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Hey, what's up. My name is Michael Nuñez, and this is Technically Speaking.

First up!

Facebook is banning yet another data analytics company over how it collects and shares information.

Facebook says it is suspending Boston-based analytics company Crimson Hexagon following concern over

the company's data brokering with various governments, including the United States and Russia.

Facebook took action against Crimson Hexagon after the Wall Street Journal began asking questions about

oversight over these government contracts.

In a statement, Facebook said,

"We don't allow developers to build surveillance tools using information from Facebook or Instagram.

We take these allegations seriously, and have suspended these apps while we investigate."

Crimson Hexagon claims to have the largest repository of social media posts in the world,

with over 1 trillion conversations logged.

Last year, Facebook explicitly forbade developers from using its users' data for government surveillance.

The problem is that once data leaves Facebook, it can be hard for the company to recoup or keep track of that information,

as we saw in the Cambridge Analytica scandal earlier this year.

Facebook says its investigation "so far" hasn't found any evidence that Crimson Hexagon obtained Facebook or

Instagram data inappropriately.

We shall see if that continues.

Next up!

Google's parent company Alphabet has been largely unfazed by the record-setting $5.1 billion fine recently imposed

by the European Union.

During its quarterly earnings report, the company emphasized it still made $3.2 billion in profits after

absorbing the cost of the fine.

The stock rose 3.5 percent in after-hours trading.

But of course not all the damage has been done.

Following the antitrust case, European authorities have ordered Google

to stop requiring phone makers to install Google's search engine and

Chrome internet browser on devices in Europe

in order to use the Android operating system.

The big catch:

Is that it's up to Google to come up with a solution to the problem, and the company has a huge incentive to

find a solution that doesn't impact their bottom line

Plus, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has already said Google plans to appeal the charges.

And finally!

Google Docs is getting a much-needed grammar check.

The company announced at the Google Cloud Next conference that it is finally adding a grammar check

feature powered by AI to Google Docs

Surprising, Google Docs hasn't had a built-in grammar check until now, which has long been one of the key differences

between it and old-school word processors like Microsoft Word.

This new grammar check could be a real boon to users who work in Google Docs.

"Our AI can catch several different types of corrections, from simple grammatical

rules like how to use articles in a sentence (like 'a' versus 'an'),

to more complicated grammatical concepts such as how to use subordinate clauses correctly.

Machine learning will help improve this capability over time to detect trickier grammar issues,"

Google said in a statement.

So if you're the type of person who's still confusing "their" and "there," or "two" and "too,"

finally help is on the way.

Thanks for watching!

Don't forget to let us know what you think in the comments.

And we'll be back here next week with more tech news.

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How to Connect Fluance Ai40 Powered Bluetooth Speaker to Google Home™ - Duration: 1:12.

To connect your Ai40 to the Google Home, follow these simple steps.

To connect your Ai40's to a Google Home, Chromecast Audio is required.

For instructions on setting up Chromecast Audio with your Ai40 speakers, see our Chromecast

Audio setup video.

Connect your Google Home to power.

Open the Google Home app.

The Google Home app will take you through the steps of setting up your Google Home.

Tell your Google Home, "Ok Google, play through Chromecast Audio."

To easily identify your speakers, you may want to rename your Chromecast Audio to "Fluance

Speakers."

To do this, go into the settings of your Google Home app.

For more from the Ai40 video manual, click any of the videos here.

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How To Know If Your Links are Crawled By Google - Duration: 2:28.

Hi, I'm Bruce Clay, and this is the Ask Us Anything series. My website has a drop

