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On today's menu we have another Cyberpunk 2077 lore video for you, and today we're going

to talk about the Megacorporations and the Corporates

Since the crash at the end of the 20th century, the Governments of the world have been in

the uncomfortable position of having to let the Corporations do pretty much as they please

It all started after the crash of the '96: Corporations promised to bring jobs and prosperity

to cities, and Governments provided: they sold them lands at almost no expense to build

their offices and suburbs for their employees and gave all sort of incentives including

absolute Corporate control over these lands, that grew bigger and bigger

And their control and influence expanded

And their autonomy from the governments became almost total

The modern corporations in 2077 are much like the corporations in the XXI century, only

much larger and more fully autonomous They are very nearly nations in themselves,

with their own laws, cities and factories and armies

Most corporations here are multinational, they have branches and operations all over

the world These branches may be as small as a research

facility or a sales office, or as large as a major manufacturing facility and security center

There are two type of corporations, public

and private A public corporation can and does sell stock

to the public The stock is for sale in any of the offices

of the World Stock Exchange, and anyone with enough money can buy it

Privately held corporations are more like a family business, all stock, and therefore

all power is concentrated in the hands of a very few: usually partners, relatives or

one extremely powerful individual Most corporations are manufacturers: they

produce some kind of commodity for sale on the open market: Oil, steel, automobiles,

aircrafts, weapons, computers, cybernetics, biotechnologies, these are only a few of the

literally millions of corporate operations Many corporations have several commodities

on the market, they may control chemical plants in Europe, computer factories in Japan, and

steel making operations in the United States

Paying lip service to pollution control, product

safety, and minimum wage rules, the Corporations in 2077 usually strikes a bargain with the

local government

Sometimes this can be as simple as a bribe

to the right places, or military support for the local dictator

In the more sophisticated United States, Corporations tread lightly, going out of their way their

more illegal operations and making sure to tore the line in their more legit and visible

ones On the local level, it's often a case of trading

power, influences or money with the right leaders: a judge or police chief here, a senator

or congressman there The powers of corporations expand to all the

facets of population control Not only control over their own employees

but also over their consumers, controlling the way people receive and perceive information

and events and keeping governments and public opinion under control, sometimes with the

help of a Mediacorporations

Merdiacorps are huge conglomerates that grew

out of a trend of the late 80s in which certain firms bought up TV networks, film companies,

record companies, radio stations, and books, magazines, and even comic book publishers,

effectively centralizing the media under the control of a very few people

Entertainment has become generic and bland.

Print material has a "sameness" as a hundred magazines are produced by the same company

Dissenting opinions and independent productions are usually buried under the avalanche of

media hype, or worse, co-opted and destroyed by the vicious competitive practices of the

major Mediacorps

Still worse is the effect on news and information

Political candidates have realized that the right connections to the right Mediacorp executive

win elections, only a short step to where the media corporations actually select, package

and sell their own candidates While no major government is YET directly

controlled by a Mediacorporation, most socio analysts suspect that is just a matter of time

The modern corporation is usually organized

as a vast hierarchy, with a President and Board of Directors at the top, and a hue sea

of workers at the bottom In the middle of this, one finds the realm

of the corporate executive, a struggling middle-class overachiever, usually with the single-minded

goal of grabbing as much power and privilege as possible

The average corporate begins as a Junior Executive, "Bossing" a particular project or group

of people

At the next level, he becomes a Manager, controlling a specific department or production area

The major infighting begins here: only very successful managers get elevated to the position

of Assistant of Vice President, where they control entire factories or other operations

They are, in turn, bossed by Vice Presidents, who control entire divisions of the company

Near the top is the Executive Vice President, who effectively runs the corporation

His boss is the President, who answers only to the Board of Directors and the Chairman

of the Board Theoretically, corporate advancement is based

on merit

In reality, the corporate world is rife with nepotism, deal making, cheating, lying and

credit stealing

Extortion and blackmail are common

One of the most disturbing factors in this web of corporate power brokering is the role

of organized crime

Realizing in the early 90s that the new Megacorporations represented an unprecedented new field of

opportunity, the powerful families of the Mafia and other crime groups began to offer

their services as bodyguards, hitmen, and general corporate enforcers

This pattern had previously been established amongst the corporate families of Japan, who

routinely hired both ninja assassins and Yakuza clans for their cover operations

In some cases, the retainers remain faithful, at least to the people who pay the most

In other more unfortunate cases, the hired guns have taken direct control of the corporations

themselves, leading to a new age of intercorporate infighting unchecked by even a sham of legality

Megacorporations also have a great impact in the influence that their mother countries

exercise over the rest of the world

One of the most notable examples of corporate influence is the Japanese corporation Arasaka,

ruled by the megalomaniac Saburo Arasaka This company not only dominates most of the

Third World, including the United States but also Japan: He has unified factions of the

Japanese government, the military, organized crime and various lesser corporations under

his control Some have even begun calling this historical

period the "Arasaka Shogunate"

The maximum goal of Arasaka is to turn Japan into the first power of the world with him

having total supremacy over it In the savage world of big business is not

unusual for an executive to jump from firm to firm, looking for a big success

To prevent this, most corporations require their employees to sign Employment contracts,

specifying how long must they work for the firm until they can quit

Contracts may run from a year for a low-level executive, to an entire lifetime for a key

researcher or company president The penalties for breaking Employment Contracts

are extremely severe, ranging from garnishment of wages and lawsuits, but Corporations are

also known to use sabotage software and deadly booby traps to ensure loyalty

Blackmail is common

Assassination and kidnapping are expected

This makes corporation headhunting a deadly game of cat and mouse

To hire away another company's staff for use by your own company, most corporations

have their own extraction team of Solos who, like the CIA or the KGB arrange "defections"

of key personnel from one side to the other Headhunting can be especially lethal, as most

corporations will use any and all means to stop the extraction team of a rival company

Since the early 2000, almost every corporation employs at least one force of highly trained

covert operatives, specializing in espionage, counter-espionage and sabotage and counter-terrorism

