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Hey guys! Welcome to our first Q&A video, I'm Ashley Koi, Community Manager for Fish World. And I'm Matt, a developer on Fish World.

In our last monthly update video we asked you guys to send us your questions. We announced that Fish World is

upgrading to newer technologies,

In 2020 and we're here to discuss your questions, discuss some of your concerns,

And hopefully provide some solid answers for you.

First though Matt why don't you go ahead and tell us a little bit about yourself?

Right so as as I mentioned earlier, I'm Matt, a developer on Fish World,

I've been on Fish World for uh... a little over two years now,

and it's... been a great experience,

it's been a great experience working with Fish World and

Watching the community, watching the community interact with a lot of the features I've made

You guys are awesome. I just want to say you guys are awesome.

Ashlee: Aww.

And... If I had to name a favorite decoration, Bill the Holiday Cook.

Hands down, best decoration in the game.

Can't argue with that, honestly. It's a work of art.

Well first I thought we could dig into the topic. I'm sure players are excited to hear all about this process,

just by giving them a crash course on what Flash is and how it interacts with Fish World in their day-to-day

Okay, so a little bit on what flash is, it's a program that browsers use to help us deliver

interactive and exciting content to end-users

so if we think of it a little bit like a house,

Flash is uh... a kitchen.

Which is a special room of the house, where you...

Prepare special things, in this case we're using Flash to prepare Fish World for you,

Which is much like a kitchen being used to prepare a holiday ham.

Of course,

a staple of a holiday meal. Okay, so now that we have a better idea of what Flash is,

could you maybe explain to us, why we're upgrading from it?

Right, so, so I told you Flash is a great tool that we can use to create delicious holiday hams

But it comes with its own set of problems, so it's it's a kitchen, but it's not inside your house

It's in a trailer outside your house. It's a program that your browser uses, but it's not part of your browser

Because it's separate from your browser it

Has some some

It has its own set of issues kind of integrating nicely into it most browsers these days come shipped with Flash part of it

So you don't have to download an additional program. It's just

baked in,

But Flash being its own separate program

Has its own set of issues,

one of those issues being

That in order for it to deliver the powerful content that it needs to, it needs to have

Special access to your computer that most websites do not have

And some people in the past have used this for malicious intent

Which is which is not a great thing,

it's like, it's like that kitchen outside of your house has a bunch of loose wiring and you could accidentally zap yourself if you don't

Know what you're doing, so it's a little bit dangerous,

on top of that,

Browsers are moving away from Flash, so they have noticed these issues with it and have said

By 2020 we're no longer gonna be having this trailer in front of our house

We're going to be towing it away, and we're going to be getting rid of it

So that's why we're moving away from Flash. Okay. Well that sounds like a very good reason

I know our players are very concerned with their security, as are we for their security, and

Making sure that the game runs smoothly

One thing I've seen from players is some confusion around exactly what

HTML5 is as an alternative. So maybe you could describe it a little bit for them

Yeah, exactly so now that our kitchen is going

Where are we gonna cook our ham. So what HTML5 is, if you'll let me get technical for a second

It's a, it's a specification that was defined that tells you

How to build your browser and how to respond to certain internet content so if we can think of the browser as this house,

what HTML5 is, is the architectural drawings for the house,

Describing where the rooms should be and what they should do. And so what HTML5 brings to the table that previous

Specifications did not is now a kitchen to our house

So we can use that kitchen to deliver the same content that we used to deliver with Flash

but now in HTML5, so it's

It's the answer to Flash. It's what we're going to be moving forward with and using

It solves a lot of those security issues that Flash suffers, because it's part of the house, so it's robust

Yeah, it's the future

*Ashlee laughs*

So it's safer, it's newer, and it's inside the house so

Matt: Exactly. Ashlee: What more could you ask for? Matt: No more going out in the rain to get dinner

*laughs*

You don't want to leave a holiday ham out in the rain, that's bad business.

Well, how about we move on to some of our player questions, since that's the whole reason for this video, now that we have a

good context for the for the issue at hand

Our very own moderator Shannon Peterson would like to know

"When you guys move to HTML5 will it still be within Facebook?"