down navigation menu to better help users navigate my website. However, I fear

that Google might not be indexing my drop down links. How can I find out if

the links on my website are being crawled by Google. Well, that's a good

question, and people usually are concerned about that because they're

using like a JavaScript navigation package and they're not sure Google is

able to figure out that those are actually links to sub pages. The nice

thing is that Google is using a headless browser in many cases and is able to

decipher that this actually is a link so I think you don't have a lot of worry

about whether Google knows about it being a link. I'm pretty sure Google is

going to do it, they're going to see it, they're going to execute it, they're

gonna find your link, and they're gonna crawl from there. However, even then you

need some sort of extension you certainly should have an HTML sitemap

that links to all of the important pages on your site and you should have the

text link perhaps in your footer, ideally in your body that links to those

important navigation pages. So, if you have all three, I don't think you're

gonna find that it's a problem. Now, having said that, what you've done is

you've not become dependent upon your navigation as your only link. You really

want then for those pages to be crawled and identified so you're still going to

go look in search console, you're gonna find out if these pages are actually

linked to because if it's a navigation link, every page in your site will, in

theory, be linking to it. You can look for internal links and see that you actually

have links to those pages. So that would be the way to validate that.

In many cases, Google is using a headless browser and is able to determine what is a link.

You should always have an HTML sitemap that has all of your links listed.

You can double check in Google's Search Console if your pages are being identified.

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Nightwatch: Wild and Crazy Calls (Season 3) | A&E - Duration: 3:42.

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Αύριο στο Μάτι Αττικής ο Πάνος Καμένος - Duration: 3:22.

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Εθελοντές στο σημείο της τραγωδίας σώζουν ζώα - Duration: 1:47.

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How to Connect Fluance Ai40 Powered Bookshelf Speakers to a Chromecast Audio™ Device - Duration: 0:51.

Setup with Chromecast Audio.

Plug the Chromecast Audio into power.

Connect Auxilary from the Ai40 to the Chromecast Audio.

Select the RCA input on the Ai40 using either the remote, or input selection button.

Stream your music from the device to the Chromecast Audio.

For more from the Ai40 video manual, click any of the videos here.

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Ενημέρωση της Πυροσβεστικής για την κατάσταση στην Αττική - Duration: 1:29.

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LATEST FOOTBALL UPDATES | SOCCER NEWS | LA LIGA, PREMIER LEAGUE , SERIE A UPDATES| SPORTS ZONE - Duration: 2:32.

Sorry for the bad effect :p

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At the End of the Line | Creepypasta Poetry | Dark Poems - Duration: 3:18.

Destiny willed that humanity would find nothing but dust and thorns amidst the squall.

From the tree's hollow we crawled;

The truth of our origins we're forced to haul.

Finding comfort among the mass,

Together, we choked on reality's toxic gas.

Stripped of all identity,

We melded into one entity

And united, we breathed in serenity.

I once realized that I, too, was part of the flies

Only to be drowned out by the deafening roar of their cries:

Hymns praising our "divine" defendant,

Portrayed resplendent and transcendent,

Ringing from the mouth of my descendant.

But the truth

Is never pure in the eye of the sleuth.

I was made to doubt;

Made to tread the unholy route;

Made to survive amidst knowledge's drought.

Humanity has established a great empire of false hope,

Supplementing truth for naive idealism to help them cope.

The despair of creation I now know

And with enlightenment I glow.

The error of our ways, I want to show.

I contemplated how to pierce their warped illusion

And in the knife's mirror edge, I saw the conclusion.

As I messily burrowed into my own brother's skin,

I asked "What have I become?" with a mad grin;

Praying that humanity would finally wake up to our sins.

For the reason we all breed, plead and bleed

Is because we choke out reality with self-deceit's weeds.

My family looked at what I had done,

The weight of my actions bearing down on them like the sun.

The tears my brother had shed

Were in their stead;

And upon similar sacrifices, we were lead.

Saints, martyrs and innocents alike give their bodies for society to tread:

My family was just the next string to be woven into death's grand thread.

Reemerging from deep night, I watched as they succumbed to phobias and fears;

Overcome by angst, impossibility courses through their veins and their flesh sears.

"My sins are too great to bear," they said through sneers.

The last of them forsook me as the tears I swallow;

My brethren retreated back to the hollow.

To be ripped away from acceptance's warmth by a mighty bird?

I only wanted my voice to be heard,

And now the truth has been irrevocably blurred.

Sour thoughts spilled in my mind;

And to all reason, I am blind.

In a lonely cabin, the rope was strung;

"Do it; just do it," the voices in my head rung,

Until their commands spilled from my necrotic tongue.

At the bell's final toll,

I realized my true role.

