Waching daily Feb 1 2019

A lonely gray wolf sits in a small cage with a concrete floor.

His name is Bear, and this tiny room in a dilapidated roadside zoo in Pennsylvania has

been his home for most of his life.

What Bear doesn't know, however, is that on this particular day, he isn't quite so

alone.

For loneliness was all that Bear knew up until that point in his life.

In fact, Bear lived for years in a cramped cell at Animaland Zoological Park, a roadside

animal attraction in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.

His concrete enclosure was identical to many others in the zoo, with each one holding different

animals.

But Bear was the only wolf at the park.

Of course, wolves are exceptionally social creatures, so Bear's isolation was deeply

incongruous with his instincts.

For instance, instead of roaming with his wolf pack and securing a mate, Bear had not

seen another of his kind in years.

What's more, Bear's neighbors included a Siberian tiger named Baby, an arctic fox,

a bobcat and three capuchin monkeys.

A pair of black bears, named Shawn and Sandy, were also kept in too-small quarters at the

roadside zoo.

However, not only were enclosures small and cramped, but they also had only cement floors

and no provisions for comfort or rest.

These barren cells restricted the animals' movement, and Animaland apparently did not

provide them with any additional stimulation or exercise.

Thankfully, Bear and his companion's suffering did not go unnoticed.

In fact, local visitors were so distraught by what they saw at the zoo that they contacted

the Animal Legal Defense Fund or ALDF.

When it comes to fighting to protect animals from injustice, the ALDF is one of the top

agencies.

Therefore, in March 2016 the group filed a federal lawsuit against Animaland for not

providing adequate care for the animals.

However, Animaland's owners, James and Kathleen Melko, claimed that they weren't mistreating

the animals.

In fact, they argued that they had been helping the animals for the past 14 years.

Not surprisingly, though, the ALDF's investigation showed this to be untrue.

Within months, Animaland and its owners were charged with violating the Endangered Species

Act or ESA as well as the Pennsylvania State Game Commission regulations that define how

to humanely care for a captive animal.

But it wasn't just the small cages and lack of exercise or stimulation that led to ALDF's

victory.

Looking back at Animaland's history, the ALDF found that the zoo had over 60 violations

from USDA inspections in the past few years.

In fact, Animaland had failed to meet the most minimal of requirements for proper care,

as defined by the Animal Welfare Act.

Even the infrastructure of the zoo itself was in such decline that the lawsuit declared

it a public safety hazard, as there was a risk of animals escaping.

In addition to this, the lawsuit focused on the zoo's endangered species: Bear and the

Siberian tiger, Baby.

"Laws that protect endangered species apply to every member of that species," said Stephen

Wells, executive director of the ADLF.

"Whether in the wild or captivity, the law remains the same," said Wells.

"The animals at Animaland are suffering and intervention is required."

For evidence in the lawsuit, ALDF relied on photos, firsthand accounts from visitors and

expert analysis.

The testimonies indicated that all of the animals kept in these conditions were suffering

both physically and psychologically.

Naturally, Bear was meant to be a social and active wolf and suffered, perhaps more than

the rest, by being alone.

But little did he know that his life was about to change forever.

In light of the lawsuit, Animaland closed its doors for good in August.

Thankfully, too, the owners worked with officials to ensure that all of the zoo's animals

were relocated to new homes.

So when it was time for Bear to leave, the cage that his rescuers placed him inside would

become his last.

That's because he rode to his new home at the Wolf Sanctuary of Pennsylvania.

Now he "can finally experience the companionship of other wolves and feel the earth beneath

his paws," according to an ALDF press release.

In fact, all the animals found new homes that catered specifically to their needs.

For instance, Baby the tiger, the monkeys, the bobcat and the fox were all moved to a

wildlife rescue facility in Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile, the black bears Shawn and Sandy were moved by Lions Tigers & Bears to the

Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation in San Antonio, Texas.

"The animals at Animaland were suffering, and the zoo was breaking the law," said

Wells.

"We are happy to have helped these long-suffering animals find habitats that meet their needs

as wild animals, and we are relieved that they are finally free from their cramped and

dilapidated quarters at Animaland."

As for Bear, he can now finally roam and socialize with his wolf brethren.

He is safe, well cared for and will live the rest of his life cage-free.

For more infomation >> This Lonely Wolf Was Caged In A Roadside Zoo For Years Then He Finally Saw A Friendly Face - Duration: 5:17.

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Resist Embossing Beginner Cardmaking Tutorial for Alexandra's Birthday Card Made & Designed By Greg - Duration: 1:03:47.

hello and welcome to Hedgehog Hollow this is what's it called happy hour and

Alex is here - yeah hi and welcome to head show caller and welcome to Hedgehog

hello happy hour as some of our viewers named it last time yeah we have a proper

name for this new segment there's gonna be a new segment with me here as well

yes this is actually take two so quakes probably gonna try and say that he's a

pro at this now so moving on its birthday tomorrow he doesn't have a card

for me so he decided he's gonna make a card for me but I haven't ik but I had

to be in the video to help who make the card it's less romantic he he gets

queued us for making it but not sure about the cute as fat I have to help him

make it I think you should have had hanussen here to help him make it but

Hannah gets to do the descriptions and get you some fabrics plus she's gonna

put a special coupon code in that description for you as well thanks

family so thank you so he's selected his stamp set yes how about you got an idea

how selected his techniques for a class that he did not making is cool that you

have a technique in mind yeah and you learned some things from the first time

like don't get your deactivator in your whisky yes yes I found out last time

yeah so we're not going to do that do that when you get this baggy thing

you'll find out what it's for later in the end don't whiz it around don't play

with it yeah yeah you end up with powder

everywhere and then it gets in your whisky yeah so we should perhaps explain

what we're doing technique what should I explain you should explain it so what

I'm gonna do this is an idea was presented in one of the training courses

I did a crazy evasion which is couple weeks ago coming what course it was

the dark room door darkened or yes it was their idea not mine

and essentially just take a pretty stamp we're gonna use this big flowery one at

the bottom here which I quite like so we're gonna use that but rather than

inking on there we're going to put a diesel on there put that on the paper

and boss on the adhesive and then use watercolor markers to kind of brush

across that and the markers are going to put their ink into the paper but not on

the emboss surface so it like leaves behind an outline of the flower resist

resist so we're cool okay so we're gonna do some resisting bossing in Kings okay

alright so we're gonna start with a misty put the paper in put the stampy

thingy on what size to cut it to five inches that's our piece of paper and

this is water cone we press compass what's cold fish so you get cold pressed

hot press Hanna did try to explain the difference to me I can't remember the

difference but basically these depends what texture you end up with on your

paper so this is sort of semi smooth and a semi bobbly than the other side the

more bibley side is the side you're gonna stamp on okay I really like this

new texture it's a tonic are now doing it in a to size we don't have to buy a

pattern that's American aid to not push you say to karat British say to is also

a paper size but huge um but what it means is what I used to is might be pads

of paper and I said haven't cut down but now I just have these which is kind of

cool okay easy stuff so just a bit I dunno but i use a mystery we're gonna

put down there you put these magnets kind of roughly in the corners yeah

although he broke my magnet earlier so now he has to hot

broke the magnet we're doing take two because I messed up the sound

and then I also I have in here a laminated sheet so if he stomps over the

edge it's easy to clean up the other thing sometimes I do these are the bits

of paper that you get when you get misty sometimes I also put an easy clean map

but I have I have those cut down to size through those sticky match know what's

needed clean matter from yeah so I have these but I have them cut down to size

in my Misti I just can't reach it right here I have these cut down to Misti size

and then they're really easy to clean and then I can throw all sorts of

mediums and alcohol inks and that kind of stuff and then I also have the sticky

sheet saying and handle make sure there's a link in that top right so I'm

sure she's giggling she's watching this video right so then we take our stamp

and you put your stamp you side down position it wherever you want

yep and we're using the old new dearest friend stamp set that flips over there

and now we need to do the funny dusting that you don't want in your whisky over

here and put the gluey thingy on there like in any particular

order do you see that we put on here does that ever set on its own it does so

you gotta hurry up a little bit reasonably um you want to put your

anti-static stuff down first and then you can either get that in a brush form

or you can get it in the pillow form you can get pillows like this get in the

brush form well the only reason I like this is you lays down more I used this

when I'm working on black or if I'm using if I'm working like real black and

I don't want anything left behind then I use a dryer sheet but notice earlier

when you did it you ended up with those they do have here's one I made earlier

he ended up with some like little speckles around and that's because you

didn't put enough static down and you're working on white so no one's gonna see

the anti-static afterward so you really want to be quite generous you kind of

what up what's happening here so the powder is supposed to come out of the

bag

like you don't want quarter-inch thick coating but you also like there's a

happy medium a lot of time I got it all over the desk this time and this is a

bit more contained do you have some we're getting this off okay mr. Pitts

right okay so that's that done now we're gonna use these some of these these an

embossing pad and this is literally adhesive in an ink so it's a glue ink

and there are tons out of this we used to only have one option it was called

Versamark I hated it but it was our only option there are now tons of options out

