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COD 3 IS BACK!!! - Duration: 9:44.
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Here we see Halo Emperor in his natural habitat
when you cant drive a motorcycle
he wont find me
oh no there is a sniper inbound
when i try and snipe nothing happens
here we have a sniper looking for prey
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Who is Aasmah Mir? Celebrity MasterChef 2017 contestant, broadcaster and journalist - Duration: 3:29.
Who is Aasmah Mir? Celebrity MasterChef 2017 contestant, broadcaster and journalist who presents Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4
Aasmah Mir is set to swap the radio studio for the kitchen after being named as a contestant for the new series of Celebrity Masterchef. Heres all we know about the Scottish broadcaster who is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4.
Aasmah Mir, the radio broadcaster, who is set to appear on Celebrity Masterchef. Who is Aasmah Mir?. Aasmah Mir was born in October 1971 to Pakistani immigrant parents and from the age of 10 was brought up in Bearsden near Glasgow.
She graduated with a law degree from Bristol Uni before going on to work for STV in the early 90s.
And after a short stint in the Scottish print media, she moved into radio broadcasting, working her way up from producer of a radio phone-in on a local London station to Five Live, where she became a hit with fans alongside veteran Peter Allen on the drive-time show.
After 11 years at Five Live, she left the station in 2012 before going on to appear on the LBC afternoon show.
Now she is a co-presenter of Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 and has also hosted Womens Hour on the station. Recently she was announced as one of the contestant to appear on the new series of Celebrity Masterchef.
Has Asamah Mir cooked before?.
Aasmah is best known for her drivetime show on BBC Five Live but now presents Saturday Live on Radio 4. The 42-year-old has spiced things up by working on her own YouTube cooking venture since leaving the Five Live.
Aasmah started Cracking Curries with pals in July last year after Twitter fans bombarded her with questions about her kitchen skills.
She said: "I used to post pictures of stuff I'd cooked and people would reply to me asking lots of things about the dishes. "So I thought, why not do something?.
"It's a self-financed venture, not commercial — I don't make any money from it. What is Celebrity MasterChef? When can I watch the new series?.
Celebrity MasterChef is a star version of the original MasterChef. The shows sees famous faces compete against one another to win in the ultimate cooking competition.
An exact date for when the show will be on is yet to be confirmed, but it will be soon. Celebrity Masterchef fans kick off over Sid Owens unfair advantage on show.
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Monsters Inc Theory: Monsters Uni is a Propaganda Film - Duration: 14:03.
For 20 years now pixar has been responsible for an "almost" winning streak of movies
that entertain kids and adults alike.
each original film manages to deliver an interesting, engaging plot with interesting, well developed
characters.
In 2013 pixar released monsters university, the follow up prequel to monsters inc, which
told the story of how mike and sulley first met, it reintroduced old characters and explored
interesting, new characters and ideas.
the problem with most sequels, aside from the need to live up to the original film,
is that they have to built upon an already existing universe.
They have to create new and interesting dynamics between existing characters without contradicting
their old characterisations.
And they have to deliver new ideas plot devices that remain consistent with the source material
without creating plot holes.
As well as monsters university lives up to the original film, there are several unexplained
inconsistencies.
In monsters university we open on a class of students going on a field trip to monsters
inc. during this tour the students are guided through a clean, professional factory, and
look at the scarers with a sense of excitement and idolisation.
The scarers are treated with a professional sports level of fame. this is further expressed
when the team breaks into monsters inc later in the film, and stop to identify them by
name and admire them.
the scaring profession is placed in high esteem,
and requires a high level of education and a graduate degree to perform.
it's a highly sought after job.
contrast this with monsters inc, which opens on mike and sully waking up and clocking in
to their grungy day job.
If you listen to the music, it portrays the scare floor in a messy, industrial tone resembling
olden day coal mining.
during this scene, the monsters are revealed to be all different levels of incompetent,
they're afraid to face children, and they're lazy with quarantine safety, and there's a
level of indifference when it come to protocol and paperwork.
Another inconsistency is in changing character relationships between movies.
in monsters inc mike and sully treat randall as if he's a distant work colleague.
this attitude is pretty strange considering randall was mikes only friend at one point.
whether they've become friends or enemies through their experiences its strange for
mike to refer to randall as "that guy".
the same thing happens with mr snowman, who used to be mike and sullys former boss in
the mail room, but is treated as a stranger in monsters inc.
and finally for a straight up factual error, in monsters inc when mike and sully are talking
mike says "youve been jealous of me since the 4th grade" implying that the two are
childhood friends.
monsters uni obviously contradicts this statement through its entire plot where mike and sully
meet each other for the first timw
when a film creates contradictions like these, sometimes viewing it in a new context can
serve as an explanation for said contradictions.
for the purpose of this video lets first look at the monster universe from the point of
view of monsters incorporated, the company.
in the monster world scream energy is comparable to the fossil fuel industry.
aside from the fact that scream energy is renewable, we have an organisation which is
largely responsible for delivering all power to the monster world, in the same way that
we still rely on oil.
