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Hello everyone, my name is Robius and today I'm happy to bring you the sixteenth episode

in the renewed iteration of Assassin's Creed the Real History.

Following the pattern laid out in the previous weeks, this video will be part of my ongoing

sub-series in which I chronologically explore the time periods chosen as the backdrops for

the various Assassin's Creed titles, reviewing their major historical events, discussing

any gaps in the history left by the games, and introducing to the individuals who actually

existed.

Ergo, today's episode will concentrate on the French and Indian War, the period which

predominantly served as the backdrop for Assassin's Creed Rogue, but which was also briefly visited

in Assassin's Creed 3 and to a marginal extent Assassin's Creed Liberation.

Consequently, please be aware of related story spoilers throughout the entire video.

As a starting point, when considering the years that preceded the Assassin's Creed

games, I'd like to commence this episode by establishing my intended scope for this

topic.

It is important to understand that the French and Indian War was actually a specification

which represented the North American theater of the much larger, and more widespread Seven

Years' War.

Although technically speaking, the official declarations of war and later signing of the

peace treaties have the conflict stretching from 1756 to 1763, we'll actually be starting

this video a few years earlier with the purpose of covering the circumstances leading up to

the hostilities.

Lastly, it's worth mentioning that the name of "The French and Indian War" is predominantly

used by the British and Americans, who named the conflict as such since it noted their

adversaries during that struggle, whereas in most other countries this fighting is traditionally

just grouped in with the rest of the Seven Years' War.

Having said that, let's now explore the circumstances that led to the opening of the

French and Indian War.

Although it was fundamentally the product of culminating tensions between the British

and French North American colonies, a few key events lay the groundwork for the opening

of this larger-scale conflict.

At their core, most of these events were tied into a dispute over the technical ownership

of the Ohio Country.

This debate became more serious following increased attempts by the British in 1747

to broaden their trading network into the Ohio Country, an area to which the French

laid claim.

After these efforts became more brazen, the French responded by launching a six-month

military expedition in 1749 in which their troops expulsed British traders from the region

and sought to solidify their tribal relations.

Despite this aggravation, the British sponsored the efforts of the Ohio Company of Virginia,

who in turn hired the frontiersman Christopher Gist in 1750 to explore the Ohio region and

establish new treaties with local tribes to allow further colonial expansion.

By 1752, the French again responded with another military expedition that began eliminating

illegal trading posts, arresting traders and attacking opposing native tribes.

Technically speaking, although exact dates aren't provided, this was around the point

where Assassin's Creed Rogue officially began, with the fictional, then-Assassin Shay

Cormac operating in the North Atlantic in 1752.

As part of the fabricated plot in Assassin's Creed, under the guise of having the Assassins

hunting down high ranking Templar figures, the game has Shay briefly eavesdrop on a meeting

between these individuals, who included Lawrence Washington, Samuel Smith and James Wardrop.

Interestingly enough, although they evidently weren't members of the secret Templar order,

these three men were in fact involved as either founding members, or as shareholders within

the Ohio Company of Virginia.

Nonetheless, as part of the invented narrative, Shay proceeded to assassinate the tuberculosis-ridden

Lawrence Washington and then began his hunt for the other two Templars in hopes of recovering

the precursor artifacts they had stolen from the Assassins.

Historically, during this period of down-time in the game, the aforementioned military conflict

was intensified further as the French launched yet another expedition into the Ohio Valley

in 1753.

Looking to make a more definitive claim to the region, they began constructing forts

at various key locations while ousting opposing tribes from the area.

This led certain Iroquois representative to seek aid from their British allies, which

they did by visiting William Johnson, the former Superintendent for Indian Affairs.

Having resigned from his role, Johnson was unable to pressure the Governor of New York

into supporting their allies by pushing back against the French, which ultimately led the

Iroquois Confederacy to declare their relationship with the British over.

Soon after this debacle, the Governor of Virginia stepped in to make a show of force against

the French.

To that effect, in late 1753 he dispatched a small expedition under the command of the

young George Washington.

This expedition set off with the goal of meeting the French to demand they leave the region.

The French commander flatly refused these demands, expressing that the area belonged

to them as the French had been its original explorers.

Washington returned to the governor in early 1754 with this message, learning upon his

arrival that plans had already been made to build a British fort in the area to counter

the expected French advance.

Unfortunately for the British, additional French troops were dispatched and marched

to the construction site of this new fort, permitting the British to leave while paying

them for their equipment, which the French then used to complete Fort Duquesne for themselves.

Within Assassin's Creed 3's lore, this would be the approximate period in which Haytham

Kenway killed one of the British Assassin mentors and then began his journey to the

13 colonies in hopes of consolidating its Templar presence.

Contextually, this was also around the point where Shay finally tracked down Samuel Smith

and killed him, thus recovering the Precursor box in the name of the Assassins.

However, historically speaking, this development with the French taking the fort coincided

with the Virginian governor dispatching Washington to support what he thought was the continued

construction of a British fort.

On his way, Washington met the retreating British forces and consequently devised a

plan to oust the French.

Grouping together with native allies, Washington mustered his troops and ambushed a French

scouting party in May of 1754, killing their commander and routing their forces in the

Battle of Jumonville Glen.

This very confrontation is commonly recognized as the unofficial start of the French and

Indian War.

Thereafter, Washington's forces retreated and built Fort Necessity in an attempt to

solidify their regional control.

However, within around a month the French struck back, forcing Washington to surrender.

Overall, these two battles signalled the opening of larger-scale hostilities within the colonies.

Although the majority of the large-scale battles to come would occur in the more northern colonies,

there were intermittent conflicts in the southern colonies as well, with certain individuals

being recognized for their participation in this less-active theater.

One of these men was Gilbert-Antoine de Saint-Maxent, who played a role in defending French Louisiana

from joint-British and Native attacks.

Following these confrontations, delegates from seven of the thirteen colonies gathered

together in what came to be known as the Albany Congress, which occurred from mid-June to

mid-July of 1754.

This event was represented in Assassin's Creed Rogue, as Shay continued his hunt for

the Templar James Wardrop.

While present at the gathering, Shay overheard a speech delivered by Benjamin Franklin, who

was making a strong effort to convince the delegates to accept his Plan of Union.

Historically, this was Franklin's unsuccessful attempted push, with the slogan "Join, or

Die", to unite the colonies under the authority of a monarchy-approved executive who could

manage their military defense and legislations.

Overall, this plan did not work out, as the Congress was primarily concerned with attempting

to negotiate better treaties with their potential indigenous allies.

Nonetheless, following the congress, the game had Shay conclude his fictional hunt for Wardrop,

finally killing the Templar and recovering the Voynich Manuscript, which was the remaining

precursor artifact the Assassins had lost.

This was immediately followed up with another invented interaction in which Benjamin Franklin

worked with the Assassins to decode the message of the precursor artifacts, eventually discovering

Lisbon to be the location of a first civilization temple for which they had been searching.

This would later lead Shay to begin his voyage to Portugal in hopes of reaching the site.

Within the real history, in response to the earlier battles, the British government resolved

to organize an army expeditionary force, under the command of Major General Edward Braddock,

with the purpose of putting an end to the French aggression.

Having learned of these plans, the French mustered their own army, commanded by the

Baron Dieskau which they sent off to the colonies, despite British attempts to intercept their

vessels.

In Assassin's Creed 3's storylines, this was also around the general timeframe in which

Haytham Kenway reached Boston and was greeted by his ally Charles Lee, an officer in the

British Army serving in the colonies at that time.

Working in unison with Charles, Haytham would then proceed to gather his other local Templar

allies, among which were the Marine Lieutenant John Pitcairn, the soldier Thomas Hickey,

and the physician Benjamin Church.

Although some records are contradictory on when Pitcairn and Hickey reached the colonies,

certain sources claim that all of these individuals would have historically been present in the

general area at that time.

What followed was a fictional series of missions in which the Templars consolidated their regional

control and began their hunt for a first civilization storehouse.

Anyways, getting back to the real history, following Braddock's arrival in the colonies,

the British prepared to launch their first large-scale response to the prior French advances.

Braddock's expedition against Fort Duquesne was to be one of four separate assaults in

which the British sought to capture four different French forts.

Leading a mixed force of British regulars and colonial militia, supported by George

Washington, this army began its march in June of 1755.

By July 8th they were near their target and were approached by French and Native envoys

who offered to negotiate for their peaceful withdrawal from the Fort.

Braddock refused these terms, as was briefly mentioned in Assassin's Creed 3.

On the following day, despite Washington's warnings to Braddock that his advance was

vulnerable due to the differences between the European warfare to which he was accustomed

and the more guerilla-based approach used by native and colonial forces, the General

still pushed forward.

As they crossed the river, the British forces suddenly ran into the French and their native

allies, who were on their way to, but had not yet, set up their ambush.

What followed is remembered as the Battle of the Monongahela, which was paralleled in

Assassin's Creed 3.

Historically, within the opening volleys of the confrontation, the French officer Daniel

Liénard de Beaujeu was killed, however this didn't prevent the Franco-Native coalition

from quickly gaining the upper hand and defeating the British expedition in a battle that ultimately

led to the later death of Braddock from his injuries.

Although much of this conflict was covered in AC3, a few main differences depicted were

the fact that the entire ambush was organized by Haytham and his native allies, along with

the idea that Charles Lee was the one to kill Beaujeu.

In reality, aside from Braddock's failure, the second British expedition was brought

to a halt due to disorganization, the third ended without any change in territorial gains

following the Battle of Lake George, while the fourth concluded with the successful acquisition

of Fort Beauséjour, thus isolating the fortress of Louisbourg from any further French ground

support.

As part of a long-term campaign effort to continue cutting off Louisbourg from French

allies and trade, the British began the expulsion of the Acadians, a task in which they sought

to forcibly remove and relocate the native Acadian population from their homes.

Many of these individuals would eventually be moved to southern colonies.

Evidently, this effort was met with fierce resistance over the following years.

Anecdotally, although not related to the French and Indian War, this would have been the point

in Rogue where Shay reached Lisbon and the game had him accidentally caused the November

1st, 1755 earthquake that essentially destroyed the city, by disturbing the Piece of Eden

hidden below it.

The assassin would barely escape the disaster, sail back home and accuse his mentor of setting

him up to slaughter innocents.

Ultimately, in this fictional confrontation Shay would try to steal the precursor manuscript

to prevent this event from ever being repeated, however he was caught by the assassins and

when trying to escape, was shot and fell off a cliff.

This would lead to the equally invented plot section in which Shay would be saved by an

unknown figure and brought to New York to recover, from where he would launch his personal

campaign against the local gangs.

Historically, by 1756 the British war effort was disorganized as their new leadership structure,

established after Braddock's death, was incapable of creating an agreed-upon set of

expeditions.

Taking advantage of this disarray, the Governor-General of New France launched an aggressive retaliation,

leading to the destruction of a British fort at the Battle of Fort Bull.

Consequently, both France and Britain sought to install new leadership structures for their

forces within the colonies, with the French reinforcements under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm

and the Chevalier de Lévis arriving in May, while the British under Loudoun and Abercrombie

were established in July.

As one of his first acts, Montcalm was victorious at the Battle of Fort Oswego, and thus further

limited the British capability to launch attacks into New France.

It is also worth mentioning that in May of 1756 war was officially declared between Britain

and France, thus signifying the technical start to the Seven Years' War.

