Let's start with a question you've been dying to ask.
Just how much money do these athletes make?
At the top end of Olympic sports,
a relatively small number of big names
earn substantial amounts in endorsement
and appearance contracts.
Out on his own is sprint champ Usain Bolt,
who earns a small fortune per year
and a big fortune in an Olympic year.
And the Jamaican's earnings are matched or surpassed by some of
the sport's professionals
who join in every four years.
The team events are awash
with fat salaries.
The Canadian ice hockey team,
which won gold at Sochi 2014,
had a combined annual income of $150 million US.
While the US basketball squad for Rio 2016 is maybe
the wealthiest group of athletes ever assembled.
So how much do athletes actually get paid
for winning a medal at the Olympic Games?
The answer is...
nothing.
Zero. No win bonus. No appearance fee.
No cash prize.
You get your travel expenses, food and lodging, some kit,
and that's about it.
For the Olympics, you don't get paid to play -
an idea that goes back to
the amateur tradition of the 19th century.
It's the spirit of gentlemanly conduct
that so seduced Pierre, Baron de Coubertin,
the Frenchman
who founded the modern Olympic movement in 1896.
His beliefs were typical of his time and his class.
Sport was no place
for professionals.
A gentlemen seeks no reward for his success
on the playing field.
While there was much to admire about these principles,
there is another way of looking at the amateur code
as more than a touch self-interested.
Only gentlemen could be amateurs
because only gentlemen could afford to be amateurs.
Those who couldn't leave their jobs for months at a time
were not considered worthy of these Olympic values.
Even those who earnt a modest living
by coaching sports like fencing
or skiing were barred from participation.
It wasn't until 1992
that professional athletes
were openly welcomed into the Olympic Games.
But not before sports administrators had,
over several decades,
tied themselves in knots trying to defend the principles
of amateurism.
At times, it led to some decisions
we would today consider a bit strange.
Take the great decathlete Jim Thorpe,
born on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma
in 1887.
Thorpe grew up without any of
the privileges enjoyed by the gentlemen amateurs.
He was an exceptionally gifted all-round athlete.
At the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm,
he won the decathlon and pentathlon gold medals,
earning a fine tribute from King Gustav of Sweden.
The following year, it emerged that Thorpe, 25,
had played semi-professional baseball as a teenager.
The US Amateur Athletic Union
immediately stripped Thorpe of his gold medals.
For the sake of $2 a day, Thorpe was publicly humiliated
and barred from future participation
in the Olympic Games.
Excluded from athletics,
Thorpe tried his hand at the new sports craze
in the United States,
playing in a competition known today as the NFL.
Just a few years later,
footballers from all over the world
were looking forward to travelling
to the Olympic Games at Amsterdam.
The 1924 football tournament in Paris
had been an enormously popular, generating tons of cash.
The football associations asked
for a small share of that income
to help pay their costs for travel and accommodation -
expensive for a footballer travelling to Europe
from, say, Uruguay.
They weren't asking for prize money or appearance money,
yet the IOC said no.
"Any contribution to cost would,"
they said, "breach the amateur code."
England's Football Association was so appalled by the request
they withdrew their Olympic football team.
The conflict led to football being banned from
the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games altogether.
Disappointed by this exclusion,
the international football associations went on
to form their own football event,
a competition we know today as the Fifa World Cup.
Today, no-one really argues about
the professional versus amateur issue.
Allowing professionals to take part in the Olympics
has not damaged the competition's popularity
or its integrity.
The ideals which de Coubertin thought exclusive to
the amateur code are now shared throughout Olympic sport.
The lack of prize money remains an important symbol of
the amateur ideal.
As for Jim Thorpe, he died penniless in 1953.
30 years later, Thorpe's two surviving children
were awarded a commemorative Olympic medal
in honour of their father's achievement.
It was a symbolic gesture which would eventually lead to
the acceptance of professional athletes at the Olympic Games.
So when you see athletes on the podium,
you can be sure they're not thinking about the prize money
because there isn't any.
They're thinking about their family, friends,
team-mates, coaches
and the honour of representing their country
at the Olympic Games.
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Valerie Jarrett Desperately Tries to STEAL Trump's Economic Thunder and Give it to
Obama.
Obama's number one sidekick, Valerie Jarrett is out in full-desperate-force, trying to
steal President Trump's hard work, success, and economic THUNDER and hand it to the failure,
Obama.
response to the news of the United States reaching the lowest unemployment rate since
2000, former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, said we have to look
at the more than just the first 15 months of the Trump presidency.
"Look, I think we have to look at it over a longer horizon than that.
If you think about what the economy was like when President Obama took office, we were
losing 750,000 jobs a month," Jarrett said.
"Under his watch, the unemployment rate dropped in half, and it's encouraging to
see that we're continuing to make progress."
We want to see wages go up and I think that's an important focus and I was glad to see you
talk about that too.
So for the workers out there who are back to work today, I think it's very encouraging,"
she added.
Trump tweeted Friday morning about the low unemployment rate:
Because Jobs in the U.S. are doing so well, Americans receiving unemployment aid is the
lowest since 1973.
Great!
JUST OUT: 3.9% Unemployment.
4% is Broken!
In the meantime, WITCH HUNT!
The economy added 164,000 jobs in April and hourly wage rose by 2.6 percent year-over-year,
according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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BREAKING: Border Patrol Just Made Massive Bust!
Here's Where!
TUCSON, Ariz.
– Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona's Port of Nogales arrested a
14 year-old yesterday as he attempted to smuggle more than two pounds of methamphetamine.
Officers working at the Morley Gate CrossinU.S. Customs and Border Protectiong Thursday afternoon
referred the 14-year-old U.S. citizen for a secondary inspection.