Absolutely. Absolutely if you'll let me go back to my analogy, I think it's doing some good here

if we look at HTML5 and Flash as *where* we prepare the meal, and

the meal being Fish World, in this case Fish World being a holiday ham,

Where we prepare that, doesn't change...

what it is. So it's still going to be Fish World, It's still gonna live inside Facebook, it's gonna look the same,

um.. and

It's still gonna be a holiday ham!

*laughing*

Well, I think Shannon will be very interested to hear that, and thank you for answering for her,

Our next question has come from Vicki Rivas, which I hope I'm pronouncing correctly, sorry if not

"How is this going to affect the tanks we've already built?"

Hi, Vicki. I'd like to address this question for a second because it's not going to affect your tanks at all

The tanks that you have today are still going to be the tanks that you're gonna have after the migration

After we're in an HTML5 fish world

Like I said we're gonna be changing how we're preparing that holiday ham,

but that's not going to be changing. Your tanks are going to be the same, your inventory is going to be the same,

Yeah.

Okay, you heard it from him!

I think that kind of goes along with the same theme as our next question from two players, Nona and Carla both

Wondering if their items are gonna be safe

Nona and Carla, your items are safe. They're safe with us

We're not going to change them. So when I'm talking about Flash and HTML5

These are technologies that live on your browser, your internet browser

Which is where we display Fish World to you, where you interact with Fish World,

but

That's a little bit different than where we keep your items, where we keep your fish tanks, where we keep all that information. That lives

On our servers which are elsewhere

Those aren't changing. We're not changing those. We're not changing your items. We're not changing your fish tanks

If this conversion goes well, you might not even notice that Fish World has changed at all. Oh, that'll be fun to see!

Maybe it just glosses by without anyone noticing. Yeah.

Alright, for our last player question this comes from Donna Rice, and

she would like to ask: "Could this be having any effect on the issues I'm having in Fish World right now?"

Hmm.. Yeah..

So Donna, I can't

answer that question without knowing specifically what your issues are - For example if your issues are not winning enough jackpots in the slot machine

This isn't gonna fix that issue

But, it is gonna do something

To help us fix issues that you or other players might be facing. When we're switching from Flash to HTML5,

We're gonna

have a much greater

control over exactly what the game is doing.

So for example, Flash might have an oven in it that only cooks at 500 degrees Celsius,

but now, we have an oven that cooks at many different temperatures so

It's gonna. Give us a greater control over how fish world works,

and hopefully we're going to be able to fix a lot of the problems that you players are seeing

But I can't guarantee that we'll fix your issue specifically, because well

I don't know what they are, right? Send in a ticket Donna! We'll help you out

Great, so um the next question is actually one of mine

Based on what I've seen

Discussed on the group and from players, they seem to wonder

Why do we have to dedicate all of our time and resources

In terms of development on this right now. Why can't we spread it out a bit more, focus on some other features,

Why is it such a priority for us?

Right so the reason we have made it such a

priority is simply because of the amount of work that we have in front of us to do. So

browsers announced that they were going to be towing this trailer away from the front of your house

just this past summer, and they gave us they gave us a two year window to kind of

Migrate off of Flash.

Now those of you, who've been playing Fish World,

I know a lot of you have been playing Fish World for a lot longer than two years

So this game has been in development for

Quite a long time, and to take all of that development and switch it over to a different

technology, in the timeline we're looking at is about a year,

takes a lot of work,

And that's why we're prioritizing it, so that we make sure we have it ready for you

before you experience issues with Flash being gone, and making sure that you as a player still have an awesome game to play

So basically better safe than sorry and better to be prepared ahead of time than not to. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Great.

Ok well, that's been very informative for me, I hope it's been the same for you guys

and...

Is there anything else you'd like to say before we end the show today Matt?

Well I'd just like to tell the players that we've got a really bright future in front of us with HTML5

I think with this conversion Fish World is gonna be better than ever. And I'm looking forward to sharing the future with you

Indeed. And we also plan to update players along the way as I mentioned in the last video, so we're excited for that,

and I just want to thank you all for submitting your questions for Matt to answer, we both appreciate it very much

and for supporting the game, and

As well let us know in the comments if you liked the Q&A, if you'd like to see more of them, because we've got some

talented people on our team who would love to share what they do with you

So with that, thank you for watching, and we'll see you on the next video!

