Waching daily Dec 28 2018

Most people are interested in a glamorized depiction of space - the movies,

the launches, the astronauts. But there are still a lot of misconceptions, and people

often don't understand what they're seeing in real videos from space. One of

the most frequent questions is: "Where are the stars?"

It's true - watch almost any video from space that isn't a time-lapse. You won't

see any stars. From America's first spacewalk in 1965 by astronaut Ed White

to footage from the surface of the Moon during the Apollo missions

to helmet cam videos from numerous astronaut EVA's

and NASA's High Definition Earth Viewing livestream from the International Space

Station. The Moon is visible, if a bit dim, but the stars are not.

Even the $20,000 Red Epic Dragon 6K digital cinema camera - while producing

brilliant images of Earth - still shows only pitch blackness beyond.

So, where are the stars? We know they're up there. We can see them with our own

eyes at night. Some conspiracy-minded people like to claim that the lack of

stars proves that all space videos are fake. This is nonsense of course. The real

answer is simple: cameras can't properly expose both bright and dim objects at

the same time. Okay, so here we are outside on this beautiful sunny North

American day in a backyard that may or may not be mine, and we're going to

conduct a test. Right now it's daytime, and here we have a subject: a little taco

eating unicorn that we're going to take a picture of. Then we're going to take

another picture at night using the same camera settings, and see if we can see

any stars. When the camera is properly exposed for daytime it's going to be

too dark for nighttime. All right, so here I've got my Nikon D90 trusty old digital

SLR camera. I have it in program mode, meaning the camera is going to decide

the exposure. It has the stock 18-105 mm lens on it. Okay, so let's take

our photo. And the auto metering in the camera set the exposure value to 1/640th

of a second at f/13. So just for kicks I'm going to manually change the

exposure settings on the camera. Let's say 2 seconds at f/4. Now I'm going to

take the same picture using the 2-second exposure.

Yeah, it's just a pure white screen. It's completely overexposed, because there's

way way too much light out here for a 2-second exposure. Next we're going to

take some photos using the same settings at night, and see what happens.

And here we are again. It's a nice clear night, a slightly brisk 42 degrees

Fahrenheit, and we're back outside with our taco munching unicorn. Except it is

now dark, as you can see. I'm illuminated by the light on the back of my house.

Let's use the same settings that we used earlier today when we took this picture.

So I have set my camera for 1/640th of a second f/13, and we're going to take a

photo. Okay, and as I suspected you see absolutely nothing. Nothing at all.

I'm going to do what I did before, and let the camera decide what exposure

settings to use. I'm going to set it to program mode. Auto metering is suggesting

settings of 1/25th of a second at f/3.5.

Okay now if we look at that,

you can see the background is pitch black, but the foreground looks fine.

I'm now going to use the same settings to take a picture of the clear night sky,

where there's a Moon. I do see some of the brighter stars. I cannot see anything

through my viewfinder. But I'm gonna go ahead and take the picture.

Not surprisingly, it is pitch black. The other photo that I took earlier where it was

completely overexposed... 2 seconds at f/4... set those. What we get is, the unicorn

is horribly overexposed. Some of the background is okay, but the subject

itself - the unicorn - is completely blown out. Just for comparison's sake let's

shoot the Moon again, because I can see Mars off to its right. We see the moon is

overexposed, and if we zoom out a little bit: Mars. And it looks like a smudge

because again it was a 2-second exposure, handheld, not on a tripod.

But the point is, in order to see stars and planets you need very high light

sensitivity, or a long exposure. In other words, in order to get a proper exposure

- even on an illuminated subject - at night, you need camera settings that will show

you absolutely nothing if you're looking at the night sky. And there you have it.

That's a practical demonstration, easy to do with just a camera, that demonstrates

why you cannot see stars in videos from space.

For more infomation >> Where are the stars?? Why you never see stars in live videos from space. - Duration: 7:52.

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Thinh | Der Deutsche mit Geburtsschuld | 50Prozent Interview - Duration: 5:49.

