There are a lot of videos out there to help you get better at rocket League.
And, some of them are even worth watching.
However, I think the situation is a little more complicated than some would make it out to be.
Most of them will examine the common mistakes that people make,
and propose that their decision-making is the problem with their gameplay.
They see the result of any interaction as the choice made by the player.
And, I mean it's not wrong to say that bad choices will lead to you losing the game.
That's where they're coming from.
They'll look at replays and point out the times that you pass to the enemy, and they'll
tell you not to do that.
They'll see that you didn't clear it well and suggest that you should have.
You should have cleared the ball well.
They'll see a missed opportunity for a pass, and they'll tell you that you need to work
on your awareness.
You need to be able to know where your teammates are, so you can pass the ball to them.
That's what went wrong there.
These are all good suggestions, and they're not wrong.
You shouldn't pass to the other team, you shouldn't own-goal, and you shouldn't screw
over your teammates.
The point I'm trying to make is that most of the, the stuff labeled as advice is,
stuff that you will already know, and stuff that you would have known otherwise
had no one ever told you.
If you really want to help out your teams, and if you want to do better in 1's, then
you're going to have to practice mechanics.
This is the area of your gameplay that you have the most control over.
Here's what I've been doing.
I like to start with Hannah's Playground, and I usually just do the drills that are
on the screen right now.
So, going counter-clockwise or clockwise around in circles through these rings.
And, it's just a nice and slow kind of gradual warm-up.
It, uh, it kinda, it brings you through all of the directions, but it's just very slow.
In case I haven't mentioned it before, getting these workshop maps is really not hard.
All you need to do is log in on Steam,
and then go to the site.
Like, I'll provide the links in the description below.
But, you just need to go there and click subscribe, and that's all you have to do,
and it will show up in your workshop maps.
The next workshop map I like to do is called "The Wall".
And, I like this map because you get to take-offs and landings a lot,
and what happens in those moments is [that] you have to switch from your aerial control
scheme to your ground control scheme,
or from your ground control scheme to your aerial control scheme.
And, when you have to switch skill-sets like that--just like when you have to switch mathematical
operators,
when you're doing math (like if you switch from doing addition problems to subtraction
problems)--
it takes a bit of extra mental effort.
So, that's what we're working on here:
we're trying to integrate our ground control with our aerial control.
Some of these levels can actually be kind of tricky, so I'm going to leave the video
of me doing the full run in here.
It's gonna last about two more minutes from this point in the video,
and you can feel free to just skip over it if you want.
So, I was gonna talk about the dribbling challenge, but I think there's another drill that I have
in mind that probably no ones really advocated for...
at least not that I know of.
Just go down to options, go over to controls,
go down to left stick sensitivity, and then set it up to ten.
When the left stick sensitivity is set to its default of one, it gives you the full
range of motion with the control stick.
So, pressing a little left on the control stick results in turning a little left,
and now, with it set up to ten, we've pretty much removed any subtlety or any middle-ground,
so if you slightly push to the left, it's going to register as your control stick being
pressed all the way.
So, essentially what we've done is magnify the result of pushing the control stick so
that you can't kind of finesse it.
You have to think about what direction you're pushing the control stick and know beforehand
how long you're gonna have to hold it in that direction.
Now, if you've seen all these drills and you're like,
"Nah, that's all super easy for me.
I-I'm too good."
Then, there's one more difficulty I can throw in,
and that is:
to turn the screen upside-down.
So, switching your screen to "landscape (flipped)"
Obviously this is the same clip and I've just flipped it upside-down.
I'm gettin' a little tired of doing all these things, and I probably couldn't have beat
level twenty-three upside-down.
It's...
I'm okay at it, but this is probably beyond me.
Especially with the left stick sensitivity set up all the way to ten.
That was almost a tongue twister.
Alrighty, thanks for watching.
Bye!
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What Blind People See | How Seeing Can Destroy Your Life - Duration: 6:00.
What do blind people see? Black, complete nothingness. That's what most people
assume vision, or rather lack of vision is like for blind people. Heck, even
people who have 20/20 vision assume people who need glasses, they see without
glasses in a complete blur, but that's not the case. I take off my glasses, it's, it's not blurry it's it's more fuzzy. It feels like your eyes are tired all
the time. But back to the topic at hand, what do blind people see?
One person who have full sight up until the age of 31 then he had a botched
surgery which severed the connection between his eyes and his brain, he
described blindness as not total blackness everyone assumes. He said the
answer, at least in my case, is light. Lots of it, bright, colorful, ever-changing,
often terribly distracting light. He said, "How do I begin to describe it. Right now
I've got a dark brown background with a turquoise luminescence front and center.
Actually it just changed to green. Now it's bright blue with flecks of yellow
and there's some orange threatening to break through and cover the whole lot.
The rest of my vision is taken up by squashed geometric shapes, squiggles and
clouds I couldn't hope to describe enough before they all change again.
Anyway, give it an hour and it'll all be different" when he first went blind and
he started experiencing this he thought it might be a sign that his eyes were
beginning to work again but unfortunately that wasn't it it was just
his brain making a pretty fact that no long receives visual stimuli but what
about people who have been blind from birth one person said I see nothing I
have never seen anything I don't see black because I I don't know what black
is I've never seen it one kind of interesting way to try this for yourself
is look straight ahead and cover your right eye with your hand now you can
only see through your left eye but what you see through your right eye you don't
see anything you can only see your left eye that's what being blind is like it's
seeing nothing others who have had sight but then went blind say it's similar to
falling into a great this there's nothing but if they rub
their eyes really hard they see sparks those with light perceptions say they
can see shadows figures that's about it they can tell if the lights are on or
not what's actually interesting is that these people see perfectly in their
dreams they only see the dark when they awake
the title of this video is what do blind people see the answer to that is is
nothing they see nothing at all and it's so hard for us to imagine nothing
because well to to us everything is something and nothing is well nothing is
nothing it's commonly assumed that when someone loses their eyesight they gain a
superpower okay well not super virus but like their other senses are touched
their smell it becomes like super heightened now what many people think it
is is that whatever their sight blind people pay much more attention to
hearing than we do because because we simply don't need to however there is
mounting evidence that when a person loses their eyesight their brain
actually undergoes an Makeover of sorts the area of the brain devoted to sight
gets put to work on processing other areas a study published in the Journal
of Neuroscience found the people who are born deaf use areas of the brain
typically devoted to processing send to instead process twitch and vision
perhaps more interestingly the researchers found that this neural
reorganization effects him deaf individuals perceive sensory stimuli
making them susceptible to a perceptual illusion that hearing people do not
experience in fact the people who lost their eyesight often have enhanced
auditory abilities brain imaging studies showed visual cortex in the blind is
taken over by other senses such as earring or touch and contributes to
language processing she's wearing flourish okay that's amazing so yeah
they kind of do have superpowers but what if a blind person suddenly gained a
vision well it wouldn't be great if they've been blind their entire life
there are a few stories of people who were born blind but gained sight later
in life it's very rare there's only a small
number of it ever happening say for example if somebody was born with
cataracts and then we had the technology to cure them of it later in life and
when they gained vision it wasn't great it actually destroyed their lives
because they suddenly had this crush of information coming in for example they
couldn't understand why some objects are smaller than others so they might see a
car up close on that far away and be like why is one small and someone would
say well it's small because it's further away that's why it looks smaller these
are small but the ones out there are far away
small faraway but why does something being further away make it smaller you
see blind people couldn't understand perspective perspective is not something
you were born with is something you learned you learned us baby so they may
see birds in the sky high above and try swap them like flies it's interesting to
think that you could live for years as a blind person and suddenly your life is
ruined by gaining sight thanks for watching Mike
you
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How Receivership can Protect Values in Dissolution of Marriage – Fiduciary Broker Vlog #1 - Duration: 3:22.
Hi, I'm Dan Collins – a California licensed real estate broker with expertise in real
property matters in Probates and Trusts.
I am also a California licensed general contractor and receivership expert.
To learn more about receiverships protecting values, please visit my website: probate-realtor.biz
Today I want to give you an example of how a Receiver can be useful in cases of divorce.
Let me tell you about a case I worked on involving a very unhappy divorce.
A married couple owned a California licensed property management business and, over a period
of two years before the wife filed for divorce, her husband had been skimming profits.
This allowed the husband to create a "war chest" of cash, and to falsely mask the
value of the business by underreporting net income.
Now theirs had been a long-term marriage, and the wife had started the business years
before her husband came into the picture.
When the wife discovered the skimmed profits, she retaliated by emptying the client trust
account.
There were tenants moving out of homes and apartments who had security deposits at risk
as well as client funds held in trust, which creates a very serious situation on many levels.
The attorneys representing the parties quickly realized they had a situation where the actions
of the litigants were becoming destructive to the property management business, so they
requested the appointment of a Receiver on an ex-part basis with the hope that the Receiver
would, with a properly crafted Court Order, quickly step in and salvage the business.
As an impartial and neutral Receiver, I convinced the wife to return the unused trust monies,
which allowed the Receiver to honor and return property management tenants' security deposits
and client trust funds.
Had a receiver not been appointed and been afforded the ability to take quick action,
tenants and clients would surely have filed complaints with the California Bureau of Real
Estate, which would have taken disciplinary action that may have resulted in the loss
of both the husband and wife's California real estate broker licenses.
Then, I counseled the husband that his skimming of business profits would end badly if he
didn't come clean and return the money, and fortunately he listened to reason.
