to the Charities Commission as in the case of Oxfam? Yes, I absolutely agree that organisations working in the front line producing have the evidence to inform all of us, and I do not think that they should be under any threat of being closed down, but the reality is that the UK Government's welfare reforms, which the Scottish Government has consistently opposed, involve punitive cuts, and that is what the UK Government does not want to hear. I very much agree with the member that all organisations working in the front line should have the right to speak out based on what they see day and daily in front of them and should not have any fear of being closed down because of it. I am sure that the minister appreciates that an increasing number of employed people are accessing food banks, and I am sure that she would agree that we need to do more to address in-work poverty. Whilst I welcome the £1 million food action plan, I wonder whether she regrets not introducing the living wage, because that is the power she has now. It would have made a difference to 400,000 families across Scotland. What I would say to the member is that if successive UK Governments had increased the living wage even in line with inflation, people in Scotland in low incomes would be £600 a year better off, but I would also say that this Scottish Government and the Deputy First Minister has made our position in the living wage absolutely clear. We have led in this in the living wage. The Scottish Government pays it to everyone across the sector that they are responsible for. We have supported the poverty alliance and funded the poverty alliance to promote the accreditation of living wage employers in Scotland, so nobody should have any doubt whatsoever about the position of this Scottish Government regarding the living wage. To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with Aberdeen City Council regarding transport developments. The Scottish Government has had regular discussions with Aberdeen City Council over a number of transport developments, including public transport, road and rail infrastructure, electric vehicle infrastructure and hydrogen infrastructure. Can I welcome the announcement of the preferred bidder for the Aberdeen Western peripheral route? Given that Aberdeen City Council is a partner in delivering that project, can the minister advise whether the council is participating fully in discussions around that and the projects that will follow on from it, given the recent decision by the administration not to involve themselves in the public information events around the Hardigan Improvement Plan? I can confirm that the timescales are discussed regularly. As a funding partner to the project, Aberdeen City Council participates fully in all discussions. Following my attendance at Aberdeen City Council's Finance, Policy and Resources meeting, a very constructive meeting on 6 May to discuss the Scottish Government's commitments to improving Horrigan, the council has confirmed that it will work closely with Transport Scotland as a Horrigan Improvement and Middle-Field regeneration schemes progress to help to facilitate a joint approach that best serves local residents and road users alike. Thank you. That ends questions. The next item of business is a debate on motion number 10353, in the name of Johann Lamont on Scotland's future. Members wish to take part in the debate.


is that in order to talk about economy we need to talk about numbers, real numbers, absolute numbers. And I wish to propose that also we are now in a position where we can start doing that or at least we can start simulating it. And the first thing is we need to reconstruct population figures because people are consumers. And we need to know their numbers in order to know the level of consumption, whether it's food or metal or textiles. And that again will give a measure about the level of trade. And the method to do that is to use a multi-scale approach where you take local studies of high resolution where we have really solid figures and then you will have to extrapolate from there to the larger regions. So it's different from what I see and what you see. It doesn't move. No, you have to go the other way. One more there. There we are. Okay. Well, I just tell you what I've just said. And my case will be a region that we have studied in Northwestern Ireland 2 and we actually published two monographs last year about that if you want to check what I'm saying. So let's see if it works. Okay. By the Bronze Age we have a global economy. And which basically means that every community in the known world was depending on supplies of metal, copper and tin. And therefore there had to be a well-functioned infrastructure that would supply that. The question is only what did it look like? What were the quantities? And then we are back to the figures that I'm talking about. Let's start with population figures. Here's a study by probably several years ago by Johannes Müller as the first attempt. And what we see here is from his graph you see up there he compares the Near East and Europe in absolute numbers. And between 2500 BC populations nearly double in Europe. You have really good conditions here. High survival rate of children and we can begin to ask why is that? The new metal economy, new wool economy. That's the first time we have wool in clothing. New food treatment, shorting and smoking of meat. And you could travel and bring food with you. Perhaps even also fast exchange of genes and so on and so forth. But the important thing is to note that he reached a figure of nearly 13 million Europeans by 1500 BC. And here are some minimum figures just to inspire the imagination from Anatolia. Here we have one of the best documented instances of trade and consumption. Even throughout early history in Asuwa. The oldest year in trade. And in 30 years we know that they traded 110 tons of tin, 4 tons per year. They could provide 40 tons per a branch. And 150,000 fine textiles and so on. Each household would have like 50 to 75 kilos of branch. Kindness had an estimated population of 20,000. 