What is up, you guys? We'll go back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I'm Goldpony. I do new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today, we are in the brand new 2023 Hyundai Kona, courtesy of Jack Gio and Volvo Hyundai in York PA, for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. So we are in this one today because the 2023 Kona now has more standard features than the 2022. We'll be going over that in this video. Not only that, this is rated by Consumer Reports. It's one of the top 10 most reliable vehicles in existence right now.  And then you got the Kona smack dab in the middle of it also. That's pretty cool. You get three years or 36,000 miles of complimentary maintenance as well. I definitely love that on my Sonata that I have right now. And you get America's best warranty, being five years, 60,000 mile bumper to bumper, 10 years, 100,000 miles on the powertrain. So a ton of peace of mind for you there as well. So ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering field, ride quality, sound system exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. And so as you can imagine, there are several different trim levels for the 2023 Kona. First one being the SE starting at $21,990. SEL, which is the one we are in today, starting at $23,800. N-line for $27,700. The limited for $28,800. By the way, that was all pricing for the front wheel drive configuration. If you wanted to add all wheel drive, you can do that to any of those trim levels. Simply add $1,500. And by the way, prices are actually $145 less than the 2022 model year. That's the first time I've seen that for the 2023 reviews that I've done so far. Typically they're around $5 to $800 more than the previous year because of inflation right now, but $145 less. Well done, Hyundai. I give you credit for that. Anyways, then touching on the power plants, as you can imagine with all of those trim levels, there are a couple different options when it comes to the power plants for the Kona. First one being a two liter naturally aspirated inline four cylinder. This engine is going to belong to the SE and SEL trims like we have today. 147 horsepower at 6,200 RPM. 132 pound feet of torque coming in at 4,500 RPM. Power set the front wheels or all wheels through an IVT. And by the way, that's new for 2023. Previously in the 2022 model year for this engine configuration, that was a six speed automatic. Nonetheless, zero to 60 time is going to come in at approximately 9.2 seconds with MPG numbers coming in at 30 in the city, 35 on the highway for the front wheel drive, 28 in the city, 33 then on the highway for the all wheel drive taking regular, unleaded fuel. But so then there is that other engine configuration belonging to the N-line and the limited trims. That one is powered by a 1.6 liter turbocharged inline four cylinder putting out 195 horsepower at 6,000 RPM, 195 pound feet of torque coming in at 1,500 RPM. Again, sent to front wheels or all wheels, but this time through a seven speed dual clutch with paddle shifters. That is a pretty substantial difference. Especially what that means is you're going to get insanely quick reacting times with the paddle shifter. So it's going to be fun to drive there and insanely quick shifting times in general because that's what a dual clutch is. They're amazing transmissions when it comes to performance at least zero to 60 time, approximately 6.6 seconds is substantially quicker. MPG numbers coming in at 29 in the city, 35 on the highway for the front wheel drive, 27 in the city, 32 then on the highway for the all wheel drive. But again, taking regular, unleaded fuel. Well done, honey for that. But anyways, before we do any kind of fun acceleration test here in the Kona, I wanted to mention to you guys, the drive moves is actually circular dial located just to the left of the shifter. That's going to give you normal sport and smart adjusting things like the shift points, throttle response and the steering sensitivity. And like I said, if you go with the upgraded 7.6 liter turbocharged engine, you're going to get paddle shifters as well. So anyways, we don't have those paddle shifters. So what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway. I'm going to put it in that fun driving mode, aka sport. And let's do a quick acceleration here and let's see how quickly we can get our new 2023 Hyundai Kona here up to speed in the rain. All right, let's just do it here. Three, two, one, go. All right, no slipping. First, I want to say that when you have the all-wheel drive, so that's nice. Definitely holding the RPMs at a higher level. It's definitely on the slower side of things if I'm being completely honest. Keep in mind, we don't have the upgraded engine and this is the naturally aspirated engine which more than likely is going to be a heck of a lot more reliable. Probably good for when we're going to be fine according to consumer reports, but still this is going to be the more reliable engine. So typically when you get those more reliable engines, you do tend to sacrifice acceleration slightly. So having said that, it's kind of on the slower side of things. And I think everybody knows that from that zero to 60 number. But anyways, to go along with that acceleration as always, braking is equally important. So upfront, you will find 11-inch ventilated front discs in the back, 10.3-inch solid rear discs. As far as that 60-zero stopping distance goes, it's going to come in at 132 feet, which quite honestly isn't the best, but let's go ahead and let's get a little bit faster and let's hit the brakes. Brake feels actually really good. I think I might've said that last year. I don't remember, but Brake feels 100% on the firmer side of things. So despite that number, I would be perfectly fine with this just because the braking feels on the firmer side of things. So it does feel like that 60-zero number should be in the lower 120s, because it feels really good if I'm being quite honest. So I don't know where I got that number from. It was probably motor trim, but throw it out the window because the braking feels absolutely 100% on point here in the cone up. Anyways, then touching on suspension and handling, upfront, you're going to get a McPherson strut front suspension, but the rear suspension is going to differ pretty substantially. So for the front wheel drive configuration, you're going to get a Torsen beam rear axle for the all-wheel drive configuration. You're going to get an independent multi-link rear suspension. So you're going to get better handling, better ride quality if you go with the all-wheel drive just because you get the independent multi-link rear suspension. So wanted to mention that, but anyways, gas pressure, eye shock absorbers as well. As far as ride quality goes, it's fine. It's pretty much as you would expect the Kona to ride like. So I've had absolutely no issues. As far as steering feel goes, let me actually put it in sport driving mode. It's still kind of on the looser side of things. It does kind of make the steering feel a bit heavier when you put it in that sport driving mode, as expected, like I alluded to, but, and it is a noticeable difference, but still, it's kind of on the softer side of things, or the lighter side of things when it comes to that steering feel. So it's pretty much as you would expect the Kona to feel like there. Touching on cabin noise, that's been perfectly fine on my short test drive here today. I know in a lot of Hyundai's in the past, you get a little bit of road noise, or wind noise, I should say, at higher speeds, but I didn't even notice it so far in the Kona test drive that I've done here, and I've gotten over 50 miles per hour. So actually cabin noise is pretty much on point for this one. Touching on visibility, I can see perfectly fine out the back. Definitely not gonna have any issues with a smaller SUV like the Kona anyways. But so that about rounds out the performance segment of this review, guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2023 Hyundai Kona. All right, so here she is, you guys, the new 2023 Hyundai Kona finished in ultra black, in case you were curious of our exterior color name. That is what they call it, but let's go ahead and start up front as always.  I know a couple of years ago it was sitting within the front grille, so I do like the new look sitting on the hood there. Front air curtains, you can see those to the bottom corners there, helping direct air around the wheel and tire combination, so little better aerodynamics there. If you were to go with that end line, that's actually gonna give you a unique front fascia, so it is gonna be pretty substantially different than what you're currently looking at right now. To the sides you're gonna get projector style halogen headlights for all trim levels, but the limited, because of course the limited trim level is going to give you LED headlights coming standard. And by the way, when it comes to the location of the headlights, as the rain picks up here, headlights are actually gonna be located just below, whereas the daytime running lights are gonna be located on the upper portion there, in case you were curious. So headlights are kind of just in the middle there, so I wanted to mention that as well. Automatic feature, of course, coming with this headlights, meaning when it starts to get dark in at night, they will turn on automatically for you there. And if you were to go with the limited, you're also going to get automatic high beams as well. So if you have your high beams on at night, and it senses a vehicle coming in the opposite direction, it's gonna automatically dim them back to low beams. Then when that vehicle is gone, it's gonna automatically then bump it back up to high beams for you though. But that pretty much rounds out the front end of this one. Actually really looks good in my personal opinion. I love the look of the Kona, but anyways, let's now go ahead and make our way to the side of this one. It's been now making our way to the side of the Kona. Roof rails are going to come on the SEL trim level end up. Roof privacy glass coming again on the SEL trim level end up. And that's why we have it there today. Floating roof line towards the back. You can't really tell because it's black and we have a black exterior, but that is gonna be there as well. Black window surrounds also coming standard. Then taking a look at the side mirrors. They are body color power adjustable side mirrors, but now standard for all trim levels for 2023. This is another one of those changes for this year. Heated with LED integrated turd signals. Also going to come standard for all trim levels that didn't come standard for 2022. So I wanted to mention that map black fender surrounds are gonna come standard on all trim levels, but the end line, because the end line, again, is gonna change them to body colored fender surrounds and side skirts. Really body colored accents all the way around this thing. Then taking a look with the wheel configuration. 