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UNFOLDING: Obama Holdover Just Caught Hiding What Wife Received From Secret Hillary Deal - Duration: 4:35.
UNFOLDING: Obama Holdover Just Caught Hiding What Wife Received From Secret Hillary Deal.
More drama unfolds within the Justice Department, and it concerns a holdover from former President
Obama's administration.
One person, in particular, was just revealed to be allegedly hiding payments that went
to his wife.
The payments reportedly came from Fusion GPS and went to Bruce Ohr's wife.
According to reports, Ohr was supposed to file for a conflict of interest waiver from
the Department of Justice.
He failed to seek that waiver, and in return, it now appears as though he purposely hid
the payments going to his wife.
That in and of itself is a major conflict of interest.
His wife's name is Nellie Ohr.
She was supposedly working for Fusion GPS while Fusion was apparently caught paying
Christopher Steele to craft a dossier.
Steele is an alleged former British spy who may have used his former or current stats
to take the dossier to the next level and prod a stern finger to trigger people into
a Russian investigation.
Fusion GPS payments to Nellie Ohr were allegedly for her work to analyze and research Russia.
This may have been in connection with the false concept of Russian collusion and now
President Trump and the 2016 Presidential election.
As most people are aware, the only conspiracy there's been evidence of so far is between
Democrats and the Russians, but there's no evidence that Trump was involved in anything.
Trump has been President for over a year, and there's still no evidence of him participating
in wrongdoing or collusion that would interfere with the 2016 election.
Meanwhile, the Ohr's were reported to be in connection with the dossier, Fusion GPS,
and provoking the Russian investigation that they may have hoped was the dagger in Trump's
back.
Conservative Daily Post provided more information on the Ohr situation:
"Top Justice Department official Bruce Ohr failed to disclose that Fusion GPS was paying
his wife and didn't seek a conflict of interest waiver from the department.
Bruce Ohr was demoted from his post as Associate Deputy Attorney General in early December
after an internal probe revealed that he failed to disclose on two occasions that his wife
was working with Fusion GPS.
More importantly, Nellie Ohr was being paid by Fusion GPS to conduct analysis and research
on Russia.
Falsifying government ethics forms and documents can result in jail time if an individual is
convicted.
Congressional documents and memos reveal Fusion GPS hired Steele to compile his anti-Trump
dossier.
Fusion GPS was given more than $9 million to fund efforts to compile the dossier by
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and the Democratic National
Committee.
In order to trigger the Russia investigation, Fusion GPS likely used Nellie Ohr to give
the dossier to Bruce Ohr, who then used his senior status at the DOJ to lay the foundation
for the Russia probe.
The FBI then took the dossier from the DOJ and obtained a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court to spy on Carter Page, a volunteer to Trump's 2016 campaign.
This paved the way for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to take over the Russia investigation.
That's called collusion, and it's not a coincidence that Ohr lied on two separate
occasions about his wife's role at Fusion GPS."
Now it appears as though Democrats were working together to put the dossier through the wire
and make it into a big thing.
That sparked the nonsensical distractions surrounding the Russian collusion theories,
but their attempted sabotage backfired.
The fingers now point the evidence to wards the Democrats as they're caught in their
own scandal and are burying their heads in the sand as their party panics and fall apart
at the seams.
Former President Barack Obama must be laughing as this unfolds, but he could also be worried
that something points back to wards him or Michelle.
The attempt to knock the Trump train off the tracks has been unsuccessful.
Every time the Democrats throw something shady to wards President Trump, they get it tossed
right back like a hot potato.
There's only so much fake information that the Democrat party can pass around or create
out of their miserable boredom, but none of it is working to remove Trump from the White
House.
If anything, it's making Trump into a stone cold lock pick of the week for the 2020 election.
Everything the Democrats have done to Trump has made him stronger.
What do you think about this?
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(ENG CC) 난생 처음하는 댓.글.읽.기!!!! || I Read Comment for the first time - Duration: 15:55.
Hi, This is Han
I have two good news.
First, I changed my phone finally
Changed it i Phone X
The reason I changed is because the video is supported up to 4k.
Actually, I was looking for a camera these days,
I changed my cell phone when it was time to change.
So I found that this phone supports up to 4k.
I do not want to shoot separately because I have to set it up separately.
I thought it was inconvenient because there was no place for fingerprint recognition.
But it is very convenient because the phone is unlocked even if I look at only the phone like this.
So I use it very very very well.
Also I can do this now.
When you appreciate a face like this
Hey, I'm the Pig
Piggy Piggy
I can do this.
