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The pause-screen camera controls in Super Smash Ultimate are incredibly impressive,

providing more control and range than ever before.

You can zoom in and out surprisingly far and even swing the camera side to side to reveal

far more of the environment than you'd ever seen during normal gameplay.

And it's often surprising how much more there is to see beyond the screen's normal

boundaries.

Now while most of it isn't terribly noteworthy, we did stumble some pretty neat details that

you wouldn't ordinarily see why playing the game!

So here's our list of the Top 10 secret off-screen details we found in Super Smash

Bros.

Ultimate, for stages both old and new!

Let's start off with an oldie, but a goody being an Easter Egg hidden in the Mushroom

Kingdom stage.

And while the entire stage itself is an homage to Super Mario Bros, it does feature one rather

out-of-place element--but only if you know where to look.

Because if you rotate the camera to see what lies beyond either the left or right edge

of the screen, you'll uncover a prohibition sign that marks the point of no return: the

blast zone.

It's a warning to the fighters to stay away, although it's of no use to you, the player,

as it's something you'll never see during actual gameplay!

Neat!

Now let's take a Warp Pipe into the future, all the way to the...

Yep, the Mushroomy Kingdom, which is designed to look like the original World 1-1 from Super

Mario Bros, only now looking a little worse for the wear after having been abandoned for

decades.

And one of those changes includes the fact that none of the Warp Pipes here actually

work--even the ones that are supposed to.

And that's for a good reason, because if you zoom in and tilt the camera, we can see

they've actually been sealed off, which is something that's almost impossible to

see during gameplay, owing to the classic side-scrolling perspective.

But come on, Mario's a plumber right--surely this isn't enough to stop him!

Okay, so this one's spoiled a bit by the stage selection screen, but the end result

is still impressive.

First up is something that's nearly impossible to notice during actual gameplay, and that's

if you rotate the camera, you'll find that it reveals the characters are actually flat,

as if rendered on an LCD display.

Pretty neat!

But even more impressive is if you zoom the camera out, you'll discover that the entire

stage takes place on an actual Game & Watch unit!

And the attention to detail is immaculate, down to the bezeled wide-screen display, the

3 Dimensional buttons, including the indented ones to the side.

Oh, and of course--this one's the Super Smash Bros. model.

Now if only it actually existed!

It doesn't take long to figure out that battles on the Figure 8 Circuit take place

during a live race, with the map in the background even display the real-time location of the

racers.

But when it comes to the gameplay itself, you only ever see a very small section of

the track during the match

However, if you pause the game and rotate the camera to either side, you'll discover

that you can see actually nearly the entire course!

To the right is the top-half of the 8, complete with Nintendo cloud billboards that are entirely

off-screen, and to the left is the other half of an 8, where you'll also find a garage

and an entire audience section that you would never ordinarily see.

Unfortunately, while you can't fully see the entire back half of the 8, you can spot

most of it by zooming out as far as the camera allows.

Yep, we "ate" this one up!

The Bridge of Eldin is back and looking more beautiful than ever--even if the bridge itself

is incredibly simple, being a flat and mostly unremarkable.

However, if you rotate the camera all the way to either side, you'll find that the

bridge is quite a bit more detailed than it might seem, featuring proper entrance ways

on both sides through which the King Bulblin actually uses to make his entrance and exit!

Talk about detail!

Yoshi's Island is a lovely little stage that even changes seasons as you play.

But there's one little detail that you'll almost never see during actual gameplay--and

it's out of this world.

Literally!

To see what we mean, just hit pause and look up toward the sky.

There you'll find the moon that Yoshi battled Raphael The Raven on in the Yoshi's Island

game itself, and it even features the two stumps that Yoshi needed to defeat him.

Pretty stellar, huh?

You've probably seen the Black van in Onett--perhaps even up close.

But what you probably haven't seen is the billboard warning you about it, because it's

hidden off-screen just beyond the stage's normal boundary on the right which a quick

pan from the pause screen will reveal, complete with legible text.

And just beyond it is building even farther off-screen, which just so happens to be the

Arcade from Earthbound.

Finally if you tilt the camera even more, you'll even spot the tunnel that the cars

emerge from--and this is true for both sides!

Yep, this town is packed full of details--both on and off screen!

The Great Bay might just be one of the most beautiful and most impressively updated levels

in Super Smash Bros.

Ultimate.

And as part of that update, it not only retains the off-screen secrets from the Melee, but

even features some entirely new ones too.

So if we hit pause and pan the camera left, we can first see some rocky ledges that could

also be seen in Melee, but this time, they now lead to an alcove containing an actual

Heart Piece, just like in Majora's Mask.

Panning a little further left, we can see the Fishermen's Island just where we'd

expect to find it from the original game, and left of that is the large gated entrance

into the Pirate's Fortress.

But this time it's received an impressive new design drawn on it... but it's impossible

to see, unless, that is, we take the camera underwater to reveals it as a pair of crossed

swords.

Now if that isn't attention to detail, I don't know what it, as misplaced it may

be.

Alright, so we won't just be looking at the returning stages, because the new ones

have some neat details too.

In Dracula's Castle, you've probably noticed the clocktower just outside.

And if you keep an eye out, you might just barely spot a gargoyle on top--but if you

pause the game and turn the camera, you'll quickly find that there are actually two!

And you can get a much better look at them by zooming--and they're pretty menacing

looking.

You can also take the time to check out the tower's Spire, as well as another side to

the clock tower--both of which you'll never see during an actual match.

Finally, we end with the Great Plateau Tower stage, which offers an amazing view of the

Hylian landscape--and yet for as expensive as it appears during a match, there is so

much more--which is fitting for a game as big as Breath of the Wild!

First up is the fact that if you zoom out and tilt the camera down, you can see that

the entire tower is actually rendered all the way to the ground level of the Great Plateau

itself--along with the Plateau's walls and other nearby points of interest such as the

lake and Shrine here.

And if you move the camera all the to the side, you can just barely see the Shrine of

Resurrection, where Link originally emerged from, and if we rotate it to the other, we

can find the Twin Peaks!

It's a big, big world--but I actually want to end on something a bit smaller.

So small, in fact that despite it lying in plain site, it's nearly impossible to see

during gameplay--especially during a hectic Smash match!

Because do you see the podium in the middle?

Well if you zoom all the way in, you'll find that there's actually a Sheikah slate

resting in it!

Maybe it can play Smash Bros. too?

And there you have it.

The Top 10 secrets hidden off-screen that we could find in Super Smash Bros.

Ultimate.

But have you found any of your own?

Let us know by posting in the comments below.

And with that, thanks for watching.

And make sure to click that subscribe button for more on Super Smash Bros.

Ultimate and everything Nintendo.

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Hearing On Google Gave Congressmen Ample Opportunities For Self-Owns - News Today - Duration: 4:18.

