As historian Niall Ferguson writes in his 2011
book, "Civilization: The West and the Rest", the city of London was an outback in the 15th
century compared to some of China's great cities.
Then with international trading led by The British East India Company money flooded in,
as did people of different nationalities.
The population is estimated to have been 50,000 in 1530 and then in 1605 it was around 225,000
people.
Throughout the industrial revolution London became the center of the world and from around
1825 to 1925 it had the largest population of any city on Earth.
The British Empire faded, but London has always been a powerhouse culturally, but also economically.
According to the Global Financial Centers Index, London is still the largest financial
center in the world- but what is this great city truly about?
Welcome to this episode of the Infographics Show, What is the city of London corporation?
It may come as a surprise to some of you that London is not just a city but also a corporation.
Those that don't know are probably thinking right now what is this corporation?
Does it function like the Microsoft Corporation?
Does it hire and fire and post annual profits?
Does it have a main headquarters and a CEO?
Let's find out.
So, the Corporation of London or in legal terms the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens
of the City of London, is the governing body of London's financial district which is
sometimes referred to as the "Square Mile."
Within that mile around 8,000 live, although around 400,000 people commute into that area
for work every day, according to the corporation's own website.
London is divided into 33 areas, or boroughs, and this area is one of them.
On its website the corporation is perhaps extremely vague when it answers the question
concerning what it is responsible for.
The answer it gives is, "Providing services for residents (and City businesses) in the
Square Mile, but not those of other boroughs."
And yep, you can apply for a job in this corporation, just like any other.
It has bosses in a sort of way and lots of staff.
But let's rewind a little.
We have to go back a long way when we look at how this corporation began.
In fact, it's often called the "world's oldest continuously-elected democracy and
predates Parliament."
The city of London school website writes, "The Corporation's structure includes the
Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, the Court of Common Council, and the Freemen and Livery
of the City.
The City of London developed a unique form of government which led to the system of parliamentary
government at local and national level."
We'll make a long story short here.
2,000 years ago, the Romans founded a trading post in what is now southern England and they
called it Londinium.
They did what they did best and built roads, walls, bridges, and made this place an excellent
hub of trading.
For hundreds of years the city endured and when William the Conqueror arrived in the
11th century he quite liked it, too.
He created the city of London and gave Londoners their privileges and rights so long as they
accepted him as King.
Done deal.
He built towers around the place, including the Tower of London, and fortified the rest
of London.
The city of London was a special old place, and this started a kind of agreement that
it should remain a power unto itself.
Later monarchs to some extent feared this powerful city and they created Westminster,
which is west of the city of London.
You then had two cities.
The city of London still had a lot of freedom, which, according to one website, was "an
essential requirement for all who wished to carry on business and prosper in trade within
the Square Mile."
Freemen there could do their business not impinged by outside influence.
It was in 1191 that the Corporation announced itself as a commune, only one rung on the
ladder below the sovereign.
It judged itself, it was in a way a law unto itself.
It became so powerful that in 1632 the crown asked if the corporation might extend its
privileges to other areas of London, but it refused.
These privileges we are talking about were mainly related to laws.
As more people flooded into London, many of them refuges from the poorer Midlands and
the North, the corporation was asked if it might extend its boundaries.
In 1637 it rebuffed that proposal, and this became known as "The Great Refusal".
It's when the corporation of London in some ways turned its back on the rest of London
and that's why people sometimes talk about "A Tale of Two Cities."
One historian writes, "From that point on the people of London lacked any democratic
unitary municipal authority.
Business and, most particularly, finance, in contrast, had the most ancient political
institution in the kingdom at their disposal."
There were attempts to reform this gilded city, but the corporation stayed.
In the 18th century London was flourishing, but it was the corporation that really flourished,
bolstered by free trade.
And it went against the monarchy at times, making it a kind of rogue entity in England.
It supported George Washington and the American revolution, even sending over men to fight
for American independence and also sending over lots of money – something it wasn't
short of.
This was pretty much treason, but it got away with it.
The corporation was untouchable.
Soon Parliament replaced the Crown as the highest power and democracy supplanted the
Divine Right of Kings, but still the Corporation of London remained a power unto itself, and
the state didn't want to make it subject to its practices and laws.
The privileges and all the assets the corporation remained in-tact.
It worked for itself, not exactly always serving the people of Britain.
This of course has inspired a lot of criticism, and that criticism we hear today.
Political writer George Monbiot offers us this stark line when talking about the Corporation
of London: "It's the dark heart of Britain, the place where democracy goes to die, immensely
powerful, equally unaccountable."
He then adds that it's doubtful even one in ten Brits knows it exists.
Are any Brits nodding their head right now?
Monbiot explains that there are 25 electoral wards in the Square Mile area, but only four
of them contain the 9,000 (we read 8,000 before) people that can vote.
All the other votes are not people, they are business, mainly banks and finance companies.
And no, it's not the workers inside the businesses that vote, it's the bosses.
The bigger the company, the more votes it gets.
This is what is known as a Plutocracy.
So, even though the corporation calls itself a democracy, it's really just an entity
ruled by the most rich and powerful.
It gets stranger, though, and that's why there are tons of conspiracy theories about
this corporation.
So, there are different layers of elected people.
They are the common councilmen, the aldermen, the sheriffs and the Lord Mayor.
To get into any of these positions you must be a freeman.
What the hell is a freeman?
The corporation's own website writes, "The medieval term 'freeman' meant someone who
was not the property of a feudal lord but enjoyed privileges such as the right to earn
money and own land.
Town dwellers who were protected by the charter of their town or city were often free – hence
the term 'freedom' of the City."
Nowadays if you want to apply to become a freeman, you must either show exceptional
servitude, inherit the title or be nominated by a Livery company…hmm, and what exactly
is a livery company?
They came out of medieval guilds, developed into trading and crafts companies and are
now basically just powerful entities that embrace trade and commerce.
There are 110 of them in London.
They have lavish dinner parties and mostly speak in a kind of archaic posh English that
is sometimes mocked by the rest of the country.
At the head of the table you might find the Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths, Lord Sutherland
of Houndwood.
You get the picture, this is ancient, ritualistic England, a kind of Eyes Wide Shut scenario
to those who might also believe the Queen is a lizard.
It's definitely a bit anachronistic and strange to most.
So, to become a freeman you must also get approval by an alderman, who has already gotten
approval from a livery company.
If you want to become the Lord Mayor, you must have gotten approval from everyone.
You must also give a lot of money away, which basically means you need to be very, very
rich to get that position.
As Monbiot says, it's all about being in what the Brits call an "Old Boys Network",
which is a derogatory term meaning upper-class men that have made connections with other
posh men in expensive schools and those connections are carried into adulthood.
These are the people that run the corporation of London.
With money as their lodestar it's not surprising this network isn't always playing a straight
game, after all, they were partly behind the financial crisis.
Even after that crisis, the Lord Mayor's job is partly to be an advocate for liberalization.
That means deregulation.
This can encourage corruption.
That's why the corporation is so often criticized.
In the documentary "The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire" the creators take a dim view
of the Corporation of London, saying that after the empire collapsed it was this corporation
that still pulled the strings in the world's finance sectors.
And it wasn't always ethical.
This was corroborated in the book, Treasure Islands, which says that because the corporation
is a law unto itself, it can virtually get away with anything.
The government is sometimes powerless to intervene.
What goes on in the corporation stays in the corporation.
Monbiot writes, "The City has exploited this remarkable position to establish itself
as a kind of offshore state, a secrecy jurisdiction which controls the network of tax havens housed
in the UK's crown dependencies and overseas territories."
We're talking about billions and billions of dollars, money laundered through the corporation
with absolute impunity.
That's what the critics tell us anyway.
The documentary we just mentioned says this cash isn't just the money of oligarchs,
but also drug barons, gangsters, and sometimes money from African despots who have mined
their poor countries' resources but have no intention of putting the money back into
their country.
All this aided and abetted by this superpower within a square mile of London.
We might add that a lot of cash that should have been taxable could have gone back in
Great Britain, which some critics say is a reason some of the country's poorer areas
look almost third world.
The author of Treasure Islands writes about this, saying the relationship between offshore
islands such as the Cayman Islands and the corporation can't be understated in terms
of how important it is for those involved and how it is detrimental to the British people.
"This relationship is of massive, almost transcendental importance for the UK," he
said.
It's not that the City of London Corporation is directly an offshore business, it's just
the special rules it works under allow it to direct money to tax havens.
Will it change?
One critic wrote, "I have observed British officials blocking attempts to strengthen
international cooperation on tax information exchange by keeping discussion on offshore
trusts off the agenda.
This happened as recently as 2015."
It's not just islands far away, either.
Most people know large companies can find a tax haven next door on the islands of the
Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
The Occupied Times writes that these three islands, "provided net financing to UK banks
of a staggering $332.5 billion in the second quarter of 2009."
It's not exactly secret, either.
You can read on the Jersey Finance website that it provides services for, "corporate
treasurers, institutional bankers and treasury specialists, fund promoters, brokers and other
corporate financiers, Jersey represents an extension of the City of London."
According to critics hundreds of billions of dollars of cash is not getting taxed, while
the Brits complain about late trains, NHS cutbacks and dole scroungers.
We'll leave you with this line from Treasure Islands:
"'There is nothing we can do' is the typical response to those who say that the
UK cracks down on the criminality, abuse and corruption run out of these places.
And behind it all lies the City of London, anxious to preserve its access to the world's
dirty money."
So, what do you think about this?
Can you add to the story?
Let us know in the comments.
Also, be sure to check out our other video Oldest Companies That Still Exist.
Thanks for watching, and as always, don't forget to like, share and subscribe.
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Is retail dying? | CNBC Explains - Duration: 6:26.
There's nothing quite like the adrenaline rush of a shopping spree.
But for many of us, that no longer means walking around shopping malls.
It means shopping online.
That's one reason why experts are saying we're in the beginning stages of a retail apocalypse.
But are we?
You've probably heard about the challenges brick and mortar stores are facing
like Toys R Us, which is closing about 900 of its stores in the U.S. and U.K.
And there's American retail icon Sears.
It pioneered ordering by catalogue and was seen as the Amazon of its time.
Sears had survived for 132 years before it filed for bankruptcy in 2018, closing more than 100 stores.
It's not just a few big retailers.
In just three years we've seen a wave of retailers go bankrupt.
And in 2017, retail store closures in the United States hit a record high.
But it's not just the United States.
Some places like Hong Kong, Singapore and Britain have also been hit by slow retail sales.
Almost 6,000 stores closed in Britain last year - that's 16 stores a day.
Those figures may sound like doomsday for retailers, but don't write them off yet.
There's a silver lining - people love online shopping.
This year, Cyber Monday became the largest online shopping day in U.S history,
with online sales reaching $7.9 billion in one day, while shoppers spent $6.2 billion on Black Friday.
Still, those figures were eclipsed by those of a one-day shopping event in China.
Alibaba's Singles Day, which falls on November 11, is China's biggest shopping event.
This year, it made a staggering $30.8 billion in 24 hours.
