You flush it down the toilet many times a day without thinking... but your pee can actually
say a lot about you.
What your body has -- or hasn't -- excreted can not only reveal whether you're pregnant
or what drugs you've taken; it can also clue doctors into whether you're sick.
Urine is useful to physicians because it contains everything that's left over after your kidneys
have done the important job of filtering out toxins, waste products, and excess fluid from
your blood.
So, if you've imbibed something you shouldn't have, or if something's wrong with your
kidneys, urine is a perfect tell-all fluid.
Plus, getting a sample is as easy as going to the bathroom.
And thanks to rapid urine tests, an initial check is fast and easy.
In these types of tests, you just dip a special strip of paper into some urine, and simple
chemical reactions trigger a change in color.
So they can tell you a number of things all at once...
Like the pH of your pee, the concentration of various compounds, and its levels of certain
cells or molecules, such as nitrite.
(video)
Normally, your urine doesn't have any nitrite in it, although it's chock full of nitrate.
But some bacteria produce enzymes that convert nitrate to nitrite, so extra nitrite in your
pee is a sign of a bacterial infection, usually in the urinary tract.
If you have an infection, you're also likely to have more white blood cells in your urine,
since your body produces lots of them to try to fight off invaders.
Lots of protein, on the other hand, could be evidence of a kidney injury or kidney disease,
since normally your kidney keeps proteins in your body, because they can be re-used.
And too much glucose, or sugar, could be a sign of diabetes.
Now, if the results from this "dipstick test" are abnormal, doctors will sometimes
spin down the urine sample, putting it in a centrifuge to separate out some of its components.
Then, under a microscope, you can see if bacteria or fungi are actually there, or if there are
a bunch of red or white blood cells, which could indicate bleeding or inflammation.
You can also catch some more unusual things, like groups of cells or sticky proteins that
clump together called casts.
These are basically molds of the insides of your kidney's tubules, and they can be a
sign of kidney disease.
And then there are crystals, which come in all shapes and sizes, and can be made out
of different materials.
Finding crystals in your pee might mean you're prone to kidney stones, or are experiencing
a dangerous side effect of chemotherapy, or have even have ingested something toxic, like
antifreeze.
While it's rare for urine by itself to provide a definitive diagnosis, it's a great starting
point, and doctors can often spot problems early on, often before you have any symptoms.
So, peeing into a cup at the doctor's office may not be your favorite part of your regular
check-up, but for doctors, that little sample is pure gold!
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FALLOUT 4 - Concept Art VS Reality - The ART! - Duration: 11:26.
Concept art is the backbone of the visual development of any visual medium.
In game development especially, concept art is often used to stir up ideas for the writers
and game designers.
It's one of the first steps to any game.
But it's not just a pre-production tool.
Its used throughout the entirety of development to constantly shape ideas and communicate
them to the team.
In all of my research I've found that most of the time the concept art looks WAY BETTER
than the finished product.
Why is that?
What happens to these games that makes them stray so far from the original idea?
My favorite pieces of art are the ones that tell a story.
Like this piece of your in-game wife having her baby ripped from her arms.
The lighting is harsh, creating a stark contrast and a pleasing rim light outlining the characters.
There's a lot of motion.
The left side being forced away from the screen, and the right side being forced towards it.
The figures make it like a renaissance painting.
Take special note of the framing.
The actual game has something very different.
The circumstances have changed, there's one less person for example.
But, not for nothing, this shot is a lot more boring.
Why is that?
Well, the framing is limited by the first person camera angle.
This isn't technically a cut scene, it's an in game event.
There are no cut scenes in Fallout 4 at all, unless you count the conversations.
This helps with emersion, but limits the amount of motion and depth capable.
In this scene, each character is confined to their spaces.
The animation is limited.
This doesn't excuse the lack of dramatic lighting.
This scene would actually look sick if the inside of the pod was still just a glowing
light.
But, lighting in games is difficult.
Maybe they couldn't get it just right or they ran out of time.
Or maybe it was never even considered a priority to begin with.
Now this is just one example.
Games typically have HUNDREDS of concept illustrations.
There's a whole book of these for Fallout.
So, why even bother with all of this work if the end result is going to be so different?
In the very early stages of game development, studio heads and sometimes writers will come
up with a direction they want to take their game, and call in concept artists to flesh
out random ideas.
They're artists, so they know what looks cool.
A consumer's first impression of the game is it's visuals, and at the end of the day
these are PRODUCTS to be SOLD.
So the studios trust these artists to stir up some visual ideas with a loose story in
mind to serve as a jumping off point.
This is something they do for movies too.
There's some great pieces from the pre-production of Star Wars Ep. 7, including this VERY primitive
light saber concept that probably spawned the idea for Kylo Ren's light saber.
And you might be thinking "wait that's not Kylo Ren at all!" and you'd be correct!
Perhaps my favorite story showing the importance of this step of the process is the canceled
4th Jak and Daxter game.
They weren't sure if this was going to be a reboot, a sequel or what, so artists were
throwing out some very wacky ideas.
The team realized their most interesting work was coming from pieces that stretched beyond
the typical cartoony Jak and Daxter aesthetic.
Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley, in their first ever directing rolls asked the execs
at Naughtydog... "do we REALLY have to stick to doing a Jak & Daxter game?"
To their surprise the execs said "no, not at all" and from these pieces, stemmed The
Last of Us of all things.
Pre-production art is where the most interesting ideas come from, and so much gets thrown out
because each piece is so different from the next.
During the pre-produciton of Fallout 4, artists focused on the important bits.
The vault suit, the pip-boy, and loose concepts of the environment.
Concept art is also used to set the mood and the tone of the game.
Part of this is helping visualize key moments to get a feel for what the game will look
and feel like.
This is where we got the piece of the baby being ripped from his mother.
If it was created this early in development, that would explain how it ended up becoming
so different.
But to their defense, for pre-pro art they came pretty damn close.
Concept art isn't just used to stir up ideas.
It's also used to solidify those ideas.
Characters are drawn and iterated upon over and over until the creative director is satisfied.
These images are then passed over to the character artists to sculpt the 3D models.
Basically every time they want to add something to the game, be it a different outfit, or
even, idk, a BLENDER, a concept artist has to design it 2 dimensionally first.
This is what keeps concept artists busy throughout the duration of the development.
There's always something to be added or tweaked.
I believe this is where it's most tragic to lose those beautiful nuances of the concept
art.
At least in the beginning of development the ideas are so radically different that its
inevitable that things get thrown out.
They're still trying to find a visual direction.
Late in development the visual identity should be pretty much nailed down.
At this stage things often get thrown out or changed due to time constraints.
Take a look at this concept of a completely vertical homestead.
It's possible this was meant to be the central city of Boston, all contained within one skyscraper.
This would have been BEFORE they came up with the idea of Diamond City.
It made it into the game, you can even see it FROM Diamond City.
It's just not accessible.
I really do like this idea, but it was probably scrapped due to technical limitations.
It would have been difficult to build upwards.
And how would your character get there?
An elevator?
A long staircase?
Would they warp there?
Would it be a different area all together?
Separated from the rest of the open world?
Ideas like this are great BECAUSE of how out there they are.
Unaffected by the constraints of... LOGISTICS.
These god damn logistics are just ruining everything.
There's also something about how story and life is portrayed in these paintings rather
than in game.
Maybe it's the stiff character animations, but it almost looks more alive in the still
illustrations.
And once again, dramatic lighting helps.
Make this place look dreary.
More mysterious.
The final in game work is missing dynamics that the concept artists weren't afraid to
implement.
You know, a lot of it is the lighting.
The Institute is supposed to be this light and clean looking place.
The bright lighting and reflective surfaces really sell this idea.
Nothing else in the game is this bright.
The in game area actually comes pretty close.
I love the foggy glow from the lighting, indicating that it IS really bright in there.
But what about the ground and the walls?
Even the character designs are made with lots of bright white strokes.
What's making them so afraid to push that contrast in game?
Let's up that exposure a little bit.
Are they afraid to lose detail?
That's ironic... because there's more detail in the concept art.
When I'm playing Fallout, I want to FEEL like this guy.
I feel as though it wasn't a priority to faithfully recreate these pieces, so much as it was to
create the big expansive world as quickly as possible, then maybe see what details they
can go back and toss in.
The airport has these Atomic Age pillars that look like fins.
The way the light reflects off the ridges really accents them.
It really sells the stylized 1950s look.
The airport we get in the game is just... flat concrete.
This is another logistical constraint.
Would it have been worth it to model these structures for just this one location?
They're so unique looking that they might not be modular enough.
Since the game is so big, a lot of Fallout's set pieces were built modularly to be reused
elsewhere.
Time is so important that EVERYTHING needed to be thoughtfully constructed.
Characters lost some detail too.
Look at how much more badass Piper looked.
The only real noticeable difference is her short hair.
The in-game model has a brighter, slightly less ragged coat.
Is that bright burgundy?
Ew.
Here's a better example of a stylistic change.
A lot of Mama Murphy concepts had her in some sort of wheelchair.
Since stairs would pose a problem, they decided to try outfitting her with a modified Mr Handy.
The artbook claims this was removed because it was "distracting," but I'd say it was removed
because it would be one hell of a challenge to script.
You'd have a character, sitting on top of what is essentially another floating character.
And how would she interact with the environment?
Her Mr Handy would have to be much lower to the ground in order for her to stay at eye
level with other characters.
The tragic part here is that her wheel chair, Mr Handy or whatever it would have been, carried
with it so much of her personality.
She could have been such a larger than life character.
The only remnants of THIS Mama Murphy that we get in the game, is that she just has to
sit all the time..
But, this would have been a HELL of a lot of time to implement.
You can tell that someone at Bethesda was pushing for this concept HARD.
Sometimes, sacrifices just have to be made...
When it comes down to it, these are all great excuses for the game to be different than
the concept art.
Games should be as faithful to the original idea as possible, but conform to whatever
restrictions they need to in order to actually ship.
Done is better than perfect.
It's too easy for games like this to get delayed and iterated upon over and over while striving
for everything to be just right.
I'M just here to bust Bethesda's balls, and show you guys the game that we ALMOST got.
It's fun to see how things change during development.
But what do you guys think...??? IS done better than perfect?
Would you have liked to have seen a more artistic and stylized Fallout 4?
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Why Progressives Own The Future - Duration: 5:02.
SO IN THE MIDST OF ALL OF THE CRAZINESS OF DONALD TRUMP
AND THE NEWS OF THE DAY, I DON'T WANT YOU GUYS TO LOSE TRACK
OF THE FACT THAT WE ARE WINNING.
