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1. Amazing Ravens
2. Anne Frank Biography
3. Appearances TED talk Cameron Russell
4. Friends: The one where Phoebe argues with
Ross about evolution
5. Friends Joey Finds out
6. Friends Rachel wants to see me
7. House part 1 The making of
8. House part 2 The making of
9. How wolves change rivers
10. Interview Rihianna
11. Kevin Richardson part of the pride
12. Man’s best friend 17 foot crocodile
13. Simpsons Cranberry sauce
14. Simpsons fat guy hat
15. Simpsons illegal cable
16. Simpsons Trapped in a vending machine
17. TED Talks What FACEBOOK And GOOGLE
Are Hiding From The World
18. The official wedding toast
19. The one with the rumour
20. The secret life of cats
21. Tory island dog who swims with dolphins
22. Trash diving - finding food in the trash
23. Try something new in 30 days
1: Amazing Ravens

In an Essex garden Anthony Bloom demonstrates what seems to be astonishing cleverness with a
fiendishly complex test for his three ravens.

They belong to a group of birds called corvids which comparatively have the largest brains of any
birds. In one of Aesop's fables a thirsty crow dropped stones into a pitcher to raise the water level
high enough for it to drink.

Anthony's water filled test is very similar, except it involves a float containing the bird’s favorite
food: mince steak, but to get at this reward the ravens will have to drop these stones into the left
hand tube, every stone they drop will raise the water a little higher and what’s more, the stones are
hidden around the garden. They're going to need six in total.

The ravens show great frustration not being able to get the food which they can clearly see through
the Perspex, but they're using this frustration to push themselves onto the next stage. Before long
the ravens are searching the garden for the stones, dropping them in one by one.

No! Still can't reach it, one stone is definitely not enough. It's going to take a bit more effort than
that. It looks like they're acting cooperatively but in fact each one is acting independently, eager to
get the food reward for itself.

It's almost a race between them to see who can finish the test first.

Just one more and they've got it.

And just to prove that there's no camera trickery involved, here's the whole thing again in a single
shot.

Given their large brains we would expect ravens to be intelligent but Anthony has trained them to
do all this, whether given time they would have worked it out for themselves who knows?

2: Anne Frank Biography

August 4th 1944 in a house on the Princeton craft in Amsterdam eight people in hiding are arrested
one of them is Anne Frank.

Anne Frank is born in 1929 in Germany her parents are Otto and Edith and she has one sister
Margot the Frank family is Jewish

The economic crisis is causing a lot of social unrest in Germany resulting in the rise of Adolf Hitler's
Nazi Party in 1933 the Nazis come into power and discrimination against the Jews increases.
Otto and Edith worry about the rise of the Nazi Party they decide to move to the

Netherlands Margot and Anne also arrive in Amsterdam in Amsterdam and attends

the Montessori School her two best friends are Sunne and homily

but then in May 1940 the German army invades the Netherlands the Nazis occupy

large parts of Europe and start to discriminate against Jews everywhere

Anne and Margot have to switch to separate Jewish schools one restriction

is followed by another for her 13th birthday and receives a diary this diary

will become very important to her suddenly on the 5th of July 1942 the

letter arrives ordering Margot to leave for an NAZI labor camp Otto and Edith have

made secret preparations to go into hiding where we'll be going to hiding

Anne wonders one of the first things she packs is her diary wearing as many

clothes as possible the Frank family leave their house the hiding place is the annex at the office of
Anne's father Otto and dad tidy up the annex and brightest up her room by sticking images

to the wall the people in hiding are helped by fit to Kugler Johannes climber

meep peace and depth Oscar who all work in Otto's company the Frank family is soon

joined by three other people Herman and August compels and their son Peter and

also welcomes Fritz pepper Fritz brings bad news all those deportations in her diary Anne writes

about life in the annex about the arguments which can be fierce particularly between her and her
mother and also with fritz there are never-ending disagreements Anne writes of her nightmares and
the fear of all in the annex to be discovered in their second year of hiding Ann and

Peter fall in love on the 4th of august something terrible happens they have been betrayed they are
arrested

3: Appearances TED talk Cameron Russell

Hi. My name is Cameron Russell, and for the last little while I've been a model. Actually, for 10 years.
And I feel like there's an uncomfortable tension in the room right now because I should not have
worn this dress. (Laughter)
So luckily I brought an outfit change. This is the first outfit change on the TED stage, so you guys are
pretty lucky to witness it, I think. If some of the women were really horrified when I came out, you
don't have to tell me now, but I'll find out later on Twitter. (Laughter)

I'd also note that I'm quite privileged to be able to transform what you think of me in a very brief 10
seconds. Not everybody gets to do that. These heels are very uncomfortable, so good thing I wasn't
going to wear them. The worst part is putting this sweater over my head, because that's when you'll
all laugh at me, so don't do anything while it's over my head. All right.So why did I do that? That was
awkward. Well, hopefully not as awkward as that picture. Image is powerful, but also image is
superficial. I just totally transformed what you thought of me in six seconds. And in this picture, I had
actually never had a boyfriend in real life. I was totally uncomfortable, and the photographer was
telling me to arch my back and put my hand in that guy's hair. And of course, barring surgery, or the
fake tan that I got two days ago for work, there's very little that we can do to transform how we
look, and how we look, though it is superficial and immutable, has a huge impact on our lives.

So today, for me, being fearless means being honest. And I am on this stage because I am a model. I
am on this stage because I am a pretty, white woman, and in my industry we call that a sexy girl. And
I'm going to answer the questions that people always ask me, but with an honest twist.