there and I kind of have a top-three again there's a video Hannah if you want

to look at my reviews and I my top three are Nouveau and I really like kind of

the spongy one and that's the one that Gregg will be using today yes I also

like the old movie I really like the ink they put inside my kind of pet peeve

with it is that the lid doesn't stay on properly so I have to put an elastic

band around it but the ink inside of it is really nice just points out look so

I'm gonna close like and then all right we get it the link this is at least an

elastic band it's easy there's an engineered solution lasting the other

one I really really like is the while embossing and the one thing I'm going to

tell you about that is because it's a slow drying format you can start inking

is done is a slow drying formula so there's a couple of reasons why I like

that firstly you don't have to work super fast and so if you want to do like

ombre embossing and stuff that's really cool the second reason of that is for us

mums who have three-year-olds or husbands who come in in the middle of

our crafting I want to interrupt and I like but I need something you can go

away you can do one you can go and deal with whatever they need and then you can

come back and your embossing ink it's still going to be wet so they are my top

three if you're looking for an embossing ink it's really difficult to see I love

out the corner Maya so they are my top three that I would

recommend it for everyone I know will put links to the description below for

you my general go-to always does all my

links for me I'm very grateful that Hannah doesn't my links for me she will

also put our head shot-caller tonic coupon every month we have a special

tonic coupon for our head traveler followers but my go-to tends to be the

tonic claim like I really just like you'll notice when you were inking just

then it has a little bit sponginess to it and I find that just gives me a

really nice impression alright so I seem to have but the thing you have to

remember is that bit it's actually that bit it's the opposite of what you think

it is I could work that out yes thank you

PhD in engineering I'm pretty sure I can get that bit right anyway we're also

drinking Russian caravan team we did explain this in the first video but Greg

messed up the sound so that's not that I didn't I start to tea though the tea's

really good yes so we okay it's cliche but we love our tea and we have tried to

buy Russian caravan tea in America we've tried so many different places we can't

find it so Greg's parents every time they come they come with bags and bags

of tea for us we have smoked tail bray and russian caravan this particular tea

comes from HR Egan's in london which is the actual tea suppliers in between as I

thought amazing who also make and it's not a job begins it's HR hicking HR

Egan's my uni makes tea and coffee he can see the beginning yeah this one

empty I went to a posh school he went to a party school near Arabs in it

right so now we're going to emboss so this is sprinkling of the powder and

making mess okay are we using Boyd Boyd we're using black embossing powder oh

well yes we should talk about this again so you can use any color embossing

powder you want you can use metallics you can use whites you can use clears on

Greg's original you used white yep you use what

Greg's just elected this evening to use black I'm gonna do the same thing every

time you can also use clear I know some fun things you can do with clear is you

could use a colored cardstock and then use metallic pen over the top you could

color first the background using a light watercolor pen so you could go like with

a light pink then you could do clear embossing and then you could go over

with a darker color or another color and you would then have a two-tone because

the clear would show through the original color you had and then you put

another color on top he is also using a fine embossing powder I like working in

general with ultra fine as much as I can because it gives me a really nice

detailed image particularly if I'm coloring not you I mean not all colors

come in ultra fine I mean in general I tend to work with black white clear gold

silver copper and then keep them in these little Tupperware's I have a

command clip in the top and my pink ice cream soon I did especially find pink

ice cream spoon to use with them because I add to the bility or anything good

they come in like I found somewhere that stops pink or any color that you might

happen to want in your craft room again Hannah will ensure you have links to

pink ice cream screens should you want those for you all I've done there is lay

some ink down and then we've just pause powder over the top of it so if I was to

touch that it would rub off very easily yes it and then these are called tidy

trays are a special funnel type tray which I just think really neat and they

may and I've got some residue on here so I

just flick it and I am and of course Craig does over the bin a really good

job okay so there was like some residue on there you and I could see it but now

it's quite clean anywhere that you didn't yet so you know you now used a

lot more static than last time you don't have yes there's a much clearer picture

where is if you do have any extra you can just take a paintbrush and just like

hear that okay so now we're gonna burn that off melt it whatever

what's this thing called embossing heat embossing yes okay this is just a big

powerful hairdryer yeah but don't use a hairdryer because a hairdryer has a much

higher heat flow and it's not hot so hairdryer just blow me around yeah so

just flirt away so this doesn't blow very hard but it gets really hot

fingers

okay

she really inspects my work doesn't is he looking for defects and errors and

things do this with my heat embossing - the worst thing is when you heat emboss

something and then you put some water it's hot and then you put water on it

and it all blows away and I have to say he's really improved from his original

heat embossing that had like a lot of like show you that so this was take one

and the reason so could you put more of these Pouncy tolling these whiskey don't

you have to tell nobody needed to know

doesn't matter I'm not sure you can see they need to I don't think you can

really see but there's some tiny little one looks murky and one looks very clear

yeah this one here for instance I don't know if you can really see but there's

some little bits of residue and it's not quite as clear image and this one's

clear and that's because of the correct use of the dusty stuff now I had to use

that dusty stuff it's cornflour and stuff you can find recipes on youtube to

make your own if you want to I thoroughly recommend just buying one

I've seen people make them and make big disasters out of them they're not like

expensive there are a few dollars or you can buy them and still make a big

disaster out of them that's something we've proved not ten minutes ago right

but having my whiskey without weird powder in a weird weird powder in it new

whiskey okay okay so you can do a trial on your original one oh yeah that's true

so this is the yeah this is no such a clear image and what we're gonna do so I

should tell you he stole Hannah's misty bag and why them

that's mine oh sorry Hanna three stolen Hanna's misty back then she won at the

Brutus phone our own Christmas party hang on okay but when I was a creative

Asian I won the bag of something from somebody yeah I gave that to me well you

give your bag Hanan and own it yours and then everything's quick right so he's

stolen Hanna's misty bag he's taken a full set of tools and supplies and he

now has his own misty bag I had to go out today to buy c'mon totes for him to

hang his misty bags all because he was decided he needs his own space and he

can't use the whole array of simple scissors I've got a bone folder I've got

a craft pick do you know I know this stuff is I've got foam tape

distress ink I've got my some ideas tape runner in that I have to say I'd say

when I did the class creative Asian it was the first time that I've ever used

nan Tim Holtz's and I don't know what brand they were they're just ones that

he gave us to use and actually it became really apparent how much better

high-quality scissors are compared to cheap ones and we also use some cheap

sticky back foam adhesive where you stick it between layers to get a bit of

depth and the cheap stuff you cut it up into a square about a centimeter square

and it just disintegrated into like a mushy sticky mess at all whereas the

better stuff that you use you can cut very nice thin small squares and it

still retains its structural integrity

so we are gonna use some liquid water colors and gravy ones we're using I'll

turn you on so I'll turn you so far for at least two sets they coordinate

perfectly with their inks so if you are a coordination junkie like I am then you

can get these two sets they have a yellow color on them when they

scum so what you do is you just unscrew that take that yellow color off screw

this back on again and off you go and so to get them started breaks can I

demonstrate how not to do it but all you do is you just give it a light squeeze

and the it comes down the barrel and off you go now there are a couple of

different techniques to using liquid water colors and a lot of people do use

them directly from the pen and you totally can do that however you will

find they're super vibrant if you do that I should add you can do that so

this is very different to how I did this in the training course with straightened

or not how I use okay cuz this isn't giving me the effect that I laughter

really it's not personally how I like to do them okay I like to when I do so take

