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Arnn: This commencement is here to remind us why we're here. What do we commence?

The subject of commencement is the good life. The first graduating classes from

Hillsdale College graduated into a world of the most disastrous war that our

country has ever known, and the question is, "What can see them through both these

good times and the bad times that are both bound to come to everyone in this

audience today?" And the answer is virtue and faith and freedom and knowledge.

Esolen: Wherever I go the world will be a fallen one, not because of this or that

political system, though some are much better than others. It will be a fallen

world because I am in it. Human nature has not changed. Ideas are actually

rather rare these days. We're full of ideology but not ideas. Do not give to a

mere idea the love that you owe to reality and the reverence you owe to God.

In our time at Hillsdale College, we sought truth and as we graduate and bring

the fruits of our perseverance we live in a world that has lost sight of truth

in a very fundamental way. We have in fact come to truth through experience,

through the experience of this community of truth seekers. The liberal arts

education has made us capable of understanding something about how the

world works. The more you learn the more you ought to understand that you have so

much more to learn. Our learning will and can never come to an end.

For more infomation >> Commencement: Remembering Why We Are Here - Duration: 1:36.

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So wait; indeed we, along with you, are waiting - Duration: 0:44.

Say, "Never will we be struck except by what Allah has decreed for us; He is our protector.

And upon Allah let the believers rely.

Say, "Do you await for us except one of the two best things

while we await for you that Allah will afflict you with punishment from Himself or at our hands

So wait; indeed we, along with you, are waiting.

For more infomation >> So wait; indeed we, along with you, are waiting - Duration: 0:44.

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We are the flowers of the future Sonoda Umi - Duration: 4:47.

For more infomation >> We are the flowers of the future Sonoda Umi - Duration: 4:47.

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Awkward Exes: Britain & America 1776 - The Breakup (by We Are Thomasse) - Duration: 3:23.

The redcoat's coming.

Sit down, John.

America!

Britain.

America you're very distant.

Look, I know we've been fighting a lot lately

but I simply had to see you, darling.

Long distance relationships are so taxing-

You're telling me.

But you're mine America.

And you'll always be mine.

Yeaaaaah. About that. Um...

I don't really know how to say this-

Just- here!

"When in the course of human events"-

What is this, America?

Just keep reading.

blah blah blah "dissolve the political bands which have connected them" blah blah blah-

"declare the causes which impel them to the separation"?

Wait! You want a separation?

No.

Thank God.

I want my independence.

Is there someone else?

What?

It's France isn't it?

I'm gonna kick his ass!

No, Britain. There's no one else. I just want my freedom.

This is crazy. You can't just be single all of a sudden.

Who's going to fight your enemies and make your laws?

Washington, Adams, Jefferson.

I knew there were other men!

Well you seemed very keen to get up into Canada.

Canada's frigid.

I want you, America!

Ugh.

Come on. You don't want to be in congress with these minutemen?

Have you forgotten how long I last?

You're disgusting.

Yeah? Well, you're revolting.

I'm tired of being treated like just another one of your conquests!

We built this place together, Britain...

but it's all take and no give with you.

You want so much from me.

Well, you're not exactly a tea party yourself.

I am trying to tell you something of great import.

Don't be silly, sugar.

Oh drop the act! You're always stamping me down!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold your fire.

See! There you go! Shooting me down again!

You know, this past year has just been battle after battle-

Look, I know we're not exactly in concord here- but…

if I may take the liberty America-

No Britain. That's exactly what you can't take!

I deserve Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness just as much as you do.

But- can't we have that together?

No Britain. I need my own space.

Fine. Leave.

But I get full custody of the colonies!

You know what? I am so tired of you! Get out of here!

America. Wait. We will thrash this out.

Don't give up.

I promise I will never give up.

I will fight for you, America.

Please don't!

George! I'm gonna need your help. Britain's in another one of his moods!

I'm sorry about him.

But hey, Happy Birthday!

(Britain, off screen:) Hey! Those are MY colours!

For more infomation >> Awkward Exes: Britain & America 1776 - The Breakup (by We Are Thomasse) - Duration: 3:23.

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Manchester United target Nemanja Matic may not be the sexy signing we have called for but he fits pe - Duration: 5:56.

Gareth Bale eyes Manchester United but Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane is refusing to sell superstar Welshman

GARETH BALE is reportedly interested in joining Manchester United. But the winger is unlikely to move this summer, with Zinedine Zidane desperate to keep him at Real Madrid. Gareth Bale is open to joining Manchester United in the future.

The Red Devils are Bales first choice should he leave Los Blancos. United have been long-term suitors of Bale and tried signing the Welshman when he was starring for Tottenham.

But the Daily Star claims Bale could eventually make the move to Old Trafford, with Jose Mourinho's side his preferred destination should he leave the Santiago Bernabeu.

However, Real have no intention of selling for the mean time and plan on restoring Bale to the starting XI when the new term rolls around.

Bale was hit by a number of big injuries last season and saw his place in the line-up taken by Isco. The Spaniard was so good that he kept Bale out of the Champions League final XI.

But the Wales international remains a key member of Zidane's squad, although he could be saying goodbye to Alvaro Morata shortly.

Jose Mourinho is a big fan of the superstar Welshman.

Zinedine Zidane has no intention of selling record signing Bale. The striker is in transfer talks with United and is expected to move to the Theatre of Dreams in a deal worth £70million.

James Rodriguez is also facing a Bernabeu exit but is yet to receive any offers. Manchester United star Marcus Rashford and Chelsea star Willian star in new Xbox Live adverts.

Alvaro Morata is expected to depart the Bernabeu for Man Utd.

Colombian ace James Rodriguez is also up for sale.

For more infomation >> Manchester United target Nemanja Matic may not be the sexy signing we have called for but he fits pe - Duration: 5:56.

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Take a tour of the largest organic mushroom farm in Canada | We Are The Best - Duration: 3:09.

For more infomation >> Take a tour of the largest organic mushroom farm in Canada | We Are The Best - Duration: 3:09.

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This Man Changed Everything We Know About Sneakers - Duration: 4:09.

I could give a sh*t less about the currect state of fashion.

What is that one particular cool thing.

I don't think anybody can say that anymore.

Fashion is in

the coolest time ever

because of accessibility,

and that equally makes it

the worst time

beacuse

of all this never ending

chaos of information

to keep up with forever changing trends

to keep up with social media.

