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- She goes "Oh, my God.

You have a massive laceration on your face."

And I looked down, and there's just blood just cascading

down my face onto my jacket trickling onto my shoe,

and I go, "Is it bad?"

She goes, "It appears to be quite severe."

[dark electronic music]

- [indistinct shouting] - Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?

- Come on. Move. Come on. - What? What's going on?

- Come on. - This is not happening.

[rapid gunfire]

No, no. What...

I'm--I'm your host.

I'm your host, Roy Wood Jr.

- Come on.

- Ahh, ahh.

- Augh!

- [groans]

[glass shattering]

[panting]

♪ ♪

Mm...ahh!

[bones crunching]

[cheers and applause]

- He's the creator of the web series "Secret Weapon."

He is Doug Smith.

[cheers and applause]

- I am going to tell you a story about the only fight

that I've ever been in in my entire life.

And it's important to keep in mind that prior to this,

the closest I had ever come was a pillow fight

when I was eight year old against my best friend.

And you'd like I would have won that,

because he was the nosebleed kid.

You guys know these kids, right?

They have blood gushing out of their head

with no warning whatsoever.

Like, we'd be standing there waiting for the school bus.

He'd bend down to tie his shoe.

He's stand up looking like he just went on a coke bender.

It was so bad my mom wouldn't even let him in the house,

which was weird growing up with an indoor cat

and an outdoor friend, but that's...

[laughter]

That's the way it had to be.

So we're eight years old.

We're jumping on his bed, pillows in hand.

We whack each other at the exact some moment.

His nose just erupts.

But I find out that I am deathly allergic

to goose down.

So he's got blood all over the comforter.

I'm laid out on the bed with my eyes swollen shut

gasping for air.

We're both screaming for help.

[laughter]

My throat closes up.

My dad has to rush me to the emergency room.

I've never seen him more embarrassed in his life,

by the way.

Doctor comes in, he was like, "What happened to him?"

"He was in a fight." "What kind of fight?"

"I don't see why that's important."

[laughter]

Definitely not a big confidence-booster

when you find out that your kryptonite is feathers,

you know, so...

So cut to 20 years later,

I still have a shameful 0 and 1 record.

I'm in the East Village of Manhattan.

It's about 10:00 on a Thursday night.

I just bought some weed, and I'm headed home to Brooklyn.

So I go down the stairs of the Second Avenue F Train station.

And as I swipe my card, I hear a woman screaming.

Now, if you live in a small town,

that might be a cause for concern,

but in a city of 8 million people,

some of them are gonna be screaming.

[laughter]

It's pretty much par for the course.

So I casually look over, and I see a petite young blonde

girl, early 20s, and holding her from behind

is a guy about my build, maybe mid-30s,

and it's getting a little rough, but I'm like,

"Eh, maybe--is he doing the Heimlich maneuver?"

But you can't scream while you're choking,

and also, he has one hand on her breast.

The other hand is moving between her legs.

His form is terrible.

[laughter]

And I think maybe--maybe this is a couple into

some aggressive foreplay, anything I can do

to justify not getting involved, right?

And then he grabs her by the blouse,

whips her against a wall, hauls off,

punches her in the face, clobbers her.

She is now sobbing.

He's trying to rip her pants off.

And I'm like, "You know what?

I don't think they're together."

[laughter]

"I think this guy is a rapist.

"Someone's got to stop this guy.

Not gonna be me, of course, but somebody."

And now he grabs her by the throat,

slams her head against the wall,

and no one is doing anything.

He hits her again.

I'm like, "Shit.

I've got to be that guy."

So I yell out the most threatening thing

I can think of, which unfortunately is,

"Hey, buddy, that's a lady."

[laughter]

Imagine if that's all it took, if he was like, "Oh, my God.

"It is a lady.

This is..."

[laughter]

"That's the last time I'll leave the house

without my glasses."

[laughter]

So as you can imagine, it has no effect,

and he hauls off to hit her again,

and I just fuckin' Hulk out.

