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On today's menu we have a different video than the one I had in mind for you today,

because it's Sunday and I was ready to make a Pijama Rant but this just came in, and I'm

glad, because I look like shit, and I feel like shit, and I don't want to get out of

my Unicorn pajama.

And you can't make news with a Unicorn pajama

Say goodbye to your credibility

So no camera today

You're making one of those super long introductions that you hate when other YouTuber does

True.

Let's go for it.

The thing is that the usual suspect Legolevic, known as Gamerevic in our Discord server,

sent me these images as it seems that he found them in videos and articles claiming that

these are actual leaked gameplay of Cyberpunk 2077 and he wanted to know if I thought

if they could be real gameplay leaks.

So, short answer: no

Long answer: fuck no

Before entering into detail, I'm seeing lately a lot of images and videos that claim

to have leaked images from the gameplay, I especially recall one that I can't find again

where some YouTubers stole the final project of some students, that was a sci-fi

environment, claiming it was actual gameplay from Cyberpunk 2077.

And you could see that it was student quality, there was no way THAT could be mistaken for

a AAA game, this same YouTuber had a video called "2018 Cyberpunk 2077 trailer" and

it was the teaser that is now 5 years old, so, what I want to say with that is we're

entering into a season where everything is going to be filled with alleged leaks, there's

people who will honestly believe that what they are saying is accurate, but there's

also who have the bad clickbait intention, so we really need to be careful with that

before going crazy.

R: This said by a YouTube known for posting leaks

Yep, leaks that I reported thanks to the Triple S League

and that shortly after were officially confirmed by CD Projekt

So, trust your sources when reading about this information.

Even I can be wrong, and I can assure you I double and triple check everything I say.

First let's talk about the character creation images: what they are and what information

can we extract from them.

Before googling the images, which is the most obvious thing to do, you can easily see that

it's pretty weird that they have the logo of the game in the corner, a thing that you

usually don't see in a game

Except Batman. The game is filled with bat signals everywhere

Well, I didn't mean that.

Second thing you can easily see is that the character is 2D, this is not a 3D character,

you could have a 3D character with this texture, but there's a trick to tell a 2D from a

3D character easily, and that is the armpit shape.

See the characters that are modelled to be animated are created in this pose, to then

put a skeleton, that is called a rig, on the inside of the body, to animate the character.

This is a pose that the character doesn't keep during the game, usually it is with its

arms down, so as the real skin of a person is more flexible than a 3D mesh, when the

arms fall down they make a strange shape in the armpit, and I've seen incredibly advanced

3D models of character and still the armpit problem is there.

You can only see a perfect shape when the character is modelled to keep the same pose

all the time, like the Cyber Psycho in the teaser.

So, 2D character

All of this just for the armpit

Then, the obvious thing to do, googling the images.

It seems that these images saw the light April past year, several sources claim that these

images belong to the early mockups that CD Projekt warned us about past year, advising

us to avoid going crazy with them because they are old images and didn't represent the game

If this is a mockup, then, it is one of many mockups done to design the character creation

because it's pretty obvious that they won't keep the first design made for something,

and knowing how perfectionist they are and how they change things up to the last minute

to make the game as perfect as possible

With poor developers suffering the consequences

It's more than likely that, even if at the time this was the final design for character

customization it will change, or already changed, for the final game.

BUT, even not taking this mockup as gospel, we can induce pretty interesting things from it

The first interesting thing is that they are working on a very detailed character customization.

This particular subject had some fans worried as some thought that we would, most probably,

have some kind of Geralt with minor customization, but as I've been saying for long

Oh, and she loves being right

As I said, if they're doing the game that

they are doing, character customization is a must, and having so much detail is a must.

So what information can we extract from here?

Let's get analytical with that

High level nerd mode ON

And I'm going to put a link in the upper part of the screen with a video where I explain

in deep the subjects that I'm going to explain in here, because I don't want to go on forever

so, if you see a link means that there's a deeper explanation available.

But even if I'm going to give a huge explanation of what we see here, I'd like to stress

again that this is a mockup and that what we see here doesn't necessarily mean that

is going to be in the game, BUT if all these options are in a mockup it means that this

is the level of detail in customization that they are considering to implement in the game

Even if it's not exactly this customization.

And warning: this is going to be long and very detailed.

First, the hairstyle, very cyberpunkish, we could expect that, and I'm sure most of

you are not interested in hair dressing, so let's go to the panels of the left.

Starting on the main menus we can see 4 options: Body, Cyberwear, Implants, and weapons.

And I am not 100% sure that this last menu is weapons, but I believe it would be the

most reasonable option.

Let's go for the body first.

Body is the physical attributes of the character.

First, we have the name, obvious

I wonder if they can automatize the name so NPCs can call you by the name

You mean like some lokendo?

But well done

That would be pretty interesting, and something

that I don't remember seeing in a game before when you have a customized name.

Then you have the sex, which caught my attention because this is a transhumanist game, so characters

are way beyond having just two options, in here you can be everything.

You can be a multisexual shark

Yes, but literally.

A shark.

These implants to be a shark, or a cat, or have pink skin are called "exotic", which

takes us to the next option: skin.

In here we see a "normal" skin color in a pale gradient but, again, this is a game

where you can have exotic skin colors, like purple, blue, or even lizard skin,

so I'd like to think that this is going to give us that option.

Then we see Psyche, so what is that?

Every implant you put in your body has a cost, apart from the money, and it's a cost in

humanity and empathy, the more implants you have the less empathy, and this cost is different

depending on the type of implant.

