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from time to time our mind wanders the extreme parts of our very consciousness

that wanders about the things we don't even dare dream like who or what created

everything and before there was anything was there's still something there's very

little room with a question like this to say yeah there's always been stuff there

for there's always been life the very fact of the matter is that at some point

in time there absolutely must have been a beginning or so our mind tells us

there is a chance that the answer to this question is beyond human

comprehension therefore we can't grasp a proper answer for some reason were drawn

to the sky for answers to the question of our purpose on earth since the dawn

of time we wondered what the hell we're doing here

have you ever woke up at a stranger's house after a party well that feeling of

disorientation is a feeling we humans have lived with on earth it's as if the

planet we're told created us didn't have anything to do with us until fairly

recently here's a thought what if the entire

universe is exactly one thing one cell living within an unimaginably big

organism which has billions of quadrillions of other cells that many

individual cells or universes as we call them make up a living thing that we may

refer to as the Creator that'd make a good episode of Rick and Morty right the

Emerald Tablet of Hermes states that as above so below it's said to be inscribed

with the secrets of the universe the source of the original Emerald Tablet is

unclear hence it's surrounded by legends the most common legend claims that the

tableaus found in a cave tomb under the statue of Hermes in tiana clutched in

the hands of the corpse of hermes trismegistus himself another legend

suggests that it was the third son of Adam and Eve Seth who originally wrote

it others believed that the tablet was once held within the Ark of the Covenant

thoth was among the most diverse and popular deities of the Egyptian pantheon

he's attested in the Old Kingdom and was regarded since the most primitive period

as the god of the moon and stuff derived much of his authority from being the

secretary and counselor to the Sun God rah he became the regulator of time and

individual destinies it's sensational to think that ancient documents such as the

Emerald tablet or the Dead Sea Scrolls exist from a time that we know very

little about even with contributions and translations from the criss-crossing of

documents from different languages and religions we still only get a gist of

the story that's truly epic and every sense of the word another text which was

discovered right around the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls is the absolutely

enlightening but very controversial Gnostic texts wait till you hear this

discovered in 1945 and quickly sold on the black market through antiquities

dealers in Cairo the manuscript soon attracted the attention of officials of

the Egyptian government through circumstances of high drama they bought

one and confiscated ten and a half of the 13 leather-bound books called

codices and deposited them in the Coptic museum of Cairo but a large part of the

13th Codex containing five extraordinary texts was smuggled out of Egypt and

offered for sale in America word of this codex soon reached professor Giles quiz

bowl a distinguished historian of religion at Lloret in the Netherlands

excited by the discovery that Professor urged the Jung Foundation in Zurich to

buy the codex after discovering some pages were missing he flew to Egypt in

the spring of 1955 to try to find them in the Coptic museum arriving in Cairo

he went at once to the museum bore it photographs from some of the texts and

hurried back to his hotel to decipher them tracing out the first line the

professor was startled as he deciphered the first line which read these are the

secret words which the living Jesus spoke and which the twin Judas Thomas

wrote down this discovery of the whole texts raised a new question did Jesus

have a twin brother as the text implies could the text be an authentic record of

Jesus's sayings according to its title it contained the Gospel according to

Thomas yet unlike the Gospels of the New Testament this text identified itself as

a secret gospel professor quiz Bell also discovered that it contained many

sayings known from the New Testament but these sayings placed unfamiliar context

suggested other dimensions of meaning other passages he found differed

entirely from any known Christian tradition the living Jesus for example

speaks and sayings as if both cryptic and compelling jesus said if you bring

forth what is within you what you bring forth will save you if you do not bring

forth what is within you what you do not bring forth will destroy you what the

professor held in his hand the Gospel of Thomas was only one of the 52 texts

discovered in 1945 Ben knew the same volume with it is the Gospel of Philip

with two tributes to Jesus acts and sayings quite different from those in

the New Testament the companion of the savor is Mary Magdalene but Christ loved

her more than all disciples and used to kiss her often the rest of the disciples

said to him why do you love her more than all of us the Savior answered and

said to them why do I not love you as I love her other sayings in this

collection criticized common Christian beliefs such as the virgin birth or the

bodily resurrection as naive misunderstandings they own together with

these Gospels is the apocryphon which literally means secret book of John

which opens with an offer to reveal the mysteries of the things hidden in

silence which Jesus taught to his disciple John the discoverer of the

texts incredibly admitted that some of the texts were lost burned up or thrown

away because he feared he and his family would be punished by the Egyptian

government for grave robbing but what remains is astonishing some 52 texts

from the early centuries of the Christian era including a collection of

early Christian Gospels previously unknown besides the Gospel of Thomas and

the Gospel of Philip the find also included the gospel of truth and the

gospel to the Egyptians which identified itself the sacred book of the great

invisible spirit another group of texts consists of writings attributed to

Jesus's followers such as the secret book of James the apocalypse of Paul the

letter of Peter to Philip and the apocalypse of Peter you have to wonder

about the validity of such texts that appear to have survived from a time in

history in which they were written uninfluenced or altered since they were

first created in that sense there must be more truth within these words than

our modern-day translations anyway we hope you guys are all set for the

holidays a lot has changed on this channel since last Christmas as you very

well may know and it's you guys who have driven us forward as we created over 200