During the inspection, a canine's alert led to the discovery of more than two pounds
of methamphetamine, worth in excess of $3,000.
Officers arrested the subject for narcotics smuggling, and seized the drugs before turning
him over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.
Also, Nogales Station Border Patrol agents at the Interstate 19 Immigration Checkpoint
arrested a Mesa man after finding more than 46 pounds of methamphetamine concealed in
his vehicle Thursday morning.
Agents referred the 18-year-old male driver of a Nissan Maxima for a secondary inspection.
A subsequent search of his vehicle led to the discovery of 41 packages of methamphetamine
valued in excess of $140,000 hidden inside the vehicle.
Agents arrested the man for narcotics smuggling and turned the drugs and vehicle over to the
Drug Enforcement Administration.
Federal law allows agents to charge individuals by complaint, a method that allows the filing
of charges for criminal activity without inferring guilt.
An individual is presumed innocent unless and until competent evidence is presented
to a jury that establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials welcome assistance from the community.
Citizens can report suspicious activity to the Border Patrol and remain anonymous by
calling 1-877-872-7435 toll free.
Federal law allows officers to charge individuals by complaint, a method that allows for filing
of charges for criminal activity without inferring guilt.
An individual is presumed innocent unless and until competent evidence is presented
to a jury that establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
CBP's Office of Field Operations is the primary organization within Homeland Security
tasked with an anti-terrorism mission at our nation's ports.
CBP officers screen all people, vehicles and goods entering the United States while facilitating
the flow of legitimate trade and travel.
Their mission also includes carrying out border-related duties, including narcotics interdiction,
enforcing immigration and trade laws, and protecting the nation's food supply and
agriculture industry from pests and diseases.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department
of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders
at and between the official ports of entry.
CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while
enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
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Federal Judge Drops Crushing Anvil On Mueller Investigation, Delivers Trump Victory.
Nice to see not all judges are partisan and some are starting to wake up and sounding
the alarm.
Yesterday a Federal judge in Virginia expressed alarming skepticism about the actions of special
counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, in the bank fraud case against former Trump
campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
To the point that he even said what everyone has known from day one, that he believes that
Mueller's motivation is to oust President Donald Trump from office.
This all went down at a tense hearing in a federal court in Virginia on Friday, where
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III sharply questioned whether Mueller exceeded his authority
in filing tax, and bank fraud charges against Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort
since all he was supposed to be doing is investigating Russian collision between the Trump Campaign
and the Kremlin.
"The vernacular is to sing," Ellis said.
"You don't really care about Mr. Manafort," the judge said.
"You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead to Mr. Trump"
and his eventual prosecution or impeachment.
"It's unlikely you're going to persuade me the special counsel has unfettered power
to do whatever he wants," Ellis, who was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan,
said at a hearing on Manafort's motion to dismiss the Virginia charges."
Ellis later added that it appeared that with these charges Mueller and company are trying
to bully Manafort into flipping on Trump, and giving them information which could be
used against the president.
Manafort served as Trump's campaign manager for five months, and also faces federal charges
in Washington.
Where he is being accused of conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a
foreign agent, when he lobbied for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government.
Something which Democrat Party operatives do regularly but get away with it.
Manfort previously lost a civil suit making similar complaints about the special counsel's
investigation last week.
Manafort had filed a lawsuit in Washington claiming Rosenstein and Mueller exceeded their
authority in charging him with alleged crimes, he said had nothing to do with the 2016 campaign.
DC District Judge Amy Berman Jackson dismissed that lawsuit, saying a civil case was "not
the appropriate vehicle" for objecting to either past or future actions by a prosecutor.
Here is more on this story via Reuters:
"A WITCH HUNT"
Trump enthusiastically read the judge's comments out loud to his audience during a
speech to the National Rifle Association in Dallas, saying they echoed his longstanding
views.
He called Ellis "a very respected person."
"I've been saying that for a long time.
It's a witch hunt," he said of Mueller's probe into his campaign's ties to Russia
and whether it colluded with Russians to interfere in the 2016 election.
He also distanced himself from Manafort, calling him a nice guy but saying "he worked for
me for a very short period of time."
The sharp tone of the judge's comments could spell trouble for Mueller's case against
Manafort, and put even greater pressure on Rosenstein to rein in the Russia investigation.
But several legal experts cautioned against reading too much into the comments.
"I think there are some judges that believe that in being evenhanded, they should give
the winner a hard time, too," said James Trusty, a former federal prosecutor now with
the law firm Ifrah Law.
"At the end of the day, it's very dangerous to read the tea leaves from comments from
the bench."
Lisa Kern Griffin, a professor at Duke University School of Law and a former federal prosecutor,
said it is unlikely Ellis will dismiss the charges against Manafort because bringing
them was "almost certainly" within Mueller's broad authority.
If Ellis dismissed the charges, they would likely be reinstated by an appeals court,
Griffin said.
"I think Judge Ellis may just be putting to the government through its paces," she
said.
"That is not uncommon."
The hearing on Friday was the third time Manafort has tried to get charges against him dismissed.
A civil case alleging the Justice Department's order appointing Mueller was overly broad
was tossed last month.
He also asked for dismissal of the Washington-based criminal charges on similar legal grounds,
but there has not been a ruling.
Ellis did not rule on the motion to dismiss on Friday.
Ellis asked why a run-of-the-mill bank fraud case with no "reference to any Russian individual
or Russian bank", could not be handed over to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern
District of Virginia.
As an example, he pointed to the FBI probe into Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen,
and said the special counsel had turned that matter over to federal prosecutors in Manhattan.
Dreeben declined to discuss the Cohen case.