1,000 to 2,000 households, 50 ton of branch, just a single Near Eastern normal town. Add that up with all the other towns. Huge, huge quantities had to be traded here. And Europe I would suggest is not that different. We had nearly similar numbers of people in Europe in the Near East, but they were not urbanized, but still. And we have already an economic division of labor in Europe. By the mature branch, the middle branch, which I'll be talking about from 15, 1600 to 1100 BC, Europe is written in Europe had something that others needed. You had then to trade. You had to develop an infrastructure. Here are the books, just a commercial for our projects. This is a study I'll use as a micro study. And here we could establish that by the middle branch age, here we have one of the densest settlements in Northern Europe, two to three farms per square kilometer. And the same settlement density as 1800 AD. No forest left. At all. You had to import timber at that time in this region. And population estimates we can do say that throughout the branch age, we have an average of one farm per square kilometer in Denmark. And we calculate conservatively half of Denmark was settled. That makes 22,000 farms with an average household of 10 to 15. That makes a living population around quarter million to 300,000 people in this little area. You can then extrapolate to Europe from there and you'll reach figures that even properly exceed Johannes Müller's. These were cataloging free farmers of local chiefs and entities. And so these, when 2000s farm would minimum have two working axes of making up one kilo. So you would have 22 tons circulating at any given time as a minimum. Properly the double if you had shorts and weapons and ornaments and resharpening would take away from the axis every year. You use them daily. conservatively 5%. You need them to replace minimum one ton per year in this little region of Denmark. Again, if you extrapolate to the rest of Europe, we are up in hundreds of tons, maybe thousands of tons per year that need to be replaced. The same with textiles, even if we say that the free farmers, we can calculate them to maximum 20% of the population. It's still 40, 50,000 people who need textiles, who need textiles. They were not produced in Denmark. We have shown that. They were imported. They were still only done in southern central Europe. So you need several thousand pieces of cloth to import per year. We are here talking about commodity trade of scale. Something that looks a lot more like the Iron Age or the Viking period. So the suggestion I make here is really that by the Bronze Age, by the Middle Bronze Age, we have a European economy of scale and an infrastructure that support that you can trade systematically, caravans, hundreds of kilometers annually. We know from our lead isotope analysis of several hundred artifacts that the metal was coming from two or three mines in Europe. We provide all the metal to Europe. So it's highly centralized, highly organized. Basically, we have a society just as developed and highly organized. Fifty hundred BC years, we have a thousand AD, I would say. Everything in between is fluctuations, ups and downs. And population, Europe is 10 million square kilometers. If we assume that three million square kilometers were densely settled conservatively, take away, you know, northern Scandinavia, northern Russia. Still, we end up with a figure of 30 million people. Now, Johannes Müller didn't calculate Russia. So he raised 13 million. I raised 30 million. But we are talking about high numbers. Many regions in Europe had already reached maximum population density and settlement density with the known economy. Then we can add the different technological and actually innovation. As Daniel was talking about, and that would raise the figure in some regions, yes, by the end of the Bronze Age, the figures are probably higher. And this is the organization of trade. As I see it in northern Europe, in South Scandinavia, a maritime motor production where the farmers, they invest their surplus in boats and cruise that trade systematically. And you develop a whole maritime economy along the coast where you have people who are not supporting themselves from agricultural products. They make the rock carvings. They are the specialized traders, maritime traders. And here are some distances that you can reach by these boat, paddling boats of the Bronze Age, like the York Spring boat. And you can reach different regions in Europe within two, three weeks. There are big distances, but going with boats, you can go quite far. And then, of course, the question is how far would they go? Scandinavish will probably go to the English Channel at least, TANET. We know that from the side of TANET or to the rivers. So we have an integrated yet diversified world in terms of democracy and economy. But we are talking about an economy of scale, a commodity-based economy. Whether they were using psychophysical methods or later developed scales, we know they had scales in the Middle Bronze Age but only for small things like amber and gold. We know they chopped gold wire. So for the finer, valuable things, they were using scales. But I go along with Michael for the heavy things. So hundreds, perhaps thousands of tons of copper were traded annually from two or three major mines in Europe. A modern economy supported by advanced commercial systems. And all communities were depending on bronze. Even if consumption was substantially lower than in the Near East, it was still a commodity-based metal trade, based on regular caravans and shipments. So a pre-modern economy of commodity trade emerged from the Middle Bronze Age onwards. And later developments are rather changed in scale than changed in organization. The Vikings had better ships and sails and could reach further out in the world. But essentially it's the same kind of organization, the same kind of system. Thank you.