 During a three-and-a-half-hour hearing with Google's CEO in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, members of Congress largely spent time whining about finding negative coverage of themselves on the internet and blaming Google for it

 Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle got a crash course in how search tools work in Google as they grilled CEO Sundar Pichai on alleged political bias by his company

 In a stunning complaint lacking any self-awareness, Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) complained that he had to go "deep into the search results" to find any favorable stories about Republicans' attempts to repeal Obamacare

   "Your company is in effect picking winners and losers and affecting elections," he alleged without evidence

Pichai responded that his company's search algorithms "have no notion of political sentiment

"  Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said he was frustrated that he couldn't edit his Wikipedia page after ranting that the Southern Poverty Law Center stirs up "hate

" (It doesn't.)   "My chief of staff went on [Wikipedia], she told me, every night for two weeks and put proper, honest information in with proper annotation, and Wikipedia's liberal editors around the world would knock it out every day and instead put up a bunch of garbage," he said

Pichai did not respond, as Gohmert never actually asked a question.  Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) took it upon himself to tell Pichai how his own company works after asking if Google employees have ever been punished for manipulating search results

 "It's not possible for an individual employee or group of employees to manipulate our search result," Pichai tried to explain

"We have a robust framework, including many steps in the process where ―"  "Well, my time is up," Smith interrupted

"Let me just say I disagree. I think humans can manipulate the process."  On the other side of the aisle, Rep

Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) wanted to know why his appearances on MSNBC weren't bigger hits on the search engine

 "It's hard for me to fathom being on MSNBC for, like, eight minutes each show, four times, and there's more content on Breitbart News than MSNBC," he said

"If you'd let me know about that. I'd appreciate it."  Cohen also requested that Google create a tutorial phone line for people using the search engine

   Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) wanted to know if Google can track his movements through his iPhone

When Pichai said he would have to look at the congressman's phone settings to know, Poe whined that it wasn't a good enough answer

 "It's not a trick question," he said. "You make $100 million a year. You ought to be able to answer that question

"   But white supremacist Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) might have had the best self-own of all when he complained that his 7-year-old granddaughter inexplicably found negative depictions of him while playing with an iPhone

 "I have a 7-year-old granddaughter who picked up her phone before the election, and she's playing a little game, the kind of game a kid would play, and up pops a picture of her grandfather, and I'm not gonna say into the record what kind of language was used around that picture of her granddaughter, but I'd ask you, how does that show up on a 7-year-old's iPhone that's playing a kid's game?" he asked

 "Congressman, iPhone is actually made be a different company," Pichai reminded him

 "It might have been an Android," King responded.   Pichai said he would be happy to speak to King privately to understand his issue better

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When Apes Conquered Europe - Duration: 8:56.

If you happened to visit the swampy forests of what's now Italy about 7 million years

ago, you might have crossed paths with a very strange ape.

It had a small brain - less than half the size of a modern chimp's - and it also had

a puzzling combination of other features.

It had teeth with sharp cusps, adapted for slicing through fibrous plants -- much more

like we see in some of today's Old World monkeys than in living apes.

And it had well-developed chewing muscles and a robust jawbone, suggesting that it ate

leaves almost exclusively, unlike its other ape cousins, which mostly lived on fruit.

But attached to that small skull with monkey-like teeth was a body that was much more ape-like.

It had a short lower back and a broad torso, like living apes do, with arms that were long

compared to its legs.

And it had long, curved fingers and toes, also like those of modern apes.

Now, we know a lot about this weird European ape, because anthropologists have found many

fossils of it, including a relatively complete one in a coal mine in Tuscany in the 1950s.

It was given the delicious-sounding name of Oreopithecus, or hill ape.

And despite some of its more monkey-like features, experts agree that it was a hominoid -- a

member of the superfamily that includes all living and fossil apes.

Which is interesting, and kinda strange.

Because, not only did Oreopithecus have an odd combination of features, it was also just

one of around fifteen species of apes whose fossils have been found throughout Europe.

And, I don't know if you've noticed but, Europe isn't home to any of our ape cousins

today.

And we know that hominoids didn't originate on that continent.

So, what was Oreopithecus doing in the forests of Miocene Italy?

How and why did this ape wind up in Europe?

And, why aren't there wild apes in Europe today?

Today, our closest evolutionary relatives, the apes, live only in small pockets of Africa

and Asia.

But back in the Miocene epoch, between about 23 million and 5 million years ago, apes occupied

all of Europe.

We find their fossils from Georgia and Turkey in the east, to Spain in the west, and almost

everywhere in between, including Hungary, Italy, and France.

Some we know only from teeth and jawbones, while others we have relatively complete skeletons

of, like Oreopithecus.

And we know that they're apes, rather than monkeys, because they share many skeletal

traits with living apes, like having broad, shallow torsos; shoulder blades that are positioned

on the back of the rib cage rather than on the sides; and they don't have tails.

They've also got what are known as Y-5 molars, a classic hominoid dental trait.

That means they -- including you -- have lower molars with five cusps on them, and the grooves

in-between form a Y-shape.

So, what allowed these apes to make it to Europe in the first place?

Well, our earliest ape-like ancestors had already evolved and diversified throughout

the woodlands and tropical forests of Africa back in the early Miocene, about 20 million

years ago.

We know this because we've found lots of their fossils at sites that date back to this

time, in Kenya and Uganda.

For example, there are Proconsul and Ekembo.

They both share some of the same basic features in their teeth and skulls with later hominoids,

and they probably didn't have tails.

But they still clambered around on all fours in the trees, more like monkeys.

And there was Morotopithecus, which also had those same uniquely hominoid features.

But based on the bones in its lower back and legs, it probably held its torso more upright

and climbed more like living apes do.

But things started to change for these primates starting about 17 million years ago.

That's when Africa's climate started to become drier, and experience more seasonal

variation.

Over time, the environment became less tropical, and more open and grassy.

This left early hominoids with fewer of their preferred foods, like fruits, and more lower-quality

foods, like leaves, seeds, and bark.

But at the same time, up in Eurasia, the climate was becoming warmer and more forested.

So while Africa was getting drier, Europe was becoming more hospitable to these early

apes and other subtropical and tropical mammals.

Which is why it's around this time, about 16 million years ago, that we see hominoids

first start to appear in Eurasia.

The first pioneer in Eurasia that we know about was called Griphopithecus.

It's found at sites in Turkey, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany, from 16.5 to 16 million

years ago.

But it was only the first of many.

Once hominoids made it into the warm, humid forests of Europe, they diversified and spread

across across the continent.

So, soon after, in France, we find Dryopithecus fontani from 12.5 to 11 million years ago.

It was actually the first of the European apes to be discovered, named by a French paleontologist

in 1856.

And in northeastern Hungary, about 10 million years ago, Rudapithecus reigned.

It lived in forests that were swampy or maybe flooded seasonally, and its brain about as

big as a chimp's.

Then, in Northern Spain alone, there were five different genera of apes, ranging in

size from Pierolapithecus at about 30 kilograms to tiny Pliobates at just four and a half

kilos.

But as the apes of Europe were enjoying their heyday, big changes were afoot.

And by "big" I mean, like, the size of the Himalayas.

Starting about 50 million years ago, in far-off Southern Asia, the Indian Plate of the Earth's

crust had begun to crush into the Eurasian plate, slowly forming the massive Himalayas.

By about 10 million years ago, this slow-motion collision started to lift these giant mountains

even higher, and faster.

And these new mountains changed climate patterns all over the world.

In Europe, this meant that the once subtropical forests that apes had conquered began to transition

into cooler, more seasonal, deciduous woodlands.

Many of Europe's apes found themselves unable to adapt to the loss of their subtropical

forests, and began to go extinct, around 9.6 million years ago.

Rudapithecus in Hungary and the many apes of Spain were likely among the casualties.

And as the cooling and drying trend continued, forests became more fragmented and grasslands

began to spread.

The few apes that survived to this point were either highly specialized or isolated in pockets

of suitable habitats, or both.

For example, Ouranopithecus from northern Greece seemed to have adapted to a more open,

grassy, and shrubby landscape with fewer trees.

The wear on its teeth suggests that it ate roots, tubers, and other hard, abrasive foods.

And some anthropologists have actually suggested that, based on its teeth, Ouranopithecus might

have been a hominin, a member of that group of apes that includes us and all of our extinct

relatives that existed after our last common ancestor with chimps and bonobos.

