Waching daily May 28 2017

Hey guys, it's Kirsti, welcome back to my

channel and welcome to another weekly

wrap up. This one is for the 21st through

the 27th of May and this week I read a

total of nine books and

2,974 pages.

Sunday marked the end of the #AroundtheWorldAThon

and I managed to finish off one more book,

so I finished a total of six books for

the #AroundtheWorldAThon, and then I

finished two more in the, like, day or

so after the #AroundtheWorldAThon

finished, which is kind of annoying but,

like, I still finished them, so whatever. So

the final book that I finished for the

#AroundtheWorldAThon is The Art of War

by Sun-Tzu. This book is a classic

Chinese text about the strategies that

go along with war, essentially, and so it

breaks war down into its various

components, like, you know, using spies

and knowing the terrain that you're

going into and knowing how to fight

under certain situations, and it breaks

it down within that to all the different

types of terrain that you might

encounter and how to fight in each of

those various circumstances. I found it

incredibly interesting. The first, like,

ninety-something pages, the first

chunk of the book, is the original as

written by Sun-Tzu. The rest of the book,

the remaining, like, 200 pages, is the exact

same text but with commentary from

various people throughout history. So

some of them are, like, classic

commentators on this text from, like, the

3rd century AD or something, and then it

goes all the way through to, you know,

people in the present day, effectively

and particularly Western commenters

comparing this to things like the

attacks done by Julius Caesar. And that

stuff I just found incredibly dry. So I

found the first chunk of this book, the

actual original text, very very

interesting. There is a lot in there that

is basically saying "You know what? If you

don't have a complete grasp of the

situation, if you don't know what you're

going into, if you don't know exactly

what the situation is, don't go to war." It

also emphasises the fact that war is,

like, super fucking expensive and will

kill a bunch of people and piss people

off, so, like, maybe don't go into war

if you know you're in a perilous

political situation. So there is a lot in

this book that remains incredibly

relevant and that I thought was

really really interesting to read, the

fact that it was such a balanced

perspective coming from one of history's,

like, greatest generals. The

commentary I just found incredibly

boring, so

I gave up on the commentary. I

figured I had the gist of what I needed to

know from the original text, so I

ended up I did enjoy what I read up this

book, I don't know that I missed out on

anything by not reading that commentary

and I gave this one 4 stars.

Book number two is Green Island by

Shawna Yang Ryan. This is one that I started

during the #AroundtheWorldAThon and

didn't end up finishing until I think

the Monday or the Tuesday afterwards. So

this one is set in Taiwan and it starts

out in 1947 with the birth of the main

character and it follows her throughout

her life and it tells Taiwan's 20th

century history through her life. Now, I

really enjoyed a lot of this book,

particularly once she has married and

moved to the US. I thought all of that

was really really interesting and her

dealing with Taiwan's political

situation while being away from home and,

you know, her husband gets very embroiled

in politics to do with Taiwan and she's

like "Well, but I want to go visit my

parents" and she can't because of the

situation that he's put her into. So all

of that kind of stuff in the second half

of the book I really enjoyed. The first

half I struggled with a little bit more

because the narrator ends up being

omnipresent, and so is telling us about

things that happened when her father

was arrested and sent off to prison and

sent to this prison camp and the way that

he was treated and she knew nothing

about that because, like, she was

literally an infant. And that just really

didn't work for me, I found that very

frustrating. But once I got through that

section of the book, it worked a lot

better for me. It did still feel like it

took a really really long time to get

into the story, once I hit that section

where she moves the US and then when she

goes back to Taiwan in, like, 2003 I think

it is? Once I hit that stuff, I pretty

much flew through it, but up until that

point it was like wading through

quicksand. So I did eventually enjoy this

one, but it took me quite a while to get

there and I gave this one 3.5

stars. The third book that I

finished this week is another one I

started for the #AroundtheWorldAThon,

and that is the Three Body Problem by

Liu Cixin, and I really struggled

with this book. This book I have heard

amazing things about, it is a sci-fi book

that has been translated from Chinese - I

think by Ken Liu - and I've heard

wonderful wonderful things about from a

whole host of people on Booktube.

It starts out in China during the

Cultural Revolution with various

political things tying into scientific things

and somebody witnessing her father's

execution. And then it moves forward to

this guy who is a kind of

nanotechnologist and he ends up being

tied into this police investigation and then he

discovers this game online called

the Three Body Problem in which you

basically use physics to try and solve

some, like, space civilisation thing. I am

way too stupid to read this book. I do

not understand physics. I have no

interest in physics.

I dropped physics at school as soon as

it was possible to do so, and I have

never regretted that decision at all. I

mean, once I got to a particular point in

time and I knew what was actually going

on in the story, I did enjoy a little bit

more. But there was just so much science

in this. It was like very very heavily

science and then, like, a tiny bit of fiction

kind of thing. So yeah, it's not my kind

of sci-fi and it's...yeah. I'm just... I'm too

dumb for this book. I did not really love

it and I gave it 3 stars. Book number

four this week is A Respectable Girl by

Fleur Beale. This is YA historical

fiction book that is predominantly set

in New Zealand, and it tells the story of

a teenage girl named Hannah who is

basically just dealing with life growing

up in fairly rural New Zealand - she lives

in New Plymouth. Her stepmother is Maori,

and her half-brother is Maori and so she

is Pakeha, but she has very much

grown up in the Maori community and now

there are tensions flaring between the

Pakeha colonists and the Maori

population. And so it's her dealing with

all of that and then somewhere along the

way, she discovers that there is this big

family secret where her mother was

involved in some kind of scandal. Her

mother is now dead, and so she and her

brother end up that they go to England to

try and work out what the hell is going

on. I did find it to be a fairly typical

historical fiction book, but I did enjoy

the fact that there was a lot of sympathy

towards the Maori population and

particularly the fact that any time a

Pakeha character refers to a Maori

character by a westernised name, she's

like "You know what? Actually no. Their

name is..." and uses their proper name. She

gives a lot of respect to the Maori

population and she has a close

connection to the Maori population and,

like, the whole time that I was reading

this, I just keep thinking about the fact

that this was set in Australia, there

would be none of that involved.