"without screams, we have no power". for this reason it's likely to assume that with
this comes a lot of money and influence at the industries disposal.
the oil industry does what it can to lobby against restricting regulations so that they
can continue to drill oil freely. and the scream industry already produces propaganda
to convince the monster world that children are dangerous.
the act of dehumanising children and portraying them as monsters allows for them to be exploited
with little to no backlash.
The idea of emotionally terrorising a group of people in exchange for power is a hard
pill to swallow from a moral perspective.
By using fear as its driving point, with little to no facts to backup their claims, the industry
has managed normalise the idea of scaring children for power, through years of propaganda.
at the end of the events in monsters inc, the scream industry is in disarray.
they've dealt with a rising level of quarantine incidents, including two employees responsible
for kidnapping a child, and exposing a civilian population to the apparently biohazardous
specimen.
the long standing CEO of monsters inc is being prosecuted for attempting to kidnap children
to extract their screams, a desperate final attempt to meet power demand.
Although waternoose is the unfortunate middleman in this situation and is made a scapegoat,
this whole scandal also points a finger at the industries standards as a whole.
To add to that, despite no longer scaring children to harvest energy, the company is
still exploiting children emotionally, an issue that the civilians of monstropolous
are becoming increasingly more informed about, with growing scepticism as to whether children
are in fact dangerous.
monsters inc stands on a fragile platform of fear based public opinion, and so as a
natural response to growing uncertainty, the company needs to reinforce their already existing
propaganda and repair their public image.
what the company needs right now is a distraction, a new focus for their image.
and what better person to do that than the new CEO, the figurehead of monsters inc, the
renegade whistleblower responsible for bringing the old leadership to justice, idolised for
his acts of heroics, and discovery a more humane way to harvest energy.
sully and mike have become infamous figures in the monster world, beloved by the people,
and are currently monsters inc most powerful point of influence.
it's pretty typical for an organisation to fund or at least support the creation of biopics,
documentaries and films which serve as positive PR for their company culture.
over the last 20 years, nine different films and documentaries have been created which
tell the story and ideas of apple founder steve jobs. and although these portrayals
aren't always positive ones, its safe to say they've been pretty successful in selling
him as some god-like figure.
The critically acclaimed film the social network, tells the story of facebook's early days from
the perspective of CEO mark zuckerberg. and the critically panned film the internship,
was basically a 2 hour advertisement for google and their internship programs, funded by google.
clearly organisations are in favour of films which let their company culture shine in a
positive light.
but what about films produced as a response to scandal, created with the pure purpose
of influencing public opinion by pushing biased information.
In 2013 FIFA predident Sepp blatter was under investigation by the FIFA ethics committee
as a response to allegations of illegal payments and internal corruption.
in 2014 United passions was released, a film centered around Sepp Blatter and the governing
body of FIFA, showing how they remained incorruptible despite numerous opponents and challenges.
"john oliver quote".
FIFA funded 90% of the film and originally suggested it be called "men of legend"
or "the dreammakers". the movie grossed $918 in its opening weekend, the worst in
US history.
Danieal gold new york times "one of the most unwatchable films in recent memory, a
dishonest bit of corporate-suite sanitizing that's no good even for laughs"
London Evening Standard's Des Kelly "the most extraordinary vanity exercise; a vile,
self-aggrandizing, sugar-coated pile of manure where Blatter and Co. manage to make North
Korea's Kim Jong-un look self-effacing" Tim Roth stated "Where's all the corruption
in the script?
Where is all the back-stabbing, the deals?"
Director Auburtin "Now I'm seen as bad as the guy who brought AIDS to Africa or the
guy who caused the financial crisis ... apparently I am a propaganda guy making films for corrupt
people"
Lets take another look at the context of monsters university.
what if instead of the film being a prequel to monsters inc with all of its contradictions
and inconsistencies, it was a standalone film that existed within the monsters inc universe,
created as a response to the events of the first movie.
monsters uni is a film within a film.
A propaganda film.
in this situation any contradictions and inconsistencies are made by the fictional producers of the
film in the monster universe, rather than the real producers in the real world.