So the first question is, how do you become a model? And I always just say, "Oh, I was scouted," but
that means nothing. The real way that I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I am the
recipient of a legacy, and maybe you're wondering what is a legacy. Well, for the past few centuries
we have defined beauty not just as health and youth and symmetry that we're biologically
programmed to admire, but also as tall, slender figures, and femininity and white skin. And this is a
legacy that was built for me, and it's a legacy that I've been cashing out on. And I know there are
people in the audience who are skeptical at this point, and maybe there are some fashionistas who
are, like, "Wait. Naomi. Tyra. Joan Smalls. Liu Wen." And first, I commend you on your model
knowledge. Very impressive. (Laughter) But unfortunately I have to inform you that in 2007, a very
inspired NYU Ph.D. student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired,
and of the 677 models that were hired, only 27, or less than four percent, were non-white.

The next question people always ask me is, "Can I be a model when I grow up?" And the first answer
is, "I don't know, they don't put me in charge of that." But the second answer, and what I really want
to say to these little girls is, "Why? You know? You can be anything. You could be the President of
the United States, or the inventor of the next Internet, or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which
would be awesome, because you'd be the first one." (Laughter) If, after this amazing list, they still
are like, "No, no, Cameron, I want to be a model," well then I say, "Be my boss." Because I'm not in
charge of anything, and you could be the editor in chief of American Vogue or the CEO of H&M, or
the next Steven Meisel. Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that
you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control, and it's awesome, and it's
not a career path. I will demonstrate for you now 10 years of accumulated model knowledge,
because unlike cardio-thoracic surgeons, it can just be distilled right into -- right now. So if the
photographer is right there and the light is right there, like a nice HMI, and the client says,
"Cameron, we want a walking shot," well then this leg goes first, nice and long, this arm goes back,
this arm goes forward, the head is at three quarters, and you just go back and forth, just do that, and
then you look back at your imaginary friends, 300, 400, 500 times. (Laughter) It will look something
like this. (Laughter) Hopefully less awkward than that one in the middle. That was, I don't know what
happened there.

Unfortunately after you've gone to school, and you have a résumé and you've done a few jobs, you
can't say anything anymore, so if you say you want to be the President of the United States, but your
résumé reads, "Underwear Model: 10 years," people give you a funny look.

The next question people always ask me is, "Do they retouch all the photos?" And yeah, they pretty
much retouch all the photos, but that is only a small component of what's happening. This picture is
the very first picture that I ever took, and it's also the very first time that I had worn a bikini, and I
didn't even have my period yet. I know we're getting personal, but I was a young girl. This is what I
looked like with my grandma just a few months earlier. Here's me on the same day as this shoot. My
friend got to come with me. Here's me at a slumber party a few days before I shot French Vogue.
Here's me on the soccer team and in V Magazine. And here's me today. And I hope what you're
seeing is that these pictures are not pictures of me. They are constructions, and they are
constructions by a group of professionals, by hairstylists and makeup artists and photographers and
stylists and all of their assistants and pre-production and post-production, and they build this. That's
not me.

Okay, so the next question people always ask me is, "Do you get free stuff?" I do have too many 8-
inch heels which I never get to wear, except for earlier, but the free stuff that I get is the free stuff
that I get in real life, and that's what we don't like to talk about. I grew up in Cambridge, and one
time I went into a store and I forgot my money and they gave me the dress for free. When I was a
teenager, I was driving with my friend who was an awful driver and she ran a red and of course, we
got pulled over, and all it took was a "Sorry, officer," and we were on our way. And I got these free
things because of how I look, not who I am, and there are people paying a cost for how they look
and not who they are. I live in New York, and last year, of the 140,000 teenagers that were stopped
and frisked, 86 percent of them were black and Latino, and most of them were young men. And
there are only 177,000 young black and Latino men in New York, so for them, it's not a question of,
"Will I get stopped?" but "How many times will I get stopped? When will I get stopped?" When I was
researching this talk, I found out that of the 13-year-old girls in the United States, 53 percent don't
like their bodies, and that number goes to 78 percent by the time that they're 17.

So the last question people ask me is, "What is it like to be a model?" And I think the answer that
they're looking for is, "If you are a little bit skinnier and you have shinier hair, you will be so happy
and fabulous." And when we're backstage, we give an answer that maybe makes it seem like that.
We say, "It's really amazing to travel, and it's amazing to get to work with creative, inspired,
passionate people." And those things are true, but they're only one half of the story, because the
thing that we never say on camera, that I have never said on camera, is, "I am insecure." And I'm
insecure because I have to think about what I look like every day. And if you ever are wondering, "If I
have thinner thighs and shinier hair, will I be happier?" you just need to meet a group of models,
because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the
most physically insecure women probably on the planet.

So when I was writing this talk, I found it very difficult to strike an honest balance, because on the
one hand, I felt very uncomfortable to come out here and say, "Look I've received all these benefits
from a deck stacked in my favor," and it also felt really uncomfortable to follow that up with, "and it
doesn't always make me happy." But mostly it was difficult to unpack a legacy of gender and racial
oppression when I am one of the biggest beneficiaries. But I'm also happy and honored to be up
here and I think that it's great that I got to come before 10 or 20 or 30 years had passed and I'd had
more agency in my career, because maybe then I wouldn't tell the story of how I got my first job, or
maybe I wouldn't tell the story of how I paid for college, which seems so important right now.

If there's a takeaway to this talk, I hope it's that we all feel more comfortable acknowledging the
power of image in our perceived successes and our perceived failures.

4: Friends: The one where Phoebe argues with Ross about evolution

It's very faint but I can still sense him in the building.

Go into the light Mr.heckels!

ok Pheobe.

I'm sorry but sometimes they need help.

Here we go!

Thats fine go ahead and scoff, you know there's a lot of things out there that I don't believe in but
that doesn't mean that they're not true.

Such as?

Like crop circles or the Bermuda triangle, or evolution.

Whoa Whoa woo...

You don't uh.. you don't believe in evolution?

Nah not really.

You don't believe in evolution?

I don't know it's just you know monkeys, Darwin and you know it's a nice story I just think that it's a
little too easy.

Too easy? Too!? the process of every living thing on this planet evolving over of millions of years
from single celled organisms, is, is too easy?

Yeah I just don't buy it.

