What's good Josh for Ross back again with another video. So we got to talk about what happened on this episode a Monday Night Raw They have been progressing some things heading into WrestleMania some storylines are starting to Further progress and it's gonna be very interesting to see how things play out play out shout out to everyone That was a part of the Monday Night Raw stream on YouTube and Twitch We always enjoy your your guys company and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens on smackdown as well this week So let's get right into it talk about the the most important stuff that happened on the show. So We're gonna get into the whole Drew McIntyre and Seth Rollins segment once again Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre Their promo segments have been just top-notch for the past few weeks damn near a few months now They've been killing it every time they have a microphone in their hand. They are killing it So drew comes out there. Obviously the winner of the men's elimination chamber this year comes out there with this, you know Smug smile, you know, he's feeling good. He's out here high-fiving people on the entrance ramp It's like he's a good guy.  We're going to WrestleMania to face Seth Rollins in the win the world heavyweight championship So I'm like, okay. I'm here now for the troll. I'm here for him to you know, really Egg this up like he's really the good guy. He's the hero in the story, right? But then he started to get a little bit serious He was like, you know what I got get serious with you guys. I got some unfortunate news in the match I ended up getting injured.  I told the doctors. Who do you think I am see him punk? I'm going to He's still Talking trash about see him punk and then he sat down in the middle of the ring Like see him punk would do cross-legged and he sat down.  He's like, you know see him punk. I thought about you I thought about you because I know This was supposed to be your moment which in actuality I think behind the scenes it technically was Supposed to be see him punk. He's like, I thought about you afterwards and you know what? I know your straight edge.  He delivers such a great promo and it's very believable But you gotta get to To the serious part.   He started talking about he's been selfish for a majority of his career and then he had his daughter and Then he started to realize that There's other things more important than just Championships and stuff like that, you know, his family doing this for his family making sure his family can be proud His daughter can be proud and he's like, this is bigger than just me and you This is all about the WWE as a whole You know, like I'm not worried About my, you know, my back and my knee when it comes to this situation Because we have to stop them, you know better than anybody else What the bloodline can do say for example, they do take me out and then you do when you have an easy night at WrestleMania you beat me, right?  What's gonna stop them? But if we put it into the bloodline right now this year Then we don't ever have to worry about this ever again And I like that what he said to him. He said What you're saying could be true But what if you're wrong wrong? What if my back does hold up? What if my knee does hold up? What if we actually do take down the bloodline then what? Very interesting promo. I Definitely in love what they what what they were doing that with this back and forth Drew's concern. He's like you're gonna get the bloodline involved in my situation with you and you should just leave them alone but Seth is like won't know because if we just leave it alone We're gonna be in the same situation and then who's to say they don't come after you Then what are you gonna do? And I love on commentary after the segment. I love on commentary where Michael Cole and and Pat McAfee have brought up the fact that Well, just last week the bloodline just helped you So now all of a sudden you you don't want them to be in part involved in anything you got going on But literally the bloodline is the reason why you beat Cody So what's going on here drew? Well, how do you really feel? So I thought that was a very great segment Love what they're doing here very interested to see how things will play out going forward Then we have another segment backstage where Drew Encounters Jay Jay's having an interview talking about what happened last week or whatever and then he sees Drew Drew comes up to him. He is like Look, I want no problems. I just wanted to let you know we need to have this conversation I understand what you're going through.  That that was a nice little exchange.  They just started fighting love it. Love it. Love it, man so let's get to the main event of the night but before that happened Grayson Waller and Austin Theory were doing an interview and while they're having an interview you can see Paul Heyman was talking on the phone. He looked at Grayson Waller and then he walked off in the background so knew something was up and then During the interview Grayson Waller was talking about what happened and on in Australia and how Austin Theory got beat up or what not and how Grayson was trying to help him, but he wasn't able to help him and you can see Austin look at him like, huh? You sure about that like that was like you tried to help me No, you didn't so they're teasing some dissension there You thought it was gonna potentially show its face, but it does a little bit in the match between Cody and Grayson so they have their match and Austin gets involved gets on the on the turn not turnbuckle on the apron trying to distract Cody and Cody ends up hitting a dive on to Austin Theory onto the announce table and then Cody gets back into the ring He's able to hit the Cody cutter and then he's able to hit the crossroads for the one two three Victory but you can see in the background and they show a replay Austin theories on the table He could have been got up, but he's just like stretching his hand like oh, no But he never got up. So they're definitely planning something with these guys It may be a situation where they may end up breaking up and they may end up having a feud We'll see how that plays out But there's like nine minutes left on the show So you knew there was gonna be some BS and then that's when Paul Hammond comes out there with three J AG's apparently they were supposed to be Off-duty cops that were suspended Don't know what the fuck's going on with that, but there was three J AG's out there with Paul Heyman Cody gets a microphone gets a steel chair and he's just ready to go He's like, but I don't I know who you are Paul if you're trying to jump me if the bloodline is trying to jump me I'm gonna handle y'all. I'm ready for it. What's up? So they Paul Haven talking his trash and basically what it was The rock and Roman wanted Cody to stop mentioning the rock don't you know the fact that he even issued a challenge to the rock They felt like it was disrespectful. He needs to keep his name out his mouth And I love what Cody said here.  I'm over this. I'm done with this So Cody's like well if you don't stop Then there will be consequences.  I'm dropping everybody in this ring Paul's like well, I don't think you're talking about me, right? And Paul tries to step into the ring and Cody goes to work picks up the chair Paul Heyman skedaddles and he starts beating these JAG's up like he should So I beat them up. So You get you know, you get the shot of Paul after all the JAG's got dispatched thoroughly with the steel chair and the crossroads and punches and everything Love to see it. Cody getting aggressive or what not? He Cody picks up the mic. He says it very clear and simple The bloodline thinks they're hunting me when in all reality I'm hunting the bloodline. I love that. I was like finally Cody shows some Much-needed aggression. He said the bloodline thinks they're hunting me when in actuality I'm hunting the bloodline. There we go. This is what we need more of he needs to have this Intensity because he's going against a crazy amount of odds in the rock Roman solo and Jimmy and Paul. He needs this aggression. I love it and then you see Paul pick up the phone call Roman and Then he picks up another phone with the rocks logo on it the Brahma Bull on it And he says call the rock so he has a phone for Roman now and he has the phone for the rock. I love it This is great This is great This is what I I'm looking forward to the most story wise. What are they gonna do? What are they going to do? How is this gonna play out and I really don't have a concrete idea and that's what makes this great So they need to continue this keep this going I would love for Cody to be out there on my own SmackDown. I can see a situation when the rocks I am not Cody's beneath me. I'm not wrestling Cody, but I need to wrestle him for All I need to do is make sure he's not he doesn't walk out of WrestleMania as champion And you can have a situation when Cody's at the top of the ramp and he makes it very simple He goats the rocky to it He goats him into it. He's like, you know what? You don't want to face me at WrestleMania or wherever they supposed to have this match. You don't want to face me. I get it Understand I get that now Ladies and gentlemen the rock can't go in the ring like he wants to to be honest with you The rock is not as good as he once was when's the last time you had a full match What happened when you had that full match? You got hurt Not once but twice bring some realism to the story Let's face it job. The only reason why he wanted to face Roman because at the end of the day He looks as Roman as an easy challenge because he knows Who really the person that's at the top the head of the table. It's not even Roman. It's himself So Roman if I was you I would drop him because I don't think you understand The rock doesn't look at you as an equal.     Let me know. Did you guys enjoyed this episode of Smackdown? What was your favorite part of the show and where do you guys think the story is gonna go with with the whole Drew Mackintyre and Seth Rollins. Do you think Drew's gonna win at WrestleMania? Do you think Seth's gonna retain also do where do you guys think this potential match between? The rock and Cody, where does that happen? Does it happen on night one? Does it happen on night two? Does it happen before then? Let me know how y'all feel about these storylines progressing, but I appreciate our love support wrote on if you didn't get it I'm still young speedy you to wrestling champion the world. Appreciate y'all kicking with me. See y'all next one. Peace


Now the smooth endoplasmic reticulum is also an extension of the nuclear envelope. So take a look at this picture here and where do you think the smooth endoplasmic reticulum is? Right there. And look at it.  Where are they? They're totally lacking. My little light blue-greenish dots that are inside the maze, those are still present. They're not the same thing. What would you think they would be in the rough endoplasmic reticulum? They're proteins because proteins are being processed in the rough ER. There's smooth ER in general. The general conclusion that we can draw is that smooth endoplasmic reticulum is involved in processing not proteins, but smooth ER processes fats. So it's basically, it does this exact thing. It modifies and processes fats because cells sometimes produce fats for a purpose, like sometimes, for example, in making breast milk.   So there are several examples where the body actually produces fats to release out into the system to carry out some sort of function. Cholesterol, steroid hormones have to be produced somewhere and the smooth endoplasmic reticulum plays a role in processing those fats to do the job that the cell is assigned to carrying out. Did you understand what I just said? Of course you did, but I say generally that's its job. The crazy thing is the smooth endoplasmic reticulum has different jobs depending on where it is. So for example, in your liver, when you get a wild hair and decide, oh, this weekend it would be really fun to drink yeast pee and poison my liver, your liver says, bring it, bring it, son, because I'm going to detox that poison that you are putting into me using my smooth endoplasmic reticulum. What? Smooth ER in the liver detoxes alcohol. That's part of why your liver can be severely damaged by repeated yeast pee poisoning. Don't forget, alcohol is nothing more than yeast pee. So every time you want to party in the weekend, when you're drinking yeast pee, don't forget that.  Smooth ER in skeletal muscle is involved in storing calcium and it stores it up inside the smooth ER. It's not processing fat anymore and it's not processing alcohol. It's storing calcium and it allows the calcium when your body says, please contract skeletal muscle. The smooth ER barfs out all of that calcium that it was storing out and the calcium is necessary to initiate a muscle contraction. The smooth ER in skeletal muscle is covered with transporters, which is the topic of our next lecture. Those transporters put the calcium back into the smooth and the plasma reticulum for the next time that the muscle is ordered to contract. So depending on where you are, smooth ER might have different functions. But if we were to say, okay, what's the general function of smooth ER? It's to process fats. We've processed proteins in the rough ER. We've processed fats in the smooth ER. The next structure is actually going to package these things. They've been processed and now it's time to package them.