videos in 2018 it's been a bumpy ride and it's only gonna get bumpy er so join

us on the journey as we attempt to gently peel back the lies and reveal the

truth about our civilization and remember the ways at which we arrive at

knowledge is hardly less wonderful than the discovery of these things themselves

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Why Do You Like Pop Music? - Duration: 10:39.

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "Without music, life would be a mistake."

He was probably on to something.

How many of you can remember the first song you appreciated?

When as a small child you started tapping your feet and realized a bunch of notes, a

catchy melody, could make you feel happy or even ecstatic.

This happens to us at a very early age, perhaps before we are old enough to really understand

what music is; before we cling to a genre as an identity or can fully respect the depth

of the music itself or the lyrics that sometimes support it.

It's as if we like music a priori, meaning our love of music was kind of built-in.

And today we are going to try and understand why we love our tunes, in this episode of

the Infographics Show, Why Do We Like Pop Music?

There are lots of reasons why we like music and it's not all about neurochemistry and

dopamine hits.

For instance, music can be tribal, it can symbolize how we feel at certain times in

life, represent our ethos, our club, so to speak.

The punk music of the 70s defined a clique, while you could say that classical music has

often been the favored music of the upper classes.

But first let's talk about the science of why we like music.

We warn you, our relationship with music is complicated.

Later we will also discuss why so many people like popular, or pop music.

In 2001, a study at Montreal's McGill university set out to find what happens in our brains

when we listen to music.

Those neuroscientists told us that they used something called magnetic resonance imaging

to see what happened in our brains when we listened to what they called "pleasurable"

music.

They did not define pleasurable, so we can't say if the music was the Wu Tang Clan, Ed

Sheeran or Arcade Fire.

Perhaps different styles of music have different effects on the brain, but we'll get to that

later, too.

Ok, so the scientists told us that when we listen to pleasurable music parts of the brain

called the limbic and paralimbic areas are activated and these are connected with the

feeling of euphoria.

Yep, we get a dopamine rush from music, just as do when we make love, complete a jigsaw

puzzle or bite into a double-dipped chocolate lava cake.

But the problem is, we know we get that rush from making love so we make love more and

procreate and humanity goes on; we know we get pleasure from food so we eat and don't

become emaciated and finally dead.

But why does someone blowing into a saxophone give us this rush?

Well, the sad answer is that no one totally understands.

According to the BBC some scientists say it's all about expectation and pay off.

We hear sonic patterns and regular beats, and unconsciously we are predicating what

happens next.

We get emotionally involved, and when we hear what happens next and we expected it, we get

a thrill, possibly like that feeling when your hairs stand on end or you get that rush

up your back and neck.

That's the pay off, produced by dopamine.

This all goes back to how we evolved.

We listened to patterns as early humans, and those sonic patterns could signify danger

or joy, and music is a pattern that can induce fear or panic or joy.

Of course if you listen to very alternative tunes, or what you might call experimental

music, it's not predictable at all.

Maybe that's the stuff your parents call unlistenable.

But for the most part, most genres have melodies or predictable parts, they have crescendos

and blissful harmonies.

This gives us a buzz, while we might say extremely experimental stuff at least intrigues us.

Science goes further, saying in the past when we were hunter-gatherers we might hear sounds

of animals.

A lion's roar might produce adrenaline while bird-singing might induce calm.

"Nature's tendency to overreact provides a golden opportunity for musicians" said

one scientist.

What he means is that music manipulates us.

You have classical music that starts calm and then produces adrenaline when it climbs

to a crescendo.

You could say the same about post-metal bands such as Deafheaven, whose music often starts

peaceful and builds to something that sounds cataclysmic.

It manipulates our emotions, and this gives us a rush of adrenalin especially when the

crescendo comes.

Then you have genre music that represents how you feel in life, or at a certain stage

of life, and when the lyrics combined with the music tell you should hate the oppressive

police, or distrust the establishment, or just party, party, party, this enforces the

manipulation and encourages dopamine to spill into your brain.

It goes further, though.

We are told that music is culturally specific, so one culture might find a kind of music

jarring as what they expect to happen doesn't happen.

Remember we get off on what we can predict.

The BBC writes, "All of us develop a strong, subconscious sense of which notes sound 'right',

whether in sequence in a melody, or sounding together in harmonies."