By returning monies to the business, he avoided prosecution.
As the Receiver in the case, my job was to protect and preserve the business for the
benefit of all, and fortunately I was able to do that.
The unhappy couple did finally get divorced but the business avoided the consequences
of not being able to return tenant security deposits and client trust funds which preserved
the husband and wife's professional licenses.
Protecting their professional licenses allowed them to divorce and still have their livelihood.
I'm Dan Collins, a California licensed real estate broker, general contractor and receivership
expert.
To learn more, please visit my website: probate-realtor.biz
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THEE LEGENDARY CAN O' SPAM | Mortal Kombat XL (Fights) [#1] - Duration: 22:17.
*EPIC SKYRIM MUSIC*
*LEGENDARY CAN OF SPAM*
oh my god
I think they have that one
what's up wolves Tamedwolguy here and welcome back to resident evil 7
no comment X move move chair come on don't be so
fish already guys so I'm back we're playing Mortal Kombat X Oh because
once again Jesus the lighting feeling moves the camera slightly that
way nope all right we're playing Mortal
Kombat Excel because I wanted to this is much on now congratulations Jacob you've
been hijacked alright ready
yeah cool alright guys so I'm gonna go in all right
oh okay I'm gonna go I haven't played this game in a long time I'm just gonna
go for Lin Kuei temple sub-zero sometime well oh it's his home territory well
yeah you know I supposed to expect near no my house now so zero
prepare to rejoin your class I will send you to hell engraving ok that's pretty
dope I see my moves per second alright um okay down such a is doable it's okay
that's one like pesty yeah okay um spear right
oh my gosh what happened to my ears
where is it
what is up with this crap Oh
oh boy this awful get x-rayed boy oh oh well that's so much
one sec I lost Tamara
why is this happening to me
yes I thought I lost mine oh look guy looking like it's alright for me
screaming I think too much longer I think I need to run us down it's more
than I've never played this game like that's kind of my fault because I
should've played it yesterday but I didn't know what it's back to my shoes
okay what ignore warning for all you sensitive stomach people yeah yeah no
you don't want to do this I'll do a classic fatality so don't
No
this from Mortal Kombat one true yeah yeah yeah I missing that Jax where you
like you're like chefs his arms and then like opens his mouth place today right
although something tells me you've lost your spine in this game wow it was such
a terrible and free oh okay I'm not I didn't burn alive still both have bare
arms all right your turn let's go in nether room your hometown
she Rui Rui you talk Lin Kuei scum death is more honor than you deserve
Wayne yeah all right dude the graphics are so good all right thank you so much
so satisfying why is this so satisfying oh all right stop it sorry I feel like
I'm not sorry at all what are you talking about
correct boy all right what's with me not being able to do my okay stop it with
that freaking spam I'm trying to improve it well don't you dare oh man mommy I'll
open up a can of spam on you
no dude you just lost two matches at the same time well this is to be expected
I'm not a fighting game person all right here I'll try someone new oh yeah so
anyway tis like really crazy all right if you're going Sonia I'll go with
no I mean I wasn't gonna go further I mean come on
I kind of want to okay so you ready all right let's go with training world no
just most characters like try to intimidate the other character by doing
something also in the end you're just like your father
I'll take that as a compliment not Sonia just proved my point
wait North cages
oh I was downtown oh okay I'm not trying to spam that plane but it's like come
near me me come near me me I'm just trying to focus a lot spamming my coupon
spamming anyways yeah that's it oh so close
no pain no gain weak sordid these lines are bad no
it's nice how they do that okay this stays to Lakeland smashing would you
hear me like smashing it but it's so hard
really sorry
don't miss the pure x-ray boy oh you're so done oh you're so done you're so done
that was crazy it was insane oh and then the combo
afterwards too but I couldn't do that during like an actual fight instead of
just a finisher all right you know let's try playing gets the same person who do
you want to be party he gets the same as the same person how about cold
vote the same thing whoa what's with your alternate skin
that's cool I was just doing just because this is an illusion only way to
expose the Mirage shatter the mirror thing oh come on I was going for a move
and then it's like okay okay bro okay okay you know what
let me grab you know actually worry so little torch no no no no dude you're
done all right no no no he's just gonna accept the fact
that it's done that's real impressive jumpin there
there goes your skull my throat and my neck and my skull yeah I love your face
it's just like what just yeah yeah all right so what now that's right
oh let's sound that's a girly-girl stick
it kind of like this is more intimidating
or it's forest forest
the only one that looks like a jungle forest all right we're doing the rivalry
here vote in the comments so you thinks gonna win if it's me or completely right
whoa hold on there's down oh dude did you let me land at least okay I just
found that thanks on accident sure voices oh my gosh in a row I
thought was down a but that was up a so it was just like what the heck let me
see
No
we're gonna fly up history yes somewhat like I use that much blood
also my glider is on you Jesus okay okay okay no why do you keep doing
that cuz it's a good move now let's just spam oh my god I'm not
trying to do that legit I'm serious oh my god I'm trying to do other moves wait
it won't let me okay let me see I keep on doing
extinguish track I'm trying through sleep til snag what's the other drought
director yeah right could you let me back up an inch Prince
no no what's the matter one those look at the health bar look at it right there
oh alright alright I say deadly hybrid have you seen the
other fatalities I mean yeah but that was crazy I mean it wasn't like I mean
it was kind of waiting yeah yeah but wasn't alien is an amazing cook then you
messed it up fast enough alright guys if you join the video I feel like when I
will see you in my next video comment below if you want to see more Chamorro
combat with me and we're Sean yeah maybe other people - I have no idea I'm gonna
get person that more combat as you saw I'm 2 over 3 and so it's best two out of
three he's the winner um very much yes but I I
like but I was don't worry is that I have to make the Warriors not one was
because you just I say ma'am that one move that one move it was just spam I
didn't try to I was trying to do the other moves to whatever something like
that I don't know why anyways guys sit there everybody peace out
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Liverpool's defense must be fixed - Here is How Jurgen Klopp can do it | News Now - transfer | #LFC - Duration: 2:44.
With Liverpool's defence, it is a problem which needs fixing, and Klopp knows it.
"We talk about this from the first match day, the only way to fix it is to stay strong
and work on it," he said afterwards.
How can Klopp do that, though?
Not only do his side concede goals, but they concede good chances; shots at goal from close
range, making them harder to save.
Here are some of suggestions for the German coach to contemplate.
Three-at-the-back is back in vogue.
Chelsea won the Premier League last season with this system, while Manchester City and
Tottenham have had success with it, the latter against Liverpool on Sunday.
For Liverpool, it would offer more solidity and potentially allow better cover to individual
errors.
With a three-man defence, it would allow Joe Gomez or Ragnar Klavan to join the current
centre-back pairing, and give support to a nervous back-line.
Alberto Moreno and Trent Alexander-Arnold also seem ideal wing backs in this system,
though it would leave fewer slots for the wealth of attacking talent at Klopp's disposal.
It is a move several supporters have been calling for in recent weeks, and there was
a glimpse of what could be during the defeat at Wembley.
The issue in selecting the former Charlton man at centre-back is twofold: he remains
inexperienced there, and the expectation will be great.
Similarly, with Nathaniel Clyne out, it would mean a right side of Gomez and Alexander-Arnold,
but also demanding both physically and mentally on a duo so young.
The move would come with risks, although short-term problems could be soothed by long-term benefits.
Klopp and his squad have often been quick to note that goals conceded do not depend
on the back five alone, and that more is needed from those who play ahead of them.
Perhaps moving one of those who play ahead of the Liverpool captain, Gini Wijnaldum or
Can, into a deeper role, could provide a bit more balance.
Marko Grujic could also be a potential holder in this set-up.
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Good Behavior: The Only Thing You Can Change is His Hair - Season 2, Ep. 3 [SNEAK PEEK] | TNT - Duration: 1:19.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
What's wrong?
I think he might be here to kill me.
What would make you think that?
It's just a feeling.
He was probably looking at your ass.
408 and 409--
back-to-back, double penetration.
[LAUGHS]
409.
Uh-oh, 409-- where are you going to end up?
Ah--
Just give Letty the other key for 409.
Thank you.
Hey, can I give you a piece of relationship advice?
Uh, no.
If you really like Javier, don't
pick on him for stupid shit.
The only thing you can really change about a man is his hair.
I like his hair.
What are you doing?
Looking for that guy.
He's gone.
Are you going to be like this the whole time?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
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How can a good God allow evil in the world? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 6-22) - Duration: 28:31.
Death and suffering is everywhere!
How can an all-powerful, loving God allow suffering?
This week on Creation Magazine LIVE!
Welcome to Creation Magazine LIVE!
My name is Richard Fangrad.
and I'm Calvin Smith.
This week on Creation Magazine LIVE our topic is 'How can a good God allow evil in the world?' Wow.
Talk about a huge subject, but it's one that we often hear questions about and that
many Christians struggle with as well.
Not only will we give a Biblical response to the question today but we will also show how
the proper response relates directly to the creation/evolution debate. Yes.
The origin of death and suffering is vitally important in defending Christianity, and many
people use the present suffering and death that you see everywhere as an excuse not to believe in God.
So it's vital to have an answer.
Such a justification of God's goodness in the face of evil is known in biblical terminology as theodicy.
Now the big picture is that Adam's sin is the reason for all the death in the world.