Hannah as a character frustrated me a lot

of the time particularly where, like,

interactions with male characters were

involved. I was like "Girl, you're so

fucking stupid. You need to, like, think

this situation through before you do

whatever the fuck you're going to do oh no

wait, too late you already did it". So there

were some things like that where she

felt incredibly naive and I just was not

a huge fan of her character. The ending

did tie up a little too neatly for my

taste, and it was ever so slightly

predictable. So I liked this one, but I

didn't love it and I gave it 3.5 stars.

Book number five this week is my first

reread for the week and that is The

Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud, which is

the third book in the Lockwood & Co

series. I've talked about this series

before. It is a kind of YA/middle grade

series that is paranormal. So basically,

ghosts exist in this world, only kids and

teenagers can see them. So there are all

these ghost hunting agencies run by kids

and teenagers all over London and this

follows the story of one particular little ragtag

agency. This one is definitely my least

favourite of the series so far. I have the

fourth one waiting to be read at the

moment, which is why I reread this. But

it's definitely my least favourite and I

can't really go into too much detail

about why it's my least favourite, but there

is a lot of, like, girl-on-girl bitchiness

going on where the protagonist in this

one basically hates a new character

solely because the male characters in

the story think that she's nice and

she's great and she's doing a good job

and I'm like "Girl, you need to fucking stop." So

I spent a lot of this book kind of

wanting to punch Lucy in the face a lot

of the time, because you just like... Can

we not? The plot is decent but the

interactions between female characters

made me want to stab things, so I

ended up giving this one 3.5 stars. The sixth

book I finished this week is The Sound

of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel

Vasquez. This one was translated from

Spanish by Anne McLean, and it is set in

Colombia. It's a story of a guy who meets

a former pilot at a billiards hall and

befriends him. Shortly thereafter the ex

pilot receives a tape and he is then

shot down in the street. It's basically

a noir thriller sort of a book, but it

reads a lot more like literary fiction. I

read this one because I picked it up at

work and was like "Wow, that does not

sound like a book that a Catholic high

school library should have..." and turns out

it's on the year 12 literature syllabus,

so, like, clearly we do need to have a copy of it.

But I figured I would read it anyway

because, you know, it seemed interesting

and I kind of like to keep up to date

with what's on the Lit syllabus. I don't

even think I could tell you why I

enjoyed this as much as I did. Like, it

just... there was just something about the

story that I found incredibly compelling.

I liked the characters, even though a lot

of the time they're quite unlikable and they

do unlikable things. I just... I liked the

characters, I liked the way the story

played out, I wasn't so keen on some of

the slightly misogynistic attitudes

that the male characters had, but on the

whole I really enjoyed this one. It is

quite violent, I don't even know that I

could tell you what it was about this

book that I enjoyed as much as I did, but

I just found it incredibly compelling

and really really interesting reading

and a wonderful story. So I loved this one

a lot and I gave it 4 stars. The

seventh book that I finished this week

is A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev.

This one is an adult romance book that

is split between India and the US. It

follows the story of a girl named Mili

who, at the age of four, was married off

to this twelve-year-old boy in an

arranged marriage that was done by their

grandparents. She is now 24 and she

hasn't seen him since, but she knows that

there have been all these expectations

around her and how to be a good wife and

she's basically devoted her entire life

to kind of learning how to be the

perfect officer's wife, because he is in

the Indian Air Force. Unbeknownst to her,

his family did not get along

particularly well with his grandfather

and so shortly after the marriage was

actually arranged, they organised for it

to be annulled, particularly because

child marriage was illegal at this point

in time. And so he has actually married

somebody else who is now pregnant and he

starts to freak out when he finds out

that she still thinks that they're

married, he freaks out that his child is

going to be considered illegitimate.

She has gone off to the US to do some

post-grad study, and so he sends his

younger brother - who turns out to be this,

like, a Bollywood star, director, actor,

model person - sends him off to track her

down and persuade her to sign a piece of

paper saying basically "No, we're not

married, your wife is totally fine, your

child will be legitimate." Obviously, she

and the brother fall in love and, like, it

was really cute but I also kind of hate

myself for how much I loved this. Because

Samir, the male lead, is incredibly

misogynistic a lot of the time. He has

incredibly antiquated views around women

and yet he's painted very much as this

kind of playboy character and...yeah. There

was...there were just a lot of things that

he said and did

that I was like "Dude, no." Mili I liked a lot more.

She's working in women's health, she's

gone to the US to further her study in

women's health and in public health and

she's very very passionate about

educating women in India. So, like, all of

that was great. But anytime something

happened to her, she would basically

burst into tears. And that drove me

completely bonkers. So I was not really a

fan of the two lead characters individually,

but when you put the two of them

together, the chemistry between them was

just so great and they were so cute that

even though I kind of hated both of them,

I just wanted them to be together and I

wanted it to be squishy and happy and

adorable. I think my main problem though

with this one was that there were certain

elements of the story, particularly where

their backstories were concerned, that I

wanted more about. I wanted more about

Samir's relationship with his

grandfather,

I wanted more about Mili's relationship

with her grandmother, I wanted more about

all of that kind of, like, family dynamic

stuff, particularly seeing as it seems

they both have relatively traumatic pasts.