An article in Vox stated this is why we can get bored of music when we can't predict

the patterns.

That might not last, as we've all had some point in life where it took us some time to

get into an album or piece of music.

We might have also said that we liked something initially and then got bored of it, possibly

because it was just too predictable and bland.

We are also told by the French Institute of Science that music is like language, and all

humans hears tones in others' voices that sound angry, sad, etc.

If someone with a high-pitched tone talks fast and with energy it can sound happy, like

lots of electronic dance music.

A low-pitched slow warble might sound sad, as you might feel when trying to get through

a full Bill Callahan album.

And music has far wider range than voice, so it can manipulate us more.

Search on YouTube for 90's Rave clubs and you'll see what we're talking about, the

people looked possessed – of course there were sometimes added stimulants.

So, why do we like pop music?

In a book called "The Rest is Noise", the writer said, "Music may not be inviolable,

but it is infinitely variable, acquiring a new identity in the mind of every new listener.

It is always in the world, neither guilty nor innocent, subject to the ever-changing

human landscape in which it moves."

As we know, music sometimes defines who we are or at least we relate to it.

There are styles of music that help us to be part of a tribe, and we feel comfortable

with that music.

We can predict it, and it in turn gives our lives some meaning.

Whether you have ever defined yourself as a punk, a Hip-Hop devotee, a psychedelic psycho-naught,

a death metal fan or a lover of jazz, that music becomes part of what you are and you

receive pleasure in the form of dopamine when you listen to it.

For this reason, though, while you get intensely invigorated listening to Rage Against the

Machine your mother might not receive your kind of dopamine hit.

She might be more attuned to the Frozen tune, "Let It Go."

We are not all alike.

Another study asked 126 participants in Montreal to bring in all the songs they really liked.

They then tried to see how much pleasure a person derived from listening to songs of

different genres.

By looking at the brain they could predict how much time a person would spend, or was

willing to spend, on a certain song.

"Those areas included the amygdala, which is involved in processing emotion, the hippocampus,

which is important for learning and memory, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which

is involved in decision-making," wrote the scientists.

They concluded that people just listen to music that they have experienced already and

can predict, it's what they feel at home with.

They said we have a musical template, and even when we listen to something new, we are

using those templates to see if the music fits with what we are accustomed to.

The problem is that this study doesn't solve why we have such different musical templates.

We might grow up in the same household as someone and at similar ages and have very

different tastes in music.

This might just be because we have been around a musical style that the other hasn't, it

might be about tribe, but it might also just be about something we were born with.

Perhaps we are made with a musical template, that indeed there is something innate when

it comes to musical preference.

Now, with pop music it is usually very easy to listen to and it is very predictable.

It's usually not full of nuance and we don't have to be refined musical aficionados to

like it.

It's made that way so it sells and is liked by the largest audience.

In one article, a researcher wrote, "Pop music is actually getting more and more homogeneous."

The study as the Medical University of Vienna in Austria looked at 15 genres of music and

374 sub-genres.

They studied each genre's musical complexity and they found that the more complex the music

was, the less it sold.

The best-selling music was simple, it was what they called generic.

They wrote that, "music is becoming increasingly formulaic in terms of instrumentation under

increasing sales numbers due to a tendency to popularize music styles with low variety

and musicians with similar skills."

Could we cynically call this the dumbing-down of music?

The Great Big Sell-Out?

Well, business is business, and if producers can create something formulaic that we can

all easily predict and enjoy, that doesn't offend, doesn't cause fear, doesn't upset

even the most sensitive parent, perhaps they are just doing their job.

Pop music is also marketed well and it's what we are exposed to a lot.

It doesn't carry serious messages; it doesn't attempt to have a profound social impact,

and the majority of people just want something easy to listen to that they are familiar with.

That's not to say bands with serious messages haven't broken the charts, just look at

Kendrick Lamar, Nirvana, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and even our dear old The Beatles.

They all did extremely well and were not what you'd call simple pop (the later Beatles

at least) or trying to be something they weren't.

Researchers, however, told us that sales of Alt-Rock, Hip-Hop, Experimental, Folk, Alt-Folk,

are all down, although there are pretenders who come across as a certain genre but aren't

really that genre, that do well in the charts.

An example would be pop-punk, which isn't exactly what The Dead Kennedys, NOFX, or the

Clash had in mind when they talked about punk.

It's really just pop in disguise.

This kind of dressed-up pop is doing well, but it's also formulaic we are told, a pop-façade

imitating a former sub-genre.

Will more sub-cultures develop with less generic music that will become popular?

Are we destined to have homogenous tunes in the charts from top-to-bottom forever more?

Tell us in the comments.

Also, be sure to check out our other show Why Do So Many Scams Come From Nigeria?.

Thanks for watching, and as always, don't forget to like, share and subscribe.

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History of Tea in India - Duration: 11:47.

