Waching daily Jan 2 2019

BELLA+CANVAS

2019

is

here

new styles

new colors

new videos

more inventory

big things are happening

looking forward to another great year!

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Best Upcoming Indie Games for PC Spring 2019 - Duration: 8:12.

In this video I'll be showing you the best upcoming indie games for PC that are slated

to be released during the Spring of 2019 in the turn-based tactics, RPG and citybuilder/tycoon

genres!

But if this is your first time on my channel, Good mornin-afternoo-vening, I'm StefaNonsense

and gaming and geek culture is what I do.

This is a new series of videos I'm doing this year to spotlight more games than I can

actually play, so without further ado let's begin with this list.

Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forrest

Is a tactical, turn-based RPG that promises to be one hell of an experience, at least

according to the devs and some of the previews I've seen.

Druidstone is being made by the creators of the Legend of Grimrock games and considering

how those games are more or less responsible for re-energizing the old school first person

dungeon crawler genre, the game does have some pedigree for infusing oldschool gaming

with modern mechanics.

From the trailer available the game looks well-animated, colorful and definitely has

a bit of a Divinity Original Sin crossed with X-Com vibe going on.

As an extra bit of info, the developers have decided to release their mission editor post-launch

to let the mod community go crazy with their game.

Druidstone is scheduled for release something this spring.

Foundation

Citybuilders are back, baby!

I've been saying that citybuilders are coming back for a couple of years now and 2019 might

just be the year where they return to the attention of an even wider public.

Foundation is one citybuilding title that has the potential to become a major name in

the genre, a grid-less, medieval-themed city builder which focuses on the organic development

of your settlements and on monument creation.

The game was successfully Kickstarted in March of 2018 - full disclosure, I am backer of

the game - and it promises to supply a solid experience of highly customizable settlement

building, monument construction as well as coming with full modding support.

I like how focused the developers have been both on working on the game as well as keeping

their community updated on what is going on with the development process.

I am super excited to play Foundation and looking forward to it going into Early Access

at the beginning of 2019.

Forager

This blend of Terraria, Stardew Valley crossed with Don't Starve is scheduled for a January

release and its cartoony pixel art aesthetic, mellow music and constant activity is poised

to eat up a lot of my time this 2019.

Just like in most of those other titles, you have to gather resources, process them into

further resources in order to build and craft more advanced buildings and better objects.

You do all of this in order to explore the land around you and level up your character.

I played the Humble demo and enjoyed it tremendously and you can find our more details by watching

my video about it by clicking on the card in the upper right corner right here.

Fort Triumph is a title that offers a very X-Com-like tactical turn-based experience

set in a very tongue-in-cheek fantasy world.

This would have been enough to sell me on the concept if it were executed well enough

but when I played the demo I was very pleasantly surprised to find a pretty heavy Heroes of

Might and Magic influence inside as well.

The game has been in Early Access since April 2018 and is expected to reach final release

form sometime at the beginning of 2019.

Check out my gameplay video of Fort Triumph to get a better idea of what the game has

to offer.

Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure

Changing gears for a bit here.

Gibbous is an honest to goodness old school inspired point-and-click adventure in the

vein of the old LucasArts games.

As the title implies this will be a Cthulhu-themed game but it's a highly comedic approach

to the subject.

The animations are classic hand-drawn frame by frame, the voice cast is solid and the

amount of pop culture references in the thing is definitely sure to cause madness in anyone

trying to find all of them.

I played and reviewed the demo during the game's Kickstarter campaign back in 2017

and you can find it here if you want more details.

Gibbous is expected to be released sometime in the first quarter of 2019, Cthulhu willing.

Workers and Resources

Having lived most of the first 27 years of my life in a post-Communist country, the Soviet-themed

everything that can be seen in this resource management/tycoon game is something that is

extremely familiar to me on a very personal level.

The implementation of the Soviet theme in terms of the planned economy is what truly

interests me since we're kinda sure by now that Soviet-style Communism hasn't had the

best track record out there...yeah...

The game is expected to go into Early Access at the beginning of 2019.

So make sure to keep an eye out for it, comrade, DA?

Encased is the only turn-based post-apocalyptic RPG on this list, although I do expect more

such-titles to sprout up as the year progresses.

The devs promise a sci-fi world that will react to player actions, the presence of an

unstable entity AI within an alien and mysterious Dome, filled with weird phenomenon, advanced

technology and warring factions.

The game world will keep track of what you do in terms of crimes as well as the decisions

that will influence the plot.

It will then react to said crimes and decisions.

Encased sounds like an oldschool RPG version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and that sounds cool as

hell, and it's planned to enter Early Access at the start of 2019.

Seeds of Resilience is a survival, crafting, sort of citybuilder, set on a traditional

square grid but with a bit of a twist.

It is turn based.

Your party of survivors is shipwrecked on an island and they have to gather resources

to survive and craft shelters to protect them from the elements.

The survival aspect seems to be the second-most important feature of the game after its turn-based

nature because the deserted island that your survivors will be lucky enough to come upon

will be constantly hit with all manner of natural disasters.

Despite the constant assault of the elements, you'll be tasked with gathering, harvesting

and crafting yourself a medieval-level of technology village from the ground up.

One other interesting feature that the game offers is that each gathered resource or transformation

of raw material will have a distinct impact on the environment, which is something you'll

have to consider.

The game is already in Early Access and will hopefully see a full release sometime during

the spring of 2019.

I played the Kickstarter demo of Fell Seal - Arbiter's Mark back in October of 2017

and after the successful campaign the developers took a bit of time and then released the game

into Early Access in August of 2018.

The game is a heavily JRPG/manga/anime inspired turn-based tactical combat game with a solid

focus on storytelling and challenging battles.

As you should expect from the JRPG influence, the game features a plethora of classes and

class variants for your characters, their own attribute and skill systems, crafting

and a whole lot more.

I enjoyed playing the demo very much and the developers have built a great community around

their game, which you can find on their Discord channel.

The game is scheduled for an April release and you can bet your asses I'll be playing

once it's out.

Othercide

Finishing off my list with what is by far the moodiest and thematically-rich title,

Othercide is presented to be a horror-infused tactical turn-based game with some twists

to how combat will function and a deeply disturbing mystery to explore.

The title caught my attention but it is the art style that really got me interested, the

black and white art direction with touches of red making the gameplay footage look like

a highly stylized cross between a noir and classic horror movie.

The developers say that the turn-based aspect of the game will be approached somewhat differently

and that the gameplay itself will be brutal, featuring permadeath and tough sacrifices

that will have to be made in order to end up victorious.

Not much else is known about the title other than it is projected to be released either

in full or Early Access sometime at the beginning of 2019.

These are the titles that I am most looking forward to checking out during the spring

of 2019, let me know in the comments if any of these tickle your fancies and if you have

other indie titles that you're looking forward to.

Thank you for watching, be kind, subscribe and I'll seeya next time.

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IMPORTANT FINAL STEP IN LEARNING BUTTERFLY @ Swimmate - Duration: 11:47.

Welcome to my channel in previous videos you have hopefully learned how to do all the different

Technical elements in butterfly swimming

in today's we are going to cover how to combine all the elements

Helping you to swim butterfly perfectly and also easily

To achieve the correct technique for butterfly swimming

It is important to do each movement at the right time

So you should do the movement of the body, arms and legs at the exact time that each movement is required

However, the time for the movements can vary slightly for each swimmer

For example, the kicks can be done a little earlier or a little later

In this video, I will talk about the standard timing of these movements that should be suitable for everyone

In one complete stroke, the swimmer will perform an arm stroke, the back movements and two kicks

Each of these technical elements was discussed in the previous butterfly lessons on my channel

If you skipped something about butterfly technique, you'll find it in the previous videos

While swimming, it is important to do as few extra movements as possible

These extra movements lead to increase water resistance

Additional water resistance slows down your swimming speed

So, do only the movements that will push you forward

In the beginning of the arm stroke, your body should be stretched forwards

Your legs and back are straight and close to the water surface

While doing the arm stroke, your legs are starting to move up

towards the water surface to get ready to kick

Pay attention, your legs should not rise out of the water during swimming

When you move your legs up, you should continue doing the arm stroke

One very important thing to take note of

You should finish the arm stroke at the same time as performing the first kick

If you do these elements correctly

You will feel a strong speed increase

if your legs and arms perform their movements at the wrong time

The swimming won't be as efficient

The main idea of doing the end part of the arm stroke at the same time as the kick

is to get the highest possible speed

Swimming forwards and returning the hands forward with the least possible resistance

