May we invite the newly elected head of government, the Prime Minister of St. Lucia, the Honorable Philip J. Pierre. Excellency, the President of Suriname, esteemed heads, Secretary-General of the United Nations, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. I bring you greetings from the government and people of St. Lucia. I speak to you today as one of the newly elected heads of government, grateful and honoured for the opportunity to address this important body at such a critical time in our collective history. Colleagues, Madam Secretary-General, I am sure you will all agree that there has been no other moment in our post-independence history under whose cloudy skies we are currently seeking shelter, which has challenged our collective existence. We are now experiencing the full brunt of runway price increases for basic items such as fuel, flour and bread, compounded by supply chain issues. The Russian-Ukrainian War has left the entire world reeling from rising inflation, making life for most households very difficult, more so for the people of our region. I recently had to convene a special meeting of my cabinet to discuss the price of bread in St. Lucia. This is how serious and attentive these times have demanded. At this time, Madam Secretary-General, we are still reeling from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought with it business closures, loss of productivity, reduced tourism arrivals and the reduction in government revenues. The demands on our public health system, which we shouldered, to keep our people safe and the provision of social protection and support measures for vulnerable citizens, have left governments of the region with very lack of fiscal space to move ahead, to grow their respective economies. And all of this has followed from at least two decades of external shocks from the slow downs and security costs from the September 11, 2009 terrorist attack on New York City and the global wars which followed these attacks to the impact of the 2008 global financial crisis stemming from the subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S. Mr. Chairman, in between these economic and geopolitical man-made crises, we have had to confront the natural annual cycles of cyclones and hurricanes, a feature of our environment which in recent years have been more ferocious, destructive and erratic. In my recent address to the Summit of the Americas, I made the point that while the world only has of the major weather events because of international television coverage, there are persistent small events brought about by an average rainfall that cause significant damage, often manifested in landslides and flooding and in the process impose additional severe strain on our islands already limited financial capability. Sadly, Mr. Chairman, these destructive weather events are the results of climate change for which we are not the offenders. So fellow heads, given all these realities, you will appreciate that the euphoria of an election victory vanishes very quickly upon occupying the seat of the prime minister. Because the challenges that we face as leaders, especially the new ones, upon sober reflection are very apparent and in the wood daunting. Mr. Chairman, notwithstanding these dangerous winds, St. Lucia's faith in curriculum remains strong and unshaken. St. Lucia continues to believe in the potential strength and protective shelter that curriculum can provide. I witnessed first hand the collective strength of curriculum during the recent negotiations at the Summit of the Americas earlier this month. I want to assure you that I come to the prime minister of St. Lucia in the firm and a binding belief in curriculum. Mr. Chairman, my regional philosophy has been shaped by the small population and size of the country that I lead. But I stand here to affirm that St. Lucia will always be less than it can be without curriculum. Whenever we are faced by external challenges, not of our own making, I'm always guided by the words of the late prime minister of Barbados, ONAFA, that we should face it and fix it. I'm also guided by the warning of our respected colleague and distinguished prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadiers, that we shall avoid the reflective learned helplessness, which arguably stems from our inherited colonial consciousness. So, colleagues, I intend to use the responsibility that the people of St. Lucia have placed on my shoulder to engage constructively with you and the curriculum secretariat and to join your collective experiences to advance the cause of curriculum. In this regard, I pledge to engage energetically within curriculum. We have already signaled our intention to be fully aligned to the Caribbean Court of Justice as the final appellant court in both civil and criminal matters. In this regard, the Governor of St. Lucia has written to the Privy Council expressing this desire. At home, we have formed a committee led by respected journalists to continue the education of our people on this important issue. We must not allow our enforced circumstances of day-to-day survival to dull our memories of the reasons why our past leaders pursued the establishment of the curriculum's single-marketing economy and why they saw it as the most optimum answer to the question of what is the next stage of Caribbean developments. In light of all the global changes that have taken place in the decades since the initial treaty which established curriculum, at the center of the thinking behind the CSME was the need to create the conditions for the free movement of people and capital and the need to establish a single economy as a unified space for joint growth and development for Caribbean businesses and more importantly for the improvement of the quality of life of Caribbean citizens. It should also be recalled that at the center of the CSME was a recognition that the issues of governance in terms of the functioning of the curriculum secretariat had to be reworked to facilitate the implementation of decisions and the day-to-day management of the CSME. Colleagues, it is fair to see that other than the energies which have gone to the pursuit of the single economy at the OECS level and the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice at the wider curriculum level, we have not seen the kind of advances towards the CSME within curriculum as we had hoped. As we continue to face the new and emerging challenges of food shortages, the rising costs of basic foodstuffs, climate change, youth unemployment, gun violence and crime and other social challenges, I urge that we reframe our responses within the framework of the CSME. I also urge that you encourage a thorough inventory of the work of the various CSME working groups so that we can reassess where we are and what is to be done to move the regional economic and political unification process forward. Alongside these assessments, SELUSHA pledges to work within the OECS to advance the invocation process within the subregion. Colleagues, colleague heads, SELUSHA believes that without concrete technical action in response to the challenges that we face, we'll see a deepening of the crisis and we'll have no one but ourselves to blame for not devising the appropriate responses. We have complained for too long about the need for special and differential treatment given our vulnerabilities as since. We have demanded too often that our graduation into middle income status should not be used as a basis for denying us to concessionary financing reserves for the world's poorest and most highly indebted countries. We