I could sit here and try to act like I know what's going on with the industry

and the fashion world,

but I really truly think that nobody knows what's happening right now.

My name is Chad Muska, and I'm a skateboarder and a creator.

I think if I had to explain to somebody, what it is I do,

it would be a different answer each day.

I wake up,

I think,

and I create.

Everyday.

What do you create?

I create….

I create.

From the beginning like, I was always like, as soon as I was able to like, have my name

on a board or on a shirt, or anything like, I've always wanted to be very involved with

that process.

And when they asked me if I wanted to have a shoe, I was so hyped, you know, and that's

when I started to sketch concepts and gather some things I was inspired by.

So this was my first shoe that I had out on ES footwear.

Sometime around '96 I would say.

It was just the Muska shoe.

I just started kind of coming up with concepts and sketching some ideas, and then got to work.

So there's a stash pocket in the tongue.

I was inspired by like, roos, kangaroos.

I don't know if you remember those.

They had the little stash on the side.

And I always thought that was cool as a kid, seeing those, I was like "ah, it got a little

pocket on there."

And, amongst other uses for it, it became the birth of the stash pocket.

So from the success of the ES shoe, sponned circa basically,

And it was sort of just the evolution of kind of where I left off.

The idea was to, create the most technical skate shoe ever.

So we had like, airbags in the back and there was an airbag in the front even as well.

This was kind of new at the time, like, bonding the rubber to the toe.

This was a fun time in shoe design for me because not only did we start this company

from scratch, but the ability to create anything that I wanted to come up with at this time

was there.

And there was really not a lot of resistance.

This is the skytop one.

Now looking at this shoe it looks fairly simple.

Doesn't look like anything special.

But at the time, in skateboarding kind of stirred up a lot of thing just based on the

height alone.

Skinny jeans had been hittin', but the high top didn't really hit with it.

And I just, kinda saw that as a cool look.

Not only looking at it as like, a shoe, but thinking, how does that shoe apply from a

head to toe look.

The first season it came out, it was like, not happening.

I heard stories of sales reps going into shops and not even taking it out.

I felt a lot of doubt from a lot of people on

And I had heard my other friend hit me up and was like, "holy sh*t, Kanye West just

came into supreme and bought some of those,

bought your kicks."

And I was like "no, that's crazy, like, no way."

This photo circulated and I was like "Oh sh*t Jay-Z's rocking them," and then some

other video came up and then like,

from there it was just like, all of a sudden, it was just like, pretty much overnight,

just everywhere.

You know, Slash had them on, and then it was like, Heidi Klum had them on, the Olsen Twins,

and this and like, Just this random mix of people, you know and

not to mention all the rappers, then into the Justin Bieber's, uh,

Lil' Wayne, and I just ran right…

I just couldn't believe it, I just, you know, it was like wow, it was just…

Insane.

There's a lot that goes on to a company, you know, it's not just, make a T shirt

and sell it.

They see the success, but they don't see all those things that went into making that

success.

The years of work and the years of failure.

Never stop working at what you love to do, but also know that like, there will be a lot

of disappointment along the way in order to be successful and then once your successful,

that's not where,

Your, your job stops, that's where it begins.

For more infomation >> This Man Changed Everything We Know About Sneakers - Duration: 4:09.

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'I don't trust the Nigerian government, we can't restructure' - Nnamdi Kanu - Duration: 2:57.

'I don't trust the Nigerian government, we can't restructure' - Nnamdi Kanu

- Nnamdi Kanu has revealed that he does not believe in restructuring of Nigeria. - Speaking to the press, he said the Nigerian government does not keep to its promises.

- The leader of the IPOB has become popular with several groups trooping to meet him in Umuahia recently.

On Thursday, June 29, 7 pro-Biafra groups, agreed to work together under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

According to them, their aim is to achieve the quest for referendum that will lead to the formation of the Republic of Biafra.

The groups said they decided to work together so that they would be speaking with one voice, seeking one objective of securing the Republic of Biafra.

Recent comments from the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), in Anambra state are being viewed as jealousy. The party had said Kanu should stop parading himself as an Igbo Emperor.

IPOB has however said APGA will cease to exist as a political party after November 18 gubernatorial election in the state.

In his reaction, Nnamdi Kanu said he was humbled by the decision of the various groups and assured that he would not let them down.

He said: "I am humbled by this decision of the groups. We started together and we have all ended up together because we are sincere and purposeful. I am not in the habit of letting my friends down.

"Everybody will be carried along; if I am invited for any meeting, I will take some people along. Today is a great day for Biafrans all over the world.

"Today, we have shamed our enemies that think that we cannot come together, who think that if we get Biafra, we will kill ourselves, we have shamed them.

Kanu also said he does not believe in the restructuring of Nigeria being called by eminent Nigerians, saying that Nigerian government would not keep any agreement reached in the restructuring exercise. According to him, it is referendum or nothing.

He said Aburi agreement was reneged on by Nigerian government and that the 2014 National Conference was dumped where it was coated by dust until the Biafra agitation became intense and it was remembered.

For more infomation >> 'I don't trust the Nigerian government, we can't restructure' - Nnamdi Kanu - Duration: 2:57.

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Mobirum News - Spider-Man Homecoming to MFF and more! - Duration: 6:25.

Hello and welcome!

Spider-Man Homecoming is about to be released soon and if you play at least one marvel game,

there are chances you'll already be able to enjoy the fiesta this week!

We will start by quickly review which games received

special events and updates for Spiderman Homecoming:

Marvel Contest of Champions takes after the original scenario of Spiderman Homecoming

as Peter receives a costume from Tony Stark while being assigned a certain number of missions.

This is a nice touch from MCC, as a whole new set of quests

and achievements are created around this story line.

Marvel Future Fight did not forget about our friend either.

A suit has been added for Peter and it's the suit he wore in Civil war,

when peter meets Tony for the first time.

The Vulture will also be joining the party and he is said to be wearing his new

Homecoming suit, which is by far sexier than his original suit by the way.

And now, for the nostalgia,

we are getting a set of 6 really bad ass villains from back in the days,

when Spiderman was the first real Hero with a big mouth!

You will be able to play with

Sandman, Lizard, Kraven, Rhino, Mysterio

and the Vulture, once you beat them!

Spiderman Unlimited did not overdo it but

you'll be sure to be fighting the new Boss battle against the vulture

while wearing two new suits!