Anyway, I enjoyed this one a lot, kind of

hate myself for how much I liked it, took

off half a star for the attitudes of the

various characters, particularly Samir,

so I ended up giving this one 3.5

stars. Book number eight this week is The

Accident Season by Moira Fowley-Doyle, and

I don't even really know what genre to

consider this book to be. It's definitely

a young adult book but it's, like, part

contemporary, part paranormal, part maybe

fantasy. It feels like magical realism

but not, somehow? It's set in Ireland and

it tells the story of one family who

every October, accidents happen to them.

Like, you know, they're walking down the

street and they get hit in the head by

football and they get a concussion or

they're walking down stairs and they

twist their ankle or they, you know, grab

a glass from the cupboard and the glass

shatters in their hand and they have to

go to hospital and have their hand

stitched up. All of this kind of stuff

happens to every single member of this

family every October, and it's the story

of Cara and her older sister and her ex

stepbrother, who still lives with them

because his father was a douchebag and

ran off.

It's the story of the three of them, and

Cara's best friend, Bea, learning that

there are a lot of secrets in their family

and that these secrets may have

something to do with why the Accident

Season happens. I read this one in a

single day, I found the writing really

compelling,

I liked the kind of

paranormal magical realism-y sort of

elements to the story. But at the same time I

found it very predictable. Like, there was

a lot in this story that I was like

"well, obviously that is what is going to

happen" and I was right I think every

single time I was right on what was

happening in the story. So yeah. There was

a lot in here that was predictable. I was

not a fan of the romantic relationship

in the story, mostly because it was a)

predictable and b) kind of squicky. Like,

yeah. I can't really go into detail about

that without, you know, spoilers but I

will put some stuff in my Goodreads

review if you want to check that out

there's always a link to my Goodreads

profile down below, so if you want to

know about that kind of stuff, check that out.

But...ugh. Yeah. So I gave this one 3.5

stars. And the final book that I finished

this week was another reread and that is

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Last year I sped

through this and I absolutely loved it.

This year I took it a lot slower.

I read basically a chapter a night over

two weeks. I think I enjoyed this

slightly less this time around, but I

appreciated it a lot more, if that makes

sense.

Like, I didn't find the story as

compelling because I was only reading

that one chapter a night but I saw so

much more in this of how all the various

stories tie together and all the little

threads that ultimately flow through the

stories and how they get pulled together

at the end. All that kind stuff I could

see a lot more reading this more slowly.

So I'm really really glad I reread this

one. I still absolutely loved it,

although for slightly different reasons, I

think, than when I read it for the first

time last year. It is wonderful. If you

haven't read it, you need to. I gave it 5 stars.

Again. I love it.

So there you have it friends, that is all

the books that I finished this week. If

you have read any of these and have

thoughts on them, please let me know down

in the comments, I would love to talk

about them with you. Thank you guys so

much for watching. I love all your faces and

I will see you on Wednesday. Bye guys.

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Post Malone Gets Into Verbal Feud With Starlito and Don Trip Over "White Iverson" - Duration: 2:01.

Hey guys for Complex News, I'm Natasha Martinez.

Cultural appropriation in the music industry goes way beyond the recent headlines of Katy

Perry and Miley Cyrus advantageously using hip hop culture for their careers.

Recently the subject came about during a HipHop DX interview with Starlito and Don Trip discussing

the correlation between Trip's 'Allen Iverson' and Post Malone's 'White Iverson'.

While Trip said he was unfamiliar with the single, Starlito chimed in with some sharp

dialogue on the matter.

I thought it was a little bit exploitive.

On a lot of cultural levels.

That's what I thought and felt.

I had an opinion about that record.

I had just met the Sauce Twinz and they were the only people in the world that I had heard

use [saucin'].

He even went as far as to say the track was bigotry laden and compared it to black face

for music.

On Saturday things escalated when Starito retweeted a picture of Post Malone with the

inspiration for his song's title, former NBA MVP Allen Iverson.

He tweeted,

Plot Twist: Bubba Chuck snuffed him & will be wired $3M Tuesday a.m. when banks re-open

#extortion #reappropriation

From there things took a turn when Posty tweeted back saying he wished he had 3 million to

wire.

The back and forth continued when Posty tweeted,

@LITO615 bruh it sucks you're so ignorant I used to like your shit. how're you gonna

say anything about when you've never met me?....

To which Starlito responded,

@PostMalone a) not your "bruh" b) not ignorant c) @HipHopDX

asked a question, during an intelligent discussion.

d) not your "bruh" e) I'm saucin on u

The tweet storm continued with Post Malone sharing a pic of his platinum plaques and

searching for Starlito's relevance online.

Both Post Malone and Starlito are slated for upcoming interviews with XXL, so the debate

over the line of demarcation between paying homage to a culture versus appropriating one

could turn into a teachable moment.

That's your news for now, for more of today's trending stories subscribe to Complex on YouTube.

For Complex News, I'm Natasha Martinez.

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Interracial Marriages On The Rise - Duration: 6:57.

>> MORE PEOPLE ARE GETTING MARRIED TO INDIVIDUALS FROM A

DIFFERENT RACE.

PEW RESEARCH JUST CONDUCTED A STUDY WHERE

THEY TOOK DATA FROM THE CENSUS AND FOUND THAT ONE IN SIX

NEWLYWED SPOUSES ARE OF A DIFFERENT RACE OR ETHNICITY.