Although the conflict had already been raging for nearly two years, some sources record

that this officially declaration pushed even more individuals to enlist, with Paul Revere

being one example, despite not seeing any actual fighting during his brief tenure in

the militia.

This was the timeframe in Rogue where Shay, the fictional protagonist, became more involved

in the Templar movement indirectly, helping them fight off the gangs in New York, while

also defeating certain Assassin allies.

In reality, at this time the British sought to strike a major blow to the French by attacking

Quebec, their capital, however before this plan could be executed, it was instead decided

that the fortress of Louisbourg should be dealt with beforehand.

During this year there were continued naval confrontations between the British and French

in the area, with an example of this being the failed attempt of the commissary general,

Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie to deliver supplementary resources to their now-isolated

fortress of Louisbourg.

Nonetheless, by the time the British were ready to strike, the French naval presence

around Louisbourg had finally increased to a point where success seemed unlikely, leading

them to cancel their invasion.

Notably, among the chaos surrounding this naval warfare, another incredibly important

confrontation was unfolding at Fort William Henry.

Following an extended campaign where Montcalm's troops successfully picked off additional

British forces, destroyed their supplies and left them stranded, the French General began

his approximate week-long siege in August of 1757.

At the time, the fort's outnumbered British garrison was led by Colonel George Monro who

did his best to hold off the French in hopes that reinforcements might arrive, however

he was eventually forced to surrender.

This event, and its subsequent aftermath were also depicted in Assassin's Creed Rogue.

Within the game's narrative, one of Monro's requests for help made it to Shay who sailed

quickly to Fort William Henry in hopes of assisting his ally.

Upon arrival he learned that William Johnson's reinforcements had never arrived, which historically

happened since Johnson's superior refused to dispatch the man and his joint Native-Militia

force because he felt that the fort was already lost.

Nonetheless, Shay reached the outside of the Fort just as the British began their withdrawal,

which was part of the surrender terms, that stipulated they would leave without further

confrontation on the condition that the garrison be allowed to travel unharmed to Fort Edward.

What followed is considered among the most notorious events of the war.

During their evacuation, the British soldiers were suddenly attacked by Montcalm's native

allies, who disregarded the terms of the surrender.

Although sources differ on the number of casualties incurred, and the degree to which the French

military tried to stop the attack, it is generally listed as a massacre with many of the British

being killed or taken captive.

Within the scope of Assassin's Creed Rogue, the suddenness of this inexplicably violent

event is attributed to the fictional native Assassin Kesegowaase, who the game depicted

as organizing the massacre for the purpose of killing Monro, who was a Templar, and retrieving

the precursor manuscript he possessed.

However, Shay's intervention allowed Monro to survive, which paralleled his actual real-world

survival of the attack.

What then followed in the game months later was an entirely fictional battle in which

Kesegowaase and his allies struck at Albany in hopes of assassinating Monro.

Although Shay defeated the assassin, Monro was still killed and the manuscript was lost,

which the game used to explain his death from natural causes on November 3rd, 1757.

Immediately after, Haytham Kenway, the grandmaster of the colonial Templars, officially inducted

Shay into their order.

Historically, with the beginning of 1758 the tide of the French and Indian war started

to shift.

Between the British limiting their capacity to receive supplies from France, a sub-par

harvest and an increase in disease, the forces in New France were incapable of renewing their

offensive and instead settled into a defensive position in hopes of holding their line.

Determined to seize this opportunity and gain access to the St. Lawrence River to launch

future attacks into New France, the British prepared another attempt to take Louisbourg.

Under the command of Major general Jeffrey Amherst, a large British fleet laid siege

to the fortress for nearly two months until it finally capitulated.

Assassin's Creed Rogue featured part of this siege when Shay and his fellow Templars

joined their ally James Cook, the Master of the HMS Pembroke with the intention of providing

their support in his real-world participation within the battle.

It was during this fictionally exaggerated conflict with the French vessels that the

Templars faced off with the equally-invented Assassin Adewale, who was eventually forced

to flee when the full might of the British fleet arrived to lay siege to the fortress.

They would thereafter proceed to later hunt down and kill the Assassin for his interference.

In reality, the second British invasion planned for that year met with disaster when the significantly

larger army led by James Abercrombie was thoroughly defeated by the much-smaller French forces

under the command of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm during the two-day Battle of Fort Carillon.

Although, it is worth mentioning that a detachment of these same British forces did succeed in

capturing and then destroying Fort Frontenac nearly 2 months later.

Following the mixed results of their second army, the final British invasion force reached

Fort Duquesne in September of 1758.

Although the French defenders initially succeeded in holding the invaders back, recognizing

that they were outnumbered and likely could not withstand another attack, they remained

in the fort until November at which point they burned it to the ground and fled the

area.

By the end of 1758, in face of its limited colonial victories, France instead decided

to invest in a failed plan to invade Britain as part of the more wide-spread Seven Years'

War, which ultimately meant a decline in their commitment to the North American theater of

the conflict.

Consequently, in 1759 the British were once again on the offensive.

The Battle of Fort Niagara occurred throughout the month of July and concluded with a British

victory under the leadership of William Johnson, who took command when his superior was killed

in the fighting.

Immediately afterwards, General Amherst's army arrived at Fort Carillon and dwarfed

the small force of French defenders.

Following orders from Montcalm, the French commander stationed at Carillon attempted

to burn the fort down, however after they fled the final damage wasn't significant

and the British were able to occupy and fortify the position, renaming it Fort Ticonderoga.

Serving as a Captain in the Provincial Army at the time, James Barrett was present during

this period of British military success.

Many of these prior conflicts, including the earlier capture of Louisbourg all came into

play following a three-month siege that led to the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in

September of 1759.

This significant confrontation is said to have taken less than an hour, the results

of which were an overwhelming British victory.

Notably, both of the opposing armies' commanders, James Wolfe on the British side, and Louis-Joseph

de Montcalm on the French side, died from wounds incurred during the fighting.

Within the following days the city of Quebec was surrendered to the British.

John Parker was among the soldiers who served in this conflict on the British side, acting

as a sergeant during the battle.

The results of this conflict are thought to have been among the most deciding instances

in determining the victor of this war.

Given the start of the winter season, the fighting subsided for the following months.

These same months would actually represent the concluding portion of Assassin's Creed

Rogue.

At this point, the game tackled an entirely fictionalized stretch of story that first

had Shay confront and kill the invented Assassin Hope while in New York in October of 1759,

and then begin his hunt for Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye, a former Commandant

of the poste de l'Ouest that the game presented as a member of the Assassin brotherhood.

The Templars finally caught up to him in early 1760 and learned from him the location of

Liam and Achilles.

Ultimately, this led to an invented final confrontation in March of 1760, after sailing

to the Arctic, in which the Templars and Assassins fought, accidently triggering an earthquake

by touching the piece of Eden.

In the end, Liam died from his injuries, and Shay convinced Haytham to spare Achilles,

which he did but only after crippling him.

As the final portion of Shay's story within this timeframe, he was given the years-long

task of tracking down the Precursor box the Templars had lost.

Historically, in April of 1760 the Chevalier de Lévis, successor to Montcalm led his army

back to Quebec and faced off against the British defenders under James Murray.

After a bloody day of fighting during the Battle of Sainte-Foy, the British were overwhelmed

by the French advance and retreated back into Quebec city.

Although the Chevalier de Lévis laid siege to the city, he was unable to take it and

waited for reinforcements and supplies from France.

Unfortunately, these efforts were thwarted during the Battle of Restigouche in which

the British completely halted any relief efforts heading to the troops in New France.

Without any support, and with additional British troops arriving instead, the Chevalier de

Lévis was forced to lift his siege and return to Montreal.

By September of 1760, with British forces under General Amherst closing in on Montreal,

and with no relief in sight, the French negotiated their surrender in a deal which would permit

their citizens to maintain their colonial residence and their right to practice their

religion, to which the British agreed.

It is said that Israel Putnam was one of the many soldiers who marched onto Montreal in

this final stage of the North American conflict.

Although this technically marked the end of the French and Indian War in 1760, hostilities

continued in the form of minor isolated skirmishes that were often silenced by the British, until

the February 10th, 1763 signing of the Treaty of Paris, which signalled the official end

to the conflict in tandem with the end of the Seven Years' War.

It would have been within this interval of time, following the surrender of Montreal

in late 1760 that the young Ratonhnhaké:ton's village was burned down in November.

In the game, this was presented as the doing of George Washington, who ordered his troops

to destroy the village in an attempt to halt any further attacks from regional Native American

tribes.

Although I had trouble finding a historical equivalent to this event, it definitely paralleled

Washington's later actions during the American Revolution, and was perhaps representative

of certain extreme measures used by the British in this immediate post-war period when quelling

rebellions that oppose their victory.

For the Post-game history, I'll just quickly go over the concluding circumstances of this

conflict.

In terms of the major results of the War within the North American colonies specifically,

France essentially surrendered the vast majority of its regional colonial holdings, with the

British acquiring French Canada and Acadia alongside Spanish Florida, while the Spanish

were given French Louisiana in turn.

Now that we've reached the conclusion of this sizeable event, I feel comfortable with

moving on to the final chapter of the video.

In this portion, we'll review everything that's been learned today and compare its

depiction in the games to the actual history.

To start, I'm just briefly going to go over the entirely fictionalized portions of the

games during the French and Indian War.

Clearly, chief among these fabrications, as always, is the Assassin vs Templar battle

that formulates the protagonists' narratives during their hunt for precursor artifacts.

Next was the attack on Albany, led by the fictional assassin Kesegowaase, which never

historically occurred.

Lastly, and I suppose this does tie into my first point, Assassin's Creed Rogue's

ending, from Shay's hunt for Hope all the way to Haytham sparring Achilles, and all

the confrontations therein, was essentially fictionalized.

Having cleared up those imagined segments of the game, we'll now go over the real

historical events that Ubisoft either manipulated or embellished, as a way of accommodating

their Assassin's Creed plot.

Although I won't get too into detail about how various individuals weren't actually

assassinated, but rather died from different causes, as that will be saved for their respective

videos at a later date, I will momentarily touch on a few of these cases in this summary.

For that reason, the first point I want to touch on was Shay's mission to kill Lawrence

Washington.

Despite actually genuinely dying around that time from tuberculosis, the element I personally

liked more about this encounter was how the game presented a connection between Lawrence,

Samuel and James as members of the Templar Order, which paralleled their actual connection

as business associates within the Ohio Company of Virginia.

The next element I find worth discussing is the presence of Haytham's allies within

the colonies.

Even though there isn't much question as to Lee, Church and Johnson being in the region,

the game seems to have taken the side of certain sources which state that Hickey and Pitcairn

would have also been near Boston at that time, a fact that is contradicted by certain other

resources that only claim they reached the colonies later.

Admittedly, due to the limited records on both individuals, this isn't necessarily

an incorrect point, but rather just one to take with a grain of salt since there are

contradictory interpretations on their arrival dates.

In succession to this idea, I'll also quickly re-iterate that notwithstanding the fact that

there was an earthquake in Lisbon on November 1st, 1755, it clearly wasn't caused by a

piece of Eden.

Anyways, the following historical tweak occurred during the surrender of Fort William Henry,

where the game took liberties by crediting the native attack on the plans of the assassin

Kesegowaase who sought to kill George Monro, when in reality the reason for committing

this massacre remains a debated topic to this day.

Also, just before I reach my last anecdote, I'd like to quickly mention that the naval

battle depicted in the game as a prelude to the siege of Louisbourg was overall an exaggeration,

as the French did not launch a pre-emptive strike which was almost single-handedly dealt

with by one vessel.