A consistent biblical answer points out that death is an intruder, so it is not part of
God's original creation, but is ultimately due to man's sin.
Right, however, according to theology that accommodates long ages, death has always been with us,
and theistic evolution even says that God used this 'last enemy' as His means of
producing His "very good" creation!
Not a really wise response…
Over a decade ago now, terrorists in the US, murdering 3,000 people
and we see more of this all the time.
And of course, this wasn't even close to the worst mass murder by evil men or movements that we've seen.
The evolution-based Nazi regime wiped out 6 million Jews and many others.
These morally evil deeds lead many to question why a loving God would allow such evil acts.
Of course there is also suffering caused by 'natural' evils like the magnitude 7 earthquake
that devastated Haiti back on the 12th of January back in 2010, killing at least 220,000.
Or the March 2011 magnitude 9 earthquake in Japan, that was a thousand times stronger.
And the magnitude 9.3 earthquake west of Indonesia on the 26th of December 2004 and that produced that devastating
tsunami that killed over 230,000 people in 14 countries.
Even those tragedies actually pale in comparison when you look at some of the other natural evils.
For example, in a few years of the mid-14th century, the Black Death (the bubonic plague)
painfully wiped out an estimated 75–200 million people in Europe, or a huge percent of the population.
In quite recent times, the First World War, with 9 million killed, was followed by the
even more devastating Spanish Flu epidemic
which killed at least 50 million of the world's population, many of them
young healthy adults.
Yes and another type of natural evil is physical disability or handicap.
We can think of Helen Keller for example, who lost the senses of both hearing and sight when she
was a baby, and Joni Eareckson-Tada who was paralyzed from the neck down when she was
a teenager. Those are evil things.
In addition to the headline events, just think of each of us. I mean we suffer illness, we suffer
headaches, accidents, and eventually, death.
So it's not surprising, when the burdens become too great, that people cry out to God, "Why
don't you do anything?
Why don't you care?"
Yes, and as the shock of each traumatic event subsides for a while, people begin asking why such things occur.
Reading about past wars or visiting memorials, for example, like the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.,
inevitably raises questions, "How can there be a loving God controlling the
universe in the light of such death and suffering?"
The pervasiveness of evil and death and things like that, is possibly the most effective tool that atheists use
to attack the Bible's picture of a 'loving God'.
Atheists make what appears to be a reasonable complaint: "If God is loving and all-powerful,
then why doesn't He use His power to stop the evil, suffering, pain, and death in the world?"
Multitudes have rejected God because of suffering.
Now as you can see, this is an incredibly important topic, and sadly, most people—and
many Christians—have no ready answer to the question of death and suffering in the world.
Over the next few minutes we'll dig deep into God's word for answers.
And we'll start that when we get back…
Most people have heard about the meteorite that hit the earth and supposedly caused the
extinction of the dinosaurs.
Secular geologists refer to this as the K/T extinction, and they regard it as one of the
most significant mass extinctions, according to their deep-time view of earth history.
However, did you know that the secular geologists have identified seven other mass extinctions
in the portion of the geological record that contains complex plant and animal life?
This shows that scientists are increasingly recognising the catastrophic nature of the
geologic record.
This goes against old ideas of only slow-and-gradual processes being responsible for all the rocks
and fossils.
These new perspectives are much more in line with a Biblical view of earth history, whereby
Noah's flood wiped out all air-breathing land animals not on the Ark.
No, there were not eight mass extinctions in earth history—but there certainly was
one massive extinction event!
To find out more from Creation Ministries International visit our website Creation.com.
If you've just tuned in, this week we are talking about 'How can an all-powerful,
loving God allow suffering?'
We've seen that many people have used the question to reject God entirely and become atheists.
OK so let's talk about death in general.
'Darwin's Bulldog', T.H. Huxley once said, "If our hearing were sufficiently
acute to catch every note of pain, we would be deafened by one continuous scream."
Of course his argument's pretty clear here.
A good God wouldn't allow such evil.
But do atheists really have a case?
For atheists to complain about 'evil', they must provide a standard of good and evil
within their own worldview.
If we are simply evolved pond scum, as a consistent atheist believes, where can we find an
objective standard for right and wrong?
Richard Dawkins once said, "The universe we observe has … no design, no purpose,
no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
… DNA neither knows nor cares.
DNA just is.
And we dance to its music."
But our ideas of right and wrong, under this system, are merely artefacts of some chemical
processes that occur in the brain, which happened to confer some survival advantage on our alleged
ape-like ancestors.
But the motions in Hitler's brain obeyed the same chemical laws as those in Mother
Teresa's, so on what grounds are the latter's actions 'better' than the former's?
Also, why should these terrorist attack slaying thousands of people in New York be more terrible
than a frog killing thousands of flies?
In an atheists worldview there is no objective standard of truth, no absolute right, no absolute wrong, Dawkins has admitted it.
What's right for you might not be right for me, etc., and then it just breaks down.
But a Christian knows there's an objective standard for morality that transcends individual
humans, because it was given by an objective and transcendent moral Lawgiver who is our Creator of course.
An atheist's argument against God because of objective evil inadvertently concedes the
very point that they are trying to argue against!
To say something is 'good or evil' is to say there must be an absolute standard by which
to judge such things. By which to differentiate between things that are good and evil.
Right, and we should note that the argument isn't that atheists can't live 'good' lives, its
just that they have no objective basis for their goodness if we are just rearranged pond scum.
So here's the atheistic argument summarized.
It goes back to the pagan Greek philosopher Epicurus who lived from 341–270 BC, who
was cited by the early Christian apologist Lactantius who lived from AD 240–320 then
used by the Scottish 'Enlightenment' skeptic David Hume, very famous, who lived in the 1700's.
In schematic form, the argument could be written this way:
1). If God exists, then God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and morally perfect.
2). If God is all-powerful, then He has the power to eliminate all evil.
3). If God is all-knowing, then He knows when evil exists.
4). If God is morally perfect, then He has the desire to eliminate all evil.
5). Evil exists.
6). If evil exists and God exists, then either God doesn't have the power to eliminate
all evil, or doesn't know when evil exists, or doesn't have the desire to eliminate all evil.
7). Therefore, God doesn't exist.
Now the first premise describes the Judeo-Christian God as revealed in the Bible. All knowing all powerful, etc.
Premises 2–4 are plausibly held to be what the Judeo-Christian God would do with such
attributes.
The first two are held to be the Judeo-Christian premises, while #5 is indisputable (although
only truly justifiable under a Judeo-Christian world view).
So antitheists draw the conclusion that God can't have the attributes that the Bible
reveals about Him (#6), and conclude that such a God doesn't exist (which is #7).
Right, but some theistic philosophers try to retreat on #1, by denying that God is all
powerful, we see that in things like 'open theism' which is one of the, I think, dumbest heresies to come along in a long time and 'process theology'.
But this is not true of the God of the Bible.
So how then do we explain this?
Tune in in just a minute and we'll give you some answers…
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On this week's episode we are talking about 'How can a good God allow evil in the world?' A very important question for Christians to answer
and we've detailed an atheistic argument regarding 'evil' and God's existence, which we're going to re-state here because it's important for us to keep track of. So here we
go. Number 1). If God exists, then God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and morally perfect.
2). If God is all-powerful, then He has the power to eliminate all evil.
3). If God is all-knowing, then He knows when evil exists.
4). If God is morally perfect, then He has the desire to eliminate all evil.
5). Evil exists.
6). If evil exists and God exists, then either God doesn't have the power to eliminate
all evil, or doesn't know when evil exists, or doesn't have the desire to eliminate all evil.
7). The conclusion? Therefore, God doesn't exist.
Right, now we've discussed how points 1-3 and 5-7 are sound, and that even number 4
is sound but incomplete, as Christian philosophers have long argued that Premise 4 should be extended to:
4'. If God is morally perfect, then He has the desire to eliminate all evil—unless He has
a good reason for allowing it.
Then there is no incompatibility with #5.
Yes and since no antitheist can know and show that there is no possible good reason for allowing
evil, since that would be a universal negative, the argument collapses as logical disproof of theism.
This was expressed in a wonderful book Dr A.E.
Wilder-Smith when he said, "This is how God triumphs over evil—not by 'stopping'
it, but by using it to His greater glory."
Later on, we'll see some biblical reasons why God is permitting suffering.
Yes, and apologists have also long pointed out that the atheists' argument doesn't work
for another reason.
The existence of evil now would be incompatible with #4 only if it read:
4) If God is morally perfect, then He has the desire to eliminate all evil immediately.
Yes that's a really important point because
God was to get rid of all evil immediately, He would need to destroy all of us!
And with this understanding, we can correct #5 to read this:
5'. Evil exists for now but will one day be destroyed (as the Bible says); or God has not got rid
of evil—yet! There's another way to put it.
Now this by itself is enough to show that not only do atheists not have a way of defining
good and evil anyway, but that atheists lack a logical case against God, using this argument. Right and that's good.
But it is still important to have a good apologetic explanation to go further and explain where
evil came from, why God allowed it, and what He is doing about it—and has actually already done about it.
Yes. Now the Bible clearly states that when God created moral beings, there was no actual evil.
In fact, evil is not a 'thing' in itself, even though it's real.
Evil rather is the lack of some good that something ought to have.
For example, a wound can't exist without a body, and the very idea of being wounded
presupposes the concept of a healthy body.
Right. Things have to be in context.
