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AWESOME, DUDE: RESPONDENDO DÚVIDAS DE INGLÊS ft Carina Fragozo - Duration: 11:33.
I'm here in São Paulo with a very special guest
for today's episode. It's Carina Fragozo. The last video with her was so great, like two years ago.
-Almost two years! -I guess.
-And now I'm back with her again. -I'm so happy!
-We're in Trianon Park. -And we're in the "playground."
We're in the playground, and there are kids over there, so if you hear a kid screaming,
It's not our fault. Well, it is our fault because we decided to film in the playground.
-Exactly. -Is there an equivalent to playground in Portuguese?
"Parquinho."
Carina, tell us a little about your channel.
My channel is called English in Brazil, but it's youtube/carinafragozo because I'm not great with links.
I teach English - I've been an English teacher for over ten years.
There are pronunciation and vocabulary tips and Seth has been on in a video from two years ago
and another that we just filmed about British expressions, I tested Seth.
It was really interesting.
Take a look. But only after you finish this video and subscribe to Carina's channel and on our channel.
"Our Channel" is another channel. Amigo Gringo channel.
Kids screaming. But let's hope you can't hear it, and let's get started with English questions.
-Ah crap. -A whole school let out.
It's a school, we may have to move.
A huge group of adolescents arrived, we can't film here any longer. We'll head elsewhere.
See you soon.
We're back...and well, I don't think you can even tell we're somewhere else.
-It's all plants. -It's all green, we're in Brazil.
So, let's get started with the questions?
I loved this first question. It's from Mateus Oliveira who wrote:
Amigo Gringo, what are the differences between "amazing," "incredible," and "awesome."
-They're all words that mean something is great. -Really good question.
-They all mean things are great. -Incredible, fantastic, cool...
But can I use "incredible" for something bad?
In most cases it's something really good.
Yeah, because I think that if it's something bad, we could say "That's unbelievable."
In that case yes, right?
It's "inacreditável."
But I think we can distinguish one of them.
"Awesome" can be used as "That's awesome," that's really great.
But it could just be, "ok, awesome."
Like, I agree with you. We made plans and I said "awesome."
Exactly, that's great. I hadn't thought of that.
It's like "ok" - "OK, awesome."
-But not "incredible." -No, not "incredible."
It's like - let's meet later for coffee? Awesome.
It's not like AWESOME!!! HOW INCREDIBLE THAT WE'RE HAVING COFFEE.
Let's quickly go over the origin of those words.
Amazing - amaze is like surprise, something unbelievable.
-That's like when something surprises you. -That's amazing.
Incredible is like in Portuguese, something you can't believe.
And many people don't really that incredible comes from the word "credible," which is something you can believe.
It's "credible" that a million people will watch this video.
-Of course! -Because you'll all share it.
Absolutely
And finally, awesome. "Awe" is a difficult word, it's like showing reverence.
Something that's so incredible that you feel little, unimportant, in front of it.
Why it's -some, I don't know.
It could be awe-full. Ah no, because then it would be "awful."
Like "terrible."
Wow, awful also comes from awe, I'm very confused. You're on the wrong channel,
You have to follow Carina's channel because she explains things better.
-Let's move on! -Let's!
Next question, from Josué Câmera, I also liked this question:
What's the most common surname in the United States, like "Silva" here in Brazil. Do you know?
I do know - it's Smith, right?
-And smith means what? -I don't know.
A smith is someone who works with metals. "Blacksmith" would be the full word.
Or goldsmith. We also have those other names. Goldsmith is a smith that works with gold.
Silversmith also, all that.
So I guess Smith was a very common profession. Ah, let's go to the smith. Which smith?
The one named John! Ah, John Smith - which is like João Silva.
But I think that if it has to do with iron ("ferro"), we have something similar: Ferreira, is that right?
-Exactly. It all has to do with iron. -How interesting.
And now, from "In Bia's World."
Ah, she comments a lot on my channel as well!
-I know that name! -And I liked her question:
Amigo Gringo, make a video about expressions used in food preparation.
And she went on: I always get confused with how when we want to say 'roast a cake', it's 'bake a cake'
But if it's meat, it's roast.
Can you talk about that? Now, that's so interesting. I never know what to say in Portuguese in the kitchen.
But I think she -- in Portuguese, really?
-Just say "roast." -"Roast" works with everything?
For everything.
-Roast is "assar." -It's for meat - like a turkey for Thanksgiving.
-Roast beef... -"Carne assada".
But would be the equivalent of "bake"?
Bake a cake, it's "assar" again. Bake cake...what else?
-Bread, cake, cookies...my favorite, chocolate chip cookies.
I'm going to put a cookie here, because I'm getting hungry. Look at that cookie.
It's almost noon, we're dreaming about cookies here.
-I owe you all a video about cookies. -Is there a video about cookies?
I'm going to make a video about cookies, you know why?
-Baking cookies? -No, not baking cookies. Eating cookies,
chocolate chip cookies in New York. Know why I'm going to make that video?
It's because the people out there need that information!
No, it's not that. It's because I'm going to eat all the cookies.
