According to a news source, the evacuation of 2,400 students and other Nigerians trapped by the ongoing conflict in Sudan took off on the slow start on Wednesday as only 15 out of the 40 buses required for the exercise were provided. Although the federal government hired 40 buses for the repatriation of the citizens from Khatum and other citizens to carry Egypt, only 10 buses were available as of Wednesday morning, while additional 5 buses were provided later in the day. This was happening as the minister of foreign affairs, Drafion Yemak, claimed that the federal government had been charged $1.2 million for the evacuation of Nigerian nationals out of Sudan. He cited insecurity in Sudan for the high cost of evacuating Nigerians from Sudan. We are worried about the Nigerians in Sudan and what the government is going to do to ensure their safety and we are asking what is the state of the safety of Nigerians trying to evacuate Sudan. Please let's hear what you have to say. Remember you can join the conversation, send us an SMS or WhatsApp to<PHONE_NUMBER>3. You can also tweet to us that we show Africa one with the hashtag we show. You know, actually when I read or when I was talking about the 1.2 million others because so first of all.  When I heard that, I just went to my calculator and I was like, okay, so 1.2 million dollars. See, we are just going to say anything. No, we are not even doing black market rates. And I'm like, okay. And you provided only 15 buses, that's number one. Number two, these drivers, now I don't know if these drivers are locals or if they are Nigerians or wherever it is they are from. They had the guts to stop in an unknown, in the middle of nowhere. Like a red cow, the dogs say, you are there dropping people that or rather stopping people that. So how are we so sure that there wasn't even something that was even, would I say planned in the first place. Like all of these things don't just, it doesn't make sense. I said at the beginning, I have mixed feelings about this because in the first place, yeah, who sent you guys. But also, I feel like the government has a responsibility to its citizens, right? So in cases like this, because look at other countries and what other countries. I'm sure as we get on the conversation, we're going to have, we're going to talk about this. What other countries are doing. So why is it that it's always different when it comes to Nigeria? Why is our case always different? Is it different? First of all, I mean, I just, I want to echo look. Nigeria is bad, Nigeria is bad. But when it kicks off somewhere else, where do you want to go? You want to come back to Nigeria? So the fact is, right, there's a sense of entitlement that Nigerians have first and foremost.  This is this. And my first question is how do you get there in the first place? When you were going, did you seek the government's permission?  Like when you were having sex, was I there? Was I present? Did you consult me? So you've gone to this place. And yes, my son was very proud yesterday. He said, mommy, I learned about the government today in school. And I said, what does the government do? So the government is responsible for the safety and security of its citizens. Now government is responsible for the safety and security of its citizens. Right. And there is an expectation that yes, when I'm abroad, my government will look after me. Your government is the government of Nigeria. We have not looked after the 200 million Nigerians in Nigeria. Then we got to worry extra about you that has chosen to walk with your two feet to another country. But these things happen, right? So you are there and the government starts to make plans. Again, we have very high expectations. $1.2 million is actually not a loss of money for an evacuation exercise of this sort. For the countries that really plan it. It takes sometimes as much as 1,200 military personnel to get people out of the country.  Most other countries, a lot of other countries have only moved out their diplomats. The UK still has almost 4,000 citizens stuck there. So when we say these things, there's always needed a measure of... We need to temper these things when we're sort of having our expectations. Because you kind of have to look at what your government is doing at home to rate what they would do abroad.  Don't even go far. Just stay in the environs of Lagos Island and ask how many people don't have money. And you know that. There's one thing I want to say, but I'm just going to try and hold myself back. I'm trying to really rein myself in. But the fact is, why all of a sudden do you have massive expectations? I don't understand first and foremost, if the drivers were not paid, why start the bus? That's my question. And leave them. But we don't have... All the details are just what we have of the story. But for me, the main thing here is, the evacuation of people in war zones and things like that is hugely, hugely problematic. That you have to keep people safe. You have to stop one side from trying to shoot them to claim the other side did it. And this is a very tense situation. We must remember that the two factions that are fighting, they are military both sides. This is not a civilian versus government. This is not small, small guys. This is full-on guy. You and I, we have AK-47s galore. These are generals. So it is not a situation where you just think, I can just run to one corner. This is calculated military training, fighting each other back and forth. So this is the elephants fighting and the grass is trying to get out of the building. Exactly. So it really for me is, look, we sometimes just have to say, look, Nigerian government, you've even kicked into action because we must applaud. They've even done something. They've started something and let's wait to see where it will go. But I mean, Nigerians, we need to arrange our expectations.  I don't know what else to say. What would you rather they do, actually? Because, I mean, we are Nigerians and we have a government, whether good or bad.  They started doing something. My point is, look, we don't ever think now, like I said, UK citizens are still there. We never think to stop and say, how much or how long does it take to plan an evacuation? An evacuation. You know, all we see is money has been paid. It's not about paying money. There is a plan. There is planning. There is actually executing what it takes to execute. Then executing, having it go well. All of these things are part of the planning. Those countries, countries, I don't want to say countries that are countries. But countries rehearse these things in their different embassies so that when it happens, they have an idea. Right? I don't know what the situation is in Nigeria if we do that. We must first of all understand that this thing is not like saying, Oh, Dami got lost in Sudan. We're just going to go pick her up. No, between you and finding Dami, there are soldiers. There are guns. There are bullets. People, by the way, are dying. And then we think that we're just, I mean, I think the first thing I saw about the evacuation was that a piece was going to fly a plane in there. And you think a piece is flying from here to anywhere. You could have just landed. That's all, that's all, that's all. That's all, that's all, that's all. That's all, that's all, that's all. That's all, that's all. You know what I mean? So that is a whole logistics and planning that goes into kicking something like this off. And when you don't plan well and you rush it, Ergo, we're stuck in the desert, entitled. But really, do we really believe that those drivers were not paid? And that was why they stopped in the middle of Sahara? Okay, let me play Devils Advocate. Again, because we like sensation. That's on the flip side. It is possible, you know, I had mentioned something like, It's possible the drivers are locals. Now in the event that this kind of thing happens, you want to use locals. Because they probably know backwards, they understand the language. So what if somebody had called them to say, listen, you need to stay put for now. You can't move because this place is blocked or that. Again, like Uti said, we don't have all the facts. So when somebody comes on social media and then says something, that's what everybody runs with.  No dear, let me say something. So if that was the situation, I strongly believe that the drivers would have said something to them. And not just to them. They would have informed them. I mean, you are transporting people somewhere, right? Now Uti was saying, oh, what we hear is money. Of course what we hear is money because you cannot tell me that you are saying we need $1.2 million to about Kuwait Nigerian citizens from Sudan. And then at the end of the year, providing first, providing only 10 buses. So in my head, I've played what the scenario was like. So side, they need 10 buses to take out these people from Khatum. So side, you say, how many are they? One man needs, give them 10 buses. Then 10 buses get there and then people fill up the bus. And he calls back saying, 10 buses there is not enough. I said, give them 5 more.  So that's my grievance now. I understand that these people might have been a bit entitled because really whose business is it if your money has finished or if you don't have water strength and all that, right? But now my question is, why do we come out and say we are using X, Y, Z amount and then we don't eventually get what it is that the money has been collected. So what if there was even a deal and then the other drivers or the other companies says you know what this is a risk we can't afford to take? What if? I was just going to say that this situation is in flux. Like I said, this is a war zone. Best blade plans still go wrong. You could have paid the company and then today the company is blown up or tomorrow the driver gets shot and the rest of the drivers say you know what and nobody will do this because the hazard is high and I'm not afraid enough already. They have afraid of reprisals because they live there. I understand. But this also now boils down to Nigerian prioritizing citizens here. It did prioritize citizens into the tune of 1.2 million dollars. We see. Look at what China do. I think there are 400 citizens. Please do the mark. My mark is a little off right now. 1.2 million divided by 400 is worth. 