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Keith gave me Saguaro cactus seeds from Arizona (USA) - Duration: 3:38.
Hi I'm George ;) This time again I have received seeds
cactus seeds mailbox
this time from America Arizona
we have received from a friend YouTuber
Keith
Thank you Keith so much for seeds
and
They are saguaro cactus seeds
arrived a little hard from america from across the ocean
now, I should open the envelope to see how are the seeds
I will plant in one day, but today will show such as
I think I will plant them without shooting, but when they sprout, I will show you
and let's open letter
I will add the channel in Keith's description, he has YouTube channel
He makes videos with succulents, cacti
so it is very interesting channel
and it is a very good man because
these seeds he sent them to a lot of people in different countries, to Canada to other countries
and it's really great
Now I will open this envelope, so
so carefully, I had patience and I have not opened yet
Now we open .... so
and very careful here I will open
and see what is this point forward
look
here let's see what is
Arizona Saguaro cactus seeds
Keith... Wow it's really cool
great
and as we see here are seeds cactus
ok, let's see
look, saguaro cactus seeds
finally have arrived at me, great ;)
Thanl you Keith
look how many seeds, are many
here
So Keith's channel is in description,
and you can subscribe to his channel, makes up the good work Keith
it is bravo
and thank you very much
ready for today, thank you for watching
leave a like, distribute this video
and subscribe to my channel
I'm George
see you next time
Bye :)
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Amstrad CPC Story | Nostalgia Nerd - Duration: 31:23.
The name Amstrad means different things to different people.
For some it means this.
Others this, but for most of us, it invariably means THIS.
The Amstrad CPC is an iconic computer from the mid 80s.
Released in 1984, it was somewhat of a late-comer to the flooded British 8 bit micro scene,
but despite the odds managed to become the third biggest selling 8 bit home computer
in the UK and dominated in other parts of Europe.
It's often seen as an also-ran to the Commodore 64 and Sinclair Spectrum, but once you delve
into the story you begin to see that actually, it was anything but.
Alan Michael Sugar was born in 1947 and spent his early years in a Northwold estate, cramped
into a room with his siblings and bearing witness to a rather modest upbringing in East
London.
Although his mother recounted times when Alan's future bashful character came through, he
was reportedly a reserved child, but clearly took a lot on board.
In his teenage years it didn't take long for him to seek a more prosperous life for himself.
Working at the electrical wholesaler R. Henson Ltd in Finchely, his job was to take electrical
samples to retailers and strike a deal.
This quickly enabled Sugar to develop a large knowledge of retail outlets and products in
the capital, but the Hensons management left a sour taste in his mouth.
Despite instigating some lucrative ideas for the business, Hensons never seemed particularly
grateful for Sugar's work.
One of the rounds involved collecting goods from Binatone's owner, Gulu Lalvani, and it
didn't take long for him to realise he could go solo and make more money for himself than
working for Hensons.
Thanks to the friendship he'd established with Lalvani, he slyly struck up a deal in
1966 with Binatone and handed over a 7 day postdated cheque for a van of goods.
He then promptly sold these goods the same day and returned with to pay off Lalvani with
cash the very same night, tearing up the cheque.
At the age of 19 and armed with an unreliable mini-van costing just £80, this was the beginnings
of Amstrad.
Sugar initially kept his stock in a shed in the back yard of the Redbridge based house
he had bought with his recent wife, Ann Simons.
However after £1,500 of merchandise was stolen he began to rent a premises in St. John Street,
a base for many a small business and workshop and in November 1968 registered as a limited
business under the name of A.M.S.
Trading (General Importers), the A.M.S. representing Alan Michael Sugar.
At this stage the business was very much a buying and selling operation, however it didn't
take Sugar long to realise that putting his name on these wholesale products would not
only gain credibility, but also create an image among his buyers.
This brand name, more out of luck from the original company name than anything else,
would be Amstrad - an amalgamation of A.M.S. and Trading, creating an immediately flowing
and memorable name.
The first products to possess this brand were imported cigarette lighters and room to room
intercoms, and the branding involved a simple stick on badge.
1968 would also be the year which another entrepreneur, Clive Sinclair, was causing
a stir in the audio hobbyist community by placing four page colour adverts for small
audio amplifiers and it didn't take Sugar long to cotton on to this new and exciting
electronic market.
Over the next few years Sugar built up an astute knowledge of the cheapest suppliers,
and the best places to sell them, whilst also himself delving into electrical repair on
shipments of faulty goods, gaining extra income and boosting his own knowledge of the trade,
and it wasn't long that he would
open his own retail business on the side.
Along with friend Ashley Morris, the pair opened Global Audio, a shop that would sell
audio equipment, much like the ones Sugar was already selling to.
But Sugar was a man with fingers in many pies, and although this side operation was successful,
he sold his share to Morris so he could concentrate on launching the first in house developed
Amstrad product.
In a strategy that would become his main playing card, Sugar had noticed that people were spending
a lot of money on dust covers for turntables and identified a way to reduce costs.