Buy i Phone X.
It's really good
There are not many phones that support up to 4k.
It is good in such a way, and seems to be good in many ways.
And the second
I have over 1000 subscribers.
The number of subscribers is nearing 1,200.
I have dreaming to have more than 1,200 subscribers on my channel.
It keep rising from red velvet video
It come a lot from Seventeen,
I read every single comments of the Seventeen music reaction.
I really think that Seventeen fans are very sincere.
I feel sincere in every single word.
Of course, other comments may be the same, But especially the Seventh video.
I'm so glad to read that.
Seventeen release the song "Thank you"
I wanted to thank Seventeen myself.
But this is not today's topic.
I appreciate Seventeen's comments.
I have a lot of comments this time, so I posted these comments.
I have a lot of comments this time and I have a comment that I will take 'Read Comments'.
I taking a video for new year's day
Today's video is <New Year's holiday special 'Reading Comment'>.
Let's read randomly selected comments now.
Who is Stary Kids?
left it like this, So let's take a look at Stary Kids.
Ahh, I think it's an idol.
Let me see the "Hellevator" M/V
Ah, the idol from JYP.
He is very good at rapping!
Why didn't I notice them?
Even jyp, why did not I know?
awesome
That rap ...
As an elevator to hell so it called Hellevator.
Dancing is really great.
This is it.
Let me take more at it later.
Wow .. the guy who rap before ..
I'll see it again.
It seems to be doing very well tightly.
It was Stray Kids from JYP, even I don't notice.
I think it's better to listen to the full version of the song.
It seems that the flow keeps dropping because you edit only the part that you say.
I think this is probably a comment on Suzy's music video.
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Some Creatives Cannot Choose A Day Job Over Their Art by Mark Sanderson - Duration: 3:51.
Film Courage: Mark, your new book (A SCREENWRITER'S JOURNEY TO SUCCESS: Tips, tricks and tactics
to survive as a working screenwriter in Hollywood), I understand from what you told me off camera,
it took you five years to actually write it?
Mark Sanderson: It did. I didn't sit down to write a book initially. I was blogging
and I wanted to get my past 20 years of professional experience out of my mind and heart and try
to be able to share it with people. And so after five or six years of blogging I realized
I had enough information to create something. And so I started the process of stripping
down the articles and refabricating them into chapters and then I thought "Well, I'm
going to chart my journey from how I started in the business as a filmmakers at eleven
years old. What was that spark, that creative spark? And chart it all the way until today.
Not so much as a memoir but also using examples and funny anecdotal stories but disciplines
that I've used that have helped me stay in the game that hopefully other writers will
be able to see and go "Oh, yeah? I'm not doing that" or "I need to do that."
Film Courage: Well you referenced a friend's grand father gave you a camera when you were
both around [age] eleven and that sparked your love for making movies together. Have
you ever thought about what if that hadn't happened?
Mark Sanderson: Oh, yeah. I'm not sure…I would have gone into some creative endeavor.
I wanted to be a cartoonist originally because I love to draw and I still do. And in the
book, when I was writing the book, I drank a lot of coffee and so it would leave a coffee
ring on the notes so I would do little doodles and I've turned those into coffee ring mugs
and TV-shirts and things like that. But they're also in the book after every chapter. And
so I wanted to be a cartoonist or animator or something creative. My parents eventually
bought me my own camera but it's interesting there are these times in your life that you
can only look back on now. I don't know. It would be interesting, I would do something
creative, absolutely. I was not going to be a doctor (not that that was…), I was not
going to have a day job. I was going to do something creative so I knew that because
my parents were always very supportive of my brother and myself in the creative arts
and my brother is a graphic designer and he's always had the ability and talent for art.
So my parent, my dad wanted to be a singer and he came out to Los Angeles from Michigan
in the early '60s and he would sing in piano bars and he recorded little 45 records and
he wanted to be a singer and that was his creative thing. But I always saw him doing
poetry and drawing and things like that.
And my mom artistically inclined with jewelry making. And so I came from creative parents
but they came from an era where their parents didn't support them. You were going to get
a job in business or you were going to go in a factory. It was just very clear cut.
And so I think they wanted to break that mold and really supported my brother and I for
that and that's so vitally important. In the book I dedicate the book to my parents
because without them there would be no support system. You know, that's vital I think.
Film Courage: That's beautiful.
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Trump Administration Just Made Final Decision on Transgender Stu - Duration: 6:25.
Trump Administration Just Made Final Decision on Transgender Student Bathrooms
The Department of Education announced Monday it will no longer be investigating complaints
made by transgender students regarding being banned from school bathrooms matching their
gender identity.