I'm going to start now by handing over to Christina Camposiori from the RLUK executive team to do a presentation of some work she's been doing about this theme. Thank you Christina. Yeah, thank you Katie and hello everyone. I hope you can hear me well. So my name is Christina Camposiori and I'm the programme officer at the Research Libraries UK. So for those who will find useful and visual descriptions, I have long brown hair and I wear a pink and black shirt today. So today I'm going to talk through the results of a recent survey that was designed by the RLUK decolonisation group and that aim to explore the current practices and needs of RLUK libraries when making collections more with a focus on decolonisation practices and understanding the training needs and skills requirements that staff member institutions may have. So in this presentation, I will begin by giving you some background information with regards to the work of the RLUK decolonisation group. I will then discuss participation at the survey and provide some information about the participants profile before then moving to the findings which will be presented in two parts. So the first will focus on the strategic priorities and approaches around decolonisation across RLUK member institutions. And the second will look at the practice of professionals involved in decolonisation activities, the challenges they face and the needs they have in terms of training and skills development. So the RLUK decolonisation group consisting of members of the RLUK Special Collections and Heritage Network and the Collection Strategy Network began meeting in January 2022 to discuss issues of common interests around the decolonisation of collections in research libraries. The group organised a session of the Discovering Collections Discovering Community Conference in July 2022 to assess the appetite for a series of events exploring issues related to the decolonisation of collections and EDI more generally. So through this session, the group gathered useful data around delegates' interests in decolonisation as well as their thoughts and comments on a number of issues around decolonisation and institutional and professional practices. So it is worth noting that capacity and confidence building through training and skills development was identified as a key need related to decolonisation practice that collection holding institutions have. So based on the intelligence gathered through this first was the RLUK seminar series, Inclusive Collections of Libraries which aims to foster conversation around decolonisation and inclusive practice in collecting, describing, presenting and engaging with content in research library collections. And you can find more about the series on the RLUK website. And actually the next event is this coming Monday. So the second piece of work was the survey, the findings of which I'm about to present. So and before we look at the participants profiles, I should note that the group acknowledges that there is a variety of definitions used by libraries to refer to their work around decolonisation and increasing diversity of collections. However, for the purposes of this work, we employ the broad definition of decolonisation. So this definition encompasses the work that research libraries are currently doing to diversify and then reach their collections in order to make diverse voices heard and uncover hidden histories. It also relates to the shift in current practice through challenging existing biases in our collections and the way we work. So the survey which opened in December 2022 and closed at the beginning of February 2022 received 60 responses, 33 different RLUK institutions. From these two institutions submitted a joint response which was counted as separate responses since the included named comments. Five institutions submitted more than two responses each and one had actually submitted nine responses. And 12 research libraries submitted two responses each and 17 libraries submitted one response each. So also as you can see from the slide participants whose role included decolonisation responsibilities came from across the different areas of the library. For example, some had collections as the primary area of responsibility while others were working closely with academics and students. We also had some responses from the leadership teams of some libraries and generally most of the participants held medium to high seniority roles. So moving now to the findings of the survey. So when asked about whether their library is currently involved in decolonisation activities, the majority said that it does. They're providing further qualitative comments participants reported a variety of activities. Some of them referred to card efforts to embed the decolonisation and other activity, such as diversifying the workforce and institutional strategy, as well as to allocate secure funding for related activities. The majority of institutions mentioned collection related projects and initiatives from reviewing collection policies and language in metadata and developing library guides to organizing exhibitions and tours, while many also were actively engaged in decolonising reading lists and the curriculum in their home institution. So some research libraries were also setting up studentships and intercepts to engage students in decolonisation activity. And several institutions are established or were participating in ETI decolonisation and other relevant groups that helped save activity in the area. And many were also delivering events and seminars. As far as engagement, students and their local communities, as well as communicating about the library's work through blog posts and other channels. Some also provided examples of training delivered for staff and academics. So this chart here shows the extent to which participating libraries play a key role in decolonising the curriculum in their home institution. So as you can see, the majority said that their library does play a leading role or will play a leading role in the immediate future. So regarding the reasons for decolonising collections and practices, the three most common were to support underrepresented communities and voices, to support teaching in the curriculum and to engage with the student community. However, through this graph, you can also see a variety of other reasons for engaging in decolonisation activities such as contributing to the EDI goals for the library. So in the next slide, so participants were also asked to respond to a question about whether their library or home institution have a working definition, strategy or statement around decolonisation. So the answers were divided here, just above one third of institutions said that they don't have a working definition strategy or statement around decolonisation. Another one third said that they do have, and the remaining approximately one third said that they were not sure they didn't know or chose other. So from those choosing others, some said that they have provided or are planning to provide some context around decolonisation in existing strategies around collections. So this slide here shows who is leading the decolonisation activities within research libraries or their home institutions. In just above half of the libraries participating, the decolonisation EDI groups in the libraries are the ones driving change in collections and practices. However, it was interesting to read in the findings that in several institutions, decolonisation efforts are driven by certain individuals in the library or academic department. It is worth highlighting here that based on what we found out through recent RLUK report on equality diversity and inclusion in the research library, which you can find on the RLUK website. There is often a higher emotional toll involved and it is harder to achieve change when there are only certain individuals responsible for EDI and related activities compared to when a larger group or everyone in the library is involved. So this is something that should be taken into account when prioritising decolonisation in an institution as it can have an impact on the professional's work as well as their confidence. So next we are looking at how decolonisation activities are funded in RLUK members and these were found to be overwhelmingly funded from within research libraries and their home institutions. And there were several participants who said that they were not sure they didn't know how these activities were funded when asked in this question. So the next slide. So thinking about the types of collections that are undergoing or will undergo decolonisation, the majority said that teaching collections and reading lists were the main candidates for decolonisation, followed by special collections and archives and modern collections. And in the next one, you can find more information about how research libraries are currently decolonising institutional collections or how they are planning to do this. So regarding the top five choices in this column. So most are currently diversifying or will diversify their collections. A large number will achieve this by reviewing collection development policies and engaging with the student community by enriching metadata and reviewing the language that is currently used and by collaborating with academics and researchers. But you can also find more about the different approaches they are using in that slide. So before we move to the second part of the presentation, here's a list with the key benefits and challenges of decolonisation as extracted through the qualitative comments that participants submitted. So very briefly, the main benefits related to the opportunities of making collections more diverse and inclusive, as well as developing our knowledge about institutional holdings but also related to the opportunities for collaborative work with library communities. Concerning the challenges, participants mentioned the following lack of time and resource, sensitivities around language and our understanding of the best language to use, difficulties related to engaging ethnic and minority communities in the process, the lack of common understanding around decolonisation, including the complexities and sensitivities related to the topic, lack of training and not knowing where to start and sometimes the management acceptance of the importance of this work. So the second part of the presentation will highlight the practices of professionals involved in decolonisation activities and the challenges they face as well as the needs they have in terms of training and skills development. So we asked our participants to let us know if decolonisation is part of their role or their objectives and while approximately the two thirds said that they do have decolonisation responsibilities, a large percentage said that these are not formally part of their role, it can present a number of challenges such as justifying the time and resource allocated to develop their knowledge and skills in this area, which can in turn affect their confidence levels. Just thinking about the levels of confidence of participants in this area and as you can see from this chart, the majority said that they have moderate confidence. So when asked about whether the institution has provided training for them and other staff, only a small percentage said yes for all staff. 