have met our voices heard loudly and clearly on the need for our climate vulnerabilities to be included in the global commitments to the financing for climate change adaptation and recovery. For all these reasons, SELUSHA is pleased and fully supportive of the efforts by the Caribbean Development Bank to develop a new economic model as a means of measuring national income, the resilience, duration, adjuster. We are fully cognizant of the need for such new tools to allow us to access the development finance and debt forgiveness since most of our debt have been the accumulated result of factors beyond our control like climate change, wars, global financial crises and global pandemics. We urge and encourage our regional technocrats, CARICOM included, not only to develop these new tools but to undertake the necessary negotiations to convince the international financial institutions of the need to adopt these new measurements in the evaluation of the economies of CARICOM states. Our regional technocrats and intellectuals must continue to re-evaluate and refine the models being used to assess our economic and social progress and should be repaired to spend more time in gaining greater insights into the nature of the region's challenges and the development of models that are better able to assist us in advancing our countries economically and socially. This region has the intellectual where of all to devise new and innovative models and strategies for our economic development. Colleagues, there can be no meaningful integration without free movement of people and so we must move swiftly to create a lasting reliable and affordable regional transportation infrastructure. We have allowed our discussions on Caribbean sea and air transport to be guided too much by external market forces rather than by the transportation needs of the people and the businesses of our region. In doing so, we have not only closed our air and sea spaces for business expansion and growth for our local investors but we have also surrendered the future of our unification projects to the whims of service providers whose only interest is profit. To put it directly, colleagues, CARICOM needs LIATS or CARICOM needs a better version of LIATS. Unless one of our island-owned carriers emerges as a truly regional carrier not only in terms of countries covered but with a philosophical commitment to making regionalism work for CARICOM citizens then our regional aspirations will continue to be an elusive dream. In this regard, I wish to commend our Montigan colleague, Prime Minister Gaston Brown, for his efforts in keeping LIATS alive. Sen Lusia therefore stands willing to work with CARICOM to find solutions to our regional transportation challenges and will assist in any effort designed to finding the lasting reliable and sustainable airline or consortium of airlines to service the region. Sen Lusia will also be interested in a ferry offering scenic and comfortable service to utilize the potential of our sea routes as an additional traction and transportation option for visitors and citizens alike. Sen Lusia is committed to any effort by CARICOM to find a willing aviation investor to offer dedicated airline services between Africa and the Caribbean. Colleagues, there can be no CARICOM future if the young people of our region continue to wallow in despair, dash expectations, and with crime and gun violence as their most available option. In Sen Lusia, I've made the development of a youth economy one of my most important pillars for my developmental plan for the country. I say this not only as an economic imperative but a moral one. Sen Lusia, we are determined to create a special space for youth entrepreneurship and business growth within the general economic system. In that space, they'll be provided with state resources to help them convert hobbies into entrepreneurship and skills into business for finance and marketing support, training, and mentorship. That's creating sustainable livelihoods and a new cadre of indigenous business people. A dedicated agency that is agile, flexible, and responsive is being created to drive this policy. I stand ready to work with CARICOM to see how we can organically link our development of the youth economy within the existing CSME and then economic and social development mechanisms within CARICOM. Colleagues, our integration will remain continually weakened if we allow the basic principles which has defined our relations to the outside world to be compromised by the foreign policies of other countries. CARICOM is strongest when it holds steadfast to the traditional principles of the right to self-determination of our countries, non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign nations, the safeguarding of the Caribbean region as a zone of peace, and the pursuit of South-South cooperation. Senutia declares its readiness to defend and uphold the principles which are in conformity with the freedom and dignity of the Caribbean people. Respect for the internal sovereignty of our neighbors and the pursuit of a foreign policy framework that allows it to tap into the developmental potential from regional friends while avoiding making enemies with our long-standing global allies. Senutia believes that a free, sovereign, and economically stable Cuba, Venezuela, and Haiti can only mean a free, sovereign, and economically stable CARICOM. Colleagues, when I was elected as Prime Minister of Senutia, I came in on a promise to be transparent, to be a listener, to be democratic, and to practice as much as possible the principles of sovereign leadership. I have pledged to be guided by the principles of humility, transparency, accountability, inclusiveness, and fairness all, and to put the development of people above everything else. I pledge to use my best efforts to eradicate corruption at all levels. Colleagues, as it is for my domestic political life in Senutia, so I believe it should be for CARICOM. As we strengthen our democracies, 40 to 60 years after independence, let us all commit ourselves to the principles of good governance, constitutional reform, transparency, and accountability, and let us strive to make this region the freest, most democratic, and best-governed part of the universe, all in the interests of the people of the region we have been called to serve. My expectations and dreams as a new Prime Minister in CARICOM are for the attainment of genuine togetherness and integration of our foreign and economic policies. My dream is for a flexible and agile CARICOM, serving the day-to-day needs of our people, and enhancing the faith in our collective destiny. My dream is for a CARICOM that never forgets that the only reason why we have committed ourselves to public life is to serve the people, and so we must put the people first in all that we do. I would like to close with some borrowed words of wisdom. They are the words of 1987 Nobel winner for peace, Oscar Sanchez of Costa Rica, and I quote, Hope is the strongest driving force for people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. My friends, let us be honest and acknowledge that CARICOM's image throughout our region needs to improve. That must change and change now. Too much time has already been lost. We must begin that vital change by being the change the people have for a very long time been crying for. We must not only talk unity, we must demonstrate to our people that we are together confronted by similar problems that can be resolved only by a united CARICOM. I thank you. Thank you, Prime Minister of St. Lucia, Honorable Philip J. Pierre.