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8 CUTTING EDGE MINDS ANSWER THE QUESTION – WHAT HAPPENS AFTER WE - Duration: 18:55.

8 CUTTING EDGE MINDS ANSWER THE QUESTION � WHAT HAPPENS AFTER WE DIE?

What happens after death, no one knows for sure. It is a question of theory and imagination

mixed with ancient wisdom and intuitive guesses. Most of us can agree, however, that the human

being is a soul which lives for a time in a physical body. The soul feels infinite,

and records of near-death experiences clue us into the possibility that some greater

journey begins the moment the body dies.

It may seem that the realms of science and spirit are at odds with each other, but when

examining the greatest questions of human existence, such as what happens after we die,

the two disciplines converge. Even Einstein came to the conclusion that science and spirit

are intrinsically inter-related, noting:

�Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that

a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and

one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.� ~Albert Einstein

In his book The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and

Spirituality, author and researcher David Jay Brown asked a number of contemporary leaders

in the fields of consciousness, spirituality and science how they would answer the question.

Their replies exemplify the broad possibilities, the hopes, and the

1. Ram Dass, Psy.D

Spiritual teacher, former Harvard professor, pioneer of the LSD movement and author of

the seminal book Be Here Now, Ram Dass shares his thoughts, referring to The Tibetan Book

of the Dead.

I think it jumps into a body of some kind, on some plane of existence, and it goes on

doing that until it is with God. From a Hindu point of view, consciousness keeps going through

reincarnations, which are learning experiences for the soul. I think what happens after you

die is a function of the level of evolution of the individual. I think that if you have

finished your work and you�re just awareness that happens to be in a body, when the body

ends it�s like selling your Ford�it�s no big deal. I suspect that some beings go

unconscious. They go into what Christians call purgatory.

They go to sleep during that process before they project into the next form. Others I

think go through and are aware they are going through it, but are still caught. All the

Bardos in the Tibetan Book of the Dead are about how to avoid getting caught in the afterlife.

�Those beings are awake enough for them to be collaborators in the appreciation of

the gestalt in which their incarnations are flowing. They sort of see where they�re

coming from and where they�re going. They are all part of the design of things. So,

when you say, did you choose to incarnate? At the level at which you are free, you did

choose. At the level at which you are not, you didn�t. Then there are beings who are

so free that when they go through death they may still have separateness. They may have

taken the bodhisattva vow which says, �I agree to not give up separateness until everybody

is free,� and they�re left with that thought. They don�t have anything else. Then the

next incarnation will be out of the intention to save all beings and not out of personal

karma. That one bit of personal karma is what keeps it moving. To me, since nothing happened

anyway, it�s all an illusion�reincarnation and everything�but within the relative reality

in which that�s real, I think it�s quite real.� ~The Tibetan Book of the Dead

2. Alex Grey

Visionary artist, consciousness researcher and psychedelic advocate Alex Grey also looks

at this issue with reverence to the Tibetan philosophy.

I accept the near-death research and Tibetan Bardo explanations.

Soon after physical death, when the senses shut down, you enter into the realms of light

and archetypal beings. You have the potential to realize the clear light, our deepest and

truest identity, if you recognize it as the true nature of your mind and are not freaked

out.

If you don�t, you may contact other less appealing dimensions. No one can know, of

course, until they get there. Some people have had experiences which give them certainty,

but consciousness is the ultimate mystery. I�d like to surrender to the process on

its deepest level when death occurs, but I will probably fail, and be back to interview

you in the next lifetime. 3. Peter Russell, M.A., D.C.S.

Peter Russell is a leading consciousness researcher, presenter, and a faculty member of the Institute

of Noetic Sciences. His views center around the nature of human consciousness.

I have no idea what happens to life after death. I�ve studied the near-death experience

a bit, and it fascinates me. It would seem that one way of understanding it is that the

individual consciousness is dissolving back into the infinite consciousness.