For example, if you legs kick earlier than needed your arm stroke technique can suffer

But more importantly, after the arm stroke you won't get that high speed

and your hand return will be done when you speed is much slower

Imagine one boat moving at a low speed

and another boat moving at a high speed

The boat which goes faster rises from the water and goes above the water

Therefore, the water resistance doesn't become a problem because the boat has the shape and position

That allows it to keep the resistance as low as possible

However, the boat the goes slowly has its body sinking in the water and the water resistance is high

The same applies to swimmers

if there is no speed after the arm stroke, the body won't rise from the water

So it will be deep in the water

The speed will immediately slow down and it will be difficult to perform the hand-return

Many swimmers stayed too deep in the water while swimming,

which leads to difficulties in performing the movements and their speed slows down

This is why, the kicks must be done when the arm stroke is being finished

After the arm stroke, you should immediately start returning your hands forward and take the breath

These two technical elements are done together

Just in the very end of the arm stroke, you should start moving your head up

And as soon as your hands are out of the water, you take the breath

Straight after the breath, you should move your head down into water

before the hands enter the water surface in front

When your hands enter the water, you should do the second kick which is a bit stronger than the first one

in the video, Alexander performs the second kick a little later then what I would recommend

I suggest you to do the second kick at the same time as when your hands enter the water

His technique is correct and it works fine for him

As soon as you finish all these elements, the stroke is finished

Now, we will talk about a few technique drills which will train you to perform the movements at the right time

Butterfly swimming on your back is a great exercise to synchronize the movements of the hands and legs

You should do the arm stroke with both hands simultaneously while on your back

After the end of the arm stroke, you do the first kick and then return your hands about the water to the starting position

At the moment when your hands enter the water, you should do the second kick

Don't be in a hurry and do the exercise carefully

This is another drill that will help you to synchronize your arm strokes with your kicks

First, you return your hand forward and do the kicks

Then, return the second hand and perform the kicks

Once the hands in the forward position, you do the arm stroke with your both hands and perform the kicks

Try to remember how it feels for you and attempt to regain the feeling while swimming butterfly

Also, you can do all the drills that I've shown you previously

But you can do them focusing on performing the movements at exactly right time

Many swimmers develop their personal technique on their own

In this case, swimming may feel differently or not exactly as I explained

You might feel not comfortable, when you first try to work on these technical elements

or when you change your timing as I've suggested

The main reason for this, is that you've probably quite used to doing the movements in a different way

or using a different rhythm

So it's very useful to make a video of your swimming to check whether or not your technique is correct

Leave your comments about how your technique feels in your own body

and let me know what mistakes you think you need to fix

As you already know, smooth movements are very important in butterfly

to achieve this you should transfer weight forward at the right moment

and smoothly dive forwards in order to save the speed

In the previous lesson, you did the exercise

to learn how to transfer your own weight forward during the hand-return

Now, we will take a look at rolling in the water

After the arm stroke, your body weight must be concentrated around the pelvis

At this moment, you should have a high speed and a high position in the water

So you move forward with little resistance in the water

However, the speed slows down during the hand-return

but it's very important to maintain the speed at this point

During the hand return, you should do the same back movement as in the training exercise on the land

Move your back forward and lift your legs up while returning the hands forwards

Pay attention when you move your back forward, there is no need to flex the back, keep it straight!

The movement will shift your center of gravity forward and automatically pull you forward

If your center of gravity is kept behind you'll be pulled back, during the hand return

To get the correct body movement, rhythm and coordination of movements

You'll need to focus on the elements while swimming

it's a lot to think about and also it takes time

However, once you achieve it, you'll literally fly over the water surface

Now, we are going to learn how to glide

Gliding is a difficult process in swimming

on the one hand gliding is useful because it allows you to move forward

using the speed gained from the arm strokes and kicks

On the other hand, the speed is decreasing during the gliding

because the swimmer doesn't do any movements

So the water resistance slows the speed

While gliding you need to feel that moment when you speed is still high but starts to decrease at

At this moment, you should start doing another arm stroke so that you don't lose too much speed

The amount of decrease in gliding speed is different for every swimmer and every swimming style

Therefore, gliding time is different for everyone

in butterfly, the speed gets slowed down during the hands return

But the second kick boost the speed up again so you can theoretically glide with it

However, the speed won't be high enough to glide very much

If you glide too much

your speed will slow down a lot and you'll need to start the stroke from scratch

I'm not saying that you should do arm strokes without any gliding

when your hands enter the water

you can slowly start a new arm stroke like Alexander does in the video

In the very beginning, the water grabbing is done slowly, but then the hands start accelerating

Having this grabbing phase of an arm stroke

will allow the swimmer to glide forwards and it'll be while doing the first phase of an arm stroke

and also, helps to maintain the speed for a new arm stroke

In butterfly, the tempo or pace depends on the distance you are swimming

The main difference of the swimming pace is the speed of a stroke

So depending on distance, only the speed of the arm stroke changes, but the technique of the movements remains the same

In a sprint, the movements are done as frequently as possible

In long distances, the movements are long, similar to what Alexander is doing in the video

In the five butterfly lessons you've learned all different technical elements of fly technique

Now, you should be able to swim well both aesthetically and efficiently

spending less energy and swim long distances

Remember, butterfly technique is difficult and it takes time to set up the technique

I can guarantee that if you follow the tips from these videos

your technique will improve

let me know in the comments which swimming stroke you'd like detailed videos of backstroke breaststroke or freestyle

For more infomation >> IMPORTANT FINAL STEP IN LEARNING BUTTERFLY @ Swimmate - Duration: 11:47.

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24 Reasons A Quiet Place & Bird Box Are The Same Movie - Duration: 4:58.

In this post apocalyptic thriller, the world and everyone in it is falling apart.

The streets are way too dangerous so to remain safe, the main characters try to remain in

doors as much as possible.

Even though they're inside, they have eyes on the street and their surveillance footage

lets them knows when the monsters are nearby.

The monsters in the movies wipe out most of civilization by preying on 1 out of the 5

senses.

If the monsters weren't bad enough, humans are just as dangerous as the demons so you

could barely trust them either.

For example, there's a crazy old white man who witnesses his wife die from the monster

and instead of helping the other survivors he wants to take everybody down with her.

Not everyone is crazy as the old white man though, the group has faith in humanity and

everyday, they check different radio frequencies to search for other survivors.

The timing of this apocalypse couldn't be worse.

There's a pregnant woman in the group.

Her due date is in October and that's right around the corner (audio).

Normally, it's not safe for any mother to be to participate in a post apocalyptic thriller,

but one of the pregnant ladies in the movie is just as fierce as the men in the movie.

She's overprotective of her unborn child and will shoot any threat that comes near

them whether it's a man or monster.

When they run low on supplies, they have to make a run to the local retail stores.

They pick up medicine, food, and all the other bare necessities.

One day during one of their runs, one of the characters wasn't careful and his carelessness

caused his to die to death.

Everyone is super sad.

The characters believe mistakes like these could easily be avoided so they train diligently

to survive in the wild.

The movie starts to time jump to condense all of their years of training into an hour

and a half, but after all that, they all live happily ever after.

E-Man: Uh Couch, there's still 12 more reasons to go.

Couch: My bad, I couldn't think of anymore.

E-Man: I know a few reasons why these movies are the same off the top of my head.

Couch: care to share?

E-Man: I thought you'd never ask.

Couch: Ladies and gentleman, join me in welcoming Emmanuel from E-Man's Movie Reviews (applause).

The main pregnant woman's water breaks and her baby choses to come out at the worst possible

time because the beasts are right outside the house.

The creatures actually make their way into the premises, but luckily the guy with the

shotgun comes in and provides backup.

The two lovebirds raise two lovely children during the apocalypse.

They do their best, but unfortunately, it's hard for any parent to show provide the amount

of affection that a young child needs when they're constantly trying to protect them

from mass murdering monsters 100% of the time.

The girl feels neglected and she thinks one of the parents is a horrible parent.

Both of the parents share some dialogue and the adults the kids love tells the adult the

kid hates that maybe he or she should try not to hide their emotions so much.

The kids need to know the parents love them before it's too late.