Revelation after revelation had shown

That I was truly alone;

The solution finally arrived as I sat on my throne.

My brethren retreated back to the hollow:

"Will I follow?"

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The Crimes of Grindelwald Comic Con Trailer BREAKDOWN - Duration: 19:52.

I liked this trailer quite a bit!

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First Alert Weather - Duration: 3:53.

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¿Cuál es el navegador más rápido para ver vídeos de YouTube? - Duration: 1:57.

1 comentariosVer comentario Mozilla ha acusado a Google de hacer que los vídeos de YouTube tarden más tiempo en cargar en navegadores distintos a Chrome al incorporar en el último diseño web de la plataforma la biblioteca de Java Script Polymer en el navegador de Google

  Los vídeos de YouTube tardan cinco veces más en cargarse dentro de navegadores como Mozilla Firefox o Microsoft Edge que en Google Chrome, según afirma el programador técnico de Mozilla Chris Peterson a través de su cuenta de Twitter

  La ralentización a la que alude Peterson se debe a que el nuevo diseño web de YouTube integra Polymer, una biblioteca de Java Script usada por la plataforma en la última actualización para el rediseño web

  Polymer funciona con el estándar de componentes API Shadow DOM v0, solo implementado en Chrome, por lo que al ofrecerse esta versión de YouTube a navegadores no preparados como Mozilla o Edge, el funcionamiento se ralentiza hasta cinco veces

  Peterson recomienda volver a la versión de YouTube previa a la implantación de Polymer para solucionar las diferencias en la velocidad de carga, ya sea en Edge o Mozilla

  Para eliminar el diseño web con Polymer hay que instalar la extensión Tampermonkey en el navegador y el script de usuario "YouTube Restore Classic"

Con ello, los videos de YouTube volverían a su velocidad normal.

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Free Dark Piano Type Trap Beat Instrumental || Crown - Duration: 2:38.

Free dark piano trap beat instrumental

Piano trap instrumental beat free

Purple Six Beats

Dark piano rap beat

Free dark type trap beat 2019

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Lower Blood Pressure Naturally With 6 Hacks - Duration: 14:39.

hi my name is Eric Michael founder of the power life system have you been told

that you have high blood pressure maybe or even on medications or maybe you've

been told by your doctor that you need to get this taken care of or there's

gonna be a lot of really negative effects and the fact is is that high

blood pressure that there's a lot of really really bad things towards body so

we want to get it taken care of and medications well they sound like they

were getting really great every single medication that I have researched or

even seen people on actually has a lot of really negative side effects so I'm

going to be sharing with you six hacks to naturally lower your blood pressure

and be healthier feel better and really have an overall better health before I

go in and I share the hacks with you I need to give you a disclaimer that this

is for informational purposes only you need to follow the instructions of your

primary care physician and this is not medical advice step one is the most

important and then why are you going to do the hacks you got to have the

motivation so you're either going to be motivated more by positive things for

example what you're going to be able to do the physical activities your

performance how great you're gonna feel or you're gonna be more motivated by

negative things like well laying in a hospital bed and tubes sticking out of

oneself not being able to do the things that one wants having bad performance so

identify what it is that motivates you the most and then expand on that if it's

positive really going to detail maybe even by the the swimsuit that you're

gonna use when you're on the beach jogging and running or whatever it is to

really make it real for you if it's negative which you could visit a

hospital I know that sounds really bad however that the heart behind it is that

the more motivated you are the more you're actually going to do something

that you're gonna get the results which are going to be fantastic for you so

pause the video identify the motivation expand it a little bit more and even

write down this is what's going to motivate me with

is what motivates me this is my greatest desire and I'm gonna achieve it by a

certain date so that you have this fire behind you and this this path should

actually do something and get the phenomenal results you're gonna get hack

number two is make foods your ally and I wanna share I love chocolate I love

pizza I love you know fried shrimp they're so tasty however what we need to

do is we need to develop the habit even more of when we see something in front

of us that we know is not healthy well he might be able or what is not healthy

well okay what is healthy are gonna be natural things like fruits and

vegetables legumes like beans and well for example clean that types of proteins

well be like a free-range chicken if not hit a little sell it actually a

manufactured processed little pellets or things like that or free-range meats or

animals and or free or fish that actually is not very high in mercury or

other pollutants and so many fish are these days so if it's chicken really

simple if you're eating vegetables legumes and fruits you're probably going

to that that's that would be the healthy core then you can add on some things

like free-range chicken clean meats they're not pumped full of antibiotics

eggs some and clean fish if you can find it where you live so anything outside of