The consciousness that I experience has this individual limitation because it is functioning

in the world through my body, through my nervous system, through my eyes and ears. That�s

where our sense of being a unique individual comes from. When we begin to die and let go

of our attachment to the body, consciousness lets go of that identity which it gained from

its worldly functioning, and reconnects with a greater infinite identity. Those who�ve

had near-death experiences often report there seems to be this dissolving of the senses,

and a moving into light. Everything becomes light after death.

There�s this sense of deep peace and infinite love. Then they come to a threshold after

death, beyond which there is no return. But we don�t know what happens beyond there,

if there is indeed life after death, because the people who come back haven�t gone beyond

it. When I think of my consciousness, when I think of �me-ness,� it seems to be something

that is created during this life through this interaction with the world, but doesn�t

exist as an independent thing. I think that a lot of our concerns about life after death

come from wanting to know what is going to happen to this �me� consciousness. Is

�me� going to survive? I believe that this thing we call �me� is not going to

survive. It�s a temporary working model that consciousness uses, but in the end it�s

going to dissolve. A lot of our fear of death is that we fear this loss of �me-ness,�

this loss of a sense of a separate unique identity. It�s interesting that people who�ve

been through the near-death experiences and experienced this dissolving of the ego and

realized that everything is okay when that happens, generally lose their fear of death.

They feel incredible liberation in life. 4. Bernie Siegel, M.D.

Bernie Siegel is a pediatric surgeon and author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles, expresses

the conviction that consciousness continues after death.

What I am sure happens to consciousness after death is that it continues on. I don�t see

it in a sense of saying, �Oh, I�m going to be reincarnated.� No, your body is gone,

but what you have experienced and are aware of will go on in the life after death. So

somebody will be born with your consciousness, and it will affect the life they live.

I know people who see life�s difficulties as a burden and say, �Why is God punishing

me?� and �Why am I going through this?� Maybe these people ought to be asking �What

am I here to learn, experience, and change?� Rather than sitting there whining and complaining.

�What can I do?� and �What am I here to learn?� Now, I don�t criticize these

people because I remember Elisabeth K�bler-Ross saying that if you�re in high school you

don�t get mad at somebody in first grade. So I think we�re at different levels of

consciousness based upon our experience and what we are born with. But I personally believe

from my experience, for instance, that one of the reasons I�m a surgeon in this life

is because I did a lot of destruction with a sword in a past life�killing people and

animals. This is not conscious, like the answers I gave you earlier, but at a deeper level

I chose to use a knife in this life to cure and heal with rather than kill with. I often

say to people, �Think about things that affect you emotionally, that you have no explanation

for. This may be due to some past-life experience, and that is why you�re acting the way you�re

acting.� Now, whether I�m right or wrong, I have to say that, as long as it�s therapeutic

that�s what I�m interested in. But on a personal level, I believe that consciousness

is nonlocal, and it can be carried on and picked up by people and so I believe in life

after death. I think this shows in animals too. There�s a certain wisdom that they

have. 5. Larry Dossey, M.D.

Author of Healing Words: The Power of Prayer, Larry Dorsey is a doctor and consciousness

researcher.

If we acknowledge that consciousness is nonlocal�that it�s infinite in space and time�then this

really opens up all sorts of possibilities for the survival of consciousness following

physical death, that is, for experiencing life after death. If you reason through this

and follow the implications of these studies, you begin to realize that consciousness that�s

nonlocal and unrestricted in time is immortal. It�s eternal. This is as hopeful as the

current view of the fate of consciousness is dismal. This totally reverses things. So

we are led to a position, I think, where we see that even though the body will certainly

die, the most essential part of who we are can�t die, even if it tried�because it�s

nonlocally distributed through time and space. Our grim vision of the finality of death is

revised. Death is no longer viewed as a gruesome annihilation or the total destruction of all

that we are. So there are tremendous spiritual implications that flow from these considerations,

in addition to the implications for health.

In fact, I believe that the implications for health are the least of it. A lot of people

who encounter this area take a practical, bare-bones, utilitarian approach to it. They

say, �Wow, now we�ve got a nifty new item in our black bag�a new trick to help people

become healthier. Certainly these studies do suggest that this is a proper use of healing

intentions and prayer, and I�m all for that, but the thing that really gets my juices flowing

is the implication of this research for immortality. For me, that�s the most exciting contribution

of this entire field. The fear of death and whether there is life after death has caused

more pain and suffering for human beings throughout history than all the physical diseases combined.