Blindness in a humans, that's a physical evil, because humans are supposed to see, but oysters aren't, they're not supposed to see,
so blindness isn't an evil them, so it's a lack of something right?
Also, evil actions are done to achieve things like wealth, power, sexual gratification,
which the evildoer finds 'pleasing' but they aren't necessarily 'good'.
So since evil isn't a thing, God didn't create evil.
And this lack of evil extended to the animal kingdom.
In particular, people and animals originally ate plants, not other animals as it says
in Romans [Genesis] 1:29–30.
There was no violence or painful suffering in the original "very good" world. Right, that was Genesis 1:29 and 30 by the way, just so if you are following along.
What did I say? You said Romans. That would be Genesis.
Yes there's a biblical illustration in Isaiah 11:6–9 and 65:25 which are pictures of a
future with allusions to the Edenic paradise God originally created.
These are famous passages of course about a lion and calf, wolf and lamb, and a vegetarian lion
and a non-harmful viper, a snake.
Yes and significantly, both passages close with indications that this reflects
a more ideal world and that the current world does not.
"They shall not hurt or destroy …" "They shall do no evil or harm …". These indicate
that hurting, harming and destroying animal life wouldn't have been part of a "very good" creation.
And this is again where long ages, trying to mix in evolution, trying to in mix millions of years of death and suffering before
Adam sinned it just doesn't make sense theologically. It falls apart. Trying to blend those things together it just doesn't work.
Why would God have created with things killing each other in the first place?
I mean we can't even explain sin when you try to add millions of years and evolution and all this type of thing.
And this is a point that our speakers make over and over again. There was no death before Adam sinned. It was a very good world. No sin, no death, no corruption.
More when we get back…
Several years ago, the paleontological world heralded the discovery of a fossil called
Tiktaalik roseae.
Some scientists claimed it as a perfect missing link between fish and amphibians, and so it
started appearing in school and university textbooks.
However, the discovery of a series of footprints in Poland, made by a four-legged animal, has
changed everything.
That's because these foot prints were dated according to the same evolutionary ideas at
18 million years older than Tiktaalik.
Therefore, from an evolutionary perspective, if four-legged animals existed before Tiktaalik,
then Tiktaalik cannot be the transition between fish and four-legged land animals that it
was claimed to be.
Indeed, these footprints are so significant that they have prompted some scientists to
say: "we thought we'd pinned down the origin of limbed tetrapods.
We have to rethink the whole thing."
Isn't it amazing how just a little bit of new evidence can completely undermine a neat
evolutionary story?
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We're back and our subject this week is 'How can an all-powerful, loving God allow suffering?'
So OK, we've shown that God didn't create evil, but its here now so what happened?
Well, God created both Adam and Eve, as well as the angels, with the power of contrary choice.
This means that they had the power to make a choice contrary to their own nature.
Even God doesn't have this power. He can't sin because that goes against His perfectly holy nature.
Yes, it's an attribute of God that He can't sin.
Now the power of contrary choice itself wasn't evil, but it meant that there was the possibility of evil.
Evidently, God saw that the greater good would come from it, that the result would be creatures
who genuinely love God freely.
Actually, real love must be free—I mean if I programmed my computer to flash 'I
love you' on the screen, it wouldn't exactly be genuine love now would it? Right.
But Adam's misuse of this choice resulted in actual evil befalling him and the rest of the material
creation, over which he had dominion of course.
Now a short time after Creation Week, Eve was deceived by the Serpent's temptation,
and in turn gave the forbidden fruit to Adam, who wasn't deceived, but still ate it.
We actually see this statement in the New Testament in 1 Timothy 2:13–14.
Yes and as a result of his sin, Adam and his descendants acquired a sin nature we read
about in Romans 5:12, and lost the power of contrary choice.
It now meant that they could no longer go against their sin nature, and you see that explained
of course explained in Romans 7:15–25 and other places.
People today don't get their sin natures by sinning; they sin because they have a sin
nature. That's how it works.
Now in the Eternal State of redeemed humanity, having been purified by Christ, we'll no
longer even have the potential for sin.
The new heavens and new earth, will be even better than Eden.
Yes! That will be great.
So in summary, following Augustine: Adam and Eve were created with the ability
not to sin.
After the Fall, humans had no ability not to sin.
In the Eternal State, humans will have no ability to sin.
Now what about this so called 'Free will' defense?
Sometimes Christian apologists invoke something similar to what we've been mentioning, a
sort of complete 'free will defense' to kind of save the problem of evil here.
Yes but the biblical account is more nuanced—any 'freedom' applied only to Adam and Eve;
their sin lost the true freedom they were created with.
Their descendants, that's all of us, are now in bondage to sin.
Only redeemed humanity in the eternal state will have true freedom from this bondage.
OK, that's a pretty good overview to explain 'moral evil' in the world, where people
cause bad things to happen.
But what about natural evil?
What about when someone is taking a walk and a branch falls off and kills them
or hurts them?
Or what about tornadoes or earthquakes?
Right, the 'free will defense' is fine in the face of moral evil, but seems less
direct with regard to these kinds of natural evils, but the Bible tells us that Adam was the head of the human race in
Genesis 1:26–28 says that mankind was given dominion over creation.
So when he sinned, the whole creation under him was cursed as well.
Right, and since God is the author of life, death is the natural penalty of life without
God, the giver of life.
Also, because the Lord is holy and just, there had to be a penalty for rebellion.
Yes, the Fall was cosmic in scope.
As Romans 8:22 says, "the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs".
Adam and Eve couldn't have been separated from God, be Fallen, and still live in a Paradise without consequences.
Everything is running down because of sin.
God has given us a taste of life without Him—a world full of violence, death, suffering,
and disease.
In summary, God is allowing us to experience what we wanted—life without God. And we'll be back...
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Welcome back. This is our 'In the News' section where we highlight something to do with the creation/evolution
debate in the popular news. So what do we have?
Well here's one called, "Cockroaches use their own internal GPS to get around!"
We'll read certain sections. There's always something about the creation/evolution debate in the news. Always something. I like to scan the news articles all the time.
Well anyway, this one starts- "When navigating your kitchen, cockroaches
likely don't need to stop for directions.
Turns out, the pesky insects have an internal GPS."
The article continues, "To uncover this internal GPS, the researchers put cockroaches through the same experiments
that are used to uncover the navigational brain cell activity in rats.
Placed on a rotating platform, the insects were encircled by a black wall with a single,
removable landmark: a white square.
The cockroaches were then rotated 360 degrees a number of times, in 30-degree increments,
both clockwise and counterclockwise."
Poor dizzy little guys. "'For instance, imagine walking toward a door when the door is there, compared to when it
used to be there, but someone removed it.
It's easier to precisely encode direction when there is some kind of a reference point
we can compare our heading to', lead study author Adrienn Varga, a doctoral student at
Case Western Reserve University, told Live Science in an email.
'Same with cockroaches apparently,' Varga said." And it continues,
"Cell activity peaked when the white card was inserted in the wall, indicating that the
roach's head angled toward the visual reference.
Without the white card, activity in the same brain cells indicated that the roaches knew
their orientation, despite its absence.
Tests also included placing a foil cover over the heads of the cockroaches to block
any visual clues.
Brain activity in the blinded roaches indicated that some brain cells do not need visual cues.
When the foil was removed, the cell activity reflected the roaches' heads shifting toward
the visual reference point.
This suggests that their internal GPS was remapping to include the new visual information,
according to the researchers."
Wow! So cockroaches have GPS systems. Isn't that cool?
I mean the U.S. Department of Defense developed the GPS system we use and got it fully operational in about 1995.
It originally used 24 satellites.
I wonder if that took any intelligence to create? A little bit maybe.
But look at this quote from the article as to where this GPS system came from and they say this,
"The mechanism is likely an example of convergent evolution" Evolution can do anything! "...when distinct animals develop
similar systems independently to manage the same problems."
Because as you read the rest of the article they talk about how a number of animals actually have the ability, this GPS type programming.
Actually Dr Jonathan Sarfati from our US office now, he's in the United States, wrote a book called 'By Design' and in that book he lists several creatures
that do this. You know, the theory of evolution is so instilled into the consciousness of people today,
I mean this was just a popular level article. I'm sure there were millions of people around the world that probably checked out this article.
And does it ever even occur to them? You've got a little bug, its brain is this big, it's got a GPS system and that's just supposed to have evolved ...Through random
processes over millions of years that just happened. Amazing. And creation is an inferior explanation for that?
Its amazing. Well creation isn't even mentioned in the article right? As is normally the case with these new scientific discoveries
the option that maybe there is another explanation that could account for this GPS ability in these cockroaches brain there
Its never even mentioned so evolution must have done it.
Its no wonder that people only come to that conclusion if that's the only thing they ever get talked about.
In Creation magazine you'll read about these kinds of amazing scientific discoveries but we don't censor out the biblical response.
We'll tell you what the evolutionists have said, in a lot of cases we're commenting in the magazine on article like this, and then we give a much superior explanation
from the Bible. The Bible's history just makes so much more sense of the science.
Come on back next week, we're talking about the Lost Squadron. If you don't know what that is you'll have to tune in next week. See you then...
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8 Words That Can Change Your Life. Law of Attraction, Money Magnet, Subconscious Mind Power - Duration: 15:02.
Eight words that can transform your life.
A few years ago, I was asked to answer this question on a radio program: "What is the
biggest lesson you have ever learned?"
