Waching daily Feb 28 2018

On this episode of China Uncensored,

what's a Pope got to do

to get some respect in China?

Welcome back to China Uncensored.

I'm Chris Chappell.

In China, if you want to be Catholic,

you have two options:

Belong to the official

Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association,

which is under the supervision

of the atheist Communist Party—

or worship at an underground church,

where priests and even worshippers

can be arrested and persecuted.

The Communist Party has never recognized

the Vatican's authority over Catholicism in China,

and vice versa.

And China's 10 million Catholics

are caught in the middle.

The Vatican has made attempts in the past

to work out some of these issues.

Like back in 2007,

Pope Benedict the sixteenth said that

loyal Catholics could worship

in the state-backed churches.

But now Pope Francis is looking to make a deal

with Chinese leaders on the most hotly contested issue:

Who gets to appoint Chinese bishops.

I went to Washington DC to sit down with

human rights activist Benedict Rogers.

He work for  Christian Solidarity Worldwide,

which works for freedom of religion

and belief for everyone.

Mr. Rogers, thank you for

joining us again today.

My pleasure, very great to be with you.

So, I'd like to talk a little bit about

the situation for Catholics inside China.

Please tell me about it.

Well, historically, ever since 1949

the Church has been essentially

divided between underground Catholics

who have remained faithful to Rome,

to the Pope, to the Vatican—

and an official Catholic church

that is under the control

of the Communist Party...

Well recently,

Pope Francis has been trying to strike a deal

with the Chinese Communist Party

which ties into all this.

Can you tell us a bit about that?

His goal is to try to unify the church in China

and have the whole church

in communion with Rome.

The compromises that I think are being made,

and we'll have to wait and see the details

of the exact deal that they end up with,

but so far,

I'm extremely concerned about

the way things are going.

We've seen courageous underground bishops

being asked to step down in favor

of Communist Party approved bishops.

Well, I don't know.

The state approved bishops

don't sound too bad to me.

I mean, of the seven Pope Francis looked at,

only two had mistresses

and only one was ex-communicated.

Well, maybe looking at the Church worldwide,

statistically, perhaps that's not such a bad rate,

but no, it's very concerning the way things are going.

Well, tell us a bit about your work

with Christian rights in China.

Well it's important to say that my work

is not just on Christian rights.

I work for freedom of religion or belief

as set out in Article 18

of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for everybody.

I work very actively with people of other faiths:

Uighur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists,

Falun Gong, and others.

But in terms of Christians,

we've certainly seen a severe increase

in repression in recent months.

We've seen the destruction of churches,

the destruction of crosses,

new regulations just introduced

controlling religious practice,

and I think that's one of the troubling things

about the Vatican's—not just the substance

of what the Vatican is doing,

but the timing of it—

to be striking a deal at the time

when actually regulations and physical repression

are intensifying,

seems very wrong to me.

What might this Vatican-China deal

mean for Taiwan?

Well, that's incredibly serious.

I find it very hard to imagine that Beijing

would accept a deal that didn't involve

changing diplomatic recognition

from Taiwan to Beijing,

and I think that would be devastating.

So if you were the Pope,

what would you do about

the Catholic situation in China?

I would be insisting on an arrangement

that has the church outside

the control of the government,

has the appointment to bishops

coming from the Pope alone,

and an arrangement that does not in any way

affect relations with Taiwan.

So, China has many beliefs and religions.

If I lived in China,

what religion should I choose

to not be persecuted?

I think you'd have to be of no religion

because even if you choose a religion

that is within the official structures,

even they have come under pressure in recent years.

Official Protestants and I think Catholic as well,

but certainly Protestant churches

have had crosses torn down in recent years.

So, you'd be best off as an atheist.

So what religion should I definitely not choose?

Well, again I think all of the religions

face varying degrees of persecution,

but it's clear that the one belief system

that seems to be target of most hatred

is Falun Gong.

So, if you want to be sure of

condemnation and persecution,

that would be the belief system you practice.

But, really if you're an underground Christian,

if you're Uighur Muslim or Tibetan Buddhist,

you're in for a hard time as well.

Thank you very much for joining us today.

That was a pleasure.

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Things You're Most Likely OVERPAYING for! - Duration: 10:43.