Indian streets are paved with gold.

Liquid gold.

No matter where you go, from the high peaks of Ladhakh to remotest parts of Andamans,

you will find this one golden beverage, this elixir of pure refreshment.

Everywhere you go in India you can find Tea.

Well when I say tea, what I mean is chai - boiled water with the leaves of the tea plant - camelia

sinenses, usually with milk and sugar.

Not only is it the staple beverage in households across the country, offices and commercial

areas have dedicated tea vendors, who in turn don't even come close enough to fulfilling

the demand.

So you and everyone you know has that one chaiwala who makes just the perfect tea.

India in short is run on chai.

But rewind the clock by a mere 100 years and tea had not the popularity it enjoys today.

So how did chai get so popular?

Let's find out

According to a 2017 study that appeared in "Frontiers in Plant Science",

there are 3 possible sites where the humans generally began to use and grow tea purposefully

And they are all around this area - Southern China, Yunnan Province of China, and Assam

in India.

However, the earliest written records we have indicate that tea started being used as a

medicine extensively in China nearly 5000 years ago.

When Buddhism came to China, tea, due to its healthful benefits, became a part of the Chinese

daily life.

And as the religion spread along the Silk Road, so did tea, which was now a part of

Buddhist ceremonies.

Tea was happily spreading peace and alertness throughout Asia, when in came the Europeans,

with their fancy ships and trade deals.

While India traded mostly in spices and ivory, China traded porcelain, its own spices and

tea.

Portugal was the first of the Old World to reach the Far East and started drinking tea,

but when the Dutch came next, they were so impressed, that they created permanent stations

in Java (Indonesia) for the purpose of importing tea.

They were also the first to create a habit of daily tea drinking.

And from the Dutch, tea drinking spread to the high society of mainland Europe - France,

Germany and Scandinavia.

This was also the time when Europeans started adding milk to their tea.

No one exactly knows why.. maybe not to stain their expensive porcelain?

In the year 1658 Dutch-bought tea was first sold in London, advertising its miraculous

health benefits.

And all of the British high-society went mad for this drink.

Now the tea in England was similar to the European milk tea, but they also added sugar

that they were importing from West Indies.

This further boosted the popularity of tea.

It started being available in coffeehouses across England along with coffee and hot chocolate.

In 1662 King Charles the II married Princess Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess

and an avid tea drinker.

This made tea a fashionable trend with the English ladies and led to the creation of

a social event known as 'teatime', which interestingly still exists in various colonial hangovers

- like the sport of Cricket.

Now, tea was in such high demand in England, that the Crown wanted to trade directly with

China.

But at the time, the Dutch were the strongest of seafaring nations, and so they restricted

England to only opening trading stations in India - they did not allow them to directly

trade with China.

The Crown made a few rich merchants responsible for these trading stations in India.

They called themselves the Levant Group and formed a company called the the John Company,

or on papers the British East India Company.

Although the British East India Company later was able to directly trade with the Chinese,

the increasing amount of competition was making them desperate to look for a cheaper source

of tea.

The Chinese at that time considered foreigners as barbarians and would not let anyone inside

the country - but we will come back to this later.

England, on the other hand understanding that the continuing high demand mean huge profits

for the future, were driven to try and use the land they had newly conquered - India.

Now for many years, there had been rumors of local Singpo tribes in Northeast Assam

eating tea leaves as picked vegetable.

In 1823, an English explorer - Major Robert Bruce went on an expedition to that region

and found out the rumors to be true.

There were wild tea leaves growing in Assam, which were being used both as a vegetable

and in beverages for centuries.

However, when he brought the seeds and plants back to Calcutta, the English researchers

could not properly identify the Assam tea bush, because they thought only the China tea bush

can be called tea and stopped any further investigation.

Now back in Europe the demand for tea kept rising.

The British East India Company was dependent solely on China for its tea and so great was

the amount of silver being paid to the Chinese traders, that the English almost ran out of

silver.

And to add to the problems, the Chinese refused the British East India Company's monopoly to trade,

so trading from China got very very competitive.

To solve this, England came up with a plan.

A plan to exchange addictions.

Chinese Tea for Indian Opium.

They flooded the Chinese market with Opium grown in Bengal.

The Chinese became addicted to the drug and its demand was big enough to offset the money

England lost in buying tea.

This also led to the Opium Wars, which is a story for another time.

But England wanted to fully control the manufacture and import of tea.

With that in mind they created the India Tea Committee.

In the beginning the Committee kept choosing wrong locations and wrong tea bushes - ignoring

the Assam bush and insisting on China bush - not understanding the lower temperature

and higher altitude requirements of the China bush.

And so they failed again and again.

As mentioned before, the Chinese did not let anyone in the country, and so their methods

of tea manufacture were largely a secret.

But that was before the great theft.