Marvel Avengers Academy strangely has the most fitting story-line

since Peter is back on the campus and will have to fight the vulture who's trying to ruin…

the Homecoming dance...

ok this one is a bit light.

New heroes are also introduced in order

to help you fight the party crasher.

That was it for the news and we'd like to take a little moment

to talk about the vulture in the original comics and

how he may turn out to be in the movie:

The vulture, in homecoming

will be Adrian Toomes, the original Vulture.

We can count 2 main vultures in the general marvel universes:

Adrian Toomes, whose story we will cover a bit later

and Blackie Drago, Toomes cellmate who simply stole his costume.

Some other Vultures existed,

one especially gross is the Clifton Shallot version

who did not use a costume,

he thought it would be better to directly mutate into a vulture.

His story is rather sad and kind of looks like

the Lizard story but it's just very gross to be honest.

Coming back to Adrian Toomes,

if you didn't know him before, it's fine.

He was initially a very sketchy Spiderman villain and

I personally never understood how he was a threat.

BUT somehow, the Vulture has always been part of the various Sinister Six teams,

a team designed by Doctor Octopus to definitely get rid of the Spider-Man.

So there should be a reason for the Vulture to always be

prominently represented as the spider's nemesis

right?

His wings allow him to fly but also give him extra strength,

yet I bet you noticed that he was rather old right?

So adding strength to an old man makes him…an averagely strong evil guy?

Toomes finds a way to fix this issue on more than one

occasion and finds a way to regain his youth and even his hair!

In the comics, Toomes starts as a remorseless killer

but it seems like his repeated encounters with Spiderman brought some human feelings

in his old man's heart and the relation between Spiderman

and Vulture became something almost Iconic.

As you very well know, the homecoming Spiderman's

Peter parker is a teenager, as he initially was in his first appearance in 1962,

while his parent have already been murdered by the Red Skull.

In the original story, Peter gets his powers when he is 15 years old

and since in Homecoming, Peter is clearly not a fully developed super hero,

we can assume he will be between 16 to 18 years old.

So from here,

it's not sure how the relation between the vulture and Spider-Man

in Homecoming will turn out but it is hard to imagine the same kind of relation will exist.

As displayed in the trailer, the Vulture is very less human,

very close to a killing machine

(at least that's what the trailer shows in some of the few shots),

while peter is still a teenager unsure of his talents.

The way we could predict the relation towards the end of the movie,

during the final face-off, would be the good old peevy Spidey,

throwing jokes as he throws his webs at a disgruntled old fart.

Or at least I'd love it!

To finish, we were wondering why they decided

to use the Vulture as a villain this time.

Historically, we had:

The Green Goblin.

Doctor Octopus

Sandman

Spiderman 4 was supposed to talk about Lizard

and Mysterio but never happened.

Vulture and Felicia Hardy were also planned to appear,

with the great John Malkovich as the Vulture.

and Felicia as his… female counterpart.

Among all those names,

Vulture remains one of the most iconic Spiderman enemies,

even more if they manage to get actors such as

Michael Keaton or even John Malkovich to play the role,

so the choice was pretty obvious if you wanted to make

a movie out of "digging out classics".

One little thing is ticking here,

we're all fine with the choice of the vulture and

it goes in line with the choices made in the past.

BUT who will be left for a future Spiderman movie?

If they plan to stick to the roots,

they will have to dig up another old school enemy

and there's not much left with a big name in the end!

We personally would love to see Kraven come back.

Simply because he is the perfect mix of

badass and ridiculous at the same time.

Who do you think Spiderman should be facing in the future sequels?

Let us know in the comments!

Thank you for watching and see you in the next video!

For more infomation >> Mobirum News - Spider-Man Homecoming to MFF and more! - Duration: 6:25.

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We Are #LitWithPride - Duration: 0:41.

In the month of June

we gathered together to send a unified message,

one that brings visibility to ourselves,

our nation and our people.

We harnessed the symbolism of light

to paint these stories

and share the message of pride.

Our friends,

family

and allies

have joined us to light up our city

communities and spaces that serve our people,

defend our humanity

and celebrate our diversity.

Together

we

are lit

with

#LitWithPride!

For more infomation >> We Are #LitWithPride - Duration: 0:41.

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Rashid Johnson: Hail We Now Sing Joy - Duration: 1:01.

♫ This land is your land

♫ This land is my land

♫ From Californ-I-ay

♫ To the New York islands

♫ From the Redwood Forrest, yeah

♫ To the Gulf Stream waters

♫ This land was made for you

♫ What about me

(mellow piano music)

♫ What about me

♫ What about me

♫ What about me

♫ So what about me

For more infomation >> Rashid Johnson: Hail We Now Sing Joy - Duration: 1:01.

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"Mercy Johnson & I lived together for 2 years before we got married" – Husband, Prince Odi - Duration: 1:39.

"Mercy Johnson & I lived together for 2 years before we got married" – Husband, Prince Odi

- Mercy Johnson and her hubby cant get enough of eachother. - The couple who tied the knot in 2011 are still crazy in love and cant stop showing the whole world.

- Prince Okojie revealed recently that himself and Mercy were together long before getting married. Like a couple truly in love, Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson and her husband keep growing in affection for eachother.

In a recent interview, Prince Odi revealed that him and his wife lived together for two years before they finally tied the knot.

It is normal practice in African culture for a woman to move into her husbands house after wedding. Mercy and her hubby are an exception.

As boyfriend and girlfriend, the two lived together for 18 months before taking the decision to seal the deal.

Mercy Johnson and husband. In a recent interview, Odi gushed about his wife also revealing that they were housemates and lovers for two year before finally walking down the isle.

Speaking of love in their marriage, he said they quarrel but only learn from it.

The sweet couple have three are adorable kids and are still happy as ever.

Mercy and Prince Odi Okojie.

For more infomation >> "Mercy Johnson & I lived together for 2 years before we got married" – Husband, Prince Odi - Duration: 1:39.

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We fear RUSSIA acting in the role of CHINA, sponsoring NORTH KOREA - Duration: 3:14.

For more infomation >> We fear RUSSIA acting in the role of CHINA, sponsoring NORTH KOREA - Duration: 3:14.

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WHERE ARE WE... | Sacramento - Duration: 8:11.

What is up my cranky crew? It's Ethan from CrankGameplays and I don't, *laughs* I don't feel good today

I don't know why I just woke up, and I just- I don't feel good my body hurts today, my throat hurts

But anyway, we are here in a game called Sacramento. It's a very pr-

A very- a very pretty game

But I- I don't know what happened. Ooo the mouse is sensitive. Hello clock you are

you are

fastly going upwards

Is time moving very, very quickly? Is the aging process

going by very fast?