30% of participants said that their institutions had provided training only for some staff members while approximately another 30% said that their institutions haven't provided any training with some saying that their institutions plan to do so in the immediate future. So participants also listed the types of trainings they have access to and provided many examples of resources that they use to develop their knowledge and skills in this area. So I'm not going to go through everything here in detail, but as you can see from the list here, participants in the survey relied on institutional but also external resources on events and seminars and engaged with different groups in order to develop their knowledge and confidence in the topic. So I'm also pleased to let you know that we have extracted these resources from the participants answers and we can say those that are openly available online today in the Google document and the link will be served through the chat just about now. So we plan to include these resources as part of the report we're preparing but we thought that they may be helpful to for anyone wanting to learn more about equalization so it would be a great opportunity to share this today. So now we'll look at three, three graphs that actually show that many professionals rely on external resources events and seminars as well as their participation in different groups to develop their knowledge and skills. So this first one confirms that the matter that the majority does use or will use external and and community built resources as part of their knowledge and skills development in the area. The next graph shows that again most professionals participate or will participate in relevant discussion groups and this the last one. As you can see, there are almost 90% of the participants and attend or aim to attend relevant relevant events and seminars as part of the professional development in the colonization of collections and practices. So regarding the challenges around the colonization training in participating institutions, several respondents said that the two main challenges were limited capacity to undertake undertake training and limited training opportunities. However, a substantial percentage chose others in the opportunity to reflect on their institutional circumstances. Some comments refer to the difficulty of giving track of the developments in this area and the fact that it may be hard to move things forward. Others mentioned that the willingness and enthusiasm to develop and support colonization activities is often there, but there may be insufficient time among the people who make the better decisions in practice as well as on the professionals part to dedicate time to keep posting things forward. And some also highlighted the limited capacity to build long term links with student communities and the fact that related activity may be seen as being political and thus risking terms of potentially causing reputation damage. So finally, participants had the opportunity to add their comments with regards to the type of support and training needed to help them to help them in their roles and help them build capacity and confidence around colonization. So again, I'm not going to go through everything here in detail, but I would be happy to share the presentation with anyone interested in looking at this in more detail. I wanted just to highlight that some of the support may be better provided by individual institutions, for example, making colonization a strategic priority and setting up internal groups and providing training for staff. Well, it is more likely for other initiatives such as developing and sharing glossaries or cases of best practice to come from the community. So we'll be really looking forward to hearing your views on this and discussing this as using more detail at the Q&A and the breakout rooms. And just in this slide, you can find my contacted tales in case you would like more information about the survey or the work of the early care colonization group. And thank you very much for listening and I look forward to your questions later. Thank you, Christina. That was really, really interesting overview of the responses to the survey and really interesting to see what people are saying about skills and training and confidence which are some themes we're going to come back to. I'm sure later. What we're going to do is have a couple of quick questions after each presentation, but just keep it very quick and then move to a broader Q&A later because we might see themes across them. So is there anybody who's got any immediate queries just on this presentation before we move along or before I abuse my position as chair to ask something. Let's start us off, Christina. It's always fascinating to me when you do a survey that you sometimes find things out that were quite surprising. So is there something that stuck out to you as surprising in these findings that we might want to think about that wasn't what you expected when you put it together? Well, actually, a couple of things came up that I would like to mention. This is very quickly one was the role of the student activism in driving the colonization and actually through the examples provided by some of the participants. So it became evident that in some institutions, student unions and other student groups were driving chains in this area, even more than academics. So that was quite interesting. And the other was their limited mention of external funders and the role in supporting the colonization activities and even the fact that just making collections more inclusive and opening the map who have the broader impact to society. It was interesting to see that the involvement of external funders was limited. Absolutely. I thought that was interesting. But I suppose I thought it in some ways heartening the institutions are funding this themselves because their commitment is high enough to make it a core activity. So it was surprising, but also heartening in some way. Yeah, it was seen the colonization as mainly an institutional responsibility. So that was very good to see. Any other questions specifically for Christina before we go to the case studies because I'm sure then more thoughts will come through as we get through the session, but we're going to have two short case studies now before opening out into a question and answer. And then we'll have some breakout rooms in the later part of the session. So we're recording this first part, and then we'll stop the recording for the breakout rooms because we want to really think together about actions we can take. Just. Oh, quickly. She once put a question in the chat, which I can maybe just bring to Christina sorry to back jump a bit, but I'm trying to know if there's any comment and how we can reliably train on decolonization when our staff body is not itself diverse. And how does that not put disproportionate burden on colleagues from the global south or who come from more diverse backgrounds that come up in the survey responses. Not, not directly so we didn't get a comment directly referring to these, but it was mentioned as a challenge that if you're not having a diverse workforce, then the team or the effort and all the responsibilities put to certain individuals and that can can be very difficult for them have an emotional toll and be, and be challenging, but also what we've seen from another report that we published recently around EDI in, in, in library so this is an issue that is, that is greatly linked to the efforts about diversifying the works of and making sure the workforce and making sure that people from different backgrounds work in the library and everyone really hasn't a responsibility around in the eye and colonization so the other responsibilities as our split and just not only certain individuals drive, drive this forward. Okay, thank you and I'm that I'm sure might be a theme we come back to as well. We're going to move now to the case studies that I mentioned two different ones from two different places to give us some sort of insight into how how this work is when you when you're trying to do it. So, first of all, we've got Lucy Wilhous, who's a genetic librarian at the University of Cambridge, and Joe Milton, who's the library manager of the University of Cambridge Medical Library. And they're going to talk to us a bit about some work they've been doing an inclusive collections in stem libraries in Cambridge. So, welcome. Thank you very much Katie. I'm Lucy and the visual description of myself is I'm, I've got brown sort of curly shoulder length hair and glasses and I'm wearing a sort of blue flowery top at the minute. And I'm also joined by my colleague, Joe, who is. Yeah, if you want to introduce yourself Joe. I'm the library manager and collections manager at the Medical Library visual description. I've got shoulder length red brown hair, and I'm wearing a multicoloured top. Okay, right, we will get started. And yeah, I will hand over to Joe to talk about the slides that we've got which, yeah. Thank you. So here's a brief look at some of the kind of work that we've been doing across Cambridge to address issues within EDI and decolonisation. As you can see, there's an awful lot that's been going on. So of course, it doesn't always translate into concrete action. Cambridge is quite unusual. We have many different libraries spread across departments and colleges. So approaches can be different. This is why we're going to briefly tell you about what's going on in two of our libraries today across them. I'm going to hand over to Lucy. Yep. So first, I'm going to give you a very brief insight into how to I try to create inclusive collections in my library, which is at the Department of Genetics. So this picture does illustrate pretty much my whole library. As you can see, it's pretty small and so space is a limiting factor in what I can do. So one of the easiest ways that I've found to try and increase the inclusivity of my collection is to make sure that it is kept up to date. So many newer books that are being released are being written by more diverse scientists and therefore keeping an eye on what's coming out is a great way of making your collection more inclusive with less effort. However, science books specifically about protected characteristics can be quite hard to find. So you do have to think outside of the box when it comes to collection development and do a bit of research into authors. So one of the main ways that we grapple with inclusive collections within genetics is through contextualizing our historical collections. So the history of genetics is linked with several unpleasant topics, including that of eugenics. So one of the main founders of the department, Ronald Fisher was active in the eugenics field. And while we have we have many books both of his and relating to that subject. While it's very tempting to lock these materials away and pretend they never existed at genetics, I've taken the opportunity to actually expand our collections in this area to include newer research that places the older materials in their historical context, and which grapple with the inherent biases and play at the time. And you can see some of the things that I've recently added to our collections on this slide. Of course, if you're struggling to find diverse books for your particular subject, which can be an issue in STEM and we'll touch on that a little bit later. Adding a more general EDI collection can of course give you more freedom and flexibility to address more topics. So I managed to get this sort of instigated within my library fairly recently. And when I'm doing new acquisitions into it, I always include these new additions on my new book stand and alongside the more sciency acquisitions to make sure that they're visible and include at least one a month in my department newsletter. Plus putting this collection together was a great opportunity to liaise with the department to ask what they wanted to see on the shelves. So I can hand over to my colleague Joe, who can give you a taste of what they've been doing in the medical library with a much bigger collection. Thank you Lucy. So just to give you a little bit of context, not only does the medical library serve the population of the University of Cambridge. We also support colleagues working in the NHS of Attenbrooks Hospital and across the east of England. So we've always supported national campaigns such as