300,000. Thank you. It's time for some prioritization. We like to affect the brain. Yes. They could have made other plans. Other countries are evacuating their citizens through the Navy. There isn't the Navy so that they can use the waterways to get out of there. But first of all, we don't even have a national carrier as a country. We don't need one. We don't. We actually do. Okay, so what if Epis did not volunteer to say okay, what would have happened in my airline? There are great many countries that don't have a national carrier. Again, focus on your focus. Your problems in Nigeria today do not involve a national carrier. Let's not deviate. Literally. I mean, I can say again, this is not a holiday destination. Epis is not just going to go ahead. They think that they are evacuating their citizens. They are doing that with the military planes and children helicopters. They are not doing that with here. Is there some water going on here? Like no, guys. Don't do this. Don't do this. Everybody at the end. Don't do this. That's what I'm saying. Look at what China has done. Look at what Japan has done. They brought in their Navy. They brought in their soldiers. What has Nigeria done anything like that? No. We only sent buses out. But I just said to you that planning is not your problem. We are not proactive. We are always reacting. Yeah, exactly. That's one of the problems of Nigeria. We don't have... Proactiveness does not exist with us. Because number one, that... Well, personally, I think this kind of thing is number one. It's a security. In fact, they are even being evacuated. It requires strict security. You shouldn't be, I mean, doing social media, taking videos, shooting it out to the world and all that. And then why would they even just put citizens by themselves? Inside a boat. There are many moving parts. Yes. I don't think it makes enough sense. Unless you have the full story. We can't particularly say. We can't particularly say. I mean forget the people that are saying they don't have water. They don't have money. That's them just being entitled. I mean, just that sense of entitlement. When the real sense of it, like you rightly said, why are you just putting citizens in it? Because you don't even know who is driving them. You've addressed my point, which is the fact that the planning doesn't seem to be up to point. It was just a rushed thing. As where our debt children started from was that they paid one point to me. Oh yeah, that was about money. How much are we going to pay? Who are we going to pay? Then the question is, or perhaps the question we forgot to ask is what is the plan and what are the contingencies? These are the things that are necessary. My opinion is that I know that there is no contingency and there's no plan.  Nigerian government always take advantage of every problem. That's my pain. There's always the advantage. They don't think that Nigerian government don't have the interest of their citizens. I don't think that Nigerian government has the interest of its citizens. If I am being very honest because this entire situation could have gone in a different way. This entire situation of trying to equate people would have gone in a better way. Very frankly. Rather than just putting people in a bus and saying, drive them to Cairo. It doesn't make any literal sense because how are you even sure that the people that are driving them are not going to take them to somewhere else where they can be kidnapped. I am sure they are not even going to kidnap them. And then the next news you are going to hear is that social and some number of Nigerians were kidnapped on their way in Cairo. You know these things happen and it doesn't make any sense because like you rightly said better planning could have been put in place for these things to make sense. But right now we don't see make any sense. Just hearing is one big figure 1.2 million dollars. And I am like so where has the money gone into? What have you guys used it to do? I mean if we have seen the work that has been done and it still doesn't go as we want it to go. I mean we know we can have our consultation in the fact that we tried but in this case we are not even trying. We are not even trying to try. So how can we I mean so how can we not praise our effort so we are not even trying? Okay I mean I like the I am good at this conversation from and I can't wait to see what I want to see. Before I see what I want to see let's take a break. I am really loving the turnout of this conversation and if you just tuned into our ladies nights out and were discussing the war incident the safety and evacuation of Nigerians please let's hear what you have to say. 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So I was going to see now let's look at this from the angle of these people that are Jack Payne because the truth is that anything can happen in any country at any damn time right so our people the question now is are Nigerians considering are they putting these security concerns into consideration when they want to Jack Payne if you were you want to go to Sudan a country a country that had a thing had a thing for 30 years had a coup in 1990 has had military power but do it it is also like a what kind of country maybe if you think it that would not have been the country that you went to Sudan has been like this for a long time for a long time so I'm not asking so what are the people that have been going into this country what the people how is it that you know that a country is war turned and you still want to go there want to get a medical certificate we have a collaborative high easulem and from Baocji good evening начала  Chloe딱                                                                                ఉాదాలియిమామాటికాతాస్లి. నమరికరియారికి. వకలిలౚి నికి . తివాటికాటికి. హి కి కి. ਹ ੱ੢੷ੰੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱੱ I don't think that those kinds of things come into people's minds when people are leaving because people just think I just want to get out I just want to get out the two things that I take predominantly from this situation and what I think that our viewers should think about when they have these conversations for me personally is yes powerful question where you are going somewhere please think about it if anything happens are you going to rely on your government or are you going to have a plan b this second thing is war is not a thing to be trivialized as you take it like so you can see that as bad as Nigeria is like to say Nigeria is it has kicked off somewhere now they're running back to Nigeria please let us be peaceful in this our land because what was the what was the source of this problem transition of power they're having the same issues we've had in the past the transition from military roles to democracy and not being able to have those conversations flow effectively to the desired end point so peace is not highly overrated we like it you know as Nigerians we are waiting for owan best Saturday you know Friday less you know just just in some context so that we appreciate our realities before we go back to the people in the desert thank you absolutely agree with um Ute I mean peace peace we can't even say it enough and like you rightly said I mean we can look at Ukraine South Africa I mean everybody wants to come back home and everybody now gets angry when they feel the government is not doing something to help them come back home but if we burn our nation so where do we come back to so it becomes pertinent it becomes imperative that we must do all that we can to make sure this country does not burn so at least even if you jack by wherever you have a home to come back to what may I feel like the reason why people want to come back to Nigeria after the jack by is because the freedom that they can get in this Nigeria they can't get it anyway but they can't go somewhere else now they can't go somewhere else this freedom that we have in this area it's not you can't get it anyway look you're not you're calling it freedom it's not freedom first and foremost Dorothy got his right in the wizard of us there is no place like home right say what you will in Nigeria you are on your terra firma your own part of the world nobody can take that from you yeah absolutely I mean literally two weeks before we got back my song was like mommy I'm ready to go home like my family I'm ready to go home and I like I got it I have and everybody that knows me knows that Nigeria is at the center of my DNA I love this country I hear we are here but the fact is we forget when we're here we take it for granted yeah then when you are out there you realize that you know what you go through the experiences you go through the realities and you realize I actually miss home and when I think back to when we had I think it was really circa 2007 2008 when we had the whole IGGB everybody was coming home the fact is if this country was rocking Nigerians will not I think I said earlier yeah sit here and we will be happy because I'm telling you small chops and I'm like is it it is very beautiful country I love Nigeria I would like to live in Nigeria I mean I like to travel the world but I would definitely like to live in Nigeria and I'm going to search a beautiful place I know right honestly okay that's our