In extreme cases, measures such as assassination and terrorism are not unknown, whether against

other corporations or within the corporate structure itself

This is not an entirely new phenomenon, for many years, the powerful Japanese industrial

combines, the Zaibatsu, were known to secretly employ ninja clans in many of their covert

operations These connections sketched back to the distant

past when many of the same clans served the feudal ancestors of the Zaibatsu rulers

Less covert operations requiring muscle and lack of subtlety were often delegated to various

Japanese gangster mobs, many of whom have partial interests in the corporations themselves

As Western corporations began to adopt various methods of Japanese management and production,

it was a simple step for these companies to adopt or create their own "ninja" forces

This historical reference may be one reason why hired corporate killers and spies are

known on the streets by colorful names such as Ninja, Samurai, Ronin, and Yakuza

A corporate covert operations arm usually is made up of weapons specialists, computer

technicians, and several "hired guns"

Almost all of these covert forces are cyber-enhanced with the best technology available

Covert action arms frequently search the dead zones and arcologies for promising young criminals

to recruit, promising them a high pay, the best enhancements and a life of glamor and adventure

Not wanting to join a corporation yet?

Being a corporate also has lots of advantages

The upheaval of the XX century torn the world apart

But as real estate prices begin to rise, and

suburbs became more crowded, the major companies began to reconsider their strategies

By the middle of the 80s, corporations working with city governments began to rehabilitate

the inner city The corporations provided the money for new

buildings, shopping malls, and modern community areas, while the government provided tax incentives,

inexpensive land and police protection

The human cost of this restructuring was the

displacement of the undesirables of the urban Dead Zone

Poor, drug dealers, pipms, gangs and street people were all pushed out from the city center,

creating a region bounded on one side by affluent suburbs and on the other by the now showcase

central city This "doughnut" effect had a further impact

on the community, by shoving the Dead Zone inhabitants between the two areas, crime rates

on both sides of the line began to skyrocket

Street gangs, routinely shuttled between the middle-class suburbs and the model inner city

to prey on new victims As a result of this new social structure,

the Megacorporations usually controlled both, the inner city and a large portion of the

company owned suburban developments outside of the city

To facilitate their commuters, many of the megacorps have installed light rail and underground

systems between the showcase inner city and the well-protected suburbs

Patrolled by corporate guards, monitored by cameras and the most sophisticated sensors,

these railways are always clean, quiet and free of crime

That's why Corporations is a great place to be in the upheaval of 2077

That's where you want to be

Of course, you work for the corporations,

you're not crazy You have to be realistic

There's nothing but grunt jobs on the streets, most of the good jobs out there are managerial:

You're bossing a bunch of AI's and robots and to score that kind of job you need an

MBA minimum these days So, once you've put in six, seven years, you

want to maximize that investment And the corporations make that possible

Health care when everybody else is festering on the street corner because doctors cost

200 eurobucks an hour Company-sponsored housing, because the average

two bedroom comes in at half million eurobucks Perks like an office, secretary, and bodyguard

So, of course, you're a corporate man, only an idiot wouldn't be

In the old days, they would've called you a Yuppie, a hard driven, fast-track MBA on

his way up the Corporate ladder

Sure, it's selling your soul to the company, but face it, the Corporations rule the world

in 2077 They control Governments, markets, nations,

armies, you name it

And you know that whoever controls the Corporations, controls everything else

Right now, your life as a Junior Executive is everything but easy

There are guys underneath you that would kill you for your position, and they are guys above

you who would kill you to keep their position And they're not kidding about the killing,

every up and comer in the Corporation

has his own crew of Solos and Netrunners to cover his pet projects

Sabotage? Constantly

Bribery? Routine

Blackmail? Common

Promotion by assassination?

Always a possibility

The stakes are that high, one slip and you

could be out on the street with the trash, or dead

And the projects your supervisors give you!

Some are pretty straightforward, design a new productivity schedule for the Corporation's

Medical subsidiary Some are pretty raw, send a "black operations"

team into the City to spread a designer plague so the Marketing team can clean up selling

the vaccine Last week, you led a mixed team of solos,

netrunners and Techies on a HeadHunting run to kidnap a researcher from a rival company

The week before, your project was to steal plans for a new suborbital shuttle from the

EuroSpace Agency, so the Aero Space division could copy the design and sell it to the Soviets

You told yourself you joined the Corporation to make a better place, work from the inside,

you said But now, you're not so sure

Your ideals are a little tarnished and things are getting pretty bleak

But you can't worry about ethics now, you have a report due in one hour, and it looks

like that guy in Sales is going to ice your database for good

But not if you ice him first It doesn't sound safe, I know, but is always

better than the cruel and cold nights with no roof over your head in Night City

Join a Corporation, for a better life

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You're Burning Out 11 Signs You're More Than Just Tired… - Duration: 8:23.

You�re Burning Out 11 Signs You�re More Than Just Tired�

By Raven Ishack

Whether you�re an overachiever or you just have a lot on your plate at the moment, working

24/7 can be detrimental for your health. Without even realizing it, signs of burning out can

slowly creep up on you and next thing you know, you�re feeling cranky, tired and just

downright awful.

While it�s sometimes hard to resist the urge to work around the clock, especially

when you�re trying to get ahead of your career, you need to make sure you�re taking

mental breaks every once in a while to help keep you feeling refreshed.

�The longer you let these symptoms continue without heeding their call and making changes

to your schedule/life, the greater your chances of burnout, and eventually, possibly, depression

or other mental illness. This is why it�s so important to pay attention to these signs

and symptoms, to take them seriously, and to seek help in overcoming them as needed,�

says clinical psychologist, speaker, and founder of AZ Postpartum Wellness Coalition Christina

G. Hibbert, Psy.D. in an interview with Bustle over email. If you�re not sure whether or

not you�re heading down this mentally-frustrating road, here are 11 signs you�re about to

burn out sooner than later.

