Waching daily Mar 5 2018

- Today in military history, 1770.

British soldiers and colonial citizens

clash in the Boston Massacre.

The British had occupied Boston since 1768

to enforce the Townshend Acts,

unpopular tax measures imposed by Britain.

Resentment among Boston civilians was high,

and a brawl with British soldiers the week before

had left the city tense.

On the evening of March 5th,

a mob of angry colonists gathered on King Street

and harassed the lone British soldier

on guard at the Customs House.

He called for assistance,

and eight more redcoats came to his aid.

One of them, Private Hugh Montgomery,

slipped on the ice and fell,

discharging his rifle into the crowd

and causing the rest of the Brits to open fire.

Five colonists were killed or fatally struck in the salvo.

The British soldiers were put to trial,

defended by John Adams and Josiah Quincy Jr.,

and two were found guilty of manslaughter.

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These Horses Help Southerners With Special Needs – Bonus Cut! | Southern Living - Duration: 4:26.

(upbeat music)

We've seen children go from wheelchairs, to walkers,

to quad canes, to walking on their own,

because the movement of the horse,

is the same as your movement when you walk.

Their legs are stretching, they're having fun,

they're talking to their side walker, or their leader.

They've got a team of volunteers

that are their best friends,

they've got this horse they look forward to every week.

And who wouldn't wanna do that,

rather than sit in a therapist's office?

Okay, now we're coming through the sensory trail.

What you're gonna see is that

the rider's are gonna come through,

and do all kinds of activities,

that are gonna help them with processing skills.

So in coming through,

they have to stop their horse, do the activity,

and then ask the horse to walk on.

When we lived in New York,

I was supportive of a handicap riding program there.

I thought for sure there would be one here.

And so, I started checking around, and there wasn't.

Why don't we check in to starting

a handicap riding program here?

And within a year, that program grew.

We're so blessed at Special Equestrians,

because we have such a community of people here

from all walks of life.

Because we serve children through adults.

And we see these families that come with young kids,

and they're just kind of getting into this world of

"what do I do with my child who has this disability?

What is there for me to do

with my child that has this disability?".

And, we can provide them with something that,

not only helps them,

but it's something that's just fun for them to do.

And so on a daily basis, it's just,

we get to see and live these stories

that these families bring to us.

I would say that, there's different phases

where this program has been helpful to both our son,

and to us.

One of the nice things here

is that I would meet other families,

and they had a group of us on Sunday afternoons,

and all had kids with autism.

And we became friends.

This is one of the many best kept secrets

in the Birmingham area,

in terms of speech therapy, physical therapy,

occupational therapy.

You can't produce this in a speech therapist environment.

We have always had such gentle horses who I think,

know him.

He's always been interested in getting on a horse.

There's never been a problem.

As a matter of fact,

our problem is waiting until

it's his turn to get on a horse.

And so this particular activity is perfect for him

because he's moving, he's on a horse, and the horse goes.

And he loves it.

I think for Tyler,

having an activity has just been

such a wonderful thing for him.

Something he belongs to.

When his brother and sister will ask what does he do,

well one of the things they can say,

"Well, he rides horses."

and it's wonderful that he has something.

Just so impressed to look back

on the years that he's spent in the program,

and where he started, and where he is now.

'Cause there really are so many gross motor movements

that he can do now, that he couldn't do then.

He was able to learn how to ride a bike,

without the training wheels,

and to balance on that.

I really didn't know that he was ever gonna be able

to do something like that.

In a lot of ways, some of our riders are really...

have seen significant changes.

They build self esteem.

When you see someone who comes into the program,

and they're worried,

or they're afraid to get on the horse,

and then, you watch as they're able to do it independently.

For me, it means it's the best legacy

a person could ever want to have.

Children who have never walked, for instance,

they've felt what it was like to move their hips and walk.

I know that he's having a great day,

the day that he gets to go out

to Special Equestrians and ride.

It's a happy day.

And that makes me feel good.

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Gutfeld on Sunday night's Oscars - Duration: 2:52.

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CBC NL Here & Now Monday March 5 2018 - Duration: 1:03:42.

For more infomation >> CBC NL Here & Now Monday March 5 2018 - Duration: 1:03:42.

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ICO Review: Celsius / $CEL - Duration: 12:07.

Hello crypto fan! How are you? Hope you're doing well.

Today I'm going to talk about a project that I find really interesting

It's Celsius

and I'm going to tell you why I think it's so interesting.

At the beginning I was a kind of doubtfully about it

But gradually when I start to look in detail

I realize that this project

could do great things.

It could be really successful

And so I'm going to tell you why I think that

Celsius, what is it? It's a company

who lend Fiat currency

And to get this loan, with interests of course,

you have to put crypto currencies as collateral

Ok? You may say that

you don't really use lends,

you're not interesting in ask for a lend,

but look at it like this: you live in a country which have a legislation,

where do you pay taxes, right?

You do pay, ok?

The majority of the world's countries have taxes

when we sell our crypto currencies.

We have to pay between 10% and 50%, or even more

And that's depending of the legislation of the country.

You hace a lot of people that is not converting crypto into Fiat

because at the time that they change big amounts of crypto into Fiat

they have to pay 30,40 or 50% of taxes,

right?

What happen then? Those people are not able to use

their money, their cryptocurrencies.