The fear of death is the big unmentionable�and this view of consciousness is a cure for that

disease, that fear of death. 6. Rick Strassman, M.D.

Well-known for his research into DMT, as presented in the documentary The Spirit Molecule, Strassman

leans on Zen philosophy while expressing his uncertainty.

I think life continues after death, but in some unknown form. I think a lot depends upon

the nature of our consciousness during our lives� how attached to various levels of

consensus reality it is. My late/former Zen teacher used to use the analogy of a lightbulb,

with electric current passing through it. The lightbulb goes out, but the current continues,

�changed� in a way, for its experience in the bulb. He also referred to like gravitating

toward like in terms of the idea of the need for certain aspects of consciousness to develop

further, before it can return to its source. That is, doglike aspects of our consciousness

end up in a dog in a life after death, humanlike aspects get worked through in another human,

plantlike aspects into plants, and so on. 7. Dean Radin, Psy.D.

Psychologist Dean Radin is the author of Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary

Psychic Abilities, and an outspoken pioneer of consciousness research with the Institute

of Noetic Sciences. He questions the origins of thoughts and personal identity, wondering

if that information is produced by the body or by something greater.

I expect that what we think of as ourselves�which is primarily personality, personal history,

personality traits, and that sort of thing�goes away, because most of that information is

probably contained in some way in the body itself. But as to some kind of a primal awareness�life

after death�I think it probably continues, because it�s not clear to me that that�s

produced by the body. In fact, I think that elementary awareness may be prior to matter.

So when you go into a deep meditation and you lose your sense of personality, that may

be similar to what it might be like to be dead. On the other hand, if you�re not practiced

at being in that deep state, or don�t know how to pay attention to subtle variations

in what might at first appear to be nothingness, it�s not clear that your consciousness would

stay around very long. In other words, you might have a momentary time when you have

this sense of awareness, and then it just dissolves. It goes back and becomes part of

the rest of everything. So it�s like a drop that settles into the ocean and disappears

into it. On the other hand, some people who either spend a lifetime preparing in meditation,

or who are naturally adept, may be able to sustain being a drop. They may be able to

settle into that ocean of life after death and still have a sense of their �dropness,�

even though they�re also now part of the ocean. Then maybe one�s sense of awareness

would expand dramatically, and yet still have a sense of unity. I imagine that all this

probably occurs in a state that is not bound by space and time as we normally think about

it. So, presumably, you would have access to everything, everywhere. I imagine that

something like that is the reason why ideas of reincarnation have come about, because

people remember something about it. They may even remember something about the process

of coming out of this ocean into a drop in the life after death, into a particular incarnation,

because a drop is embodied in a sense. . . . If there�s anything that psychology teaches

it�s that people are different. So I imagine that there may be as many ways of experiencing

after-death as there are people to experience it. And no one explanation is the �correct�

one. 8. Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D.

Known for his theory of morphic resonance, Rupert Sheldrake is biologist, biochemist,

parapsychologist, and author of Science Set Free. He leans on the importance of considering

human experience when answering this question.

For me the best starting point for this question of whether or not there is life after death,

is experience.

We all have the experience of a kind of alternative body when we dream. Everyone in their dreams

has the experience of doing things that their physical body is not doing. When I dream I

might be walking around, talking to people, even flying, yet these activities in my dreams,

which happen in a body, are happening in my dream body. They�re not happening in my

physical body, because my physical body�s lying down asleep in bed. So we all have a

kind of parallel body in our dreams. Now, where exactly that�s happening, what kind

of space our dreams are happening in, is another question. It�s obviously a space to do with

the mind or consciousness, but we can�t take for granted that that space is confined

to the inside of the head. Normally people assume it must be, but they assume that all

our consciousness is in our heads, and I don�t agree with that assumption. I think our minds

extend beyond our brains in every act of vision, something I discuss in my book The Sense of

Being Stared At, and Other Aspects of the Extended Mind.

