Thứ Tư, 29 tháng 11, 2017

Waching daily Nov 29 2017

Hi everybody, my name is Keldaris and today

First of all, I want to apologise for being missing I've been busy at work and I was going

to upload a new video of a second meeting of youtubers here in my country

but recently my hard disk passed away with practically all my information

including the footage of that meeting

so... I'm sorry?

and rest in peace

My dear hard drive

anyway today I have a special

video for you like a month ago we reached the 50 subscribers we're

currently at 71 so I wanted to celebrate those fiftssssseventy one subscribers with a video of

with a video of 50 things about me

Yeaah... I- I'm not very excited about that, but...

Number one: My middle name is Maria

so I'm Daniela Maria

My longest crush has lasted more than 10 years

my favorite color is blue

I have never traveled abroad but I would like to

I like sushi I like pasta I like

sweet desserts and of course I am chocoholic

I'm fan of Marvel movies

my favorite ones are Guardians of the Galaxy and Doctor Strange

and of course The Avengers

I also enjoy DC's shows like Supergirl, Flash, Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow

I have a scar on my chin

I have all scars in both my elbows and my knees

I started to learn to play the guitar when I was 14

My happy place is my bedroom

I spend the 90% of my time here in my bedroom

and I can tell when somebody has entered in my bedroom when I'm not home

my best year was 2013 because I met in person my favorite band

and I started dating my longtime crush

My favorite animal is the cat

Every type of cats

Except sphynx cat

I've been in two different universities

I was at University of Costa Rica studying Geology

but I switched to Digital Experiences at Veritas

I became addicted to World of Warcraft when I was 13

I wrote my first story when I was 12 and when I was 15 I started writing the story I'm currently working on

My biggest phobias are cockroaches and earthquakes

when I was younger I wanted to become a veterinary

but I suffered a lot when one of my cats passed away so I wanted to become an actress

in high school I decided to become a graphic designer

I'm finally studying graphic design the next year

I currently have one dog and two cats

I like both Star Trek and Star Wars

yes, is not that weird

get over it

my first 2d crush was Ash Ketchum and my first real person crush is Orlando Bloom

as Legolas in the Lord of the Rings

I was in a woman-only high school

I don't smoke and I hate the smoke of cigarettes

I also don't drink... well

at least I don't drink wine or beer but I like cocktails

I pierced my ears for the first time when I was months old

but my real piercing I got it when I was 16 but he got infected

so I waited like a year to get another one so I got this helix

and I got my industrial piercing when I was 18

My favorite guitar brand are Ibanez ...or Ibanez I don't know how it's pronounced

My birthday is on October 9th

My favorite band is Sonata Arctica

My favorite flavor of ice cream is mint with chocolate

Besides all the DC's shows I mentioned early

I'm currently watching Victoria and The Crown

I'm also watching Lucifer and Blindspot

When I was five years old I got obsessed

with space stuff, I even had a stuff a dog named Laika

sadly I lost her when I was like 9 years old

Sh*t happens

My favorite numbers are 4 and 34

I got my driver license when I was 22 but I still don't own a car

I learned to read when I was four

I have two elder brothers and one elder sister

I like animated movies

My favorite ones are Mulan, Frozen and How to Train Your Dragon

I I tend to become obsessed with stuff

I don't like coffee I only drink tea

Or chocolate

I invented my nickname Keldaris when I was 12 years old

it was my main character's name of my

first story I wrote and I later used it as my nickname in World of Warcraft

I have a weakness for guitarists

and to score points with me Marco played "Replica" in a

guitar store in our first date

Well played, Marco, well played

My favorite Doctor is the Tenth Doctor

I like to wear striped, plaid and polka dots clothing

and I have preference to use grey, black, red and blue

My favorite Avenger is Iron Man

I love using Converse, I currently have five pairs of classic Chuck Taylors

My favorite genres are Sci-fi and Fantasy

I have attentional deficit

I have only been in three concerts in my life, I went to see Rhapsody of Fire in 2011 and

Sonata Arctica and Turisas in 2013

I learned how to draw manga at 14

I'm currently reading Fever Code by James Dashner

I like to name things, for example my camera it's called Nikki, my MacBook it's called Mackenzie

my cellphone Jaylah and my two guitars are called Betty and Serenity

My least favorite month of the year is December,

I enjoy very much the weather but I get a little bit nostalgic

when I was five I cried when Frieza killed

Krillin, and the worst part is that my mother

forbade me to keep watching it

I don't have a favorite book but I enjoyed very

much reading The Lord of the Rings also I like Harry Potter and

Kristin Kashore and Trudi Canavan's books

And that was all the 50 things about me

I want to thank you all for supporting me

I actually didn't know I was going to

reach this number of subscribers but I am very happy of it and I feel proud of

my work, and I want to make you proud too. And to the rest of those 71

subscribers I want to thank you and want to send you a big hug and tell you you

are awesome thank you for being with me this months?

And I hope I can reach 100 subscribers soon

So I'm going to make another special then

And I want to thank you again and I hope you enjoyed the video

and next week is December 1st

which means I'm going to kill myself because I'm going to start the vlogmas

I'm going to try to upload a video for the next 25 days which means I'm going

to start on December 1st and I'm going to end on December 25th.. And that's all!

Please leave a like if you enjoyed the video

Leave in the comments if you want to suggest me any videos for vlogmas

thank you so much for watching and I'll see you

in the next video

Bye-bye!

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Follow the white rabbit - Sydney, Australia - Duration: 4:03.

Hi Everyone

Kubic here

Today

We are going to...

... follow the white rabbit

Let's go!

As you remember...

Neo worked...

... as a developer

... in some...

... big office building

... and...

... at some point...

... he tried to...

... escape...

... through a window

So he worked right...

right...

... right in this building

You can see windows separators which he tried to pass through

He-he

Just right there he tried...

... He tried to get over this windows separator

But didn't make it

... and was caught by agents

This is THE tunnel

... where...

Neo...

... was met by Trinity in nice car

Awesome

That's the place...

... where Morpheus shows to Neo...

... city...

... visual one

... visual environment

He-he

... and they go by this building

This is...

... this is fountain

... where Woman in Red walked

He-he

This building...

Morpheus was taken as hostage

Agent Smith tied him to a chair in this building

He-he

Over there...

This building behind me

This is the place where...

... Neo did...

... last phone call to...

... to machines

... and declares...

... their game is over

He-he

He goes out from...

... from phone booth...

... and this building in the frame

Thanks for watching

Leave a like

Consider to subscribe

Share with Friends

... and see you soon

Bye...

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CBC NL Here & Now Wednesday 29 2017 - Duration: 1:03:14.

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Vlog - Visiting Tynemouth Priory and Castle, England - Duration: 2:35.

Hello!

Hello!

Now, here we are!

We are here!

Coffee!

And I don't stop filming, I just... haha!

We're vloging!

We say Bye to this place!

If you, some day,

don't know what you want to buy,

I found this store with everything.

Damn it, everything!

In every color, all shapes and

all sizes. Everything!

They have everything.

Wow!

A dog with...

Wings!

But, whatever you do, don't touch anything.

...then everything may fall down...

Looking good!

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Why Indigenous children are overrepresented in Canada's foster care system - Duration: 6:12.

Between 1989 and 2012, Indigenous children have spent millions of nights in foster care.

According to this year's census,

Indigenous children under four years old represented of children in foster care

despite being only seven per cent of the total population.

So why are Indigenous children drastically overrepresented in foster care?

First, we have to go back about a century.

When Canada was founded many early bureaucrats like Duncan Campbell Scott championed assimilation

as the solution to making Indigenous peoples quote unquote

"fit" into colonial society. In other words to get rid of the Indian problem and

Indigenous children were viewed as the method.

More than 150,000 First Nations Inuit and Métis children were forcibly removed from

their families and sent to residential schools, which by definition was genocide.

If you think about it, cultures continue because children

learn traditions and pass them on, but students at these schools were forbidden

from practising their culture and speaking their language. On top of that,

many were physically and sexually abused and forced to live in unsanitary living conditions.

And so many children died in these schools that by the 1920s the

federal government just stopped recording the number of deaths and

started using unmarked graves.

These schools existed for about 130 years

and the last residential school didn't close until 1996.

But around the 1930s, the federal government started to realize that

residential schools weren't actually meeting its assimilationist goals and

became increasingly more expensive to operate.

But the "Indian problem" still persisted.

So, around the 1940s residential schools started to be used

as orphanages and child welfare facilities instead.

By the 1960s a new policy was enacted that became known as The Sixties Scoop.

More than 20,000 First Nations children were taken from their homes and placed with non-indigenous families

Now, this is Canada's history, sure, but it's far from staying in the past

This is a crisis that is still ongoing, now, through foster care.