Ah excuse me, evolution is not for you to buy Phoebe, Evolution is scientific fact. Like like the air we
breathe, like gravity.

Oh, ok don't get me started on gravity.

You, you don't believe in gravity,

It's not so much that I don't believe in it, it's just you know, I don't know, lately I get the feeling that,
I'm not so much being pulled down as I'm being pushed.

Uh oh It's Isaac newton and he's pissed!

How can you not believe in evolution?

I dunno, just don't. Look at this funky shirt!

Phoeebes I've studied evolution my entire adult life ok and I can tell you we have collected fossils
from all over the world that actually show the evolution of different species, ok I mean you can
literally see them evolving through time.

Really? you can actually see it?

you bet in uh uh in the U.S, China, Africa, all over.

See I didn't know that.

Well there you go.

So now the real question is, who put those fossils there and why?

ok Pheebs see how I'm making these little toys move, opposable thumbs, without evolution how do
you explain opposable thumbs.

Maybe the overlords needed them to steer their space-crafts.

Please tell me you're joking.

look, can we just say that you believe in something and I don't.

No no, no Pheebs we can't

Why not? what is this obsessive need you have to make everybody agree with you?

no What's that all about? you know what I think it's maybe you put Ross under the micro scope

Is there blood coming out of my ears?

Uh ho it's scary scientist man!

Ok Phoebe this is it, in this briefcase I carry actual scientific facts, a briefcase of facts if you will.

Some of these fossils are over 200 million years old.

Ok look before you even start I'm not denying evolution ok, I'm just saying it's one of the
possibilities.

It's the only possibility.

Ross could you just like open your mind like this much?

Now wasn't there a time when the brightest minds in the world believed that the earth was flat. And
up until like what fifty years ago you all thought the atom was the smallest thing, until you like split it
open and like this whole mess of crap came out.

Now are you telling me that you are so unbelievably arrogant, that you can't admit that there's a
teeny tiny possibility, that you could be wrong about this?

There might be a teeny, tiny, possibility.

I can't believe you caved!

What?

You just abandoned your whole belief system, before I didn't agree with you but at least I respected
you.

How are you going to go into work tomorrow, how are you going to face the other science guys?
How? how are you going to face yourself?

That was fun, so who's hungry?

I am!

5: Friends Joey Finds out

Hey

Hey, Mr.Bing. That uh hotel you stayed at called, said someone left an eyelash curler in your room.

Yes that was mine.

Coz I figure you hooked up with some girl and she left it there.

Yes, that would have made more sense

Hey rach, can I borrow your eyelash curler. I think I lost mine,

Yeah it's in the back.

Joey can I talk to you for a second? Whoa!

Yes, Yes...

you and you?!

Yes, but you can not tell anyone, no one knows.

You can’t tell any one

How? when?

It happened in London.

To happen

IN LONDON?!

The reason we didn't tell anyone was because we didn't want to make a big deal out of it.

But it is a big deal. I have to tell someone.

No! No !

You can't please please! we just don't want to deal with telling everyone ok.

Just promise you won't tell.

All right.

Man this is unbelievable!

I mean it's great but.

I know it's great!

Ah I don't want to see that!

We're so stupid.

do you know what’s going on in there?

They're trying to take joey!

6: Friends Rachel wants to see me

I hate this woman!

I hate her! she told everybody about that infomercial and now they all keep asking me to open their
drinks. Ok and whenever I can't do it, they're all like laughing at me.

Hello. Hey

So Rachael called, wants to see me, going over in a minute.

Wow, what do you think she wants?

Well maybe the crazy fog has lifted and she realizes that life without me sucks!

Possible, you are a very lovable, I'd miss you if I broke up with you. Just trying to be supportive.

Be supportive like a guy.

If I broke up with you I'd miss you!

Hi!, Hi.

you eh wanted to see me?

Yeah, uh here's a box of your stuff.

What? you it's just like hats and shirt and Cd's just sort of stuff that you've left here.

What are you doing are you trying to hurt me or something?

No, Ross, it just seems that you know it's time we you know moved on, I mean don't you think?

yes, yeah Yes I do I really do.

Hey, This was a gift.

Ross you got that for free from the museum gift shop.

It's still a gift, I got it from the gift shop!

ok alright give me the mug I'll keep the mug.

no! you know don't do me any favours! In fact where's the rest of my stuff? like my uh, Hey ! this
book is mine! and and that t-shirt you sleep in, I'd like that back too yes I do!

you know how much I love that t-shirt, you never even wear that t-shirt.

I'm just trying to help you move on.

Oh you are a petty man, you are a petty, petty petty small. you are so just doing this out of spite.

Oh no I'm gonna wear this all the time, I love this shirt.

You have not worn that t-shirt since you were fifteen, it doesn't even fit you anymore.

Yeah yeah yeah..

ok ok, if you don't mind I'm gonna take the rest of my stuff and relax in my favourite shirt, you have
a pleasant evening.

7: House part 1 The making of

How we were going to handle that.

My resignation letter.

House just doing interviews sounded entertaining for about the first forty five seconds and it just
suddenly struck me.

Who is this man?

We could do what these reality shows do and most tv shows you can't but character that allowed us
to do it.

I'm not going to fire you every time you get a wrong answer.

Neville Chamberlain.

You're fired!

That guy who wouldn't just interview thirty people and hire three of them, He'd hire thirty people
and fire twenty seven of them.
Row D, you're fired.

How many of you think that Oswald acted alone?

If by alone you mean that he was unaware of the CIA.

Oh shut up!

The survivor angle from my point of view, selfishly, which is how I think, em was pretty harrowing
actually because I was essentially having to perform to a live audience, not a big one but forty. It was
a live audience every day and one of the supposed advantages of doing a single camera drama is
that you're spared the pressure of a live audience, and there was I having to act everyday imagining
of course that they were all sitting there with their arms folded thinking, is that the best he can do?

Thank you all for coming to tribal council.