YOU MAY BE THINKING, WAIT A MINUTE?
IF BY WE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
PROGRESSIVES, UNFORTUNATELY OUR PARTY THESE DAYS IS THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THEY ARE LOSING AT A RECORD PACE ALL
ACROSS THE COUNTRY, IN ELECTIONS AND CERTAINLY IN POLICY.
THAT IS CERTAINLY TRUE BUT IF YOU MEAN WE AS IN THE MOVEMENT
OVERALL AND THE TIDE OF HISTORY I HAVE GREAT NEWS FOR YOU GUYS.
SOME OF THIS YOU BEGIN TO SEE THROUGHOUT ALL THE YEARS OF
COURSE, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT IN ONE MOMENT IN TIME,
GIVES YOU A REALLY GREAT WINDOW INTO HOW MUCH WE ARE WINNING.
I SAY WE IN THIS CASE MEANING PROGRESSIVES.
MY DEFINITION OF PROGRESSIVE IS PEOPLE WHO WANT TO EXPAND
THE CIRCLE OF LIBERTY.
CONSERVATIVES WANT EVERYTHING TO STAY THE SAME.
PROPERTIES WHITE MEN HAD ALL THE RIGHTS AND THEY WANT THEM
TO ALWAYS HAVE THE RIGHTS IT.
THAT WAS CONSERVATIVES BACK IN THE DAY.
AND THEN THEY HOLD ON AND THEY SAY OKAY, NON-PROPERTY
WYMAN AS WELL AND THEY SAY THAT IS THE NEW TRADITION AND
HERITAGE AND CULTURE, I WANT TO HOLD ONTO THAT.
PROGRESSIVE SAY LET'S GO FORWARD, EXPAND THAT LIBERTY
TO WOMEN, AFRICAN-AMERICANS, AND OF COURSE GAY AMERICANS.
THAT BRINGS ME THE STORY.
HOW MUCH ARE WE WINNING ON THIS ISSUE?
WELL, WE CHANGE THE
COUNTRY'S MIND.
IT'S A BOLD THING TO SAY ALMOST COMPLETELY, BUT KIND OF
THAT NEW GALLUP POLL OUT, 64% OF AMERICANS SAY SAME-SEX
MARRIAGE, AND A CIVIL UNIONS, NOT A HALF MEASURE, NOT
SOME RIGHTS, SIX SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGAL.
THAT IS A MOST TWO THIRDS OF THE COUNTRY.
IF YOU'VE GOTTEN TWO THIRDS OF THE COUNTRY TO AGREE WITH
YOU ON ANY ISSUE, THAT IS A GIANT WIN.
THAT IS NOT A SMALL NUMBER.
THAT IS FAIRLY IRREVERSIBLE AND THAT TREND CONTINUES IN
THAT DIRECTION AND HAS NOT ABATED.
TO GIVE YOU CONTEXT HERE, BACK IN 1996, BILL CLINTON IS
PRESIDENTÖ BACK IN THE COUNTRY WAS ALREADY HEADED IN A
PROGRESSIVE DIRECTION, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT PERCENTAGE OF
AMERICANS THOUGHT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGAL?
ONLY 27%.
IS THAT AMAZING?
WE MOVED IT FROM 27% TO 64% IN ABOUT 20 YEARS.
AMAZING.
DON'T LOSE TRACK OF THE PROGRESS.
YES, THE ARC OF HISTORY DOES BEEN TOWARD JUSTICE.
LIMIT GIVING OUT THE PARTIES LINE UP ON THIS.
74% OF DEMOCRATS ARE NOW IN FAVOR OF THAT.
THE NUMBER SHOULD BE HIGH BUT WE WILL TAKE IT THAT MOST
IMPORTANTLY, SOME TO 1% OF INDEPENDENTS NOW THINK
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGAL.
IT IS OVER.
WE WENT ON THIS ISSUE.
IF YOU HAVE 71% OF INDEPENDENTS ON YOUR SIDE, OVER.
LOOK AT THIS.
EVEN 47% OF REPUBLICANS.
WE'VE ALMOST GOT A MAJORITY OF REPUBLICAN SAYING YES,
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGAL AND OF COURSE, IT IS.
SUPREME COURT RULED IN 2015 THAT IT IS NOW LEGAL THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTRY, BUT IT IS ONE THING TO WIN ON THE LAW OR ON A RULING,
IT'S ANOTHER THING TO WIN HEARTS AND MINDS AND WE HAVE.
YOU KNOW WHY?
WE HAD AN EXCELLENT CASE TO MAKE.
IT IS BECAUSE OF COURSE EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD HAVE THE SAME
RIGHTS THAT NOBODY'S ASKING FOR EXTRA RIGHTS, GAY AMERICANS WERE
ASKING FOR THE SAME EXACT RIGHTS AS STRAIGHT AMERICANS IN THE
CONSTITUTION IS ON THE SIDE, THEY HAD LOGIC AND REASON AND
DECENCY ON THEIR SIDE THAT IT ALSO HELPED THAT THIS IS A RATIO
WHERE THE REPUBLICANS DIDN'T CARE TO SPEND THAT MUCH MONEY
AGAINST IT SO THANK GOD AND SO NOW ONE LESS THING ABOUT THIS.
I KNOW THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LOVES TO TAKE CREDIT FOR
STUFF LIKE THIS, AND SOME CREDIT SHOULD BE GIVEN AND I THINK
IT WAS REALLY MORE PROGRESSIVES WHO WERE AGGRESSIVELY
PUSHING IN THIS DIRECTION, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST, GAY RIGHTS
ACTIVISTS ARE PUSHING THIS DIRECTION, BUT SOME FOLKS
WHO WERE JOHNNY-COME-LATELY'S AND DECIDED THEY WERE FOR
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AS LATE AS 2013
OR RECENTLY PASSED LAWS IN THEIR STATE, THEIR LIKE LOOK AT
THIS, I AM SO PROGRESSIVE.IN FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.
I KNOW, THAT PARADE STARTED A LONG TIME AGO.
JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T IN FRONT OF IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU LET IT.
NO MATTER WHO LET IT, THANK GOD IT IS GOING IN THE RIGHT
DIRECTION AND I DON'T THINK IT IS EVER GOING TO TURN
AROUND.
DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THESE GREAT VICTORIES.
WHEN I TELL YOU WE'RE GOING TO WIN ON A DIFFERENT ISSUE, YOU
WILL SEE WHY I SAY THAT.
IT IS BASED ON ACTUAL FACTS AND
HISTORY ALTHOUGH IN THE SHORT TERM WE GET HER LAW, HISTORY IS
ON OUR SIDE.
WE OWN THE FUTURE.
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The Ending Of Alien: Covenant Explained - Duration: 4:56.
After seeing Alien: Covenant, you probably have some questions.
That's okay — like Prometheus before it, Alien: Covenant was long on terror, and short
on answers.
As such, we're here to do our best to get to the bottom of some of these mysteries,
and try to figure out just what the takeaway is from Ridley Scott's latest extraterrestrial
murderfest.
So now, with a very obvious spoiler warning, let's try to explain the ending of Alien:
Covenant.
Why did David help Daniels and Tennessee?
If you were surprised when the synthetic at the end of the movie turned out to be the
evil, British David and not the kind, bland Walter, then you haven't seen a lot of movies,
have you?
The minute you see Michael Fassbender playing two robots — one good, one evil — you
have to know that the bad one's going to pull the ol' dipsy-doo-switcheroo on our heroes
by the end of the movie.
It's basically movie law.
However, even if the David reveal was somewhat predictable, it does raise the question: why
did David help Daniels and Tennessee during the final showdown with the xenomorph?
It's not completely clear, but it seems likely that David suffered from a planet-sized case
of hubris.
His whole plan seems to center around finding ways to make the xenomorph better through
experimentation.
We got a glimpse of some of his trials and errors when we saw his lab — along with
what remained of Elizabeth Shaw from Prometheus.
It's possible that the final showdown aboard the Covenant was, for David, a test to see
whether this version of the xenomorph could get the better of Daniels and Tennessee.
It failed, so he's got plans for bigger, badder aliens when the ship finally arrives at Origae-6.
On the other hand, maybe he simply saw something in Daniels that he wanted to preserve — again,
so he could use her in his future experiments.
Who's mommy?
At one point, David says that his alien pals are "waiting for mother."
There are plenty of ways to interpret this line.
A pretty obvious reading is that the alien eggs — and more specifically, the facehuggers
within — need a host to do the bloody and nasty with.
In essence, anyone who provides an incubation chamber for a xenomorph is "mother."
But what if there's more to it than that?
Prometheus and Alien: Covenant are prequels to the original Alien franchise — and that
includes Aliens, which was written and directed by James Cameron.
In that movie, we learned the source of all those lovely alien eggs: the Alien Queen.
Since we didn't get to see anything resembling a xenomorph queen before leaving the Engineers'
planet, it's likely that it hasn't been created yet.
David can't stay up forever making new eggs, so the queen's creation has to be on David's
agenda.
And that may spell a pretty bad morning for our hero Daniels when she wakes up...
What did it all mean?
It may be tough to decipher, but it sure seems like Ridley Scott was trying to tell us something
with his tale of space colonization gone horribly awry.
Well, let's think about this.
Daniels and her poor, dead husband Jacob came aboard the Covenant with hopes of starting
a new life on a new planet — just because it's an adventure.
Meanwhile, poor, dead Captain Christopher decided to stop on the Engineers' planet in
response to the weird communication they picked up, and to see if this new world might be
even better than the one they'd been going toward already.
And David decided that he should play god and out-create his creators.
What was the result of all of these decisions?
Chaos, destruction, and death.
More than anything, Alien: Covenant is about the dangers of unchecked human ambition.
If Daniels and her fella had just stayed on Earth and rented a nice apartment somewhere,
he probably wouldn't have burnt to a crisp in a hypersleep pod.
And if Christopher hadn't diverted away from Origae-6 — well, then we'd have had a movie
about the dangers of micromanaging a group of drunk spaceship workers.
But there probably would've been far fewer blood barfs and body bursts.
And if David hadn't decided to go full-on supervillain?
Well, then he wouldn't have inadvertently become that which he despised.
What happens next?
Two months before Alien: Covenant's May 2017 release, The Sydney Morning Herald reported
on a set visit with director Ridley Scott.
In that article, Scott revealed that he's already got the next movie in the prequel
series written and ready to go.
That means that the dangling plot threads of what'll happen when the Covenant arrives
at Origae-6 will be answered in whatever treatment Scott's got locked in his desk drawer.