China is the largest e-commerce market in the world.
The U.S. comes in at number two and the rest of the world makes up about a third of global online sales.
But how large is the e-commerce market exactly?
Well, for all of 2017, American consumers spent a whopping $453 billion online.
That sounds like a lot, but Chinese consumers spent more than twice of that, totalling more than $1 trillion.
The spectacular e-commerce figures are the reason why many think physical retail is dying out.
But let's take a closer look at the story behind the numbers.
Online retail sales have been growing as a proportion of total sales in China, as well as in the United States.
Globally, there's a huge appetite for shopping with the click of your mouse.
Online sales in Europe are growing 10 times faster than brick and mortar retail,
while Southeast Asia's e-commerce growth is skyrocketing, doubling from 2017 to 2018.
But here's cause for pause.
The explosive growth of online sales is moderating in China, while it's keeping steady in the United States.
So we may hear about big household names closing a large number of stores,
but overall, retail sales in the United States and China continue to grow steadily.
Here's another interesting trend.
Online retailers are going from clicks to bricks.
Amazon, for instance, has opened about 20 bookstores,
at least six Amazon Go convenience stores, as well as its 4-star store.
You guessed it - it's a store that only stocks products rated four stars and above on the Amazon website.
Alibaba is China's answer to Amazon, and it owns Taobao, China's largest shopping website.
I'm here at Alibaba's first Taobao store in Singapore.
Taobao is known for its enormous catalog, selling pretty much anything you could possibly imagine.
But its store in Singapore carries only a selection of some of its coolest items.
Would you like a chicken wing pillow?
Well you can't quite bring it home, but you can scan the QR code and order it online.
At least you know exactly what you're getting.
Alibaba is keen on integrating online and offline retail.
To drive up hype for Singles Day, it got 200,000 stores across China to participate.
Shoppers could try on make-up testing mirrors and get freebies through their mobile phones.
Its biggest bet on physical at the moment?
That would be its Hema supermarkets, of which there are about 60 in China.
Shoppers can go to Hema to get seafood served by robots,
or they can order at Hema online and get groceries delivered in 30 minutes.
Online retailers seem to be absolutely pummelling the competition.
So why are Alibaba and Amazon bothering to open physical stores?
First of all, while sales from their brick and mortar stores may not quite be as mind-boggling as their online
figures, there is evidence that shoppers who buy in-store end up purchasing more from their online stores.
And here's what's even more valuable - the data.
Opening physical stores provides tech giants with even more data about shopping behavior, likely
helping Alibaba and Amazon get even better at making irresistible offers to both online and offline shoppers.
Mall operators and more traditional retailers also want to get in on the action.
Asian real estate company Capitaland brought in Taobao for its mall in Singapore,
and it will also open the country's first online-and-offline mall,
which will include robots, automation and facial recognition technology.
Despite their love for online shopping, many customers still want to try on products in store.
More importantly, they want to buy.
So it's up to retailers if they want to bring on the retail revolution, or face the apocalypse.
Hi everyone, it's Xin En!
Thanks for watching.
If you want to check out more of our CNBC videos, click here.
As usual, please feel free to leave any future suggestions for videos in our comments section.
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The Gift of Prophecy - Duration: 2:53.
The gift of prophecy - here we go, this is gonna be deep, you ready? You should write
this down: it's a gift. It's a gift. And the Greek word gift there means a
favour which is received without any merit out of its own.
In other words, you don't get the gift of prophecy, or any gift
from God actually, you don't get it because you earned it,
that's why it's called a gift and not an award. Which means you could move in
signs and wonders and miracles and have terrible character. I didn't say you
should, I just said you could. You can, why? Because you get the gift of prophecy by
what? Asking for it. It has no merit, in other words, you didn't do anything
to get it except for you asked for it.
The fruits of the Spirit - love, joy, peace, patience, and the others that I almost remember,
I remember this one though: self-control is in there. The fruit of the Spirit is a
sign that you actually have a relationship with the Spirit, it's the
fruit that you have a relationship with the Spirit. Now if you go over to the prayer
house and pray for three hours and come back grumpy, I don't know who you talked to,
because part of the fruit - I'm very serious -
I know people who quote "spend hours with God" and have the worst attitude, I'm like
I don't know who you've been talking to but the fruit of the Spirit is love, JOY,
peace, patience, and when you come back grumpy and grouchy and you
have no patience for people, and you're not kind, and you're like, I love Jesus
I'm like, dude I don't know who you're speaking to over there, but if I were you
I'd ask for someone else. I just want to say this, you know this is a little
parenthesis, but your relationship with God needs to benefit the people you know.
You'll make evangelism a lot easier if you loving God helps you to love them.
And by the way, I think it's why putting loving God is the first
commandment and loving people is second, because I don't think you can love
people very well till you love God, but once you love God loving people is pretty easy.
So you can prophesy, do miracles, all this kind of stuff, and what
did Jesus say to the guy who came to Him in the last days, there'll be false
prophets and they'll say, "Didn't we do miracles, didn't we prophesy in your name,
didn't we cast out demons?" And what's His point?
"I never," What? "Knew you." So can we agree that the gifts of the Spirit do not mean
that you have a great relationship with God? They just mean you asked for something
and Jesus gave it to you.
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REBEL PARKS - MONOCHROME (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) https://rebelparks.com/ - Duration: 5:10.
( SPINNING FINGER GLASS )
( AMBIENT SEA WAVES AGAINST ROCKS )
♪ ( "MONOCHROME" ELECTRIC GUITAR INTRO ) ♪
♪ I FEEL THE DARK INSIDE MY OWN DESPAIR ♪
♪ AND I HAVE TO BREATH YOU OUT TO CATCH YOUR FLARE ♪
♪ NO NO NO ♪
♪ I DON´T WANT TO LET YOU GO NOW ♪
♪ PUNCH A HOLE IN MY CELLOPHANE ♪
♪ CAUSE I GOTTA BLOW MY LOW HOW? ♪
♪ COLOR MY SOUL AGAIN ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH JUST HOLD ON ♪
♪ BE MY RAINBOW FLY ME HOME ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH WONDERLAND SWAN ♪
♪ I WILL DEFEAT THE MONOCHROME ♪
♪ DON´T TRY TO SUCK ME IN ♪
♪ CAUSE I´M A GHOST ♪
♪ LIKE SOMEONE YOU COULD MEET ♪
♪ BUT NEVER HOST ♪
♪ SO GO GO ♪
♪ SOMEWHERE FAR FROM HERE AND PRAY ♪
♪ I´M FIGHTING MY HURRICANE ♪
♪ AND SOMEDAY INSIDE THE EYE WE MAY ♪
♪ BE AS ONE AGAIN ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH JUST HOLD ON ♪
♪ BE MY RAINBOW FLY ME HOME ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH WONDERLAND SWAN ♪
♪ I WILL DEFEAT THE MONOCHROME ♪
♪ ( INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE ) ♪
♪ A BROKEN DREAM A SHADY HOME ♪
♪ MY GENERATION IN MONOCHROME ♪
♪ LOWER HIGHS HIGHER LOWS ♪
♪ I NEVER PLAYED BY A FIRE HOSE ♪
♪ IF I DIE TODAY I´D BE REBORN ♪
♪ AS A ZOMBIE TALE FOR KIDS TO SCORN ♪
♪ SO SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I FLOW ♪
♪ WITH A SYSTEM MADE TO PLOUGH ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH JUST HOLD ON ♪
♪ BE MY RAINBOW FLY ME HOME ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH WONDERLAND SWAN ♪
♪ I WILL DEFEAT THE MONOCHROME ♪
♪ JUST WAIT ♪
♪ JUST WAIT ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH ♪
♪ JUST WAIT ♪
♪ FAITH ♪
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Now I want to see (drink in the zone) - Bia Socek Feat. Solange Almeida / Official clip - Duration: 2:37.
It's Solange Almeida, now I want to see!
Bia Socek your beautiful!
What goes on in your head? Wants to know? It was not for lack of a friend, no! I warned you!
But you preferred listening to advice from a friend. And how many times have I become blind?
If you have no way, do not even pray Sit down, listen quietly, what I'm going to tell you.
Now I want to see you suffer, to humiliate yourself Run like a dog behind the owner
Now I want to see you pay for everything you did It will cost more than Pinga in the area
Now I want to see you suffer, to humiliate yourself Run like a dog behind the owner
Now I want to see you pay for everything you did It will cost more than Pinga in the area
What a pleasure to be here with you, Bia Socek.
Thanks Sol.
beautiful!
What goes on in your head? Wants to know? It was not for lack of a friend, no!
I warned you! But you preferred listening to advice from a friend.
And how many times have I become blind? If you have no way, do not even pray
Sit down, listen quietly, what I'm going to tell you.
Now I want to see you suffer, to humiliate yourself Run like a dog behind the owner
Now I want to see you pay for everything you did It will cost more than Pinga in the area
Now I want to see you suffer, to humiliate yourself Run like a dog behind the owner
Now I want to see you pay for everything you did It will cost more than Pinga in the area
Now I want to see you suffer, to humiliate yourself Run like a dog behind the owner
Now I want to see you pay for everything you did It will cost more than Pinga in the area
Now I want to see you suffer, to humiliate yourself Run like a dog behind the owner
Now I want to see you pay for everything you did It will cost more than Pinga in the area
Bia Socek, what a pleasure to sing with you!
Thank you Sun, let's go together!
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Why You Can't Seem to Get Anywhere With Prayer - Duration: 5:35.
Hi, my name is Stephanie, and today I wanted to talk to you about why
sometimes it seems like you just can't get anywhere with prayer.
You know those times when you're praying in the
Spirit and you really feel the leading of the Spirit for what to pray?
Sometimes those things almost seem like they come and go.
Like they come in seasons, and then all of a sudden,
all you can pray is like, "Oh, Lord, please help me to do better."
And, "Help me get better grades," or, "help me do better at my job;
I love You, Jesus." Like, just kind of, like, this
prayer that just doesn't feel as deep and you don't feel as
close to Him as, maybe, you once did.
Experiencing this can be really discouraging.
You might think, well, maybe you're not good enough. Maybe
if you were a better Christian and had more time to
be, like, on your face before the Lord for three hours
a day, or something. Maybe you just don't
know how to pray right, after all. And you might be
tempted into, you know, waiting it out,
or seeing if there's an altar call on Sunday
and the preacher lays his hands on you, or
you wait for some sort of revival to get
that close relationship back with the Lord. But you don't
have to wait until that revival service or the
altar call, or for a preacher to put his hands
on you and pray over you. You probably
already know the answer to your problem.
See, sometimes, we can hide things in our hearts
that we're not 100% conscious of. Take
a minute to sit down with a physical Bible, so you're
not distracted by
any apps or anything else like that
on a digital device, and
start trying to pray. And see what it is
that's withholding you. See, God isn't
withholding Himself from you. I'm sure that you've heard
of a relationship with
Christ being compared to just any other
relationship with people. You have to communicate.