that processed foods cakes cupcakes chocolate pizza and all of that is put a

fried foods a probably negatively affect your blood pressure I mean it's gonna

cause it to go up so what you can do is a simple activity that I've done

personally it's work really well is that when you look at something for example

let's say a cake okay what you need to do is then think about immediately what

it is that's gonna motivate you the negative side of things right what's

gonna happen if you eat that well you picture being in a hospital bed okay

that's what's going to motivate that's what's going to be negative to reduce

the proceeded pleasure that cake and then instead of say an apple you can

associate with a meaning visual at that moment you look at the Apple the

positive thing meaning being healthy performance running on the beach looking

great being able to do all you want to deal with whatever age or technical you

know birth that you have then what do you do those two steps the more you're

naturally going to associate greater pleasure with things like an apple or a

melon or papaya you know things like that they're gonna be sweet and tasty

and beneficial for you instead of things like it's like a pizza or chocolate

they're gonna actually cause your blood pressure to go up

hack number three is activity well you may be thinking well you and

your job here you're sitting a lot using a computer well you can set a time or

there's little app so you can use or you can do it proactively it's get up and

walk around at least every 30 minutes you can do what I did is I got it under

a desk a little bike and house it got a standing desk and I was losing weight

using those and I don't really have a lot of weight to lose but my weight

actually went down some when I was using those so I was getting even slimmer and

and more and more I guess bit so as long as you're getting up and moving around

that's what matters we're designed as hunter-gatherers we were out and about

we were doing things we weren't designed to be sitting for these higher days so

it's recently really important to is activity and we're gonna go back to the

the motivation is is that when you think about oh I don't know if I want to get

up I'm watching my TV show or whatever think about what you're gonna get the

positive thing and think about the negative things you identified if you

keep on sitting there you can even watching your TV show or on social media

and you can actually lead a lifting your feet it's in walking in place so you

really have the flexibility to it's it's a decision it's gonna do so many

wonderful things for you trust me hack number four is do something fun for

you every single day or as often as you feel a desire to do something fun right

don't make doing something fun stressful where you have to do it oh my gosh I'm

stressed because I didn't do something fun today no don't take it to that

extreme point though of it is that for example

for me I love getting a massage on the beach I love getting and I say well I'm

here in Brazil so that's a little more common or coconut water and just just

won't listen to the ocean watching the sunset I absolutely love that I love

watching the sunrise too so identify what it is for you something you really

enjoy it doesn't have to be I'll go swim with the whales or go take a trip to

Hawaii it can be something really simple for

example I think coconut water costs about the equivalent of like 75 cents

okay in u.s. dollar so it's really simple however what it does for me is it

puts me in a great state I or even an even greater stay right I feel great and

my blood pressure goes down right so if you do something you enjoy maybe it's

walking in nature playing ball playing catch playing in the pool we're saying

plane right not exercise them you have to exercise doing fun for yourself and

really open up to new fun things if fun for you normally is I know some

individuals and fun for them is reading a book sitting down where it's watching

a TV show sitting on a couch okay let's expand it a little bit more to get you

outside the nature as a wonderfully calming effect being around animals and

I don't mean like Tigers chasing you or bears chasing you but for example dogs

and cats petting dogs and cats you can lower with blood pressure you've put a

nice dogs or cats get outside be open to do new things or test out things that

could be fun for you that actually get you moving at you outside of nature and

outside basically in a clean air area and that's gonna do wonderful things for

your blood pressure naturally it's gonna go down it's gonna be even healthier and

you're gonna feel great hack number five is relaxation and it's as simple as this

is at least three times a day yes I said three start out where you are start were