What's up internet? If you're up to me, I would never leave this room because this room has my desktop and with my desktop I can do everything I need to do in life Unfortunately, my life forces me away from my desktop whether it's checking up on the shop or bringing my kid to school I've been finding myself afk more and more recently, but my workload doesn't change I still need to edit videos and what's the best way to do that on the go? We're tackling that in today's video, but as bonus information the cheapest way to activate Windows is this Five minutes So web developer and content creator for a youtube channel and And right now, I'm still like that but my windows is already activated That's why I'm looking for a legit, cheap and original software Check out cdkoffer.com Check out cdkoffer.com Check out cdkoffer.com So we're trying to find the best way to edit videos on the go We're talking about 4k full-length youtube videos not shorts or tiktoks or these Short form content the usual length of youtube videos We'll be going through an ipad a regular work laptop and a laptop specifically designed for editing The software we'll be using is the vinci resolve because that's what I use for editing Apologies to premiere fans, but I really really dislike adobe End footage to be edited is in 4k either shot with a sony zve 10 or a fuji film xs 10 First the ipad hindi ba imba to set a tablet against regular laptops Not at all because these tablets use apples m chips whether m1 or m2 And these chips were specifically designed by apple allowing them to have much better performance Basically, it's a consequence of native software running better on native hardware Now we used an ipad with an m1 chip for this video because we are poor and don't have access to an ipad With an m2 chip But even just with an m1 the performance of the vinci resolve was shockingly good Scrubbing through your video which editors do a lot because you need to jump from one point to another Or even with just rough edits where you're trying to cut out the arms and allow noises Scrub through was very smooth I couldn't believe that we were doing this on a tablet The downside wasn't with the performance of the tablet But with the inherent limitations of the tablet format itself For serious editing keyboard and mouse are a lot faster than touch and stylus Also, if you want to do a full edit you need to put so many other things Whether it's your music files your image files custom transitions You need to have a folder structure in place Which is difficult to accomplish in the ui of a tablet And I haven't even mentioned getting more b-roll in with your primary a-roll There are a lot of other files you need to draw on while editing And the ipad just isn't set up to help you navigate those so so many files through so so many folders The desktop is still different especially if you have multiple monitors to work with Hell, the ipad even just tracking down one file can be an exercise in frustration So an m1 or m2 chip ipad is surprisingly good for editing It's not just a hype, it's actually useful That said, I would only use it for rough edits That first pass where you remove ums, pauses, mispronunciations, wrong specs mentioned Next up, a regular work laptop Meant for work such as typing and surfing but not handling these large video files certainly not editing them The easiest use case for this is buying a laptop for work And either you're a creeper so you don't want to spend it for a more expensive editing laptop Or you're really done with the budget, you can't afford a more expensive laptop So this is a make-do with what you have approach and that's the approach I took I recently reviewed my work laptop the asos s14 flip OLED I am super happy with it, but it wasn't meant for video editing It's definitely a mid-range laptop and is it unfair to ask it to do this much Before I tried video, I did try editing audio and a bunch of our podcast episodes were recorded and fully edited using the s14 flip With audio, it's no problem, especially for kind of amateurish Production values like what we have for textual but friendly But basic editing, stitching together sound, recording the sound The laptop, even though I didn't buy it for that purpose, served me well The laptop struggled with video though. Basic playback was rough Even when I lowered the proxy quality of my timeline I could still do a basic run through but performance was barely sufficient And this was just the rough first edit No text, no b-roll, no other layers or masks that even relatively simple videos like what we do for YouTube usually require Editing for any length of time due to the sluggishness of the system and the overall limited capabilities of the format A computer on your lap with a small screen Became downright physically painful after a while Again, this is not the fault of the laptop as I'm trying to make it do things well outside of its usual Expected scope of performance. So I can do rough edits with my s14 flip OLED But it is no substitute at all for my usual desktop editing rig And with that enter our last contender the asus pro art studio book 16 OLED Asus kindly lent us this laptop when we asked if we could borrow a serious laptop the one that Professional editors use and look for and it did not disappoint Grab it for editing playback was smooth cuts were instantaneous Jumbling around the clips. It just handled everything so quickly any kind of cut or edited want to do It would execute without any lag and amazingly In terms of smoothness it performed even better than my usual desktop crazy Superlative experience with this laptop and of course the gorgeous screen just is the cherry on top Of course, it's OLED the colors are vibrant Everything just pops with this screen So much so that it may be a shame that we don't really color correct or at least I don't color correct my videos The studio book 16 is a legitimate desktop replacement Especially if you hook it up to multiple monitors the performance is there the windows uis there to handle multiple files and folders The lack of additional screen because the OLED is nice, but it is just one screen But this laptop plus maybe two or more monitors or so with a mouse That's a perfect setup right there for editing no desktop required anymore Although it does beg the question if you're editing on the go where you would mount those multiple monitors But that's a weird question for another time and to be honest I didn't think any portable device could supplant my desktop My desktop is not the highest end, but it's still pretty beefy But the studio book 16 editing on it Unlucky difference the crispness the smoothness The laptop had it for editing the studio book is hefty though Both in terms of its physical weight and its figurative weight Mahal and it's far and away the most expensive of the devices that we tried And that's really the long and short of this video So desktops kasi may para an para Guma an yung budget there are ways to zoom in on what you need the pc for and design your computer around that There's less of an adaptability you have less leeway with mobile devices There are some Puede na solutions to video editing on the go which are moderately priced but come with some clear limitations You might be able to live with those limitations as long as you can get back regularly to your desktop But if you're looking to exclusively edit on a portable device the good news is that there are machines Hefty enough for you to do that, but the price of entry is quite high The bad news is those machines will cost you a pretty penny Thanks for watching Pulley Assemble rigs we clean computers We also clean and repace GPUs Na samakati yung physical store namin and you can also buy from our site Now 100% palaging up-to-date yung inventory dung Kung in stock yung item sa amin available yung sa site. 