For the other actors it’s actually incredibly similar to an actor's usual experience, there were forty
actors going for three roles, that's the actor's lot, for all I know forty different people to play house
em but they only came up with one unless they've got two more waiting in the wings which would
be great.

You didn't tell him I was coming back? She did, I said no.

When you're extended job interview slash reality tv show killed a patient you lost your veto power.
Everybody this is Dr. Foreman he will.. Does this mean there's one less slot for us?

In our initial conception we were going to find two new candidates and have foreman rejoin the
team as he does now, you know and as evidence of how we fell in love with so many people, we
have three candidates and foreman, one of the reasons why we didn't set out to increase that sort
of core group is that in terms of shooting time to accommodate more actors in those differential
diagnosis scenes actually takes longer we were not looking to do that, make things more
complicated.

It takes eight days or nine days to shoot an episode and two months to write an episode so at the
beginning of the season we have two months and then it gets shorter and shorter and by the end of
the season we're usually scrambling you know it helps to have a large staff and almost everybody's
been on the show for a few years so it's a pretty experienced staff too which is helpful em otherwise
we'd really be in trouble.

Fever, non-responsive to anti biotics, fluctuating consciousness, GO!

The hardest part is the medicine. It's the medical stories. Yeah

can't figure out immediately and that's the beginning , and we don't know anything about medicine.

They usually come to us after they've been to four doctors and no one can figure out what it is, so
they've had all the normal testing
8: House part 2 the making of

What was hard and we’re just sort of I think hitting a good place with it was

How to incorporate Chase and Foreman.

Synthesia Heart attack raises red blood cell, causes masses on the organs

And this season when Chase makes his entrance and he’s the one on the top of OR who gives the
diagnosis, it sort of to me seemed the boy become a man.

This is a closed procedure, gallery is off limits.

Not to the surgical staff.

What I love about when I see our old cast in this new season, they have more gravity and they seem
to have more weight. New candidates.

There’s still sort of you know a respect that Chase has for House’s process and so he does get
dragged back into it occasionally . more sort of um. On the outside looking in,

Which is great because, it’s sort of more, you I’m viewing it now , I’m sort of watching the process
instead of being continually frustrated as I’m sure the new team have been.

I’m kinda jealous of you guys because you guys are wearing sweatpants and like sneakers.

You’re an idiot.

The hair where I’m working or both?

The hair makes you look like a hooker, I like it.

It is sort of nice that a lot of the work, I’m doing now as Cameron is a little bit more one on one
instead with a huge group and with a patient but then at the same time I do sort of miss the group
dynamic of you know Omar, Jessie and I spent three years, spending so much time together, that
everytime we sort pass each other, we’re like Oh ! how are you!? It’s like we’re sort of we feel like
little lost puppies or something you know without the three of us together.
We just like to go to the writers room and sit there and distract everyone for a while.

Oh I don’t, the last thing I ever want to do is work. I’m the least ambitious man I’ve ever met in my
life. I don’t want to work at all and when I read the scripts now I like, the less I’m in the better for me
and coz I love sleeping and reading and not pretending I’m someone else with make up on my face.

Episode fifteen of this season is one of the best episodes I’ve ever read of

It was really an extraordinary episode daring in a lot of ways. I actually take all my clothes off

Not all!

Well down to only my panties.

That’s a sad state of affairs when that’s the most interesting thing that’s happened to your character

You’re antisocial so you assume I’m antisocial.

How about if I just get naked and you shut up?

If I thought I could get you naked I would have led with that.

There was a tingle of warmth in that for House, but then again that makes him uncomfortable.
House is a creature of habit and I think that sudden prospect of human contact, nice though it was
was at the same time rather disconcerting. That means change, that means looking at things
differently, that means re-examining how I live, I House, I’m not House I’m an actor that plays
House. Thank you Have to emphasize that .

Take them off like you should have solved the case days ago.

But you don’t care about it

Of course not, House doesn’t care about anyone

9: HOW WOLVES CHANGE RIVERS

One of the most exciting scientific findings of the past half century has been the discovery of
widespread trophic cascades. A trophic cascade is an ecological process which starts at the top of
the food chain and tumbles all the way down to the bottom, and the classic example is what
happened in the Yellowstone National Park in the United States when wolves were reintroduced in
1995. Now, we all know that wolves kill various species of animals, but perhaps we're slightly less
aware that they give life to many others. It sounds strange, but just follow me for a while. Before the
wolves turned up, they'd been absent for 70 years. The numbers of deer, because there was nothing
to hunt them, had built up and built up in the Yellowstone Park, and despite efforts by humans to
control them, they'd managed to reduce much of the vegetation there to almost nothing, they'd just
grazed it away. But as soon as the wolves arrived, even though they were few in number, they
started to have the most remarkable effects. First, of course, they killed some of the deer, but that
wasn't the major thing. Much more significantly, they radically changed the behavior of the deer.
The deer started avoiding certain parts of the park, the places where they could be trapped most
easily, particularly the valleys and the gorges, and immediately those places started to regenerate. In
some areas, the height of the trees quintupled in just six years. Bare valley sides quickly became
forests of aspen and willow and cottonwood. And as soon as that happened, the birds started
moving in. The number of songbirds, of migratory birds, started to increase greatly. The number of
beavers started to increase, because beavers like to eat the trees. And beavers, like wolves, are
ecosystem engineers. They create niches for other species. And the dams they built in the rivers
provided habitats for otters and muskrats and ducks and fish and reptiles and amphibians. The
wolves killed coyotes, and as a result of that, the number of rabbits and mice began to rise, which
meant more hawks, more weasels, more foxes, more badgers. Ravens and bald eagles came down to
feed on the carrion that the wolves had left. Bears fed on it too, and their population began to rise
as well, partly also because there were more berries growing on the regenerating shrubs, and the
bears reinforced the impact of the wolves by killing some of the calves of the deer.

