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Retrospectiva 2017 Parte 1 - HyperX Minute ep. 96 - Duration: 1:32.
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Charity concert on Christmas #vlogmas - Duration: 9:29.
Trying to record so that you can see my face 'cause it's dark
so the mirror should do, and I wanna tell you that I'm going to ZAZA club
here in Cluj, on Horea street, where I am going to have a charity concert
and everyone who comes will bring clothes and toys and school supplies
which will then be donated to needy children
And I have brought a lot of clothes myself.. a lot
So we are going there to do some good on Christmas
*overly excited* LOOK HOW PRETTY CLUJ IS (my town)
(I have no idea what I said here)
We're here but you can't see 'cause it's really dark
I am going to interview someone
What's your favourite part of Christmas?
Malina Jisa: "Winter and snow and joy and ice-skating"
And??
Malina Jisa:" and... sleighing"
And Santa??
Malina Jisa: "Santa tool"
Santa too, should come once in a while
Look, like this
GOOD
Ok
Like you're being interrogated
lay back
WHAT DO YOU KNOW
Lorint Alex: "What do I know... about?"
About this concert
Lorint Alex: "Well first of all I know that you're singing
and a lot of us are here because of that"
"I'm an Eurovision fan"
You're an Eurovision fan, ok, what did you think of ESC this year?
"Really cool, I knew we were gonna be in top 10, I bet on you with
doesn't matter who but the idea is that I won"
"Congrats to you and Alex"
Thanks!
"Super, super cool"
There are already a lot of presents
We are going to make some children very happy on Christmas and that makes me happy too
And I am going to sing
There!
If I can focus the camera I'll show you
There :D
This is Oana, one of my best friends
If you follow me on Instagram you already know that
Let me zoom in on her face
Is it ok?
Today I will ask her
Why does she love me?
Oana Magyarosi: "'cause I have no choice"
Cause I pay her
How do you feel when you do something good ?
Oana: "I think there's noth..
No, wait, wait"
"you can cut this, right?"
Yes, sure I can
"I think there's no bigger joy than giving"
"And I think that... when..
You'll cut this out"
"I can't just be all cliche and stuff
"I feel amazing, wow, I'm so generous... what should I say??"
say
Claudia Jisa: "I feel like in return for my kindness I want
a young and pretty Santa!"
Tell us something good you did on Christmas
Erwin Jeler: "I woke up"
I'm so happy to be here, able to help
I'm thrilled that there are already lots of presents by the tree
I brought some too, my car is full,
We could barely fit in it when we came
I have to warn you that this is not going to be a serious concert
We are not here to stare and clap
I want you to sing with me, dance with me, scream with me
Smash our heads into the walls, ok?
good
So these are songs that everyone knows
that killed your brains this year because they were on the radio continuously
I'm gonna sing them for you
The first song to start this night with is called
DESPACITO
(Antoniu Minecan, Malina Jisa, Victor Moldovan, Lavinia Blaga - part of MINISTAR CLUJ group)
Nevermind the lyrics!
How was it?
So the event has ended and I am here with Anca
who invited me and organized all of this
And I wanted to talk to her and ask her about where the presents go
and if she thinks they're enough
her general opinion
Anca Grovu: "They're a lot, I don't know if you can see"
Here, all of the presents
Anca: "I initially saw an interview with Raluca, the woman behind this agency
who does things for these children and I thought why not do something myself
and I was like, ok, I'll talk to Daniel from ZAZA
and I'll talk to Ilinca from Eurovison
Cause I knew she was from Cluj
And they both agreed from the very beggining that we'll make a beautiful event
and I am so happy it turned out good, hope you enjoyed it too"
I'm just really happy we could do something like this
I mean, it shouldn't only be on Christmas
We should do this all the time, not only on Christmas
So, to all of you watching this video
Even on Christmas,
take from what you have and give to others, who might have less
Anca: "You can do so much... I organized a concert
And I had never done that before
and there were a lot of people, and Ilinca
Who is pretty known in Romania and she sang amazing
and we had an amazing location and every one of us cand do anything
with as little as we have, we can give a lot
It's not difficult to make others happy by giving as little or as much as you can :)
We managed to make these children's Christmas better
with the packages we collected at the Concert <3
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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A tua missão espiritual - pregação Paschoal Piragine - Duration: 22:45.