a paint brush what color do you like best

I'm sorry I should point out I'm making your birthday card for tomorrow so which

color do you like best whatever you choose darling okay

whatever I do is gonna be wrong I don't know I kind of wanted more of a pinky

ponky well these are Reds red well you could

also use some of the liquid watercolors off the wall if you prefer the second

shelf up is pretty much yes that's a spray not I know this just sticks what

we doing cuz otherwise it'll end up in the well that's alcohol ink the second

shelf that one like there the liquid watercolors Daleks shimmery liquid water

colors they're Brutus Monroe liquid watercolors and then you've also got the

pink fresh ones in the back glass bottle up there there's a pink

that's a really nice pick that one what's this lovely color purple so this

is this more like how I did it on the thing which is where you put someone you

make a bit of a mess and put it on the platform and then you pick it up with

one of those that water or I could trust you with my yeah don't never go this so

joyless we just pump that on here over here in your pallet area tear open the

bottle no so simple is it so you just do a dip dab of that on there okay but

that's the same thing I would do if I was gonna work with these I know what

with these in the pen I squeeze them and then I do that and I grab some water and

then I okay so I'm going to try that I'm gonna use this because this is what I

used last time so I just wish that around a bit well

you're not gonna add some water out of here

mmm what is water yeah you've got a practice piece first so I'm gonna smear

that about and that's basically made to be pink kind of mission okay but the

other thing you gonna find this is regular cardstock this is watercolor so

that's gonna look a bit different so that's much more of a pink you know

that's definitely pink like that okay so I'm gonna go to that my hair kind of

pink yeah matches doesn't it okay

well I used to want a guitar that matched your eyes if you remember when

we go to PRS custom 24 gorgeous and then later when I realized I had no musical

town whatsoever and couldn't play at all so kind of so we're not doing odds new

watercolor markers so the next thing he wants to do is he wants to do a gel

press now I don't done much with the gel pens I did do a

video ages and ages ago if you want to see some basics with the Jeffress so we

will investigate that and then we're also going to do a video on adhesives

because I realize I haven't covered adhesives for a long time and there are

tons more out there I also got a ton creative ation that I haven't really

played with so we're gonna have a play around with those and do some other

things with those as well so that's kind of the effect I was going for

so you see you keep your hand at the same angle so I sort of brush this at

about 45 degrees and don't worry about kind of coloring everything or getting

even color in fact that not even color is sort of the point so you get that a

little bit more interest if it was all just one shade of pink it would be kind

of boring in a bit weird nothing that was quite nice

you prefer the black version you look better with white there's quite punchy

you like me yeah so so do it now on the actual one I'm just doing exactly the

same thing I put way too much ink down I mean you put way too much ink down

this is also really really easy you don't have to be zero artistic talent is

what he's trying to say I mean

just a little bit more pink oh yeah so I've just done the same sort

of thing again and you see it's not a clean even color there's light patches

dark patches that's sort of the point

yeah very easy okay yeah let's clean up and then this come back and there's

mount this up and how are you gonna clean your brush with your rinse well I

didn't I just squirted some also over well you should talk about the rinse

well because you like oh this is really cool okay it's also about sure nobody

can see did you always tell me so this thing go rinse well it's a really clever

little idea it's great for cleaning brushes so you dab your brush in here

you have a little pool of clean water so you can use and then just sort of brush

up on the edge and kind of clean it as best you can

could you put that put some kitchen roll stuff and then once your water gets all

dirty you push this button here well that water drains away and out of this

container it just refills itself with another kind of centimeter of clean

water bits on the bottom to help you clean

well if you've got Mike and stuff in your brush or like helps you clean it

it also has areas for you to put your brush in so that your fibers don't get

kind of gummed up and then it stores all your dirty water in the bottom so I

think it's pretty cool and if you're on the move you can get extra ones of these

to fill whatever idea because anytime you're painting you always end up with

having to constantly change your water and with that you just push the button

and you change your water constantly and have clean water that's about it fine

okay so we've all cleaned up we've got our sample with our backup sample and so

this bits gonna be four inches by five standard sizes and you already have a

card base cut and scored this one oh these are great so these are pre-cut and

pre-scored so it's already got a fold in the center there she literally just bend

it zoom or edit that out

you actually just bend it over you don't need to measure anything or fast about

put gently folding that I don't need a bone folder do you need your folder what

you insisted on having your own yeah this is a bone folder Teflon bone folder

basically a piece of plastic with a rounded off edge and it's great for

doing this and if you use one of these firstly if you got grubby fingers or

inky fingers or whatever you don't have to worry about any of that and secondly

it puts loads of pressure right where it's needed gives you see very nice neat

fault so that's not kind of springing up its properly well folded

however properly well properly well folding right in it

however when you're in a mount up you should never mount up as a car fold like

that because this is always kind of stringy she always

it out such a flat flat and then you mount on that you do that right so now

I'm going to stick this on here oh

you're one of those you know when I build things he lasts like a hundred

years and when I'm mounting things up you only need to worry about three edges

right yes so as long as all three edges are even the rest away well we - no

pressure

shush we'll try that again all right another

concentration this is normal by the way he would be doing it to me

John you for beer there we go so just stuck the black thing on the white thing

right now stick the white pink thing on the black thing is that right same

technique same oh I see so the black star see you were thinking because we

had black embossing powder on the black Oh see that's what separates a crafter

from a complete new I never thought to do that right so now is this dry yes

do you heat you sure cuz it looks dry and it's Tim says if the touching is dry

it's dry that's what you told me ANCA we've

already touched it by then so if you look back on this in year two years time

thinking when he did that no how did that delivered a right so now

okay you flower the right way

same questions still Elaine which way am I supposed to isn't this gonna stick

that way we can be either way well if it's gonna be that way it doesn't if it

can be either way there's no right way does it it can be that way that way

right so it doesn't matter is what you're saying but that way would be

wrong it's upside down that's not right

what way - I'll stick it on don't stick it on that way that way would either be

like yeah no pressure trust me when I'm doing videos he does this all the time

behind the camera and he tries to make me giggle all the time - I do do that

and I'm probably getting my justice do you want to choose your sentiment mm-hmm

they'll go with happy birthday which one do you like do you have

we prune this across here or in you so oh so we're making a separate thing

putting on here raised up Oh lovely yeah that would look nice so I wanna

kind of girl you won't you know quite a nice bright thing how's this going

across the front so it's got to be fairly small because that one's bit big

so unless you have known beauty don't let's go with those two those two I like

the idea of like a handwritten sort of look but that one's too big this one's

probably about right I'm gonna take that as a hint no I'm just saying that kind

of size yeah I think that one is real Oh see last time I brought my own that I

took over your card too much so now they're gonna say the same thing again

so I think you should make the decision no go back to your original this is my

vision it is that was a decoy oh uh come on the things right first of all you

need you what's it do breathe well what's it do misty misty corner because

I know it's just a sex book what's that for oh okay so I put me paper in yeah

and I'm in this woman yep do we need to go over it with that pound

of stuff that gets in your wish because I think we're just using see okay so me

not embossing this time I'm just unless you particularly wanted to know it's

missing like straight - straight what's to the right side

oh gosh I work out cause it's the mirror image of it I can't even read it well

that's his birthday but I don't know which way up it go ah so if I look at it

right so I can look through that and I can series birthday

so that's the way I won't say isn't it it's actually not the mirror image so as

I look down into that it says happy birthday which is what's a stupid man

they're all right yes all right don't you

I'm just Lexie but that's got nothing to do with that right now what we'll do pay