Black History Month, LGBTQ Month. So therefore it's quite an easy transition to move across and expand our collections from all medical subjects to the more non-clinical side of things. We've created a dedicated space and you can see some photos on the slide that showcase the space. It's called More Than Medicine and some of the topics include health inequality, LGBTQ, well-being topics such as healthy eating, sleeping well, mental health, neurodiversity and women's health. We've also created some reading lists in Leganto to showcase both the titles but also to include non-print material such as websites and podcasts and they're all very easily available. The reading lists for the clinical students are also in Leganto, so both reading lists complement one another well. They sit alongside one another and they're easily discoverable, which was very important to us. In terms of the clinical reading lists, I've been encouraging teaching leads to consider a greater diversity of titles. I've got the support from the clinical dean in doing so. In terms of communication, there's a message that goes out to encourage each teaching lead to participate in responding to reading this but also to think about the resources that they're providing. Next slide please Lucy. So we've made reasonable progress so far. Dermatology is a good example of that with two items there that you can see on the slide, minor gap and ethnic dermatology that have been incorporated into our collections, but obviously the work doesn't stop. So next steps are to continue expanding the more than medicine collection, think about more topics, continue promoting and find other means of promotion, keeping up to date with developments and utilizing forums such as medical library groups and Twitter, where for example minor gap really came into prominence. Continuing being a member of some of the decolonization groups within Cambridge, and also conversations with stakeholders, looking at how we can collaborate and investigate future opportunities with which to work. So that's the good news. Now let's come on to the challenges. Obviously these challenges are not just related to STEM, but we're looking at it from a STEM perspective. It can be more difficult to know what to include within STEM in terms of decolonization. As librarians we often have an arts and humanities background. It's hard to keep up to date and identify items that are not necessarily inclusive. Also, many of us come from a white privilege position, which is another potential barrier. Inclusive resources is a big problem. STEM seems to have been slower to grasp inclusivity, particularly within teaching materials. It can be hard to find materials and to get hold of them and see how they fit within an inclusive perspective. And if they're not used in teaching, if we can't promote them in teaching, then it's harder to justify purchase of them. Lucy will take the baton forward. As we've maybe obviously made clear through some of the references to digital resources previously, STEM research often focuses more on online resources rather than print collections. So we do have to be innovative as STEM librarians to include these digital items within the collections that we're creating. It also means that we are perhaps more reliant on the subject experts within our departments to work with us to identify resources that otherwise we would never come across in a sort of day to day. There is also the potential for resistance from academics, not necessarily just in STEM, but obviously, you know, there is resistance to potentially making these changes to reading lists that have been, sort of successful in the past and because of the extra workload that might be involved. And also in the Cambridge setup with department libraries, there can be some resistance to diversifying those collections in a more general way. The department libraries are often seen as very subject specific and so adding more general collections in can sometimes be met with resistance. And of course, one argument that's often made about more general kinds of EDI collections is that they can take space away from those core scientific collections. And obviously all libraries to recall the space but we believe it's a worthwhile investment, particularly for STEM libraries, and usually we can talk people around. So we've just got some references on the end of the slides here but that is it and thank you very much for listening. Thank you so much and there was a lot covered in a really short presentation there so when people have the recordings and so on they'll be able to follow up on those links thank you. And what I'll do if this is okay is move on to the next case study now to give us some time for a bit of discussion after that. So, welcome Sarah Whitaker who's the head of academic services at the University of Leicester Lowbury, who's going to talk to us about a project to develop and implement a reading list toolkit. So I'm going to introduce myself do the visual introduction first so my pronouns are she her. I'm wearing a black flurry shirt, I have black glasses and gray hair. And so good afternoon and thanks for having me here today. In this case study I'm going to be reflecting on how work we've been doing to develop and apply our diversifying your reading list toolkit can be considered as a learning and confidence building activity for our staff. So this is very much a piece of work in progress not a finished projects, but I'm hoping that the reflections and observations I make, which are very much my own, either resonate with your own practice and experience or can provide a starting point for the discussions today. So just to begin with some context. Over the last few years, there's been a drive from the center of the university to diversify the curriculum in response to the race awarding gap. So the library at Leicester formed an inclusive collections group to look at how we could begin to diversify our collections, but one of the areas this of work identified was reading lists. So why reading lists. So items on reading list make up the majority of the resources we require, we acquire and budget we spend in support of teaching. So developing inclusive reading list has the potential to make a significant impact on our collections. So our included inclusive collections group identified some reading list toolkits that have been produced by other academic libraries in the sector to start to look at how we can make use of them. So at this point, I'd like to pause and say that I was aware that staff confidence was an issue for some staff. So based on things people said to me at the time two things stood out. One was that we're doing something we knew to we don't know very much about we have our kind of familiar tools of the trade, but we start going beyond this where do we start. And another concerned express at that time was that this is an academic matter and we're not the experts. So to me, this seemed to imply we would just kind of reactively wait for order requests to come in and not do much ourselves other than kind of provide a service to them. And certainly there's something here we have to unpick about how we view our roles competence as an expertise. So putting these ideas together, the inclusive collections group beside to create its own toolkit. The idea being this would act as a framework to work to so that we could develop our competence and also change how we think of ourselves, moving more towards a kind of role as a facilitator. So we started out with our library student champion volunteers. They took three toolkits that already existed in the sector and tested them on reading lists from their programs of study. So the students have some very interesting feedback on their reactions to these toolkits. So they said straight away the existing toolkits focused on author characteristics, and they felt back that they felt this could be problematic. They felt it took time for them to find out this information, and they questioned whether we can be certain we're making the right assumptions about an author's identity. The students also thought that it's important to consider the contextual issues around the selections of readings, and that providing a range of formats is important. So the results of this, co written by one of the students on student library champions and members of the inclusive collections group, we developed our own new toolkits. And this is a series of prompts it's not a checklist, and they invite the reading list author to think around the subject they're working with, as well as the authors identity. So retain the authors identity of course but other elements into it. So here we are right now. Currently we have a paid student curriculum consultant, applying the toolkit to two reading lists in psychology. So this is a university not library, not library initiative. So a student works with an academic supervisor on an aspect of the module to improve its inclusivity. So our curriculum consultant is being supervised by one of our academic librarians Heena Caravatra. And this work is about to be presented to the whole group of academics by the students at the end of March so only next week in fact. So for our next steps we're going to work with an educational develop developers very keen to work with us on this. And some academics to apply the toolkit to a small selection of reading lists from contrasting disciplines. So then we've got real and specific exam class to show to others. So one of my thoughts around staff confidence, kind of leading on from the last point is related to some of the well known barriers to partnership working, which we often experience in academic libraries. So this is things factors such as academic work load and bandwidth, and a culture gap between central services and academics, where such central services can be seen as part of the admin burden, which tracks from their work. So this plays a part in affecting our staff confidence. So in taking a proactive approach to working with our colleagues in this way, I hope we can begin to address this. So just in summary, here are some ideas based on reflecting on this project so far about how we can help build our staff confidence. The toolkit we've created gives us a structure to work to been able to test it with some different audiences. So we have a better understanding of its strengths and weaknesses. However, this is reframing our role. So this is in our own eyes as well as our colleagues in the university. So we're working as partners, not just service providers. And in this way, we're more closely aligned with educational development. Building partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders from students to academics and continually testing these ideas helps to give us the experience from which comes the staff confidence. So starting small scale, seeing progress, building on this progress. And then last but not least, supporting each other is how I hope we can build our staff confidence up. So just to do some acknowledgments, a lot of this work has been done by the people mentioned on this slide. So especially librarians, Heena and Keith, and then the students, Khadija and Megan. So thank you very much for listening. Thank you. And really great to hear some themes across both coming through there, which I'm sure people are picking up already in the chat. What I'll do is go through the questions people are putting in the chat. If you have a question, do also put your hand up. I can just about monitor both at the same time on my tiny laptop screen. I'll start though with a question from Caroline Gale, which was in response to the Cambridge case study, but I think relates to both in interesting ways. So we might come to both, which is about highlighting online resources. So as alongside the print resources, how have you been approaching that in Cambridge? And then maybe how has that been part of