And the same has been suggested about another European ape: Graecopithecus

It's only known from a partial jawbone found in Greece and a single upper premolar from

Bulgaria.

And some scientists have proposed that it, too, has some traits that are unique to hominins,

namely in the roots of two of its teeth.

But, as with Ouranopithecus, this claim is very controversial, mainly because we have

many more -- and more complete -- fossils of hominins from Africa, which is generally

agreed to be where hominins originated.

In any case, the final holdout among Europe's apes was our old friend Oreopithecus.

It lived in forests that were cooler and wetter than the habitats of the other European apes,

which may have helped it adapt to the changing climate conditions that had doomed its contemporaries.

And the fact that it was so well adapted to its isolated environment might also explain

why it had those features that seemed more monkey-like than ape-like.

Oreopithecus lived long after the split between monkeys and apes, but over time it evolved

those teeth with sharp cusps, like those found in some monkeys, which were perfect for eating

leaves -- yet another example of convergent evolution in action.

Oreopithecus survived in isolated forests until about 6 or 7 million years ago, when

the chunk of Italy that it lived on - which was an island at the time - finally collided

with the rest of the Italian peninsula, which of course changed its habitat considerably.

By 6 million years ago, the reign of the apes in Europe was over.

But was that it?

What was their legacy, for other primates and for us?

Well, like all apes, the apes of Europe were hominoids, so they are part of our superfamily.

But whether they're distant cousins or direct ancestors depends on who you ask.

Most anthropologists agree that our earliest ape-like ancestors -- early hominoids like

Proconsul and Ekembo -- evolved in Africa.

But they disagree about what happened next.

Some experts think the European apes are just an interesting side-branch of our family tree,

and that the hominoids that eventually evolved into us remained in Africa, and evolved there

Their reasoning is that the earliest ape-like primates are found in Africa, as are our earliest

definitive hominin ancestors, and our closest living ape cousins.

But the problem is, we haven't found conclusive fossil evidence of those apes that gave rise

to the hominins.

These were the members of another subfamily, the Homininae, which includes all of the living

African apes as well as humans.

But we have yet to find fossils in Africa of the last common ancestors that gorillas,

chimps, and humans all share.

There are some potential candidates, but their fossils are fragmentary and isolated.

And the fact that we haven't found them might just be an accident of geology.

After all, only some locations preserve fossils, and only some locations have been excavated.

But others propose that one of these European ape species might have returned to Africa

and given rise to our lineage.

Advocates of this hypothesis point, as evidence, to several features of the skull and teeth

that Eurasian apes share with later hominids.

Needless to say, there are lots of gaps in our understanding of human evolution, and

this question -- about when, where and exactly how the hominoids gave rise to hominins -- is

one of them.

But what we do know is that strange apes like Oreopithecus were just part of an incredible

radiation of apes that took place during the Miocene epoch.

And its remains, found in the fossil forests of Italy, remind us of that time when

apes, for a brief span of geologic time, conquered the European continent.

Thanks for joining me today, and special thanks to our Eontologists, Jake Hart, Jon Ivy, John

Davison Ng and let's not forget STEVE!

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and make your pledge for some neat n nerdy benefits.

Now, if you're interested in the origins of things, then you should definitely check

out The Origin of Everything, a show that explores the history of how our cultural world

came to be, like why so many religions have rules about head coverings, and what fake

conspiracy theories can tell us about our very real feelings about invasions, government

and war.

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Top Republican REALLY Doesn't Want Democrats To Investigate Trump's Crimes - Duration: 5:34.

During a recent interview with Fox News, Republican House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, who

in just a few weeks will be the Republican House minority leader, said that Democrats

really don't need to spend any of their time investigating the potential crimes of Donald

Trump once they take the majority in the house.

Uh, partly because, you know, Republicans already did that.

We didn't find anything so they can just move on.

We totally did those investigations.

Don't worry about it.

So Democrats, you can just kick back, relax, and you know, maybe we can work together on

some legislation.

In fact, that's actually not too far off from what McCarthy said next, he said, you know,

I think there's other problems out there that we really should be focused on and my belief

is, let's see where we can work together.

Let's move America forward.

So he immediately goes from, please, please don't, don't investigate Donald Trump or any

of the crimes of this administration.

And Hey, I bet we could work together on some things.

That'd be really cool, right?

I mean, you know, you come over to my office, we just, you know, hang out and talk about

things and whatever.

I want to be your friend.

Please, please don't investigate my boss.

Please don't investigate my party.

We've done a lot of really bad things, but we already investigated it too and we didn't

do anything.

McCarthy is absolutely crazy right now because he doesn't know what's going to happen and

that brings me a little bit of joy.

It truly does.

Republicans have had this absolute power here in the United States for two full years and

they have used it to absolutely piss all over the United States constitution.

But here is a point, and I'm may disagree with me on this, but here's a point that I

think McCarthy is correct and I do not think democrats should spend all their time investigating

Donald Trump.

I think they should investigate Donald Trump, but I think that needs to be a part time,

small fraction of what they do in the new congress.

You know, Republicans are not going to work with you.

Even McCarthy's little half-assed pleading with you here.

He's not going to work with you on anything, so what Democrats need to do first and foremost,

when they take back the majority is work on legislation.

You know it's not going to get passed, but you damn sure better have something to take

back to your constituents in 20, 20 to show them that you tried to show them that you

attempted and to point the fingers at the people who voted it down.

The people who vote down the green new deal, the people who vote down Medicare for all

the people who vote down debt free college or student loan forgiveness.

Those are the issues that you were going to win the campaign on and once you've got them

on the ropes with legislation and issues, you deliver the knockout punch with the investigations

because yes, investigations do need to happen, and I'm not talking about collusion investigations.

I'm talking about investigations into the policies of this administration.

Why did they lose thousands of children that they had separated from their parents?

That sounds like something that needs to be investigated.

Why are they actually not doing anything about the opioid crisis here in the United States?

Sounds like something should be investigated.

Why is Ivanka Trump using private emails when we've already had lots of discussions that

private email used as bad when you're a government official, maybe spend a day or two investigating

that just to kind of put them on edge a little bit.

I admit that one would probably be more of a revenge investigation, but if you've got

the time, maybe a long weekend, maybe throw that into the mix as well, but Republicans

are terrified.

They know the Democrats have subpoena power.

They know that this administration, not just in the campaign stuff, but in their actual

administration, they know they've got stuff to hide and the Democrats should do a good

job of kicking over those logs and finding it.

As long as it doesn't come first.

The most important thing to thing the American public hired you to do is to legislate.

Once you get that taken care of, then spend as much time as you want on these investigations,

but not a second on the investigations until you have that legislation ready

to go.

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Wearables Market: Fitness Trackers Sell, but Smartwatches are the Future - Duration: 5:12.

Dylan Lewis: Evan, not to be outdone on the news front, we have some fresh data from market

research firm IDC on wearables and VR. I really love checking these out.

I think it's a great at-a-glance for what's going on in the consumer tech space.

This firm does such a good job giving people the 5,000-foot view.

Evan Niu: These are really exciting markets in general.

Getting this data on these estimates and how it's going is a really useful tool for investors

to see, when they're looking at their investments in companies that are playing in and participating

in these markets.

Wearables is a particularly fun one since wearable tech is a nascent category that's

still on the up and up.

What we saw in the third quarter was that basic trackers returned to growth.

You know, the Fitbit kind of fitness trackers.

That was thanks largely to new product launches in emerging markets.

Basic trackers are still pretty popular in emerging markets because they're more affordable.

The U.S. market was actually flat in the third quarter because that market is already transitioning

from first-time purchases towards your placements and upgrades -- actually, in my opinion, sooner

than I would have expected.