That was easy: by far the most vital lesson I have ever learned is the importance of what
we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you
are. Our thoughts make us what we are. Our mental
attitude is the X factor that determines our fate. Emerson said: "A man is what he thinks
about all day long." How could he possibly be anything else?
I now know with a conviction beyond all doubt that the biggest problem you and I have to
deal with, in fact, almost the only problem we have to deal
with, is choosing the right thoughts. If we can do that,
we will be on the high road to solving all our problems. The great philosopher who ruled
the Roman Empire, Marcus Aurelius, summed it up in eight
words, eight words that can determine your destiny:
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
Yes, if we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we
will be miserable. If we think fear thoughts, we will
be fearful. If we think sickly thoughts, we will probably
be ill. If we think failure, we will certainly fail. If we wallow in self-pity, everyone
will want to shun us and avoid us. "You are not," said Norman
Vincent Peale, "you are not what you think you are; but
what you think, you are."
Am I advocating an habitual Pollyanna attitude toward all our problems? No, unfortunately,
life isn't so simple as all that. But I am advocating
that we assume a positive attitude instead of a negative
attitude. In other words, we need to be concerned about our problems, but not worried. What
is the difference between concern and worry? Let
me illustrate. Every time I cross the traffic-jammed streets
of New York, I am concerned about what I am doing, but not worried. Concern means realising
what the problems are and calmly taking steps to
meet them. Worrying means going around in maddening,
futile circles.
Years ago, I read a little book that had a lasting and profound effect on my life. It
was called As a Man Thinketh by James Allen, and here's what it
said: "A man will find that as he alters his thoughts
towards things and other people, things and other people
will alter towards him. Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished
at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material
conditions of his life. Men do not attract that which they
want, but that which they are. The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is
our very self. All that a man achieves is the direct result
of his own thoughts. A man can only rise, conquer and
achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak and abject and miserable
by refusing to lift up his thoughts."
So let us remember these words of William James: "Much of what we call evil can often
be converted into a bracing and tonic good by
a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of
fear to one of fight."
Let's fight for our happiness! Let's fight for our happiness by following
a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
Here is such a program. It is entitled "Just for Today". I found this program so inspiring
that I gave away hundreds of copies.
Just for today. One. Just for today I will be happy. This
assumes that what Abraham Lincoln said is true, that "most
folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Happiness is from within; it
is not a matter of externals.
Two. Just for today I will try to adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything
to my own desires. I will take my family, my business,
and my luck as they come and fit myself to them.
Three. Just for today I will take care of my body. I will exercise it, care for it,
nourish it, not abuse it nor neglect it, so that it will be a perfect machine
for my bidding. Four. Just for today I will try to strengthen
my mind. I will learn something useful. I will not be a mental
loafer. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration.
Five. Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn
and not get found out. I will do at least two things I
don't want to do, as William James suggests, just for exercise.
Six. Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress as becomingly
as possible, talk low, act courteously, be liberal with praise,
criticise not at all, nor find fault with anything and not try
to regulate nor improve anyone. Seven. Just for today I will try to live through
this day only, not to tackle my whole life problem at once. I
can do things for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep them up for a lifetime.
Eight. Just for today I will have a program. I will write down what I expect to do every
hour. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it. It
will eliminate two pests, hurrying and indecision. Nine. Just for today I will have a quiet half
hour all by myself and relax. In this half hour sometimes I will
think of God, so as to get a little more perspective into my life.
Ten. Just for today I will be unafraid, especially I will not be afraid to be happy, to enjoy
what is beautiful, to love, and to believe that those
I love, love me.
Milton in his blindness discovered that same truth three hundred years ago.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Napoleon and Helen Keller are perfect illustrations of Milton's statement: Napoleon had everything
men usually crave - glory, power, riches, yet he said at St. Helena: "I have never known
six happy days in my life"; while Helen Keller - blind, deaf,
dumb, declared "I have found life so beautiful." If half a century of living has taught me
anything at all, it has taught me that "Nothing can bring you
peace but yourself."
I am merely trying to repeat what Emerson said so well in the closing words of his essay
on "Self Reliance" "A political victory, a rise in
rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent
friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days
are preparing for you. Do not believe it. It can never be
so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." Epictetus, the great Stoic philosopher, warned
that we ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than about removing
"tumours and abscesses from the body."
Epictetus said that nineteen centuries ago, but modern medicine would back him up. Dr.
G. Canby Robinson declared that four out of five patients
admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital were suffering from conditions brought on in part by emotional
strains and stresses. This was often true even in cases
of organic disturbances. "Eventually," he declared, "these trace back to maladjustments
to life and its problems."
Montaigne, the great French philosopher, adopted these seventeen words as the motto of his
life: "A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as
by his opinion of what happens." And our opinion of
what happens is entirely up to us.
What do I mean? Have I the colossal effrontery to tell you to your face, when you are mowed
down by troubles, and your nerves are sticking out
like wires and curling up at the ends, have I the colossal
effrontery to tell you that, under those conditions, you can change your mental attitude by an
effort of will? Yes, I mean precisely that! And that
is not all. I am going to show you how to do it. It may take a
little effort, but the secret is simple.
William James, who has never been topped in his knowledge of practical psychology, once
made this observation: "Action seems to follow feeling,
but really action and feeling go together; and by
regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly
regulate the feeling, which is not."
In other words, William James tells us that we cannot instantly change our emotions just
by "making up our minds to" but that we can change our
actions. And that when we change our actions, we will
automatically change our feelings.
"Thus," he explains, "The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if your cheerfulness
be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as
if cheerfulness were already there." Does that simple trick work? Try it yourself.
Put a big, broad, honest-to-God smile on your face; throw back your shoulders;
take a good, deep breath; and sing a snatch of
song. If you can't sing, whistle. If you can't whistle, hum. You will quickly discover what
William James was talking about, that it is physically
impossible to remain blue or depressed while you are
acting out the symptoms of being radiantly happy!
This is one of the little basic truths of nature that can easily work miracles in all
our lives.
A man can be concerned about his serious problems and still walk with his chin up and a carnation
in his buttonhole.
I have seen Lowell Thomas do just that. I once had the privilege of being associated
with Lowell Thomas in presenting his famous films on the Allenby-Lawrence campaigns in
World War I. He and his assistants had photographed
the war on half a dozen fronts; and, best of all, had
brought back a pictorial record of T. E. Lawrence and his colourful Arabian army, and a film
record of Allenby's conquest of the Holy Land. His illustrated
talks entitled "With Allenby in Palestine and
Lawrence in Arabia" were a sensation in London, and around the world. The London opera season
was postponed for six weeks so that he could continue
telling his tale of high adventure and showing his
pictures at Covent Garden Royal Opera House. After his sensational success in London came
a triumphant tour of many countries. Then he
spent two years preparing a film record of life in India and
Afghanistan. After a lot of incredibly bad luck, the impossible happened: he found himself
broke in London. I was with him at the time.
I remember we had to eat cheap meals at the Lions Cornerhouse restaurants. We couldn't
have eaten even there if Mr. Thomas had not borrowed money from a Scotsman, James
McBey, the renowned artist. Here is the point of the
story: even when Lowell Thomas was facing huge debts and severe disappointments, he
was concerned, but not worried. He knew that if
he let his reverses get him down, he would be worthless to
everyone, including his creditors. So each morning before he started out, he bought a
flower, put it in his buttonhole, and went swinging down Oxford
Street with his head high and his step spirited. He
thought positive, courageous thoughts and refused to let defeat defeat him. To him,
being licked was all part of the game, the useful training
you had to expect if you wanted to get to the top.
Our mental attitude has an almost unbelievable effect even on our physical powers. The famous
British psychiatrist, J. A. Hadfield, gives a striking illustration of that fact in his
splendid 54 page booklet, The Psychology of Power. "I asked three men,"
he writes, "to submit themselves to test the effect of mental
suggestion on their strength, which was measured by gripping a dynamometer." He told them to
grip the dynamometer with all their might. He had
them do this under three different sets of conditions.
When he tested them under normal waking conditions, their average grip was 101 pounds.
When he tested them after he had hypnotised them and told them that they were very weak,
they could grip only 29 pounds, less than a third of
their normal strength. One of these men was a prize fighter;
and when he was told under hypnosis that he was weak, he remarked that his arm felt "tiny,
just like a baby's".
When Captain Hadfield then tested these men a third time, telling them under hypnosis
that they were very strong, they were able to grip an average
of 142 pounds. When their minds were filled with
positive thoughts of strength, they increased their actual physical powers almost fifty
per cent. Such is the incredible power of our mental
attitude.
I'm deeply convinced that our peace of mind and the joy we get out of living depends not
on where we are, or what we have, or who we are, but
solely upon our mental attitude. Outward conditions have
very little to do with it.
If we want to develop a mental attitude that will bring us peace and happiness, here is
Rule 1: Think and act cheerfully, and you will feel
cheerful.
8 Words That Can Change Your Life. Law of Attraction, Money Magnet, Subconscious Mind
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SHOCKING Ways Nuclear Explosions Can DESTROY Your Body - Duration: 5:20.
Nuclear war.
It's a term that's associated with annihilation, devastation, and perhaps the end of life on
earth.
Modern humankind had never heard about or experienced the horrific aftermath of a nuclear
explosion until the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Now, 70 years later, the world has a combined arsenal of 15,000 nuclear weapons across 9
countries.