attention you're supposed to be the professional I would highly recommend HR

Egan's Higgins HR weakens tea and coffee something rather in London

it's new Selfridges if anyone's looking for it so what are you doing there this

one's harder because like a lot of sentiments dance is like a line so I

could line line but because this is like a script T one it's a little bit harder

it's okay I'm working on it just trying to see through the tears okay

I'm sure you'll cope do

so the tip there that I was trying to see through the tears is if you line

like this the a the P the P the Y and then the birthday if you line it up

against the edge of your misty corner thank you that's gross misty corner and

then if you take like the edge of spatula you can hold down the stamp why

do you put away you misty corner and then you can click onto your lid and

it's straight I should explain from an engineering perspective any sort of

adhesive is all about surface area so if you use a sharp edge of anything it's

going tiny surface area across that edge just tell them how to do it they don't

need to understand why if there's any engineers watching they will want to

understand the wire and the wire is due to the tiny surface area of the straight

edge like if you just as well use a knife you know just tell them how to

brush so why are we using this or we just picked a plaque it's one of my

favorites I either use this or MFT extreme black MFT my favorite things

people gonna know that but we using the genic a amalgam so you said this ink is

your favor yes it's black ink so how do you have a

favor of black ink so I thank these two because a that's

really intense black and there is a difference between black like some are

blacker than others and the reason I know that they're blacker than others is

because the scanning cut picks them up really well okay so it's the intensity

of the color yes that's one thing the second one is the fact that they're both

hybrid next question so it means that I can use watercolor and alcohol markers

and Nuvo mousses and any basically any coloring item I want to any current

won't to work and I don't have to think about it and I can mix between them in

the same project whereas if I want you to color with watercolors back before

hybrid inks existed I always had to use a solvent based ink and if I wanted to

color with alcohol markers I used to have to use a water-based ink if I was

halfway through a cutting and I was kind my copics I'm like oh but I want to add

a little bit of watercolor I couldn't do that that you had to use one of two

particular types of ink depending on what you were doing and never the two

shall meet exactly then hybrid inks came along as a piece of technology available

and allowed you to use whatever you want so if that being the case then why don't

you just have a hybrid inks for everything and that's it because things

like distressing it's a really cool because they react with water and

sometimes you want them try okay so hybrid inks work great for everything

when you just want to ink something yes you now use those two specialist inks

deliberately to blend and mahkum up and do stuff so when you when you

deliberately want them to reacts there are some hybrid inks that blend nicely

in general most hybrid inks don't learn nicely because they're deliberately

engineered not to yes

and Gina Kay is about to release an amalgam ink that's for no line coloring

but that's a whole nother video that's drawing no it's not that's a whole

nother video and I'm really excited about it and we will do a video on it

and I'm really excited about that too so it's a really light colored ink so when

you color in you don't see the outline of the image your coloring creates the

outline but so you stamp an image like that fresh it doesn't actually show up

it shows up really fine so then I would color the flower and my coloring creates

the outline just being black it would be like a really fine line be very fine

it's not black your color it's the outline I'll show you a picture later

makes perfect so people watching will understand okay family you get no idea

but I'm sure Jenny um you know Jenny who we met creative ation

right she created a really cool sample for tonic with no line coloring for the

show it's already cool those samples with gorgeous actually there's so many

of the metonic booth oh we made some of the design mistake that said we you made

some of the design team I didn't make any and the design team made low that

they were gorgeous they were really really lovely basic you know like when

you have a real watercolor painting you know the guy doesn't sit and draw

something and then coloring the watercolor itself creates the outline so

this is what happens when you work with beginners the expert teaching the

beginner screws up fast oh you don't line it up again as well so

yeah you know how like when someone's water coloring it doesn't look like

there's an outline it just looks out line you just see the painting the

painting creates the drawing that's what it is

spend if you go and buy a hot fudge sundae I didn't well you're gonna like

drive across the street to get me one

why are you so obsessed with this horse was I really fancied one and he wouldn't

go the other day he was across the street from McDonald's and I'm like when

you go and get me a hot fudge sundae while you're there and he's like oh it's

across the street that's it that's better now just do that

way off is it always this difficult no these are particular cause he used crows

a script you stamp no perhaps I should have done that but this is the B easiest

way to line up now I can say I think I got to get quite a good angle I moved

yeah I shouldn't have trimmed it as quite a lady

everything you put down all right so we need to relink and it's really worth it

for the sake of like a tiny little yes

do you stop shoving we have the way no need to react that's not very good print

anybody out there think that that's like especially bad because that's me just

looks fine that's what I normally do for some reason I was trying to be tightly

see what happens when I tried to be tidy that's why I'm not tidy no it's just

because you're a beginner of being tidy

practice yeah practice makes perfect

don't you think she might have some okay so you're just leaving a little bit more

around the edge so that we don't have to do a third time do you want on the phone

so it has some diamond oh yeah definitely I like it is you put

your own phone start stealing mine

and this is the good fun isn't it this is a lot better than the stuff that

that's a really good idea

oh you saw the bits oh oh yeah I never think their eyes to use your cast I'll

just peel off a new bass that's a top tip right there okay can I borrow your

scissors please Oh use your own we lost you you'd be like no you can use your

own Oh fine gear is why you always tell me stop being so lazy and use your own

impulses these are really good except you don't need you just use that base

the perfect size because I've just been on there too long I know it's stuck down

okay so I didn't realize so these basically seasonal okay it lasts for

about a week oh what a minute yeah it works really well but you so what you

should always do is keep your roller tape stuff nice and clean on both sides

because any bit you peel off is just no that works perfectly but Greg left it on

there for about three weeks because the adhesive on it cures what doesn't it

cure when it's on the roller type so it sticks to itself but it doesn't stick to

its own tape offer up first

kind of upset is there any way of like lining this up before I stick it down do

you have a tool set square it might be easier now - yeah it's all this is a

sticky back foam adhesive but gigas too good sticky back foam adhesive because

otherwise it turns into a big mush when you try and tell you there are 3m big

rolls and it comes in like a big it's called a Big Momma roll I personally

would highly recommend the 3m cuz I've shared in them I mean no get whatever

you like or the tonic squares again Hannah will add you some links you don't

you big squares and you can get small squares and that works really well

oh yeah and then are you gonna add gems yes you're gonna add red hots to a pink

card yeah that was my original intention pink no no red and pink don't go

together it's lucky that I put my tonic box just to the side isn't it alright we

don't need back the whole box that's rose gold you've got these two drops

well you just got crystalline once you could put them in like the center of the

flowers mmm would you like the tray to put them in absolutely to come on okay

that's a really good idea I just had I think I'm gonna

I'm gonna stick one of these in the sense of each of the flowers so in here

these new tonic gems you have get three sizes in the box no better with a white

underneath so it should like the pink underneath well if you use Nouveau drops

underneath you could make them any color underneath and then it shines through

funk a Nouveau drop on there I would rather you White's not on to my car yeah

let's go let's practice that right so let's put this to one side and then

what's this this is dream drops this is the new one so it's iridescent I'm going

so I'm just gonna put a blob in the middle of this flower up a little

squelch okay so this is gonna dry white

iridescent so what we're hoping is that we get a bit of brightness from shining

through there this is a crystal katana so it picks up a gem it just has a

little bit okay so that so that is acting as an adhesive yes and whatever

color you put underneath these particular gems so these are see-through

gems on these and they've got like an iridescent II kind of oily color to them

mm-hmm and this is a really cool little tray because as I tap this tray all the

right way up which I just think is really cool still

can't work out how it works this is just a plastic toy isn't it to

do with the angle of the edge apparently yeah no I watch the video know if you

can see but every single one of these gems is now the correct way up and all

we've done is all we've done is tap them on the little thing but this is like

just slightly tacky okay it just allows you to pick up a German won't be the

other way of doing this just put some of this down how else could do that so just

using normal yeah you could use any colour Nouveau drop and it was showing

through so you could use that the brand new glitter drops you could use like a

bright pink on the bright pink would strain through or you could use your

deluxe adhesive a bit of pink pink mm just a way to subscribe cool I used to

buy like every color gem going now I buy

anyway so what color goes with pink blue let's try something yeah cuz these are

all a bit the same yeah something that's a bit contrasting you got a blue marine

blue yes thank you do you notice how when I do a car making tutorial with you

it takes forever when I do want to make on that

yeah alright it's like blue down there and you're about to hit your time they

met again Oh

blue down yeah you need a tiny dot but yeah alright

record so here you can immediately see the blue pops out and the other two that

we did up here you can see them definitely but they're far more subtle

because the color behind the gem is same as the background but at Ballou I like

that I'm gonna do that another one make you step on me again

okay so know I said this wasn't really gonna be an hour

it kind of is an hour yeah Thank You Reverend from if you stuck with us thank

you yes now you can see what card-making is like I know my tutorials are a lot

quicker but you'll you literally want a tiny dot yeah yeah sticky stuff so if

you're ever in a pinch Nuvo drops make a great adhesive top tip as crystal

accents as glitter accents as does pretty much like any of the glossy

accents like they do all the glitter glue Stickles all that kind of stuff

makes good good adhesive

you don't squelching either I don't squatching either but i do want

it to completely fill the yeah put it in a syringe next time like measuring oh

look at that Oh perfect

second one look at that you see I've got the perfect amount of blue to completely