Here are a few things you're probably overpaying for!

9 - Cable If you're trying to save money and be smarter

with your money, one of the easiest things to get rid of is cable.

I'd say to just not watch TV in general, but hey, that's just me.

If you really need shows in your life however, you can easily just get a subscription to

netflix or hulu.

But somehow, a lot of people still choose to keep cable!

If you're one of those people that have cable, make sure you're not overpaying for

your subscription.

The average basic cable package costs around 65 dollars month or 780 dollars per year,

but that doesn't include taxes and all those weird fees they tack on.

It's common for some families to buy packages that has anywhere from 130 to 300 plus channels

included in their subscription.

Research has shown that Americans only view an average of 17 channels despite the massive

variety they have to choose from.

The best way to avoid overpaying for cable is to choose the best subscription package

for you and not the best package the cable company offers.

And just watching TV to watch TV so you can get the max value of your cable bill just

doesn't make sense either!

8 - Bottled water The convenience of having a product that you

can essentially get for free bottled for you has turned into a multi-billion dollar industry

in the US.

At an average cost of $1.22 per gallon, consumers are spending 300 times the cost of tap water

to drink bottled water!

But just how pure is that pristine bottled water in your shopping cart?

As it turns out, the answer varies depending on the brand, and on a confusing array of

water terms.

Artesian water isn't the same as spring water for instance.

The bottom line is that close to half of the bottled water sold in the United States is

ordinary filtered tap water.

The National Resources Defense Council completed a four-year-long study of over 100 brands

of bottled water and found a few disturbing things, such as the case of "pure, glacier

water" having been pumped from a well near a hazardous waste site.

Bottled water brands are fond of using images of snow capped mountains and pine forests

on their labels, even when the water in the bottle may really be from a tap in Pittsburgh.

Or, as one investigator put it, "the same stuff that fills up your toilet bowl."

Just buy a water bottle and refill it!

7 - Brand-name items It happens quite a lot that you go into a

store to buy something and you see the product you were looking for under two different brands.

One is the premium brand while the other is the store brand.

If you take a minute and do a quick comparison of the ingredients and the price, then you

might realize that the brand name product isn't always the best choice, but is often

the more expensive one for no real reason whatsoever.

Brand phobia happens when we always prefer buying the branded product over the non-branded

one, often out of the fear that the non-brand products won't be good enough.

Your headache isn't gonna know the difference between a brand name and a generic pain reliever,

as long as they have the same active ingredient in the same amount.

So instead of spending the extra money on brand name pharmaceuticals, go for the generic

brand and save a few bucks.

6 - HDMI cables When people first started using HDMI cords

to deliver digital signals to their TV's, the cables were another expensive thing to

buy along with the TV.

But as HDMI cables became widespread, you could find them at prices under $10.

Now there's a wide range in price for HDMI cables, from ten dollars all the way up to

hundreds of dollars!

There must be some small improvement for performance for the most expensive cables right?

"In terms of picture quality there's no difference," explains Jeff Park, Senior

Technical Manager for HDMI Licensing, LLC.

"It's digital, so it's all or nothing."

So the short answer is no.

He says quote, "Whether you have a $100 cable or a $5 cable, if they meet the same

specification requirements there should be no difference.

From a technical point of view they are exactly the same."

What people really pay for in expensive cables is just a bit more quality.

That and some great looking materials that make the cable look expensive, but adds absolutely

no value to performance.

Case in point, Magnolia retails a 9.8 foot long HDMI cable for $459.00!

If you need a new HDMI cable there is absolutely no reason to buy the super high-end HDMI cable.

Inexpensive HDMI cables will give the same image and sound quality as expensive cables.

5 - Textbooks Textbooks have long been criticized for being

grossly overpriced.

The giant markup for college textbooks largely comes from author royalties, editorial production,

and marketing.

Don't even get me started on the ROI of going to college itself.

Students have to pick degrees that actually can make them money!

Anyways, textbooks haven't always been so expensive.

Publishers and professors decided to come together and release new editions of a book

every two or three years.

Textbooks became less about educating and more about profitability.

According to The College Board, the average student spends upwards of $1,200 per year

on textbooks.

If you're really trying to save some money, just buy old editions of the same textbook.