16 inch alloys for the SE, 17 inch alloys for the SEL and then 18 inch alloys for the end line and the limited. And I actually really like the design of the wheels that we have on our SEL trim level here today. So anyways, pretty much rounds out the side profile here. So now I'll go ahead and make our way to the back. All right, so now since we are around to the back of the cone here, body colored shark fin antenna all the way to the top. Just below that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light. Just below that rear window wiper. LED tail lights, if you wanted them are gonna come on the limited trim level only. Of course you got some all wheel drive badging back there on the lift gate. If you were to go with an all wheel drive trim level, nice silver accenting towards the bottom portion of that rear fascia. Then I did want to mention there is a rear diffuser if you go with the end line trim level. Obviously we don't have that with us here today, but single exhaust outlet tucked away there on the passenger side underneath. So having said that, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next as always here is that exhaust clip. All right, so now since we are around to the back of the Kono and it comes to opening that rear tailgate it is a manual tailgate that just comes standard for all trim levels across the board. Once opened up, cargo capacity comes in at 19.2 cubic feet behind that second row. If that was not enough space, of course there is a 6040 split meaning the rear seats do fall down bumping then up to 45.8 cubic feet. There of course is some cargo lighting back there. There actually are grocery bag hooks back there as well. There is a cargo cover. You have some tie down anchors. There is a little bit of kind of indented storage on the right side in the back there. And if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor, you were actually going to find a spare tire which I personally prefer as opposed to the fixer flat. So I did want to mention that as well. And there is a little bit of storage. I guess you could put an ice scraper in there as well. Anyways, very nicely done. Then making our way up to the rear legroom that is going to come in at 35.2 inches. So for reference, I mean even six feet tall. This is how much space I had in those back seats there. And they are reclining by the way. So that is pretty cool. A little added comfort there. Rear center armrest with cup holders does come standard. However, there is no rear ventilation but there is a USB charging port. I don't remember seeing that on the 2022 Kona. So there may be yet another change for the 2023. So big fan of that, little bit of storage next to that as well. Then making our way up to the front seats. Claw seating coming with the SESEL and N-line trims. However, limited is going to give you leather seating if you were interested. A weight power driver seat for the SEL trim level and up which by the way was only available on the N-line trim level and up for 2022. So yet another small change for 2023 there. Heated front seats for the N-line and the limited. And overall as far as seat comfort goes, it was plenty fine. Nothing really crazy, but it'll definitely get the job done. I personally didn't have any issues there. Let's take a look at the steering wheel. It is tilt and telescoping. It is leather wrapped for the N-line limited and then optional for the SEL if you wanted leather wrapped but we don't have that option. So we do get it wrapped in urethane. That's what you guys are looking at. Then make our way to the startup. Let me start by showing you guys the key. You got your Hyundai logo on the one side and when you flip it over lock, unlock and actually that circular button that's going to be remote start. So that's pretty cool as well. And that's for the SEL trim leveling up along with keyless entry with a push button start the SEL trim leveling up as well. So all I'm going to do here is simply put my foot on the brake and press that engine start button located just by the driver's right knee. And so once started up, now the gauge cluster is going to differ again amongst the trim level. So if you were to go with the N-line or the limited you're going to get a 10 and a quarter inch digital gauge cluster. And that's going to look absolutely amazing. If you don't, if you go with the SE or SEL trims you're going to get what you're currently looking at tachometers on your left, speedometers on your right. There's a small digital display front and center to control what is on that digital display. There are steering wheel mounting controls found on the right side of the steering wheel giving you things like a digital speedometer which looks pretty darn cool. Nice little background graphic there. That's probably what I would leave it on. There's also tire pressure information, how many miles you have left until you hit empty. Of course, when you need your next oil change the list goes on. So I'm going to leave it on the digital speedometer. I think that looks pretty darn cool. But now let's go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality. If you wanted a power sunroof go with the limited. That's the only way you're going to get it. Black headliner is going to come with the N-line. Black interior accents also with the N-line along with alloy foot pedals. Wireless phone charger is going to come on the N-line limited and optional for the SEL. Automatic climate control, same thing. N-line limited and optional for the SEL. Auto dimming rear view mirror with home leg controls coming with the limited trim level. Only there is also a overhead sunglass holder. It's going to come standard on all trim levels. Just in front of the shifter you're going to get a couple USB charging ports a 12 volt power outlet and a little bit of rubberized storage up there. Do you want to also mention to the right of the shifter that little lock button that's going to lock this thing in all wheel drive if you're driving through the snow here in PA perhaps. That's what I do on my Santa Fe at least. Just behind the shifter you have dual cup holders and within the center armrest, little bit of storage pretty much as expected there. So overall everything's kind of on the basics out of from being honest everything from the door handles to the doors themselves. So it'll get the job done though for the price point and for the reliability that this thing gives you. I'm not too worried about it but let's take a look at the infotainment screen. This is where Hyundai always crushes it. So eight inch color touchscreen display coming with the S E and S C L. That's what you guys are looking at but 10 and a quarter inch color touchscreen display coming with the M line limited and that's going to be optional on the S C L but either way you get Bluetooth and audio streaming Android Auto, Apple CarPlay but if you go with the S C or S C L the eight inch screen essentially you get wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. So a lot of manufacturers will just give you wireless Apple CarPlay right now but Hyundai for the eight inch screen at least gives you both wireless Android Auto for my phone and Apple CarPlay as well. So that is pretty darn cool. I absolutely love that. Well done Hyundai. I still don't know why they don't put it on the 10 and a quarter inch screen but I still love it that it's on the eight inch screen. So anyways, you can also check out your radio information up there of course and when it comes to the sound systems there's two of them, six speakers is going to come with the S E, S C L and N line. Then with the limited you're going to get an eight inch Harman Kardon sound system. So what do you guys say? I think you know what we have to do next. Let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we've got playing today and let's test out our six speaker sound system that we have with us here today. You got me so Baby, I'm wishing you a lot Hey, it's okay. It sounds like a six speaker sound system. It's pretty much as I expected. The bass isn't the most I've ever heard. Clarity was pretty decent for six speakers but it sounds like a six speaker sound system. I'm just going to put it that way. But anyways, last thing I wanted to mention to you guys on the infotainment screen is when you do put the Kona in reverse you will find a rear view camera that does come standard for all trim levels across the board letting you know who or what is behind you which is always is going to lead us into safety. And so front side side career airbags do come standard in the back. You're going to have latch AKA lower anchors and tethers to children for the rear car seats, rear child door locks tire pressure monitoring system but then also coming standard and there's more upgrades here blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert that's newly standard for 2023 it did not come standard on 2022. So that's pretty cool. Forward collision avoidance assist with pedestrian detection lane following assist link keep assist driver attention warning system safe exit warning as well. And then if you were to go with the limited that is going to add to that rear parking sensors highway driving assist which is kind of like Hyundai's level two autonomous driving system and high beam assist as well. So overall when it comes to my final thoughts here of the Kona, excellent reliability specifically, especially with our naturally aspirated four cylinder engine that we have with us here today America's best warranty as well not that you really need it because of the reliability ratings by Consumer Reports three years of free maintenance is going to save you some money there as well and line styling personally would be my preference when it comes to styling at least because you get the body colored accents having said that it's not necessary for me but I do like the body colored accents on this thing great price point great starting price point as well of course you add the all wheel drive it's another 1500 but and I probably would because I live in PA and we get snow quite a bit but still great starting price point nonetheless as far as room for improvement goes of course this base engine is going to be slow but if you wanted more power it is available so I can't really knock it for that the only thing I could really think of is magic seats kind of like Honda HRV does in the back where it flips up kind of like a pickup truck would I think that's pretty darn cold is a ton of utility there and you could put larger things or animals maybe a great Dana or a massive back there if you wanted to like that so anyways, I would add that Hyundai if you're watching this and that is about it for this and when you guys thank you so much for watching let me know what you guys think of the Kona in the comments section below I always read your comments feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen if you want to see what's coming next on the channel before it gets to YouTube be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're into new car reviews that is what we do here on this channel after all do appreciate you guys watching more then you know when I will see you guys all in the next video stay going