And here is the interest,

there is really a lot of people in this same scenario

A lot of people would love to use Fiat

whithout losing half of the value

into taxes

And Celsius is answering that

They're not the only one doing this,

there is SALT, and ETHLend as well.

Let's have a look to SALT

to have a basis of comparison.

This is the chart of SALT

we can see that on september 29th it was at $6.91

and now it worth $4.26

But ICO price was $0.89 per token

so it made a 7x, and even 15x here,

and now is 5x.

So it's a great performance.

ETHlend we have something similar,

here it was at $0.015

and climbed to $0.36 making 36x

Now it worth $0.08/$0.09.

Those are projects doing really good currently

And we have to look some other things,

and that's a point that I think is a key point

so listen carefully reporting to this

because it going to change your perception about Celsius

One of the big problems that are finding ETHLend and SALT

is that they have very low liquidity.

They are depending of the people lending to get their liquidity.

So they are huge waitlists

to obtain those lends.

But Celsius is going to make something different,

they're going to make available the money they will collect

in the crowdsale to make lends.

Celsius hardcap is $50M

but $20M from those $50M

are going to be directly available

to guarantee liquidity for lends.

Besides they already

have a MVP, that is actually more than a MVP

because is already running.

So there you have what the MVP, that they call Beta but

I personally consider it an Alpha because not all the functions are ready to use,

at least not perceptible in the video.

But we can see how somebody is registering on this Alpha.

We also see how this person is...

Ther is a KYC here

There is a profile, and he's sending funds

on Celsius's wallet

and we can verify all of this on Etherscan test net,

that means it's operational.

And then we can see him withdraw the funds

Let's see if I can find the moment on the video, here we go:

He is withdrawing a specific amount

And here you have the transacion

Is withdrawing those ETH from his Celsius's wallet.

So it's already here, there is a MVP, an Alpha running.

Concerning the team,

they are 2 persons that are "top profiles"

2 persons that I consider "top profiles": Alex Mashinsky

who receives a lot of awards

and is famous in the world of entrepreneurship,

and have been pioneer

in a lot of importants projects.

So Alex Mashinsky have an important network

and is the founder and CEO of Celsius.

Ross Gottesman was director at MasterCard for 3 years

and he also worked for 3 years at American Express

So he has been working for large companies

and having director experience for 3 years at Mastercard,

so a really good profil as well

They have a technical team, with quite few

blockchain's profil, backend engineer, etc.

This must be double checked in details,

I didn't look at everyone's profil

But it would be interesting to have a look on it.

Regarding their crowdsale system,

they will sell token at $0.3

and $0.2 at pre-sale

It also to be considerate

that the pre-sale's allocation expected is higher

than the one for the crowdsale.

I think is 70% for pre-sale and 30% for crowdsale.

And it's not clear if they will

swing not solded tokens form the pre-sale in the crowdsale.

Is a possibility

But anyway they also explained that they will burn all the remaining tokens

and that's a good thing.

Crowdsale's starting in 10 days, we're still on pre-sale

there's still 20% bonus available

in the pre-sale and that's very interesting.

If we look over here,

loan reserves is $20 209 500 :

that is what is going to be available to make lends

As you have seen the Alpha is already well on track.

There is still 1 month remaining

and I think they'll have enough time

to get all ready.

At least that's what is wrote on their roadmap,

they say that in a month they will start lending.

With those $20M raised during pre-sale and crowdsale

So it's very positive.

One of the key points at the moment to make an investment,

what is safer regarding an investment,

is to look how many adoption the project is going to have

how many users are going to use the wallet of this project.

Here is the added value in medium to long term of a project

I'm looking less and less at the hype,

the shill, the FOMO

Because all of those are just using the same

mechanisms as passing fad: come and go.

But that's not what gives added value at the project,

users gives value to the project

So in this case,

when we look like this,

and we see a project with a huge value

at long term

if we consider the adoption that is going to have or already have,

but with a devalued token,

being inconsistent with :

there is a medium to long term opportunity right?

This is what I consider Hold,

there is where we can make profits with a minimal of efforts

because we had this information,

get into the project and just wait

6 month or 1 year or whatever we want to sell the token.

So I think Celsius is one of those projects

because is a genuine need that the others

solutions on the market (ETHLend and SALT)

are not responding enough to the demand

and Celsius

found the solution regarding the liquidity

by providing themselves the founds to lend

in a first time.

That's very positive.

Token will be se for different things:

they explained it in the whitepaper,

we can deposit

cryptocurrencies into Celsius's wallet

so we must have CEL token (that's the Celsius token).

Yon become a community member when having CEL,

and then you can ask for a lend

leaving cryptocurrencies as collateral

and you also need to have CEL for this

as the ability to get a discount for the interest.

So all of those are different the uses

that will allow CEL token.

Regarding the roadmap,

we was talking about the volume of adoption

and the velocity wich it would be adopted.

We can see that in April 2018,

believing their roadmap,

They say : Token Generation Event and dollar borrowing against crypto collateral enabled.

That's mean they're going to distribute tokens in April

And they will enable

the lend of Fiat

with crypto in April 2018

and we are 5th March, so in 1 month

Really fast timing

We can have token really fast

and it will have an adoption really fast.

There is for today's video, I hope you like it

Celsius is a project that I believe in,

that I going to invest in.