But here's where it gets really interesting. The wolves changed the behaviour of the rivers. They
began to meander less. There was less erosion. The channels narrowed. More pools formed, more
riffle sections, all of which were great for wildlife habitats. The rivers changed in response to the
wolves, and the reason was that the regenerating forests stabilized the banks so that they collapsed
less often, so that the rivers became more fixed in their course. Similarly, by driving the deer out of
some places and the vegetation recovering on the valley sides, there was less soil erosion, because
the vegetation stabilized that as well. So the wolves, small in number, transformed not just the
ecosystem of the Yellowstone National Park, this huge area of land, but also its physical geography.

10: Interview Rihianna

Hey I'm Rihanna, ok Well growing up in Barbados was a lot of fun, you know we had a lot of places
to go.

School was my least favorite but I always used to have my two younger brothers.

The beach, we loved to go to the beach, we would be at the beach from 6 till 6 and me and my
friends always used to hang out, we would always go to this club called the boatyard, like that was
our spot .
He's married to a Barbadian so he was vacationing there one time with her, and my friend who
knows them. She wanted me to meet with him so I went to his hotel room and I sang for him. He
was impressed and he invited me out to the studio to do some recording.

It was such an experience because it was so weird to like hear your voice coming through
headphones. It was the weirdest thing at first but I got more comfortable as I kept going and the
more I did it the more comfortable I became , and then we finally put a demo together, we sent it to
a few labels and Defjam happened to be the first to callback.

Yes then we got a call from Defjam , we set up a meeting with Jay Z and then i went to his office.I
was so nervous, I was a mess but the minute I met him like the atmosphere was so warm and
welcoming, and he really made me feel comfortable and at home so I was able to audition
comfortably and he was impressed by the audition and he didn't let me leave until after three in the
morning after I signed the deal.

Well in Barbados, and the rest of the Caribbean we tend to be more relaxed and laid back about
stuff and when I moved to New York. I realized that everybody seemed to be more fast paced about
everything.

Lifestyle definitely,like in Barbados I was living a very normal simple life and when I moved to New
York. I moved to New York to pursue a career and to live the dream.

I love jeans, like anything, It could be baggy jeans, it could be tight jeans, it could be skirts it could be
sneakers it could be heels anything, like anything that looks good.

Right, I don't have much time for hobbies but when I do get a little spare time, I try to catch up on
sleep watch television, listen to music.

Beyoncé is one of my major influences , like, she's one of my idols. My mom is Guyanese and she
used to always prepare this dish called Callalu and it's a mixture of all types of meats.

So my music I compare my music to the dish ,because my music it consists of all like three types of
music, there's reggae, there's Hip hop, there's r n'b.

It's not a specific genre it's more like a fusion of several, it's reggae Hip Hop and Rnb.

Very important, because that was a cultural type of music to me. When I used to live in Barbados
regionally and the rest of the Caribbean too so we had to put Reggae in there and the Caribbean
influences in my music comes from the beats. There's r n b vocals but we put reggae in the beats we
put hip hop in the beats we fused it together with my r n b vocals.
Pon de Replay? Well first a producer by the name of E Nobles, he had us, he had this along with
other tracks lying around his studio for a while and then he heard of me, and he heard the direction
I was going in he was going in and he brought it to the studio, he played some stuff for us and Pon de
Replay happened to be one that stood out so he took, we it recorded it and it was magic.

I'd love to get into like acting, it could be horror, or action, or drama.

well Right now we're promoting the album it's gonna be released pretty soon then this fall we have
some tours, some tour dates coming up, I can't really say with who but depending on the numbers
from Germany we should be back here. Thank you

11: Kevin Richardson part of the pride

Hi guys I’m Kevin Richardson and this is Gandalf.

If you want to gain some insight into this amazing animal then I suggest you get my book called Part
of the pride.

So this is where it all really starts with youngsters that’s how you start a relationship really, you
gotta start with them young just like you would with a human being and gotta instill in them what
you want at this early age. If you’re wanting to play rough with them when they’re adults, and you’re
wanting to interact with them face to face, then this is where it all starts.

And typically in a lion pride this is how they would be interacting with each other at this age.

When they came back to the pride at this age, it would be just fun and games they’re not interested
in hunting.

They’re just interested in play play play, sleep sleep sleep and eat eat eat

You don’t know what’s ahead of you my boy, You don’t know what’s ahead of you! you think it’s all
just fun and games

Being mauled by a lion and a leopard. Not many people know what this little guy is. A little spotted
hyena, a little spotted hyena playing with a lion that’s not meant to be !

A lion licking a hyena!

Over the past ten or so years of being asked quite a few times, how is it you can work with these
predators so freely, not just animals of this age but even when they get to adults and recently I’ve
had the privilege of being able to put it all down on paper, and I’ll explain what I mean if you come
visit me just now when I’m with the pride. Keep going!!!

Like previously you saw me playing with the cubs, that’s how I started with Tar and napoleon but if
you really want to know about the nitty gritty of what I do and why I’m crazy enough to even
attempt to do it
You gotta read the book, I think it’ll give a new insight into the way people can work with these
predators; lions, hyenas, leopards cheetahs all of the large carnivores.

So most people are thinking it’s only a matter before this guy gets eaten by these lions and I
obviously tend to disagree with that entirely otherwise I wouldn’t be doing what I do.

12: Man’s best friend 17 foot crocodile

I was really excited to finally meet Chito, but he hardly came across as the Tarzan he was made out
to be, He was a far gentler calmer person.

Chito led me down to the water to meet the crocodile he calls Pocho.

I felt a bit nervous but I could immediately sense that Chito was not afraid.

The crocodile seemed to be responding to his voice.

Pocho is a monster, at least 16 foot long.

It seemed impossible but here it was in front of me.

With incredible and almost inhuman patience, Chito nurtured this Crocodile back to life.

He claimed that during this period of care and recuperation a really strong bond started to develop
between them.

Meeting Chito is like meeting a modern day Shaman.

He spends a huge amount of time in nature as well that passion and commitment is very very
evident.

As a child Chito used to find injured wild animals and nurture them and release them back into the
wild.