Lewis: One of my favorite things in looking at these reports, though, is who's moving

where in terms of market share? We can see the competitive landscape.

That's always fun. What did you see there?

Niu: This quarter, we saw Xiaomi reclaim #1.

Apple had been #1 for the past two quarters thanks to its Apple Watch, but Xiaomi's Mi Band 3,

which is a basic tracker, has been selling really well, so they were able to

actually take #1 in the third quarter.

If you look at smartwatches specifically, and you exclude basic trackers, Apple is still #1.

In terms of the Apple Watch, they launched the Series 4 at the very end of the quarter.

So, they only had about 10 days left to the quarter when Apple Watch 4 launched.

They also discounted Apple Watch 3.

Actually, that lower price point has also been helping drive demand and drive unit volumes.

Series 3, expectedly, was the majority of units.

But, according to IDC's estimates, the Series 4 was actually almost 20% of unit volumes

in just 10 days. That shows how strong the demand for Series 4 was at launch.

Lewis: That's pretty incredible.

We can't talk about the wearables space without also talking about Fitbit.

We've given Apple Watch its time. What's going on with Fitbit in this report?

Niu: Fitbit has become the #2 player primarily with its Versa smartwatch, which is much more approachable,

it's a little bit cheaper.

That's what we've seen play out over the past couple of quarters.

You and I have covered their earnings a couple of times. We've seen this coming.

The good news for Fitbit is, the IDC expects them to keep that #2 status in the smartwatch market,

mostly because, as we mentioned in previous shows, Android Wear OS is not competitive.

No one's really buying those devices.

The market still wants some alternative to the Apple Watch, and Fitbit has stepped up to provide it.

Lewis: Yeah. It's probably good for consumers to have a couple different options out there.

It's nice to have some competition, nice to have a little bit of a push on the feature

side so they keep innovating.

Niu: The big thing that IDC points out is that healthcare is really becoming a core

part of this market.

Apple and Fitbit are both really pushing towards these digital health platforms in their own different ways.

Now, who gets there first, and who can really build the most robust platform is an open question.

It remains to be seen.

But, certainly, Apple has a lot more money to invest in building it.

That's going to be a big thing to watch going forward, is the underlying platform of these devices.

Lewis: Thinking about this market, though, you have the low-end and the high-end.

It sounds like any hardware profits are going to be made on the smartwatch side.

Market share gains are going to be happening with the cheaper end of the market.

How do those factor into the health solutions that these folks are looking for?

Is it that, if we want to track who's going to have the better health platform, we should

be looking at the high-end smartwatch sales?

Niu: The basic trackers are just so limited in the amount of data they can collect.

The value that people are putting into the actual platform will also determine what kind

of device they're interested in.

If you look longer-term, smartwatch prices have been coming down quite a bit.

Apple does this thing, and they've been using the same strategy for the iPhone for many years,

where they extend the overall lifecycle of a product by selling the same product

over years and years, but they just lower the price over time.

As those prices keep coming down, the difference between going out and buying a basic tracker

or buying a smartwatch, even if it's a previous generation smartwatch, will keep getting smaller and smaller.

And as that gap shrinks, more and more people will be willing to make the move up-market

into a smartwatch that is more capable, can do a lot more things, can collect more health data,

and give you more value out of those health platforms.

Lewis: Yeah, it doesn't feel like as much of an upfront investment, right?

Niu: Exactly. Especially if the difference is small.

If the difference between a basic tracker and a smartwatch is $20 or $50, which one would you pick?

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Are Index Funds Too Powerful? Ask Jack Bogle - Duration: 3:53.

Chris Hill: Question from Tom George. "Is the size of index funds becoming dangerous?"

He included a link to a commentary from the father of index funds himself, John Bogle.

Bill Barker: Bogle's article talks about not so much the returns to investors or any volatility,

which is what index funds are sometimes spotted up as perhaps having a problem, given the

concentration of certain stocks in index funds, but really on the voting power of shareholders

and corporate governance. The trend is that there may soon be 50% of the market in index funds.

Index funds themselves are highly concentrated in the three largest players -- that being

Vanguard, State Street, and BlackRock.

Then who's going to be exercising actual voting control over boards? That's what his article's about.

Hill: I understand the point that's being made, but I have to be honest, it takes something

pretty extreme for me to say, "Well, I'm just going to ditch the index fund that I have

with Vanguard as a result of that."

I mean, just the vehicle itself, the low-cost option, in terms of corporate governance,

I'm not thinking about my index fund investment in that regard.

I will think of my own individual stock investments in that regard.

If they're becoming dangerous, they're not becoming dangerous enough for me as an investor

to say I want out.

Barker: No, and I don't think that the argument is that the index funds themselves will end

up with lesser returns because of this, but more that the governance, and who is exercising

voting control over the decisions of companies, where is that going?

To his credit, John Bogle is not saying, "Oh, don't worry about it.

Vanguard has 51% of the index market, and they're good people, so we never need to worry

about them doing the right thing."

His outlook is, "This is a potential structural problem, and one that people should be aware of."

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

As great as index funds have been for investors, and the article itself points out, with approval,

the description of, the 500 Index Fund is the most consequential or the best thing that's

happened to investors. He's definitely positive on what has been achieved.

In fact, the ability of investors to today, get for either virtually nothing or actually

nothing in the case of Fidelity's new index fund products, a wide diversification for

their investments at any moment, any time, comes with a cost.

That is, as they become more and more and more attractive, the voting rights aggregate

into fewer and fewer hands.

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Is This Health Insurer a Smart Stock to Buy? - Duration: 6:02.

Shannon Jones: Let's turn our attention to your second stock, Todd.

One of the themes that I have recognized from our most recent shows, and even with this one,

as we were identifying these stocks, is that the aging baby boomer population is

a massive, massive opportunity for investors to get in on growth opportunities, not just

on the drug side, but also on the healthcare insurance side.

Todd Campbell: Yeah! Talk about a huge market.

10,000 baby boomers per day turning 65. A longer-living population.

That's significant because it means demand for healthcare services by the elderly is increasing.

That should put a company like WellCare Health, ticker WCG, in a great position to profit

from its Medicaid and Medicare insurance business.

Jones: It looks like WellCare plays a huge part in the marketplace for insurance,

primarily Medicaid and Medicare.

It's been interesting watching this particular stock, especially coming off of the midterm elections.

Now that we have the Democrats in the House, things have certainly changed for this company.

Campbell: Yeah, which is interesting.

The last two years after Trump was elected, and of course, the Republicans had control

of both the House and the Senate, there was an attempt to eliminate Obamacare.

Obamacare includes a provision that expanded Medicaid.

Now, states didn't have to opt into Medicaid expansion, but many of them did.

So, one of the fears over the last two years was that if Obamacare was rolled back,

what would happen with Medicaid expansion?

And one of the things that investors have to recognize is that what happens with these

insurers is that they go out and they bid on a per member basis.

The more people who are enrolled in Medicaid programs, the more money they make in premiums.

Medicaid expansion has been a huge win for companies like WellCare Health.

And the threat of that getting rolled back, obviously, was something that was on the minds of investors.

Now that the Democrats took control of the House, I think the likelihood of any kind

of a real repeal or replace that jeopardizes Medicaid expansion has become de-risked.

It's low to non-existent in my view.

I think that provides an interesting tailwind or backstop to WellCare Health's stock price,

which over the last six to eight weeks has tumbled about 25%.

Jones: And it's not just Medicaid. It's also Medicare.

Also, it sounds like this company is pretty aggressive when it comes to acquisitions.