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As we head into the second decade of the 21st century, I strongly believe that the rate of change, the rate of transformation is only increasing, it is actually increasing exponentially and the two areas where the rate of change will be much higher than what we had anticipated. So, one would be on the human talent side, I mean we have seen already the signs that the empowerment of individuals whether it was the Anna Hazre movement in India or whether it was the various things that happened and the Arab world it clearly shows is that human us, human contribution, human need for inclusiveness, human need for being able to influence various decisions have only become higher than in the past. Similarly, on the second side I do believe that man and the machine, so on the human side I can go on, but on the machine side you know Facebook is already the third largest nation in the world, we already have 35 billion connected devices, we are hearing that every atom would be a connected device, because now with IP version 6 you would have you know addresses available for every atom to be able to communicate. So, on the machine side again you are seeing the change is far more rapid than anyone would have anticipated, actually the joke now going around is that science fiction books cannot write fiction fast enough, because the reality is delivered much faster than the fiction. The industry that I represent is IT services, engineering services and back office operations, clearly two important factors for my businesses are people, the second important factor is the automation and both of them are going through as I said very rapid transformation, our belief is that there will be phenomenal changes as we go along, that people would want to do a lot more interesting work, because machines are getting more capable of doing a lot of mundane work. So, the words that you used to hear artificial intelligence, when you used to think about intelligent humanoids or the intelligent robots, I mean I think it is going to become a bigger reality, which only tells you it is not that a human being will not be doing, a human being will be doing things at a very different plane all together. And similarly machines we all know a smart phone is now more capable than a main frame of yesterday, and similarly with the rate of change in the communication broadband availability, we already have 3G, we have seen LTE with lot of people call it 4G, we are already talking about 5G, with that kind of a bandwidth available and with that kind of mobile devices available that today a tablet is replaces airline manuals is probably going to replace airline pilots, so the changes are all around us. I think innovation is something which all of us, whether it is organizations, whether it is societies or whether it is countries, all of us want to be differentiated, all of us want to do things differently and not only differently, we also want to do it in much shorter time with a lot more functionality and at a much less surprise. So, one is what I would call a forced innovation, because if you do not innovate somebody else will, so for example if I was a TV manufacturer I have to give the thinnest, the longest lasting TV at the cheapest price, so that means maybe the formula would be one third the price and three times of functionality. Now, the second part is at what is called as disruptive innovation, a disruptive innovation is you find different ways of doing things, so instead of a TV just to take an example of TV, why do I need a physical device called TV, why cannot I be why cannot I energize atoms right in front of me, why cannot I sit in the garden and point out to a space and say that is the TV and if I can do that then there is no physical device required and if I am doing it then I have basically taken over that market and many of those examples will happen right in our lifetimes, it will happen right in front of us. I think again you know go back what are the challenges the world is facing today, fiscal management, employment, number three imbalance of trade between various nations, eventually commodity today it is oil tomorrow it could be water, third day it could be something else the reality is that there is and there is a need for commodity last but not the least agro foods with the population rising I mean there would be challenges on the food or the pricing. Now, all of this as I said right through my conversation today the two important parts are technology and human, I strongly believe that the governments around the world will have to adopt number one that protectionism cannot exist because the levels of communication have increased so much that artificial trade barriers are not going to help, artificial boundaries are not going to help and we still find a lot of protectionism as an answer to an employment problem. In my opinion is that you need to embrace technology, you need to be able to embrace efficiency and productivity, you need to embrace that like individual company is valued on operating margins on their new growth differentiated models on how they are able to position themselves in the market, the governments will have to again use technology and the human capital to create that differentiation and that is I believe firms like ours which spend a fair amount of energy and time to try and make firms more competitive in the market. Similarly, I think we need to spend more time with the governments to make them more competitive so that they can address some of their challenges.


I think all the staff there are wonderful. You go to Boys and Girls Club and if you didn't learn it at school then you learn it at Boys and Girls Club. We joke around a lot. One of my favorite things is to do class. My favorite thing is to do class. My favorite thing is to do the Boys and Girls Club or arts and crafts. My favorite activities at the Boys and Girls Club are the arts and crafts, the physical activities and the field trips. My favorite things to do at the club would be some STEM activities. My favorite thing about the Boys and Girls Club probably the fun stuff that I made. My favorite thing about the Boys and Girls Club is that we get to do fun art activities and a lot of free time with the basketballs or kickball. We go to the park. We go into the gym and we play basketball. My favorite things are going outside and playing and playing kickball. What I like about the staff is they make me feel comfortable. I like the staff at the Boys and Girls Club because they're so joyful. My favorite thing about the staff is that they're really friendly and they really love playing a lot of the games that we do. Andrew's helpful because if I ever need a music there for me. So if you get stabbed by a wood chip, then they'll help you. One of my favorite memories I've had with Bailey is when we played Mario Kart and G.B.E. Because she actually interacted with us and it's really nice when the staff do that. He went on the Zippin Pippin and I was freaking out the whole time. Thank you, staff, for coming here and making me feel safe and comfortable. Thank you for being there for me and there when I need you. Thank you for being there for us and also playing games with us. Thank you for everything you do for us to make sure we have a fun time. Thank you for all the stuff you did before. This was one of my best summers that I had even though it was one of the first summers here. And I'm definitely coming back next year. Thanks for always being like the more fun staff and the more like chill and active staff. Thank you for everything. To sum it up, thank you.