If you reach a certain level of having very little empathy, then you turn into a cyber-psycho.

Then you have the height, the weight, and the outfit.

Every moment you spend living is a moment you spend learning

Spend less time learning and more time living

with Raven IntelPlus Brain Implants

Reality redifined by microcybernetics

In the pen and paper game, the "Outfit" is not the clothes you wear but the personal

items you always carry with you, like, I don't know, a portable bed, so I'd like to think

they kept it like that in here.

But it may include also the clothing

It may. You have in here up to 5 units of outfit

if it was clothing we would have the shirt, the pants or skirt, boots, jacket,

gloves and headwear and that would make 6 category

Headwear can be under the cyberwear category

Good point.

It can be.

On the right we can see that you can go into detail with hair, head, and body, again I

expect exotic colors in the hair

Otherwise it would be REALLY disappointing

And in head and body you can also see cybernetics, but as cybernetics are another option of the

main menu, let's go back to it.

The second option of the main menu is cyberwear.

Cyberwear works more or less like implants but they are not implanted in the body.

You can wear like, for instance, a headset that gives you supervision, but as it's

not implanted you save the cost in empathy and humanity that you would have if you used, for instance,

some Kiroshi implants that gave you the same supervision.

As we don't have an example of the breakdown of this menu, let's go for the next.

And the next is Cybernetics.

And in this example, we have the detail of the head, with brain, eyes, and vocals.

And in here, we encounter the first thing that I don't like.

That is a very stupid thing unless you're obsessed with the lore

Which is your case

and I really hope they already considered

doing it differently as we see here, which most probably won't happen

So, cyberware, fashionware and cybernetics are things that you buy into the game.

So, character customization is something that you do at the beginning of the game, meaning

that if you're dropped into the Cyberpunk world most probably you already have some

cyberware and implants before starting the game, unless you plan to side with a boostergang

like the Inquisitors that believe that implants are evil or you have any other reason to start

as a natural human.

If you start with implants, you bought them at some point in your, let's call it, life

before the game starts.

So what's the thing here, these items are manufactured by someone,

sometimes by a megacorporation.

And you may start the game feeling sympathy for a very specific megacorporation.

For instance, you make a Japanese character and you know that Arasaka is keen on protecting

Japanese communities on Night City, so if you have a certain sympathy for Arasaka

most probably you're not going to buy anything from their lifelong enemy Militech.

In the case of the tactical lens shown here as an example, this cyber-optic can be

manufactured by Militech if it's military grade or by Kiroshi, a brand specialized in

cyber optics that we could see in the teaser, so I would like to know who manufactures this cyber-optic.

And I see no brand in here

Because that's the supermarket white brand?

There are several cybernetics options that are listed in the basic 2020 sourcebook

without mentioning what brand is commercializing it, and I can guess that this tactical lens that

we see in this example is the radar sensor listed in the basic 2020 sourcebook,

and in this list the brand manufacturing doesn't appear, it has a 100m range, it's 70% effective,

cost 200 euro bucks and has a humanity loss of 2.

So, what do I mean with that?

I mean that even if it's lore friendly, because it's lore friendly, I, in my personal

taste would rather seeing brands listed when you're acquiring new cyberwear or implants

to be lore obsessive more than lore friendly.

So that, I repeat, is personal taste.

And it's funny because recently we were discussing about this "radar view" with

someone in the comments, it's always everywhere.

Even if it's not justified

Well, in here it is justified, it can be cyberware or implants

And also this mockup doesn't go into detail about the options you have for the implants,

which leads me to believe that this is an old mockup that probably changed a lot.

But, again, it's good to know that they are contemplating all the options we see here.

And then, last part of the menu, weapons.

Or at least you think is weapons

Which I am not 100% certain.

I'm around 90% certain this is weapons.

And in here, I'm sure we will find a typical weapons screen Borderlands style

With brands listed

With brands listed.

Brands are VERY important for the weapons.

And that's all about the character creation mockups, and as I said before, even if this

is a mockup from very early stages of development, I'm glad to see they were considering so

much level of detail.

But this could be fan art

Well, usually when something is fan art and

a bunch of people on the internet looks for it, eventually the author of the fan art appears,

and they deserve to if they did a good fan art piece, but in this case, I could see no

traces of it.

Now let's go for the alleged interface screen, with a quick Google search you can see that

this image was uploaded more or less one year ago by Henrik Giang to Artstation, he didn't

claim it was official, he's a student according to his profile and it looks like a fan art

more than an actual asset, obviously if this was real CDPR wouldn't allow to upload it

to ArtStation and this artist would have a Non-Disclosure Agreement that would prevent

him to do so.

So, no further comments about that.

And I think that's all

Well, it was a lot

I'm happy that we finally could see some images of Cyberpunk 2077 even if they are

old mockups that don't represent the final quality of the game

Remember that: these images are not gospel

But it's a start.

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#20 North Korea - Improve your English and Learn Something Interesting - Duration: 17:54.

Hi.

Good morning everybody.

I hope you can hear me today.

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I can't seem to shift it.

I'e had it for almost two months now.

Hopefully I'l get over it soon.

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All right.

Today, we're going to talk about North Korea.

Well, Korea and North Korea I suppose.

Let's look at the history first of all.

So, the North Korean, well, the Korean Peninsula.

Civilization ... evidence of civilization ... was ... has been found there, dating from

about ten thousand years ago.

So, people have been living in that area for about ten millennia.