In fact, they were significantly outnumbered by the British which meant that the French

generally maintained a defensive position throughout that conflict.

Lastly, the final point worth discussing when considering alterations to the history by

the games was George Washington's role in the destruction of Ratonhnhaké:ton's village

during the French and Indian War.

Whereas there are records of Washington's involvement in such attacks later in his life,

I couldn't find a definitive source that stated he committed these acts during the

French and Indian War, although this wasn't an uncommon occurrence during the period,

and Washington did come to be known by the Iroquois as the "Town Destroyer", although

some attribute this more to his familial ties to John Washington, who was given the same

name years earlier.

Keeping all of that information in mind, we can now take a moment and contemplate whether

the French and Indian war was fairly depicted mainly between Assassin's Creed Rogue and

Assassin's Creed 3.

In general, I would personally say that this conflict was well demonstrated in the games,

however there are definitely a few aspects I'd like to quick go over.

My main grievance, and again this is my personal opinion, is tied to the fact that despite

the choice to essentially have the Assassins on the side of the French and the Templars

on the side of the British this only came into play in a couple instances within the

story in terms of the battles and events depicted.

Furthermore, and I realize I'm nitpicking, it was also odd to see Adewale back but this

time supporting the French war effort, especially when taking into consideration the events

of Freedom Cry.

Nevertheless, outside of these minor complaints I truly appreciated the attention to detail

which was utilized when portraying certain developments in the war.

In particular, among those that stuck out for me were the Albany Congress, where we

got to see Benjamin Franklin proposing his Plan of the Union which was seen as too extreme

at the time, but would prove to be a foundational concept behind the later Articles of Confederation.

Another such occurrence was during the Braddock Expedition where, even with the game's alterations,

much of the actual history behind the failed British attack was fairly demonstrated, down

to the General's disinclination to resolving things peacefully before the fighting began.

Overall, although the games' stories only occasionally intersected with a few of the

French and Indian War's major events, when they did so, it was traditionally with an

appreciated attention to detail, and for that reason I did enjoy getting to play through

this influential historical period that would be integral in setting the stage for the later

American Revolutionary War.

Having said that, we have reached the end of today's video.

If you enjoyed the content, please share this series with your friends and be sure to explore

our other episodes.

I've just passed the half-way mark on covering the time periods of the franchise's main

titles, and although I intend on finishing this process before tackling other subjects,

please still feel free to leave me your topic requests for future videos in the comments.

As always, my sources used for making this video will be in the description bar below.

Thank you for watching.

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And another important contribution is that young people who have never thought

about becoming pastors, they come to our schools and they receive God's calling during

their training here and they decide to become pastors.

I came to the Mission School through a friend.

As I saw the changes this school caused in his life, I was really impressed.

In church I learned to understand everything mentally, but here you learn to understand

with your heart.

I came here for two reasons.

Firstly, I wanted to enhance my spiritual life.

And secondly, I wanted to learn how to proclaim the gospel to others.

My dream is that the students are strengthened with a clear vision and with a big heart for

Jesus.

I also hope that they know that God is speaking, and that they know to listen and react to his

voice.

I believe that each conference should have a school like this and encourage their young people

continually to attend a school like this.

That meeting with those young people impressed me a lot.

It gave me hope for the future.

It helped me to understand that truly the Lord is not only calling young people,

but he's calling you and me to be missionaries for him in these last days before Jesus' soon

return.

The education they receive now, will be shared later with others.

What gives this so much meaning is how much of themselves they are giving in preparing for

their future, and the future of others.

And while on the subject of preparedness, let me take you to a different place in Germany.

Worms is a charming city in the southwest region of Germany.

Downtown we have the cathedral of Saint Peter, today known as the Worms Cathedral.

Next to the church, there is a square that has the largest reformation monument in the

world.

It contains 9 statues and 8 portraits of the most important figures in the Reformation.

At the center of the monument, the statue of Martin Luther has an engraving that reads: "Faith

is nothing else, but that right, truthful life in God himself.

To understand Scripture right, one must have the spirit of Christ." Seated at his feet are

the main forerunners of the reformation including John Wycliffe and Jan Huss.

We're here in downtown on Worms, Germany.

I'm standing on the spot where a very important building used to exist.

It's gone.

Let me tell you about it.

Here is the exact place where the Diet of Worms took place – an incredible meeting with the

emperor, the princes of Germany, the representatives of the Papacy,

[who were] there to try to get Martin Luther to recant.

Let's move on and see what happened.

On this very spot, on this very place, here in Worms is where Martin Luther made his

incredible defense for truth, for the testimony of Jesus, for righteousness by faith.

And he made such an eloquent and valiant explanation before the Diet of Worms.

A spokesperson of the Diet was enraged, and demanded that he recant.

Martin Luther went on to say, "unless I can be shown from Scripture,

from the testimony of scripture, or from very logical reasoning.

I cannot recant.

I will not, I cannot recant." He went on to say, "Here I stand.

I can do no other.

May God help me." Not far from here, in the city of Lahr, the same spirit and determination

drove Heiner Lachmann to start a work of reformation - a revival for mission.

I want you to meet Heiner Lachmann, an Adventist who also has a story of influence,

humility, and dedication.

It seems that these three conditions are essential for the Word of God to reach as far as

possible.

Being in a place where it is difficult to share his faith, he came up with a strategy for

reaching his friends - a small group.

I decided to start a small group because I was fascinated with Acts 2.

The disciples weren't just in the temple, they were in people's houses.

A peaceful life, a healthy diet, a solid marriage and a genuine experience with God,

this was the recipe to Heiner's impact on his friends and guests - being an example to show how

he received so much peace.

I met Heiner Lachmann when I was 13 or 14. Back

then, I was a very rebellious person.

I was born in an atheist country.

And when I came to Germany, I didn't believe in God.

I was a "tough guy," I guess you could say.

Alcohol was my best friend.

Then I got to know Lachmann through friends.

He told me, I could come to his Bible study group.

In my own life, I myself received so much love from God through the gospel.

Therefore I could only justify my existence as a Christian by sharing it.

I found nourishment for starving people and wanted to pass it on.

While looking through the paper, I saw an ad.

In the ad there was a phone number, and Lachmann picked up.

I was invited into the Lachmann's home.

They were just celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary.

If she hadn't been by my side, supporting me, it wouldn't have worked.

Because she was always there.

And then I started to inquire about it, because all other Christians keep the Sunday holy.

Then I was told to go to this small group.

So I started attending the small group.

After that, I started retracing my family's genealogy, and discovered that my grandmother,

who had died in 1969, was an Adventist as well.

In my despair, there was only one possibility left - to go to that man who always talked to me

about the existence of God.

And in the Bible group I started realizing that I was living was totally wrong.

And when I was done with the course, Lachmann came, gave me a gift and invited me to come to

his Bible study group.

And from then I kept coming.

So after I came to the small groups, I decided to do a 180 and follow Jesus.

And 1991, I got baptized.

And in 1995, I starting working with the Pathfinders and have been since then.

In March 2012, I got baptized.

And that's how I found the Seventh-day Adventists.

I started coming to the small groups in 1991.

And I got baptized the following year.

All of heaven rejoices when even one person repents.

So why shouldn't we also rejoice?

There's a special reason why Revelations 14:12 says, "Here is the patience of the saints." I

believe we have to learn to have more patience with the people God places in our lives.

I wouldn't be standing here today if He hadn't had that much patience with me.

The power of influence is something that is absolutely undeniable.

Historically, many leaders, artists, and even ordinary people were influential.

In this German city, we have an example of what an idea can do to the entire world,

in the hands of a person who is determined and driven.

Yes, we are talking about the Protestant Reformation; a movement that is not restricted

to the past, but is even today influential to our way of thinking and our relationship

with God.

And in these old streets of Wittenberg, reform seems to speak powerfully,

even in silence.

To protect him from this fate, Prince Frederick seized him on his way home and hid him in

Watburg Castle.

It was during his time in Watburg that Luther began his German translation of the Bible.

Martin Luther's powerful testimony of faith at the Diet of the Worms in 1521 made an

indelible impression upon the mind of George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach,

who turned his eyes to the new faith earlier than any other German Prince or any other

member of the House of Hohenzollern.

Moreover, Luther entered into correspondence with him, discussing with him the most

important problems of faith.

The edict was temporarily suspended at the Diet of Speyer in 1526,

but then reinstated in 1529.

When Luther eventually reemerged from the Wartburg Castle, the emperor,

distracted with other matters, did not press for Luther's arrest.

Ultimately, because of rising public support for Luther among the German people and the

protection of certain German princes, the Edict of Worms was never enforced in Germany.

We're here in the Wartburg Castle.

It's a magnificent place.

It's perched up in the mountainside surrounded by incredible forests.

And centuries ago, something incredible took place right here.

This castle started being built in 1068 and was instrumental during wars,

marking territory, and being a fortress for nobility; but it is most famously known as a shelter

for Martin Luther from 1521 until 1522.

This happened when King Frederick the Wise decided to help the theologian after being

excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Leo X.

It was in this isolated environment that a work of tremendous influence was

created.

Influential for the people and for the world - an extraordinary revival began.

I can imagine Martin Luther spending hours of time right here,

translating the New Testament from Greek into German.

And then it was produced in a tremendous way.

He was a visionary because the printing press had been established,

thereby putting the Word of God into the hands of the German people,

which then, by God's grace, produced revival and reformation.

In the Wartburg Castle, God protected Martin Luther personally in a safety

situation.

But he also protected Martin Luther from a kind of pride and a kind of arrogance that

could've occurred when people would've lifted him up in the beginning of the Protestant

Reformation.

And in this very room, in this particular place, Martin Luther studied the scriptures.

And produced some tremendous material that would help the beginning of that great

Protestant Reformation.

In fact, the book The Great Controversy indicates that Martin Luther was protected here

from that kind of elevation that those people would have produced had he been in their midst.

God had a special purpose for Martin Luther here.

Because in this very place he produced the German text of the New Testament,

coming from the Greek.

He used 16 different dialects, in order to in essence, create a unified German language - what

persistence, what determination, what dedication.

And today we have wonderful stories of dedication and perseverance.

Now let me tell you a story about spiritual vision, about the power of prayer,

about the dynamics of small groups, and how the Holy Spirit produced results.

This is Bergamo, an Italian city in Lombardy, 25 miles northeast of Milan.

With ancient streets and buildings, it houses over 120,000 people,

some in the upper part and others in the lower part of the city,

which is full of churches lined with gold and classical works of art.

It was here that we found these people, revived in their faith, and devoted to their study of

the Bible.

We started these small groups with one goal in mind: to give ourselves totally to the Lord,

to re-live Acts 1 and 2, as the early church did.

Small groups actually give us a very positive experience because they give us the opportunity to

know each other better so much better.

These small groups have created a spirit of friendship between us,

with Christ.

Even though we had already done them in the past, we started Bible studies.

And from there, we got baptized.

These small groups have created a very strong bond between us.

We share the prayer.

We prayed for the purposes of the church.

Small groups create an opportunity to forge strong ties,

with is the objective of the church.

After I left the church, something inside of me pushed me to read the Bible once again.

These groups, instead, create this atmosphere that is very special.

There is a very loving atmosphere.

It's almost as if we were a family.

It's a fundamental means for sharing Jesus Christ to friends and family.

These groups have given a special energy to the church.

And a kind of awakening has resulted from them.