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¿Tienes Miedo A Lo Desconocido? (Comportamientos Típicos) | 30K Coaching - Duration: 5:12.
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Unboxing of San Miguel Manila Beer in Chef's Corner Luck - Duration: 3:57.
for now we are on the pace of elche lucky as you can see as not all
preparing to cook because today primarily a little surprise - has come a Gift
good package and in a short time nomas then the teacher will present
good and here we have the little surprise us starts san miguel has
ordered a new beer that will to market
I also have the opportunity to try to have the box tucked in
fridge entire area is well no they were doing other way
and good go with the opening Let's see it because it contains the package
power here but hey better not we have here smaller
let's see here we an explanation was us well
tiny bit of type of beer is what temperature and serve good as
the talk not bad
co christie opinion
forget about scoring we training the beers
this is the new beer is cold thank god cooled work
likely now and I will give my opinion but really they have the presence of
proceed along the talk as they say having a tan
quite
not enough
a really good beer I was surprised I'm loving the
families but I must say that this Citric collaboration because it shows the
hop It is very good and daughters have jobs
up well and good that's all I'll be watching and beer
true if we are all video like if you want to try the beer ways
contact us because I have a whole box gives the law and is no more
the pace of luck
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Elif Episode 632 - Ending Scene | Season 4 Episode 72 (English subtitles) - Duration: 5:12.
I'm about to go crazy!
There are baby clothes next to mine!
(from outside) My dear!
-My dear? -Honey?
Yıldız will cook roast beef with mashed potatoes,
would you like it rare or medium?
Uh...
It doesn't matter to me, however you like.
Alright then, I'll tell her.
OK.
I should give you that dark blue shirt.
No need to, honey, I'll take it.
My husband came tired from work, can't I help him?
It's not here.
Hah! I got it.
There you go. This looks good on you, too. Come on, dress up.
Colour is nice, too.
Come on, dress up so we can make it to the living room.
Alright, you go first, I'll be there in a minute.
When our little baby arrives, Parla says she will buy more of these!
First the baby arrives with good health and wealth.
Hopefully, mom, hopefully.
Actually, Parla is into kids, very much.
If she had a kid, she would be a great mother. I can tell.
My online order arrived today!
I've ordered a coat, you should see that...
it is so beautiful, tiny pockets around it, so cute!
I'll show it after dinner!
You'll like it, too.
If the mom liked it, it's already beautiful.
It's not clear if it's boy or girl, how did you make the purchase?
Actually it's unisex.
Boy or girl don't matter.
Oh, I can't resist! I'll show it to you now!
I've hid it up in the closet in the room, I need to get it and show it to you.
My dear, have your supper. Then we'll look for it.
Now it's stuck in my mind. I need to show it.
Let me just go and grab it.
Which closet was that in it?
This one!
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The Miniaturist Preview "Nella's miniature dollhouse causes problems" (SUB ITA) - Duration: 1:18.
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Minecraft modern Skyblock 2 #4 - Duration: 1:37:41.
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Il mio Cammino di Santiago | EP #07 - Duration: 9:17.
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AskProfWolff: "Union Support for Worker Co-operatives?" - Duration: 3:47.
This question came in from Will Cooper and we want to thank him, and we want to
remind everyone that you can send questions like this to AskProfWolff on
our website rdwolff with two Fs dot com Will Cooper says that while he
understood in an earlier piece that I did that unions can be supporters of. and
worked together with worker coops. He doesn't see that very often and in fact,
he provides some examples where unions have been downright hostile or
disinterested in anything to do with worker coops. So let me first acknowledge
that Will Cooper's quite right, there are unions that are interested in working
with worker coops and there are unions that have no interest in doing that, and
I wish there were more unions that were pro worker co-op, but there are some. So,
let's talk about them, and what that's about. The best example here in the
United States is a cooperation agreement between the United Steel Workers of
America, a large major union in this country, and the Mondragon Cooperative
Corporation in Spain. Mondragon Cooperative Corporation is the biggest
and most successful worker co-op in the world.