Children who end up in the child welfare system often go to non-Indigenous caregivers.

As a result, many grow up not knowing their culture language or clan. It ends up

having a very similar effect to what was being done through residential schools

and The Sixties Scoop. Even worse, it breaks up families for years.

Tamara Malcolm is a mother from Manitoba who has been fighting to get her three

sons out of the system since 2007. One of them has since aged out of foster care.

The main reason this crisis is persisting, is the federal government

under funds child welfare, health and social services on reserve.

MP Charlie Angus brought this up during Question Period after the census was released.

Documents show that federal programs are so underfunded that Indigenous parents

actually have to give their children away to provincial foster care in order to get help.

There's something fundamentally wrong.

And the federal government has been aware of this issue for quite some time.

The Auditor General reported in 2008 that the funding for First Nations communities was inequitable.

The government sets the budget for child welfare services.

INAC oversees Indigenous affairs and individual agencies are tasked by INAC

to deliver the services across the country

The government has used the same formula since 1988 to fund services for reserves.

It operates on budget reallocations. So, when new services are needed like

child welfare programs, instead of increasing the budget,

money is pulled from crucial services, like housing and infrastructure.

But all of these are inherently linked to the quality of a child's life.

Failing to fund all of them sufficiently only creates a toxic cycle

where poverty and poor housing

become key drivers for children placed in foster care.

But there's a catch.

These agencies that are meant to provide child services to Indigenous children are barely able to operate

because the funding is so low, let alone provide prevention services

Meanwhile, if children are placed in foster care, costs to keep them there are reimbursed by INAC.

Basically, INAC is giving these agencies an incentive to

choose foster care as the solution, when the problem is really a lack of funding.

This has been confirmed by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

In 2007, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada

and the AFN filed a human rights complaint against the government

which the federal government spent $707,000 in legal fees fighting.

The most shocking thing about this whole case has been that we had to file it at all.

Why did we have to take the Canadian government to court to get them to treat little kids fairly?

Like these are little kids.

Shouldn't do any moral government do that as a matter of course?

And why did they fight us so hard?

I still don't—And why are they continuing to fight it so hard? I don't understand that.

Nine years later, the tribunal ruled that the government was, in fact

racially discriminating against Indigenous children and ordered the

government to fix the problem immediately.

Three non compliance orders later, it remains unsolved.

The 2016 budget came and went and still fell short

of what the tribunal required. And this year, the 2017 budget made no mention of Indigenous child welfare.

And this is not even the first time this human rights case has been documented. Canada has

known about the link between inadequate funding

and preventable deaths among Indigenous children for 110 years.

But Canada wants more time.

Haven't Indigenous children and patient enough?

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24 Reasons Steel & Spider-Man: Homecoming Are The Same Movie - Duration: 3:57.

In this comic book movie, you're reminded of a lot of the teen drama films of the 80s.

This movie stars Judd Nelson who starred in the Breakfast Club and in this movie, the

director tips the hat to the subgenre and they even released a breakfast club themed

movie poster before it's release.

The evil bad guy gets his hand on super sonic weapons.

We get a chance to see how powerful the weapons are during the warehouse scene where the weapon

is fired and one of the good guys is crushed by a slab of rock.

The villain begins selling these weapons of mass destruction on the black market to gang

members.

The main character wants to make a difference in his neighborhood so bad.

Normal people his age usually only have one thing on their minds.

There's two Nubian princesses in the movie that would probably give him some as soon

as he snaps his fingers, but he's not even concerned about that.

He only wants to get the weapons off the streets.

He's a bigger quitter than an AA meeting member, but by quitting all his obligations,

he's able to become a full time vigilante.

One day, the hero notices a bank robbery and the robbers are using the dangerous high tech

weapons.

He goes after the robbers, but the gunman try to kill a close friend to the hero.

He has to make a tough decision on whether or not to save his friend or pursue the robbers.

The hero chooses to save a life.

The bad new is that the bank robbers manage to escape before the hero could interrogate

them.

The first thing the main dude does is contact his former employee.

The phone call gets real heated when one of the callers doesn't believe the other and

hangs up in his face.

When you're trying to take the law into your own hands, it's easier when other people

lend you a helping hand so you could put the law into their hands too.

The hero joins forces with a small group of friends and vigilantes to form a super team.

He has a mentor who provides counsel and a side kick in a chair (audio).

It's a big pro that the hero's mentor is around to teach him right from wrong because

he grew up without a mommy and daddy.

He got all of his life lessons from the female family member who raises him, but unfortunately,

the woman isn't capable of showing the main character how to be a real man.

She does her best to keep clothes on his back and food in his stomach, but she sucks at

the latter.

His cholesterol is out of control because they have to eat out all the time since she's

always messing up dinner (audio).

The mentor builds a suit of armor for the main character so he could defend the neighborhood

with little risk of getting beat down.

The suit also protects his identity.

If anyone ever found out who he really was, they'd attack the people closest to him,

like his guardian which is why he wears the mask and even disguises his voice sometimes

(audio).

The warrior manages to keep a low profile and fly under the radar.

This is surprising since his secret hideout is trash, literally I mean.

The futuristic apparel he wears in battle enables him to shoot rope from the suit and

leap from building to building.

Which is perfect when trying to get to the top floor of skyscrapers because all the elevators

suck in this movie.

As for the villain, he becomes too much to handle.

He even turns on his own teammates and kills anyone threat that stands in his way.

Later on, the hero tries to infiltrate the fortress where the weapons are held, but he's

held captive.

When he gets set free all hell breaks loose.

He goes toe to toe with the enemy.

The bad guy puts up a good fight, but eventually defeats himself in the process.

The good guy wins and he knows for a fact he couldn't have done it without his friends.

One of the teammates gets upgraded equipment and there's an invitation for the main hero

to join a super team.

He declines, because he realizes victories with super teams are never guaranteed, just

ask Lebron James.

Those are 24 reasons these movies are the same.

You agree?

Yes, no, maybe so?

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The Atari ST POWER PACK | Nostalgia Nerd - Duration: 15:57.

Back when I first got my Atari ST for Christmas in the 90s, I received the ST itself, it's

box, some software and the Atari Power Pack.

My ST was second hand, purchased from my good friend Michael, but the impact of that Power

Pack felt the same as if it were a brand new machine and I'd just been presented with the

key to enough entertainment to last a lifetime.... or a good number of weeks at the very least.

The Power Pack was a compilation of "20 Superb Software Games" included with Atari STFM models

sold from 1988 onwards.

It's inclusion with new machines was genius and boosted the ST's sales as a gaming system

significantly.

But this wasn't the first game bundle to be included with the ST range.

The STFM had been launched in 1986 to provide a more friendly home computer compared to

the earlier ST models which lacked a TV modulator and internal floppy drive.

Over in North America, the machine was marketed with less emphasis on gaming, whilst Atari

over in Europe had cottoned onto the machine's main selling point and by 1988 bundles such

as the Summer Pack and Super Pack appeared.

The Super Pack also contained 20 games, but didn't perform as well as the Power Pack.

The main reasons for this were that the games were generally better in the Power Pack, with

it packed with more recognisable arcade hits, and and also the bundle price dropped from

£399 to £299 during it's release.

Europe was already a region gripped by the home micro, having been weaned on Sinclair

Spectrum's, Amstrad CPCs and Commodore 64s, so with consoles like the Sega Mega Drive

only an Eastern whisper, the ST seemed an obvious choice.

Of course, there was also Amiga rivalry, but on screen shots, ST games looked pretty identical

to Amiga games, and given the Amiga was more expensive, and lacking a huge game bundle,

the choice or children, if not their parents, often fell to the ST.

The PowerPack therefore seemed to be Atari's masterstroke, but it was also part of it's

downfall.

You see, 20 games is a lot of games.

For me, it kept me entertained for as long as I needed, and this often meant that sales

of third party titles was less than perhaps on rival systems, such as the Amiga.

It wasn't long before publishers gone frustrated with this and rather than developing ST games

to port to the Amiga, flipped it round.

This posed a problem, as converting a game designed to take advantage of the custom Amiga

hardware to the ST was harder than the other way around.

This meant the Amiga began to amass a collection of exclusive titles, and what's more, even

converted titles began to look a lot better on the Amiga and Commodore's machine began

to widen the market share until the ST faded away.

Of course, this isn't all of the story and with the rise of the IBM compatible PC and

game consoles, both platforms were commercially doomed anyway, but it played it's part.

Just like I'm about to do with each of the Powerpack games.

So without further ago, let us begin with Disk A: Afterburner.

Before we dive into the gameplay, it's worth noting that in their original commercial incarnations

some of these games were spread across more than 1 double density floppy.

Afterburner is one of those titles, but the reduction is not all down to compression.