Over time, those groups of people gradually grew together and formed larger and larger

groups, as they did in most countries, until we had three main kingdoms.

I'm not entirely sure if my pronunciation is right, but those three kingdoms were called

Baekje, Silla and Goguryeo.

Now, as again with most countries, those three kingdoms fought each other and each one was

in control for a short period of time before losing to another one.

But, over the years, gradually the Goguryeo Kingdom became the strongest.

In about 900AD it shortened its name to Goryeo, and ended up ruling pretty much the entire

Korean peninsula.

For a while, it did move up into the Chinese area, but because of the deserts and the mountains

it was too hard to rule, so they shrank back until pretty much the Korea we know today.

The English word Korea, of course, comes from Goryeo.

I believe it was brought back by Marco Polo, but I haven't researched that,

so don't hold me to that.

The Goryeo Kingdom became stronger.

A lot of things in Japan actually came across from Korea.

Buddhism in Japan came from Korea, of course.

Korea basically continued on its own, being influenced quite heavily by China, as most

countries in the area were, until a few things happened.

The two important things were the 1894 to 95 Sino Japanese war.

That, of course, was Japan versus China.

And then the 1904 Russo Japanese war, which, of course, was Japan against Russia.

In the Meiji era Japan modernized.

Japan rebuilt its army and became surprisingly powerful.

And, when these two wars happened, most countries didn't think Japan would stand a chance, but

Japan actually beat China and then beat Russia.

The two wars meant, when China was defeated they had to withdraw their support from Korea,

and when Russia was defeated as well, they had to withdraw their support from Korea,

which left Korea basically open.

And, in 1910, Japan annexed Korea.

This was technically with Korean support, but, of course, there was no support.

From 1910 until 1945, when Japan surrendered, Japan controlled Korea.

There were quite a few atrocities committed in Korea.

A lot of Korean people were killed during the war, of course, both soldiers and civilians.

Japan actually suppressed the Korean language.

They made Korean people learn Japanese.

They forced Korean people to have Japanese names, and a lot of things were done.

Anyway, that's not the point of this talk.

Surprisingly enough, many people don't know this but, when Hiroshima was bombed, the atomic

bombing of Hiroshima, a large number of the dead were actually Korean people.

They were Koreans that were conscripted to work in the Japanese factories and because

Hiroshima hadn't been bombed, it was a safe area, most of Japan's manufacturing was moved

to that area.

So, a large number of people that died there were actually Korean.

Anyway, 1945, Japan surrenders and of course, as you know, the Soviet Union takes control

of the north and America takes control of the South.

They divide this along the thirty eighth parallel,

which is the 38th degree of latitude around the world.

That's where they cut the north and south Koreas off.

We talked about the atomic bomb a little bit earlier, but one reason why the Soviet Union

didn't come into South Korea was because America had used this atomic bomb.

One of the main reasons for them to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not to end the war, but to

stop Russia from taking over that whole area.

And, yet again, that's a talk for another day.

So, when North and South Korea began it was relatively peaceful until the 28th of June

1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea.

Both Koreas, of course, laid claim to the other side, but when North Korea invaded South

Korea they were a communist country.

They had the support of Communist Russia ... the USSR: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,

and China.

And, of course, South Korea defended and they had the support of America.

The war lasted for about three years.

29th of July 1953 it finished.

But of course, as you probably know, it didn't actually finish.

There was a ceasefire, but the two Koreas are still at war today.

There was no declaration of peace, there was no ending to the war,

they just stopped shooting each other.

During that war it was pretty horrific.

About 900,000 soldiers died, most of those were on the North Korean side,

and about 2.5 million civilians were killed.

Again, most of those on the North Korean side.

Some estimates say that 20% of the North Korean population was actually killed in this war.

A side point to this was that America actually considered

using their atomic bombs during the war.

After the Second World War, they'd moved, I think, six atomic bombs into England, to

make most of Asia within reach.

So, they could have bombed the Koreas.

Of course, in 1949, the USSR had developed their own atomic bombs, so, if America had

bombed Korea, it could have meant the end of the world.

Who knows?

Anyway, so after the Korean War finished, the two Koreas became independent and they

continued their own ways.

North Korea was actually quite prosperous in the beginning.

They had the support of China, they had the support of Russia, a lot of investment, and

actually, until 1976, North Korea was more prosperous and was richer, it had a higher

G.D.P. per capita than South Korea.

But then, of course, a couple of things happened.

Chairman Mao died in China.

And Kim Il Sung, who was the head of North Korea, of course he didn't like that so he

... he didn't like the new China, so he broke ties with China and that lost a lot of investment.

And then, of course, the USSR collapsed in 1991.

And , again, that stopped all Russian investment.

So, until 1976 North Korea was very prosperous but then, after 1976 quite a few things happened,

and South Korea took off.

Right now, South Korea's per capita G.D.P. is 40 times higher than that of North Korea,

and we'll talk about that in a minute.

So, right now, North Korea and South Korea are divided along the thirty eighth parallel.

You can go to the border zone.

You can stand on one side.

You can actually go into a room and stand in a room where there's a table, and this

side of the table is South Korea, and that side of the table is North Korea.

And you can look into North Korea, and North Korea has built a city very close to the border

to show how prosperous North Korea is.

But, of course, if you look at the city with a telescope, you can see that it's actually

a fake city.

There's nobody living there, it's just a fake city.

And this is one of the things that we'll talk about with North Korea, possibly: How important

appearances are to them.