It has multiple areas that it's targeting and strategically focusing on.

Campbell: They get most of their sales from the Medicaid side of things.

$3.2 billion in revenue from Medicaid in the third quarter.

That represented about 64% of their total revenue of $5.1 billion.

They're still predominantly a Medicaid insurer. They have been going out and bidding in new states.

They won new bids, new contracts in Florida and Arizona.

They also went out and bought a competitor called Meridian.

All of those things are going to increase and drive revenue higher on the Medicaid side of things in 2019.

Then, on the Medicare side of things, they're also selling Medicare Advantage businesses.

They're targeting all those people who are turning 65 and are trying to figure out,

do I want to stay with regular Medicare, traditional Medicare?

Or do I want to go with a Medicare Advantage plan.

Because traditional Medicare doesn't have out-of-pocket limits on what the patient

will have to pay, many people are choosing these Medicare Advantage plans.

And as a result, its Medicare revenue is growing. They did $1.6 billion in Medicare revenue in the third quarter.

That was up from $1.47 billion the year before.

That's because they're getting more and more members to sign up for their Medicare Advantage plans.

Jones: It also sounds like WellCare is upping their full-year guidance for 2018.

It sounds like they're growing not just on the acquisition front, but organically, as well.

What can you tell us about that, Todd?

Campbell: The revenue was up year over year 15%, as I mentioned.

They're a profitable company. Their medical cost ratio, MCR ratio, is somewhere in the mid-80s.

They do a good job as far as managing their risk in that way.

They also have a nice little tailwind coming soon because they agreed to buy Aetna's part

D business in September.

As listeners may remember, Aetna has agreed to combine with CVS.

But to get approval for that combination from the Department of Justice, Aetna had to get rid of

its part D revenue. What ended up happening is, WellCare went out and bought it.

They're going to get an additional $1.5 billion in revenue tailwinds, assuming all the members

stick around once they've officially taken that over.

I think we'll probably see most of that revenue show up in 2020. It may not be a 2019 thing, but 2020.

You've got the advantage of the Medicaid expansion in Florida and Arizona, organic growth,

Medicare Advantage growth, and then the potential tailwind from buying the part D that could help support

growth in two years rather than in the next 12 months. Jones: Lots of opportunities for WellCare there.

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Top Twenty Tuesday / Dec 4 - Dec 10, 2018 - Duration: 2:18.

Hello!

Dylan here from InfiniteDiscs.com here to bring your our first ever video edition of

the Top Twenty Tuesday.

We're going to take a look at the top ten from this last week, to start off.

The P2 in P-Line Soft plastic takes the #1 spot, taking over the Star Destroyer which

is typically our #1.

The P-Line Soft plastic has been a recent release from Discmania.

We also see the Maiden still holding strong on the charts, with Origio Burst and BT Hard

Burst Moonshine.

The Maiden was a black friday offering in that Burst Moonshine plastic, along with the

Pharaoh in Metal Flake Glow C-Blend plastic.

These two are still selling strong a couple weeks later.

The Buzzz has also come out with Star Wars editions in the Full Foil Supercolor category.

Those are a good reason the Buzzz is #9 on the chart this week.

Don't forget, each week we have a contest over on the Top Twenty Tuesday blog post,

where you can guess where discs will place on the next week's chart.

Last week we asked for position #5, which turned out to be the Star Teebird3.

So head over to the blog and guess on this week's contest.

Now we'll move to positions 11-20.

We see the Undertaker on there twice, the Buzzz, and the Zone on here.

So Discraft is making a strong showing in the charts this week, on the top twenty selling

discs.

We also see the Millennium Scorpius make the charts.

That may be due to Gregg Barsby winning worlds; that disc has been selling well ever since.

We also see the Neutron Deflector make the charts as well as the C-Line Luster FD, another

black Friday offering.

The Aviar, the Nova, and the Teebird are also featured in this week's top twenty.

We're now going to take a look at the number of times a manufacturer appeared on the chart

this week.

So we see Innova and Discraft tied with five showings on the chart.

Discmania comes in with four.

Westside, MVP, Infinite Discs, and Millennium finish it up.

Do you think this strong Discraft showing is because of Paul McBeth's big move?

We think it might, Discraft has been selling hot ever since.

That's all we have for this week's Top Twenty Tuesday, we look forward to doing more videos

next week.

Make sure to check out the blog post where we break down some of this in writing.

We'll see ya later!

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Why the Housing Market and Rising Interest Rates are Hurting Toll Brothers Shares - Duration: 4:14.

Chris Hill: Let's start with Toll Brothers. Fourth quarter profit up 62%. That's the headline.

And if that was the only thing that mattered, then you'd be very confused by the fact that the stock was down.

The stock's not down as much as it was.

It's down about 1.5% right now as we came into the studio. It was down a bit more earlier.

When you look at what's going on with the Toll Brothers, what do you see?

Emily Flippen: We're looking at the housing market in general, and a smaller part of that

housing market, the niche, high-end, very expensive housing market.

I think the reason why we're seeing the now-small decline, what was a very large decline,

is just because of the fact that, that was the first fall in quarterly order orders in four years.

They were hit by those rising interest rates, homes now not as affordable as they once were

for the average person, at least.

While their backlogs and deliveries are still very high, there's now a little bit of investor

fear about whether or not that's going to be continued for the next few years.

Hill: Some of that fear was touched on by Toll Brothers itself in their statement.

I'll just quote directly from the earnings release.

"In November, we saw the market soften further, which we attribute to the cumulative impact

of rising interest rates and the effect on buyer sentiment of well-publicized reports of a housing slowdown."

Kudos to whoever on the communications team at Toll Brothers who said, "Let's use the

tried-and-true playbook of blaming the media."

There's a little bit of blaming the media when it comes to that.

But to your point, it would just be crazy to ignore the reality.

Flippen: Yeah. You can blame the media all you want, but ultimately homebuilding is still one of the

leading indicators of change in a business cycle.

It's natural, when people see these houses stop being built, construction slowing down,

to be a little bit afraid, because it is a leading indicator.

I think it's silly to push it back on the media and investors in particular,

especially because investor sentiment, while you can scoff at it all you want, does cause recessions,

does cause economic turndown, and does affect your company.

So, it's interesting to see that dichotomy between the way their PR people act and what's

actually happening in the market.

Hill: As an investor, are the homebuilders as a group a way that you're interested to

invest into the housing market? Or are there other ways?

It seems like, for anyone who's looking at the housing market as an investor and thinking,

"OK, this is a huge industry, there are a lot of ways to invest in it," it seems like

investing directly in the Toll Brothers of the world is an intermediate level of difficulty.

Flippen: I would agree with that.

You have people who are really bullish on real estate who like to get in on the ground

level real estate, people who might buy into something like Toll Brothers, or people who

buy into companies that maybe own a lot of their stores, so they own a lot of real estate,

but don't act in real estate directly. There's lots of different ways to get involved.

For me as an investor, it's important to remember two things.

The first thing, I personally, and I think everyone here at The Fool, has a very long

timeframe that they're investing for.

You also have to be aware of the economic conditions of when you're investing.

We are looking at a slowdown in the housing market, and there might be a pullback sometime

in the future, I think that's inevitable. Business cycles are a natural thing that happens.

If you're a long-term investor, hopefully you're aware of that, and you're not going

to panic when that fall does inevitably come.

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Beware of Hidden Mutual Fund Fees Eating Into Your Investments! - Duration: 6:20.

Alison Southwick: The last question comes from Kevin.

"I have a three-month-old and opened her an UGMA account -- American Funds through my

FA the day we got her Social Security number." Oh, that's nice.