This video is not a call or an invitation

to invest, sincerely do whatever you want,

I don't care,

if you don't want to invest Celsius don't do it

I just comunicate

what I think is a good project

in wich I'm not only doing a video

but personally invest

I'm a investor firstly and I don't get paid nether do sponsoring

Even if I get offer sponsoring I refused,

you can contact me and propose a sponsoring to me

I will kindly and politely invite you to go somewhere else

Ok?

Here I think is a good opportunity

and because I think that is a good opportunity

and I'm investing on it, I spread it to other people.

I'm not a financial advisor,

I'm just a guy

on internet, investing

and giving his opinion because he want to.

I'm not a professional

in financial advisement

I'm not and I dont give financial advisor

It's just my opinion and you can do whatever you want with it

but I do strongly recommend you

to analyse by yourself the project and

assume all the risks.

Never invest something that you can not assume to loose.

Have a nice day and see you soon !

For more infomation >> ICO Review: Celsius / $CEL - Duration: 12:07.

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Legion Season 2 "Mindhole" Promo (HD) - Duration: 0:31.

Everybody in here keeps saying that I'm sane.

What if they're wrong?

I have to know, are you real?

If you get lost, we get lost together.

It's sweet, really.

They think they can save you.

There is no monsters…

There's just me.

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Bad Bunny - Amorfoda | Parodia Venezolana Official - Duration: 2:26.

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When the cats away the mice will play! (Sailing La Vagabonde) Ep. 131 - Duration: 13:44.

hey mate

Look at this, Like this is just everywhere

Morocco

Oh yeah baby, I got a fish Wind the other one in

Just to recap on what happened last week, we were on our way out of the Mediterranean sailing across northern Morocco, our friend Oaky

was on board for some of the trip to hang out and explore some of Morocco too

We landed in Al Maghrib and shortly after departed to go on a road trip four hours inland to Chefchaouen

We just found the cheapest last-minute apartment, and it is really cool

Oh yeah

I've just teed up ten beers 'mas frio' with the reception and

Felt like a drug dealer and on the street. They're offering us

Smoke, and ash, there's a seriously underground operation being run out of the basement

yea like we're bootleggers

Later that night we found one of only three places in the whole town that serve beers so that we could watch the football

Morocco

Morocco is playing who?

Ivory Coast

two-nil up in the first half

Alright, lookout

We are on the way

Morocco ended up winning which meant the entire town went absolutely crazy. They'd qualified for the World Cup

He's going up to everyone and just blowing loudly in their ears, with no regard for their audible safety

Personal space

He burst out laughing, and said meow a couple of times like a cat

The food here is just incredible we have a vegetable and leek soup for breakfast, with all these different spices

Im just loving life so much

kitty, kitty, hello, how cute is he

Love the cats don't we

yeah absolutely love it here look at this like this is just everywhere

Man, it's such a unique spot

We're just on our way home we said goodbye to Oaky, We left him there

He's going to another city by himself, so we said goodbye to him, and we are driving back to the boat

We're sailing to Ceuta

yeah

But it's been an adventurous ride home

Elayna is dressed like that because we keep getting very rude gestures on the side of the road which is partly our fault

We're both dressed, I wouldn't say inappropriately, but maybe for the area and

now we've changed that and

We're reserving a lot less undue attention.

Yeah, there's been a lot of waves and cars trying to stop us

Bring us weed

the blonde hair I think sticks out

and various ah

yeah

uncouth acts

absolutely

Good day everyone, Riley and I got home really late last night. We just crashed, but this morning we headed to the markets

And we provisioned we got a heap of fresh fruit and veg

And it was just really cool to like be in a spot

Where all the locals were and I felt like we blended in a little bit got my burka on

and they were way nicer to us

Yeah, the people were a lot nicer here

cos Elayna's been wearing her little burka

No but even like because this isn't a tourist destination so they just you know

There wasn't so much attention on us, people looked, but they weren't like trying to sell us stuff like

Like in uh, what's it called Chefchaouen?

The place we just went to the beautiful blue place

But anyway the house is a mess and so we are going to clean it

Put everything away and officially move back onboard La Vagabond because early tomorrow morning

At like 5 a.m.

We are going to head over to Ceuta

Which is like just on the tip of the Gibraltar Strait

pronunciation help please is it Ceuta?

Ceuta?

unsure

You've ruined the whole video, its over

Hello cat, hello

Just a bit of housekeeping from me. I would love to invite two patrons onboard

We have a Craig Taylor and Forster Rile. Can you guys make it to Florida early this year?

It's gonna be a lot of fun

I really hope you can just send us an email and let us know if you'd like to become a patron you guys can sign

Up just here. We'd really appreciate it. I'm off to clean the rest of the house

I'm home alone, and it's really fun

bye

Its very early it's about 5:00 a.m.. And

Five guys just came over and stamped our passports. There's another sniffer dog. Well. It's the same one

had a little sniff around and

We've been given the all-clear so we are heading now. we're about to

motor in no wind to Ceuta

And Oakys there so we might see him again

How Are you this morning Riles?