The true horror of nuclear explosions is not solely in the instantaneous, or short-term
devastation that it causes, but in the longevity of its impact, which can cause deadly harm
for generations following the blast.
The consequences of a nuclear explosion include radioactive fallout and other environmental
effects; inflicting damage on all life that lasts from milliseconds to decades.
The effects are calculated from the point of explosion, also known as "ground zero".
There is a difference between reactor accidents and a detonation of a nuclear weapon explosion;
nuclear weapons have high concentrations of uranium or plutonium isotopes while nuclear
reactor power plants have very little or none.
At first, the pressure wave, or overpressure, from the explosion radiates outward which
produces sudden changes in the air pressure so strong that it could crush or knock down
objects, and even destroy large buildings.
The intensity of the explosion depends on the height of the burst above ground level.
It has a similar effect to a two-second flash from a huge sunlamp.
Since the thermal radiation travels similarly to the speed of light, the visible light produces
"flash blindness".
With a 1 Megaton bomb people as far away as 24km will be affected (on a clear sunny day).
Flash blindness usually only lasts a few minutes, but When the flash is focused through the
lens of the eye, it will result in permanent retinal damage.
Within minutes of the nuclear explosion.
90% of the fatality will be due to burns from thermal radiation and 10% due to super-lethal
radiation exposure from ionizing radiation.
People can suffer from third-degree burns as far as 8km from the point of explosion!
When 24 percent of the body suffers from a third-degree burn or, when 30 percent of the
body suffers from a second-degree burn, it is possible to suffer from serious shock which
could be fatal without immediate specialized medical assistance.
According to data, a single nuclear weapon explosion could produce more than 10,000 burn
patients.
In the days and weeks following the blast, radiation poisoning will be the most potent
killer.
There are numerous lethal radiation syndromes, including bone marrow death, central nervous
system death, and gastrointestinal death.
Areas of the body particularly susceptible to radiation are Skin (which can experience
blistering, flaking, hair loss), Lungs(which can suffer from occlusion, edema, inflammation
and lead to pulmonary insufficiency and death), ass well as male and female Reproductive organs
(potentially leading to permanent sterility)
Long after the acute effects of radiation have subsided, radiation damage continues
to produce a wide range of complications, depending on the amount of radiation the person
was exposed to.
These effects appear two, three, even ten years later.
According to Japanese data, there was an increase in anemia among persons exposed to the bomb.
In some cases, the decrease in white and red blood cells lasted for up to ten years after
the bombing.
Ionizing radiation above a dose of around 50-100 Millisievert exposure has been shown
to significantly increase the likelihood of dying of cancer due to its mutating effect
on DNA.
A significant correlation between exposure level and degree of incidence has been reported
for leukemia, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, and cancer of the salivary gland.
Often years pass before radiation-caused malignancies appear, like 2 years on average for leukemia
and 10 years for skin and lung cancers.
Beginning in early 1946, scar tissue covering healed burns began to swell and grow abnormally.
Mounds of raised and twisted flesh, called keloids, were found in 50 to 60 percent of
those burned by direct exposure to the heat rays within 1.2 miles of the hypocenter.
There was also an increase in cataract in the survivors at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even
those who were who were partially shielded.
A single nuclear explosion can also harm the population decades into the future!
Exposure to radiation in the first trimester can cause the lifetime risk of fatal cancer
in the child to increase from 25% to 100%!
In 1995, research conducted by Nagasaki doctors found that 7000 of the survivors had a high
incidence of depression or PTSD, 50 years after the bombings.
Scientists estimate that if 100-Hiroshima sized nuclear bombs exploded, tens of millions
of people would die from climate changes alone.
The soot rising into the atmosphere would block out any sunlight for years, leading
us into a nuclear winter where another study estimated would lead to as many as 2 BILLION
people dying of famine.
So there you go.
Those effects came from what humans were capable more than 70 years ago.
Now, with more and more powerful and devastating weapons being constructed and tensions running
high, humankind may be closer than ever to the brink of self-destruction and extinction.
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Salut à tous c'est BoopyHooves et aujourd'hui nous sommes sur une nouvelle vidéo sur amnesia
c'est une custom story qui s'appelle "sealed" et.. allons y, ça fait longtemps que je n'ai pas joué à
Amnesia donc.. j'essaye de trouver des nouvelles CSs, des courtes
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oh hey I don't trust yo u
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Comment je suis censée marcher comme ça?
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Dropping the Hammer - Jack Marshall Can't Do This - Webseries - Episode 13 - Duration: 6:17.
We have a problem.
After the incidents in the last video,
I decided I would run the camera in the library all night to see if I could pick up anything and...
Success!
Well, I'm not happy about it but,
you know what, just take a look.
[muffled footsteps]
It's creepy, right?
Like spine-tingling, hair-raising
I didn't sleep all night once I saw that video kind of creepy.
If that's House on the video, then why is he sneaking around at 2:00 a.m. in the dark?
And if it's not House, who is it?
I think it's time I put on my detective hat.
I don't have a hat, so work with me.
P. I. Jack Marshall on the case.
These are for your friend, you say?
Donni. She's my best friend and my cousin on my mom's side who's - -
- -doesn't matter.
She's on a research expedition in northern Alaska and there's nothing to do up there, so...
I'm not sure why she'd want to know about me.
Well, you, the house, the actual house, the whole situation.
So, you said that you've been working for my aunt for almost five years.
Yes, yes, that's correct.
(O.S.) What's that?
Um, I said how long have you worked for the estate?
About five or six years.
You said there's no heat coming out of here at all?
No, doesn't feel like it, but I haven't used it until now.
You know, since it's getting colder I wanted to get it fixed.
So, what's your typical day like?
Not very interesting, I'm afraid.
I go somewhere. I fix something. Go somewhere else, fix another thing.
It usually involves a trip to the market and uh, the post office and, um...
Sometimes, I just sit in my truck.
So, how many people would you say have business with the estate?
A half a dozen, perhaps.
Really?
The cleaners, the postman - -
The cleaners?
Once a week.
Uh, when would you say they come?
Before you're awake, I'm afraid.
So, how often would you say you're here for maintenance?
(O.S.) Whenever your man calls me. I'm not on a schedule.
After brushing my teeth, I check all the doors and windows in the house, including the cellar.
Generally speaking?
Once, twice a week.
Mr. Morgan, he's here nearly every day of the week.
Is he? Oh, that reminds me.
I found this the other day. You think it's his?
Why, I can't say for sure. I could ask him if you'd like.
Oh, no, no, I got this.
I came across this earlier in the week. Is it yours?
Mine? No. I have my own.
Oh, wow, that's so shiny. It's, just, brand-new.
Well, this must belong to the house then.
I try to be in bed by 10:30 each night but,
if I'm reading an especially good book like Walden - -
- - Oh, you know what, I think we have more than enough.
Nope, yep, we got it.
Heater's back up and running.
You're a miracle worker.
Been fixing things a long time.
I'll bet you have.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out when something's been broken on purpose.
I don't know if I follow.
Been thinking about that brick that came through your kitchen window.
Really?
Someone would have to be awfully close to bust that thing through the glass.
Mm-hmm.
If I were you, I wouldn't feel safe here.
Some might think twice about being a sitting duck.
Well, you're only a sitting duck if you choose to be.
So, thanks for fixing the heater.
Jack.
Okay, so, what did we learn?
The hammer is definitely Morgan's.
The tags are practically still on his new one.
So, is that him on the video?
I don't know, but he definitely caught on to my little stunt with the pipes.
The real question is, what is he looking for?
And House is either clueless or an accomplished liar.
Although I don't know what he would lie about. He's so boring.
And the more people that have access to the house, the harder it is to keep an eye on everybody.
Although at this point I think I trust the faceless cleaning crew more than I trust Morgan or House.
And in the interest of not being a sitting duck,
I think it's time for some upgrades.
This little operation is getting a surveillance package.
Although I do have to figure out how to
install the equipment without being seen.
Something tells me the middle of the night might not be our safest bet.
But, once the cameras are up, I think we'll have a better understanding of who's in the house
and what they're up to.
Or we'll have exclusive access to House's weekly musings on Thoreau.
Win-win?
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Virtual Reality and How it Can Help Your Organization - Duration: 6:51.
On this episode of the vlog we're talking about virtual reality and how it can help your organization today
Now the reality is people think virtual reality is something
that's way out there in the future, but the truth is it's here today.
Now people are consuming virtual reality in their homes you might have been
to a conference or convention or somebody had a booth set up.
So you can begin testing virtual reality today
but the reality is these technologies are moving quickly
and the way you're going to be able to use these tomorrow
is gonna be enhanced by how you begin utilizing today.
So I'm gonna give you three steps you can take today to get started with virtual reality
and actually creating virtual reality content.
So step one is you've got to get a headset. This is one
I paid about $20 for on Amazon
and you can just take your smartphone put it right in here and begin consuming virtual reality content.
It's not that expensive, you can good
just go to Amazon search virtual reality headset
and you'll find one similar to these or maybe the exact same one I had an affordable price.
You don't need to pay more than fifteen or twenty dollars.
Get a virtual reality headset and begin testing it today.
Step two is you need to download some virtual reality apps on your smartphone.