This game is so pretty

Ooo hello

How are you?

Who are you? Ooo

My watch is going by real fast too- you've been reading for hours and hours and days and days

Can I say hi to you?

huh, okay um

Am I- am I supposed to interact with you in someway? Ooo I can jump! ...Okay? Maybe not I don't know

Ohh, It's so pretty

Everything about this is so pretty! I like it a lot

Ooo, hello flamingo. How are you?

How are you guys doing? Can I be one of your flamingo friends? I want to be a flamingo friend

Hell, yeah, dude. Hell yeah. Hi! I love how it's like

It's so white and like it doesn't feel like there's a lot of color like when you- when you look up

But then you look down, and it's just filled with color. It's so pretty, ooo

We've got a nice dock over here. Maybe we'll see some fishies

It's at the end of the dock

oh, oh

Okay

Hello!

Hi fishies!

How's it going? Can I say hi to you?

*cute Ethan sneeze*

Fishies, I'm allergic to you!

This is so cool. I love how the water looks so good, but like if you look down

there's not much to it, but if you look at it at the right angle

There's a lot to it. I don't know, it's interesting. Ooo. I found another

another path

But which way do I go? Let's go towards the sun

wait

Wait, did you see it? Are you seeing it? Jellyfish!

Big jellyfish, big boys

It's like Portuguese man o' war! Can I bounce on you? No don't go away! Aww

He comes back, hello! Alright, I'm going to go down. I don't know if I can

go over here enough or if the if the world ends or what. Ooo, I wonder if I could jump on top of the

the waterfalls

No, I don't think so.

Ohh, a lot of jellyfish! Are those jellyfish? I don't know

What's over here?

Oh, I'm not controlling this

Takes me back to the beginning okay, huh? It's getting darker

Was that it?

Was that the whole thing?

Is that all I could do I want to see more shit though? I want to see more jellies

Was there something else that I was supposed to do or am I just exploring the world?

Cuz I'm fine with just exploring, let's go off to the left this time because we didn't do that before

We've got a nice little mountain over here. We've got... ooo

some cool fan things

That's nice! That's cool. I like it. I wonder if it changes every time

It could...

Maybe it's procedurally generated. What happens if we look at the sun dead in the eyes?

The art style reminds me of

Shit, was it the Very Hungry Caterpillar?

I loved that book as a kid. I think it was called The Very Hungry Caterpillar

It was awesome, and this art style reminds me a lot of that

Huh, I haven't thought about that in a really long time. It just like makes me think of like kindergarten and first and second grade

Oh these aren't jellyfish these are trees

Okay, the trees with all the flamingos

Okay, okay

Ooo

There's big- hey!

What is this?

Can we go inside? Please tell me, don't tease me like that. Don't make it so I can't go inside

Whoa-ho, this is so cool

Woah, this is- it's so quiet in here!

It reminds me of one of those, like, sensory deprivation tanks. I really want to do one of those-

Oh shit I clicked out of the game, oh no oh no

It's really cool. Can I leave or is this my life now? I don't know- I can leave!

Huh?

All right

This is cool. I like how there's new stuff

I don't know if this stuff, this, if this is stuff that I missed before. It's so cool when I turn

It like the building turns it's like it's trying to block me

from seeing stuff

What secrets are you hiding game?

We've got the fish- the fish friends. We've got the waterfall

Okay

This has been nice

I really like this a lot! Ooo, the colors changing too

I wonder

See it's not really white anymore, it's all

It's all orange. It's like there's been a sandstorm a Darude Sandstorm

Well, what happens if we go this way? 'Cause we went the other way before and it reset. What happens if we just follow this forever?

Maybe we will just follow it forever. Maybe there's no end to it. Oh, it's changing. Oh, no. It's pushing me back

It's bringing me all the way back here

okay, ooo

Alright alright guys. Well that was Sacramento. That was really cool. It was so pretty

I really like that a lot if you want to check out this game

You can go in the link in the description below it is free or you can give them money as well because you should support

Small game developers, because they're awesome. So that was really awesome. I really liked that

I really like visual experiences like that and just like art kind of stuff

And I really liked that especially because it was like this blank, sort of canvas

And then there was just stuff kind of spattered, you know?

There wasn't like a clearly defined like space that you had really until you started walking way out

But that was really cool, and the game is going to restart again, I guess. So thank you guys so much for watching

Hope you enjoyed, if you did, make sure to slap that like button right in the face

And I will see you guys in the next video. Love you all, stay Cranky, bye!

For more infomation >> WHERE ARE WE... | Sacramento - Duration: 8:11.

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We're BACK! Lemurs, tortoise and SMILING FACES! Sailing Vessel Delos EP. 125 - Duration: 26:22.

For more infomation >> We're BACK! Lemurs, tortoise and SMILING FACES! Sailing Vessel Delos EP. 125 - Duration: 26:22.

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Fox News Host Offers Bizarre Defense Of GOP Healthcare Bill – "We're All Going To Die Someday" - Duration: 4:40.

A Fox News host earlier this week offered one of the weirdest defenses against the Democratic

attacks on the Republican healthcare plan.

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, also known as just Kennedy on Fox's The Five, defended all of

the attacks coming from people like Bernie Sanders, and Nancy Pelosi, and everyone in

between, saying that the Republican healthcare bill is going to get people killed.

It was going to cause them to die.

Well, Kennedy doesn't believe that.

In fact, she offered quite an odd little defense of people dying.

Take a look.

Thousands of people, Bernie Sanders says, Pelosi says, hundreds of thousands ... Kennedy,

Schumer says, "Hey, you know, one to two thousand."

Yeah, you know what?

At least they're not employing any hyperbole at all, no exaggeration, no hysteria.

You know what the crazy thing is?

We're all going to die, and they can't predict ... There's no way unless they're absolutely

psychic and have a party line to heaven, they don't know who's going to die, or when, or

how many people.

I mean, that is such a fool's errand trying to quantify something that serious and grave.

First all, notice how everybody just starts laughing when she says, "We're all going to

die anyway."

Right?

Well guess what?

You can't say that these numbers are not quantifiable, which you did say that.

Because in fact, they are quantifiable.

We have government organizations whose job it is to determine the impact of legislation,

or do you not know how government works?