1. You�re No Longer Motivated By Day-To-Day Routine

According to research conducted by Post-it Brand, on average, U.S. office workers feel

they attend three unnecessary work meetings per week, which could ultimately lead to feeling

burnout. If you feel like your week is getting out of control, try to begin each week by

taking the time to list out your goals or tasks. This can help prioritize which are

more important than others and reorganize your week.

2. You�re Exhausted

If you can�t pick yourself up to do your normal everyday tasks, you might want to reevaluate

your situation. �If you find you have little energy for things you used to be able to handle

with no problem, and especially if you feel little motivation, that�s a sure sign of

burnout. Fatigue and exhaustion are your body�s way of telling you something needs to change;

that the pace you�re keeping isn�t working for you, and that you�d better slow down

and make some changes if you want to stay healthy and happy,� says Hibbert.

3. You�re Feeling Sad

While it�s normal to feel down every once in a while, it�s not healthy to be experiencing

this emotion all the time. �Additionally, feelings of sadness, depression, or despair

can be common as you get closer to burning out, and will only get worse if not heeded

and treated,� says Hibbert.

4. You Have Low Self-Esteem

Don�t beat yourself up if you haven�t been able to keep up with your tasks; you

might be experiencing burnout without even realizing it. �You may feel down on yourself

because you�re not able to �do� as much as you used to, or because you can�t keep

up with your busy lifestyle or schedule. This is your mind�s way of telling you, �Slow

down. Give yourself a break. You�re burning out!�� says Hibbert.

5. You Feel Overwhelmed

You can figure out if you�re feeling burnout or not by simply listening to your thoughts.

�Things that used to be no problem may feel like a weight dragging you down. You may hear

yourself saying, �I can�t handle my life!� Or, �I wish life would just slow down for

a while!� These are signs that you probably should slow down for a while,� says Hibbert.

6. Your Outlook Has Become More Negative

A quickfire way to figure out if you�re about to burn out or not is by simply analyzing

how you�re viewing the world. Are you looking at it with rose-colored glasses, or are you

only seeing the bad things happening around you? �You feel generally negative towards

something or just everything in general and don�t optimistically look on the bright

side of situations. Bleak is the new norm,� says CEO and founder of BLAWNDE Annie Lawless.

7. You�re Making More Mistakes Than Normal

�[You�re] overwhelmed to the point where you are making mistakes you shouldn�t be

or normally wouldn�t make,� says CEO & Founder of Sugarlash Courtney Buhler �Learn how

to say no when you feel overwhelmed or have too much on your plate.� This is important.

Never let your work control your life to the point where you are drowning in your own stress.

Take a step back and breathe so you can regroup and do your work well.

8. You�re Rushing Through Your Work

Rushing through your work will never make all your problems going away. In fact, you

could actually be doing more damage in the long run if you�re not careful. �We have

big audacious goals to achieve, a life of purpose to fulfill. That is good. But too

often, we think we have to rush to get everything done and we burn our energy and sometimes

more; our creativity, and relationships at work and home,� says influential CEO and

leadership expert Caren Merrick in an interview with Bustle over email.

9. You�re Complaining A Lot More

�Rushing through a meeting, instead of thinking about what we want to achieve ahead of time

� we complain about all the unproductive, pointless meetings we attend, and rushing

is a big reason why they are unproductive,� says Merrick. While it doesn�t just have

to pertain to work, constantly expressing negative thoughts could indicate that you�re

just not happy with your current life situation because you could be feeling burnout.

10. Your Brain Shuts Down

If you�re overworking yourself, you could be preventing your brain from recharging properly.

�The first thing to notice is when you�re running on empty and about to burnout; when

you feel your thinking get sluggish and less sharp, you feel light-headed, irritable, hungry,

or short-tempered,� says holistic wellness coach Pax Tandon in an interview with Bustle

over email.

11. You�d Rather Be Alone

If you�re feeling burnout, you probably want to conserve as much energy as possible,

which could mean you rather spend time along to recharge than hang out with friends. �You

have a lack of interest in spending time with others and participating in social settings,�

says Lawless. But this might actually be a good thing if you take a break from everyone

and everything. �Whatever it is that you�re doing too much of � working, exercising,

going out with people, traveling � stop. Give yourself a 1-2 week break from the thing

or things that are causing you to become burned out.�

It�s never too late to pick yourself up from burning out. Make sure you�re taking

good care of yourself and focus on what needs to change. The only way you�re going to

prevent yourself from possibly burning out is by taking charge of

your life once and for all.

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Trump wants to incentivize partnerships to rebuild infrastructur - Duration: 9:37.

Trump wants to incentivize partnerships to rebuild infrastructure

by Josh Siegel

Aubrey Layne, Virginia's secretary of transportation, is a self-described private sector guy in

a very public role.

After a 30-year business career in which he was a president of large retail and real estate

companies, Layne, who has overseen Virginia's seven transportation agencies since 2014,

has furthered his state's reputation as a leader in creating public-private infrastructure

projects.

That is not quite privatization, in which a government makes an outright sale of a public

asset to a private company.

A public-private partnership acts as it sounds, with governments working with companies to

build, repair, and manage roads, bridges, and airports.

President Trump is encouraging public-private partnerships as part of his $1 trillion infrastructure

plan, proposing an incentive program in which the federal government offers up to $200 billion

to state and local governments that enter into the agreements and other private sector

deals.

As the Trump administration makes its case, Layne has been testifying before Congress

and consulting with White House officials, managing expectations around a concept that

induces extreme reaction from supporters and opponents, even though a public-private partnership

by definition exists as a middle ground.

"These partnerships have been praised in some circles as the solution to all of our transportation

problems and condemned in others as a corporate giveaway," Layne told the Washington Examiner

in an interview.

"The truth is P3s are not the answer to America's infrastructure needs.

They are a part of the answer."

Virginia is an outlier in the U.S. with its deep experience with public-private partnerships,

which are known as PPPs or P3s in transportation circles.