This was by moving to injection moulding, rather than vaccum forming, which was the
norm, and soon shifted the cheaper alternatives using the contacts he'd established from the
beginning.
Like Sinclair this move into audio would follow with a range of amplifiers and other components
for hi-fi, although with a more value orientated approach than the technical innovations Sinclair
was offering.
Sugar wasn't one to sit in one place for long, and armed with his brash, cockney attitude,
which usually went completely at odds with other people in the industry, Amstrad soon
launched their first consumer electrical product in the form of the Amstrad 8000 Stereo Amplifier,
pushing sales to over £200,000 and allowing the business to move into a small set of warehouses
on Fleet Street.
This was in 1970 and Sugar would later go on to term the 8000 as the "biggest load of
rubbish I've ever seen in my life" and a number of improved versions evolved, but each bearing
the same advantage of completely undercutting the cost of the competition.
Sugar was making products for what he would term, "The truck driver and his wife".
By 1972 Amstrad's sales had almost doubled allowing another move to yet bigger premises
on Ridley Road, operating as a large scale British manufacture.
But Sugar realised that he could make further savings by sourcing components directly from
manufacturers in Japan, rather than using an electronics importer as they had been.
Several Eastern bound trips allowed Sugar to grasp the potential of OEM (original equipment
manufacturing), where products are fully assembled abroad to requirements and simply badged with
the Amstrad name.
This led to several new Amstrad products, which involved Amstrad doing very little other
than paying for the equipment and shipping them to the retailers, much like the early
days.
This new sub-contract operation, later formed an alliance with a British sub-contractor
L&N, allowing Sugar more control over the presentation of his products.
Something he was quite concerned with, much more so than the actual technical manufacture,
which was often echoed in magazine reviews.
By 1980, the company had bought premises in Tottenham for £300,000.
Sales were up to £8.76 million Sugar had got himself a Rolls, aquired a pilot's licence,
snapped up some 30% of the car radio market through imports and established a solid reputation.
Companies found him easy to deal with, being straightforward and essentially acting as
the chairman, sales director, financial chief, technical guru and everything else, all rolled
into one representative, although expansion had enabled him to take on a larger management
team to cope with increased pressure.
Amdstrad's technology also looked good and had become reliable.
The only two things which Sugar essentially cared about in a product.
The company had also gone public, providing some £2 million investment and widening the
opportunities available.
It was his next card trick which really solidified things further.
Over in Japan audio companies had begun to group separate hi-fi elements into one package.
However Sugar would take this idea, improve it, simplify it and lower the cost.
All of these things would emerge by combining all the separate elements into one signal
unit, made to look like separate pieces; something that we've taken for granted ever since really.
Sugar's attention to aesthetics ensured the units looked expensive, with an array of flashing
lights, fake switches and anything else that would match it to more expensive separate
units, an image that Sugar would term "a mug's eyeful".
The towers were beautifully simple compared to existing hi-fis.
Simply plug it in and you were away, instead of the usual collection of wires spooling
out the back.
Woolworths snapped up the TS-40 Tower Hi-Fi, along with Rumbelows, Curry's and Amstrad's
existing stockist, Comet.
It would be the first product to sell in the hundreds of thousands.
Priced at £199, this left some £130 for Amstrad, a hefty margin and a great source
of revenue.
The hi-fi buffs weren't enamored by the kit, but like all Amstrad's products, this wasn't
made for them.
Legalisation of CB radios in the UK allowed Amstrad further success, poised and ready
to pounce as they were, along with lines of other electronics including televisions, both
imported and manufactured in house as well as video recorders and various other electronics.
But Amstrad wasn't a company to sit in a marketplace for long, with Sugar only interested in profit
margins.
If he felt that a line was in danger from competition or natural market decline, it
would be cut without hesitation.
With Japanese competition mounting, Amstrad quickly exited both the VCR and TV markets
in 1984.
But, after all, a new line of electronics had caught their eye.
The Personal Computer.
To be fair, Amstrad were already making waves in this arena.
They had just released several high speed tape to tape recording machines with the advertising
"You can make a copy of your favourite cassette".
Something which would stir the music industry into a frenzy, resulting in various court
cases against Amstrad, with Amstrad finally prevailing, but also allowed users of the
emerging tape based home computers to quietly copy their tapes and perhaps pass them onto
friends, instigating the dark, dark world of PIRATE games.
By now, Amstrad's turnover was some £85 million with profits of almost £10 million, resulting
in Alan Sugar receiving Guardian young businessman of the year.
At the end of 1983 he announced that "new products to be unveiled in the coming year
would be in true Amstrad fashion, one step ahead of the market and most definitely the
competition".
============ Time to build a Computer ============
By now the UK home micro scene was in full swing, starting with the Sinclair ZX80 at
the turn of the decade, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum had now been selling in steady numbers for
just over a year, the BBC Micro for two years and 1983 had seen the emergence of the American
Commmodore 64 strolling onto our shores.
But the arrival of the home micro hadn't gone amiss from Amstrad, it's just that Sugar had
to wait until the market was just about right for Amstrad to do their usual tricks.