Everything goes under review, Kennedy, and the folks there laughing at that Fox Five

table.

That's how we know what we should and should not do.

That's how we determine which regulations get put in place.

Are they going to save lives?

Will repealing this regulation cause people to die?

Will it poison them?

Will this piece of legislation help the people or will it hurt the people?

Yeah, those numbers are quantifiable.

You know what the quantifiable numbers say?

Bernie Sanders had it right in the segment before you starting going on your, "We're

all going to die," kick.

18,000 to 24,000 people are estimated to die if these Republican healthcare plans get enacted.

Let me explain how that works, because I don't think you'll understand it.

People will lose their health insurance because they can no longer afford it.

The legislation has made it abundantly clear that we're going to cut Medicaid by $800 billion.

That's going to leave 14 million people just off that Medicaid side who can no longer afford

health insurance coverage.

Well, not if they want to continue living in a home and buying food for their family.

There's the 14 million.

The remainder, those eight million, are the people who are no longer going to be able

to afford health insurance due to the fact that we're cutting back on the subsidies in

the amount of money that we give low income Americans.

There's your other eight million.

Of those people, the studies, the reports, the experts, have gone in determined which

ones of these people will not be able to afford anything at all, including medication for

things like asthma, diabetes, and allergies, specifically allergies that require expensive

EpiPens or else a person can go into anaphylactic shock.

They've calculated how many of those people could potentially die each year.

There you go, Kennedy.

That's how you quantify it.

I know you're having fun up there with your table, with your Eric Bolling and all the

other idiots at Fox News laughing about everybody is going to die one day.

Yeah, we are.

That doesn't mean that the Republicans need to hasten that in any way, but that's what

they're doing.

These numbers are quantifiable.

If you took the time to actually do a little bit of research, to actually learn something,

you would understand that just as well as everybody else, as well as those Democratic

who are out there saying that, yes, this bill is going to kill people, because it is.

That is not hyperbole.

That is not an over dramatization.

That is exactly what the government itself has said that this legislation is going to

do to the American public.

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We Need Helium More Than Ever (And We're Running Out) - Duration: 8:02.

This episode has been brought to you by our super generous supporters on Patreon!

We're just a few years away from running out of one of our most important and rarest natural resources

and it's not oil or coal or

rainforests or children or wheezy waiter videos. There will be plenty of wheezy waiter videos hopefully. We're talking about

Helium. Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, but it's extremely rare here on Earth.

And it's not just for party balloons and making your voice sound funny. I can do without Helium.

Stop using helium. Helium is a crucial component to a whole range of medical devices and

Scientific instruments from MRIs to Rocket fuel to the large Hadron Collider, and it's important enough that the US has a national helium reserve.

But it could all be gone by 2020. Good Stuff producer

Matt weber tells the story of helium: how it's accidental discovery here on Earth made groundbreaking

scientific discovery possible and how it could all be going away soon

One night in 1903 the residents of Dexter

Kansas prepared to turn a geyser of natural gas that have been erupting out of the ground into a towering pillar of fire as big

and bright as their economic future. They had just stumbled upon a large reservoir of natural gas underneath their tiny agrarian

community. The imminent arrival of industry and investment seemed a virtual certainty so in celebration of their newfound prosperity

The residents of Dexter decided to set their discovery on fire. Natural gas is largely Methane

And Methane burns readily so setting it ablaze should have been easy

But when they tried to light the gas nothing happened. It stubbornly refused to burn. Whatever was shooting out of the ground under dexter

Kansas wasn't Methane. It was something rarely seen on Earth

Helium. Evidence for Helium's existence was first identified in

1868 by French Astronomer Jules Janssen while observing the sun during a solar eclipse

He found a bright yellow line in the spectrum of the sun's chromosphere that didn't quite align with any known element. That same year English

Scientist Norman lockyer saw the same yellow spectral line while taking advantage of London's thick smog to measure the sun's solar spectrum

He surmised that it was a new element found only on the sun

And he named it helium after the Greek word for sun, Helios

In the next couple of decades helium would be found emanating from certain rocks and even volcanic eruptions

but only in small amounts

As the reserves of this element seemed to be limited to the surface of the sun. A sample of the non flammable gas found outside

Dexter was sent to the chemist Hamilton Cady at the University of Kansas. There

He found the sample contained a significant amount of an unknown inert gas using a spectroscope

Katie saw--much to surprise--the same bright yellow spectral line that Janssen and lockyer saw

Decades earlier on the surface of the sun. Meaning the gas had to be helium--which suggested there was a massive store of helium below

the town of Dexter Kansas

the first of its kind ever found on Earth. As was observed a few decades before the discovery of the dexter helium pocket

certain kinds of rocks emit helium through radioactive decay

Most of this helium just floats away in to outer space because it is lighter than the surrounding air, but under the right circumstances

Helium can become trapped underground while the dexter helium pocket was an important scientific

Discovery there was no known practical use for the gas at the time

So the residents of Dexter would never see the fantastic riches that they had hoped for but just a decade later

Helium would become of strategic importance to the US military

World War 1 was in full swing and for the first time in military history the sky had become a theater of war

Blimps were a crucial military tool

carrying out reconnaissance missions and

Aerial bombing raids from the relative security of the Air and blimps needed helium. You could use hydrogen which is much more plentiful

But it wasn't as safe. It's highly combustible--as the hindenburg disaster would tragically demonstrate decades later. On the other hand helium is inert

It's a noble gas which means it doesn't react with any other elements and like the residents of Dexter, Kansas discovered

It doesn't burn. While helium is rare on Earth in a stroke of good luck for the us military

Large quantities of the gas just happen to exist underneath the great plains of North America

So the US began stockpiling helium in 1925 the National Helium reserve was established and the u.s.

Soon became the world's number one supplier of helium. In fact the US

Held a virtual Monopoly over the gas

but it's not just good for airships and blimps. During the space Race in the

1950s liquid helium became crucial to the production of Rocket fuel and by 1965 the us was using more helium than ever before today

It's most common use isn't in airships or party balloons

But to cool superconducting magnets in MRI scanners and other medical and scientific instruments including the largest

machine in the world: The Large Hadron Collider

First launched in 2008 the Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator

The most powerful of its kind it promised to answer some of the biggest questions. We have about the universe

What is it made of? How did it begin, and how did we get here?