government why you loman from avia hello loman good evening thank you for calling I like what I mean hearing hope you're seeing that the young government is about this all they're doing in effort putting this because what is spending me these people are welcoming back to me and our education system is not working and they come now when they come back what are they going to do tomorrow after we've got strike you tell me that I should be happy why these people even please I would like you sit down after now and let me know what if you talk about in my own language as an able man I don't know what is happening so you let me know about it but what I'm just saying is that these people coming back now will they still go back to complete the education because our democracy is not working I may have destroyed our democracy within and then they are not doing well everything in this country just going from top to down you are happy that you're coming to places like hope and as you're coming back you're coming back to meet with good government you're coming back to meet with good education to come back to but when you come back you will now stand back to start some square one so that is where the problem is which I pray that when they want God will help you want to finish so and get let them sit in sit down so that they will go back on finish education otherwise they will remain here in Nigeria no education no nothing thank you very much thank you very much actually I agree with what he said I agree with what he said completely because like you said just a few minutes ago if Nigeria was a very if in Nigeria was a walking place a lot of people will not be out of this country a lot of Nigerians will not be out of this country a lot of Nigerians will be here it's just a very sad reality it's just like let me be a practical example maybe your living condition where you are living your house is not particularly great and then you know maybe you just get bored or you're just whatever reason you want to leave you go on maybe holiday to your friends place at some point your house to be calling you even if the living condition is not so great your house to be called you want to go home then when you now get to the house you now remember what you actually left in the very first instance so it's just a very sad reality that we are in currently as ninjas because you can't tell me to go to uk to go and study for instance and maybe no matter how difficult it was when I was there I mean I pointed out a very great education there because they have very good educational system and then I come back to Nigeria nothing is really working I love that I'm back home but I'm sad about what is happening do you get it's so annoying it's really so I really agree with what he said it's really annoying and honestly Nigerian government can actually do better I don't know how much education is Sudanese circle and average union in the UK is about 12,000 pounds very give or take if you go to the US you are talking 60 70 thousand dollars how much is your federal university here how much is your state university here you know look value for money you get what you pay for exactly so when you are paying how much is it you're paying and then you work with us and there is an all the rest I mean come on come on so that's my point this sense of entitlement that we think that everything is good to pay for everything in places where things work people pay I mean I mean I mean I get you I hear you would see when you see how much are we paying but then even with the amount of money that or rather how cheap and affordable it is how many people can actually afford it you see in America people can't afford to go to university people cannot let's be clear right that people cannot afford if we're having a conversation about primary education or secondary education you could take me on but you see university but students we have learned from the time of Ukraine because that time when they had that problem as well students had to bear back and no people who were studying medicine in Ukraine and then had to come back to Nigeria and it's been almost for two years now and they haven't gone back to school they're just confused they don't know what to do they should have to go and write jam again or if I have about two or three friends work entirely confused now about the next steps they can is very depressing for them so you see this thing now see boils back to we say we shouldn't condemn our government it's not condemning it is just proper planning and asking for the bare minimum what plans have been put in place okay fine we need to have contingency but that's the thing I've seen we don't have contingency plans in this country we don't so what happens okay I was talking to you about policies and I said their policies but these policies are not implemented because I want to believe that it's a policy about evacuation and what should happen to the people going into the implementation there is a problem back to the country what's supposed to happen isn't there a process isn't there so when they like what's supposed to happen is like doing covid we knew what and what needs to be done per time right so if somebody that's the same thing so why is that there is no plan we say don't blame the government don't you pull that talk about the government I understand but then is the government really doing what they are supposed to be doing in the first place but the process has stopped like can't put that hat that's why you want to expect so big process we want to have expectations a long time we go and nothing keeps I think we have a call anyway I think we have a call hi austin austin from been in hello austin oh we lost awesome okay hi austin good evening oh okay we've lost him all right so I was saying that the thing is that we don't make proper plans right I'm still seeing our expectation expectation means to lower what we lower in our expectations for a government that's supposed to be working for us again allow me to reiterate that there are four thousand UK citizens still in Sudan but so how do you know that they are going to come for them that's written would do something about did you pay for the boss they really come in i think austin is back now hello austin good evening good evening good evening good evening good evening hello yeah good evening austin please go ahead we can hear you in Sudan I would not have in Nigeria I mean the I mean the universities they have the don't we have the same universities in Nigeria I mean we won't have the study in there I mean Nigeria and you see the problem is we expect too much we're too much in this country and we don't we have a lot of universities in this country okay even if you're going to study Islamic studies for instance don't we have universities in Nigeria here where they do such courses let me just ask yourself what what what the university is in Sudan when we have so many state and federal universities in Nigeria are even cheaper and they get the same education and I want to commend my sister on the on the left for being objective in your analysis you know the truth is that we we we ask for too much we are looking for too much Nigerians are looking for too much I don't know what our problem is and then somebody just call from a partner and saying oh Nigeria is this and that and that and that that's not true that's not true you can't be running down your country like that thank you good evening thank you very much looking for too much in the real sense of what I was looking for them in my life don't let me don't let me I mean how about you pay in taxes this says to me the crisis has already taken place in Nigeria sorry to me the crisis has already taken place in Nigeria government the Nigerian government's path to rescue them which is 1.2 million dollars was earmarked for it every opportunity whether in crisis or for good government officials want to loot and no accountability and investigation I can bet you they will go scot-free so this says India and Britain have the largest population of people jackwine from their country to the US and Dubai okay it doesn't really give context but it says we have three million Nigerians living in Sudan how do we evacuate them or wow three million that's a lot three million are you serious yeah that's a lot okay dami um sorry at average I was doing the math uh what is it three thousand dollars per person and for that one point two million so times it by three million all of you start let's just shop down this country we found out they said it is that one in all of the three million eight thousand two thousand nine seven there you want to add this one to legacy all right um to me the crisis has already taken place um is Nigerian government part of is Nigerian government part to rest is Nigerian government part to rescue them which 1.2 million dollars was earmarked for it earmarked for it every opportunity whether in crisis or for good government officials want to loot and no accountability and investigation I can bet you they will go scot-free I think that's the same comment yeah okay let me just say comment then good evening ladies please I was in Sudan 2008 that country is poor we should educate ourselves and fix our educational sector thanks Ayo from just thank you very much Ayo thank you so much for this comment you see this is what I'm saying instead of us saying oh let's applaud this way let's applaud this way the thing is let's tell them to also fix what it is that they want to fix because the truth is that if our educational sector was working the way it should be working do you think people really want to go to Sudan you think people really want to go to but there are products of this same education system that are doing so well at global have you heard how many people have registered