When we say leadership, most of the time, any kind of leadership training is spent on learning to manage situations, people, money, probably. Yes, all this is important, but how could you… Essentially a leader means you must be able to manage a few thousand people. Or in other words, you're trying to manage a few thousand minds. That if you're incapable of managing this one, this mind, how will you manage that mind? Just by chance. When you're managing situations by chance, you will be always freaked. Anxiety and leadership has become synonymous today because you're managing people by chance. If you cannot manage this one, managing that one is definitely by chance. So one of the most significant aspects of leadership has been generally ignored or people have acquired this out of their own natural capabilities. When you do things accidentally, being anxious is very natural. And today we have enough medical evidence to prove that if you're not in a very pleasant state of mind, then your body and your mind will never function at its optimal level. There is substantial medical evidence towards this. Only when you're very peaceful and blissful, your body and your mind works at its best. And your success in this world is just this. To what extent can you harness the capabilities of this physical body and this mind? That's all success is. It doesn't matter what is the nature of your activity, that's all it is. Is it so? And the most fundamental and the basic requirement to make your body and mind work properly, sensibly in the highest possible way is that if you sit here, you must be in a state of pleasantness within you. If I ask you the simple question, how many of you in these many years of living have had a twenty-four hour stretch that is one single full day where you did not have a single moment of irritation, agitation, anger, anxiety, stress, nothing. You just pass through it blissfully. How many? Very few people can say yes to this. Not just here, in the whole world unfortunately. In all these years of living, not even a single day happened the way you want it. Not outside, within yourself. If your body and your mind took instructions from you, how would you keep it, pleasant or unpleasant? Let me know your choices. How would you keep it? For yourself I'm saying I'm not talking about your name book. You may have other intentions for him, but for this one, pleasantness, isn't it so? Yes sir? So if one twenty-four hours did not pass in utter pleasantness, obviously your body and your mind are not taking instructions from you. Any instrument is truly useful to you only if it takes instructions from you, isn't it? Right now I'm using this microphone, this public address, it's very useful to me because it's amplifying whatever I see. Suppose it starts saying its own things. I better not be here, isn't it? Yes? Your mind and your body should do what you want it to do. And if it is doing what you want it to do, I am one hundred percent sure you will keep yourself in utmost blissfulness. Can I trust you on this? Can I trust you on this one thing?  That's not happening, obviously it's not taking instructions. And there is enough scientific evidence to prove today that only when you are blissful, your mind and body does their best. I would say most human beings are functioning at fifteen to twenty percent of their natural capabilities. If only if they could sit here in a sustained levels of pleasantness, you would see within a… for one week if you simply sit here, simply blissful, in one week you would be hundred or two hundred percent more intelligent and sharp than the way you are right now. I'll assure you this, I can prove this to you if you give me that one week. One week you just stay simply pleasant and wonderful. I think these days you are trying to do that by taking a vacation, isn't it? Yes? Have you noticed? You went out and you had a good time and you were pleasant and you came back, you seemed to function so much better. But if vacation is the only pleasant time in our life, obviously we are not going to be very productive, isn't it? If we do not know how to make our work hours very pleasant, we obviously are not going to be very pleasant or very productive in our lives. So as there is a science and technology to create external well-being, there is a whole science and technology to create inner well-being. As we have paid so much attention to learn our way through the world, we need to spend a little bit of time to find a way through this one. The better you know this mechanism, the better you can use it, that's for sure, isn't it? That's true with anything? Whether you are using a computer or a cell phone or a car, the more you know about it, the better you can use it, isn't it so? So definitely that's true with this one too. The more you know about this, the better you can use it. But how much time have we spent with this? When I said this, I am not talking about you going and reading a book on psychology or on your physiology, no. What you call as my body and what you call as my mind, both these things you acquired over a period of time. When you were born, you came with such a small body, isn't it? Slowly you accumulated this. What you accumulate can be yours, can never be you. Yes? I am not disputing whether it is yours or not for now. But what you accumulate can be yours, can it be you? Whatever you accumulate can be yours, but it can never become you, isn't it? If you start thinking yourself to be something other than what you really are, there are bad medical terms for this, I will not go into that. Two cows were grazing upon an English meadow, two English cows. And one of the cows said, what is your opinion on the mad cow disease? The other said, I don't care a hoot as anyway I am just a helicopter.  But it's very, very, very important, especially people who are in positions of power, positions of responsibility, that every action, every thought, every emotion that you generate has impact on many lives around you. When you are in such a position, it's extremely, extremely important that this one is in a state of utter pleasantness and well-being, isn't it so?   When that is so, it becomes a paramount importance that you take care of this one in a completely different way, not just being physically healthy, much, much more than that. Right now, unfortunately most people's well-being is so fragile, just about anybody can hijack it.  What number? Nine, you do only nine. In South India we do eleven, you know.  It's a very fragile well-being, isn't it so? Just anybody can hijack it, just anybody. It doesn't take some earth-shaking event to hijack your well-being, please see. Anything can stress you, anything can make you anxious, anything can make you disturbed, anything can make you lose your sense of joy and peace. Now in this state, your ability to use, your ability to manifest the capability of who you are is not at a very high level. Unfortunately today, most people when they use the word human, they are always using the word human as a bundle of limitations. If someone says, oh, I am only human, he is not referring to the possibilities of being human, he is not referring to the immensity of being human, he is only referring to the limitations of being human, isn't it so? Yes. When someone says, I am only human, he is only talking about his limitations. These limitations have become significant, mainly because of the kind of identities that one takes home and above all because even this one is not happening the way you want him to be. See in your life, nobody happens hundred percent the way you want them, isn't it so? Has anybody happened in your life?  These days not even your dog, he does his own thing.  Nobody will happen. They'll happen to some extent. If they happen fifty-one percent the way you want them, you're doing great. Yes or no?   It doesn't matter, that's not the real problem. The problem is this one is not happening the way you want him to be. Nobody happens, it's okay. This one person must happen the way you want him to be, isn't it so? Yes? If this one doesn't happen, it's a lost case.  Then when you say I am human, you will refer to the immensity of being human not to the limitations of being human.


So, what Marcos Assoli dealt with really is the beginning, right? For most of the rules of IHL, when do they start applying? The one issue that I want to talk about is when do they end applying, so the end of the application of IHL. Now that question to sort of do a riff on Noam's opening used to be simple. It used to be an easy question. When did IHL start applying when state A declared war against state B? Well, the law of war started, when did the law of war end applying when they conclude a peace treaty? That was the position 100 years ago, say. That is not the position today. Today the position is complicated, right? It's very complicated, it's very difficult for four at least reasons. The first is that if you look at the modern IHL treaties, they don't give you clear guidance. There are teeny-weeny bits about the end of application of IHL in the treaties, and I'll come back to them mostly, except for one article, I think, they relate to international armed conflict. The second problem is the way that modern IHL has developed. So some people analogize it to a palimpsest, you know? So you have an ancient book, a scroll envelope, and then you scrape it off, and then you write something on top of the existing text. So it's in these layers, in these waves, that IHL has developed. That means there's no original drafter whose intent we can find out, and that original drafter worked every problem out, and you only have to look hard enough and you'll find the answer, right? That does not exist. So that's problem two. Problem three is that the way we have organized modern IHL is fragmented. So we have at least three distinct thresholds of application, international armed conflict, diligent occupation, non-international armed conflict, and we can even sort of do classifications within each subgroup, right? And you will see that even though the paradigm sort of example is international armed conflict, this issue of end of application is one where it's very difficult to draw analogies between different types of armed conflict. So for example, if you look at how the modern law of NIAC, Non-International Conflict, developed, it developed mostly by various smart people doing analogies from time to time. Think most prominently the ICTY appeals chamber in the Tadich case saying, what is prohibited in international armed conflict cannot be prohibited in non-international armed conflict. Rape is a rape, that type of kind of moralist activist thinking. That does not work, as you'll see, when we come to questions of end of application. Finally, perhaps the most complicating factor are really the policy considerations of those who get to decide, or at least as Marco said, have their opinions known about whether IHL did in fact end applying. In other words, do we want IHL to apply, or to stop applying? And if you ask different people, different