Ellis also complained that the bulk of that August memo he received was highly redacted.
He told Mueller's office to take two weeks to consult with U.S. intelligence agencies
to see, whether they would sign off so that he can personally review a sealed, unredacted
version of the memo.
Dreeben told him the redacted portions did not pertain to the Manafort case.
"I'll be the judge," Ellis said.
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✨SUNSET HALO MAKEUP TUTORIAL ✨☀️| Melissa Yeung - Duration: 6:21.
Hey guys, what's up? It's Melissa here, so today?
I'm going to film a makeup tutorial for you guys cuz I asked you guys on Instagram and you guys
Majority of you said you wanted to see this makeup look right here so yeah
Yeah, I am gonna show you how to do this look honestly, I really love this look legit the halo eye...
Reminds me of a sunset love it
so...yeah, I hope you guys loved it too and
Yeah, without further ado let's get on with the video
So the first thing I'm going to do before apply any makeup on is to get a wipe and wipe off any excess oil
Or dirt off my face
then I'm going in with a face primer, by Lacura Beauty; and
What this is going to do is make the makeup not only last longer, but also smooth out the face
So just apply it like you would with a moisturizer and then on to fou ndation
So I'm going to use two foundations to get the right color match for my skin
So the first one is the Covergirl Trublend foundation in the shade 15 creamy natural and the other one is the Revlon Colorstay foundation
In 220 natural beige so mixing the two, I'm going to dot that on my face and using a damp sponge, dab it
Making sure, it's up my hairline and down my neck
All products I used in this video will be in the description. So don't worry about missing out on what I said
Now we have concealers, so we will be using my favourite, Loreal Infallible Total Cover Concealer Palette and guys
We've hit pan on the lightest shade
HOORAY!
so we'll be using this shade and the shade next to it too. Just taking some off my hand we will be lightly dabbing and
Swiping it on our panda eyes and any other blemishes or redness we have
Going into the FaceofAustralia
translucent powder we will be tapping the beauty blender in that powder
And setting the concealer with it as well as in places where I get oily faster. So that's generally the T-zone
Now we are going bougie on the brows
But before that we need to groom these strangers and then using the NYX eyebrow pencil crayon in black noir
To fill and reshape the brows
Remember brows don't have to be twins they can also be sisters as well. Now, I'm pretty horrible with brows so
I'm going to correct my past by concealing it and oooolala we have our brows
This is going to be the palette we are using and it's the Glamorous O.M.F.G eyeshadow palette by ChiChi
So I'm going in with this peachy shade we will lightly cover the whole lid with this. Then going back into the same colour
We'll be concentrating that color on the outer and inner portion of the lid. Really
intensifying that colour. In with the orange shade, we are going to do the same thing by making it even more intense and sunset like.
Now with some glitters so with my favourite colour
We are going to use our finger and place that on the center of our eyelids, so it gives a pop
With an eyeshadow brush you'll want to blend that harsh line and do the same thing on the lower lash line
Like you're wearing matching pajamas
With a black liner pencil we will be lining the upper waterline to up make our lashes look like they have volume and
Speaking of lashes will be grooming these with the Maybelline lash sensational mascara
Coating it to the max
so what I like to do is sweep it to the right then to the left and
up to get that lift and volume we want and
We need to show some something love to our lower lashes, too, so I'm using the Maybelline great lash mascara to do so
once done and we are going in with the Rimmel glam eyes liquid luck eyeliner in black glamour and
Line that line close to the lash line and flick it with a nice angel wing
After that we want to curl our flat lashes to the sky, and that's the eye look done moving on to the face
I'm using the Rimmel Kate Moss
Golden bronzer palette and I'm using this to contour the hollows of our cheeks,
jawline, forehead and my Voldemort noise
Then going into the highlighter
We are going to blind those haters by applying it on the nose, inner corner of the eyes, brow bone and cheekbone
With the lips I'm using the Maybelline
Vivid matte liquid in the shade 50 nude thrill and smear that on my lips
Once done we will go in again with another lipstick
And it's the NYX butter lipstick BLS10
so this orange colour and dab it on the inner portion of the lips for that more summer vibe and
There you have it the sunset halo Sunset Boulevard
makeup look
So I hope you guys enjoy this video if you did, please give it a thumbs up
I did have fun filming this and I'm sorry if the lighting is like completely dark now cuz like I
Seriously, I don't know how long this took like an hour
or like two...if you liked this video give this video a thumbs up so
it will let me know that you like makeup tutorials, and I can do more for you guys and
don't forget to subscribe to my channel and
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That one is actually a mason jar video, and it's one of my favourite DIYs that I have ever done so yeah
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think one of my first jobs that I had I was hopelessly underpaid I was in the
wrong role in all honesty other than that it was a great job I've got I got
paid I think seven and a half grand or something a year it was terrible and it
was a few years back mind you but even then it was still very lowly paid and
what I used to do is I used to moonlight and if you're not familiar with the
expression of moon lighting it's going out and working while you're working and
I would do a day of work at the place at which I originally worked and then in
the evening I would go out and do private work for clients and I used to
be into technology so I used to train secretaries on how to use word press ink
processing equipment I would do the IT for smaller businesses that didn't want
to employ a big company and I'd do all of those sort of things so I would work
and I always have done incredibly hard I'd get out first thing in the morning
do a bit of stuff I even once went and sorted out the IT on HMS Ark Royal in
Portsmouth once they had a problem with some laptops and stuff and I just
offered to go across there to help them out because this guy came in desperate
for some help and I just said well I'll pop in after work and see if I can sort
you out and I did and so they got me to do some bits of work for them so yeah
that's it's funny and I've always said this to you it's funny what happens if
you just stick your head above the parapet and go for stuff and you'll be
amazed if you think positively how many opportunities come your way and and this
was how I ended up with that bold statement at the start of this video was
that when I was a bit younger and in a fairly low paid job I would moonlight
and one of the guys I used to moonlight for was an independent financial adviser
and I didn't know what an IFA was I had no concept of entire world really but I
was sort of getting interested in it and going down that route and when I started