You have to care, and you have to love. See, the thing about
these relationships, though, is that a lot of times, people
have a fear of committing to those things. They're afraid
of what's going to happen if they let themselves commit
to loving someone. What's going to happen - it's this fear
that can come to this kind of idea of committing yourself
to someone. And that issue can still happen
with you and Christ. So, what happens?
What happens if you get that deep in prayer?
What is it that scares you? What's holding you
back? See, for me, sometimes, it's
this wrong view of God. Thinking that He's gonna
make me do something. He's gonna make me
do this, or He's gonna take something from me.
Sometimes the thing I'm afraid of Him taking away is even unforgiveness.
Sometimes, I think I have a justified
unforgiveness in my heart because that person did me wrong,
and if I get this deep in the Spirit,
God's gonna make me forgive that person. So, sometimes
we can be holding something we don't know
really, about, back in our
hearts because we're afraid that God's gonna "make us"
do something. What is it that we're afraid of?
What is it that we're afraid of letting go
that's stopping us from really letting ourselves get
into that place. Some people think, you know, I'm not good enough
to be here in this place with God. You know,
I did these things and it was against God's Word, or
I was supposed to do X, Y, and Z. Or
I had made this commitment and I broke it, and I don't-
I'm not worthy to come to this place with God. So,
sometimes we have these little things that are holding us back. So, it's actually
us, with something hidden in our hearts, that's holding
us back from having that really close relationship with God.
So, hopefully, you know what that thing is. Hopefully,
you're at least thinking on it. Maybe you sat down
in prayer and found it. Whatever that
thing is, now you have a choice. Are you gonna
hold onto the thing that's holding you back, that you're afraid of
letting God see, letting Him touch, letting Him get rid of?
Are you going to hold on to that? Or, are you going to let it go?
Let God work in you. Let God work on ya.
Trust Him. Trust that He's still going to love you
even when He "sees" that thing.
Even when you let go. Even when it feels like you're
vulnerable.
Trust Him. Let Him be your protector. Because sometimes,
we do that to ourselves. For me, the whole unforgiveness thing,
it's almost like, I won't forgive them, and then I'll
protect myself from being hurt again.
But that's me not trusting God to be my protector.
And then holding onto this sinful thing
because I think I have to protect myself because I don't trust God enough
to do that. So, what is that thing? That's
your decision. Are you going to let it go? Are you going to
let your relationship with God progress
by trusting Him, and let Him be your protector. Let Him know that
you know that your ways and your thoughts
are lower than His ways and His thoughts. He knows
what's going on. Even when we don't always. So, hopefully, this
video helps you if you feel like you're not able
to get anywhere with prayer. Hopefully these tips, or this, you know,
information helped you out. If you like this video,
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Crochet Frog Tutorial - How to make a Crochet Frog Applique - Duration: 35:16.
Hello everyone, thank you for joining me, I'm Kerri. Today I'll be showing you how
to crochet this frog. Crocheted in 8 ply wool, the size is 10 centimeters by 9
centimeters or 4 inches by 3 and a half inches. This small frog, crocheted in 4
ply crochet cotton, is 6.5 centimeters by 6 centimeters, or 2.5
inches by 2.25 inches.
I'll be using 8 ply wool today, which is light worsted in the US and double knit
in the UK. I've got green as my main color and white and black for the eyes.
I've got a 2.5 millimeter crochet hook. I've got scissors, a darning needle to
weave in the ends and sewing thread and a needle to stitch the frog together. I'm going to
start with the body, so using my green I make a magic loop. I put my hook on my
yarn, I bring the short end over the top of the hook and then take my long end
over the short end to make a circle and then I put my yarn around the hook and
bring the loop on my hook through the circle, and that's a magic loop. Then I
start with 2 chain and then work 15 double crochet into my circle. A double
crochet is called a treble in the UK. For a double crochet I put my yarn around
the hook, put my hook in through the circle, through the front. Yarn around the
hook and bring a loop back through the circle. Yarn around my hook and take my
hook with the yarn through 2 loops, yarn around my hook, hook with the yarn
through the other 2 loops. So yarn around the hook, hook in through the
circle and pick up a loop. Yarn around the hook, through 2 loops, yarn around
the hook and through 2 loops. I've got 2 double crochet, I need 13 more.
Now I've got my 15 double crochet into my circle. Now I'm going to pull my
circle tight, so I take hold of the tail and just ease it in as tight as I can
and then I slip stitch in the top of the first stitch, so this stitch here. I put
my hook in through the stitch and then bring a loop back through the stitch and
then through the loop on my hook. And that's the first row done. For row 2 I
start with 2 chain and work 1 double crochet in the same place as the chain,
so in there. Now I'm going to work 2 double crochet into each stitch right
around. So I work 2 double crochet into this stitch. That just increases the
circle and then another 2 double crochet into this next stitch and I'll
repeat that all the way around. So I'll continue around row 2 and I'll meet
you near the end of the row. At the end of the row we slip stitch in the top of
the first stitch, so it's this stitch here just above the 2 chain. For row
3 we work 1 chain and work a single crochet in the same stitch as the
chain. A single crochet is called a double crochet in the UK. For a single
crochet we put our hook into the stitch and bring through a loop. Yarn around the
hook and take it through both loops. Then we work a single crochet into each of
the next 2 stitches.
And 2 single crochet into the following stitch and we'll repeat that right
around the row. So 1 single crochet into each of the next 2 stitches and
2 single crochet into the following stitch. So I'll work around this row and
I'll meet you at the end. At the end of the row we slip stitch in the top of the
first stitch and fasten off.
And that's the body done. I'll do the head now. I start with 9 chain.
I miss the first 2 chain and work 3 double crochet in the third chain from
the hook.
I work 1 double crochet into the next stitch and then 1 treble into each of
the following 3 stitches. A treble is called a double treble in the UK. For
a treble we put our yarn around the hook twice. Our hook into the stitch and bring
through a loop. Yarn around the hook take it through 2 loops, yarn around the hook,
take it through the next 2 loops and yarn around the hook and take it through
the last 2 loops. So we need 2 more of those.
Then we work a double crochet into the next stitch and then 6 double crochet
into our last stitch.
Now we're going to work into this loop at the back of the chain and we'll work
1 double crochet into each loop to the last loop.
And then into the back of the last chain we work 3 double crochet
and then we join with a slip stitch into the top of the first stitch, so that
stitch there. And that's the first row of the head done. For row 2 we start with
1 chain and work a half double crochet in the same stitch as the chain. A half
double crochet is called a half treble in the UK. For a half double crochet we
put our yarn around the hook. Our hook into the stitch and bring through a loop. Yarn
around the hook and take our hook and yarn through all the loops. Now we need 2
half double crochet into the next stitch. So yarn around our hook, our hook into the
stitch and bring up a loop. Yarn around the hook and take our hook and yarn
through all 3 loops and we need 1 more half double crochet into that
stitch. Now we work 1 double crochet into each of the next 2 stitches.
And next we work 1 treble into each of the following 3 stitches.
And then 1 double crochet into each of the next 2 stitches.
Next we work 2 half double crochet into each of the following 5 stitches.
Then we work 1 single crochet into each of the next 6 stitches.
And then we work 2 half double crochet into each remaining stitch
and then slip stitch into the top of the first stitch and fasten off.
And that's the head done. For the outer eyes, the parts, green part behind the
eyes we start with a magic loop and work 2 chain and work 15 double crochet into
our circle.
We pull the circle tight and slip stitch into the top of the first stitch
and fasten off.
And we'll need another 1, so make a magic loop, work 2 chain and 15 double
crochet into the circle.
We pull the circle tight and slip stitch into the top of the first stitch and
fasten off.
For the middle eye piece, this white piece here, I make magic loop and work 1
chain and 10 half double crochet into my circle.
I pull the circle tight and slip stitch in the top of the first stitch and fasten
off.
And I'll need another 1. So I make a magic loop, work 1 chain and 10 half
double crochet into my circle.
Pull the circle tight and slip stitch in the top of the first stitch and fasten
off.
I'll need to pull that one a bit tighter, but my hands aren't working very well
today. For the inner eye, the black part. I make a magic loop and work 1 chain and
4 single crochet into my circle.
I pull the circle tight and slip stitch in the top of the first stitch
and fasten off.
And I'll need another 1 the same. So make a magic loop and work 1 chain and
4 single crochet into the circle. Pull the circle tight and slip stitch into the
top of the first stitch and fasten off.
For the legs, using our green we work 9 chain.
They're worked the same as the first row of the head. We work 3 double crochet
into the third chain from the hook.
1 double crochet into the next stitch and then 1 treble into each of the
following 3 stitches. For the treble we put our yarn around our hook twice at
the beginning of the stitch. So 1 treble into each of the following 3
stitches.
1 double crochet into the next stitch
and then 6 double crochet into our last stitch.
Now we work 1 double crochet into each of the back of the chain until the
last chain.
And into the back of the last chain we work 3 double crochet.
And then we slip stitch into the top of the first stitch and fasten off.
The other leg is worked the same. We start with 9 chain.
We work 3 double crochet into the third chain from the hook.
1 double crochet into the next chain
and then 1 treble into each of the following 3 stitches.
1 double crochet into the next stitch and 6 double crochet into our last
stitch.
And then 1 double crochet into the back of each chain to the last chain.
And 3 double crochet into the back of the last chain.
Slip stitch into the top of the first stitch and fasten off.
For the toes, for the first 1 we start at the end stitch. We've got 2 stitches
that are really on the end, so the 1 on the left hand side we'll join our yarn
and work 3 chain and 1 double crochet in the same stitch as our chain
and then work 3 chain and slip stitch into the same stitch as our
double crochet. And that's the first toe done. We've got to work 2 more toes. So
we slip stitch into the next stitch and work 3 chain. A double crochet in the
same place as the chain. 3 chain and slip stitch into that same stitch as the
double crochet and slip stitch into the next stitch and work another toe of
3 chain, 1 double crochet in the same stitch and 3 chain and slip
stitch into the same stitch
and fasten off.
Now that's the first toes done. For the second lot of toes we start, we've got our
center stitch, the right center stitch and then we go back to the second back
one, so just in there and we work the toes the same. So we start with 3
chain, a double crochet in the same place as the chain. 3 chain and slip
stitch into the same stitch as our double crochet and slip stitch into the
next stitch and then we'd work 2 more toes the same as we've been working
and we fasten off.
So for 1 foot the toes are going down the opposite side to the other. Now
that's all the crocheting done. I'll just weave in the ends and I'll be
back and we'll put it together. Now here's all my pieces. The first things
I'll do is embroider on the mouth. The bottom is the flat end, so I embroider
the mouth down that way and I'll attach the inner eyes to the middle eyes, just
in the middle there. Now the mouth is on and the eyes are attached. The next thing I
do is attach the head to the body, just
about halfway between the end of row 1 and the end of row 2, so just across
there. Now the heads on, next I attach the outer eyes at the back of the head to
about halfway up the circle. You don't want them to stick right up, so about
halfway and nearly meeting in the middle of the head, just like that. Next we
attach the eyes, you need to have a little bit of green showing around the
edges, but just in like that and the legs go just in either side sticking out
quite away like that. So I'll attach them and I'll be back to
show you the finished frog. And there's the finished frog. If you liked my video
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♫ When we kissed ♫
♫ Picking up the stars ♫
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♫ And your eyes always told me to stay ♫
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♫ But you won't let me dap right now ♫
♫ You know i want you ♫
♫ I know you shoot me down ♫
♫ What are we waiting for? ♫
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♫ All of this backing for ♫
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♫ You know all we have is now ♫
♫ I know i won't let you down ♫
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♫ Baby it's you and that that I'm missing ♫
♫ Too many lonely nights and lonely days ♫
♫ But my feelings won't seem to fade ♫
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What Is The City of London Corporation? - Duration: 12:20.
