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Okay. Noted. (bubbling) Hi, I'm Clare, and welcome back to my YouTube channel. First if all, I had a poll on last week's video where I asked you what you wanted to see this week, and I know that you all voted to see my dressed as Ariana Grande for a week, but I'm gonna need a little more time to get that video finished. I started the challenge, I guess you could call it, and I realized it's not gonna be a true effort unless I get hair extensions. So, I'm gonna get some hair extensions, and then we're gonna try this again. And I'm gonna dress like Ariana Grande for a full week. So, today, what I have for you is an announcement/story time. As you can tell by the title of this video, I am crowdfunding a book. But the story of The Irish Bucket List, as a book, started almost exactly three years ago. I posted a Vlogmas video in December 2015 where I cataloged myself, very subtly, going to a meeting with the book publisher, which I say in the video "I'm going to a meeting about a book." And then after the meeting, I filmed myself in my car being like "I have no news to share, whatsoever." So, I've just finished my third meeting there, and I have absolutely no news to report, whatsoever. No news, whatsoever. (screams) Real subtle stuff. (sighs) A while later, I posted another video where I called my dad with the good news, and this video was me announcing that The Irish Bucket List, a series that I have had on YouTube for years, is finally going to made into a travel book. (phone rings) Oh dad, come on. - [Clare's Dad] Hello! - Hello, Dad! Yes, Irish Bucket List is actually gonna be a book! - [Clare's Dad] Oh ho! Woo! - Blackwater Press is a small Irish publishing house, family owned and run, that had worked with a number of big Irish Youtubers. They had done Makeup Fairy's book, they had done two books with So Sue Me, and they had done a book, most recently, before I met them, with @sineadycady, TheMakeupChair, who I mentioned in my last video as well if you wanna go check that out. So, the book was to be based on my YouTube series, called The Irish Bucket List, where I traveled around Ireland doing all of the cool things there is to do. We were going to include a hundred different activities in the book. So, I had about a year to write the book. One memory sticks out clearly for me around writing this book. One came as a location tour on a bus that was bringing us to all the different scenes and locations. And on that bus, I was typing my little heart out on my little Chromebook, and then I would get off the bus and shoot footage for my episode that was going to be going up in a week to two.
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I see... He wants you to know what lies ahead... Well let me fill you in. My name, leftenant Hempinstall of the Wicklow militia. My height: 7 foot and able to dangle a man with ease. The exchange of prisoners from here to Australia... ...where you shall carry out your sentence. Some of you will be put to work there. Free or not, the moment you set foot on MY ship... you are under my care and will be treated in a manner that I see fit. Steve: Where have you been? Steve: No you haven't... No you haven't. That's... nope- No you haven't.
You've been here and here.... and here. Steve: Hey. Is that a staircase? Jodi: Yeah. Steve: Oh my God... Disease... hunger and violence. Six long months in these conditions. With little or no fresh air will truly test a person's will. So apparently the Wicklow Gaol (jail) is supposed to be one of the most haunted places in Ireland So if you like that kind of stuff. Paranormal activity and ghosts and stuff you should probably come here. So we just finished our tour of the Wicklow Gaol (jail) and now we're in the cafe and we're going to- Jailer Rest Cafe- and... We're going to get a mini Irish breakfast and the toasty special. What'd you get Steve? Alright, so I got the uh... It's like the toasty special. It has ham and cheese and onion and I think tomato. Yeah. Toasty with just like chips and stuff Coleslaw I guess. I got a mini irish... meal? Steve: Breakfast. Jodi: Breakfast! Mini irish breakfast. It's like a potato thing, egg, bacon or ham? Steve: I think that's the rasher isn't it? Jodi: Oh yeah. Okay. Sausage and beans! and she just brought some toast. Steve: Are you gonna try it? Jodi: I'm gonna try the potato Steve: that's mashed potato I think... Jodi: Potato dumpling... Steve: Delicious. So what'd you think about the jail, Steve? The jail was awesome... Honestly. There were way more exhibits and things inside than I expected. Jodi: Yeah. Steve: I mean I knew it would be fairly big because it was, you know, a big jail but there's only one little section of it that still remained and they packed it with exhibits and different things you walk through. It was actually really cool. Jodi: Very informative. I thought it would take us like 30 minutes to run through it, but no. We were there for a while. Steve: yeah like two hours. and we could have spent a lot more time I mean I think, realistically, you should plan on half a day. You could do that and the whole exhibit inside everything and then the food outside- Er- in the cafe I should say. Jodi: Yeah the cafe is really good. Steve: The cafe is really good as well Definitely worth a stop to the cafe afterwards. The irish breakfast was delicious. Steve: Irish breakfast. And I had a toasted special. It was like a ham and cheese sandwhich with tomato and onion. It was good. It was really good. Yeah overall very happy with our experience at the Wicklow Gaol (jail.) Or how I like to say it the "Wicklow Gull" Jodi: LOL the Wicklow Gull? Steve: Because it's spelled G-A-O-L. James our little... our jailer... Was very uh... Scary. Steve: Scary I know. He was terrifying at first. Jodi: LOL Steve: Like he walked us through at first and it was just- he had like no emotion what-so-ever. He's like "Welcome to your new life in hell." Pretty much. It was fun though, I definitely recommend it for sure. Absolutely. Thank you so much for watching. our adventure at the Wicklow Gull! Gaol (jail). Don't forget to give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it! and I'll leave everyone's links and the Wicklow Gaol's info in the description box down below. if you are interested. Sorry if we're squinting, it's very bright right here. And thank you for being our friends! See you next time! Byyyyyeeee!! We're going to be walking around with the jailer I guess. Hello. I hope we don't get locked up. Good morning guys, so today we're going the historic Wicklow jail which is spelled, what? G-A-O-L (gaol) Steve kept calling it Gowl- goal There's a marathon going right now so we weren't exactly sure where to park. But, hey. Let's go. so we're at the famous historic Wicklow jail. We just arrived and we're going to be walking around with the jailer I guess. Hello? I hope we don't get locked up You're going to start in a cell this size. You will share this with up to 100 people. That's men, women, and children all cramped into a room this size- - No toilet... You'll go on the floor.