Presumably, we'll see a whole mess of xenomorphs bursting out of colonists, not to mention
a final showdown with David and Daniels...or whoever else signs on for a sequel if and
when 20th Century Fox announces it's happening.
What happens when the prequels are over?
Not only has Scott got the sequel to Covenant ready to go, The Hollywood Reporter said that
Scott's revealed plans to make yet another movie in his prequel series.
That fourth movie would apparently link up with the events of the first Alien movie from
1979.
And then, no more Alien movies ever, right?
Well…
The entire reason we're talking about new Alien movies right now at all is that franchises
tend to go for as long as people can earn money from them.
Whatever your opinion on the current crop of Alien flicks, making new movies in a recognizable
series of movies is a sure way to earn cash.
So even though these prequels will have to lead into the original movie somehow, there
will likely be some effort to keep the brand alive.
That might mean sequels that pick up after the events of Alien: Resurrection — or,
God help us, Alien vs. Predator.
It might also mean that we're only a few short years away from Alien: Reboot.
Don't say it could never happen.
Hollywood rebooted RoboCop, Spider-Man, Evil Dead, and plenty more.
There's no reason that Alien won't be reborn soon enough, too.
After all, getting born — and reborn — is kinda what Aliens do…
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"I'm frustrated because I forget my words when I speak English..." - Duration: 7:01.
hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's
first and number one English Fluency
Guide and it is a pleasure to welcome
you to... well we're going to do something
very interesting in this video and this
is solve another problem that learners
have and this is why do I always forget
my words when I'm speaking now there's
kind of two problems together the first
one is maybe it's like a confidence
issue where like you know the words but
then you're in a conversation you feel
nervous and then you forget kind of like
if you're giving a speech maybe you
practice that speech a hundred times you
know all the words but you get what
people call stage fright so stage fright
means okay now I'm here everybody is
looking at me and oh no I feel really
nervous about that so I want to
communicate with people but I can't
really say anything so that's one
problem the other problem is if you
didn't really learn the words well in
the first place so initially if you're
maybe you're reading a text book you
have a whole bunch of vocabulary words
and phrases in there and you're trying
to remember those things but like when
you get into a conversation you actually
just can't remember them so it's kind of
two problems that people have and I'll
talk about like a few ways to do that
the first part of this is focus on less
and really that's the secret to
developing fluency whether you know 10
words or a thousand words like if you
can't use the words you know confidently
and automatically then like you're not
going to be able to speak at all it
doesn't matter you know anything else
about your fluency so you have to have a
vocabulary of some amount of words but
you have to know how to use these
automatically and fluently so don't
focus on trying to have a large
vocabulary unless you can learn it and
master it all
so always begin it's kind of this cycle
of starting with a small vocabulary
reviewing it over and over again
practicing it in different ways until
you can use it automatically and then
begin adding more
words and phrases to that the second
part of this is in order to grow that
vocabulary to become or to go deeper
with the information that you're
learning so in my case I came to Japan
to learn about Japanese gardening so
that's why I'm here even though I don't
get to do much gardening right now it's
like a skill I've been following and
learning about for many years and really
it's just it's really why I came to
Japan in the first place so I did not
come to Japan to teach English but I
couldn't get a visa to do the gardening
I wanted to do so I got a teaching visa
instead but actually I really enjoy
teaching it's a lot of fun to do it but
gardening is also like a passion of mine
so I let that passion develop my
vocabulary because I'm using the the
connection idea of taking things like
gardening or some kind of basic words
about that but deepening my
understanding of that so I know names
for garden tools and Japanese that I
don't know in English or even some
things that we just don't use or that
I'm not aware of in in English so I've
never I've never worked as a
professional gardener in in America but
I have in Japan so when I'm working with
that like I can talk about I know I know
words for different kinds of moss crazy
like little green moss like I like I
know different varieties of moss in
Japanese and you might think like okay
who cares about different varieties of
moss or whatever but what's happening is
that as I'm deepening my vocabulary
about a particular thing I'm learning
how to use all those things not just the
words but with the grammar as well so I
begin making more complex sentences and
I'm developing my fluency with that
limited vocabulary and as I learn more
words as I go deeper with that thing I'm
already interested in it so I'm taking
my passion and using that to drive my
fluency and the increase of my skills
and also the increase of my vocabulary
so most things you can find a connection
between you know one thing like I can
make fine a connection between two words
like you know
in Japanese and something else but again
I'm focusing on a limited amount of
things and then letting my interest in
that grow it naturally so as I want to
learn more oh that's a really
interesting thing like I take an idea
like philosophy philosophy is a really
big idea you could go to a particular
kind of philosophy than a particular
writer in that kind of philosophy and
then it goes like deeper and deeper and
deeper so you can learn all these
different things and so you let your
vocabulary grow as a result of your
desire to improve that thing and once
you do that you can start adding more
words and other things because it
becomes a lot easier to pick up new
words this phrasal verb to pick up means
you're kind of understanding things
naturally so as you're in conversations
you develop your fluency and speaking
confidence so you can express yourself
automatically so if you are in a
situation where you're trying to speak
in a conversation but you can't because
I like I can't remember what I want to
say or I forget my words when I speak I
feel stuck all of these things are
really from those two problems either
you have a problem with the actual
memory of it or you're just feeling kind
of scared and you just forget the words
so to solve both of these problems use
these two steps I'm giving you focus on
a limited thing and then let your your
passion like grow that for you so you
can use your passion whatever that is it
doesn't matter if you like cars or
animals or you know whatever it doesn't
matter what that thing is but that's
what should be letting you improve your
English so don't watch like a lot of you
know YouTube videos about learning
English about some like random thing
like here you know some idioms about
whatever like it's useful to learn that
stuff but it's most important for you to
find something that a native speaker is
making or that you can communicate with
a native speaker and then use that to
drive your interest so I came to Japan
to learn that and learning that from
people is much more powerful than me
trying to just like learn some random
things like that so if you're interested
in it it becomes easier and it drives
your passion your fluency your speaking
confidence so you destroy those problems
and can communicate automatically well
I'll leave it there for this video if
you have enjoyed it do click that like
button and do share this with a bunch of
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you should you should watch some of his
videos and see if he's helpful for you
also anyway so do that and if you'd like
to learn more about how to improve all
of your speaking skills whether it's
your confidence or your vocabulary or
grammar or anything else click on the
link in this video to take our free
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with that
have a fantastic date and I will see you
in the next video bye bye
you should try saying bye bye bye bye
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KAKASHI vs TSUNADE - BATTLE HOKAGE Anime NARUTO | TOP 10 channel - Duration: 10:14.
Save Clan
The theme of today will be dedicated exclusively to a supporter of the channel Matheus Pereira
As a supporter he has the right to ask for any subject, he asked for a Battle between two Kages
And just remembering this type of Battles video I will not bring much in the channel, it's because
It takes a lot more time to prepare. I just did it because it was a supporter who asked.
The two Kages of the battle will be Kakashi vs. Tsunade, and the Criteria adopted were: Both
At the maximum level when hokages, ie kakashi was already without his sharingan basically.
And remembering that yes it has a lot of research but it is a top of my personal opinion and if you
Think differently, it's simple after the video just comment...
Tsunade was the first Hokage woman since the foundation
Of the leaf village. She was the granddaughter of the first Hashirama Hokage, and was so
Received title of Sannin.
Kakashi was one of the most talented shinobi of his
Time, he was master of body and mind, indomitable, serene strategist... Any
Praise that can be used to a shinobi, would not live up to the feats of kakashi hatake.
Well now I'm going to analyze their Ability:
Ninjutsu She is very whistle in this technique mainly
Focusing on medicinal ninjutsu, where she developed various techniques.
Like the bykugou technique where she practically gets immortal in battle, but much of it
Of Tsunade's fame comes from her being able to perform any medical procedure without
Failures. And the same techniques she uses to heal people she can use to kill
And wounding your enemies is a very useful tactic in battle.
He has great skill and knowledge of Ninjutsu and can still control all 5
Basic transformations of nature he used his sharingan to copy all techniques
That he saw, and therefore became known as kakashi of the thousand jutsus. With this arsenal, he
Can attack or defend itself in many ways. He can immediately discern the type of
Technique he observed and the nature behind it.
Good analysis on this issue I give my vote to kakashi,
Even though he loses the sharingan that gave him even more credits, since he went through
Of him who learned so many jutsus, and knowing that the tsunade has very powerful techniques
Who could rather compete on equal terms with kakashi, I believe that even suffering kakashi could have
Advantage here!
Taijutsu Tsunade's remarkable ability is his
Incredible strength where it can create cracks in the ground with a single finger movement.
An opponent struck by his attacks could suffer damage ranging from broken bones,
Damaged organs, or even death. And as many as not find it has a
Incredible speed in battle, to the point where your opponents respect her as an opponent
Extremely dangerous.
Kakashi is very adept in taijutsu. In anime, as a child, he already surprised his
Sensei, Minato. As an adult, his abilities improved considerably, being able to
To easily defeat many enemies. Kakashi can also follow on an equal footing
Might Guy, a master in taijutsu, for a long time. And lastly it can open at least
One of the gates of chakra and further increase your level of Taijutsu.
Analysis In Taijutsu it gets difficult kakashi surpasses the
Tsunade as everyone knows she's not just brute force, she's very agile and speedy and gets right
A single blow on kakashi he is already defeated, he can hit it several times and she still
She'd been standing ready for the next one. In that question, she earns my opinion!
Genjutsu In the anime had episode Filler that she showed
Have skill in this technique as well, but as you know if it's something just anime I rarely
I consider, then I will consider only data from the Databook where it shows that it was very middle
In this technique.
Although less widely used, Kakashi has demonstrated proficient genjutsu ability, he has
Advanced knowledge in its workings, and is able to dispel genjutsu as well. He
Analysis Kakashi fans are happy about this question
For him, Tsunade easily wins, even though it is not Kakashi's powerful technique.
He is certainly superior to her in this matter, since she does not show much skill in Genjutsu.
Intelligence Although usually appearing carefree
Or short-tempered, Tsunade is a capable leader. As an astute thinker, Tsunade has been
Very analytical, allowing you to see through most of the mistakes and rarely
Be caught by surprise. His intelligence is best known in the world for his specialization
In all areas of medicine. She also has remarkable knowledge of the human psyche,
As she was able to easily undo the damage inflicted by Itachi's Tsukuyomi
In the minds of Kakashi and Sasuke in a matter of seconds.
He is very good at deception, regularly using his own tactics.