It currently has over a hundred thousand employees, it is the seventh largest
corporation in all of Spain, and it is a family of about 250 worker coops. It's
remarkable, started in 1956, extraordinarily
successful, it has an arrangement with the Steel Workers Union together to
start, to help, to support worker coops here in the United States, and may have
several experiments with actual workers in actual enterprises going on in
Pennsylvania, and elsewhere here in the United States. So there's an example of a
union that is providing all kinds of support. And you know historically if you
go back in time, the 19th century, and many parts of the 20th century, in many parts
of the world, unions and co-ops thought of themselves as natural allies,
and here's the reason why: well, what a union does is fight for better
conditions for its workers, better wages, better pensions, better health benefits,
but it's always fighting an employer who has the exact opposite incentive not to
spend money on wages, working conditions, pensions, benefits. So you, whatever you
win as a union, you're always at risk of losing it because the employer wants to
and will find ways usually to take it away. So the logical point of a union
comes with a worker co-op, because then you wouldn't always be fighting against
an opponent who has every interest in undoing whatever it is you win, because
you would be the employer yourself. The workers and the employer become the same
people in a worker coop. So it's in a way, the logical end. The way you can be sure
that what you've gotten as a good deal as a worker, won't be taken away by your
employer, is if you're the employer yourself because that becomes absurd. So
I think, there's a perfectly good way that unions could once again in general,
make alliances with, mutually support worker coops, for the reason that in the
end, they are going after the same thing, one within the confines of the
employer- employee relationship, and the other one saying that relationship itself is the
problem, we're gonna change it for something that
makes us more secure and safe in what we've won as wages, working conditions
and so on.
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Prejuízo das motos chinesas - Ep. 133 - Duration: 4:06.
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The UAE's Martian City on Earth - Duration: 6:11.
[ ♪ Intro ♪ ]
The United Arab Emirates is really good at enormously ambitious — and just physically
enormous — projects.
From the Burj Khalifa to their artificial islands, to the mountain they want to build,
to that giant indoor ski resort they have: the UAE is about pushing the limits of engineering,
sometimes out of necessity, and sometimes because they're just feeling it.
And now they're taking that feeling and running with it to Mars, in the form of a
giant Martian colony.
But first, they're planning to build a model colony here on Earth — the biggest Mars
simulation anyone has ever done.
In 2014, the UAE established their space program and announced their inaugural mission: the
Al-Amal, or Hope, orbiter, which will monitor Mars's atmosphere and weather.
Mars's atmosphere used to be much thicker, and the causes of its thinning aren't entirely known.
The planet's lack of magnetic field probably plays a role, but we don't have any definitive
answers to the question yet.
So with Hope, they're … hoping … to answer that question.
It's set to launch in 2020 and arrive at Mars in 2021.
But the UAE is thinking really long term about Mars, and also has plans to build a whole
city up there.
They want to get 600,000 people living on Mars.
That's super ambitious, especially considering we haven't sent anyone to Mars yet, but
their deadline is 100 years from now, so they do have plenty of time to figure it out.
And that's where their most recent Mars-related project comes in: a smaller, model colony
in the Emirates.
And when I say "smaller," all I mean is that It's not going to be nearly as big
as the actual planned colony on Mars.
It'll still be pretty darn huge — about two-tenths of a square kilometer in area,
or about half the size of the Vatican.
And the whole thing is going to be covered with domes!
It won't be the first simulated Mars habitat, although it will be the biggest.
The Mars Society runs two habitats, in Utah in the US and Nunavut in Canada.
And the University of Hawaii has one too.
All of these simulations are places for teams of scientists to conduct astrobiological and
geological research in environments that are a lot like Mars.
And at the same time, they can simulate the realities of living in a scientific settlement
on a planet that can't support you.
There tend to be lots of rules: you can't go outside of your living space without wearing
a spacesuit; your water use is extremely well-regulated, and you can't communicate off-base without
a 20-minute delay.
The habitats allow scientists to work on their own projects there, while simultaneously being
part of a long-term psychological experiment: how will scientists fare when stuck in a little
hab together?
How do we meet their psychological and emotional needs?
The UAE's environment will work on answering similar questions by having a crew live in
their habitat for a year.
But it'll also be a sandbox for engineers to test the kinds of systems they'll need
to support a long-term settlement on Mars, something we haven't really been able to
do before on such a large scale.