How they need to appear to be wealthy and prosperous and successful and powerful, when

in fact it's all for show, basically.

So, after the Korean War, Kim Il Sung takes control.

He was a war hero.

He fought the Japanese during the Second World War.

He was a war hero and he became president, basically.

He lived from 1912 until 1994 and his idea was that Korea should be ... North Korea sorry,

should be completely self-sufficient.

So, he withdrew as much as possible from China and from Russia.

He thought everything should be made, manufactured, grown, developed within North Korea.

As we can see that wasn't a very successful idea, but that was the beginning of the North

Korean philosophy.

He also created the cult of personality which his son, Kim Jong Il built on.

Kim Jong Il obviously took over when his father died in 1994.

Kim Jong Il was a very important figure in the development of North Korea.

He believed in military first.

He believed in military might and he directed most of North Korea's G.D.P., I think it's

about 25% of their G.D.P., towards the military.

North Korea has one of the largest standing armies in the world because pretty much everybody

is in the army.

He did that for a number of reasons.

One reason was to cement control over the country.

He wanted to stop coups, and if you can control the military you can generally control the country.

But, he also built on the god status, the cult of personality.

He spread many myths about himself.

You might have heard some of them.

He said that he was born on a mountain.

Well, you've heard many of the stories, I'm sure.

And, basically, setting himself up as a god.

He wants to be more than a person, he wants to be a god.

And, what he did is, he made his father the Eternal General ... sorry ... he made his

father the Eternal President, and when Kim Jong Il died he became the Eternal General Secretary.

But, more than that, to the people of North Korea they are gods.

There are statues and pictures of them everywhere.

If you see a statue of the founding fathers, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, you must stop,

you must bow, you must pay your respects.

If you take a photograph, the whole of the statue must be in the photograph.

You have to pay your respects.

And you can see this in pictures where people are meeting the Supreme Leader and they're

crying and they're screaming.

They're basically meeting their God, I should say.

So, during Kim Jong Il's reign, there were quite a few problems because he directed most

of the G.D.P. towards the military, the economy basically suffered.

In the 1990s there were severe floods, there were severe droughts and there are ... were

huge huge famines.

Millions of people actually starved to death.

In the end the U.N. had to send aid in to help.

Although a lot of that aid was stolen and redirected.

Anyway, 2011, Kim Jong Il died and he has been replaced by his son Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un was Kim Jong Il's son from one of his four wives.

He had many wives.

Kim Jong Un became leader in 2011.

He is the Supreme Leader.

He cemented his control.

He was very young when he took power, he took control by executing a large number of opponents,

as you probably saw in the news.

Anyway, that brings us up to the modern day.

So, Kim Jong Un is building on the cult of personality.

He's building on the god status.

He travels around his country, travels around his factories ... Sorry ... And you probably

see him in pictures surrounded by his subordinates, surrounded by soldiers, and all of these subordinates

have a notebook in their hand.

This started with his father, but, basically, because Kim Jong Un is a god, everything he

says is important.

Everything he says is correct and important and must be written down.

So, all of his subordinates are there with notebooks writing down everything he says.

If you don't have a notebook of course, you're probably going to get punished.

So, everybody has a notebook.

Of course, if what he says is wrong, you don't write it down.

Anyway, that's why in all the pictures you see his subordinates carrying around notebooks.

Ok.

So, as you probably know, North Korea is a fairly corrupt regime.

Kim Jong UN has 17 mansions.

He has a yacht.

He has a ski resort.

He spends about $63,000 a year on brandy.

The average salary in North Korea is about $804 a year.

He spends over $100,000 a year on alcohol, on expensive alcohols.

In 2012, he spent about $645 million on luxury goods.

Since he took control, his weight has blossomed, bloomed, exploded.

He's now estimated to be about 130kg.

If you look at pictures of him in the beginning, he was never actually thin, but now he's huge

and he wears long coats to try and disguise that.

The North Korean economy is suffering, is collapsing.

If you look at a global map at night you can very clearly see Japan over here very brightly

lit, China up here brightly lit, South Korea brightly lit, North Korea completely dark.

Pyongyang, the capital is slightly bright, but the rest of North Korea is completely black.

Why?

Because there is no electricity.

People are starving.

The communist regime, they take food from the people.

There is famine.

There's drought.

The people are basically starving.

And while they're starving, Kim Jong Un gets fatter and fatter.

And there are sanctions.

Very strong sanctions have been placed upon North Korea recently because they won't give

up their nuclear weapons program.

So, at the expense of his people, Kim Jong Un is continuing in this stubborn attempt

to build nuclear weapons.

If he was going hungry with his people, if he was fighting with his people against the

oppressors, you could understand it, but he's obviously not.

He's doing this at the expense of his people.

He doesn't seem to care about his people.

So, what's going to happen to North Korea?

I have no idea, but it will probably collapse at some point.

However, China and North Korea want to prevent that as much as possible.

Recently, the strongest sanctions have been placed upon North Korea, but China is always

the one that wants to help North Korea.

Why is that?

Well basically, because America has military bases in South Korea and in Japan.

North Korea is a buffer zone between South Korea and China.

If Korea was to collapse ... North Korea was to collapse, and become one with South Korea,

then the U.S. military would be right on the border of China, and obviously China doesn't

want that.

So, China wants to prop up the North Korean regime as much as possible to try and stop

America coming close to them.

South Korea doesn't not want North Korea to collapse, but South Korea cannot afford North

Korea to collapse.