But shortly after it was first activated a helium leak shut down the large Hadron collider for month. The gigantic

superconducting magnets that make the particle accelerator possible depended on supercooled liquid helium to function. Without

Helium the large Hadron Collider is useless and we are running out of it. Helium is non-renewable

It can't be synthesized through any practical method so all the helium that escapes into outer space is

Helium that can never be recovered. The national helium reserve is expected to be exhausted by 2020

But that's by design. The helium privatization act of 1996

Mandated that the reserve be sold off so in the intervening decades the us has been flooding the market with cheap helium

This has discouraged active exploration

for new helium

Deposits because if you can get helium so readily from the reserve there's no reason to go out and drill for it

But in the last few years as the reserve is depleted the price of helium has been rising this has caused many

Scientists to depend on the gas for their research to begin recapturing and recycling the gas or Abandon their work entirely

But all is not lost. There could be more helium deposits. We just haven't been looking hard enough

Just last year a team of British

Researchers ventured deep into the Tanzanian Rift Valley to investigate a hunch

Ever since the accidental discovery of helium outside Dexter Kansas all the helium

We've ever found has been by accident, or just a byproduct of natural gas exploration

But you should be able to find helium deposits on purpose by searching for the right conditions in the Earth's crust

And that's exactly what these researchers did in the east African rift

Seismic Forces have been pulling the Earth's crust apart for millions of years the intense heat generated by this tectonic activity

fosters the release of helium in the ancient Molten rock

if their estimates are correct it could contain twice the amount of helium stored in the national helium reserve and keep our MRIs

And particle accelerators supplied for years to come, but the exact amount of helium is hidden within the Earth

And we won't know exactly how much we have left until we start drilling and the long-term environmental impact of large-scale

helium mining are poorly understood

But rising helium prices will only make the active exploration and exploitation of new helium deposits increasingly lucrative venture for better or worse

helium has been here since the very

Beginning of our universe it was forged in the first few minutes of the big bang in the same energy soup that gave birth to

Everything we see today. As a consequence

It's bright yellow

Spectral line can be seen all across the cosmos yet here on Earth

Helium is rare and valuable and will remain so for the foreseeable future

but unlike other

Non-Renewable resources much of its worth comes from scientific importance not only do its unique properties allow us to venture into space

They also let us peer inside of our bodies and into the very building blocks of the universe

That knowledge the discovery that helium makes possible is what makes it so invaluable

So what do you think? Will new helium discoveries be enough to keep the large Hadron Collider running?

Will, we have to find an alternative? Will we have to ban kids birthday parties and never talk funny again

Let us know in the comments and don't forget to like and subscribe and share this video so that others may

accidentally discover it! Special thank you to our patreon subscribers for making this episode of the good stuff possible without

Patreon the good stuff just wouldn't exist

So if you want to make our future as bright as a flaming pillar of methane--my band name in high school--head on over

To our patreon page and support the show thanks for watching

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Will We See Arya's Long Lost Friend Return in Game of Thrones? (Nerdist News w/ Jessica Chobot) - Duration: 3:34.

- Another long lost friend of Arya's

is returning to Game of Thrones this year,

at least that's what we think after reading

Time Magazine's massive cover story

about the upcoming season seven.

The whole article is definitely worth a read,

full of awesome details about what to expect

when we return to Westeros in just three short weeks,

but the tidbit that really caught our eye

has us hoping that the Arya Stark reunion special

every fan has been demanding may finally come to pass.

Well, maybe the second Arya Stark reunion

fans have been demanding.

Sorry, Gendryphiles, but Time reporter Daniel D'Addario

did have this to say about his visit

to a shooting location in Belfast.

"Wolves described in the script as skinny and mangy

"showed up to the shoot looking fluffy and lustrous."

So why is this so exciting?

Well, because it's always a cause for excitement

when wolves show up on Game of Thrones,

especially since wolves have been turning up

less and less on the show.

Supposedly show runners Benioff and Weiss

hate wrangling the mangy mongrels.

They are by far and away the most frustrating

creature effects on Game of Thrones,

so expensive and so complicated to shoot with

that they make the dragons seem easy.

Now, think back to last season

and you'll pretty much only remember

one significant lupine appearance

and that's when Ghost was sadly waiting for his master

Jon Snow to return from the Land of the Dead.

Apparently the only wolves they really want to work with

are ones that are moping around like sullen teenagers,

so if not just one wolf but multiple wolves are showing up

onset, that means they must be pretty important

to the story, so who could these wolves possibly be?

Well, for those of you who have forgotten,

five dire wolf pups were adopted by the Stark clan

at the start of Game of Thrones, three of which,

Summer, Grey Wind, and Shaggy Dog have all been taken

to live at Uncle Ned's farm in the country.

Let's just let that sink in.

That just leaves Ghost, who is currently chilling

with Jon in Westeros and Arya's pet Nymeria,

and that's who we think will be leading

this all new wolf pack.

Nymeria hasn't been seen on the show since season one

when Arya released her into the wild

to escape execution at the hands of Joffrey

and since then we've seen neither hide nor hair of her,

but she has had a role in the books.

After his escape, rumors circulated

about a pack of wolves led by Nymeria

stalking the seven kingdoms and attacking people,

typically enemies of the Stark clan.

There are even chapters when Arya dreams she is a wolf,

which is most likely her sharing

a strong psychic connection with Nymeria,

maybe even showing off some unrealized warging potential.

Of course, in the books, the wolves have always played

a much more major role and their connection

with the Stark kids has always been way more important,

but that importance has been played down onscreen

probably mostly for the reasons mentioned earlier.

Shooting with wolves is a giant pain in the butt,

but as we head towards the final episodes of the series,

it makes sense that the wolves

would be brought back into the spotlight.

They seem significant to George RR Martin's end game,

which means Benioff and Weiss

will probably want to highlight them as well,

even if it means dealing with a bunch of doggy divas onset.

Of course, the best news about all of this

is that if Nymeria can return after nearly six seasons,

so can anyone, but what do you folks think?

Is that Nymeria or Ghost or some other wolf?

Let's discuss.

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Why We Don't Hear From 4Kids Anymore - Duration: 6:09.

4Kids is a name that no kid from the 90s or 00s could avoid.

The US production company was responsible for bringing countless hit anime shows into

the English market, including Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, One Piece and Sonic X.

At the turn of the millennium, 4Kids were king.

Riding high from the success of shows like Pokemon, they were named by Fortune magazine

as America's number 1 fastest-growing company.