So "bake" is for those things in a bakery, and roast is for big cuts of meat.
But what kind of small meat would you 'bake"?
No, you can't bake a small cut of meat. You can't roast a hamburger, for example.
What do you do, then?
Broil. Broil is like grilling inside your oven. You turn the thing to broil, and it's like full-on fire, like 1000 degrees
And it cooks everything in like two minutes.
I don't know where that word comes from.
-I don't either, but so a hamburger... -A hamburger, or broil shrimp...
Ah, you know who the next question is from? Leonardo "Smith."
-Really? -It's Ferreira.
I thought it was Smith. Great.
And he wrote: I've always had a question about the use of "couple." Does it mean exactly two things?
Or several things? That's an incredible question.
It's really good. You guys have the habit of saying "I have a couple of questions."
For me, it's a pair, it's two questions.
If we're talk about two married people, it's a "couple". There are two, normally.
Who knows what will happen in the world in the future, it could be three people married, I don't know.
But for now, a couple is two people.
But when you use "a couple of questions," it's doesn't mean two.
-And so? -It means some.
-Some questions. -A few. A couple.
But is there any context where a couple of something means exactly two?
I don't think it ever does, just in the case of a couple, meaning two people.
Very interesting, I loved that question too.
Igor Neiva wrote: Seth - he used the number 7 - Why do you call maracujá "passion fruit"...
if it makes you sleepy? -That's great. Great.
Could it be true that love makes you sleepy from time to time?
It's tiring, at least. I don't know if it makes you sleepy. But it's tiring.
And the answer is, it's not the love kind of passion. it's like Passion of the Christ.
-"of Christ." -"of Christ."
-Er, I'll say that again. -Sorry!
No, no, she corrected me! It's ok. It's the passion OF Christ.
And that comes from when the Spanish, Spanish missionaires arrived in the Americas and were trying
to teach the natives about Christ and all that.
And the passion fruit flower has five of something and three...I'm not a biologist.
It's has three of these things and five of those things.
I understand. Perfect explanation.
And three and five are numbers that are important in the Passion of Christ.
I don't know why, I'm Jewish, folks. You're Catholic.
-I'm Catholic. -So explain the Passion of Christ.
Let's wait until next time.
NEW YORKESE CLASS
I hope you like the video, we've still got New Yorkese class coming up, but before that:
Subscribe to the channel and click on the bell to receive notifications.
-Thanks Carina. -No, thank you! I loved being on the channel,
and go watch our video on my channel as well.
I'll put a circle with your channel here.
And now, your New Yorkese class. I chose a question that has to do with the history of New York
and of that part of the United States.
Jaciane de Freitas asked: "Hi dude! But, what is a dude?"
Where does that word "dude" come from?
Specifically, what is dude?
It's like "cara" - What's up, cara?
But "cara" comes from here, right, a face. I think.
Now listen to the explanation for dude.
I don't have the slightest idea.
Try not to fall asleep during this explanation.
It comes from a song that every American knows called "Yankee Doodle Dandy".
Yankee Doodle Dandy is about a guy, a dude.
That song is about a country boy who wanted to imitated the fancy people from the city
he goes to the city but doesn't have the right clothes, so he sticks a feather in his hat.
Now, Yankee doodle. Yankee is a Yankee, someone who supports the Americans in the Revolution.
But "doodle" means "simpleton," do you know what that is?
What is it?
Someone who is kind of dumb. Someone who doesn't have a clue what's going on.
So Yankee Doodle Dandy is a clueless guy who tries to dress well and is on the American's side
in the Revolution. And all that became "dude."
Wow, that's quite complex. [Really boring.] But it's really interesting as well to see how language evolves
from a song.
-Incredible. -Incredible.
Look for that song. You'll impress your friends if you can sing Yankee Doodle.
OK, that's it folks. 'Til next time!
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Introducing Anydesk Mobile - Duration: 4:47.
Hi guys, welcome to another
Video lessons. You are viewing the screen of my smartphone
With Anydesk open. You may be downloading on Google Play (Android)
Or if you're using Apple (Iphone), you can download it from the App Store
Apple (Iphone), can download in the App Store
OK. Simple interface, it has only
A field from where you can by a
Remote computer ID. I already explained in a previous video
Clicking on the 3 bars, you have the slogan Anydesk
This name, settings, general, used name
Is the name that will appear to the user
Accept. You may be changing to another name.
(Image may be slow because of recording on smartphone)
Input, move by mouse or touch screen and representation, fast response, balanced and true to the original
Are the settings for improving remote connection performance
Coming back here I'm going to click on the MacBook (ID)
I've done a test before. Remembering that the computer and remote must be with Anydesk open. He (remote) must accept
And our remote screen will appear
(I will not turn the smartphone screen,
Because it will not distort the recording on the smartphone
With the screen facing up
It was not cool, he kept the screen small. Also follow the recording on the screen
Remote computer. Clicking and holding the logo (anydesk) already appears the floating options
Floating because you can move it on the screen. If you choose the lightning icon and choose the first option
Can I move it across the screen?