fill the backside of that but no scratching at all yeah

sound of that so there we go you can immediately see the two gems on there I

think that pops quite nicely so you put one in the middle of that big flowers

well actually perhaps I put smaller ones in there this Jeremy picking up tall is

relative oh yeah oh that one perfect as well yeah

another big one same as though what's up Oh small one there are these three sizes

up to oh yeah three sizes so I want

okay any other detail get you a new chair I'm gonna give you a instant dry

Nuvo drops so in those like little fuzzies pretty I think this is coming

together nicely considering this is my first ever design so okay the angular

pinkie calorie thing there's a techniques so Nouveau drops normally

take forever to dry this is a really easy way to get Nouveau drops so if you

teach classes if you live somewhere that's incredibly humid and it takes

forever for them to dry this is also and this is also great if you're making

cards in box too so all you do is use some more tea what you do is you squirt

out some Nouveau drop I've got some here on my glass mat just a little blob and

then I take a bottle this is the floral set and what I do is I touch my bottle

in incentives okay so it's just a different way of applying that rather

than applying your straight out of the thing you just make a dog love it which

is just our shop it's just a blob on the thing and then you just pick it up but

it's just the same size as your regular Nouveau drop yeah but it's gonna dry in

say ten minutes oh so it really does take a bit of time well if you put some

heat on it it dry faster well so at normal Nouveau drop would probably take

a couple of hours to dry oh really so if you would like squirt one on I

know like the normal Nouveau drops I put on a card they take a couple of hours to

do I'm gonna do is I'm going to put a couple of little gems on a cup of those

but not all of them but this is a really good tip because you can do it with any

size of these four things and this it doesn't come in this little case this is

a case that you get six different you got a pair of tweezers and you get a

little foam mat and it's designed for making flowers which I do do too and I

do all sorts of fun things with it but it's also great for applying like

instant Nuvo drops that are gonna dry in like a couple of minutes and these ones

you can add heat to because they're so thin like if you apply heat to them

they're not going to crack or do any of those things because they're just really

thin and easy so there's a top tip for instant Nuvo drops cuz I like the just

plain Nuvo drop as well so that yeah that's close to the camera as okay so we

got a little bit of shimmer in there we've got some lovely blues and those

blues really have like they really catch some light nicely and I think they

contrast nicely against the pink and then you've got the black embossed

outline which was a not distress a resist so that we cut it over and the

black border and the black ink on the sentiment I think matches up with the

black and box things mostly as well

so you can write that letter and then the great thing about this is it's

really easy to have a sticky lid thing

so that's Gregg making up my birthday card I'll let you know how much surprise

tomorrow when I give it to you so I'll let you know what I get for my birthday

too don't forget to hit that subscribe

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The Moon's Birth May Have Given Earth Ingredients for Life | SciShow News - Duration: 6:44.

[ ♪ Intro ]

When you look at Earth today, it's easy to imagine that it formed as a perfect, fertile planet,

full of everything it needed to support life.

It's a beautiful, big, wet rock.

But scientists are pretty confident that's not what happened.

They've known for a long time that, because of Earth's early conditions,

the key ingredients of life, elements like carbon and nitrogen, have not been here since the beginning.

Popular hypotheses suggest they arrived via meteorites or comets,

but none of those models totally checks out.

So now, there's another idea.

Last Wednesday, in a paper published in Science Advances,

researchers announced that these elements most likely made a more dramatic arrival.

Instead of coming on meteorites, they may have come from a massive collision.

The same massive collision that formed the Moon.

Now it's not surprising that these elements, called volatiles, came from elsewhere.

They have really low boiling points, so when Earth was forming,

it would have been way too hot to hold onto them.

And also, thanks to their chemistry, any volatiles that didn't escape

would likely have been pulled into the Earth's iron core.

So, somehow, they must have been added to the mix later.

Otherwise, we wouldn't be here.

It's just that figuring out that "somehow" is much easier said than done.

Like, even though the idea about Earth getting its volatiles from meteorites is popular,

the numbers have never quite added up.

Earth's ratio of carbon to nitrogen is way higher than that of any meteorite.

So in this new study, a team of researchers at Rice University got creative to try and

understand what happened.

In their lab, they used machinery to put rocks under extremely high pressure and temperature,

squeezing them as if they were around 100 kilometers below the Earth's surface.

They were trying to recreate the environment that would have existed when planets' cores were forming.

And they found something interesting.

In their experiments, a planet with an iron core would normally pull in all the volatiles,

just like on Earth.

But if that core was rich with sulfur, the volatiles were less attracted to it,

so they remained free.

That doesn't mean much for Earth itself, since our planet doesn't have a sulfur-rich core.

But it does mean that a foreign rock with a core like that could have had plenty of

volatiles in its outer layers.

So if an object like this collided with Earth at some point,

it could have contaminated our planet with those elements that earth had long ago lost.

You might be thinking that sounds like a lot of sketchy "could have"s,

but the researchers found that it was surprisingly likely.

They ran around a billion simulations of the evolution of the solar system,

and found that the best explanation for the number and ratio of volatile elements on Earth is a scenario

where an object around the size of Mars collides with our planet.

Now as for the timeline, in the best-fit scenario, the collision lined up with the one that formed the Moon.

It's a promising, and really convenient, idea, but the case isn't closed yet.

This study mainly looked at the chemistry that might have happened during a collision,

but we'll need to learn more about the physical side of how planets grow and evolve.

Still, if proven, this research backs up the idea that, in all likelihood,

we owe our whole existence to the colliding worlds of the early solar system.

Of course, it's not easy to decode the solar system's history billions of years after events took place.

Fortunately, some clues are locked away at the edge of our solar system,

and scientists are starting to uncover them.

On Monday, in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers announced that they may have indirectly detected

a kilometer-sized rock in the Kuiper belt, the ring of icy objects past Neptune.

If true, it would be the first time astronomers made a detection of an object like this on two separate telescopes,

making it the most convincing detection yet.

These barren rocks might not seem like they have much to do with us,

but they're kind of like long-lost relatives.

Earth and the other planets formed from objects like those.

The difference is that this icy fringe of the solar system wasn't dense enough to form planets,

so it's barely evolved at all in the last 4.6 billion years.

So in the absence of time travel, it's the closest we can get to seeing what things were like

when the planets were first forming.

In the study, scientists were especially interested in finding objects between one and 10 kilometers across,

because rocks like these formed the seeds of our planets.

Unfortunately, objects that size are way faint.

Like, much fainter than Pluto, so even the largest telescopes can't see them directly.

But, in theory, and maybe now for the first time in practice, we can detect them indirectly

by measuring blips in the light as they pass in front of stars.

It's a method called a stellar occultation.

And it's not easy to pull off.

That blip in light is very small and lasts less than a second, and with just one telescope,

it can be embarrassingly difficult to tell between a 4.6-billion-year-old space rock

and, like, a bird that flew past.

So the team in this study set up two identical telescopes on the roof of a school in Japan,

and monitored around 2000 stars for just over a year.

After sifting through more than 100,000 hours of data, they found what they were looking for:

one possible detection of a Kuiper belt object passing in front of a star.

So far, it's just a candidate.

Even though the chances are really small, we can't entirely rule out the possibility

that the signal came from a statistical fluke, or something like an asteroid.

But if it is real, this tiny shadow can still offer some insight.

Making some assumptions about its shape and position, scientists peg its diameter at around 1.3 kilometers.

That supports previous results that suggest there may be more small objects in the Kuiper belt

than some studies previously thought.

And the better we understand how they're distributed,

the better we can understand what kinds of objects grew into the planets and which ones stayed behind.

To get closer to that answer, the team and their collaborators plan to keep looking for

other occultations that can tell us more about these ancient rocks and the history we share with them.

So, between our observations and simulations,

we can start to fill in some of the holes in our solar system's majestic history.

Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow Space News!

And especially thank you to all the people who support us on Patreon,

helping us unpack science news like this.

We love doing what we do and we're very thankful to have you on board.

If you want to support the show and partner up with a bunch of other curious, wonderful people,

you can go to patreon.com/scishow.

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Draymond Green mocks Rudy Gobert for crying about NBA All-Star snub - Duration: 3:42.