However, jumping ahead to 2007, major falling profits saw the company placed on the FSB

100 Hall of Shame... quite the difference from their triumphant rule a few years earlier.

4kids rise and fall is iconic in the world of anime, and their failings can be attributed

to a combination of poor business decisions, bad luck and even a series case of financial

fraud.

To properly go into what happened though and why exactly we don't hear from 4Kids anymore,

we're going to have to go back to the lovable word of Pokemon, which 4Kids obtained the

license for starting from the first episode in 1998.

As I'm sure you're all aware, to call Pokemon a success would be an understatement.

The company struck gold with their licensing deal, which saw them produce all English versions

of the anime and movies.

Prior to this, one of their most successful shows was WMAC Masters, which was a live action

martial arts series, hosted by Bruce Lee's daughter Shannon Lee.

Two seasons and 26 episodes were produced before the show was cancelled due to low ratings

and low sales of the action figures.

With Pokemon however, the production company saw more success than they could have ever

imagined and this helped pave the way for 4Kids to acquire the licenses for more and

more Japanese anime, which they then adapted for English markets.

This adaptation process was something that was very controversial with fans familiar

with the original material, with 4Kids being notorious for their heavy editing of Japanese

shows to remove not just anything that could be seen as offensive, but also the removal

of most uses of text, as well as the alteration of Japanese themes to more Western ideals.

Other common 4Kids edits include toning down the use of weapons such as guns and blades,

the removal of blood and other scenes of violence, toning down suggestive content such as popular

character designs, plus anything else that could be seen as going against their family

friendly principles.

However, whilst not winning them any favours from their older audiences, this strict editing

of original material isn't the reason for their downfall.

You see, the company's troubles all began in early 2006 and once again involves the

Pokemon franchise.

Now, at this point in time, Pokemon was actually starting to decrease in popularity in the

Unites States and so Pokémon USA began looking for ways to cut costs.

This led to 4Kids being let go when their contract expired at the end of season 8 and

also saw many of the original Pokemon voice actors being recast.

With 4Kids losing their flag ship series, profits were naturally going to take a hit

and two years later we're right back at the FSB 100 "Hall of Shame".

This was followed a few months later with 4Kids announcing that they will be laying

off 15% of their work force, in addition to the early termination of their Fox programming

agreement, as well as various other reductions in operating expenses.

The company was hemorrhaging money and whilst they tried their best to adapt and continue,

their situation proceeded to get worse and in 2010 they were delisting from the New York

Stock Exchange.

This financial hell could be the reason why 4Kids were then found to have committed multiple

acts of fraud in relation to the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise and sued for 5 million dollars.

An audit showed that 4kids had made various secret licensing deals, which they then made

large amounts of money on but didn't disclose or give any of this profit to the original

Japanese creators.

This saw them have their Yu-Gi-Oh contract terminated, which at the time was their largest

franchise, and they were forced to pay up.

Then, only a few weeks later, 4Kids announced that they had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy

protection in an attempt to reorganise the business and pay their debts.

4Kids then set out to sell their assets, which saw the emergence of two companies, Saban

Entertainment's Kidsco and Konami's 4K Acquisition.

The two companies started a bidding process on 4Kid's licences and on June 26th 2012 a

decision was finalised which saw their assets split between the two companies in a deal

worth 15 million dollars.

Through the deal, Konami gained the US rights to the Yu-Gi-Oh!

anime franchise, as well as all of 4Kids other Yu-Gi-Oh assets.

Saban on the other hand acquired the agreements for Dragon Ball Z Kai, Sonic X and Cubix,

plus CW Network's Saturday morning programming block.

Following the deal, 4Kids were able to pay off their debts and come out of bankruptcy.

However, with now most of their licensees gone, it wasn't going to be easy for them

to become successful again and they needed to make some big changes.

And so, changing their name to 4Licensing Corporation, the company unveiled their new

business venture

to

the world.

Unfortunately for 4Licensing, Isoblox didn't take off like they hoped.

The next few years saw 4Licensing fall on harder times than ever and just last year

they have now yet again filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.

This time though will likely be the last time, with their press statement explaining that

"management does not currently anticipate any recovery for shareholders".

4kids editing practises are something that left a sour taste for many fans and, for those

who weren't aware of what happened to them and why we don't hear from 4kids anymore,

there it is.

That's how this once highly successful company came to an end.

Until next time, thank you for watching.

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Can We Define "Must"? The Semantics of Modality - Duration: 10:59.

So let's talk about other worlds.

There are lots of ways that things could be: mythical creatures lurking in the shadows;

hidden portals to other dimensions; maybe even a time traveller or two!

Of course, these ideas are pretty fringe.

But thankfully, language gives us ways to talk about all these possibilities, and just

how likely they really are.

So how do words like "must" and "maybe" work, and what can they tell us about how we think?

I'm Moti Lieberman, and this is The Ling Space.

One of the main goals of semantics is to get a better understanding of the meaning that

each word contributes to the sentence that it's in.

But figuring this out can be trickier for some words than others.

Take modal verbs: the word "need" in a sentence like "Peter needs to talk to his father."

It points out that something is necessary; while a word like "might" in "Peter

might talk to him" suggests that we're dealing with just one of many possibilities.

Taken together, these sorts of expressions convey modality.

That means they qualify the truth of a sentence, by saying something about its overall probability.

So, how do we capture all the different ways we communicate modality?

Where do we even start?

A good first step is to figure out exactly how these words combine with sentences in

the first place.

One thing to notice with modal verbs like "can" and "must" and "may" is

that even though they usually show up in the middles of sentences, sandwiched between the

subject and verb phrase, it probably makes more sense to think of them as combining with

the sentence in its entirety.

In "Walter must have forgotten some of his past", even though Walter is closer to "must"

than to "forget," he's really more of a forgetter than a 'muster' . . . whatever that is.

In other words, it's not the subject by itself that 'must' anything, it's really

the sentence as a whole.

This is easier to see with a bit of re-wording, as in "It must be that Walter's forgotten some of his past."

Now, if modals really do combine with fully-formed sentences, we might think that we can take

a cue from other sorts of words we've already seen do the same thing.

Logical words like "and" and "or" and "not" usually connect up to complete

thoughts, and affect their truth values, so maybe modals do too.

After all, a word like "not" can really just be seen as something that combines with

a sentence and flips over its truth-value, so that if "Nina has a cybernetic arm"

is true, "Nina doesn't have a cybernetic arm" ends up false.