Back in 1982, Sugar had realised that the home micro market was big.
Far bigger than what they were making in hi-fi, and at the time big enough to hold companies
like Sinclair, Acorn, Commodore, Oric, Dragon and a slew of others businesses all competing
for business.
Sugar and Bob Watkins, Amstrad's technical director had initially asked a couple of engineers,
who had previously worked with Amstrad to take on the task, however by mid 1983, underestimating
the work needed to produce a computer, they had concluded that this duo were struggling
somewhat.
This was compounded when the software designer disappeared and the hardware designs were
demonstrated as seriously behind schedule.
In this time, the outer casing for the machine had already been completed.
Sugar's headstrong image for the machine had taken president, meaning that the final motherboard
and technical components would have to be designed to accommodate the space allocated.
So armed with this case, Bob Watkins had taken a stroll down to see Roland Perry at Ambit
International.
Another company who had worked for Amstrad in the past, whose main business was running
an electrical component mail order catalogue, which allowed funding for side products such
as calculators and other electronic kits.
His question to Roland was whether they could finish what had already been started.
A tall order, but after speaking to his MD, William Poel, the pair decided it was an opportunity
they could not turn down.
Amstrad wanted the system completed fast.
Within 5 months fast.
So Poel and Perry's task was to oversee the project and recruit the staff they needed
to get the job done.
Their first meeting, with the original designers apparently yielded that most of the work had
so far been completed by the hardware designers 14 year old son, and could only currently
display a few characters on screen.
Impressive for a 14 year old.
Less impressive in the eyes of Amstrad.
Perry quickly sought a new team of engineers from the technology centre of what seemed
the world then, Cambridge and set about finishing the hardware whilst acquiring a suitable operating
system and BASIC interpreter.
Microsoft BASIC, the most common go-to was expensive to licence, so Sugar decided that
it would be more cost effective to write their own interpreter.
Richard Clayton was apparently the man to turn to for this, operating Locomotive Software
from his back room, and although highly impressed by the already completed outer casing was
a little miffed by the state of the hardware.
The current system was using a 6502 processor at it's core, and given Locomotive's lack
of familiarity with this chip, Clayton estimated it would take some 8 months to get an OS and
interpreter up and running.
He suggested calling up his friend Mark-Eric Jones operating under the name of MEJ Electronics.
Their suggestion was to scrap the current design and build something around the Z80
processor.
Clayton's exposure to this chip meant he could adapt some work he'd recently completed for
Acorn in a much shorter time frame and MEJ knew the electronics inside out.
It was also around this time, under a shroud of secrecy that the Amstrad prototype gained
the nickname Arnold.
Perry had given the system a temporary badge to hide the backer behind this project, with
most people assuming that it was General Electric Company, run by Lord Arnold Weinstock.
It wasn't until later that Roland Perry realised that Arnold was in fact an anagram of his
own name.
The secrecy didn't last long however as MEJ and Locomotive were called to a meeting with
Alan Sugar to finalise terms and plan out a timescale.
Chris Hall was the only member of Locomotive to own a suit, and so attended, along with
MEJ, William Poel and Bob Watkins.
The engineers had assumed that Bob Watkins was in charge.
That is, until Sugar arrived late, and everyone fell silent.
Sugar then laid out his vision.
Whilst other manufacturers were fiddling about with what Sugar described as pregnant calculators,
the new Amstrad machine would have "perceived value for money".
Just like the hifis, having a "mug's eyeful" was central to the mix.
The pre-designed CPC case with it's wide footprint, bold coloured keys, grilled edges and high
tech finish were designed to do just that.
A machine that looked like a real computer you see in airports or offices was his core
vision.
Something that the lorry driver and his wife would look at and think, now that looks the
deal.
Incorporating a tape deck (straight from their hi-fis) into the machine and bundling a monitor
was also core to this premise.
Not only did this make the machine look the part, but it turned the whole package into
something incredibly simple to plug in and use.
Just like the all in one hi-fi, there would be only two wires connecting the keyboard
to the monitor, and a single plug, with the PSU for both units built into the monitor
itself.
Sugar had dabbled with the existing micros and found them utterly aggregating and unhelpful
to setup.
His ability to see things as the average working joe allowed foresight that just wouldn't register
with the likes of Sinclair or Acorn Computers.
The bundled monitor would also eliminate the problem of the family TV set being unusable
during the computer's operation, meaning it was likely to be used more and for longer
periods of time.
All the engineers needed to do was make it work.
The specifications Amstrad provided were pretty basic, with the only insistence's really being
to have colour, sound and 64k of memory to match it to the highest capacity found among
competition and to do it "as cheaply as is humanly possible".
Here was a team, given a few months to design the basis for a complete computer system.
Something that would usually take 5 times the personnel, and 5 times the time.
But the engineers were actually pretty excited about the challenge and set to work immediately.
One of their early strokes of genius was to use a ULA chip to combine multiple functions
and reduce cost, much like the Sinclair machines.
In fact, the final CPC technical specs, were not too dissimilar from that of Clive's little
machine, and although price was key, it even had a number of improvements.