Opponents against them. His long career as jōnin, and formerly as an Anbu,
Have expanded their knowledge, allowing you to deal with virtually any situation.
Kakashi proved to be a very shrewd and resourceful man, taking his opinion regularly
Even requested by Tsunade to the 5th Hokage.
Analyze Here the fight is very fierce both have
Maximum note in the databook in the intelligence factor, but there goes my opinion, Tsunade is yes
The best when it comes to the area of medical knowledge, but overall she
The help of kakashi when he was hokage what we suggested that in combat strategy he
Has greater prominence then again my vote is from kakashi.
Strength In this matter, we do not need to go much further
Tsunade was a monster, Hulk level of the Naruto universe
Kakashi in this respect was not the best, and to match Tsunade with this merit
Are very few shinobis
Analyze This is neither easy nor should have put this
Question on the analysis kakashi is practically humiliated, my vote is for Tsunade!
Estamina Tsunade has been shown to have large supplies
Of chakra. Characteristic she inherits by being a Senju. She has been able to simultaneously
Heal a large number of people without being completely exhausted. When necessary,
Tsunade can also release a large amount of stored chakra to facilitate activation
One of its techniques, such as the Renaissance of Creation, which makes it practically
Immortal in battle or simultaneously heal and protect the citizens of Konoha from an attack
Very powerful, like the Shinra Tensei. And Even more impressive than your reservations is
The absurd chakra control that Tsunade possesses since childhood.
Kakashi has a very refined chakra control, which allows him to use several
Techniques with the necessary minimum chakra and its highest level. But
Say that it is your main weakness, since your Chakra level is very low, this
Is largely due to him having the sharingan even though he is not a uchiha, but as I am
Analyzing the time when Kakashi was a Hokage he was already without his Sharingan, then
We can consider that your chakra has increased a lot.
Analyze Again without comparison guys, for more
That kakashi has recovered a little more from his chakra without having the sharingan, Tsunade is a monster
Of chakra, she is a senju with uzumaki inheritance then without comparison, plus one vote
to her
Resistance Your resistance was large enough to
To survive the normally fatal injuries of being stabbed straight through the
Shoulder, abdomen, and even chest, and yet managed to fight him.
Another incredible accomplishment of her was in the fight against the Madara, Even though she was cut in the Abdomen by two
Swords of Susanoo. She's still fighting, that alone proves that Tsunade,
Had an incredibly tough body.
Kakashi showed a good level of resistance, being able to survive Shinra Tensei
Of Nagato within walking distance with minimal damage and managed to continue the fight afterwards.
But still it is a medium resistance I would say.
Analyze And finally last topic of my analysis
It's Easy to choose too, kakashi has a good but serious resistance...
He has not even half the Resistance of the 5th Hokage!
So quickly, before I bring my opinion of who wins this Duel!
I bring the opinion of Matheus Pereira, the "Supporter" who asked me for this video.
Basically he commented to me that kakashi was going to try to maintain a long distance fight,
Because if he stays near her an attack would already be Fatal!
Only he would realize quickly, that his long-distance attacks were not very effective.
Because of the technique of Tsunade Regeneration.
Then he would practically have to attack her from a short distance. He was even going to have positive results.
But it would also be his fault, Tsunade would let him attack her, but then she would hold him and give his only blow
And as we know a blow of it almost ends the Battle!
So according to Matheus kakashi he has no chance to finish it.
Already Tsunade with just one blow could easily end the fight.
Now I bring my personal opinion,
You always know that I do not really like to compare characters because it varies a lot
Of the local struggle of the motivation of each shinobi, among many factors that can change
The conclusion of the battle and a strong ninja can be rather defeated by a weaker ninja,
In Naruto we have seen this many times, # power of the protagonism also counts kkk ta to zuando,
But a serious clan in every kind of fight I thought, no matter how many people said that Kakashi would take
Easy this duel, for min Tsunade wins without trying everything he could. Kakashi is a
Extraordinary ninja but Tsunade is unique. My vote is always hers.
And that was it, guys, again I notice that this type of video will not be the strong
Of the channel, I will rarely bring video of battles. Do not forget to comment on your opinion and now
Let's go to the salves
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Jennifer Lopez and A-Rod Can't Get Enough Of Each Other's…Faces | TMZ TV - Duration: 1:16.
JENNIFER LOPEZ ON THE SET
OF "BLADES OF BLUE," AND SHE'S
LIKE ON HER PHONE AND SHE WAS
ACTUALLY FACETIMING A-ROD.
AND I THINK IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY
ON THIS ONE, HE'S DOING A KISSY
FACE TO HER.
NO!
YEAH, THEY'RE EXTRA.
THEY'RE DEFINITELY DOING IT.
WHY DO PEOPLE FACETIME ALL
THE TIME NOW?
I USED TO LOVE BEING ON THE
PHONE BECAUSE I CAN LOOK LIKE
THAT AND NOW IT'S FACETIME ALL
OF THE TIME.
IF THEY'RE UNDER A CERTAIN
AGE, THEY ONLY FACETIME.
I DON'T LIKE GETTING RANDOM
FACETIME CALLS LIKE THAT.
OH, I USED TO RANDOM FACETIME
CALL YOU.
YOU USED TO RANDOM FACETIME
CALL ME ALL THE TIME!
IT'S SO FUNNY.
IT'S SO FUNNY!
RANDOM TIME AT NIGHT, JUST
FACETIME VAN!
[LAUGHTER]
I'M LIKE SLEEPING, I WAKE UP
AND I'M LIKE WHAT THE HELL'S
GOING ON?
HEY, IT'S ME, CHARLIE!
[LAUGHTER]
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Female Athlete of the Week: Ariane Skeggs - Duration: 1:49.
THIS WEEKEND'S STATE
MEET---23ABC'S STEPHEN HICKS
HAS THE STORY OF ONE SWIMMER WHO
JUST RECENTLY PICKED
UP THE SPORT.
(AND NOW THE CARL'S JR. STUDENT
ATHLETE
OF THE WEEK)
TALK TO FRONTIER JUNIOR ARIANE
SKEGGS AND THE FIRST THING
YOU'LL NOTICE IS THAT ACCENT.
I'M FROM PERTH, WESTERN
AUSTRAILIA,
LIKE NO ONE KNOWS WHERE THAT
IS."
SKEGGS AND HER FAMILY MOVED TO
THE STATES EIGHT YEARS AGO AND
IN
THAT TIME-SHE THINKS SHE'S
FIGURED OUT AN AMERICAN ACCENT
AND OUR BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION.
"
CALIFORNIA IS GREAT. IT'S WARM
ALL THE TIME! UMMMM NOT GONNA
LIE IT'S NOT
VERY WARM HERE."
WHILE THE WEATHER MIGHT NOT BE
AUSTRALIA HOT-WHAT HAS
BEEN--ARE HER TIMES IN THE POOL.
AT THIS WEEKEND'S VALLEY
CHAMPIONSHIPS-
SKEGGS FINISHED SECOND IN THE
200 FREE AND QUALIFIED TO GO
TO STATE -BY JUST TWO TENTHS OF
A SECOND.
"I WAS ECSTATIC, I WAS SHOCKED
AND JUST
LIKE.DID I JUST DO THAT?'
FOR SKEGGS-THE SHOCK COMES FROM
THE FACT THAT SHE'S BEEN
ONLY RACING THE LAST YEARS. BUT
NO DOUBT HER TIME ABROAD
HELPED OUT.
"IN AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL IT'S
MANDATORY FOR US TO SWIM IN PE-
PHYSICAL EDUCATION."
LAST YEAR SHE MADE STATE ON A
CONSIDERATION TIME--BUT SAYS SHE
WAS ALREADY MENTALLY AND
PHYSICALLY CHECKED OUT BY
THE TIME SHE FOUND OUT THAT IT
AFFECTED HER PERFORMANCE.
BUT THIS YEAR?
"AFTER THE 200 I WAS LIKE WELP I
GUESS I'M
READY, I'M NOT CHECKING OUT."
LIKE LAST YEAR--SHE WON'T BE
GOING ALONE.
"BOTH OF THE FRONTIER GIRLS ARE
GOING JUST LIKE LAST YEAR SO
IT'LL BE REALLY FUN."
IT'S THANKS TO THEIR FRIENDLY
COMPETITION THAT SHE SAYS
SHE'S READY FOR THE NEXT
CHALLENGE.
"WE RACE A LOT AND IT'S JUST
PUSHING
EACH OTHER DURING PRACTICE AND
TRYING OUR BEST TO IMPROVE."
FROM AUSTRAILIA TO BAKERSFIELD,
BEFORE YOU HEAD OFF TO CLOVIS
FOR THE STATE MEET-HERE'S A
PLAQUE PROVIDED BY KERN
TROPHIES-YOU'RE OUR CARLS JR.
STUDENT ATHLETE OF THE WEEK.
STEPHEN HICKS-23ABC SPORTS.
"I'M LOOKING CALIFORNIA... AND
FEELING MINNESOTA..."