So I think this idea of life after death, then, relates to out-of-the-body experiences,

where people feel themselves floating out of their body and see themselves from outside,

or lucid dreams, where people in their dreams become aware they�re dreaming and can will

themselves to go to particular places by gaining control of their dream. These are, as it were,

extensions of the dream body.

Now, when we die, it�s possible, to my way of thinking, that it may be rather like being

in a dream from which we can�t wake up.

This realm of consciousness that we experience in our dreams may exist independent of the

brain, because it�s not really a physical realm. It�s a realm of possibility or imagination.

It�s a realm of the mind. It�s possible that we could go on living in a kind of dream

world, changing and developing in that world, in a way that�s not confined to the physical

body. Now, whether that happens or not is another question, but it seems to me possible.

The out-of-body experiences and the near-death experiences may suggest that�s indeed what�s

going to happen to us when we die. But the fact is that we�re not really going to find

out until we do die, and what happens then may indeed depend on our expectations. It

may be that materialists and atheists who think that life after death will just be a

blank would actually experience a blank. It may be that their expectations will affect

what actually happens. It may be that people who think they�ll go to a heavenly realm

of palm oases and almond-eyed dancing girls really will. It may be that the afterlife

is heavily conditioned by our expectations and beliefs, just as our dreams are.

Final Thoughts

The exploration of human consciousness is the next frontier in science and spirituality.

Cutting edge ideas lead to revolutions

in human thought, science and the arts. What do you think? What does happen after we die?

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Homeless Man Found Outside Of Animal Shelter. When They Learn Why, They Answer His Prayers - Duration: 3:10.

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Homeless Man Found Outside Of Animal Shelter.

When They Learn Why, They Answer His Prayers

Sadly, you can find homeless people anywhere.

But there is one place that seems a bit abnormal.

An animal shelter.

And that's exactly where this young homeless man was found.

But his reason for staying there was one that has been grabbing the hearts of thousands.

No, this man didn't choose DeKalb County Animal Services out of mere comfort.

So the workers were confused when they saw him sleeping right outside the front door.

As they began to talk to the man, they discovered this man's story.

They even found out why he choose there to sleep.

And it broke their hearts.

"Our kennel tech woke him up, and the man said his dog had gone missing," Sia Karen

Hirsch, who is the spokesperson for the shelter.

He also mentioned that he had spent all of his money that he had collected in order to

pay for a bus ride to the kennel.

He was hoping that his dog would have been found, and picked up and taken to the kennel.

And he was in luck, as his lost dog had been picked up around 2 weeks earlier.

But the problem?

She was being held at the animal service's new facility, which was all the way across

town.

The homeless man was extremely upset, knowing he had no way to get there other than walking,

and that would take too long.

The kennel tech felt terrible for the man.

He knew he didn't have any other way to get there.

So instead of forcing him to walk, the kennel tech decided to cover the cost of the train

ride over.

The homeless man broke down in tears.

He hadn't been shown such friendliness in a long time, and this just meant the world

to him.

He was finally going to be reunited with his best friend, and nothing could possibly make

him happier.

At that point, rescuers at the facility had become acquainted with the little dog, who

they named Tata.

She was happy and healthy, and was just a loving dog.

When the homeless man arrived to pick up little Tata, it was clear to them that this little

dog may not have had a lot while living with this man, but she was loved deeply, and loved

him in return.

"You could see the joy in his face when they were reunited.

It was wonderful.

The joy for both of them was palpable.

It lifted everyone's spirit to see it.

Love is love, no matter who it's coming from.

He probably puts the dog first in his life, because without her he doesn't have anything,"

said Hirsch.

The shelter was even so kind as to waive their normal fees for the man, in order to reunite

them.

As well as offering them assistance in the future.

DeKalb County Animal Services also started an outreach program, which is helping homeless

people in the area care for their animals.

"Some people don't understand giving a pet back to a homeless person, but some of

those people take better care of their pets than some of us with homes.

If you see a homeless person with a pet, and are hesitant to give them money, you can give

them dog good, or even flea medicine.

They are need bottles of water.

Just basic supplies that humans and dogs can use.

Their pet is sometimes the only thing they have in their lives," commented Hirsch.

We are just so thankful that this man was reunited with his puppy.