TO

GIVE YOU MORE INFORMATION ON THIS- SO IF YOU ARE YOUNGER YOU

PROBABLY THINK WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL?

I HAVE SEEN MIXED COUPLES

ALL THE TIME, IT IS PRETTY COMMON.

IF YOU JUST REWIND 50

YEARS, THE NUMBER WAS MUCH LOWER.

INTERMARRIED SOUNDS VERY

STRANGE.

IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE MARRYING A DIFFERENT SPECIES.

>> I AM OUTER MARRIED.

WHAT IS MORE AMAZING IS THAT INTERRACIAL

MARRIAGE WAS ILLEGAL IN THIS COUNTRY IN MANY PARTS.

THAT WAS

UNTIL 1967.

ONLY IN 1967 TO THE SUPREME COURT SAY IT WAS

UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO BAR DIFFERENT RACES FROM MARRYING

ONE ANOTHER.

IT

BLOWS MY MIND.

THEY LIVE IN A DIFFERENT WORLD,

THEY HAVE DIFFERENT FACTS AND REALITY.

AND THEIR WORLD GETTING

MARRIED TO A BLACK PERSON OR ANY RACE IS SO OUTRAGEOUS THEY THINK

IT SHOULD BE BANNED.

WHEREAS IN LA, NO ONE WOULD BLINK AN EYE OR

CARE EVER.

IF SOMEONE BELIEVE THE THINGS THAT THEY BELIEVE, THEY

LOOK AT THEM LIKE THEY ARE MONSTERS.

>> SKITTLES IS RIGHT, YOU SHOULD TASTE THE RAINBOW.

DEPENDS ON

WHAT YOU ARE INTO BUT I FEEL LIKE KEEPING – STAYING WITHIN

YOUR RACE OR NATIONALITY IS SO INCREDIBLY BORING.

BY THE WAY IF

THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT, DO YOU.

BUT I WANT TO LIVE IN A SOCIETY

THAT FORCES ME TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO IS EXACTLY LIKE ME.

I GET A LOT OF PLEASURE ABOUT LEARNING ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES

AND CULTURES.

RELATIONSHIP IS THE BEST WHEN IT IS A LEARNING

EXPERIENCE.

I FEEL LIKE IF IT IS SOMEONE THAT COMES FROM THE

EXACT SAME CULTURE AS ME THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE

UNDERSTAND ABOUT ONE ANOTHER, BUT GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT

ZONE.

APPRECIATE DIFFERENT CULTURES AND UNDERSTAND THAT

JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE IS A DIFFERENT RACE OR NATIONALITY

DOESN'T MEAN IT IS THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD.

PEOPLE WHO

HAVE THIS ACTIVATED FEAR CENTER IN THEIR BRAINS ARE THE ONES

THAT GET TURNED OFF BY THE IDEA OF INTERMARRIAGE.

>>LET ME EXPLAIN ALSO THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW WORLD.

IN THE

OLD WORLD THE REASON WHY THEY TOLD YOU TO MARRY WITHIN YOUR

OWN CLAN WAS BECAUSE YOU WERE GOING TO FIGHT THE CANAANITES

AND YOU NEEDED AS MANY BABIES AS POSSIBLE WHO WERE ISRAELITES OR

PHILISTINES OR WHATEVER.

>>YOU

HAVE TO MARRY THE PHILISTINES AND HAVE BABIES WITH THEM.

>>THAT IS WHERE THIS WHOLE TRIBALISM COMES FROM.

THAT HAS

COME ALL THE WAY UP TO NOW WHERE PEOPLE STILL FROM THE OLD WORLD

THINK YOU HAVE TO MARRY YOUR SAME RACE.

BUT IN THE NEW WORLD

WE ARE ACTUALLY ARE MARRYING WITHIN OUR CULTURES, IT IS JUST

THAT OUR CULTURE IS NO LONGER BASED ON RACE OR ETHNICITY.

IN A

PLACE LIKE LA OUR CULTURE IS AN AMERICAN ONE.

IT IS MADE FROM

TV, ONLINE, MEDIA IS THE CULTURE.

IN THE OLD DAYS OR

CULTURE WAS ALL POLITICS AND MEDIA WAS LOCAL SO YOU MARRIED

SOMEONE FROM YOUR HOMETOWN.

RIGHT NOW ALL THAT MEDIA AND

CULTURE IS NATIONAL AND IN SOME WAYS GLOBAL.

WE ARE ALL PART OF

THAT BIG CULTURE.

THERE ARE POCKETS OF SUBCULTURE THAT HAVE

NOT CHANGED, HENCE THE ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI REPUBLICAN

VOTERS THAT ARE STUCK IN A TIME WARP.

BUT MOST OF US HAVE MOVED

ON FROM THAT.

AND FINALLY WE ARE WINNING.

WE ARE GOING TO WIN, THEY ARE GOING TO LOSE.

>> YEAH, BECAUSE WE ARE MIXING.

WHENEVER WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE

NEED TO MOVE PAST RACE IN THE COUNTRY, YOU CAN GET THE

GOVERNMENT TO REFORM CERTAIN THINGS BUT NOTHING WILL WORK

QUITE AS WELL AS THE FACT THAT WE ARE ALL GOING TO HAVE SEX

WITH EACH OTHER, PROCREATE, AND HAVE MIXED BABIES.

THE IDEA OF

RACE IS GOING TO BE KIND OF RIDICULOUS.

>>WE ARE ALMOST GETTING THERE FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION.

LIKE

ANA SAID NOW IT IS 10%, BUT AMONG THE PEOPLE GETTING MARRIED

TODAY IT IS 15%.