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Glasses Cords Review And My Own Polymer Eyeglass Holder Pendant - Duration: 7:58.
hi everybody and welcome to my Unruly
Housewife channel today I thought I
would talk to you about glasses and how
I solved a problem I have with my glasses
because well I'm getting a bit older
and as you might have noticed with your
nan or your mum or yourself when you get
a bit older quite often you have to take
your glasses off to look at things now
I've got varifocals so really
I should be able to see
anything - read from the bottom half and
look through the top half but in actual
fact I can't and I suppose I've
developed a habit of holding things
quite close to my face when I'm working
or when I'm reading so I find my varifocais annoying
and what I do is I
take my glasses off all the time and the
trouble with that is that I knock them
off the arm of the chair, or sit on
them, or I stand up and they drop off my
lap or maybe I'll put them on my head
and then spend 2 hours looking for them... so I
decided to try and sort that out by buying one
of those glasses strap things that you
can put around your neck so I'll put
this on and then we'll talk about pros
and cons of this particular one ok I'm
back and I'm wearing this now I'm not a
particular fan of the little figure 8
rubber things that can hold your glasses
on because they looked a bit weak to
me so I bought these and this is the
same and they have this kind of thing
which you put your glasses through so
it's a little bit more robust than those
little figure eights
and it holds on tighter - it kind of looks
a bit grungy, so that's nice... you know
when I first bought these I thought to
myself you know I look pretty cool
like "extreme" like I've been snowboarding
or something they look more sporty than
the proper old lady ones. but in actual
fact nobody thinks when I'm
walking around Lidl that I've been
snowboarding...
they think I'm an old lady with my glasses on a
string and in fact I
don't wear them out of the house. These
rubber things are quite intrusive these
blocky sort of rubber things. They sort of
press on your head and if you get tired
of them I sort of push them forward a
bit and I found they were pressing on my optic
nerves which virtually - it's getting to a
point where I thought "I'm not going to
need glasses because I can't see!" (that's
not true) but they are quite kind of
uncomfortable and intrusive. Dave said
they look like you're listening to headphones so
they're a bit more cool but I decided to
embrace the rubber figure 8's and
see whether that was a better solution
for something to... because basically
what I'm not explaining here what you do is
you do this you can just take your
glasses off. (I look freakish I'll put them
back on) but they just hang on the string
which is much better than sitting on
them. or dropping them... but I decided
well okay these are a bit
mannish anyway so I'll embrace the old
lady ones and I'll risk the figure
8's and I'll show you what they
looked like... I'm back! I'm back with
the more feminine ones they took about
three weeks to arrive from China they're
really heavy and I look - I look like a
fool. That's all I can say. I just, I
look tremendously foolish. And kind of
old and if you try and talk on the phone
with these they keep smashing against
the phone like someone's playing a
gong so um yeah they're really heavy as
well. No, these are bad they've got
these little (oops excuse my face with no
glasses) okay they've got these little
rubber figure 8's
on like that as you can see they're more
kind of flimsy there's not so much to
hold on to your glasses they might work
but I don't trust them aesthetically I
find them aesthetically challenging so
I'm now going to show you the solution
that I came up with (it's not something
I've... I mean I've seen other people
doing it)
but the solution that I decided to try
for myself (just sort my hair out a bit) which is this
it's a polymer clay pendant. Just show you there and
it's so useful for my glasses if I put
my glasses in like that as you can see
it's quite pretty my glasses hang on it
they're very safe and they're easy to
pop in and out I don't think they're any
more of a challenge to put on there than
to hang down on string and it looks
fashionable you can make them in
different colors and I've got some sort
of Makume Gane thing on there but you
could just Marble some if you wanted or
you can make any finish you like and you've
just got a small hole in the top you
could do any kind of finding that you
wanted but you just need a smaller hole
(a medium sized hole) at the bottom
make sure that your glasses fit through
it and Bob's your uncle. Now I used
a Melanie Muir template it's
template number seven organic templates
by Melanie Muir there you go
and actually you can see that - I was a bit
worried because it's transparent I used
this size here and then for my hole
I've used the small size there (I used that
size) so I just tested my glasses out
through it to see if it'd work and it kind
of did there you go
if you use cutters which is probably more
of a common thing to do I would just
just make sure that your glasses
(you know the arm of your glasses) fits
through whatever hole you're using and
because a template you can just
cut out with your craft knife where if you
had a cutter you could put some cling
film over and cut through it and make a
nice rounded edge - because I had to cut
this out with a craft knife I just
went round and pinched the edges together
to do that
so that's my (sorry I shouted) that's my
solution for putting glasses on...
I'll just show you once again it's not
something I invented but it's something
I'm sharing with you anyway and if you
really want a tutorial you can say below
and I'll make you one but to be honest I
think even quite a beginner at polymer clay
would be able to make themselves one of
these if they had the same aging eye
problem I've got so I hope you enjoyed
that and do let me know what you think
of these various glasses straps do you
like these would you consider those or
do you think that I'm being too
disrespectful to these gorgeous things
maybe you'd like to see me in them
in every video who knows
is this a problem for you or for someone
you know would you consider making them
a lovely polymer clay pendant like
this to hang their glasses in? Uh yeah
let me know in the comments down below
do subscribe if you enjoyed this and you
want to see more of my channel give me a
big thumbs up at the very least come on
I've tried so hard and I thank you for
watching I kind of moved before I filmed
this bit and I'm sitting at funny angle...
Thank you for watching I love you
all bye bye
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Male Athlete of the Week: Julio Alcantar - Duration: 1:51.
ARE HEADING OFF TO THIS
WEEKEND'S STATE SWIM MEET.
BUT TODAY WE LOOK AT THE ONE
SWIMMER WHO FINISHED IN FIRST.
23ABC'S STEPHEN HICKS HAS THE
STORY WITH OUR ATHLETE OF THE
WEEK.
NATS
TO MAKE IT TO THE CALIFORNIA
STATE SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS-
YOU NEED TO FINISH TOP TWO AT
THE VALLEY CHAMPIONSHIPS.
NATS
LIBERTY SENIOR JULIO ALCANTAR
KNOWS JUST HOW DIFFICULT IT IS
AND SO HE TEMPERED HIS PRE MATCH
EXPECTATIONS.
NATS-LET'S JUST GET TOP TWO
RIGHT NOW
AND GO TO STATE.
IN THE 100 BACK STROKE-THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOING
AND NOT GOING-LESS THAN TWO
TENTHS OF A SECOND.
NATS-YOU HAVE FOUR LAPS OF
SWIMMING,
MIGHT AS WELL MAKE THE BEST OF
IT.
JULIO CERTAINLY DID THAT-
BECOMING THE ONLY MALE IN
KERN COUNTY TO WIN AN EVENT AT
VALLEY-WHICH WAS SOMETHING
OF A SHOCK.
"I DID NOT THINK I WAS GOING TO
GET FIRST
AND THE MOMENT I SAW FIRST PLACE
ON THE BOARD I JUST FIST PUMPED,
STARTED
FREAKING OUT, I WAS LIKE 'OH MY
GOD I DID IT!" STANDING ON THE
PODIUM BEING RECOGNIZED AS THE
BEST
NATS-THAT FEELS PRETTY GOOD.
IT'S JUST A TASTE OF THE FEELING
HE'LL GET THIS WEEKEND TO BE
AMONG THE BEST IN THE STATE.
"BEING IN THAT ENVIRONMENT,
SEEING ALL THOSE SWIMMERS SWIM
AND KNOWING THAT YOU'RE THERE
WITH
THOSE SWIMMERS, IT'S JUST
MIND-BLOWING."
WHILE THIS WEEK'S SUCCES MAY BE
A SHOCK TO HIM-HE'S
HOPING HIS FUTURE TEAM CAN ALSO
OPEN A FEW EYES.
NATS
NEXT YEAR HE'LL BE SWIMMING AT
C-S-U-B WITH GOALS OF
HELPING TURN THE RUNNER PROGRAM
INTO A STATE POWER.
"I JUST WANT TO BE A PART OF
THAT TEAM
KNOWING HOW GOOD THAT TEAM WILL
EVOLVE INTO MAYBE BEING AS GOOD
AS
THE USC OR SANTA BARBARA
SWIMMERS."
JULIO FOR BEING THE ONLY KERN
COUNTY MALE WHO WON AT
VALLEY-BEFORE YOU HEAD OFF TO
STATE-HERE'S A PLAQUE PROVIDED
BY KERN TROPHIES-YOU'RE OUR
CARL'S JR. STUDENT ATHLETE
OF THE WEEK.
NATS-WHAT DO YOU WANNA DO? THE
ONLY
THING I KNOW HOW.
STEPHEN HICKS-23ABCSPORTS.
COMING UP NEXT.. IT'S BEING
CALLED THE BIGGEST GRADUATING
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Pittsburgh bishop is thankful for his Uber 'guardian angels' - Duration: 2:38.
CLOSER TO
HEAVEN?
>> TONIGHT WE'RE TAKING A RIDE
WITH
A FAMILIAR FACE, TO SHOW YOU HOW
HE'S SHEPHERDING SOULS, FROM THE
BACK SEAT.
>> I PRESSED MY UBER APP.
>> BISHOP DAVID ZUBIK WAS SLOW
TO
EMBRACE THE DIGITAL AGE.
>> I CALLED MY DRIVER.
IT SAYS SEAN.
>> BUT YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IT,
WATCHING HIM REQUEST AN UBER ON
HIS I-PHONE, LIKE A
MILLENIAL.
>> YOU'RE READY TO ROLL?
>> READY TO ROLL.
>> DRIVER SEAN FERGUSON AND HIS
SILVER VOLKSWAGEN, READY TO TAKE
THE BISHOP FROM IS RESIDENCE AT
ST PAUL SEMINARY, TO HIS
DOWNTOWN OFFICE.
ZUBIK CALLS SEAN, AND ALL UBER
DRIVERS, HIS GUARDIAN
ANGELS.
>> BUT IT IS BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR
THEIR STORIES AND SEE THEIR
DEDICATION.
SOME OF THESE ARE DOING IT AS A
SECOND OR THIRD JOB BECAUSE THEY
NEED THE MONEY.
SO MANY OF THEM ARE JUST SO
GRACIOUS TO BE A PART OF, YOU
KNOW, GETTING THEIR CUSTOMERS
FROM ONE PLACE TO THE NEXT.
FOR ME, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT AN
ANGEL DOES.
>> UBERING, A WAY OF LIFE, OUT
OF
NECESSITY, A DEBILITATING BACK
CONDITION LEFT HIM WITH NO
FEELING IN HIS RIGHT FOOT.
LETTING GO OF DRIVING, IS
PAINFUL.
BUT HE'S TURNED A BUMMER INTO A
BLESSING.
>> FOR ME, IT IS SUCH A
PRIVILEGE.
WE HAD THE CONNECTION BEFORE BUT
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE UBER
DRIVES THAT I'VE HAD, IT IS A
PRIVILEGE TO MEET THEM.
THEY ARE ALL SO UNIQUE.
IT IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL,
BEAUTIFUL OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT
WITH PEOPLE ON A GRASSROOTS
LEVEL.
>> YOU COULD CALL THIS
CONNECTION
COINCIDENCE, OR DIVINE
INTERVENTION, SEAN SAYS HE
RECENTLY OT A RIDE REQUEST FROM
A DAVID AT DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY,
ON THE SAME DAY HE ASKED GOD FOR
A SIGN.
>> I'M LOOKING FOR DAVID.
I GAVE A WAVE TO THE BISHOP.
LOOKED BACK AT MY PHONE.
I LOOKED BACK AT THE BISHOP AND
OF COURSE HE IS LOOKING AT HIS
PHONE.
I'M LIKE YOU HAVE GOT TO BE
KIDDING!
>> NOPE.
NO KIDDING, THE BISHOP WILL
STILL LOOK ABOVE FOR GUIDANCE,
BUT HE'LL CONTINUE TO LOOK DOWN
AT HIS PHONE, FOR A TRUE PICK ME
UP.