As historian Niall Ferguson writes in his 2011
book, "Civilization: The West and the Rest", the city of London was an outback in the 15th
century compared to some of China's great cities.
Then with international trading led by The British East India Company money flooded in,
as did people of different nationalities.
The population is estimated to have been 50,000 in 1530 and then in 1605 it was around 225,000
people.
Throughout the industrial revolution London became the center of the world and from around
1825 to 1925 it had the largest population of any city on Earth.
The British Empire faded, but London has always been a powerhouse culturally, but also economically.
According to the Global Financial Centers Index, London is still the largest financial
center in the world- but what is this great city truly about?
Welcome to this episode of the Infographics Show, What is the city of London corporation?
It may come as a surprise to some of you that London is not just a city but also a corporation.
Those that don't know are probably thinking right now what is this corporation?
Does it function like the Microsoft Corporation?
Does it hire and fire and post annual profits?
Does it have a main headquarters and a CEO?
Let's find out.
So, the Corporation of London or in legal terms the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens
of the City of London, is the governing body of London's financial district which is
sometimes referred to as the "Square Mile."
Within that mile around 8,000 live, although around 400,000 people commute into that area
for work every day, according to the corporation's own website.
London is divided into 33 areas, or boroughs, and this area is one of them.
On its website the corporation is perhaps extremely vague when it answers the question
concerning what it is responsible for.
The answer it gives is, "Providing services for residents (and City businesses) in the
Square Mile, but not those of other boroughs."
And yep, you can apply for a job in this corporation, just like any other.
It has bosses in a sort of way and lots of staff.
But let's rewind a little.
We have to go back a long way when we look at how this corporation began.
In fact, it's often called the "world's oldest continuously-elected democracy and
predates Parliament."
The city of London school website writes, "The Corporation's structure includes the
Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, the Court of Common Council, and the Freemen and Livery
of the City.
The City of London developed a unique form of government which led to the system of parliamentary
government at local and national level."
We'll make a long story short here.
2,000 years ago, the Romans founded a trading post in what is now southern England and they
called it Londinium.
They did what they did best and built roads, walls, bridges, and made this place an excellent
hub of trading.
For hundreds of years the city endured and when William the Conqueror arrived in the
11th century he quite liked it, too.
He created the city of London and gave Londoners their privileges and rights so long as they
accepted him as King.
Done deal.
He built towers around the place, including the Tower of London, and fortified the rest
of London.
The city of London was a special old place, and this started a kind of agreement that
it should remain a power unto itself.
Later monarchs to some extent feared this powerful city and they created Westminster,
which is west of the city of London.
You then had two cities.
The city of London still had a lot of freedom, which, according to one website, was "an
essential requirement for all who wished to carry on business and prosper in trade within
the Square Mile."
Freemen there could do their business not impinged by outside influence.
It was in 1191 that the Corporation announced itself as a commune, only one rung on the
ladder below the sovereign.
It judged itself, it was in a way a law unto itself.
It became so powerful that in 1632 the crown asked if the corporation might extend its
privileges to other areas of London, but it refused.
These privileges we are talking about were mainly related to laws.
As more people flooded into London, many of them refuges from the poorer Midlands and
the North, the corporation was asked if it might extend its boundaries.
In 1637 it rebuffed that proposal, and this became known as "The Great Refusal".
It's when the corporation of London in some ways turned its back on the rest of London
and that's why people sometimes talk about "A Tale of Two Cities."
One historian writes, "From that point on the people of London lacked any democratic
unitary municipal authority.
Business and, most particularly, finance, in contrast, had the most ancient political
institution in the kingdom at their disposal."
There were attempts to reform this gilded city, but the corporation stayed.
In the 18th century London was flourishing, but it was the corporation that really flourished,
bolstered by free trade.
And it went against the monarchy at times, making it a kind of rogue entity in England.
It supported George Washington and the American revolution, even sending over men to fight
for American independence and also sending over lots of money – something it wasn't
short of.
This was pretty much treason, but it got away with it.
The corporation was untouchable.
Soon Parliament replaced the Crown as the highest power and democracy supplanted the
Divine Right of Kings, but still the Corporation of London remained a power unto itself, and
the state didn't want to make it subject to its practices and laws.
The privileges and all the assets the corporation remained in-tact.
It worked for itself, not exactly always serving the people of Britain.
This of course has inspired a lot of criticism, and that criticism we hear today.
Political writer George Monbiot offers us this stark line when talking about the Corporation
of London: "It's the dark heart of Britain, the place where democracy goes to die, immensely
powerful, equally unaccountable."
He then adds that it's doubtful even one in ten Brits knows it exists.
Are any Brits nodding their head right now?
Monbiot explains that there are 25 electoral wards in the Square Mile area, but only four
of them contain the 9,000 (we read 8,000 before) people that can vote.
All the other votes are not people, they are business, mainly banks and finance companies.
And no, it's not the workers inside the businesses that vote, it's the bosses.
The bigger the company, the more votes it gets.
This is what is known as a Plutocracy.
So, even though the corporation calls itself a democracy, it's really just an entity
ruled by the most rich and powerful.
It gets stranger, though, and that's why there are tons of conspiracy theories about
this corporation.
So, there are different layers of elected people.
They are the common councilmen, the aldermen, the sheriffs and the Lord Mayor.
To get into any of these positions you must be a freeman.
What the hell is a freeman?
The corporation's own website writes, "The medieval term 'freeman' meant someone who
was not the property of a feudal lord but enjoyed privileges such as the right to earn
money and own land.
Town dwellers who were protected by the charter of their town or city were often free – hence
the term 'freedom' of the City."
Nowadays if you want to apply to become a freeman, you must either show exceptional
servitude, inherit the title or be nominated by a Livery company…hmm, and what exactly
is a livery company?
They came out of medieval guilds, developed into trading and crafts companies and are
now basically just powerful entities that embrace trade and commerce.
There are 110 of them in London.
They have lavish dinner parties and mostly speak in a kind of archaic posh English that
is sometimes mocked by the rest of the country.
At the head of the table you might find the Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths, Lord Sutherland
of Houndwood.
You get the picture, this is ancient, ritualistic England, a kind of Eyes Wide Shut scenario
to those who might also believe the Queen is a lizard.
It's definitely a bit anachronistic and strange to most.
So, to become a freeman you must also get approval by an alderman, who has already gotten
approval from a livery company.
If you want to become the Lord Mayor, you must have gotten approval from everyone.
You must also give a lot of money away, which basically means you need to be very, very
rich to get that position.
As Monbiot says, it's all about being in what the Brits call an "Old Boys Network",
which is a derogatory term meaning upper-class men that have made connections with other
posh men in expensive schools and those connections are carried into adulthood.
These are the people that run the corporation of London.
With money as their lodestar it's not surprising this network isn't always playing a straight
game, after all, they were partly behind the financial crisis.
Even after that crisis, the Lord Mayor's job is partly to be an advocate for liberalization.
That means deregulation.
This can encourage corruption.
That's why the corporation is so often criticized.
In the documentary "The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire" the creators take a dim view
of the Corporation of London, saying that after the empire collapsed it was this corporation
that still pulled the strings in the world's finance sectors.
And it wasn't always ethical.
This was corroborated in the book, Treasure Islands, which says that because the corporation
is a law unto itself, it can virtually get away with anything.
The government is sometimes powerless to intervene.
What goes on in the corporation stays in the corporation.
Monbiot writes, "The City has exploited this remarkable position to establish itself
as a kind of offshore state, a secrecy jurisdiction which controls the network of tax havens housed
in the UK's crown dependencies and overseas territories."
We're talking about billions and billions of dollars, money laundered through the corporation
with absolute impunity.
That's what the critics tell us anyway.
The documentary we just mentioned says this cash isn't just the money of oligarchs,
but also drug barons, gangsters, and sometimes money from African despots who have mined
their poor countries' resources but have no intention of putting the money back into
their country.
All this aided and abetted by this superpower within a square mile of London.
We might add that a lot of cash that should have been taxable could have gone back in
Great Britain, which some critics say is a reason some of the country's poorer areas
look almost third world.
The author of Treasure Islands writes about this, saying the relationship between offshore
islands such as the Cayman Islands and the corporation can't be understated in terms
of how important it is for those involved and how it is detrimental to the British people.
"This relationship is of massive, almost transcendental importance for the UK," he
said.
It's not that the City of London Corporation is directly an offshore business, it's just
the special rules it works under allow it to direct money to tax havens.
Will it change?
One critic wrote, "I have observed British officials blocking attempts to strengthen
international cooperation on tax information exchange by keeping discussion on offshore
trusts off the agenda.
This happened as recently as 2015."
It's not just islands far away, either.
Most people know large companies can find a tax haven next door on the islands of the
Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
The Occupied Times writes that these three islands, "provided net financing to UK banks
of a staggering $332.5 billion in the second quarter of 2009."
It's not exactly secret, either.
You can read on the Jersey Finance website that it provides services for, "corporate
treasurers, institutional bankers and treasury specialists, fund promoters, brokers and other
corporate financiers, Jersey represents an extension of the City of London."
According to critics hundreds of billions of dollars of cash is not getting taxed, while
the Brits complain about late trains, NHS cutbacks and dole scroungers.
We'll leave you with this line from Treasure Islands:
"'There is nothing we can do' is the typical response to those who say that the
UK cracks down on the criminality, abuse and corruption run out of these places.
And behind it all lies the City of London, anxious to preserve its access to the world's
dirty money."
So, what do you think about this?
Can you add to the story?
Let us know in the comments.
Also, be sure to check out our other video Oldest Companies That Still Exist.
Thanks for watching, and as always, don't forget to like, share and subscribe.
See you next time.
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Is retail dying? | CNBC Explains - Duration: 6:26.There's nothing quite like the adrenaline rush of a shopping spree.
But for many of us, that no longer means walking around shopping malls.
It means shopping online.
That's one reason why experts are saying we're in the beginning stages of a retail apocalypse.
But are we?
You've probably heard about the challenges brick and mortar stores are facing
like Toys R Us, which is closing about 900 of its stores in the U.S. and U.K.
And there's American retail icon Sears.
It pioneered ordering by catalogue and was seen as the Amazon of its time.
Sears had survived for 132 years before it filed for bankruptcy in 2018, closing more than 100 stores.
It's not just a few big retailers.
In just three years we've seen a wave of retailers go bankrupt.