If you look at 1990, 1991, when East and West Germany combined ... unified, what happened

to begin with?

The poor East Germans flooded into rich West Germany and the West German economy collapsed

for a long time.

But, now, if you look at Europe, Germany, unified Germany, is one of the richest countries

in Europe.

Well that's because of course they have more people, they have more laborers, they have

more work, they have a lot of benefits.

South Korea and North Korea will not survive as easily as East Germany and West Germany did.

One reason for that is because the population of North Korea is higher than the population

of East Germany was.

Another reason is the mean income was higher.

East Germans had on average about $10,000 apiece.

North Koreans have about a $1,000 apiece.

So, when North and South Korea combine, the hit to South Korea is going to be enormous,

and their economy is going to collapse.

America will probably help and support them, Japan might, too, but it is going to be a

huge problem for their economy.

They will probably come through it, but it will take a long long time.

So, those are two reasons why China and South Korea don't want the North Korean regime to

collapse.

However, regime change is probably inevitable.

Something will have to happen.

I don't know what.

Anyway, that was quite interesting.

Thanks for watching.

If you have any topics you'd like me to talk about put them in the comments down there

somewhere.

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Thank you.

Next week will be about the Wright brothers, I think.

Anyway, see you then.

Bye.

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Maren Morris & Ryan Hurd: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Recording Artists Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd arrive at SiriusXM The Highway to announce a private concert for SiriusXM at the McKittrick Hotel in NYC on September 12th during an interview with SiriusXM host Storme Warren on August 24, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd are two of the hottest names in country music, and for six months now, the two have been engaged!.

They made the announcement early last summer, after being friends for more than five years.

If past awards shows are any indication, the couple will be glamming it up together on tonight's Grammy's red carpet.

Read on to learn more about the couple.

They Got Engaged in July 2017.

Hurd popped the question in early July.

The couple took to Instagram to post the announcement in a photo that shows Morris holding a Corona Light while placing her newly-minted wedding ring finger on Hurd's leg.

Morris captioned the photo "Yes" with an engagement ring emoji next to it.

How has Hurd reacted to having his relationship thrust into the spotlight? He tells Rolling Stone, "That stuff is always strange… Some people in the public eye are hardline like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.

But I like my relationship with Maren.

And it's a part of my life.

Plus,if we were just accountants, then that's what we would be posting about.".

Although a date has not been set, Morris says she's hoping for a spring wedding.

And what about the dress? In October, the singer told People, "I'm having the dress made.

I'm in the midst of getting sketches back for that.".

They Began Dating in December 2015.

Singer-songwriters Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd attends the 51st annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 8, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Morris and Hurd first got together in December 2015.

According to People, they were friends for years, and first met in a writing session in 2013.

Discussing how they met, Morris told People, "We were both at different publishing companies, and our publishers' job is to fill our calendars up, so they just randomly put us together on a write one day.

Still, it took a while for the two to pursue a romantic relationship.

"We had been friends for only a couple of years, but there was always this writing chemistry in the room, and eventually, the timing of it was undeniable.

We had such a foundation built off writing so many songs over the years that we were like, 'Why are we avoiding this?'" Morris told People.

Hurd's Song 'Love in a Bar' Is Written About Morris.

Hurd has revealed on a number of occasions that his song, "Love in a Bar", draws from his relationship with Morris.

It makes all the more sense that she's featured alongside him in the song's official music video.

In an interview with Rolling Stone last year, Hurd said of the song and music video, "… we're both really private people… But with this video, it's like, 'Man, that's my house I grew up in.

It's our lake house in Michigan.

We got engaged there.' We didn't reenact anything.

That's the canoe boat we got engaged on and that's the place I remember taking her for the first time a year and a half ago.

It's always been a really special place for us.".

Morris also spoke to the outlet about the first time Hurd played the song for her.

"When he played me the demo it felt like a beautiful time-stamp for us and our story.

But it was also so relatable.".

Hurd Had Her Ring Custom Made.

Hurd had Morris's ring custom-made to reflect her personality.

In a red-carpet interview with E!, the "My Church" singer was asked about the ring, and dragged her fiance over to tell the story.

"I know what she likes and I had somebody in Canada put it together.

The stone is from New York City, it's from an uncut diamond, and then the rest of it's cast just custom for her," Hurd said to E!.

"I couldn't just buy something.

I had to make it something that fit her.".

Asked how she reacted to the proposal, Morris said, "Oh, I sobbed.

I mean it was so emotional and so perfect.

He's a very thoughtful human being, and I feel like the proposal was just as thoughtful as he always is.

So it was perfect.".

Hurd's EP Was Released on April 7, 2017.

While most music fans are familiar with Morris's hit songs, like "My Church", "I could Use a Love Song" and "I Wish I Was", few are as familiar with Hurd's accomplishments.

First and foremost, Hurd is a songwriter.

The 31-year-old is from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and graduated with a Sociology degree from Belmont University.

In 2015, he wrote "Lonely Tonight", one of Blake Shelton's No.

1 singles.

In 2017, he signed with Sony Music Nashville.

His self-titled EP was released in April, and has received over 2 million streams on Spotify.

In July, Hurd sat down with Country Music Chat to discuss his career and hopes for the future.

Asked to describe his sound, he said, "I would say it's a very country lyric, but we do a lot of different things that don't quite sound like anything else on the radio.

We do some very anthemic rock-and-roll-sounding songs, and there's brightness, and darkness too in the back half of my album.

So I'm really proud of how it all ties together and how the narrative of the lyrics looks.".