to have a compass with a same issue again he came running
in and basically one day good got in contact with me and just said look I've
got a problem that needs sorting out say is there anything that you can do and I
just said a lot I'll come and see you after work
so anyway I went round to this IFA and started sorting out all of the stuff
that they had and started rewiring and plugging in things and sorting out the
network and just all of that sort of general mundane stuff and then he
started to ask me to look at one of his main systems and when I was playing
around with it I could see that they had various Ledger's and a ledger is an
accounting system and I was going through the various ledger sorting out
issues that he had related to all of this sort of stuff and helping a
secretary understand how to use the software and I said Tomoko you know in
order to understand what I'm supposed to be doing can you tell me a bit more
about exactly what this is doing and I said you know what are all of these
payments down here and he said all those are dividends and I said - okay what's
what's the dividend and he said well you buy shares in a company or your own
company and then they distribute the profit as a dividend and I said well no
okay so they actually pay you part of the
profit they make anyone yeah that's right that's exactly how it works
and I was thinking hold on a second here you can buy shares in a company they pay
you to own the shares and then you can actually profit from the value of the
shares going up as well and I thought well that's something that really
interests me and that's what started my investing career I had no real concept
of investment and stocks and shares and company ownership and dividends until
that exact moment and when I was in that office so I just kept on quizzing him
more and more and more and more and trying to understand everything was
going on it's like how do you buy shares what do you do when you own the shares
and how do you sell them and all of these sort of things and this was
pre-internet this was a long long time ago so yeah that's what got me into the
investing world was actually doing a job for an independent financial advisor on
the side while I was working in another job and that got me really interested so
I started say of money and buying shares in companies
and following the share price reading the Financial Times reading the
investors Chronicle I had no idea then that years and years later I would
actually end up writing about my experiences for a national weekly
magazine wrote for shares magazine a weekly column for three years and that
was all about my experience of investing and what that brings to the mix but when
you own shares in a company then the advantage that you get with only chess
in the company is your hopefully your going to buy them so that they're more
valuable at some point in the future Bohun you actually own them they
distribute part of the profits that they make it has dividends and I just thought
well isn't this a beautifully democratic way of running a company because if you
work for a company you could buy shares in the company and then you actually get
paid for owning part of the company as well and that's more or less what I did
in various jobs that I owned over the years I would actually buy shares in the
company and in one of the companies that I worked for I negotiated that as part
of the package when I joined the company because then you get this lovely
positive feedback loop of getting paid to work for the company and owning part
of it as well and the hilarious thing is is when you own part of company you can
actually turn up at the AGM and quiz the board and management so again a
beautifully democratic way of doing things
I did this with Betfair when Betfair floated our boar shares in bet they're
purely so I could go and attend the AGM and get some face time with the
management and and that's one of the other things that you get with share
ownership is that you get the ability to do that and it feels like a much better
way of having an interest within a company because you can give feedback as
a shareholder as opposed to just being a customer or an employee you get
immediately in at the higher level so I've got loads of great experiences of
this over many years but you know the benefit of owning companies is if you
select a company that's likely to do well at some point in the future then
the value of the shares rise as people are willing to pay more and more for
them because of the earnings growth of the UC but you get paid for doing it as
well which is absolutely fantastic and if you look at berkshire hathaway
stock last year berkshire hathaway stock was up more or less about $50,000 last
year and and what did i do to earn that $50,000 well the answer is absolutely
nothing I didn't have to sit at a screen and watch anything I didn't have to make
a judgment about going in and out of the market I didn't have to do any of those
things I just owned the stock and it turns out that people want to pay more
and more for that over the course of the year because the underlying performance
of company is good and therefore if I chose to sell their shares at this
moment in time I would have made $50,000 over the course of the year now the fact
is I've owned Berkshire stock for many many years and I still haven't sold them
because they're generally getting more valuable as time goes on but part of
that is due to their capital structure in the way that they reinvest money not
going to talk about that in this video but yeah they don't pay a dividend
secure asleep but most of the money that they get gets reinvested within the
company and that's why the shares go up so much in value so whether you look at
it in terms of getting a payment now or at some point in the future the retained
value and the value of those shares has gone up by that amount anyway despite
the fact that I've done absolutely nothing to earn it as such all I did was
take a bit of money invest it and wait that payoff to come in future now I do
own other stocks I think probably it would be interesting for you to learn
about some of the other positions that I hold and some of them are very big
dividend payers and sometimes that can be an advantage because the income
stream that you get from that means that you get money coming in all of the time
and you can choose whether to either spend that money or reinvest it or
invest in another company but yeah if you're an investor then the benefit that
you get is you don't actually need to do much yet put a lot of energy effort and
thought into what you're going to buy and win but once you've bought that that
can just sit there as a passive investment and it can produce true
passive income you will get paid for holding shares and if you pick the right
companies then that income will rise over time so yeah if you're not earn
money while you sleep that's the way that you should do it
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How did the Ancient Japanese Bury the Dead? | History of Japan 9 - Duration: 5:55.
You can tell a lot about a society by how they treat the dead.
Found a body buried with valuable items?
Probably an important person.
Found a mass grave?
There may have been a war.
The Jomon had some burial practices that the Yayoi later adopted, indicating significant
interaction between the two cultures.