what you've been thinking at Leicester? So Lucy, Joe, over to you first. In terms of our themed reading lists, it's really just the case of you can your ear to the ground being aware of what's going on using forums such as Twitter, your own networks, for example. So if we've heard something interesting on the radio, we thought, oh, you can probably get that as a podcast and put that in. It's very much driven by library staff, but we have had some input from the wellbeing group within the clinical school as well to suggest resources. So those are the things that we've done. Lucy, what about you? So I know that obviously lots of libraries are sort of now that QR codes are back in fashion post pandemic. I know that that's being used quite a lot across Cambridge to point people towards the digital resources. But yeah, we have got a library's accessibility service that's based within the University Library and they've got a very good sort of wellbeing reading list. I know a lot of libraries advertise in that way. So, yeah. So from Leicester, we have a kind of digital first policy anyway, so we haven't really approached this from a format perspective. We're thinking what's the resource and then we get it digitally first if we can and then print generally, I guess our leisure reading collection might be a bit more flexible in that but in terms of the work we're talking about here, it's digital first if it's available. Thank you. And there's another question from Heather, which is sort of a little bit related to this and it might be a little earlier Leicester. I don't know. We'll see about whether you've assessed the circulating or usage stats of the things that have been displayed or highlighted. So have you got any evidence at Cambridge and Leicester as well of this working yet? I mean I can only talk about genetics. I know that the books that I talk about in the newsletter particularly do get borrowed. So yeah, that is a good method for me but obviously that very much depends on your sort of cohort that you're addressing. We have different displays within the library space. So quite often if a book's in a display it will come out more frequently but what we have found particularly around women's health and our fiction collection as well which is very broad based. And some of our wellbeing collections. Now that we've sort of updated the space with some loving new bookshelves who've changed the labelling. We've put a different classification scheme in that makes it all sort of, it always goes in one place and people know where it is and the staff have been well informed about it all. The books that we would really sometimes want to think, could that be a really good one to tweet about and to use in the display or not on the shelves because they're out and about, which is really really good news and positive affirmation. I can tell you I've got three of the books on my account at the moment and the cookbooks that we've got in terms of managing on the budget etc they've been doing really well as well. So the books are definitely going out and they're being promoted in school newsletters and things like that and that if people aren't necessarily boring them we've seen them sitting in the bean bags in the collection space area with the books etc. So it does seem to be working effectively. So just to say as a separate project apart, just separately to what I was talking about we do have a letter reading collection which has a sort of theme around it's called represent and it's titled by the representative groups and that certainly had good usage. And we do have sort of online reading lists as well that are kind of done by theme that are similarly in line with you know disability awareness week and different kind of themes, EDI type themes and certainly those are well circulated and pushed out on social media. And I think as well we're talking about working with students and students and SU and seem very keen to engage in this generally so I think there's a lot of potential to work with those groups to, you know, get more diverse with resources in usage. Great thank you and Sarah there's Laura in the chat is asking if it'd be possible to share the toolkit because there's the idea of going beyond author characteristics is resonating so. Yes, I'm just trying to think the best way because at the moment it's not I can't just plonk a URL in it's internally available so I'm just wondering the best mechanism do you want to. Have a think and let us know just just a lot of interest in the approach. I thought what I do just to have another five or 10 minutes of this conversation before we move towards breakout groups is take some of the questions in the chat and form sort of thematic things from them rather than going through them one by one. Because there's a really interesting group of questions about academic staff and library staff working collaboratively together. So the motivation for doing this work is often to do with teaching and student experience and and so on. So, can each of our speakers maybe reflect a bit on success stories how's that worked well we all hear about the gap but how have we bridged it have we bridged it. And what can we do to make this a really positive collaborative thing and and or is that is that one of the challenges we have to work out how to approach. So in any order you like just sort of. I can leap in. I feel like we're not quite there yet but we're just identifying people so I think there are some. Certainly the university kind of centrally and the kind of PVC for education are very keen, almost working with them. We do know individuals who are we're just about that's what the next phase of the project so in terms of actually putting it into practice and making changes to their career so this is the curriculum reading lists in effects and that's about to come next. We did take our tool kit to one of the groups of sort of senior teaching academics and that was really interesting the response. We have some quite sort of interesting so again very senior people very positive in principle but I felt slight kind of defensiveness in some cases but I think you've got to be careful that people don't think you're almost telling them how to do their job or you know who are you to tell us what we should do. So I think it's the kind of how you frame it and how you go out to people. It's important. Thank you. Lucy or Joe do you want to come in on this next. I mean I'd agree with a lot of what Sarah said. I think I'm doing this on a bit of a smaller scale because there's not as much teaching that goes on in my department, because it's mostly focused on sort of post grad and research. So yeah I haven't had too much involvement in a temporary I've just about gotten to put all their reading lists online. We're moving in baby steps at the minute, but yeah the work I did with the more sort of general stuff. Yeah there was there was a bit of persuasion that needed to happen and a bit of worry about how representative a collection that was so small could be. For example but yeah obviously that's less less on the academic and I think Joe will be able to talk a bit more to that in her circumstance. Thank you. So we are very fortunate in that the school is very much behind what we're doing the clinical dean is very supportive of the work that we're doing and encouraging responses to reading list questions for example, we encourage all of the teaching leads that were in contact with all reading lists to think about other formats so it's not just print material and to think where they can about broadening the titles that are on a reading list. But clearly as it's been said in the chat and alluded to in our presentation part of the problem is actually knowing what's out there and a lot of stuff isn't out there it's yet to be written. So, perhaps we've got some budding authors in our group today that can readdress that. We also work quite closely with the wellbeing group so I think a lot of it is really hard to talk to what Sarah was saying it's about going out there and talking to people. And if at first you don't succeed then you keep try, try, try again. And there are small gains we've all talked about gains in our area so we have got some success stories which we can build on. We're also doing a piece of work at the moment identifying a couple of subjects and looking at the loans that have gone out over the course of the year, looking at what's available in terms of formats, and then contrasting that with what's actually on a reading list. And I've got a couple of groups that I'm working with, and conversations will start probably after Easter about next steps and maybe that will also result in some changes around reading this, but I don't say that lightly because I know it's a lot of extra work for academics. And that point about extra work for academics comes back to Diane's question about how is this recognised and awarded and celebrated when it's going well. In any of our institutions is there any sort of formal or informal recognition of this for either library staff or academic staff? I'm not sure that I would really necessarily know of something in terms of the academics, other than going back to the point that the clinical dean is very supportive. New leads have been set up in terms of the curriculum for things like sustainability and ethnicity. So there is definitely a move towards it, but in terms of recognition, I wouldn't be able to comment on the academic point of view. Okay, Joe, Sarah, and then I'll maybe bring Christina in in case she's about to tell us about this from the survey maybe. So I suppose internally we could, there was a sort of conference they did for the first time internally when I say they, I mean the Education Service which is a sort of central services and they invited lots of academics along so you can kind of start talking to the kind of external community but I think that's what they're trying to grow of academics that are promoting it and obviously they are key initial partners in this but in terms of, so I guess the reward would be being involved with it, having a platform, but in terms of recognition, I'm not aware of that. Okay, thanks. Christina, did you want to comment on this or? I just wanted to add a comment about that that actually from the survey one of the, and this finding models on how you can understand the impacts of the work you're doing in this area and get the recognition. So finding models for that so has been recognized as one of the areas where we need to provide further support. But I think just related to the building of relationships with academics so if colleagues manage to find champions in their areas to academic champions we can support the says I think it will be easier to start building getting this this feedback from them and maybe the Assessing then the fastest in the light of the work and recognition but yes this is something that is missing at the moment as colleagues say as well. And what we've heard really clearly in all these different presentations is that this is an institutional responsibility and an institutional set of actions. So working together will in the end be the best, perhaps only way to really move things in the way we need to and want to. Yeah, I just encourage everybody who hasn't had a look to have a read of it there's some really great examples being brought in of particular case studies work people are doing. Really interesting piece in times higher by one of Caroline Gaels colleagues example from leads special collections and some working with academics on particularly themed projects and collection areas. And also for Aberdeen and their work. So lots of really really good practice to share. I'm just scrolling down Peter's talking about polar libraries and thinking about indigenous communities and decolonizing metadata work at Durham on links to slavery and colonialism. So lots of really good stuff.