I go, "Come on, let's go!"

Which is a pretty big jump from,

"Hey, buddy, that's a lady," right?

Could have gone with, "Pick on someone your own size"

or, "I'm telling."

[laughter]

But it gets his attention, and as he turns to look at me,

she pries his hand off her throat,

bolts through the turnstile, flies up the stairs,

runs out of the station.

She's gonna be okay.

But then I turn back to him, and he is pissed.

I don't know if you guys have ever cock-blocked

a rapist before...

[laughter]

But they do not take too kindly to it.

So he's just staring me down with these steely blue eyes.

And I've got to tell you, under normal circumstances,

beautiful eyes, but...

Right now, they're just cold and terrifying.

And I'm taking full inventory of his physical appearance.

I'm like, "All right, 5'10", 160."

I want to be able to give a detailed description

to the police when I wake from my medically induced coma.

[laughter]

So he takes his first step toward me

and very calmly goes, "What you gonna do, motherfucker?"

And part of me is tempted to try to talk my way

out of this, you know, and be like, "Hey, man,

"I didn't mean to interfere.

If you hurry, I'm sure you can catch up with her."

[laughter]

I'm tempted, but I don't do that.

I'm like, "All right, come fuckin'--this is your chance

to take this guy out," so I clinch my fist,

and I start yelling, "Back the fuck up, man.

Back the fuck up."

And I can tell you, that does not have much impact

when you yourself are fearfully backing up.

[laughter]

So I hit the opposing wall.

He's got me backed into a corner.

I got nowhere to go.

So I have no choice but to try to take this guy out.

So I take a deep breath, and I ready myself,

and I step in with a demolishing blow.

I'm just gonna lay this guy out.

And I may have if I wasn't still 8 feet away from him.

[laughter]

So there's this horrible moment where I just watch my fist

whiz past his face.

I'm like, "Nooo."

He steps in, clobbers me.

My knees buckle, but I don't go down.

I'm like, "All right, fisticuffs

"is not my strong suit.

"I'm gonna come back, kick this guy in the balls,

like I just completed a women's self-defense class."

[laughter]

So I step in, I swing,

he scoots back at the last second,

I miss his balls, but I get him in the stomach,

and here's what I know about my fighting style so far:

Way too polite, can't land a punch,

and when I kick someone, I make this sound.

I go....

[whimpers]

[laughter]

Not my proudest moment, but I make contact.

And he stumbles back, and he turns,

and he runs out of the station,

so now I'm feeling like hot shit.

I'm like, "I've got a powerhouse, Bruce Lee kick.

"I didn't back down. I took a punch.

He ran off. I think I finally won a fight."

Right? And more importantly,

I saved that woman.

I think I'm the first guy with a moustache to save a woman

from train tracks

rather than tie her to them.

So now I'm feeling invincible.

I'm about to get on the train and go home.

And this older woman stops me.

She goes, "Oh, my God.

You have a massive laceration on your face."

And I looked down, and there's just blood just cascading

down my face onto my jacket trickling onto my shoe,

and I go, "Is it bad?"

She goes, "It appears to be quite severe."

[laughter]

And my adrenaline's pumping, so I don't even feel any pain.

I just feel warmth, and I kind of, like,

replay everything in my head.

And I think, "Well, that guy was kind of holding his hand

"in a funny way.

"He didn't really punch me so much as, like, swing at me.

"There's blood everywhere.

"I did not get punched.

"I did not win a fight.

I just got stabbed in the face."

[laughter]

Now, I don't know about you guys, but when I get stabbed

by a stranger with a foreign object,

first thing that comes to mind, "Oh, my God.

Now I have AIDS."

[laughter]

I know that's not how it works.

You've got to share a glass of water, but right now...

[laughter]

Paranoia was taking hold of me, so I'm like, "Oh, my God,

"some spiteful psycho running around the city

"with an infected box cutter just filleted my face,

and now I just have AIDS coursing through my veins."