I’m really hoping I can develop this understanding in myself, get a better understanding of this
mystery.

13: Cranberry sauce simpsons

-Honey, you're in the way.

-Can't I help? Well, okay.

Can you do the cranberry sauce? Yeah! Where is it? -The can is in the cupboard.
-Here? -No, the other shelf.

-Got it.

Now what? -Open the can.

-Where's the can opener? It's in the second drawer from the right.

No, no, the other one.

Oh, I got you.

It's broken, Mom.

Mom, it's broken.

Mom, it's broken Mom, it's broken I don't think that it's broken.

Here, let me try.

Here you go.

Cranberry sauce à la Bart.

Just stick it in the refrigerator when you're done, Bart.

Bart?

14: Simpsons fat guy hat

The mail! The mail is here!

Ooh! "An urgent plea from Edward James Olmos.

" "Lisa Simpson, can you afford to miss another issue of the Utne Reader?"

Kids.

Free sample of fabric softener?

Whoo-hoo! Mmm! I can feel three kinds of softness.

Dad, what are you doing down there?

Washin' my "fat guy" hat, honey.

15: Simpsons illegal cable

That's the most dishonest thing I've ever heard! I should box your ears! -You sneaky Pete! -Easy,
tiger.

You, easy.

Get off my property! Flanders, who put that bug up your butt? I wanted to subscribe to the arts and
crafts channel.

They sent this man to install it.

You know what he did? He offered to hook me up illegally to every channel for $50.

Boy, what's this world coming to? -That's exactly-- -Gotta go.

Hey, stop, cable man! Stop! -What do you want? -I want free cable! This is okay.

Everybody does it, right? What? If you're having second thoughts, read this.

"So You've Decided to Steal Cable.

“myth” Cable piracy is wrong.

Fact: Cable companies are faceless corporations which makes it okay.

The clown that will last a lifetime

Cable.

It's more wonderful than I dared hope!

16: Simpsons Trapped in a vending machine

That's what ballet is? You promised.

You can't back out like when you volunteered for that army experiment to avoid dinner at my
sisters'.

Mr.Simpson, you do realize this may result in hair loss, giddiness and the loss of equilibrium? Yeah,
yeah, yeah.

Just give me the serum.

It was worth it

- Hey, Homer, you wanna get a beer on the way home? - I can't.

I gotta take my wife to the ballet.

Gonna go see the bear in the little car, huh? Hmm? Mmm, invisible cola.

Mmm.

Time to stick it to the man.

Hey, hey.

Careful there, Homer.

I heard somebody lost an arm in there once.

That's just an old wives' tale.

Just a little more-- Got it.

I'm stuck

Help me.

- He's done for! - Let's get outta here! Must get to ballet.

Promised Marge.

Hello? Can I get some help? snack-related mishap.

Mmm.Candy.

Hello? Marge, this may be hard to believe but I'm trapped inside two vending machines.

Sure, Homer.

Trapped in vending machines.

Okay.
17:TED Talks What FACEBOOK And GOOGLE Are Hiding From The World

Mark Zuckerberg, a journalist was asking him a question about the news feed. And the journalist was
asking him, "Why is this so important?" And Zuckerberg said, "A squirrel dying in your front yard may
be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa." And I want to talk about
what a Web based on that idea of relevance might look like.

So when I was growing up in a really rural area in Maine, the Internet meant something very
different to me. It meant a connection to the world. It meant something that would connect us all
together. And I was sure that it was going to be great for democracy and for our society. But there's
this shift in how information is flowing online, and it's invisible. And if we don't pay attention to it, it
could be a real problem. So I first noticed this in a place I spend a lot of time -- my Facebook page.
I'm progressive, politically -- big surprise -- but I've always gone out of my way to meet
conservatives. I like hearing what they're thinking about; I like seeing what they link to; I like learning
a thing or two. And so I was surprised when I noticed one day that the conservatives had
disappeared from my Facebook feed. And what it turned out was going on was that Facebook was
looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that, actually, I was clicking more on my liberal
friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had
edited them out. They disappeared.

So Facebook isn't the only place that's doing this kind of invisible, algorithmic editing of the
Web.Google's doing it too. If I search for something, and you search for something, even right now
at the very same time, we may get very different search results. Even if you're logged out, one
engineer told me, there are 57 signals that Google looks at -- everything from what kind of computer
you're on to what kind of browser you're using to where you're located -- that it uses to personally
tailor your query results. Think about it for a second: there is no standard Google anymore. And you
know, the funny thing about this is that it's hard to see. You can't see how different your search
results are from anyone else's.

But a couple of weeks ago, I asked a bunch of friends to Google "Egypt" and to send me screen shots
of what they got. So here's my friend Scott's screen shot. And here's my friend Daniel's screen
shot.When you put them side-by-side, you don't even have to read the links to see how different
these two pages are. But when you do read the links, it's really quite remarkable. Daniel didn't get
anything about the protests in Egypt at all in his first page of Google results. Scott's results were full
of them. And this was the big story of the day at that time. That's how different these results are
becoming.

So it's not just Google and Facebook either. This is something that's sweeping the Web. There are a
whole host of companies that are doing this kind of personalization. Yahoo News, the biggest news
site on the Internet, is now personalized -- different people get different things. Huffington Post, the
Washington Post, the New York Times -- all flirting with personalization in various ways. And this
moves us very quickly toward a world in which the Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to
see, but not necessarily what we need to see. As Eric Schmidt said, "It will be very hard for people to
watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them."
So I do think this is a problem. And I think, if you take all of these filters together, you take all these
algorithms, you get what I call a filter bubble. And your filter bubble is your own personal, unique
universe of information that you live in online. And what's in your filter bubble depends on who you
are, and it depends on what you do. But the thing is that you don't decide what gets in. And more
importantly, you don't actually see what gets edited out. So one of the problems with the filter
bubble was discovered by some researchers at Netflix. And they were looking at the Netflix queues,
and they noticed something kind of funny that a lot of us probably have noticed, which is there are
some movies that just sort of zip right up and out to our houses. They enter the queue, they just zip
right out. So "Iron Man" zips right out, and "Waiting for Superman" can wait for a really long time.