The Jomon Period lasted a longggg time and people were not united, so they didn't have
all the same burial practices.
But they did have some common themes.
Cremation was rare, most Jomon did burials.
Early on, they buried people in shell mounds, which were basically large garbage heaps from
the Stone Age.
We call them shell mounds because societies that eat seafood have a lot of shells to throw
away, so they would throw them into these huge garbage droppings.
These mounds had all kinds of things, of course, not just shells.
Archaeologists love shell mounds because garbage is life.
You can figure out all kinds of things from someone's garbage.
I'm glad Facebook only has my private information and hasn't gone through my trash.
What the…?
Oh god!
Eventually, most Jomon did away with shell mound burials and settled on pit burials or
jar burials.
Pit burials were the most common.
Just dig a hole in the ground, put the body in there, and cover it with some dirt or shells.
Easy.
In many places, we found that abandoned pit houses often had a single body inside, either
covered with shells or buried.
Researchers believe that the family would bury the dead person in the house, then abandon
it.
The house would've been unlucky after a burial.
Some places buried the dead, then dug them up to re-bury them in a large collective pit.
This mass pit cemetery from hell stayed open and accumulated bodies over time.
When full, the Jomon sealed it up and covered it.
They also did jar burials where they placed the dead body inside a ceramic jar before
burying.
The Yayoi copied this type of burial, as we'll see later.
Children had a special place in their hearts.
The vast majority of the jar burials were for children or unborn fetuses, and children's
graves were separate from adults'.
Early on, people buried the dead with common everyday items like pottery and stone tools.
In the Middle Jomon, they started adding jewelry like necklaces and bracelets made of all kinds
of things, jade, shark teeth, stones, shells.
In the later years of the Jomon Period, they added more ritual objects like clay figurines
and stone rods.
After the Yayoi arrived, we started seeing large grave sites, more evidence that the
Yayoi population boomed.
Like the Jomon, the Yayoi had differing burial practices depending on region.
There was an early burial custom where they would put a dead body in a pit, with or without
coffin, and balance a large stone slab over it.
This practice probably came with Korean migrants, but was quickly abandoned.
Some Yayoi practiced secondary burials, which worked like this.
First, bury a person in a pit, usually enclosed in a building.
After the body has decomposed, dig it up and put the bones in a jar.
Finally, bury the jar in a separate cemetery, far from the village.
Archaeologists found that the teeth in these jars had holes in them.
This is because after digging up the body, the Yayoi removed the teeth and bored holes
through them so they could string them together as jewelry.
Then the relatives of the deceased wore them around, probably because they wanted terrible,
crippling nightmares.
After a short time, the teeth went back into the jar for the secondary burial.
We've also found bones with knife marks on them.
Researchers used to think, "Oh my god, they're cannibals."
But no, it was because they had to scrape the remaining flesh off the bones before putting
it in the burial jar, which MAY be the second worse job in the world.
The worse job in the world is being the guy who edits Japanese adult videos.
Bodies were usually buried straight in a pit, or in a wooden coffin, but the most distinctive
type of coffin that everyone associates with the Yayoi is the jar.
They adopted this jar burial method from the Jomon, and it was actually only popular in
northern Kyushu, it wasn't used often outside of this area.
They put bodies in these, um, uncircumcised ceramic jars.
They were basically two pots with their openings put together, then sealed.
Sometimes, they had one pot, with a flat lid covering the opening.
Now, so far we've talked about HOW they buried the bodies, but what about WHERE they
buried them?
When they needed burial places, they made a moat around a piece of land, a moated cemetery.
The area had sides ranging from a few meters to 30 meters.
I couldn't find out whether the moats were wet, dry, or both... so I'm going to say
wet, because it's cooler, plus the later Kofun Period did have wet moats.
People were buried in small mounds.
These were precursors to the large mound tombs of the later Kofun Period.
They had separate cemeteries for commoners and elites, more evidence of a social hierarchy.
Over time, the mounds for the elites kept getting bigger.
We found one mound that was 80 meters long!
As the mounds grew, researchers saw a society become more complex and hierarchical.
Things like the type of coffin, the quality of buried goods, and the size of the mound
determined the status of the people buried beneath.
Were you a chief?
Congrats, you get a huge mound.
Were you a poor farmer?
Sorry, you go under this speedbump.
So...I think we're done with the Jomon and Yayoi, and we'll move on to the Kofun Period
next time, where Japan's Imperial House began.
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Guys, we've almost reached 8000 subscribers!
Thank you so much for watching and commenting and subscribing, I really appreciate it.
And if you didn't do any of that, then get the hell outta here-- I'm just kidding, I
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Federal Judge Drops Crushing Anvil On Mueller Investigation, Delivers Trump Victory - Duration: 5:28.
Federal Judge Drops Crushing Anvil On Mueller Investigation, Delivers Trump Victory.
Nice to see not all judges are partisan and some are starting to wake up and sounding
the alarm.
Yesterday a Federal judge in Virginia expressed alarming skepticism about the actions of special
counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, in the bank fraud case against former Trump
campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
To the point that he even said what everyone has known from day one, that he believes that
Mueller's motivation is to oust President Donald Trump from office.
This all went down at a tense hearing in a federal court in Virginia on Friday, where
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III sharply questioned whether Mueller exceeded his authority
in filing tax, and bank fraud charges against Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort
since all he was supposed to be doing is investigating Russian collision between the Trump Campaign
and the Kremlin.
"The vernacular is to sing," Ellis said.
"You don't really care about Mr. Manafort," the judge said.
"You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead to Mr. Trump"
and his eventual prosecution or impeachment.
"It's unlikely you're going to persuade me the special counsel has unfettered power
to do whatever he wants," Ellis, who was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan,
said at a hearing on Manafort's motion to dismiss the Virginia charges."