Hurd sites his influences as Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Willie Nelson, and the Beatles, among others.

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The 12 Types of People On The Internet - Duration: 5:54.

Brainy Dose Presents:

The 12 Types Of People On The Internet

The internet is both wonderful and strange. While the perks are plentiful, I'm sure

you'll agree that internet users you can encounter online are quite diverse.

Some of them are intense, some of them can be annoying, some of them are inspiring and

likable – and some of them are you!

No matter how you spend your time online, you will have cyber-met at least one of each

of these folks!

Number 1 - The Centers

They are the biggest users! They breathe and live on the web. They take center stage on

the web and are active on every social community possible.

These people love creating their own web content, and are amongst the best techies. They usually

read up on all of the latest developments and get the newest devices.

Number 2 - The Critics

The internet allows anyone to be a critic while they hide behind their screens anonymously.

More than 50% of people who view user-generated content, comment on blogs and social media.

They also post ratings and reviews for products and services.

Since the rate of internet users who follow user-generated content declines with age,

for those over the age of 40, the percentage who are critics drops to around 10-20 percent.

Number 3 - The Open Sharers

You know these people, and you know them well. Whether you want to or not.

At an average age of 32, these users are always on social media platforms like Facebook and

Twitter. They share everything… where they are, what they are doing, who they are doing,

pictures of their new house or car and sometimes even when their last bowel movement was.

They use the internet to tell everyone what they are up to.

…If only they knew how much others don't give a crap. But, it's the world we live

in.

Number 4 - The Simply Interactors

These people think that Facebook is the internet. They spend all day posting cute videos and

inspirational quotes. On average, they are slightly older than open

sharers, more likely to be female, and only about 50% hold a fulltime job.

But that number sounds about right, when all your time is spent on Facebook!

To their credit, when it comes to social media, simply interactors are much savvier than the

average user. But, they fall behind everywhere else and they usually aren't very computer

savvy. Look out for that virus!

Number 5 - The Solely Shoppers

These folks are master bargain hunters. They scour the net to compare prices and find

the best deals.

News, entertainment, social interaction? Nope, just deals.

On that note, these people are the biggest targets of internet marketers, and they tend

to know very little about how data is used to target them.

Number 6 - The Passive Users

Surveys suggest that these people don't fully realize the value of the internet.

They are more likely to be unmarried males, and while they don't spend much time on

social media, they do seem to be using many mobile apps.

Passive Users are completely okay with giving up their data while they're unaware of targeted

marketing and how to manage privacy.

It's most likely that these guys spend most of their time online watching the naughty

stuff. You know… stuff that starts with a p and rhymes with horn.

Number 7 - The Proactive Protectors

This crowd is probably the geekiest and the oldest. But they are among the best educated

and most employable. They have a lot in common with 'Open Sharers',

except for the fact that they are the least willing to share their lives in public.

Small fact: Three quarters of them routinely clear their browser cookies!

Number 8 - The Gamers

Gamers are passionate and usually a pleasant bunch. Well, until the console wars start.

You know Xbox vs Playstation vs PC.

You can find them on Twitch or Youtube alike. They do tend to get a bit grumpy when their

internet connection isn't running at 100%.

Gamers tend to use the internet mainly for games, and they are much more likely to be

PC users. Because mac sucks.

Number 9 - The "New To The Internet" Users

Everyone and their grandmother is online these days. Literally!

Grandmas are popping up all over the net! Are they using the latest devices, computers

and high speed connections? Probably not, but they are there, watching your activities.

They send emails wondering why you have time for all that social media stuff but no time

to write them.

Number 10 - The Downloaders

Downloaders have huge hard drives to store all their cracked software.

They know their way around torrent sites and have a large collection of programs, movies,

music, games and stuff.

Number 11 - The Debaters

Have you ever posted something on a forum or Facebook and regretted it because it took

on a serious life of its own?

Your comment may be throwaway, but there's always the risk that it will find the attention

of someone with far more knowledge than you, and you can expect a ten paragraph response,

challenging what you've said.

Number 12 - The Trolls

Yes. This list wouldn't be complete without mentioning these guys…

They're usually hanging out in comment sections just waiting to offend someone. But, they

can sometimes bring a good laugh as well.

When it comes to trolls… well, they're everywhere, and you can't really escape

them. So, try not to take shit too seriously.

So then, which type of internet user are you? Let us know in the comments below!

Thanks for watching, and thanks for subscribing!

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Lyme Disease & Recent Diagnosis Advice And Help-Lyme Disease Awareness-Sublyme77 - Duration: 8:17.

hey lyme warriors welcome to SubLyme77 your channel for Lyme disease awareness

education and inspiration my name is Regina Stoneham and I am a Lyme warrior

- have you recently been diagnosed with Lyme disease and do you wonder what are

some of the things that you need to do to get started today we're going to be

covering five steps on how to start your journey okay so the first thing is don't

panic it's gonna be okay yes it's an infection and it can be

treated there are a lot of different treatments out there and there's gonna

be a lot of people that give you their opinion on what works my advice to you

is to do your research I'm going to be leaving links below

to ilads.org and a bunch of other sites that you can start doing your own

research and find out what treatment you feel the most comfortable with I just

really feel passionate about this there's a lot of people that are gonna

say well I tried you know I tried the antibiotic route and it worked for me

and you might not feel comfortable taking antibiotics all the time you

might feel like hey I feel more comfortable in taking you know herbal

supplements the first step is to see al I'm literate doctor these doctors

usually don't take insurance do your research on lyme literate doctors in

your area I've left a link below to find a Lyme literate doctor in your area also