How's it going everyone Caleb here with Leighton sports cards next night? We're gonna be working on definitive baseball three box case break number 45 random teams here are the results one more time And we are ready to start the break guys Here we go Man baseball has been on fire this evening Empty inside there. There's the three boxes of definitive We are ready to start let me wipe off the table just a little bit here that box was pretty disgusting inside I guess in all honesty, and we're about to pull some bangers. So let's keep them clean Here we go guys Let's do it looking for eight hits per box six of which should be on a graph All right starting out Yankees 10 of 15 cc. Sabathia jumbo Yankees patch And next patch up is Dodgers max Muncie 9 of 50 Dodgers there you go on the Muncie 34 of 50 this very excuse me 34 of 40 Dennis Eckersley patch autograph A's On the Eckersley you go A's Oh, that's sick Philly's patch auto two of ten JT real Muto Nice two of ten there. Oh mag that that's nice nice Philly said nice real Muto Beautiful pee pad. That's I think that's the part of the pee. I think it kind of looks like it at least Gold frame autograph of Ryan Mountcastle you go for 30 Oriole Not too bad there Noel nice Mountcastle for 30 on the gold frame auto We've got a green autograph Dale Murphy and shipper Jones dual auto seven of ten Braves nice You go nice one seven of ten there shipper Jones Dale Murphy your braves Autograph of Roan C. Contreras eight of fifty Roan C. Contreras auto eight of fifty and autograph 21 of 25 Ricky Henderson definitive collection Ricky Henderson there he is A's And good luck guys. We have two to go not the craziest first box. You can definitely crush crush that first one I think you might be on to something Surely a hundred sixty three yards and Okay, okay Respectable for sure. Oh, yeah. Look guys It's kind of sick We've got an Aaron Nola patch five of 15. It's gotta be Memorial day memorial day. Yes something. I mean some kind of alternate patch obviously alternate Jersey That's pretty cool though game used of course. What's up Kemper? Hey Kemper. That's a pretty sick Philly's card. Nice Nola 39 of 50 Rafi Devers Jumbo patch there red socks How's your night been man? Patch autograph Rocky's Larry Walker 21 of 40. I'm gonna have to give the assist to forest on this one Forest totally bring brought this for us here. How about a jumbo patch a little bit of dirt on there? 13 of 15 Mike Trout boom Bit of dirt on there and how about this next one right away Gold frame auto Ronald Acunia, Jr. 12 of 20 boom Crazy two cards there. Look at that shrouded Acunia back to back Back to back jacks. Oh my goodness, man. There's the trout There's the Acunia holy cow unreal Unreal yeah had to double fist there. Yeah, so true had to had to Holy cow That's crazy. Congrats there angels and braves respectively big hits That's a sick one tool for the twins Justin Morneau and Joe Maurer 32 of 35 nice one there on the dual Awesome dual auto. Yeah, never never bad to be double fisting in definitive I couldn't I couldn't stare at it any longer. I had to pick it up Matt Manning rookie auto 32 of 50 tigers I mean, why not hold one auto of each of those guys from the same box? Why not an autographed red socks Pedro Martinez auto 9 of 15 For the socks last one guys that was that was a lot of fun. That was a lot of fun right there again We're trying to don't talk about trace next to early for five minutes.  Thanks to you What are they about to show us here What are they about to show us here? Come on What are they about to show us guys? Whoa, yeah, it's gonna be one of the protectors at the plate helmet relics eight of 25 will Smith That is gonna be a protector at the plate relics. I think that might be part of his catching gear That's actually kind of cool. Yeah, some kind of his catching gear there. That's nice game used Dodgers nice I see red back there as well. That's always a good sign. It's always a good sign in this product There's another CC patch three at 30 Yankees again Johnny Bench patch autograph for 10 Johnny Bench you go Reds There is a one-to-one back there somewhere See now that's on my mind too Shane. So yeah, I mean, yeah, you guys are ruining it back relic jumbo auto of George Springer 18 of 30 vehicle jumbo back relic auto blue jays You've got a green defining images autograph Dale Murphy Braves one of ten You know Braves I Sit there one of ten on the Dale And we have Dodgers on the dual patch autograph Walker Bueller will Smith Five of 35 You have great pitcher and catcher combo there Your Dodgers that number will be going down for us Yankees two of five Dave Wingfield. There you go Nice auto there. I mean That's pretty dang good That's pretty dang good one of one Cal Ripken jr. Auto boom That's pretty dang good man Noel J with the Orioles Nice Cal we'll mag that Sick man awesome case and gold frame autograph of pedilanzo 25 of 30 there. He is Mets 25 of 30 on the Pete Alonzo Geez man. That was that was the case. That was a case Very nice. It's guys Let's do a recap of them once again Perfect patch cards guys patch cards Yankees cc sabatia Red Sox Raphael Devers Aaron Nola Phillies max Muncie Dodgers and cc sabatia yankees Then we had that jumbo protectors at the plate will smith part of his catcher's gear They're really cool. All right, some of our autos here. Pete Alonzo Mets Dave Wingfield Yankees That's going to be Walker Bueller Dodgers and Will Smith the dual Dale Murphy Braves George Springer Blue Jays Johnny Bench Reds Pedro Martinez Red Sox Matt Manning we've got a duel of Justin Morneau and Joe Maurer Larry Walker patch auto Ricky Henderson patch auto and a ronzi contraris autograph a few more here Dale Murphy chipper Jones dual patch auto or excuse me dual auto no patch Ryan Mount Castle on the dual gold frame autograph Gold frame autograph. I keep saying dual and Dennis Eckersley patch auto All right, we've got the mags cards here JT real muto part of the p they're a really cool card Two of ten on the patch auto real muto the one of one cal ripkin jr Nice one of one auto Orioles Ronald Acunha jr. Gold frame auto 12 of 20 And a little bit of dirt on that Mike trout patch auto 13 of 15 Thanks guys. Hope you enjoyed it. We'll have the next one coming up shortly Uh definitive divisions really shortly. Thanks all