The cell is washed once a week if you all behave... We don't want it to be messy for you. One of the visiting inspectors used to call this the gate to hell. It's been there since the very begining, seventeen hundren and two (1702). Every single one of the prisoners have walked through this... and now that includes both of you. One of the more well know prisoners to pass through that was Erskine Childers Senior. His son became the president of Ireland. He would only stay here for a few hours... ... before he went to Dublin for execution. We're going to the cells, take care on the stairs. We wouldn't want any harm to come to our prisoners... Not yet anyway. *SqqquuuuEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKKKK* *THUMP* That's the most ominous door I've ever heard. My name is Mary Morris, Matron of the jail. This area dates to the 1798 rebellion. Each cell has a story so please visit each one. At the back, on the right, there's stairs down into the dungeon. The steps are extremely norrow. So please, be careful. The dungeon is well lit- well worth a visit- and it is the original dungeon. When you come from the dungeon, you take the stairs to your right, here... ... and you follow the blue line. From there you come down to the steps behind me... ...on to the level above us which is the nineteen hundreds (1900's). Our most famous prisoner, was a man called Erskine Childers. He was held here overnight before he was sent to Dublin for execution. A political prisoner in 1922. Many years later his son became President of Ireland. Take your time going around, there's plenty to see. Do stay together- and if you get lost... I'll see you all in the morning... Who are you? ... ever since I've been here. A little from a wealthy family ??? and food. Well? Are ya? I was almost happy when they took me. I was struggling to make ends meet to tell ya' the truth. Father: In the name of the Father, the son and the holy ghost. Ahmen. Father: Hello there. to spread the word of the Lord and efforts to eradicate the spread of our faith as sin. Jodi: The dungeon! This way to HELL! That constable ??? sent you? I see... Well let me fill you in. My height: 7 foot and able to dangle a man with ease. ...where you shall carry out your sentence. Some of you will be put to work there. Free or not, the moment you set foot on MY ship... you are under my care and will be treated in a manner that I see fit. Steve: Where have you been? Steve: Hey. Is that a staircase? Jodi: Oh! Hello... Who are you? What are you doing here? That constable ??? sent you? Essentially glorified theft, which 'yikes.' Now, I'm gonna be honest: according to my calculations one person doing this would not negatively impact the economy one way or the other by all that much. Although, I'm sure you would definitely raise some eyebrows over at the IRS. But if the chaotic windfall of bitcoins has taught us anything Where there's easy money to be made short-sighted people will come rushing from all corners of the globe There's a 100% chance if this money-making scheme were discovered, it would not remain a secret and in order to figure out the economic impact of this move, we're gonna have to figure out how many people are using it across the entire world of Pokemon. Now it's hard to tell exactly how many people would catch wise But we can build an approximation from the very video that outlines this method as of this moment the money making guide by Verlisify has 19 hundred likes on it, which is probably the closest estimate we'll get for folk who are playing Ultra Sun and Moon that are using this method.