Since 2007, the state has closed five public-private partnership deals worth more than $9 billion

collectively, with more than $2.5 billion coming from private equity, less than $1 billion

in public funds, and the remaining from privately-backed debt.

But in the U.S., the public-private partnership market is barely formed.

For example, public-private partnerships accounted for just 1 percent of all spending between

1989 and 2011 on toll roads, where the agreements are used the most, according to a report by

the Congressional Budget Office.

Layne says 30 states, including Virginia, have laws that allow for some sort of public-private

partnership agreement.

Experts say America's lack of experience with public-private partnerships is because the

U.S. is one of a few nations that exempt the interest on state and local bonds from federal

taxes, making public financing of infrastructure more affordable.

"The P3 market is in its infancy," Scott Zuchorski, a senior director in Fitch Ratings's global

infrastructure group, told the Washington Examiner.

"But there is more of an education process that is going on now.

Dollars are stretched thin at state [transportation departments], so they are looking at alternatives

for procuring projects."

Some companies say there is plenty of opportunity, if they were incentivized, as the Trump administration

is proposing to do.

The Australian investment bank Macquarie, one of the biggest global funders of infrastructure

projects, is already partnering in public-private arrangements throughout the country.

In New York, Macquarie is leading a consortium engaged in the Goethals Bridge replacement

project, linking Elizabeth, N.J., to Staten Island.

Under the deal, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will make annual payments

to the Macquarie consortium, which agreed to build and maintain the bridge, with money

the state captures from toll revenue.

The payments will be about $56.5 million a year for 40 years once the bridge opens.

"There is no shortage of private capital looking to invest in U.S. infrastructure," Geoff Segal,

manager of government advisory and affairs for Macquarie Capital, said in an interview

with the Washington Examiner.

"There are billions upon billions literally available in dry powder sitting in infrastructure

funds waiting to be invested.

The challenge has been a lack of opportunity for those private investors to invest their

capital."

Aaron Renn, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute who studies public-private partnerships,

says the deals can be more efficient, faster, and entail less taxpayer risk if the agreements

are structured properly.

But he said they are financially complex, which public officials can struggle to understand,

leading to agreements that don't work out.

"While P3 deals are theoretically attractive in some cases, they often end up blowing up,"

Renn told the Washington Examiner in an interview.

"One of the most important reasons why you want to do a P3 is the private sector takes

on some of the risk of the project.

Too often today, the government keeps all the risks and gives the private company all

the profit."

As an example of a poorly-conceived partnership, Renn points to Chicago's parking meters.

In December 2008, Chicago entered into a 75-year deal with a private company for control of

its 36,000 parking meters in return for $1.15 billion.

The deal was rushed through politically, Renn said, and the city's inspector general estimated

that government underpriced the value of the meters by about $1 billion.

Chicago agreed to a non-compete clause that prohibited it from opening off-street parking

lots to compete with the meters, unless rates were three times higher than on the street.

Meters initially did not accept credit cards, and hourly rates rose, leading to protests

and vandalized meters.

Renn and other experts caution that public-private partnerships are better suited to new projects,

rather than to reinvest and repair existing infrastructure.

"The biggest need for infrastructure in America is maintenance, not new construction, and

I believe private money can play role in select projects, but ultimately a preferred means

is we have to bite the bullet and fund this stuff," Renn said.

"You won't have some massive pool of private money that will rehab our crumbling roads."

Michael Sargent, an infrastructure analyst at the Heritage Foundation, said it's a tough

political sell to pursue a public-private partnership on existing infrastructure.

"People are used to getting roads or other assets 'for free,' and trying to turn it into

something you can monetize, or give private industry the work and right to operate, will

face some political resistance," Sargent said in an interview.

"I don't think you will have a lot people jumping out of their seats turning existing

bridges into toll bridges just to do basic maintenance."

Some experts argue that the partnerships face tougher obstacles in rural communities, because

it's difficult for companies to generate the revenue there needed to sustain the project.

"Trump talked about building in rural communities in the Rust Belt, but these communities don't

have a lot to pay," Renn said.

"You can't hire a private company to replace all of Flint's [Michigan] water pipes.

Your water rates will go up, and the people in Flint can't afford that."

Layne has expressed similar concerns to Congress and to the Trump administration itself, he

said.

"The P3 industry is very good at selling their product, but it is fallacy to say a P3 can

be done without an income stream," Layne said.

"In a rural area where tolling doesn't make sense, I don't see how P3s from a financing

perspective make a lot of sense."

Zuchorski and Sargent disagree.

They say rural states and localities can engage in what's known as availability payments,

where they contract with a private company that receives a regular payment from the state

or locality that can be raised or lowered based on performance.

"Availability pay would work just fine in a rural area," Zuchorski said.

Layne says states and localities can make the partnerships work if they tailor the project

to an area's needs and encourage competition.

In 2014, Virginia revamped its process to require the state to calculate the cost of

doing a project itself before agreeing to a deal.

The process requires the state to negotiate with more than one bidder.

Only if the private sector can offer better terms will Virginia engage in a partnership,

Layne says.

He says Virginia's most recent public-private partnership, a 2016 deal to expand the Interstate

66 express lanes, will save the state $2.5 billion and requires zero upfront public funding.

"I can step in front of taxpayers and say, 'They [private industry] can do this less

expensively than we can,'" Layne said.

"That's [the] biggest part of reform we did.

It brings certainty to it."

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Family Karma How To Release Energetic Ties From Your Ancestors - Duration: 7:04.

Family Karma How To Release Energetic Ties From Your Ancestors

By: Leda De Zwaan

This article is on family karma, energetic ties, and your family being your biggest trigger,

and teacher.

What is family karma?

Family karma is the karma of your ancestral bloodline, from your parents down to you.

Say your father was the most spiritually developed within his family and he had five siblings,

he would be the carrier of �energetic blockages� in the karmic family line. He is carrying

this burden from when he was born and will continue to do so his whole life, unless he

releases it. It is a passing down of energy either through physical and verbal means,

or completely energetic and subconscious.