It opens the settings
Click and secure and go to the mouse and keyboard icon
Mouse and keyboard, it opens the keyboard (android)
The keyboard is not the application but the Android system
Clicking and holding, choosing the screen icon (only one screen)
On the ray icon
I can take a picture, and also have the option to move (already displayed). Going back, choosing the mouse option, choose the touch
He moves the mouse on the remote screen, you can see in the right corner of the screen (remote)
Showing in the far right corner of the remote screen. As much as I am moving in the middle of the screen (smartphone). The (remote) mouse is on the right
This is already a more difficult configuration to move
Click and hold (smartphone), and switch to touch option
I can see the mouse (smartphone) by moving. I will open the (remote) menu, (System Preferences)
In the search option, I have already selected the search field
Even by tapping the search, does not open the keyboard (smartphone). I'll have either (keyboard and mouse) and open the keyboard (smartphone)
Note that the (remote) system is already filtering what I am typing (mouse)
Filtering the letters of the word mouse.
Filtering the letters (e - m - o - u - s) ... I'll clear the search field ... Clicking and holding (smartphone) and choosing the icon (x)
It closes the remote connection and returns to the application home page. Okay. This was a pretty quick display.
From the Anydesk Mobile application. = D
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Difesa da spinta (Tutorial) | Anti push defense (SUB ENG) - Duration: 3:21.
Welcome to this new tutorial. Today we are talking about push defense.
So, we will see how to push and how to avoid to be pushed against a wall or worst, fall with back head.
Initially we'll see how to push, and then how to avoid being pushed 100 yards away :)
the best approach is not to push with hands against the chest
we will see what's the risk...
that's included in the counter push...
... but we have to push here, between the biceps and the shoulders.
that's because... pushing the chest...
this can be our counterattack or an istinctive response of the aggressor!
simply by turning and hit with lateral part of the hand to his neck...
but he can do the same!
so is inconvenient to push against the chest!
push against the arms... don't admit to raise the arms...
an anti push technique a little more refined...
when I see his arms moving, I close my arms in this position..
... and pull down his arms...
surround them; with one hand i block, with the other i grab his neck.
.. or i can start with head...
because my arm allows me to bring his head to mine, and my head is already in a good position to hit.
so... let's see again...
or still...
I hope you enjoy the vid, leave me a Like, SUBSCRIBE to my channel and activate the updates.
See you next tutorial!
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Wake up, time for school
Here is Jimmy Nugy with the fidget spinners
This three pronged gadget is the latest fad spinning out of control
Some of them were rainbow, tide dye
Go to school
Brush our teeth
Breakfast time
Eating rice with chopsticks
we are eating rice
school time!
Go to school
And that fidget spinner is to my brother
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JUNE 12TH.SALLY:SOME PEOPLE IN
AUSTIN WILL DITCH THEIR CAR
FOR THEIR BIKE TODAY.IT'S
"BIKE TO WORK" DAY.THERE WILL
BE DOZENS OF FUELING STATIONS
ACROSS THE CITY.THE STOPS WILL
INCLUDE FREE COFFEE AND SNACKS.
THERE WILL ALSO BE AN AFTER
PARTY AT "GOOGLE FIBER"
ORGANIZERS SAY THEY HOPE THIS
ENCOURAGES A BIG CHANGE IN
GETTING AROUND THE CITY.SCOTT
JOHNSON, BICYCLIST ADVOCATE"IN
ADDITION TO THE LACK OF
EDUCATION BY SOME BICYCLE
RIDERS AND PEOPLE WHO DRIVE
CARS IS THIS IDEA THAT WE NEED
TO GET SOMEPLACE QUICKLY. STOP
SIGNS EVEN TRAFFIC LIGHTS ARE
AN INCONVENIENT TO US AND WE
ARE NOT PLANNING OUR DAY WELL
ENOUGH. WE ARE NOT LEAVING THE
HOUSE OR APARTMENT SOON ENOUGH
TO GET THERE. IT'S PART OF OUR
FAULT AND IT'S PART OF THIS
FEELING THAT WE NEED TO GO
SOMEWHERE QUICKLY."IF YOU
DON'T WANT TO RIDE ALONE-
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Lies About President Donald Trump Presented as Fact! - Duration: 17:27.
Here are a few lies told about Donald Trump that are presented as facts!
6 - He's a terrible businessman
Being as rich and as famous as Donald Trump comes with a high cost.
Whenever you're successful in life, one thing that'll be true forever is, haters
gonna hate.
One of the most common things detractors say about Trump is that he's not a good businessman.
They give their reasons why by basically saying that he's gone bankrupt a bunch of times
and that he inherited his fortune from his dad.
Let's start with the bankruptcies.
It's true, it's a fact Trump declared bankruptcy several times over his lifetime;
six times to be exact.
All the bankruptcies were between 1991 and 2009, and were done in order to re-negotiate
debt with banks and owners of stock and bonds.
To be clear, Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy.
The six bankruptcies were the result of Trump's over-leveraged hotel and casino businesses
in Atlantic City and New York, the most serious of which were back in the early 90s.