How are we welcome back to another video today's date is the 22nd of December? I want to say first of all first and foremost I want to say Merry Christmas to all you guys Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year I think this video is gonna come out post Christmas day, but probably before New Year's so guys I hope you have a fantastic new year period. I really do um I couldn't be happier right now. You know, it's Christmas I'm not working a full-time job right now. I've got spare time to make these kinds of videos and to do live streams I don't know if you caught my live stream yesterday, but that was a whole lot of fun and I'm gonna be back next week So every Sunday US time I will be live streaming games Not the actual game, but my reaction to them and if you ever want to come in have a chat It's pretty much what it's about. It's not about watching the game In fact, I spend zero time watching the game.  We're in the top 50 That means 50 videos have been done and I've enjoyed every single one of them But I can safely say that I'm not gonna have enjoyed them as much as I enjoy this 50 and with all that being said Let's get started on the top 50 players of 2020 Darius Leonard What's up, I call him the maniac. Yeah, I remember this guy now. I do I do I saw him last year at 26 It looks like the defense feeds off that Yeah, all right, Mike I'm gonna see some Mike Evans, man I cannot wait to see Mike Evans entry in this list because I Never realized he was as tall as what he is and the way that he moves At his height is pretty incredible But it's not about Mike Evans it's about Darius Leonard More what 2019 Well, I saw yeah, I suppose most of the interceptions would be from the safeties and the cornerbacks, right?  He plays the game the right way So he's an undersized linebacker Which I kind of assumed but I do want to know exactly, you know, how undersized he's six Two I was gonna say six to 104 kg. Yeah, his arms aren't as big as some of the other linebackers I've seen but seems like he's just as effective. He's been at the Colts his whole career. He's only 25 years of age Ran a 470 40 yard dash 38 inches on the vertical 10 foot 8 on the broad jump. So that would definitely have helped with his interceptions I feel typical linebacker for this game.  He makes crazy plays.  I'm a goofball I just love to have fun. I have a small my face. I can put a small small yes face He called himself the maniac man. That's how he plays Different man different important Important for a locker room, you know what I mean to have a spirit like that and just like he said You know at the moment that he said look if I can't smile if I can't smile myself I'm gonna try and put a smile on someone else's face and here I am You know watching it with a massive smile on my face, and I'm like, yeah, yeah Yeah, funny that you did it you did it to me anyways guys in the next video We're looking at Amari Cooper. He's a wide receiver from the cowboys And look, I'm not gonna try and predict anything, but I do feel as though we're about to hear that Amari Cooper is another just Absolute dull. So as far as that's concerned, let's continue


What's going on my name is Karatek and today I'll be showing you how to build a Christmas themed winter cabin on Minecraft. I did use a custom Christmas texture pack to make this build that I would highly recommend that you download so the link to that will be in the description.


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There have always been dozens of spoofs and love letters to the Bond franchise. The Johnny English films being among the ones I really enjoy. You just gotta love Rowan Atkinson. They awesome power films? Well, I never was much of a fan. You only need to trace back history to all the countless spy movies that spawned during the 60s spy craze to conclude that pretty much every spy franchise out there owes its existence to Bond. But if you would ask me about my favorite comedic spy franchise to Bayhomage to Bond, then in recent years my answer to that, without a doubt, is the Kingsman franchise. This franchise started out in 2012 as a comic book series about a young British street kid slowly turning into a suave spy by the mentoring of a sophisticated secret agent. You don't need long to find out that the series is a love letter to Bond as the writers admitted they based the street kid turned suave spy story on the relationship between Connery and director Terence Young, who Bond fans all know mentored Connery in the same respect. Heck, even former Bond Pierce Brosnan makes an appearance in this comic mentioning his former job playing 007. So it wouldn't take long for these comics to be adapted into a feature film, which is exactly what director Matthew Farn realized as well, who also happens to be a big Bond fan, especially of the more comedic Roger Moore era. He even made sure that this is mentioned in his film. You like spy movies, Mr. DeVille? Nowadays, they're all a little serious for my taste. The old ones. Marvelous. Give me a far-fetched theatrical plot any day. The old Bond movies. Oh, man. When I was a kid, that was my dream job. Gentlemen spy. I mainly knew about Matthew Farn's work from 2010's over-the-top film Kick-Ass and quickly became a fan. A handgun bullet travels at more than 700 miles an hour. So at close range like this, the force is gonna take you off your feet for sure, but it's really no more painful than a punch in the chest. You're gonna be fine, baby doll. So in case you were ever wondering who directed Kingsman, you only really need to look at the first few seconds of the film to quickly realize that this is Matthew Farn's work. Instantly, you recognize his unique combination of conveying a comedic style in the most badass way. And if you like that style, ho ho ho, you're in for a treat with Kingsman. So the film starts out in the Middle East in 1997. We are introduced to four Kingsman agents who are on a mission to stop some terrorist. As they question the guy, he arms a grenade, and one of the Kingsman agents jumps on him to save the life of the others. One of these agents is called Agent Galahad, or Harry Hart, played by Colin Ferd, who gets the difficult task of telling the sacrificing agent's wife that she just became a widow. He also takes a little moment for their young little son, Eggsy, who he gives a special metal necklace that has an emergency number he can refer to, engraved on the back. And thus the movie starts off, and with that music he just can't help but feel intrigued by what this film is going to throw at you and how the story will unfold. We now move to the present day in Argentina, 17 years later.   And if you think that that already gives you kind of an idea of the crazy tone of this film, you better think again, as the agent is literally cut in half only seconds later by this film's henchwoman, Gazelle, who has sharp metal feet. Welcome to Kingsman folks, strap yourselves in. Gazelle proceeds in quickly covering up all the bodies for the main villain who ironically cannot handle any form of violence or blood, meet Richmond Valentine, played by Samuel L. Jackson. So immediately it's noticeable that Valentine talks with a lisp, which was a choice that Jackson made for the character himself. He said, oh yeah, some of the baddest people on the planet talk with a lisp, like Mike Tyson. And I like that he gave his character a memorable distinction. So we learn that the Kingsman agency is based up in a tailor's shop on Savile Row, which we know was where Connery's tailor was based too. Where we are measured for this bud? My tailor, Savile Row. So meanwhile Harry, who is still an agent 17 years later, proceeds to the head of the Kingsman's secret service, Arthur, who is played by none other than Michael Cain, who is essentially the Kingsman's version of M. They drink a toast along with the other Kingsman agents in the field as the commemoration of the fallen Kingsman agent. We are also properly introduced to Merlin, who is played by Mark Strong. So now the agents all get to propose a new suitable candidate to carry the now reopened codename of Agent Lancelot. So that moves us to our now grown-up main character, Eggsy, who is played by Terran Edgerton. For me, like many people, this was the first time I saw Edgerton in anything, but I quickly grew to like him. It also helps that he's pretty much around the same age as me and plays a likable character that would have been my dream part if I were to ever play in a film myself.  As Eggsy is out in the pub with his friends, he quickly gets into trouble with some stereotypical London street hooligans with amusing accents. Oi!   