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2016 GMC Sierra 2500 Double Cab Short Box is stock number 14082Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters this 2016 GMC Sierra 2500 has the 6.6-liter Duramax diesel engine. It is the LML engine, which puts out 397 horsepower and is paired up with the Allyson 6-speed heavy-duty automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video. Inside, underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. Quick silver metallic is the color and I shoot all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, click the bell notifications and you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and heavy-duty truck walk-arounds on YouTube. This one comes with the 20-inch polished aluminum wheels. They are in really nice shape and it has Goodyear Wrangler LT265-60R20s. These are Goodyear Wrangler SRAs and I would say that they have probably about 70% to 80% of the tread left on them. So very new tires, frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck. This has been previously owned in Illinois and Michigan and it has a clean title history and a clean car fax. This one does come with the HID headlamps, the LED running lights and the factory fog lights. All those on at the end of the video show you how bright they are. Front bumper parking sensors and the front bumper itself is in fantastic condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on there and you get the chrome-trimmed grille. Headlight lenses are nice and clear and the hood is in fantastic condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. Passengers side front fender, really nice as well and the passengers side front wheel. No major scuffs or scrapes on there. Silver metallic I believe is the same as silver ice metallic on the Chevy's just on GMC's but it's got a lot of fine metal flake to it. Really a good looking color and as you go down this side of this 2016 GMC Sierra 2500 take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make a trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the truck here the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at or if you get the truck shipped to you you know exactly what you're going to be getting. Back wheels in excellent shape and if this video helps you make that decision definitely let your salesman know that you saw the video it was helpful and that brought sense to you. Back tires have just as much tread as front tires maybe even a little bit more and for a 2016 that's from Illinois and Michigan frame and underbody is in really nice shape it's like that all the way underneath that has all the remaining factory exhaust just for a little bit of corrosion on the edge of the frame there is really good on these GMCs lower rockers and cab corners all look really good especially for this body style comes with the Raptor series chrome step bars passenger side box is in an excellent shape coming around to the back the rear bumper is in perfect condition no denser dings does have the rear bumper parking sensors and the steps full towing package which includes receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring that tailgate is just as nice as the rest of the truck and it comes with a leer hard fold up tonneau cover and that tonneau cover is in really nice condition the this has an automatic locking tailgate so that's kind of a neat feature I'm gonna have to pause it here I'll get it unlocked so we can take a look inside so really neat feature on this truck somebody's installed an automatic or a power locking tailgate so you can hear that unlocked there the key fob so that's really cool because these don't come with a power lock from the factory this body style spring and bed liner LED bed lights up there and the bed itself is in fantastic condition didn't see a major denser dings and that spring and bed liner goes onto the tailgate as well which is a really nice feature shots nice and solidly and as we come around to the driver side just as clean as that passenger side I didn't see any major dents on the box here looks really good and for full disclosure this back wheel is just as nice as the rest no major scuffs or scrapes on there coming around to the doors and cab very nice condition here and see any dents didn't see any dings does have the heated power folding mirrors they have built-in directional signals and driver side blind spot mirror I'll show you the back seats first very nice and clean back here no rips or tears it does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have power sliding rear window with the built-in rear to frost these seats fold up has a weather tech all-weather format back here keeps your carpeting looking like new and side curtain airbags on the front seats inside and bottoms of the doors all look really good show you the vin sticker no Canadian trucks here tire and loading information sticker inside the SLT package gives you the black leather bucket seats no rips no tears on those seats they're in fantastic condition very little wear both these seats are heated and cooled and you get weather tech formats in the front as well tilt telescopic steering wheel auto headlamps turned out four-wheel drive in your factory brake controller power windows locks mirrors wood grain trim memory driver seat and these mirrors do power fold in I always like showing both sides so you know that both sides are working properly well hop inside check out the miles the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior all right you can see this one has 36,730 miles you do get a digital speedometer and spin cluster is very nice and clean comes with the leather wrap steering wheel no rips or tears in there comes with bluetooth and information center controls on the right cruise controls forward collision warning controls and heated steering controls on the left there's your shifter for that Allison six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift and this one comes with the GMC and telelink system this one does have the factory navigation system on it there's highway 41 so that's working nicely you get AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities you get your different apps on here including projection manager where you can project yourself on to the screen via Android Auto Apple CarPlay and those are all the other apps down here is your more tactile volume tune and climate controls including the dual climate controls CD player heated and cooled seat buttons power pedals stability control that's for your cargo lamps that's also how you turn on those LED bed lights parking sensors lane departure warning and factory exhaust breakdown here you get two USBs two 12-volt power points and a hundred ten volt 150 watt plug-in this one does have the wireless cell phone charge pad that's a nice feature and dual glove boxes passenger side floor mat and seat are in excellent conditional rips no tears on their smells very clean inside this truck and the headliners in really nice shape as well up here you do get your power slide and rear window button home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems and map lights you'll also get on-star and SOS buttons in the rear-view mirror we'll start up take a look under the hood go check out those lights it'll be all set to go starts right up no check engine lights or anything like that other than my hoods open I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside now there are those HID headlamps LED running lights and factory fog lights all working very nicely under the hood we have the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine engine base very clean runs very smooth once again this truck has been fully safety to and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and feel to change all the fluids have been checked and topped off it has two brand new batteries and this truck is 100% ready to go there is the emissions sticker and I would highly recommend this truck for make quality and condition standpoint I would ship this one to California Texas New York Florida Oklahoma Arizona wherever whoever's gonna get this truck's gonna love it I'd sell it to a friend family member you name it very nice ride and to see 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Thank you everybody, let's start and hopefully we'll cool down even though it's a packed room. Thanks for coming so early in the morning and welcome to session 559 into disciplinary approaches to early medieval