Those students allege that the decision leaves them vulnerable to violence and bullying,
according to The Washington Post.
In 2016, the Obama administration issued a directive calling on public schools to permit
students to use the restroom facilities corresponding to their gender identities, rather than their
sex assigned at birth.
The administration had determined that prohibiting transgender students from using public school
restrooms of their choice was a form of gender discrimination under Title IX.
But in 2017, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoked
this guidance, not long after President Donald Trump was inaugurated.
Although the Trump administration�s move was widely criticized by civil rights groups,
who claimed that such an ordinance could endanger the welfare of transgender students, DeVos
asserted that the decision was being left up to states and individual school districts.
DeVos and Sessions argued that Title IX did not require that schools allow transgender
students to use whatever restrooms they want.
Supporters of the Obama-era directive say that being able to use the restroom facilities
of their preference is necessary for their safety and well-being.
Still, non-transgender students and their families have asserted that such actions are
an invasion of privacy.
Title IX bars sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funds.
Advocates argue that the provision requires public schools to allow transgender students
to use the bathroom of their choice, and some federal appeals courts have supported this
interpretations.
The Department of Education views the law differently, though it will continue to investigate
other forms of discrimination.
�Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, not gender identity,� Education
Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill told The Post.
�Where students, including transgender students, are penalized or harassed for failing to conform
to sex-based stereotypes, that is sex discrimination prohibited by Title IX.
In the case of bathrooms, however, longstanding regulations provide that separating facilities
on the basis of sex is not a form of discrimination prohibited by Title IX,� she added.
The newspaper pressed Hill further, questioning whether the department would actually investigate
such claims.
�Where (the Office for Civil Rights) does not have jurisdiction based on current law
(the Office for Civil Rights) does not investigate,� Hill replied.
The Education Department�s move has been praised by conservatives, including those
at the Family Research Council
�Family Research Council is pleased that the Department of Education has now made explicit
what was implicit in their withdrawal of the Obama administration guidance on transgender
students a year ago,� FRC senior policy fellow Peter Sprigg said in a statement to
The Western Journal.
�The federal government has no legitimate role in regulating the use of showers, locker
rooms, and bathrooms in local schools, and schools remain free under Title IX to separate
such facilities on the basis of biological sex at birth.�
Sprigg noted that in most of the country, local school districts are also �free to
address students who identify as transgender on a case by case basis, offering them reasonable
accommodation to meet their legitimate needs without violating the privacy rights of the
majority of students.
But others have criticized the Education Department�s action.
For example, Catherine Lhamon, head of the Education Department�s Office for Civil
Rights under former President Barack Obama, called the department�s statement �appalling
and deeply dangerous,� according to The Post.
�The federal courts have multiple times made clear that Title IX protects transgender
students,� Lhamon said.
�They just don�t have the option to say, �We just don�t apply the law here.'�
Despite Lhamon�s criticisms, DeVos has continued to insist that her department will not overlook
bullying or harassment of transgender students in public schools.
�Please note that the withdrawal of these guidance documents does not leave students
without protections from discrimination, bullying or harassment,� DeVos wrote last year after
rescinding the Obama-era directive.
�All schools must ensure that all students, including LGBT students, are able to learn
and thrive in a safe environment.�
The school bathroom debate, meanwhile, is part of a larger national debate over transgender
rights in public restrooms and changing areas.
A 2016 article from Time magazine noted that even in the most liberal areas of the country,
many people have concerns about the implications of allowing transgender individuals use the
restroom of their preference.
In May of that year, members of a girl�s swimming team in Manhattan were too frightened
to use their changing facility, after a �bearded individual� was seen in the women�s changing
room.
This incident occurred around the time that a new sign appeared announcing that visitors
had the right to use the restroom consistent with their �gender identity or gender expression.�
What do you think?
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choose your starting hand every time in Clash Royale - Duration: 9:29.
choose your starting hand every time in Clash Royale
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5 Clear Signs That Your Life Is About To Do A 'One Eighty" - Duration: 5:10.
5 Clear Signs That Your Life Is About To Do A �One-Eighty�
by Conscious Reminder
There are moments in life when we believe that everything is falling apart.
What we actually don�t know is that, at times like these, when we feel hopeless and
at a point of no return, everything is falling to its place.
Change is not always welcome but it�s inevitable and often when we believe that our life is
a complete chaos, it�s because everything is being arranged in order to synchronize
with our true passions and desires.
1.The things you don�t like have become unbearable.
There is nothing worse than feeling annoyed.