As well as being able to display up to 16 colours from a palette of 27, there were two
other resolution modes allowing a CGA style 4 colours at 320x200 and 2 colours at 640x200.
All without the colour clash attribute found in Clive's machine.
The system also sported basic 4 pixel hardware scrolling, which was really a credit to the
team's design and pride in their work.
The Z80 CPU ran at roughly 3.3MHz to to prevent interference with the shared video circuit
memory, whilst the memory could effectively be upgraded to 512kb through bank switching.
Sound emits from an on board speaker and is driven by a General Instruments AY-3-8912
sound chip, providing three channels and 7 octaves.
A vast improvement over the Speccy's on board beeper and much more similar to what the Spectrum
128k+ would accrue some 2 years later.
Given the bundled 14" monitor, there was no need for an RF output, with the display driven
from an RGB connector resulting in what would appear a much clearer display than most systems
of the time.
But there was a DB9 port for a joystick - allowing two through a splitter cable, an expansion
bus, printer bus, power switch, internal speaker volume dial and a stereo output jack.
Sugar wanted what was at it's heart, a games machine.
He understood this is where the money lay.
But the machine needed business appeal, and the team had certainly delivered the goods
here, on both fronts.
With Bob Watkins happy with the design, Locomotive got the OS and BASIC interpreter up and running
in an incredibly narrow space of time, taking on more staff as they went.
The initial prototypes were ready by November 1983 and presented to Alan Sugar.
The first thing Sugar requested was that the cursor be movable at all times using the directional
arrows.
Most interpreters at the time didn't allow this, but in typical Sugar style, he wanted
the machine to respond immediately to the average chap in the shops jabbing the arrow
keys, providing a reassuring response, regardless of its advantages.
The hastily built prototypes were then shipped immediately to software developers around
the country, along with some Amstrad televisions to serve as monitors.
An operation was then put into motion to convince these software houses to write some programs
for the system in time for it's launch.
If a deal couldn't be struck with a particular house, then someone would pick up the machine
and take it to another software house, until there were 50 machines in the hands of 50
developers, ready to create launch titles for the CPC.
Amstrad knew that the software line up was key for any machine's success.
They had witnessed Sinclair's market success, and the demise of other machines which just
lacked a suitable array of games.
It's for this reason that several Ambit employees, including Perry and Poel were brought on board
under the name of Amsoft and put to task creating their own line of software for the machine,
along with setting up a user's club to duplicate the same kind of support the Spectrum and
Commodore 64 had naturally evolved.
The current CPC prototypes didn't yet have the ULA chips on board, instead they were
simulated using an array of separate chips and discreet components, which was handy because
the ULA was initially riddled with problems.
Ferranti, the company tasked with creating these chips just couldn't create something
that worked, so Sugar decided to get another company, SGS, based in Italy, to have a go
as well, keen to ensure that the machines were launched as soon as humanly possible.
Both companies soon enough created working chips and the components were quickly shipped
out to Orion for manufacture, in Japan.
It was Orion themselves, who had vast experience in display manufacturing, who then suggested
using the high contrast yellow on blue colour scheme to ensure maximum clarity.
With the changes made, the OS was completed in its final and shipped to Orion in the third
week of January 1984 to be laid into silicon for the final design.
It was only when the firmware was mid-flight that Richard Clayton discovered a minor bug
in one of the BASIC operations.
The DEC$ function required two opening brackets rather than one.
But given that its only use was to return a decimal string representation of a supplied
variable, it was a non essential operation, and Sugar keen to be as professional with
the Japanese as they were with Amstrad decided to just remove it from the manual rather than
request Orion to change it.
This was more of an egotistical point with Sugar who was always keen to Out-Japanese
the Japanese.
Apart from this tiny hiccup, Roland Perry and Amstrad hit a winner with MEJ & Locomotive
software.
Not only was a decent machine, operating system and interpreter delivered within time, it
also didn't cause Sugar much concern in the financials department.
Like a lot of people neither MEJ or Locomotive weren't convinced Amstrad could succeed in
a saturated market, and so during negotiations, rather than opting for royalty payments on
machines sold, both companies opted for a fixed lump sum.
As Locomotive wanted to retain the intellectual property rights, this was £45,000 for the
first two years, and £15,000 per year afterwards.
Amstrad had no problems agreeing to these terms, and the machine was poised and ready
to go.
======== A Baby Amstrad Arrives =========
The Amstrad CPC464 was unveiled in April 1984, just 8 months since Bob Watkins had walked
into Ambit's offices.
The opening ceremony was orchestrated by Michael Joyce Consultants to various members of the
press, hiring the hall at Westminster School and managing to track down people with the
names of Archimedes, Einstein, Monet and Shakespeare to demonstrate respective aspects of the machine.
The press were impressed and it was quickly dubbed "The People's Computer", exactly as
Alan Sugar has intended.
At £229 with a green monochrome monitor, £329 for colour it was incredibly well priced,
equaling, if not exceeding Commodore 64 specifications and including a monitor, for roughly the same
price a standalone C64 system was currently retailing at.