Not only has the Sabbath School become a family group, the small group has flourished and has

created three additional small groups.

They give a lot of energy because everybody prays to the Lord with great confidence.

In the church we are a little bit shy, but in a small group, there is less pressure.

The small group is a creation of God, the will of God for the church today.

I came to understand this very clearly in the past 3 years.

It is by loving others that you receive love back.

Jesus is the one who gave me the opportunity to have life.

Jesus is everything to me.

He's the one that gave me life and transformed me.

My personal Savior.

He supports me in every moment of my life.

My friend, God, creator and savior.

For me Jesus is everything.

He's everything to me, because in Him, I find peace in times of trouble and times of

difficulties.

Jesus is my personal savior.

Jesus asks us only obedience to His commandments, to believe in Him a personal Savior.

He lets me live on Earth as if I were in paradise.

This question moves me.

To me Jesus is everything.

He's my Comforter.

He's my teacher.

He's my guide.

He's my father.

It takes time to influence people.

Much patience is needed, just like it takes patience to take care of flowers such as these,

the lavender.

Alone and quietly, this tiny flower takes time to grow and develop,

but in fulfilling the purpose it receives from the Creator Himself,

it gives off its perfume, its essence, to everything around it.

Its scent can be perceived even a mile away.

Such is the influence of someone who lives for Christ.

It is simply impossible not to talk about Him - to have the essence of a Christian.

This is the gospel message; it changes us!

It's sweet like the scent of lavender in Provence, changing everything,

just like Luther's Reformation.

My dear friends, I want to ask each of you to consider in your own hearts,

how the Holy Spirit can truly take possession of your mind and your heart.

And help you to stand for truth, regardless of what you may face.

What a beautiful and shinning example Martin Luther gave centuries ago.

And now God is asking you to continue this reformation by focusing upon Christ,

upon truth, upon the Bible, and upon His soon second coming.

I'd like to ask God's blessing on us in a very special way as we face the future.

Our Father in heaven we thank you for this very precious place - this place where one of your

servants stood so valiantly for you - one of the shinning moments in history.

Lord, we know that he did this through your power.

And now Lord, I ask that you will empower each of us to also take a beautiful,

and powerful, and wonderful stand for you.

Focusing upon the truths of scripture, and pointing people to Christ and his righteousness,

and his soon coming.

May we each stand firm for you, as Martin Luther did.

And Lord we thank you for hearing us and for the promise of your soon coming,

in Jesus' precious name we ask you, Amen.

We'll see you next time.

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Differences between G Pen Nibs Brands (eng subs) - Duration: 16:06.

CLAP CLAP (help me to sync audio, kkk)

Hi Everyone, I'm Isac and welcome to this video

This time a little bit different from usual

Usually I only made time lapse videos

Because I want to make changes to the channel now in March

Bringing new kinds of videos and if you have any suggestion leave at the comments please

Ok

Today's video it's about four different brands of G pen nibs and I will compare then

For anyone that it's starting or want to start using this type of final art material

And wants to now what brand to use or what kind of type to buy, what you find more easily

So, lets start

In the video I will be using this Hunter x Hunter art that I made of Gon and Pitou

I reproduce this art six times using my light table

Beyond the four G Pens, I made it with Uni Pin Nanquim Pen too

This pen it's the most common for artists

I used a few variations of the size, but always Uni Pin

I think it's pretty fine, I prefer the G pen style, but I liked the result

And I also made a Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Brush version, that I liked the most, it's my favorite tool

I used this brush in the G Dray Man video that you can see here at the card

This is an amazing brush and it gives a very special look, how you can see

This gon frame gets way more shocking

But I will talk more about the brush and the nanquim pens in another video

Ok, starting with the Leonard G Pen

This was the first that i made and the final result it's this

We can see in comparison with the Uni Pin that came out very poorly

The lines are very innacurate and it was very hard to control the thickness of then

Not to mention the blots and ink drops all over the lines

Just for record, you will be watching at the corner of the screen the timelapse of all drawings

This Leonard G pen it's the most common in Brazil and the easiest to find

This is why I think that so much people doesn't use G Pen Nibs as final art material here (lol)

Because it's a crap material and ho doesn't now, find this at first and gets frustrated right at the start

Ho knows other brands can see that it's a poor material right at the touch

It's a very soft nib that doesn't let the ink flow properly and when he does, let it all came out in one shot

I will be demonstrating to you using this Tachikawa Holder

For me this is the best Holder, it's one of the most used in the world

The Leonard G pen barely fits in this holder, all other brands fits perfectly and this is a universal holder

The ink that i'm using it's a Talens Indian Ink

See? I'm testing right after dive in the ink and it doesn't flow, i'm gonna dive again and put more ink

This nib don't liberate any ink at all and if I knock in the paper, all the ink came out at once

With this you can't trust the nib and the excess of ink damage the paper and increase the chance of smudges

Because of this i'm giving a zero to this nib in ink flow

In consequence every time you want to make a line you need to knock the tip of the nib

How you maybe could see in the time lapse of this drawing, this was the one that leave more time to do

The line variation it's impossible since you can control the flow of the ink

When you try to open the tip, instead of let more ink flow like a normal G pen nib

The Leonard Nib stops the ink flow almost immediately

I'm not intend to give a grade, this is more my personal opinion but this G pen sucks

It's a very bad option and this is total new Nib, I don't use this brand anymore

I buyed just for made this video

When I start to use G Pen nibs almost five years a go, Leonard was my only option in Brazil

As result after screw up four nibs I give up from G pen and I came back only a few months a go

I only give up at the time, because I think that all the G Pen Nibs are hard like this

but in fact it's not that hard at all, it's just a question of reliable materials and practice

Moving to paper damage, this nib had given the Canson Bristol 180g a hard time

Because the accumulation of ink at some points and considering that the tip scratch's

even this good paper, that i use in all g pen videos, loses a few peaces that get stuck at the tip of the pen

I don't now if you can see in the video, but this is a piece of paper

It's a g pen nib that I don't recommend at all for anyone

Your going to get mad, get extra work and the result's will always came inferior

So in final considerations, never buy this, you have a lot more great options

I'm not intended to depreciate the brand, but this product it's impossible

Ok, moving on to Zebra G Pen Nib, this is a half way between Leonard and others

Not in quality, this is an excellent nib, but in flexibility, because this is the most flexible that work

This brand is getting more and more common in Brazil now

I don't like this nib that much as others, but this is a personal preference and you can easily use it

I prefer a more rigid nib, but zebra had a great design and it's a nice option

This is the draw that I made with this nib, you can see a big difference between this and Leonard

The lines are way more precise and the cross hatching turned out great

You can see how superior are Zebra in this comparison

I'm going to test him now

Lets check the ink flow

Unlike Leonard this nibs let the ink flow and you can easily control the thickness of the lines

You can do from a very thin line to a thick one without any mystery

This is an excellent nib to be considered and I know some artists that had this as a favorite

Ho have a light hand and like flexible nibs will choose Zebra. Tachikawa and Nikko are more for heavy hands

The Ink flow it's excellent but still a little bit above Nikko and Tachikawa, what you will only notice if you try all

The line variation it's only not perfect because it releases a little bit more ink that really needs

You can get the line that you want, from 0.1 mm to almos 4 mm

Zebra don't damage the paper like Leonard and doesn't take pieces at any time

The best option it's really buy at least Nikko and Zebra or if you could buy Nikko, Zebra and Tachikawa even better

Then you could try and find the one that fits perfectly for your style and preference

I believe that it's the fastest way to grow at this media

Now lets see my Nikko art

You can compare with Leonard... or better, compare it with Zebra

You can see that my cross hatching turned out better and iI could give more impact to the lines

Thins G Pen gives you more control and it's easiest to handle, at least for me it's way better to use

It had a very different design comparing with Zebra, but it's funny that it's almost the same design as Tachikawa

I don't know if you guys can see it

But they are almost equal, kkk

As far as I know, Tachikawa it's a more famous and antique brand, so maybe nikko had copy then

But I don't now for shore

I get confused and get the wrong one, they are almost the same (lol)

They results are almost the same with only a very minor differences

The ink flow it's perfect, a very good amount of ink without exaggerate

Since the most light touch leaves a very thin line only with the weight of the pen and the holder

This is one of the few differences between Nikko and Tachikawa, the light and thin lines gets better with Tachikawa

Nikko can get thinner lines in comparison with Zebra, the thinnest achieves less than 0.1 mm

In my opinion it's superior in ink flow and line variation

Sometimes zebra leaves more ink that you need

This is the major reason for my preference at Nikko's nib

I used Nikko and Zebra for the fist time together and like Nikko way more

Then a few weeks later I tested Tachikawa and see that it's even better but not that different from Nikko

I think that Nikko or Tachikawa will be the majority preference, if you can only buy one, buy Nikko or Tachikawa

And now lets move to Tachikawa

Tachikawa it's one of the most used brands in Japan, this Holder it's one of the bests of the world

This cover it's great, you can protect the nib and leave it in the bag to everywhere without concerns

I use this holder only, I have Deleter and other minor brands too, but they are too small for my hands

This is my Tachikawa version

Nikko and Tachikawa are almost equal, the differences are more human mistakes

They achieve a very similar result at all aspects

Let's test the ink flow

Try to guess.... Almost equal to Nikko again

The major point it's that Tachikawa, as I said before, get better thin lines in comparison with Nikko

The lines don't get pointy like Nikko does sometimes, i don't now if you can see in the video

The crosshatching and line variation it's the same as Nikko

But Tachikawa it's behind Nikko at ink control, it leaves a little bit more than you need sometimes, Nikko never does this

All of then are great in line variation, except Leonard

Tachikawa it's a little bit more scratchy with the paper, Nikko it's more gentle, but this is a difference that you barely can feel

Leonard destroys the paper (lol)

Comparing Tachikawa and Nikko, Tachikawa it's a little bit more expensive

not in Brazil, because here it's hard to find Tachikawa. Zebra and Nikko have the same price in almost all the stores

Importing from EUA Tachikawa costs around $6 or $5 and Nikko 5$ or 4$, the both coming in a pack of three pieces

Zebra it's a little bit expensive, it costs around $6 or $7

If you can buy from EUA it's better, because in Brazil you will pay almost R$ 15 in every nib, three times more expensive

The holders are more cheap too

For shore it's better to import if you want to test all the brands like I did

They came in packages of three like this one from Tachikawa

This camera it's in a funny angle to show things

I buy always from Jet Pens

It's a very good store that I recommend

And this is all for now, hope you all enjoy

Hope I could show you guys some interesting stuff and

Showing three in comparison

Tachikawa, Zebra and Leonard

If you had any suggestion, comment or question leave down bellow at the comments please

Interact with all of you it's whats makes everything worth

Leave a like for help me if you enjoy, consider to subscribe and see you at the next one :D

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Attorneys baffled as ICE agent arrests man inside Travis Co. Courthouse - Duration: 1:35.

48TH FLOOR.ROBERT:ATTORNEYS

TELL US THEY'VE NEVER SEEN

ANYTHING LIKE IT:FEDERAL

IMMIGRATION AGENTS ARRESTED A

MAN INSIDE THE TRAVIS COUNTY

COURTHOUSE TODAY - PROVING

THEY'RE WORKING SWIFTLY TO

ENSURE PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED

CRIMINALS DON'T STAY HERE.THE

MAN HAD BEEN RELEASED FROM

JAIL AFTER THE COUNTY'S NEW

IMMIGRATION POLICY WENT INTO

EFFECT ON FEBRUARY FIRST.