Some elements are missing from the titles.

In this case the arcade theme tune is missing from the loading screen.

Of course this isn't an essential ingredient, but to frequenters of arcades, it made these

home conversions feel just that little bit closer to the authentic experience.

And it's more important than you might think.

It puts you in that mindset, standing in front of the cabinet, because although the game

itself isn't terrible, the ST hardware just wasn't up to replicating the rapid, engaging

gameplay.

It does though, get my vote for being the only game in this pack where you don't actually

need to do anything to progress.

Disk B!

R-Type.

What can I say about this game?

Other than my version requiring you to press a key at a specific time during loading, otherwise

it didn't load.. something Michael and I worked out probably though accident.

It's a timeless game.

The arcade version was superb, and the ST version holds up remarkably well, even on

the sound front.

But it's a double edge sword, because also, like the arcade version, it's a hard game,

with limited check points throughout each level.

Disk C!

Gauntlet II.

Probably my favourite game in the pack.

This kept us engaged for hours and hours.

Roaming dungeons, trying not to shoot the food.

It's just an incredibly playable and addictive game, and the ST conversion is spot on.

The ST doesn't have hardware scrolling, but scrolling is never the less perfect here.

In fact the game is so close to the arcade, even down to the speech samples, that I couldn't

choose between them.

Disk D!

Super Hang On.

By this point, it's already easy to see why this pack was such a winner.

Electric Dreams take on Sega's arcade sensation is graphically pleasing, fast and even sports

some impressive road undulation.

Even the 4 arcade tunes are chucked in.

You can play using either mouse or joystick, with the latter somewhat preferable.

Overall it's a pretty good conversion.

Disk E! Space Harrier.

Another Sega classic and another impressive arcade conversion, moving at a good pace and

offering some frantic gameplay.

I didn't play this game much in my younger years, but the colours and speed always captivated

me, along with that wooly mammoth thing on the loading screen.

Disk F!

The first disk to feature a multitude of tiles.

3 in fact, starting with Starglider....

I'll admit, I used to load this game up just to hear that intro music; I rarely played

the actual game, which is a shame because by all accounts, it's amazing.

Developed by Argonaught software, Jez Sans worked on the C64 Elite release before creating

this and it shows.

The 3D graphics are great for the ST, especially an 80s release, and once you get into it,

the gameplay is good.

Like an Elite light.

The next title on this disk is Overlander.

A game which exudes a dystopian feel from the outset.

That shadowy car.

The initial choices to make, followed by the bleak in game graphics.

I was a fan for these qualities alone.

Really it's a somewhat primitive clone of Atari's Roadblaster.

A drab clone, and I like it for that.

Which brings us to Super Huey.

For some reason I barely loaded this one up back in the day.

It's a helicopter game.

It's alright.

Disk G!

Eliminator.

This is almost like a cross between Overlander and Space Harrier, and it's another game with

exudes the arcade feel, although this Hewson release isn't actually an arcade game.

The music and sound effects aren't quite up to scratch, but the game play will draw you

in and keep you hooked.

Thanks to a password system, progression isn't too much of a chore either.

Also on disk G, Nebulus.

Another Hewson Consultants game, and one which I'm sure you're well aware of.

Playing as the creature Pogo, your mission is to destroy 8 towers built in the sea.

You do this by navigating around each tower and planting a bomb at the top.

Pretty simple, but the beauty lies in the convincing clockwise and anti-clockwise turning

of the tower, creating a sense of depth and marking the game out as something pretty unique,

especially in it's day.

The final title on Disk G, Pac-Mania.

It's not quite up to the same standards as the Amiga release, but it has smooth scrolling

in it's half screen display area and it plays well.

I mean, it's Pac Man from an isometric perspective.

It's not for everyone, but I loved the 3D effect back then, and I still do today.

Disk H!

Predator.

Arnie.

Getting to the Chopper.

Marvellous stuff.

Being a huge fan of the film, even at the age of 9, this was one game I loved getting

stuck into.

Like a lot of these games, it's pretty darn hard, but it does capture the story of the

film in a certain side scrolling fashion.

Saying that, the scrolling isn't perfect, but it's not the shabbiest either.

Targeting at angles can be a bit of a pain, as can running away from the Predator's sights

when it appears, but overall it's a reasonable port of the 8 bit versions.

Interestingly, due to licensing a few rare packs contain Winter Olympiad 88 instead.

Disk I!

Another 3 games, starting with Bombuzal.

A puzzle game where the aim is to destroy all the bombs.

To do this, you step on a bomb to light it, you may then take one step and the bomb will

explode.

It's a simple formula which works well, offering another isometric game of delight.

Although you can also switch to a top down view, which

is nice.

More bombs, with the classic Bomb Jack next.

I loved this game on the Spectrum.

I played it a lot.

So by the time I got my hands on the ST, it's appeal had waned a little.

But it's still a decent version of the 1984 arcade classic.

Playing as Bomb Jack, your job is to collect the bombs.

Simple

To round up this disk we have Xenon, by the incredibly talented Bitmap Brothers.

Flying your craft through 4 stages of alien territory, your task is really to destroy

as much as possible.

Good graphics, good scrolling and good gameplay ensure the longevity of one of the first games

to truly take the ST hardware for a run.

Disk J!

Double Dragon.

What can I say about this game.

After Gauntlet II, this is probably the game I've sunk the most hours into.

Sure, it's not arcade perfect, but then the arcade game was never perfect anyway, and

at least it includes the arcade music.

Both versions slow down when there are too many sprites on screen.

But I'm a-ok with that.

Especially because you get to turn on your brother and beat the crap out of him at the

end.

It's one of the easiest games here, but also one of the most enjoyable.

Remember, this was pre Streets of Rage days.

Disk K!

Black Lamp.

What was this game about?

I honestly couldn't tell you from memory alone, and my play time of it is somewhat, limited.

It turns out to be a medieval melodrama featuring Jolly Jack, the jovial jester on a quest to

rid evil from the kingdom.

To do this you must collect 20 lamps, with the most powerful "Black Lamp" guarded by

a dragon.

The story makes little sense, but apparently magazines liked it back in the day,

On the same disk we have Outrun.

It's clear that reviewers were more lenient back in the 80s.

Saying that, I played this a fair deal, and I remember enjoying it.

I think it's because I'd come from the Spectrum version and so this was a step up.

I mean, at the very least, it had reasonable music and colourful graphics.

Playing it today however, isn't a nostalgic gathering of bliss.

It's a frame churning little wretch of a game, which only just manages to keep me playing

to the end.

Disk L!The final disk of games containing Star Ray and Star Goose...

Star Ray is another title I barely remember playing.

I'm not sure why it didn't grab me, but it's probably because I was too busy playing R-Type.

It's a conversion by Steve Bak, responsible for gems such as Goldrunner, and his skill

shines through featuring an amazing 7 layers of parallax scrolling.

That's two more than the Amiga version.

Take that you Commodore people.

Star Goose involves you, as a hover ship, eight looped levels of heavily defended surfaces

and various crystals, of which you must collect.

Like other games here, you can control by either joystick or mouse, but also like other

games, joystick is preferable.

Dying will send you back to the start of your current level, so you can enjoy the game at

a moderate pace.

It's a nice one for diving into occasionally, when you feel like some concentrated but relaxed

action.

And that's it.

That's the Power Pack.

Arguably, the Atari Language Disk, Organiser and Music Maker are also part of this pack,

but I'm sticking to the games in this episode.

We can cover those another time.

But given the quality and variety of games on offer here, it's easy to see how this helped

shift so many ST's as the 80s drew to a close.

I mean, many of these titles were on sale at the same time for £20 or £30 each.

It's also easy to see how this kept many gamers - like myself - more than contented, pushing

the ST game market to dry up, just that little bit quicker.

But it's a double edge sword.

Without this pack, not as many STs would have been sold and the problem would remain.

Really the end of the ST as a gaming platform as inevitable, but at least I had great fun

with it whilst it lasted.

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10 Worst Hotels On Earth - Duration: 5:50.

• What hotel leads the pack in appearances on TripAdvisor's dirtiest hotels list?

What budget hotel actually ADVERTISES being the worst in the world?

Here are 10 hotels around the world you wouldn't want to spend an hour in, much less a night.

10 – Tropicana Resort Hotel, Virginia Beach, Virginia

• Here's an excerpt from a user review of the Tropicana Resort Hotel in Virginia Beach,

from a traveller who got a free upgrade to his room.

• "The jacuzzi leaked, the television had no cable, the carpet smelled, and there

was a mattress outside our door the whole weekend."

• Other people have complained of broken elevators, a strange smell in the hallway,

and a total lack of anything resembling "service."