Users who purchased the green monitor version were able to upgrade to colour through the
purchase of a MP-1 or MP-2 devices incorporating the modulator and power pack needed to hook
machines up to a standard television.
Whilst over in Japan Amstrad had also located a stock pile of 3" disk drive components going
cheap.
The 3.5" format was beginning to take over, so rather than going to waste, just before
launch Sugar asked his engineers to create an external disk drive for the CPC, to help
push the business aspect of the technology.
This was quickly done, conforming to the Hitachi & Panasonic standard, and a swift deal was
tied up with Digital Research to port the CP/M operating environment to the CPC - like
the 3" disks, an OS that was losing it's battle to MS-DOS.
Amstrad agreed to pay for a large number of licences up front, demonstrating how firm
Sugar was in his belief that the CPC would make in-roads.
To this end there was also a package including the disk drive for £429, meaning the system
could fall straight onto the desks of business, as well as the kitchen table.
Given the sturdiness of the 3" discs, they would likely survive just fine in the kitchen
as well.
Guy Kewney of Personal Computer World wrote "The Amstrad is a powerful, fast machine,
with plenty of memory, easy to program, and packaged in a way that means it will comfortably
outsell the Acorn Electron, and give the Commodore 64 and Sinclair Spectrum a hard run for their
money.
I expect some 200,000 systems to be sold by the end of the year".
It's not hard to see why.
From the moment you setup the CPC, it's blissfully straightforward.
You can plonk the monitor town using the built in handle, connect the 2 cables into the CPC
itself which extrude from the front, so you don't have to scrabble around at the back,
and you're good to go.
Even after turning the machine on, everything feels right.
The image is crystal clear, thanks to the RGB connection.
The keyboard feels responsive, including the arrow keys allowing you to chuck the cursor
where ever you feel, and also, handy touches like the "copy" key leap out.
There's no need to mess around with a cassette deck, along with all the wires and making
sure the volume level is correct.
Everything just feels like it's going to work and keep working.
Whereas, using a Spectrum can feel like an experimental laboratory test at times.
There's always a slight fear that something will suddenly stop working.
This fear itself is something Amsoft played up to when Acorn attacked Sinclair's machine
failure rate by announcing a game called "This Business is War", featuring characters that
looked incredibly similar to Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry of Acorn, but apparently the
source code was lost and the game never surfaced.
The modest hour queue which formed when the CPC first went on sale may seem insignificant
by today's standards, but back then, it was anything but.
60 people waited an hour for the Rumbelows store in London's Edgware Sqare to open on
the Thursday 21st June 1984.
Wake me up before you go go by Wham was riding the UK charts, and the Amstrad CPCs were certainly
go-going.
Within an hour 100 CPCs had been sold.
Soon machines were available in many high street stores thanks to Amstrad's existing
connections.
To further lure the crowds, Amsoft and other willing developers had created enough titles
for the initial bundle to ship with a whopping 12 titles, claimed by Amstrad to be worth
over £100.
This included Roland in the Caves and Roland on the Ropes, named after Roland Perry himself.
Other games included Oh Mummy, Harrier attack and Sultan's maze, along with productivity
applications like Easi-Amsword.
This really was the complete package, and thanks in part to it's industrial look, it
radiated a feel of quality and professionalism, which was somewhat lacking in the market.
The all in one solution also lowered returns.
Many of Sinclair's products were returned because people just couldn't work out how
to tune them in or work them.
Whereas the CPC was as simple as moving the fruit bowl aside, parking on the table and
flicking a switch.
However, only caring about numbers, the city wasn't privvy to all this reasoning, and was
still skeptical of another new machine entering the already flooded market.
Sinclair had by now sold well over 1 million ZX Spectrums and excess Acorn Electron stock
was waiting in warehouses, having missed the 1983 Christmas rush due to production problems.
Something you'll note almost every other micro manufacturer endured in the early 80s, apart
from Amstrad that is, Bill Poel was even quoted as saying "I will be prepared to eat one in
Trafalgar Square if its late".
Amstrad's shares endured a rocky patch in the year following the CPC's unveiling, with
some starting to realise that Christmas 1983 had been the peak for micro computer sales.
Now, it was reckoned, "everyone who wanted one, has one".
But this was Sugar's strength.
Identifying an unfulfilled area of the market whilst creating something simpler, better,
whilst using economies of scale and outsourced manufacturing, to make it cheaper.
Ultimately his strength was having conviction in common sense.
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Ripped Off By BuzzFeed | This Shouldn't Be News - Duration: 5:45.
This week's top story: I hated BuzzFeed
before Donald Trump tried to make it a thing.
If you have Wi-Fi and you're alive right
now then you know what BuzzFeed Video is.
It's the video arm of that quiz, gif,
listicle online company where dreams go
to die
Do you have any character traits
whatsoever? Great!
BuzzFeed Video definitely has a video
that points it out... and I mean literally
points. it. out. All their videos-- of which
there are thousands--are just premises
like, "This is what it's like to be tall"
Ow! A ceiling fan! See? Tall!