for jam this year over I think about two million people do you know how many people are going to get admission to universities this year so no sorry where in the world does he say that that you applied for investment means that you get no we see I'm just trying to talk about I mean we're not talking about primary or secondary school here again look how many universities do you have well true what is the average intake in a university and we look less joy and focus on our focus literally right it is this sense that everybody will do something or the numbers that we're growing there is a reason why university education go and look at the history even in America why did why did university education become mainstream America America was trying to compete with Russia to go to the moon yeah right to send to send the satellite into space and they started to make education affordable yeah today the Americans that go to university are dying under the weight of the debt that they are in to get that education well you're right university education is not for everybody a well-rounded education system involves education involves vocational vocational vocational because these um these experiences are designed to fill gaps in yeah you know workforce in the nation and what is needed so the fact that you are now saying to me that two million people want to go to university we are the jobs for the two million people to go into when they graduate we are saying the same thing we are saying that we also need to understand that our our expectations are skewed we need to sort of broaden our horizons you know what what is happening if we pump out two million graduates today where are you going to put them there will be a lot of unemployment we will have it yeah true is it the banks is it the telcos how many i think the question is if we have to recreate more employment opportunities stimulate the economy get this people realizing that there's so many things that you can do i mean these people have countries that have proper vocational systems people can i mean there are countries in the world today that are looking for carpenters looking for people and people are not thinking i don't want to aspire to be a plumber yeah but he doesn't that come back to the government how many vocational colleges do we have so you can whatever you want to piggyback you know it's like the devil can't blame you can't piggyback and still come back to the government everything is the government's fault we've heard face your phone okay good evening my dear beautiful sisters of what are you going to do safety and evacuation like my dear beautiful sister dami said if our educational system is good here in india why do people have to go abroad people relocate abroad because our educational system is bad and tonight so the question is our god is our government willing to deliver well he will fail to plan plans to fail for crying out loud what is so special about investments to do if we have good university in india my dear beautiful sister uti made mention of getting what we pay for i agree i'm so happy and excited having uti back in the studio i think that next reason on the statesman's my name is daniel you always thank you so much daniel okay i mean i i think this comment is been a very interesting you know we look at it from different angles clearly uti is not having this okay thank you for joining us tonight but before we go do ensure 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So, hello and welcome this afternoon. My name is Olivier Amrine, I'm from Switzerland. I speak French, so I might have a small French accent. I hope it gives some charm to this talk, hopefully. Anyway, so what I'm going to show and explain a bit is what we have done in the last few years, different projects for what I call innovative showcases. This is mostly for watchmakers. Let me first show you a little demo of the different kind of projects we worked on. I have a good idea of what I mean about showcases. It's mostly for watches during their big fair and presentations. So there are a few things that we try to do and because usually they have just black boxes and with glass and the watch inside and if you are interested you go. What we try to bring is some kind of the wow effect or the kind of come and see me and gather around and see what's mysterious or strange in this. So usually it's trying to get the people to see the watch and then talk, eventually talk about it or get friends to come around. Again, it's very important to be kind of short. You cannot tell a story. You just have to have an effect or have something that's, oh, what's this? And you come and have a look. These are the three main techniques or showcases I'm going to show. One is holographic, just the one that you saw here. Then we did a lot of mapping, motion mapping, what you call motion mapping is mapping on objects that are already moving and then the raptor is the one where the watch goes down when you approach the hand. That's the last project. If I have time, I'm not sure. In our work for the whole of these showcases, we often are three main actors, three main entities, companies. In the middle is Ditlin. He's the one who does and builds the showcases, really the physical showcase. And then on one side there are the engineers that do all the motors, the lead, electronic, the sequencer. And then RGBPred, the company I work for, and we are doing the animation, the visuals and the programming actually of the, like, syncing the different objects. This is just a few pictures to show during the construction of those things. So on the left you can see a lot of cables and I don't do the cables, luckily. But I get to blame people when the cables do not work. So on the very bottom right you can see that's the media player because they are building their own custom media player so that the animations can be on the millisecond precise timing. This is a new thing, so we didn't have it always. I like schematic things, so I thought, yeah, let's add one. We just chose the green things, the green squares are what the people see. The blue is mostly what is inside the box and the sequencer is where we can control the timing between those different things. So the sequencer we say, for instance, okay, now play the first video. So okay, it goes on the screen. And then 15 seconds later, oh, start the motor so that this watch goes to the right or to the left.  Because now we have a video with an explosion or whatever, and then, oh. Or it can even be 345 milliseconds later because sometimes when you have an impact of a watch or something, you have to try to be as precise as possible. Just put back the LED on and then we have the effect. That's an example of the sequencer. It's not no programming, no, I mean, there are some loops and functions that you can do, but it's really, it's linear. And what I mean by linear, it goes really one after the other. I mean, animation is always like this. But it means that you have to wait for a moment and then do the other action. And then you cannot do simultaneously things. So you really have to sometimes find clever ways to allow this effect. And it's also impossible, for instance, if we have a watch that goes from here to here, to have a real like a spline animation to make something like, ooh, like this. It's really, you can only give position at different times. This is sometimes hard and we have to deal with it. So let's talk a bit about the holographic. So I have another video and I can lower a bit the sound, but it's nice sound. To show you the different projects. So that's one with three sides. And in this case, we tried to have some nice interaction between the two. So sometimes for different projects, I use a blender for real 3D. Sometimes we just use footage. Sometimes the client also they have footages or things that they want to use because they already have visuals. And here you can see that we put the light on so the object appears. That's also some interesting effect that you can play with it. That's a very classical just hologram around. But then we try to turn around with the balls. Yes, Hublot is the name of the watch company that we work a lot for. This is like completely redone in 3D so that we get the real effect. And here the company gives us the models of the watch and we recreate them in 3D so that we can really play with them around and for the holographics. So thank you for applause. I'm very happy because I have two other videos. So you might applaud again. So of course, I wrote in the little leaflet and the presentation is going to be about holographic. And holographic is a word, it's a buzzword. It's a different kind of holographic. We call it this, but of course it's not Star Wars holographic yet. I've seen some videos where people are trying to have some smoke, little smoke ejectors and lighting projectors, but we are not there yet. So that's what we use. And I think it gives a nice effect and you can play it easily. You don't have too many complicated stuff. So the idea, because I'm telling the secret, there's a display on the top and then the green one is a double-sided mirror. It's a very special glass. You can do it with a glass normal, but it's a glass that only reflects mostly the light things. So the other part is you have the eye and so it reflects some of the images on the display. Mostly the black one gets transparent. So you have to imagine like this add and screen mode in Photoshop or Krita.  