Pretty straightforward.

But it turns out that modals don't easily fit into this kind of pattern.

Let's say that, right now, Olivia isn't doing anything; obviously, then, "Olivia's

starting a fire" would be false.

But "Olivia can start a fire" is certainly true.

So here the addition of "can" ends up making a false statement true.

But take "Olivia is flying around under her own power," which is also false.

Adding "can" here doesn't make a bit of difference: "Olivia can fly under

her own power" is just as wrong.

Because of this, we say that modal words like "can" are non-truth-functional, which

means they don't seem to have as predictable an effect on the truth of a sentence as other,

more logical kinds of words.

So, if the truth of a sentence doesn't have any influence on its modal-ized counterpart,

what does?

And are tools like logic even useful here?

As it turns out, thinking about modality goes back all the way to Aristotle.

But it wasn't until around the 1950s that logicians and linguists finally began to get

a firm grip on how these words work.

If you remember back to our episodes on logic, we explained how we can use symbols to represent

sentences and the relationships that hold between them, to more easily explore how and

why we can make certain inferences.

So, something like "Dr. Bishop doesn't know Astrid's name" could be written out like so.

In this case, "A" stands for "Dr. Bishop knows Astrid's name," while that

little squiggle at the front stands in for our truth-inverting "not."

Well, in the early twentieth century, ways of symbolizing modality finally made their

way into the language of logic.

And not long after after, philosophers like Saul Kripke came along and spelled out exactly what it meant.

So, to represent something like "It's possible that Dr. Bishop knows Astrid's

name," we use the diamond operator.

And if we want to make a stronger statement, like "It's necessarily true that

Dr. Bishop knows Astrid's name," we can tilt it 45 degrees and use the box operator instead.

As for how these symbols actually work, the basic idea is twofold.

First, we need to think of sentences not just as being true or false, but as being true

or false in a particular world.

In other words, whether a sentence is true or false really depends on the way the world

is — the circumstances in which the sentence is being evaluated.

So a sentence like "Broyles is angry" isn't just true, it's true under some

set of circumstances — in any possible world, really, where there's someone named Broyles

and he's angry!

The second ingredient, then, is to think of that diamond and that box as quantifiers,

which are expressions about amounts of things.

So, "It's necessarily true that Broyles is angry" is really saying something like

"in all the different ways the world could be, no matter which one we look at,

Broyles is angry."

Or put another way, in all the possible worlds w, Broyles is angry in w.

For something like "It's possible that Broyles is angry," what the symbols are

really saying is that in all the different ways the world could be, at least one of those

worlds has an angry Broyles in it.

So, there exists some possible world where he's angry.

Coming back around to natural language, we can see that these ideas actually get us pretty far.

For instance, most people have the intuition that a sentence like "You must report to

the Colonel", which spells out a requirement, also means that "You may report to the Colonel",

that you have permission.

If words like "must" and "may" are just like our boxes and diamonds from before,

this inference makes perfect sense: if in all possible circumstances you report to the

Colonel, then there's at least one where you do!

Otherwise, it's a contradiction!

So words like "can" and "might" work by first combining with some sentence p, which

is like a description of a world, and then acting just like that diamond that we saw in logic

and saying that there's at least one world that fits that description.

On the flip side, "must" and "need" do the same, but they act like that box operator

instead, and apply that description to all possible worlds.

So, is this all there is to these words?

Do they work just like "all" and "some," but with whole worlds in place of individual people and things?

Unfortunately, this can't quite be the full story.

Take the following two sentences.

"Dr. Bell must complete his experiments" seems to be saying something about his goals,

whereas "Dr. Bell must want to change the world" seems to be saying something about

our own state of knowledge.

In general, words like "must" and "might" can take on different flavours of modality.

For example, teleological modality has to do with people's plans and goals, while

epistemic modality has to do with knowledge, and deontic modality has to do with rules

and regulations.

In principle, there's an infinite variety of different flavours, and that actually poses

a pretty serious problem, since it would mean we have an infinite number of different musts

and mights stored inside our heads.

But this can't be true!

So how do we explain it?

Starting in the 1970s is when we really began to crack open this problem.

In particular, linguist Angelika Kratzer noticed that you could think of the sentences that

we just pointed out in more explicit terms.

That is, "Dr. Bell must complete his experiments" really means "Given his goals, Dr. Bell

must complete his experiments."

In a similar way, "Dr. Bell must want to change the world" is actually saying "Given

everything we know, Dr. Bell must want to change the world."

Phrases like "given his goals" or "given what we know," then, restrict the set of

worlds we should look at when trying to understand these sentences.

In both cases, "must" is still saying something about all the worlds under discussion;

but now, exactly which worlds those are gets defined by the context of the conversation.

So, a more complete meaning for a word like "must" would look like this two-place

function -- one that relates some collection of worlds to another.

When it's used in an actual sentence, like "Dr. Bell must complete his experiments,"

its job is to first combine with a set of worlds that have been defined by the context

of the conversation.

This set is often called the modal base, and it can be anything from the set of all the

worlds where certain rules are followed — like the rules of law — to the set of worlds

where all your dreams come true!

In this case, it combines with the set of all those worlds where Dr. Bell's goals are achieved.

Next, it combines with the the set of worlds described by the sentence -- where Dr. Bell

completes his experiments -- and says the whole thing's 'true' just as long as

in all those worlds where his goals are met, Dr. Bell completes his work.

That is, just as long as the first set fits inside the second.

In other cases, where the base is the set of worlds representing our own knowledge,

everything works the same — just with different sets.

And with a word like "may," as in "Dr. Bell may want to change the world," instead

of fitting one set inside another, we work out their intersection, meaning that there's

at least one world that fits in both.

What's really remarkable is that when we look at modal words in this way, their meanings

line up exactly with the meanings we've already given to words like "some" and "all".

This suggests that this kind of comparison between sets might be fundamental to how we

think -- something that runs deep throughout languages.

So what might've at first seemed to be square outside the limits of logic, actually fits

nicely into our theory of how language works, giving us a glimpse into how we think about

the world around us.

So, we've reached the end of The Ling Space for this week.

If you picked out your favourite modal flavour, you learned that at first glance, modal verbs

like "must" and "might" don't easily fit into our understanding of language; that

the idea of possible worlds helps to bring these kinds of words into the fold; and that

we find deep connections between different parts of language that otherwise seem totally

unrelated to each other.

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