Speaking of too late, you could tell somebody's about to die.

The parents are teaching the children survival skills in the woods.

All the practice goes down the drain when the kids get separated from the adults.

They're luckier than cats because it seems like they're given more than 9 lives.

The boy almost drowns, but he survives.

The other kid gets separated from the mother during the water scene and just when you think

that kids about to die, the child survives too.

The parents aren't as lucky.

The children are in danger again and the dad stands up to the menace to protect them from

danger.

His plan works and backfires at the same time.

He suffers a critical injury in his torso and at that point, he's better off dead

anyways.

He agrees and dies to sacrifice himself while the children runaway from the beast.

A beast eventually catches up to the mother and the children at the end of the movie.

They're cornered and have nowhere to hide.

That's when they discover the weakness.

There's a character with a disability in the movie and that character is the key who

discovers the flaw in the monsters.

The disabled character has an advantage and isn't impacted by the creatures the same

way other humans are.

This allows the humans to live to see another day.

Couch: Show off.

E-Man: I'm just stating the obvious.

Couch: Not mad at that.

How about a round of applause for Emmanuel from E-Man Movie Reviews.

For those of you who don't know, E-Man is my go-to when it comes to comic book movie

fan theories.

He's also one of my favorite movie reviewers.

If you want to speculate about the next steps Marvel will take in the MCU or what DCEU possibly

has up their sleeve, check out his channel by clicking the button in the top right hand

corner of this video.

Check him out and tell 'em I sent you.

Those are 24 reasons these movies are the same.

You agree, yes, no, maybe so?

If not, politely share your thoughts in the comment section below and click the subscribe

button for more 24 reason videos.

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Tin Mới 03/01/2018 - BỊ KIỆN THẾ NÀY sao TRUẤT PHẾ được DONALD TRUMP #035 @E4U - Duration: 31:05.

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Didine Canon 16 - Troue noir (Chabakanet prod) - Duration: 3:16.

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Prusa MK2.5 UPGRADE kit - Worth the $240? - Duration: 8:49.

This is my Original Prusa i3 Mk2.5 that I upgraded from the MK2s using the Prusa upgrade

kit.

Even though it has many features of the latest Prusa like the magnetic bed, it's not quite

a Mk3 and in today's video I'll tell you if this upgrade is worth your money and time.

Guten Tag everybody, I'm Stefan and welcome to CNC Kitchen.

The Original Prusa i3 is still the printer I use the most often for my projects because

it's quite, reliable and just works.

I purchased it two years ago as a MK2 and then upgraded it to a MK2s a good year later.

With the release of the MK3, Prusa Research also made an upgrade kit available that made

it possible to upgrade your existing MK2s with many of the features of the MK3 and they

called it the MK2.5.

A very generous viewer was so kind to provide me with the upgrade kit that sells for 200€

and if you have ever bought an Original Mk2 or Mk2s then you'll get 50€ discount which

makes it effectively cost 150€ for most.

If you had purchased your Mk2s shortly before the release of the Mk3 you should even have

a 100€ discount voucher.

The upgrade kit is meant for the MK2s so if you still have a normal MK2 it is advisable

to also purchase the MK2s upgrade which includes new smooth rods, bearings a U-Bolts but that

will set you back another 55€.

How much of the MK3 is actually in the MK2.5?

So first things first, you won't get a 24V system with the power panic functionality.

There is also no new mainboard included so you won't get the Trinamic drivers with

better microstepping, crash detection and stealth mode as well as the there won't

be stall detection for the print fan.

What you will be getting with the upgrade though is a whole new extruder assembly, that

features hardened steel bondtech gears that drive the filament from both sides, a quite

Noctua fan, an optical filament sensor and the PINDA 2 probe.

The new bed sensing probe includes a thermistor that compensates for temperature drift and

will help you get a consistent first layer thickness especially when you work with different

print platform temperatures.

The new electronics enclosure has optimized attachments for the extruder and bed wires

in order to avoid fatigue at the locations where they enter the box.

Though, the most notable thing is the magnetic spring steel bed.

Unfortunately the powder coated beds are still not available for the MK2.5 but the smooth

PEI sheets that are applied on both sides on mine perform very well.

This bed makes removing prints so easy and satisfying by just bending it and helps you

avoiding using a spatula that killed my old PEI sheet quite fast.

It needs to be noted that this magnetic bed sits directly on the heated PCB which makes

the response time quite fast and the magnets are suitable for temperatures way above those,

the bed can reach, so printing ABS and similar materials is not a problem what so ever.

Keep that in mind if you compare the price of this upgrade with other magnetic print

plate solutions that are way cheaper but not suitable for high temperature beds and will

not work with Prusas mesh bed leveling.

The upgrade kit comes with everything you need, all parts and tools and even a pack

of HARIBO that might be necessary since the whole upgrade process will take you around

4 to 6 hours.

It also comes with a roll of PET filament that you'll need to print out required part

for the upgrade, most prominently the electronics enclosure and the extruder assembly.

I was a bit upset that they included black filament because I always enjoyed the look

of the old, orange parts.

Contrary to their old printers Prusa switched from printing all of the parts in ABS to now

PET which also makes the printing process for you easier and less smelly.

Only the cooling fan shroud is provided as a pre-printed ABS part because it has to withstand

the temperatures of the heater block.

The parts for the upgrade can be downloaded either as pre-sliced G-Code or as separate

stls from the Prusa site.

Unfortunately, I had some issues with the material sticking to the bare PEI but finally

got it to stick with an application of Magigoo.

I also printed this great universal spool holder from Mirkoengineer so I could finally

throw away the one that came with my Mk2 and this one has served me very well since!

When you have the parts printed out you can start with the upgrade process which is very

well documented and available in many different languages.

Even though Prusa Research provides great instructions it will still require you to

disassemble a good part of the printer and put everything together again which might

not be something for everyone.

I didn't find any issues with the instructions during my 5 hours that I spent working on

the upgrade and even though your need to re-run a couple of wires, no soldering is required.

I also took this as an opportunity to do an overhaul of my machine with cleaning everything

and replacing nozzle, thermistor, heater cartridge and heater block which were kind of worn from

the hundreds of hours of printing.

Finally you just need to upload the MK2.5 firmware and after a short calibration run

you are ready to go.

So I've been now using my MK2.5 for the last couple of months and don't regret the

upgrade at all.

It has to be noted the print quality will not improve notably with the upgrade because

the electronics stay the same, though the print results were already great before.

The only thing that might improve a bit is the overhang and small details performance

since the new fan shroud cools your print now from all sides.

Unfortunately, the new shroud and it's placement make the printhead a little bigger which caused

me some problems in my filament tests where I print my coupons sequentially, so clearance

is very important.

The filament sensor is very nice, makes loading new material very convenient and prevents

filament run outs efficiently.

Still some materials don't work perfectly with the optical sensor where the printer

recommends to turn it off.

Even though the printer noises from the steppers stay the same, the Noctua fan removes that

horrible high pitch sound during prints which makes running the printer in my office even

more pleasant than it was before.

The new PINDA 2 probe works great and since I change my materials and therefore the bed

temperature quite often saves me quite a lot of hassle getting the first layer right.

This is, with the new spring steel bed the reason that made my Original Prusa is now

even a bit better than it was before.

The magnetic bed makes removing parts so easy and it also enables me to use some spray adhesives

that I just wasn't comfortable using before next to my smooth rods and lead screws.

I've also been using the bed to put PLA parts for annealing in my oven and with the

print platform still attached, greatly helps avoiding warping during that process.

So in summary, do I think it is worth spending around 150€ on this upgrade?

If you only print PLA on your Prusa then you really need to think about if, effectively,

a removable bed and a filament run out sensor is worth the price, especially if you consider

that you can nowadays get good 3D printers for around the price of this upgrade kit.

Also if you bought your Prusa fully assembled and are not comfortable taking it apart on

your own, maybe think twice about this upgrade because it will require some tinkering.

But, if you are someone who regularly uses different materials and you need a reliable

printer, then I think the upgrade is well worth the price!

The bondtech gears make extruding even difficult material just a bit more reliable, PINDA 2

helps getting perfect first layers and the removable bed is just awesome.

But what do you think?

Would your rather spend the money on a new printer or would you invest the money in your

old work-horse?

Let me know down in the comments.

Thanks for watching everybody.