My name's Trung Thinh Nguyen. I go by Thinh. I'm from Germany, I was born in Germany,

in Erfurt to be precise and now I am - wait, let me think - 26 years old.

After 26 years it's always a struggle, when you don't look like a German.

I have a vietnamese origin, both my parents are Vietnamese.

Of course they want to see me as a Vietnamese.

It's always the question how others want to see you and to some extent you perceive yourself like that as well.

My upbringing was influenced by Vietnamese culture , accordingly I grew up Vietnamese.

and yes, I do feel partially Vietnamese.

But mainly german, hence I'd say, the most part of me feels german.

Growing up was hard. Well, I was born '91 and thus

shortly after the reunification I grew up with the germans - with us germans.

And, well, they do not always see you as a German.

You sometimes have to justify yourself, why you're in this country,

even though, technically, it's not your fault. In a sense it's like a birth-debt, a birth-burden.

You're here in this country, but you don't look german, that's why...

Why are you here? What are you doing here? What are your goals?

These question you pose yourself. But these question are also posed to you by others.

So yes, that's the struggle, that you're not accepted from the beginning,

like others that look german and that are so to speak "organic-germans".

I think the first time when you observe yourself in the mirror

so basically as a small child and then you see other kids. That's when you see differences, but

it's not like you're saying that you aren't german or vietnamese or whatever.

You just simply realize that somehow, you're different.

And the older you get, the more you actually get to hear it.

Then the whole thing gets verbalized, in a way that they, like, start to make jokes.

For example "Ching-Chang-Chong, Chinese out of concrete" (rhymes in german),

even though you aren't really Chinese and you actually don't even look like them,

but that's another story.

You do not only notice you're different than others, but you indeed get it pointed out directly in your face.

It's customary in Vietnam that the family-bond is one of the most important things

and thus it was quite important for my family, that I get to know the rest of the family.

I think the first time I visited Vietnam, I was around six or seven years old,

I got to know my grandparents. Then it was common that I've only

seen people that roughly looked like me.

I don't know, as a kid I just said "I was born in Germany, that's an easy question, I'm a German.

And then one day you'll say, "well fine, I do look a bit different, actually I'm Vietnamese."

It goes on like this and gets a bit more difficult every time, eventually

you ask yourself, just what do you actually feel like, what is your national identity.

You could also argue with language. I mostly speak german,

so I thought, well then technically you're german, but you also speak vietnamese

so bascially you're also a Vietnamese.

Well, these are easy questions and relatively easy answers but they

weren't the ones you were satisfied with in the end.

To be frank, today I'm more cool about it, I'd say.

I mean obviously I do sometimes get a bit frustrated when people ask me: "Where are you from?"

And by that they don't mean from which city you are

but rather which country your ancestors came from. That does still annoy me.

But actually I've matured to the point where I can say, well yeah it doesn't matter to me anymore.

I think that the moral conceptions of Vietnamese and Germans

are quite different. And because I grew up here

and because my goals are not compatible with the goals of my parents

I'd say that... Yes, that I associate being german with german morals and norms.

Regarding the future... Well if I have a wife and kids one day,

what is it that I want to convey to them. Which identity should they have.

I for my part don't have any problems with my past, I think

I have made amends with it, but what to do with my future, I really don't know.

What's vietnamese about me...

My respectful manner, I'd say. It doesn't matter if young, old, sick, male, female.

I want to show them something new, something they didn't know before,

no matter if they're strangers to me or not. That's how the Vietnamese do it.

When they see strangers they say "Hey, please come here, sit down and tell us your story".

What's german about me? I guess my punctuality.

I really loathe when I have to wait 5, 10, 15 minutes for someone

even though we agreed on a time.

But maybe it's just an imaginary german trait, because every other country says

german punctuality is the upmost virtue. But unfortunately my friends,

which are actually german, are always late. Thus it can't really be such a german trait.

When you pay attention to certain things, you notice them more often. And when you just ignore it, then

you don't really realize it that much. But particularly during my youth

I've heard a lot of dumb remarks. No week passed

without it being brought to my attention, that I am not an "organic-german".