actors, some of them will have different interests when it comes to this particular question. If you ask, for example, international criminal tribunal, they will be very reluctant to say that, aha, at point X, the conflict stopped. Or the conflict was interrupted and then later resumed. Why would they be reluctant? Because their jurisdiction to try some very bad guys for war crimes is dependent on that issue. And generally they want to get the bad guy. So international criminal tribunals will be very, very pro-stability, pro-long duration of what do we mean by an armed conflict. For instance, one of the classical sort of quotes on when do armed conflicts end and when did IHL start to stop supplying comes precisely from the appeals chamber in Tadich when it said, IHL starts at the initiation of armed conflict and extends beyond the cessation of hostilities until a general conclusion of peace is reached, or in the case of internal conflicts, a peaceful settlement is achieved. That is not correct, I would say. There's certainly no need for armed conflicts to end in a consensual way or with an agreement. You can have an agreement. It's a very nice thing to have an agreement. But as we see, for example, with the whole Ukraine thingy, I'm not doing the whole fromagia thing, sorry. So you can have whatever agreement, but it's not worth the paper it's written on if the fighting continues. So what matters and what should matter for the end of armed conflict is not how the parties put it, but whether in fact objectively they have stopped fighting. But as I said, different people will have different interests on this question. Originally, states saw IHL as a set of constraining rules. So you must not arbitrarily execute people without judicial pronouncement. You must not issue orders that no quarter will be given and so on. So these types of rules. Now, however, some states at least, see IHL as a set of liberating rules that liberate them from greater constraints, say, of human rights. So whereas back in the old days, they wouldn't want to acknowledge the existence of a non-international armed conflict. Now they want to have a non-international armed conflict. So think the United States and the Warrantary. So all of these issues matter, right? They matter for the policy judgment of those whose opinions ultimately have influence. Okay, so much so about why the issue is complicated. Let me now say what I think the basic legal position is. I think that position can be summarized in several sort of relatively simple propositions. The first one is there are some rules, very few rules, that apply all the time, right? So they apply regardless of any armed conflict. That's mostly the case with the overarching obligation to ensure respect for the Geneva Conventions, for example. And specific obligations like to disseminate IHL with your troops or your population. The time actually to do this is in peace, not in war. That's the best time to do this. So these rules apply all the time. Most of the rules of IHL start applying during armed conflict. And remember we have those three distinct threshold. And the general rule should be that unless there's a very good reason of policy, law, whatever, principle, these rules should stop applying when their factual predicate ends. So when the conflict actually ends, or the occupation ends. But, and that's my third proposition, there are in fact many exceptions from this general idea that IHL stops applying when the armed conflict ends. And I'll come to these exceptions. So what we can see really are when it comes to armed conflicts, we can observe certain terminative processes that end them. And we can observe some transformative processes that are also very important with which Marco talked about. So when an internal armed conflict can be internationalized into an international armed conflict. Or vice versa when international armed conflict can be internalized and become a NIAC. So I will not talk about them more, but we can probably talk them during discussion. These also of course matter for end of application purposes. Because when this thing happens, when a NIAC becomes internationalized, one part of IHL stops applying, but a different part of IHL kicks in. Okay, so let me now deal with each of the three main thresholds in turn. Let me start with international armed conflict. There we actually have some guidance in the text that I'll come to. And there also the situation seems to be the clearest. As Marco was saying, the sort of orthodox position is that there either is no intensity threshold for an armed conflict to exist between states, or if there is one, it's a very teeny weeny one. So not Marco's son shooting some unfortunate French person, but something a bit more. Yeah, okay. But because that threshold to initiate an international armed conflict is so low, the threshold for ending it should actually be high. Because what we want to avoid is to have international armed conflict on Monday, no armed conflict on Tuesday, international armed conflict resuming on Wednesday and so on. So we do not want to have a revolving door. What we want is the fighting to end, but with a certain degree of permanence and stability. The question is how do we prove and how do we know that there is stability in the end of the fighting? The thing is you cannot actually know it at the point where the fighting ends. You can only rationalize post hoc, right? A couple of weeks, months, however late, aha, that was the point at which the fighting ended with stability and permanence. It would be nice as a matter of evidence to have some kind of agreement, but you don't need to have an agreement. So for example, what they've been saying is supported, for instance, by the trial chamber of the Gotovina, in the Gotovina case, the trial chamber of the ICT-1. What little we have in terms of textual guidance also goes in favor of this position. So for example, if you look at the third convention, it speaks of the obligation to repatriate prisoners of war at the end of active hostilities. The fourth convention, Article 6-2, says that its application in territories of the parties ends with the general close of military operations. This is different language. We have no idea whether the difference in language was deliberate or it was just a question of drafting. The ICRC, in the Protocol-1 commentary, says actually the general close of military operation can come after the cessation of active hostilities. You can do maneuvers, assemble ammunitions, do all sorts of preparatory work for fighting even after the end of the hostilities. So what we should say, and I think that's correct, is simply that when you have the general close of military operations, international armed conflict ends. However, not all of the law regulating international armed conflict ends.  Even after the end of the conflict, IHL still applies to you and protects you. That's Article 5, GC3. Same goes for civilian, same goes for any kind of civilian person interned because of the conflict. The same goes for a number of other obligations and IHL. The obligation to suppress great breaches, of course, is relevant at the time they're committed. It's also relevant after when you want to prosecute those people. Some obligations, like the obligation to search for missing persons or to collect the dead, also continue after the end of the conflict. Now, the important thing to note here is that one big issue we have now, one big debate we're having, is whether IHL contains only rules that are restrictive or also rules that authorize, say, killing or detention. Whatever authority IHL grants, even if it does do that, ends at the time of the conflict. So once the conflict ends, if you detain a POW, you're actually violating their rights. You do not any longer have the right to detain that POW. So much so about IAC, one sentence about occupation. There's a big ICRC study thing they've done about the end of our occupation that I suggest you look at if you're interested in that issue. You can define this whole problem simply. If we say occupation means effective control of state A of the territory of state B without state B's consent, occupation can end in two ways. Either state A loses control or state B gives consent. That's easy. The exact scenarios in which this can happen are very complicated. So loss of control can happen through unilateral withdrawal or by being kicked out. Consent can be given by establishing a new government, which is the very dodgy problem that we can talk about later. Non-international conflict, sorry. The problem with non-international conflict is that the threshold is different. So here we have the intensity of unorganization thresholds that we do not have in international conflict. So we cannot really analogize here. There are, I think, two basic options we can use to assess whether ANIAC has ended. Option one is to do essentially what we do for international conflicts. We should say we wait until all the fighting has ended. Option two, and I think the legally correct option, is we look at, continuously look at whether the intensity of unorganization thresholds are satisfied. And they can no longer be satisfied at a certain point. Think, for example, post-surge Iraq where the U.S. effectively managed to degrade the capability of the organizations fighting it in Iraq, the insurgents, where the intensity level fell below a certain threshold. Think of Sri Lanka, how the conflict ended there. So that position would be essentially once the conflict goes below the threshold, which we will also require to happen with a degree of permanent stability, the ANIAC will end. In response to your question, actually, I think what you think, right? So I completely agree that the whole revolving door rationale is important in non-international conflicts as it is in international armed conflicts. So the end, however we define the end, still needs to be stable permanent. The question is whether for that end, we want an end to all the fighting, right? Which is what we do in international conflicts, basically. Or whether we will say, okay, at some point, the fighting might die out, the organizations may lose their command structure and so on, right? So there will still be some violence remaining, but we can still say that the law of non-international armed conflicts starts to stop applying because the NIC has ended. So think about Iraq, you know, I mean, I think that's the best example to test sort of these two sort of arguments. There was a point in time where the conflict really petered out. It was a short period of time, relatively speaking, maybe a couple of years, right? There was never a day in Iraq where some person wasn't killed in some kind of violent attack. But I think there came a point where many of the organizations that fought the United States and fought the Iraqi government simply stopped doing that. And then the conflict resumed under new heads, whatever. So that would be my thinking. But I completely agree with the policy rationale that we want stable, permanent end to the conflict. We do not want the revolving door.