transitions. On behalf of Emma, Erin and I, I'd like to thank all the speakers for coming and everybody else for coming to hear our session. It should be a very interesting day or half day of lots of different techniques, spanning archaeological science through the more traditional archaeological techniques to look at pretty much the whole of early medieval north-west Europe, and from roughly the end of the Roman period up to about 1100. So we're going to have some really interesting talks today. And I'll head over to Erin who's sharing the first part of the session. Good morning. So first up we have Miriam Kars, who is a researcher with the Portable Antiquity Scheme of the Netherlands. Thank you. Okay, well, this paper is about iron belt fittings of the 7th century, decorated with the so-called animal tooth style. And in this paper I want to argue that these objects, which are almost exclusively known from graves, can be seen as symbols of a period in transition and that this viewpoint may also apply to other objects of the Merovingian period. The transition I'm referring to is the ongoing Christianization of early medieval Europe, and I'm making my point about objects that play a part in this transition. I will first discuss how the study of the Merovingian burial evidence among which the 7th century belt fitting has contributed to the debate on the Christianization of Europe, after which I will introduce the concept of symbols of transition in relation to the 7th century belt fittings, which is further exemplified with a case study of three belt fittings from the Dutch province of Limburg. But before that, first some examples of these 7th century belt fittings. As you can see on this slide, the group consists of various iron belt mounts, ranging from back plates to belt buckles, which were originally attached to a ladder belt. Their decorative patterns are rather complex and often consist of interlacing bands in which animal elements can be found. The Merovingian burial record provides the most varied and extensive source of information for archaeologists of this period. It consists of a variety of objects next to the variety of grave cemetery features. The debate on this burial remains, however, is not yet fully connected to the historical debate on the rise of Christianity, which covers the same area and period. This has a number of reasons. The old interpretive models, very briefly, stated that the appearance of graves could indicate whether the individuals buried were pagan or Christian. It was thought that the empty graves or those with objects with straightforward Christian symbols and an east-west orientation were those of Christians and that the richly furnished graves of otherwise oriented graves were those of pagans. It has, however, become clear that graves cannot be read like this. Richly furnished graves can be found in obvious Christian environments and graves with so-called Christian characteristics can be found in cemeteries at some distance from Christian belief centers. But nonetheless, there are some seemingly obvious relations between the burial record and the expression of Christianity, such as objects with overt Christian signs, of which some examples are shown here. But interpretations other than the banal rejected direct assignment of Christian identities have not really been put forward yet. Well, to get a grip on the relation between the burial objects and Christianity, I chose to discuss the belt fittings with ornamental signs of which it is undeniable that they had a strong symbolic meaning. The animal symbolism on the 7th century belt fittings is not as directly part of the early Christian iconography as the cross is, but they did circulate in a world where Christianity found its way. On the basis of this group of objects, I want to argue that there may be other ways of connecting the Merevingian burial record to the rise of Christianity in Europe. Well, one way of making this connection is discussing these objects as signs of transition, for which a number of their specific characteristics are relevant to mention. First, this is about the 7th century belt fittings. First, their pre-burial circulation took place in a world in which Christianity, though in various degrees, was present. The animal style on these belts is dated to 58700 and occurs on numbers of other objects, not only on the belt fittings. The belt fittings with animal style, too, are considered to form a homogeneous group, spread in high numbers over large parts of Merevingian Europe. And they are also portable objects. These aspects enable a day-to-day interaction with the applied symbolic messages. In order to understand how the fittings and their symbolism worked in relation to the rise of Christianity, it is useful to focus on the processes of their production and widespread appropriation. For this purpose, I'm using these back plates of belts from the Dutch province of Limburg as a case study. Two of them were found in the cemetery underneath the Church of Saint Sifatius in Maastricht, and one was found 30 kilometers to the north of Maastricht, in a river close to the village of Heel. I chose these fittings, these three fittings, as a case study, because they seem to be identical at first sight. This is indeed true when looking at their general composition. All the plates consist of a central H-shaped figure, composed of a band-shaped body, which connects to heads of birds. The central ornaments are framed by two pairs of clothes at the edges of the fittings and by decorative friezes. But a closer inspection reveals some differences between them. There's not enough time to discuss this variability in detail, but some examples can be mentioned here shortly. With regard to the execution of the body parts, it is interesting to take a look at the clothes on the three back plates. They show a red circle around them. The clothes on the specimen from Heel are different from those on the two church specimens, and the clothes on the church plates are similar, but different in orientation as the positions of the upper toes show. With regard to the variation within the entire composition and the connections between the body parts, it can be noticed that the orientation of the composition on the church two back plate is only similar to the two other two when the plate is turned in a different position. Another interesting aspect relates to the curls behind the eyes, which are difficult to identify as a specific animal body part. It is especially this part of the composition which shows the highest degree of variability in the way it is connected to the other body parts in the three compositions. The plate from Heel shows that these curls end in long extensions, for example, which are not present on the two other back plates, and on the church two plate. There is more than one option to connect the curls to the rest of the body. With regard to the quality of the plates, it can be stated that the church one plate is of the highest quality. The lines are rather neat, the bodies show more detail, and the highest amount of silver was used on this plate. The quality of the ornamental schemes also relates to the connection between the body parts. More than one observed option for connections between body parts may indicate that the copyist of this image did not know what he was doing exactly on a very detailed level, which resulted in a