In 1848, a botanist from Scotland, Robert Fortune, went to China disguised as a Chinese

merchant and brought back to India - tea seeds, tea leaf samples, knowledge of manufacturing

both black and green teas, and also, wait for it, 80 Chinese tea specialists who started

working on tea gardens in India.

Good god!

The samples were planted in Darjeeling and Assam.

Now, because of Darjeeling's low temperatures and high attitude the China bush was somewhat

successful.

But Assam's lower elevation and warm and humid climate caused the tea to fail.

The Tea Committee then researched the Assam problem carefully and finally identified the

Assam bush as different from the China bush.

They started the process of taming the wild tea bushes of Assam, applying methods learned

from the great theft.

This proved to be a massive success - the Indian tea was deemed better in quality than

the China tea and the Assam bush replaced the China bush in India.

And so began the tea industry in Assam.

The tea bush was later also planted in the Nilgiris in south India and Kangra Valley

in Himachal Pradesh.

Within 50 years England was fully in control of their tea import.

In the year 1900, about 75 million kilograms of tea was supplied from India to England.

The Chinese tea import on the other hand fell from 90% to only 5% as India grew to be the

world leader in tea manufacture.

Now during these early stages of the English setting up the tea industry in India, the

local customers were mostly the English imperial citizens, and some in the Indian high-society.

And so the early tea ads were largely targeted towards them.

But with the opening of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in 1880s, tea started making inroads

to all parts of the country, and India itself emerged as a big tea market.

But, it was only after the first world war, in the 1920s, that the status of tea as we

know it today began taking shape.

Railway Stations all across India - from Bengal to Punjab - were the first places where tea

vendors set up their shops with stoves and kettles to sell tea.

It was also when the tea companies started an educational propaganda.

Large hoardings and boards showing how to make tea in local languages were put up in

public spaces, demonstration events were held, where the people were shown how to make tea

at home, and they were given this healthy and delicious drink free of cost.

Tea was now heavily advertised to all sections of Indian society.

It was necessary to start your day with a cup of tea.

Breakfast was said to be incomplete without a cup of hot chai.

And to make the tea even more energizing and enticing, even more milk and sugar were added.

When tea finally reached common people's home, they added their own ingredients to keep up

with their own preferences.

Ginger, cardamom, and other spices were added according to their taste and medicinal values.

And from a few shops and stalls in the 1920s, tea vendors started booming in the 1930s in

every major city, and they reached all of India by the 1950s.

But chai did have some problems in south India, where the urban middle class was obsessed

with coffee.

It did finally break through and started being served in hotels and coffee clubs.

In the 1940s, before independence, tea ads changed to reflect the swadeshi movement and

started representing different peoples and different parts of the country.

After independence, tea became India's largest industry and the biggest foreign exchange

earner.

A picture of a united Indian nation started to emerge and it was a nation that united

over a cup of tea.

This ad for example - shows how 10 members of a joint-family hold completely different

views but come together and negotiate them over a cup of tea.

Tea was the binding force keeping together the family and the nation.

Through ad campaigns and further decrease in prices, tea became the national drink of

India.

All classes and sections of the society were hooked onto this beverage.

In subsequent decades, tea started to appear as a subject of the newly popular art of photography,

it also started showing up in popular national and regional movies, and it became the center

of socializing and "getting together for gossip" culture.

On the other hand more and more ads began relating tea with art and showing it as a

necessary tool in one's creative and artistic pursuit.

In India, tea is available in small-town railway stations, in five-star hotels and everywhere

in between.

You can find a chaiwala on highways, city streets or

on small narrow roads.

Anyone who has been woken up by the chai-chai-chai of tea sellers inside a train compartment,

knows how ingrained tea is with the daily life of the country.

In its past, it has led to wars and rebellions, and today functions as a part of a united

nation and an ever growing industry.

The benefits of these leaves are well documented and well researched.

So why don't you sit back, relax and have a cup of tea.

Hello internet.

Let me know if you liked the video in the comments below.

I will making more videos on things that interest me about India, so please subscribe to stay

updated.

Thanks for watching.

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The now very pregnant royal will be visiting to celebrate the upcoming arrival of her and husband Prince Harry's first child

However, she will be going alone, leaving Prince Harry at home in the UK. Meghan has another official overseas visit planned to Morocco after her week of celebration, but will she be too pregnant to travel?  Meghan, Harry, Kate and William inspire Swedish royals' parent guide Meghan Markle: Pregnant Duchess takes SOLO trip abroad - Where?  Is Meghan Markle too pregnant to travel? Kensington Palace has not yet revealed when Meghan's official due date is but Meghan and Harry have hinted she is due some time in April

 This means she is expecting to give birth in as little as three weeks. As most pregnant women approach the final weeks of their pregnancy, they will be under advisement not to travel, as this is a potential risk to the baby