Hey, what is up? My name is Rebedium. Welcome to the Crimson Engine. Today we are looking at mounting the Canon C200B on the Ronin S gimbal. So I got this gimbal when I was away in Vermont. I only had the chance to try it out with a much smaller camera. But the reason I got it was that the capacity for it matches my primary shooting camera, the C200B. I was excited to get home and put the C200 on the Ronin S and see what kind of shots I could get, what kind of performance I could get. Really just how practical is it? Last year, I reviewed the Tilta Gravity 2 gimbal with the C200. And I personally found that the camera was way too heavy for the gimbal, even with the mounting accessories, even with the two-handed thing. It was just too much of a load. It couldn't stabilize it properly. And really, it just wasn't practical for getting the kind of shots that you want to get with a gimbal. But here we are six months later. Ronin have come out with their single-handed gimbal design. And, you know, it's a lot different being the B variation, which was actually partly designed by Canon for this kind of operation. I don't have any screens on the side. I don't have any monitors on the top or EVFs that I had to take away. I have kept my shape cage on the camera just because it gives it an added layer of protection. It doesn't weigh that much and it was too much of a hassle to be taking on and off every time I mount it. So that's added a little bit of weight. You could get it lower, but but in this case, it works fine. The lens that I'm going with is one that actually didn't know existed before I started looking. It is the Canon 18 to 55. It's a 3.5 to 5.6 variable aperture lens. It only costs $80 and it has autofocus and it's stabilized. But the reason that I liked it and the reason that I got this lens for this gimbal was that it's incredibly light and incredibly short and it doesn't move very much and it doesn't change its weight very much as you zoom in and out from the 18 to the 55. Yes, Canon also makes a version of this. An EFS version of this. That's the same focal length, 18 to 55, but it's a constant 2.8 aperture. It's also 10 times the price at almost $750. So for the shots that I wanted to get on this, I wanted to go with a small wide lens. An F 3.5 was definitely fast enough for what I want to do shooting outside. Now, one odd little thing about the Ronin S is that it doesn't have any quarter 20 mounting points in the handle. DJI may release some kind of conversion kit in the future. But what I went with was this cold shoe adapter that you can get on Amazon for $5. It's just a small little plate that screws into the side of the Ronin and lets you mount a monitor to see what you're shooting. In this case, I've gone with a Blackmagic five inch video assist. This runs off its own batteries. And the reason I put it on the handle and not on the head itself by placing the monitor on the handle, it reduces the weight that the gimbal has to balance. It also has the added advantage of like a steady cam mounting the screen lower so that as you're watching the screen, your peripheral vision takes in the ground that you're walking along. And it means that you're not going to trip over stuff. Balancing the C 200 was super easy, takes less than five minutes. I have to find the more times that I do it, the easier I kind of get my head around it. And you see when I switch the Ronin on, as long as you're somewhere in the ballpark of balance, it'll take up the slack and the motors will work to get a perfect level. Now able to detect level and get it a lot quicker.  So if you wanted to shoot all day, make it so it's perfectly balanced. If you just want to get a couple of shots as part of your making your day, then don't you don't have to spend too much time getting it perfect. Probably my favorite thing about the Ronin S is this cool little tripod feet that stick out the bottom. I mentioned this in the crane comparison. It means that it gets around the worst problem of having a gimbal, which is you've got nowhere to put it down. And you can see now that, you know, I can move this around. It's not that heavy, especially if you tack your elbows to your side. You can brace the tripod against your body. Double click the trigger on the front here and the Ronin will now bounce itself to your new level and take this into account. So you can sort of hang out here. You can give your arms a rest if you're waiting between shots in a way that you really can't do with any other single handed gimbal. So let's check out some shots that I got outside and in some different environments with this set up. And it shows just how smooth the footage can be and how easily you can get some shots that normally would have taken a steady cam or a dolly with a crane attached. I think most people that are looking at this gimbal for professional filmmaking are usually looking at the stabilization, but it also has a huge amount of options as far as motion control and different types of work go. So you could mount this on a tripod and just use the joystick to get really slow, smooth movement, really precisely controlled camera movement that you wouldn't be able to get operating manually. The applications that I'm excited about for the Ronin S in replacing crane or dolly or steady cam shots within your narrative cinematic storytelling. I don't think this sort of setup is ideal for a wedding or something that you're going to try and work for hours. Yes, the battery grip under good circumstances will last for up to 12 hours. That you're going to get tired really, really quickly if you take this thing to a convention or a wedding. It's much better suited to designing a specific master shot, a moving master or a following two shot of dialogue like you would do with a traditional Ronin or steady cam and then being able to take your A camera off its tripod because the Ronin S uses a standard Manfrotto base plate. Slide it on to your Ronin S, get the shot that you want, do a couple of takes, power it down, put it on charge, put the camera back on the tripod or wherever else you have, back on your handheld rig and keep getting your shots. What I think is a game changer about the Ronin S is it fits so well within the independent low to medium budget cinematic workflow. And it's really seamless in getting your camera onto it and then offer it off it again. It's a great way to put a higher level of production on your shows without having to deal with a whole nother operator. So that's my look at mounting the Canon C200B digital cinema camera onto the Ronin S. It's a really great tool for speeding up your day, getting shots you normally wouldn't get in a way that doesn't require a heap of gear, different operator or a lot of money. You know, this thing is only $700. It doesn't need special training to use. It doesn't even need to be. You don't even need to be particularly strong to use it. If you think out your shots beforehand, you can get really amazing. You can add really amazing technique to whatever you're doing. Thanks very much for watching. No doubt you'll see more footage from this turn up in my other videos, but leave your questions in the comments and I will see you next time.


It's good huh? How passionate is that? When I talk about soil, I'll tear up naturally. So even you are doing it, that's good. That means you're passionate about it. Not just talking about it. Your heart should beat for soil.


There was a person named Sid Saxon, right? Who is the person who designed the game, Acquire, which you may have heard of. He was a famous legendary figure in the gaming world. I think we mentioned him on Geek Nights when his massive lifelong game collection was broken up and sold. 18,000 individual games in this collection. So the next game was one that's from one of his books that I went and I found an excerpt from in the internet archive and then transcribed and then prepared all the pieces for it. All it needed was a deck of cards and a stack of chips. And the game is called All My Diamonds and it's a very modern art adjacent selling, auctioning, bidding game, right? Which of course we love, right? And the way it works is you get a deck of cards and you throw the tens out. You get the tens out of there. So you got 48 cards. And if you got those 48 cards with no tens, there are basically eight sets of 12, right? You got a matrix of the suits and... Exactly. So there's the diamonds, the hearts, the clubs and the spades. Those are 12 cards each because the tens are out. And then there's the lows, the aces, twos and threes, the mids, the fours, fives and sixes, the highs, the sevens, eights and nines, and then the faces, the jack, queen, kings, right? And so therefore you've got eight sets of 12. And your goal of the game is to in your hand have 10 cards that are all in the same set of 12. So 10 clubs, 10 diamonds, 10 lows, 10 faces, right? And as soon as you get 10 of one of the sets, you put it out there. You're like, boom. And you collect the pot, right? Of chips that have everyone antied. It is a big ante. And so then you continue playing. Everyone continues playing. And there's a second pot. And the second pot is comprised of taxes. Because the way you acquire cards is that on your turn, you must look at your hand and pick one of the eight sets and take all the cards that you have in that set, at least one card also. You can't just pick a set you don't have. And sell it to everyone else, right? So you might say, all my diamonds, right? And take all the diamonds out of your hand and sell them as a lot at auction. Or you might say, all my faces. And you take all the face cards out of your whole hand and sell them at auction. And you get, right? All the money when you sell the cards, except one card's worth of money is paid in taxes. So if you sell five cards, you keep 80% of the money, right? If you sell two cards, you keep half the money. If you sell 10 cards, you keep 90% of the money, right? So, and the rest of the money you don't keep goes to the second pot that will be for the winner of, you know, the second winner basically. And it could be the same person who wins both times, right? Now the thing with this game is that all that matters is who has the most money wins. So you could actually not win either pot and just sell, be so good at selling and we're buying low and selling high that you end up making more money by being a card seller, right? Than by being a winner. And that's the thing. So, and that's the whole, that's the whole game. This game is worth playing to explore the concept, but we devolved into a giggling fit in our game because this game, when confronted by what I would say is a group of stone cold pros who have very good understandings of bidding and valuation. The bidding breaks down into a disaster and the game falls apart. And it was really funny to watch the game just like collapse around us. Right, so Sid Saxon says, all my diamonds is a game I conceived as a change of pace from poker. Although there is no similarity in the play, it satisfies the same urge for speculation. It's basically an auction where players must decide whether they can earn more by buying or by selling, right? But yeah, when we played it, it's like you could sort of imagine worlds where like other lines of play might have been possible. There's obviously some luck element. You could just be dealt some amazing hands or something. But the initial pot is just so much bigger than anyone who's willing to bid for anything.  So- Yeah, it's like, if we got four players, right? And everyone puts in, you know, 15 anti, so that's 60, right? It's like, all right. So I have to buy with my money a winning hand, right? For less than 60. I'm not willing to pay out a total of more than 60 to get a winning hand. If I buy something and I don't either A win or B sell those cards I bought for a higher value, I just lost, right, money. So it's like every move has to be profitable. So it's really tight and there's not a lot of winning lines, right?  If you try to be a winner, you're gonna spend very little, which means the people who are trying to be sellers can't make anything off of you. It was very, it's like basically whoever got that first pot ended up that it was so much money because we were also cheap.  You didn't make any profit. You're in the modern art situation of I spent $40 to win $32, great. Yeah, and the only strategy at that point is you would take a loss to prevent someone else from getting a pot if it would be profitable for them. But that breaks down too. And the game just kind of fell apart. And it was just, I still think. Yeah, so I think there was a lot to learn from the concepts going on here. I just think it needs some tweaking in like the numbers department and also in the auction department. But I feel like if you do those tweaks, will you just end up in modern art anyway? You might, because modern art kind of did this like as best you can do without adding more complexity, which isn't necessarily a good thing in a game like that. Yeah, so this is a case where, I mean, this game does predate modern art, right? I think it does. Pretty sure, 1969 versus modern art board game. But Canizia? Yep, modern art. Let's see, 1992. Yeah, so it's like playing the proto version of a game is great, right? As opposed to usually these days, we're playing like remakes and polished redone versions of games, right? Like we're playing the small world after the Vinci, we've already been playing the Vinci. This is the opposite. It's like, imagine if we only ever played small world. I mean, I guess that's a bad example because you like Vinci bad.  It's like, you can see what was going on there. There's a lot to learn. There's value in that. But also it's not as good. Yep, but it's just not as good. I do think it is absolutely worth playing if you were interested in game design at all, just because the experience of playing it and then seeing how the bidding breaks down, or you might have a friend who's bad at bidding games and it doesn't break down and that'll be funny for different reasons, but... I think you could also tweak the numbers.  That could work. I think so, it's possible. The problem, I think the problem we ran into is that the game as written, I feel like the meta we encountered in our first playthrough is an extremely strong attractor for people who are skeptical of the value of the second pot. Yes. And I do not imagine a world where the first pot is sold for so much.  Cause you've got all these cards left over that you're buying for the first pot and you've got so many cards left over, you can get the second pot also to get your cash back. Yeah. But that would be tough. This has been Geek Nights with Rima and Scott.


