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    30 Best Pictures of 2017

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    KickFire

    KickFire

    How KickFire Classics Toys Awakens Your Inner Child

    Remember when “fun” was more than pixels, apps, and WiFi? When you were limited only by your imagination, and not by the number of gigabytes on your device? At KickFire Classics, we believe there is nothing quite like classic toys to awaken the inner child in all of us!

    Webster’s Dictionary defines “classic” as: an item judged over time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind. Since video games and electronic devices don’t fit in that definition, we are committed to finding toys from our childhoods that are challenging and exciting enough to capture the attention of today’s youth.

    As parents ourselves, we encourage our kids to experience good ‘ole fashioned fun. Playing outside, and being active are some of our favorite things! On any given day you can find Janelle out biking, longboarding, or in search of a new adventure. Cory is a true outdoorsman and can’t stand being cooped up inside for long periods of time, and Ty is busy entertaining his kids with his ninja-like juggling skills. We don’t have the attention spans to sit through endless hours of TV, video games and movies–we want to be out moving, and want our kids to do the same! So, our passion for fun classic toys from our childhoods was born.

    Recapture the joy of childhood, and fire up your kids passion for activities by introducing them to our line of classic toys! Finally, a line of toys your kids will love and you will understand!

    ‘Despacito’ Is Now the Most Viewed Video in YouTube History

    ‘Despacito’ Is Now the Most Viewed Video in YouTube History

    ‘Despacito’ Is Now the Most Viewed Video in YouTube History

    August 04, 2017

    Only 204 days after first being uploaded to YouTube, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s breakout hit “Despacito” has officially become the most viewed video in YouTube history. And with 3,000,730,629 views and counting, the video today also became the first to reach the once unfathomable 3 billion marker on the platform.

    “Breaking the record for most viewed video of all time on YouTube is truly incredible, not only for me but for Latin music and our culture.” Fonsi explained in a statement. “Working with a platform like YouTube has allowed our song to reach audiences all over the world, something that just a decade ago was nearly impossible.”

    The new record comes less than a month after Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again” took over YouTube’s top spot from PSY, who held the crown for over four and half years with his ubiquitous clip for “Gangnam Style.” And while the previous record holders and other YouTube heavyweights like Justin Bieber – “Sorry,” Mark Ronson – “Uptown Funk” and Major Lazer – “Lean On” have displayed impressive trajectories, nothing quite compares to the unprecedented growth of “Despacito.” Averaging 14.5 million views per day since upload, the video already owned the record for fastest video to 1.5, 2 and 2.5 billion views, reaching each of those milestones in less than 1/2 of the time of the previous record holders. See how other top viewed music videos on YouTube compare to Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s collaborative effort here.

    Today’s numbers are just the latest in a growing list of accomplishments for the international chart topper, which last month became the most liked video on YouTube. The clip is currently the most viewed video of the year in over 40 countries, earning massive numbers in every corner of the world — 385 million views in Mexico, 224 million in Brazil, 146 million in Italy, 85 million in France, 41 million in Indonesia, 33 million in India, 18 million in Israel, 10 million in Egypt, and millions more throughout the globe.

    But Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee are not the only Latin artists currently experiencing a massive growth spurt, with acts like Nicky JamMalumaJ Balvin, and Ozuna each already earning over 1 billion views across YouTube in 2017. Around the world, monthly view counts for top Latin acts have skyrocketed since this time last year, growing 940 percent in Indonesia, 821 percent in the Philippine, 463 percent in India, 284 percent in South Africa, 260 percent in Israel, 270 percent in New Zealand, 237 percent in Turkey, 178 percent in the U.K. and 110 percent in Canada. And as further proof of the explosion, Latin artists make up a full 1/3 of the slots on this week’s YouTube Global Tracks Chart.

    Kevin Meenan, YouTube Music Trends Manager

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    10 Secrets of North Korea

    10 Secrets of North Korea

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    Labor Camps

    Labor Camp
    North Korea currently operates about 16 labor camps—massive compounds scattered across the mountainous terrain and enclosed by electrified barbed wire fences. It’s estimated that somewhere around 200,000 prisoners are held in these camps at any given time.

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    Three Generations Of Punishment

    North Korean law dictates a “three generations of punishment” policy: If you commit a crime, your children and grandchildren will carry the stains of your sin and be punished accordingly. That means that if your grandfather committed a crime, you get to bear the full brunt of his punishment. As mentioned above, this usually leads to entire lives spent inside prison camps. One of the worst offenses that a North Korean can commit is attempting to leave North Korea, which can justify either immediate execution or an extended sentence in one of their labor camps.