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When most people think of UFOs, they probably think of alien spaceships from some distant planet. However, Hollow Earth believers believe UFOs come not from outer space, but inside our Earth. Did the Nazis also believe this, and could this explain their obsession with the occult and Antarctica? Is the Hollow Earth theory the greatest government cover-up of all time? And is the government still trying to use it to their advantage? But before we go any further, you know what to do. Please hit that subscribe button and give us a like also. As always, a very, very special thank you to all of our patrons. Without you, this channel would not be possible because of you we are able to afford new lights and filming equipment. Welcome to Esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce, and today on part five of our Hollow Earth series, we are going to be talking about Base 211. In one day's episode, we spoke about the Third Reich's famed medium, Maria Orsik. Maria Orsik's disappearance in 1945 led many to believe she ended up inside the Earth in the land of Agartha. And of course, when we first went on this journey of exploring the idea of a Hollow Earth, we spoke about Admiral Byrd. Admiral Byrd had experience with Agartha, with the inhabitants of Agartha. His diary was published by his son after his death. Because during his life, he was forced into secrecy by the United States government. From the looks of it, out of all the research I've done, this does look like one of the biggest cover-ups of all time, governmental cover-ups. And not just one government, but all governments. From my research, I do believe that this cover-up has a lot to do with what we're seeing right now in our world today. This cover-up could be part of the epic battle, the battle between good versus evil, between God and Satan, the end times, the shifting of timelines, the moving into a more positive future once we get rid of the dark entities that want to establish a new world order. In doing a deep dive into Agartha, I decided to do the Nazi video last. Yes, we started with Marie Orsik on Monday, but this seems to be the crux of everything going on in our world. Now there are people out there that have dedicated way more time than I have to this subject, people who have written books on this subject. So as with all of the videos on this channel, I do hope that after you're done watching this, you will do your own research and come up with your own conclusions. I have listed down in the description box below a few videos and articles that might help you get started. Now I'm not sure where Marie Orsik lands on the board, whether she was used by the Third Reich for her abilities or whether she willingly gave her abilities to the Third Reich. But I'm pretty sure that people like Admiral Byrd are good guys, but were put in a very impossible situation. I'm pretty sure that by his son releasing his journals, that he was trying to tell us what his father wanted to tell us all those years ago. So without further ado, let's look at Hitler's involvement in Antarctica and Agartha. According to the history books, World War II ended on September 2nd, 1945, with the Axis forces surrendering to the Allied forces. Soon after the end of World War II, we had what was called the Nuremberg Trials. The Nuremberg Trials were a set of trials on an international level that charged people with war crimes and crimes against humanity for their involvement in the Nazi Party. We saw for 12 of the defendants what is called an International Military Tribunal. All in all, there were 199 defendants and 161 convictions and 37 sentenced to death. However, for a long time what people failed to realize is that most of the really powerful people within the Third Reich were not tried at the Nuremberg Trials. Many of these leaders, scientists, and doctors were said to have committed suicide or perhaps ran off. At least that was the story that the people were told globally. Now we understand that there was an operation in place, an operation called Operation Paperclip. Operation Paperclip, for the most part, gave some of these scientists new identities, moved them into the United States or to other countries under a new identity, completely cutting them off from any involvement in the Third Reich. However, part of Operation Paperclip was also classifying many of the technologies used by the Nazi Party, including that of genetic research and, of course, flying saucers. During World War II, there were many rumors and theories that the Germans had created a base in Antarctica. This was a base called New Swabinland or Base 211. It was rumored that this base was a station for a lot of the elites to be able to go into the world beneath Antarctica, aka Agartha, and live. Or perhaps hide to hide is probably a better way to describe this alleged base. Now in 1947, Admiral Byrd was sent back down to Antarctica in an operation called Operation High Jump. On paper, Operation High Jump was supposed to be a training routine. However, many speculate that that's not the case because Admiral Byrd was sent with a huge fleet with him. Many speculate that Admiral Byrd was sent to Antarctica to try to find the opening to Base 211 in New Swabinland. Allegedly, this base was in a mountainous region of Antarctica that wasn't particularly snowy. The legend goes that once Admiral Byrd got to Antarctica, a battle persisted, a battle that also involved many flying saucers that had been used and developed by the Third Reich. Things get a little hazy after Admiral Byrd returned to the United States. But one thing many researchers are pretty sure of is that a deal was made between the government and the inhabitants of Antarctica. Now there is rumor that Admiral Byrd talked about seeing blue-skinned