"I have a biweekly draw going into the account and I thought this was a smart idea until about

two months ago in, I'm realizing the fund we're in charges 5% of any amount added to the account.

"Example -- when my $100 goes in, $5 is automatically taken out and this is in addition to the fee of 1.14%.

I've also learned that there aren't really any tax advantages and it could even hurt

her financial aid status when applying for college.

I know about 529 plans, but I don't want these funds restricted to only education.

My question: Is the fee structure typical of an UTMA?

Why shouldn't I just open a separate investment account in my name, with much lower fees,

and give it to her or use for her when she's old enough?"

Ross Anderson: The acronym we're talking about, here, is the Uniform Gifts to Minors account

or a Uniform Transfers to Minors Account. UGMA and UTMA.

People use those pretty interchangeably a lot, so I actually like that he asked the question that way.

They are technically different with what you open but they're largely going to have the same structure.

Is this fee structure typical? No! This is not based on the type of account you've heard of.

What you're buying right now, and the reason that you're paying 5% is what you said up

at the top, which is American Funds through your financial advisor.

You are buying what's called an A Share mutual fund.

That is building a sales charge.

That is how your financial advisor is getting paid on selling you those funds.

That has nothing to do with the structure of the account or the fact it is a transfer into her name.

If you opened that account with any low-cost broker [a Schwab, a Fidelity, an Ameritrade,

an E-Trade], you're not going to have that same thing, but you're also going to be on

your own for making those investment choices.

If you wanted to buy individual stocks or low-cost index funds, ETFs, you can absolutely

do that in those accounts, but you're going to be taking more and more of that responsibility

for managing the funds vs. having the financial advisor provide that to you.

Southwick: Is that 5% called a load? Is this different than a load or is this a load?

Anderson: Yes, this is a sales charge. There's a couple of different versions of it.

Like a "C-share" fund doesn't have the big upfront charge, but has a much higher ongoing

operating expense, because they're going to pay that advisor 1% a year instead of the 5% upfront.

So most of the time on an A-Share fund, he's getting 5% upfront and then a trail of 25 basis points,

which is in there as a 12b-1 fee. Southwick: Oh, we love 12b-1 fees.

Those are marketing fees which is bananas to me. I'm literally spitting.

It's so bananas to me that someone at a mutual fund company was like, "You know what?

We're going to call it a 12b-1 fee and we're going to make our investors pay for us to market the fund."

Anderson: But it's really not a marketing fee. It's going to the advisor.

The marketing is the advisor that sold it. Southwick: Well, it's still stupid.

Jason Moser: If I can chime in here for just one additional thought.

I'm fully onboard that these fees are absurd, but I've had some experience in this realm

[I have two younger daughters who are 12 and 13 now].

We opened up 529s for them when they were born and at around six or seven years old,

we opened up individual brokerage accounts for them.

They were with Scottrade.

Scottrade was recently acquired by TD Ameritrade, so now we're all with TD Ameritrade.

The fact is they have UTMA accounts with TD Ameritrade [each individually] that function

just like savings accounts.

I guess they technically have savings accounts somewhere but we don't really use them.

Instead we put all of this money into their brokerage accounts, and a couple of times

a year we'll buy a new stock for their portfolios. Now, these brokerage accounts are not 529s.

They're not tied to anything other than just like an UTMA savings, which does mean,

as the listener mentioned, that could [not necessarily will] but could affect their qualifications

for student loans down the road.

Now, my perspective on that is that we have a system in place that has a million different

ways students can get financing for school.

That is plainly obviously based on the $1.5 trillion of debt that is outstanding today.

I'm not going to worry about $5,000 to $7,000 that they've accumulated in savings via investing.

I'm not worried about that potentially offsetting any financial aid questions.

I would rather they have the lifelong lesson of how powerful investing is.

Let's cross that student loan bridge when we come to it. I'm certain we can cross it.

I never even considered that as a factor in making the decision to open those accounts for those girls.

Southwick: What does Kevin do?

Go back to his financial advisor and say, "What the heck, buddy?

Get me out of that!"

Anderson: Honestly, I would take this as an opportunity to review what you are paying

and for what across the board with your financial advisor relationship.

Not to say that paying fees or paying an advisor for advice is bad, but you should understand

what you're paying and why.

This is clearly an example of maybe you didn't understand

how you were paying for that advisor's services.

The other thing I'll go back to just a little bit is that he mentioned just open an investment

account in my name and give it to her later. That's totally fine. It remains on your books.

It remains your asset.

I think if you're going to keep it in a separate bucket, that's fine, but with these UTMA accounts,

you are transferring legal ownership at the age of majority, which is either going to

be 18 or 21 in most states. That is unrestricted access to that money.

On that birthday, if the kid says, "Give me all that money, Mr. Advisor or Mr. Brokerage House," they have to.

Southwick: Kevin, raise your kids right!

Anderson: You're talking about a three-month-old and you have no understanding at this point

of whether or not that is a financially astute three-month-old and I don't think there is

a way to make that judgment.

Moser: You keep them listening to Motley Fool Answers.

Southwick: There you go! Moser: They can be pretty funny, too, Ross.

I think that's safe to assume. Anderson: My baseline is as an optimist.

I hope that they are a very financially responsible student, but I know plenty of folks

[probably myself included at 18] that shouldn't have been handed a big pot of money.

So be careful with the UTMA because it's going to grow, hopefully, and it could be significant.

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How Did Yeti Get Started? - Duration: 7:11.

Vincent Shen: It feels like the company has absolutely exploded in the past few years,

in terms of popularity.

That would match pretty closely the growth that the company's enjoyed.

I feel like the first time I saw a Yeti cooler was on someone's fishing boat a couple of years ago.

At that point, it was still something new and novel.

I actually got to check out the company's single brick and mortar location when I was

in Austin this past March. I was thinking myself, holy cow!

I didn't realize that they were at the point where they were opening physical stores.

I didn't realize until doing the research for the show that that was their single location.

We'll get more into that later.

At this point, you see the Yeti logo on a pretty regular basis, even living in an area like D.C.

I was rummaging through my brother's kitchen, looking for something last week, and boom,

right there, I see a Yeti water bottle in the cabinet that belonged to my sister-in-law.

It really is growing its presence. This is a very interesting consumer business.

The growth is especially impressive given how focused its product portfolio is.

Roy and Ryan Seiders founded the company in 2006 in Austin, Texas.

This started as a pretty niche cooler company marketed to avid hunters and anglers.

It's grown into a much bigger company since then. A big driver of that was Yeti's takeover by Cortec.

This is a private equity firm. They took it over in 2012.

We've seen firsthand how Cortec has taken the Yeti brand and expanded the product line

from those core coolers to other accessories, cups, tumblers, water bottles, soft coolers.

Most importantly, they've also broadened the target market for these products to everyday users.

In the prospectus, Yeti shares some interesting data from customer studies that highlight

this strategic change.

First, from 2015 to 2018, the customer base shifted from 69% hunters to just 38%.

In that same period, women grew from 9% to 34% of the company's customer base.

Under Cortec, Yeti went from a company with $90 million in revenue in 2013 to $640 million dollars in 2017.

On the surface, that's 60% plus compound annual growth.

THat's crazy for any company, let alone a consumer one churning out coolers and tumblers.

There are also some gray areas working through Yeti's recent results that we'll get to.

I'll pass the baton to you, Asit.

Can you walk us through any key numbers that stood out to you?

Anything with profitability and other longer-term prospects?

Where do you want to start?

Asit Sharma: I want to walk back briefly to one more comment about Cortec making this

into a more viable operation for larger-scale business.