It can affect the way in which you interact with your family on an unconscious level.

If you consider yourself sensitive and are born out of two spiritually burdened parents,

it can seem like you�re carrying twice the load. Many of us don�t naturally get along

with our parents, and sometimes this has to do with energetic ties to past experiences.

Everything is fundamentally energy, so our consciousness exists beyond physicality and

our understanding of linear time.

We have experienced life before this incarnation. Many of the people in your family are consciousness

you have known before this life, and have chosen to come to Earth together. Depending

on the path of your past, you may have chosen to take on a more intense life to balance

out your karma.

We are Source consciousness projecting itself onto the 3D to better understand itself. From

this perspective, there is no good or bad; there just is. So, many have chosen to experience

a life as a killer, and the killed to gain more insight from both perspectives and better

understand the nature of reality.

You and your mother may have had karmic building experiences in the past, anything from hurting

another to refusing to learn a lesson. Everything needs to balance, so if you caused a lot of

destruction in your past life, you may be at the other end of it during this life.

Family patterns get passed on from all the way back from ancestors, to great grandparents,

to grandparents to parents, to you. For example, your grandma�s theme was being too mild.

She always took care of other people and let herself be used by everyone. Grandpa�s theme

could be something alcoholism and smoking.

Your mother�s theme then translates to a self sacrificial energy. This can look a unfocused

attention, lack of love for oneself or her children. These traditions get passed down

in the exact same way oppression, false truth and hierarchy do. It perpetuates the system

and keeps the mass consciousness a a lower, dense level.

You, as a child of your parents, have the DNA karma of what has been passed down to

you. It could be incredibly mild or extremely intense. It is very specific to each of us.

Traits of you being the carrier of family karma:

� You are the most spiritually developed person and the most conscious one amongst

your parents and siblings.

� You�ve always felt different from your family; you�ve felt a grave distance to

who they are and how they behave.

� Sometimes you inexplicably fall ill and have the feeling you are carrying the weight

of the world on your shoulders.

� You have been entangled in bizarre family matters more than once.

� You recognize family patterns in your parents and ancestors, and you actually understand

it enough to change it.

So how do you cut all the energetic cords?

People may not resonate with the part of you that is �different� and at odds with their

outlook on life. Releasing the ties to the parental energy means first and foremost to

release the energy from your own mind and emotions. It is about looking within and finding

out to what extent you live by your parents� set of illusions, by their do�s and don�ts

which were based on fear and judgment.

Once you are clear about this and you are able to let that go, you will be free to forgive

them and really �leave the parental house.� It is only after you sever the cords on the

inner level and take responsibility for your own life that you can really let your parents

be.

You will have clearly said �no� to their fears and illusions, but at the same time

you will see that your parents are not identical with their fears and illusions. They also

are cosmic travelers simply trying to fulfill their soul mission.

Once you feel this, you can feel their innocence and you can forgive. They did their best,

to love you, in a way that they could. If you can feel in your heart that they did their

best, even when best seems lackluster � they did what they knew how to do.

In a sense you have been the victim of your parents � your parents might have represented

ego based consciousness in your childhood. You have temporarily and partly lived according

to their illusions. In a way you had no choice, as their child. However to transcend your

sense of being the victim here is one of the most powerful breakthroughs you can have in

your life.

How can you transform family patterns?

It takes deep introspection and sometimes meditation to get to the core of any reoccurring

problems in your life.

They are the result of behavioral patterns that, once fully understood, you can start

to change.

It takes time and it all starts with the choice: � I want to be my own master, my own energy

my own soul, my own karma-carrier. I am My own carrier.�

You are filled with power! One of the first steps is simply believing that

you are�

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Osborne 1 Computer Part 3 - Demonstration and Review - Duration: 14:20.

In the last two episodes I put my best effort into restoring this old Osborne, with some

questionable results, and if you haven't watched that, you should.

So, as promised at the end of the last episode, I am here to tell the story of the Osborne

1.

In order to understand this computer, it's important to understand the era in which it

came out.

It was released in 1981, about 3 months before the IBM PC.

So, obviously, it doesn't run MS-DOS, because that didn't even exist yet.

So what operating system did it run?

Well, it used CP/M. That stands for Control Program/Monitor, although later they changed

it to mean Control Program for Microcomputers.

CP/M was an operating system which came out in 1974.

It was designed primarily around the Z80 microprocessor and was meant to use a teletype or a dumb

terminal as a text-display.

It was very popular in the late 1970s, and if you look on Wikipedia you'll see an enormous

number of computers that were designed to run this operating system.

However, some of the more popular machines you might have heard of were the Altair 8800,

the Kaypro, the Eagle series of computers, the TRS-80 line of computers, and of course

the Osborne.

If you've ever used MS-DOS, then CP/M should be fairly easy to understand because MS-DOS

was modeled after CP/Ms interface so they look and feel very similar.

CP/M does have one big annoyance, though.

While it is true that as a programmer you could write a program for CP/M and generally

expect it would run on a wide variety of computers, the problem was the disk format was not standardized.

Every manufacturer had their own format, in fact, some CP/Ms like the IMSAI 8080 such

as the one seen in WarGames, uses 8 inch floppies, while most machines used the 5 and a quarter

inch floppies.

So the problem was each program would need to be distributed on different formats.

As an example, I have this Osborne 1 and this Kaypro II.

Both machines run CP/M but they can't read each others disks.

How annoying is that?

And, to make matters worse, not even all Osborne's can read each other's disks.

For example, the original machine shipped with a single density floppy controller.

Mine has this little upgraded controller inside that allows it to use double-density disks.

Which is great because it can store twice as much data on a disk.

But that means that your disks would no longer read in your buddy's Osborne if he still

had the original controller.

So, how did the Osborne fit in?

Well, the key to the Osborne's success is that it was a portable computer with 64K of

memory that could run CP/M. In fact, it's widely considered to be the very first ever

portable computer.

They gave it two internal floppy drives.