Subscribe! Here's what it's like to enjoy
coffee: "Don't bug me before my coffee!" See?
Quirky! Subscribe! These mindless, 90-second
videos are narcissists wet dream. And the
sad truth is we're all narcissists.
We want to watch content about every single
detail of ourselves because we want to
think we are important. Hell, if they made
a video called "what it's like to be a
black chick with curly hair on youtube"
I'd probably click it either to commiserate
or point out where they got it wrong.
It's maybe one of the worst impulses
about humanity because it inherently
points to a distorted sense of self that we
can't see our value unless someone else
does too. And it gets clicks!
BuzzFeed Video enjoys millions of views
daily. They encourage brands to put up
thousands upon thousands of dollars in
sponsored content and because they are
so frequent and employees are overworked
and underpaid to churn this lazy bullshit
out day after day after day --of course it
is also often stolen. BuzzFeed Video is
notorious for lifting content of other
independent creators and claiming it as
their own.
I know i'm not alone when I point out
how discouraging it can be to work
really hard on a video and have some
corporation take credit and views from
my work. Need more proof?
These are two videos about what it would
be like if your period was a person.
One was made a year before the other by an
independent creator. The other was made
by BuzzFeed. Note the Melania levels of
plagiarism.
"what the fuck?" "Hey girl hey!"
"What the fuck?"
"I'm in town girl!" - "OMG you're early!"
"You were here three weeks ago!" "Thought I'd drop by early."
"OMG I have a date this week" "Ooh girl! I'll tag along!"
"I have a Tinder date tonight!" "That's what towels are used for, babe"
It's visual gags. Its' thumbnail art.
It's original recipes.
It's everything. When you pay your
employees peanuts to go viral
they're going to steal from people
who've gone viral before. To my knowledge
no one has been fired from buzzfeed for
plagiarism
aside from Benny Johnson but you know he
did worked there for years before they
thought to do anything about it.
I started a petition the summer to #STOPBUZZTHIEVES
and founder and CEO
Jonah Peretti dismissed it claiming that
because we all work in the same space--
the internet I guess? it's possible to
have some overlap.
fair enough but have you ever worked
next to someone and somehow written what
they wrote down
word for word on accident? can you
honestly say that the two videos we just
watched are coincidentally identical?
comedy thrives when it's a commentary
BuzzFeed hardly ever makes a commentary
It's just noise. Half the reason they
don't think they're stealing is because
they don't even have a dry hump of an
understanding about what parody or
satire are. Because of this Jonah Peretti
didn't understand my complaint that
their copy version was watered down and
bad. My video: "How to be an Introvert
According to Tumblr" is satire about
the way Tumblr romanticizes introversion
to the point of absurdity.
BuzzFeed's video was a shot-for-shot remake
of one joke in mine to say, "haha!
introverts are really like this!!" GAG ME.
You know what good parody looks like?
Animaniacs. Adult Swim. Remember "Too Many
Cooks?" That was a wonderful parody.
It started off so similar to the genre it was
parodying that it took a full two
minutes before anyone realized what the
joke was. It obviously took time to plan
and was more than just "see a person with
a trait!" The following sketch is a parody
of BuzzFeed Video because.. Fuck em.
I'm JASE! I'm Forgettable! I'm Brody! and I'm
DIVERSITY! And we're THE DO-DUDES!
And today we're doing
THAT THING WHERE WE SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR
ONCE! This is gonna be hard!
Oh no! That was so hard! I messed up 8 TIMES!
Typical Brody! -Who are you again?
Thanks for watching and tune in next week when we
do whatever refinery29 did last week
CONTENT!
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epoxy floor coatings in Carefree.
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En Etkili 3 ARKA OMUZ Hareketleri | GROW BIG REAR DELT |ENG.SUB. - Duration: 1:59.
Hi EveryoneFriends.
Today we will work rear shoulder muscles.
Rear shoulder muscles attached to the scapula to the humerus.
Scapula is bone like a blade.
How does it work; pulling back the arm backwards and remove upwards.
*Front*
Your arms, without moving the elbow joint, so lock your elbows, flap like birds's does.
*Side*
*Back*
*Front*
*Side*
*Back*
*Front*
Here, we will move the elbow joint, it should not be confused.
*Side*
*Back*
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20 lies the Trump administration told this week - Duration: 5:26.
And I really don't change my position very much.
You know if you were a Christian in Syria, it was impossible, at least very very tough
to get into the United States. If you were a Muslim, you could come in.
In 2016, almost as many Christian refugees were admitted as Muslims
The number 1 source of income into Mexico are Mexicans working here and sending the money back
Is it a Muslim ban?
Totally. No it's not a Muslim ban but we're totally prepared.
When he first announced it, he said 'Muslim ban.
He called me up, he said, 'Put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally.
We are totally prepared. It's working out very nicely. You see it at the airports
you see it all over. It's working out very nicely.
You have an extreme vetting proposal that
didn't get the vetting that it should have had and as a result, in the implementation
we've seen some problems.