9 – New York Inn, New York City • The New York Inn is one of the most run-down

hotels in the world.

It's not just that it's dirty, it's that it's in absolute disrepair.

• Reviewers have complained about the size of the room, the rotting, broken mattresses,

and of course, the rats eating out of the trash.

• Apparently, it also lacks a heater, which is actually a pretty serious issue in New

York City.

• Despite all this, it's not even the worst hotel in its own city.

8 – Whiteleaf Hotel, London, England • Unlike some of the hotels on this list,

this is a dirty hotel trying to pretend it's of mid-range quality.

• It's possible to pay over 100 British pounds for a room with broken beds full of

maggots.

• That's what at least one guest reported upon staying at the Whiteleaf.

• On the bright side, if you don't mind sleeping on maggots and waking up with strange

red rashes and bumps, it's located near downtown London.

7 – Hotel Namaskar, New Delhi, India • Indian budget hotels are, in general,

not the cleanest locations in the world.

• On the bright side, it's easy enough to find a place to sleep for 10 dollars a night.

• But even in this wild world of cheap and dirty hotels, the Hotel Namaskar manages to

be a regular on lists of the dirtiest and lowest- quality hotels in all of India.

• The trek to get there apparently involves a number of small, dark alleyways, at least

one of which contains an open urinal.

That doesn't help the whole cleanliness thing... though it's at least better than people just

peeing on the floor.

6 – Hotel Carter, New York City • The Hotel Carter has a great location

on Times Square, and a long-standing reputation for being the most disgusting hotel in New

York City.

• It is a regular near the top of TripAdvisor's list of "dirtiest hotels in America,"

and doesn't seem particularly interested in doing anything about it.

• Bedbugs are in the rooms more often than people are, and the average room looks basically

like the setting of a horror movie.

Probably one where torture is involved.

5 – Balmoral House, Brisbane, Australia • The Balmoral House in Brisbane, at one

point, featured zero positive reviews on TripAdvisor.

This was despite boasting a reasonable price and one of the best party locations in the

whole city.

• One guest said he arrived in a room where the window had no glass – only metal bars.

People also frequently complained about the owner, who was unresponsive to any requests

and once even demanded a guest clean the entire kitchen.

• It's doing a lot better now that it's been renovated and renamed the "Amelia Hotel."

No word about whether it's also under new ownership... but it's probably safe to assume

it is.

4 – Aspinals Hotel, Singapore • The Aspinals Hotel in Singapore is the

kind of place where everything is kind of just falling apart.

• Wallpaper is gone from most of the walls, the ceiling is peeling, and the doors are

busted.

• Multiple people have complained about rude staff, and the tiny size of the rooms.

Some people didn't even have room for their bags.

• Basically, this is another crap hotel trying to skim business off the bottom because

it's in a good location.

3 – Centaur Hotel, New Delhi • The Centaur Hotel boasts a whopping 1.5

stars on TripAdvisor, on more than 230 reviews.

Only 16 percent of guests said their stay was at least "average."

• Problem is, this appears to be an airport hotel that a lot of delayed travellers get

pushed off to when their Air India flights are delayed.

• So even though this hotel is terrible, they pretty much have a steady inflow of customers

from the airport.

• Cockroaches around the bed, mold in the bathroom, and a leaky roof are among the more

upsetting features.

2 – Town House Motel, Tupelo, Mississippi • It's a nice budget-priced motel near the

birthplace of Elvis Presley.

That's the good news.

• The bad news is that it appears the bed bugs are unavoidable, and one guest was welcomed

to his room by a puddle of fresh blood in front of his door.

• Numerous guests have complained of faulty wiring, barely-functional air conditioning,

and the likelihood that drug deals were going on outside.

• On a note that may or may not be related to those complaints, this place was recently

on fire.

1 – Hans Brinker Budget Hostel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

• The worst hotel in the world is basically undisputed, because it's about the only hotel

that advertises being terrible.

• This is actually a hostel near Amsterdam's red-light district with taglines like "now

with beds in every room," -- "More honesty.

Less of everything else," and "Proudly ignoring standards since 1970."

• The rooms are dirty, they come with basically no amenities, and there's very little of any

kind of service.

• But what do you want for 22 dollars a night in Amsterdam?

The price and the unusual honesty the hostel displays have actually made it a big hit with

young tourists and students, even though there's no hot water.

What's the most disgusting hotel YOU'VE ever stayed in?

Tell us your story in the comments below, and we'll pin our favorite to

the top.

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Slow Cooker Sweet and Sour Chicken ~ Crock Pot Chicken Recipe ~ Whip It Up Wednesday Collab! - Duration: 3:36.

This is another one of my favorite slow cooker recipes. I'm Tess and today I'm

making slow cooker sweet-and-sour chicken. It is easy and delicious. Stay tuned.

(intro music)

You all know that I love my slow cooker. With the colder weather and a

busy time of year approaching, it is so nice to throw everything in the crock

pot and have it ready and waiting for you. Today I'm making sweet-and-sour

chicken in the slow cooker. This is part of a collab called Whip it Up Wednesday.

These are the fabulous cooking channels involved in the collab and I will leave

the links below. Just a reminder that you'll be able to find this recipe, the

list of ingredients and much more in the show more section below.

I've included links to where you can purchase online some of the ingredients

and equipment that I use in this video recipe. If you have a chance please check

it out.

So let's get started! In my crock pot I'm starting by making the sauce. I'm adding

in some brown sugar, ketchup, soy sauce, red wine vinegar and you can use cider

vinegar. I happen to like the tang and the flavor of the red wine vinegar.

And in goes some minced garlic and ginger. This is some canned pineapple chunks

with a little of the juice, some diced onions, bell peppers and carrots.

Giving everything a good mix.

I'm using some cubed boneless chicken thighs but you can use chicken breasts or tenders.

I'm keeping the pieces rather chunky so they hold up in the cooking.

Giving it another good toss and that's it!

On goes the lid and cooking on high for three to four hours or on the low

setting for six to seven hours. Since the chicken is cubed and boneless this is not

going to take long.

I have my setting on high and it's been almost three hours and I'm giving

everything a good stir. At this time I'm going to add in a can of rinsed and

drained sliced water chestnuts. I like the crunch and the flavor that the water

chestnuts add to this dish. Also to thicken the sauce I'm adding in a slurry

of corn starch and water. Another good toss, placing on the lid and cooking on

high for another 15 to 20 minutes.

The sweet-and-sour chicken is done and we are ready to eat. It smells great!

You can see the chicken is nice and tender and starting to fall apart. All the

veggies are tender and the sauce is a nice balance of sweet and sour.

Serving tonight with a side of steamed jasmine rice. My family just loves this meal and

it is so easy to make. I hope you give this slow cooker sweet-and-sour chicken

a try and enjoy.

If you like this slow cooker sweet-and-sour chicken recipe please hit

the LIKE and SUBSCRIBE button. Remember to hit the "BELL" next to the SUBSCRIBE to

make sure that you get my future video recipes. You can also find me on Facebook

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and family. And until next time, Much Love!

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An interview with Mauritius's first female president | Ameenah Gurib-Fakim - Duration: 17:13.

Stephanie Busari: President Ameenah, thank you for joining us.

Even as TED speakers go, you're something of an overachiever.

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim: (Laughs)

SB: You have a PhD in organic chemistry,

you were vice chancellor of the University of Mauritius,

a successful entrepreneur,

you've won numerous awards for your work in science

and you're the first Muslim female head of state in Africa.

(Applause)

And of course, you're no stranger to the TEDGlobal stage;

you gave a talk in 2014.

Did you have any political ambitions at that time?

How did you go from academic to president?

AGF: OK, thanks, Stephanie.

First of all, I'd like to thank TED

for having given me the opportunity to be here today.

And I would also like to thank the government of Tanzania

and the president for the welcome.

And also, I'd like to thank the contribution of our consul,

Mr. Rizvi, who's here,

has been very supportive for all our stay here.

Now, to answer your question,

did I have any ambitions in politics?

The straight answer is no.

I did not choose the world of politics;

the world of politics chose me.

So here I am.

(Applause)

SB: So, was there ever anything in your journey

that ever made you think

that one day you would become president of your country?

Did you ever imagine that?

AGF: Absolutely not.

I think the journey started immediately after TED, actually.

When I went back, this journalist called me and said,

"You know, your name has been cited for the president of the republic,"

I said, "Ma'am, you must be mistaken,

because I have no ambition whatsoever."

She said, "No, it's serious.

Can you come and tell me this in the form of a declaration?

So, OK, you'll come?"

So, of course, as good journalists go,

the next day I see my TED picture

and, with my name, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim,

"For president?"

A very small interrogation mark --

and people don't see the interrogation mark,

they just see my name and they see my picture.