KXAN'S BRITTANY GLAS JOINS US

WITH WHAT SHE'S LEARNED.

BRITTANY:THE TRAVIS COUNTY

SHERIFF'S OFFICE CONFIRMS --

áONEá ICE AGENT WAS AT THE

COURTHOUSE THIS MORNING TO

SERVE A SINGLE WARRANT... THIS

MAN'S ATTORNEY TOLD US - TWO

OFFICERS IN PLAIN CLOTHES...

ARRESTED HIS CLIENT:

27-YEAR-OLD JUAN CARLOS

CORONILLA--GUERRERO. ACCORDING

TO COURT RECORDS, GUERRERO WAS

ARRESTED IN JANUARY ON TWO

MISDEAMNOR CHARGES:"ASSAULT

BODILY INJURY-FAMILY VIOLENCE"

...AND POSSESSION OF

MARIJUANA. GUERRERO HAS NOT

BEEN CONVICTED OF THESE

CHARGES.HE WAS SCHEDULED FOR A

PRE-TRIAL SETTING TODAY. HIS

ATTORNEY SAYS -- GUERRERO WAS

NOT REQUIRED TO APPEAR IN

COURT TODAY, BUT SAYS HE WAS

THERE TO TRY TO MOVE THE CASE

THROUGH FASTER. DANIEL BETTS,

ATTORNEY: "I MADE A

CALCULATION THAT IT WOULD BE

BEST TO MINIMIZE THE POTENTIAL

CONTACT WITH THE CRIMINAL

JUSTICE SYSTEM AS THOSE MIGHT

BE POTENTIAL CONTACTS WITH ICE

AND DIDN'T ANTICIPATE THIS

HAPPENING, BUT THIS IS WHAT

HAPPENED."BRITTANY:GUERRERO'S

ATTORNEY TELLS US -- GUERRERO

HAD áONEá PRIOR ARREST... HE

SERVED FIVE MONTHS FOR AN "UN-

AUTHORIZED USE OF A MOTOR

VEHICLE" CHARGE IN 2008...

AFTER THAT, HE WAS DEPORTED.

SOMETIME BETWEEN NOW AND THEN,

HE RETURNED TO THE UNITED

STATES. BRITTANY GLAS, K-X-A-N

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Data Migration Assistant Azure SQL Database Assessment - Duration: 17:23.

[MUSIC]

Everybody welcome to another exciting episode of Data Exposed.

I'm your host Scott Kline and

you should recognize these two fine gentlemen because they were here.

>> Two times, two times.

>> Twice, yes twice, and the last time we said August?

When was the last time?

>> September. >> September?

>> Yeah, September.

>> Right and you're here doing the data assessments-

>> Yeah.

>> Tool and you're back to show that, right?

>> Yes. >> Awesome, so

before we get started.

For the poor saps who didn't watch the previous episode you were here,

take a second to introduce yourself.

>> Sure, my name is Rajputi Manju,

Program Manager in Data Migration Team.

Primarily responsible for tools and services.

>> Okay, cool.

>> Hi, my name is Akash Verenkar,

I'm an Engineering Manager on the Data Migration Team.

>> Okay, awesome, so thanks, thanks for

coming always a pleasure to have you.

So, last time you were here, we talked about the assessment tool and

as we're talking before, we showed the assessment and the migration.

And I think which is powerful, how do we get the idea.

What it's going to take to migrate 2000 SQL Server 2016 and

the Azure assessments.

So today you have a better an additional story, right,

what is that?

>> So we are showing you the assessments for Azure SQL database.

>> Yup, and I asked you that last time too, when are we going to have?

[LAUGH] >> I know you asked me that.

>> And, yay, so it's here, this is the kind of the same thing,

right, what do I need to get to Azure SQL database.

Then what is that story?

>> Yeah, so

before we go to the prime story right so let me quickly recap.

We talked about our region in the last two years as well but

we quickly recap.

So at Data Migration team, our goal is basically to

enable seemless migrations to modern SQL Platforms.

So that the customers can really focus on getting their company

an advantage through the business insights that these modern

platforms are capable of providing.

We primarily support three major upgrade in migration scenarios.

The very first one is upgrading from your on premises legacy SQL Server

versions to modern on premises SQL Server platforms.

>> Like SQL 2005 a 2016.

>> 2016 On-premisses SQL boxes, right?

The other scenario is,

we enable you to migrate from Legacy on SQL Server.

On-premises platforms to modern cloud platforms for SQL Server.

For example, SQL Server running on Azure VM, Azure SQL Server Database.

>> Okay. >> So the other scenario is we also

support you to migrate from compete products like Oracle, DB2,

to modern SQL Platforms.

>> Sybase?

>> Yeah. >> Cool.

>> So these are the major test on audios that we work on.

>> And today, the primary focus is mainly on,

to talk bout the Azure SQL Database migrations.

>> Okay.

>> So, if you look at the past video slides,

when we first came in, we introduced you the assessments from

on premises SQL Server to modern On-Premises SQL Server.

>> Okay. >> And then in the second video,

we're talking about the migrations from On-Prem to

On-Prem Modern Platform and as well as SQL on VM.

>> Yeah.

>> And today, primarily, we're focusing on Azure DB.

>> Okay. >> So

when it comes to Azure DB migrations.

>> Our ultimate goal is to provide an end-to-end experience starting

from finding out all the migration blockers that you might want to fix.

>> Yeah. >> And provide auto fixes for

those ones, as well and

take those schema, we can work the schema to the Azure DB.

And deploy that schema onto the Azure DB and

perform the actual migration.

>> Yeah. >> So that is kind of fine end

two end experience that we wanted

to provide, >> Yeah.

>> And then,

we wanted to have a single tool to do all these activities.

>> Right.

>> But that's going to take sometime, so the very first step

that we took this today is to enable the assistance.

>> This SAP, so yeah, so just like we did in the very first video.

Show the assessment from legacy to Modern Platform 2016.

Now we're doing the same thing, through the cloud piece right?

Let's do the assessment from legacy to Azure SQL Database.

>> Yeah, so

these Azure SQL assessments I think [INAUDIBLE] is going to demo

the actual code aspects of it, but primarily focus us on.

Two aspects, one is the feature parody.

>> Okay. >> Assessment which means is that

there is gap between on-premises platform to the Azure DB.

Some other different features are unsupported or partially supported.

>> Okay. >> So we detect all those features

that are unsupported and partially supported.

That your work loads are currently using, and they will provide

recommendations what to do about those recommendations right?

And there is,

and their assessment which is compatibility at the schemer level.

We look at your schemer and

we will provide the issues that are going to block your migration so

that you need to fix those issues before you migrate to the Azure DB.

So those are the two major components that we do, so

if you look at the entire scenario here, right.

>> So you would use DMA >> Yeah.

>> Assessments for

accessing your source databases >> Yeah,

in migrating to the Azure SQL Database and then DMA will provide

the comprehensive recommendations, how to fix those compact issues.

>> Okay. >> So you can use all that guidance

to come up with the strategy for those fixes.

>> Okay. >> So

that is something that you need to work on to come up with those fixes.

>> One of the things that I need to address [CROSSTALK]

>> The migration blockers.

>> Yeah. >> Once you have those fixes

are ready for you, then you simply take a copy of your source database.

And then deploy those fixes to the database which you just copied.

>> And then use this database to generate the backpack.

When engendered the backpack it would contain not only the schema

but also the actual data that you just copied from there, right?

>> Yeah, it contains both data and as well the schema.-

>> Yeah, the backpack has a data and

a schema.

>> So you just simply export the backpack from this and

then simply import that backpack into the Azure Database.

That's the complete flow at this point,

we will only support the assessment piece but our goal

is to come up with an [CROSSTALK] >> They have all of that.

>> I'm sure soon we'll have another video for-

>> Look forward

to having you back for that.

Finishing this and then the whole going for the competitive stuff too,

all right.

>> So no I'll invite Arkas to give you the demo, so

that we can show the feature off assessment.

>> Okay. >> Don't let

the falling of the channel line guide jinx you.

>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]

>> Yeah, so, demo time, so

>> I love demos.

>> So I have the data migration assistant which I've downloaded

from download center, this- >> You're still.

Okay, so let me move this.

>> Here we go.

>> Hold on it's because.

Now can you see it?

Perfect, no.

>> Need to stop the presentation.

There we go, perfect.

Yeah, so this is Data Migration Assistant version 3.0.

>> Yeah.

>> So the same flow as we went before, so I'll go ahead and

create an assessment project and lets call it GetToAzureSQLDB.

And this time,

we have a new value over here which is Azure SQL Database.

Eventually, we'll have a more target supporter over here.

>> Okay. >> So that we create

a new project now.

>> At this screen,

things are slightly different from how we assess for on-prem upgrades.

So what we have over here are those two functionalities

that Raj has already described before, right.

So we have the Check database compatibility and

Check feature parity.

The major difference between the two is,

when you look at database compatibility.

We extract the schema of each individual database we go through,

we sort procedures, we go through your table structures.

Your users, and we do a compact level check,

plus also features that will work and not work in Azure SQL.

>> Okay.

>> Whereas that feature parity is more of surface level.

So we will go through your server features

we will go at the data base level but

we'll only look at the database level features at this point.

It will tell you that what are features on your server which won't

work in SQL DB.

And it's not just about pointing out what won't work,

they give you a very detailed recommendation on what

are the options that you can use- >> Yes.

>> To move [CROSSTALK] >> It's beyond the,

sorry it won't work.

>> Yeah, exactly.

>> Look if you wanna use this, here's the recommendations for it.

>> Yes, yes. >> One good thing is when you move

to the Azure right,

there are plenty of alternate approaches that you can take.

>> Yeah. >> You can still have your business

functionality but it just requires little bit of re-engineering.

>> Well, I think that's, is that what you guys are finding is that,

it's this paradigm shift, how do we now do things in the cloud,

verses on premises right?

And that's, I think that's a blocker.

Well if it doesn't work in Azure well.

>> It does we just do things a little differently.

>> Exactly, and actually that's the key,

the thing that you said towards the end right?

People always think that these are blockers they're

actually not blockers.

It's just a different way of doing things in Azure, and

you just have to learn it once.

>> Yeah. >> That's it, so

let me just click next.

This is the same screen that we had before so

I can add n number of servers, n number of databases.

So let me select the database that, 2016 server that I have.

>> This is my local server.

Let's connect using Windows authentication and

if you select all this data base on it.

So they're all on premises databases at this point.

>> All right.

>> Along with this what I will also do,

is I will also select another server that I have, which is a 2005 server.

A few databases over there, so let me also connect to that and

let's pick only one database from there, okay.

>> Okay, so all these databases, two servers added and

now let's start the assessment behind the scene actually.

>> But you picked your source,

you hadn't picked your database you wanna move to right now.

It's just going here's the database we picked on premises so

we wanna assess, and we because we're not going through a target.

We're not doing the migration we're just doing assessment we don't

depict the target- >> With an intent,

with an intent that you want to go to the Azure BBS.

>> Okay. >> Exactly, so

that;s why initially we selected what target you're going for and

we selected SQL Database.

And something I didn't actually mention it, but

on the next screen we give you the SQL of SQL DB, so

we support V12 today which is the latest version.

>> Okay. >> And all this rules are specific

to V12 right now, so in this report, we have these two reports.

So let's look at SQL Server feature party for example,

over here, what we do is we group them,

the feature party report, we group all the issues into two buckets.