The one on the left is the A: drive and the one on the right is B:.

And then they gave you this ridiculously small LCD screen.

In fact, check it out, my iPhone 6 actually has about the same size of screen, and this

is the small iPhone, not the larger 6P model.

They also give you two little pockets where you can store some disks to bring along with

you.

Now, today many people will scoff at this and say, well this doesn't seem very portable.

But, it really was.

In fact, to help demonstrate how portable it was, The Obsolete Geek brought over his

IBM 5150, which was made around the same time as this Osborne.

Let's see who can get their machine packed up and into the car faster.

Rob has a bunch of cables to deal with.

I just have the one, which packs neatly in the back.

And I'm off.

Rob's going to try to cheat by carrying the entire thing at once.

I think most people would at least carry the monitor separately.

For all the good it ended up doing because he still had to go back for his box of disks.

So, I think it is safe to say that the Osborne was way more portable than other computers

in 1981.

Let's talk about how the machine actually works.

When you first power it on, it displays this little box and asks you to insert a disk in

Drive A and press RETURN.

Of course, it can't be just any disk, it needs to be a boot disk.

Once you do that, the disk drive will spin up and you'll get this fancy Osborne logo,

and in a few seconds you'll see this help screen.

At first you might think this screen is giving you the choice to load all of these different

programs, but it isn't.

So, if I press M for Microsoft BASIC, it just gives me another screen telling me about Microsoft

BASIC.

In fact, most of these programs aren't even on this disk at all.

If you press the escape key, it will drop you into CP/M and you'll see a familiar

looking A: prompt.

DIR will list the directory of the drive.

I can type in B colon to go to the second drive, and list the directory there.

If this looks a lot like MS-DOS, like I said earlier in the video, that's no coincidence.

So, I'm going to show you some of of the software you might have used on this machine

back in the day.

Now, this was not a gaming machine, it was a business machine, don't get your hopes

up of seeing some really fantastic games, and NO, it won't run Crysis so don't ask.

The first thing I'll show you here is Microsoft Basic.

Unlike most computers from the 80s, BASIC had to be loaded from disk on this machine.

But once you were in BASIC, it worked more or less as expected.

In fact, I'll write a little program here, just to demonstrate.

So it's going to ask for your name, and then just print your answer over and over

again.

So, my name is 8bits and there we go…

And I'll hit control-C to stop the program.

There was a demo program on the disk, called 3D.

So I'm going to load that in and have a look.

So, it's not very long, let's see what it does.

OK, so it appears to just be plotting asterisks in sort of a 3D pattern.

So BASIC was very important in 1981 because if you couldn't find a program to do what

you needed, you were expected to write your own.

And Microsoft BASIC was pretty powerful for writing specialized business or scientific

programs.

The next software I'm going to show you is Wordstar.

This was one of the most popular word processors of the time, and one thing interesting about

this disk is that it is bootable right on the Osborne.

That's because Osborne actually supplied this software with the computer.

Besides being portable, that was another big advantage of the Osborne is that it was bundled

with several good productivity programs.

Anyway, so we're in Wordstar now, and I'm going to create a new document.

I'll call it 8Bit Guy.

Well, that won't work, because just like MS-DOS, it uses that 8.3 character file name

restriction.

So I'll just shorten it to 8Bit.

OK, so now I can start typing away.

I'll be honest I ran into a problem that I couldn't figure out how to delete or backspace.

You see, the Osborne keyboard doesn't actually have a delete or backspace key.

It just has the 4 cursor keys.

In CP/M, the left cursor acts like a backspace.

But in Wordstar it acts like a cursor key.

So I would probably have to find the manual to figure out how to do that.

Anyway, moving on I'm going to show you another package called Supercalc.

It's a spreadsheet program.

And, you know, it's not mouse controlled so it probably does take a bit of learning

to figure out how to use.

For example, I couldn't figure out how to type text in a field.

Fortunately, you can get help for the various commands by typing a question mark.

OK, so I think I have it figured out by changing the format of the cell to text, aligned left…

well, that still didn't work.

Rats!

Well, on the bright side there's an example spreadsheet on the disk, so I'll just show

you that.

And you can scroll the screen just like in modern spreadsheets, although it's a bit

slow.

Still, I can't understate how important of a business tool this was in 1981.

Also, it came with this overlay you could put around the keys to help you remember what

keys did what.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of business applications that were written for CP/M, however,

I'm not going to show you all of those because, let's face it, they wouldn't be very exciting.

but, I will show you at least a few games that were made for the machine.

This game is called Invaders, and yes, it's a clone of Space Invaders.

Now, like I said, the Osborne has no graphics capabilities.

This is made entirely from clever use of text characters.

But it's surprisingly effective.

And you can hear the one little beep that the computer can make.

If you look really close, you can see little cursors following around everything that moves.

And that's because CP/M was designed for dumb terminals where the only way to control

the screen is to send commands to move the cursor.

You couldn't write directly to screen memory.

I mean, you could, but screen memory was in a different place on every CP/M machine so

it would break compatibility.

Another popular game was MyChess.

Again, this is all text characters.

I will point out that the bottom is supposed to be white and the top is supposed to be

gray.

Now, I'm capturing this from the Osborne's composite video output and the gray is very

hard to see, no matter how I adjust it.

But if you look at the Osborne's screen itself you can see there's a good contrast

between the two.

The next game I'll show you is called Ladder.

You play that little P character at the bottom and you can move and jump around, climb ladders,

etc.

I'm not sure exactly what the end goal is of the game, though.

The last arcade style game I'll show you is called Catchum and It's obviously a PacMan

clone.

One type of game that was popular on the system was text adventures, in fact, I have copies

here of Zork 1, 2, and 3.

Text adventures were actually quite popular in the late 70s and early 80s because they

were a type of interactive fiction sort of like reading a book, but you get to be in

control.

There are no graphics of any sort other than your imagination.

So, just as an example of how you play, I'll tell it to GET LANTERN, then I'll tell it

to turn on lantern.