What they discovered was that in our Netflix queues there's this epic struggle going on between our
future aspirational selves and our more impulsive present selves. You know we all want to be
someone who has watched "Rashomon," but right now we want to watch "Ace Ventura" for the
fourth time.(Laughter) So the best editing gives us a bit of both. It gives us a little bit of Justin Bieber
and a little bit of Afghanistan. It gives us some information vegetables; it gives us some information
dessert. And the challenge with these kinds of algorithmic filters, these personalized filters, is that,
because they're mainly looking at what you click on first, it can throw off that balance. And instead
of a balanced information diet, you can end up surrounded by information junk food.

What this suggests is actually that we may have the story about the Internet wrong. In a broadcast
society -- this is how the founding mythology goes -- in a broadcast society, there were these
gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. And along came the Internet
and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome.
But that's not actually what's happening right now. What we're seeing is more of a passing of the
torch from human gatekeepers to algorithmic ones. And the thing is that the algorithms don't yet
have the kind of embedded ethics that the editors did. So if algorithms are going to curate the world
for us, if they're going to decide what we get to see and what we don't get to see, then we need to
make sure that they're not just keyed to relevance. We need to make sure that they also show us
things that are uncomfortable or challenging or important -- this is what TED does -- other points of
view.

And the thing is, we've actually been here before as a society. In 1915, it's not like newspapers were
sweating a lot about their civic responsibilities. Then people noticed that they were doing something
really important. That, in fact, you couldn't have a functioning democracy if citizens didn't get a good
flow of information, that the newspapers were critical because they were acting as the filter, and
then journalistic ethics developed. It wasn't perfect, but it got us through the last century. And so
now, we're kind of back in 1915 on the Web. And we need the new gatekeepers to encode that kind
of responsibility into the code that they're writing.

I know that there are a lot of people here from Facebook and from Google -- Larry and Sergey --
people who have helped build the Web as it is, and I'm grateful for that. But we really need you to
make sure that these algorithms have encoded in them a sense of the public life, a sense of civic
responsibility. We need you to make sure that they're transparent enough that we can see what the
rules are that determine what gets through our filters. And we need you to give us some control so
that we can decide what gets through and what doesn't. Because I think we really need the Internet
to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We need it to
introduce us to new ideas and new people and different perspectives. And it's not going to do that if
it leaves us all isolated in a Web of one.

Thank you.

18: The official wedding toast

K&S: Hello everybody, we are so happy that you are all together and witnessing my Michael’s and
Sue’s

wedding.

S: Mike and Sue, I’d love to give you 5 tips to a warm and healthy marriage. Number 1. Be good to
each

other.

K: I agree.

S: Number 2. Make sure that you have food in your Frigidaire because you do not want to be hungry
or

starved.

K: Correct.

S: Number 3, help each other in every way, financially..

K: Yes, yes..

S: Financially...

K: Put away a couple of dollars, whatever you make, put away a couple of dollars. That’s what we
did, we

saved up by putting away one of the salaries..I don’t know, should I say that?

S: No, no...Number 4. Always keep a clean house. Make sure that your laundry is done, that your
kitchen is

clean, and this too would help you in a healthy...

K: Hang on a minute, why don’t you tell him that I throw things on the floor because it falls on the
floor and
you yell at me very....for everything. You drop something, pick it up, don’t do this, don’t do that.

S: But you have to wait for me to tell you to pick it up, Kenny.

K: I don’t know I drop it.

S: Number 4. If you really want to have a happy marriage and you both want to get together and be
with

each other....travel. Go to as many places that you can so be together. And you’ve got to watch your

husband though because on one of the trips in Italy I remember..

K: Oh yes..

S:..Kenny was flirting with one of the ladies at the..

K: At the pool, I was surprised she had..

S: She didn’t have a top on, and there he was standing over her like she died..

K: And I told somebody to take a picture of me.

S: And we did! So that’s number 4... Number 5. Just don’t argue with each other. If your wife...

K: I don’t argue with you.

S: No, you do argue with me!

K: No, you always pick on me, but we never..

S: But if I didn’t argue with you, if I didn’t fight with you, we wouldn’t be there together for..how
many

years?

K: Seventy two years, it’s gonna be.

S: But here we are, the two of us together.

K: We went to bed happy....after our fights.

S: That’s because we were tired of fighting!

K: No,no, no..

S: No, no.

K&S: Mike and Sue, we’d like to wish you a long and happy marriage. We are now making a toast to
the

bridge and groom for a long and happy marriage.

[They kiss]
[Laughter]

S: I haven’t kissed him like that in 25 years!

19:The one with the rumour

you know what can we please keep the chicken and the turkey and everything on the other side of
the table the smell is just euch!

Typical!

I'm sorry what?

I said it was typical, typical of you Rachel Greene, queen Rachael, does whatever she wants in her
little Rachael land.

ok what? so you guys would just like get together and say mean things about me?

Well we did a little more than that!

no no no no no!

What? What else did you do?

We started a rumor.

What Rumor?

Oh come on Will just take off your shirt and tell us!

Ross! It's no big deal we uh...we said that uh, the rumor was that uh you had both male and female
reproductive parts.

What? That's right we said you your parents flipped a coin decided to raise a girl but you still had a
hint of a penis!

I'm sorry? when you were in High School you made out with a fifty year old woman?

She didn't look fifty! Did she look 16?

Oh there's a picture of her in the year book actually.

Wow! she didn't photograph well!

Well she probably wasn't familiar with the process having spent most of her life sitting for oil
paintings.

So how did this happen, did she lure you to an early bird dinner?
I was working late in the library one afternoon, it was just the two of us, she needed some help with
her word jumble and one thing led to another. If you must know Anita was very gentle and tender.

May she rest in peace.