Everything is still very conceptual at this point — the UAE Space Agency hasn't even
said when they're planning on having this thing built.
But they have released some very preliminary plans for their Dome-inion.
That's not the official name, we're just really hoping it catches on.
The colony will be contained inside three domes, and it's going to be really crucial
to get those domes right.
Earth's atmosphere filters out lots of UV radiation from the sun, but Mars's atmosphere
isn't thick enough to do that.
Which means people on the surface would face everything from bad sunburns to skin cancer
unless they're protected.
In theory the domes are going to do the job that Mars's atmosphere can't, and will be
made out of a material that can shield inhabitants from Mars's high UV flux.
Based on some of the concept art they've drawn up, it might also be possible to control
how much light the material lets through, which would be a way to have the people and
plants in the model city living on Martian day/night cycles.
No word on what this material is yet, but again, they have a while to figure it out.
Since the whole thing will be enclosed, engineers will be able to test the atmospheric regulation
systems, water filtration systems, temperature regulation systems — all the usual mechanical
stuff that you need to survive when your environment can't support you.
And they'll be developing these systems to accommodate a small city, rather than just
a li'l habitat or a space station, so it's a big challenge!
But probably the biggest problem engineers will have to solve is how to feed everyone.
For a permanent or semi-permanent colony, you can't rely on shipments of food from Earth.
And while Mars's soil does contain some of the elements and molecules that plants need
to grow, they're not abundant enough to really support agriculture.
So we'll have to apply everything we know about agriculture to this new environment,
which is okay because if humans know how to do anything, it farming.
We are so good at that.
It's kind of our thing as a species.
That and long-distance running and fully rotatable arms.
Anyway, farming: we're really good at it, especially since we've figured out how to
manipulate genes.
Genetically modified plants that can thrive in relatively nutrient-poor soil or produce
higher amounts of proteins, carbs, or essential vitamins already exist, and of course we have
all kinds of fertilizers, both natural and synthetic.
So a lot of the foundation work is done there — but we are still a long way from being
able to farm in such an extreme environment as Mars.
Even with plenty of potatoes and poop.
In addition to all the research going on in the Dome-inion, they're also planning on
building a museum in there, with walls 3D-printed from local sand.
The museum will celebrate the history of human spaceflight, and who knows — maybe by a
century from now, it'lll inspire 600,000 people to pick up their lives and fly to another planet.
Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow Space!
To learn more about other plans to help us live on Mars, you can check out our episode
about the plans for Mars One.
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Top 10 Killer Frost Surprising Facts - Duration: 6:09.
Killer Frost Facts Hey guys!
Welcome back to Top 10 Nerd, I'm Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
Killer Frost is a pretty awesome villain, who more people are getting to know now that
she's part of the CW Flash television show.
However, there are still a lot of people who are completely unfamiliar with her.
Given that it seems we'll be seeing quite a bit more of her, I thought I'd catch everyone
up on everything they need to know about her.
Keep in mind that I'll be describing this for fans new and old, so if something seems
obvious to you… it won't be for those who've never heard of her.
And as usual, I'll focus more on the comics side of things.
With no further ado, it's time for the Top 10 Facts About Killer Frost!
Number 10: First of all, let's do a quick crash course on her New 52 history for those
who don't know her.
Caitlin Snow was a scientist at STAR Labs working at an outpost in the Arctic Circle.
She decided to continue the work of her dead colleague, working on a Self-Sustaining Thermodynamic
Ultraconductor Engine, with the hopes of creating a perpetual motion machine.
Unfortunately, upon completion of the engine, it turned out her colleagues worked for the
evil HIVE organization, and they tried to stop her.
In a bind, Caitlin accidentally infused herself with ice, giving her a number of powers (and
one significant handicap).
What powers?
Well, I'm glad you asked.
Number 9: Following her accident, Killer Frost found herself encased in a permafrost.
Unfortunately, people aren't meant to be covered in permafrost, and the changes in
her physiology caused her to hunger for heat.
However, all was not lost, as she also gained a number of ice-related powers, as so many
often do.
First and foremost, she gained the ability to absorb the body heat of others to sate
her hunger and survive.
She also gained the power of cryokinesis, which allowed her to generate organic ice
and manipulate moisture in the air, used to create ice weapons, shoot spikes, or even
large storms.