WE ARE GOING TO MAKE MORE PROGRESS AND HAVE MORE

INTERMIXING.

IF YOU HAPPEN TO MARRY SOMEONE IN YOUR OWN RACE

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT AT ALL.

JUST FIND THE PERSON YOU

LOVE.

I KNOW, RADICAL THOUGHT.

BUT THOSE GUYS ARE ALL ANCIENT.

BUT IT IS NOT GOING TO HELP THEM.

THE REALITY IS WE ARE

GOING TO WIN BECAUSE WE ALWAYS WIN AT THE END BECAUSE WE HAVE

PROGRESS AT THE END.

RIGHT NOW IT

IS SPEEDING UP.

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A Look at Who's Who on Lil Yachty's 'Teenage Emotions' - Duration: 2:24.

What's up, guys?

For Complex News, I'm Natasha Martinez.

Lil Yachty's debut album Teenage Emotions is out this week, and it captures a teenager's

everyday lifestyle and the feelings they go through.

Whether you're feeling happy, sad, turnt, or heartbroken, there's a Yachty song for

you on here.

The 21-track project follows Yachty's Lil Boat and Summer Songs 2 mixtapes, as well

as performances on Billboard chart-toppers "Broccoli" by D.R.A.M. and "iSpy"

by KYLE.

After Yachty shared the artwork and release date for Teenage Emotions on April 20, the

polarizing hip-hop figure received a mixed response for an album cover that featured

all walks of life, which included a gay couple kissing, an albino man, and a woman with vitiligo.

Yachty has taken the criticisms in stride, recently hashing out his differences with

Joe Budden in an explosive episode of Everyday Struggle, and continues to defend his art

when haters try to come at him.

Which brings us to the music.

Teenage Emotions has plenty of key features, starting with Migos—his Quality Control

labelmates—who appear on the brooding "Peek a Boo."

On "All Around Me," YG shouts out Lil Yachty three times in his verse, and Kamaiyah brings

celebratory vibes to the song.

Elsewhere, Diplo's energizing EDM pairs nicely with Lil Yachty's optimizing lyrics

on "Forever Young."

There's also some newer, unfamiliar names like East London MC Stefflon Don who appears

on "Better," El Paso, Texas rapper Evander Griiim on "X Men," and Grace, an Australian

singer who worked with Lil Boat on DJ Cassidy's new single "Honor."

Sonyae Elise appears on the outro that also features Yachty's mom.

For the album's production, Lil Yachty used a total of 21 producers—a mix of established

acts and newcomers.

Ricky Racks, who famously produced Young Thug's "Best Friend," K Swisha, who produced

MadeinTYO's "Uber Everywhere," and Lex Luger, the maestro behind the heavy 808s drums

used on Waka Flocka Flame's Flockaveli, all make appearances.

Wondagurl is behind "Lady in Yellow," while others like Pierre Bourne, TheGoodPerry,

D33J, Digital Nas, 30 Roc, ILoveUPeter, and TrapMoneyBenny round out Teenage Emotions'

ambitious, feel-good environment.

So that's your comprehensive breakdown behind Teenage Emotions.

Love Yachty or hate him, all he asks is for you to press play and enjoy his music.

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The Importance Of Gratitude - Duration: 12:24.