If you enjoyed the video and learnt something the please leave a like, take a look at my

other videos and subscribe to the channel.

If you want to support me in making these videos than consider becoming a Patreon.

I hope to see you in the next one, auf wiedersehen and good bye!

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Tracktion 7 Tutorial (Part 1) – Installation and First Time Setup - Duration: 4:20.

Hey guys, in this video we're going to start taking a look at Tracktion 7.

This is a free digital audio workstation that you can download for Windows, Mac and Linux.

With this program, we'll be able to record and edit audio and MIDI.

In this first tutorial, we'll cover getting the program installed and configuring everything.

Previously, Tracktion 7 was only available with the purchase of a Behringer or Mackie

product, but it's now completely free for anyone to download.

Either way, I still recommend picking up a budget audio interface like the Behringer

U-PHORIA UM2 so you'll have an audio input to record with.

I'll link those in the video description for you to check out.

When you go to Tracktion's website, you'll need to fill out a form to register to get

the product.

Then you'll be brought to the download page where you can choose the installer you need.

For Windows, I'll be using the 64 bit version, but check whether the plugins you like to

use are 32 or 64 bit before choosing the download, since you need to match the versions to get

it to run properly.

Now that we have the program downloaded, just run it and install it.

There's not really any options throughout the installation process, so just run the

program when you're done.

Tracktion 7 has a first time setup we can use to get everything configured for us.

We'll still need to activate the program when we install it, so use the username and

password you entered when you downloaded the program to activate it.

Then we'll configure our audio interface.

The first thing I do is set the audio device type at the top to ASIO.

This allows us to use all the inputs from our audio interface with low latency, and

we can also adjust the latency here if we need to but that can cause issues like pops

and clicks in the audio if we set it too low.

Since I have multiple devices connected, I'll change the device to my Focusrite Scarlett

interface, but choose yours accordingly.

Many of the Behringer interfaces like the UM2 fall under ASIO4ALL, and the driver for

that needs to be installed separately.

Once the audio interface is chosen, I need to enable all the inputs.

The default is just the two inputs, so I'll enable the rest of them as well.

Next we can select our MIDI device.

For now I'll leave it as default, but we'll come back to this when we cover MIDI in more

detail in a few videos.

After that we have to tell Tracktion where all our plugins are stored on this computer.

I have a few folders so I'll add each of them.

To do that, click Scanning and Sorting and then Scan for new or updated VST plug-ins.

Press the plus button in the bottom left to add folders on your hard drive where the VST

plug-ins are stored.

Then press Scan and Tracktion will add all the compatible plug-ins to the program.

I had a few problems with some plugins not being compatible, but I'm pretty sure that's

because they are the older 32 bit versions of these plugins.

The plugin needs to match the Tracktion version we're using, and since most of my plugins

are 64 bit, I'm running a 64 bit version of Tracktion, but unfortunately those older

plugins won't work here.

Next we can scan for loops in a similar way, but I don't have any to add at this point.

Then we can choose to download a demo project, and these can be helpful if you're just

starting out to see what a full project looks like.

The marketplace is where we can go to download additional plugins but they're all paid.

Of course, we can also get 3rd party 64-bit VST plugins, install them, and add the scan

path as we did previously, so we're not really limited by what's available in the

marketplace.

I don't recommend watching the tutorial video, since it doesn't really provide much

useful information for getting started with the program, and we'll cover everything

in this series anyways.

Last we have a quick start guide you can use for reference if you need more information

about how to use the program.

Thanks for checking out this video on installing and configuring Tracktion 7.

If this video helped you out, don't forget to give it a like, subscribe to the channel,

and press the bell icon to get notifications whenever a new video is released.

You can also check the video description for links to products featured in this video and

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Kinemaster Color Grading Tutorial - Duration: 6:52.

If you want to know how to do color grading in the Kinemaster video

editing app then be sure to stick around until the very end of this video because

I'm gonna show you exactly how you can do it. What's going on? My name is Devin

Street helping you build your online presence and today we're going to be

going over color grading in Kinemaster but if you're not already subscribed to

the channel go ahead and click the subscribe button there's a new video

every single Wednesday showing you how to edit in Kinemaster so before we get

into this let's just take a look at these videos right here this is going to

before and after of each of these clips after I color grade them as you

can see the one on the right looks a lot better and that's after color grading so

color grading can add so much to your video by simply going in and changing

some different things that we have offered in this app and it's really

great to do this with most your videos if you want to make them look cinematic

if you're trying to do nice vlogs and things like that that's very important

for when you're doing color grading now on something like a tutorial channel

like mine it's not as important I still do it sometimes but when it comes down

to stuff where you're getting shots outdoors

that's when color grading can be really important so I have three clips here

that I've taken on my phone and we have this first one and then we have the

second one at the beach we're gonna have this third one with grass and flowers

so first let's do this one first and we need to understand the color grading and

can a master how to get to it and what it all offers so there is some color

grading in Kinemaster it's not as great as other apps have offered and it's not

as great as what desktop applications can offer but there is still some so all

we have to do is just click on the clip we want to color grade and then scroll

down it's not color filters but it's color adjustments and then once we're at

color adjustments we have our three options we have our brightness our

contrast and our temperature so for this clip right here I believe we

could up the brightness slightly not much and then if we take a look at our

contrast we can lower it a lot and that's going to actually take away from

the image or we can increase it and it looks like it adds more detail to it and

then finally we can go over here and we can add more temperature to it make it

look more bright and colorful and also let's just turn the brightness up

slightly more and that is just a simple color correction for that okay secondly

we have this beach shot as I go down and set it down it seems like the brightness

sort of dropped slightly but that quality is extremely nice let's go ahead

and go in and do color adjustments for this and I believe maybe we want to add

some more color to the sky make it a little bit more blue so if we turn that

all the way up that's going to give us a little bit more blue in our sky and we

don't want to make it I don't think we want to change the brightness at all for

this one as you can see darkness is going to take away from it and

brightness is going to take away from it and it's also based on the tone you're

trying to set in the scene your brightness your contrast all of that can

change how the tone is of the scene if you want a darker scene then that's

going to create this darker tone but if you make it brighter and play happier

music and things like that that's going to bring an uplifting tone to the scene

but we're going for more of a cinematic when we do our color adjustments and

finally our contrast we will most likely let's just lower it slightly there and

we didn't change the brightness at all so not much difference to this one I

think this one was already pretty good and then we go over to this last one and

what we're going to see is the brightness at some points it's very nice

but then we get towards the end and let's actually bring this out a little

bit more the brightness here is kind of messy so we do need to fix that a little

bit so let's go in here and do our color adjustments and let's tune this

brightness down slightly and now that we've tuned it down it looks a little

better maybe if we adjust the contrast and let's give it a little higher and

then finally our temperature it really depends on do we want really green grass

or do we want this darker more natural tone and I think for this one we're

going to want some really green grass and let's lower the contrast we like

this if you have your contrast and your temperature up really high you're gonna

get something very wild like this very bright very colorful and I'm trying to

get in between a colorful but also realistic look to it so if we lower that

a little bit and lower that that's what we should get right there that looks

much more green to it it has a lot of color in the grass and we're able to

make out the flower slightly more now since we've lowered the brightness and

everything and that's simply how you can color grade but that's just a simple

color grading tutorial in the kingdom a stir app there's other apps that can do

this much better than we can in this Kinemaster app but you can still bring

out colors you can still mess with the image make it look more detailed make it

look like with this one this was shot spring winter time around their early

spring light winter and it was very cold looking and then we added all this to it

and it almost gives it like a fall feeling to it so color grading can

change a lot with the video and I think it's highly important when you're doing

stuff like outdoor videos for vlogs and cinematic things like that but

if you want to know how to edit in Kinemaster like a pro then make sure you go

ahead and click the subscribe button and then check out the entire Kinemaster

video editing series I want to thank you for watching until the very end and I'll

see you in the next video

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Speed Challenge || Reto de la Velocidad || 10 min || 5 min || 1 min - Duration: 11:58.