This was during a time when the national economy had started to slow down, which of course,
disrupted Trump's income streams.
The Trump Organization and its subsidiaries at one time owed a whopping $9 billion dollars,
and Trump's personal debt totaled $975 million dollars!
What Trump was able to do was negotiate with banks and creditors to restructure his debt,
which allowed himself to get back on his feet.
In fact, he's such a good negotiator, Trump was able to convince the banks to loan him
an ADDITIONAL $65 million, which he used to keep his businesses afloat! Trump was quoted
by Newsweek in 2011 saying, quote "I do play with the bankruptcy laws – they're very
good for me".
All I can say here is don't hate the player, hate the game.
Bankruptcy laws are put in place to encourage the growth and proliferation of businesses,
as obviously it's important for any economy.
Having a safety net for businesses is a whole other argument though.
For Trump to have started so many businesses and ending up with 6 bankruptcies is par for
the course in the business world.
Sure, he's made mistakes in business, but a few mistakes doesn't just ruin the body
of work for someone's career, and to say so would just be disingenuous.
If Trump just took loss after loss after loss throughout his business career by using daddy's
money, then that's one thing, but that's clearly something that didn't happen.
This brings us to how much exactly did Trump inherit?!
5 - Trump Inherited his fortune from his father
You've probably heard many different versions of this one as well.
On multiple occasions, different sources have been tried to paint Trump as someone who inherited
his fortune rather than made his fortune like a savvy and skilled businessman.
Well, the truth is somewhere in between.
It's true that Trump's father, Fred Trump, did have quite the chunk of change, as he
had an estimated net worth between $250 and $300 million dollars at the time of his death.
But what's not true is that Trump just inherited all that.
While the specific amount Trump inherited from his father hasn't been revealed, a
January 2016 article from the New York Times shows that Fred Trump's will divided $20 million
dollars, after taxes, among his living children, which included Donald.
What's also true is that Trump began his business career at his father's real estate
company.
With his father's tutelage and direction, he was able to learn from one of the best
in the business in New York City.
One of Trump's first projects was revitalizing a foreclosed apartment complex in Cincinnati,
Ohio, which his father had purchased for $5.7 million in 1962.
Fred and Donald both worked on the project, and with a $500,000 investment, which I'm
sure was from his dad, they turned the 1,200-unit complex's occupancy rate from 34% to 100%.
Trump has said that when he graduated from college in 1968, he was worth about $200,000,
which is basically the equivalent to being a millionaire in today's dollars.
He was made the president of the company in 1971 and, in one of his first moves, he renamed
the company to The Trump Organization.
Later that year, he also moved to Manhattan, where he took on larger construction projects.
Trump's first big deal was the development of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in 1978.
Part of this deal was the infamous $1 million loan from his dad.
At this point Fred was a silent partner and Donald was the front man.
Basically, it's true Trump got a lot of help from his dad in terms of access to capital,
and also access to top notch business skills.
Trump likes to say that he built his empire from the 1 million dollar loan that his dad
gave him, but what he did leave out was the fact that his father also helped to hone his
real estate skills by allowing him to learn at his company, working alongside deals with
him while providing him with capital work with.
However, to Trump's credit, even though he grew up with a lot of advantages the average
person didn't have, he still maximized his skillset to the best of his ability.
Think of it as Lebron being gifted with his abilities at birth and still being able to
make it to the top of the league.
They both didn't just skate by on what they were given alone; they both had to put in
lots of hard work to make it where they are.
Just because you're given a huge competitive advantage at the beginning of life it doesn't
mean you're gonna be successful.
Just think about all the professional athletes who had massive talent but didn't make it
their league or just all the trust fund babies out there who aren't doing anything with
their lives.
The starting point for Trump's business career was somewhere around the neighborhood
of a million dollars in capital back then, which is still a decent sized number, even
for today.
Now Trump's worth more than $3 billion in 2017, or whatever the number is before the
word "billion" depending on who you talk to!
Multiplying your starting net worth hundreds of times over or even 1000 times of times
over if we decide to take Trump at face value, is extremely hard to do for anyone.
While I may not agree with everything he says or does, a couple things you can't say about
Trump are that he inherited his fortune from his dad, and that he's terrible or even
mediocre at business!
4 – Russia ties to the election
If you don't know what to say against Trump, don't worry, just bring up Russia!
You can choose the ever-burning topic of Russia ties and how Russia and its most influential
leaders manipulated the most recent presidential elections in the US.
I'd say that a bunch of those kids with the fake news industry in Macedonia is what's
really propagating the Trump Russia ties, but that's another story.
Anyway, this statement passed around as a fact is massively spread and pushed around,
without ever being proven.
The investigation is still ongoing, and there aren't any concrete ties to Russia meddling
in the elections.
On one occasion, even Delaware Senator Chris Coons went on live TV and said that the FBI
obtained transcripts that proved collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and
Russia.
While it's true that Trump likes his Russian counterpart and by the looks of it, his Russian
counterpart loves him back, so far, nothing has been proven about any possible Russia
meddling with the outcome of the presidential election.
Trump has had business ties with Russia for a while now – actually, it can all be traced
back to the late 80s.