Ok, that worked.

Now if I look, hopefully I can see something.

So yeah, that's that's how you play these.

So let's talk about some other quirks of the Osborne's hardware.

If you look real close at the disk drive, you'll see this little hidden latch mechanism.

I've never seen anything quite like it.

I believe it is a sensor so it knows when you've changed the disk.

But the annoying thing is it makes it somewhat hard to get the disk inserted by the usual

method.

So Osborne users became accustomed to inserting the disk sort of sideways like this, so that

it goes in easier.

Another odd thing is the composite video output.

So, you might think you could just connect a television to your Osborne, but you'd

be wrong.

I mean, it does work, as you can see here.

I'll connect the composite cable like so.. and power it on.

So far so good.

The trouble is there is a lot of overscan.

They are sending video into the parts of the composite signal that are usually outside

of the visible range.

So you lose several rows and columns of characters that you simply cannot see on a TV.

So, as an alternative, I wondered if I could get my Commodore 1084 monitor to work.

What's even better is I can put this into LCA mode, where it will take a nice crisp

black and white image on this port here.

And yes, it works.. but as expected it is greatly overscanned.

Fortunately, this monitor has controls to allow me to adjust for that.

So, you can see I can shrink this down some.

And then move the whole picture over some.

And yeah, I can get the whole screen to show up.

And, I think the brightness is up too high, so let me turn that down.

Ok, check it out..

So I have a great picture here, it's very clear.

Even the gray text shows up with nice contrast.

So yeah, you could run an external monitor if you got tired of looking at that tiny little

screen in the middle.

Oh, and see this button here, it's a reset button.

The moment you press it, it goes straight back to the boot screen.

I guess that's more convenient than having to press control-alt-delete.

Also, it was possible to install an after market internal modem into one of the disk

storage slots.

Thanks goes out to Brenden for sending me these photos of his unit.

Of course, the story of Osborne did not end with this machine.

While, this machine was very successful, they started touting their new Osborne Executive

model, way before it was ready for launch, thus killing sales of the current model.

And you can see why.

The executive had a much larger screen, and two half-height floppy drives in a much better

arrangement.

It had a cooling fan in the back.

And the screen also had a full 80-columns.

But they did recover from that, and even went on to briefly launch their last machine, known

as the Vixen.

It had a keyboard that folded out on a hinge, and the rest of the machine actually sat on

it.

It had two vertical disk drives on the right.

Thanks goes out to MacCollectorZ for sending me this footage of his units.

You can also see the executive being used in the movie the Philadelphia Experiment from

1984, along side a Commodore 64.

All right, so that about wraps up this three part series on the Osborne.

I will mention that I've had several offers from people who are experts with leather to

have me ship this handle to them and have them re-do it.

So, I'm probably going to take at least one person up on that offer and maybe in a

later episode I'll show you the result when they've shipped it back to me.

I'm also going to be examining ways to better fix this case plastic, and not just for this

but for some other machines as well.

And, I have some interesting retrobriting techniques I'm experimenting with, which

I know I've mentioned that a few times.

But, I will get back to you on that.

So, you may see this computer again in a few months.

So anyway, stick around for that, and thanks for watching!

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Antique Appraisal: Seaboard Railroad Silver Creamer - Duration: 1:43.

Antique Appraisal: Seaboard Railroad Silver Creamer

This is James Goetz Antique Man, today we're doing appraisal on a Seaboard

Railroad Silver Creamer, the Seaboard Airline Railroad Company started in 1900

ran through 1967. The company originally had over 3,900 miles of rail, that ran

along the southeast coast of the United States, it ran from Richmond, via Raleigh,

North Carolina, through Columbia, South Carolina, through Savannah, Georgia, down

to Jacksonville, Florida. Railroad Silver is very collectible, because it's very

hard to come by, this piece dates back to the 1920s or 30s, this piece measures 3

inches tall by three and a half inches wide. If you look on the front you see

the Seaboard name. If we turn it over you see the Seaboard name, International

Silver Company, Silver Soldered and other information. The value on this piece is

thirty to forty dollars. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you have any

questions you can email me at jamesgoetzantiqueman@gmail.com. Please also

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BooktubeAThon AND Read Your E-Reader TBRs [CC] - Duration: 7:05.

Hey guys, it's Kirsti. Welcome back to my channel and welcome to a TBR video

for not one but two readathons. As I'm sure you all probably know by now if you

spend any time at all on Booktube, the Booktubeathon is coming up next week. The

Booktubeathon is running from the 24th to the 30th of July and I will leave

all the details down in the description below if you don't know yet about the

Booktubeathon. So I'm going to be doing that one, but I'm also going to be doing

the Read Your E-Reader readathon which runs from the 24th of July as well through

until the 14th of August. So there is a week of overlap but the Read Your

E-Reader-athon goes for three weeks. So I'm pretty sure that I can get all of

the challenges crossed off for both of these readathons. And as with the

Booktubeathon, I will leave links to all the information on the Read Your

E-Reader readathon down in the description as well. So let's get started

with the challenges for the Booktubeathon. Challenge number 1 is to

read a book with a person on the cover. For this one I'm going to go with Defy

the Stars by Claudia Gray, which I bought back in like April I think it was?

Definitely the term one of school holidays. So this has been sitting around for

months and I haven't yet gotten to it. I have heard good things about it. I don't

even remember what it's about. I know that it's sci-fi and it's set in space

but that's all I remember. Challenge number 2 is to read a hyped

book and I'm going with a rather large one and that is Strange the Dreamer by

Laini Taylor. Again, I bought this back in April and I have not yet read it.

Challenge number 3 is to finish a book in a day and, like, you guys know me. I

will probably accomplish this one, like, many many times but specifically for

this challenge I'm going with Gotham Academy Volume 1 by Becky Cloonan and

various other people who my library won't tell me who it's by. It's been a

while since I've read any graphic novels. I have heard slightly mixed things but

mostly good things about this one, so we'll see how that goes.