And in 2017, retail store closures in the United States hit a record high.
But it's not just the United States.
Some places like Hong Kong, Singapore and Britain have also been hit by slow retail sales.
Almost 6,000 stores closed in Britain last year - that's 16 stores a day.
Those figures may sound like doomsday for retailers, but don't write them off yet.
There's a silver lining - people love online shopping.
This year, Cyber Monday became the largest online shopping day in U.S history,
with online sales reaching $7.9 billion in one day, while shoppers spent $6.2 billion on Black Friday.
Still, those figures were eclipsed by those of a one-day shopping event in China.
Alibaba's Singles Day, which falls on November 11, is China's biggest shopping event.
This year, it made a staggering $30.8 billion in 24 hours.
China is the largest e-commerce market in the world.
The U.S. comes in at number two and the rest of the world makes up about a third of global online sales.
But how large is the e-commerce market exactly?
Well, for all of 2017, American consumers spent a whopping $453 billion online.
That sounds like a lot, but Chinese consumers spent more than twice of that, totalling more than $1 trillion.
The spectacular e-commerce figures are the reason why many think physical retail is dying out.
But let's take a closer look at the story behind the numbers.
Online retail sales have been growing as a proportion of total sales in China, as well as in the United States.
Globally, there's a huge appetite for shopping with the click of your mouse.
Online sales in Europe are growing 10 times faster than brick and mortar retail,
while Southeast Asia's e-commerce growth is skyrocketing, doubling from 2017 to 2018.
But here's cause for pause.
The explosive growth of online sales is moderating in China, while it's keeping steady in the United States.
So we may hear about big household names closing a large number of stores,
but overall, retail sales in the United States and China continue to grow steadily.
Here's another interesting trend.
Online retailers are going from clicks to bricks.
Amazon, for instance, has opened about 20 bookstores,
at least six Amazon Go convenience stores, as well as its 4-star store.
You guessed it - it's a store that only stocks products rated four stars and above on the Amazon website.
Alibaba is China's answer to Amazon, and it owns Taobao, China's largest shopping website.
I'm here at Alibaba's first Taobao store in Singapore.
Taobao is known for its enormous catalog, selling pretty much anything you could possibly imagine.
But its store in Singapore carries only a selection of some of its coolest items.
Would you like a chicken wing pillow?
Well you can't quite bring it home, but you can scan the QR code and order it online.
At least you know exactly what you're getting.
Alibaba is keen on integrating online and offline retail.
To drive up hype for Singles Day, it got 200,000 stores across China to participate.
Shoppers could try on make-up testing mirrors and get freebies through their mobile phones.
Its biggest bet on physical at the moment?
That would be its Hema supermarkets, of which there are about 60 in China.
Shoppers can go to Hema to get seafood served by robots,
or they can order at Hema online and get groceries delivered in 30 minutes.
Online retailers seem to be absolutely pummelling the competition.
So why are Alibaba and Amazon bothering to open physical stores?
First of all, while sales from their brick and mortar stores may not quite be as mind-boggling as their online
figures, there is evidence that shoppers who buy in-store end up purchasing more from their online stores.
And here's what's even more valuable - the data.
Opening physical stores provides tech giants with even more data about shopping behavior, likely
helping Alibaba and Amazon get even better at making irresistible offers to both online and offline shoppers.
Mall operators and more traditional retailers also want to get in on the action.
Asian real estate company Capitaland brought in Taobao for its mall in Singapore,
and it will also open the country's first online-and-offline mall,
which will include robots, automation and facial recognition technology.
Despite their love for online shopping, many customers still want to try on products in store.
More importantly, they want to buy.
So it's up to retailers if they want to bring on the retail revolution, or face the apocalypse.
Hi everyone, it's Xin En!
Thanks for watching.
If you want to check out more of our CNBC videos, click here.
As usual, please feel free to leave any future suggestions for videos in our comments section.
That's all for now, don't forget to subscribe, see you next time!
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The Gift of Prophecy - Duration: 2:53.The gift of prophecy - here we go, this is gonna be deep, you ready? You should write
this down: it's a gift. It's a gift. And the Greek word gift there means a
favour which is received without any merit out of its own.
In other words, you don't get the gift of prophecy, or any gift
from God actually, you don't get it because you earned it,
that's why it's called a gift and not an award. Which means you could move in
signs and wonders and miracles and have terrible character. I didn't say you
should, I just said you could. You can, why? Because you get the gift of prophecy by
what? Asking for it. It has no merit, in other words, you didn't do anything
to get it except for you asked for it.
The fruits of the Spirit - love, joy, peace, patience, and the others that I almost remember,
I remember this one though: self-control is in there. The fruit of the Spirit is a
sign that you actually have a relationship with the Spirit, it's the
fruit that you have a relationship with the Spirit. Now if you go over to the prayer
house and pray for three hours and come back grumpy, I don't know who you talked to,
because part of the fruit - I'm very serious -
I know people who quote "spend hours with God" and have the worst attitude, I'm like
I don't know who you've been talking to but the fruit of the Spirit is love, JOY,
peace, patience, and when you come back grumpy and grouchy and you
have no patience for people, and you're not kind, and you're like, I love Jesus
I'm like, dude I don't know who you're speaking to over there, but if I were you
I'd ask for someone else. I just want to say this, you know this is a little
parenthesis, but your relationship with God needs to benefit the people you know.
You'll make evangelism a lot easier if you loving God helps you to love them.
And by the way, I think it's why putting loving God is the first
commandment and loving people is second, because I don't think you can love
people very well till you love God, but once you love God loving people is pretty easy.
So you can prophesy, do miracles, all this kind of stuff, and what
did Jesus say to the guy who came to Him in the last days, there'll be false
prophets and they'll say, "Didn't we do miracles, didn't we prophesy in your name,
didn't we cast out demons?" And what's His point?
"I never," What? "Knew you." So can we agree that the gifts of the Spirit do not mean
that you have a great relationship with God? They just mean you asked for something
and Jesus gave it to you.
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Реакция на Рем Дигга - Бадаландабад при уч. Miyagi - Duration: 8:06. For more infomation >> Реакция на Рем Дигга - Бадаландабад при уч. Miyagi - Duration: 8:06. -------------------------------------------
REBEL PARKS - MONOCHROME (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) https://rebelparks.com/ - Duration: 5:10.( SPINNING FINGER GLASS )
( AMBIENT SEA WAVES AGAINST ROCKS )
♪ ( "MONOCHROME" ELECTRIC GUITAR INTRO ) ♪
♪ I FEEL THE DARK INSIDE MY OWN DESPAIR ♪
♪ AND I HAVE TO BREATH YOU OUT TO CATCH YOUR FLARE ♪
♪ NO NO NO ♪
♪ I DON´T WANT TO LET YOU GO NOW ♪
♪ PUNCH A HOLE IN MY CELLOPHANE ♪
♪ CAUSE I GOTTA BLOW MY LOW HOW? ♪
♪ COLOR MY SOUL AGAIN ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH JUST HOLD ON ♪
♪ BE MY RAINBOW FLY ME HOME ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH WONDERLAND SWAN ♪
♪ I WILL DEFEAT THE MONOCHROME ♪
♪ DON´T TRY TO SUCK ME IN ♪
♪ CAUSE I´M A GHOST ♪
♪ LIKE SOMEONE YOU COULD MEET ♪
♪ BUT NEVER HOST ♪
♪ SO GO GO ♪
♪ SOMEWHERE FAR FROM HERE AND PRAY ♪
♪ I´M FIGHTING MY HURRICANE ♪
♪ AND SOMEDAY INSIDE THE EYE WE MAY ♪
♪ BE AS ONE AGAIN ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH JUST HOLD ON ♪
♪ BE MY RAINBOW FLY ME HOME ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH WONDERLAND SWAN ♪
♪ I WILL DEFEAT THE MONOCHROME ♪
♪ ( INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE ) ♪
♪ A BROKEN DREAM A SHADY HOME ♪
♪ MY GENERATION IN MONOCHROME ♪
♪ LOWER HIGHS HIGHER LOWS ♪
♪ I NEVER PLAYED BY A FIRE HOSE ♪
♪ IF I DIE TODAY I´D BE REBORN ♪
♪ AS A ZOMBIE TALE FOR KIDS TO SCORN ♪
♪ SO SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I FLOW ♪
♪ WITH A SYSTEM MADE TO PLOUGH ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH JUST HOLD ON ♪
♪ BE MY RAINBOW FLY ME HOME ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH WONDERLAND SWAN ♪
♪ I WILL DEFEAT THE MONOCHROME ♪
♪ JUST WAIT ♪
♪ JUST WAIT ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH ♪
♪ JUST WAIT ♪
♪ FAITH ♪
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11月30日钟汉良44岁生日，一起送祝福吧！ - Duration: 7:05. For more infomation >> 11月30日钟汉良44岁生日，一起送祝福吧！ - Duration: 7:05. -------------------------------------------
สื่อเผย แมนฯ ยูไนเต็ด มีข้อได้เปรียบเหนือ ลิเวอร์พูล หากต้องการสอย พูลิซิช - Duration: 1:46. For more infomation >> สื่อเผย แมนฯ ยูไนเต็ด มีข้อได้เปรียบเหนือ ลิเวอร์พูล หากต้องการสอย พูลิซิช - Duration: 1:46. -------------------------------------------
谢霆锋礼貌回应张柏芝第三胎事件！孩子的爸爸究竟是谁？ - Duration: 6:05. For more infomation >> 谢霆锋礼貌回应张柏芝第三胎事件！孩子的爸爸究竟是谁？ - Duration: 6:05. -------------------------------------------
[Official Audio] 박진영(J.Y. Park) - 날 떠나지마(Don't Leave Me) - Duration: 4:18.