some doctors they focus mold and parasites and lime some doctors

focus on antibiotics and some doctors focus on antibiotics and supplements you

need to figure out what is gonna work for you

when you go visit a Lyme literate doctor you need to ask them a few questions the

number one question that I personally would ask is what is your success rate

how many people have you treated and have become symptom free I think that is

the most important question to ask and I'm literate doctor okay so you have to

do your research and you have to figure out in your heart what you can feel is

the best treatment for you also certain treatments cost more than other

treatment if you go like the antibiotic route and you have health insurance a

lot of the times it'll be covered in the health insurance but if you go the

herbal supplement route it's not covered in any insurance and it could end up

costing you hundreds of dollars each month the second thing is do your

research I cannot stress this enough do your research oh my gosh you want to

do your research and what Lyme disease is what it's doing to your body what the

professionals say about Lyme disease you should really understand the whole whole

all the politics around it the controversial disease

there's something about it I don't know if it's the name Lyme disease there's a

stigma well doctors don't believe that there's chronic Lyme disease but you

just you really need to do your research I'll leave the links below to get you

started okay the next thing that you are gonna need to do is a diet change the

diet's I'm going to be covering in another video but you have to cut out

all sugars carbs gluten dairy and there's a few there's a few other things

that you have to cut out it's a huge diet change especially the sugar

anything that you put in your body that turns into sugar you cannot have because

it feeds the bacteria you're gonna go through withdrawals if you're a sugar

freak and it's gonna stink my advice to you is to start your diet slowly by

introducing new foods and substituting them for the ones you're not supposed to

be eating diet change is really important okay the fourth thing is

exercise I did a video on my experiences with exercise most of the doctors say

it's okay to do exercise my advice to you is to do start doing some kind of

gentle exercise so you have to know where you are physically and push

yourself just a little bit past that point and then you're gonna make your

stamina stronger and you'll be able to push

bit further and further and further if you are bed in bed most of the time you

might want to have a goal of making it to like the front door if your front

door is a little bit further away and then walking back and then after doing

that for a few times then walk to the mailbox and back see what I mean so you

start really really gently what I've been doing is I've been trying to do the

elliptical machine so and I'm having my really good days I do my elliptical

machine but when I'm super super exhausted I will not do anything

I hope okay I will I will walk to the bathroom and then come back that's what

I do on my bad days yeah gentle exercise okay so make sure you do that you've got

to take care of your heart you've got to take care of your body the last piece of

advice that I have for you is to set a good team of doctors in place sometimes

it might take you a little while to get a good team together but if you get a

few doctors that are supporting you in this journey it will make you feel a

whole lot better number one it'll make you feel validated

number two let's say something happens like let's say I have a seizure I have a

neurologist that I can go to and get the right medication it's a really good

reason to have a good team of doctors on your side

wanting to help you the question of the day is for those of you who have Lyme

disease what tips would you give to those who

have recently been diagnosed if you liked what you saw please subscribe to

my channel to get more videos have you recently been have you meaning meaning

the other thing is is it sounds so funny right now the last piece of advice the

last piece of advice I have if you like what you saw please subscribe to my

channel to get more videos do your research

oh my gosh

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Eckhart Tolle 2018 Meditation - Accept and See What Happens - Duration: 20:37.

but it is wonderful to see that yes there is an inevitability to whatever

form this moment takes and so if you do not resist the form that this moment

takes internally you are no longer trapped or imprisoned by the form that

this form takes because very often that's what it looks like that's why

people always try to get away from this moment very often it looks like a

limitation upon you upon your life it's not what I want

what am i doing sitting here in this office in this place in this

relationship in this that this that the other whatever form this moment takes to

align yourself with it the moment you do that and it's not a doing on the

external language it creates the illusion that you're doing something

it's one could say it's the opposite of any doing to internally align yourself

well with what is is the opposite of okay I have to do something you don't

have to do anything just this is as it is always recognize that it's not doing

involved this it is as it is you align yourself with a form that you don't

fight the form the moment you fight the form the form of me gets strengthened in

yourself the the me that is based on my thought forms gets stronger through

the struggle reaction the reactivity against what is ultimately you could say

the illusion of me get strengthened through fighting what is and you can

verify that in your own life when you are resisting whatever a situation in

disagreement with someone this shouldn't be reactivity to see how

your sense of self feels a little bit inflated through that and you can see

when you watch angry people were fighting there some people who live

almost continuously in angry opposition to what is in the entire universe is

against them or they are against it the world is their enemy and they're just

looking for the next thing to get upset about and you can see how that

strengthens how that inflates the growing sense of self the reactivity the

fighting what is the complaining pattern in the mind

oh and every time you complain you strengthen a little bit that the form

identity of me the complainer the thought form the reaction in the egoic

identity inflates a little bit through the complaint because every complaint

means that you are right and what you're complaining about is wrong situation the