I think, "You know what?

Maybe it won't take hold if I'm bleeding it all out,"

so I actually lean over.

Like, "Go. Rid yourself.

Get out of me."

And the same woman, she goes, "What are doing?"

She reaches into her purse, grabs a wad of napkins,

slaps them on my face, 'cause, you know,

every woman over 30 has a surplus of purse napkins.

And she leave me up in the street, calls 911,

dozen cops on the scene within minutes.

They all want to see the cut.

So one after another I remove the napkins.

Each time, another pint of blood spurts out.

And they all have the same reaction.

They just go, "Ooh, put it back,

put it back, put it back."

[laughter]

So another cop rolls up, and he goes,

"Hey, do you mind if I see it?"

His partner goes, "You see this, man.

Just picture another one right next to it."

So all these cops are swarming around, and I remember,

"I've got that 1/4 ounce of weed in my backpack."

Now, this is New York.

This is not the weed-topia your burnouts are used to.

[laughter]

It's not like I'm gonna show the guy my medical card.

And he's like, "Oh, cool. I have one too, all right."

[laughter]

So justifiably, I'm freaking out.

And I feel this big mitt on my shoulder.

And I'm like, "Oh, my God. He can smell it.

I'm fucked. I'm going to jail."

He spins me around, and this detective goes, "Hey,

how's it feel to be a goddamn hero?"

And he reaches into his back pocket,

hands me his business card, and he goes,

"You ever need anything, you ever in a jam,

you call me; I got your back."

And I was like, "I may take you up on that

a little sooner than you think, sir."

[laughter]

So ambulance finally shows up.

I'm in the hospital. I'm getting stitched up.

And I listen to a lot of rap music.

I hear a lot of reference to a buck fifty.

And a buck fifty is a facial laceration that requires

150 stitches, and I don't know if you can see the scar

right here--right there. You see it?

You see it? [laughter]

A mere 23 stitches,

which has to make you wonder what kind of fucking

facial laceration

requires 150 st...

I think that's decapitation.

[laughter]

No need to be alarmed, sir.

We'll simply sew your head back on.

You'll be good to go.

So ten days later, I get my stitches out.

And I seem to be healing up nicely.

And that night, I'm brushing my teeth,

and I notice this clear liquid dripping out my scar.

And, "Oh, my God.

It was just residual goop. No big deal."

And it keeps up for a few days.

I go back to the doctor, and it turns out when this guy

cut me, he hit my salivary gland.

So I am now drooling out of the side of my face.

[laughter]

Not a little dribble, buckets of drool every time I see food.

Like, you put a plate of wings in front of me,

I'm just a slobbering Saint Bernard.

Which is ironic, because I'm a dog walker at the time,

so I'm just roaming the streets of New York

with a pack of dogs in tow.

They're looking at me like, "Oh, he's one of us now."

[laughter]

It was so bad I could push on the gland and shoot it

across the room, which too bad

I didn't have that at the time of the attack, right?

I'd be like, "Back the fuck up, man.

Don't make me do it."

So now I'm just feeling terrible.

This is just a misery.

Like, I should just run off and join

the Coney Island freak show.

I'll be the boy with the Super Soaker face.

[laughter]

So two weeks goes by, and it finally stops,

drooling stops, I go back to the doctor.

He's like, "All right, I think you're finally

"out of the woods.

"All you've got is that nifty-looking scar.

"Halloween's around the corner. Let me guess.

You're gonna go as the Joker."

And I was like, "Well, the Joker has a scar

"on both sides of his face, so unless I go out

and stop a left-handed rapist..."

[laughter]

"I don't know, man."

But it all has a happy ending.

I am fine, obviously.

It turns out he did not give me AIDS.

Had it all along.

[laughter]

Girl got away, and they actually caught the guy.

They caught the guy.

[cheers and applause]

Three days after the whole thing happened,

they found him running right outside the same station.

Remember I thought he was my age?

55-year-old drunk homeless man.