Pretty nifty.
Number 8: She was on the Suicide Squad.
As is somewhat common amongst the slightly more grey villains, Killer Frost was inducted
into the Suicide Squad.
Hopefully by now everyone knows what that is, basically a team of villains sent on dangerous
missions since they're disposable.
She helps the suicide squad for a time, fighting against the justice league, but soon realized
that she just didn't want to be a villain.
Her doubts further manifested themselves after seeing the heroic efforts of the Justice League,
and she eventually reformed from her old ways.
But one event sealed the deal, which brings me to my next point.
Number 7: Eclipso turned her good.
I mean, she was already on the road to reform, but he gave her that last push she needed.
As I previously alluded to, Killer Frost impressed the Justice League greatly in the battle between
Eclipso and the combined Suicide Squad and Justice League.
As she was absorbing heat from all those present (with their permission), Eclipso used his
power to show her her deepest desire.
But this plan totally backfired, because she saw that her deepest desire was to make a
difference, thus solidifying her drive to reform.
But she had one big obstacle to overcome if she wanted to get onto the Justice League:
Amanda Waller.
Number 6: Waller was a big ol' jerk to her.
If you've read the Suicide comics or seen the movie, you'll know of Amanda Waller,
the director of the Suicide Squad.
And my goodness was Waller a jerk to Killer Frost.
I mean, granted, Frost had killed people as a villain, so I can't really fault Waller
for not fully trusting her, but she seemed intent on keeping her from reforming.
She QQ Lost QQ her paperwork, deprived her of heat, then kept sticking a bunch of delicious,
warm people in her cell to tempt her, even a frickin pyrokinetic which is totally cheating.
But Frost had the last laugh, because she was able to keep under control, and was paroled
from the Squad, and transferred to the Justice League at the request of good ol' Batman.
Which brings me beautifully to number 4!
Number 5: She's now a member of the new Justice League of America!
After Frost helped to save the world from Eclipso, and she proved that she could control
her hunger, she was released from the Suicide Squad, and joined the new Justice League.
While we have yet to see too much of her yet, her chemistry with the other members is pretty
great, and I'm loving what I've seen so far.
Do I still prefer Lobo?
Of course.
But she's definitely holding her own on the team, and I'm becoming a big fan; she's
so wonderfully damaged, it's really interesting.
Number 4: Differences in the Arrow-Verse.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the live action version that we've seen in the
Arrow-verse.
While her powers are similar, there are a number of differences between this version
and the comic version.
First of all, she's less outwardly different; rather than her usual blue colouring due to
the permafrost, she generally looks like a normal person.
She also doesn't NEED to absorb heat from others like the comic version does, although
it's possible that this will become a major plotpoint in the future.
Number 3: She inspired a Smallville villain, although he didn't share her name.
This one's kind of weird.
In Smallville, Sean Kelvin, a fittingly named student at Smallville High, gained essentially
the same abilities as her after falling into the kryptonite exposed lake.
His body was constantly running too cold, and he needed to extract warmth from people
in order to survive.
The strange thing is, I just don't get why they decided to make it a random guy rather
than using Killer Frost herself.
It's still DC, you're not stealing her, but this unashamed copy was kind of weird.
Maybe it was a rights issue?
I dunno.
If you do, let me know in the comments because I'm curious.
Number 2: She's living a nightmare.
I think we can all agree that someone who wants to do good would struggle pretty hard
with the fact that her body is screaming at her to leech the heat out of everyone around
her.
It sounds like torture.
But it turns out, this is precisely her nightmare, as we learned when we came up against the
Terrorsmith.
His ability to transform any human he touches into their worst nightmare didn't work on
her, because, as she said, she's already living her worst nightmare.
It worked out pretty well in that encounter, but it is hella depressing that she couldn't
imagine being any worse than she already is.
This leads me to my final point…
Number 1: She's doing everything she can to get better.
While Frost is a member of the Justice League and does go on missions for them, her personal
mission is to find a way to cure her heat sickness, so she can put an end to her suffering.
The constant yearning for heat affects her greatly, and she is striving to figure out
a way to handle this problem throughout the Justice League series.
She gets a lot of help from the Atom, another member of the league, and while they haven't
succeeded as of the time I'm writing this video, I'm certainly rooting for them.