    Criticizing the government, no matter how slightly, is also considered a treasonous offense. Simply learning about other cultures warrants a death sentence. Recent smuggling between the border of North Korea and China has allowed some people to get DVDs of Western movies—which are illegal. The North Korean National Security Agency has begun raiding villages in the north of the country by shutting off the electricity to a whole village then storming into houses and checking which DVDs are stuck in the DVD player.

    8

    Insurance Fraud

    Insurance Fraud

    The North Korean economy is, in all measurable aspects, completely failing. Exports are virtually nonexistent due to their reluctance to interact with foreign markets, as well as the fact that they struggle to feed everyone living within their own borders. The current population of North Korea is about 25 million, and the average GDP per person is about $500 (for comparison, in the US it hovers around $50,000).

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    Arms Dealing

    Replicas of a North Korean Scud-B missil

    Insurance fraud aside, the United Nations has also accused North Korea of selling illegal weapons and nuclear technology to the highest bidder, which usually means countries in Africa and the Middle East. For example, in 2012, the UN seized a North Korean shipment heading to Syria which contained nearly 450 graphite cylinders meant for use in ballistic missiles. In 2009, shipments to both Iran and the Republic of Congo were caught in transit—one had 35 tons of missile components, and the other contained Soviet-era tanks.

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    Electricity

    north korea satellite nasa lights OLD

    The capital city of North Korea, Pyongyang, is something of a self-styled utopia reserved for the population’s elite. Armed guards patrol the borders to keep the lower classes from entering, and most of the residents of Pyongyang live in something approaching luxury—with a given value of “luxury” (maybe they don’t get enough food, but they at least get more than everyone else in the country). Yet even the three million upper-class citizens aren’t given electricity for more than an hour or two a day.

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    Three-Caste System

    North Korea Kim Jong Il

    In 1957, when Kim Il Sung was struggling to retain control over North Korea, he launched a massive investigation into the populace of the country. The end result of that investigation was a completely changed social system that separated everybody into three classes: “hostiles,” “wavering,” and “core.” The designations were based not on the person, but on their family history.

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    Human Feces Fertilizer

    Fertilizer

    North Korea’s geography is mountainous and arid, with long, frigid winters and short, monsoon-filled summers. About 80 percent of the country is located either on the side of a mountain or at the top of one, which means most of the land is terrible for farming. Historically, North Korea has always relied on foreign aid to get the fertilizers it needs: The Soviet Union gave them fertilizer before it collapsed, and until recently, South Korea was sending them 500,000 tons of fertilizer each year to help boost food production.

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    South Korean Citizenship

    Citizen

    To put it simply, there are so many people fleeing North Korea that there’s nowhere for all of them to go. China’s official policy is to send them back across the border. There they are either executed or consigned to a labor camp for decades of brutal work that usually turns out to be just as effective as any death penalty. Only South Korea maintains a policy of near-absolute clemency: All North Korean defectors (who aren’t criminals) are immediately provided with citizenship, job training, and for those who need it, psychological counseling. They’re also given a place to live and $800 a month. As an incentive for businesses, the South Korean government offers a bonus of $1,800 to anyone who will hire a refugee.

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    Cannibalism

    North Kore Hunger

    A crippling famine struck North Korea between 1994 and 1998. Widespread flooding left most of the farm land unusable. When that was combined with an ever-increasing debt to the Soviet Union that prevented any importing of food, entire cities drifted into a twilight of death. It’s estimated that close to 3.5 million people died of starvation during that time—more than 10 percent of the population.

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    Torture Prisons

    To date, very few people have escaped from North Korea’s labor camps and lived to tell the tale. And of these refugees, only one known person has escaped from the dreaded Camp 14, widely considered to be the most brutal labor camp in the country and reserved for only the most serious political criminals. That person was Shin Dong-hyuk, whose story is told in the incredible book Escape From Camp 14.

    Mimosa Memory

    Mimosa Memory

    Do Mimosa’s have memories? Some experts believe so. Mimosas have the ability to move their leaves when encountering outside influences. Watch the video below to see the plants in action.

    Mimosa is a genus of about 400 species of herbs and shrubs. The generic name is derived from the Greek word μιμος meaning, an “actor” or “mime,” suggesting its ‘sensitive leaves’ which seem to ‘mimic conscious life’.

    Members of this genus are among the few plants capable of rapid movement. The leaves of the Mimosa close quickly when touched. Some mimosas raise their leaves in the day and lower them at night, and experiments done by Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan on mimosas in 1729 provided the first evidence of biological clocks. Reference Wikipedia

    Sheriff Shaq

    Sheriff Shaq

    Shaq Says He’ll Run For Sheriff In Henry County In 2020

    ATLANTA, GA — Retired basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal has made it into the record books in high school, college and in the NBA, but he is poised to add yet another badge to his illustrious career: Sheriff of Henry County.