Challenge number 4 is to read about a character who is very different from you,

and for this one I'm going with Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate which I think I

said that I was going to buddy read with April from Aprilius Maximus. I'm pretty

sure she's doing this one for this challenge as well. We will see. I don't

remember a whole lot about this book. I know that there is pansexual representation

in the story? Um, yeah. And I obviously loved Riley Redgate's other

book, Noteworthy, earlier this year. So yeah. I'm pretty excited to read this one.

Challenge number 5 is to finish a book completely outdoors and I'm actually

going to double up on this one and read Gotham Academy completely outdoors,

because it is the middle of winter, it is, like, ten fucking degrees outside and

probably going to pour with rain the whole of the Booktubeathon. So, like,

reading outside? Not a particularly pleasant option. I...yeah. I'm not a fan of

this challenge. Challenge number 6 is to read a book that you bought because

of the cover and for that one I'm going with The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha

Pulley which, like, this cover is so beautiful and also the inside cover is

this gorgeous yellow and then this thing actually pops out so that you get this

showing through and, like, how could I not buy this book?? And the seventh and final

challenge for the Booktubeathon is just to read seven books. So I'm figuring that

with the Read Your E-Reader readathon, I will probably cross off two things on my

Kindle during this time. But I do also have Vigilante by Kady Cross out from

my local library on Overdrive. I don't think that fits into any of the

challenges for the Read Your E-Reader readathon, so I have it sitting there if I

need to read something else for the Booktubeathon. So, onto the challenges for

the Read Your E-Reader readathon. Challenge number 1 is to read a book

where the author's name starts with an S, and for this one I will be reading Blame

by Simon Mayo. So this one sounds really really

interesting. It is a YA book in which you can be punished for crimes that your

family members committed and it sounds like the main character is locked up

with her younger brother and her foster parents because of the crimes that their

parents committed. So that one sounds really interesting. It has pretty mixed

reviews but um yeah. We... We shall see. Challenge number 2 is to read a book from your favourite

summer genre. I tend to read contemporary stuff during the middle of winter

because, like, that's when all the 'summer' reads

stuff comes out for me and so during winter I tend to read, like, fluffy summer

contemporaries and then during summer I tend to read, like, dark creepy things so

I'm going to read The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter. I don't know

anything about this. Karin Slaughter is one of my auto-buy authors and I think this one

comes out at the end of July? I think it's like the 24th or 25th or something

of July that this one comes out. So I won't be able to get to it, like, as soon

as the Read Your E-Reader-athon starts. But sometime during the course of that, this book

is actually released and I will be reading it. Challenge number 3 is to read a

book that takes place during summer and for this one I'm going to read The Names

They Gave Us by Emery Lord, which I think is set at some kind of summer camp thing?

And I've heard really really good things. Challenge number 4 is to read a book

with summer colours, items, or sunshine on the cover. Um. I, for some reason, don't have

any, like, really summery contemporary stuff sitting on my Kindle waiting to be

read. But I do have - and this one may be stretching it slightly - but I do have

Beneath the Shine by Sarah Fine, which is a retelling of The Scarlet Pimpernel and it

kind of looks like there's sun on the cover with the giant jewel-y thing and then

the sun above it or whatever? So it might be cheating but I'm going with this one.

Challenge number 5 is to read a book about a trip to the beach or the ocean

and I'm going to read The Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan which is

the third book in the Lady Trent dragon chronicles thing. I don't even remember

what that series called, but I'm going to read this one because it takes place,

like, on a boat. Challenge number 6 is going to be the tricky one for me and

that is to read a sizzling hot romance/ Um. Sizzling hot romances are not really

my thing. I don't read a lot of romance books and when I do read romance books

they tend to fall into the, like, fluff category. There is a new Cora Carmack book

apparently coming out on the 18th of July. According to Goodreads, the new

Rusk University series book, All Closed Off, is due out on July 18th but I

can't see any sign of that on Amazon as yet, so I'm not really holding my breath on

that one. If it comes out, I will read that one. Otherwise I have a bunch of

recommendations from Chelsea the Reading Outlaw and ChelseaDollingReads on

Twitter, so I will read one of those. I don't know which one yet because, like, it

depends on how much things cost on Amazon. And finally, challenge number

7 is Long Summer Days: read a book that finally finishes a series. I have

gone with League of Dragons by Naomi Novik, which I just bought on my Kindle

last night because this is the ninth? I think it's the ninth book in the

Temeraire series? It's the last book in the series anyway. So there you have it, guys.

That is all the books that I will be reading for the Booktubeathon and the

Read your E-Reader-athon. If you have thoughts on any of these books and which

ones I should, like, start off with for both of these readathons, let me know

that stuff down in the comments. Thank you guys so much for watching. I love all

your faces and I will see you on Friday. Bye guys.

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Adventures With Jax Pt. 1 - Duration: 11:18.

Cat (meow) He loves me.

Hey guys so what's up?

So right now me and Austen are about

to leave to go get Jax

from the airport because he is

flying from home

to here and then we are going

to camp

in San Diego and he is going to be gone for

a week and then he is going to

come back and stay with us

for a week and a half until my family comes down

So that's what we're going to do today

Go get Jackie

Wow

Jax show Mama your bed

Wow Jackies bed

Wow

Gatzu

Guess what we are going to do?

We're going to go get Jax today

Their suppose to have

This um play and then people

The families that are picking up their kids are going to eat lunch there

so we're going to see what

is going on

and it's also supper hot so lets go get Jax

I wonder how the cats are going

to feel about him staying here for a week

They love me

He loves me

He just licked my tongue

So whats up guys so we are at

Souplantation right now and we're doing vlogging again

Today is Saturday that 15th

and we took Jackie

So wait

I got vanilla ice cream and then I got the cookies

and then there is chocolate drizzle

So right now

it's the first day that Jax is officially here and

we're just walking around the mall and we are going to go to a puppy

store because they have puppies in this mall

it's kind of sad but it's kind of cool I guess for the kids to see

what?