Now hold onto your butts because we're gonna use this one number: One thousand, nine hundred... and use it to blow your electrode. So considering that at least 1900 people are presumably using this method to get rich in ultra Sun and Moon, we need to figure out a few things; the population of the various Pokemon regions their gross domestic product or GDP, which is economic shorthand for how much money this country is worth. Although that's a bit reductive and it's incredibly difficult to know for certain how much money is in the world. This is the closest thing to a real number we can use to estimate how big the giant pool of Pokedollars is. The Pokemon canon is comprised of seven major regions- Kanto, Johto Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, and Alola. All of which are based off of real world locations almost to the exact layout Kanto is the Kanto region of Japan, Johto is the Kansai region, Hoenn is the Kyushu and Sinnoh is the Hokkaido region while Unova is New York and New Jersey and Kalos is France and Alola, of course, is Iceland Oncasinogames. I mean - Hawaii. Using the maps we have available, I overlaid them with the various regions our real world they're based on the get estimates of their area, which we can use in conjunction with population densities to get an estimated population Unova was the most difficult since the Hudson hack and saw and the East aren't perfectly aligned with a Unova while Alola was the easiest since I could just copy and paste everything. Given the approximate population densities of each region the Pokemon ones are based on and their square miles and kilometers I determined that Kanto has a population of seven hundred and thirty eight thousand, Johto eight hundred ninety four thousand Hoenn nine hundred and eighty seven thousand Sinnoh 1.3 million, Innova 8.7 million Kalos five hundred forty-seven thousand and Aloha eight hundred ninety seven thousand or a total population of fourteen point one seven million in all the mainstay Pokemon games. Since nineteen hundred people is exactly 0.21% of the population of Alola -and I'm presuming for the sake of simplicity that this percentage of users remains consistent across region- means that in total, there's approximately twenty nine thousand nine hundred ninety, three people using the payday and happy hour amulet Pokemon genocide method of money-making. But we're still not done yet because while this is incredibly helpful in figuring out how much money is being created, it doesn't give us a sense for what the economic impact would be. For that we need to multiply that GDP per capita out of the gross domestic product per person for each person in each region According to the GDP of the respective countries with the United States having the highest GDP PC of fifty seven thousand fifteen dollars and sixty six cents followed by Japan with thirty eight thousand eight hundred eighty nine dollars and seventy six cents and finally France at thirty six thousand eight hundred forty six dollars and four cents, which when multiplied appropriately, gives us a total Pokemon GDP of one point eight trillion poka dollars or seven hundred twenty four billion real-world dollars. Okay, got all that? [confusing bit over] Need a glass of water? I sure as hell do. All right Our giant pool of money for the sake of this video is seven hundred and twenty four billion dollars, but we've got almost thirty thousand people or 0.21% of the population working eight hours a day five days a week to make the most money they possibly can. Which interestingly it's estimated that approximately 0.33 percent of the population is chasing bitcoins. So this number holds up. So let me kick you a scenario. You're the first person to discover this Pokédollar printing press method. You start making your thousands every day, and one day someone is like "Hey, you seem so rich all of a sudden?" and you know, she's your best friend, so you decide what's the harm and telling one person? So you give her the details and keep on going with your business effectively printing your own money and all the while the online forums dedicated to Pokédollar mining are starting to stir. Creepy, scammy companies are starting to form Suddenly, one year later Everyone's joining the Hodl gang. Your secret is out, and now thirty thousand people are murdering psyducks on the daily to increase their Pokemon bank account size so they can creep ever Closer to that elusive Poké-lambo. Presuming that this method prints money instead of say stealing it from old ladies a la teleportation, what does this mean? Inflation. With this many people printing this much money, you've grown from infusing the market with a mere two million four hundred and thirty five thousand two hundred and seventy one dollars and ninety cents a year to a terrifyingly high, seventy five billion nine hundred and sixty four million one hundred and eighty five thousand and eight dollars and 20 cents per year creating -get this- an annual inflation rate of ten point four eight percent. Which is not great A little inflation is a good thing. the United States Federal Reserve tries to keep it hovering at about three percent each year because It encourages spending and growth. Ten point four eight percent though would have a pretty negative impact on the economy. People would want to save money or even borrow money because a hundred dollars that they have in January would be worth eighty nine dollars and fifty cents in December. We know for a fact that inflation like this is bad because it's the rate that our country hovered at during several bad economic crises in the past fifty years. While it likely wouldn't kill people unemployment rates would rise and the government would start investigating why inflation had creeped so high without their input. "What markets are unmonitored and unregulated," they'd be asking. (That's a scam!) And boom suddenly you and your firm of 30,000 people are before a congressional ethics board, sanctions are being imposed and blam! Payday grinding is outlawed. Not the greatest outcome, but it's also by far not the worst. The worst thing that happens here is you, yourself, become the Bernie Madoff or Martin Shkreli of the Pokemon world. They'd write about you in textbooks for business 101 courses about the dangers of arbitrage chasing. It's not great but at least you're still alive and maybe you get a killer book deal out of it. The same, however, cannot be said if payday, instead of acting as a printing press, straight-up steals money from