Ellis later added that it appeared that with these charges Mueller and company are trying
to bully Manafort into flipping on Trump, and giving them information which could be
used against the president.
Manafort served as Trump's campaign manager for five months, and also faces federal charges
in Washington.
Where he is being accused of conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a
foreign agent, when he lobbied for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government.
Something which Democrat Party operatives do regularly but get away with it.
Manfort previously lost a civil suit making similar complaints about the special counsel's
investigation last week.
Manafort had filed a lawsuit in Washington claiming Rosenstein and Mueller exceeded their
authority in charging him with alleged crimes, he said had nothing to do with the 2016 campaign.
DC District Judge Amy Berman Jackson dismissed that lawsuit, saying a civil case was "not
the appropriate vehicle" for objecting to either past or future actions by a prosecutor.
Here is more on this story via Reuters:
"A WITCH HUNT"
Trump enthusiastically read the judge's comments out loud to his audience during a
speech to the National Rifle Association in Dallas, saying they echoed his longstanding
views.
He called Ellis "a very respected person."
"I've been saying that for a long time.
It's a witch hunt," he said of Mueller's probe into his campaign's ties to Russia
and whether it colluded with Russians to interfere in the 2016 election.
He also distanced himself from Manafort, calling him a nice guy but saying "he worked for
me for a very short period of time."
The sharp tone of the judge's comments could spell trouble for Mueller's case against
Manafort, and put even greater pressure on Rosenstein to rein in the Russia investigation.
But several legal experts cautioned against reading too much into the comments.
"I think there are some judges that believe that in being evenhanded, they should give
the winner a hard time, too," said James Trusty, a former federal prosecutor now with
the law firm Ifrah Law.
"At the end of the day, it's very dangerous to read the tea leaves from comments from
the bench."
Lisa Kern Griffin, a professor at Duke University School of Law and a former federal prosecutor,
said it is unlikely Ellis will dismiss the charges against Manafort because bringing
them was "almost certainly" within Mueller's broad authority.
If Ellis dismissed the charges, they would likely be reinstated by an appeals court,
Griffin said.
"I think Judge Ellis may just be putting to the government through its paces," she
said.
"That is not uncommon."
The hearing on Friday was the third time Manafort has tried to get charges against him dismissed.
A civil case alleging the Justice Department's order appointing Mueller was overly broad
was tossed last month.
He also asked for dismissal of the Washington-based criminal charges on similar legal grounds,
but there has not been a ruling.
Ellis did not rule on the motion to dismiss on Friday.
Ellis asked why a run-of-the-mill bank fraud case with no "reference to any Russian individual
or Russian bank", could not be handed over to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern
District of Virginia.
As an example, he pointed to the FBI probe into Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen,
and said the special counsel had turned that matter over to federal prosecutors in Manhattan.
Dreeben declined to discuss the Cohen case.
Ellis also complained that the bulk of that August memo he received was highly redacted.
He told Mueller's office to take two weeks to consult with U.S. intelligence agencies
to see, whether they would sign off so that he can personally review a sealed, unredacted
version of the memo.
Dreeben told him the redacted portions did not pertain to the Manafort case.
"I'll be the judge," Ellis said.
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10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Underestimate the Power of Empath - Duration: 6:05.
10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Underestimate the Power of Empath
First things, empaths are incredibly powerful individuals, that's why I wouldn't recommend
that you underestimate one of them.
They are outstanding at reviewing people body language and also, they are the best mind
detectives!
The best means to describe empaths is: the knowing just happen.
They understand how to read individuals, and they typically aren't easily misleaded.
If you are an unfaithful type of companion, then don't get with an empath ever.
You will soon take pleasure in the preference of your very own medicine.
Empaths are born with special gift; they have the capability to feel others feelings.
Although this is handy when you require somebody to speak with, this isn't their primary gift.
Empaths are professionals on human psychology by force of habit.
This gives them the capability to be able to inform when a person is forging, lying,
or just not that they said they were.
Some nice people have harsh objectives, just face it already.
However, Empaths just have the ability to recognize this.
So, In this video, I'm going to share with you 10 reasons why you shouldn't underestimate
the power of empath.
If you find this information is helpful to you, make sure to like this video and subscribe
to our channel, so you won't miss any of our interesting updates in the future.
#1 - Empaths are Essentially Lie Detectors.
When somebody exists, they produce particular subconscious body movements as well as 'ticks',
if you must.
Typical ways to determine a liar is their eye movement, and frustrating purpose to convince
you.
Nonetheless, if you're an empath you currently know this.
You aren't sure how to discuss why you understand, you just do.
It is one of the most famous sensation you'll ever before feel in your gut.
#2 - They Can Recognize Exploitation.
Keep in mind when you were a kid and you wanted something, so you would certainly 'butter
up' your moms and dads to obtain exactly what you desire.
Perhaps that is a southerly term, so basically you're being nice to somebody to gain a benefit
from them.
Do not do this to an empath, they will certainly quit you in your tracks.
You are more likely to get just what you want by saying it directly.
#3 - Do Not Aim To Deceive Them.
Empaths feel other people's feelings, a lot more compared to they would certainly want
as well.
Because of this, they know when you're fabricating.
Do not try and conceal your vicious purposes around an empath, it just won't work.
Empaths can see right through your conniving disguise.
They commonly do not ever approach it either since they are likewise mindful that you undoubtedly
have some type of mental distortion.
#4 - They Know When You're Trying to be Somebody You're Not.
Empaths have the capability to see a personals spirit.
They value your rewards as well as your imperfections!
There is nothing more appealing to an empath compared to a person who is their self.