Are Asians gonna start using this other sriracha over the original hoi fong sriracha David? Let's talk about it. Hey, man.   That's now sold at Costco and a lot of people are debating Should we stay with quay fong or is it on to bigger and better things? Wow? Wow? All right, we're gonna talk about this for 10 minutes. Let's go David What is so the overall issue is that obviously sriracha everybody knew there they had a shortage People don't know exactly why there is rumors that there was a handshake deal between Hoy fong and the underwood farms, which was the chili Farm in northern, California, right now. They had a falling out. They split Sriracha hoy fong has to get a new chili supplier that makes their sriracha now tastes different Underwood farms now releases their own new sriracha that tastes more like the old one apparently I haven't had it and there's competition so our Asians more loyal to the brand or not What is your take? I think that it's obviously different some people feel really close to the green cap other people have already switched over to Trader Joe's some Thai people are mad because they're like, you know, that was not even real sriracha from Thailand Sorry, that's not matter to me. So everybody's like a lot of people are on chili oil And we have our own chili oil smile a sauce calm. So it's like I just feel like it's different Everybody perceives what has become Asian American cannon or Asian American like legendary culture differently Not everybody like perceives it the same way some people are just like in it for what's in their own interest as a consumer But other people are like nah, man. We got to stay loyal. Yeah, I get well I mean, what's your what is your personal opinion? How do you feel about it? I think I can see where like I'm never gonna go against Quayfong. We've met David Tran, you know, I spoke kanto with him before but it's like He's already rich. So it like I'm not going to ever be like, oh Man, you switched over to that sriracha because you know, even some of the ones like I had a Kroger sriracha one time That was like kind of decent, right? And that's like super not Asian owned But yeah, do I think that it's a it's an interesting discussion to have I mean, it's better to support Asian owned businesses, right? Especially one that became like an Asian American thing that somehow became mainstream. Yeah My thing is like I'm probably not gonna ride for the Underwood farms one also because I Even with the old sriracha, I do like it and I'll always had like a bottle on hand But I wasn't like crazy about it. Like I'm not the biggest Huifong food sriracha fan of that taste I always supported the brand but I didn't even put in my fo because I eat fo with the chili garlic sauce and the hoisin instead It's way too strong and fo. Yeah, so to me I definitely I'm not gonna ride for the Underwood farms one even if it tastes more like the old one But I'm not gonna like riot about this. Yeah, I want to support a six to six business Yeah, originally based in Rosemead just like Panda Express Pasadena. I mean listen He had a really good run the formula has changed. Hopefully people still come to love the new formula, but it's a little bit different Why do you think people seem so invested in the drama of like supporting because it's basically a he said she said where it's like Oh, they had a handshake agreement. Some people feel they're being underpaid Some people feel like they're being overpriced and then there's like, you know what I mean? Like people really dug their heels in the sand for each squad in the comments. I mean, it's it's iconic Asian American brand It was started in America By an Asian immigrant and it's an iconic brand. So I think people feel very closely to it I think to some people it's part of their identity I know a lot of people dressed up as sriracha bottles for Halloween I'm not saying I haven't seen Asians do it, but I would say a lot of non Asians. Yeah Well, I saw a lot of I think and non Asians love to saw everybody loved Huy Fong sriracha everybody So I can see why people are up in arms But I guess given the drama and the shortage there was kind of this buffer period where like Sriracha kind of left you like we were on a break from sriracha You know like when you're like Infatuated with someone your datium and then that person goes on a trip for like three four weeks And then you don't see him and then it's almost like how committed are you to that person? It really questions your love for him. Yeah I mean a lot of people were even just talking about the taste of sriracha How it's just kind of spicy, but it doesn't have a lot of depth of flavor to it I know that you always said that like you have never been a big Kuey Fong sriracha. I didn't say those exact words. You're putting words in my mouth. I just I just thought it was too strong for my Fuh, I do like sriracha. I do like the Huy Fong sriracha I think it does have quite a bit of taste, but I really don't think it belongs on everything Yeah, I think that there the market had to open up to more optionality like I wouldn't want to ever have to say you got to stick with Only one type of Lee come key soy sauce or Niko Kiko man You know what I mean? Like the game is like super opened up now There's like five tiers of soy sauce you can buy all the way up to the ones that are like $25 a bottle small batch like if you got the bread and you feel like it's worthwhile Nobody has to be loyal to anything. Right. Just as a consumer. I guess it's capitalism. I think it's I Definitely don't think it's like racism when it comes to at least these food products. I think sriracha is in its own tier I don't think anybody's bias against it because it's Asian-owned and I don't think do you think like there's some like Racist people that are like well Thank God Underwood farms started their own because I was I was looking for a time to switch off this Huy Fong stuff Because I didn't want to support an Asian. I want to support another white I will say that I noticed that a lot of white people there They're quicker to switch to a white-owned brand than an Asian would be Yeah, well, I think some Asians feel guilty which is fair I think you right there is some level like whether you feel at a tiny level or a middle level again to me I'm not switching I'm not switching because I'm still on the sriracha, but I just are you on the trader I see you bought the trader Joe sriracha last yeah, I have it. I try it.  Yeah, ultimately Andrew Is this important unimportant? What is the show about the Asian-American community and his quay fong foods? Has its time as like an untouchable legend past? Oh Has its time and as an untouchable legend is it kind of like watching LeBron like Turn the ball over is this it's like is this like watching Jordan on the on the Wizards Michael Jordan on the Wizards Kind of like rough by the way well not saying that it's gonna end for Sir, I mean hoi fang food still gonna make millions of dollars a year. They're gonna be fine Legend is the legend is peak is over. I Do think the peak is I think the peak was when the shortage happened, bro I told I said this in multiple videos when we covered it. I said Unfortunately, there's now an open space and certain Restaurant a lot of restaurants and here's the thing restaurant retail is big because restaurants go through a lot of sauce The restaurants who used to buy this old sriracha, they couldn't buy sriracha They switched brands and as long as that didn't affect the restaurant's bottom line What is their reason to switch back to sriracha? It's true, and I know that sriracha always wanted to stay a hyper traditional old school company and not really expand into like modern They never went public and they never went like into diverse product offering So, you know, there's pros and cons of everything it killed it for them. Hey, man, they're rich for life Let us know what you think in the comment section below until next time we out. Peace


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and Illumix is trying to hide something from us. That's the only opening I can think of for this video. This is so strange. So basically we have two things that we're going to talk about in this video, starting off with the merchandise for FNAF AR and then secondly moving into some scrapped content from the planning stages of the game. Way way back when they were figuring out okay what exactly are we trying to make with this brand new augmented reality experience with Five Nights at Freddy's. And I say they're trying to hide something from us because the article in which we got this information from has been edited to where it no longer contains the information, the important information that you see in the title, in the thumbnail. So if you're brand new to the channel please make sure you're subscribed or if you think you're subscribed double check while you're down there make sure you thumbs up the video and now let's talk about merch.fanathar.com. So if you don't know Illumix actually did something very incredible and something that I actually give them props for. They started what is so far the only official FNAF merchandise store created by the developers of FNAF. It's called merch.fanathar.com and it has exactly what you think merchandise based off of FNAF AR. And in my opinion they actually had some pretty solid stuff on there. A lot of interesting designs with brand new renders of the characters, a huge range of different products from socks to mugs to hoodies, posters, keychain stickers, everything. Or in my opinion what was a pretty decent price. It was sometime around November where they celebrated the one year anniversary of the game. But that was the last we heard about FNAF AR merchandise. I believe sometime in December Kieran the CEO of Illumix said that they are walking on something very special for