people there, perhaps extraterrestrials, along with a lot of the Nazis that had been hidden in this base. It's no secret that the history books are written by the victors, or maybe not the victors, but the people who rule our planet. We know that Hitler was going for world domination. He wanted this one world government. And some say he wanted to bring about the Antichrist. We know that for the ruling elite, their greatest trick is infiltration. Many people believe that World War II did not end the way that they told us it ended and that the Nuremberg trials were nothing but show trials, basically using some middle-ranking people as scapegoats. Certain deaths were faked. And of course, with Operation Paperclip, many of the most dangerous scientists in the Third Reich were given whole new identities and freedom in other countries. Many researchers believe that what we're seeing now is the fruition of Hitler's plans. Again, a new world order. Now, because of the sensitivity of this topic and because of censorship on this platform, there's not a whole, whole lot I can really say beyond that. Again, I do recommend that everybody do his or her own research. This part five is more of a conclusion video to everything that we've spoken about in hopes that everybody will go out there and educate his or herself and come up with his or her own independent thought on the matter. Critical thinking is a skill that is not really used a lot nowadays, because we know that the propaganda unit of World War II is still in full effect. And in my opinion, World War II never really ended. In my opinion, World War II just shifted. To conclude these ideas regarding Antarctica, Agartha, and the Third Reich, I do want to tell you guys about a German submarine that went missing in 1943. However, in 1947, Loved Ones and the government received a letter from the submarine U-Boat 209. The writer of the letter seems to believe that he and his fellow men upon the submarine got trapped. Trapped in a hollow earth. They too, like Admiral Bird, had fallen into the poles, into the land of Agartha. But in this letter, they knew that it would get to the appropriate people. We also know that in 1966, a cartographer for National Geographic drew a map of Antarctica without the ice shields. In this map, he showed the tunnels leading to the hollow earth. Upon my research, I also found directions on how to get to the hollow earth. I will leave the directions in this video. However, I will not read them out loud because of Big Brother watching us. If you would like to read the directions to yourself, please pause the video so you can see them. There is a famous saying that says, the more I learn, the less I know. And I can definitely tell you from my perspective during this Great Awakening, that is certainly true. Do aliens come from inside of our earth, not outside of our earth? Is this where spaceships come from? The hollow earth, Agartha? If you're to read Admiral Bird's diaries and believe him to be correct, then yes. And it was Mark Twain who said that the truth is often stranger than fiction. A few episodes ago, Tom Numbers from the Sight Club and I did an episode with our friend, Tarot by Janine, Janine who's up in Canada. Tom asked her to ask the cards, flat out, do we live on a flat earth? The cards really wouldn't answer it for us. Basically, like the earth isn't flat but also isn't round either. That's led me to then question what actually are we standing on? Are there people living inside of our earth? I don't know. But what I do know is there is something very dangerous that they are hiding from us. And during this time, on our timeline, the veil is being lifted. With Janine's cards, we also got the impression that it wasn't time for us to learn the truth yet. Sometimes learning the truth can be like opening up Pandora's box. When our minds have been programmed, yes, programmed, indoctrinated, to think a certain way. And the minute that indoctrination starts to shatter, it can cause trauma. And even though the bad guys think that they'll win, we know that in the end, God wins, good wins. And we move into the age of Aquarius, the thousand years of peace. So regardless of the truth, we all have to hold on to each other tight and accept what we can when we can. And know that in the end, as number 45 said, the best is yet to come. Now again, please remember that on this channel, everything we speak about is all alleged. I again really, really, really want you to do your own research. Once more, I have provided links in the description box below to help you get started down that rabbit hole. But I would also like to hear your opinions down in the comment section below. We're going to leave the Hollow Earth behind for now, as we move on to new topics. Monday's mystery was inspired by the Hollow Earth, but isn't really about the Hollow Earth. And it'll be more of a fun one, a conspiracy or a mystery that I was already familiar with. I hope that you guys are all having a wonderful week ahead. And I hope that your weekend is going to be good. I know things are crazy with the gas right now. Please be safe. Be courteous of other people. Please remember the only actions that you can control are your own.  Once more, I want to thank Josh McKay for doing our opening music. If you would like to purchase the full song from Josh, there is a link down in the description box below. And I would like to again thank Todd Roderick for helping me get this video out to you guys today. Todd's band, The Flying Mystics, will be on the dark outpost soon for a concert. But if you want to follow his band on YouTube and get access to some of their music, then their link is also in the description box below. Once more, I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful day. And I will talk to all of you soon. Bye.