When you attempt to place on an act, they will know.
So, be confident in your very own skin and don't attempt to be somebody you're not.
Particularly in front of an empath.
#5 - They Know When You're on The Wrong Course.
If you have a compassionate pal and also they are cautioning you concerning things you have
actually been doing, LISTEN TO THEM.
Empaths are so proficient at forecasting self-destruction it is similar to time travel.
They know your subconscious thinking for acting out and also it isn't worth it, and they will
certainly tell you that too.
When an empath is informing you that you are heading for a dark area, then you better seriously
reevaluate your objectives.
#6 - They Know you're not Fine.
" are you alright?"
" yes, I am great."
" No, you're not.
Now please tell me everything."
If you have ever had this conversation with a close friend, they are more than likely
an empath.
Empaths know when you exist, as well as they also recognize when you really feel poor.
Having a friend you can speak to around points is an incredible aid!
Take a good use from your good friend's healing ability and do not try to lie to them for
once.
Don't be afraid; they wish to aid.
#7 - They Can Sense Hatred.
One of the most common senses an empath has is for disgust.
Hatred is such an adverse emotion it emits an adverse energy that is so powerful.
Empaths are attracted away by this feeling.
They typically aren't harmed over your hatred, however would rather not have their spirit
affected by your adverse energy.
They do not sweat any kind of disgust, which often causes individuals to dislike them much
more.
They fit with who they are, and also they anticipate to be nobody else.
#8 - They Know your Prejudices.
Empaths will constantly recognize when you have a covert bias.
If you are distressed by people with various tinted skin, sexual orientation, or individuality
differences, empath will certainly most likely lose interest.
Empathic individuals are not interested in individuals who are shallow or narcissistic.
#9 - They Sense Envy.
Empathic individuals could really feel when you are envious of them.
You might expect this to earn them feel a bit charismatic, but that would be wrong.
Empath's could recognize that you are jealous of them for whatever reason, as well as they
will commonly show humbleness making you feel much more comfortable.
#10 - They Could Check out Lackey's Like a Publication.
Empaths dislike little talk, and they despise sucking up a lot more.
Don't falsely enhance an empath to acquire their love.
They in fact despise this, and also they see just what you're doing.
An Empath's most effective capacity is deciphering people's actions and purposes.
Well, those are the 10 reasons why you shouldn't underestimate the power of empath.
So, Really cool information isn't it?
I hope you enjoy this short video, if you have something on your mind, please share
your thoughts and experiences in the comments below!
Don't forget to subscribe to our channel and watch all our other amazing videos!
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Musztarda kojarzy Ci się z hot dogami i grillowanymi kiełbaskami? Słusznie, ale za pewne nie wiesz, że ten popularny dodatek do dań ma także szereg innych zastosowań.
Swoje wspaniałe właściwości musztarda zawdzięcza gorczycy, z której jest robiona. Wykorzystywana już w czasach starożytnych, potrafi zdziałać naprawdę sporo:
1. Usuwa brzydkie zapachy.Gdy Twoje garnki nieładnie pachną, wyszoruj je odrobiną musztardy w proszku i ciepłą wodą. Będziesz zachwycona efektami!
2. Łagodzi poparzenia.Jeśli zdarzają Ci się w kuchni drobne wypadki i poparzenia, miej w domu zawsze musztardę. Znajduje się w niej bowiem izotiocyjanian allilu, czyli związek, który przyśpiesza gojenie ran oraz łagodzi powstałe uszkodzenia skóry.
Po poparzeniu zlej miejsce zimną wodą, a następnie nałóż na nie cienką warstwę musztardy. W ten sposób zapobiegniesz powstaniu pęcherzy i zminimalizujesz ból.
3. Poprawia cerę.Czy kiedykolwiek pomyślałaś, by nałożyć musztardę na twarz? Nie? A szkoda! Zawiera witaminę E, przeciwutleniacze i ma właściwości przeciwzapalne.
Pozostawiona na 15 minut na twarzy, zregeneruje skórę i przywróci jej energię oraz zdrowy wygląd. Musztardę zmyj letnią wodą.
4. Koi ból gardła.Jeżeli dokucza Ci ból gardła, wymieszaj łyżkę nasion gorczycy, sok z połówki cytryny, 1 łyżkę soli i jasnego miodu oraz 1/4 szklanki wrzącej wody.
Gdy mieszanka wystygnie odcedź ją i przygotowanym płynem płucz gardło. Za złagodzenie bólu odpowiada izotiocyjanian allilu.5. Wspiera walkę z nowotworem.Naukowcy sądzą, że izotiocyjanian allilu pomaga także w walce z nowotworem.
W czasopiśmie naukowym Carcinogenesis opublikowano pracę, zgodnie z którą AITC hamuje wzrost komórek nowotworowych i pozwala powstrzymać rozwój choroby, zwłaszcza raka pęcherza moczowego.
6. Odżywia włosy.Olej musztardowy to wspaniały sposób na regenerację osłabionych włosów. Wystarczy, że po nałożeniu odżywki, wetrzesz w swoje włosy odrobinę oleju.
Pozostaw go na 8 godzin (lub dłużej, jeśli tylko możesz) i ciesz się gładkimi, miękkimi włosami. Stosuj tę kurację regularnie, a już wkrótce Twoje włosy zaczną znacznie szybciej rosnąć!
7. Koi zmęczone, obolałe mięśnie.Dzięki gorczycy, musztarda przynosi ulgę obolałym mięśniom. Czujesz się zmęczony i obolały? Przygotuj sobie musztardową kąpiel! Przepis jest prosty: wymieszaj łyżkę musztardy z łyżką soli Epson.