On one occasion, his son said something along the lines that they see money pouring in from
Russia and Trump has been known to visit Moscow more than a few times – which again, doesn't
prove anything other than the fact that he probably likes doing business with those guys
because he makes money with them.
Later on, after what senator Coons said went viral and produced something that could pretty
much be described a Internet mass hysteria, he went on and apologized, denying he had
any knowledge of whether or not the FBI had such transcripts.
Only time will tell if Trump actually had any ties with Russia meddling with the election.
Until then, let's not jump to conclusions here.
3 – Trump enacted a muslim ban
It's no secret that there were major protests around the country when President Trump signed
Executive Order 13769, titled, "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into
the United States", or better known as the travel ban.
Trump has long claimed that terrorists are using the U.S. refugee resettlement program
to enter the US.
When he was running for President, Trump's "Contract with the American Voter" pledged
to suspend immigration from "terror-prone regions", and the Trump administration described
the executive order as fulfilling this campaign promise.
The travel ban affected citizens residing in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria,
and Yemen.
However, when Trump signed the executive order into effect, many people interpreted it as
a Muslim ban.
The first thing that can be refuted is that the travel ban is a Muslim ban, because the
order didn't make any declaration on any specific religions, even if the regions are
muslim majority countries.
The second thing is that countries Trump selected in the Travel ban are countries that President
Obama himself picked as countries of concern, not Trump!
In 2013 President Obama signed into law that banned refugees from Iraq from entering the
US for 6 months because of significant security concerns.
In 2015 congress enacted laws, which Obama signed off on, which restricted visas from
states of concerns, which again basically meant that citizens coming from these countries
were security risks.
In 2016, Congress expanded these restrictions to even more countries, and Obama signed these
restrictions into law again.
So basically, what Trump did when he first got into office was enact a travel ban in
an effort to secure the US, just like Obama did himself in 2013 with the 6 month visa
ban with refugees from Iraq.
And Trump picked a ban with countries that the Obama administration they themselves selected
in 2015 and 2016 as states of concerns.
When Obama did this, there wasn't widespread news coverage that Obama enacted the visa
bans, nor was it laser focused on the fact that it was bans on muslim-majority countries,
leading people to believe that they were muslim bans.
Is there such a thing as media bias?
I don't know, you tell me.
Let's remember everyone, what President Trump signed into law early this year was
just a travel ban, and NOT a muslim travel ban.
2 – Trump called all Mexicans r@pists and k1llers
This, is no doubt, one of the more controversial things Trump's ever said and has largely
shaped his public image.
After the campaign speech in which he dropped his infamous quote about illegal immigrants,
CNN basically called out on him saying that he had called all Mexicans r@pists and k1llers.
Ever since then, news and social media followed and it's just stayed like it's a hardcore
fact about Trump.
Even Tim Kaine, the 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee used the term repeatedly during an
August 1st campaign rally in his hometown of Richmond.
He accused Trump of quote, "trash talking with Latinos, saying all Mexicans are r@pists
and going after Latino immigrants".
No doubt, Trump has made certain controversial statements about hispanics.
But did Trump really go as far as saying all Mexicans are r@pists?
Here's what Trump actually said verbatim with his infamous statement.
Quote, "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.
"They're not sending you….they're not sending you….they're sending people that
have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us.
They're bringing drugs.
They're bringing crime.
They're r@pists.
And some, I assume, are good people."
Trump wasn't referring to all Mexicans, nor even all illegal Mexican immigrants as
shown by his very last statement.
He was actually referring to the illegal immigrants who cross the US illegally that commit crimes.
What's even worse is the fact that this quote isn't fully quoted – the part with
the, "and some, I assume, are good people".
What Trump said about illegal immigrants isn't wrong.
The Government Accountability Office released an updated report in 2011 on criminal aliens
who are in prison for committing crimes in the US.
The report found that criminal aliens, both legal and illegal, make up 27 percent of all
federal prisoners.
But non-citizens are only about nine percent of the nation's adult population.
It also looked at 251,000 criminal aliens in federal, state, and local prisons and jails.
These illegal aliens were arrested nearly 1.7 million times for close to three million
criminal offenses.
Sixty-eight percent of illegal aliens in federal prison and 66 percent of those in state prisons
were from Mexico.
These statistics aren't fully representative of crimes committed by illegal aliens.
The report only reflects the criminal histories of aliens who're actually in prison.
If there were a way to include all crimes committed by criminal aliens, the numbers
would likely be higher because prosecutors often agree to drop criminal charges against
an illegal immigrant if they are assured that immigration authorities will deport that person.
Even Obama mentioned more than a few times that he'd managed to deport more violent
illegal immigrants than any other president in history.
Was there a better way to talk about illegal immigrants and the crimes that they commit?
Yes.
Does Trump sometimes lack eloquence and need to tone down his speeches a bit?
Absolutely.
But should the media twist his words as they see fit?
Not really.
1 – Trump advocated assaulting women
Many people think Trump isn't quite the gentleman fit enough to run the White House.