It comes out of the blue, like a mosquito while you�re asleep, and it�s starts itching,
making you scratch your skin till it bleeds.
When little, meaningless, things in life start bugging you be sure that a change is about
to happen.It has to happen.
There is a certain amount of negativity that we can deal with before the last straw breaks
the camel�s back.
Something snaps and we take action.
2.
You feel lost.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself.
We�ve all heard these words.
It kinda sounds backwards, but that�s only until we figure out why.
When you�re lost you have no direction and when there is no direction there is no desire.
When there is no desire you don�t need anything and when you don�t need anything, that�s
when your soul starts to speak.
Even though things might see out of control, in this moment you are in a perfect disposition
to accept everything that your heart is completely and unconditionally trying to show you.
You�re now tracing your new path and maybe what you really need is that radical change
that will help you get your mind, body, heart and soul in sync.
3.
Leave the incubator.
Have you ever noticed that there are periods when your schedule is completely packed with
adventures, parties with your friends and family, and trip to a point when you feel
that you are barely keeping up?
On the other hand the rest of year you spend isolated, even depressed, going through deep
introspection.
The length of these cycles varies but we all go through momentum shifts during our lives.We
need these cycles to form our perspective of the world.
Moments spent introspecting offer us emotional, psychological and spiritual growth, while
the outward pulses manifest as new experiences, traveling and broadening our horizons.
When you break free from the incubator period, it feels like you are being reborn.
This means that you took your time to recharge your batteries, take a step back and reevaluate
the things and people that surround you, in order to set another goal and trace a new
path towards a better life.
4.
You feel scared, excited and anxious at the same time.
The incubator stage you have been going through is finally coming to an end and now you have
a new course in life.
So, what�s next?
When something feels scary and exciting at the same time�.you shod go and do it.
Take the leap, as you definitely feel something big is about to happen and the momentum is
building.You have no idea what to expect, but you feel that you are on the right path
and you are anxious to see what is waiting for you at the end of the tunnel.
At moments as such, there is no point in making big plans, as they are probably going to get
canceled or postponed and it will only give you headaches and frustration.
You�ve set your goal, but the energies are still aligning as the many possible outcomes
unravel.
You need to explore and evaluate every single one of them before you decide to follow the
path your higher self had already chosen.Be patient, stay open and go with the flow.
These are exciting times.
5.
Synchronicities.
Is there anything better than the subtle clues left by the universe, pointing that you are
on your true path?
Synchronicities serve as soft assurances that your actions, thoughts and feelings are aligned
with your higher self.
When you are about to undergo a major shift, you will start seeing number 5 everywhere
you turn.
Number 5 is the clearest of signs that you need to change yourself, or the things around
you, because you are going through times of change that will transform you forever.
Nevertheless, a change should never be perceived as positive or negative.It�s simple necessary
and it�s bound to happen.
05:55 It�s time to wake up, Neo.
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3 টি কথা যা আপনাকে সবার কাছে প্রিয় এবং সফল করবে || how to impress anyone || how to talk anyone . - Duration: 5:22.
For more infomation >> 3 টি কথা যা আপনাকে সবার কাছে প্রিয় এবং সফল করবে || how to impress anyone || how to talk anyone . - Duration: 5:22. -------------------------------------------
5 Overlooked Ways to Get More YouTube Views - Duration: 7:08.
- There are a lot of ways to grow your YouTube channel
that a lot of people aren't really talking about.
They're overlooked, underutilized
and today I wanna share with you guys
what some of them are
so that you can beat out your competition,
grow your YouTube channel's views and subscribers
using some of these tricks, coming up.
Hey, guys, my name is Tim Schmoyer
and welcome to Video Creators.
This channel is all about helping you guys
grow a YouTube audience so you can spread a message
that reaches people and changes their lives
but if your channel's not growing,
you're not really reaching anybody
and changing their life, right?
So while the rest of your competition
is out there tweaking their tags and doing sub for sub
and things like that, let's talk about some of the things
that will actually grow your channel
and get you the results that you want.
Number one is caption your videos.
This is so important because when you manually create
captions and add them to your video,
you are giving Google a lot of information
about what that video contains.
Google does do an automated job of trying to guess,
but those captions are usually terrible
and they're not weighed very heavily at all
as far as Google's concerned
because they know there's a lot of mistakes in there.
Adding captions also makes your videos more accessible
to a broader group of people.
Whether those people, maybe they're deaf
or maybe they speak English as a second language.