ashkirwan.com.au the importance of

gratitude really lies in the fundamental

of living a quality and prosperous life

and as cliche and rare our guru

semantics as that sounds it's kind of

really true you know when I was dealing

with a lot of mental health issues and

obesity and relationship cluster bomb or

ineffective communication that was going

on in my world it's very easy to drop my

bottom lid and to go and get a six-pack

kick back and smoke the ciggies locker

used to really not have any momentum or

motivation for life up you know

motivating yourself shouldn't have to be

a true it should come naturally and I

think for myself that's really the

fundamentals of building quality of life

through gratitude because when we can

look at those people in our world and

say you know what I love you even beyond

the troubles that's going on right now

even beyond the situation that is and

was they still love you and I want to

see you well and I want to see you grow

because I'd like to grow right because

we live in a beautiful world you know

gratitude will help us see the world

through the eyes of a rose pair of

glasses somewhat and not just to look

over the hard stuff and the stuff that

we want to ignore but to actually see

the beauty in the hard things see the

beauty in the hardship and see the

beauty in the struggle because if you

don't know struggle if you don't know

pain you'll never know the true depths

of glory

that's a big one for me to swallow a big

one for me to acknowledge in a big one

for me to see my world you know even

this morning as I walk through this

misty kind of rain

I just signed up for a new business

mentoring program which is going to

allow me to fundamentally find ways to

bring my programs to the outer reaches

of Australia to start to fundamentally

teach effective communication and family

divert development in aid of influencing

mental health in Australia and the world

abroad through coaching in programs

which you watch through this channel

develop because that is my vision and

yet if it wasn't for me going through

all that struggle with the mental health

issues in the family issues and the bad

communication within mum and dad's

connectivity with me then wouldn't be at

this point you know running away from

home and really taught me about getting

up every day and seeing the beauty in

every moment and actually finding what

was good about everyday you know living

in my truck for six months really came

helped me understand the real

fundamentals of why it's important to

live with gratitude and the importance

of gratitude because it's so easy to see

the destructive and tormenting stuff in

life it's so easy to see bad stuff

because you know if you keep focusing on

that and so what it'll just elevate you

oh never move towards their happiness

pictures you know yourself who you look

into your life sometimes the most fun

times the most inspiring times in your

life come from those sporadic moments oh

he just made a decision you got out and

done it he's got busy making do with the

goods sometimes the most random

occurrence is like when you met the love

of your life or a new partner or a new

friend often come from those sporadic

moments where you almost didn't go if

you almost didn't go out you didn't go

to that event or you didn't step up and

do that thing but you did and all of a

sudden is like wow I really glad I did

this now because I met you and that's

where we can develop our gratitude in

that realization that by stepping into

our own truth and owning our space and

being grateful for every component that

falls to bits for us and that comes to

get

there's all abrasively cutting away the

rough edges that don't service and I

guess that is the point of gratitude

especially in hardship having gratitude

in hardship but really you don't sucks

man I get that I know that you know it's

in really buggy times like if you had a

turn to meet when I was really going

through some real dark patches with my

mental health issues and said yeah one

day you've been making videos building a

YouTube channel teaching fundamentals of

effective communication doing

calisthenics and chucking yourself over

a monkey bar like a human monkey having

serious amounts of fun surf in Australia

I'm client over little walls because he

kind of got trapped on the path and you

had to do that in the middle of a video

that you're shooting for YouTube for

YouTube channel walk alongside Brisbane

River I'd have been like year you

tripping man you're off chops but I'm

doing it mean yeah now I'm now really

grateful for that experience only

getting a little bit of mud on missus

walking up his muddy path now like where

am i taking myself there on a little

adventure I don't know but it's kind of

cool I like this stuff and that's what I

can be grateful for those hard times now

you Don zone and tower can be grateful

for that struggle because that struggle

within taught me to struggle without you

know and how can you ever be grateful

for everything that comes your way and

the gifts of imperfection if you don't

see the perfection in the solitary

moments of demise and despise and

struggle and inner torment you know

the importance of gratitude keeps you

centered it keeps you not keeping your

honors but keeps you motivated to keep

striving at the fork in the road to

spawn a new zest for life especially

when things aren't working you know it's

too easy to be grateful when things

aren't sweet for you it's too easy to be

grateful when the when the flower-garden

if you're lost is popping out little

orange that's is it's a lot harder when

the chips down and tell you that after

living in the truck six months no money

in the banks breathing down my neck

taking six hundred bucks a month out of

my bank account just for interest yeah

that suck not twice there's a big

struggle coming out of that every day I

had a choice to wake up and realize that

I could park up the truck wherever liked

and I could choose to see the world

however I chose and I could effectively

choose to be miserable or I could choose

to actually find a smile and find

something good in every day you know

it's kind of regular practice of

mine--ours to consistently step back and

think of what I'm grateful for that day

or that month or that moment in time see

the value in all the struggles and see

the value in all that stuff because that

brings value to myself it allows me to

cultivate a high level of gratitude for

the journey of being on because it

hasn't been easy and I'm 39 years of age

and I want to get married and have kids

and up until this point it hasn't been a

possibility for a number of reasons but

you know I'm grateful for my experiences

because it's allow me to influence and

shape other people's lives and other

people's family lives and ultimately

kids and young crew today I live more

constructively and make better informed

decisions

based upon the education of my

experience and dealing with mental

health and understanding my own gut

health and my physical health and my

weight loss now and breaking through

this communication communication issues

of Mum and understanding how the

domestic violence really affected her

inability to connect with her emotions

and step there out of her own balance

and flows of feminine creature and into

a more emasculated version of herself

which is not conducive to any long-term

grosser development within a family let

alone becoming a grandmother now now

have a beautiful relationship with my

mother my mother is my rock so those

experiences of her emotionally and

psychologically bashing the living crap

out of me based upon her inability to

connect with me emotionally as much as I

wanted to try has now given me the

fundamental education system in order to

go out there and prove your life and

people just like you and that itself is

a wealth of richness that in itself is

absolutely fucking amazing absolutely

amazing from climbing through the

mangroves of my own muddy pit crab fest

and territory where it felt like many

times my life I was living in a bucket

with a series of crabs and at a time had

tried to climb out that Brittany back

down filled me full of drugs and

tranquilizers newer sand a scrub ball

running through the local village in the

right out of season of the Ranger bull

festival

now I'm living up very wealthy

prosperous life enjoying every moment

because life's an adventure notice the

importance of gratitude the importance

of gratitude is to see your life is an

adventure and to open a open up your

ornate spirit to the possibilities and

potential within because we all have

possibilities you know maybe for you

your possibilities don't lie within the

five-second rule of the immediate

vicinity as much as you'd like them to

but you know piece by piece you can put

together a cake and then you can eat it

too you go do is slowly start to

building bring together all the

components find the right blend in the

right mixture and then go and find an

oven to bang it in my ovens you tube at

the moment what's your oven what is your

cake look like I'm trying find a good

way of getting up here somewhere

this will be fun what is your oven what

is your cake look like and give me a sec

another climber Oh

yeah I love that so good thing I like

about this video making these videos I

can just let go on my own little

adventure and do my thing I'm dad to get

real sweaty here walking up these steps

again anyway that's the importance of

gratitude because life is an adventure

that's what I want to bring you you know

the only questions on how to make life

an adventure and how to cultivate an

attitude of gratitude and understand the

importance of gratitude in your world in

whatever area of life that can sense put

your questions in the box below remember

to like and share this video with your

friends and social peer group because

together we will bring a gratitude

towards a greater o'clock ecological

dispersion of fun times and

interconnectivity of synergy if you'd

like a hand to implement this ideology

and your ecology press the book extra

coaching button let's have a

conversation on how we can now help your

best moving forward and to get out of

your own rock and a hard place to create

a space of cultivating gratitude for a

greater epiphany of the romantic life

you desire much love guys please

you

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Constructive Arguements - Duration: 9:37.