Some people think that the way he talks alone is enough that he shouldn't be in the white
house.
This fact was backed up with the recorded conversation between him and Billy Bush that
was released during his Presidential campaign, but recorded all the way back in 2005.
In the video, you can hear Trump getting a bit carried away talking about the things
he'd do to the pretty ladies they might meet during the filming of the show.
Then, he talked about being a star and "being allowed to do whatever you want to them"
and the infamous and incredibly crass "grab em' by the p*ssy" quote, which brings
me to my next point.
Let me make it clear; what Trump said was incredibly rude and incredibly insensitive.
However, what he talked about was NOT advocating sexual assault.
There's a big difference in what he said, and what was interpreted.
He clearly said that women LET him do whatever he wants and in all fairness, they probably
do it just because he's rich and powerful but that's a completely different topic.
The thing is, Trump never said he just grabs women without permission; he said that they
would LET him.
Again, that's a big difference in meaning.
Think about how much trouble we would be in if our significant others didn't allow us
to do the things we do?!
On another note, who knows how much trash talking Trump was doing here, because this
might have been a hypothetical situation he's talking about trying to impress Billy Bush,
and not an actual scene that played out.
One thing that's for sure; Trump was NOT bragging about being able to sexually assault
women, because, what sort of self-respecting man would want to brag and talk sh*t about
that?
What he was bragging about instead was his supposed effect on women, regardless of how
much it is in reality.
The leaking of the video exploded and got twisted all over the place, leading people
all around the world to believe Trump advocates assaulting women.
It's one thing if he does something women don't want, but if women LET him do it,
that's a major difference not many people seemed to bother to notice.
Trump apologized for his comments in the video as soon as the video was out in public, which
conveniently enough, was released two days before his debate with Hillary.
He said that the whole thing was just a bunch of locker room trash talk and that Bill Clinton
has said far worse things to him on the golf course.
While we may never find out whether the latter is true or not, in all fairness, let's be
for real, there are plenty of dudes who do plenty of private trash talking with their
friends.
Again, Trump should definitely tone things down a notch or two, but people really should
use common sense as well to really hear what his intended message was!
Here's what's next!
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Learning is Natural. School is Optional. - Duration: 6:28.
- In 1968, during my first year of teaching
in a Pennsylvania public high school,
I tried to persuade my students to take
an interest in history.
I had the following quotation on my classroom
bulletin board: "Those who forget history
"are doomed to repeat it."
One day a student asked me in all sincerity,
"Why must I study history?
"I just want to train horses."
To this day, I still struggle with her question.
Why do we think coercion is a good approach to learning?
She got good grades in my course, but she said she
forgot almost everything because she
really didn't care.
Given the chance to talk about horses on the other hand,
she seemed to know everything and forget nothing.
In truth, I had my own personal struggles
with compulsory schooling.
By the time I reached high school, I was frustrated
with what school imposed on me.
I loved history and I wanted to learn what
I wanted to learn.
But I would get in trouble for reading a history book
in math class.
I often felt that school got in the way of my education.
However, not until I read "Deschooling Society" in 1971
did I realize that the institution of school itself
is the obstacle to learning for many young people.
The author, Ivan Illich, pointed out that the cost
of schooling kept going up while the
outcomes kept going down.
Decades later, it's the same.
The costs at every level of schooling
are climbing, but with growing skepticism
as to whether school is worth the return on investment.
Yes. there are excellent schools and excellent students,
but many more people than we realize
simply don't like school-- and the results show that.
If schools failed to meet the needs of many students,
why do they still have a monopoly
on the resources and goodwill available
for education in our society?
We have come to confuse learning with schooling.
Learning is now measured by the number of years in school
and the number of diplomas collected.
Informal learning. acquired through direct experience,
or self directed learning, driven by personal interest,
are regarded as inferior to school learning.
Yet there is a growing resistance to school
and the hallmark measure of school progress:
standardized testing.
Last year a half million school children
opted out of standardized testing.
The parents of more than two million American children
of school age refused to send their children at all
and home schooled them instead.
Some parents turned to self directed learning programs
such as North Star in Massachusetts,
where my eldest son Josh works part-time
as an advisor and teacher.
Ever since I read about the concept of deschooling,
I wondered what it might look like in practice.
Ken Danford, a former middle school teacher,
founded North Star in 1996 to assist teenagers
who wanted to leave school and to give them
a place where they could learn in their own way.
Danford is against compulsory schooling,
not schools themselves.
His own children chose the more
conventional path of schooling.
But Danford's North Star program has demonstrated
that many young people who hate school
still want to learn.
They don't need to be forced or persuaded,
and they don't have to stay in school to learn--
if they can choose what they study.
Voluntary classes and the absence of tests
encourage young people to rely on their own self motivation.
Adults assist young people as facilitators,
not dictators, whose role is to "make possible"
rather than "make sure."
They help young people choose their activities,
including those that North Star itself offers.
From learning a musical instrument to a variety
of classes taught without tests or grades.
I heard one of North Star's former learners
speak about how despite hating high school,
he started to attend community college classes
because he chose to do so.