you comfortable get to three times per day within 30 days is place your

attentional your entire body allow you from your feet to your head to relax

even more completely then give thanks for all things in all areas of life then

send great energy to other people you can visualize it descending from the sky

or that you're radiating out what a white light and then visualize the

things you most desire in your life already realize everything you most want

you're already doing and now really connect with the feelings you have would

be positive I mean you just accomplish whatever it is you most want and expand

those feelings of happiness of joy of calmness and peace and every time I

repeat it allow these emotions of positive feelings and how you visualize

to grow and be even more clear more intense and the more you do this the

more will help your blood pressure be even lower naturally and then hack

number six is I think the most important and it's called do a habit reset or

what's that habit reset well how did we said is this I'll give

you an example is an individual I know he wakes up in the morning they take a

test his blood pressure and he sees this a little bit too high so then he gets

stressed and then he goes higher and then he argues a lot with his wife or

not a lot but let's just say at least once a month a lot of times more often

than that and that causes her to get upset and then she's upset she's not as

sweet as she usually is she's a really sweet heart and then that causes his

blood pressure to go up even higher and then he tries he has some exercise and

when it doesn't work instead of doing different exercises maybe

different types of movements you get some more stressed as blood pressure

goes up and I've kind of a habit loop he has and then he takes some blood

pressure medications that statins and other ones but they cause some side

effects that are causing other issues so you might be listen to this saying well

gosh that's his habit loop is pretty ridiculous and his blood pressure is

just going to keep on going up and we yes and we're looking at it from an

outsider we all have our own habit loops the key is to have habit loops that are

going to be productive toward what it is that we want so pause the video for a

second and then write down what are some things that you're doing right now I can

habitually that is similar to what I gave you that's B maybe before during or

that you can identify that is something that you're doing that's causing your

blemish or maybe even go up higher maybe you getting stressed maybe you aren't

going out and doing some movement activities maybe you you eat these same

foods and then before you're eating them you're thinking oh I'm kind of sad my

blemishes too high so I'm gonna eat the food to feel better whatever it is

there's a habit of going on either on the foods the movements the thought

process the relaxation or the or on the run around the blood pressure or

reliable relationship so identify that that that's that that habit loop and

once you identify it then ask yourself what are the corners to live with the

positive intention behind having that habit look like what do I have it you

know identify likely a positive intention for example a positive

intention for this person I would say is probably that he wants to be a lot

healthier he wants to feel a lot better and the idea is that if he stressed and

he's upset and so and so forth that that's gonna help him but actually it's

not but there's a positive intention behind it now that you have the positive

intention ask yourself what is one thing like the cornerstone like that the

foundational thing maybe the first thing that you think or you do that you could

adjust and adjust it just a tiny bit so still your comfort zone that could

change this whole habit loop for example this individual like one thing he could

do would be to for example its company a big thing would be to get let's say a

coach to give them different exercises to do and probably doing different

movements another thing he could do is let's just say when he wakes up in the

morning is be sweet to his wife get her a flower okay well how is that gonna

change the habit loop well that's gonna change the entire habit loop because now

instead of kind of being upset intention that she gets upset that she's gonna be

sweet and when someone Suites your blood pressure goes down and then as a follow

up on the flower he could go out into nature and say let's go rock in nature

so that's now changed the whole thing instead of being in the house all day

long they're outside in beautiful nature and she's feeling wonderful she got a

flower who doesn't like to get a flower so that's an example you need to find

out what it is for yourself it's gonna be unique for every single person or if

it's something really small it's easy it's in your comfort zone and it's gonna

basically be like the first thing for the rest of the habit loop and once you

change that one little thing instead of having kind of a habit loop that could

be negative that's raising your blood pressure can be able habit loop like the

example I gave you that's when it's gonna be causing it to go and get even

lower I really hope this was beneficial to you I believe that regardless of

whatever your blood pressure is right now it give me a lot healthier by doing

these six hacks so let's go and do them as a follow-up to help you with your

your health and all different areas of your life because they're all really

interconnected I created a quiz like a quiz it's a 30 second a pre quiz you can

click below or click on the link wherever it is and identify what area of

your life you can benefit with benefiting and improving the most right

now it's the most important to you and they'll give you the next steps because

I believe that when you improve you know every area of your life it's going to

improve well your health area and everything maybe it's your health I'll

give you some follow-up tips to help maximize that as well and I've been

there I've been there and really some incredible improvement of

myself and the students who follow this fantastic - I thank you ahead of time

for giving the video a thumbs up and for sharing it with other people - so we can