  At the very least, Meghan is 36 weeks pregnant, and according to the NHS, chances of giving birth increase after week 37

 The NHS outlines no particular health risks in this time frame but does advise it is best to check, as some airlines won't let women fly towards the end of their pregnancy

 This is because giving birth on a plane is both distracting to staff who may be otherwise needed, and is an unsanitary environment

 The NHS says: "Flying isn't harmful to you or your baby but discuss any health issues or pregnancy complications with your midwife or doctor before you fly

"  Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were late to awards ceremony Is Meghan Markle's accent changing to be more BRITISH?  "The chance of going into labour is naturally higher after 37 weeks (around 32 weeks if you're carrying twins), and some airlines won't let you fly towards the end of your pregnancy

" "After week 28 of pregnancy, the airline may ask for a letter from your doctor or midwife confirming your due date, and that you aren't at risk of complications

" However, the flight time from London to New York could pose some risks to an unborn child, through deep vein thrombosis

 The NHS says: "Long-distance travel (longer than 4 hours) carries a small risk of blood clots (deep vein thrombosis (DVT)

"  "If you fly, drink plenty of water and move about regularly – every 30 minutes or so

 "You can buy a pair of graduated compression or support stockings from the pharmacy, which will help reduce leg swelling

" The average London to New York flight takes around 15 hours, according to British Airways, which may mean Meghan is at some risk

 However as a royal, she will likely have the best of care and advice from top medical professionals, so her child will be safe

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Steps to Buying a Home-First Time Home Buyers THIS is for YOU! Part1 - Duration: 3:55.

Steps to buying a house? Well that's what I'm gonna be talking about in today's

video, so let's get started!

Hey everyone welcome to my channel! My name is Anne-Marie Priske and

I'm a realtor in Corona, California with The Priske

Homes Team and Keller Williams Corona. I invite you to subscribe to my channel so

that you, too, can learn about all things real estate.

Are you tired of paying for someone else's mortgage payment? Have you had it with another rent increase? Are

you starting to get annoyed that you can't decorate your own space or is that

space getting smaller by the minute? Well it may be time to think about

buying your first home ever! In this part one video of my home buying series, I'll

cover the basics to the steps to buying a house and point out some important

tasks for you to do before you begin house hunting. First you're gonna need to

plan ahead. What I mean is that the roommate situation and mom and dad's

house gets old real quick, so the first step is to save money. Unless you have

hundreds and thousands of dollars worth of cash to buy a house outright, you're

gonna have to talk to a mortgage lender and discuss what your options are to get

approved for a new home loan. I talk about the importance of being a strong

qualified buyer in the video above so that when you do find your dream home

you're going to be in the position to beat out all the other buyers and get

your offer accepted. Here's a short list of what you'll need to begin the

qualification process. credit score of at least 650...have at

least 3.5 to 20% of the sales price of the home in the bank

or retirement fund... at least two years at the same place of employment... debt to

income ratios under 50%... last two years filed tax returns and annual income to

support the new payment, taxes and insurance. Sounds like a lot, but really

just takes some goal-setting and planning ahead.

Now there are a couple things that can jeopardize your buying power like taking

out new credit cards or using credit to buy anything especially a car or paying

your bills late so don't do that. After you get pre-approved it's time to start

house-hunting! Nowadays you can easily search for homes online, but unless your

a real estate market specialist or a neighborhood expert, you can waste a lot

of time online and driving around only to be disappointed in the location of

the home or at the way that the home looks in person or if the home is even

priced right. This is where a good real estate agent can help streamline your

search efforts and give you helpful area knowledge that'll save you time and

money. I talk about where to find one of these valuable people in the link

above. Once you choose a real estate expert,

they'll send you homes to your email so that you can narrow down the

possibilities, set up appointments to view the homes in person, and discuss how

you can leverage your buying power so that you can get your offer accepted.

Be sure to check out part 2 of my home buying series where we're gonna talk

about what happens next. Thanks for watching and I'll see you on the next video.

Steps to buying a house? Well that's what lhjkhgkh

Well it may be time to think about buying your first home ever!

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Vans employee is fired after saying f asterisk asterisk k you to a 14 year old boy wearing MAGA hat - Duration: 3:14.

Vans employee is fired after saying f asterisk asterisk k you to a 14 year old boy wearing MAGA hat

A Vans employee has been fired after he was caught on video saying f asterisk asterisk k you to a 14 year old boy who refused to remove his MAGA hat.  

The teen entered the Overland Park, Kansas, store with his mother and other family members over the weekend. 

In the video, the teens mother is seen confronting the employee about what he said to her son. 

A Vans employee left and right in a green hoodie has been fired after he was caught on video saying f asterisk asterisk k you to a 14 year old boy left who refused to remove his MAGA hat

He did nothing to you. And what did you say to my son, to my 14 year old son? she asks the man.  