One, which are not supported and One, which are partially supported.

So you would think that they're supported, but

there are some behavioral changes that you should be aware of.

For example, if I look at this one, we don't have to go through each and

every one, but a couple of important ones.

I click at this,

cross database references not supported in Azure SQL Database.

So it definitely found that I have queries where I'm differencing

another database from this one, which is not supported.

However it's not that you cannot do cross reference, you can.

So either the classic way is you can move that out to datacenter into

your DB Which,

usually people won't do because they've already separated out.

However you can always Azure SQL elastic database feature,

elastic database queries with which you can achieve the same thing.

You can do cross reference calls, so this is one part.

>> That's a good example of how we think about

doing something different in the cloud, right.

>> The other part as you notice here, right.

The mode info, I know Akash is going there.

It's gonna give you the complete

process how you can leverage that elastic jobs features.

>> Okay, cool.

>> It even identifies which databases it's looking for.

It's not just in general, this is a feature.

These databases are using this, so here is a guidance that we've had.

>> Okay. >> Another example we can look for

is, let's say, exercise.

Now it did identify that I have SSIS in, SSIS is not supported.

However, can always use Azure Data Factory and

use Azure Data Factory to have your transformation jobs over there and

data movement transformation board.

And again we have a link a detailed link on Azure Data Factory how to

use it so this now again at Surface level.

We still haven't gone into details about each DB,

about the compact issues and stuff.

So let me actually go to compatibility issues tab, all here

it will list on all the databases so let's start with this one, so for

example good news, no compatibility issues this database [CROSSTALK]

>> Yeah, ready to go.

>> So I especially like this particular screen,

another one we can look for is let's say this analysis services.

So here for example this is an interesting one It found

a user in this database.

This is not a login, this is a user in this database but

it is mapped to a Windows login.

>> Okay. >> Now Windows logins are not

supported in SQL DB.

So again it's not that Windows logins are completely not supported,

you have alternatives.

Either you can convert them to SQL logins or you can use Windows

[CROSSTALK] and you can use that application to move this login.

So again the link of how to secure your SQL Database and

then detail login recommendation on that.

And over here what we have done is we actually grouping these

issues into three buckets.

One of my migration block have to do some changes, at the same time we

also specify a behavior intended as well as a behavior predicted.

These are the same rules you would also apply an upgrade to 2016 that

is for example on for example all of those 130s all of those.

Along with some extra, which are are shown over here.

>> Okay. >> I can go another rule, for

example, this one, service broker feature.

Now, service broker feature is not supported in Azure SQL database.

>> Yeah. >> But

you can always use more info on detailed guidance of what you can do

in this service broker feature.

I have another database over here,

inventory which has not only issues specific to SQL DB migration,

but this are just in general compact level [INAUDIBLE] issues.

For example, discontinued DBCC Commands, you will face this even.

Even if you are moving to, even if you are upgrading to latest version.

>> Yeah. >> Yeah,

the more all your databases, the more issues that you would encounter

to migrate so it's always good to have, update to the latest versions.

>> Yeah, yeah, so yeah, so that's how you'd find these rules over here

and as with all our other assessment reports you can export this.

However, now we also have JSON formatively, this is something that

we actually got and asked from many of our customers.

The JSON is something that can be exported to other databases that can

be consumed by tools.

So that's way we came to the structure format of JSON which

is available here.

>> Yeah the migration is the show stopper type I can't go,

I cannot migrate right?

But I love the fact that you're like well look, you can't but

hee's some recommendations to,

just like you say It's not that we don't support it.

>> Right. >> We just do it a little

differently and a lot better, that's probably not a lot better.

We just do it from a more improved way.

>> Right, more efficient way.

>> More efficient [CROSSTALK] >> The way you do it in Azure or

in Cloud.

>> Well, yeah, and I think that goes back to

we do certain things a certain way on premises or on the box but

in the cloud, >> It's a paradigm shift,

we have to change our thinking a little bit.

It's not that difficult,

we just need to make that shift a little bit.

>> Exactly, another thing also is that, behind the scenes what we do

is we use the same data that can fix libraries.

So, we use the data application library behind the scenes

along with that, we augment this guidance.

Plus we have this feature parity which is just at the server level

because none of the current rules we have do us a of your server.

They are only very specific to that how you can migrate that.

You migrated and then if you got that here,

there was a feature on the server and I'm missing it now.

What do I do now?

So that's why it's like everything together,

we provide you a comprehensive guidance.

>> And you brought up a good point,

you're getting some feedback from people that are using this tool.

I mean what's the overall feedback that you're getting so

far cuz going from a bunch of different tools to this one.

>> So far [INAUDIBLE] specifically with the assessment,

we tested with a couple of preview customers now as well as with.

It seems like almost two weeks that we release and

The feedback is tremendous.

They really loved it.

>> Okay. >> When it comes to the feedback

rating, the way that they really see the value out of this report.

Like mentioned there is no single tool out there which

provides this kind of at this point you know?

>> Yeah. >> You gotta use some other tool

to do the official parity or maybe you should use other hard scripts.

You do some other stuff to do the compact hard-

>> You have to use this this this

this this and this [CROSSTALK] >> But its going to entail

expediency at this point and people really love the way.

That we combined all these materials into a single tool and present so

that people can really afford.

They can really see what effort really takes for me to migrate this

database to Azure DB, because everything is in a single place.

>> Very nice.

>> That way I think we're really receiving good feedback.

>> Good. >> And now they're asking for

when migrations are going to [LAUGH] and so

we look forward to having you back for the migration pieces [CROSSTALK]

>> Now this is good,

I love the view of a single tool, single experience for everything.

Right, now we don't have to go here, here, different locations just to

get, be able to migrate so, gentlemen thanks for coming.

It's always a pleasure and

always looking forward to looking at the work you're doing.

This is great.

>> Thanks for your time.

>> You betcha, everybody thanks for watching,

download the tool, put links to it, in the description but

start using it and love your feedback.

Thank you so much for all [CROSSTALK].

>> Thank you for watching and we can see you next time.

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PEER REVIEWED SCIENCE LOSING CREDIBILITY AS LARGE AMOUNTS OF RESEARCH SHOWN TO BE FALSE.

Science today, in all fields, is plagued by corruption.

Yet, more often than not, attempts to create awareness about scientific fraud � an issue

that few journalists have been willing to address � are met with the response, �Well,

is it peer-reviewed?�

Although good science should always be reviewed, using this label as a form of credibility

can be dangerous, causing people to dismiss new information and research instantaneously

if it doesn�t have it, particularly when that information counters long-held beliefs

ingrained into human consciousness via mass marketing, education, and more.

Unfortunately, it�s becoming increasingly apparent that we are being lied to about the

products and medicines we use on a daily basis.

If you�re one who commonly points to the �peer-reviewed� label, then you should

know that there are many researchers and insiders who have been creating awareness about the

problem with this label for years.

Who Says So?

And From What Fields?

Climate Science Many people have spoken up against the corporatization

and politicization of science.

For example, Professor Lennart Bengtsson, a Swedish climatologist and former director

of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, has voiced his concern that some

scientists are, according to an interview given to the Daily Mail, �mixing up their

scientific role with that of climate activist.� He claims that there are multiple indicators

for how �science is gradually being influenced by political views.�

Professor Joanna D. Haigh, a British physicist, professor of atmospheric physics at Imperial

College London, co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, and former president

of the Royal Meteorological Society, has also spoken up about the politicization of climate

science.

The Australian prime minister�s chief business advisor has done the same, and so have other

politicians, like Senator James Inhofe, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment

and Public Works.

You can read more about that story here.

Unfortunately, the mainstream vilifies such people, and to great effect.

Below is an excellent snippet of a lecture given by Richard Lindzen, one of the world�s

top experts in the field and lead author of �Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks,�

Chapter 7 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change�s Third Assessment Report

on climate change.

He knows that all climate science we receive is IPCC United Nations science.

One of the scientists mentioned on the senator�s list, in this video, he talks about the politics

of climate science and the manipulation of data � something that plagues all fields

of science today.

Medical Science/Health Science/Food In the case of medicine, a lot of information

has emerged showing just how much corruption really goes on.

The Editors-in-Chiefs of several major medical journals have been quite blunt, with perhaps

one of the best examples coming from Dr. Richard Horton, the current Editor-in-Chief of The

Lancet, who says, �The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific

literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.�

Dr. Marcia Angell, a physician and longtime Editor-in-Chief of the New England Medical

Journal (NEMJ), also considered one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals

in the world, alongside The Lancet, has said that �it is simply no longer possible to

believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of

trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines.

I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two

decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.�

John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, published an

article titled �Why Most Published Research Findings Are False,� which subsequently

became the most widely accessed article in the history of the Public Library of Science.

Here is another great quote:

�The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in

terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research.

The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents

of the pharmaceutical industry.

I think it�s disgraceful.�

� Arnold Seymour Relman (1923-2014), Harvard professor of medicine and former Editor-in-Chief

of The New England Medical Journal.

As you can see, this has been a problem for quite some time.

A Couple of Examples:

GMOs One of the best examples of political influence

over scientific publication comes from an episode involving Genetically Modified Maize.

Monsanto published a study a few years ago which purported to demonstrate the effects

of GMO maize on rats over a 90 day period.

They reported no ill effects on the rodents from this diet.

Given the fact that there are no long term studies examining the health risks associated

with GMOs, independent researchers then decided to conduct the same study, with one difference:

Their study lasted over a year rather than a mere three months.

Researchers found instances of severe liver and kidney damage, as well as hormonal disturbances,

alongside the development of large tumours and mortality among the treatment groups.

The study was published in November of 2012, in the Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology,

and then instantly retracted.

After hundreds of scientists condemned the retraction, the U.S. did not publish it.

The study was then re-published in multiple peer-reviewed scientific journals (in Europe

last year [2014]), like Environmental Sciences Europe.

This is why it shouldn�t be a surprise that so many countries in Europe have banned the

growing of genetically modified crops.

Many also have bans and/or severe restrictions on importing GM products, citing health and

environmental concerns.

This fact was also made clear by WikiLeaks documents:

Resistance to the advent of genetically modified foods has been pronounced across Europe.

The continent features some of the strictest regulations governing the use and cultivation

of GMO products, and public skepticism about biotech goods is quite high � a fact not

lost on American diplomats.

In a lengthy report dating from late 2007 , a cable issued by the State Department outlined

its �Biotechnology Outreach Strategy, �which, among other things, recognized the European

Union�s �negative views on biology� and committed as a national priority to limiting

them (O7STATE160639).

Initial attention paid to the State Department�s part in pushing industrial manufactures on

its allies obscured the even bigger role it played in assuring a place for genetically

modified agricultural products (GMOs) in a region that largely wanted nothing to do with

them.

The American campaign promoting biotech products was a worldwide effort.

In all, some 1,000 documents from the Cablegate cache address this effort, a significant number

of which originate in Europe.

U.S. diplomats on the continent gave considerable attention to insuring the interests of American

biotech firms in Europe � Whether through �education� programs, government lobbying,

or outright coercion � as well as stripping down European Union regulations designed to

act as a bugger against them.

Available cables published by WikiLeaks suggest that the United States invests considerable

time, effort, and expense in its operations on behalf of the American biotech firms.

In 1996, Steven M. Druker, being a public interest attorney and the Executive Director

of the Alliance For Bio-Integrity, initiated a lawsuit in 1998 that forced the U.S. Food

and Drug Administration (FDA) to divulge its files on genetically engineered foods.