That's the basic things. And when we do videos, we always try to do, of course, on a black background because of this. This will give the illusion. So during the years, I discovered a few things and these are rules, but again, sometimes we break them because of any reason. But mostly it's trying to have the purest black ground, I mean, just black, which by the way, it's not always easy because some screens like in this one, this is a AMOLED smartphone. So the blacks are really black, but some screens, especially like five years ago, they wear a little, you know, it's backlit. So it was harder to see. And then what I call safe borders is try not to get outside of your frame of the image because then you will see, I mean, the hologram will be cut when you go out. So try either to be inside or have an effect that make it appear, disappear. Use as most as possible 3D animations because 3D and when it moves, you also forget this sense of flatness because the hologram is a, it's kind of a flat image that is projected transparently. So we don't have the real hologram that you could really turn around and see on touch, but you need to use the 3D as much as possible. Static images work a bit less. And then have a real background pattern or object. This is something that don't project or don't use this hologram on a black background or something. In this case, like the Lego one, I recreated a small thing and this will, because you see a real scene and then you have the holographic image on top of it really. And this is very important. Okay, I did a slide with don't do, but basically it's the inverse of the twos. So yeah, like having, sometimes the clients, they want something and they give us their latest commercial or whatever image and they say, yeah, yeah, okay, can do something. The commercial is really great, but then it goes on the borders of the image and we cannot really use it, so we try to pick out elements of it that we can use. But again, often with these displays, we have to be innovative and we don't necessarily need to be 100% corporate and to follow their image. We can be a bit more creative and for this, it's happy for this. Don't overcharge your visuals, that's because sometimes it's better to have just one small thing that spins and gives the effect and then you have the rest. I'm focusing this again, but this is a good example and when you really have the 3D object that is moving in 3D, you really don't know the depth of the hologram and to make it disappear. And you could even make it disappear and eventually appear a real product on top of it. I mean, the possibilities are nearly endless, technically refrained, but you can do a lot. At least I'm having a lot of fun trying to do this. So that's the production process. It's not always like this, but we do the storyboard, the ideas, then the showcase starts and we start just ideas or concepts or what we want to do, show or research references. Then there's the first prototype that is built. I come to take the measurements of the layout because you need to, especially when you have interaction with the objects, you need that your animation is calibrated exactly when the impact is occurring. I try to recreate a scene in 3D, so be it a book for the mapping or these kind of things. I try to be in 3D so that when I'm rendering, I have already the depth and the different objects that I can play around. And then in red, repeat because often there are things that go wrong or something or they change because of any reason. The prototype was not working or the client wanted something else, so we often have to repeat this operation. Because every showcase is different or is a new idea. So we cannot, we're not industrial production, so we cannot just oh, we already have the measurements, we every time repeat. So this means that in this work, in these projects, not always like this, but 50% is creative production of the video and the animation, the stuff. And then 50% is more like doing the layout, re-measurement, timing, sequencing and solving some problems that we will get. Sometimes you have an idea and I'm at work and I'm working two days and think, oh, this effect is going to look great. Let's do a 3D thing that goes around and explodes or something. And then you see it on the reel and I know because of, I don't know, some lighting problem or something, so you have to readjust your animation. So this is maybe for more for the internet. I just did a small video because I wasn't sure also that they allowed me to take the glass in the plane, so in case I made a video. So just showing that. I think I would just keep the slides to the videos. It's going to be fun. So a little showing the different measurements that I did for this, for instance, in this case. Showing that after that I put it as a background and then I recreate in 3D the scene with the LEGOs. And then you can animate in this, you know where your stuff is and it should work fine. Now on to the mapping projects. Yeah, I have another video. You don't need to upload in the end, really. It's just showing the different projects. In this case, it's quite a big watch. It's moving, rotating. So that was also a challenge after to get it right. That was a hard thing. In both of these cases, we recreated, we printed actually the objects using Blender. So it's 3D printed book and 3D printed watch. For the figuring, I think it's an iPhone or a smartphone. That's a bit what I said. We had to, in this case, I had the chance to make the book in 3D so that they can print it in 3D. And then I have already the reference. So I just put it back on my scene. I calibrate the layout, the camera, so that the mapping goes directly on the object. And then from that on, I can animate, add things, effects, or change the textures of the watch. So, yeah, layout calibration is something that I spend a lot of time and you have to find some, not really workflow, but a way to test it. And there was no real direct computer to display output. It's sometimes, because of the displays, they are very technical stuff. There was like a SD card to take out, to make a movie, take out, go inside, and then again, it was very slow process, iterative process to check, take the measurements, and then, and by the way, taking measurements, sometimes I don't do really measurements, but I just put the image, see around, and I do okay. That's like half a pixel or half a line of these. I take a lot of pictures of the places. So that's, for instance, one of my photo timelines. So sometimes I have kids and sometimes I have days of watches and layout alignment. And I don't remember what this big, but bunny down, but I think one of the engineer, they use big bunny as a movie reference for their encoding and their stuff. So that's why I shot it. And finally, I'm going to talk a bit about the Raptor 2. That's the, there's another video. I can talk about it on it. The idea is, these are display and there's no glass, because these watches, I don't know what this one, but it's a few thousand euros and sometimes even more. And this, you can see it without glass, but you cannot touch it. If you want to touch it, it goes down to safety. And when it goes down, then there's still a little story that is happening to the watch. We had three different models. One was more mechanical. One is for more materials used for the watch and one more feminine. The real watch inside, of course, is not moving at all. It's just waiting, waiting to go back up and then we have the timing. Yeah, fruit simulation. Hey, it was okay, it was okay. I survived. It's just next slide, sorry. So, well, you've seen a bit how it works and basically there are some proximity sensors that detect when a hand is coming and then, well, the watch goes to safety very quickly and then launches a movie as fast as possible. It did still take some time to start the movie, so actually the movie, the start of the movie, for instance, this is a trick that we had to do is it doesn't start, the animation doesn't make the watch go down really. It already is a bit down because the latency there is 200 milliseconds. We use them and we play, I mean the real watch goes down and then starting the movie and it's only starting now the movie. So, we started the watch a bit already down, quite some. And there are actually five sequences that we had to split because of different conditions and state of the watch, for instance. If there is somebody always holding because you could like, okay, I'm clever, right? So, I'm waiting until the watch comes up again. So, I'm putting my hand here, but then no, no, we were more clever than the guys. So, we said, no, wait, there's a hand. So, I'm not going up. And that's why you get this message, please step back.  And even if you try to catch it when it's going up, there's still be a state where it's like, oh, wait, there's someone coming back. I'm giving back the animation. But then we cannot start the animation at the very beginning. Actually, what I'm saying, I think it's in this kind of schematic. It's really, you have to, we had to find different kind of key points or, yeah. Moments when you can decide, okay, we bring back the animation when it's going down or we let it go a bit up or this kind of things. And I think that's mostly the different conditions that you have when, okay. First, it's either up, you're waiting, then it goes down. So, let's see the timing. I'm very happy with my timing. So, I will play old so that you can see all the animations that I made in Blender, of course. Well, it was always the same music, but I can talk around it. And you can see that the timing is the same, although the animations are a bit different and some go faster. But when it's up, it's at the same time. These are one, this is in a different timing, like it's longer when it goes down. See, it takes some time to have this fluid effect and he's watching around the watch. And then only we get this, please take back. And at this point, if nobody is holding his hand and I think we have maybe, if there are some one or two questions to me, ask me questions also. Okay, I think we are done. You can ask me questions directly. Thank you.