>> UP TO THIS POINT, I SAW THE
GUARDIAN ANGEL AS BEING MY DEAR
MOM UP IN HEVEN.
I WOULD SAY SUSIE, YOU HAVE TO
HELP ME THROUGH THIS ONE.
NOW I SEE PEOPLE LIKE SEAN AND
ALL THE UBER DRIVERS THAT I
HAVE, THEY ARE GUARDIAN ANGELS.
>> HE NORMALLY SITS IN THE FRONT
SEAT BUT TO ACCOMMODATE OUR
CAMERAS HE SAT IN THE BACKSEAT.
DID SEAN LOOK FAMILIAR TO YOU?
HE'S THE FORMER DAYTON
UNIVERSITY STUDENT WHO SURVIVED
A LIGHTNING STRIKE, HE'S DOING
GREAT.
SEAN'S GRANDFATHER, RON BENTZ,
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TRICK.
>> I'M SURE YOU NOTICED BETWEEN
PRIVATE SECURITY, POLICE
COMBINES, IT'S A BIG JOB.
AJ SMITH, HE'S ALWAYS AROUND.
TELL ME ABOUT THE WORK THAT IT
TAKES.
>> IT IS A MONUMENTAL
UNDERTAKING.
THESE PROS HAVE DONE THIS EVERY
YEAR FOR 140 YEARS NOW.
WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE
BEST-DRESSED PEOPLE OUT HERE.
I THINK THEY ARE WEARING BLUE
UNIFORMS.
>> IT'S A FACT THEY KEEP A GOOD
PRESENCE HERE.
YOU BRING SOME OTHER GUYS IN
FROM OTHER DISTRICTS TO BOLSTER
THE SITE THAT PEOPLE SEE OF
POLICE.
>> OFFICERS EVERY STEP OF THE
WAY.
THEY ARE NOT ONLY KEEPING PEOPLE
SAFE, THEY ARE KEEPING TRAFFIC
MOVING.
TRAFFIC WAS A BREEZE.
IT IS A GOOD TIME.
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS PART
OF THAT.
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE SOME
ADULT BEVERAGES.
BEHAVE YOURSELF, ACT LIKE AN
ADULT.
>> NOT ONLY IS THE INNER HARBOR
TOWN.
WE EXPECT BIG CROWDS IN AREAS
THAT WE NORMALLY SEE PEOPLE
PATRONIZING DURING BIG EVENTS
LIKE THIS.
>> ALWAYS DAPPER.
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Why Progressives Own The Future - Duration: 5:02.SO IN THE MIDST OF ALL OF THE CRAZINESS OF DONALD TRUMP
AND THE NEWS OF THE DAY, I DON'T WANT YOU GUYS TO LOSE TRACK
OF THE FACT THAT WE ARE WINNING.
YOU MAY BE THINKING, WAIT A MINUTE?
IF BY WE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
PROGRESSIVES, UNFORTUNATELY OUR PARTY THESE DAYS IS THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THEY ARE LOSING AT A RECORD PACE ALL
ACROSS THE COUNTRY, IN ELECTIONS AND CERTAINLY IN POLICY.
THAT IS CERTAINLY TRUE BUT IF YOU MEAN WE AS IN THE MOVEMENT
OVERALL AND THE TIDE OF HISTORY I HAVE GREAT NEWS FOR YOU GUYS.
SOME OF THIS YOU BEGIN TO SEE THROUGHOUT ALL THE YEARS OF
COURSE, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT IN ONE MOMENT IN TIME,
GIVES YOU A REALLY GREAT WINDOW INTO HOW MUCH WE ARE WINNING.
I SAY WE IN THIS CASE MEANING PROGRESSIVES.
MY DEFINITION OF PROGRESSIVE IS PEOPLE WHO WANT TO EXPAND
THE CIRCLE OF LIBERTY.
CONSERVATIVES WANT EVERYTHING TO STAY THE SAME.
PROPERTIES WHITE MEN HAD ALL THE RIGHTS AND THEY WANT THEM
TO ALWAYS HAVE THE RIGHTS IT.
THAT WAS CONSERVATIVES BACK IN THE DAY.
AND THEN THEY HOLD ON AND THEY SAY OKAY, NON-PROPERTY
WYMAN AS WELL AND THEY SAY THAT IS THE NEW TRADITION AND
HERITAGE AND CULTURE, I WANT TO HOLD ONTO THAT.
PROGRESSIVE SAY LET'S GO FORWARD, EXPAND THAT LIBERTY
TO WOMEN, AFRICAN-AMERICANS, AND OF COURSE GAY AMERICANS.
THAT BRINGS ME THE STORY.
HOW MUCH ARE WE WINNING ON THIS ISSUE?
WELL, WE CHANGE THE
COUNTRY'S MIND.
IT'S A BOLD THING TO SAY ALMOST COMPLETELY, BUT KIND OF
THAT NEW GALLUP POLL OUT, 64% OF AMERICANS SAY SAME-SEX
MARRIAGE, AND A CIVIL UNIONS, NOT A HALF MEASURE, NOT
SOME RIGHTS, SIX SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGAL.
THAT IS A MOST TWO THIRDS OF THE COUNTRY.
IF YOU'VE GOTTEN TWO THIRDS OF THE COUNTRY TO AGREE WITH
YOU ON ANY ISSUE, THAT IS A GIANT WIN.
THAT IS NOT A SMALL NUMBER.
THAT IS FAIRLY IRREVERSIBLE AND THAT TREND CONTINUES IN
THAT DIRECTION AND HAS NOT ABATED.
TO GIVE YOU CONTEXT HERE, BACK IN 1996, BILL CLINTON IS
PRESIDENTÖ BACK IN THE COUNTRY WAS ALREADY HEADED IN A
PROGRESSIVE DIRECTION, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT PERCENTAGE OF
AMERICANS THOUGHT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGAL?
ONLY 27%.
IS THAT AMAZING?
WE MOVED IT FROM 27% TO 64% IN ABOUT 20 YEARS.
AMAZING.
DON'T LOSE TRACK OF THE PROGRESS.
YES, THE ARC OF HISTORY DOES BEEN TOWARD JUSTICE.
LIMIT GIVING OUT THE PARTIES LINE UP ON THIS.
74% OF DEMOCRATS ARE NOW IN FAVOR OF THAT.
THE NUMBER SHOULD BE HIGH BUT WE WILL TAKE IT THAT MOST
IMPORTANTLY, SOME TO 1% OF INDEPENDENTS NOW THINK
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGAL.
IT IS OVER.
WE WENT ON THIS ISSUE.
IF YOU HAVE 71% OF INDEPENDENTS ON YOUR SIDE, OVER.
LOOK AT THIS.
EVEN 47% OF REPUBLICANS.
WE'VE ALMOST GOT A MAJORITY OF REPUBLICAN SAYING YES,
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGAL AND OF COURSE, IT IS.
SUPREME COURT RULED IN 2015 THAT IT IS NOW LEGAL THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTRY, BUT IT IS ONE THING TO WIN ON THE LAW OR ON A RULING,
IT'S ANOTHER THING TO WIN HEARTS AND MINDS AND WE HAVE.
YOU KNOW WHY?
WE HAD AN EXCELLENT CASE TO MAKE.
IT IS BECAUSE OF COURSE EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD HAVE THE SAME
RIGHTS THAT NOBODY'S ASKING FOR EXTRA RIGHTS, GAY AMERICANS WERE
ASKING FOR THE SAME EXACT RIGHTS AS STRAIGHT AMERICANS IN THE
CONSTITUTION IS ON THE SIDE, THEY HAD LOGIC AND REASON AND
DECENCY ON THEIR SIDE THAT IT ALSO HELPED THAT THIS IS A RATIO
WHERE THE REPUBLICANS DIDN'T CARE TO SPEND THAT MUCH MONEY
AGAINST IT SO THANK GOD AND SO NOW ONE LESS THING ABOUT THIS.
I KNOW THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LOVES TO TAKE CREDIT FOR
STUFF LIKE THIS, AND SOME CREDIT SHOULD BE GIVEN AND I THINK
IT WAS REALLY MORE PROGRESSIVES WHO WERE AGGRESSIVELY
PUSHING IN THIS DIRECTION, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST, GAY RIGHTS
ACTIVISTS ARE PUSHING THIS DIRECTION, BUT SOME FOLKS
WHO WERE JOHNNY-COME-LATELY'S AND DECIDED THEY WERE FOR
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AS LATE AS 2013
OR RECENTLY PASSED LAWS IN THEIR STATE, THEIR LIKE LOOK AT
THIS, I AM SO PROGRESSIVE.IN FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.
I KNOW, THAT PARADE STARTED A LONG TIME AGO.
JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T IN FRONT OF IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU LET IT.
NO MATTER WHO LET IT, THANK GOD IT IS GOING IN THE RIGHT
DIRECTION AND I DON'T THINK IT IS EVER GOING TO TURN
AROUND.
DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THESE GREAT VICTORIES.
WHEN I TELL YOU WE'RE GOING TO WIN ON A DIFFERENT ISSUE, YOU
WILL SEE WHY I SAY THAT.
IT IS BASED ON ACTUAL FACTS AND
HISTORY ALTHOUGH IN THE SHORT TERM WE GET HER LAW, HISTORY IS
ON OUR SIDE.
WE OWN THE FUTURE.