Or better yet, just go to the campus library and use the textbooks that's often available

for free.

4 - Extended warranty If you've bought a home appliance, computer

equipment or a used car recently, you probably have been offered an extended warranty.

In many cases, the salesperson probably pushed you hard to purchase it, outlining all of

the benefits of the warranty.

The question here is, are extended warranties a good value?

The answer is a resounding no!

These policies are a great deal for those that offer them, but they're a terrible

deal for the customer.

There are several reasons why.

Most often, you may be purchasing insurance you already have, as most products will carry

some type of manufacturer's warranty for at least a year.

Another big reason is that well, insurance is a losing proposition – it has to be.

Insurance companies aren't in the business of losing money.

They can do this only because, on average, you'll pay them more than they will pay

you.

Insurance companies that issue these policies also factor in breakage.

That is, many people who suffer a covered loss won't file a claim.

They'll either forget that they bought the extended warranty or they won't be able

to find the paperwork to prove they bought it!

3 - Restaurants Restaurants markup the cost of food to turn

a profit of course, but some foods have way bigger markups than others.

Soda from the fountain sells for 20-40 times the restaurant's cost, and eight times more

when it's served in a can.

A cup of tea in a nice sit-down restaurant goes for $2.25 to $3.25, whereas the tea bag

costs no more than 35 cents.

When it comes to pasta, it's impossible to assign an exact dollar figure because the

markup depends on what it's topped with.

But if you exclude pasta dishes with seafood or red meat, you can probably figure that

that bowl of pasta costs the restaurant around a couple bucks, and most restaurants sell

their pasta dishes for 6 to 10 times the cost.

Eggs often come with a hefty markup as well.

The profit margin for a scrambled egg is about 80 percent.

As far as cheese goes, restaurants pay, on average, 29 cents per slice of cheese, but

offer to add cheese to burgers for $1.50 on average, a 417% markup.

If you're really trying to stick it to a restaurant, order a steak, such as ribeye

or filet.

Sometimes restaurants sell it for a loss just because they pretty much have to have it on

the menu.

Do you know what's usually the worst thing to order at a restaurant?

The special of the day!

Typically it's something that's about to go bad, or something the restaurant got

for a great deal.

If you're gonna eat out, at least choose something that you can't easily make at

home for yourself to get the max value out of the experience!

2 - Wine You would think that the more money you spend

on a bottle of wine, the money you spend would proportionally go to the actual winemaking

process.

But, it just doesn't work out that way.

Where exactly does the money go?

For a 100 dollar bottle of wine, around 25-40 dollars of the bottle really goes to what

you can actually taste.

Let's just go through a quick example.

A winery sells their $25 bottle of cabernet to a wholesaler or distributor for $45 per

bottle.

Well, that distributor or wholesaler needs to make money as well.

The distributor charges the retailer $65.

The retailer tacks on the de facto 50% margin.

The wine is now listed at almost a hundred bucks on the store shelf.

When picking a bottle of wine, bear in mind there are two things related to quality.

First on the list are the things you CAN taste – here think about the grapes, the oak barrels,

the winemaking process – and the things you CAN'T taste but still pay plenty of

money for: the marketing, the bottles, the corks, the labels etc.

The cheap wines, something under ten bucks a bottle, put a good percentage of that 10

dollars in making the bottle look good.

For more expensive wines, $100 dollars or more, the biggest percentage of the 100 bucks

in the marketing of the wine.

Yes, ultimately, it's better wine, but you're not getting the best bang for your buck.

It turns out that you get the best value for your money by buying wine in the mid-price

range, for somewhere around 20 bucks for a bottle of wine!

1 - Newest Consumer electronics The newest consumer electronics that comes

out is one of the worst things people overpay for.

One obvious reason is the fact that these products depreciate fast.

Such products face the double whammy of wider availability, as competitors jump on every

bandwagon, and constant innovation, which knocks prices lower.

The longer a product is on the market and the more available it becomes, the lower its

price becomes.

In terms of innovation, the drawback of nearly all electronics is that whatever you buy,

whenever you buy it, a newer, more high-tech product will be on the market within weeks

or months, for cheaper.

Take 3D TVs for example.