To doskonały sposób ba rozluźnienie mięśni i złagodzenie bólu. Za pomocą gorczycy rozprawisz się również z bólami dolnej partii pleców. Wystarczy, że jej nasiona wymieszasz z mąką w proporcjach 1:2, a następnie dodasz dodasz wodę, aby powstała gęsta pasta.
Gdy posmarujesz nią gazę i przyłożysz do obolałego miejsca na ok 20-30 minut, zdziwisz się, jak szybko ból stanie się mniejszy.8. Niweluje skurcze.
Musztarda przyniesie ulgę także tym, którym często dokuczają skurcze nóg. Wystarczy posmarować nią problematyczne miejsce (1 łyżka w zupełności wystarczy), by zminimalizować ból. To także dobry sposób na to, by zapobiec kolejnym skurczom.
9. Eliminuje szkodniki.W Twoim ogrodzie zadomowili się nieproszeni goście? Jeśli nie chcesz, by dalej pożerali owoce Twojej pracy, rozpraw się z nimi za pomocą musztardy.
Rozsmaruj ją na niepotrzebnym talerzyku lub spodeczki i umieść na działce. Jej zapach odstraszy intruzów.10. Ułatwia oddychanie.
By odblokować górne drogi oddechowe i ułatwić oddychanie, należy wetrzeć odrobinę musztardy w klatkę piersiową i przykryć to miejsce wilgotną, bardzo ciepłą ściereczką.Teraz już chyba nie masz wątpliwości, że musztarda powinna znaleźć się w Twojej kuchni, prawda?
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How much is a Gold Medal worth? | Strangest Moments - Duration: 6:25.
Let's start with a question you've been dying to ask.
Just how much money do these athletes make?
At the top end of Olympic sports,
a relatively small number of big names
earn substantial amounts in endorsement
and appearance contracts.
Out on his own is sprint champ Usain Bolt,
who earns a small fortune per year
and a big fortune in an Olympic year.
And the Jamaican's earnings are matched or surpassed by some of
the sport's professionals
who join in every four years.
The team events are awash
with fat salaries.
The Canadian ice hockey team,
which won gold at Sochi 2014,
had a combined annual income of $150 million US.
While the US basketball squad for Rio 2016 is maybe
the wealthiest group of athletes ever assembled.
So how much do athletes actually get paid
for winning a medal at the Olympic Games?
The answer is...
nothing.
Zero. No win bonus. No appearance fee.
No cash prize.
You get your travel expenses, food and lodging, some kit,
and that's about it.
For the Olympics, you don't get paid to play -
an idea that goes back to
the amateur tradition of the 19th century.
It's the spirit of gentlemanly conduct
that so seduced Pierre, Baron de Coubertin,
the Frenchman
who founded the modern Olympic movement in 1896.
His beliefs were typical of his time and his class.
Sport was no place
for professionals.
A gentlemen seeks no reward for his success
on the playing field.
While there was much to admire about these principles,
there is another way of looking at the amateur code
as more than a touch self-interested.
Only gentlemen could be amateurs
because only gentlemen could afford to be amateurs.
Those who couldn't leave their jobs for months at a time
were not considered worthy of these Olympic values.
Even those who earnt a modest living
by coaching sports like fencing
or skiing were barred from participation.
It wasn't until 1992
that professional athletes
were openly welcomed into the Olympic Games.
But not before sports administrators had,
over several decades,
tied themselves in knots trying to defend the principles
of amateurism.
At times, it led to some decisions
we would today consider a bit strange.
Take the great decathlete Jim Thorpe,
born on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma
in 1887.
Thorpe grew up without any of
the privileges enjoyed by the gentlemen amateurs.
He was an exceptionally gifted all-round athlete.
At the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm,
he won the decathlon and pentathlon gold medals,
earning a fine tribute from King Gustav of Sweden.
The following year, it emerged that Thorpe, 25,
had played semi-professional baseball as a teenager.
The US Amateur Athletic Union
immediately stripped Thorpe of his gold medals.
For the sake of $2 a day, Thorpe was publicly humiliated
and barred from future participation
in the Olympic Games.
Excluded from athletics,
Thorpe tried his hand at the new sports craze
in the United States,
playing in a competition known today as the NFL.
Just a few years later,
footballers from all over the world
were looking forward to travelling
to the Olympic Games at Amsterdam.
The 1924 football tournament in Paris
had been an enormously popular, generating tons of cash.
The football associations asked
for a small share of that income
to help pay their costs for travel and accommodation -
expensive for a footballer travelling to Europe
from, say, Uruguay.
They weren't asking for prize money or appearance money,
yet the IOC said no.
"Any contribution to cost would,"
they said, "breach the amateur code."
England's Football Association was so appalled by the request
they withdrew their Olympic football team.
The conflict led to football being banned from
the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games altogether.
Disappointed by this exclusion,
the international football associations went on
to form their own football event,
a competition we know today as the Fifa World Cup.
Today, no-one really argues about
the professional versus amateur issue.
Allowing professionals to take part in the Olympics
has not damaged the competition's popularity
or its integrity.
The ideals which de Coubertin thought exclusive to
the amateur code are now shared throughout Olympic sport.
The lack of prize money remains an important symbol of
the amateur ideal.
As for Jim Thorpe, he died penniless in 1953.
30 years later, Thorpe's two surviving children
were awarded a commemorative Olympic medal
in honour of their father's achievement.
It was a symbolic gesture which would eventually lead to
the acceptance of professional athletes at the Olympic Games.
So when you see athletes on the podium,
you can be sure they're not thinking about the prize money
because there isn't any.
They're thinking about their family, friends,
team-mates, coaches
and the honour of representing their country
at the Olympic Games.
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