Very very tired

I had three hours sleep exactly

As soon as we were a few nautical miles away from land riles hit the sack while I took first watch

Ps. Check out the new Moroccan rug. Oh yea

I know we probably say this a lot about how being back in the Mediterranean after three years

Being the place where it all began on old La Vaga

Where Riley and I first met it's just it's a bit of a surreal feeling being back here, but this time on a new boat

Which we still pinch ourselves about every single day. It's just like woah, a lot has happened. We've come such a long way

But I'm sitting here and I realized that I'm wearing almost the exact same outfit that I was

Last time we went to the Canary Islands on old La Vaga and things got a little bit weird

I think I broke the table

How did you sleep boo-ki

really good

I smelt food cooking

I made butter balls, but I had to use pots because we only have two bowls and they're both really small so

and i made a

Peanut sauce it's gonna be amazing

The other day, must've been when it was seriously seriously windy probably when it was 28 knots must have gone

Bang and knocked this slider into the wall, and it's just come up off its um

Out of its little groove here, so I'm going to

Try and smash it with the hammer

So this is the other side here and what I did wrong

Was I didn't have that lock down in place

I'm sure it won't be too hard to drill out and replace, but I'll need some new parts

Oh yeah, baby. Oh, yeah, oh yeah, I got a fish Wind the other one in

What is it, can you see it?

its gonna be a tuna

Oh it got off

really? no

No that wasn't a dolphin no one catches dolphins. They're too smart

There has just been non-stop dolphins today. I don't think I've ever seen so many dolphins

Tell me about the turtles and dolphins

the Gibraltar Strait has the highest concentration of

Bottlenose dolphins, I sound like Ace Ventura, in the Mediterranean and there's something about loggerhead turtles here as well

Oh dear

its just time to drop the sail the wind backed and died off a bit

So we were just getting no drive out of it, we'll motor in we're only an hour away now. Maybe a bit more

I've had a one and a half and two knots all day, which has helped out

We're still going to arrive after dark though

Luckily, Oaky's booked us a.. Did you know that Elayna? that Oaky's booked us a..

spot at the marina

Na thats awesome

So we just got range and oaky sent us a message and said as you enter just stick to port you are in a big

gap between an old power boat and an old sailboat the last two boats if you stick to port two stern lines fenders on the port

Side there will be nothing touching you on starboard. How great is that like you don't get that ever

Well done Jerry

I'll have a beer waiting for you, wicked

Do we have a hex on our boat? again?

It's Jerry

It's your town?

in two days i've become the mayor of Ceuta

Yeah? What do you think of the place?

I have to stay here now. I'm married now.

Yeah?

yeah

oh bugger

But I had it coming

Join us next week as we say goodbye to one friend

And hello to another

what do you think of the trolley?

Dashing aren't they? as Josher joins us for the four-day sail down to the Canary Islands

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T'Challa Threatens Steve Rogers | Captain America Civil War (2016) Movie Clip - Duration: 3:22.

So, you like cats?

- Sam. - What?

Dude shows up dressed like a cat, you don't wanna know more?

Your suit... it's vibranium?

The Black Panther has been the protector

of Wakanda for generations.

A mantle, passed from warrior to warrior.

And now, because your friend murdered my father...

I also wear the mantle of king.

So, I ask you...

as both warrior and king...

how long do you think you can keep your friend safe from me?

What's gonna happen to him?

Same thing that ought to happen to you.

Psychological evaluation and extradition.

This is Everett Ross, Deputy Task Force Commander.

What about a lawyer?

Lawyer. That's funny.

See their weapons are placed in lockup.

We'll write you a receipt.

I better not look out the window and see anybody flying around in that.

You'll be provided with an office

instead of a cell.

Now, do me a favour, stay in it?

I don't intend on going anywhere.

For the record, this is what making things worse looks like.

He's alive.

No.

Romania was not Accords-sanctioned.

Colonel Rhodes is supervising cleanup.

Try not to break anything while we fix this.

Consequences? You bet there'll be consequences.

Obviously you can quote me on that,

because I just said it. Anything else?

Thank you, sir.

"Consequences"?

Secretary Ross wants you both prosecuted.

Had to give him something.

I'm not getting that shield back, am I?

Technically, it's the government's property.

Wings, too.

That's cold.

Warmer than jail.

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Biotechnica - Cyberpunk 2077 Megacorporations Lore - Duration: 4:17.

Greetings Earthlings! Welcome to the MadQueen Show! I am your host the MadQueen

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

going to talk about the megacorporation Biotechnica

After the collapse, in the late 90s, the world was experiencing the worst fuel crisis in its history

A catastrophe made doubly grave by the extreme shortage of food

The fuel crisis ranked in importance with the food shortage, for food and fuel together are the

essential sources of energy, both human and mechanical

The governments of the world, now too busy trying to pick their pieces after the economic

collapse, proved once again that foresight of catastrophic events wasn't their strong

suit, as none of them spent any resources during the times of fat cows to give an alternative

to coal and oil dependence, most probably with the help of emerging fuel megacorporations

that grased the hands of the right officials to help them look to more profitable sides

But the public knew that that the oil reserves wouldn't last forever, and many private

corporations began to look for an alternative

When the fuel crisis really began to affect the industrialized community in the late 90s

Biotechnica, then a small firm with just one

office, came up with the answer: the Chew Two (CHOOH2™)

Chew two is a complex grain alcohol produced by genetically engineered yeasts

and wheat strains created by Biotechnica

The potential of Chew Two was realized almost immediately after it was introduced, and within

a few years, all fuel burning vehicles and power plants had converted to the new fuel

In life, it is important to be one step ahead

that how we created the fuel that moves your life

giving humanity hope

And we keep moving forward, to a better future for humanity

Our constant investigation in Biotechnology,

genetic engineering, and biochemistry helps

us help you live a fuller life

Biotechnica

One step ahead

Although Biotechnica held worldwide patents, it lacked the production facilities to meet

worldwide demand, forcing them to license the Chew Two to several large agribusiness

and petro-corporations

These deals made Biotechnica an extremely wealthy company

but still not particularly large

It is currently expanding and working on their next big biotechnical breakthrough

So you know, when you drive your car or your AV-7

Biotechnica is there, with you and for you

Well, folks, thanks for watching

Don't forget to take a look at our Cyberpunk 2077 lore playlist to know more about the dark future

See you in next videos and Stay Being Amazing

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The Other Explosion You Should Know About - Duration: 6:54.