In July 2010, the average 47-inch to 50-inch 3D TV sold for a little more than $900 dollars.

A year later, the same TV sold for about $400.

This is why Sony has lost money on its television division for eight straight years!

Buying used or perhaps buying the previous year's closeout model is the smartest way

to go.

You're not going to feel the slight difference in improvement in technology, but you'll

definitely feel that extra money you saved!

Here's what's next!

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What's next for F1's Fernando Alonso | CNBC Profiles - Duration: 2:34.

This is what it's like to be one of the world's best Formula One drivers.

Double World Champion Fernando Alonso has been in the world's spotlight

for nearly two decades.

He's the youngest man ever to win a Formula One Grand Prix.

Now at 36, with nearly 300 races behind him, he's the most experienced driver in the sport.

You've been at the sport for a long time. How do you stay at the top?

Well, I think as long as you do what you love to do,

that's normally enough to be competitive and to be at the top of your sport.

It doesn't matter if it's motor racing or if it's an everyday job in the office.

Fernando races for McLaren, one of the most successful teams in F1 history.

But the last few years have been poor by the team's high standards.

Having not won the title since 2006, Fernando is optimistic for the upcoming season.

How's the car feeling?

Everything's delivering as we expect, so that's a good sign always with a new car.

But I think we need to prove it when everyone's on the track and in the same conditions.

But so far, so good.

Ultimately winning world championships is a team effort.

Zak Brown is McLaren's Executive Director.

It's his job to make sure the entire McLaren operation

is running at the top of its game.

And thank you for your partnership.

Fernando's the one who gets to spray the champagne

and keep the trophies, but there's a lot of men and women,

nearly a thousand, that go into making a competitive race car.

You have to have the best talent, you have to have the best equipment,

you have to have the best driver, and without all of that

you're going to struggle to win races.

You must get used to this.

Does it get a bit boring, all the PR commitments?

A lot of hand shakes?

Yeah, there is quite a busy period now, especially winter testing with the new car.

Many things you have to deal with. You have all the new sponsors coming.

You have all the PR activities.

You know, if you have some experience in F1 like me, you're still learning.

So what does the future hold for one of motorsport's greats?

Do you think you will stay in the sport following your racing career?

I don't know, really.

I've been in Formula One now for 18 seasons, so it's a long journey already

and definitely it's a possibility because I love motorsport and I love racing.

So one way or another, I will keep going.

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Mystic who 'predicted' ISIS, 9 11 had two prophecies for 2018 - Duration: 5:15.

Mystic who �predicted� ISIS, 9 11 had two prophecies for 2018

A blind mystic who many claims predicted 9/11, the rise of ISIS, the Boxing Day tsunami and

Brexit also foresaw two major events in 2018.

Bulgarian Baba Vanga � who died in 1996 at the age of 85 � is well known among conspiracy

theorists who believe she foretold natural disasters and global events long before they

occurred.

Before she died, Baba � dubbed the �Nostradamus from the Balkans� � left predictions up

to the 51st century, when she believed the world would end.

For 2018, she foresaw two world-changing events.

They were that China will become the world�s next �superpower,� taking over from the

US, and �a new form of energy� will be discovered on Venus.

So could these predictions actually come true?

China�s economy has been steadily expanding over the last few years.

In 1970, the country made up just 4.1 percent of the total world�s economy, but this rose

to 15.6 percent in 2015 and it is continuing to rise.

It has not yet overtaken the US, but could soon do so.

In 2015, the US contributed 16.7 percent of the world�s economy, but this is expected

to fall to 14.9 percent in 2025, according to Forbes.

When it comes to Venus, there are no current plans to send a space mission there.

However, the Parker Solar Probe, named after solar astrophysicist Eugene Parker, is scheduled

to launch in July 2018 and will investigate the outer corona of the sun.

While it won�t land on Venus, it will use the planet�s gravitational force to pass

around the sun.

The craft�s mission is to determine the structure of the magnetic fields at the sources

of solar wind, trace the flow of energy that heats the plasma surrounding the sun and explore

dusty plasma and its influence on solar wind and energetic particle formation.

Baba Vanga is said to have predicted 9/11 by claiming �two steel birds� would attack

the �American brethren.�

She reportedly said: �Horror, horror!