help even more people naturally make their blood pressure even healthier

subscribe to the channel so I can contribute more to you I want to give

you more beneficial videos I have so many more topics and finally I think you

ahead of time for giving a comment on something you liked about the video and

some a question or some follow-up that what you would like me to go into even

more detail about so that I can benefit you your life and then everyone you come

in contact with make this a fantastic day

lots of love. Thank you!

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Fern Gully, Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Duration: 16:08.

Now in Ocho Rios at the intersection of Milford Rd and Ocho Rios Bypass

Taking the slip left onto Milford Rd

Milford Rd leads to Fern Gully

Continuing straight would take you to Dunn's River Falls

Right turn would take you to Main Street Ocho Rios (Town Centre).

Slip left onto Milford Road

Cascade Way [Right]

Methven Rd [Left]

Ocho Rios High School [Right]

Stormont Rd [Left]

Shaw Park Rd [Right]

Ocho Rios Primary School [Left]

Martin Christie St [Left]

First Hill Rd [Left]

To Breadnut Hill - Bypass Fern Gull [Left]

Fern Gull begins about here

Craft Vendors

Craft Vendors

Craft Vendors

"Fern Gully Scenic Ave Establish 1907"

When there is heavy rainfall, Fern Gully is usually impassable. The gully changes into a river bed.

Craft Vendors

The thick vegetation is blocking the sunlight

Craft Vendors

Fern Gully ends about here

To Breatnut Hill - Bypass Fern Gull [Left]

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Highway NAM SONG HAU- VIET NAM .Chapter 6 - Duration: 40:17.

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Jonas Blue feat. Jack & Jack - RISE (Acapella Cover) - Duration: 2:12.

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The votes are in! [First COVER BATTLEGROUNDS Results] - Duration: 3:24.

Huh, the postman sure is running late. Bones, are you sure you checked the mail today?

Man, I hope they didn't deliver to the wrong address again.

We really need those results for the poll...

Ooh! That must be him, Mr. Bones go answer it quick!

Phew, glad that was all just a huge misunderstanding.

That dude was actually a pretty down-to-Mars guy!

Ha ha, no, of course not.

Because we'd be

DEAD

Now let's start the show

Hey everyone I'm DAR, and co-hosting with me today once again is none other than

Mr. Bo--

would you stop looking out the window?!

You big scaredy-skull!

there's no way! He said he'd only be back if there's another Doom Marathon

so go sit down!

...Anyways, moving on.

It's time to announce the results of the first

first off I'd like to thank all of you whom participated and casted your votes

I'm also quite happy to see that this new system worked out alright.

Now, this shouldn't come as much of a surprise but Team DOOM came out on top this time

With the next Doom Marathon and the Doom 3 redo tying in together for first place with

four votes each.

coming in at second place both tied together with three

votes each the elusive and mysterious "Secret" Doom cover and Halo 3's

"Never Forget" quite happy to see that one made it. And, in third place is Ace Combat Zero's

"Mayhem". So there you have it. This will be the next group of covers I'll be

tackling I also want to note that the marathon is going to be sort of a dual

marathon that will consist of the Plutonia MIDI pack as well as the

recently released Doom 64 for Doom 2 mod. So that'll be fun! I also want to go over

some honorable mentions that received one vote or were mentioned in a comment

in the Cover Battlegrounds video. So first up is the Metroid Prime main theme

and there's also a vote for Undertale's Asgore theme, the Vegito Blue theme from

Dragon Ball Super. Water World from Duke Nukem 3D and lastly a vote for any of

the Persona songs in my cover to-do list. Lastly, I want to let you guys know that

these "Honorable Battlegrounds Mentions" have been

marked in orange now on the main page of the covers to-do-list

now with the first

coming to an end, it's time to start getting to work!

anyways, I've been DAR, and that's Mr. Bones

and I hope you all look forward to these tracks and also look forward to the next

Hey Bones, I just realized something...

if we're gonna be starting on another Doom Marathon

then...

that means...