 Rudy Gobert seemed like a lock for the NBA All-Star game, but instead he was a glaring snub — and it really affected the reigning Defensive Player of the Year

Rudy grew increasingly emotional speaking with the media about his All-Star snub

Said his mom called him crying. Said he wrote and deleted several messages on social media

Finally, he grew too emotional to speak, and walked off, wiping away tears. pic.twitter

com/UkFX2nUrt8— Eric Walden (@tribjazz) February 1, 2019  NBA ALL-STAR GAME: Dirk Nowitzki, Dwyane Wade added to roster as tribute  A report from the night before said "the Jazz fully expected Rudy Gobert to receive his first All-Star selection," so it's easy to see why Gobert got emotional

He was ready to be honored and rewarded for his hard work, but instead he felt slighted

 Even if he makes it in as a reserve, Gobert said he'd accept but "it still wouldn't be the same

"  Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey was also upset by the snub.  "Flabbergasted, disappointed, disgusted, I guess would be some adjectives to describe our collective mood," Lindsey said

"We're not very happy with the coaches' vote. Ownership, [team president] Steve Starks, [head coach] Quin Snyder, myself — there's no way to put into words our disappointment

"  After the video of Gobert getting emotional gained traction, other NBA stars started taking notice

Especially Warriors players Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala, who mocked Gobert for getting emotional

I guess I should cry too. no Charlotte? 😢😢😢— Draymond Green (@Money23Green) February 1, 2019 He gone cry in the car?— Danielson

(@andre) February 1, 2019  Iguodala's tweet is a reference to the movie "Friday

"  Isaiah Thomas later joined in, questioning Gobert's emotions. Come on fam you are too big to be crying like that

— Isaiah Thomas (@isaiahthomas) February 1, 2019  Gobert was a first-round pick in 2013, and has really come on strong in recent years

He's made NBA All-Defensive First Team in 2017 and 2018, but still has no All-Star selection to his name

As Sporting News' Sean Deveney wrote, "Gobert came back this year a vastly improved player

He has become a much smarter and more patient post player, averaging 2.2 assists, nearly doubling his previous career average (1

2). He is scoring a career-high 15.0 points and leading the league with 65.0 percent shooting

He's tweaked the way he defends, too, getting more comfortable stepping out to the perimeter to guard 3-point shooting big men

"  Big men who made it in over Gobert include Anthony Davis, Nikola Jokic, LaMarcus Aldridge and Karl-Anthony Towns

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IndexIQ's Top ETF Trends for 2019 - Duration: 3:42.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

A top priority for the SEC is to get the new ETF

rule implemented in 2019.

And they're really working hard to try to get that done.

What it will do basically is to try to level the playing

field for all ETFs issuers.

Specifically for new ETF issuers,

it'll be a much more streamlined process

to be able to create and launch new ETFs.

So it'll really level the playing field

in terms of new entrants coming in,

as well as the ability to launch new ETFs and the capabilities

that all ETFs sponsors will have.

It should lower the cost of entry,

lower the barriers to entry.

There'll also be some rules around how in-kind creation

redemption vests are created, which

we think will lead to a lot of product innovation

on the fixed income side.

We've seen a large increase in the assets for alternative ETFs

so far in 2018.

If you look at absolute return ETFs,

the asset base grew by approximately 33% so far

this year.

We think that's in response to the more volatile conditions

we've seen so far this year, where you have US equity

market have a standard deviation more than twice as

high as it did all of last year.

And in fact, the maximum drawdown for this year

is three times larger than we saw for all of last year.

Looking forward into 2019, we expect

volatility continue to grow.

And we expect that people will continue

to look to absolute return ETF's for risk mitigation purposes.

So we have seen a little bit of a decrease in merger arb

activity so far in 2018.

But still, at $3.7 trillion in deals

announced and over 27,000 deals announced,

we still see them above the long term trend.

Quite not at the peak as we've seen

in 2016, but still significant and robust activity.

And we think that's likely to continue going forward.

Merger arbitrage returns tend to be positively correlated

with interest rates.

So as we see short term rates start to move up,

we think that investors will continue to allocate capital

to merge arb, seeking the attractive returns

that they provide.

Growth stocks have significantly outperformed value stocks

for the last 10 years.

That has started to break more recently.

So if you look at the performance

in the fourth quarter of 2018, we

start to see some of the highest flying growth stocks start

to run into some difficulties.

And [INAUDIBLE] has actually outperformed

pretty substantially for the fourth quarter of 2018.

We think that trend is likely to continue going forward.

We look at the relative valuation

of growth versus value stocks, it's actually

close to its all time peak.

So therefore, we think that makes

value stocks more attractive from a valuation standpoint.

And we think that's likely to outperform going forward.

We see three key risks that investors need to pay attention

to in fixed income.

The first is rising rates.

There have been eight interest rate hikes already

since 2015 with another one likely to come

at the end of this year.

Looking forward, people are calling for anywhere

from zero to one, maybe two interest rate hikes in 2019.

Also we have to look at credit spreads.

They've widened to 400 basis points for high yield bonds

relative to their comparable treasuries.

The last point that people need to pay attention to

is potential downgrades.

The size of the double B market is 2.7 trillion,

and the entire high yield market is 1.35 trillion.

So if we have significant downgrades

as the economy lengthens, we could

see a lot of supply coming into the high yield marketplace.

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Growing Opportunities for Young Farmers - Duration: 0:36.

[Title: Ontario is working with the next generation of farmers] The other day we had a red tape roundtable with young and beginning farmers.

And it was such an enthusiastic group.

[Title: Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs - Ernie Hardeman] It's so wonderful meeting with a group of farmers who are not only pointing out some

[Title: Listening to their challenges and ideas] of the challenges that they're facing, but they're doing it all on the premise that

they want to move forward.

As we were listening to them, they are the people that are already way ahead of where

[Title: Helping to cut red tape and support careers in agriculture] their parents are, with enthusiasm and moving forward in the agricultural industry.

[Ontario logo]

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How to create characters for a novel (Creating Great Characters) - Duration: 11:48.

Have you got an amazing plot for the best story, set in a fantastical world, but you

have no idea how to write a good character, or develop a good character, that can run

around in that world and mess around with it?

In this video I'll be covering the steps I use when creating my characters to be the

best thing that they can.

For more fantasy writing advice subscribe to me, hit the bell to get your notifications,

and I'll be releasing new videos every Friday.

How do you design a character for your book?

In my video I'll be going through the steps I take to go from zero to hero when creating

my characters.

(It could also be zero to villain but that doesn't sound nearly as good does it?)

So, step one, what is your character's primary goal and motivation?

So, when you're coming up with a character it's not about what they look like, it's

all about who they are and a defined part of who we are is what we want.

What we want to be.

What we want to do with our lives.

For me I want to write my books, I want to publish them, and I want to share my stories

with the world.

That is a defining part of who I am, and my characters are completely the same, they are

no different to me except in what their goals are.

For example, my protagonist in my current work in progress.

His goal is to get revenge on the King who exiled him, and obviously I don't want to

give too many spoilers away, but his goal is very much intrinsic to who he is, how he

behaves, and why he behaves in that way.

It's all about getting to that point where he can get revenge, figuring out a way of

doing it and for me, I find that a character with a good, clear set of goals is one of

the most interesting to read about.

Villains can be just as important with having goals.

In fact, possibly even more important sometimes depending on how your story works.

You could have a story that really needs a villain's goal.

It's all driven by the villain and what they're trying to achieve.

For example, Voldemort.

He wants to eradicate the muggleborns from the wizarding society and that's the driving

force behind why he's the bad guy and why people need to stop him.

So, step number two is intrinsically linked.

In fact, all of the steps are.

Why does your character want to achieve their goal and how are they going to go about doing

it?

So, this is very much looking into a little bit more of your characters background.

Why do they want to go and do this?

So, for me, I said my goal in life was to write stories and share them with the world

and I'd say possibly it's to do with the fact that when I was little, I read so much.

I loved to read stories and I had, and I still do have an over active imagination.

I was constantly day dreaming about fantasy worlds I'd come up with or a story, you

know, when I was very young, I wrote comic books about my favourite teddy bear and his

superhero alternate identity, and I've always loved the idea of sharing these stories with

people.

I remember the joy I felt reading Harry Potter, the Hobbit, reading all my favourite authors

as a child and I've always wanted to spread that joy, give other people the joy and see

the world's I've created, the characters I've made.

Again, your characters need to have reasons why they want to do these.

They need to have reasons why did they develop in a way that that's what they want.