somewhere. And honestly knowing the way the Pokémon world works, this seems far more likely I mean, how is a cat or whatever the hell Smeargle is, a Bob Rossian dog? anyway How are they capable of straight-up making money out of nowhere? The logistics alone of keeping that much metal stored in their bodies for spontaneous Synthesis is troubling. Whereas pokeballs and other Pokemon like Abra, Kadabra and Alakazam have proven that teleportation and casual quantum entanglement abuse is a regular thing in this universe. It makes much more sense that those Pokémon are teleporting money out of local cash registers, safes, banks, and mattresses into their hands to throw at their enemies and holy crap, if this is the case the whole freaking world is screwed Sure at first everything's hunky-dory, but after a few weeks of 30 thousand people effectively stealing money from others the world economy would start to collapse. I mean just for a reference, the top 0.21% of the wealthy in America control a little over 11% of the wealth in the country and Conservatively, it took them like, at least some years to get that wealth- probably decades. It would take the .21% of Pokemon trainers using these moves 282 days. Just 10 months to be at the same level and it would just go up from there. I mean, whatever your political leanings, look out your window, look on Twitter things are you know? Not great right now people are angry some people want to protect their wealth other people want to redistribute the wealth and we're just here you're right here where the top .21% controls 11.37% of the wealth! Can you imagine what it would be like if the .21% controlled, I don't know a quarter of the wealth? Well less than two years into our scenario, that's where we are the Pokémon universe. Half the wealth? Less than three and a half years. By the end of a five year period if this pattern continued to the top .21% of the wealthy in the Pokémon world, would control almost 3/4s of all the money in existence. There would be an unstoppable uprising, probably long before this point. Political inclination would hardly matter because everyone's on the same page when you're starving. Left wing, right wing, they'd all unite under the banner of cutting your freaking head off so they can afford to eat Redistribution of wealth wouldn't even be a political policy issue, it'd be the meaning between life and death for 99.79% of the world population. And once thirty thousand heads rolled, there'd undoubtedly be bloody civil wars as masses of hungry desperate people with different life experiences and ideologies fought over how to distribute this money back to the people. It would be a war with death unlike we've ever seen. It would be devastating, span entire continents and cost the lives of millions of innocents, all because you didn't want to work for an honest living so, sure. Maybe Pokemon training isn't the best living, but it's a hell of a lot better than spending your life in prison or millions of people cheering as your head is chopped off. Be safe. Be responsible. Do not use payday. And, apparently don't be a Pokémon trainer either, just like.. Be one of those dudes who owns a shop selling Pokéballs to ten-year-olds. It's so much safer Sincerely, Austin. I’m a huge supporter of using your free time to study. I think that is a wise thing to do, and I would never discourage anyone from doing so. However, I do know the damage that can come from over-studying. If you work yourself to the bone just to retain information, you are eventually going to explode. This article is written for the overachievers out there that just can’t seem to put the books down. You have to use your break to actually take a break. Here are a few reasons why it may be time to step away from the books long enough to enjoy your time off.
Avoiding a Huge Burnout I used to be a workaholic, more so than I am now. I would literally get two hours a sleep at night just trying to juggle my architecture classes and work load at the same time. Eventually, it all got to be too much for me and just gave up on everything. It has taken me over a year to get back at a steady pace I can be proud of. That is what is known as a burnout my friends, and it is something you definitely want to avoid experiencing in the future. The less stressed you are now, the less likely you are to burnout early on. Resting the Mind If you want to be able to actually study for your courses when the next semester rolls around, you need to let your mind rest. You can only shove so much in there for so long. Eventually you have to pull the plug. By giving your mind a break, you will essentially clear out the storage space to make room for more information. Then you can actually study in the future without getting a major headache the second you look at the books. Take a break for now, and then you can get back to your studies when school starts. Enjoying the Memories As a college student, you likely don’t get to spend much time with your family. That is one of the downsides of being an adult. You just don’t get a chance to make the same memories you made as a child. If you take your break and actually use it the way it is supposed to be used, you will be able to make some of those memories again. You may not make as many as you did when you were a child, but you will have something to look back on. Remembering the Past This is also a good time to look back on holidays in the past and remember all the good times you shared with your family. Most people do not take enough time to reflect on their lives while they are in school because they are too busy focusing on their careers. You should take a break from all that and remember just how great your life used to be. I know this is getting a little on the mushy side, but you would be surprised by how much of a boost you can get from those memories. They may help you do better in the life you are living now. Take this opportunity to truly enjoy the break you have. You don’t get many of them in school, and none of them are as long as the one you have now. By using your time wisely, you will have the best chance at studying well whenever you get back to school. Enjoy the holidays. The happiness is on the house. Even if you are already an established professional in a working environment field or a fresh high school graduate, it will be a fast track approach to the career that you choose. Dreams and ambitions require hard work and discipline and plus immediate action.
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