be welcome again to the channel dinoart and today we are with the first

video of the year and what better way to start the year with the first challenge

of the channel the challenge of speed fits highlight that this challenge was proposed to me

one of my best friends called andrey that by the way I send him a great

greeting and that surely to pass in the video and in the processes of

drawings will be dying of laughter from the trash that will see below

I must also point out that this challenge the drawings will be divided

they will be divided in 10 minutes 5 minutes and 1 minute so

we'll see what happens I'm a little nervous so we'll see what happens

I'm a little bit nervous

in this challenge we will draw rexy and we start with the one of the 10 minutes that

at the beginning I was going a bit let's say between quiet quotes because I had more or

minus everything calculated from how I wanted that but in the end I think I trusted

and it ended worse than I expected I honestly thought that there would be a

Decent drawing presentable but not or in the end I could not even finish

coloring it I could just give it a few you touch like that and not even the eyes

I could paint so I'll leave them with the process also increases a bit the

video speed because I did not want that they will swallow 10 minutes of pure video and

music and I will also leave you a stopwatch to the right side down to

that they see that I did not cheat

and this is where the coloring starts that sincerely from that point

I started to panic a bit because I was not going out as I wanted and not

I was going out as I had planned or I had planned more or

unless the sketch ends in the minute 4 but it ended at minute 6 and

something and gave me very little time to color and you can simply add

the shadows that would be with the color black and apply brown was the only thing I could

do not even the tongue nor the eyes nor give it a type of brightness can not

make him almost nothing just black and Brown

and that's how the drawing of the 10 minutes and I must say that I'm not

nothing proud of this result as I mentioned them I thought I was going to stay

better but not but not or not was not even even decent this drawing so there

I leave it to you to appreciate it and that they would laugh for a while

and this is where we start with the strong five minutes five minutes to draw

a tyrannosaurus rex It seems a bad joke but if I had to

speed things up pretty much because if I was not going to even finish the sketch

here if I could finish the sketch and I could coloring it almost everything but that does not mean

that the drawing has been well and andrey you better be laughing with

this because you do not expect anything good at all of these drawings

and here I must warn you that what they are going to seeing may give them temporary blindness

this may cry blood for some hours because what are they

point of view is the result of the one minute rexy that is the worst thing that I have

made in my life the worst drawing that I have realized is that it seems to be

giving a spill that is at the same time giving a cancer in the brain and that is

suffering has a face of suffering this poor tyrannosaur

well guys, that's how we ended the first video of the year and what better way

as I said at the beginning that start it with a challenge the challenge of speed ten

minutes five minutes and one minute drawing rexy I hope they have

laughed with this video because that's the purpose of this video at least

get them a smile because god are creations that I just did not I'm

nothing proud of them and surely you neither but here the important thing

it was that he laughed in a while and before ending with the video I want

give a small promo to one of my best friends called sebastian that

just created a channel just has 91 subscribers the channel is called

gamer soul I'll be leaving the link in the description a channel that goes up

videogames and in some other I leave I want to go see and laugh

with me and with him in the videos where I go out I go out specifically the

videos of the creative video game destruction or fornite for the poor like

I like to call him so I'll be leaving a small one minute clip of

one of the gameplays

so I wish they were going to give it a look at the channel and if possible that

help you by signing up so you can reach soon the 100 subscribers

and also do not forget that they come from me and who knows maybe until

you can download the video game and play with him and with me

and well guys, that's how we end this video really I hope you have them

liked it as much as me because to me I honestly had a very

ok doing this video so I do not know forget to comment leave a like

share and if they are new subscribe so that this family keeps growing

here is going to innovate and we will see each other in the next

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Jump Force Premium Shop Unlocks Characters? - Duration: 4:45.

ayo guys Enigma here! Happy New Year and all that good stuff I hope you're

starting 2019 off really strong I'm trying to start off strong

and let's get right to the video in this video I'm gonna talk about how I believe

the premium shop has nothing to do with microtransactions but more so to do with

unlocking characters and movesets. So let's get right into it so when you see

the shop the first time obviously we're looking at accessories for your avatar I

think all the accessories, hair parts, and anything make you.. know to change the

appearance of your avatar belongs in the shop I think we're going back to the J

points system like J-stars did but this time the premium shop is gonna be more so for

our avatar vehicles, also going to be for movesets

I'm hoping there's move sets in the game that the playable characters do not have

such as Ace you have all Ace pieces in the game without his move set. yes, you

can copy Sabo moveset but anybody know that Sabo and Ace are not the same

person okay then I'm gonna fight the same way so have an ace move set in the

premium shop costing a handful of J points would make more sense

I think unlocking characters the same way j-stars did we had to unlock korosensei

& Killua for a heap of points, you saved your points up you, went to the shop, you

brought the character pack and then that was it I think the premium shop is gonna

play the same role all over again I think they're gonna play with you know

unlocking the characters Lobby vehicles, movesets, you know all that big stuff I

don't think they're gonna be microtransactions for the simple fact

bandai namco normally doesn't do that like they don't do a shop that gives you

a fair advantage, you know xenoverse the clothing gave you attribute points they

gave you you know more strength unlike shinobi strikers it really doesn't give

you that much of an edge is more cosmetic and to me I think that's what's

gonna play a role this time because I don't see Bandai Namco adding you know

the premium shop for something to give you a fair advantage because they lack

case we already speculate that the CAC is gonna be overpowered if that's gonna

be microtransactions I think the premium shop is for unlockable characters it

would make sense because I don't think we're gonna turn the game on and gonna

have 56 characters off the bat selectable no way no way you have to

have something worth fighting for you know you gotta turn the game on to give

us about 20 characters and whatnot maybe 15 and then we do all the stories cuz we

have our reward booth too. Reward booth to me seem like it's gonna

be like mostly RNG based oh you got this from Goku, you got this from you Gon

type thing but to unlock somebody else that hasn't been announced yet I think

everybody that's been announced so far are gonna be story mode characters play

a big world story characters like such as Tsuna or a Jojo character are gonna

be in the shop if you ask me I think those characters that we haven't played

in a beta yet or definitely going to be in the shop as well so my final verdict

of the premium shop has to do with new moveset, Lobby vehicles, and unlocking

characters I don't think it'll be anything to send you to the PlayStation

Store or the Xbox store right away I think all that in that shop has to do

with a heap of amount of J points you have to spend so you'll unlock these

characters. Anyway guys I'm a little under the weather

I'll make the videos longer but I'm not feeling that well somebody gets out

there to you guys I hope your new year was good if you liked the video

definitely like share comment give me your opinion what do you think the

premiere shop is do you think that Bandai Namco's gonna pull an EA type game

type transactions you know or do you think the premium shop has

something to do like J's stars where you are locking characters I want you to

sound off in the comments below if you're not subscribed to the channel

please do so and I guys I'm looking for about 25 likes that would be good to help the

channel out thanks a lot guys more coming soon

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Top 10 British Generals, 1700 – 1945 - Duration: 10:24.

This list is specifically limited to the period between the beginning of the Spanish War of

Succession and the end of the Second World War, and is restricted to generals who were

born in the British Isles.

There are some controversial additions and the ranking is purely my own personal opinion.

10.

Henry Rawlinson – 1st Baron Rawlinson

Rawlinson is a controversial addition to the list for those who know of him.

He was a First World War General and, above all else, the shadow of one battle hangs over

his career – The Somme.

Rawlinson was the general most responsible for planning the battle of the Somme, and

it was his army that bore the brunt of the fighting.

Yet despite the failures of the Somme, Rawlinson was a visionary.

It was he who planned and conducted the first night battle by a modern army, and it was

Rawlinson who pioneered the idea of Combined Arms Operations.

His victory at Amiens – called "the Black Day of the German Army" by Erich Luddendorf

– was the first battle in history where the efforts of infantry was closely supported

by mass artillery bombardment, mass cavalry charges, mass armored advance and aerial support.

He showed the future of battlefield tactics and for that he makes my list.

9.

Edmund Allenby – 1st Viscount Allenby

Allenby is widely regarded as one of the best commanders of the First World War and is certainly

remembered as one of the most successful.

He had experience combat in the Boer War, with his Cavalry Column having been engaged

in constant combat for two years.

During that war he had learned contempt for the established higher command and, on the

Western Front, it was this contempt that saw him replaced by Byng after feuding with Haig

despite having distinguished himself in combat.

He was reassigned to the Middle-East and there he would prove his worth.

He quickly gained the respect of the troops of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force by moving

his HQ to a position closer to the front, visiting the troops regularly in the frontlines,

reorganizing the EEF into an effective Corps system and imposing discipline and professionalism

on the whole command.

He gave financial support to T.E.