So Eggsy just decides to do some everyday street kid stuff. You know, stealing the dude's car, making 15 donuts in front of him and joyriding while mocking the police. So that does not end too well for him. Eggsy is facing some major jail time and with nothing to lose, he decides to call the emergency number from the metal necklace that Harry gave him 17 years ago. And within only a few minutes, he's released without any trouble and he meets the man himself. So Harry tells Eggsy about his father that saved his life and we learn that he's been keeping close tabs on Eggsy and knows all about his potential. Because Eggsy has had success both in intelligence at school as well as physically in the Marines. Yet he dropped out everywhere, mainly due to his current environment that doesn't seem to hold anything promising for his future. Then the group of London street fucks show up again, ready to fight Eggsy for stealing that car. But Harry kindly asks them to leave them alone so they can finish his lovely pint of Guinness. Of course they don't take him serious at all, which is kind of a mistake. Man is... make a... man. If you ever had any doubts whether or not good old Colin Fert would be a suitable action hero before seeing this film, then look no further as we get one of the most badass fights in the film. Colin Fert is like Roger Moore's bond with the fighting skills of Daniel Craig's bond on steroids. Again, we kick into the overtop Matthew Vaughn mode with teeth flying by in slow motion, umbrellas turning into bulletproof shields, but this stuff is filmed so extremely well. It's not exactly Jason Bourne's shaky cam fighting. It's very quick, yet easy to follow.  It definitely is one of the many highlights of the film and something you simply should experience for yourself. So after that badass fight, Harry leaves Eggsy with a tracer and later instructs him to meet him at the Kingsman Taylor shop.  Independent international intelligence agency operating at the highest level of discretion. Ah yes, the highest level of discretion.  But hey, matters make if man. Eggsy is taken on board of an underground tube shooting them up to the secret Kingsman mansion where Eggsy is immediately placed within the recruiting process for the next agent Lancelot which just happens to be taking place on the exact day that Eggsy was calling the emergency number. What if he didn't though? Would Harry just simply count on the fact that he would get in trouble and call this number exactly the day or would he just have proposed someone else? Anyway, you can tell that Eggsy clearly is the odd one out in the group of rich kids and snobs that the other agents proposed and I can't help but feel like this section of the film really reminds me of Men in Black. You know, in the way that a group of recruits is brought together to compete for a position in a top secret agency that nobody really knows about and the main character is the odd one out in the group completely the same premise. But whereas in Men in Black that was basically just filling in some forms and going to a shooting range here in Kingsman a large portion of the film is focused on a training through a series of dangerous tests that are all very fun to watch like how the room is flooded with water at night and the recruits quickly have to work together in order to survive. Somehow they quickly know to use their shower heads and plug the tubes into the toilet to get an unlimited air supply. And good thing they are aware of that I would have totally drowned straight away. It's a pretty impressive scene. Luckily XZ saves the day by breaking an indoor window which he knows isn't a mirror. Dude has some serious underwater punching power. Meanwhile Harry is sent out to Professor Luke Skywalker to learn who is behind the killing of ancient Lancelot back in Argentina at the beginning of the film but before the professor can even say something his fricking head explodes due to an implant and it has something to do with the villain scheme of Valentine. We don't really get to learn all the secrets behind it quite yet but throughout the movie we are shown that it has something to do with the mass production of free SIM cards allowing free calling and internet for the whole world as well as convincing important politicians such as the Swedish Prime Minister and President Obama to come aboard into his secret plan that we don't know anything about yet at this stage of the film. Meanwhile XZ's training continues involving the choosing of a dog, a sniper rival test as well as an intelligence test. Eventually he makes his way into the skydiving exercise in which he and the recruits are instructed to land at a drop zone. Throughout these tests it's clear that XZ has some chemistry with fellow recruit Roxy who is scared to jump at first but he convinces her to just do it anyway. Somehow they still make it to the rest of the group in the air even though the plane was probably already miles away because they jumped several seconds later but hey, movie logic. It doesn't distract you at all though because this is yet again another fantastic action scene but this wouldn't be a Kingsman exercise if this was just an easy skydiving exercise. Oh no, Merlin comes in with another big plot twist.  A Kingsman agent needs to be able to solve problems under pressure like what to do when one of your group has no parachute. So once again the recruits are forced into a deadly situation and have to work together in order to save each other's life. And again this makes for one of the best most nil-biting moments in the film. You can really feel the tension as they get closer and closer to the ground and more and more recruits open their parachute. Only Roxy and Axie are the ones that are left and we learn that Axie is the one without the parachute forced to hold on to Roxy's legs at the last 300 feet and it is all just brilliant filmmaking.  Of course it turns out that Axie had a working parachute anyway and this was just another typical Kingsman test. Meanwhile, Harry is sent down on a mission to find out more about Valentine and has dinner with him at his mansion and is treated with some of America's finest culinary delicacies. A Big Mac menu.  So all Harry really finds out is that he has a link to some church in Kentucky. Well Valentine puts a biological tracking device in Harry's wine to learn more about him as well. Next in line for the training exercises is the seducing of a pretty girl in a club. And now they're speaking my language, I can't wait to see how this plays out. Of course Charlie feels miserably and Axie seems to naturally impress the chick a lot more without even trying. Unfortunately the movie doesn't play this out any further as the three recruits are quickly drugged and end up on a train track to be questioned about Kingsman. Now this probably is the only thing I don't like about this film. This whole nightclub scene is mainly just used as a transition to get them to be drugged. Now it's not like it doesn't work in the story, it actually makes sense within the context that this is just a set up to get to the next bit. But when they receive this mission briefing I'm just really getting pumped to see Axie in seduce mode and see how he's going to make his move. It's a classic skill of the gentlemen spy after all that I feel really should have been part of their training too. But anyway we transition into the questioning on the train track.  And who's Harry Hart?  Shit! Hey Axie! It's Kingsman we're dying for! Congratulations. Bloody well done. And so Axie passed another test getting closer to being recruited while Charlie of course shits his pants and rats out Kingsman immediately failing the test. So now it's just between Axie and Ruxie to become the next agent Lancelot. So as the final test approaches Axie gets to spend some time to bond with Harry and is exposed to the secret weapon room in the tailor shop with some great Kingsman gadgets like hand grenade lighters, poison pens, electrocuted rings and poison knife shoes totally inspired by Rosa Clapp's shoe from From Washer With Love. And it's just awesome that Kingsman completely glorifies the good old days where the gadgets were still cool. In the recent Bond films gadgets really haven't played that much of a special role anymore especially in the era of smartphones and it's cool how the filmmakers were aware of that and even commented on it. And what about him? What makes him so special? Nothing. That technology is caught up with the spy world. Put it back, Axie. So anyway, Axie is summoned with his dog by Arthur for the final test. Shoot the dog. Unfortunately, Axie doesn't have the heart to go through with it and he fails the test and so it's Ruxie who ends up becoming Agent Lancelot instead. A pretty surprising twist in the film. So Axie has returned home. Completely defeated and disappointed. He also finds his mom is beaten up by her low life boyfriend. Why doesn't she just leave the guy already?  I mean, I'm not claiming I'm the best in spotting red flags with my partners but she might spot one or two here. So Axie goes out to teach him a lesson in a car that he stole from Kingsman. He can't actually do anything though as Harry controls the car and drives him straight to his place.  Now, you would think that after all these surprise test tactics, like actually having a parachute when he was told he didn't have one or being tied to that train track by a fake villain, that he would have, you know, some sort of idea that this might just be a test tactic again? But no, he falls for it. Harry receives a transmission from Merlin that Valentine is going over to her church in Kentucky.  But before all that happens, Harry has quite an amusing interaction with one of the churchgoers.  So hail Satan and have a lovely afternoon, madam. But before Harry can leave, we get to see Valentine's true power of the SIM cards that by now everybody around the world is picked up. So he activates the ones from the people in the church and everybody within that radius goes absolutely berserk. And when I say berserk, I mean level World of Warcraft freak out kid berserk.   