We could tell just how much it meant to him, and we wish them both the best!

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Kate Winslet reveals how often she weighs herself - and her answer may surprise you! - Duration: 2:42.

Kate Winslet reveals how often she weighs herself - and her answer may surprise you!

Kate Winslet has purposely avoided weighing herself for more than 12 years. The 41-year-old has often come under intense scrutiny in Hollywood because of her curvy figure.

And the actress has previously spoken of how she was advised to settle for the fat girl parts during her time at drama school.

However, in an interview with The Sun newspaper to promote her new movie The Mountain Between Us, in which she co-stars with Idris Elba, the mother-of-three admitted she has no idea how heavy she is, as she hasnt weighed herself since around 2005.

Kate made the admission as she discussed a scene in which Idris has to drag her from a stream. It was very hard on him, she said. I dont know how much I weigh.

I havent weighed myself in 12 years – top tip it is great for the mood. But pulling my body weight, plus soaking wet with water and those clothes – it was pretty rough on poor old Idris..

Since Kate became a star in 1997 movie Titanic, she has been body-shamed for her normal figure. In an interview with Harpers Bazaar she spoke about the pressure to be thin, and how she prefers puts her health and sanity first.

I so didnt want to be one of those: Oh, wow, shes back in shape after 12 weeks women, Kate insisted to the publication. When I read things like that, I just think: Oh, for f**ks sake, thats actually impossible.

If you spend too much of your time focusing on the wrong stuff, like how much you weigh, then you forget to enjoy the fun stuff, dont you? Im no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesnt taste very nice and its bloody boring..

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Is Blockchain Technology Really the Answer to Decentralized Storage? - Duration: 11:40.

Is Blockchain Technology Really the Answer to Decentralized Storage?

The Blockchain has become much more than a simple piece of technology. It has become a symbol for freedom, transparency and fairness.

With this being said, it's no wonder we see projects leveraging Blockchain tech as a "one-size-fits-all" tool to solve all sorts of problems, many of which could not be further from the original purpose of the Blockchain.

Nowadays, the words "Blockchain technology" are thrown around alot and sometimes the use of the technology itself is unnecessary.

Tim Swanson, Director of Market Research at R3CEV has even coined the term chain washing to describe companies/startups that are using or trying to use Blockchain technology in certain areas when in fact, they could be using more advanced technology for the purpose at hand.

This becomes especially evident when it comes to file and data storage.

Although the Bitcoin Blockchain is basically a decentralized database for transactions, accounts and balances, keeping that information on a decentralized ledger is already proving to be a challenge due to capacity issues.

Nevertheless, several projects and companies insist on looking at Blockchain-based solutions for storage and, while there are clear cases of misguided enthusiasm when it comes to the use of Blockchain technology, there are some projects out there that are worth taking a look at.

Blockchain Technology as an Incentive Layer. When it comes to a mutualistic relation between Decentralized Ledger Technology (DLT) and data storage, the most common use case for the Blockchain is as an incentive layer.

This means that data isn't stored on the Blockchain itself, but the network at hand is able to leverage the Blockchain as a ledger for automatic payments and/or for value exchange, enabling users to pay for storage or access to files.

In this case, the advantages for using the Blockchain over any other technology are clear. These include faster settling times, lower transaction fees (which enable microtransactions), higher privacy and the ability for transparent and immutable record keeping.

While the Blockchain isn't being used for data storage, it is providing the foundation on which the decentralized network is built, allowing it to run with no central authority whatsoever.

There are several projects leveraging the Blockchain in such a way. Storj, one of the first and most successful decentralized storage networks on the cryptosphere, comes to mind.

The project started out using a Bitcoin-based asset but later moved to an ERC20 token on the  Ethereum Blockchain.

This token, the Storj Coin (SCJX), is used by clients to pay for storage and acts as an incentive for nodes that keep part of the client's files.

These files have been previously shredded, encrypted, and distributed to multiple nodes in order to ensure their safety and availability. Another popular example is Filecoin, a project developed by Protocol Labs, the creators of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).

In case you aren't familiar with IPFS, it is an alternative p2p hypermedia protocol that allows files to be stored in a permanent and decentralized fashion.