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Wedding Nails Art with Laces - Duration: 8:28.
hello this is a highly requested video with Bridal design coming up I will be
using nude color Kodi 69 white gel paint by Nailico
cuticle defender by dance legend stamping plate with different laces
design scrapper by mini mani moo and stamper by unknown brand matte
topcoat by vogue nails and to add some accents thin natural brush zero
I already shaped the nails did some dry manicure and prep remove this shine next
step is always the hydrator I apply it on all nails and if a client has some
length do not forget to clean it underneath as well
next step is base coat I'm using Kupa soak off base coat I always apply a very thin
layer first cure it for 30 seconds in LED and then I apply another thin coat
and add some structure when I'm doing ailment or oval shape I always use this
technique because I think oval nails look so much better if you add some
structure and apex on top they will not look as flat and also they will not
break and last longer
next step applying color I'm using Kodi 69 and this is one of my favorite nude
colors even though it is half transparent you can see it this is how
the one coat application looks like I still like it because it's very natural
so with this design I think it really depends on you and on the bride
depending on the color of her flowers and dress you can use cooler tones you
can use warmer beige tones I think it will look fabulous on any background
including pastel ones light violet light blue light pink then I cure the first
layer for 30 seconds in LED and apply the second one because with only one
code the color is still too transparent but with two colors you can barely see
the natural nail free edge but it already looks intense enough and you
will see at the end this color will look just fabulous when working with the nude
colors it is very important to not apply it too thick especially on the free edge
when capping the free edge your brush should be almost dried and you should
use a very light touch to carefully cap it then cure the second layer for 30
seconds and now it is time to protect the cuticle I will be using cuticle
defender and this why by events legend has this green color and it looks kind
of weird to me but at least we can easily see it this is what I like about
it because I used White's cuticle defenders before and when they're dry
they become transparent and it's tricky because you cannot see them anymore
so apply it all around the cuticles and on the sidewalls and then you need to
wait about five minutes it will be dry and our cuticles will always stay clean
apply it on all ten nails and then let's take this taping plate I apply the white
gel paint with the metallic spatula you need to apply it only at the beginning
of the design then I will be using scrapper by mini mani
or you can use any business card and slide roll it to the Stamper and on the
nail and yes here we go you can see a small gap near the cuticle so I take the
brush and carefully add this lines so nobody can tell that we were using
stamping now I will carefully remove the cuticle defender now it's like a rubber
and it can be easily removed and if you accidentally do not apply it too close
near the cuticle you can also clean the gel right now before curing it is very
important to clean it now because unlike regular nail polish it's not so easy to
remove from the skin then cure it for 30 seconds and I continue working so we
decided to use different patterns on different nails we chose this one for
the pinky and I'm also adding some accents on the missing parts so the
design will cover the entire nail if you notice that some part are not as good
after stamping you can always fix it with a brush do not forget this brush is
a great tool and our friend but if it didn't work at all feel free to clean it
and stamp again almost forgot before stamping do not forget to remove the
sticky layer and you can also buff the surface now we're finished and we
decided to use matte top coat to seal the design I tried it both ways with a
glossy top coat it looks good as well but with a matte top coat it looks not
just like traditional laces now when I'm applying matte top coat and it's not
cured yet you can see how it will look when it's glossy and I think it's good
but to me is just more traditional with the matte it gives this beautiful soft
aged I also think that you can use some beautiful dust tones like dust pink dust
blue dust purple underneath and it will also look great when applying matte
top coat to remember that you can not leave any spots without the topcoat
because they can be easily seen and they will be the only one
shining so do not forget to apply it all over as close to the cuticle as possible
and carefully seal the edges on all nails after that cure it for one minute
in LED and the matte topcoat I am using requires removing the sticky
layer so I clean all the nails and now they are so matte I really enjoyed this
look honestly we first thought that we will do laces on couple nails but then
we just couldn't stop and I think it looks good because just one lace will be
boring right so this is the final look let me guys
know what do you think would you suggest this design to some bride thank you so
much for watching if this is your first time on my channel consider subscribing
as new tutorials are coming up every week see you in my next video bye bye
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Children Of Men Review - Duration: 1:21.
I'm an idiot that reviews movies and today I'll be reviewing Children of Men.
In this movie, women stop having babies and everything goes to shit:
Luckily, we have a wholesome cast of characters to save us in our hour of need.
There's our JRPG protagonist Theo who almost matches me in terms of optimism:
Micheal Caine who completely matches me in terms of music tastes:
A strange man who talks about himself in third person:
And Kee, the Neo of this movie.
Among a few others.
We also have a terrorist group called the fishes, led by Julianna Moore, who are on
the one hundred and 79th level of woke:
The dialogue is excellent and I enjoy the interactions between the characters:
The story is well paced, alternating between tense actiony scenes and slower more emotional
moments that give the characters time to reflect.
All that being said, the directing and cinematography are definitely the best thing about the movie.
There are several one-shot sequences that to put it in scientific terms, are really
really really great.
The ending is also pretty emotional.
I'm not crying you're crying.
As you can probably tell, I like the movie alot but I do have a few nitpicks.
The character of Luke, played by Chiewetal Ejofotor, is one note and the attempts to
flesh him out don't work.
And I also don't like the line delivery in this scene:
But, if I had to rate the movie, I'd give it 91 hugh Laurie's out of 100 Micheal Scott's.
I'm gonna go play Spyro.
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Ashley Tisdale Tells Us About Her First Times - Duration: 4:01.
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EPA Director Blames Obama For Climate Assessment Warnings - Duration: 4:38.
So last Friday we had the a quadrennial national climate assessment come out from the Trump
administration and it gave us dire warnings about the future of the United States, the
future of the planet, if we continue to not act on the issue of climate change.
Well the Trump administration isn't very happy about it.
They don't believe the report.
Donald Trump is skeptical of it, and so our members of his cabinet, specifically acting
EPA director, Andrew Wheeler, Wheeler during conversation with the Washington Post this
week said that he thinks the Obama administration is behind the release of this climate assessments
showing how horrible things are here in the United States and how much worse they're going
to get.
Andrew Wheeler, the acting head of the EPA, who is actually now been nominated to run
the EPA fulltime blams Obama for the release of this paper that came out after Trump had
been president for nearly two full years.
Somehow it's Obama's fault just like everything else in the world and Republican land, right?
It's either Obama or Hillary and Hillary didn't touch the climate assessment.
So I guess it has to be Obama.
Here's Wheeler's reasoning as to why it was Obama's fault and then we'll get into why
this guy is an absolute idiot and a liar.
This quadrennial report comes out every four years, so Trump's only been in office for
a little under two, so according to the wheel or most of it was done.
All of it was done actually, according to him when the Obama Administration was an office
and he believes that they conspired to put together a list of worst case scenarios so
that when it was released, when the other administration took power, it would make them
look bad.
So Wheeler has hatched this new conspiracy theory that Obama two years before the election
even took place, but we didn't even know who the nominee is.
We're going to be, but Obama conspired with the EPA to make this report horrible so that
whoever the next president was was going to be screwed and maybe the next president could
have been Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
Obama didn't care because he just wanted to make somebody else look bad.
I'm.
Here's the thing about Wheeler's theory.
It's not true.
The report was not completed before Donald Trump came into office.
A climate scientists, uh, specifically, uh, Dr Katharine Hayhoe has come forward and said,
look, I, I wrote chapter two of this and that was in November of 2017.
We were still doing work on this and putting the assessment together after Trump had been
sworn in as president and in fact many, many, many, many, many months after that had happened.
So just this one, climate scientists has already blown a hole in Wheelers entire conspiracy
theory, but that's not going to stop him.
It's not going to stop Donald Trump.
They're going to continue denying that a problem exists.
They're going to continue blaming Obama for it.
At the same time, cutting the very regulations that have helped give us a little bit cleaner
air, a little bit better environment.
And I'm not saying Obama is not the blame for any of the environmental problems we have
right now.
He absolutely is.
Oil drilling domestically increased exponentially under his administration, fracking, spread
coast to coast.
Under his administration, offshore drilling increased under Obama.
Coal mining increased under Obama.
He did put some good regulations in place that did help.
They would have gone even further had we not expanded all of that fossil fuel exploitation
during his administration, and that's why a lot of it was kind of a wash.
He did some good things and he did some bad things and in the end they all meet in the
middle as most centrist Republicans do.
Now.
Excuse me, centrist Democrats.
That was quite a Freudian slip there, I guess, but nonetheless, to blame Obama for this report
coming out and showing a horrible things are is absolute insanity and Andrew Wheeler knows
that the only reason he's out there downplaying the results and blaming Obama is because he
doesn't want to have to take action.
He doesn't want to have to face an angry public.
He still wants to be able to go out and have a nice dinner and not be confronted with people
asking why he's helping to destroy the planet.
By planting the seeds of his little conspiracy theory.
He is hopefully, or at least he thinks he is giving himself enough clearance to stay
away from the issue and continue to not act on it.
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What Is The City of London Corporation? - Duration: 12:20.As historian Niall Ferguson writes in his 2011
book, "Civilization: The West and the Rest", the city of London was an outback in the 15th
century compared to some of China's great cities.
Then with international trading led by The British East India Company money flooded in,
as did people of different nationalities.
The population is estimated to have been 50,000 in 1530 and then in 1605 it was around 225,000
people.
Throughout the industrial revolution London became the center of the world and from around
1825 to 1925 it had the largest population of any city on Earth.
The British Empire faded, but London has always been a powerhouse culturally, but also economically.
According to the Global Financial Centers Index, London is still the largest financial
center in the world- but what is this great city truly about?
Welcome to this episode of the Infographics Show, What is the city of London corporation?
It may come as a surprise to some of you that London is not just a city but also a corporation.
Those that don't know are probably thinking right now what is this corporation?
Does it function like the Microsoft Corporation?
Does it hire and fire and post annual profits?
Does it have a main headquarters and a CEO?
Let's find out.
So, the Corporation of London or in legal terms the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens
of the City of London, is the governing body of London's financial district which is
sometimes referred to as the "Square Mile."
Within that mile around 8,000 live, although around 400,000 people commute into that area
for work every day, according to the corporation's own website.
London is divided into 33 areas, or boroughs, and this area is one of them.
On its website the corporation is perhaps extremely vague when it answers the question
concerning what it is responsible for.
The answer it gives is, "Providing services for residents (and City businesses) in the
Square Mile, but not those of other boroughs."
And yep, you can apply for a job in this corporation, just like any other.
It has bosses in a sort of way and lots of staff.
But let's rewind a little.
We have to go back a long way when we look at how this corporation began.
In fact, it's often called the "world's oldest continuously-elected democracy and
predates Parliament."
The city of London school website writes, "The Corporation's structure includes the
Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, the Court of Common Council, and the Freemen and Livery
of the City.
The City of London developed a unique form of government which led to the system of parliamentary
government at local and national level."
We'll make a long story short here.
2,000 years ago, the Romans founded a trading post in what is now southern England and they
called it Londinium.
They did what they did best and built roads, walls, bridges, and made this place an excellent
hub of trading.
For hundreds of years the city endured and when William the Conqueror arrived in the
11th century he quite liked it, too.
He created the city of London and gave Londoners their privileges and rights so long as they
accepted him as King.
Done deal.
He built towers around the place, including the Tower of London, and fortified the rest
of London.
The city of London was a special old place, and this started a kind of agreement that
it should remain a power unto itself.
Later monarchs to some extent feared this powerful city and they created Westminster,
which is west of the city of London.
You then had two cities.
The city of London still had a lot of freedom, which, according to one website, was "an
essential requirement for all who wished to carry on business and prosper in trade within
the Square Mile."
Freemen there could do their business not impinged by outside influence.
It was in 1191 that the Corporation announced itself as a commune, only one rung on the
ladder below the sovereign.
It judged itself, it was in a way a law unto itself.
It became so powerful that in 1632 the crown asked if the corporation might extend its
privileges to other areas of London, but it refused.
These privileges we are talking about were mainly related to laws.
As more people flooded into London, many of them refuges from the poorer Midlands and
the North, the corporation was asked if it might extend its boundaries.
In 1637 it rebuffed that proposal, and this became known as "The Great Refusal".
It's when the corporation of London in some ways turned its back on the rest of London
and that's why people sometimes talk about "A Tale of Two Cities."
One historian writes, "From that point on the people of London lacked any democratic
unitary municipal authority.