Well he is a former naval officer. Having the chief strategist in those meetings, who
has a significant military background, to help make, guide the President's final analysis
is going to be crucial
He doesn't have any real experience, he was in the navy.
But any real military experience in terms of policy, he doesn't have it.
Did the White House expect that there would
be such a profound reaction to the President's executive action here?
Well I think what you're seeing is a small
reaction from a small number of people
that is outside of the amount of coverage that it is getting.
It's a routine screening process that they'll go through.
And we're going to have a very, very strict ban and we're going to have extreme vetting.
This is a ban on travel, on prospective travel from countries trying to prevent terrorists
in this country, from countries that have
a recent history of training and exporting and harboring terrorists.
Look not a single terrorist who has had an attack in America
has come from one of these seven countries.
By and large he's been praised for it.
The President recognized the tremendous loss of
life that came from the Holocaust.
It's a shame that people were inconvenienced, obviously.
But at the end of the day, we're talking about a couple of hours.
I would rather, you know, I'm sorry that some folks may have had to wait a little while.
The makeup of the principals committee from 2017
is exactly as it was in both 2017 as it was in 2001.
100 percent identical except we added the word also.
The appointment of Mr. Bannon is a radical departure from any National Security Council in history.
As soon as the court order was received, and they advised us on the implications.
We put a complete hold on anyone being removed in connection with the executive order.
The people that he appoints and nominates and announces as staff members or cabinet
level members or agency heads, their job is to fulfill that, and they shouldn't take the job
But It is the president's agenda that we are fulfilling here.
The president has done a tremendous amount through what he has said and done
more importantly to start to bring this country together,
and his policies, frankly, are focused on keeping every American safe.
You said earlier, if you're qualified for the position, you should get confirmed.
That's not how Merrick Garland was treated in the previous administration.
There's never been a situation in which you had a fourth term — someone that
late in the election cycle. It's never occurred before.
The president had a very cordial conversation with Prime Minister Trumbull
where they went through an extensive discussion of this deal.
During this phone call between President Trump
and Prime Minister Turnbull of Australia, the President relayed his concerns that he
does not like this deal.
I talked to one source last night who said there were staffers
inside the white house whose faces were turning white
because they were aghast at some of the details
coming out of these phone conversations.
President Obama said that they were going to take
probably well over a thousand illegal immigrants who were in prisons.
You referred to these people as illegal immigrants.
They're not, they're refugees.
Two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and they were the masterminds
behind the Bowling Green massacre.
His number one goal is not to target any one religion.
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A Breakfast For Champions - Mr2ndopinion.com - 0047 - Duration: 5:57.
Ladies & Gentlemen today i'm going to take you to the kitchen
we are going to smack up with a breakfast for champions
When I wake up I can't wait to get some of this, it's healthy
and it is nutritious as i should be!
So stay tuned and look how i make a breakfast for champions!
So what I like the most about this breakfast is
It takes no time at all, what we have in front of us are ingredients we are going need to make up this wonderful breakfast
within 5 min you'll have a meal that will go with you untill 9 or 10 hours when you are going to have another snack
So stay with us as we move to the kitchen and we show you how to make it
what do we got here, we got protein powder, you can take any kind of variation of protein powder you want
we got unprocessed oatmeal
we got stevia for extra sweetening, you can add honey
or whatever you like, but i rather not because I don't like the
extra sugar and calories maybe on a high carb day so
You can add other things too it like peanut butter or chocolate if you want to...
it's up to you!
It's you who is going to eat it, or your sweet lifting girlfriend!
So alright first we need a bowl we take this bowl right here,
something you can put in the microwave people, next you will have to add water from the tap, I've got it in this container right here, so right you put the water in, make sure it's enough
I've got it in this container right here, so right you put the water in, make sure it's enough
some may like to add milk or almond milk whatever your preferance is
so i do add water, as much as needed to keep it smooth because
after the microwave we are going to add the protein
I said after because I don't have a clue what heat does to protein
I have heard whispers it's not a good idea so yeah let's prevent damage than I guess
So okay the water is added now we take the oatmeal put it right in, take a spoon give it a stir
take it to the microwave and put it in at about 3 min on 600 watts, don't go running away from a microwave
but don't stay to close either.
Keep an eye on what's happening in the bowl, if there is life in the thing
get it out, if there's not much happening, let it go!
You should get it going, you should let it go! :)
Once you have done what you need to do with it, take it out.
okay i took it out as you can see it's a bit to dry, so what can you do, you add a little more water, give it a stir
okay so it's more moist now, im a sugar tooth as you can see i put the stevia in
the protein powder together give it a good old stiiiiiiirrrr
add the protein powder, oh i'm getting messy here, if you want to add something like berries
or perhaps even an EGG give it a go!
Why not ! :) I never tried an egg in protein powder, maybe it's an experiment
If you are done stirring dig in!
Dig in!
mmmm this is really healthy, if you have a craving
fix this up for yourself it's fills you up, it's really good for you
and you don't need much You can get really creative with it.
If you have any ideas for the other people out there.
Comment them, we are open to ideas!
Mr2ndopinion signing off to get his breakfast and day GOING!