Lawrence's efforts to unite the Arabs to revolt against the Ottoman Empire.

He showed capability in both strategy and tactics and, much like Rawlinson, he became

a pioneer of modern warfare with his victory at Megiddo being considered the precursor

of Blitzkrieg.

8.

Herbert Plumer – 1st Viscount Plumer

Plumer looked the part of a typical First World War British General, with his receding

chin and white moustache, yet he was anything but.

Plumer was a man who operated in prudent reality: he did not expect his army to break through

the enemy lines and charge to Berlin, nor did he expect his men to be superhuman.

In his detailed plans he planned for only modest goals – keeping in mind the weather

and terrain involved and the morale of his men – then trained his men thoroughly for

the task he had set them.

"Daddy" Plumer was arguably the finest commander on the Western Front and his victory

at Messines was one of the most complete in the entire war.

7.

Douglas Haig – 1st Earl Haig

Haig is the most controversial addition to the list.

His reputation is a very bad one; he is characterized as a general who sat hundreds of miles behind

the front and had a willful disregard for the lives of his men – the Donkey that commanded

the Lions.

This is inescapable and there is some truth to it.

However Haig did accomplish a few positive things as well.

While he was not the most familiar with the modern science of warfare and slow to recognize

their uses, he did encourage their development and supported subordinates who proved capable

of using them.

Under Haig, the British Armies became the most mechanized force in the world.

While others relied more heavily on the outdated cavalry, he embraced the tank, enlarged the

artillery and, in the final campaign of the war, oversaw the biggest victory ever achieved

by Britain in any war in the Hundred Days Offensive, on a scale of men involved and

territory fought in.

6.

Alan Brooke – 1st Viscount Alanbrooke

Alan Brooke was the premier strategist at the Western Allies' disposal in Europe in

the Second World War.

He had proven himself to be an effective commander of troops when he was commander of the II

Corps of the BEF in the Battle of France but he would prove his worth far greater as the

Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

As CIGS, he was responsible for deciding what theatre got what in terms of manpower and

logistics, and for choosing the commanders of the various theatres and armies.

However, he was sometimes handicapped in this by Winston Churchill's interference.

Brooke was famed amongst the British high command for his refusal to cave into Churchill's

desires; unless Churchill had an idea that was grounded in sound military thought, Brooke

opposed it vehemently.

It was Alanbrooke who insisted that the Mediterranean was cleared for Allied shipping before any

invasion of continental Europe took place, it was he who demanded that the Italians be

knocked out of the war before an invasion of France took place, and finally it was he

who insisted that the northern, cross-channel invasion of France received full support and

that nothing be transferred to southern France.

He was constantly at odds with the American High Command – some of whom accused him

of lacking aggression – and he clashed with Marshall and Eisenhower over Allied strategy,

but nobody for the Western Allies had more influence in how the war in Europe unfolded

than Alanbrooke.

With Churchill, he combined to create the most effective higher command of any nation

of the war despite the sometimes flawed judgment and the increasing constraints it operated

under.

5.

Robert Clive – 1st Baron Clive

Clive of India, as is his most famous name, was the man most responsible for the conquest

of India by the British Empire.

Before he arrived there were localized groups of armed troops defending commercial interests

of the European nations, and he received his first taste of warfare in the First Carnatic

War.

During that war he was taken ill and had to return to the UK to recuperate.

When he returned to India, the balance of power had shifted firmly in France's favor.

His first action was to take Arcot –the capital of the Canatic region – and hold

it for 50 days in a siege against the ruler of the region, the French sympathetic Chanda

Sahib.

This made Clive famous and led to the British being able to equalize power between them

and the French in the region, an equality that only lasted until Clive's absence when

the French retook power.

In the Seven Years War, he returned to India.

There he retook Calcutta after it had fallen to Siraj Ud Daulah.

He then marched through the middle of the Nawab's camp to break a siege where the

enemy had 40,000 cavalry, 60,000 infantry and 30 cannons.

Meanwhile, Clive had but 540 British Infantry, 600 British Sailors, 800 Sepoys, 14 field

guns and no cavalry.

Then he went on to win his decisive and most famous victory at Plassey, which ensured that

British presence in India was unassailable.

While undoubtedly a daring and skilled tactician and a competent organizer, perhaps Clive's

greatest strength was his mastery of politics.

4.

William Slim – 1st Viscount Slim

Bill Slim has been called the greatest commander of the 20th Century.

Unlike his high profile contemporary Montgomery, he was a humble man: self-depreciating and

candid in talking about the mistakes he made and the lessons he learnt.

His 14th Army was an amalgamation of British, Australian, New Zealanders, Indian and African

troops, yet he fostered a spirit of unity within them that was unequaled by any other

army of the war.

He had the oldest equipment of any Allied army, and had to handle the most trying and

difficult of logistical operations.

He was inventive with both tactical and strategic operations while not being reckless, and he

held down significant numbers of Japanese troops which otherwise could have been used

to oppose American operations in New Guinea, the Philippines, Iwo Jimo and Okinawa.

Nobody in the Second World War achieved more with less than William Slim.

3.

Bernard Montgomery – 1st Viscount Montgomery

Montgomery is another controversial figure of history, with his legacy caught up in nationalistic

arguments and his less flamboyant command style overshadowed by the Blitzkriegs of the

day.

Monty was a thorough trainer and planner, a high class administrator, and a totally

professional soldier and general.

However, he was a very difficult man to know and work with on a personal level; he always

thought he was right and rarely compromised, usually having to have compromise forced upon

him.

He was, quite simply, a self-obsessed and self-glorifying bully.

The balance between Monty's professional virtues and personal faults was often difficult

to maintain but usually his professional virtues outweighed his personal faults.

He was one of the few commanders to come out of the Battle of France with his reputation

enhanced.

He beat Rommel at Alam el Halfa and El Alamein and never looked back.

He only lost one major engagement in the entire war – Market Garden– and played a major

role in the successful execution of Overlord and the defeat of the Ardennes Offensive.

2.

Arthur Wellesley – 1st Duke of Wellington

The Duke of Wellington was outstanding in everything he did.

He never lost a major battle to any opponent, he beat every commander ever sent against

him and ruined many of their reputations and, most famously, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo

– with help from the Prussians.

His victories at Assaye, Salamanca and Vitoria were as good as any won during the Napoleonic

Wars.

His mastery of logistics and forward planning meant that he was never caught out by an enemy

and usually picked the field of battle.

His insistence on keeping his army from harassing the local population saved him from having

to deal with the problem of partisans.

His ability to maintain good relations with political elements in the UK as well as in

Spain and Portugal ensured that he was never undermined for non-military reasons.

His record of success is greater than any other general of his era except Aleksandr

Suvorov.

1.

John Churchill – 1st Duke of Marlborough

The Duke of Marlborough was, by far, the greatest military man of his generation.

He was a ruthlessly ambitious man who was prepared to stoop to almost any level in pursuit

of wealth and personal glory.

He had a grasp of both the immediate and wider strategic details, and was a master of maneuver

and tactics.

A high class administrator and master logistician, he spent considerable concern on the welfare

of his troops and when tested on the field of battle he always prevailed.

His great victories at Blenheim, Oudenarde and Ramilles were as great as any victory

ever won on the European Continent and aided a great deal in the increase

of Britain's prestige and influence in Europe.

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How To Ask For A Raise! - Duration: 5:38.

Picture a very nervous seventeen-year-old Julia. My heart was

pounding my mouth was dry and my hands were sweaty because I was about to walk

into my boss's office and ask for my first pay raise. Somehow I managed to

negotiate my rate from $7.25 an hour to $7.75

10 years later when I found myself in a similar position you'd think I might

have felt a bit older and wiser going in but I didn't. Negotiating your pay isn't

something you get a lot of practice doing. And it's not like they teach it in

high school or college and most people don't even like to talk about how much

they make with anyone even their boss. A study in Australia found that only 48%

of men and 32% of women thought their pay was even up for discussion.