Although, studies have shown that the people
who are most likely to use your captions,
are actually people who do speak English
or speak your language, but they just wanna follow along
and turning the captions on enables them
to read with what's being said,
and it holds their attentions better
and they can follow more closely,
which then leads to more watch time on your videos,
which leads to better audience retention on your videos,
which means your video performs better overall.
Now the service I use for captioning my videos
is rev.com, and they are cool enough to sponsor this video
so I could tell you guys about them.
I use them for a few reasons.
One, because it's all humans actually doing the captioning
and not just speech-to-text recognition type software.
Rev.com is 99% percent accurate because of that.
And it's all people who actually speak my language,
speak English, they're from the U.S., Canada,
like 90% of them are.
So I'm supporting jobs here locally as well.
If you wanna check it out, go to rev.com/videocreators
or just click the link in the description of this video.
And you can sign up, and they'll email you a $10 coupon
off your next order of captions or transcriptions.
So go check that out if that's of interest to you.
A second growth hack that I see a lot of creators not doing
is that you need to brighten up your thumbnails.
There needs to be good contrast between the background
and the foreground, so the foreground, the story,
the value you're trying to pitch
in that thumbnail just pops.
It's easy to see in very small resolution
on a mobile device.
I also recommend that you oversaturate the colors
just a little bit to make those colors pop out,
stand out more than all the other thumbnails
that are surrounding your video.
Another thing you can do to make your video stand out
above everyone else's is to test your titles.
I know a lot of creators spend a lot of time
working on their actual video content,
but they don't understand that it doesn't matter
how amazing the video is if that title and thumbnail
don't entice someone to click on it in the first place.
So if you're gonna spend hours on your video,
you should spend a good amount of time
on a title and thumbnail as well.
Now regarding the title, I wouldn't just go
with the first thing that comes to your mind.
I would spend a lot of time listing
a lot of different ideas,
looking at different synonyms for different words.
There's a lot of headline analyzers
that you can go to on the internet
that are just free, just punch it in there
and it'll say, hey, this is kinda weak, it's lacking emotion
or it needs some of these power words in there
that would elicit more of a response from people
than the words that you're using.
And after I've got like 15, 20 different title ideas or so,
then I'll go to other people in my team,
whether it be my editor, my producer, or just friends,
and I would just say, hey, which one of these
is the most enticing to you
or you feel like is the most accurate
or pitches the value the best?
And if you have people on your Facebook page
or just family and friends or just a group of people,
a dorm roommate or something, just say, hey,
which one of these-- just get some feedback, right?
And just think about it so when you put it up there
you know this is a title that is more likely
to get clicks than just a thrown up title
that I was maybe gonna go with.
A fourth thing that's really important
is that you plan the hook of your video
before you even start shooting.
What I mean by that is when someone clicks
on your title and thumbnail, they click on it
because that title and thumbnail set
an expectation for the viewer.
And the viewer clicks expecting a certain value,
a certain story, a certain something.
So that first 15 seconds need to affirm
for the viewer that yes, what you clicked
expecting to get is coming in this video.
So if the title and thumbnail teases something
that doesn't come until eight minutes into the video,
your subscribers may stick around and watch,
but those non-subscribed people who have no idea
who you are, they're gonna be like,
"What did I click on?" And they'll just leave.
And so I recommend you know what your title and thumbnail
is going to be before you even start shooting your videos.
That's the best way, that when you do start shooting it,
you can open it up with something that you know
connects to the title and thumbnail.
Number five, I recommend that you take a cue
from what people in television have learned
and that is you need to cut to something
every five to seven seconds in order to really
visually hold your viewers' attention.
The reason television is cutting to different angles
every few seconds is because every time that happens
the brain needs to reevaluate what's there on screen,
and it's like, oh, something changed
and they gotta take it all in.
Oh, it changed again, and they take it all in,
oh, it changed again, right.
So it holds people's attention visually better.
So whether you're doing that with multiple camera angles
or you're doing it like we way we do here in this video,
it's just adding a lot of B-Roll and visuals
and examples on top.
You can do it however you want,
but the goal is just keep changing things
up visually for your audience.
Another thing that you really need to consider, though,
is learn storytelling; tell better stories.
The thing that gets the human emotions involved,
that enable people to make human connections
with you and your content is based on the stories
that you tell.
The better your storytelling ability,
the more people will want to watch your videos,
the longer they'll watch your videos,
the better signals Google will get about your videos
that will make Google want to promote it even more.
So I highly recommend you learn a lot about storytelling.
Read books on storytelling.
Watch videos here on YouTube about storytelling.
I even hired a storytelling coach not too long ago,
and I gave you guys access to some of that conversation
in an interview with her.