He�s recently published a book on the lawsuit that provides details of his experience.

He has also released the documents on his website, showing the significant hazards of

genetically engineering foods and the flaws in the FDA�s policy.

It�s called Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our

Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public.

Pharmaceutical Drugs There are a number of examples to choose from

here, but antidepressants make the top of the list.

Irving Kirsch, a lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School, published a study pointing

out how �analyses of the published data and the unpublished data that were hidden

by drug companies reveals that most (if not all) of the benefits are due to the placebo

effect.�

Another study published in the British Medical Journal by researchers at the Nordic Cochrane

Center in Copenhagen showed that pharmaceutical companies were not disclosing all information

regarding the results of their drug trials.

Researchers looked at documents from 70 different double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake

inhibitors (SNRI) and found that the full extent of serious harm in clinical study reports

went unreported.

Tamang Sharma, a PhD student at Cochrane and lead author of the study, said: �We found

that a lot of the appendices were often only available upon request to the authorities,

and the authorities had never requested them.

I�m actually kind of scared about how bad the actual situation would be if we had the

complete data.�

Another co-author of the study, Dr. Peter Gotzsche, who co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration

(the world�s foremost body in assessing medical evidence), found in a separate analysis

that 100,000 people in the United States die each year from the side effects of correctly

used prescription drugs, noting that �it�s remarkable that nobody raises an eyebrow when

we kill so many of our own citizens with drugs.� He has published many papers arguing that

our use of antidepressants is causing more harm than good, and taking into consideration

the recent leaks regarding these drugs, it seems he is correct.

Below is a brief video of him elaborating on this problem:

Vaccines are getting more attention now than ever before.

In fact, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Chairman of the World Mercury Project (WMP), recently

announced a $100,000 challenge aimed at putting an end to the inclusion of mercury, a neurotoxin

that is 100 times more poisonous than lead, in vaccines administered in the U.S and globally.

It�s offered to anybody, including journalists and scientists, who can provide a study showing

that it is safe to inject mercury into babies.

This will be difficult, as hundreds of studies (that were also present at the press conference

in print form) show it is absolutely unsafe, and can significantly increase the risk of

developing neurodegenerative disorders.

You can read more about this here.

Multiple cases of vaccine fraud have been uncovered, but this is something you might

not know given the fact that the mainstream media completely ignores these facts, and

vaccines are heavily marketed.

For example, Lucija Tomljenovic, who has a PhD in biochemistry and is a senior postdoctoral

fellow in UBC�s Faculty of Medicine, as well as a medical investigator, uncovered

documents that reveal vaccine manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and health authorities

have known about multiple dangers associated with vaccines but chose to withhold them from

the public.

But perhaps one of the biggest revelations in medical history, also unfortunately ignored

by mainstream media, came only a couple of years ago and is still making noise, as it

should.

Dr. William Thompson, a longtime senior CDC scientist, published some of the most commonly

cited pro-vaccine studies, which showed that there was absolutely no link between the MMR

vaccine and autism (Thompson, et al. 2007, Price, et al. 2010, Destefano, et al. 2004).

However, Dr. Thompson recently admitted that it was �the lowest point� in his career

when he �went along with that paper.� He went on to say that he and the other authors

�didn�t report significant findings� and that he is �completely ashamed� of

what he did.

He was �complicit and went along with this,� and regrets that he has �been a part of

the problem.�

A study with revised information and no data omitted was published by Dr. Brian Hooker

(a contact of Dr. Thompson) in the peer reviewed journal Translational Neurodegeneration, and

it found a 340% increased risk of autism in African American boys receiving the Measles-mumps-rubella

(MMR) vaccine.

The study has since been retracted, around the same time this controversy arose.

You can read the full study here, although, unsurprisingly, it has since been retracted.

Thompson�s attorneys, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Bryan Smith of Morgan & Morgan, also

released a statement from Dr. Thompson, which mentioned Hooker: �I have had many discussions

with Dr. Brian Hooker over the last 10 months regarding studies the CDC has carried out

regarding vaccines and neurodevelopmental outcomes including autism spectrum disorders.

I share his belief that CDC decision-making and analyses should be transparent.� (source)

he had to invoke whistleblower protection and turned extensive agency files over to

Congress.

He said that, for the past decade, his superiors have pressured him and his fellow scientists

to lie and manipulate data to conceal a causal link between vaccines and brain injuries,

including autism.

Final Thoughts

As you can see, scientific fraud is a big problem across the board, and this article

has only provided a few examples.

The problem is not just with GMOs and vaccines � it affects cosmetics, food, cleaning supplies,

and so much more.

How have so many products, which cause so much harm, been approved by the agencies that

are tasked to protect us?

There are so many books on this topic, but they don�t get the attention they deserve,

since the major mainstream media shareholders are identical to those of the entire health

industry.

Why would they bash their own products on their own national television networks?

The power of corporate America has taken over almost every aspect of our lives.

If you�re wondering what we can do about it, well, I believe the first step is awareness.

There is still a plethora of information that the general public is completely unaware of,

but if we backtrack to a decade ago, information that used to be considered a conspiracy is

now simply fact.

A great example is the corporate takeover of science, as discussed in this article,

but another one could be the Snowden Leaks on mass surveillance, or 9/11.

Studies are now being published by physicists and engineers regarding that event.

Awareness makes it harder for the elite to manipulate us.

Once we become aware of something, we can stop it.

For example, look at Genetically Modified Foods and the pesticides that go with them.

As soon as the masses became aware of their dangers, they began to change their shopping

habits.

Now, most countries around the world have completely banned these foods.

It�s difficult to accept that there are unseen powers, motivated by their own greed

and lust for power, that are doing us harm disguised as good.

It is only when we become aware of how we are being harmed and change our shopping habits

� hurting their bottom line � that they change their tactics.

On the other hand, it�s encouraging to know that once we do come together for a common

goal, anything can be accomplished, and we actually do have the potential and power

to change our world.

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Two opposing protests are taking place in central Seoul tonight,... one demanding President

Park Geun-hye's removal from office for her role in the corruption scandal gripping the

nation.... the other for her to remain in power.

Lee Unshin reports.

It's another loud, spirited yet peaceful protest demanding President Park's removal from the

top office,...but this weekend's gathering in Seoul's central Gwanghwamun Square holds

extra significance than the ones held on Saturdays gone by.

Organizers estimate up to one million citizens are attending what is the 19th -- and possibly

last rally -- as the Constitutional Court could hand down its impeachment ruling as

early as this coming Friday, March 10th.

The ruling will decide President Park's political fate.

The National Assembly approved the motion to impeach her in December, and if the motion

is overturned, the president will go back to work.

But if the court upholds it, the president will be formally impeached....which is what

the protesters here have been demanding for several weeks.

"I haven't missed a single rally and here I am again today.

I think, just like many do here, that the president disgraced herself for her role in

the power-abuse scandal.

We want the Constitutional Court to remove Park from the top office."

"I missed a couple protests but I've been coming here almost every Saturday to demand

the president resign.

I hope the court makes the right decision."

On the verge of knowing the president's fate,...those in favor of her staying in power have also

come out in force.

Outside Seoul City Hall, calling for the Constitutional Court to overturn the National Assembly's

impeachment motion, organizers of a pro-Park rally say several hundred-thousand protesters

have shown up, although that number cannot be verified.

As with weeks gone by,... they've been waving the Korean flag, but some are brandishing

the American flag also.

Pundits explain the protesters, mostly conservatives, wave the stars and stripes to highlight their

support for the South Korea-U.S. alliance - which they say the Park administration has

focused on strengthening.

Some political experts added that the court's ruling could be announced on the 13th instead

of the 10th, considering it usually takes up to two weeks for the court to reach a decision

after the final hearing.

If so, Gwanghwamun Square will once again be filled with determined citizens next Saturday,

hoping for a swift decision from the justices that will formally impeach the president.

Lee Unshin, Arirang News.

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CapEx versus OpEx explanation - Duration: 7:20.

CapEx versus OpEx.

Capital Expenditures versus Operating Expenditures.

There is a finance and accounting aspect to the terms CapEx and Opex, as well as

a business model aspect.

Let's discuss both, and walk through some examples of how the terms CapEx and OpEx are

used.

CapEx is Capital Expenditures.

OpEx is Operating Expenditures.

What these terms have in common is the word expenditures, you are spending money, but

in different ways.

Capital Expenditures.

As a working definition of CapEx, this is money spent by a business or organization

to acquire or upgrade fixed assets, such as buildings, machines and equipment.

Operating Expenditures.

OpEx is used in different types of financial conversations, for example if you are discussing

the income statement you could discuss whether a cost belongs to COGS (Cost Of Goods Sold)

or in OpEx (Operating Expenses), these are different sections of the income statement.

In discussing CapEx versus OpEx, we are making a different comparison.

If CapEx is the upfront investment to buy a fixed asset, then a working definition of

OpEx is the ongoing spending to keep the fixed asset running.

Here are some examples.

If you are in the real estate business, a new roof for the building is very likely to

qualify as CapEx spending, while window cleaning is OpEx.

If you run a lab, buying new test equipment is CapEx, and the maintenance of that equipment

is OpEx.

If you are in IT, buying servers for your own datacenter is CapEx, using an external

cloud service for a monthly fee is OpEx.

There are many more examples, please share them in the comment section below this video

if you have any good ones.

For an expenditure to be considered as CapEx, you have to own an asset.

There is a threshold level for expenditures to qualify as CapEx: there must be a useful

life of more than one year, and the asset value must be more than a minimum amount.

I have worked with a company where this minimum was $2500, and others where it was $7000.

Please check with the finance department of your company on what your minimum level is.

Let's now take some less obvious examples, where you would need to evaluate and argue

a case whether CapEx (capitalization) would be justified.

How about that part of maintenance where you are improving the performance of a machine

and increase its capacity?

What about software developed for internal use?

What about the development phase of R&D?

You could argue in all three cases that future economic benefits are generated by these projects,

and according to the matching principle in finance it would be appropriate to capitalize

these costs, and subsequently depreciate or amortize these assets over their useful life.

Each of these cases will have to be evaluated carefully against current US GAAP or IFRS

rules (depending on where your company is listed), and you will have to meet very strict

criteria to apply a CapEx treatment.

Why would anyone want to go through this trouble to analyze the appropriateness of CapEx versus

OpEx treatment?

The answer to this is: it possibly has a significant effect on your financial statements!

How does CapEx affect the financial statements?

Let's take a look at the balance sheet, the income statement and the cash flow statement,

when we answer the question "does this expenditure qualify for CapEx (it meets the capitalization

criteria) or it does not qualify as CapEx?".

First of all, the CapEx spend is a cash outflow recorded in "Cash From Investing Activities".

On the balance sheet, it gets accounted for as an asset, in the Plant and Equipment category.

Over the years of its useful life, the asset gets depreciated, and the depreciation charge

hits the income statement or P&L in each of the years of the assets' economic life.

I will link to my video about deprecation if you are interested in learning how that

works.

How does OpEx affect the financial statements?

The expenditure goes straight into the income statement as a cost.

On the cash flow statement, that same spending is recorded as a cash outflow in "Cash From

Operating Activities".

To stay with the question "does this expenditure qualify for CapEx (it meets the capitalization

criteria) or does it not qualify as CapEx?", let's look at the financial effects, and make

a relative comparison between the CapEx and OpEx columns.