Business and, most particularly, finance, in contrast, had the most ancient political
institution in the kingdom at their disposal."
There were attempts to reform this gilded city, but the corporation stayed.
In the 18th century London was flourishing, but it was the corporation that really flourished,
bolstered by free trade.
And it went against the monarchy at times, making it a kind of rogue entity in England.
It supported George Washington and the American revolution, even sending over men to fight
for American independence and also sending over lots of money – something it wasn't
short of.
This was pretty much treason, but it got away with it.
The corporation was untouchable.
Soon Parliament replaced the Crown as the highest power and democracy supplanted the
Divine Right of Kings, but still the Corporation of London remained a power unto itself, and
the state didn't want to make it subject to its practices and laws.
The privileges and all the assets the corporation remained in-tact.
It worked for itself, not exactly always serving the people of Britain.
This of course has inspired a lot of criticism, and that criticism we hear today.
Political writer George Monbiot offers us this stark line when talking about the Corporation
of London: "It's the dark heart of Britain, the place where democracy goes to die, immensely
powerful, equally unaccountable."
He then adds that it's doubtful even one in ten Brits knows it exists.
Are any Brits nodding their head right now?
Monbiot explains that there are 25 electoral wards in the Square Mile area, but only four
of them contain the 9,000 (we read 8,000 before) people that can vote.
All the other votes are not people, they are business, mainly banks and finance companies.
And no, it's not the workers inside the businesses that vote, it's the bosses.
The bigger the company, the more votes it gets.
This is what is known as a Plutocracy.
So, even though the corporation calls itself a democracy, it's really just an entity
ruled by the most rich and powerful.
It gets stranger, though, and that's why there are tons of conspiracy theories about
this corporation.
So, there are different layers of elected people.
They are the common councilmen, the aldermen, the sheriffs and the Lord Mayor.
To get into any of these positions you must be a freeman.
What the hell is a freeman?
The corporation's own website writes, "The medieval term 'freeman' meant someone who
was not the property of a feudal lord but enjoyed privileges such as the right to earn
money and own land.
Town dwellers who were protected by the charter of their town or city were often free – hence
the term 'freedom' of the City."
Nowadays if you want to apply to become a freeman, you must either show exceptional
servitude, inherit the title or be nominated by a Livery company…hmm, and what exactly
is a livery company?
They came out of medieval guilds, developed into trading and crafts companies and are
now basically just powerful entities that embrace trade and commerce.
There are 110 of them in London.
They have lavish dinner parties and mostly speak in a kind of archaic posh English that
is sometimes mocked by the rest of the country.
At the head of the table you might find the Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths, Lord Sutherland
of Houndwood.
You get the picture, this is ancient, ritualistic England, a kind of Eyes Wide Shut scenario
to those who might also believe the Queen is a lizard.
It's definitely a bit anachronistic and strange to most.
So, to become a freeman you must also get approval by an alderman, who has already gotten
approval from a livery company.
If you want to become the Lord Mayor, you must have gotten approval from everyone.
You must also give a lot of money away, which basically means you need to be very, very
rich to get that position.
As Monbiot says, it's all about being in what the Brits call an "Old Boys Network",
which is a derogatory term meaning upper-class men that have made connections with other
posh men in expensive schools and those connections are carried into adulthood.
These are the people that run the corporation of London.
With money as their lodestar it's not surprising this network isn't always playing a straight
game, after all, they were partly behind the financial crisis.
Even after that crisis, the Lord Mayor's job is partly to be an advocate for liberalization.
That means deregulation.
This can encourage corruption.
That's why the corporation is so often criticized.
In the documentary "The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire" the creators take a dim view
of the Corporation of London, saying that after the empire collapsed it was this corporation
that still pulled the strings in the world's finance sectors.
And it wasn't always ethical.
This was corroborated in the book, Treasure Islands, which says that because the corporation
is a law unto itself, it can virtually get away with anything.
The government is sometimes powerless to intervene.
What goes on in the corporation stays in the corporation.
Monbiot writes, "The City has exploited this remarkable position to establish itself
as a kind of offshore state, a secrecy jurisdiction which controls the network of tax havens housed
in the UK's crown dependencies and overseas territories."
We're talking about billions and billions of dollars, money laundered through the corporation
with absolute impunity.
That's what the critics tell us anyway.
The documentary we just mentioned says this cash isn't just the money of oligarchs,
but also drug barons, gangsters, and sometimes money from African despots who have mined
their poor countries' resources but have no intention of putting the money back into
their country.
All this aided and abetted by this superpower within a square mile of London.
We might add that a lot of cash that should have been taxable could have gone back in
Great Britain, which some critics say is a reason some of the country's poorer areas
look almost third world.
The author of Treasure Islands writes about this, saying the relationship between offshore
islands such as the Cayman Islands and the corporation can't be understated in terms
of how important it is for those involved and how it is detrimental to the British people.
"This relationship is of massive, almost transcendental importance for the UK," he
said.
It's not that the City of London Corporation is directly an offshore business, it's just
the special rules it works under allow it to direct money to tax havens.
Will it change?
One critic wrote, "I have observed British officials blocking attempts to strengthen
international cooperation on tax information exchange by keeping discussion on offshore
trusts off the agenda.
This happened as recently as 2015."
It's not just islands far away, either.
Most people know large companies can find a tax haven next door on the islands of the
Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
The Occupied Times writes that these three islands, "provided net financing to UK banks
of a staggering $332.5 billion in the second quarter of 2009."
It's not exactly secret, either.
You can read on the Jersey Finance website that it provides services for, "corporate
treasurers, institutional bankers and treasury specialists, fund promoters, brokers and other
corporate financiers, Jersey represents an extension of the City of London."
According to critics hundreds of billions of dollars of cash is not getting taxed, while
the Brits complain about late trains, NHS cutbacks and dole scroungers.
We'll leave you with this line from Treasure Islands:
"'There is nothing we can do' is the typical response to those who say that the
UK cracks down on the criminality, abuse and corruption run out of these places.
And behind it all lies the City of London, anxious to preserve its access to the world's
dirty money."
So, what do you think about this?
Can you add to the story?
Let us know in the comments.
Also, be sure to check out our other video Oldest Companies That Still Exist.
Thanks for watching, and as always, don't forget to like, share and subscribe.
See you next time.
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The Truth ABout McDonald's Famous Chicken McNuggets - Duration: 5:17.
People love themselves some McDonald's chicken McNuggets.
But where exactly did the McNugget come from, how has it changed over the years, and what
is it… really?
It's time to answer some questions on these popular chicken bites, and look at what's
next for the nugget.
Just as McDonald's was hitting its stride with burgers and on the way to becoming a
global sensation, people started getting beef-phobia.
By the early 1960s, the American public became a little wary of beef because of the health
conditions associated with it.
Words like "cholesterol," "saturated fat," and "heart disease," were new buzzwords, beef
was the boogieman, and understandably, this didn't sit well with McDonald's.
But by the late 1970s, they had a new secret weapon: chef Rene Arend, a man who once had
the privilege of cooking for the Queen of England.
After Ray Kroc suggested shifting the focus to a new side item, a bite-sized onion nugget,
chairman of the board Fred Turner pitched the idea of a chicken nugget.
Arend got to work.
Just five months later, in 1983, a McNugget prototype hit Tennessee locations and smashed
all expectations.
But… why did this gourmet chef turn out something that's admittedly less-than-gourmet?
He later confessed:
'"We have to cater to the American public.
I am 31 years here, nearly as long as McDonald's.
I have also become Americanized."
Chef Rene once described making the McNugget like this:
"In food, you invent nothing.
You 'create'.
In 'my' kitchen, I create the McNugget this way: I debone a breast and a thigh.
A little salt, a little flour.
[...] but when you are cooking for the masses, it is different."
Just how different has been an issue plaguing McDonald's for years.
The infamous, nauseating photo of purportedly pre-nugget pink slime swept through the internet
in 2010 and McDonald's responded to the photo, saying:
"We do not use the process known as mechanically separated chicken, nor do our Chicken McNuggets
ever at any point, look like this photo."
A press release isn't always convincing, though, especially coupled with a 2013 study that
found many commercially sold chicken nuggets contained only about 50 percent meat.
The rest?
A hodgepodge of
"ground up bone, blood vessels, nerve, and connective tissue."
While the companies selling these questionable nuggets were not named, it's easy to see how
this study might ruffle the feathers of McDonald's, who sprang into action with the "Our Food.
Your Questions."
campaign.
Some customers were assured by the campaign, others were definitely not.
Sales continued to drop in 2015.
If you assumed that McNuggets were just plopped out of the McNugget machine in some random
shape, you should know nothing is farther from the truth.
Other chains might have random chicken nugget shapes, but the Golden Arches has four precise
shapes of McNuggets.
Those shapes even have special names to identify them: the "ball," the "boot," the "bow-tie,"
and the "bell."
According to McDonald's, the four shapes were chosen as:
"the perfect equilibrium of dipability and fun.
Three would've been too few.
Five would've been, like, wacky."
Now you know!
In 2012, 23 bidders competed to win a three-year-old chicken McNugget because they believed it
resembled George Washington.
The only thing more stupifying than people trying to outbid each other for an old chicken
nugget is that the winning bid was $8,100.
Considering that McNuggets come in four distinct shapes, one that sorta looks like a fried
George Washington is a little odd.
The bidding started at a respectable $100, but after multiple news outlets picked up
the story bids began rolling in.
The good news is that it was all for charity.
The bad news?
Ultimately, the winning bidder backed out of the deal.
In 2014, world record-holding athlete Usain Bolt stopped by The Arsenio Hall Show, and
shared a bit of his Olympic diet plan.
"Mostly chicken nuggets."
"It worked!"
During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Bolt reportedly ate at least 1,000 chicken McNuggets.
Bolt, who was 22 at the time, hit up a McDonald's every chance he got and later wrote in his
memoir, Faster Than Lightning:
"At first I ate a box of 20 for lunch, then another for dinner.
The next day I had two boxes for breakfast, one for lunch and then another couple in the
evening."
The Jamaican gold medalist estimated that over the course of 10 days he ate at least
100 McNuggets a day.
That's around 47,500 calories' worth of McNuggets, total, in case you were wondering.
McDonald's has some serious competition in the chicken game, and most comes from Chick-fil-A.
Part of trying to stay ahead of the game includes their 2017 promise to stop serving poultry
with antibiotics and remove artificial preservatives from McNuggets and other items.
There's plenty of places making that commitment, but they also rolled out Southern-style chicken
that looks very, very similar to their Chick-fil-A inspiration.
Chick-fil-A claims that their nuggets are all hand-breaded at each store, so they could
still have McDonald's beat in that department.
Considering that people are eating more beef than chicken, it's probably wise for McDonald's
to refocus on improving their McNuggets.
What's next for these classic favorites?
Only time will tell.