merchandise but we never really gotten anything. In fact a couple months ago everything on the store completely sold out. Not like people bought it, everything just randomly sold out for no reason. And it was like that until maybe like a week ago where the entire store just went blank. Like there was nothing on the website. Everybody was so confused, we thought that maybe Illumix had lost their license. But then they decided to put this up on their website. So long story short for some reason their whole merchandise website shut down completely, had nothing on it. Maybe to a couple days later throw up a random PNG saying more soon with the website link. I don't know why this was necessary but I guess it's good to know that more stuff is coming soon. Honestly I like the merchandise around FNAF AR, I think Illumix actually does a very good job on it. I in fact wouldn't be mad if they stopped making FNAF AR and only made merchandise because again in my opinion I think they do a pretty good job. So after like half a year I'm super excited that we're getting more stuff. I just don't see why any of this was necessary you know, shutting down your whole website just to say oh actually we're pumping out more stuff soon. Now we don't know when we're getting new stuff, we don't know what we're getting. So we're just gonna have to wait and see but that is what's going on with FNAF AR merchandise. And now let's talk about scrapped content for FNAF AR in the early planning stages for the game. A ex employee of Illumix put out an article basically explaining what they did when they worked on the game, showing some early concepts of the workshop and icons. And it's all some pretty interesting stuff. We're gonna go over the base article and then we'll hop into some of the more interesting things that got deleted off of the page. It starts off with a bit of backstory about FNAF AR, the game and also the employee.  User interface style. I was hired contract to help define the look and style of FNAF AR. The goal was to take inspiration from all the previous games with a focus on a workshop blueprint type style for a narrative of the game. And it shows off images of I believe the old workshop and also the old leaderboard. Then you have the old user interface for the game itself. And then you have the old UI for the devices. And finally a trip down memory lane. This is the old way you encountered animatronics. For those of you who are new to FNAF AR and weren't there at the start of the game, basically animatronics would come to you into your house. As they appeared on the map, so you see Springtrap over there, he'll slowly make his way towards you and then he'll enter your house. You know kind of the whole point of animatronics coming to my house. Instead of oh look, there's a random blue icon. I'm gonna click on it. Oops, I'm in a fight now. If you can't tell, I missed the old gameplay. I think it works so much better with the game. We ended up with a clean blueprint modern UI style but with a little bit of grit and wear and tear. In the minor details like the iconography. The iconography. Where I wanted FNAF AR to shine was in the unique iconography. I wanted the icons to feel like they were almost clean modern icons but with a dark twist similar to the tone of the game. I went through many, many different styles and iterations on the icons and it was the most challenging and fun part of the project. And then it shows off some of the map navigation icons. You can see the workshop, the map, the camera, the emails, the shop and then also the icon when an enemy entered your house. Then you have the devices icon. I don't know the names of some of these nor do I really know where they all come from. Going left to right, top to bottom. You have the salvager I think. I think that's like the shocker or something. Then you have a lure and then you have the EMF something. Then you have the transponder. Then you have some other device or maybe that's the EMF thing. I don't know. Then you have the battery and then you have a triple lure. I don't know where that comes from. And then you have a radar which I don't believe we actually see in the game at all. And then you have the camera icons of course the shocker, the flashlight and the cancel button. And then the headphones icon which appears at the very start of the game when you boot it up. The icon style we ended up with has a little bit of grudge and grime to it that makes it slightly off from the sleek modern design. And that is actually where the article stops. I'm going to link it down below and if you read it, that's all you're going to get. However, again, as I mentioned earlier, this has been edited. It removed some very interesting stuff. Stuff that involves Funtime Freddy, stuff that involves Lefty, stuff that involves earlier concept ideas of the workshop blueprints. I would not be surprised if the Lumix reached out to this person and said, Hey, you shouldn't show this. Some of it's not in the game or some of it we just don't want getting out. But of course, when you put something out on the internet, it's there forever. We have some early icons for what I can only assume to be the workshop. It seems like they were still dead set on having the Freddy icon with a wrench. But it seems like they wanted to go through a few different locations, I guess, for the wrench. You can see sometimes it's in Freddy's head. Sometimes it just makes up his head. Sometimes it's next to him.  Here are some early concept ideas for more of the icons. Looks like more of the shop, the camera mode, and also maybe the workshop as well. Seems like maybe they were trying to go for, OK, I'm repairing these guys in my own home. Or it could be an actual workshop, you know, a building where you go into to take care of these animatronics and alter them. Then you have different icons for the map. It looks like they were debating going with a compass, an actual paper map. Then you have a different icon for the emails. You have loads of different icons for the shop. Seems like they were debating going with a shop building or a shopping bag. And then for camera mode, they were either going to go with an actual camera or a camera lens. It looks like these are icons where a character has entered your house. As you can see, it has a danger icon with a shocker in it. Or it has an angry Freddy icon with a caution or a shocker sign above his head. And here are some early designs for the workshop itself. So as you can see, it seems like they were definitely going for that blueprint environment. Right, you can see a whole lot of blue blueprints in there. There's also some green, some reds. You can see some map UI changes as well. It looks like at one point, if you pressed a single button on the map, it would open up four different icons where you could go to presumably the email, the camera mode, the shop, and also the workshop. You can see other designs for what I believe is the workshop itself and then also the devices submenu. Early designs for the account. And then you can also see Mr. Cupcake in the account UI. I think that's what it is. Seems like maybe you could use him as an avatar. I don't know. And then here you have the icons for the characters themselves. So you have Freddy, Circus Baby, Springtrap, Bonnie, Plushtrap, Lefty, the Endoskeleton, Funtime Freddy, Foxy, Chica, and Balloon Boy, the Lefty and Funtime Freddy icons we've seen already. Not only were they in the game's files at some point, but they also appeared in that like New Year anniversary image, I think last year in 2020. They were on a gift box and that was our first actual evidence that, okay, these guys are coming to the game. And here this is actually how they made the icons themselves. So it seems like they took the head of the characters and just simplified it a bunch. Right, you can see Balloon Boy, Plushtrap with different textures. We're going to get back to that in a second. Foxy, Chica, the Endoskeleton, and the main topic for this video, Funtime Freddy. So before we hop into Funtime Freddy, I want to explain quickly why he's still not in the game. Of course, I don't know the full story. I'm not a Lomix, but we can use Plushtrap as an example of why he's maybe not in the game yet. So as you can see, Plushtrap has some different textures than what he has in the final game. Now, of course, because this was made by an ex-Lomix employee, I don't think that they can actually use these anymore, which is why they had to make new textures for Plushtrap. And so now let's take a look at Funtime Freddy. This is insane to me. The fact that we finally, after all this time, we finally have his appearance in the game. Like even though they can't use this anymore, this is what he's gonna look like in the game basically. Now, again, I don't know exactly why he's not in the game, because they could just do what they did with Plushtrap and just give him new textures. But very clearly, there was something stopping them from doing that. Because if it was that simple, he'd already be out in the game, you know? And I don't think it takes a year and a half to just re-texture a model. But yeah, this is the official render of Funtime Freddy 4 FNAF 8-R Special Delivery. Again, Super Surreal, that we finally have it, even though he's not in the game. Again, I don't know what's going on with the Loomix, they just... They don't want to make characters.  