Without ever having graduated high school,
he went on to graduate from college
as do many North Star kids.
Because he chose to do so.
North Star now serves as the model
for "Liberated Learners,"
a network that helps new programs replicate
North Star's successful efforts to support
learning beyond the schoolhouse.
Author James Herndon once suggested
that freedom of education in western democracies
will eventually come to pass,
like freedom of religion.
He said, "There's no law anymore that people
must go to church.
So many people don't while others do."
Eventually our society must recognize
the simple truth in North Star's slogan,
"Learning is natural, school is optional."
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Gaming Through New Eyes - Award Winning Short Documentary - Duration: 14:19.
My name is Toby Ott and I'm 27 years old
I have quite a few hobbies I love
watching television and films I also
love watching YouTube videos and I am
also a video game fan, I've been playing
video games for quite a long time now
since 5 years old. I've been blind since birth I was born with a condition called
bilateral anopthalmia
which means born without eyes it's quite
rare I think it's like one in a hundred
thousand children are born with it every year
or something like that. I went to
mainstream school primary and secondary
and then when I was 16 I went to the
Royal National College for the blind in
Hereford for three years and studied
Music AS level as well as a BTech in
performing arts. After that I went to
Lewisham College to study business IT
and I got a HND in Business IT.
Being blind obviously getting around it's
quite a difficult thing, I have when I was younger had to learn to use a white cane,
and when I was at Hereford when
I was 16 obviously I had to then even at
school as well I had to learn the routes
to get around the building so I could
get to classes on my own
after that I managed to be
independent and I used to when I was at
Hereford come home on the train on my
own from Hereford to London Paddington.
In terms of the way I read and write,
I started learning braille when I was
three. I am currently using a braillenote touch,
which is the first braille tablet in
the world that also works with Android
as well and it has built-in speech
software, as well as a braille display and touch screen.
I learned how to touch type because I went on a
touch typing course and when I actually
use the computer, I use on my Windows
computer I use a screen reader called
jaws and on my Apple Mac it has a
built-in speech software called
voiceover so if I want to watch that
video I press I select it
and there we go!
I've been a video game fan since 5 years
old in an arcade where I played Mortal
Kombat 1 and Street Fighter. Since then I
after that I bought a PlayStation and
the first two games I ever had were Star
Gladiator, which was a space fighting
game and Tekken 2. I played
Soul Calibur which is another brilliant
fighting game series and I beat my
friends when we fight each other. in 2003
I bought a PlayStation 2 as well as
Final Fantasy X. With the help of my
friend and my cousins I was able to
learn how the menu system and battle
system work and I've been able to play
the game including walk around different
areas and fight the random encounters
and the boss battles. I've also now got
into game modding, so I download Doom 2 WADs from a archive and I play in
terms of shooting the monsters and I
have been lucky enough to complete a
larger number of maps over the last 10
years of playing Doom regularly.
I really enjoy RPG games like Final Fantasy for
example because I love a game with a
good storyline and interesting boss
fights and
music the music as well as a big part
for me in terms of gaming.
There's a big thunderstorm, there's lightning strikes
everywhere and you've got to try
and dodge the lightning in order to get
across safely without getting stuck
I enjoy the voice acting as well because
voice acting is a way that you get to feel
attached to the character or characters
in the story. I also enjoy fighting games
because I like to fight against my
friends or fight online against people
and I have beaten people online before
with higher ranked than me.
I also like first-person shooters like the old
classics, Doom and Duke Nukem because I
love the sound effects of the monsters
and I also enjoyed seeing how many
monsters I can kill with one shot with the different weapons.
Because I'm blind I can't access all the health packs and
all the armor so I use god mode so that
I can actually enjoy the maps. I also use
a cheat where I can go through the walls
because I can't find all the keys to the
doors and because I can't complete all
maps I also use a level select cheat as well
Videogames are challenging to play
because obviously they're very visual
but I enjoy the challenge of learning
how to play these games like Final
Fantasy for instance, just trying to do
the same stuff that gamers do generally.
I got stuck on a boss in Final Fantasy 10
for eight weeks and I kept trying and
trying and trying and failing and then
eventually I defeated it and I was like
"finally I've done it! Brilliant! Now I
can see what happens next in the story"
it's just the thrill of spending
time beating a hard game and thinking oh
my god I've actually beaten this without
help after learning the ropes with my
friend and it's just that amazing
feeling it really is an amazing feeling.
so when I learn how to play a video game
my friend has to teach me how to
navigate each menu so where certain
stuff is in a menu, and then once I know
how to navigate that menu I try it
myself to see if I can actually do it.
In games like Final Fantasy for example
music is a really important factor
because the music identifies the area
that you're in.
What I always try to do is aim for a save point generally -
Ah, I'm in Macalania.
So I know that if I'm on a high road or
in a cave for example the music for that
area plays, and if a battle begins the
music changes so I know whether I'm in
a normal battle or a boss battle for example.
Some fighting games like Injustice: Gods Among Us for example have
audio cues so you can identify where you
are on the screen in the arena, which is
really useful especially if it's an
arena that has say water that you
can fall into, it gives you an indication
of what part the arena you're
fighting in and whether you have to move
the other way in order to avoid certain traps.