can you hear me okay great so I'm gonna be talking a little bit today about how we organize ourselves within our organizations our businesses to do innovation and when we're organizing for innovation one of the things I think is very helpful and useful is to take a systems perspective on the org so what systems? Systems are basically composed of semi-autonomous parts that look like they're functioning independently but are very interrelated and structures that have a bunch of behaviors and as we can see from this slide there are many systems around us from ecosystems to our own human systems, our cultural systems and of course the business systems in which we work on a daily basis so in terms of analyzing the systems we work in very helpful to take both an inside out and an outside in perspective so we think of our perhaps our user experience teams in which we operate they tend to be fairly self-functioning units but we have a lot of interdependencies of course we don't just do design there's a business context, there's profits must be made for the business to survive, there are business requirements, there are technological requirements and many many different requirements that impact how we can do user experience so in terms of analyzing a system very useful to take in both an inside out and outside in perspective so thinking about how does our group our user experience teams operate in this larger context but also what are the forces from the outside that are impacting us and how do they impact us and how can we influence in both directions and these these these words along the side here are when you look at the systems thinking literature these are the these are the words that the terms that keep coming up thinking about boundaries right the boundaries between things what's happening at the boundary points in a system what frictions and synergies existed those boundary points what overlap and redundancies and as you think through how your UX team operates in this organizational context it makes it makes makes allows you to think more systematically about how you want to do innovation and I'll be talking a little bit later about considering our UX teams is innovation competency centers another thing that's very useful is it when thinking systematically including a lot of different perspectives right so if we're thinking considering mountains mountainous terrain as a project maybe we have to design for or plan for if we include a geologist in in in our in our project they're gonna come to the they're gonna talk to us about mountains in a very different way than we might look at it if we were talking to a cartographer or perhaps someone who actually had to live perhaps fight or do some type of activity in a cold mountainous terrain each of those each of those people is gonna bring a very different perspective a more systematic more holistic perspective that allows us to do innovation more effectively then they're disciplinary blinders right we all operate in these organizational contexts with our teams where we have our own languages our own theories our own jargon our own cultures and these can also function as blinders right and oftentimes even on my team you know we'll talk about those damn product managers and you know the fact that they don't really get the users or maybe the maybe the the fact of the matter is they're thinking about users in a different way than we in UX think about users and those damn technologists they don't understand users because you know they're always thinking about code and systems architecture and how to make things scale and they don't think about users well maybe they think about users in a different way than we do we all bring different perspectives to the mix so organizational blinders can really get in the way it's a less systematic approach just something to keep in mind when you think about how you organize yourself to do innovation so let's think about developing a systems perspective on the outputs of the UX team and and and these are these are sort of common things I think we could probably all agree on maybe you have different outputs in your team different things that you provide your organization different ways of communicating but it's very helpful to think about how all of those outputs impact the others in your team around you for example we also we wanted to use a research right okay so who else who else wants to do research in our organization well marketing people product managers even executives are very very interested in the the products of research so can we look for synergies and ways to do research that bring all of these viewpoints into the mix and allow us to collaborate and build a more robust and shared knowledge base thinking about for example another aspect let's say you're building some prototypes okay those nice prototypes may be well rendered well could those be used to actually help your sales team to sell product before it exists well in fact it can in fact I've done it my team has done it and so if we can think more systematically about the things that the information that's coming into our teams and what's coming out of our teams and how we can synergize that with the rest of the organization and their needs we can actually have more effective UX teams and get involved in earlier stages of discussion and more strategic stages of discussion in business planning so when you're thinking about your team your UX team take a foreign a foreign policy approach think about it from a nation's perspective right your UX team is like a little nation and the other organizations or other nations how do you interact with those teams how do you influence each other perhaps create what's known as an influencing map thinking about in a sort of strategic fashion what are the needs of the other teams and if I have to go to them to ask them for support what might be their objections thinking through these things before you even even go taught to these teams gives you a broader perspective it's actually an interesting exercise to perform within a UX team to use it as a brainstorming team-building activity to think systematically about the whole rest of the org or doing organizational audits where you go around and you interview other teams at the company to find out what are their needs what keeps them awake at night think about it as internal user research you're looking at the target audience that you're working with every day your colleagues the other ones who are gonna help you build product we don't we don't we don't build product as UX people typically we're not engineers some of us are but mostly we don't build products we design we mostly provide research and design and we have requirements coming in from the business side from product managers what are their needs for me as their experience team we shift gears a little bit and and talk about innovation activities and I really like to think about innovation as as kind of an organizational renewal process how does a company refresh itself right a company builds products it ships products it has business models so they can put products out in the world sell those products make profit and live continue to live as an organism right but it has to evolve a business exists in a in a in a broader context of competition of changing market needs of technology changing technologies it's an evolving world right new social needs so businesses continually need to reinvent themselves rethink themselves so what I'm gonna talk about next is a little bit more of a taxonomy and I'm a kind of a taxonomy junkie or a framework junkie I find they sort of help me organize my thinking and and and stood not only that but stretch my thinking and prompt my thinking so we talk about innovation I think there's there's there's sort of three broad categories that are useful to think about the core innovation for those of us that work in product companies this is you know we've got parts where we continually evolving them changing them and I think it's well illustrated by Apple at one point when they started reinventing themselves kind of around core innovation through an industrial design nice colors forms etc and then there's what's known as adjacent innovation this is where you're really kind of trying to expand out into new markets adjacent markets things that are proximal to where you're doing business today I think that's pretty well typified by the by the music player right the iPod so Apple there was a you know well populated space of music digital music devices and Apple came in and they changed the game now they changed it systematically right because not only did they introduce a player they also introduced a system for music delivery and then there's transformational where you're really going after transforming a market sometimes known as disruptive innovation and I think very well typified by the by the iPhone completely disrupted the phone industry changed the game entirely right before we're all using blackberries and Nokia devices and you know incomes this phone that nobody had ever seen before so having this kind of language so we can talk about innovation and what type of innovation are we really doing is it incremental kind of the core stuff or are we really going broad and and trying to disrupt entire markets this is another now we're kind of going down a level looking at an innovation taxonomy this is actually slide is based on the work of the dobbling group they put out a very compelling book 10 types of innovation can't recommend it enough it's a book that's actually designed by designers so it's quite visual and they have a very interesting systematic way of presenting innovation and thinking about innovation that I have found tremendously helpful so if we sort of look at these different categories from configuration through offerings through experience you may not agree on the terminology but they look at things like profit model I won't drain this slide I'll make sure it's up online if you guys want to look at it or you can go by the book they look at things like profit model how we how do we make money and there's different ways of innovating around making money yesterday we had a talk about Bitcoin okay different different ways you can you can charge right there's freemium models there's ad supported models lots of different ways to make money and you can innovate in the same way you can network with other businesses how do you come together to perhaps offer new services that you couldn't do on your own partnering right structure how you align your talents and then processes what's how how can we change our our internal processes as a business for one example is lean startup or lean ux it's quite quite popular now where I come from in California in the Silicon Valley it's all the rage in fact among startups they're all doing lean startup or most of them anyway and that changes how we do things how you approach business product performance and product system these are sort of classics these are things that designers typically focus on and think about when they do innovation and then there's there's some other service and channel brand and customer engagement and one of the things I think that's kind of interesting when I looked at this the first time it started thinking about it I realized that you know UX prior to 2000 I felt was really focused around product and and and systems and then from about 2001 about the time of the dot-com boom and services coming online and websites