But you have his model! Again, even if this was made by an ex-employee, all you have to do is change it a little bit. That's exactly what you did with Plushtrap, so just do the same thing. I'm hopping in quickly because I completely forgot to talk about the website that this guy helped create. They say web design. Lastly, on the project, I mocked up some web design visuals for their game webpage for mobile and desktop. Now, if you don't know, FNAF 8-R has an official website, FNAF8R.com, but it's kind of not anything special. All it does is link you to the download pages for the game. But as you can see, these mock-up designs for the website has it a lot more colorful and vibrant and just full of energy. It still does look kind of plain, but at least it has something going on in it. Rather than just, okay, here's our launch trailer and here's where you can go download the game. Right, it has news, frequently asked questions, featured news. It has an about section, it still has the download here section. Even though it is just a website, I still think this looks amazing. And it's really unfortunate that this person doesn't work for Illumix anymore because, again, all this stuff looks amazing. Lefty, Funtime Ferdy, the website. It really makes you think, Illumix, what are you doing? But anyways, I just wanted to pop back in and show you the website on with the video. I don't know, but that is some scrapped content of the early planning stages of FNAF 8-R. What do you guys think? I'd like to say that this is evidence that Funtime Ferdy is coming soon to the game, but honestly, again, this is from like a year and a half ago. Though the fact that this was all deleted, maybe that's some evidence, but I highly doubt it. I think Illumix just wants to try and keep their secrets, you know, down a bit low. Even though we all know he's coming to the game, Lefty's coming to the game. But yeah, that's gonna be it for this video. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you all on the flip side. 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Big B's crossing the street, he's gonna go talk to, he's about to go walk in to knock on the door of Topsy Pinoe's place, right? And there's a guy right out front selling nuts, and all he's saying is nuts, Big B's on screen walking, and the guy is saying nuts, nuts, and he walks by him, and he declines, and he says, I have to be. Big B's tasty nuts. I was so happy. Today we've got a cricket video, this is a Top 14 bat break, Top 14 bats broken deliveries in cricket. That's something honestly. I've never seen a cricket bat break. I've never seen a cricket bat break, it happens all the time in Major League Baseball. Yeah, because they can't use metal ones. Right, no.  If they used aluminum bats in, because they use them in college because it's cost effective, you don't have to keep buying bats, so they use aluminum in college, but you'd kill people. The ball wouldn't be enough time to react, especially third baseman in pitchers. Exit velocities are already close to 120 miles per hour with guys like Stanton. Exit velocity, there's not enough time to react to that. You'd kill people. So yeah, they break a lot. I've never seen a cricket bat break. So yeah, how often does it happen? Because obviously the ball is a little slower, but it's still a wooden thing with something coming really fast at it, so I'm sure it happens a decent amount. Absolutely, and it's coming in quick. And I bet a lot of the breaks are happening up close to the hands where it thins out or off on the far edges maybe. Let's see. I'm very intrigued. Oh, look at that. Just split the frickin' thing in half. Also, what happens? You have to do it with your hand. Does the tag. Oh, that's him beating strong these days. Why isn't he running? I was gonna say, does play just continue? Wow, that background music is loud. Does play continue? Because in baseball, play continues if the ball is fair. Why isn't he running? Is it because you can't tag if you don't have it? No, yeah, play is still going. Okay. Okay, yeah. So I guess you have to, no, no, he still has it. Yeah, you keep going. Why didn't the other one, though? I wonder if they break more in the middle or more towards the handle. Well, that's in the middle. And I want to see them continuing to play because I want to see what they have to do. Right in the middle. I wonder if that's a weak point. Oh, ow. Another question would be, he's going, but he doesn't even have the bat anymore. Are there ever times when someone is found guilty of using an illegal bat? Because that has happened many times in baseball. Whether it's been corked or they use pine tar. Oh, look out. I just want to know, like, why do some keep playing? They're all breaking kind of around in the same spot. Swung out like a bat. Swung out like a baseball. They're still running. It's not like me answering my question. I get it. They're doing it for copyright reasons, but it's loud. Nice. Obviously, being much shorter, you have to run. Yeah. Because you can't, I'm guessing you still have to run. And so, that's probably why that guy dove in the first one. Yeah, I went flying. Oh, look at that. Just kind of like, it was like, it kind of folded. It didn't really break. It more folded in half. Yeah, there you go. The ball is just coming so fast that it... I heard a guy at the beginning say that's the difference between the bats from what they used to be. So did they used to be made, like, heavier, maybe? More porous, maybe. Maybe for bat speed to make them a little lighter. Yeah, so you can get your... But obviously, if it's thicker, I feel like you could hit it a little farther, but maybe that's not the point in cricket, right? Yeah, I don't... I went limp. And is that... Is it common? The way that cricket people are looking, like, I don't think it is. I would think it's not. Because, like, in a baseball game, it's like, you know, like, in a baseball game, you'll get a broken bat maybe once every three or four games, a cracked bat or a broken bat out of 162 games a year. Oh, he just broken himself. Yeah, that's another thing. Yeah, that's another thing.  That is not easy to do. And I'm not talking like the bat was cracked or broken before.  They take their perfectly good bat and snap it over their knee. They're not paying for it. Have you ever tried to do that? No, no. It's a solid piece of wood. You have to be crazy strong to snap a baseball bat over your knee, man. No, there's a solid wood. No, yeah, there are wood. Obviously, these men in baseball at least are super crazy buff beasts.  I love Big Poppy, man. So do I. One of the great Red Sox legends. He was that year, wasn't the end of the curse the same year as the Boston bombing? Yeah. I think everyone in America was rooting for the Red Sox. 2006, I think. Yours truly, I was rooting for the Red Sox that year. So was I. I know you were. That was a great year for baseball, that Red Sox team. Yeah, that's super interesting. Code one, please let me know. Do they have to keep running? It didn't really answer that for me. No, like one guy. It was like half the time. Obviously, if somebody catches a ball, I'm sure obviously they don't have to run. Maybe that's why some of them weren't running because somebody just caught the ball. Or is it stoppage of play? Because of that, I don't know. And do they make the bats differently nowadays? I bet they do. Right, compared to the old days. Because a lot of those look like almost like really not hollow, but like not solid. It's just porous. Yeah, they look pretty porous. And I've swung a bat. Right. They're a cricket bat. And they're not the heaviest. I'm guessing that's obviously because of they want to be able to get the bat around. They balance the weight and it does look porous because the other thing they don't do at least in this that we just saw these 14 when they break, it looks like they break in half. There's not a lot of splintering which can happen with a baseball bat. You can get splintering. A bat can shatter. That is solid wood. Yeah, it's a solid piece of wood. There's no porousness to it. A tree. And they just zip it down. Yep. I mean, it's very wasteful for the tree probably, but I'm assuming they have a farm for baseball bats. 100%. There's probably tree farming that they give steroids and they grow the trees specifically for the bats. And then there's specific mud for baseball. You've seen that whole document. There is. But it's only from one place, from one family. I find that one family has always provided the mud.  I'm like, really? Just get mud. I know. Cool video. Let us know if you've ever broken a bat. They ain't cheat, man. A bird by a broken bat. That's happened in baseball. I'd imagine so. I would imagine so too. Has a bird ever been hit with a cricket ball? Yeah. One famous time in baseball. That was insane. Bird exploded. The bird literally looked like it had been shot at point blank range with a shotgun. It basically had. It did.  No bird left. The odds of that happening. The odds of the bird just happening to go through right at the same time as the ball's trajectory hits it is insane. Absolutely insane. Anyway, it's cool video. Let us know the cricket videos that we can react to down below.


More than 5,000 homes and businesses were left without power after a severe thunderstorm struck north of Bemidji this morning. Beltrami Electric said most of the affected area is in the Waskish, Kelleyer, Red Lake and Redby areas. Electric crews have been working since the storm hit early this morning and will continue to work until all power has been restored. As of 30 minutes ago, more than 2,500 members remained affected. This is video from Kelleyer where several trees were down and a few homes and buildings damaged as well. He got out here, started helping with the elderly first. Then we worked our way around the community. Everybody seems to be fine. That's the most important thing of a storm like this, that nobody's hurt. It's very important that the elderly and the families at home are okay. There was no warning. I don't believe anyone was warned or anything as far as I haven't heard anybody's warning. Beltrami Electric is posting updates on its Facebook page and members may view a real-time outage map on their website. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.