They also brought in more seasoned management. The two Seiders brothers are still with the company.

Roy Seiders owns 10%, Ryan Seiders owns 9%.

After this IPO, Cortec still retains a majority 52% of shares, but they brought in a CEO,

Matt Reintjes, and, more important to me, a new CFO this year, Paul Carbone.

Those of you who are familiar with Dunkin Donuts, he was their CFO and left to join this company.

Leaving a great outfit like Dunkin, which itself is growing, and coming to this,

maybe tells you something about the opportunity. Let's dive into some top line numbers and talk through those.

I think that'll frame a lot more of this discussion for us.

We have from their prospectus the first six months of net sales.

This is about $342 million worth of sales. On that, the company has a gross profit of $158 million.

All the way down to the net income line, net income is $15.5 million. Rough numbers.

Net profitability is about 5%. This is a function of the product line that this company sells.

We were talking before the show about one of the phrases in the prospectus, which mentions

that Yeti has a product line from a $20 tumbler all the way up to its top-of-the-line $1,300 Yeti cooler.

When you have such a wide variety of price points -- listeners, you can build in your head --

you can sell more of those high-end products and up the margin or you can sell

the lower-end products, which hurts your margin but helps that revenue growth.

In fact, as we'll talk about later in the show, drinkwear products are really leading

sales for the company over the last year.

One more point to mention about the financial statements.

I talked about $15.5 million in net income.

Interest expense on the company's debt is $19.6 million -- even more than final net income.

We'll return to that thought.

Vince, I was curious, we've talked a lot about distribution strategies on other IPOs we've covered.

I noticed that Yeti has a very interesting one.

It's split up between a direct channel and a wholesale channel, which involves a lot

of major retailers. I wanted to talk about that following these numbers.

Shen: Absolutely.

The way Yeti splits up its product categories and its distribution, the coolers category

that I think they're most famous for, in terms of the product line, made up 45% of top line

in the first half of 2018.

The drinkwear, some of the lower-priced products that you mentioned, Asit, those came in at 52% of revenue.

That product category is growing quite a bit faster than the coolers line.

The company distributes its products through wholesale and direct-to-consumer channels,

with about a 70-30 split, respectively, between the two.

For wholesale, Yeti's biggest partners include chains like Dick's Sporting Goods, Bass Pro Shops,

REI, and also about 4,800 smaller independent retailers.

For the direct-to-consumer part of the business, these include Yeti's own online stores.

They also sell through Amazon and that flagship store location that they have in Texas.

We see this for a lot of consumer and retail companies, that DTC business is growing faster

than wholesale, 75% year over year in the first half of 2018.

The tailwind for the company is that there are higher profit margins for DTC

that they enjoy over wholesale.

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O Erro da ÁGUA com Limão que Muitas Pessoas Fazem toda Manhã! | Naturalmente Saudável - Duration: 2:43.

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The Effects of Residue Buildup In Your Washing Machine - Duration: 6:22.

Hi my name is Bill, and today I'll be talking about the effects of residue

build-up in your washing machine.

Warning: before doing any repairs, please disconnect your power source.

So this is the appliance that we'll be using in

this demonstration. It's a GE, keep in mind yours at home might look a little

bit different than what we've got here, but the same techniques should still apply.

So right here, you'll see we have a drive block from a washing machine and

on the bottom you see how that metal is just completely eaten away, rusty looking,

and has got all this residue buildup on the outside of it. Over the course of about

five years, according to the owner, a lot of washing and having stuff sit in the

tub of the washing machine, for example bleach. Clothes that were cleaned but the

water wasn't drained, and so the detergent sat in there as well caused

that detergent and bleach and hard water to completely eat away at this drive

block. So with this eaten away, a lot of water was able to get into other parts

of the washer and leak through and damage those other parts as well. So on

the inner tub of the washer here, you'll see this filled up and that's going to be a

mixture of hard water and the detergent, and possibly just even using too much

detergent. And you might also see there's a couple of wood chips in there. That

isn't from washing it, that's actually from me trying to knock out this shaft

right here and I couldn't get it out because the shaft where you can't quite

see it anymore is completely rusted and with the

hard water damage and the damage from too much detergent and bleach going in

there and leaking down into there, the metal is corroded and it's basically

locked into place where it is right now. And you can even see we got creative in

our tools when just a hammer and two-by-four wouldn't do the trick when

we were trying to knock this shaft out. So you'll also see around the edge of

this shaft there's a seal right there, and this seal is very

very damaged. It's allowing water to actually leak down from the shaft, then

on to the transmission, which caused the transmission to get rusted up and you

can see with this screwdriver here I'm scraping it off. It almost seems like

it's paint on there with how crusted on it is, and you'll see it just flakes right off.

The original owner of this says that a lot of times that bleach and detergent

laundry would be sitting in the tub and just left it there, so over time, the

mixture of bleach, hard water, and detergent ate through this thing, which

was it's not supposed to go in there like that as it is. But you'll see

because the bottom of this actually lines up with that seal there, and so

with that eaten away, the water could get right in underneath all that, eat the

seal, and then leak down onto our transmission. So inside of this, you'll

see the inner tub. This is the shaft that goes from the inner tub and goes down to

the transmission as well, and you can see that build up over there again of all

the hard water and detergent there. And then this is our gear case and

transmission and motor over there. And you'll see on the gear case there's a

bit of oil on there. That's from again, the water coming down the shaft has some

oil on it and it'll drip down and then get all over the transmission there. But

this also looks as if it had been under water for quite a bit of time, and I

asked the owner if their basement had ever flooded which they said it didn't.

So this is all caused by water just coming down slowly and over time,

corroding all this metal and damaging it. So what else happens if you use too much

laundry detergent? It can leave stains or residue on your

clothing. Your laundry might not drain properly, that'll cause you to have to

keep it in the dryer longer. It might actually increase your water usage,

because the water will detect those suds and your washer will add an extra rinse

cycle in order to get those suds out of your washer. That could also cause more

wear and tear on your washing machines pump and motor, because the washing

machine has to work extra in order to get those suds out. One fact about

chlorine bleach is that it's a very strong base, so the stuff that you have

in your house is very corrosive and damaging to metals. That's why, as you can

see in the washer that we've got here, we have a piece of basically what was

solid metal once and had a little bit of weight to it, is completely eaten away

and weighs almost nothing now. And finally, don't leave bleach sitting in

your machine. Bleach will destroy everything. It's not a very friendly

chemical; it can burn holes in your clothes as well as discolor it and as

you see here, it eats through the metal.

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Duchess Seductive: Meghan Markle honoured Clare Waight Keller at British Fashion Awards.

The Duchess of Sussex stunned the fashion crowd tonight by putting in a surprise appearance at the British Fashion Awards.

Meghan, 37, wowed guests at the star-studded event when she stepped out on stage to present a gong to her wedding dress designer,

Clare Waight Keller of Givenchy, at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday evening,

wearing a beautiful black one-shoulder dress that is believed to have been designed by the very woman she was there to honor.

Ms Waight Keller, 48, won the prestigious British Womenswear Designer of the Year award and thanked Meghan personally in her speech at the star-studded awards ceremony at the historic venue in Kensington, London.

The designer said: 'This woman is so amazing. I got to know Meghan on such a personal level.

To have someone like that trust you on such a personal moment in their life...

I can't thank you enough because it was the most beautiful moment'.

The Duchess of Sussex, who is expecting her first child with Prince Harry in the spring,

looked sensational in a black one-shoulder velvet gown, believed to be Givenchy, as she clutched her baby bump.