I've gone through storytelling workshops
here in Cincinnati and I brought you guys
along on that journey with me as well.
I put links to a lot of these different kind of resources
in the description of this video,
including rev.com/videocreators
if you wanna sign up and get your $10 off your next order
for captions or transcriptions emailed to you,
go check that out.
and I wanna hear from you in the comments below
about what has really helped your channel stand out.
What things are you trying to really make sure
that your channel is thriving above all
of the other videos here on YouTube.
And I want the rest of you guys to read those comments.
You'll learn a ton from everyone down here.
This community is amazing.
So go check them out.
And if this is your first time here,
I would love to have you subscribe.
Every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
multiple times a week we've got new videos coming out
just to help you learn how to grow your YouTube audience
so you can reach people and impact their lives
with the stories and the messages that you're spreading.
So thank you for letting me be a small part of that.
Subscribe, and I'll see you guys again on Monday.
See ya then, bye.
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How Kirby Has Been Changed Outside Japan - Duration: 9:33.
Today we'll be taking a look into Nintendo's ever-popular pink puffball, Kirby.
Perhaps thanks to his simplistic design, Kirby has won the world over having released more
than 20 games that have gone on to sell over 34 million copies worldwide.
However, did you know that the Kirby series has undergone numerous changes between regions?
By far the most well-known are the differences between the covers of the Japanese and North
American versions of the Kirby games.
This has even earned itself its own TV Tropes page titled "American Kirby is Hardcore."
As the packaging for the American releases often changes Kirby's happy and carefree
expression seen on the original Japanese covers to one that is angry.
Nintendo of America's notorious advertisement for Kirby's Avalanche and Kirby's Dream
Course from 1995, featuring a mugshot of a scowling bandaged Kirby with gritty stubble,
[4] is often cited as the beginning of Kirby's "hardcore" American trend.
But Nintendo of America's attempts to make Kirby seem tougher date back as early as his
very first games.
In a 1992 commercial for Kirby's Dream Land, Kirby is compared to "Dashing Superguy,"
who may have him beaten in strength, but the narrator instead touts that Kirby's appetite
makes up for it, as it "has a mean bite."
Compare this to the Japanese commercial for Kirby's Dream Land released the very same
year, which alternatively features a young boy happily singing while drawing Kirby.
The 1993 American commercial for Kirby's Adventure took this a step further with Kirby
pulling off a number of cool stunts before stating, "…Kirby, he's cute till you
cross him, then he's one tough cream puff."
Nevertheless, an angry Kirby would not be seen on the cover for any of his games in
the west until 2002 with the release of Kirby's Nightmare in Dream Land.
While it is true that the majority of Kirby games since then, including Kirby Air Ride,
Kirby Canvas Curse, and Kirby's Return to Dream Land, continued this trend, a few games,
such as Kirby Super Star Ultra, did not.
Instead sharing cover art nearly identical to the original Japanese release.
After years of speculation Shinya Kumazaki, the director of Kirby: Triple Deluxe, commented
on this in an interview with Gamespot.
To quote:
"For the Japanese versions we are, at HAL, involved in everything throughout development,
including the package design.
The most powerful image of Kirby is that cute image, we think that's the one that appeals
to the widest audience."
He goes on to explain that, for his home country of Japan, "Kirby's cuteness is his biggest
draw..."
However, things are seen differently in North America.
Kumazaki mentions that Nintendo of America calls the shots in the US and provides HAL
with "feedback and insight" into the market.
He goes on to state:
"What we have heard is that strong, tough Kirby that's really battling hard is a more
appealing sign of Kirby, so that's what we feature in the US."
The director explains that it depends on the title though, as some of the more recent Kirby
games feature a "Tough Kirby" even on the Japanese box art, pointing towards his
own game.
Released in 2014, Kirby: Triple Deluxe was the first Kirby title to have an angry Kirby
on the cover art across all regions.
Also note the removal of the cannon-like enemy from the North American cover which remained
intact in every other region.
This was possibly done to bring it in line with the ESRB's "Principles and Guidelines
for Responsible Advertising Practices," which prohibits "Graphic and/or excessive
depictions of violence" from video game advertising including "guns/weapons [being]
pointed toward [the] reader/audience."
Triple Deluxe's direct sequel, Kirby: Planet Robobot from 2016, as well as 2017's Kirby
Battle Royale have since followed suit, containing an angry Kirby on the box art throughout every
region.