product of lesser quality, or we may define it like that. Well, altogether, these examples show how a careful examination of the ornamental schemes can reveal a number of differences within a shared composition. How these noted differences can contribute to the understanding of the general production process of animal-style two belts will be discussed later on. But first, a few remarks on the special significance of the claws. Well, their significance can be illustrated with two sword-belt mounts with claws, one from Lent and one in the Netherlands, that's number four, and one from Sivedale in Italy, that's number five. The claws on these mounts are depicted as isolated animal body parts without any clear connection to a specific animal. It can be assumed that the people must have recognized these as claws and understood the symbolic references of them as isolated body parts on objects. Moreover, the portrayed claws are much alike the claws on the three belt fittings from Limburg, and these examples show that the range of individual body parts that were used in ornamental compositions were distributed over large areas, but that specific ornamental compositions may have had a regional signature. Well, on the basis of these observations, a few suggestions can be made with regard to the general organization of the production of the belt fittings and their widespread consumption in a world which saw the rise of Christianity. First, the context of their production. Since a high number of iron belt fittings with animal-style two ornaments were found in Maastricht, it seems plausible to assume that at least one workshop was active here. The oldest discovered remains of the Saint Sivatius Church in Maastricht date to the second half of the 6th century, and Maastricht was at least from that period on a center in which Christianity had a role. The workshop active in this center may therefore in one way or another have been associated with Christianity. But what about the rest of Gaul? The Christian landscape of early medieval Gaul will have mainly consisted of networked Christian cities and cloisters, and the city-based metal workshops may have functioned within this same network. The Silver Smith did not work in isolation, but was connected to a network of workshops and therefore knowledge about the proper design of animal ornaments. This network may have had a ranked constitution of well-connected city-based smiths in connection with Christianity, and less or maybe not connected smiths of the countryside. And this constitution of the network may have been reflected in the quality differences between the belt fitting as discussed earlier on. And what about the consumption side of the story? It can be stated that the fittings were widely appreciated since they are found in high numbers in graves on both rural and urban cemetery sites. The widespread adoption of the fittings is related to a number of their characteristics. First, there are portable objects, displaying signs that are more or less similar over large areas. It has become an almost universal symbolic language in 7th century gold, with which people interacted on a daily basis. They also have quite lavish appearances, for which in fact not that much material investment was required. The quantities of silver needed are limited. As are the quantities of copper alloy, which also has the advantage that it resembles gold. In this sense, the objects were accessible for many. But most important, the animal symbolism on the fittings had the capacity to refer to both old and new worldviews. Animal style 2 was not a completely new invention, since animal symbolism was already abundantly present in society for a long time as other sorts of styles. However, animal style 2 started to occur frequently on an extensive range of obvious Christian objects, such as shrines and architectural church elements. But animal style 2 also occurs on hybrid objects with both Christian and pre-Christian references. Examples of such objects are of course the famous tele from Niederdollendorf, as you can see here, but maybe also a strap end from the Alemanic region, which you can also see here, similar birds had as on the fittings from Limburg, but in combination with the text with an obvious Christian reference. It seems thus that animal style 2 became incorporated in Christian pictorial world in the late 6th and 7th century, but that it was also used in non-Christian context. This gave the belt fittings the capacity to be appropriated, experienced and used in the way one wished. They could be fully embraced as objects belonging to a Christian world, but a non-Christian or ambiguous attitude towards them was also an option, since it was possible to use the objects as an expression of a careful exploration of Christianity without dismissing all the worldviews. As such, the 7th century belt fittings from graves can be seen as symbols of transition. One was heading towards an all-over acceptance of Christianity, but the stages of this transition were experienced differently all over our early medieval goal. Objects as the belt fittings circulated in this changing world and were objects that matched with the different feelings one could have towards these changes. Well, it remains to be questioned whether other symbols of transition are also present in the burial record. The garnered disc broaches, for example, as mentioned earlier, can depict crosses or not. It may be the case that the garnered tradition was incorporated in the Christian pictorial world, which made it possible for these broaches without crosses, so those without crosses to refer to both old and new worldviews, which makes them also symbols of transition. Thank you.


Hello, my name is Brad Langdell and I want to talk to you today about balancing equations with oxidation numbers You know back in the day you used to balance equations just kind of by trial and error and sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't and mostly We gave you ones that worked really nicely So it didn't seem that hard, but in reality you can balance equations particularly redox equations using this method It works really nicely. Here's the big thing to keep in mind It's the conservation of matter the number of electrons that are lost in any sort of chemical reaction has to equal the number of electrons that are gained in that same reaction and that's the big idea We're going to exploit here in order to balance this equation. Here's our example Here we have three species on either sides The first step we're going to do is we're going to go and determine the oxidation number of each of these different Species each of these different ions and atoms so the first one I'm going to start off with here I got iodine it's in the element form it gets an oxidation number of zero because all elements have an oxidation number of zero Oxygen's are always negative two, so that's an easy one to fill in and The oxidation total of the oxidation numbers has to equal the charge on the ion So here if the oxygen is a negative two then chlorine's got to be positive one that way negative two and positive one We'll give the negative charge of the chlorine and oxygen ion here All right here. We've got negative two again for oxygen and positive one for hydrogen that again Will total up to give me the negative one charge on hydrogen. They're on the hydroxide ion negative one for