Hello and welcome to the Monday Market Update with me, Dave Madden. Today's date is Monday, the 1st of October 2018, and the time has just gone, 12.20 BST. Well, I've had a fairly decent start to the European session today. Essentially, the news from North America overnight at the US and Canada have reached a trade agreement to effectively bring in to play a new and revised or revamped or renegotiated NAFTA North America free trade agreement. This has actually boosted market sentiment in Asia overnight and it's also managed to list sentiment here in Europe. I'm also looking at a much higher start for the Dow Jones and the S&P 500. The US and Mexico managed to agree their component of the revised or revamped or new NAFTA deal back in late August and there's a deadline of midnight U.S. time last night which was an agreement was reached just beforehand. So the news of the agreement has boosted equity markets essentially all around the world. There's obviously ongoing issues with the trading relationship between the US and China but for the time being clear, it is focusing on the fact that Dow Jones managed to actually bring in the Canadians into the vote. So that's the big picture. It's been a relatively quiet day in terms of actual individual news stories. The big one would be that the Ryanair issued a profit warning to set up the lower the portfolio profit guidance to blame higher costs, industrial action and also compensation for flight cancellations as the reason for their lowering of the profit guidance. But they're still hoping to make, expecting to make over 1 billion euros profit so they're still actually in very decent shape. Take a look now at what's going on at the Week Ahead. The Week Ahead article can be found on a website if you go to cmcmarcus.com and under the news and analysis section you will find the Week Ahead article among other articles that we that we write. Turning our attention to tomorrow, the Reserve Bank of Australia will release an interest rate decision overnight. No change is expected respecting the interest rate in Australia to remain unchanged at 1.5%. Also tomorrow, we have third quarter figures out from PepsiCo. On Wednesday, we have first half figures from Tesco. We have the IPO of Aston Martin on Wednesday. On Thursday, we have first half figures from Ted Baker. On Friday, we'll implement and also we have US non-farm payrolls on Friday as well. So non-farm payrolls will be will be the most important update of the week. Turning back now to our training platform. As you mentioned, the Week Ahead article can be found on the news and analysis section of our website. But some of the articles that we do actually get posted to the training platform itself under Insights, which is this type here, which I've opened. And it has can be found under Market Pulse, second option down. And also what we have on our training platform is the chart forum. A chart forum is essentially a set of some of the analysts take a screenshot of a particular chart and write a few words about what you potentially could see in terms of price action. And it's also available for commentary by clients. And the chart forum can be found once again under Market Pulse, third option down. So please feel free to check out those, those tools and also for chart forum, please feel free to actually post on it. Turning our attention now to what's going on actually in the markets. I'll take a quick look now at some of the major markets. Turning off the 5200. So the 5200, as you can see here, kind of early September to mid September set a fairly decent run. We saw a steady increase in positive momentum on the MACD indicator. But we have seen the market kind of turnover ever saw slightly. We have seen a slight cooling in positive momentum. But while we hold north this red line here, the eternity moving average, which comes to play at 7,491 is likely that the outlook is going to remain positive. And we should continue to press on higher from here. We could be looking at targeting this yellow line here at the one day moving average, which comes into play just north of 7600. And if we go beyond that there, that metric, that level, we could be looking any back towards 7700. If you do have a sizable move with the downside, I mean, we have a fairly decent break below the eternity moving average, you could be looking any back towards this region here in around the 7250 or 7250 or perhaps even as low as down the download at 7,220. And if you go south of that, we could be looking any back toward this area here at 7,488. The DAX continues to be in a downward trend. The DAX has been losing ground, essentially, since June, it's been a classic example of a downward trend. We've seen a fairly steady series of lower highs here. And once again, we're back below, but why would we remain below this trend line here, which can be drawn through the highs of June, through the highs of July, notice how the market push higher later or actually get up as high as that trend line, we didn't see in active positions yet again in late September. So while we remain south of this trend line here, it's possible we could see the negative move in the DAX continue. And if you do look to continue, if you do look to continue to the downside of the DAX, we could be looking any back down towards this area here in around the 12,120 region or as possibly even down as low as 12,000 itself. If you do have a fairly sizable break to the upside in the DAX, and we do manage to take out this trend line here, we could be looking any back towards 12,500 or perhaps up a high as 12,600. And notice how at the 12,600 market, it managed to act as both support and resistance throughout the summer months. The US markets are in far better shape as I said at the start of the video, respecting the Dow Jones and the the SAP 500 and the DAX 100 to actually open higher in the session. So as you can see here, the big picture for the last few months has been much moved very much to the upside on the Dow Jones. We're looking at pushing higher yet again. So let's start off our trend for the last number of months. If you look at it, push on higher here, we could be looking at targeting the all-time high. And if you go beyond that, if you could be looking any back up towards, if you print separately new all-time highs, the next kind of big psychology number to keep an eye out for to the upside will of course be 27,000. Move to the downside, may find support from this area here, which comes into play at 26,330. And if you go south of that, it may even find support coming to play in around the 26,000 mark. And the possible even that that was low. That was this blue line here at the 50 moving average, which comes into play at 25,871. Notice how the 50 moving average did act to act as very decent support back in mid-August. And if a metric has acted as support in the past, it makes it more likely it will act to get a support again in the future. Take a look now at the SAP 500. We are opening higher and we could be looking at re-testing the all-time highs. The US open is cash open is about two hours time. Once again, the SAP 500 has been in a solid upper trend, a nice series of higher highs and higher lows. And if you continue to push on higher from here, we could be looking at heading back up towards 2,941. And if we go beyond that, we could be then printing fresh all-time highs. We could be looking at heading up towards 2,950, 60, 70, so on and so forth. Moving to the downside, may find some support from this region here, which would be just north of the 