ashkirwan.com.au constructive arguments

are often not what people think when I

start to explain them to them because

nobody likes to argument I don't want to

argue at all I just want to cruise along

people say I don't argue what even

argued for I'll be honest here I asked

Helen come ask Helen cantata you love

arguing no why because it allows me to

cut away and a brace abrasively moved

beyond the parts of myself to don't

serve me and by constructively arguing I

get to see myself through the eyes of

other through the eyes of other people

and start to see how they view me

especially when they're willing to

actually partake in and argue it with me

because we can learn the value of

arguing constructively and that's not to

be self-righteous constructive arguments

are not coming from the place of

listening with the intent to react or to

respond or to win or to be right but to

understand constructive arguments very

much consists on the idealization of

understanding because let's face it

nobody want to nobody wants to hear

about their idiosyncrasies in their

shortcomings nobody wants to see how

they're failing and what's not right

about them although if you can develop

the all-night ornate emotional

intelligence which ultimately comes from

constructive arguments if you can evolve

your own or make emotional intelligence

to be able to allow yourself to see

yourself through the eyes of other

meaning the person you're arguing with

you may be able to see that they have a

point or at least a small slight point

that actually makes sense if you look at

yourself from the eyes of them in the

composition from the theoretical

framework or the juxtaposition of the

situation or the issue at hand you are

arguing about so constructive arguments

will actually allow you to see yourself

from a place that you never deemed

possible which is why you're annoyed

while you're arguing why are you trying

to put your point across to figure out

what is the best action in action moving

forward or the best answer

takes a great little great little bit of

humility to be out of constructive they

argue it means you've got to sit there

layers softer the called all sorts of

things under the name be described in

ways that you never deemed imaginable or

possible but through a greater level of

maturity and a composition of emotional

intelligence you can begin to actually

see somebody else's point whether it's

relevant or actually make sense or is

the right solution to the issue applaud

my hand is irrelevant to constructively

argue you allow yourself and the person

who's arguing with you to abrasively

move beyond the issue and actually

develop a level of respect into

personally between the two is to

actually come up with the great right

combination of communication and actions

and inactions in order to solve and move

beyond the issue at hand

constructive arguments will be one of

the greatest things and skill sets you

can bring to any task at hand imagine if

we could develop families with effective

communication to the point where we can

constructively argue to actually get

beyond some of these Dominions that end

up in the law courts of high turmoil in

destructive divorce leaving kids in

inner torment and unresolved that never

want to actually ever live in the

profane existence that their parents

have what if we could actually allow our

kids to see an ever greater capacity to

move beyond conflict to create more love

and connection to actually allow them to

synergize that an ever greater capacity

do you think they might be able to build

romantic relationships and love affairs

that lasts the ages I do I know it and

if you doubt me I dare you to argue with

me a lot of demonstrating exactly how

this constructive argument stuff works

I'd really like that and if you'd like

to argue put your comments in the

questions and your arguments in the box

below and I'll battle of output you

because my idea is not to win is to grow

cube Jew right back at you because

constructive arguments are how you will

evolve your own mindset and your own

development and theory and leadership

model based upon leadership by example

and not leadership by Authority when we

argue with the idea and the ideals of

trying to be right then we are stepping

into leadership by Authority whether

we're in a leadership position or a boss

mentality or not when we argue with the

point of trying to be right we are

trying to Authority is another relaxed

things spoken down to nobody likes been

subordinated down to no one likes

subordinating up neither so if you can

learn to constructively argue ultimately

what you're doing is stepping out of

subordination and not talking down or up

towards any one person to I don't want

you to understand one another and

actually move through issues and

obstacles to a point of emotional

resolve because when we get the

emotional resolve in an argument when we

get to the point of actually getting to

a clear understanding without the

subordination with the connection with

the emotional resolve we begin to raise

their own emotional intelligence create

a higher level of emotional resilience

become even more self-aware and start to

become more prosperous in every area

including financially because it's

through solving problems in our world in

all the areas of our life that we get to

grow and develop into full up more

vibrant and bodied versions of the human

essence that we are because that's kind

of what comes out of our teenage years

in that lesson some start to get

hormones and get little hairs grown in

funny places and different feelings and

objectivity of sexual desire towards

somebody else who knows who that is but

things change a perceptions the world

change have desire and what we're going

to create who we want to be seen as

changes and our ability to effectively

express that and grow through that and

become that becomes the outcome of that

adolescence years and we're so abrupted

lee abrasively trying to cognitively go

against everything our parents teach

because they are completely wrong and so

our ability to effectively communicate

and to constructively argue is the finer

tuning of how we actually develop a life

worth living a romance worth having

a loving connection conducive to growth

and prosperity and interpersonal synergy

constructive arguments are interpersonal

synergy they are very much the riverbed

and ebb and flow of tide at a time that

allow us to repeat the lifestyle

conducive to the quality that we all

strive so gallantly towards through the

nine to five grind trying to stay alive

and create the lifestyle can't even

think of a wrong word abot that we have

that we always ever dreamed of some of

us want to be Hollywood some of us want

to have a happy little family some of us

just want to live on the beach and surf

some of us want to play with the kids

down the park and some just want to

climb the corporate ladder but effective

communication results in constructive

arguments where we allow ourselves to

see ourselves through the eyes of other

and raise their own ever greater

capacity and potential I hope you've

enjoyed this video remember to like and

share with your friends put your

comments in the box below and if you've

got any questions on constructive

arguments or need a hand to implement

decide your ideology into your ecology

and book ask for coaching