and more cloud-based models we started to see service channel branding engagement all being discussed more amongst designers in the UX community and then I wonder you know does the future lie ahead for us to design profit models network structures and processes can we innovate can we influence innovation in these areas as UX designers so thinking about building an innovation culture okay it's not just gonna happen it unless you happen into a company where they're that's kind of their founding DNA and they're they're all about innovation you're probably not gonna start over there right on the far right innovation sometimes enters particularly larger organizations that have more established business models as a foreign entity and why is that well because as a business does business it builds supply chains it builds ways of making money they start out innovative right but then in order to do business they lock down into certain systems certain ways of functioning and operating and in order to renew themselves they have to disrupt so sometimes they they get stale and so innovation comes as more of a outside entity it's more sort of a part of or peripheral to the main organizational thrust and then what we're trying to do when we when when we innovate is to get innovation at the core of the organization and then ultimately push it out into basically the core function of the innovation so that it really operates at all levels of an organization so I encourage you guys to think about your UX teams as innovation competency centers right it's at the core of what we do we're all about innovation whether it's it's it's core adjacent or transformational that that's what a UX team is doing we're trying to renew the organizations we operate in and as someone once said the future is here it's just unevenly distributed you'll find the same thing with innovation within organizations right organizations are hierarchical there you've got semi autonomous units they all function a bit differently they all have their own different cultures but they're interrelated and so innovation may operate at different levels across the the company but ultimately it should be informed by feedback coming from your outside world your customers your users whether your product service what not so one thing I'd also like to encourage is this notion of using scenario based design but not considering single scenarios but multiple scenarios so what does that look like if we think about where we are today and some future time that's out there some plausible futures plausible is it likely probably not but you know we can imagine it so plausible but if things kind of keep going as the as they go they're sort of evolving slowly we'll get to what what's a probable future right unless we think about things more disruptively and what I'd like to encourage you to do is to think more broadly about what are preferable futures but not just one preferable future because we can't really know what the future is it's impossible to predict it's dynamic always things are always happening right some pandemic sorry there'll be some sort of pandemic outbreak that changes the future who knows I don't know but when you're doing scenario based planning and I could teach a whole day tutorial on that it's it's it's too deep a topic to go into here but but basically what you're doing is you're considering brainstorming what are what are the social technological environmental economic and competitive political and competitive environments that may possibly constitute a future and then developing scenarios and telling stories around these different possible scenarios and you can use it as a way of planning for different outcomes that might happen in your businesses looks like I'm going to finish early so maybe I'll catch us up a little I could take a question or two so again I you know design thinking I'm trained as a designer it's what I've done my whole career I'm all about experimentation but not just experimentation in our design but experimentation in in our organizations and how we organize ourselves and how we interact and looking at things is looking at everything that we do is a set of experiments right and and seeing what the outcomes are and and having that feedback loop to gauge well what's what's really happening in the system when I try this new initiative does it does it does it get traction does it fall flat what happens and and how do I need to tweak and adjust whatever I'm doing however I'm interacting however my team is interacting however I'm dealing with customers or not dealing with customers treated as an experiment stay open flexible and what that allows you to do is to pivot as necessary so that's that's all that I'm a little bit early I guess I could take a question or two or I can catch catch us up on the speakers whatever the the preference is yeah question sort of yes yes actually so that that slide is is heavily borrowed if not stolen from the design management Institute so they they use it to talk about design I is it to talk about innovation and it definitely maps to a capability maturity model for design so and in fact they have a fourth drawing where the yellow circle is completely outside the gray so it's almost like a foreign entity right so you could even think of it as sort of like a virus invading a cell right it goes in it sort of takes over the cell it's kind of a nice nice diagram I like it a lot questions okay thank you


After ACL reconstruction surgery, athletes must undergo a battery of tests before they're deemed ready to return to sport. Unfortunately, rates of re-injury remain high. That has motivated some researchers to take a closer look at some of the measures used to declare athletes ready to resume their previous level of activity. One group recently examined the triple hop test for distance. Their findings, reported in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, suggest that comparing hop distances between the affected and non-affected knee could mask serious differences in biomechanics. The team compared 24 male athletes cleared to return to sport after ACL reconstruction with 23 healthy male controls. They used a combination of force plate measurements and 3D motion analysis to capture the athlete's performance on the triple hop test. The triple hop test is one of several assessments clinicians used to clear athletes to return to sport after ACL surgery. The test consists of an initial propulsion phase, two rebound phases, and a final landing phase. A limb symmetry index of 90% is the recommended cutoff for safe return to sport. Limb symmetry refers to how closely an athlete's repaired limb can match the performance of their other limb. In this study, athletes who had undergone ACL reconstruction performed relatively well, achieving a high symmetry index of 97%. But their biomechanics during the triple hop test told a different story. Data on how much energy athletes generated or absorbed during each phase of the test revealed significant asymmetries between repaired and non-repaired limbs. While athletes reached up to 80% symmetry during some phases, symmetries as low as 54% and 66% were observed during the two rebound phases. These asymmetries would not be observed if only distance were measured during a triple hop test. Motion analysis showed that athletes who had undergone ACL reconstruction landed differently on their repaired limb, with the knee slightly more extended and with more flexion in the hip and trunk. An energy analysis confirmed that the repaired knees of these athletes contributed significantly less to take off during each hop compared to other knees. The results suggest that these athletes may use their hip to compensate for deficits in their affected knee. More broadly, the findings of this study reveal the limitations of the metric used during the triple hop test. Looking at distance alone, masks important asymmetries in knee function. Unfortunately, the expertise and equipment required to perform biomechanical assessments aren't available in routine clinical settings. Future studies are needed to explore viable test options for measuring athletes' readiness to return to sport, and to better understand how asymmetries in knee function can affect athlete performance on the road to recovery.


Here's the top traits of the most successful people, okay? They invest in themselves. They invest in themselves, okay? They are great at sales. Name me one extremely successful person that's not a rock star salesperson. It's impossible. Don't even try. Can't do it. They're positive. They're a big thinker, right? They think big. They dream big, all that, right? I've got my 8% nation socks on today. I don't have my CA think big socks, okay? They're positive. They think big. They train daily. They train daily. There's five things that I do every single day, by the way, okay? Wake up before six, five to five to five to nine before six, by the way, okay? I work out. I write down my goals. I train, like self-training, right? I'm learning. I'm soaking it in. And then I'm doing a cold shower. That's my daily power five. That's how I kick off my day, by the way, okay? That's how I kick off my day every single day because it makes me the best version of me, right? It makes me the best version of me, right? They're driven. They're consistent.  Right? I'm going to finish that with consistent because I love that. I love that, right? So, I'm going to ask you if these are the traits of successful people, by the way. If these are the traits of successful salespeople, right? Always looking to improve. I love that. They want to improve, right? They want to improve. Yes, they do. You're exactly right. They want to improve. I want to improve, man. I want to improve, okay? If these are the traits, I'm going to ask you, what are you doing in relation to being a phenomenal salesperson, okay? We talked about, these are the traits of the world-class people. This is called world-class sales skills, right? Of the world-class people, these are their traits, okay? Now, I'm going to go through these and I want to know which one of these traits do you own right now and you have, okay? Are you always looking to improve? Yes or no, okay? This is a self-evaluation right now. This ain't about me. It's about you. It's about you. I want you to be great. How committed are you to improving? How committed are you to improving? If you are, you aren't. The world-class, they don't think about stuff, man. They commit. They do it. They want to improve. They're there, okay? How likely are you to improve, right? How much do you want to improve? The next one, how likely are you to invest in yourself? Great world-class people, successful people, they invest in themselves. They spend money, okay? I've spent about a quarter million dollars, the last 28 months-ish, on making me a better version of me. Over a quarter of a million dollars, okay? That's a lot of dough, right? If I stack it on the table, you think it would take up a whole table, right? If we did, was that 25 stacks of 10,000 cash, that would probably fill up the table and maybe a couple stacks, you know? That's a good amount of money, right? I could have done something else with that money, but I chose to invest it in me, okay? I chose to invest it in me, okay? Also, what else? They are great at sales, man. They're flipping phenomenal salespeople. If you struggle, if you just deep down know that you can be better at sales, you need to go to this link right now, okay? So that I can talk to you and try to position something for you or your team to help you be better at sales, okay? You have to be great at sales. For all this to work, you've got to be able, because what does sales do? It brings money through the door.  