So 20 years old than me, looks, beautiful baby blues.

I got my ass kicked by the world's sexiest wino.

[laughter]

So he's currently in prison.

He got sentenced to 15 years of having a home.

[laughter]

And people ask me if I'm worried about him

coming after me when he gets out.

And it's like, "Well, he's gonna be 70 years old.

So unless he washes this in prison

and comes after me with a pillow...

[laughter]

Pretty sure that's a fight I can win, so wish me luck.

Thank you guys so much.

[cheers and applause]

- Doug Smith, everybody, Doug Smith.

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Why Bitcoin Is Not Working - Duration: 11:07.

Currency, in its many forms, has been part of human civilisation for thousands of years.

A natural evolution of trade from the the arduous process of bartering, where traders

needed to find an equivalent exchange of goods to complete a transaction.

The advent of metal coins, which had a known and reliable value, allowed trade to flourish.

It facilitated the diversification of jobs, and even invented a new one, the banker.

As trade flourished, and coins were minted, the wealthy needed a secure location to keep

their money safe.

Banks became common place, where vasts amount of money was stored, and the responsibility

of keeping track of it fell into the hands of these bankers.

The banker could facilitate trades between people, without the physical coins, from which

the currency gained its value, ever needing to be seen.

This evolved to the world we now know where electronic and paper money is commonplace,

a system based on trust.

Trust that this money has intrinsic value, trust that became tarnished by the global

financial crisis where bankers created excessive amounts of another new form of currency debt,

a currency based on assumed future earnings.

When this system fell apart with the crash in property prices, many ran back to the tried

and true method of using gold as a safe and reliable currency, resulting in the prices

peaking at the height of the crash, but one clever individual started to wonder is there

are better way.

That person was allegedly " Satoshi Nakamato" the mysterious founder of the first cyptocurrency,

Bitcoin.

Satoshi released this statement conveying his motivation for creating bitcoin:

"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it

work.

The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies

is full of breaches of that trust.

Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend

it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve.

We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our

accounts.

Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible.

"

Cryptocurrencies were invented primarily to eliminate the banking system middle men from

this trust system.

To ensure the security of people's hard earned money and allow for cheap accessible transactions.

A beautiful idea, that in practice has its flaws.

In order to eliminate these middle men, we need to find a way of creating a trust system

between individuals using the currency.

A way of ensuring that someone cannot simply write a transaction crediting their account

with bitcoin, without permission.

This is where the blockchain comes in.

In its purest form, Bitcoin is a currency that uses a system of complicated keycodes

to verify transactions between individuals.

Batches of transactions are filed into something called a block every 10 minutes.

For bitcoin the max amount of transactions per block is around 2,400, so bitcoin has

a max transaction speed of 4 transactions per second.

Each of these blocks needs to be verified in order to verify the transaction history

and cryptocurrencies do this in a pretty surprising way.

By guesswork.

Bitcoin uses a system called a cryptographic hash function, in this case Sha-256. to verify

each block and it works like this.

SHA-256 simply outputs a string of 256 bits, that's a 256 long string of 1s and 0s, for

a given input.

The output seems random, but it's not.

SHA-256 will always give the same output for a given input, BUT, as far as we know, it's

impossible to take the output and figure out what the input was.

It's a one way street.

That means, in order to generate a specific desired output, the only way of doing it is

by trial and error.

Guessing inputs and checking the output.

And to do this quickly requires a significant amount of computational power.

Essentially employing millions of little monkeys in your computer to type numbers until one

manages to get it correctly.

So how does this apply to the blockchain verification of Bitcoin?

For a block to be added to the chain it needs to be signed with a SHA-256 input that will

result in a predetermined string of zeros at the start.

The number of zeros needed is determined by how much computational power is trying to

verify the blockchain.

The more zeros needed, the more computational power is needed.

We want the blockchain to be verified every 10 minutes, so in order to maintain that verification

time, the number of zeros needed keeps rising as more computational power is dedicated to

the network.