chlorine chlorine's a mono atomic ion, so it's charge matches this oxidation number We've got three Oxygen's here, and so that's three times negative two is negative six in total for the oxygen And that means I need to have this is going to be a little weird positive five for the iodine Why positive five for that iodine because the total charge is negative one So negative six plus five negative one and again, you know the routine by now here. We've got negative two for oxygen and there's two of The hydrogens each of those is positive one so that balances out to be neutral So we have our oxidation states figured out Now the second thing here is I'm going to look at what is losing electrons what's gaining electrons in this reaction So let's look at the iodine first iodine is going from an oxidation state of zero up to five What's happened? There's the increase of the oxidation number is increased. So this is an oxidation Anytime you see that number go up. It's an oxidation reaction, and that's a loss of electrons and in this case we had Go we'd gone from zero to five. So That's a loss of five electrons per iodine ion or ten electrons per iodine The element and since I'm dealing with element Elemental iodine here. This is the one. I'm going to be worried about I'm losing ten electrons here in this reaction Where are they going? Where's the gain? Well, let's take a look here at the other Species that has an oxidation number changes chlorine This is a reduction because we're going down an oxidation number We went down from negative one to zero pardon me from positive one to zero to negative one That's a change of two so we gained Two electrons here Now remember the number of electrons gained has to equal the number lost Which means if I want this equation to balance what I'm going to need to do here is go and put a Five in front of that chlorine and that way five times the two electrons that are gained will give ten total electrons gained By this ion and that is going to balance out the ten lost by the iodine So now that I have the number of electrons gained and lost the same I know the two coefficients that are going to go in front of those those species and that's going to allow me to go and balance The rest of it without too much trouble. I know that those are two are correct You put a little check mark next to them if you want now Let's go balance like we always did so we have two iodines. We need two iodines. There we go Those are balanced. I need five chlorines put a five there. I know those are all correct Now I'm going to look at the oxygens and hydrogens. These are always the ones that are pain Here I've got five six oxygens here. I've got six seven. Okay, so I need to get seven on the left-hand side I'll put a two in front here Five plus two is seven oxygens now. Let's check over here. I've got six seven oxygens perfect and two hydrogens Two hydrogens. I got a one here. It's balanced. That wasn't so bad You need more help with balancing with oxidation numbers you check out my website. There's more examples there at LD industries dot CA


What is up a welcome back. Do you like to do it builder make it? You like to do it builder make it so do we and we have a new video each week This week we ran out of time. So we're going live Yeah, come to you live this Friday morning. It's a beautiful Sunday morning here in Richmond, Virginia So, yes, we had a project fail earlier this week. So not a fail We've recovered took a lot longer, but it's resin and you guys know with resin It has to set up. So it is actually in our filming room Set up on like two surfaces in there and so we can't film in there And we couldn't get them. Well that video is still being filmed. I guess So we have to film today's video is a little bit of a switch from what we were planning to do This was on the radar. So we had to go live and we're going to do it for you live today So I hope somebody is able to join us this morning live Oh, yeah, we have with Patricia and of course Candice. Oh Thanks Candice. I know this was a super surprise to you, but I appreciate you joining us It was a super surprise to us also. Yeah yesterday when I don't know if any of you guys saw our social media But we did post on there. Didn't you post on your project fail? Yeah, it's oh, no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no It was oh, no, so we have five tick-tock hacks for sublimation that we're going to try out today Kim was all over a tick-tock and found a bunch of them But we narrowed it down to five that we want to try and We'll see if it works. Yeah, so that's what we're gonna do We're gonna do a little sublimation on a little bit different types of substrates again besides t-shirts We know we can do a t-shirt that's Anything greater than what 50% polyester. So we're gonna do some other things this morning Hopefully we get a couple more people. I don't want to jump too quickly into it. We got 28 people. Oh, okay All right. Well, we can go ahead and get started. Let me show you what we've got for substrates and then We'll talk about it step one. We're gonna gather all of our supplies. Yeah, there you go needed a heat press We have the cricket since we're doing all it's on he's wheeling it around like it's not 400 degrees We need some sublimation paper we already printed all of our stuff ASAP paper and the great thing about ASAP is they do have this little chart on the back that gives you temperatures and Press times for different types of materials Sublimation printer our tank. Can't see it. Can you guys see it? It's in here. It's over here She's wheeling it around like it's not super heavy Have anything dangerous to say And then a bunch of substrates well a pad some butcher paper a teflon sheet and Then a bunch of different things to sublimate on Yeah, so I'll tell you some tell you a little bit about those types of materials that we have or substrates so In our filming studio if you've watched our videos before typically when we're in the filming studio You'll see behind us. We have Yeah board yes wall control pegboard it's a metal pegboard that's behind us And we have our country chic paints on there tools on there Are you like pegboard? Yeah our little our little sign that we don't have this morning So you guys can't see my funny quote, but I got a good one for next week That's is sitting up in there when we started filming that project, but this is one of the shelves This is one of the shelves that we keep the country chic paints on and I wanted you to see That we think you can supplement on this So we were at a conference a couple of weeks ago and wall control had pegboard with complete Images like the whole board was nothing but a solid image and I was thinking wait a minute Did they sublimate that or did they screen print on that or what? So we're gonna test out sublimating on this metal shelf here And then this is just a test But what I would like to do is put it on the pegboard But for now, we're gonna test it out on this metal shelf because I can carry this around easier than I can take that I'm not I'm not taking that pegboard down last minute and then we've done this in the past But I wanted to show it again how you can sublimate on melamine So this is that black and white melamine that you would get from Home Depot like one side's white board the other side's chalk board Yep, and so we've cut this out. We're gonna do our little gnome our girl gnome She's in multiple pieces this morning. Maybe I could show you Fresh off the laser. Yeah, I did a quick. I did a quick paint on her yesterday And then I was like wait a minute now. She's a smurf. Yeah. Oh, yeah She needs a blue nose.  