In 1946, a geologist named Reginald Sprigg was working in the Ediacara Hills of southern

Australia when he discovered fossils of what looked kind of like jellyfish.

Or … something.

He wrote up a paper that described his discovery, but soon he ran into a problem.

Not many people took his claims seriously.

That's because Sprigg's little jelly-looking-things were found in a stratum of rock that was more

than 550 million years old.

But at the time, the oldest known fossils of large, complex organisms were only about

540 million years old, dating from that huge profusion of life known as the Cambrian Explosion.

It would take decades for scientists to fully recognize the importance of Sprigg's discovery.

And it turned out, his weird little jelly-things were only the first in a whole slew of exciting

and strange discoveries that, together, would lead experts to realize there was another

explosion of life before the Cambrian Explosion.

Though less famous than the one in the Cambrian, this sudden burst of diversity marked the

dawn of truly complex life on our planet.

It's come to be known as the Avalon Explosion.

Now, evidence of big complex organisms that pre-dated the Cambrian had been found

in isolated fossils, since the 1800s.

But Sprigg's strange, soft-bodied fossils marked the first time that a whole community

of these things had been found.

And that suggested that multicellular life was not only present before the Cambrian Explosion,

but that it was much more elaborate and diverse than anyone thought.

Still, most experts needed more evidence before they'd start rethinking their long-held ideas about

the history of life.

Then, in 1957, another weird fossil was discovered accidentally, by a kid playing in the Charnwood

Forest of England.

No one had ever looked for fossils there before, because the rocks were up to 600 million years

old -- way too old for signs of complex life, or so it was thought at the time.

The frond-like fossil was named Charnia.

It was several centimeters long and had a clearly organized structure that marked it

as a living thing.

And Charnia convinced geologists to start looking for fossils in rocks they had previously

ignored.

Then, in the 1960s, researchers made a huge find at a place called Mistaken Point on the

Avalon Peninsula in Canada.

There, in rock dated between 560 and 579 million years old, there were not just a few fossils

of big, complex organisms -- there were thousands of them.

OK but, what were all of these Precambrian life forms, exactly?

Well, some of the earliest, and simplest, macro-organisms from this time are known generally

as rangeomorphs.

They all generally resemble Charnia, very thin and shaped like the frond of a plant.

But rangeomorphs were definitely not plants -- they lived too deep in the ocean to be

able to photosynthesize.

Instead, they held fast to the seafloor and probably absorbed nutrients in the water.

But they weren't really animals either.

Because, for one thing, they grew in a way that no living animal does.

Rangeomorphs grew by branching fractally -- meaning, they repeated a single basic pattern over

and over again as they developed.

So, if you look at a rangeomorph closely, you'd see that each branch is actually just

a smaller version of the whole.

Nothing alive today grows like this.

And other Precambrian organisms were equally strange, in their own unique and charming

ways.

For example, the vast majority of animals today -- including myself for the most part

Except my nose is crooked

-- exhibit bilateral symmetry.

We have two symmetrical sides.

But some Precambrian organisms -- like Tribrachidium-- had three symmetrical sections that spiraled

out from the center of its body.

They had trilateral symmetry!

And again, there's nothing alive today that grows like this — plant, animal, or otherwise.

So, it's unclear where many of these early organisms fit in our current understanding

of the tree of life.

Some scientists think that they may have been some type of stem-animals, an ancient lineage

that we modern animals share a common ancestor with.

Other studies have proposed that they're more ancestral to algae, or fungi, or protists

like kelp.

It's even been suggested that these organisms represent an entire, separate kingdom of life

that's now extinct.

But not all Precambrian life was so alien-looking.

Some organisms, especially those that appeared later, had traits that made them seem distinctly

animal-like.

They were likely the first metazoans — animals with differentiated body plans and specialized

cells.

Take, for instance, Haootia.

Not only was this bizarre creature probably one of the first cnidarians -- the group that

includes jellies and sea anemones -- it also contains the earliest evidence of muscle-like

cells.

But unlike me, it didn't have to bother with leg day.

It doesn't have legs

If you have to explain it it's not funny

Then there were the creatures that showed the first evidence of bilateral symmetry,

and motion.

One of these was Kimberella, a squishy mollusk-like creature that left tell-tale marks in the

sediment.

These tracks seem to suggest that it dragged some proboscis-like appendage behind it as

it fed.

And there was Spriggina -- named for Reginald Sprigg.

This long, segmented creature had a crescent-shaped head with evidence of rudimentary sensory

organs.

And it's thought by some to be ancestral to the beloved trilobites.