It is through this huge dedication of computation power that ensures security of the blockchain.

It would be unfeasible for an individual to rewrite the blockchain with false information,

as they would first need to dedicate enough power to sign previously written blocks, and

manage to keep up with the blocks currently being written by the rest of the network.

A herculean task, as we are about to see.

There are more nuances to this system, and I highly recommend you watch 3blue1brown's

video on the subject if you want to learn more.

This blockchain technology is fascinating, and has a huge amount of potential outside

of just cryptocurrencies, but it has negative side effects, which have been exacerbated

by the hijacking of the bitcoin hype train.

The blockchain is verified by miners, these are people who guess the inputs for SHA-256

to generate the desired output, and they are rewarded for doing so with some bitcoin.

To increase your chances of being the first person to correctly guess an appropriate input,

you need to maximise your computational power, basically employ more monkeys, but obviously

this has a breakeven point.

Computation requires expensive equipment, and equipment prices have only risen as the

demand for blockchain verification tech increases, and it also requires electricity.

There are giant mining farms in the wastelands of Iceland that use the cheap geothermal energy

and the abundance of cool air to minimise their electricity costs for this very reason.

But the price of Bitcoin has inflated so dramatically that it's still profitable to dedicate a

huge amount of computation power to mine, and it has risen to damaging levels.

One Chinese mining facility was reportedly spending 80,000 dollars a month on electricity,

but was turning over 1.5 million per month.

With returns like that, it would make perfect sense to expand and increase your electricity

demands, and this is exactly what we are seeing.

Digiconomist have constructed a Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index which has estimated that

the network of computers that verify bitcoin transactions draw 3.4 Gigawatts (GW) That

3.4GW adds up to 30.1 terrawatt hours (TWh) of energy per year.

That is on par with the energy use of the entire country of Serbia, or roughly 0.8 percent

of total energy demand in the United States, equal to 2.9 million US households.

To put the energy consumed by the Bitcoin network into perspective, we can compare it

to another payment system like VISA.

According to VISA, the company consumed a total amount of 0.19 terrawatt hours of energy

globally for all its operations.

This means that VISA has an energy need equal to that of around 17,000 U.S. households.

We also know VISA processed 111.2 billion transactions in 2017.

Vastly more than the Bitcoin network's 100 million transactions, at a fraction of the

cost.

Comparing to VISA may be unfair, as they require those pesky middle-men that we are striving

to eliminate and move towards decentralisation.

You should however consider that the brunt of Bitcoin verification is not being performed

by individuals like you and me, we simply cannot compete with our consumer level technology,

but by a small group of large mining facilities.

Centralised facilities where the power is in the hands of a few.

So is there any hope for Bitcoin?

We need consider that the system is not in equilibrium.

The Bitcoin network is limited to a production of 21 million coins.

Over time there will be fewer bitcoins left to mine, a feature of the original plan by

bitcoin's mysterious founder Nakamoto.

Once the majority of bitcoins have been mined, the block reward will become an insignificant

percentage of miners' overall earnings.

Instead, miners will get their reward from small transaction fees, which are already

part of the network.

So in equilibrium, the energy demanded by the network will only be driven by these small

transaction fees, which is currently significantly below coin-value.

Making it even less profitable to flood the market with computation power.

This is where we come to our next point in why Bitcoin isn't working.

Cryptocurrencies have been hijacked by the hype.

The vast majority of transactions occurring for bitcoin are not to buy goods and services,

as currency was invented for, but are simply trades of currency.

Swapping traditional currency for a share of the bitcoins on the market.

This may sound familiar to you, because it's exactly what gold is used for.

This is not what Bitcoin was created for.

Bitcoin was created so that you would never have to use dollars again.

That you would trade your dollars for bitcoins, and never trade back.

But Bitcoin is too volatile for anyone to use it like that.

Bitcoin has become an incredible volatile investment vehicle, with thousands of people

attempting to trade on speculation and achieve this dream of becoming a bitcoin millionaire.