This provides historic versioning for files, removes duplicates and even allows users to save on bandwidth since files are downloaded from multiple computers and not from a single server.

While IPFS provides a basis for the storage of files, Protocol Labs took this one step further with the development of Filecoin which, according to the whitepaper, "works as an incentive layer on top of IPFS.

" The system is different from the one used by Storj on many levels.

In Filecoin, miners are paid to store and retrieve files, while also receiving mining rewards from their "useful Proof of Work. There is also no set price for file storage.

Instead, users and miners place buy and sell orders in a decentralized storage exchange, making Filecoin a competitive marketplace in which prices can adapt to outside conditions.

While Filecoin and Storj focus on providing affordable cloud storage services, a project named Decent is currently working on a decentralized content sharing platform which allows users to upload and monetize/share their work (videos, music, ebooks, etc) without the need to rely on a centralized third party.

Users can access content in a much more affordable way by skipping these intermediaries while the nodes that host the content are rewarded with fees. Much like Storj, the files stored by the nodes on the Decent network are shredded and encrypted.

Blockchain for storage? Is it possible?. Storing data on a Blockchain like Bitcoin would be doable, in theory. However, Bitcoin's current blocksize limit only allows for 1MB of data to be stored every 10 minutes.

Even if you remove that limit, nodes will eventually stop being able to maintain a copy of the Blockchain due to its size, resulting in a centralized and easily-disruptable network.

Of course, the scalability problem hasn't deterred developers from trying to use the Blockchain as a storage solution and a project called Archain may just have found a solution.

Archain is a cryptocurrency project that wants to address online censorship by creating a decentralized archive for the internet.

To do so, Archain will leverage a new Blockchain-derivative data structure, the blockweave which according to the whitepaper, allows the network scale to an "arbitrary size..

Once a user submits a page for archiving on the Archain system, it is stored on the blockweave with the fees paid by the user being allocated to the miner that finds the block at hand.

Since the  Archain requires miners to store both the current block and a previous block that has been randomly picked from the blockweave, miners have an incentive to store as much as the data as they can without being forced to store the entire blockweave.

As such, Archain is able to ensure that content requested by users is always available without the need for it to be stored by every single node on the network.

Archain is also able to address download speeds by incentivising users to propagate poorly-mirrored blocks.

You cannot talk about chain washing for too long without talking about private Blockchains. The concept of a private Blockchain is, to a degree, paradoxical as there is really no use for a Blockchain if the network is closed.

To put it simply: If a Blockchain network is not immutable, open or transparent, then a regular database will usually be far more efficient than a Blockchain.

Yet there is a little known project leveraging a private Blockchain in combination with the public Waves Blockchain to provide clients with the "best of two worlds.

We are talking about Sigwo Technologies LLC, a company that focuses on providing dApps and consulting services for legacy businesses that want to integrate Blockchain technology for data storage and disaster recovery.

Although Sigwo Technologies LLC provides a wide range of services, its use of the Jupiter Blockchain, the Mercury token and the Waves Platform caught my attention. Jupiter is a private Blockchain built specifically for encrypted information storage.

Different networks are created for different companies, allowing authorized nodes to join in and download the data on the chain. So far, Jupiter is not much different from any other private Blockchain.

What makes it stand out is how Jupiter is able to ensure transparency and immutability despite being a private Blockchain.

Once data is stored on Jupiter, the block hashes from the private Blockchain are stored permanently on the Waves Blockchain. This is done by adding the block hash to a Waves transaction.

Since Waves transaction can be paid for with a custom token, the Mercury token is used which makes the process affordable.

Since block hashes are stored on the Waves Blockchain, any change made to the private Blockchain will be publically detected. This happens because the hash from a certain block will always vary according to the information contained in the block.

What we're left with is a Blockchain in which large amounts of data can be stored by specialized nodes (unlike public Blockchains) while remaining publicly verifiable. Conclusion.

As we have seen, there are no shortage of projects that are using Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies to make decentralized storage possible.

However, it is also worth noting that DLT is still in its early stages and it is possible that other, more advanced technologies can replace it with respect to specific use cases.

In other words, Blockchain may not be the answer for everything.