The pregnant duchess kept her makeup to a minimum, wearing her hair tied back in a bun and adding £50 gold earrings and three gold bangles,

priced £115, £160 and £340, all from favourite jewellery designer Pippa Small.

Meghan also wore a dark nail color to match her stunning one-shouldered dress,

despite traditional protocol advising that female royals must stick to a barely-there nude shade whenever they are attending official events.

Addressing the assembled fashionistas at the Royal Albert Hall, the Duchess said:

'It's such a pleasure to be here, celebrating British fashion and British designers, in my new home in the UK'.

She said of fashion, that 'we have a deep connection to what we wear.

Sometimes it's deeply personal, sometimes it's emotional,' and said that for her,

it was 'really in being able to understand that it's about supporting and empowering each other, especially as women'.

She praised the 'kindness' and the 'values' of Ms Waight Keller, who created the gown in which she walked down the aisle this May.

Ms Waight Keller was the master British designer behind the sleek silk boat-necked gown and long billowing veil worn by Meghan

as she walked down the nave of St. George's Chapel for her wedding to Prince Harry on May 19.

The first female artistic director of French fashion house met the Duchess for the first time earlier this year, Kensington Palace said,

with Meghan requesting a dress with an 'elegant aesthetic, impeccable tailoring, and relaxed demeanor'.

The veil carried floral references to all 53 countries in the Commonwealth,

and the palace said workers spent hundreds of hours sewing the delicate flower designs into the veil,

meticulously washing their hands every half hour to keep the silk tulle and threads clean.

The wedding dress featured no lace or embroidery, carrying a classic boat neckline,

three-quarter length sleeves and an A-line skirt with a train measuring nearly 6 feet from the waist.

Elswhere at the BFAs tonight, Victoria Beckham made sure she led the glamour as she joined Kendall Jenner,

Kaia Gerber and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley on the red carpet.

The fashion designer, 44, who was nominated for the British Designer of the Year Womenswear award,

looked effortlessly chic in a black high-neck flowy chiffon jumpsuit.

Victoria, who was joined by her doting husband David on the red carpet, accessorised her look with a chunky gold chain bracelet and green jade earrings.

They decided to make it a family night out as the couple were joined by their budding fashion photographer son, Brooklyn Beckham, at the event.

The 19-year-old looked every inch the proud son as he wore a black tuxedo with with a crisp white shirt, black tie and pointed dress shoes.

The Beckhams joined Kendall at the star-studded event who looked sensational as she bared all and went braless to show off her every inch of her cleavage in a sheer gold beaded dress with a daring slit on the left leg.

The model, 23, left nothing to the imagination as she teamed the daring item of clothing with a pair of tiny nude thong knickers and barely-there perspex heels.

Kendall left her accessorises minimal as she added just a simple pair of gold hooped earrings to complete her red-carpet ready look.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star styled her raven locks into a sleek sweptback bun, she added a slick of glamorous make-up.

Kendall knew how to work her best angles as she posed up a storm on the red carpet and worked her daring sheer gold beaded dress.

Meanwhile, Kaia made a bold fashion statement in a black and silver cut-out embroidered top with a pair of matching black flared trousers.

The 17-year-old model completed her look with a pair of black barely-there heeled sandals, a black velvet clutch bag and diamond cuff earrings.

Kaia, who is nominated for the Model of the Year award, styled her brunette locks into a sweptback hairdo, she added a slick of make-up.

The starlet was joined by her famous supermodel mother, Cindy Crawford, father Rande Gerber and her model brother Presley Gerber as they came to support her on the red carpet.

Cindy, 52, looked sensational in an off-the-shoulder black velvet dress with a flower on the front and a daring slit on the leg.

She accessorised her look with a pair of black heels, a delicate clutch bag and diamond jewellery for a glamorous look.

Cindy styled her blonde locks into a blow-dried hairdo swept to one side, she added a slick of make-up as she posed alongside her lookalike daughter.

The family knew how to work their best angles as they posed up a storm on the red carpet and later started laughing as they shared an in-joke.

Also attending was Rosie Huntington-Whiteley who looked incredible in a black, purple, pink and blue feathered beaded embellished plunging dress.

Dressing for the cool December weather, the model, 31, layered the stunning item of clothing with a long black tailored duster coat, which she draped over her shoulders.

Rosie styled her blonde locks into a sleek blow-dried hairdo, which she tucked behind her ears, which had diamond cuffs on them, she added a slick of make-up.

Winnie Harlow, who is nominated for the Model of the Year award,

made sure she commanded attention on the red carpet in a theatrical silver sheer embellished plunging dress,

with ombré coloured feathered detailing on the hem and sleeves.

The model, 24, completed her look with a pair of eye-catching pendant diamond earrings and a matching coloured feather hair brooch.

Winnie styled her raven locks into a voluminous and backcombed curly hairdo, she added a slick of red-carpet ready make-up.

Heart Radio presenter Lilah Parsons opted to keep her long raven locks down for the evening, styling her tresses in loose waves which she swept to one side of her face.

Clearly feeling the festivity of the occasion, the on-air star modeled a dazzling blue and silver off-the-shoulder dress by Elena Antoniades,

which she paired with sparkling jewelry and matching clutch - both from Swarovski.

Lilah even carried the glitter theme through to her eye make-up, rocking a subtle shimmer on her lids, as well as a smoked-out eyeliner.

She finished the look off with a slick of pretty pink lipstick.

Meanwhile, Rita Ora rocked an entire Prada ensemble, which included a red and black patterned pyjama silk skirt suit with logo socks.

Completing her look, she added diamond earrings, an embellished black hairband, a collection of eye-catching necklaces, a red Prada clutch bag and backless black stilettos.

The Girls singer, 28, styled her peroxide blonde locks into a swept back hairdo, she added a slick of make-up with a dark pink lipstick and brown smokey eye shadow.

Also attending was Liam Payne who looked handsome in a black crushed velvet tuxedo with a matching bowtie and black shirt.

The One Direction star, 25, added a wrist watch and patent dress shoes, as he posed up a storm on the red carpet at Monday night's event.

Also attending was Yasmin Le Bon, 54, who is married to Duran Duran star Simon Le Bon, and looked sensational as she showed off her toned figure in a off-the-shoulder silver tassel mini dress.

Also attending the event was Olly Murs, The Voice UK judge, 34, wore a brown velvet tuxedo with black detailing on the trims, he teamed the items of clothing with a black t-shirt and a pair of trainers.

In association with The British Fashion Council (BFC), The Fashion Awards celebrates individuals and businesses that have made a significant contribution to the fashion industry over the last year.

It is also a fundraiser for the BFC's charities and aims to support future talented individuals with their creative fashion skills.

The reason Meghan can't stop rubbing her baby bump. How adorable!

Ever since the Duchess of Sussex has announced she is expecting her first child, she has frequently been spotted rubbing her belly.

But what is the reason behind this habit and is there a meaning?

According to scientists, there is. A new study has shown that foetuses respond positively to their mother rubbing her belly.

Researchers at the University of Dundee in Scotland discovered that pregnant women that rubbed their bellies, bonded better with their babies that those that didn't.

Meghan, 37, was recently spotted on stage at the British Fashion Awards, enthusiastically rubbing her bump on various occasions.

The palace announced her pregnancy back in October while she was in Australia on the official Royal Tour with Prince Harry.

The statement from the palace indicated that her baby would be due in the Spring which could mean anytime from March 20 to June 21.

Meghan's mother Doria is expected to be on hand and Vanity Fair reported that she may be looking into a home birth.

"(Doria) wants to be on hand to help Meghan and Harry with the baby," a source told the publication.

"Doria will be involved and if she's involved she will be encouraging Meg to go for a natural birth".