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I'm J station is back out and again with another cringy 3 a.m. challenge but this
time I feel like he went a little far in a video called
do not call black Santa on FaceTime at 3 a.m. I can't even believe I just said
that I'm J Station does just that normally I wouldn't even give a video
like this attention but people are calling this the most racist YouTube
video of all time and I'm gonna spill the tea here for you on Io what is
happening friends I'm Charlotte O'Brien on this channel we talk about everything
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alright so before I get into this video let me know in those comments what you
want most for Christmas and does they me okay guys I thought I had seen
everything before today there's not a lot on YouTube that surprises me anymore
but clearly I haven't seen everything because J station just made quite
possibly the most offensive YouTube video I've ever seen
Jason ether aka I'm J station is a youtuber with 3.1 million subscribers he
posts these paranormal themes 3 a.m. challenges but J station has been in
trouble with the law before a couple of years ago he was facing criminal charges
for going into stores and businesses and hiding until they closed then filming
himself trying to escape without setting off alarms lately he's been doing the
paranormal theme videos where he says he's facetimed with ghosts we've
actually previously done a video on J stations attempt to contact Mac Miller's
ghost which also got a lot of criticism it seems like J station just doesn't
know where the line is most of the people who watch his channel art kids
that's for certain his videos are like kind of a mix between like a vlog and a
paranormal video and a skit a badly acted skit and he's always like really
over-the-top and animated and he uses these like scary sound effects oh my god
guys he's black Santa gonna answer I'm J station just posted a paranormal video
about black Santa that's supposed to be like a mini horror film not only is this
video ridiculous people also find it very offensive
okay J station says things like how crazy would it be if Santa brought a
black elf here like house okay J station says he looked online for black Santa's
phone number and he messages him so obviously he didn't actually text black
Santa because like spoiler alert Santa isn't real
he texted an actor who agreed to play black Santa oh my god did I just like
ruin Center for you guys sorry man so yes I'm J station got a black actor
to play Santa and that actor willingly participated in this video but I'm
curious to know how he feels about the final cut it's basically like a mini
horror film that has like racist undertones so first of all J station
leaves out fried chicken for black Santa which is like what the whole like black
people like fried chicken joke is well-known as a way for white people to
make fun of black people listen not all black people like fried chicken a lot of
them do but white people like fried chicken - I personally love fried
chicken fried chicken and waffles preferably and what's more is J station
shot this no different than the rest of his videos where the theme is like
paranormal he's visibly scared of black Santa why are you scared of Santa is
this Santa's supposed to be like this like nice fat guy that like brings you
presents are you just scared of this Santa because he's black cuz I don't
think this video would have the same paranormal scary theme if Santa was the
jolly old fat white dude that brings you presents and eats cookies I don't know
dude I'm really confused and the criticism is already pouring in
youtubers like Adam 22 are already critiquing this video and it's been out
for less than 24 hours Adams video is called the worst youtuber
is back and he's only gotten worse I can't honestly imagine how Jay Station
thought this was a good idea like maybe if this was like some sort of like funny
well acted tasteful skit I wouldn't be so quick to criticize but it was filmed
like like a horror film okay so I will say that he did make another video last
year called do not FaceTime Santa Claus at 3:00 a.m. that featured a white Santa
but somehow making another video about black Santa is just like it's too far
for me like the video isn't about as scary
anteye it's about a scary black Santa he made a point of that because he put it
in the title anyways guys let me know is this video racist but for now I'm gonna
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♪ I FEEL THE DARK INSIDE MY OWN DESPAIR ♪
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♪ KEEP THE FAITH JUST HOLD ON ♪
♪ BE MY RAINBOW FLY ME HOME ♪
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♪ I WILL DEFEAT THE MONOCHROME ♪
♪ DON´T TRY TO SUCK ME IN ♪
♪ CAUSE I´M A GHOST ♪
♪ LIKE SOMEONE YOU COULD MEET ♪
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♪ AND SOMEDAY INSIDE THE EYE WE MAY ♪
♪ BE AS ONE AGAIN ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH JUST HOLD ON ♪
♪ BE MY RAINBOW FLY ME HOME ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH WONDERLAND SWAN ♪
♪ I WILL DEFEAT THE MONOCHROME ♪
♪ ( INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE ) ♪
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♪ MY GENERATION IN MONOCHROME ♪
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♪ I WILL DEFEAT THE MONOCHROME ♪
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♪ JUST WAIT ♪
♪ KEEP THE FAITH ♪
♪ JUST WAIT ♪
♪ FAITH ♪
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Home Office Tax Strategies Write Off Home Office (BIG Home Office Tax Deductions [NEW!] ) - Duration: 8:34.
(chimes)
- [Toby Mathis] I have an office within my home
how do I show or indicate that on my taxes?
So this is Tax 101 for Anderson.
We do not like home office deductions, number one.
And that means, you writing it off on your Schedule C.
If you have a business, and you're using a home office,
you're filing, I think it's an 8829,
- [Jeff Webb] Right.
- [Toby Mathis] And you are writing that off
as part of your business,
and it's on your return,
and that's what everybody says,
"Hey, there's a red flag."
The red flag is that
you're filing a Schedule C on your personal return.
Not just the home office,
but that home office certainly doesn't help.
What I'd rather see is a corporation, S or a C Corp,
in the mix, reimbursing you as an employee for your use
or for the company's use of your home office,
and it's not renting it from you,
it's reimbursing you the expenses attributed
to that portion of your home.
So I'm going to draw this up.
Let's say you have a house.
And you have this little section of your house
called a home office.
And it is, let's say that this one is 10 by 10,
so it's 100 square feet.
What the IRS allows your employer to do,
an S or a C Corp, is reimburse
you the expenses of that home office.
And the reimbursement is based off of the fact
that you had expenses
for the whole home,
and it doesn't matter whether it's a rental
or a purchased home.
You still have expenses.
You have expenses like real estate taxes,
mortgage,
utilities,
- [Jeff] HOA
- [Toby Mathis] All of it, HOA...
Even things like depreciation.
- [Jeff Webb] Yep.
- [Toby Mathis] Those are all expenses,
and what it does is it let's you pay a percentage back
and, guess what?
No where on your return does this money show up.
And I say your return.
This is the, say, I always use Krispy Kremes as my examples,
but I say, if I ask Jeff, "Hey, on your way into the office,
"grab some Krispy Kremes, and I'll reimburse you."
And Jeff goes, and he buys a whole bunch of Krispy Kremes,
and he comes into the office, and says,
"Hey, that was 50 bucks,"
and we write him a company check for $50,
where does Jeff report that?
The answer is, he doesn't.
He got reimbursed.
So this is the most important word you'll ever hear:
Accountable.
This is called an accountable plan.
When you have an employer, they can reimburse you
for things that you incur on their behalf.
And that's just, there's a laundry list of 'em,
but the most important ones are things like
your computer, your cell phone, your home, your utilities
that you're using for the convenience of the employer,
all those things,
now it can reimburse you.
So now we know that we want to get reimbursed,
so don't do a home office because that's you.
This is a business reimbursing you for the use of your home
at their convenience.
It changes up the rules a little bit.
Now, the way to calculate this,
there's a number of ways,
the IRS has what's called a simple test,
where this is $5 per square foot per year.
So if this is 10 by 10, you would get a $500 deduction
at the end of year, or reimbursement,
you don't have to report it.
The company gets to just write off $500 as a lease expense.
OK, that sucks.
The other way that people do is they look and say
the entire house, so let's the entire house,
I don't know how big this should be.
This looks like 30 by 30,
so let's say you have a 30 by 30 house,
so you have 1/9 would be the deduction.
So if you have expenses of $9,000 throughout the year,
you would get a $1,000 deduction.
You get 1/9 of that because
one, this is 100 square foot versus 900 square feet.
Now, there's another method that's not the only methods,
there's actually like nine,
although I've never seen all nine.
I use about three.
Jeff, how many, like what are your things ...
- [Jeff Webb] And I only use a couple.
I use these two.
I use the simplified method.
- [Toby Mathis] You're such an accountant.
- [Jeff Webb] I'm such an accountant.
- [Toby Mathis] So there's two ways to do it.
You could do the square footage method
which is based off of this 30 by 30 versus the 10 by 10,
so it's 900 versus 100.
You could use the net square footage,
where we remove hallways and bathrooms
and places for your water heater,
and your air conditioner, and all those things,
and you remove them, and say,
"Hey, we're only looking at the net usable square footage."
This is what you use in commercial and stuff like that.
- [Jeff Webb] Right.
- [Toby Mathis] So let's say that your net square footage,
the net usable square footage,
we have a hallway that runs through here,
and we have a, you know, a couple places...
Here's where the water heater is, and all that stuff,
and let's say that we remove 200 square feet.
Now it is 700 to 100,
which I don't know what that is, but I'll just pretend
that's got to be about 14%?
That's another way is that net square footage,
and now there's another one,
that's not used enough, in my opinion,
which is the number of rooms method.
Where we look at the total house, and we say,
hey, here's the area being used there,
there's another
let's say that we have a total of five rooms,
and this is all hallway or common space
or something like that,
actually, we'll make another room,
we'll just make this the non-usable traffic area.
Kind of a goofy layout for a house,
but let's just say we have six rooms.
Now we are six to one, and that's going to be way better.
That's going to be, six goes into one how many times?
All right, this is one of those things
where now I'm just going to grab a flipping calculator.
So one divided by six, so that's 16.6%,
so we would look at all the expenses,
and you would take 16% of that.
So, what did I use in my example?
- [Jeff Webb] What did you say, 9,000?
- [Toby Mathis] 9,000? So let's say that we have 9,000 times 16,
so now I have a $1,400 expense which is by far the best.
Now I can reimburse me that amount,
and, again, I'm throwing numbers out at you.
Your numbers are going to be way different just cause
9,000 is not what it actually costs to own a home,
unless you're living in Indiana in a funky area.
- [Jeff Webb] And while we talk about mortgage,
and real estate tax with depreciation a lot,
a lot of people rent their homes,
and that rent expense is also a part of this formula.
- [Toby Mathis] (agrees) Now, I'm going to do a shameless plug,
and I'm going to tell you,
if you want to learn about this stuff,
and you want to see the action, you have the calculators
and all that jazz that we use, then you're going to want
to come to an event that's called Tax-Wise.
You're going to want to go to that.
- [Jeff Webb] It's a blast.
- [Toby Mathis] Yeah, because we break it down,
and so there's my shameless plug.
You're going to want to come to that.
Now if you're Platinum,
you're probably getting free tickets.
If you're not Platinum, you're not.
You're going to pay something, but for the Platinum folks,
this is a no-brainer.
You know, you always want to come,
hang out with us about tax
That's just one, that's one of 29
different deductions we talk about.
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Bowser: (laughs)
Mario: Nice of the princess to invite us over for a picnic, eh, Luigi?
Luigi: I hope she made lots of spaghetti!
Mario: Luigi, look! It's from Bowser!
"Dear pesky plumbers: The Koopalings and I have taken over the Mushroom Kingdom. The Princess is now a permanent guest at one of my seven Koopa hotels. I dare you to find her if you can."
We've got to find the Princess.
Luigi: And, you've got to help us.
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Mario: Uh-oh! Ow! Ooh. (Coughs.) Where am I?
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