But in order for a currency to work in a society it needs stability, people need to trust that

the money the own today will be worth the same amount tomorrow, this is why the dollar

is so successful.

Several countries around the world use the dollar because their own currency has become

so volatile no-one can put their trust in it.

How can we expect Bitcoin to become a useful currency when it's value jumps so dramatically

between dates due to irrational speculation, and market manipulation.

For now Bitcoin is largely a useless environment damaging investment vehicle, which was not

the vision Satoshi had for it.

Even if the bitcoin prices manage to stabilise as equilibrium is reached, it's limited

transaction time of 4 transactions per second will likely prevent it from ever becoming

a useful currency, and will more likely become a wealth storage method similar to gold.

Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency are a fantastic idea in theory.

Just as paper money and debt are, but they're flawed for the same reason.

People.

If there are ways of exploiting a system for financial gain, people will find it.

The only way stopping that is to set up systems to prevent exploitation, and this is what

other currencies like Ethereum are trying to do, while building upon the foundation

Bitcoin laid, but if history has proven anything, if there are ways of exploiting a system for

financial gain people will find it.

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What is the Best Mattress For Back Pain? - Duration: 4:55.

Welcome to PangeaBed.

Where you can get a healthier night's sleep on a cleaner and cooler mattress.

Today we're going to discuss how you can find the best mattress for back pain.

Back pain can be caused by a variety of reasons,

but good posture is key to maintaining a strong, healthy back.

And that doesn't just apply to when you're standing or sitting.

Sleeping with a straight, natural spine alignment relieves the pressures commonly associated with back pain.

There are three different regions of the spine which should all be properly supported while you sleep to help avoid back pain.

The cervical spine. This is the top third of your spine which works to support your head.

This is where having a supportive pillow and sleeping style really matters.

The thoracic spine.

This is the middle third part of your spine. The thoracic spine works to support your upper body.

The lumbar spine. The lumbar spine is the bottom third of your spine.

It works to support your lower back and is often considered the foundation of our back.

There can be so many reasons for back pain, it can be hard to pinpoint what's causing those aches and pains.

A good place to start is with where you spend 1/3 of your life: your mattress.

Here are some indications that your mattress is partly to blame for your back pain.

You find yourself waking up more frequently at night.

You toss and turn.

Your mattress is lumpy or uneven.

You haven't replaced your mattress in 7 years.

Before making a purchase, there are a few things your mattress should have to ensure it won't cause, or add to, your back pain.

Support: Make sure your mattress keeps your spine aligned in a straight line instead of allowing certain parts to dip into the mattress.

Firmness. Typically a medium-firm mattress is the most effective in alleviating and preventing back pain.

They're firm enough to provide support but soft enough to conform to your body and offer pressure-point relief.

Conformability. The mattress should conform to your body to ensure that all of your body is equally supported.

Comfort. You shouldn't compromise support for comfort.

Make sure that the mattress you chose is still comfortable while providing your body with the support it needs.

The PangeaBed mattress has been designed to support your body and spine while you sleep,

regardless of whether you prefer to sleep on your side, back or stomach.

Our mattress has three main layers that work together to provide your back with exceptional support.

1.Our top layer of copper-infused 100% pure Talalay latex.

Talalay's unique cell structure creates a natural buoyancy.

This "springy" feeling results in a mattress that is responsive to your body, meaning,

the more pressure you apply, the more it supports you while you sleep.

This provides "uplifting" support to help keep your body, spine, neck, and head aligned and reduce associated pains.

It also enables your muscles to relax, and maintain critical blood flow.

On top of exceptional comfort, it works to reduce aches, pains, and pressure points in your back.

2. Under that is a layer of PangeaBed™ Cool Gel memory foam that softens to conform to your body, including your spine.

It works to keep your spine fully supported and in proper alignment

and keeps you at the perfect temperature while you sleep.

3. At the base of the mattress is a thick layer of high-density foam

that conforms to your body weight to offer superior support for your spine.