Bye
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You'll Never Shut Me Up || Episode 6 - Treatment Continues - Duration: 3:02.
hi everyone well you know what is really
hard to put smaller facially we're gonna
fit him well truck
so what we know about this sort of
cancer is that despite good surgery to
remove the Jima and Charlie had some
feet to the perk answer which increase
the chances that some cells could be
left behind or quarter problem in the
future so the radiotherapy is being the
main job we're treating where the team
awards and by adding a little bit of
chemotherapy and we make the
radiotherapy more effective so the aim
in this situation is to eradicate the
risk of this ever causing Charlie
another problem so we're treating with
the aim of curing ok I think she
probably feels pretty balanced
environment but she's doing okay i think
two stitches the the the treatment she's
how think she's doing fine we would
expect the teams that really saw the
point in their treatment and that they
might have difficulty eating and
drinking just proves to be the case we
Charley and I think that that treats
like dresses and it does not suspect
she's like the middle of that the moment
I just couldn't eat and whole-body
something to really really really suffer
of all anything might also notice I'm
trying everything up and this is what
happened to everybody but it obviously
the way my body is we have to think and
if this will then made me make and and
also just without anything actually be
able to continue the treatment the OE ya
at the blood bags from actually having a
blood transfusion at the moment and led
to make me feel better with more entity
almost them here for energy can't stop
to come back and that's what I've been
able to do this video's could be really
quite frank couldn't even pick that
phone up to even look at you about two
hours ago anyway someone up with i'm
going to try i'm really trying and
anything that's got another three weeks
ago and just don't know and her husband
is doing but now if you do it but he's
going to my side they will put in here
and mending fantastic so stunning outfit
like figure you do it with never felt
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Saba Qamar response to Neelam Munir's viral dance in car
Saba Qamar response to Neelam Munir's viral dance in car
Saba Qamar response to Neelam Munir's viral dance in car
Saba Qamar response to Neelam Munir's viral dance in car
Saba Qamar response to Neelam Munir's viral dance in car
Saba Qamar response to Neelam Munir's viral dance in car
Saba Qamar response to Neelam Munir's viral dance in car
Saba Qamar response to Neelam Munir's viral dance in car
Saba Qamar response to Neelam Munir's viral dance in car
Saba Qamar response to Neelam Munir's viral dance in car
Saba Qamar response to Neelam Munir's viral dance in car
Saba Qamar response to Neelam Munir's viral dance in car
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CZECH CASTING | FINE² #03 - Duration: 1:30.
- Okay, so I think we can start. - Yeah.
No, wait.
Better.
- Nice. - Can we start?
- Yeah. - Okey.
Well, hello. Let's begin. So... What is your name, where're you from?
- Well, I'm Ivana and I'm from Prague. - Ivanka... that's sweet...
- How old are you, Ivanka? - Eighteen.
- Oh, 18... that's right for us! - Oh, yeah, I like it.
And do you have any experience?
- With filming... - Honestly, not yet.
- But you're not shy, are you? - No, I'm not.
You're not... Okay... And...
So there is no problem with...
making this adult movies?
No.
- No problem? Nice. - I think we can start then...
Yeah, sure... Ehm, have you ever held this?
- Have you? - I... think...
Don't worry, I think it's gonna be okey. Just take this. | - Wait, like this.
Just open the app.
- Just hold it. And then press this. - But you can't have hands over the camera.
It will be better like this. Fine.
Just your hands... like this...
Yeah, marvellous. Just press the button when we're ready.
- Handy girl. - Fine, just wait when we're ready.
- Christian, is it okay like this? Can we? - Super neat...
Be gooooood...
Yummy.
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Goodyear Epoxy Floors | Barefoot Surfaces - Duration: 0:42.
Epoxy floors can protect and preserve
your concrete, saving your floor from
chemical damage, wear and tear, stains,
scratches, another rough treatment.
Barefoot Surfaces has been installing
epoxy floor systems in Goodyear and
surrounding areas for over 20 years, and
with five-star ratings on Google and Yelp, you
can be sure your floor will get done
right. Run by Rick Ramirez, an Air Force
veteran, Barefoot Surfaces has gained a
reputation for great pricing and quality
epoxy coating in Goodyear. Contact Rick
at 602-931-7656 or visit our website at
barefootsurfaces.com
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Litchfield Park Epoxy Floors | Barefoot Surfaces - Duration: 0:47.
Epoxy floors can protect and preserve
your concrete. A popular option for
garages and workshops, a savior floor from
chemical damage, wear and tear, stains,
scratches, and another rough treatment. They
also save time on maintenance, as they
are extremely easy to clean.
Barefoot Surfaces has been installing
the epoxy floor systems in Litchfield
Park and surrounding areas for over a
decade. And with five-star ratings on
Google and Yelp, you can be sure your
floor will get done right. Run by Rick
Ramirez, an Air Force veteran, Barefoot
Surfaces has gained a reputation for
great pricing, equality epoxy floor
coatings in Litchfield Park. Contact Rick
at 602-931-7656 or visit our website at
barefootsurfaces.com.
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