That's it for today!
Hope you guys enjoyed, if you did please smack that thumbs up button and subscribe to Top
10 Nerd for more videos!
Who's your favourite ice-based supervillain?
Let me know in the comment section down below.
Until next time, I'm Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey with Top 10 nerd.
Later nerds!
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How is AFRICA escaping POVERTY? - VisualPolitik EN - Duration: 12:22.
Here at VisualPolitik we talked about how we now live in a world where every day there
is less poverty and people are able to live better lives.
A change that is even reaching the most unprotected region in the world, sub-Saharan Africa.
We already talked about the African lions, and paid special attention to cases like Rwanda.
However, we still need to talk about when and why this region of the world, which so
many considered hopelessly destitute, began to change.
Well, that is precisely what we are going to talk about in this video--that and what
we can expect in the upcoming years.
For years talking about Africa has also meant talking about extreme poverty, natural disasters
and all kinds of conflicts.
And in a way, things are still that way.
See, no more or less than half, yes, half of all the people who suffer from extreme
poverty in the world live in the sub-Saharan African region.
We're talking about almost 400 million people.
Also, news like this isn't surprising either:
"We are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations
[in 1945].
(...) Now, more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and famine".
- Stephen O'Brien, the UN under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs
Due to all of this, I'm sure nobody is a stranger to those NGO campaigns seeking to
raise funds for all kinds of humanitarian catastrophes in Africa.
Or for governments to allocate billions of dollars each year for Official Development
Assistance.
In fact, government aid is as high as it's ever been: every year, the African continent
receives about 50 billion dollars.
And this has been going on for... decades.
However, the truth is that for years all this money didn't help that much.
Let's take a look at, for example, the 90s.
While international aid in this area of the world amounted to tens and tens of billions...
What do you think happened with poverty?
Do you think it decreased?
Well... no, none of that.
Between 1990 and 1998, poverty levels went from 55% to 58%.
But how could that be?
Well… because intentions are one thing.
Reality is a very different one….
Some experts claim that for years official aid weakened local producers.
"Evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that aid to Africa has made the poor poorer, and
the growth slower."
Dambisa Moyo an economist and author of "Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There
Is a Better Way for Africa."
For example, in Tanzania it was cheaper to buy subsidized milk from the European Union
than from local producers
However, my friends, with the beginning of the new century, suddenly everything began
to change …
THE GREAT CHANGE
Suddenly, when Africa seemed helpless, everything began to change.
With the beginning of the 21st century, statistics turned around...
Since the year 2000, extreme poverty has dropped by almost 40%; average life expectancy has
grown by more than 10 years; infant mortality has decreased
to less than half; the same happened with HIV infections in children and virtually any
other statistic.
If we look at the economy, we'll be able to see how between the year 2000 and the year
2015 sub-Saharan Africa economies, excluding South Africa – which is a bit of a peculiar
case, as we saw here in VisualPolitik – grew an average by 6%, which is more than twice
than, for example, Latin America.
Another great indicator of how things are changing is tourism.
Yes, tourism, you heard it.
The tourism sector has some peculiar characteristics that reveal a lot of information.
On the one hand, this sector has great transformational power for the poorest because it's very
labor-intensive; and on the other hand, we need to take into account that people don't
vacation in countries that are at war, or have famine or epidemics.
When this industry improves in the poorest countries, it is usually a good indicator
that things are improving as a whole.
Well, if we see the date, we might be quite surprised, because this sector, my friends,
has been growing at an average annual rate, of no less than 9% for 20 years.
That is two full decades.
Yes, it seems like things are moving forward.
But at this point, you may be wondering something.
I certainly am.
What on earth happened to lead to such a change?
Check out this graph, which may give us a clue:
But what exactly led to this kind of "miracle"?
Let's see.
PREPARING FOR TAKE-OFF
Many things drive change, but we will now see how three particular events in Africa
began to change, and I think forever, this continent's reality.
The first one was remittances.
See, in Africa the population grows very quickly, which along with the terrible living conditions,
has led many Africans to emigrate to richer countries in the past few decades.
Today, these people send tens of billions of dollars home every year.
This money is used in local markets or to set up businesses, for example.
These are remittances, which are actually much more important than development aid.