And investing, because when you pay for sales training, it's an investment. It's not an expense. Let me remind you, it's an investment. It's not an expense, okay? They're great at sales. What else? They're positive. The most successful people I know are extremely, extremely positive, man. Extremely, extremely positive. Like, bad stuff happens around them or something doesn't go their way or they wake up in the wrong side of bed or whatever. They're positive. They show up happy and positive, okay? Are you showing up happy and positive? Are you letting drama in?  Or are you committed to being world class? Okay, the next one, they think big, man. I'm challenging myself to think even bigger right now. I want to level up. Elaine, I want to level up. I don't want to fell any longer either. It's time to start winning. I'm tired of losing. I want to win, right? I don't know about you, but I want to win. I want to win, right? But sometimes along the way, you got to think a little bigger. A lot of people are not plugging in and training every day. If you're not moving forward, guess what? You're moving backwards. You're moving backwards. I do not want to see you fell any more. I do not want to see you move backwards. I want you to lean in. That's how you get better. You train every single day, right? In my office, we do sales training every day. We role play every day, right? We do an energy activity. We share. We have two trainings a day, right? We have a chance, some energy, some excitement to start our day, all of that twice a day, twice a day. I'm not sort of committed. We're really freaking committed, right? They want to commit us. We're so committed to this thing, right? We train daily and the last thing is great people. The top trades, they're consistent. No matter what happens, they show up whether they feel like it or not. They're consistent. They're reliable. They show up. They want to win and they're in it to win it and they're in it for the long term. They're not thinking about, oh, I had to pay $200. Oh, I had to pay $1,000. Oh, I had to put $5,000 in my credit card to be better, right? They don't think about stuff like that. It doesn't matter. What is $5,000? In the grand scheme of things, $5,000 is nothing. I will spend, just to let you guys in on a little secret, I will spend probably about $5,475 this year at Starbucks, right? And we talked about the quarter million bucks I've spent on making me better the last couple years. It doesn't matter, right? The money is there to invest into making you better and to leveling up your career and trying to be a better version of you. Okay? That's it. That's it. I need to buy some stock in Starbucks. You're right. You're right. That's not enough to really make that much of a dent, probably, but you know. So the question is, which of these are you doing? Which one of these are you winning at and which one of these are you felling at? That's the question. That's the question. Okay? That's the question. That's the real question, right? And then also, to go over the cell, I'm going to go over the CA cell system really quick. I'm going to tell you all the things that are in it. Okay? I'm going to tell you all the things that are in it. Right? There's 20, there's like 25 chapters in this thing.  Right? These are all the types of things that are in our new CA cells system, by the way, that you can go to kodiaskins.com.org slash cell system to learn more about. Okay? Also, if you haven't been to our website, kodiaskins.com, total new facelift, total new facelift at kodiaskins.com. Brand new website, just rolled it out, I believe, like last week. Okay? So, here's what I want to mention. I want to help you, win. Okay? I want to help you win. I want to help you be the best version of you that you can be.  There's only one way to do it, and that's to train every single day. So, when it comes to cells training, whether you are an individual or a team, we have built a new CA cells system that is committed to helping you become a better salesperson every single day. Right? And if you're struggling with that, and if you're not dominating and you want to be great at this whole cells thing, then you will absolutely get involved and jump on the new cell system. Okay? It's a no-brainer. The value's ridiculous. Okay? It comes with a lot of stuff. I will kick it off with your team. I'll jump on like this privately with your team. We'll give you a monthly curriculum. We'll give you a workbook. We'll give you access to over 400 modules. We'll give you access to quizzes. We will give you the recipe for success. So, you don't have to question anything.  Okay? That's what you do. Okay? So, my challenge to you. Okay? We got a hundred and... Listen to this, by the way. We got about 180 two days left in 2020. Okay? About 182 days left in 2020. Okay? So, my question to you is, how will you finish this year? Will this be the best year of your life? Will this be the worst year of your life? How will 2021 be? How will 2022 be? If you have a team, how good is your team? Are they great? Are they average? All that stuff I talked about, all the different chapters, all the stuff I talked about, what are they missing? What are they not delivering on? Are you... What's the main problem your team is having? Are you happy with their results? Or your results for that math? And if you're not, I have a solution. Okay? I have a solution. Right? So, go to codeascus.com.com, slash cell system. Check this thing out. Okay?  I'll be doing a few more here and there because I want to keep you motivated. I love doing these events. Okay? Appreciate you being on it. Please share this thing out. Tell someone, we'll upload it to YouTube later probably. Okay? Tell someone that needs to hear this message. Okay? Share this with other people. Okay? Don't be selfish. Don't be greedy. Right? I'm going to keep doing free stuff and continuing to help you be a monster at the art of sales. All right? If you want to talk to me about how we can customize a program to make you and your team better at sales, then simply go to codeascus.com slash cell system. And I'll make sure that I jump on to say hello and to help you win. All right? Okay?  Let's have a great rest of 2020. I want you to be world class at this whole sales thing. Okay? I want you to be world class at this. Back when I was a brand new agent, I didn't know how I would get there, when I would get there, what to do to get there, but I knew I wanted to win. And hopefully you are sitting there right now thinking, dude, I want to win. I want you to win. Don't forget about the sales system. Okay? Appreciate you guys. Have a happy four great weekend. Let's start to tear it up. Let's get serious. Right? Let's get serious. Appreciate you.  I got five books that every new insurance agent should read. Go watch that. Grab the books. I'll see you over there. When you read a book, when you go to an event, when you listen to a book, when you go to a mastermind, when you buy a university, when you do these different things, okay? When you have a coach, whatever. If you don't have a coach, gosh, darn it.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News Daily. James Tarkovsky has praised Everton's summer transfer business and believes the Blues are on the right track to start moving up the table despite obviously Everton still not winning a Premier League game. They are five games unbeaten now in all competitions and James Tarkovsky very pleased with the way it's going.  Tarkovsky going on about getting the right characters into the club. Fair the testament really to what a lot of people have said of what they've witnessed watching Everton so far this season. Yes there's no win and we need that first win but I think a lot of us can see that there is Frank Lampard and his coaching staff have got the team on the right kind of track with the right structure. Tarkovsky's been really really important to that and especially given that we've lost Ben Goffrey, Jerry Meen and Mason Holgate as well already in the early weeks of the season. Tarkovsky and Connor Cody have been huge for us so he's proved already to be a good sign in this summer coming in as well. He also talked about James Garner who's a young player with loads of potential who's settled in quite well as well. Hopefully that will be born out in results as well rather than just looking like there's better performance as we do need to start winning some games but it does look like there is a structure and a plan in place. This was a surprising story today. Trabzonsport linked with a move for Everton Winger and Ross Townsend. Tarkovsky's media have reported that the Trabzonsport have identified Townsend as someone they won in their squad in the Europa League this season. He's injured. I'm not sure how long he's still going to be out for. He was speaking not long ago and said he's got a decision to make. Does he return before the well cup or does he give himself those extra five or six weeks and come back and box and they even fit it? He said there's a twin plan. Even if he came back just before the well cup that still means he's going to be out for about another six to eight weeks. It doesn't really make sense this link but it's everywhere today.  That it closes so we'll see but that to me just looks like a mad link. But another player who Tarkovsky's media saying may well move tomorrow and that is Everton Stryker Salomon Ronddon. There was talk last week that Galatasaray were very interested in taking the 33-year-old to Tarkovsky. That was while Everton was still pursuing another striker and Everton didn't get another striker off forward in on deadline day. And obviously Ronddon is still there and was sub in the Mergyside Derby at the weekend. But the Tarkovsky's media today saying that Fennabachy and Galatasaray are both very interested in signing them before tomorrow's deadline. So wait and see whether Everton take a calculated risk and let him out the door or whether Frank Lampard wants to make sure he's well stocked in the forward positions of course. Finally Everton and Arsenal are both expected to make a bid in January for Shakhtar Dinesk. Winger, Mikhail Omudzrich, obviously this was another story that was doing the rounds last week. Both of these clubs very interested in taking them. Everton had apparently had a verbal bid turned down by Shakhtar. The winger was excellent last night as Shakhtar beat Red Bull Leipzig 4-1 or RB Leipzig 4-1. He scored a goal and created another two and you know 21 year old really really quick. A lot of eyes on him and obviously doing it in the Champions League means even more. He'll be subject of even more interest now but Everton and Arsenal both heavily tipped to make a move for him in January. Everton I imagine will be in the marker for a forward come January. Somebody can score goals and he was quick and he fit that bill so there you go. I'll have to wait and see what happens there. That is it for the news daily. The video will thumbs up. Subscribe if you haven't. And make sure you check out our new podcast 1878 FM podcast. A brand new podcast weekly with myself, David Vitty and Andy Bush. And occasionally pet if we can get them out of bed. Check that out. The first episode is out now. See you later.