just wanna hair can we go down feel free

don't let me stop you I'll step straight

in I love that anyway much love guys

you're all my people

I remember constructive arguments happen

when we step out of our own ego and I

too am guilty of that many times in my

life especially recently I've had to

step back and have a real good look at

myself because what I've come to

understand about mental health and

mental wealth and the capacity of

interpersonal synergy and relationship

development has very much come through

my objectivity are moving through the

emotional issues I had to my mother and

father which has left me very confident

in what I stand for and where I'm

delivering to the world in the form of

these packages and moving it forward in

its business management and so stepping

out of my own ego quite consistently

I've started seeing new possibilities

for myself and for you too and that is

the fine tuning of this constructive

arguments I don't consider myself to be

a perfect person yet it's through my

idiosyncrasies and through my weaknesses

of my faults I have the best opportunity

to grow especially when somebody has the

capacity to be emotionally intelligent

with me and demonstrate to me where I'm

wrong how I'm wrong and how does all

that improving it because that is how we

change the world that is how we change

the face of mental health and that's how

we start to build effective

communication how families learn to

constructively argue to build and bond

at an ever greater capacity to build

ever greater fundamentals of love and

connection with the kids and with the

partners so the people in grow old and

pray together and run naked off the end

of a bridge in the middle of nowhere and

have little romantic picnics like dirty

old themes but who wouldn't want that

because it's absolutely beautiful

I want that picked on

I think we all want love and connection

a life and it's through constructive

arguments that we have basically moved

towards fundamentally deeper

understanding of those in our life and

also with our self love you guys love

every part of you talk to you real soon

guys peace

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The One Hand Swing Drill For Straighter Shots And Crisper Contact - Duration: 3:01.

Hello.

I'm Brian Fitzgerald The Golf Doctor.

And today I am going to show you a little drill that will really help improve your clubs connection

with the golf ball.

I call it the one hand swing drill.

Stay tuned.

[MUSIC]

So.

I am Brian Fitzgerald The Golf Doctor and if this is the first time to my channel.

Welcome.

This channel is all about helping people play better golf.

Today I thought I would show you a drill that you can do that is going to improve the feel,

your awareness of where the clubface is and it's going help with your connection between

club and ball.

So what I try and get people to do.

Is to just hold the club down low.

Down near the bottom of the grip like I have got there.

And we just do some little tiny swings.

Just keeping the body pretty stable and we are just letting it.

Now I am gripping the club light enough so that the club is actually going from that

position through to square and then through to square again there.

Just letting the club turn.

If you can't see it I have a little club fitting tool here.

So it's pointing straight at that point.

It's pointing out to the right at that point.

I come back to square and the moment I hit the golf ball the club turns left.

This is the mistake most people make.

They don't allow the club to turn.

And it's actually the weight of the club that is turning the club.

It's not my wrist that is doing it.

It is purely the weight of the club.

So just by me swinging fairly relaxed and keeping my grip light.

You can see the club turning.

So if I do a little shot.

The club just turned beautifully through the ball.

The ball went reasonably straight and a nice distance.

So if I do that again.

The secret of this of course is not to be too greedy and try to use too big a swing.

It get's out of control.

So do it slowly, grip down the club.

Do it short.

But you are just letting the club do the work.

If I try and overpower it.

I am going to leave that clubface open pointing right and I am going to hit a bad shot.

You can either do it with yourleft hand behind your back or just down the side.

So just let the club turn through the shot and you can see the ball goes pretty straight.

So if you were to do that every day.

You don't even need to hit a ball.

Just keep the club turning.

The club must turn.

If it doesn't turn you are going to hit it out to the right.

Thank you for letting me help you with your golf.

I'm Brian Fitzgerald The Golf Doctor.

And if you like my videos you can click on the subscribe button down on the round avatar

down the bottom there.

You can also sign up to my electronic newsletter at thegolfdoctor.com.au

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Learn Shapes with Preschool Wooden Toy Train - Learn Shapes With Flying Clock - Duration: 2:05.

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Amnesty International Day | VEDIM - Duration: 2:19.

Hello, I'm Rogan and welcome to VEDIM day 28!

Today is Amnesty International Day.

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty and AI) is a non-governmental organization focused on human rights.

The stated objective of the organization is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and

end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."

Amnesty International was founded in London in 1961, following the publication of the article

"The Forgotten Prisoners" in The Observer on May 28 1961, by Peter Benenson, a lawyer.

Amnesty draws attention to human rights abuses and campaigns for compliance with international laws and standards.

It works to mobilize public opinion to put pressure on governments that let abuse take place.

The organization was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its "campaign against torture,"

and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 1978.

In the field of [international] human rights organizations, Amnesty has the third longest history,

after the International Federation for Human Rights and broadest name recognition,

and is believed by many to set standards for the movement as a whole.

That's all. Their Wiki page has a lot of history from when they were founded in the 1960s to now.

They explain about their structure, what they've done in the past, and so on.

I definitely recommend you read up on this one, they've done so much for human rights.

Hope you enjoyed that, and I hope you all enjoy your Memorial Day tomorrow.

If you have it off. If not, bummer.

Plus, it's very soon that we're finished with VEDIM.

If there's any topic you want me to talk about, let me know NOW because I have only two free days left.

If you want to support my content, I have Patreon and ko-fi. Subscribe to this channel.

Follow me on all my socials - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Thanks for watching, see you tomorrow!

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Shout Out Sunday (with captions) - Duration: 0:25.

Hey guys I dyed my hair blue just kidding this is CLICKBAIT

Let's get straight into shoutout Sunday

Aye guys Do you like my hair combed back or any style comment down below

And the winners are Tyler fighter, Adrian Manivanh, And THE BROWN POTATO