Can immigration be a good solidarity policy?
Well... it looks like it may be.
Second, and very importantly.
In March 2000, the US Congress finally approved a law that had been promoted by Bill Clinton
in his last years in command: the "African Growth and Opportunity act".
This is basically a law that establishes a preferential trade agreement that eliminates
tariffs and reduces barriers to trade thousands and thousands of products from sub-Saharan
Africa.
See, since this agreement was approved, we can see that between 2000 and 2016 – which
wasn't exactly a good year – trade between the United States and sub-Saharan Africa multiplied
by 2.5, which means a 6% growth rate every year.
And third, perhaps the key to everything: China.
Yes, you heard it right.
In 2001 China joined the World Trade Organization and became something like "the factory of
the world".
Well, what has happened since then has been quite impressive: China's huge growth has
lifted tens of millions of people out of poverty... both in China and in Africa.
Allow me to explain myself, the Asian giant's gigantic growth has increased this country's
demand for all kinds of products: raw materials, food, manufacturing... everything!
Well, many African countries took advantage of this opportunity.
Since the year 2000, trade between China and Africa has multiplied by no less than 17 times,
representing an annual growth rate of almost 20%.
Since 2009, China is already, by far, the continent's largest trading partner.
But not only that, the Chinese, as we mentioned here, have also been investing a lot of money
all over the world.
And Africa is no exception.
In 2016, 4 out of 10 euros that foreigners invested in Africa came from China.
Today more than 10,000 Chinese companies are doing business in the African continent, mostly
private companies that work in all kinds of industries.
And that number just keeps rising.
Yes, my friends, this is how Africa has managed to start turning the statistics around.
The great catalyst for this entire change wasn't some kind of super-earthly miracle
nor did it have much to do with development aid.
This change was driven by trade and investment.
And, Africans themselves seem to see it very clearly.
Don't believe me?
Well... take a look:
"African countries are forging ahead to complete negotiations for a continental free
trade area between 55 countries by early next year.
The idea, adopted by the African Union in 2012, is to create a single market which includes
the free movement of goods, services and people."
Yes, that's right, Africa is working to expand trade to every corner of the continent.
Not all countries are developing equally, but this quite normal in all parts of the
world.
FOLLOWING THE ASIAN STAR
At this point, we need to ask ourselves another question.
Can we really dream of Africa's final takeoff?
See, I suspect that many of you may be thinking: well everything you say in VisualPolitik is
very nice... but it isn't a general rule.
Surely, in Africa there are countries that are doing well and others that are doing not
so well.
Well, you know what?
That's true, but it's also... normal.
See, it may sound shocking today, but in the 50s, Asia was as poor as Africa.
You heard that right.
Yes, I know, seeing cities like Shanghai, Hong Kong or Taipei makes it very hard to
imagine that they were once so poor.
But, when South Korea or Taiwan began to grow, they weren't richer than Ghana or Senegal,
for example.
And China, India or Vietnam were, of course, much poorer.
How things have changed!
Well, we can get some ideas from this:
My friends, Asian countries didn't grow all at once either, not at all.
While Korea, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan grew, other countries such as China, Indonesia and
India remained immersed in poverty.
Also, they weren't exactly democratic models.
South Korea and Taiwan were under hard dictatorships until very recently.
Singapore is in a similar state... and China... well what can I say...
In short, lots of poverty, some more advanced countries with others further behind, dictatorships...
what we are seeing in Africa today isn't so different from what was happening in Asia
50 years ago.
READY FOR TAKE-OFF?
Yes, things in Africa are changing.
Out of the 10 countries that are apparently growing the most in 2017, 5 are here, in Africa.
If we take a look at the latest Doing Business, the World Bank indicator for measuring how
easy it is to do business in certain economies, we can see that out of the 10 countries that
have improved the most, 4 are also African.
True, poverty is still very high, and these countries are facing a difficult challenge:
such large population growth that the continent's population will actually multiply in the upcoming
decades.
However, my friends, the good news is that everything indicates that thanks to trade
and international investment, Africa is finding its way and is maybe, once and for all, ready
for take-off.
But now it's your turn, do you think that Africa will emulate the development that Asia
has had in recent decades?
Leave your answer in the comments as well as in the survey.