20:The secret life of cats

I'm Roger Taybor and I'm a biologist, a cat biologist. Somebody who looks at where cats go,
Whether it's night time or day time. So what is “The secret lives of cats”? Well it’s really two things,
one, it's this film that you're watching to enable you to look at what's happening, and what we've
being seeing through the cats eyes.

And it's also a report where you can see more detail. The work we've done on them and being able
to monitor them as they've moved around.

How've we been able to do that?

This is a GPS tracker that enables us to see something like this. All you're looking at is the real world
and over that you'll see the track where the cat has gone.

We've also had this bit of kit, it hangs just around the cat and it's a cat cam. So as our cat wanders
around, for the first time we can see what the cat sees and where it goes and we can put them
together, and that's really what the secret life of a cat is all about.

One of the fascinating things that has come out with this survey, is that we're finding that cats tend
to avoid in their ranges being anywhere near busy roads, why would they do that? well if you think
about it there's lots of movement there's lots of disturbance, so look at the ranges and you begin to
understand how your cat is leading its life.

One of the things about the cat cam is that we can see how they're marking out their range, we can
also see how they interrelate to each other, and one of the most fun bits that we've been able to
find is two cats living together. One called Jesper and he's got his cat cam and he is walking up
towards the other cat living in a nice suburban garden. He sees the other cat, they don't get too
close, because they're a little shy and what we see is when their eyes lock, a blink, a big heavy blink,
it's a reassurance signal.

21: Tory island dog who swims with dolphins

I’m heading down to the harbour in Middle town, which is also home to the island’s only shop and
art gallery, there’s also a small primary school, a secondary school with 15 students and 7 teachers
and a chapel but it’s the activity in the harbour itself which has captured my attention.

This is absolutely amazing, Tory’s resident dolphin (Dougie the dolphin they call him) Comes and
plays with the hotel’s Labrador Swimming around in the water, I’ve never seen anything like it

And it’s not just a one off, this spectacle can be seen most days in the harbour.

The dolphin’s followed the boat out to sea now.So the dog’s coming back in, an incredible swimmer.
“go on Ben!! Good boy!! Good boy , come on then!!

He’s gone your mate

What are you like?

You’re the only dog I’ve known who can swim with dolphins

Come on then!

Apparently to experience real Ireland life, you have to stay overnight at one of the B and Bs

22: Trash diving - finding food in the trash

I'm in Holdrege Nebraska outside of the local grocery store and all this food around me came from
the trash one dumpster outside here had enough

food to feed me for the next three months and I would say this right here

what you see is probably about maybe a fiftieth or a hundredth of the total

food in there literally they could have fed at least 50 families this weekend

with the food that was all in there still good and obviously a lot of it's

good healthy food too bananas are even organic so one thing

I'm learning on this trip is that we do not have a shortage of food in the

United States the only thing we have is a distribution problem the food is here

we're just not giving it to people on the right way

so I just pulled into Mount Vernon Iowa after a pretty long day a bike in 25 miles in the brass early
morning and Jackson California are about 1500 feet up into the foothills of the Sierra

Nevadas so we're at a little grocery store here in Iowa I'm just outside of

Michigan City Indiana and and boy is this dumpster a treasure chest we've got

some yogurt and all sorts of red melons this milk expired yesterday bottled

water you know the trash two watermelons naked juices smoothies eggs expired

yesterday some potatoes and some orange down that are good a couple of

sandwiches a whole bunch of salads creamy her body cheese still cold the mandarin spinach salad
this is a spinach salad some chocolate milk got a whole bunch of cheese imported from

Ireland just to expired a few days ago Spain shipped all the way from Spain ended

up in a dumpster some other stuff I probably won't eat like right back on

This awesome awesome trash right so it's gonna a great night definitely gonna bite into this ice
cream america throws out out a hundred hundred sixty five billion dollars of the food

per year basically thirty percent of food purchased in the united states just

thrown out now that is just an absolutely absurd amount i don't know

the exact answer to the problem but I know there's solutions and if we work on

it this is America the greatest country in the world after all if we work on it

we can figure something out.

23: Try something new in 30 days

A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut. So I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great
American

philosopher, Morgan Spurlock and try something new for 30 days.

The idea is actually pretty simple. Think about something you’ve always wanted to add to your life,
and try

it, for the next 30 days. It turns out that 30 days is just about the right amount of time to add a new
habit, or

subtract a habit, like watching the news, from your life.

There’s a few things I learned while doing these 30 day challenges. The first was, instead of the
months

flying by, forgotten, the time was much more memorable. This was part of a challenge I did to take a
picture

every day for a month. And I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing that day.

I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder 30 day challenges, my self-confidence grew. I
went

from desk-dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work...for fun. Even last year I
ended up

hiking up Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. I would never have been that
adventurous

before I started my 30 day challenges.

I also figured out that if you really want something badly enough, you can do anything for 30 days.
Have

you ever wanted to write a novel? Every November tens of thousands of people try to write their
own 50,000

word novel, from scratch, in 30 days. It turns out all you have to do is to write 16,667 words a day for
a

month. So I did. By the way, the secret is not to go to sleep until you’ve written your words for the
day. You

might be sleep deprived, but you’ll finish your novel.

Now, is my book the next great American novel? No, I wrote it in a month, it’s awful! But, for the
rest of

my life, if I meet John Hodgman* at a TED party, I don’t have to say, ‘I’m a computer scientist.’. No,
no, if

I want to, I can say, ‘I’m a novelist.’

So here’s one last thing I’d like to mention. I learned that when I made small, sustainable changes,
things I

could keep doing, they were more likely to stick. There’s nothing wrong with big, crazy challenges. In
fact,

they’re a ton of fun. But they’re less likely to stick. When I gave up sugar for 30 days, day 31 looked
like

this..
So here’s my question to you, ‘What are you waiting for?’ I guarantee you the next 30 days are going
to pass,

whether you like it or not. So why not think about something you have always wanted to try, and
give it a shot for the next thirty days?