And that was a sounding board.

And again, as you have just said,

it was a very interesting scenario

because it was a scenario where they wanted to have somebody

who was credible,

had this political neutrality

and at the same time, was for a minority

because Islam is a minority religion in Mauritius,

because in Mauritius, we stratify people's origins

by virtue of their religious belief.

And -- I was a woman.

So this made it all very interesting.

So there we go, and this whole campaign started,

and then people said, "Why not?"

Now, this is very important to note, Stephanie,

because normally, the president is elected after the election.

And here we had a scenario

where the name of the president was flagged before the election process,

during the campaign.

So when people voted, they knew that at some point,

they would have this Muslim woman president.

SB: Does it feel significant to you as a woman

to be the first female president of your country?

AGF: It's important for many reasons.

I think, obviously, you just mentioned the terrible statistics

of two female presidents in the whole of Africa.

But more importantly,

I think it's important also coming from the background I come from --

by background I mean not ethnic, but more academic and entrepreneurial --

to be there,

to be that role model for that little girl growing in my village

to say, "Yes, it's possible."

It's possible.

(Applause)

It's also important, Stephanie,

while I talk about diversity --

diversity in the widest sense of the word.

We've seen that whenever there was diversity,

whenever there was openness,

whenever there was dialogue,

this was the time when societies have been most productive.

When we talk about the Arab Golden Age,

we cannot not think of Ibn Sina,

al-Haytham,

Averroes,

Maimonides.

This was a time when cultures, religions --

they were talking to each other.

They were at peace with each other.

And this was a time when they were highly productive.

So I would say: bring down these walls.

SB: Absolutely, absolutely.

(Applause)

AGF: Virtual or otherwise.

SB: Let's also talk about another conflict area

which you straddle quite interestingly.

As a woman of faith and also a scientist,

you know, faith and science seem to be at loggerheads.

It wasn't always so,

but I'm interested to get your thoughts on how you reconcile both

and how they coexist for you personally.

AGF: They're not mutually exclusive.

I mean, if you're a scientist,

you tend to really look at the perfection of the human body,

the way it functions.

If you look at nature as a whole.

I'm still amazed at the perfection

with which the entire ecosystem functions together.

However, to the purists, to those who are of faith,

they will tell you, "Yes, there has been evolution."

Even the Pope has agreed that evolution exists.

But there's always the question: What came first?

What came before this?

When we talk about all the various strata of evolution,

we'll always be asking the question,

there must be something before.

So I'm of the opinion that yes,

there is this great spiritual force which is guiding the process,

and things like this don't happen by chance.

Now, whether you call it religiosity,

whether you call this great spirit by any name --

Brahma, Allah, the Holy Trinity --

you name it --

but I still think that these two are not mutually exclusive.

They can still coexist with each other.

SB: So let's move to one of your passions -- science.

You've made no secret of that.

And you've always been passionate about science.

I read that when you were a very young girl,

you went to a career guidance counselor

and told them you wanted to become a chemist,

and they said, "No, it's for boys.

Boys do science."

Did that make you even more determined to study science

and to succeed in that field?

How did you respond to that?

AGF: Well, to begin with,

I must say, before I came to that career guidance officer,

I had great teachers who motivated.

And this is something I would like to draw attention to again,

to our education system.

We have to do away with this rote learning.

We have to ensure that we drive this curiosity in the child,

and they need to be curious.

And if we want to move along the line for them to become great scientists,

they need to become more and more curious in everything they do.

So every time -- exactly -- I went to see the careers guidance,

he looked at me and said, "What do you want to do?"

I said, "I want to study chemistry."

"Well, you shouldn't study chemistry because this is for boys.

And the next thing, when you come back, there'll be no job for you."

So I went back home,

and I had a great cheerleader at home who happens to be my father.

He said, "What do you want to do?" and asked, "What did he say?"

I said, "This is what he said ..." He said, "What are you going to do?"

I said, "I'm going to do chemistry."

So there I was.

And one thing I will say: one must always follow your heart.

And my heart was always in chemistry.

I did what I was passionate about,

and I thought at some point that I had developed this thinking

that if you're passionate about what you do,

you will not have to work a single day in your life,

until I realized it was Confucius who said that.

(Laughter)

SB: So do you feel a responsibility, as someone in your position,

to encourage young girls, especially on this continent,

to study STEM subjects?

Is that something that you actively work --

AGF: You know, over the past two days, Stephanie,

we've been hearing a lot of conversation

about the sustainable development goals.

We've seen that, for example,

Africa must be food secure,

Africa must be energy secure,

Africa must be water secure.

If we want to get to that level of development --

Agenda 2030 is not very far away --

if you want to have success,

we need to have an educated youth in Africa.

And again, to be very cliché:

you cannot achieve, you cannot win a football match,

if you're going to leave 52 percent of the team outside.

It's not possible.

(Applause)

SB: Yes.

AGF: So we need highly educated,

we need female intuition,

and we need to get them there.

And this is where a great deal of effort has to be done

to actually motivate them from a very young age,

to tell that girl that she can do anything.

And if the message comes from her father,

if the message comes from her brother,

it's even much more powerful.

We need to tell her that anything is possible

and she can do it.

We need to build her self-confidence from a very early age,

but more importantly,

we also need to actually look at the books,

because there are too many stereotypes.

Last year, I was very shocked when I went to a debate on Women's Day.

They had a survey,

and they were asking these girls how many women inventors we have,

how many women scientists do we have.

And you'd be shocked that hardly anyone knew

that Ada Lovelace was there behind computer science,

that Marie Curie still remains iconic with two Nobel prizes.

So there's a lot of homework to do to actually make --

to remove all these gender biases at a very young age;

instill that confidence in that girl;

to tell her that she can do as well if not better than her brother.

SB: Yes.

(Applause)

Thank you.

So, let's move on to an area that I know you've been very active in,

which is the issue of biodiversity.

You've been quite clear that this is an area that Africa must embrace.

We have an abundance of rich herbal traditions and plants

that could be developed into a big pharmaceutical industry.

Can you tell us a little bit of how you've been using your expertise

to harness growth in this area?

AGF: Thank you.

Yesterday, I was listening to one of the talks;

it was the talk about the need for Africa to turn into a knowledge economy.

Africa has got very rich traditions.

Sub-Saharan Africa, southern Africa,

has got over 5,000 medicinal plant species,

not harnessed.

And, in fact, at the TED talk I gave in 2014,

I came out with one sentence:

"Biodiversity underpins life on earth."

And if we don't look after this biodiversity,

if we don't protect it,

if we don't actually harness it in the right way,

we are threatening our own livelihoods on this planet.

When we talk about the contribution from countries of the north

to the Green Fund for the protection of our planet,

it is not charity.

It is to ensure our own collective livelihoods on this planet.

So this is something that must be addressed.

Now, again, when you talk about

getting this biodiversity of Africa working for us,

you'd be shocked to know

that out of the 1,100 blockbuster drugs that we have on the market,

only 83 come from African plants.

Why is this so?

Because we are responsible;

us Africans.

We don't value our own traditional knowledge.

We don't give it the same status as allopathic medicine.

Look at what China has done.

China has given the same status for traditional Chinese medicine

as allopathic medicine,

as of 2016.

Our governments, our people, have not documented,

have not taken this knowledge seriously.

If you want to get serious about Africa becoming a knowledge continent,

this is something that we need to address very seriously,

we need to start documenting,

we need to start codifying this knowledge,

and unfortunately, we are racing against time

because tradition in Africa is that the transmission has always been oral.

So we need to get our act together and make it happen.

SB: So there's really a sense of urgency around this.

AGF: Yes.

(Applause)

SB: And have you done anything yourself in respect to documenting --

AGF: Yes, I definitely did.

When I started my career in academia,

one of the first things I did was I documented precisely these plants.

And I'll tell you one thing -- it was not perceived to be very serious,

because here I was, in synthetic organic chemistry,

going out there, talking to these grandmothers,

documenting their recipes.

I mean, you can't be serious -- bringing weeds in the lab,

and say, "We're going to be working on these."

Are we going to get results?

So it was really a race against prejudice

to try to take people's --

bring them to the table and say, "Look, this is very important."

But I'm glad I did,

because by that time, you start developing a crocodile skin,

especially when you're a woman in the lab doing different things.

You know -- you become suspect.

So I documented it; I'm very happy I did.

And now, almost 20 years since the documentation,

it now constitutes prior art,

and is now very well-documented at WIPO,

and it is now the information which,

subsequently, my company actually started working on as well.

SB: So, I watched you in the makeup room

taking selfies with the makeup artist,

and just being generally very accessible.

And it strikes me

that you're not the kind of typical, big-man, African leader.

You seem very --

AGF: You just demoted me. You called me a man.