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"I'm frustrated because I forget my words when I speak English..." - Duration: 7:01.hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's
first and number one English Fluency
Guide and it is a pleasure to welcome
you to... well we're going to do something
very interesting in this video and this
is solve another problem that learners
have and this is why do I always forget
my words when I'm speaking now there's
kind of two problems together the first
one is maybe it's like a confidence
issue where like you know the words but
then you're in a conversation you feel
nervous and then you forget kind of like
if you're giving a speech maybe you
practice that speech a hundred times you
know all the words but you get what
people call stage fright so stage fright
means okay now I'm here everybody is
looking at me and oh no I feel really
nervous about that so I want to
communicate with people but I can't
really say anything so that's one
problem the other problem is if you
didn't really learn the words well in
the first place so initially if you're
maybe you're reading a text book you
have a whole bunch of vocabulary words
and phrases in there and you're trying
to remember those things but like when
you get into a conversation you actually
just can't remember them so it's kind of
two problems that people have and I'll
talk about like a few ways to do that
the first part of this is focus on less
and really that's the secret to
developing fluency whether you know 10
words or a thousand words like if you
can't use the words you know confidently
and automatically then like you're not
going to be able to speak at all it
doesn't matter you know anything else
about your fluency so you have to have a
vocabulary of some amount of words but
you have to know how to use these
automatically and fluently so don't
focus on trying to have a large
vocabulary unless you can learn it and
master it all
so always begin it's kind of this cycle
of starting with a small vocabulary
reviewing it over and over again
practicing it in different ways until
you can use it automatically and then
begin adding more
words and phrases to that the second
part of this is in order to grow that
vocabulary to become or to go deeper
with the information that you're
learning so in my case I came to Japan
to learn about Japanese gardening so
that's why I'm here even though I don't
get to do much gardening right now it's
like a skill I've been following and
learning about for many years and really
it's just it's really why I came to
Japan in the first place so I did not
come to Japan to teach English but I
couldn't get a visa to do the gardening
I wanted to do so I got a teaching visa
instead but actually I really enjoy
teaching it's a lot of fun to do it but
gardening is also like a passion of mine
so I let that passion develop my
vocabulary because I'm using the the
connection idea of taking things like
gardening or some kind of basic words
about that but deepening my
understanding of that so I know names
for garden tools and Japanese that I
don't know in English or even some
things that we just don't use or that
I'm not aware of in in English so I've
never I've never worked as a
professional gardener in in America but
I have in Japan so when I'm working with
that like I can talk about I know I know
words for different kinds of moss crazy
like little green moss like I like I
know different varieties of moss in
Japanese and you might think like okay
who cares about different varieties of
moss or whatever but what's happening is
that as I'm deepening my vocabulary
about a particular thing I'm learning
how to use all those things not just the
words but with the grammar as well so I
begin making more complex sentences and
I'm developing my fluency with that
limited vocabulary and as I learn more
words as I go deeper with that thing I'm
already interested in it so I'm taking
my passion and using that to drive my
fluency and the increase of my skills
and also the increase of my vocabulary
so most things you can find a connection
between you know one thing like I can
make fine a connection between two words
like you know
in Japanese and something else but again
I'm focusing on a limited amount of
things and then letting my interest in
that grow it naturally so as I want to
learn more oh that's a really
interesting thing like I take an idea
like philosophy philosophy is a really
big idea you could go to a particular
kind of philosophy than a particular
writer in that kind of philosophy and
then it goes like deeper and deeper and
deeper so you can learn all these
different things and so you let your
vocabulary grow as a result of your
desire to improve that thing and once
you do that you can start adding more
words and other things because it
becomes a lot easier to pick up new
words this phrasal verb to pick up means
you're kind of understanding things
naturally so as you're in conversations
you develop your fluency and speaking
confidence so you can express yourself
automatically so if you are in a
situation where you're trying to speak
in a conversation but you can't because
I like I can't remember what I want to
say or I forget my words when I speak I
feel stuck all of these things are
really from those two problems either
you have a problem with the actual
memory of it or you're just feeling kind
of scared and you just forget the words
so to solve both of these problems use
these two steps I'm giving you focus on
a limited thing and then let your your
passion like grow that for you so you
can use your passion whatever that is it
doesn't matter if you like cars or
animals or you know whatever it doesn't
matter what that thing is but that's
what should be letting you improve your
English so don't watch like a lot of you
know YouTube videos about learning
English about some like random thing
like here you know some idioms about
whatever like it's useful to learn that
stuff but it's most important for you to
find something that a native speaker is
making or that you can communicate with
a native speaker and then use that to
drive your interest so I came to Japan
to learn that and learning that from
people is much more powerful than me
trying to just like learn some random
things like that so if you're interested
in it it becomes easier and it drives
your passion your fluency your speaking
confidence so you destroy those problems
and can communicate automatically well
I'll leave it there for this video if
you have enjoyed it do click that like
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you to find somebody in your town or
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you should you should watch some of his
videos and see if he's helpful for you
also anyway so do that and if you'd like
to learn more about how to improve all
of your speaking skills whether it's
your confidence or your vocabulary or
grammar or anything else click on the
link in this video to take our free
English fluency quiz and I will see you
in English anyone calm to help you out
with that
have a fantastic date and I will see you
in the next video bye bye
you should try saying bye bye bye bye
bye bye
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Female Athlete of the Week: Ariane Skeggs - Duration: 1:49.THIS WEEKEND'S STATE
MEET---23ABC'S STEPHEN HICKS
HAS THE STORY OF ONE SWIMMER WHO
JUST RECENTLY PICKED
UP THE SPORT.
(AND NOW THE CARL'S JR. STUDENT
ATHLETE
OF THE WEEK)
TALK TO FRONTIER JUNIOR ARIANE
SKEGGS AND THE FIRST THING
YOU'LL NOTICE IS THAT ACCENT.
I'M FROM PERTH, WESTERN
AUSTRAILIA,
LIKE NO ONE KNOWS WHERE THAT
IS."
SKEGGS AND HER FAMILY MOVED TO
THE STATES EIGHT YEARS AGO AND
IN
THAT TIME-SHE THINKS SHE'S
FIGURED OUT AN AMERICAN ACCENT
AND OUR BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION.
"
CALIFORNIA IS GREAT. IT'S WARM
ALL THE TIME! UMMMM NOT GONNA
LIE IT'S NOT
VERY WARM HERE."
WHILE THE WEATHER MIGHT NOT BE
AUSTRALIA HOT-WHAT HAS
BEEN--ARE HER TIMES IN THE POOL.
AT THIS WEEKEND'S VALLEY
CHAMPIONSHIPS-
SKEGGS FINISHED SECOND IN THE
200 FREE AND QUALIFIED TO GO
TO STATE -BY JUST TWO TENTHS OF
A SECOND.
"I WAS ECSTATIC, I WAS SHOCKED
AND JUST
LIKE.DID I JUST DO THAT?'
FOR SKEGGS-THE SHOCK COMES FROM
THE FACT THAT SHE'S BEEN
ONLY RACING THE LAST YEARS. BUT
NO DOUBT HER TIME ABROAD
HELPED OUT.
"IN AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL IT'S
MANDATORY FOR US TO SWIM IN PE-
PHYSICAL EDUCATION."
LAST YEAR SHE MADE STATE ON A
CONSIDERATION TIME--BUT SAYS SHE
WAS ALREADY MENTALLY AND
PHYSICALLY CHECKED OUT BY
THE TIME SHE FOUND OUT THAT IT
AFFECTED HER PERFORMANCE.
BUT THIS YEAR?
"AFTER THE 200 I WAS LIKE WELP I
GUESS I'M
READY, I'M NOT CHECKING OUT."
LIKE LAST YEAR--SHE WON'T BE
GOING ALONE.
"BOTH OF THE FRONTIER GIRLS ARE
GOING JUST LIKE LAST YEAR SO
IT'LL BE REALLY FUN."
IT'S THANKS TO THEIR FRIENDLY
COMPETITION THAT SHE SAYS
SHE'S READY FOR THE NEXT
CHALLENGE.
"WE RACE A LOT AND IT'S JUST
PUSHING
EACH OTHER DURING PRACTICE AND
TRYING OUR BEST TO IMPROVE."
FROM AUSTRAILIA TO BAKERSFIELD,
BEFORE YOU HEAD OFF TO CLOVIS
FOR THE STATE MEET-HERE'S A
PLAQUE PROVIDED BY KERN
TROPHIES-YOU'RE OUR CARLS JR.
STUDENT ATHLETE OF THE WEEK.
STEPHEN HICKS-23ABC SPORTS.
"I'M LOOKING CALIFORNIA... AND
FEELING MINNESOTA..."
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FALLOUT 4 - Concept Art VS Reality - The ART! - Duration: 11:26.Concept art is the backbone of the visual development of any visual medium.
In game development especially, concept art is often used to stir up ideas for the writers
and game designers.
It's one of the first steps to any game.
But it's not just a pre-production tool.
Its used throughout the entirety of development to constantly shape ideas and communicate
them to the team.
In all of my research I've found that most of the time the concept art looks WAY BETTER
than the finished product.
Why is that?
What happens to these games that makes them stray so far from the original idea?
My favorite pieces of art are the ones that tell a story.
Like this piece of your in-game wife having her baby ripped from her arms.
The lighting is harsh, creating a stark contrast and a pleasing rim light outlining the characters.
There's a lot of motion.
The left side being forced away from the screen, and the right side being forced towards it.
The figures make it like a renaissance painting.
Take special note of the framing.
The actual game has something very different.
The circumstances have changed, there's one less person for example.
But, not for nothing, this shot is a lot more boring.
Why is that?
Well, the framing is limited by the first person camera angle.
This isn't technically a cut scene, it's an in game event.
There are no cut scenes in Fallout 4 at all, unless you count the conversations.
This helps with emersion, but limits the amount of motion and depth capable.
In this scene, each character is confined to their spaces.
The animation is limited.
This doesn't excuse the lack of dramatic lighting.
This scene would actually look sick if the inside of the pod was still just a glowing
light.
But, lighting in games is difficult.
Maybe they couldn't get it just right or they ran out of time.
Or maybe it was never even considered a priority to begin with.
Now this is just one example.
Games typically have HUNDREDS of concept illustrations.
There's a whole book of these for Fallout.
So, why even bother with all of this work if the end result is going to be so different?
In the very early stages of game development, studio heads and sometimes writers will come
up with a direction they want to take their game, and call in concept artists to flesh
out random ideas.
They're artists, so they know what looks cool.
A consumer's first impression of the game is it's visuals, and at the end of the day
these are PRODUCTS to be SOLD.
So the studios trust these artists to stir up some visual ideas with a loose story in
mind to serve as a jumping off point.
This is something they do for movies too.
There's some great pieces from the pre-production of Star Wars Ep. 7, including this VERY primitive
light saber concept that probably spawned the idea for Kylo Ren's light saber.
And you might be thinking "wait that's not Kylo Ren at all!" and you'd be correct!
Perhaps my favorite story showing the importance of this step of the process is the canceled
4th Jak and Daxter game.
They weren't sure if this was going to be a reboot, a sequel or what, so artists were
throwing out some very wacky ideas.
The team realized their most interesting work was coming from pieces that stretched beyond
the typical cartoony Jak and Daxter aesthetic.
Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley, in their first ever directing rolls asked the execs
at Naughtydog... "do we REALLY have to stick to doing a Jak & Daxter game?"
To their surprise the execs said "no, not at all" and from these pieces, stemmed The
Last of Us of all things.
Pre-production art is where the most interesting ideas come from, and so much gets thrown out
because each piece is so different from the next.
During the pre-produciton of Fallout 4, artists focused on the important bits.
The vault suit, the pip-boy, and loose concepts of the environment.
Concept art is also used to set the mood and the tone of the game.