2,900 mark. And if you go south of that, you may find some support coming to play in around here, which would come into play in 2,864. Turning your attention now to what's going on in the gold market. So gold continues to be in a downward trend. Gold's been effectively a very solid downward trend since April. So as an example of lower lows and lower highs. Come mid August, we did see the gold market in a very decent rebound. It got north of 1,200, but it's been all time in around the 1,200 region. As you can see here, on more than a couple of occasions, it ran into this blue line here, the 50 moving average, but never really quite managed to actually get above it. As you can see here, we're back below the 50 moving average. We see the market sell off in recent sessions. We've seen a fairly decent increase in negative momentum. So as the underlying market's moving lower, we're seeing an increase in negative momentum. So the rise in negative momentum confirms the downward move we're seeing in the gold market. So we could see the gold press on lower from here. And we could look back down towards this area here at 1,175. If you go south of 1,175, you could look back down towards 1,160. We would have to have a fairly decent break north of this blue line here. This 50 moving average would come into play at 1,2012. And if you do go north of that, you could look back up towards 1,225, or perhaps even up to 1,236. Taking a look at what's going on in the oil market. Starting off with WTI. WTI has been in a fairly decent upward trend since effectively mid-August. Can't example of kind of higher highs and higher lows. Brent has obviously managed to print fresh new four year highs. I want you to come up in a second and the kind of the upward movement in the Brent market has also been dragging WTI up as well. But WTI hasn't quite gotten to a lot of your highs just yet. But if you continue to push on higher from here, we could be looking back up towards the $75 per barrel region. And if you go north of that, we would then be in the territory of any levels not seen since late 2014. Hence fresh four year highs. Should we see it? Any moves to the downside of WTI, may find some support in around this area here, $72.50 or even down at $61. Sorry, apologies, $71.69 or as low down as the $70 figure itself. As I mentioned, Brent crude hit a four year high last year. So we saw four year highs on Brent crude on Friday. The market's been in a fairly decent upward trend for the last number of months. If you do continue to press on higher from here, let's be kind of slick about if you can remember to keep an eye forward with the $85 per barrel. If you do manage to do drift flow, we could find some support to play in this area here in around the $81.53 or perhaps even as low as $80.89 and even if you have a decent set of support make them into play in this area here at $80 per barrel.  It's been a solid trend for months. Even if we do have a decent move lower in the Brent market, we could see fresh buyers enter the fold because traders are very concerned about future supplies of oil because we're now in October and come early November, the US sanctions on Iran will kick in and Iran's obviously one of the major major overtducers in the world. As I mentioned, the Australian Reserve Bank of Australia, the Australian Central Bank, have an interest rate decision overnight, so take a quick look at the Australian daughter versus the US daughter. In fact, I actually did a video on the Australian daughter versus the US daughter only last week and it was posted here to Insights, so if you want to find that, you can find that on Insights. Essentially, the Aussie daughter, as the current spirit is known, has been in a downward trend, effectively all the way through 2018. Classic example of lower lows and lower highs moving all the way along. As you can see here, on a few occasions, the market managed to run into resistance at this blue line here, the 50 moving average. Some occasions, you can actually quite get as high as it, but as traded slightly above it on a number of occasions, but it remains firmly in the downward trend. While we remain south of this blue line here, the 50 moving average, which comes into play at 0 spot 72, 85, it's likely that the downward trend is going to continue. So, if you continue to push on north from here, you keep looking back down towards 0 spot 71, or the recent low of 0 spot 70, 85, and if you take out the recent low, we could then be head back down towards the 0 spot 70 region. It's only if you have a decent move above this blue line here, the 50 moving average, could then actually start to become more confident that the downward trend has come to an end. And if you do manage to get a press higher from there, oh, apologies, we could be heading back up towards this yellow line here, the 180 moving average, which comes into play at 0 spot 73, 80, or we could also see resistance coming to play in this region here in around the 0 spot 74, 78. Take a look now at the euro versus the US dollar. So the euro versus the US dollar lost a lot of ground between April and mid-August, but since mid-August, the euro has started to have a bit of a comeback, but in recent sessions, we can see here that the euro has become a weaker again. So we saw higher, high, higher, low, higher, high, but now we'll see the market push lower yet again. So if we manage to hold above this area here, which on this region here at 1 spot 15, 10, 1 spot 15, if you could hold above that, we could see potential for the euro dollar to get a push higher and higher yet again. And if you do that, we could be looking at retesting the late September highs of the 1 spot 18, 15. Kind of if you go beyond that, we could be looking at any back up towards the 1 spot 15, apologies, 1 spot 15, 1 spot 18, 50, and if you go beyond that, we could be looking any back up towards the 1, 20 region. Moving to the downside, if you do have a size of a break below the 1 spot 15, 10, or 1 spot 15 area in around here, we could be looking any back up down towards the August low of 1 spot 13. And finally taking a look at the pound versus the US dollar, similar situation where the pound started losing ground versus the US dollar in April, but has managed to have a fairly decent comeback since mid-April. You know, we can see here the market started to have a few kind of higher highs, but once again, the trend of the US dollar has hit the British pound, also a bit uncertainty in relation to brexit negotiations that are going on as well. But ultimately, while we remain north of this blue line here, the 50 moving average which comes to the play at 1 spot 29, 83, if we can hold above that, it's likely we could see the recent positive move continue in the pound versus the US dollar. And if we were to push on higher from here, we could be looking at it towards the 130 to 50 or the mid-September high of 1 spot 32, 96 and 98. And I think I'll be on that. We could be looking at it towards this area here at 1 spot 33, 61. Most of the downside, if you resize the break below the 130 or 129, it's about 83 level here. We could be looking at it back down towards 1 spot 28, 95 or down to the early September low of 1 spot 27, 95. And it goes south of that or could be back down towards the August low of 1 spot 26, 61. And just before I finish the video, if you have any commentary on this video or any of the other videos we've produced here at CMC Markets, please feel free to leave a review on Google reviews. And that's all for me this week. Thank you very much.