(Laughter)

SB: I mean your style --

(Applause)

Your style seems to be very accessible and quite unassuming.

So is this --

I mean, people tend to ask women leaders

if their gender has a bearing on the way they rule,

or the way they lead.

Does that apply to you?

AGF: You know, I've never taken myself seriously.

SB: OK. That's good.

(Laughter)

AGF: I still don't.

And I don't think you should take yourself seriously.

You need to have trust in what you can do,

have confidence in yourself

and give yourself a set of goals and just work towards them.

So the goal I've given myself is, OK, I'm leading my third life --

because I've been an academic, I've been an entrepreneur, now I'm here.

I'm hoping to have a fourth life.

So put these to work for the continent.

And this is why I have chosen to give my voice to so many initiatives

that would help the youth of Africa become tech-savvy,

become science-savvy,

because as I said earlier on,

up until they get to grips with science,

with whatever is around -- media, technology, you name it,

all calls for a good grounding in science, technology and innovation.

I think we'll be here,

10 years, 20 years down the line,

having the same conversation.

SB: Let's talk quickly about the challenges

of leadership and governance.

It's hard to ignore that there's corruption on this continent

with some of our leaders.

How have you confronted that in your role,

and what experiences can you share with us around this issue?

AGF: We've had corruption --

corruption doesn't exist only in Africa.

Where there is a corruptee, there is a corrupter.

Right? It's always a two-way process.

We have focused in my country,

we are working very hard towards doing something about corruption,

but, you know, they also have great people in Africa.

Why do we always focus on the negative? Why don't we talk about ...

I want to bring on board, for example, the great quotes of Nelson Mandela.

His legacy is still very much alive.

We have people in -- even in Tanzania, we've had Julius Nyerere,

he have Nkrumah,

we have Kenyatta,

we have all these people who have been champions of Africa.

I think we need to take pages of their book and see.

In fact, Julius Nyerere himself had been a great advocate for science

when he said that "science will make deserts bloom."

So these are some of the founding fathers of this continent;

we need to take pages from them

and move ahead.

(Applause)

SB: Thank you very much, President Fakim.

AGF: Thank you.

(Applause)

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Top 10 Stops on an American Southwest Road Trip - Duration: 7:27.

okay so about three and a half hours to Las Vegas let's go let's go

so our first little stop apart from my little drone testing adventure this art

installation out near Vegas called these that

you've probably seen it like all over Instagram mom's not really convinced

that it's cool I it's cool I'm not convinced that it's art selfie zone

Instagram photo and I'm that not gonna lie I got my Instagram photo too so this

is cool though I mean it's that's interesting I don't know if I need to

like back she said yeah yo

so pro tip if you're not very good at planning ahead like me and you want to

come to a really popular park like Zion there's a camping ground at the quality

inn which is just near the south entrance so that's where we are camped

and we have that awesome Riverside campsite it's like 40 bucks a

night but that's kind of standard so it's not a bad option if all the

campgrounds are full

I think that down there is Angel's landing I can actually see people on it

so we're way above it here actually I feel like I'm on the top of Zion

dude this is one of the coolest pit stops I've ever made just like in life

to respect this as much as possible and to promote respecting it as much as

possible I'm not going to climb all over the

rocks even though it's really tempting

all right let's go

I've skipped ahead by climbing down that rock to get down here and it's really

major this is so I'm so so so so so cool

oh what a pleasant surprise this is Deadhorse State Park quite a name and

this isn't this is a pretty cool view I didn't really expect this there's a

viewpoint that I'm headed to for sunset and that's supposed to be spectacular so

this for me is just a bonus

we saw part of the Grand Canyon but really is it better than this and this

is a state park with I mean look I don't have a crowd around me or anything I'm

loving it like under the radar places here in Utah they've been blowing my

mind good morning from somewhere in Utah this is in Dixie National Forest and I

just wanted to show you this campsite this is a completely free campsite and

there are tons of these all over Utah this is something that I think is really

cool and pretty special in Utah because you can basically find these campsites

and you don't have to pay for them and as long as you leave no trace you can

enjoy them completely for free in some of the most beautiful areas sometimes

they can be social and you meet other people and sometimes you are completely

alone out there and you've got it all to yourself

well that is incredible 100 out of 100 people agree

hello from arches national park so in this little area called the windows

there's a bunch of arches that you can see this one I think is the coolest it's

a double arch one thing I've noticed about the national parks like arches and

Zion and Bryce is there's a lot of people in the national monuments though

in the state parks there's far fewer so keep that in mind if you want to get

pictures without people in them I wasn't even planning on coming here but then I

kind of saw it on the side of the road and was like yes from a little free

campsite near Lake Powell I was stoked to be able to find that in Arizona there

are also places where you can camp for free like this one and the cool thing is

lake powell is just right there i could walk there and i'm just like loving this

free ninety nine camp life

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Pepperdine | Both Feet In - Episode Three - Duration: 8:21.

(intense orchestral music)

- [Narrator] Friday, November 17th.

Game day.

The Northern Colorado Bears are in town

to face the Waves,

and at 1p.m. in Firestone Fieldhouse,

Coach, Marty Wilson and his staff

are making final preparations.

- Communication, harmony,

that's a big part of this game

and everybody knowing what their job is.

So make sure we're dialed in.

We'll be on shooting stations a couple of times

and we're gonna get out of here, alright?

Let's make it a good day, high energy.

Everybody's talking, team on three, one, two, three.

- [All] Team.

- [Narrator] Tonight marks an important early season test

for the Waves.

- [Coach] Game winner, game winner, game winner

game winner, game winner.

- [Narrator] Northern Colorado is led

by three upperclassmen,

including standout senior guard, Andre Spight.

The Waves are starting three freshmen,

two games into their college careers.

To expedite their development,

Coach Wilson and staff must gain the mental edge

before the ball is even tipped.

- [Coach] Where's the ball? Where's the ball?

Where's the ball? Where's the ball?

- Both you guys,

now this is the same action

as what we're gonna run out of motion.

It gets to the same deal, okay?

So we might run motion C...

We might come back if we get a layup or dunk,

we might come back to Horns, twist.

It's the same as that guy, alright?

(instrumental music)

- [Narrator] Minutes before tip off

Coach Wilson captures a moment of solace

before addressing the team.

- [Coach] Alright, who are you?

More importantly, who are we?

It's time for that to show.

It's time for that to show.

Are we tough?

Are we aggressive?

Are we competitive?

Are we disciplined?

(knock, knock, knock)

But are we together with all of this?

When we are, we're pretty good,

this is a test today, alright?

- [Male Voice] Dear Lord, we ask that you will

keep your hands over both teams

prevent from harm and injury Dear Lord

and give us the strength to go out and compete,

to do our best to represent our families,

our University and this team

in the best way that we can.

In your name we pray, Amen.

- [Team] Amen, let's go, let's go, let's go.

(clapping)

- Here we go, compete on three, one, two, three.

- [Team] Compete!

- [Game Announcer] It will be Matthew Atewe at 6'9"

jumping against the Bears, Tanner Morgan

also at 6'9".

Waves coached by Marty Wilson in his seventh year

and the Waves control.

- [Narrator] After suffering a head injury

in the team's season opener, Amadi Udenyi

is forced to take on a mentor role from the bench

as he works through the concussion protocol.

- [Game Announcer] Swinging right side to Berhow

he is open.

- [Amadi] Come on y'all, we sittin', we sittin'.

- [Crowd] Right, right, right.

- [Amadi] We good, we good, hit!

Oh my gosh.

- [Narrator] Early on freshmen nerves stall

the Waves offense

as Northern Colorado makes four of their first six shots.

(dramatic music)

But the Waves draw near

behind the imposing presence

of the team's frontcourt, led by Matthew Atewe.

- [Game Announcer] Goes up on a wild attempt

that misses badly.

Ross in the front court inside to Taylor

laid up and in.

(dramatic music)

- [Narrator] With less than a minute to go

in the first half,

Darnell Dunn draws a pivotal charge

and the Waves go into halftime tied.

- [Game Announcer] Middle screen by Anthony Johnson.

Davis inside, throw it up it rolls off the rim

and offensive balance, Jordan Davis.

- [Kam Edwards] How many charges you got?

Two or three?

- [Player] They didn't call them.

- [Amadi] We should have three,

they didn't give Nolan his.

- That was a charge.

(crowd banter)

- He was a slow dude.

- Oh, you just beat him going right and take the charge.

- Yeah.

- He's going right

and then when he euros

you're going to be right there to take the charge

- [Narrator] Sometimes, circumstances demand more

from a player than they feel they are capable of.

Backed against the wall and pressured by the onslaught

from Northern Colorado's stellar guards.