There are some games that unfortunately I can't play. So that I
get an understanding of what the game
and the story is all about, I normally
watch the walkthroughs on YouTube so
that I can still enjoy the story of that particular game.
Whilst playing these games, listening to the music,
the voice acting, the cutscenes, I really
imagine what the world is like and what
the game wants you to think about in
terms of the way the characters who
live in that world. I do imagine when I'm
sleeping or even just when I'm thinking
about what the world is like
Like for example the characters are
going on the journey and I'm going on
the journey with those characters and
imagining what they're feeling about the
whole world and its people and I just
find that that is important when it comes to a game.
In order to improve video games for blind people I think
personally one of the most important
things that need to be put in is audio
description for cutscenes for example so
that when there is a point in the
cutscene where there's no talking
between the characters someone could
describe what's going on or the area
that you're in in the game and say the
different directions you can go in that
area in order to get to another a new
area for example. Also maybe having some
form of built-in screen reader in a game
could prove useful. I also think
that having audio navigation of menus
would be useful. I played a fighting game
called Virtua Fighter 4 and what was
great about that is that it had audio
navigation in the menu so I knew what
each item was in that menu so I actually
didn't need help from
my friend to navigate that menu because
I was able to access it independently.
I know it could be done especially
having audio explaining where you are
and how you can navigate around that area.
I would say you know any blind
person out there, try a video game of some kind whether it be a
RPG or a fighting game or even a
shooting game for instance like Doom.
Even if you play it with a sighted
friend and then learn how to navigate
around the game and you will get
absorbed into the world that the game
wants you to learn about and it's been a
big part of my life, it's been great fun
and I still enjoy it even today and I
really want other blind people to
try these video games because they
will, I hope, feel the same way
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Around the Air Force: F-35 Pilot Restriction Lifted / Mental Health Awareness - Duration: 2:04.
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Why Schools Should Be Going Around in Circles - Duration: 5:30.
- Before we had circles at our schools,
there was a lot of fights, riots, problems.
It was just a lot of confusion.
- I think circles helped cause it expressed
us students' feelings and stuff
more instead of violence and stuff.
Just talking in a circle could just,
all but one talking in a circle can just avoid violence.
- Now that we have circles at our school,
it's just like more calm and collected
and we get to talk around our peers and staff,
respectfully and tell em' how we feel
and what's the problem.
- Circles have changed our class
because we've had to talk to one another,
like, it's not just the teachers,
it's all of us together.
So we've kind of had to come as a team and talk.
- West Philadelphia High School
was considered the worst in the city.
Suspensions and expulsions did not stop
the frequent fights and fire-setting.
A TV reporter said he and a camera person
used to wait near the school on slow news days
because there was a good chance
of a serious incident to report.
The good news is that restorative practices
came to West Philadelphia.
In the summer of 2008,
the International Institute for Restorative Practices
taught the school staff to use
circles and related strategies.
Students began to have real conversations
with staff and with each other.
The conversations improved relationships
and built a sense of community.
In the first year of using restorative practices,
violent acts and serious incidents were down 52%.
And in the next year, were down another 45%.
For the first time in eight years,
West Philadelphia High School was no longer
on the government's Persistently Dangerous Schools List.
The use of restorative practices in schools
is helping to end America's disastrous experiment
with so-called zero tolerance, which began in the 1990s.
The theory of zero tolerance was that if
schools responded to even the smallest wrongdoing
with harsh punishment such as suspensions and expulsions,
the school atmosphere would improve.
But it too often resulted in absurd punishments,
such as nine-year-old students in Colorado
being suspended from school for
pointing their fingers like guns on the playground
and a fourteen-year-old honor student in Texas
facing five months in a military style boot camp
for bringing a small amount of alcohol
to school in a bottle of soda pop.
Ironically, a report from the
American Psychological Association
found that zero tolerance is more likely
to increase bad behavior,
school dropout rates and involvement of students
with the criminal justice system.
The severe punishment of all behavior,
no matter how minor, does more harm than good
because it poisons relationships in the school community.
Restorative practices on the other hand,
hold students accountable for their behavior
but in a way that maintains their dignity
and good relationships with staff.
A large federal research study showed
that when schools promote better relationships,
there is less violence, less drug and alcohol use
and less teenage pregnancy.
In fact, students in schools with harsh discipline policies
report feeling less safe at school
than students in schools with more moderate policies.
But restorative practices can be done badly
so that responses to wrongdoing become meaningless.
It's critical that our implementation
of these strategies be done well
and that we evaluate the results.
I'm excited about a large-scale experiment
in which half the schools in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
are adopting restorative practices,
with the results being compared
to the other half of the city's schools.
It doesn't help us when people simply demand
more punishment or more restorative practices
just based on their beliefs.
What we need to look carefully at,
what works, what doesn't, how and why
and then follow that evidence with
high quality implementation.
Look for future blog posts
when I'll report on the outcomes
from this and other experiments.
That's how we can successfully build a new reality.
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