Your income is the most powerful tool that you have to grow your financial

stability so you owe it to yourself to exert some control over it

the first step in getting a pay raise is to decide to ask for one in a perfect

world your boss would notice all your hard work and say hey that employees a

real benefit to this company I should increase their salary and I'll give them

a company car and a corner office while I'm at it but this just doesn't happen

in the real world your boss might even recognize your value but he or she

probably has their own budget to worry about so they're unlikely to increase

their expense without you initiating the conversation

however before you do that you've got to prepare your case how are you especially

valuable to the company what achievements or successes have you had

recently have your responsibilities expanded beyond the original job

description any extra training or education relevant to your work it's

best not to compare your paid to other employees that's not considered

professional and don't include personal needs like my rent went up or my dog got

sick employers will only care about your individual merit and remember that just

with your job is not a good enough argument after all

you already agreed to do that when you first took the position you have to show

that you're more valuable now than you were when you were hired although you're

arming yourself with arguments keep in mind that it's not a battle replacing an

established employee is very expensive and time-consuming so if you're a good

worker your boss probably wants the same thing you do for you to be happy enough

to stick around unless they're an abusive jerk in which case would getting

a raise really make you happier maybe you should be looking for a different

job instead have a specific number in mind researchers at Columbia Business

School found that workers were more likely to get a raise if they asked for

a precise amount probably because they seemed more confident about their worth

but you do have to be realistic most pay raises are between one and five

percent and you can use websites like a pay scale or Glassdoor to find out the

market rate for your position in your area timing is key if the company is in

the middle of a big project and your boss is stressed out you might want to

wait for things to calm down before asking for a raise

plan your request soon after you've completed a big achievement or shown

that you can successfully handle more responsibilities and if you've recently

taken a vacation or missed a deadline you should probably allow some time to

re-establish a reliability asking at the right time will only make it easier for

your boss to say yes even if your employer thinks you deserve it they just

might not have the ability to increase your salary which is why you should be

ready with alternate options salary only typically accounts for about 70% of

employees total compensation which leaves lots of room on the negotiating

table for other benefits and perks and you can get creative there's gym

membership reimbursement professional development funding commuting expense

coverage more flexible work hours heck maybe it's just a cubicle that's as far

as possible from the obnoxiously loud co-worker come up with the top three

things you would change about your job and see if they're amenable when you've

got your presentation planned out it's time to rehearse the thought of

explaining why you deserve more money makes most people want to crawl under a

rock but it's important that you appear confident in your self-assessment so

have a friend or family member sit down with you and who doesn't get some

stumble through is out of the way the mirror isn't gonna cut it here you need

to sit across from a human being who can ask you questions that your employer

might bring up during your talk and don't ask for feedback from your

rehearsal partner until you've gone through it at least a couple times and

lastly be prepared to hear know even if you walk out of your boss's office with

nothing more than what you went in with it's not a defeat you have successfully

communicated your expectations about your career and shown your investment in

the company long-term trust me your employer will remember these things the

next time you're up for of you or a promotion becomes available you'll also

be giving yourself practice and asking for what you want something that is

difficult for a surprising number of people but essential to feeling like you

have control over your life ask my mother-in-law always says if you don't

ask the answer is always no so there's no harm in trying if you do it with

preparation and professionalism and you won't have to wonder whether you could

be making more and that's our two cents

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Being Raised Transracial - Duration: 15:56.

Rebecca: Getting rid of the colorblindness mentality is the first step to doing that

because you can't just love away racism.

Kat: Yeah, yeah.

R: It's impossible.

It's a great theory.

I would love if it worked but it doesn't.

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Kat: Hey guys, it's Kat and we're here today to talk about transracial adoption with

Rebecca, of OnlyBlackGirl.com Rebecca: Hello.

K: Can you define for the audience like what transracial actually is, like what that means.

R: Yeah, absolutely.

So basically it just means that somebody of one race that is adopted into a family of

another race.

Most commonly that would be people of color adopted by White people into families.

K: Okay, and so that was your experience?

R: Yes, that is my experience.

I am one of three transracial adoptees in my family.

I was the first to be adopted.

So in my family there's six kids; three are biological, three are adopted.

K: Oh, wow.

And your siblings, are they all black, or are they different races?

R: They're all black, we're not related.

Cuz people do think that since we're all black, but really we're not.

Yeah, so my family, my biological family's from Houston and then I have a brother.

His family's from Oregon and my sister's from Ethiopia.

K: Oh, wow okay.

R: So we're kind of from all over the place.

Kat: So one of the things I saw a lot in conversations around Rachel Dolezal co-opting the term transracial,

is that transracial adoptees have been fighting really really hard to be recognized.

I'm curious what exactly that means, and why her reclaiming that term was so hurtful

for so many people who were transracial adoptees Rebecca: Yeah, that whole debacle was very

frustrating for me personally, and I'm sure for other transracial adoptees.

But just because even before that we were still basically erased

Like we're never brought up in topics that have to do with racism.

We're kind of always people who are left out.

So we were already fighting to be seen and have their voices heard.

Everything that is centered around adoption is always centered around the parents and

nobody ever listens to us.

So we were already fighting that war.

And then this came out, and then that whole term 'transracial' just got like completely

blown out of proportion and co-opted.

So now you can't even say the word transracial without thinking about Rachel Dolezal, right,

when that was our term to begin with.

So we're just fighting a whole nother layer on top of that so it feels like we have to

knock down two walls just to get to the basics so we can even open up the conversation about

our experiences at all.

K: What was it like being adopted and being part of a family that didn't look like you?

Did you have like a lot of people questioning you when you were younger what the situation

was like?

How is that?

R: It was definitely very confusing for me as a child.

I definitely remember very early on kind of catching on just cuz if you're the only

person with brown skin surrounded by White people, it doesn't take very long to figure

it out.

So definitely I kind of caught on to it very quickly.

But my parents were very good about, you know, giving me the whole adoption spiel and they

were very open about, you know, if whenever you're ready we can talk about, you know,

finding your biological family and all that stuff.

But they weren't very good about talking about like the race though.

K: See, that's what I was gonna ask.

See, I'm adopted but my parents are Black.

Ad my parents really early on, like they had like the conversation with me about you know

how to interact with cops and you know how you're gonna be seen as like a person of

color.

And so, I'm curious how that went with you or if it did at all?

Like how did your parents- R: It really didn't, not even till this

day.

I think my mom's a little bit better just because I've been more vocal about it so

we've had more conversations, but it never really happened.

I think a lot of it even with most White adoptive parents is it just doesn't even cross their

minds.

Yeah it doesn't even cross their mind that there's like a difference because their

whole thing is, you know, we'll just love them all.

Which, you know, is great in theory but in reality there's a lot more complication

that goes into that.

A lot more resources that we need as people of color growing up.

So for me, it was kind of like going on this journey by myself because not only was I in

a White family, but I also grew up in Olympia, Washington, which is like the whitest of White.

K: And so growing up in like a mostly White neighborhood, being part of a family that

didn't really have a conversation with you about racism.

Was there like a time where you experienced racism, and then went to your parents and

they really didn't know how to- R: I don't know that I necessarily experienced

racism.

uz Olympia is kind of one of those places where they think they're progressive so

there's not really like a lot of outward racism that I experienced a lot later in life.

But it was a lot of things like, 'Oh can I touch your hair?'.

And then all of a sudden I would have like eight White women just like petting my hair,

and I was like 'What is going on?'.

That would be like these little microaggressions.

Yeah, they kind of freak me out and it was always like that because we were always the

family with Black kids.

So everybody knew us and my family have been in Olympia forever, so everybody kind of knows

the Hudson name and they kind of know we're the, 'Oh they're the White family with

Black kids'.

So it was kind of like just being tokenized your whole life.

'Oh it's the little Black kid'.

I do remember one particular memory that stood out to me was my mom.

She always goes to Goodwill.

She still does.

But while we were at Goodwill there was an older White woman who was passing by and she

said.

She looked at me, and I was still pretty young.

It must have been maybe seven, eightish, and she just looked at me and she said "Oh it's

been a long time since I've seen one of those before."

I didn't have like the, I didn't register that it was racism, but I just kind of, I

knew something was wrong about it.

It was off, made me feel very uncomfortable.

I was just like 'One of those?', while she was looking at me and I was just like

'What?'.

Yeah, that was one of the first I would say kind of more outwardly racist things and then

made me kind of like snap and be like, okay something is not.

There's something missing here because why am I being treated like this?

You know, that kind of thing.

And I remembered that was the time that I think I did speak to my mom about it and it

was just kind of one of those 'Oh she probably didn't mean it that way'.

But that's how we always get brushed off.

'She didn't mean it like that' or you know,'She's old, from a different time'.