Im sure hes heard it before, the employee responded. 

What did you say again? the mother asks a second time. The employee then admits to saying f asterisk asterisk k you to the teenager. 

The mother is heard asking to speak with a manager and walks over to the stores register. 

According to the teens mom, her son walked into the store and the employee told him to take off his MAGA hat. My son said nothing to him and did nothing, the woman is heard explaining to the manager.   

The employee was subsequently fired from the store, according to . 

A spokeswoman for Vans told the Caller that the companys focus is to provide the best customer service experience. 

We did let this employee go. He is no longer with our company, the spokeswoman said, adding that the mans actions were in contrast with our values and beliefs.

According to the teens mom, her son left walked into the store and the employee told him to take off his MAGA hat. My son said nothing to him and did nothing, the woman is heard explaining to the manager right

The teenager was wearing a red hat with President Donald Trumps slogan, Make America Great Again, printed on it 

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Know before you go: Hiking in the winter - Duration: 2:38.

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Instagram wants you to look like a good person, but Facebook just wants your credit card - Duration: 1:18.

Shopping on Instagram has been getting bigger and bigger and Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that enabling more commerce on Instagram is a priority for the 2019

But, the company seems to be starting with a bit of a Trojan horse in order to remove a bit of friction, and the Trojan horse is a very interesting one: donating to charities through Instagram Story stickers

To be fair, a Donation sticker to make it easy to give money to non-profits and charities is a good thing, and Facebook's version of the donation sticker has already raised more than $1 billion

Adding that option to Instagram should help a lot of good organizations in the long run

But, it's important to remember the end goal of Instagram and its parent company Facebook: to make money

So, getting people to add their credit cards to donate to a charity is also a good way to make sure that card is on file if Instagram serves up a product that they might want to buy

Code to allow the creation of a Donation sticker in Instagram was found in the app and a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that those plans are in the works and could launch in the coming months

But, it's probably a good idea for users to remember the lengths Facebook has gone to collect user data in the past and the ways it has failed on user privacy before deciding to give them your credit card number

source: TechCrunch

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Fantastic Beasts 2 special effects secrets: Niffler moment you missed to Hogwarts - Duration: 11:41.

One of the crowning achievements of the Fantastic Beasts franchise is the imaginative creatures - oh and the vast magical landscapes

Fantastic Beasts earned two Academy Award nominations for its production design and costume design, winning an Oscar for the latter

The more recent Crimes of Grindelwald was nominated for a BAFTA for its visual effects too

But who is behind the wizardry we see on screen? Christian Manz is one of the minds behind the creatures and visual effects that bring JK Rowling 's wizarding world to life

Crimes of Grindelwald isn't the first time Manz has worked with director David Yates - he also has credits as far back as the Harry Potter films

At the beginning of pre-production Yates challenged Christian and the team to push creativity on the film and to have fun with the creatures

Christian recently gave a talk about his work on the film at The VFX Festival , Mirror Online caught up with him after to talk all things Fantastic Beasts, VFX and what the future holds for the industry

No time to read? Click on the video above to listen to our interview with Christian Manz - with bonus secrets about Harry Potter and Dobby! The film is quite the operation

There are 1,500 artists working on the film at multiple facilities around the world, with about 100 people working on a single character

Harry Potter always had it's creatures, from the hippogriff to Dobby, but Fantastic Beasts takes it even further

"The Zouwu was particularly difficult," Christian says. "It had to be one, what Jo had written, and two, what everyone wanted - the Chinese creature - and in the end we designed a particularly bonkers design

"David, the director, wasn't sure at first. But one of our animators loved it so he quickly built it, modelled it, and animated it and that's what got us the Zouwu because David loved it

" The Zouwu is quite a detailed design. It's a monstrously large feline beast, as big as an elephant, with a striped body, scraggly mane, four fangs that curl out of its mouth, long sharp claws, and a disproportionately long, ruffled multicoloured tail

"By the nature of its face it was quite hard, with big bug eyes, it's quite difficult to emote and you actually had to have quite a lot of subtle controls in there," explains Christian

It paid off though, and ended up giving us one of the funniest moments of the film

"The bit where Newt waggles the Zouwu's toy in the air, everybody laughs at that and that's because they're seeing something, everyone has a dog or cat that would do the same thing

"What our animators do is study real animals, they closely study the natural world to see all those behavioural things

The big thing with the beasts is they are animals, not characters, but every dog or cat has a character

" When done right of course, the creatures give us some of the best humorous moments in the Fantastic Beasts franchise

"With the Niffler - especially with the first and second film - you are trying to think of funny things," Christian said

"It's those things that lift it." To create the funny moments, it's all about finding what's relatable, but it's also about the tiny moments you don't always see at first