All of these organisms, taken together, revealed to scientists an entire chapter of the history

of life that, until the 20th century, they didn't know existed.

But it wasn't until 2008 that we had a name for it.

That's when a team of paleontologists at Virginia Tech surveyed all of the research

that had gone into these Precambrian fossils, and determined that they represented a specific,

evolutionary event.

They named it the Avalon Explosion, after the Canadian site that had preserved so much

from that time.

But, there's still the question of how this profusion of life happened in the first place.

How did life make the jump from microbial mats and simple sponges to things with muscles

and sensory organs?

Well, about 635 million years ago, a long period of intense cold that had enveloped

the world, known as the Cryogenian Period, came to an end.

As glaciers retreated, huge amounts of nutrient-rich water from the melting ice flooded the oceans,

causing mass blooms of oxygen-producing cyanobacteria.

And as the oxygen content of the oceans slowly rose, conditions became more hospitable to

life.

Then, the thinking goes, about 575 million years ago, life reached a tipping point, and

the Avalon Explosion began.

Now, geologists have come to understand this whole episode as its own distinct period of

geologic history, too.

So in 2004, the official keepers of the Geologic Time Scale -- a group known as the International

Union of Geological Sciences -- added a new period to the GTS for the first time in over

a century.

They named it the Ediacaran Period, after the Australian Hills where Reginald Sprigg

found those game-changing Precambrian fossils.

The end of this period is marked by the disappearance of most Ediacaran life from the fossil record,

542 million years ago.

It's not clear what happened to them.

But it probably was a combination of things, like a drop in oxygen levels in the oceans,

along with the appearance of Cambrian predators.

Ediacarans might also have just stopped showing up in the fossil record, because conditions

became less favorable for their preservation.

We still don't fully understand how Ediacaran life relates to the organisms we know today.

But we've come a long way since Sprigg found his fossils of squishy little things in 1946.

Our ideas about natural history, and our definitions of geologic time, are always changing.

Because, you never know when a funny shape on a rock, where no one thought to look, might

completely upend what you thought you knew about the history of life on earth.

Thanks for joining me again!

And as always, I want to know what you want to learn about!

So leave me a note in the comments below!

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Now, if you're interested in all the weird forms that life can take, then you should

really check out Deep Look, a channel that presents a close-up look at the natural world

in Ultra HD.

It'll help you look at the world in a whole new way.

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Slug Sex and Bubble Rafts: Nature's Most Unusual Slime - Duration: 5:34.

When we humans have a big old glob of snot trailing from our noses, it can be…

kind of gross.

But snot is just our way of getting rid of dust, pollen, viruses or other nasties that

may get into our noses.

And in the animal world, slimy secretions can take lots of forms and do other, really

useful things.

Slime doesn't have a strict scientific definition, but a lot of it has the same basic chemical

ingredients: proteins, carbohydrates, and lots of water.

In most slime, these ingredients are arranged in long, flexible polymers called mucins.

Mucins can have different compositions, but they're all glycoproteins, which are protein

chains with sugars sticking out.

Other mucus can involve water-loving sugar polymers called glycosaminoglycans, or GAGs.

And slime is so slimy because of how these polymers are arranged.

In a solid, molecules are more organized and tightly packed, while in a liquid, molecules

are arranged more randomly and move around more.

Slimes are somewhere in between.

The polymers are lined up, but they can glide past each other.

They're usually non-newtonian fluids, so stretching, pushing, or squishing changes

how viscous they are, or how easily they flow.

[MIK-seen glue-tin-O-sa] Now, if you were to crown the slimiest creature

on the planet, it would probably be the hagfish.

Its scientific name, Myxine glutinosa, actually comes from Greek and Latin words

for slime and glue.

Hagfish are jawless sea creatures with long bodies, flat tails, and somewhat terrifying

mouths with rows and rows of pseudo-teeth.

They're made from keratin, like our hair, instead of materials like dentin and enamel

like many true teeth.

They mostly roam around the seafloor, scavenging for worms

or eating dead fish from the inside out.

And if a predator tries to slurp one up like a tasty sea-noodle, the hagfish fights back.

It spews a bunch of gill-clogging slime, by excreting a concentrated mix from around 100

pores along the length of its body.

This pre-slime mix contains mucin vesicles that burst in the surrounding seawater, because

of a process called osmosis.

The concentration of salt in the vesicles is low relative to the seawater, so water

rushes through the membrane.

Plus, the mix also has fine, twisted, protein fibers

that are unique to hagfish slime called skeins.

They give the slime strength, help it stick together, and trap a lot of seawater.

In fact, by one group's measurements, about 99.996% of hagfish slime is seawater.

So, a little protein can go a long way.

The more a predator struggles, the more viscous the hagfish slime becomes, making it gag and

back away.

Or, if the predator keeps attacking, it might even suffocate and die.

And to escape its own mucus-y mess, a hagfish will tie its body into a knot and physically

scrape the slime off.

On land, leopard slugs don't use slime for defense… they use a string of it to get

busy, wrapping around one another while hanging from a tree branch.

First off, slugs attract their mates by secreting chemicals called pheromones

into their slime trail.

Once they've found a partner, they climb a nearby tree by changing the viscosity of

their slime using muscle contractions.

At rest, mucin molecules in the slime are lined up like in a solid, so the slime basically

glues the slug to a surface.

But when the slug's muscles contract, they push on the slime.