Jade' Smith, Trae Berhow and Colbey Ross

face two options in the second half,

sink or swim!

(dramatic music)

- [Game Announcer] Dribble, drive to the basket.

He's inside, draws contact, it goes in.

Comes to Colbey Ross,

Dunn at the free throw line.

Back to Ross his three point shot is good!

(crowd screaming)

71-70, Colbey Ross hits the three at the top.

Time out, Northern Colorado.

- They are trying to drive the ball.

We gotta be alert, we got to talk

(buzzer)

but we have to rebound!

We got to show our toughness and rebound!

Let's go, let's finish this!

(clapping)

- [Game Announcer] Jade' Smith dribbling, stop, he'll shoot

sixteen footer, no good.

And coming up limping is Jade' Smith.

- [Narrator] Already down two of their best players

in Amadi Udenyi and Eric Cooper Jr.

The loss of Smith is too much for the Waves to sustain.

- [Game Announcer] Andre Spight got in Ross,

he comes up to Berhow on the right wing,

Berhow bounce it down low to Ross,

back to Berhow, dribble eighteen footer, good!

(crowd screaming)

- [Narrator] Despite pivotal free throws

in the final minutes, Northern Colorado prevails

84-82.

- Head's up, head's up.

Now, two things.

Two things for a two point game.

They were getting offensive rebounds

as small as they were.

And they shot 37 free throws,

37 free throws.

Part of that is our alertness.

Part of that is our communication.

Most of that is just us being able to get down

and keep the guys in front.

Keep them in front.

They were just driving it and driving it, driving it.

That hurts.

It hurts.

But you know what, we're gonna keep going.

We're gonna keep growing.

We're gonna keep growing.

We're gonna keep working ya,

and we're gonna keep pushing you.

We're gonna keep challenging you guys.

You guys gotta keep responding,

with the mindset of getting better.

Long season,

long season.

We got Monday and Tuesday

we can't let anybody else come in our house,

can't let anybody else come in our house.

Okay, but we gotta have that mindset.

Let's go, come on in.

Team on three, 1, 2, 3.

- [Team] Team!

(lyrical music)

- [Narrator] Moral victories mean little

to those who compete, but Marty Wilson has been here before.

He knows when building a program

there's a way to lose a battle and win a war.

Though the outcome may have disappointed

the signs of early season promise are self evident.

A team full of underclassmen standing toe to toe

with an opponent of veterans.

Heartbreak often teaches us our greatest lessons.

These are the moments that build foundations.

When the work is put in, and a team's identity

is forged in character, determination and purpose,

slowly but surely... the tides begin to turn.

For more infomation >> Pepperdine | Both Feet In - Episode Three - Duration: 8:21.

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How To Convince Your Parents To Buy A Horse | To Horse Lover Parents - Duration: 4:01.

hey y'all there are plenty of other how to convince your parents to buy you a

horse videos and you've probably watched them all but what they didn't tell you

is there are other ways to own a horse so if you're interested in thinking a

different way to go about this dilemma keep on watching if you are a parent or

friend watching this your child or friend has probably talked about horses

at some point they've done their research and they watched the how to

convince your parents to buy you a horse videos but they want to do more than

convince you they want your encouragement and they want to feel like

they're going somewhere to making The Horse Dream Their Reality so here's

three ways to help a horse dreamer without buying a horse number one listen

to them yes I know they go on and on and on listen with full attention I know

they're just gonna repeat themselves but let me tell you what not listening

can do when a horse dreamer is tuned out or told not to talk about horses they

start to feel discouraged and think their dream is impossible or

unachievable you may know nothing about horses and you may even have no desire

to learn but you don't have to learn everything just listening can do wonders

for a horse dreamer number two start learning a few things here and there

they may grow out of the horse loving phase but what if they don't because

most don't you have a huge impact on how they grow so if they start talking about

this video they saw of an event where a rider or owner did such-and-such and

then they bring it up again the next day take time to either have them show you

or research what they're talking about so then you can come back with but did

you see this or did you know this about it get excited with them be a

facilitator let them know that you're not just listening but you're investing

in their hopes and dreams that doesn't directly cost money number three be

honest while encouraging them after realizing that I wasn't going to stop

talking or wanting horses my dad told me to research how much owning a horse

would cost knowing that I would get hit with

reality check as I was 15 years old without a steady income my parents

couldn't afford a horse but they did do things here and there that were great

reminders that I could make this happen whether its financial reasons or its

maturity knowledge reasons be encouragingly honest with them just

because you can't own a horse right now doesn't mean they can't make

The Horse Dream Their Reality in the future if you think they're not ready to own a horse yet

that doesn't mean that they're not going to mature and gain knowledge as

time goes on whatever the case The Horse Dream Journal is perfect for them it'll

teach them how to budget and why it's important and walk them through the best

steps to prepare them for being responsible horse owners if you're

interested in the horse dream journal it is linked up here and in the description

below I hope this has helped horse dreamers friends and parents feel more

confident helping their horse dreamer without buying the horse for them the

feeling you get when you finally make the horse dream your reality is insane

and I'm proud and grateful of myself for making the horse dream my reality and I

want to do the same for y'all in the best ways I can so I hope that you join

our community by subscribing to the horse dream youtube channel if you are

interested in the horse dream journal it is up there at the top and also in the

description below it is full of topics that are designed to encourage and

prepare you to become a responsible horse owner I hope y'all have a great

day and go make The Horse Dream Your Reality see ya

For more infomation >> How To Convince Your Parents To Buy A Horse | To Horse Lover Parents - Duration: 4:01.

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Robots: Crash Course Computer Science #37 - Duration: 12:26.

Hi, I'm Carrie Anne, and welcome to CrashCourse Computer Science!

Today we're going to talk about robots.

The first image that jumps to your mind is probably a humanoid robot, like we usually

see in shows or movies.

Sometimes they're our friends and colleagues, but more often, they're sinister, apathetic

and battle-hardened.

We also tend to think of robots as a technology of the future.

But the reality is: they're already here – by the millions – and they're our

workmates, helping us to do things harder, better, faster, and stronger.

INTRO

There are many definitions for robots, but in general, these are machines capable of

carrying out a series of actions automatically, guided by computer control.

How they look isn't part of the equation – robots can be industrial arms that spray

paint cars, drones that fly, snake-like medical robots that assist surgeons, as well as humanoid

robotic assistants.

Although the term "robot" is sometimes applied to interactive virtual characters,

it's more appropriate to call these "bots", or even better, "agents."

That's because the term "robot" carries a physical connotation a machine that lives

in and acts on the real world.

The word "robot" was first used in a 1920 Czech play to denote artificial, humanoid

characters.

The word was derived from "robota", the slavic-language word for a forced laborer,

indicating peasants in compulsory service in feudal, nineteenth century Europe.

The play didn't go too much into technological details.

But, even a century later, it's still a common portrayal: mass-produced, efficient,

tireless creatures that look human-esque, but are emotionless, indifferent to self-preservation

and lack creativity.

The more general idea of self-operating machines goes back even further than the 1920s.

Many ancient inventors created mechanical devices that performed functions automatically,

like keeping the time and striking bells on the hour.

There are plenty of examples of automated animal and humanoid figures, that would perform

dances, sing songs, strike drums and do other physical actions.

These non-electrical and certainly non-electronic machines were called automatons.

For instance, an early automaton created in 1739 by the Frenchman Jacques de Vaucanson

was the Canard Digerateur or Digesting Duck, a machine in the shape of a duck that appeared

to eat grain and then defecate.

In 1739 Voltaire wrote,

"Without the voice of le Maure and Vaucanson's duck, you would have nothing to remind you

of the glory of France."

One of the most infamous examples was the "Mechanical Turk": a chess-playing, humanoid

automaton.

After construction in 1770, it toured all over Europe, wowing audiences with its surprisingly

good chess-playing.

It appeared to be a mechanical, artificial intelligence.

Unfortunately, it was a hoax – there was a dainty human stuffed inside the machine.

The first machines controlled by computers emerged in the late 1940s.

These Computer Numerical Control, or CNC, machines, could run programs that instructed

a machine to perform a series of operations.

This level of control also enabled the creation of new manufactured goods, like milling a

complex propellor design out of a block of aluminum – something that was difficult

to do using standard machine tools, and with tolerances too small to be done by hand.

CNC machines were a huge boon to industry, not just due to increased capability and precision,

but also in terms of reducing labor costs by automating human jobs – a topic we'll

revisit in a later episode.

The first commercial deployment was a programmable industrial robot called the Unimate, sold

to General Motors in 1960 to lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine and stack

them.

This was the start of the robotics industry.

Soon, robots were stacking pallets, welding parts, painting cars and much more.