So, why does Voldemort, as we've already spoken about him, want what he wants and how

is he going to achieve it?

So, it's talked about in the story.

He was an orphan, he was abandoned as a child and because he was conceived under a love

potion, he can't feel love.

So, he can't feel love, he was abandoned as a child, and he felt bitter.

He just felt very bitter and angry so when he joined the wizarding world, he thought

he was special.

He thought he was special, he learnt that he was descended from Slytherin himself, the

greatest of purebloods.

He was probably affected by others, his peers at the time who said that purebloods are the

best and he probably took that on and said "Well I'm descended from the greatest

pureblood, and I now want to get rid of all these muggleborns.

They're not right.

Only I should have these powers."

Or only the people like him.

That's often the mindset.

Only people like me are special.

Voldemort only wants people who are pureblood to be special and that's why he wants it.

And how is he going to achieve it?

Well he's going to form an evil army, he's going to take over the ministry of magic,

and he's going to slowly round them up and kill them, or imprison them, and he's not

going to give any new muggleborns wands.

So that's his goals.

That's why he wants them.

How he's going to achieve them.

Comment below, let me know what are your characters goals?

How is he- how is he/she going to go and get their goals, and why do they want them?

So, now we've talked about what your characters goal is, step number three is all about why

the choose the method of achieving their goal as opposed to a different one.

Why do they choose these methods?

And for that, I'm not going to talk about Voldemort, I'm going to talk about Gandalf.

So, in the Lord of the Rings, Gandalf's ultimate goal is to defeat Sauron.

So, they need to destroy the ring, it's the only way they can.

So why doesn't he do it himself?

He is an incredibly powerful being, he is essentially a demi-god, so why isn't- demi-god

or an angel, however you want to describe it, and he's on Middle Earth, he's so

powerful, why doesn't he take the ring?

Why does he give it to Frodo?

Now at this point you can start developing him, well actually it's mentioned that he's

tempted by power and if he were to take this ring, he would become evil and the ring would

have even more power in his hands than it could in Frodo's for Gandalf is a much more powerful

being.

So Gandalf finding himself to be easily susceptible to the ring, he decides not to take it himself

because he knows he will cause far more damage.

That's a really good way of developing your characters, you know, developing characters

is all about why.

You just have to ask yourself why?

Why do they do this?

Why do they do that.

So yeah just why do they choose the methods that they do?

So now that we've chosen why they do what they do and how they do it, let's take a

look at what are their strengths and what are their weaknesses?

Because this isn't just "Oh, he's really good with a gun and he's really susceptible

to taking an arrow to the knee.

It's all about their personality.

So, again, Gandalf.

He's kind, he's caring.

He can be very stubborn, and clever and witty.

As with the ring he's susceptible and tempted by power and that is a really good weakness

for him as because that's why he can't use the ring and that's why it becomes such

a good story.

He has to do the best he can to help and the others as opposed to doing it himself.

I believe that this method is needed for both the main character, the main villain, and

many of the side characters as well.

You don't want to just create one good character and ignore the rest.

You need all of them to be just as good.

So take a look at what is your character's defining traits, and well, maybe their really

strong willed, maybe their incredibly- when they set their mind to something they will

do it.

But what if their perception is slightly skewed?

Okay their really strong willed, and when they set their mind to something they do it,

maybe sometimes that's really good, but what if they set their mind to something that

not everyone else thinks is good.

A character with good strengths and good weaknesses with a good balance is fantastic and you've

got to remember that it's got to weave into the story.

Your character's weakness has to affect the direct outcome and it has to counteract their strength

at times.

Step number five.

What are their relationships like with the people around them?

Their families, their friends, their acquaintances, their romantic interests.

Are they a loner?

Are they a social butterfly?

Start looking at how they feel about their family members, why they feel that way.

Again, we're going back to that important question, why are they like this?

This is all about building their back-story, so you understand why they behave the way

they do in your book.

Maybe your characters, when they meet new people, they're really friendly but they don't

trust them.

Maybe they'll be the friendliest, kindest, chattiest person around, but they're not

going to trust these people for years.

Why is that?

Maybe they were scorned by someone who they trusted too easily, too readily, and suddenly

they were betrayed.

So it's all about knowing who they are.

How they interact with people.

That's what you're here to develop.

So, finally, point number six.

This is where you finally start looking at what your character looks like.

As you've gone through the other steps , you should have realised that

a back story's starting to form, a personality is definitely there.

Your character is going to start having a reason why they do things, and you want to

be using this to create their looks.

For example, my protagonist, he's fairly paranoid, he doesn't trust people easily,

he pretty much always wears his armour.

And he spends a lot of his time out in the wilds, so it's quite dirty.

I'm not just creating an appearance and trying to build around that, I'm building

an appearance based on my character.

As he's an exile he doesn't want to stand out too much, he just wants to be a scruffy

looking, travel worn adventurer or wanderer sort of thing as opposed to the exile that

he is.

And he doesn't want to reveal who he is too easily.

If you want advice on describing characters, I will be making a video on that topic at

some point in the future.

If you are in the future, I will have linked it in the cards and in the description below.

Otherwise just keep your eye out, it'll be here at some point.

So, there you have it.

You've got a pretty well formulated character.

Go and put them into your world, let them run around and cause havoc and generally just

break your story because I find that's what my characters like to do.

They don't do what I plan… well I don't really plan that much.

If you've liked this video, go ahead, check out my Facebook page, my website, I'm in

a Writer's group which I'll put a link to in the description and give me a like,

comment, subscribe.

Tell me what you think of the video, tell me about your main characters, and I shall

see you, next week.

Let's look at someone else.

Say…

[Insert favourite curse]

I can't think of anyone.

How have I read so many books and can't think of anyone?

So look at how people deal with others is a great way of getting an insight into who

they are and what their experienceseseses is… pretty sure I said too many "S's"

there.

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✅ Breaking News - Crystal Palace's rebuff approach by Leeds for teen talent Jack Clarke - Duration: 1:33.

Leeds United have rejected an approach from Crystal Palace for highly-rated midfielder Jack Clarke

The 18-year-old has interest from the likes of Tottenham and Bournemouth and has 14 months left on his contract, but has yet to begin negotiations on a new deal

Clarke's current deal still has two-and-a-half years left to run, though there has been talk of an extension as Leeds look to cement his long-term future

  Share this article Share Though Leeds say Clarke is not for sale this month, the teenager is understood to be valued at around £12million despite only making 13 appearances

Only one of those appearances has been a start, although Clarke has scored twice and impressed under Marcelo Bielsa this season

Meanwhile, Leeds have confirmed the signing of Real Madrid goalkeeper Kika Casilla, 32, on a four-and-a-half-year deal

The Championship leaders are also interested in Swansea winger Dan James.Swansea need to sell players before they can buy, and also have interest from Galatasaray in top earner Wilfried Bony

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[IDLE HEROES PRIVATE] 6 tips for seasonal server (With subtitles) - Duration: 1:37.

Hello! My name is Yoshi. This is my first video ever and i will tell you 6 tips for seasonal server.

Tip 1: From level 1 to 60 you can get 40 basic scrolls from marketplace every 10levels. So rush them.

Tip 2: Be sure to complete your first brave trial. You will get lot of gems and also you can buy materials for your monster. Summon only norma and level her to 51 and do all 15 stages. If you will face hard level, level your norma as far as you can. Easy peazy!

Tip 3: Until level 70 you can get heroic scrolls from normal casino, don't be shy to push refresh button to rush them!

Tip 4: Before you hit level 100, u can get 2 super chips from marketplace. If you will hit level 100 in same day, you can get 4 more super chips.

Tip 5: Focus on one hero at the time. Remember 1 E3 hero can wipe whole 10 star team.

Tip 6: Rush first 10 star hero fast as you can, it doesn't matter who it is you will use him as food later. You will get level 5 gear and artifacts as reward

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ARPen: Mid-Air Object Manipulation Techniques for a Bimanual AR System with Pen & Smartphone - Duration: 5:15.