The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds.

The wolves will be howling in a bush and innocent blood will be gushing.�

She was also said to have foreseen Brexit when she said Europe as we know it will �cease

to exist� by the end of 2016, and she warned of the rise of an extremist Muslim army that

would invade Europe, thought to refer to the rise of ISIS.

However, last year it was claimed she said that Barack Obama would be the �last American

president,� which falsely led some to believe Donald Trump would never be sworn in.

Other future events Baba warned the world about including the end of world hunger by

2028, Mars� colonies gaining nuclear weapons by 2256 and Earth becoming unhabitable from

2341.

THESE ARE THE FUTURE PREDICTIONS FROM BABA VANGA:

Global hunger will start to be eradicated between 2025 and 2028.

From 2033 to 2045, the polar ice caps will melt, causing ocean levels to rise.

At the same time, Muslims will rule Europe and the world economy will grow.

The rise of cloning will mean doctors can cure any disease.

The US will launch an attack on Muslim Rome using a climate-based �instant freezing�

weapon.

Between 2072 and 2086, a classless, Communist society will thrive hand in hand with newly

restored nature.

Between 2170 and 2256, a Mars colony will become a nuclear power and demand independence

from the Earth.

Back on Earth, an underwater city will be built and something �terrible� will be

discovered during the search for alien life.

Sometime between 2262 and 2304, we�ll crack time travel.

From 2341, a series of natural and man-made disasters will make Earth uninhabitable.

But humans will escape to another solar system and wars will be waged.

From 4302 to 4674, humans are immortal and have assimilated with aliens.

The 340 billion people scattered throughout the universe can talk to God.

In 5079, the universe will end.

Interesting to say the least.

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she ate only pineapple for a week what happened to her body will definitely

surprise you pineapples are awesome they are sweet and super healthy nutrient

bombs this means that you should eat pineapples every day in this video we

are going to show you a simple pineapple diet which will help you lose up to

three kilograms in just one week note it's highly recommended that you

practice this diet for 4 days and is considered to be a temporary remedy

since it represents an imbalanced diet first you should know that pineapple is

extremely effective against water retention bloating and cellulite it's

rich in water about 90% potassium that eliminates the

excess of water iron that creates red blood cells which are known to transport

the oxygen throughout the whole body you should also know that pineapple contains