Sometimes from friends, without them knowing, but of course mostly strangers.

But even from my own family, without them every truly realizing it.

Sure, I've been discriminated against a lot,

but the support is what I've felt a lot more and it felt significantly stronger.

The positive affirmations, which in turn are brought up by friends

when they say, "it's simple, you're german, you're born here, you belong with us"

and that's ultimately the most important thing.

For more infomation >> Thinh | Der Deutsche mit Geburtsschuld | 50Prozent Interview - Duration: 5:49.

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Ending These Wars Should Make You Happy! - Duration: 9:17.

Well, I think this is indeed a very, very important development, and it is what President

Trump had promised in the election in 2016, and it's one of the major reasons why he was

elected to become President.

And now that he has basically successfully, at least pushed back, to a certain extent,

the whole Russiagate and Mueller illegal investigation, obviously, he feels in command enough to actually

come through on his promise.

So, he announced that all of U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Syria.

There was a huge, hysterical reaction by the neo-liberal establishment of the West, but

also from the left.

So the absolutely erroneous thing is that all the people who supposedly are anti-war,

now say that the United States should keep illegally occupying Syria, when President

Trump is actually involved in a very reasonable and very thoughtful process of pulling out

of this situation.

Now, first of all, Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said who

should fill the vacuum after the United States pullout?

The natural thing is the Syrian government and the Syrian people, and given the fact

that there is now a constitutional process under way with the perspective of elections,

this is actually absolutely the best thing which could happen.

And the question of what will happen with the remaining open issues, like the Kurdish

problem, there are negotiations between the Trump Administration and Russia on the one

side, and Turkey and the United States on the other side.

And therefore, there is a Turkish delegation going to Russia in the next days; there were

negotiations between the United States and Turkey, a U.S. military delegation will go

to Turkey in the next days.

So, all of this is up to be negotiated, and a settlement to be found.

And obviously, this is a very, very important flank, because it means that the United States

is ending for sure -- at least that's Trump's intention and what he's acting on -- to end

U.S. foreign wars, to end what has cost $7 trillion in the last 15 or 17 years, and the

U.S. organization, Veterans for Peace is one of the few organizations which came out in

a full endorsement, saying that this is absolutely important that the

U.S. policy of being involved in foreign wars is ending, they welcomed that.

And also a number of Republican congressmen came out in support of Trump, for example,

Jimmy Duncan, who said that this is absolutely the right thing, because these foreign wars

have cost many, many innocent lives, they killed Americans, they created enemies for

the United States, they cost trillions and trillions of dollars, and this is exactly

what should happen.

I think anybody in their right mind who does not see the benefit of bringing peace back

to Syria by ending foreign occupation, and all the arguments that "this will help the

Russians," "this will help the Iranians," it's all not true: Because both the Russians

and Iranians have so many other things to take care of, that they will withdraw from

Syria and have no intention to stay there permanently, contrary to the media line.

Trump, today, sent out a very interesting tweet, basically saying that Saudi Arabia

will pay for the reconstruction of Syria.

Now, that, we have to see.

But there is obviously a much larger scheme being worked on.

Because a couple of days ago, the Afghanistan representative from the United States, Zalmay

Khalilzad, participated in a conference in the United Arab Emirates, and there he announced

that the United States will also withdraw completely from Afghanistan, that

they will not keep permanent bases there, and that the only way to bring peace and stability

to Afghanistan is by a political settlement, including negotiations with the Taliban.

At the same time, the Pakistani foreign minister was in Beijing and met with Wang Yi, and China

is also encouraging Pakistan to be part of this solution with the Taliban.

And at the same time, similar moves are happening with Iran.

Now, I think this is all very significant, because -- it's still in process -- but I

think what we are seeing in front of our eyes, is the emergence of a Peace of Westphalia

approach for the Middle East.

And if you please remember, the Peace of Westphalia was not immediately a vision for peace to

end what was essentially 150 years of religious war in Europe, ending with the Thirty Years'

War, but it was the result of the fact that all the parties involved recognized that the

continuation of this war would leave nobody alive to enjoy the victory.