It's important to remember that while purchasing a new mattress is a step in the right direction

and may help to alleviate some discomfort, it may not heal all your back pain.

Oftentimes, people need daily maintenance to eliminate their back pain.

In addition to trying a new mattress,

here are several things you can try to incorporate into your daily life that may help alleviate stubborn back issues.

Visit a chiropractor regularly.

See a physical therapist.

Improve your posture.

Exercise.

Applying ice and heat to reduce pain and inflammation.

Weekly massages.

When it comes to your health, purchasing a new mattress may not resolve back pain or other related issues entirely,

but it can help reduce some of the discomfort you're experiencing.

PangeaBed, the better choice for a better sleep.

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THE MONORAIL IS BACK! | My LEGO City Update #9 | March 2018 - Duration: 9:44.

hello lego fans, friends of decent brick

combining, this is BenBricks

and it's march 2018,

yes, it's march again

and this means there is a new city

update coming for you guys

but before we start I would like

to welcome everybody that is new to

my channel!

I'm glad that you're here

and I hope you enjoy what you see

not only this city update video

but everything else that you can see

on my channel

And if you do so, than feel free to

subscribe, like and share my content

with everybody that you think also

would appreciate these videos

and you would also help me to reach my

next goal here on Youtube that is

the 300 subscriber milestone

And when we have reached these 300 subscribers

there will be a giveaway so again welcome to

my channel

But now back to the update!

In the last update there has been many many

changes and today of course there will

less changes but nonetheless

there are some pretty cool things that

has happened in my city

You probably wrote this in the video

title: The Monorail is back!

And I think that's really cool

because I definitly wanted the monorail

in my new layout and now she is here

And for what else has happened in my

city, we just start the tour!

And there she is, the monorail

I put you the link to my conversion video

into a card so you can whatch it again

by the way, here are a lot of my boxes

They look pretty nice, don't they?

but back to the city

the monorail winds down

from uptown to downtown

until here, where a station will be

built in the next weeks as well as a

station at the airport

In the ocean area there hasn't been so

many changes but I tried out some of your

advices regarding the light house

and I put it on a blue baseplate

and I really like what I see

Another thing that has beed added to my city

is the blue cargo train

I got this in one of my last hauls

I put it together with my son

and he had a blast

and he loves to let him run around the city

It's awesome!

In addition to this I put a lot of

plants, trees and flowers into my city

and also a bunch of minifigures

to just breathe some more life into my city

there are ordinary people like

you and me

but there are also superheroes like

batman and villians like the joker

battling for supremacy in m city.

Hopefully the good guys win!

When I look at my city right now,

expecially the monorail gives this layout

more depth and a new layer that

that makes this city much more

interesting as you can see from

this point of view

one other thing that's been added is

the so called

apple tree house, the first house in my

residential area

I will do a full review on this older

creator house within the next few weeks

here is also the clothes line that was

at the light house before

And there is another project

that I've been working on recently

and that is the train station that you can see

over there.

It's still work in progress and I'm lacking

a lot of pieces but you can get an idea

of what it will look like when

it's finished

and the street there is

the little creator fountain

from my older layout

I really like this arrangement

Let's have a look at the platform

there is the ticket machine

and there will be a food stand

some places to sit

Yes, that's it for this update

just a little one

but some cool changes I think!

and there cannot be big changes all the time

Details are important as well

One very important minifig I

want to show at last

and that is B.A., Baracus from the

A-Team. And he is working and living in

this garage. I really like this set up

Here you can see him a little bit closer

really like this minifig!

And now let's see the trains running around

and through my city

Stay tuned for some new cool videos

here on BenBricks channel

And as I said feel free to subscribe

so you won't miss anything

I would really appreciate this!

and wirte down in the comments

what you like and yhat you would change

So see you next time

and enjoy the trains running!

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Why is Military Work the best employer for people with a military background? - Duration: 1:34.

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Military Work - People with the right attitude

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What is Blockchain technology and what are the different uses? - Duration: 4:57.