So I have an iPhone and there's lots of apps out there
so if you just search VR in the store, I want to share with you my three
favourite VR apps right here in the iPhone, my first is
the Within app
W I T H I N
search that in the app store
and there's lots of videos that you can begin
downloading from the Within app and really begin seeing some creative uses of virtual reality
right there in your mobile phone the next app that I want to recommend is the Fibrum
Rollercoaster App
F I B R U M
Rollercoaster App
This might seem silly and it kind of is, it's essentially just a virtual roller coaster that you can go on when you're
in your phone with your headset
This is my kids favorite app.
They love to do it almost every night put on the headset go on a virtual roller coaster
It's a lot of fun in virtual reality is made to be that way
When we use media people like engaging in fun activities.
I think we'll just give you a great idea of what's possible
with virtual reality
Now the last app that I want to recommend to you is from my church
Hillsong Church
so if you go to Hillsong
VR in the app store and download that app you could see some of their worship songs that they've created an
experience for in virtual reality. Now I think that the advantage to this app
It's just like many other apps as it gives you different perspectives of
how people are using virtual reality to engage people in creative experiences
So now that you have a way to watch a VR and you've tested a few apps the next step is to begin
Creating VR, so here's the cool thing you can get a stick
Just like this and so this is a little virtual reality camera
you can see as to camera angle, cameras on it that connect not to make a
360 degree videos, this camera is less than $200
There's many options like this out there, and it will connect right into my iPhone.
You can see the little plug in right there.
I can actually
livestream virtual reality from my phone
anytime
anywhere
Now these cameras are great for taking pictures doing videos
but there are no limitations to you being able to create virtual reality content
easily and excessively through your mobile device
I've cut taken videos on this uploaded right to Facebook or uploaded it right to YouTube
and people can now consume
this content in virtual reality, so as you begin to see virtual reality content
engage with it in a very practical way, then you should begin creating content and
finding opportunities to create content.
You know I've done videos like I recorded my daughter's baptism, a lot of people have watched that on YouTube
and I've sent it to family members so they can watch my daughter get baptized and then they can watch
me watch my daughter baptized or watch my wife
watch her get baptized, there are many different experiences
You look at sports, the sports are very popular way that people are using virtual reality that they're watching
the activity and they could watch the scoreboard if they choose to, or they can watch the bench if they want to.
You're choosing your own experience when you watch that video content, so virtual reality is very creative
and then there's the animated time
And that's why I sent you to the Roller Coaster App
because they're animated opportunities, now those are more complex, more complicated
but there are those opportunities to create virtual experiences
utilizing not just a rectangular screen in front of you
but a full scope of what somebody could be viewing as they put on a virtual reality headset.
So the future is wide open, the future is exciting in the future is a virtual reality
and so I hope you'll begin engaging in the future today. I hope this vlog was helpful for you
If you have a great link to a great virtual reality headset or some great apps or some great cameras
I hope you'll link those up. I want to share one last thought before I let you go on this vlog
Facebook made a big deal about virtual reality
at last year's f8 conference, they actually gave everybody a 360 camera
No, I missed it. I was actually checking out the oculus rift headset
I had to go sign up to get it mailed to me later. I moved to New York. I didn't get it
I'm not mad at you Facebook. I'm just disappointed. I'm not really that disappointed. I appreciate the conference
I am a little bummed
but Facebook basically gave everybody a 360 camera because they said people loved
360 videos on Facebook we need more of them we want to encourage you to create more of them
so we're gonna give everybody a camera.
So this tells us that Facebook sees that people like 360 cameras
Facebook has two billion active users over 50% of their content is video.
They know what people want, people want 360 video
I think you need to create it if you weren't already convinced. I hope that helps
They also are investing in oculus rift and creating 360 video cameras themselves
and so I hope you will invest in the same future that Facebook is investing in begin creating content
and then the last thing when it comes to Facebook is that Facebook is also created
this is what I was demoing when I missed getting the camera is Facebook spaces
Facebook spaces is social VR
It's a social experience where people to do virtual reality together. It is very futuristic
it is almost it actually is weird, but it's cool and
More people are going to be doing it in the future. It's a part of the future.
This is going somewhere get started with it today.
Thanks for watching the vlog. I can't wait to comment connect with in the comments.
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Can Indoor Training Lead To Injury? | The GTN Show Ep. 11 - Duration: 15:54.
- Hi, I'm Leanda Cave and you're watching the GTN show.
(uplifting electronic music)
- This is the GTN show, welcome.
With just one big race left to go this season,
we're going to be looking ahead
at the XTERRA World Championships
as well as covering last weekend's racing results.
- We also have news from a recent study
that may change the way that you run on a treadmill,
as well as the GTN Pain Cave, caption competition, and more.
- Well, we're obviously back in the set.
I've just about recovered from my race
and Mark is back in good health, which is cool to see.
- Yeah, we had a fantastic week out in Kona,
we actually got to meet a lot of you out there
which is fantastic, and we got to experience Hawaii
for the first time, the big island
that everyone talks about.
How did you find it?
- Yeah, it was amazing.
I mean, it's one of those things in triathlon
is iconic, and having got to race it
I see why it's so iconic now.
I'm definitely having a bit of a break from training,
and enjoying that and enjoying actually
getting to see a little bit of island
which was cool. - Yeah.
- But, some amazing performances which leads us on
to our weekly poll. - Yeah, I mean,
we were blown away by Patrick Lange's performance.
He's getting ever so close to breaking that eight hour mark
which is why we asked last week,
will the eight hour mark ever be broken by the men?
And we have some results here for you.
- We do, and it was a pretty large percent of you
who said yes, it will, 97% are sure
that it's going to be broken.
And in the comments, actually, it was interesting to see
there were some predictions as to who it might be
and we've yet to see Javier Gomez and Alistair Brownlee
step up to the big distance, but many of you think
they could be the ones to do the sub-eight hour in Kona.
- This week, we are interested to find out
which world title means the most to you guys.
Is it the Ironman World Champion, the Ironman 70.3
World Champion, the ITU World Champion,
XTERRA World Champion, which is coming up this weekend,
or the ITU Long Distance World Champion.
What are you thinking?
- Well, I mean, that's a big choice to go from,
but there's actually even more races out there than that.
We're gonna focus on those, and for me,
two jump out: it's the ITU World Champs or the Ironman
World Champs, and I think I'm slightly biassed
towards Ironman, just cause I've raced that distance.
But outside of my personal experience, I think
it is the longer race, you can't do as many of them
in a season, it's so specialist, that distance.
So yeah, I'm gonna go with Ironman, what about you?
- I can understand that, and we did witness you suffer
for 11 hours out in Hawaii, but no, in all seriousness,
I do think Ironman 70.3 doesn't get enough credit
for actually how tough it is.
It's four hours, flat out, and you see athletes
specialising for that now, but again,
maybe I'm a bit biassed cause that's what I specialised on,
and I've never done an Ironman.
But I did come from ITU racing short distance,
and that is pretty tough as well,
and those guys also go to the Olympics,
they are class athletes.
Yeah, I think my vote lies in the ITU short distance.
- Okay, well, I think we'll have to ask you again
when you've done a full Ironman, Mark.
Well, we'd love to know what your thoughts are,
so do vote in the poll above my head.
- Well, this weekend, we have the final
triathlon world championships of the season,
and all eyes head back to Hawaii
but this time to the island of Maui
for the XTERRA World Champs, and we have
quite a mix of athletes in both the men and women's
pro fields with ITU athletes, Ironman athletes,
Ironman 70.3 athletes, and obviously,
the cross country XTERRA specialists, and Heather,
what's going to happen in the women's race?
- Well, I mean, the one to beat has to be Flora Duffy.
She's the three times winner out there
and she's recently crowned ITU world champion
and she has managed to mix in some mountain bike
training throughout her season, and that's,
you know, what is so key for the XTERRA,
is the skills on the mountain bike.
So, I mean, she's by far the one that everyone's
going to be watching, but Leslie Patterson
could give her a run for her money,
she's gonna be starting there for the eighth time,
and out of seven starts, she's actually had
four second places and two wins,
so pretty consistent on the island.
- I know she was out for a bit cause of lung disease,
isn't it? - I think so.
- Yeah, so, and I've heard she's back strong as well.
- Yeah, so, I mean, she could well be one to at least
push Flora, potentially threaten her.
Also, Laura Philipp, who's been specialising in 70.3
and got the bronze in Chattanooga.
Since then, she's been moving her sights to the XTERRA
and focusing on her mountain biking skills,
so she's one to watch along with Barbara Riveros,
who, the last couple of years, has been injured just before.
She's been on the podium in the past,
so she'll be looking to get back on there for sure.
So it's looking a strong field on the women's side.
What's it look like on the men's?
- Well, we've got the top seven finishers from last year
competing again, so, again, seriously competitive.
And of those seven, we've also got two finishers
from the men's pro field in Kona.
We got Ben Hoffman, who came ninth in Kona
and actually seventh in Maui last year.
Also, we got Braden Currie, who's gonna be
doubling up for the first time.
And actually, he's an XTERRA podium finisher
in the past, but the big name we're looking out for
is the defending champion, Mauricio Mendez,
who has been in incredible shape,
so he's definitely the strong favourite going in.
But we've also got strong cyclist Ruben Ruzafa,
who's actually lead going on to the run
the last four occasions, he's won it in the past
but last year he was actually passed by Mendez
and Ben Allen to finish third, so he's
definitely going to be trying to go for the win.
So a really exciting race for this weekend.
- Another race coming up this weekend
is the Jurien Bay Clouds to Coast Triathlon,
which is not quite an XTERRA, but it's extreme
in it's own way.