K: It isn't any better.

R: Yeah, there's always those kind of excuses and then it's you know, it was always just

kind of swept under the rug.

K: Wow. so like how did you get to a point where now you're advocating for black people

and you know really talking a lot about anti-Blackness?

Because I know for a lot of people in those situations it's easier to just sort of make,

like you sid, the excuses for people like, 'Oh, they just don't know any better.

Oh not everyone's that way.', da da da da da.

So what was your story of like, I guess I hate this term, but becoming hashtag woke?

R: For me honestly it was college because I felt like in college I was able to kind

of explore more and also the first time that I was around people who were also people of

color.

I mean we had finally like kind of moved into the city so I was around more people and we

started going to a church that had more people of color in there.

So I was starting to be around more people of color.

But even when I was with Black people it was always 'Well you're a White girl.You're

White on the inside'.

That kind of thing.

But those kind of experiences kind of pushed me into diving more into learning about Black

culture.

So I would read a lot and just kind of getting more into Black culture.

Then when I went to college, I went to community college first, and at my community college

they had like a diversity center.

And so when I got involved there, that just kind of opened the door and when I actually

learned oh, like racism is a real thing.

I'm not the only person dealing with this.

I'm not the only person who gets asked weird questions in class or people look at me weird.

So it's kind of like the first time I ever felt validated for all the things that I was

experiencing.

I was like, 'Oh, okay it's not just me'.

And then just kind of progressed from there.

Starting to really just educate myself a lot more and I got more confident about speaking

out about my experiences.

I just kind of went from there.

K: So I imagine that like, being where you are now, like is going back for Thanksgiving

and things, is that rough?

Cuz you're probably talking a lot about stuff that maybe they're not as eager to

speak about because their view of like.

Cuz I imagine their view of racism was we are the world, it's you know, there is no-

R: Yeah I think for most of my family, especially since I've been speaking out a lot more

they've kind of hopped on board.

I mean they're still very ignorant about a lot of stuff but I think they're a lot

more open to at least listening.

Yeah, there are a few people.

Like my dad; didn't really receive it well and he was kind of like 'I'm not one of

those White people' and he was kind of just checked out, and I'm like, look, okay but

I'm still gonna be over here talking about what I'm talking about.

But people like my mom, she's a lot more open to like actually having a conversation.

So we do actually have a lot of conversations about you know what she did wrong, what she

can do now.

A lot of other family members do have adopted kids, too.

But they just don't talk about it at all.

So even like today they're like 'Okay, I messed up when you were a kid.

What do you want me to do about it now?'.

Well don't check out like that.

We're still here.

Just because we're not kids anymore, you know.

So my mom and I do have a lot more conversations about that and even with my siblings we do.

I think it's just a lot more.

It's not as much as like walking on eggshells anymore and they know that I'm gonna say

something regardless.

So whether you're comfortable or not I'm still gonna say something.

K: You're that person.

R: I am.

I'm the kind of person everybody tiptoes on.

'We can't make any jokes, Rebecca's here'.

I'm like, 'Well you can't cuz I'm gonna call you out'.

K: I mean I'm with you.

Honestly, I feel like Thanksgiving, those are the best times to call people out.

R: It really is.

K: We have everyone together you know, bring them to the table.

Let's talk about it.

Do you wish sometimes that you were raised by Black people?

R: Um, I mean I can't really speak to wishing being raised by Black people just because

I wasn't.

So I have no idea how that difference would be.

Because I've even talked to adoptees who were raised in families of the same race and

they still have a lot of issues.

There's just a lot of issues that come with being adopted period.

So there's just an extra layer when it's a White family, you have to deal with racism.

But as far as adoption into same race families, that would be great but problem is there's

a way overwhelming statistic of just more White people who are adopting.

Which makes sense because adopting is not free.

It's very expensive, it's a lot of intensive stuff that goes into it, so I understand that.

So I feel like instead of limiting who can adopt who, we just have better education and

provide more resources for the white people going into it and frankly just have better

screenings of families because there's a lot of families who are adopting out of ill

will.

And we get caught up with these very terrible abusive families and that shouldn't be happening

just because people just want to get people placed in homes.

You know, there should just be an overall better structure for the adoption industry.

Kat: What would you say to parents who are adopting children of color?

Because, you described that you weren't raised with an awareness of racism.

Like what are some things that people who are adopting Black children, or really children

of color, or children who are outside of the race, what are some things that they can do

in order to make them sort of have a better relation?

Because I can totally imagine that when you grow up and you experience racism you sort

of might end up in a situation where now you're resenting your family for not having a conversation.

Rebecca: Yeah, it happens a lot.

It happens a lot.

I've even seen it in my own family.

My number one suggestion or advice that I would give is to just immediately get rid

of the colorblind mentality because I think that's like the number one thing that holds

back White adoptive parents.

Because when most agencies that do like adoption stuff, they just, there's no education for

like transracial adoption or like how to prepare for it.

And so a lot of parents just go into this 'Well, we'll just love them all and that'll

be great'.

I mean, yes, you should love all your kids but there's an extra layer on that because

we are people of color.

Regardless of how much you love us we still live in a world that hates us.

So in order for you to be a good parent you need to be able to give your children the

resources that they need to survive in this world as people of color.

And as a White person you're not gonna understand all those experiences because you've never

had to deal with them.

So that means that you're really gonna have to apply yourself and do the research and

do the education.

I talk on my blog a lot about how White adoptive parents need to be both a parent and an ally.

You have to do both of them together and getting rid of the colorblindness mentality is the

first step to doing that because you can't just love away racism.

It's impossible.

It's a great theory.

I would love if it worked, but it doesn't.

It just does not work.

K: What would you say would be like a good starting point for someone who is currently

adopted a child of color, to start in sort of being better and maybe avoiding some of

the things that you've experienced?

R: Well, like I said, Google is always free.

I mean I personally have a blog and I also know that there are a lot of other adoptees

that have blogs and are making content so those are great places to start.

And also just general education about racism and whatever other issues that you're dealing

with or that your child may deal with that's specific, whether you have special needs kids

or whatever it is you just need to be able to do the work yourself and educate yourself

and maybe even make it like a family thing.

You know, like bring the whole family into it and so everybody is on the same page.

Everybody knows the steps to take and what everybody needs to do to get, you know, educated

about racism and this is what you do when the police show up or, yada yada, all those

kind of things.

You know, just kind of really just take charge and do it yourself.

Books.

Like there's so many things.

K: What's a good book do you think?

Like what's a good start book?

R: One of my favorite books is, 'The People's History of the United States', I believe

it's called.

Yeah, and I really like that book just because it gives a more, it gives a history of America

from people of color.

Their perspective, basically.

So when I read it, I read it in a college class, a multicultural America college class

and it was like the first time that I ever like read American history, but from the view

of people of color.

And I was like, 'Woah, this is like completely different than what they taught us in school',

you know, from the White people's version.

So just stuff like that just offers another perspective that you can be like, 'Oh, well,

maybe I don't know everything because I'm only seeing through my eyes'.

So looking at stuff from our eyes, or other people's perspectives, would kind of help

you navigate, ya know.

K: Alright, so thank you so much for coming and speaking to me about this.

This was really illuminating, and it gave me a lot to think about.

I'm sure my audience a lot to think about.

Where can people find you if they wanted to get more information about transracial adoptees,

anti-Blackness, all the stuff that you write about.

R: Yeah, my website is OnlyBlackGirl.com, and then it's OnlyBlackGirl pretty much

on everything: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

So you can find me all those places.

K: Alright, I hope you guys enjoyed that conversation.

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how Almond wood grain look like? fresh green vs almost dry - Duration: 7:22.

almond wood branch, which i cut about 8 months ago.

first let us make a cross cut to see how almond wood grain look like

Almond wood is a hard wood, with beautiful grain

now another branch from another almond wood tree

first we will make a cross section cut.

this branch is a fresh green one, I cut it about 20 days ago.

almond wood janka ranking is 1700, (tonewood.com)

sanding wood with 60 grit and 320 grit sanding papers.

to see cleaner wood grain

very beautiful :)

now I will make Longitudinal sections to see how grain look like.

small almond wood branch, which I cut 8 months ago

now sanding with 60 grit and 320 grit. to take better look.

now Longitudinal cut on another larger almond branch, still fresh and green

again some sanding

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