What is blockchain?

Imagine it as a general ledger system.

It's kind of like something that is out there and publicly available that everybody can

see, but anonymous.

It's just the transactions that are being recorded publicly.

And in this general ledger, it's recording any form of transaction that occurs.

So up until now, the most popular transaction has been payments.

And specifically, people are very familiar with Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.

They are being recorded, the transactions that occur.

So if I'm sending you money from one wallet electronically to another online, that transaction

gets recorded in the blockchain.

Now, the computers that participate in the blockchain ... That's what we call all these

people who are doing mining.

Cryptocurrency mining, Bitcoin mining.

Why are they doing that?

By using distributed computers to verify and record the general ledger system into the

blockchain.

So we're recording these transactions in the global blockchain.

We are preventing anybody from gaming the system.

Now payments are a very interesting use of blockchain technology.

Now people say, "Well, why?

We've already got credit cards.

We've already got wire transfers.

We already have these kinds of things."

It's not centrally regulated or managed.

This is a global network number one.

Number two, think of all the people in countries that don't even have access to a bank.

For them, blockchain technology, specifically things like cryptocurrencies of Ethereum,

Litecoin, Bitcoin, is a great way for them to send payments within their community or

even outside, in a secure fashion.

And they can do it right from their mobile device.

Insurance.

Insurance is typically a trust management based system.

And if you could use blockchain technology, and it is already being developed on different

platforms, to be able to record and keep track of all the transactions that occur specific

to insurance.

That makes the system more efficient and transparent.

Supply chain and retail.

Fantastic application for when you're going to buy that widget, and you want to know exactly

where it's been, how it got manufactured, the parts that were involved in it.

Maybe even cut out the middle man.

Charity.

Many people are very uncomfortable with the notion of giving to certain charities, because

they simply don't know where their money is going.

Blockchain technology would publicly have a general ledger system that everybody can

access and view to see where exactly their contributions have gone, and whether any of

that money has been shaved off by administration and management fees or not.

I think that's a fascinating use of blockchain technology.

Real Estate.

Very paper intensive.

Keeping track of it for history.

Oil and gas rights, mortgages, land deeds.

Being able to keep track of that in a public general ledger system using blockchain technologies,

would be very efficient and very effective.

Health records.

Keeping track of your family and personal history.

Authentication.

Imagine not needing to keep track of all of those logins and passwords.

But instead, storing SSL encryption certificates right into the blockchain.

Intellectual property.

Proof of prototyping.

Proof of concept.

Keeping track of trademarks and patents.

This could make sure that you can indeed verify and prove that you were first.

Governance.

Think of all those business registrations.

Voting, keeping track of public records.

Royalty tracking for artists, when it comes to songs and photographs.

Cloud storage systems that are distributed and encrypted.

Imagine being able to use all of that available space sitting out there on the internet, throughout

all of the computers that are connected, but being able to use it in a cost-effective,

and very secure fashion.

As you can see, there are many fascinating uses of blockchain technology.

In order to make things more transparent, in order to make them more secure, and to

make sure that they don't fall under the political jurisdictions of certain countries that may

restrict their use.

Truly, blockchain technology is global, anonymous, and secure.

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This is Sango Elementary - Duration: 1:47.

Sango Elementary school, in the heart of the Sango community, has been educating students

since 1996.

Sango's mascot is the panthers, and you can see panther pride throughout the school

and community.

Sango's set of operating principles are called Sango P.R.I.D.E., which stands for

Positivity, Respect, Integrity, Determination, and Excellence.

The students, staff, and parents believe that these operating principles are essential to

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academic achievement.

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fitness and running club, and a recycle team just to name a few.

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and socially, and their vision is that all students will achieve their potential.

Sango is consistently focused on improving student achievement and preparing students

for their next steps in college and career readiness.

The entire Sango community lives by their motto that effort equals achievement.

With continued effort and strong panther pride, Sango students will continue to shine.