- It's certainly unique.
It starts with a skydive, you swim to shore,
bike, and then run.
I'm certainly gonna try and get my entry in
for next year.
- Yeah, I think that's on the bucket list.
- Okay, moving on from sky diving triathlons,
and this study caught our eye.
Let's face it, running can be a little bit
uncomfortable at times, so we sometimes look
for a bit of distraction, and if you're running on the
treadmill, that distraction could be watching TV,
but, apparently, it could be causing you injuries.
- Yeah, you're right.
According to the University of Nottingham Trent
and the University of Valencia,
they have discovered that by running on a treadmill
and looking at something, like a TV in your gym
instead of looking naturally just ahead of you,
changes the position and the style that you're running in,
and it makes you higher, and then apparently you're lifting
your feet higher as a result, and therefore,
more impact on your joints, it's your ankles and knees.
And I mean, that makes sense, but I was also thinking
it was going to just change your body position,
make your more upright, and mean more of a hill stripe,
but I guess both means more impact, so maybe not so good.
- Well, do you think we should tell Lionel Sanders?
- I'll leave you to that one.
- Well, it is an interesting topic because Lionel
just came second at the Ironman World Championships,
and it's quite well known he does pretty much
all his training indoors. - [Heather] That's insane.
- Five to six hour turbo rides, two to three hour
treadmill runs, and he's even got an endless pool now.
- I know, I mean, it's not just him.
Lucy Charles, another second placer at the Ironman
World Champs, and she's a big advocate for indoor training,
so it'll be interesting to see if they have a look
at this research and maybe change
where they position their TV, who knows?
- Yeah, I mean, and they're not alone.
There's a lot of professional triathletes that are
big advocates of the indoor training.
I mean, I guess there's a lot behind
sort of the quality without being disrupted whilst training,
just get on with it really. - Yeah, yeah.
- And Training Peaks have actually just put up
Lionel's power far from the Ironman World Champs,
where he held a normalised power of 313 watts
for over four hours, and then ran off really well.
- That's impressive.
- Yeah, that's enough to sell indoor training to me.
- It is, but we'd love to know what you think
and whether indoor training is for you.
Do leave your comments in the section below.
Last week, we brought you the sad news that
Tim Don and Matt Russell got knocked off their bikes
at the Ironman World Championships in separate incidents.
And at the time, we knew that Tim Don was already
recovering well, but since then, we've heard that
Matt Russell, even though he was rushed to hospital,
he's actually going to be okay
and he's making a speedy recovery.
- Yeah, best wishes to both of them.
But moving on, and actually staying with
the Ironman World Championships, this one is for
the triathlon geeks out there, that includes me.
Every year, some experts in the industry head out to Hawaii
to count all the bike brands and the equipment brands
of the athletes that are competing
in the Ironman World Champs.
- Wow, that's a lot of counting.
That does need quite a lot of patience,
I think I'd leave that one to you, Mark.
- Yeah, to be honest, I think I'd pass as well.
But we do have a lot of results here for you,
so I'm afraid I'm gonna have to grab my laptop for this.
And, can I have a drumroll please, Heather?
- Okay.
- Alright, and with the bike brands, the top bike brand,
for another year running was Cervelo.
And then on the wheels, it was Zipp Wheels again,
for another year running.
Components went to Shimano, pedals, Shimano as well.
Power metres was Quarq, helmets, Rudy Project,
which again, for another year running.
Saddles, ISM, aero bars, Profile Design,
who also got front hydration as well.
And then rear hydration went to Xlab,
as well as frame hydration to Xlab.
- Sounds like we're at the Oscars
as you read out all the winners.
- Well, I enjoyed it, anyway.
And that geeky bit of news concludes our triathlon news.
Okay, now it's time for the caption competition,
and last week we had quite a funny photo of Heather
lying on the tarmac out in Hawaii.
We had some great captions coming in,
to kick things off, here's one from Supernpstr.
Firstly, it said, "Congratulations Heather,
Awesome result, awesome job." - [Heather] Thanks Supernpstr.
- Their caption was, "That's what you call
on the ground reporting."
- I like it, it's a tough one this week.
There's one more, and it is Andrew Tabberer,
who says, "I may be a Kona finisher
but I'm still down to Earth."
Now, Andrew, you do win this week's caption competition
so please send in your details to get your free cap.
- Yeah, just get in touch over Facebook,
but this week's photo from the Ironman 70.3
World Champs was of Gomez on the podium
drinking out of a shoe.
- [Heather] I guess it's one way to make sure
no one steals your drink.
- And we're looking forward to hearing your captions
as well, so please leave them in the comments below.
- And now for comments of the week.
And we've chosen a couple that caught our eye.
The first one is from the video
How to Set Up Your Hydration System, and Matt Dion
says, "I go for chocolate milk between the bars
and hard liquor behind the saddle."
I guess that's a quick way to get your recovery in,
as soon as you finish training, you just
take the chocolate milk out.
- And the hard liquor to numb that pain from the race
or the training? - Each to their own, Mark.
- Yeah, well, on the Triathlon Jargon video,
we had quite a few funny suggestions,
and this one from Stian Pollestad,
he said, "NA: Never Again."
I can definitely relate to that
from some training sessions and races.
- Yeah, I think that's useful, and I might
suggest that to my coach, I can put on
my training programme next time.
- Well, please keep your comments coming in,
and just drop them in the comments below.
- On to race news, and this time of the season
it's a bit quiter and then we've had an added cancellation
from last weekend at New Orleans, the 70.3 there had to be
cancelled due to bad weather, and they couldn't even manage
to shorten the goals, which was a shame.
- Well, we did have Ironman 70.3 in Miami,
and actually Igor Amorelli, who placed 14th
at the Ironman World Champs, was back racing
just a week later, and he exited the swim
with a minute deficit but turned that into a
three minute lead off the bike, and then took the win
with a five minute lead over second.
Second place went to Franz Loeschke,
and then third was Paulo Roberto Maciel.
- Well, on the women's side,
it was Ellie Salthouse, who after several months
out with an injury, she was delighted just to be
back on the start lane, and dominated.
But it was more about consistent performance,
so she was second in each individual discipline,
the swim, the bike, and the run,
which gave her the overall win ahead of
Angela Naeth of Canada and then
Sarah Lewis of Great Britain came third.
- Now for GTN Pain Cave, where we ask you to
send in photos of your own Pain Caves,
and to kick things off, we have one here
from Andrew Griffiths, and he's got his bike set up
on his turbo, and, most importantly, he has a GTN towel.
- [Heather] Most importantly, for sure.
I do like the fact that it's resting on a swivel arm chair,
so whether that's where he'd sit his coach
if he's lucky enough to have his own coach--
- Maybe his wife?
A bit of time spent together whilst he's training.
- That's one way. - Moving on,
something less glamorous, we have one here
from Paul Murphy and, let's be honest,
this is probably something I can relate with.
I have to cram my turbo into a fairly tight space,
so yeah, this shot shows it's not always nice and pretty.
- As long as it's practical.
- He's getting the job done.
- And he's using, I think, could be a freezer
to put his laptop on top of, it's very much improvised,
I like it. - Yeah.
And finally, here's one from Charlie Pennington,
he sent in over Twitter, and we do actually know
Charlie came fifth in Kona at the Ironman World Champs,
so congratulations Charlie. - Yeah, in his age group.
- And we can see why, he's got a very impressive set up.
Projector on the wall, and then another screen.
- And then just quite a few bikes,
showing off with those in the corner there.
- Yeah, and that's only the ones that we can see.
So yeah, fantastic. Please keep your GTN Pain Cave's
coming in over Facebook or over Twitter
using the hashtag #GTNPAINCAVE.
- With the XTERRA World Championships coming up
this weekend, we thought we'd make it a bit of a
mountain biking special for the triathlon zone,
and we've picked out a few of our faves,
including this one from Matt Barton,
which was from the XTERRA Utah and, what's here, Mark?
- Well, it looks like a very clean transition.
In fact, I can't actually see any run shoes,
so perhaps it is a split transition,
T1 and T2 in different locations?
Very clean for an offroad track, but anyway.
And here's one from Doug Hall from the
XTERRA European Champs, he sent this one in over Twitter.
In fact, Doug was actually racing in the Elite race,
and it's a very clean looking bike.
It's a titanium frame, very smart.
- I like it. - Very nice.
And then finally, moving on--
- Oh, this is a little bit different.
It is a mountain bike, but actually,
you probably can spot in the background there are a few
road bikes, so this isn't an XTERRA triathlon
but we thought, as it's mighty fine, we'll give it a shot.
It's Els Kooi and basically very proud of the
rainbow towel, it's all very colourful, that setup.
- Yeah, even a picnic bag.
- I like that.
- So probably not the quickest transition,
just like she's there to make sure she's comfortable
and ready to go, but yeah, please keep your
transition zone photos coming in over Facebook and Twitter.
- Hi, I'm Luke McKenzie, and this is the GTN show.
- So I want to take this opportunity to thank everybody
who left such lovely messages.
Before my race, I had loads of really encouraging
good luck messages wishing me well for the race,
and, to be honest, it did actually help
and I was thinking of all those people
watching it and following it when I was out there,
and then also for the vlog that's just gone out,
there's been some really lovely comments on that,
and do keep them coming if you've not watched it yet.
- Well, that is it for the GTN show.
We're really looking forward to bringing you the results
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