However when looking back at the contradictions pointed out before its clear that not only
are these mistakes no longer mistakes, but they're intentional decisions made for the
purpose of persuading the public opinion of the monster world
scream energy is clearly a blue collar industry as presented in monsters inc with shortages
in trained workers and an indifference towards standards and protocol.
if anything, a decade earlier, the industry would be in an even less professional condition.
the portrayal of the scarers as professional, educated, even idolised is an attempt to rebrand
scaring as an attractive career path, to encourage young monsters to pursue scaring.
this is further shown by the fact that mike and sully didn't need to graduate from monsters
university to get their dream job.
it seems that a degree in scaring is an optional qualification, clearly not needed in a world
where competent scarers are hard to come by.
showing mike and sully abandon university to work in the mailroom further portrays their
renegade spirit, and their tendency to go against the status quo. they are truly the
relatable underdogs who started at the bottom and worked their way to the top through hard
work.
why were characters like randall and mr snowman featured in the film despite having little
to no involvement with mike and sully until the scandal happened.
Well, in the middle of any scandal people look towards the main players involved, they
become famous, familiar faces as a result of excessive press coverage.
its pretty typical for biopics to shoehorn in familiar faces, making them more relevant
to a story than they actually were.
does anyone else remember in 2016 when American crime story aired.
it was a 10 episode series that followed the prosecution of OJ simpson, and even though
the kardashian kids were kids at the time with no involvement in the trials whatsoever,
they were shoehorned in due to their current fame and relevance.
biopics rely on real world fame to garner interest and so if they notice a familiar
face crossing paths with the story, however remote, why wouldn't they capitalise on that.
In monsters inc mike says "youve been jealous of me since the forth grade" and yet monsters
uni creates a new story in which the two are introduced at university.
Firstly, biopics are a dramatisation of real life, they're based on true events but typically
alter details for the purpose of serving a more interesting story arc. but perhaps the
main reason the two meet at university is to place the world of scaring at the centre
of their friendship.
steve jobs and steve wozniak represent two clashing philosophies which led to the ultimate
success of apple: a focus on technological innovation and programming vs a focus on business,
design and company image.
the film takes a look at their clashing ideologies and how
it formed the modern company.
at the heart of monsters university are two clashing ideologies: a focus on paperwork
and theory, vs a focus on raw talent and physical performance.
the film goes on to develop a chemistry between mike and sully centered around the clashing
of these two ideas.
ultimately the combination of two ideas is what leads to being a successful scarer, and
this is represented in the friendship formed by mike and sully.
it seems that pixar have unintentionally created a perfect example of the way in which powerful,
influential organisations use media to persuade public opinion.
This may be done to portray a company through an idealised lens, provide a human face to
an otherwise faceless corporation, or even deliver biased information to serve an agenda.
The way in which we perceive the world around us is gathered from the media we take in,
news, tv, and films.
given enough money and determination, anyone has the ability to alter these forms of media
to push their own reality.
one of the most effective ways to influence is to appeal to our emotions, our sense of
safety, and our sense of fear. and so it's important to question information, to view
all unfamiliar ideas with a level of scepticism, and base opinions on a foundation of fact.
monsters university serves as a reminder of just how far the power of influence can spread.
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"Water is Life"- Scott Kalama - Duration: 2:33.
It was 1993, a hot summer morning in Central Oregon. My brothers and I was playing
basketball outside when we heard grandma yell, "Time for lunch!" We all raced to the
door sweating. I said, "Grandma, we're thirsty. Can we have a soda?" She said,
"What's wrong with the water from the hose outside? It's perfectly fine." And it
was. We went swimming in the water. We drank the water without thinking about
contamination. Little did I know those days were the Golden Age of clean
drinking water. Fast forward to adulthood. In 2014, our
community was told not to drink our water due to the green algae buildup.
It made me think a lot about water quality issues. I began researching different
groups in the area. I linked up with the Northwest Water Protectors. I joined the
movement. As soon as I got back from Standing Rock, I went to all the local protests. I
witnessed firsthand what I already knew, that it all comes down to big
corporations doing what they've always done. Their demand for oil was our fight for
clean water. Sometimes when I talk about these things,
friends say, "Why don't you just move to the city?" but when I went out there all I saw
was too much traffic, too many people and too much noise. On the reservation I look
around me and see the majority of my people aren't happy. I think it's directly related
to the historical trauma we faced. We didn't learn how to cope with the loss
of our traditions. Now we're seeing climate change happen before our eyes.
Witnessing it makes me think of something my grandfather told me. He was
in army and wanted me to fight for something better in my lifetime. I told
him I didn't know what that was. He said, "You'll figure it out, you'll find your
battle." The day I paid five bucks for a bottle of water that's when I realized
that water is valuable. That's when I found my battle. Water is life.
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