It's definitely the most controversial, memorable and most discussed scene in this entire film. Of course Harry lost control because he was within the SIM card radius but because this is Kingsman he manages to survive the massive frenzy. That is until this happens. The first time I saw a dad my jaw dropped with Kingsman anything is to be expected and yet the unexpected happens. I like how Valentine has a semi-fort wall breaking line here and the filmmakers totally being self aware that they're being a completely different type of spy movie. So with Harry now dead XZ quickly rushes back to the Kingsman tailor shop to see Arthur. In another twist we quickly learn that he is now on the side of Valentine too as he also has that implant in his head that all the people that are a part of his project have received. Arthur proposes a toast as a commemoration of Harry drugging XZ's drink in the process.   It's such a badass moment in the film you just can't help but root for XZ outsmarting his snob here with his smart street kid moves. He drags the implants, takes it to Merlin the only person left he can trust and with no time to lose he takes XZ and rocksy over in the private Kingsman jet flying off in complete badass Thunderbird style straight on to the final act of the film. So Valentine's plan, by the way, is similar to Hugo Drax's plan in Moonraker destroying humanity with a massive genocide and creating a new world by populating it with the chosen ones sort of a Noah's Ark operation.   Of course it's a completely outlandish plan but it fits in well with the tone of the movie and yet you can't imagine the world population would actually get those free SIM cards nowadays in an age where people simply can't live without smartphones anymore. It's actually very contemporary. So Roxy is instructed to fly up to the edge of the atmosphere to deploy a missile to destroy Valentine's satellite using this balloon machine and while Valentine commences his major countdown in his villain lair our hero Eggsy gets ready to save the world in the moment we all knew was coming. I mean come on, Edgerton looks the complete business here. Who wouldn't want to be this dude right now? As Eggsy and Merlin enter Valentine's villain lair with the private jet Eggsy gets the task of posing as one of the chosen people and get a USB into a laptop so that Merlin can hack the system.  Would sir care for a drink? Martini. Gin, not vodka obviously stirred for 10 seconds and glancing at an unopened bottle of vermouth. Thank you. It's all set on a great film set by the way Blending in the typical classic Bond villain lair with a unique modern flavour. So Eggsy quickly succeeds in taking over a laptop so Merlin can hack the system but soon runs into Charlie, the former kinksman recruit.  Oh fuck, if they're young valley!  I can sense a shitload of guards after him and Eggsy is just like, wait, hold my beer and casually duches like 100 bullets. Good thing bad guys are such terrible shots! Man, these guys are elusive! But the thing with kinksman is though the invincible superhero stuff that you really want to avoid in a serious movie is completely embraced in such an awesomely stylish way here you just gotta love it. So Roxy manages to blow up the satellite foiling Valentine's plan while he makes his way back to the plane. The mission ain't over yet though as Valentine quickly deploys a second satellite and the system turns out to be unhackable due to a biometric system activated by Valentine's hand. So Eggsy is forced to go back in there and we get another badass moment of him picking out a weapon choosing that awesome umbrella that Harry used in that pub scene in the beginning of the movie definitely would have been my choice too. So using that umbrella Eggsy puts up a pretty decent fight but this time he doesn't end up in invincible mode and the guards box him in allowing for no escape as well as getting ready to destroy Merlin's plane.  That is until he realizes that they can use the head implants that all of Valentine's guards have too for whatever reason. So Merlin quickly hacks into the system and activates them. I mean this stuff can only happen in a Matthew Vaughn movie. It's so ridiculously entertaining and it really makes no sense for them to explode one by one domino style in different colors instead of all at once. But it's just so absolutely glorious. Oh and also pretty sure that's Obama's head exploding here too. You know he was also among the people that Valentine convinced into coming aboard. So with that out of the way Eggsy happens to be at the cell of the Princess of Sweden with the most unexpected moments in the film.  I'll be right back. I seriously cannot stop smiling watching this film. It just keeps getting better and better. What's the uncensored version of this movie by the way as that whole bit is not in the censored version. So Valentine initiates the satellite to activate the SIM cards around the world and we get a complete global frenzy set to Casey and the Sunshine Band.  So now it's all up to Eggsy to save the world.  I haven't really talked that much about her during this analysis but she's great. There's this fantastic scene of her fighting or rather hacking the arms and legs of some of the politicians goons earlier on in the film that I completely glossed over but she certainly makes for a fantastic larger-than-life hence woman that fits in well with this movie. So now, Eggsy is up against her in a great choreographed fight in a Bond-like villain-layer film set with thousands of politicians with exploded heads lying around, finding each other slow-mo, metric style while getting out a Rosa Clappe poison knife shoe to take care of her. It's an amazing climax and it just makes for pure Grade A entertainment right here. And to top it off Eggsy uses one of her metal feet to pierce through Valentine in order to stop him from activating the global SIM card frenzy so he pukes and falls down.  And this is all topped off with another semi-fort wall breaking one liner. It's like you said to Harry This ain't that kind of movie, bruv.  I mean I cannot imagine any guy not completely grinning from ear to ear watching this dude. It's like the filmmakers were like Hey, remember how we've had that chemistry between the main character and another chick throughout the whole movie? What if we completely ignore that now and just have him end up bagging the royal freaking princess of Sweden straight in her butthole after saving the world? And boy were they right.  I also love how Merlin is being the wingman of the year by giving him the code to her cell. Speaking of that code, when you type in 2625 on an old cell phone keypad that would spell anal. Now that, ladies and gentlemen, has to be one of the cleverest easter eggs I've ever discovered. Well played, Matthew Vaughn. Well played. But the film doesn't quite end there. Hopefully you didn't stop watching as we get another brilliant ending after a little part of the credits with Axie appearing in the pub in an identical scene to Harry getting ready to teach his lowlife stepfather a lesson. Kingsman is a film that took and homarsed all the outlandish dirt elements of the classic Bond films and blended it together in an extremely effective way. It not only succeeded in being a great new parody of the spy genre it succeeded in spawning a fantastic new franchise strong enough to hold its own ground. The crazy tone setting Kingsman allowed for stuff that you could never get away with in a Bond film.  This stuff really sounds like the most tasteless disgusting film that would never work but Matthew Vaughn brings it all together in the most surprisingly stylish, larger than life badass and above all entertaining way possible. Because usually an extreme level of gory violence would never work in a light heart of action comedy. Neither worth having a serious badass style in a movie that doesn't take itself serious and yet Kingsman pulls all of that off and somehow it all works like clockwork. The cast is top notch too. You can tell everybody is having a lot of fun and all the characters are very colorful and engaging. Colin Fert, Samuel L. Jackson Michael Cain, Mark Strong they all deliver top notch performances and Taryn Edgerton is one of the most well casted newcomers I've seen in recent years. I mean this guy came fresh out of acting school, had to play with such an A-list cast in one of his first roles and simply owned it as if he had been doing it for years. He absolutely nailed the role of Axie and made it a young cheeky version of Bond that we all wish we could be. That's quite an accomplishment. This film instantly became one of my favorite action comedy films of all time and I'm saying that as a proud Die Hard Bond fan. During times in which the gritty, dark and realistic are usually preferred by myself included but this unique style is just so welcomed as a fan of the genre and I can completely understand all these A-list stars being attracted to this franchise. It's really no wonder it quickly received a sequel and that two more films are already announced. Each of which are also going to be directed by Matt Yvonne because this is his franchise and only he could nail this signature tone and in the way I already cannot wait to see those two films that really is a testament to the quality of this film. 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