Speaking of Kirby covers in other regions, since 2002 the box art for the European releases
of the Kirby games have gone back and forth between using the "angrier" North American
art, as seen with Kirby: Canvas Curse, or Kirby: Power Paintbrush as it is known in
Europe, in 2005…
Or using the happier original Japanese art, such as with Kirby's Return to Dream Land,
or Kirby's Adventure Wii as it's called in Europe, in 2011.
But packaging art hasn't been the only thing that has changed on Kirby's travels overseas.
For instance, even the art within the games themselves have been modified, such as in
1997's Kirby's Star Stackers.
In the original Japanese version of the game Kirby can be seen humorously sobbing tears
of joy on the Versus Mode results screen.
Whereas in the international releases Kirby's expression was noticeably toned down.
Another example can be seen with the Normal Mode's Round Clear screen where Kirby and
his animal pal Rick enjoy a picnic together.
The Japanese game sees Rick enjoying some onigiri, or rice balls, while Kirby holds
hanami dango, a sweet treat traditionally consisting of 3 rice dumplings colored pink,
white, and green, skewered on a stick, overhead with what seems to be a thermos at his feet.
As was typical of the era, the international releases replaced these ethnic Japanese foods
with ones that could be more easily recognizable to western audiences.
As you can see, Rick now holds an apple with a box of sandwiches at his feet, while Kirby
holds up a smore on a stick and the thermos has vanished.
For whatever reason though the deviations don't end there as Kirby's pose has changed,
Rick's eye is now closed, and butterflies flutter overhead too.
Japanese foods have been taken out of a number of other Kirby titles, including 2000's
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards where onigiri was once again replaced with sandwiches in
the international releases.
Curiously though, Waddle Dee can still be seen chowing down on some onigiri in the picnic
bonus round at the end of every stagein every version of the game.
1996's Kirby Super Star took this to the next level.
Due to the Gourmet Race sub-game, Kirby Super Star contains a great number of food items
for Kirby to devour.
12 of the distinctly Japanese foods were once again changed to western meals, such as hot
dogs, pancakes, and fries.
Another interesting regional change from Kirby Super Star can be seen on the tutorial screen
upon choosing a sub-game.
In the Japanese edition, two vertical slices of a yellow and green V-shaped emblem fly
in from opposite sides of the screen and slam together over text asking the player if this
is the first time they've played the sub-game before.
This emblem is officially known in Japan as the "Shoshin Untensha Hyoshiki," or the
"Beginner Driver's Sign," but is more commonly called a "Shoshinsha" or "Wakaba"
mark.
New drivers in Japan must display this mark on their vehicle for a year after receiving
their license, but may choose to leave it on thereafter should they desire.
While this emblem has become synonymous with novices in Japan, it would go over the heads
of most players elsewhere.
Thus, it was simply changed to two slices of a smiling Kirby coming together outside
of Japan.
A similar change could be seen in Kirby: Triple Deluxe as well.
During the tutorial of the Japanese version of the game, players will receive a red circle
upon successfully completing a task.
This is known as a "marujirushi" in Japan and it is used as an affirmation for something
that is correct.
This is especially common on graded schoolwork for example.
The marujirushi was replaced in the international releases with its western equivalent, a checkmark.
The checkmark was also recolored green, probably since green is seen as a more positive color
in many western countries.
In 1995, Kirby's Dream Land 2 had another reference that was cut for western audiences.
In the game there are rooms where Kirby can free either Rick the Hamster, Coo the Owl,
or Kine the Sunfish.
But should Kirby try to enter one of these rooms while already riding one of his animal
friends he'll usually find Gooey instead.
However, there's a very small chance that players will find a girl named Chao in Gooey's
place in the Japanese version of the game.
Chao is the heroine of the 1989 Famicom Disk System game Yūyūki.
As the Disk System add-on was never released outside of Japan, this adventure game loosely
based on the classic Chinese novel, Journey to the West, was never released overseas.
Again, as this reference would be missed by most western players, the international version
of Kirby's Dream Land 2 replaced Chao with a female version of Gooey.
This also forced the developers to revise the Sound Test and Boss Endurance Clear screens
as well.
Intriguingly, the Sound Test screen in itself is yet another reference to a scene from Yūyūki.
It's especially odd then that Chao did not consequently get cut out of the North American
release of Kirby's Dream Land 3 in 1997, and even appeared alongside the star of Yūyūki,
Goku.
Meanwhile, Kirby's Dream Course would not be so lucky, as the game received numerous
cuts on its way to the west.
This was likely done to cut down the ROM size to fit the game onto a cheaper to produce
1-megabyte cartridge, compared to the Japanese release which required a 2-megabyte cartridge.