"With the Niffler there's the times he's dragging his belly on the ground or he's taking the gold," Christian says

"It's something you've seen, but it's subtle animation - again you see his little heart going under the feathers, you see the pauses, it's some of the most difficult things to do

I think it's as much of what he doesn't do as he does do." Christian adds there's one particular moment in the Crimes of Grindelwald that the audience don't always spot

"There's a shot in there where which hardly anybody ever sees," he says. "[The Niffler] steals something in the background, with Eddie in the foreground as Newt, and he sort of is surreptitiously stealing something

" The movement and inspiration for the Niffler actually came from another animal

"That originally came from looking at a honey badger rifling through someones rubbish in South Africa I think," Christian reveals

"The insatiable desire to get in the fridge and get the food. Nothing was going to stop it, and getting that over in this is what makes it funny

" While creatures are a huge part of why we love Fantastic Beasts, the actual world the wizards and witches live in is another

Christian works with closely with Stuart Grey who worked on the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beast films to create the world we see on screen

"A lot of Paris still exists as it did in the 1920s, and New York, so Stuart starts with concept images of all the different streets that appear in the film and he'll be using real locations, but using other buildings or shifting buildings around to create nice compositions

" The team then had a "shopping list" to take to Paris, where they spent a month scanning whole streets, whole buildings, taking thousands of photographs before they come back

They then have digital models of all those buildings to match the concepts for the shots they film

The data has to be shared with the facilities in the UK and Canada. "We still shoot a lot of set it's not all green screen," Christian says

They work off of this, creating shadows and effects so it looks "as real as possible"

Sometimes too real. "I did a talk in Paris recently and they asked us which parts of Paris we shot in and we didn't go there at all!" Of course, one of the most iconic buildings - Hogwarts - is also brought to life thanks to Christian and the team

For all the seven Harry Potter films they'd built it digitally. "The team used the same material to re-build it and zhuzh it up for 2018," Christian says

The Hogwarts interior was the same location for Harry Potter one and two. For the Great Hall, they scanned the hall at Warner Bros Studio Tour London

"We digitally created the whole set, but using the real set in the tour and referencing all the photographs and the films themselves," Christian explains

The Ministry of Magic was the same, with the team using drawings and photos from 10-15 years ago

"We were ringing up sculptors asking for their work," he says. "This franchise is unique it's all there in the museum, so it feels as authentic as possible

" Even though the first films still provide a wealth of material, things have changed since the first movie's release

"The big change is the amount of visual effects content," Christian says. "When you go to  Harry Potter tour, things like the hippogriff, that was digital but there was physical build of the creature

When you go to the tour you see they built a lot of stuff, which you don't necessarily do anymore

A lot is imagination based now. We can do more. "If you were doing Fantastic Beasts at the time of Harry Potter, with New York, with Paris, we wouldn't have been seeing as much of that city as we're able to show today

" That's mostly down to technology of course. "Computers have got quicker, and artists, we're getting more and more experience every year

"Visual effects is playing catch up to an industry that's been going for more than hundred years

The biggest difference for people coming into it now is they've got access to all of that, much more easily than I did, as a person who started not being able to use a computer

" There's plenty of young talent working their way up now too. The festival discovered 71 per cent of the future workforce aged 16-25 said they have a desire to work in the Creative Industries, despite an absence of careers guidance

But Art and design is losing popularity, as both parents and students rank it as the least important subject to study at school, despite showing an increased interest in creative careers

There's still hope for the future of visual effects, and plenty of work to be done - after all JK Rowling did say there's another three Fantastic Beast films

But while people speculate how films will develop and use visual effects, Christian thinks there's one way it can go

"There will be more of [special effects], but where's it is going is you won't notice it as much

Now it's a craft, the use of it now is to create a world and enable the director and writer to come up with things you wouldn't do before - whether it's a space ship or creature

"Film making has been going towards more and more green, less and less set, and there's all the talk that there won't be actors anymore

I believe there will be actors, there will still be performance. "The key thing with digital characters is getting the authentic performance and that's still driving ahead and us embedding ourselves into it

" For Christian it's "augment and not create as much as possible". What will really want to know? Will we get more Fantastic Beasts creatures? "It's trying to push the envelope of what is fantastic," Christian says

"It's trying to find the next Niffler. That's the biggest struggle. The struggle for me is ideas really, not in technology

You just have to think of ideas. I think when a film captures the audience's imagination - with this type of film - is when they see something they haven't seen before - that's the hardest thing to do

" The VFX Festival 2019: Emerging Talent  took place in February 2019 and was hosted by Escape Studios, a leading provider of VFX, Games, Animation and Motion Graphics courses

Join industry professionals at  The VFX Festival 2019: After Hours  or school and college students at  The VFX Festival 2019: EDU  events during June 2019; find out more at  thevfxfestival

com