Part of this is helping visualize key moments to get a feel for what the game will look
and feel like.
This is where we got the piece of the baby being ripped from his mother.
If it was created this early in development, that would explain how it ended up becoming
so different.
But to their defense, for pre-pro art they came pretty damn close.
Concept art isn't just used to stir up ideas.
It's also used to solidify those ideas.
Characters are drawn and iterated upon over and over until the creative director is satisfied.
These images are then passed over to the character artists to sculpt the 3D models.
Basically every time they want to add something to the game, be it a different outfit, or
even, idk, a BLENDER, a concept artist has to design it 2 dimensionally first.
This is what keeps concept artists busy throughout the duration of the development.
There's always something to be added or tweaked.
I believe this is where it's most tragic to lose those beautiful nuances of the concept
art.
At least in the beginning of development the ideas are so radically different that its
inevitable that things get thrown out.
They're still trying to find a visual direction.
Late in development the visual identity should be pretty much nailed down.
At this stage things often get thrown out or changed due to time constraints.
Take a look at this concept of a completely vertical homestead.
It's possible this was meant to be the central city of Boston, all contained within one skyscraper.
This would have been BEFORE they came up with the idea of Diamond City.
It made it into the game, you can even see it FROM Diamond City.
It's just not accessible.
I really do like this idea, but it was probably scrapped due to technical limitations.
It would have been difficult to build upwards.
And how would your character get there?
An elevator?
A long staircase?
Would they warp there?
Would it be a different area all together?
Separated from the rest of the open world?
Ideas like this are great BECAUSE of how out there they are.
Unaffected by the constraints of... LOGISTICS.
These god damn logistics are just ruining everything.
There's also something about how story and life is portrayed in these paintings rather
than in game.
Maybe it's the stiff character animations, but it almost looks more alive in the still
illustrations.
And once again, dramatic lighting helps.
Make this place look dreary.
More mysterious.
The final in game work is missing dynamics that the concept artists weren't afraid to
implement.
You know, a lot of it is the lighting.
The Institute is supposed to be this light and clean looking place.
The bright lighting and reflective surfaces really sell this idea.
Nothing else in the game is this bright.
The in game area actually comes pretty close.
I love the foggy glow from the lighting, indicating that it IS really bright in there.
But what about the ground and the walls?
Even the character designs are made with lots of bright white strokes.
What's making them so afraid to push that contrast in game?
Let's up that exposure a little bit.
Are they afraid to lose detail?
That's ironic... because there's more detail in the concept art.
When I'm playing Fallout, I want to FEEL like this guy.
I feel as though it wasn't a priority to faithfully recreate these pieces, so much as it was to
create the big expansive world as quickly as possible, then maybe see what details they
can go back and toss in.
The airport has these Atomic Age pillars that look like fins.
The way the light reflects off the ridges really accents them.
It really sells the stylized 1950s look.
The airport we get in the game is just... flat concrete.
This is another logistical constraint.
Would it have been worth it to model these structures for just this one location?
They're so unique looking that they might not be modular enough.
Since the game is so big, a lot of Fallout's set pieces were built modularly to be reused
elsewhere.
Time is so important that EVERYTHING needed to be thoughtfully constructed.
Characters lost some detail too.
Look at how much more badass Piper looked.
The only real noticeable difference is her short hair.
The in-game model has a brighter, slightly less ragged coat.
Is that bright burgundy?
Ew.
Here's a better example of a stylistic change.
A lot of Mama Murphy concepts had her in some sort of wheelchair.
Since stairs would pose a problem, they decided to try outfitting her with a modified Mr Handy.
The artbook claims this was removed because it was "distracting," but I'd say it was removed
because it would be one hell of a challenge to script.
You'd have a character, sitting on top of what is essentially another floating character.
And how would she interact with the environment?
Her Mr Handy would have to be much lower to the ground in order for her to stay at eye
level with other characters.
The tragic part here is that her wheel chair, Mr Handy or whatever it would have been, carried
with it so much of her personality.
She could have been such a larger than life character.
The only remnants of THIS Mama Murphy that we get in the game, is that she just has to
sit all the time..
But, this would have been a HELL of a lot of time to implement.
You can tell that someone at Bethesda was pushing for this concept HARD.
Sometimes, sacrifices just have to be made...
When it comes down to it, these are all great excuses for the game to be different than
the concept art.
Games should be as faithful to the original idea as possible, but conform to whatever
restrictions they need to in order to actually ship.
Done is better than perfect.
It's too easy for games like this to get delayed and iterated upon over and over while striving
for everything to be just right.
I'M just here to bust Bethesda's balls, and show you guys the game that we ALMOST got.
It's fun to see how things change during development.
But what do you guys think...??? IS done better than perfect?
Would you have liked to have seen a more artistic and stylized Fallout 4?
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Then we can change them before they make it to the general public.
You can also leave me feedback by following me on Twitter @BobWulff.
And you can check out the other weekly videos that I do at my YouTube channel The Wulff
Den.
Thank you so much for watching.
Your view means so much more than any of the other things that I just told you to do just
now.
And I will see you in another video.
Have yourselves a good week.
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I NEED TO INVEST INTO MY LIFE - Duration: 5:22.
I invest in myself to do YouTube and to do my other ventures.
I've always been into camera stuff.
I've always done editing and camera things before I got into fitness.
Obviously, within that time I invest in myself, I invest in equipment.
We all do it, we get into YouTube fitness and we want to show people what we do.
We want to be a part of this community, so at certain point you realize you need cameras,
you need equipment.
The same way when you get into the gym, you need certain things.
You need weightlifting belts, weightlifting shoes, gloves, whatever it is, gym memberships,
you invest in yourself.
And you invest in yourself because it's important for what you are trying to do.
It's necessary and you enjoy doing it, even when it's hard, even when you have to make
sacrifices, even when certain things take time.
You do it because it's important and it's necessary and it's what you want to do.
And we all take pride when we invest in ourselves, especially with YouTube, especially with equipment.
We buy editing software, we want to show it.
We buy cameras, lenses, tripods, all of these things we show each other and we want to share.
And again, we save up that money, we do things to make the money to invest back into ourselves.
Why is it that we have such an easy time to do that but when it comes to investing in
our health it's so hard?
Now we start having all these excuses.
Now for most people, investing in their health and investing in life consists of, I go to
the gym, I buy protein powder, I buy supplements, I buy pre-workout, I buy multi-vitamins, I
invest in my health.
I count my macros and watch my calories, I'm investing, I drink the water.
But it's a lot deeper than that.
Now, we are making these excuses when we really have to start investing.
The problem is, most of us are focused on the outside in, actually the outside out.
We're not properly investing in ourselves from the inside out and that's where the
real importance is, that's what the real health is.
When it comes to eating right, if you want to eat organic, it's expensive, it's time-consuming.
You have to go to certain places to get it.
You've got to spend a lot more money, all these different things.
We keep finding excuses to do that because it's expensive.
So it's easier for me to spend money and invest in camera equipment so that I can show
you what I'm doing and I can show you that I'm trying to be healthy and I'm trying
to get fit but when it comes to actually investing in quality things that we are putting inside
of our bodies, it's going to make us feel better, it's going to help us to live, that's
going to make our minds and our brains function, then it becomes difficult, now it's expensive.
I just spend a thousand dollars on a camera, $400 on a lens but I can't spend $60 on
some greens, organic stuff.
I can't do it, it's too expensive.
Now we start finding all these excuses and we are still going out, we're still buying
sneakers, we're still buying cars, we're still....we're doing all these other things
and making all these excuses but we feel like we're doing something, because we're looking
good, we're healthy, we're in the gym, we are getting slim, we are muscular.
So I'm fit, I feel good, but I still have acid reflux.
I have no idea what's really going on in my body.
My brain is cloudy so I'm constantly drinking pre workouts and caffeine and this and that
to make my mind sharper, but I'm putting all this garbage in my body.
But at the same time you're into fitness and you're into body building so you're
eating a lot of protein and chicken and so you are doing something, you are investing.
I'm investing in chicken and this is...there is more to it than that, but we are not thinking
about that.
Also, we are not investing in our mental fitness.
We are not investing enough into ourselves.
We don't do enough, just to find peace, be content, be relaxed, decompressed from
the stress and anxiety of life, to get off of medications and get away from the pharmaceutical
stuff.
We will keep giving our money to the doctors and the big companies and all this, for what?
There are so many things you can do naturally on your own but we refuse to do it.
We refuse to take our time.
We refuse to invest our time and energy to even look into these things and research.
We just don't have the time for it, because I'm making YouTube videos, I'm watching
YouTube videos, I'm testing out camera equipment, I'm doing this, I'm in the gym.
Yo, we're doing this backwards.
We are doing it backwards.
I'm not going to get real much deeper into this because I feel like I've said enough,
think about it.
Let's just make a change.
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SIGMA 85MM ART LENS REVIEW - Duration: 2:05.
- Hey, my name is Nader.
I recently got to play with the Sigma 85 1.4 Art
and I just wanna kinda give you guys
my first impressions on it.
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This is the lens from Sigma
that I had been waiting for for the past few years.
First of all, the overall build quality
is absolutely fantastic.
They've done an excellent job of
just making a lens that feels pro.
It's heavy, it's metal, it's got a smooth focus ring.
They're going after the top of the line's Zeiss lenses.
They're going after $4,000/$5,000 lenses
at a fraction of the price.
They're doing an excellent job of
changing the industry and moving the industry forward,
which I really appreciate.
As far as image quality, the bokeh is absolutely fantastic.
The images I was able to create wide open with
a sharp subject and then creamy backgrounds
were just magic.
I did so in natural light, and I also did so in the studio.
As far as sharpness, I used D800E
and I had read that
this lens performs extremely well at 36 megapixels.
It did. There's just no question.
Comparing a shot taken with this 85 1.4
next to another shot taken with another 85 1.4,
you can see the difference right away.
A couple of things I found troublesome with this lens
is the filter size and the weight.
I can see a lot of people tryin' to lug this thing around
and complaining about it hurting their wrist,
hurting their arm, but it is a top quality lens,
and I shoot in the studio a lot.
As far as the filter size,
I would have to buy a whole new set of filters
if I want to use filters with this lens,
which is a little troublesome but
considering how good this lens looks and feels in my hands,
I'm willing to make that sacrifice.
Overall, I love this lens
and I would highly recommend trying it out,
renting it from your local camera store,
or just going and buying it.
Priced very competitively compared to
the other lenses it's trying to beat out.
Thank you for listening to me banter and
see you in the next video.
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