an enzyme called brah melon that improves the digestion and fights

against the inflammatory processes of the organism another very important

property of this enzyme is that it can fasten your metabolism note this

delicious fruit is a hypocaloric fruit and 100 grams contain 40 calories and

the best way to consume it is when it's fresh and ripe as well as keep it in the

fridge upside down so that the sugar can melt in the whole fruit when it's fresh

its crust is yellowish orange in color and without any spots its structure is

hard and the leaves are green make sure you eat it right after you've cut it so

it can preserve all the properties of vitamin C which is important for the

formation of collagen that improves the elasticity of your skin in this video we

are going to show you a few tips of what to do when you're on the pineapple diet

you should avoid processed meat products and old cheese carbohydrates energetic

and alcoholic drinks note it's extremely important for you to drink tea at least

2 cups of tea a day and at least 2 liters of water a day you should consume

at least 2 tablespoons of oil a day limit the intake of salt spices and

vinegar you should exercise every day as we said you should be very careful the

experts highly recommend this diet only for people who are in good health it's

not recommended to people who suffer from diabetes

and Colitis people who are intolerant to pineapple enzymes and to the ones who

have liver or kidney dysfunction note this is an example of the pineapple diet

for one day breakfast pineapple juice one fruit one cup of tea snack natural

pineapple juice lunch for pineapple slices one slice of bread snack

pineapple juice one apple dinner two pineapple slices 50

grams of boiled rice one cup of tea against bloating note this is an example

of the pineapple diet for three days day one consume only fresh pineapple and

water day two pineapple water and two cans of tuna one for lunch and the other

for dinner day three is identical to day one and you should remember that this

type of diet has just one goal detox because it can happen at the lost

kilograms and especially water return when we go back to the normal regiment

of our nutrition you should eat pineapples every day they

are loaded with healthy nutrients and can provide many health benefits we

really hope you find this article helpful and don't forget to share it

with your friends and family thank you

cinnamon pineapple smoothie to strengthen knee ligaments and tendons we

can't do anything without our knees we can easily say that knees are one of the

most important joints in the human body because they promote proper body posture

and they support movements or our legs while we walk run jump or stand and as

the times goes by we suffer from different injuries and wounds which can

affect our knees these injuries make the ligaments in the

tendons less flexible and mobile because their lubrication is reduced the

lubrication process is completely natural but as we said as we grow older

it's significantly reduced so we all must do something and improve its

flexibility in order to make quick and sharp movements you shouldn't be worried

because in this video we are going to show you one extremely effective natural

method which will help you strengthen your ligaments and tendons this will

help you walk and run much better and it will make your life much easier this

powerful drink is loaded with ingredients and compounds which have

strong anti-inflammatory that can relieve joint pain

it also contains high amounts of vitamin C Bramall and silicon and magnesium and

these nutrients also provide strength and energy to all body parts and systems

cinnamon pineapple smoothie for healthy joints recipe ingredients 1 cup 250

milliliter of water zero comma 25 ounce of cinnamon 2 cups of pineapple chunks

sliced one cup of instant oatmeal one cup of raw natural orange juice 1 comma

5 ounce of crushed almonds 1 comma 5 ounce of raw honey directions here's

what you need to do first you need to cook the oatmeal then you need to

squeeze the juice from the pineapple chunks add the orange juice cinnamon

honey and almonds into a blender when it's still on you need to add the

oatmeal and add the pineapple juice in the blender blend again until you get

nice and smooth mixture note you can add some ice cubes and blend again enjoy

your smoothie you will notice that just after 2 weeks your joints and knees will

be much better and you can walk and even run without any problems if you suffer

from any type of joint pain and if you want to strengthen the knee ligaments

and tendons then you should definitely try the cinnamon pineapple smoothie

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So what are these for? Butterfly backstroke breaststroke and freestyle.

Are we gonna win more this year? Yes!

Morning good morning everyone it's a

beautiful morning in Melbourne actually you remember do you guys remember I used to

start every video saying hello flying friends

hello again flying friends, flying friends I'm flying friends.

I don't do that anymore let me know if you want me to bring that back happy to do

that again. Sadly we're not actually flying today I've got a bunch of errands

that I need to run around Melbourne but whilst I'm doing that I wanted to chat

you about something which is gonna be a little bit tricky to talk about bearing

in mind how much I love Qantas. But I think it needs to be said. Actually got

quite a lot of travel booked this year already and that's part of the point of

this video is there's quite a few trips coming up. In just under two weeks time

gonna be out in Sri Lanka spending some time over there in Colombo and also

hopefully heading out to the Maldives as well which I've never been to before. But

the main point of telling all this is because this was all booked through a

double status credits promotion that Qantas had. So windy this morning

probably a good thing we're not flying actually. This is then gonna be a story

about status credits now well to be technical this is a story about frequent

flier miles but how status credits are really

important to help you get the most frequent flyer miles that you can for

every flight that you're doing. But before I get into too much detail here's

a really quick he's a really quick 30-second overview with very expensive

graphics explaining what exactly are status credits.

When you fly from here to

here you earn frequent flyer miles for every mile that you fly. You also

earn status credits for the same leg. Now when you earn status credits and over 12

months the more flights you do and the more status credits you earn determines

which status credit tier you end up at. But the trouble is if you don't get to a

certain level by the time your year ends your points reset to 0 again and you're

back to 0. A big thank you as well to my daughter who did provide the graphics

and the artwork for that sequence. And the plane! And the plane.

That's the real reason why we're not flying today because I blew the budget

on that amazing demonstration and all those graphics.

So why collect status credits and frequent flyer miles well it's twofold

status credits are great because you obviously get the benefits that come

with the different levels of status. So for example if you get gold with Qantas

you can get into all of their lounges in the airports around Australia and around

the world and you don't have to pay so you save that seven six hundred dollars

however much it is for the annual fee. You go up another tier you go up to

platinum you get access to all the first class lounges around the world as well.