person place you are superior to that which you are complaining apart it is

the illusion how the self entity inflates itself continuously through

that it doesn't never last for long and they need something else but once you

watch that process in yourself or in another it's a little bit easier to see

it in somebody else

how the self-importance grows through every complaint the imagined superiority

of me as compared to that which you're complaining about and some people

complain about the the world of course it's a mad place but complaining doesn't

help very much they complain about humans people people are so unconscious

God you should know better but they don't so if you see how that fighting

what is strengthens the thought made me and accepting what is allowing it

surrendering to this moment the form that this moment takes that's all that

ever changes this moment never changes it's always now saying yes to the form

doesn't mean you can't take action if action is needed it comes out of the yes

and said out of them no totally different quality of action it comes out

of saying well this is how it is Here I am two coins in my pocket wet not much

for gin the stomach let's see that's what is at this moment hmm

and you go beyond the form of this moment and there is suddenly a piece

from deep within and there's a beauty even to that moment the form of that

moment but the beauty may not be in the form

but it comes from a deeper place of the formless the formless life that you are

the very life that you are underneath the form as which you appear you know it

not to rejecting the forms but through accepting the forms so the magic formula

then is but it doesn't work if it remains a thought form the forms that

seem to limit you in your life are the concealed openings into the formulas the

conditions that seem to limit you are the portals into the unconditioned that

which you are in your essence so if you can look upon your life and see where is

it that life seems to limit you what is the area where you feel hemmed in by

life the forms in your life your life situation it could be relationships but

you place where you live the people you live with the physical structures around

you the house or the work situation whatever it may be

almost everybody experiences some form of limitation in their life some form of

limitation and see if there and then you might notice also that you are not

almost have bit your resistance to those limitations those forms in your life and

see what happens if you let go of the resistance to what is

use that

and see what happens if you let go of them no to this moment you may be

surprised how quickly things change how quickly the stuckness gets unstuck when

you surrender and some of you who have experienced it already in certain areas

of your life how quickly you become free of the conditioned not by trying to

reach some point of the unconditioned in the future the limitless but I'm not

offering inner resistance to the conditioned with that deep acceptance of

what is comes what a word that I usually avoid because it can easily become a

thought form and it is all been misused so much with acceptance of what haze

comes love you love what is we don't even need to say love it's there when

you is an allowing of whatever form this moment takes enough arises

so the secret is not to turn your back upon the limitations and trying to reach

some point in the future where you realize yourself as unlimited once

you've sorted out your life situation it's never going to happen not for long

then something else drops instead of looking for some liberation at a future

moment the more limited you are in your life situation there are degrees of

limitation very limited for example would be if your body may not make it

from were that much longer anymore they might have said you may have two months

two more months those extreme limitations are the most powerful

openings the most powerful openings into presence into space when you surrender

to that and so it happens in some people's lives there is one big thing

one what used to be Christians used to call or still do the your cross one big

thing in your life that is a dreadful burden or seems a dreadful limitation

most of you have many little things that's fine too that works too but the

one big thing works even better if you're lucky enough to want to have

one big thing in your life that's oh absolutely unacceptable and nobody could

accept that well that's what the mind says and then surrender happens for many

of you it will be a case of little surrenders what is a little surrender

what is surrender it's the shift from no to yes surrender is detecting an inner

no to what is and then sing ha ha there it goes and then to see well but it is

and then you look upon what is

acceptance means it's not judged anymore it's allowed to be and there's a field

of attention spacious awareness the essence of your being was always there

never knew it and this is how surrender to one big thing can take you where once

and for all surrender is no more than surrender to

this moment as it is no other spiritual practice is required but if you're happy

with other spiritual practices that's fine too but every spiritual practice

ultimately points to that so why not do it now what beauty in welcoming the only

thing there ever is which is now what beauty in welcoming the form that this

now takes whatever the form may be and realize yourself as that which is deeper

than any form stillness peace

space

not that which happens but the space in which it happens that's who you are and

so when you look at night into space the vastness of outer space vast infinite

infinite depth that's the external version of who you are and then you also

notice when you look there you see oh well it's so simple they're basically

two things in this world space and things in space it's as simple as that

the world consists of space and things in space or rather things in space are

the world let's change it slightly things in space are the world and space

is that which goes beyond anything that words could say but it's so obvious even

if you look through the senses that there's basically even this room there

are things bodies chairs flowers light and this place space usually nobody

notices and usually nobody notices the inner space the stillness that is

underneath the noise the incredible spaciousness that is there within you so

you you are the bridge between the object world and

the formless

unconditioned the one and you move through this world interacting with form

still you are your race form two thoughts still happen occasionally you

interact with other forms and the play of forms continues all around you and

you are rooted in the formless which piece and the world is then the play of

forms around you so to speak so to speak

and nothing in the world of form matters that much anymore and it's only then

that and this is almost a paradox something that is not of this world

which is the world of objects something that is not of this world shines through

this form into this world the formless a certain transparency happens through

surrender to what is a certain transparency happens and so the

unconditioned shines through into the world of form and the world of home then

is experienced as a more benign place when that comes through you and it

transforms how you experience the world of form also not that the water form

will lose its characteristics of having polarities it has polarities the world

of form we'll always have certain polarities

otherwise forms could not survive i lo hot cold but the manifestation of the

polarities of the world of form will become more benign not the harshness so

one could say love comes into this world and love is not off this world that's

how the world changes not that it matters that much anymore whether or not

it changes and you certainly when it's s you surrender to what is you relinquish

the need for the world to change and then it changes and that includes the

need for your world to change your situation requests change

well first accept what is and then see what happens

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Good advice for stressful situations - Duration: 0:34.

Carlton,

Do you know how many days a soldier can spend in combat before he starts to crack up?

60!

And if they don't pull him out after that, 98% of them are ready for the loony bin.

What's happened to you Carlton?

I'm Alright Your shaking fellow.

You've been living on the fronline for too long son, and in our world no one pulls you out.

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