Sketching in Augmented Reality is a promising way to simplify the creation

of 3D models. This is especially interesting for

Personal Fabrication to create models that fit existing ones. Currently, most

research projects use head-mounted displays such as the HoloLens for mid-air

sketching systems, but recent development support for iOS and Android has

increased the interest in handheld AR applications. One problem in handheld AR

is specifying an exact point in 3D. We built the ARPen, a combination of an

off-the-shelf iPhone and a custom 3D-printed pen. We can track the pen in

mid-air with the built-in camera of the iPhone. To do this, we use Apple's ARKit

framework to track the position of the iPhone in relation to the surfaces in

the scene. Marker tracking, such as with arUco,

allows to track the position of the marker in relation to the camera.

Combining both techniques enables us to track the position of the marker in

relation to the surfaces. The calculated 3D pen position can for example be used

to sketch in mid-air. However, beside the mid-air input with a pen, the touchscreen

can also be used for the interaction. In an initial user study we asked

participants to find a comfortable grip for the phone and then touch the areas

of the phone that are still reachable. We categorized different grasps based on

their orientation and found that the users preferred to rest the phone on

their pinky leaving the thumb available for interaction with the left side of

the touchscreen. For portrait, the users preferred a low grasp, but the field of

view of the camera created issues of keeping the markers of the pen in view.

We perform two user studies evaluating the performance of selecting an object

in mid-air and moving it to a new position. We asked participants to select

objects with five different techniques. In the basic condition, users had to select

the highlighted object without any visual feedback regarding the pen's

position. The second condition added a visualization of the pen tip and

highlighting if the pen was inside a virtual object. We used two conditions

using the touchscreen. Touches on the projection of an object can be used to

select the object. In our study, we included both one-handed

and two-handed selection. As the pen tip also shows a projected point on the

screen, we implemented a selection method in which a ray is cast through the tip

of the pen. This means that this technique selects the object that is

shown behind the pen tip on the screen. We recorded the success rate, selection

time, and the size of the object on the screen at the time of the selection.

As expected, our results show that selection without any visual feedback performs

worst as users have trouble identifying the correct depth. The highest success

rates were reached by shooting a ray through the pen tip as well as highlighting the

boxes and the two-handed touch selection. However, the selection took longer in the

condition with highlighting as users had to find the correct point in a 3D

environment. Since the projected size of the target were the smallest while

shooting a ray through the pen tip, this means that this condition required

less movement of the device through the scene while still being able to select

the targets. Users preferred to select objects by shooting a ray through the

pen tip and the two-handed touch selection to other conditions. In our

final study, we asked participants to drag and drop objects using five

different techniques. The place to drop the targets was above one of the four

corners of a marker on the table. This gave the drop location a real word

anchor. In the basic condition, users picked up the object by holding the

button while inside the object. Releasing the button, drops the target. As the

selection by shooting a ray through the pen tip showed good results, we included

a translation method based on this. As the user selects a target, it snaps to

the tip of the pen and can be placed as in the basic condition. For the touch

conditions, we applied the device motion to the selected object.

Releasing the finger dropped the target at the current position. To evaluate the

combination of touchscreen and pen, we included a technique in which

participants selected the object on the touchscreen and then pressed the button on

the pen to snap the object to it. The placement could then happen as in the

basic condition. As markers of the pen did not have to be in view when pressing

the button, participants used this technique by selecting a target mid-air

and then moving down to snap it to the pen close to the drop location. Analyzing

the time for the drag-and-drop task, we found that the basic condition takes

significantly longer overall. The other conditions differ on how the task time is

distributed on selection and translation time. Similar to the selection study,

users preferred the condition which shoots a ray through the pen tip. However,

the combination of touchscreen and pen was preferred more than the other

conditions, with the basic condition being the least preferred. Our studies show

promising results for pen based mid-air interaction using handheld

augmented reality and provide initial guidelines for interaction techniques.

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Police: Man, 19, Arrested With Drugs At Carmichael Park Was Waiting For School To Get Out - Duration: 0:25.

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Bill could lead to potential tax break for filmmakers - Duration: 1:01:29.

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Ilhan Omar calls for tax on the wealthy of 'up to 90 per cent' - Duration: 9:09.

Ilhan Omar calls for tax on the wealthy of 'up to 90 per cent'

Ilhan Omar has called for an income tax of up to 90 per cent on America's multimillionaires.

Speaking to '60 Minutes', Omar argued that tax rates of previous years had risen to the 90 per cent mark for top earners as she doubled down on fellow freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's calls for a 70 per cent rate.

'There are a few things that we can do,' Rep.

'One of them, is that we can increase the taxes that people are paying who are the extremely wealthy in our communities. So, 70 percent, 80 percent, we've had it as high as 90 percent. So, that's a place we can start.'.

The one percent must pay their fair share,' she continued. Omar claimed her radical tax plan would act as a catalyst for programs like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal being proposed by Ocasio-Cortez.

Ocasio-Cortez called for zero carbon emissions within 12 years, in an interview with '60 Minutes' on her first day as a member of Congress.

Omar also said she wants to slash the national defense budget in order to pay for the sweeping policy changes. 'I'm also one that really looks at the defense budget that we have, Rep.

'That has increased nearly 50% since 9/11. And so, most of the money that we have in there is much more than with we spend on education, on healthcare.'.

In 1960, before the Kennedy tax cuts, the top rate was 91 per cent for those earning more than $200,000.

According to the Tax Policy Center, the top 1 per cent earned 9 per cent of all income at that time, compared to 20 per cent in 2008.

'You look at our tax rates back in the '60s and when you have a progressive tax rate system your tax rate, you know, let's say, from zero to $75,000 may be ten percent or 15 per cent,' she said, in a clip that aired on CBS 'This Morning.

'But once you get to, like, the tippy tops – on your 10 millionth dollar – sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70 percent,' she said.

'That doesn't mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate, but it means that as you climb up this ladder you should be contributing more.

I think that it only has ever been radicals that have changed this country. Abraham Lincoln made the radical decision to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

'Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the radical decision to embark on establishing programs like Social Security. That is radical,' she said.

President Trump took a swipe at Cortez immediately after she proposed the tax hike, saying a 70 per cent rate would bring the turmoil of Venezuela to the US. "We're looking at Venezuela, it's a very sad situation," Trump told reporters.

"That was the richest state in all of that area, that's a big beautiful area, and by far the richest - and now it's one of the poorest places in the world.

That's what socialism gets you, when they want to raise your taxes to 70 percent.". Ilhan Omar has called for an income tax of up to 90 per cent on America's multimillionaires.

Speaking to '60 Minutes', Omar argued that tax rates of previous years had risen to the 90 per cent mark for top earners as she doubled down on fellow freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's calls for a 70 per cent rate.

'There are a few things that we can do,' Rep.

'One of them, is that we can increase the taxes that people are paying who are the extremely wealthy in our communities. So, 70 percent, 80 percent, we've had it as high as 90 percent. So, that's a place we can start.'.

The one percent must pay their fair share,' she continued. Omar claimed her radical tax plan would act as a catalyst for programs like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal being proposed by Ocasio-Cortez.

Ocasio-Cortez called for zero carbon emissions within 12 years, in an interview with '60 Minutes' on her first day as a member of Congress.

Omar also said she wants to slash the national defense budget in order to pay for the sweeping policy changes. 'I'm also one that really looks at the defense budget that we have, Rep.

'That has increased nearly 50% since 9/11. And so, most of the money that we have in there is much more than with we spend on education, on healthcare.'.

In 1960, before the Kennedy tax cuts, the top rate was 91 per cent for those earning more than $200,000.

According to the Tax Policy Center, the top 1 per cent earned 9 per cent of all income at that time, compared to 20 per cent in 2008.

'You look at our tax rates back in the '60s and when you have a progressive tax rate system your tax rate, you know, let's say, from zero to $75,000 may be ten percent or 15 per cent,' she said, in a clip that aired on CBS 'This Morning.

'But once you get to, like, the tippy tops – on your 10 millionth dollar – sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70 percent,' she said.

'That doesn't mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate, but it means that as you climb up this ladder you should be contributing more.

I think that it only has ever been radicals that have changed this country. Abraham Lincoln made the radical decision to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

'Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the radical decision to embark on establishing programs like Social Security. That is radical,' she said.

President Trump took a swipe at Cortez immediately after she proposed the tax hike, saying a 70 per cent rate would bring the turmoil of Venezuela to the US. "We're looking at Venezuela, it's a very sad situation," Trump told reporters.

"That was the richest state in all of that area, that's a big beautiful area, and by far the richest - and now it's one of the poorest places in the world.

That's what socialism gets you, when they want to raise your taxes to 70 percent.".