For simple motions – like a robotic gripper that moves back and forth on a track – a

robot can be instructed to move to a particular position, and it'll keep moving in that

direction until the desired position is reached, at which point it'll stop.

This behavior can be achieved through a simple control loop.

First, sense the robot position.

Are we there yet?

Nope.

So keep moving.

Now sense position again.

Are we there yet?

Nope, so keep moving.

Are we there yet?

Yes!

So we can stop moving, and also please be quiet!

Because we're trying to minimize the distance between the sensed position and the desired

position, this control loop is, more specifically, a negative feedback loop.

A negative feedback control loop has three key pieces.

There's a sensor, that measures things in the real world, like water pressure, motor

position, air temperature, or whatever you're trying to control.

From this measurement, we calculate how far we are from where we want to be – the error.

The error is then interpreted by a controller, which decides how to instruct the system to

minimize that error.

Then, the system acts on the world though pumps, motors, heating elements, and other

physical actuators.

In tightly controlled environments, simple control loops, like this, work OK.

But in many real world applications, things are a tad more complicated.

Imagine that our gripper is really heavy, and even when the control loop says to stop,

momentum causes the gripper to overshoot the desired position.

That would cause the control loop to take over again, this time backing the gripper up.

A badly tuned control loop might overshoot and overshoot and overshoot, and maybe even

wobble forever.

To make matters worse, in real world settings, there are typically external and variable

forces acting on a robot, like friction, wind and items of different weight.

To handle this gracefully, more sophisticated control logic is needed.

A widely used control-loop, feedback mechanism is a proportional–integral–derivative cotnroller.

That's a bit of a mouthful, so people call them PID controllers.

These used to be mechanical devices, but now it's all done in software.

Let's imagine a robot that delivers coffee.

Its goal is to travel between customers at two meters per second, which has been determined

to be the ideal speed that's both safe and expedient.

Of course, the environment doesn't always cooperate.

Sometimes there's wind, and sometimes there's uphills and downhills and all sorts of things

that affect the speed of the robot.

So, it's going to have to increase and decrease power to its motors to maintain the desired speed.

Using the robot's speed sensor, we can keep track of its actual speed and plot that alongside

its desired speed.

PID controllers calculate three values from this data.

First is the proportional value, which is the difference between the desired value and

the actual value at the most recent instant in time or the present.

This is what our simpler control loop used before.

The bigger the gap between actual and desired, the harder you'll push towards your target.

In other words, it's proportional control.

Next, the integral value is computed, which is the sum of error over a window of time,

like the last few seconds.

This look back helps compensate for steady state errors, resulting from things like motoring

up a long hill.

If this value is large, it means proportional control is not enough, and we have to push

harder still.

Finally, there's the derivative value, which is the rate of change between the desired

and actual values.

This helps account for possible future error, and is sometimes called "anticipatory control".

For example, if you are screaming in towards your goal too fast, you'll need to ease

up a little to prevent overshoot.

These three values are summed together, with different relative weights, to produce a controller

output that's passed to the system.

PID controllers are everywhere, from the cruise control in your car, to drones that automatically

adjust their rotor speeds to maintain level flight, as well as more exotic robots, like

this one that balances on a ball to move around.

Advanced robots often require many control loops running in parallel, working together,

managing everything from robot balance to limb position.

As we've discussed, control loops are responsible for getting robot attributes like location

to desired values.

So, you may be wondering where these values come from.

This is the responsibility of higher-level robot software, which plans and executes robot

actions, like plotting a path around sensed obstacles, or breaking down physical tasks,

like picking up a ball, into simple, sequential motions.

Using these techniques, robots have racked up some impressive achievements – they've

been to the deepest depths of Earth's oceans and roved around on Mars for over a decade.

But interestingly, lots of problems that are trivial for many humans have turned out to

be devilishly difficult for robots: like walking on two legs, opening a door, picking up objects

without crushing them, putting on a t-shirt, or petting a dog.

These are tasks you may be able to do without thinking, but a supercomputer-powered robot

fails at spectacularly.

These sorts of tasks are all active areas of robotics research.

Artificial intelligence techniques, which we discussed a few episodes ago, are perhaps

the most promising avenue to overcome these challenges.

For example, Google has been running an experiment with a series of robotic arms that spend their

days moving miscellaneous objects from one box to another, learning from trial and error.

After thousands of hours of practice, the robots had cut their error rate in half.

Of course, unlike humans, robots can run twenty-four hours a day and practice with many arms at

the same time.

So, it may just be a matter of time until they become adept at grasping things.

But, for the time being, toddlers can out-grasp them.

One of the biggest and most visible robotic breakthrough in recent years has been self-driving,

autonomous cars.

If you think about it, cars don't have too many system inputs – you can speed up or

slow down, and you can steer left or right.

The tough part is sensing lanes, reading signs, and anticipating and navigating traffic, pedestrians,

bicyclists, and a whole host of obstacles.

In addition to being studded with proximity sensors, these robotic vehicles heavily rely

on Computer Vision algorithms, which we discussed in Episode 35.

We're also seeing the emergence of very primitive androids – robots that look and

act like humans.

Arguably, we're not close on either of those goals, as they tend to look pretty weird and

act even weirder.

At least we'll always have Westworld.

But anyway, these remain a tantalizing goal for roboticists that combine many computer

science topics we've touched on over the last few episodes, like artificial intelligence,

computer vision and natural language processing.

As for why humans are so fascinated by creating artificial embodiments of ourselves...you'll

have to go to Crash Course Philosophy for that.

And for the foreseeable future, realistic androids will continue to be the stuff of

science fiction.

Militaries also have a great interest in robots – they're not only replaceable, but can

surpass humans in attributes like strength, endurance, attention, and accuracy.

Bomb disposal robots and reconnaissance drones are fairly common today.

But fully autonomous, armed-to-the-teeth robots are slowly appearing, like the Samsung SGR-A1

sentry gun deployed by South Korea.

Robots with the intelligence and capability to take human lives are called lethal autonomous weapons.

And they're widely considered a complex and thorny issue.

Without doubt, these systems could save soldiers lives by taking them off the battlefield and

out of harm's way.

It might even discourage war all together.

Though it's worth noting that people said the same thing about dynamite and nuclear

weapons.

On the flip side, we might be creating ruthlessly efficient killing machines that don't apply

human judgment or compassion to complex situations.

And the fog of war is about as complex and murky as they come.

These robots would be taking orders and executing them as efficiently as they can and sometimes

human orders turn out to be really bad.

This debate is going to continue for a long time, and pundits on both sides will grow

louder as robotic technology improves.

It's also an old debate – the danger was obvious to science fiction writer Isaac Asimov,

who introduced a fictional "Three Laws of Robotics" in his 1942 short story "Runaround".

And then, later he added a zeroth rule.

In short, it's a code of conduct or moral compass for robots – guiding them to do

no harm, especially to humans.

It's pretty inadequate for practical application and it leaves plenty of room for equivocation.

But still, Asimov's laws inspired a ton of science fiction and academic discussion,

and today there are whole conferences on robot ethics.

Importantly, Asimov crafted his fictional rules as a way to push back on "Robot as

a Menace" memes common in fiction from his childhood.

These were stories where robots went off the rails, harming or even destroying their creators

in the process.

Asimov, on the other hand, envisioned robots as useful, reliable, and even loveable machines.

And it's this duality I want to leave you thinking about today.

Like many of the technologies we've discussed throughout this series, there are benevolent

and malicious uses.

Our job is to carefully reflect on computing's potential and peril, and wield our inventive

talents to improve the state of the world.

And robots are one of the most potent reminders of this responsibility.

I'll see you next week.

For more infomation >> Robots: Crash Course Computer Science #37 - Duration: 12:26.

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I found the Rilakkuma Cafe! | Taipei Arrival and Day 1 - Duration: 12:29.

Arrived in Taipei

Taipei Day 1

I'm in Taipei right now and

it's raining

I don't have an umbrella but it's okay

I am waiting for the department store to open

so I can exchange my money

Just walking around in the rain

trying to find a shop that I can get into

This is the museum

I don't think that I'm gonna go in

but, yeah, it just looks good from the outside

Maybe I can walk through here

There's a guy with birds!

let's check this out

What's he doing there?

I am the most stupid person ever

I got the water fountain

straight into my face, because I wanted to look

how it's gonna be stopped

And I got the water fountain into my face

I think this has happened to no one ever before

The Memorial Hall with the Taipei Tower in the background

Looks cool

Tradition and modern buildings

I think the croissants here look better than the ones in Paris

Beautiful

Yeah!

I don't wanna eat it

Having your hotel next to the Taipei Tower

This is amazing!

The windows are so dirty

Shilin Nachtmarkt

Hong Kong Waffles

And I won these things!

Sweet Potato balls

Thank you for watching!

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