And that is about the situation we have in the Middle East.

Because years and years, 17 years of war in Afghanistan have not brought peace; Syria

is in a state of reconstruction, now, with the Syrian government controlling almost the

whole country, Syrian refugees can return, but still what has to be reconstructed is enormous.

So you have a situation where the exhaust factor is a big reason.

And do not forget the exhaust factor of all the American soldiers who were on rotation

in these wars for many years, to Afghanistan, to Iraq, to Syria, and many of them came back

-- I think it's altogether -- 3 million U.S. soldiers who were on these kinds of rotations,

with their families affected, and many of them having post-traumatic disorders affecting

the whole family.

So I think the idea to end this whole, terrible idea of foreign wars, of U.S. basically playing

the role of being the bully for the British Empire, if Trump wants to stop that, people

should be happy!

Don't be so prejudiced about everything Trump does or does not do: The Western media are

characterizing Trump in a way which is absolutely not legitimate, because if this President,

and I've said this many times, gets the relationship with Russia and China on a good course, he

is going to be one of the great Presidents of the United States.

And I know that many of the international audience are going absolutely hysterical when

I'm saying that, but anybody who does not recognize that we must end geopolitics, we

must end wars, we must end tension especially between the nuclear powers, obviously is not

in their right mind.

So I would urge you, our audience, to give this a second thought, to think it through.

Don't be prejudiced, but think about a Peace of Westphalia solution as the only way to

end a terrible series of totally unjust wars, and wars based on lies.

Please, do not rush to conclusions: Think about it, make yourself informed, and check

the sources -- look at what the Chinese are saying, and doing; look at what the Russians

are doing, and then you can come to a better understanding of the situation.

For more infomation >> Ending These Wars Should Make You Happy! - Duration: 9:17.

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Peter Stokes, CFP® - Pure Financial Advisors, Inc. - Duration: 2:52.

When we grew up, my mom and dad set a great example for us.

I think that they really stressed the importance of setting goals, having the right values,

making the right decisions - even though sometimes those decisions might be real tough.

When it came time for me to start my family, I wanted to do the same.

I wanted to impart the same on my children.

Around that same time I started to work in the financial services industry.

And as I started to meet with clients, I started to see that there was a lot of bad advice

that was out there, and what was happening is, a lot of these folks were getting this

bad advice and they weren't able to do what they wanted to do with their lives

and their family's lives.

So I started to see a real need there, and I felt like I really could have an impact.

I felt like I could really impact people's lives.

The reason I joined Pure Financial is really for a couple of things.

Number one, Pure is the best in the business.

These are some of the smartest people in this industry that I have ever met.

And secondly, and maybe even more importantly, Pure has the feel of a family.

We're growing extremely fast, but we've still maintained this family atmosphere.

I feel like I'm part of this family, and we treat our clients like family too.

We care about our clients futures, and I'm able to help people. When they entrust me with

their financial lives and we get it right,

that's huge.

When I started out in the industry I remember I met with a lady early on who had just recently

lost her husband.

Her husband had worked for about 40 years for the same company, worked hard all his

life, did the right thing in terms of saving and was responsible.

But unfortunately, his wealth was all tied up into the company stock that he worked for,

and that stock had fallen dramatically.

And I'll never forget, this woman came into my office in tears, and she didn't know what

she was going to do.

She didn't know how she would survive, literally. And I thought to myself, "This is a shame

because this woman won't be able to do the things that she finds important and won't

be able to do what is important for her family."

And I felt like with the right planning, if someone had been instrumental in her life

that was able to do the right planning, her life would have been entirely different, her

family's life, future generations might have been entirely different.

What really makes me happy is seeing someone realize their dream.

Starting with them before they have a plan, helping them through that process.

Seeing it all come together and seeing how that shapes their life and their family's lives.

For more infomation >> Peter Stokes, CFP® - Pure Financial Advisors, Inc. - Duration: 2:52.

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How To Manage Your Time Effectively - Duration: 4:41.