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Big Pharma Jumps In To Stop Trump From Lowering Prescription Drug Prices - Duration: 5:33.

Donald Trump promised us on the campaign trail that he was going to lower prescription drug

prices here in the United States.

It's something he's actually hinted at throughout his presidency, yet so far, they haven't actually

really done anything about it.

However, just as this administration was starting to actually look at the problem, and they

were trying to come up with some kind of plan to address the issue, Big Pharma sent their

lobbyists and their front groups, specifically the front group called PhRMA, P-H-R-M-A, to

meet with the President, and submit a draft proposal of what they could do to allegedly

lower prescription drug prices.

Two days after these groups met with the President, the administration released their plan to

lower prescription drug prices, and it was almost word for word the same proposal that

was submitted to them by Big Pharma itself.

Here's what that plan is.

According to these pharmaceutical lobbying groups, the problem with high drug prices

is not the fault of the drug companies, it's the fault of, as they say, "major players

along the drug supply chain, including insurance companies, and the pharmacy benefit managers."

Okay.

Pharmacy benefit managers are the main culprits according to Big Pharma, and those are the

ones being targeted by their proposals.

Here's what they say that these people do.

These people negotiate with insurance companies and pharmacies in order to get a specific

insurance company to cover a specific drug from a drug company.

Okay.

And then, they come up with rebates and then those pharmacy benefit managers get paid a

commission off of the number of rebates that get submitted, and because of this, it incentivizes

people to raise the cost of the prescription drugs, double them in some cases, so that

they can create a bigger rebate, which gives these pharmacy benefit managers more profit.

This is actually true.

That is a thing that happens.

Big Pharma is correct about that.

However, that is not the main reason that drug prices in the United States are so high,

and that is not the target that we need to be focused on if we want to lower prescription

drug prices.

Yes, we have to take greed out of the equation, and that's what these benefit managers are

doing.

That's what their entire career is based off of, greed.

They don't care how many people get better.

They just care about how many people take the drugs and cash the rebates, so they can

get the money from it, from the increased prescriptions from it.

What we have to do is, first and foremost, ban, like every other country in the world

except for, I think it's New Zealand, we have to ban, once again, direct to consumer advertising.

As soon as direct to consumer advertising happened here in the United States in the

late '90s, drug prices skyrocketed.

Why?

Because Big Pharma companies were spending billions of dollars every year on marketing,

and they had to get that money back.

The majority of the costs associated with any prescription drug, here in the United

States, do not come from the research and development, most of which is actually subsidized

by the federal government, or conducted by outside universities, who then hand it over

to the pharmaceutical companies.

The main cost is the marketing.

That's why our prescription drugs are so much higher than everyone else.

That's at least one reason they're so much higher than everyone else.

If we do not address that issue, we cannot ever fix the problem.

Ever.

Like, that's first and foremost.

We have to do that to fix it.

If we're not going to take that issue seriously, we will always pay more than everyone else

for these prescription drug prices.

Second, Republicans have to get on board with the multiple Democratic legislative proposals

to import safer prescription drugs.

Now, the administration included in their little plan a separate plan to import drugs

from other countries that would be cheaper.

However, they put too many caveats on it to make it actually lower drug prices here in

the United States.

For example, they said that, yes, we can import drugs, but only if there is a specific drug

shortage for that medicine here in the United States.

And the drugs that are going to be imported are drugs that currently only make up, I think,

.1% of total pharmaceutical sales here in the United States.

Drug companies have also, in a show of good faith, agreed to lower prices on some of their

prescription drugs.

However, as is the case of Merck at least and a couple others, they're only lowering

the prices on drugs that very few people actually take, drugs that do not make up any significant

portion of their sales.

They're trying to hoodwink this administration and, unfortunately, the administration is

falling for it, and the people who suffer are the people who need these medications

in order to either get better and in some cases, actually just stay alive.

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