These included missing test courses, debug menus, and the Japanese version's vibrant
animated title screen being replaced with a much simpler one.
The most significant cut however was the animated story cutscene seen after the title screen
of the Japanese version of the game.
Accordingly, the song that plays over this cutscene was removed as well.
Western players on the other hand had to catch the story by reading the instruction manual.
The content of the stories are largely the same, except that while the Japanese game's
cutscene directly follows Kirby, the North American manual is primarily written from
the perspective of the inhabitants of Dream Land.
Also, in the Japanese cutscene Kirby directly catches King Dedede in the act of stealing
a star from the sky and gives chase.
Whereas in the North American manual the inhabitants of Dream Land simply suspect that King Dedede
is behind the disappearance of the stars, causing Kirby to set off and deal with King
Dedede.
We've just scratched the surface of the changes throughout the Kirby series' lifetime,
but that's all we have time for today.
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James Nestor - Freediving and Communicating with Whales | Bioneers - Duration: 3:09.
JAMES NESTOR: When we're at the surface,
right when we dunk our head under water
something amazing happens.
Your heart rate is going to lower
about 30%
just by putting your face in the water.
Blood is going to start rushing from your extremities
into your core. Now the deeper you go,
the more intense these mammalian dive reflexes become.
The pressure at 300 feet is something like 20 times
what it is at the surface.
So ordinarily all of our organs would be crushed
by the time we got to 100 feet. Okay?
If you look at the physics,
every 30 feet the pressure doubles in the ocean.
But our bodies do something absolutely amazing.
They know that you are diving deep in the water,
and they start triggering all of these reflexes.
Blood will start pouring through the cell walls
of your organs to stop them from getting crushed.
Your lungs will inflate with plasma
because by the time you're around 150 feet,
your lungs are going to be about the size of two baseballs,
and your mind is going to enter a very meditative state
the deeper you go,
and until you've reached the very bottom
your spleen will release about 15% more oxygenated
blood into your body to give you a turbo boost.
Every marine mammal has these reflexes.
So do we. And they work the exact same way
as they do in dolphins and whales.
And as you go up, so imagine our freediver
here on the screen, he is now ascending
from 300 feet.
All of those mammalian dive reflexes start reversing
and you start resembling your terrestrial form as you come up.
Freedivers cannot get the bends.
We can't get decompression sickness.
Why? Because our bodies in their natural state
know how to process all of that nitrogen.
All we have to do is exhale it.
I've seen a freediver go down 500 feet
come up and be just fine.
But you do that with a scuba tank,
you are dead by the time you've reached 150, 200 feet.
And some of these people were also using freediving
for scientific research.
What this group is doing right now,
they're called DAREWIN Project,
is they're using this freediving method
to get within the pods of these animals,
record clean signals of all of their clicking,
and record their social behavior.
And then use all that data
to go back and build algorithms to learn
what this clicking is.
No one's, again, been able to get close enough
to get this kind of data.
This is the first time this has ever happened.
I really think it's important that
someone tries to do this.
The fact of the matter is
in about 30 years the entire ocean ecosystem
is going to collapse,
and the first animals that are going to die off
are going to be the largest,
specifically dolphins and whales.
So why not take a moonshot
and go for it, and try to make contact
with these animals before they're all gone.
And this could also be a way
of help saving them.
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Eat scorpions! Street food in Beijing - Duration: 2:33.
China - Streetfood Beijing
I landed a few hours ago in Beijing, the capital of China.
I flew directly from Budapest.
My first thing is to go directly to the night market.
Chicken dumpling!
Very good!
What is it?
Pinapple rice
How much? 40 yuan
There is a huge food selection. Crickets, tarantulas, scorpions, pigeons.
But you can find corn, pork, beef and chicken too.
Boobies-cakes!
These scorpions are really cute! Soon they will be fried!
Very, very good!
The scorpions were on sale, so I bought 3 for 1200 Forints.
I'm not going to chicken out now! Let's go!
It's like an oily, salty peanut.
Not too bad at all!
And I have two more to eat!
The taste is not bad at all!
There is a live music to go with your fried tarantulas and scorpions.
Chinese opera in the background that has a very slow pace.
The contrast is huge in Beijing.
A few blocks from here is Mao Zedong's MAOsoleum with a huge red star.
And this is the pedestrian street with plenty of international stores and light advertisements.
One of the best experiences will be checking out the nightly street food market!
A local delicacy is the sugar-coated fruit kebab.
Aww...
The strawberry is delicious, but the sugar is way too much!
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