That rearranges the mucin molecules enough so that the slime flows more like a liquid,

and the slug can crawl along.

Once slugs reach their branch of choice, they squeeze out a long string of slime.

The molecules realign to form a strong, semi-solid rope, and then they can do their Cirque-du-Soleil

mating feats.

It's a lot of effort, but at least one researcher thinks that leopard slugs need the help of

gravity to extend their penises

which inflate to become almost bigger than their bodies.

And they have matching genitals!

Because most slugs, including these ones, have both sperm and eggs inside them and can

fertilize themselves.

So this ooze-filled ritual helps ensure that, when two leopards slugs mate with each other,

they make a lot of contact and successfully trade sperm so both sets of eggs get fertilized.

Now, one of their cousins, the violet sea snail, also secretes slime from its foot.

But instead of acrobatic mating, this sea snail uses slime to float on the ocean.

Violet sea snails are pelagic, meaning they hang out on the ocean's surface.

And I mean that literally — they'll hang upside down from a little raft of bubbles.

The bubbles are made by splashing its foot and trapping air in a tough mucus, which one

researcher described as similar to bubble wrap.

Scientists think that a violet sea snail's bubble boat could've evolved from egg sacs

that were held together by a string of goo.

Empty ones may have helped with buoyancy, so adding more mucus-covered air made this

floating ability a more permanent thing.

With its sturdy raft, the sea snail can set out in search of food, which is mainly soft-bodied,

stinging hydrozoans like the Portuguese man o' war.

Somehow it eats them without getting killed by toxins, though.

Maybe the snail sidles up next to its food while avoiding stinging parts, or somehow

neutralizes the stinging cells.

Either way, the mucus probably plays a part.

So even though glue and boric acid slime tutorials are all the rage on YouTube, nature's been

doing some pretty cool slimy stuff all along.

Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow!

If you want to learn more weird and wonderful facts about living things, you can go check

out our sister channel Animal Wonders at youtube.com/animalwondersmontana.

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I Cut The Cord And Switched To DirecTV Now - Duration: 4:38.

- This is it.

When I finally

cut the cord.

I've been a traditional cable subscriber my entire life.

I got last month's cable bill and it was $210

for internet and cable.

For awhile we were at $180,

and then at the end of the year it just ballooned to $210.

So this just ridiculous.

We were with Time Warner Cable for a long time,

now Spectrum.

- [Operator] Thank you for calling Spectrum.

Can I get the first and last name on your account please?

- In the past I have negotiated the cable bill down

considerably.

Uh, I'd like to reduce our service to just be internet

only, no more cable TV.

I called to cancel cable and only have internet access.

And they wouldn't just say okay, I'll take care of

that for you.

- [Operator] That's actually a different department

that's gonna disconnect any services for you.

- I kept getting passed around to different operators.

I'd get to one operator that would say,

okay that's great, I don't handle that.

So I'm gonna pass you to my colleague who will

take care of it for you.

Five minutes of music later, I get somebody else.

- [Second Operator] You want to go ahead and move

services off the account?

- Yes sir.

- [Second Operator] Okay, what services would that be?

- I want to get rid of everything on our account

except for internet.

When you give them a call, they try and drag out

the experience as much as they can.

- [Second Operator] When you would watch the TV,

what channels would you watch?

- We watch Morning Joe.

They jump in there and ask you these questions like

what kind of shows do you guys watch?

What do you and your wife use your internet for?

It's like what is the point of this?

- [Second Operator] You see here what I can do.

- They would give you just a price that was a little

bit lower.

- [Second Operator] Looks like it's going to bring

it down to $183.80 before taxes and fees.

- Yeah, that's too much.

Okay, this is it.

When I finally cut the cord.

Had to disconnect the cable box,

and had to take it to the Spectrum Headquarters.

It was honestly a little sad.

It was almost like I was giving up a pet for adoption.

We obviously still wanted to have some sort of

content provider where we could watch live TV,

because we enjoy news programming.

We enjoy sports.

There are a lot of options to look at.

Sling TV,

YouTube TV,

Hulu TV,

but the option that just looked like the best choice

was DirecTV Now.

The package that sort of hooked me was $50 a month.

I would have to pay four months up front,

and if I did that they would also throw in an

Apple TV 4K.

Okay, so it's the moment of truth.

We are gonna try out DirecTV Now.

The day that we hooked up DirecTV Now,

the Olympic opening ceremonies were happening,

so that was gonna be like the ultimate test.

The quality is solid.

Crisp HD, I mean I honestly can't tell the difference.

I'm in.

But it's really not up to me.

It's up to her.

What do you think about the quality of the picture?

- It's good, we're good to go.

- We were on board pretty much immediately.

The worst thing about it, there's no DVR,

so we are back in the eighties where if we wanna

watch something we're gonna have to watch it live,

but there are reports that DirecTV Now is gonna add

a DVR feature.

The whole point of this is to save money.

We were paying $210 a month.

Now with the combination of Spectrum's internet service

and DirecTV Now, we're gonna pay $120 a month.

That's gonna save us over $1,000 a year.

So it's been three weeks with DirecTV Now,

and it's been great.

The quality's been great.

It's worked perfectly.

Another bonus is that you can watch stuff on your

phone or your iPad and you gotta think that

unless cable companies start aggressively

lowering their rates, a lot of people are gonna

start switching to these streaming services.