But let's not forget the goal here at the end of the day is frequent flyer

miles that's what we want here that's what you can exchange to actually go

places you can exchange to get upgrades. And as you know with my obsession with

travel and flying that's kind of my objective here. But the higher your

status credit level the more frequent flyer miles you get for the same flight.

Let me give you an example if you do a normal flight which is going to earn you

a thousand frequent flyer miles at the bronze status you'll get a thousand

miles for that flight if you go up a tier and you get silver status you

get a fifty percent bump on top. Gold gets seventy five percent on top and Platinum

actually gets a hundred percent so you get double the points for the same

flight that you're doing if you're a bronze frequent flyer compared to if

you're a platinum frequent flyer. Also side note, it is really hard to say

frequent flyer so many times in the video apologies if I've said flequent a

lot of times I think I'd I think I did. Also realized I really need a haircut

there's a place over there I might go Anyway the point of this video is that I

want to warn you about something you may not otherwise know with status credits

and that is to do with when you take a flight and when you actually earn those

status credits to your account and the timing of when you take a flight and

when those status credits come into your account is critical.

This is not a sponsored video for Abacus they're just a very good coffee shop in

Melbourne and I got my coffee unnecessary pastry. So status credits now

the thing that you need to be aware of the thing that caught us out is when you

book a flight and you're expecting to get status credits as a result of that

flight especially when you're booking it during some kind of promotion and in our

case it was the double status credits promotion, you need to expect that those

status credits are going to appear in your account a fair time after you've

actually touched down. Now this caught us both by surprise because I fly a lot

between Sydney and Melbourne domestically right you get 10 status

credits between Sydney and Melbourne they appear in your account pretty much

by the time you leave the airport. Double status credits is different. When you're

expecting those status credits to come in so you can go up a tier before a

certain point in time you need to make sure that any bookings you're making are

made well before your year's going to end. So in our example we booked that

flight remember when I went to Singapore recently and I was doing that flight in

Seletar and we landed on January the 23rd and Jack my wife's status credit

year expires at the end of January. So there were seven days between landing

and when she was hopefully going to go up a tier. But because those status

credits didn't come in time she didn't actually get that upgrade to the next

tier. Now we followed up with Qantas obviously and we've spoken to them about

this and I will be honest Qantas have been really good in this whole thing.

They're looking at it for us and they're investigating what's going to

happen and we don't know either way whether she's going to get that upgrade

to the next tier. But I thought it's important so you guys know that if you

are relying on status credits to get yourself upgraded from one tier to the

other just make sure that you make that booking well before your year ends

because there's likely to be a delay between your wheels touching down and

the status credits actually appearing in your account. Okay more on that in a

second but first it's my daughter's swimming carnivals she's in the district

swimming carnival for her school so we need to go cheer her on.

I love Melbourne you know if there's one thing we're not short of

here in Melbourne its wide-open spaces. Look at this it's a vloggers dream it

gets you away from all the public on the street who's staring you when you're

pointing a camera at yourself. So what are what are my tips then knowing all

that what are my tips on if you are trying to look to build your status credits and

you don't want to get pinged with an issue like this? So number one don't do

what we did and book a flight which gets you to your destination a week

before your status credit year is up because that's obviously two close as

we proved in our situation. My second bit of advice is if you are gonna book and

if you have booked and if your status credit year is coming to an end and you

haven't got your points go to customer service before your year ends. I think

honestly the longer you leave it the less chance you're gonna get of actually

getting those status credits approved to your account. And my final tip if you

have earned points and you haven't seen them in your account yet there's a

facility where you can jump online and you can put in a points claim request so

that's where you... I just spat on the lens. So you've put in the claim for your points

you've reached out to customer service you've basically done everything you can

to remind the airline that you want to get those status credits. If anyone out

there is watching this who's actually from the airlines and has come across

this situation before and has got some additional tips for travelers leave a

comment in the comments below and you can kind of give us your official line

on what we should be doing as passengers to make sure this doesn't happen to us.

And next up on the channel well we've got another couple of flights coming up

in the Cirrus the SR22 is going to get another workout. I'm trying to take it

down to an airfield that I was told never to land at that should be an

interesting one if I can get permission to go in there. Also want to take the

SR22 overwater I want to try and get it down to King Island and that's about

half an hour over water but I haven't told my missus that so that's between

you and me okay.