On the balance sheet, assets tend to be higher under CapEx treatment than under OpEx treatment.

Liabilities will also be higher, as what we own in assets has to be financed by what we

owe in liabilities: either borrow money to fund the asset, or raise new equity.

Alternatively, if you don't want total assets and total liabilities to go up, you could

invest in Plant and Equipment and take an offsetting lower cash balance for granted.

On the income statement, year 1 cost will be lower under a CapEx treatment, and profit

will therefore be higher.

In subsequent years depreciation of the asset kicks in if you have taken a CapEx treatment.

Costs will be higher, and profit lower.

On the cash flow statement, CapEx is a cash outflow in Cash From Investing Activities,

while OpEx is a cash outflow in Cash From Operating Activities.

In many companies, CFOA usually tends to be a net cash inflow and CFIA a net cash outflow,

so under a CapEx treatment CFOA would be a higher inflow and CFIA would be a larger outflow

i.e. a larger negative number.

For ratios, ROA or Return On Assets is undecided between CapEx and OpEx.

In year 1, due to the higher profit under a CapEx treatment, the numerator in the ROA

equation (profit) will be higher.

As CapEx treatment increases assets, the denominator of the ROA calculation (assets) will also

be higher.

You would have to take specific amounts to build the scenarios for your specific situation.

If you want to learn more about ROA and related ratios, please watch the related video on

that topic.

Now, let's discuss the business model aspect of CapEx versus OpEx.

Out of the first three examples that we have discussed earlier on in this video, you only

really have a choice which way to go in the third example.

Do you go for the upfront CapEx investment to own servers for your datacenter, where

you are unsure how much capacity you will actually need, or do you pay a monthly OpEx

fee for an external cloud service where it's pretty much "pay as you go" and

"spend what you use"?

I can't give you a "one size fits all" answer to this question, it's really something that

an IT manager and a finance manager should analyze together.

Risk and scale should be part of this conversation.

The evaluation is a variation of the age-old "own versus use", "buy versus rent",

"buy versus lease" discussion, which is more relevant than ever before in these days of ubiquitous

digital devices and tools, disruption of mobility models through Uber and others, and disruption

of the travel and leisure models through Airbnb.

Thank you very much for watching!

On this end screen, there are a few suggestions of videos you can watch next.

Please subscribe to the Finance Storyteller channel, so you stay up to date on my latest

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Man posed as immigration officer, scammed victims for $70k says GPD - Duration: 2:05.

GREENVILLE COUNTY DETENTION

CENTER.. CHARGED WITH HUMAN

TRAFFICKING. AFTER A

COUPLE MONTHS OF

INVESTIGATING.. THE GREENVILLE

POLICE DEPARTMENT ALONG WITH

HOMELAND SECURITY..ARRESTED

MICHAEL RUIZ. THEY SAY..

HE EXTORTED MONEY FROM HIS

VICTIMS.. AND EVEN

IMPERSONATED AN OFFICER.

OUR ERYN ROGERS HAS MORE ON

THE CASE AND HOW PEOPLE CAN

PROTECT THEMSELVES.

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70-THOUSAND DOLLARS..

THAT'S HOW MUCH THIS

MAN..MICHAEL RUIZ.. IS ACCUSED

OF TAKING FROM SIX PEOPLE IN

GREENVILLE. Master

Patrolman Johnathan

Bragg/Greenville Police

Department We got a tip

from an immigration attorney

which the victims went to.

RUIZ IS IN JAIL..WITH NO

BOND.. CHARGED WITH MULTIPLE

CRIMES..INCLUDING EXTORTION..

FRAUD.. IMPERSONATING AN

OFFICER.. AND HUMAN

TRAFFICKING. Receiving

money for someone, for someone

wanting to be legal or

receiving official documents

to have like drivers licenses,

social security cards, that

also falls under this

trafficking statute.

POLICE SAY RUIZ CLAIMED TO BE

AN IMMIGRATION OFFICER..WHO

COULD HELP PEOPLE WITH THEIR

LEGAL STATUS IN EXCHANGE FOR

MONEY. Eryn Rogers/ERogers@

wspa.co m people close to

the immigrant community say

this type of fraud is a big

issue. Pastor Frankie

Rodriguez/Immigrant Connection

at El Camino Someone

always trying to take

advantage of them, offering

services that they can't

fulfill. AND IT'S HARD TO

GET THE VICTIMS TO COME

FORWARD.. Sometimes they

think that maybe the local

authorities and immigration

have some type of agreement.

BUT OFFICERS SAY THEY WANT

PEOPLE TO KNOW THEY'RE HERE TO

HELP.. We just want to

know about it happening. We

would love for a victim to

come to us and tell us. We're

not going to look to get a

true victim deported.

EXPERTS SAY THAT FEAR.. IS A

BIG PART IN PEOPLE BECOMING

VICTIMS. These kind of

things happen to them a lot of

times it's because they're

trying with all their heart,

even with their money, to do

something to make things right.

3

IF YOU OR IF YOU OR

SOMEONE YOU KNOW MAY HAVE BEEN

RUIZ'S VICTIM.. GO TO OUR

WEBSITE AT WSPA.COM.. WE HAVE

INFORMATION ON HOW YOU CAN

REPORT IT.

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Fredrik Nielsen | Artist-in-Residence at The Studio - Duration: 4:05.

I think all the way from the beginning

when I started in '98 I've been so

interested in pulling or pushing the

material as far as I can. So even

me learning how to blow glass I think I made

you know, perhaps one or two pieces

perfectly trying to and then I had to

take another turn, kind of, when you see

me blow glass sometimes it looks like I don't know

how to in certain points which is --

I'm always surprised when I get that

feedback sometimes, but I think -- I like

to see it as -- I know how to play, but I

choose not to play the way that I'm learned.

I had a goal about, especially

coming here to Corning, I knew that

I knew that the equipment was so great

the facilities was so great so I knew that I could

actually go bigger in sizes and I think

also for me it has been always -- I think

when I see something, if that competes

with my body -- could be it doesn't have to be big

in my case, I guess it's always going

towards being heavy but when it competes

with your own body something happens and I

think that's one point of being a

sculpture when the volume creates

something.

And the reason I'm actually doing the work

I'm doing -- it's always some kind of handle on --

It's been like this for a while, and, but it's also

almost like it's my canvas because where

I'm going with myself and with the team

is to point where the jam session is

almost over... I'm going to place

putting handle on in the end, the piece weighs so

much so nobody can almost carry it by

themselves and the handle -- I can't reheat it

I can't -- it's almost like I can't go any further

the frame is--the frame is there, so, if I go

without putting stuff also -- I can't

control it

It's almost like I'm cheating, it's

almost like I didn't go as far as I could.

I need to reach the point where

I'm--have no energy left

I'm actually I don't have anything more

to paint, I don't have anything more to say.

I don't know if I started -- crashing my car,

having to repaint it, and started to

think about actually car paint with glass.

For me,

combining them I think maybe some glass

collectors they're really like "Oh no!

Why do you paint this beautiful as it is?"

But when I do this stuff in the hot shop,

what I think about, even I know I have

paint color, orange color, whatever color

in there, whatever pattern I know I have

it in the piece, but having the piece being

warm as it is making it

I just see glowing sculpture shining

reddish...orange...yellow...I just, my eyes and

my body experience the piece as

something whole, even though I know it's

stuff in it and when that is annealed and

cooled down after a couple of days

what comes out is--okay pink black and

clear glass--oh no! I just lose the etches

I'm losing, I'm losing the violence or the

energy that I put in there making it

with the team. Me painting it is

actually getting it back to what I felt

making it, so when I bring it out of the

car paint studio, it's like Christmas Eve,

I'm like okay this is how good I am.

Then I understand, I see every part of it,

I see every angle of it, I'm starting

here and I'm not here anymore it's like this

is my etches, it actually gives

sculptures etches again.

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Perfect soft boiled eggs every time - Duration: 2:53.

In this episode I press a button get some eggs

and dunk a soldier

the local farm pretty weird but have a look

It's an egg dispensing machine pretty handy

look we're going to express know you

just put your money in

you get a dozen eggs

we're doing a bit of baking at the

moment so we're going to get two dozen eggs

they don't get much fresher than this

well unless you've got a chicken

yourself it's about a fresh as you can get

Cute hey! got to get back to the car now

tricky... Okay here we go

these are the soft boiled eggs that I made with the method I described

you put them into the water cold

medium sized eggs and bring them to the boil and

once the water comes to the boil you take them off

the heat and let them sit for

one-half minutes then you take them out and

you get perfectly soft boil eggs every

single time and they look like this

This is for Anglia Phillips those were in there Texas

she wanted to know what a toasted soldier is

There is the very item and you dip it into

you're egg like that and

Delicious so that's what we call toasted soldiers

and that's perfectly soft boiled eggs every single time

I got the eggs from me the local

free-range chicken farm down the road

and the great they're very fresh and

they've got an egg dispensing machine which means you can get them anytime

sort of the conveniences it's one of the

few conveniences living in the country

so that's it perfect soft boiled eggs every single time

If you like this give it a like, subscribe

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Opposing rallies held in Seoul as President Park impeachment ruling looms - Duration: 3:13.

Two opposing protests are taking place in central Seoul this evening,... one demanding

President Park Geun-hye's removal from office for her role in the corruption scandal gripping

the nation.... the other for her to remain in power

Our Lee Unshin joins us live from Gwanghwamun Square where the anti-Park protest is taking

place.

Unshin, these protests have been taking place for months now, almost becoming Saturday ritual...

but tonight's rally is being seen as crucial...

You're right Mark, it's another loud, spirited yet peaceful protest here in Gwanghwamun Square,...

but here's why today's rally holds so much significance.

This is the first gathering since the Constitutional Court held its final hearing in the president's

impeachment trial earlier this week, and this might also be THE LAST Saturday rally as the

ruling could be announced as early as this coming Friday, March 10th.

That ruling of course, will decide President Park's political fate.

The National Assembly approved the motion to impeach her in December, and if the motion

is overturned, the president will go back to work.

But if the court upholds it, the president will be formally impeached....which is what

these protesters have been demanding for several weeks now.

"I haven't missed a single rally and here I am again today.

I think, just like many do here, that the president disgraced herself for her role in

the power-abuse scandal.

We want the Constitutional Court to remove Park from the top office."

"I missed a couple protests but I've been coming here almost every Saturday to demand

the president resign.

I hope the court makes the right decision."

Now that we're on the verge of knowing the president's fate,... those in favor of her

staying in power have also come out in force.

They are just down the road from here,... outside Seoul City Hall,... calling for the

Constitutional Court to overturn the National Assembly's impeachment motion.

There is no way of verifying their estimate,... but the organizers say several hundred-thousand

protesters have shown up today... the biggest pro-President Park rally we've seen so far.

As with weeks gone by,... they've been waving the Korean flag,.. but we've also seen some

carrying the American flag as well.

Pundits say the stars and stripes the protesters, mostly conservatives, come out to these rallies

with the flag in attempts to highlight their support for the South Korea-U.S. alliance

- which they say the Park administration has focused on strengthening.

Some political pundits are saying the constitutional court's ruling could be announced on March

13th, instead of the 10th, considering it usually takes about two weeks for the court

to review and come up with the decision after they hold the final hearing.

The term of the acting chief justice is scheduled to expire on the 13th,... so the court might

wait until that date,... meaning there is a chance the protesters could be out here

again next Saturday,... but we'll just have to see.

Back to you, Mark.

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