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New Year's Eve Party Games for Families - Duration: 4:22.

in today's video I have three New Year's Eve party games for you because 2019 is

coming 2018 is at an end you already know that you're looking for

family fun party games as always I put quick easy simple games on this channel

because I'm a mother too I don't have time for complicated hi my name is Shawn

welcome to prayerlights. if you are new I would love for you to consider

subscribing to this channel I post family fun party games like this one on

this channel regularly twice a week let's get into today's video because one

of the games involves this weird contraption yes I put a belt and clean

up tissue box in a tissue box with a ping-pong ball what am I thinking okay

let's get into these videos here we go I found these really cool games on a

website that I will link down below make sure you check it out because it has a

really awesome fun games so go after you watch this watch another one of my

videos but also check out the website first game is called the kisses

countdown you are going to need red plastic cups twelve of them and twelve

candy kisses Hershey Kisses like these and you're going to put stickers on both

the cups and the kisses and number them one through twelve then you line up your

cups like a clock and set a timer for one minute I used my new google hob

because she just sets timers really well and really fast hey Google for one

minute sure one minute starting now and we played this game so the object of the

game is to get as many Hershey Kisses under the cups as you can in one minute

and every participant plays and then whoever is the winner gets all of the

Hershey Kisses of course you could always share if you want you know that

would be a nice thing to do alright game number two this game is

called drop around the clock you're going to need some straws preferably

reusable ones I'm still going through my disposable ones if you know of any good

reusable straws please leave me of that in the description box down below

because I am looking for some reusable straws anyway

if you're going to need or reusable straws one for each player and some M&Ms

or in this case I use those yummy sixlets candies and then a paper plate

so what you do beforehand is you make your paper plate look like a clock and

the object of the game is to use a straw to pick up the candies and place them on

the numbers around the clock using one minute and whichever participant gets it

done fast is in less than a minute or under a minute is the winner and gets

all of the candies if you liked this video you may want to check out another

video I will post a card right here you might want to watch this one next game

number three is called the ball drop yes you're going to need this weird-looking

contraption right here using a belt so you thread a belt through a empty tissue

box and then you put said belt around your waist

and you shake your bottom and you circle your bomb and you twist and you've been

trying to get that ping-pong ball or ornament basically you put whatever you

want in it out of the box it's actually a lot more difficult than you I think

here's a really great footage of me trying to get the ball out of the box I

suggest for this game that you get belts in different sizes especially if you

were hosting this party and that way you have like a kid size belt and different

sizes that you can easily thread through the tissue box and change per

participant and I suggest you at either line up everybody to go at once if you

have enough supplies if you don't just take turns with the one box that you

have and it'll still be lots of fun and just keep track of who gets the ball out

of the box and though quickest all right guys that is the end of 2018 and I will

see you in the new year with some more fun party games thanks for watching. bye!

For more infomation >> New Year's Eve Party Games for Families - Duration: 4:22.

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Nina Leonard Tunic with Zippers - Duration: 4:27.

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you need a giver | newt & leta - Duration: 1:19.

QUEENIE: Hey, Newt, who's she?

NEWT: Oh, that's no one.

QUEENIE: Leta Lestrange?

LETA: Socum rota.

LETA: You're too good, Newt.

You've never met a monster you couldn't love.

DUMBLEDORE: Hello, Leta.

This is a surprise.

QUEENIE: That was a really close friendship you had at school.

NEWT: Well neither of us really fitted in at school.

LETA: And I used to drop a dung bomb on his desk so I could join you, do you remember?

QUEENIE: She was a taker.

TINA: Does Leta Lestrange like to read?

NEWT: Who?

TINA: The girl whose picture you carry.

QUEENIE: You need a giver.

LETA: I love you.

NEWT: I don't really know what Leta likes these days.

Because people change, you know?

I've changed.

I think I -- maybe a little.

For more infomation >> you need a giver | newt & leta - Duration: 1:19.

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Elsa in Infinity War : Let You Down - Duration: 1:16.

Elsa: "You have to tell them to let me go!"

Elsa: "What power do you have to stop me?"

Wong: "You're not ready for that."