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So you know how occasionally you could see a spider or 2 in your house and you kinda
get freaked out.
well take comfort in the fact that your not dealing with a worse situation- ill show you
guys some examples of what im talking about.
Hey youtube im court mcginley and welcome back to the most amazing top 5.
Before we get started I want to know- Whats your least favorite bug?
Let me know your answers down in the comment.
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other top 5 lists you like to see me do.
Alright without further a due lets get started on our list of the top 5 worst bug invasions
ever.
Coming in at our number 5 spot--Spiders- This picture was posted on September 15th on Reddit.
As you can see we have a huge mamma spider protecting her hundreds of freshly hatched
youngins.
And of course where better to start a family then on top of an energy meter.
Of course this is in Australia where they are known for having ridiculously huge spiders.
But could you even imagine this being on your property?
I know I couldn't.
id just imagine these little guys crawling all over me.
And don't even get me started on that mamma spider she looks like shed be bigger then
my hand.
And all those beety little eyes.
Yeah basically id have to move.
Not a big fan of spiders if you couldn't tell.
in at number 4--Cockroaches- Now one of the really bad thing about roaches is that if
you see one then theres likely a swarm of them somewhere close by.
Roaches love to stay together and live in dark places.
So an abandoned house is the perfect place to stay.
This has to be the worst roach infestation ive ever seen.
Theyre on the floor- in the nooks and crannys around cupboards- crawling up the walls and
settling on higher shelves.
From the looks of the house it seemed like someone was living there but had to surrender
to the roaches.
I mean when something gets this bad you have to call in some assistance.
There even up in the cornors of the wall.
Then the guy filming the video opened the cupboard below the sink and there were thousands
of live ones scampering around in there.
Watching this video honestly made me itch it was so creepy.
You just feel like they are crawling all over you.
Check it out at number 3--Bees- So this infestation actually
made it onto the news on CNN.
Josie Parra from Houston but up with a bee infestation for 2 years.
She tried to get rid of the bees herself with foam and smoke but It eventually became too
much and she had to tear down walls in her house.
She didn't know how severe it was until she called in experts from a business called
Gotcha pest control.
He began to break down bricks from the side of her house where the hive was.
It was then he realized the problem was much worse then he thought.
He dug out pounds of honeycomb and then realized the hive was so deep that he would have to
go inside.
He took off a piece of the ceiling in her sons bed room and honey began to drip down.
Turns out hundreds of thousands of bees were living in her walls and ceiling- take a look.
Coming in at number 2--Red Wasps- this story comes for Billy the exterminator himself.
You guys may remember him he used to have a show on tv back in 2009 called…humbly
enough..
Billy the Exterminator.
On it he and his brother ran a pest control company and they would go to peoples homes
and get rid of their pest problems.
It was pretty entertaining.
One of his worst cases was this one with Red wasps.
He went to visit a house that was literally swarming with red wasps.
There were a total of 9 nests- which is insane.
There were thousands of wasps.
So billy made a device to kill them.
He attached a can of pie-wreath-ren to the end of his device so he could spray them from
a safe distance.
The chemical attacks the wasps nervous system and ends up killing them.
He said in over 25 years hes never seen a wasp infestation this bad.
Then he had to go into the attic where he found thousands more and had to kill them
all.
And at number 1--Bedbugs- ok this is one that always gets me and really freaks me out.
unless theres swarms like in this case bedbugs are hard to see with the naked eye.
Back in 2011 this video was posted by Town and Country Pest Solutions.
And in the video we can see how bad bed bug infestations can get.
This is a bed that's in an apartment building in New York.
And the bad things about bed bugs and apartments is that its extremely easy for these bugs
to get from one unit to another.
And if one unit reports bed bugs then the whole building needs to be fumigated.
So in this video im about to show you a box spring is covered with so many bed bugs that
you can fully see them and the exterminators said they could actually smell them.
Which apparently is rare and usually a trained dog needs to be called in to sniff them out.
I don't now how these people let it get this bad before reporting it.
The exterminators said this must have been going on for months- maybe even a year.
Watching this video made me so itchy.
Its pretty disturbing.
This is what they were dealing with Alright and there you have it that's out
list of the top 5 worst bug infestations ever.
Thank you so much for watching and ill catch you in the next one.
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