    Shaq owns a home in Henry, about 20 minutes from Atlanta, and he said earlier this year that top cop was the next job for him, it was just a question of where.

    O’Neal left no doubts this week when he told the Washington Post that he plans to run for sheriff in Henry in 2020. Some thought he’d pick a place closer to his job. Shaq works in Midtown at TNT studios as an NBA analyst.

    “I don’t think I could be sheriff in Florida and work in Atlanta,” he told the Post. “So I bought a house in Atlanta, and I’m going to be in Atlanta full time, so it’s like, let me try here first, and maybe when it’s all said and done, I could go back and be the sheriff in Florida.”

    No word yet on whether current Henry Sheriff Keith McBrayer will challenge the 7-footer.

    Image via Kevork Djansezian / Staff / Getty Images Sport

    Moments

    Moments

    Moments

    By Jonathan Woodward

    This ebook is dedicated to my nephew Jonas Michael who in The Moment of his birth changed all our lives forever.

    You can trace your entire life back to one moment. Back to a decision that you made or a choice that you decided to make in a given moment. Tony Robbins the self acclaimed motivational speaker once said that we make life changes in a moment.

    Moments change our lives every day. We decide to change direction in a moment. We decide to make a difference in our lives, whether that decision is a health choice to lose weight and get healthier or change jobs.

    If you look back over your life you will notice that it is moments that you remember. You do not remember the entire time you were in a particular situation but you will always remember the moments. It is in those seconds and moments that life is changed.

    When we realize that it is in the moments that our lives are changed, we start looking for those moments to change our lives.

    Thank you for your interest Full release date August 14th 2017.

    Eastern tiger swallowtail enjoying its tulip tree.

    Eastern tiger swallowtail enjoying its tulip tree.

    Turn on the volume. This is not sped up. Eastern tiger swallowtail enjoying its tulip tree.

    Papilio glaucus, the eastern tiger swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly native to eastern North America. It is one of the most familiar butterflies in the eastern United States,[3] where it is common in many different habitats. It has also been found in Olüdeniz, Turkey. It flies from spring to fall, during which it produces two to three broods. Adults feed on the nectar of many species of flowers, mostly from those of the ApocynaceaeAsteraceae, and Fabaceae families. P. glaucus has a wingspan measuring 7.9 to 14 cm (3.1 to 5.5 in). The male is yellow with four black “tiger stripes” on each forewing. Females may be either yellow or black, making them dimorphic. The yellow morph is similar to the male, but with a conspicuous band of blue spots along the hindwing, while the dark morph is almost completely black.

    The green eggs are laid singly on plants of the Magnoliaceae and Rosaceae families. Young caterpillars are brown and white; older ones are green with two black, yellow, and blue eyespots on the thorax. The caterpillar will turn brown prior to pupating. It will reach a length of 5.5 centimetres (2.2 in). The chrysalis varies from a whitish color to dark brown. Hibernation occurs in this stage in locations with cold winter months.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_glaucus

    The next predicted appearance of Halley’s Comet is 28 July 2061. How old will you be?

    Halley’s Comet

    or Comet Halley, officially designated 1P/Halley,[3] is a short-period comet visible from Earth every 74–79 years.[3][10][11][12] Halley is the only known short-period comet that is regularly visible to the naked eyefrom Earth, and the only naked-eye comet that might appear twice in a human lifetime.[13] Halley last appeared in the inner parts of the Solar System in 1986 and will next appear in mid-2061.[14]

    Halley’s returns to the inner Solar System have been observed and recorded by astronomers since at least 240 BC. Clear records of the comet’s appearances were made by ChineseBabylonian, and medieval Europeanchroniclers, but were not recognized as reappearances of the same object at the time. The comet’s periodicity was first determined in 1705 by English astronomer Edmond Halley, after whom it is now named.

    During its 1986 apparition, Halley’s Comet became the first comet to be observed in detail by spacecraft, providing the first observational data on the structure of a comet nucleus and the mechanism of coma and tailformation.[15][16] These observations supported a number of longstanding hypotheses about comet construction, particularly Fred Whipple‘s “dirty snowball” model, which correctly predicted that Halley would be composed of a mixture of volatile ices – such as watercarbon dioxide, and ammonia – and dust. The missions also provided data that substantially reformed and reconfigured these ideas; for instance, it is now understood that the surface of Halley is largely composed of dusty, non-volatile materials, and that only a small portion of it is icy.

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    Halley’s Comet on 8 March 1986
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