So I'm really honestly surprised I didn't switch over

a lot sooner.

(peppy music)

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Ratings Are In… Oscars Set for Historic Failure - Duration: 3:41.

Ratings Are In…

Oscars Set for Historic Failure.

The initial numbers are in, and 2018's Jimmy Kimmel-hosted Oscars are shaping up to be

the lowest rated in history.

The Wrap reported that ratings for the politically charged Academy Awards were down 15.6 percent

compared to 2017, with an 18.9 rating (which represents what percentage of people watching

television tuned into the ceremony).

The 2017 program garnered a 22.4 rating with 32.9 million people watching.

Approximately 26.5 million tuned in this year, or a 19 percent drop, according to Deadline.

The previous all-time low in viewers was in 2008, when 31.8 million viewers tuned in,

according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"A comparatively uneventful Oscar telecast led the way on TV Sunday night and early numbers

have the telecast somewhat predictably stumbling to an all-time low," the entertainment outlet

wrote.

The highest-rated ceremony in the last 10 years was in 2014, when 43.7 million people

watched the program.

That year, "12 Years a Slave" took Best Picture and the box office hit "Gravity"

staring Sandra Bullock bagged seven Oscars.

Ellen DeGeneres hosted the show.

Whether Kimmel's and Hollywood's reputation for getting too political in the age of Donald

Trump played a role in the ratings drop-off is not clear.

For those anticipating the comedian going there, Kimmel did not disappoint, taking swipes

at Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

The late-night talk show host noted that actress Lupita Nyong'o ("Black Panther," "Star

Wars: The Last Jedi," and "12 Years a Slave") was born in Mexico and raised in

Kenya and then added, "Let the tweetstorm from the president's toilet begin!"

Kimmel later observed, "We don't make films like 'Call Me By Your Name' (about

an older man beginning a sexual relations with a 17-year-old boy) to make money.

We make them to upset Mike Pence."

During the past year, Kimmel has targeted Republicans multiple times, taking aim at

their efforts to repeal Obamacare.

More recently, he has focused on the issue of gun control.

As reported by The Western Journal late last month, Kimmel retweeted a post which read,

"It would be hilarious if ISIS offered the GOP a ton of money cuz there's no way they

wouldn't take it and they'd have to start being like 'ISIS is what makes this country

great.'"

ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" has seen a ratings bump since turning more political,

but it still comes in third behind "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" and "The Late

Show with Stephen Colbert.

In an appearance on "CBS Sunday Morning" last fall, Kimmel admitted his political turn

left on the air has cost him with a large segment of right-of-center viewers.

"I saw — I don't know if it was a study or a poll or some combination of those two

things — that, like, three years ago, I was equally liked by Republicans and Democrats,

and then Republican numbers went way down, like, 30 percent or whatever," he said.

Kimmel's spokesman told The Washington Post he was referring to an online poll by YouGov

that showed his favorability rating among Republicans dropped from 60 percent in the

fall of 2014 to 24 percent in September 2017, while his favorability with Democrats inched

up from 68 to 74 percent.

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All New Wolverine #30 Review - Duration: 3:12.

Written by Tom Taylor Penciled by Juann Cabal

Logan gasps, awakening in the headquarters of the Orphans of X, along with Daken, Sabretooth,

and Lady Deathstrike.

There with them is Wolverine and the Honey Badger, who explain that they were dead but

thanks to the removal of the Muramasa bullets, have returned.

Revenge isn't on the menu this day though.

It's time to own up to what they've done.

They all walk up until they're one level below.

Using their claws, they cut the support beams causing the floor to collapse.

Without killing, they punch the Orphans out with Laura finally using her shield in epic

Captain America fashion to catch a runner.

Daken questions the last man standing, who explains they communicate via email.

Laura reads them the newsletter.

The incident at Roosevelt Island was what set them all off in a radical tinge, to watch

their nightmares hailed as heroes.

But he gives her a name: Henry Sutter.

The name triggers a memory.

Martin Sutter was her creater, and when given the order to kill him and his family, she

couldn't kill their son Henry.

Laura tells them to clear out.

She's going to put on the armor and try to explain their existence to a group of people

who hate them.

When they respond to the alarms, they come out blasting.

When the smoke clears, she addresses Amber and apologizes, slowly shedding her armor.

Completely unarmed, she tells them that she too was abused.

She too was forced to do things against her will.

Finally she addresses Henry Sutter, who's father forced her to kill Amber's.

Henry is outraged.

He points the pistol at her and fires.

She says it's ok.

He does it again.

She knows he's scared.

She's seen him this scared before.

But if they were what the Orphans thought they were, they'd all be dead as they're

all surrounded..

Losing blood, Laura pledges to help find the real people responsible for using them as

weapons against the Orphans.

And with claws drawn, she declares herself an Orphan of X as well.

Later Daken asks Amber for the cloned Sarah Kinney's body.

She gives it to her and the issue wraps with the Kinney family finally able to get some

closure.

With that, this story arc comes to an end.

A while back, I started to set my expectations for this book pretty low.

That way when it's moderately above average, it really hits a high note for me.

This arc has successfully done just that.

While it most certainly doesn't win any awards, it's ok pencils, sub-par inking

and decent writing prove to be filler.

I give it a 6/10 and hope it manages to pick it up in the future.

Kind of like I always do.

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