So we're gonna sublimate her hat That really makes her look like a smurf. All right. Well good. They all had white hats, right? We're gonna then I think we can fix it. It's a pop of smurf. We're gonna do our little pigtail bows as well.  I'm sleeping on the comments. Good morning, Patrice East Texas lady. Good morning from East, East, Texas Hmm Jose from Connecticut Sherry Jennifer. Good morning, Chris Sherry. Oh, I'm repeating them now Edna Jason group more from Texas. You guys are up early if you're in Texas. Yeah, what is it before work there 7 a.m. And Pat real food Yes, thanks for catching us live. I don't know if you guys know what we're doing, but we're trying five Tiktok sublimation hacks today. Well, I guess one is the one that you made up Yes, well, yeah, I didn't see this one on tiktok, but I want to try this one So it made it to the list but here the others know yeah, so we went through the melamine We've done it before but I did come across this on sub on tiktok I also came across this one which we've talked about but I'm not sure that we've actually tried or Or we've never tried it. We've never tried it So we have painted this hat with just a typical acrylic paint and then we gave a coat of polycrylic on it And so we're trying to sublimate on this polycrylic. So we'll see how these two compare They're just two different hats with two different mediums on them and then the other that I saw that I thought was pretty cool is sublimating on paper bags So I tried to find a white paper bag, but I couldn't so I have every other color Yeah, I have some other light colors that I think will sublimate and What I saw on tiktok was you spray this with a quick coat of polycrylic or Whatever Garrett's using. I think it's like poly acrylic. I don't know what I couldn't find out like what kind So my eyes aren't that good We'll see if this works, but they have a very very light coat. They dried in 10 minutes like it on the can Oh 10 minutes So we're gonna sublimate on these bags and see what we can get to work there And then I sprayed it into the wind today so my eyes feel glazed I also saw where you can sublimate on napkins now. Do you think I have to spray those to you? Well, I see you know what I think would be cool Is that you could do like party napkins for somebody's birthday or a graduation and you can put their names on it? Maybe but then you're gonna wipe your face on it. I don't know well their decorative use it as a dessert napkin and then I Would just leave that to the big guys that make napkins and here's the last one. We're gonna do bath mats I don't know if you've got if you've been on tiktok. You've probably seen this one. You thought you have not seen them Well, I have and so I want to sublimate on this bath mat So we're gonna try this one too, and I hope I'm not too loud in my mic with some of these materials All right, what is that everything is that all five one two three four five napkins are a bonus. Oh napkins are napkins Yeah, so what's the first one Kim? So step one make all your cuts I Cut everything out on the glue forge last night That's step two step one was gather all your sublimation pieces so we could sublimate each piece But Kim voted no. Yeah, I just wanted to sublimate a pattern on the hat and the bows So that's what we're gonna do. You want to start with that? Yeah, let's start with the hat because that That's cool Then I can glue it together. Well, you're doing your napkins or something. All right Let's so I have some things pre-printed so that you didn't have to wait for me to find images You know how that goes and print them out So we did print them yesterday and now I'm just going to lay my hat face down Right on my printed paper We're gonna tape it down with our high heat tape Hi heat Get not high heat tape I see you are super cool dispenser. I've got here. I love this thing. Oh, Frederica's here from Mississippi. What's up, Mississippi? Jason says it's only eight ten. They're only an hour behind us. That's not too bad. That's not too bad Oh Jennifer has been traveling in her airstream. That is cool. That is one. It's so fun We want a camper. Yeah, we won't take the plunge to buy one Nikki Dean VA we're in VA. We're also in VA We're in the Richmond area All right, we've got our little What is this called why am I just drawn a blank Allison melamine That's right, that's where I edit things out right there We've got this all taped up.  Although. I think they should be after we've got a whole box of it. I got a big roll. It went in deep All right, what am I doing? All right, so On melamine. I don't even know if it says that on here. They would it says hardboard hardboard. There you go It's hardboard. All right, 400 degrees a hundred seconds. Wow Seconds you want to read some comments and answer some comments? Well, um, yeah, you want to yes do it that way? We'll go 60 seconds then 40 seconds. I did the math that quick I Really Jen wants to know what she missed on Tuesday We don't discuss what happened on Tuesday She said was it my sign tell me they finally made my sign. Oh, I Did they decide but I got a trouble for making your sign. Yes. He did. He did. I got a full When I'm done here, I'll go get your sign. I'll go get your sign Do not get distracted. I'm not I'm just getting the sign If Tanner were here on time, you know, he could go get the sign, but I hope he's watching from home feeling guilty That he's late this morning So Candace didn't want to miss the didn't want to ruin the surprise Did you catch what Garrett did on Tuesday and she said she didn't want to ruin the surprise Candace told her it was gorgeous. Oh, it is. Oh Yulia is here from Queensland, Australia. Oh Awesome, I don't even know what time it is in Australia right now East Cincinnati Jennifer says do I go watch Tuesday video now or wait? You gotta wait Jennifer All right. Oh my goodness. Nicky D says I'm in the DMV. So not too far from y'all Oh, yeah, you're right down the street. Yeah, the DMV on Brook Road on Brook Road. That is really giving it away now Yeah, it's right here She gives us not epic if you get a earful That was good. All right, we'll do the reveal. I don't know. I guess it doesn't look like it's uh You can usually tell if it's worked because you would see the pattern through You want to take a peek Oh, yeah, it worked. Hold on. Let me switch to overhead Oh, wait, we'll do side cam. I think that's a better view. No overhead is a good view All right See what we got ready Yeah, that came out okay I thought they'd be a little more vibrant a little more vibrant. I did too, but Oh, look, it's peeling up. Maybe it's too long. Yeah, that was too long. How long did you put it in for? I was gonna say I I would say like one minute. 80 seconds is what I wrote 80 seconds 20 less seconds 20. Yeah. All right, so I am fast on the math today Like I am like a math magician. I would go. All right. Where's your side cam so we can kind of show right here It was too hot too hot too long So it looks really cute you guys see that Well, the guy is cute Uh, but if you can see with this one see how well you can see that It's actually peeling up the mdf The melamine on top. Yeah, all the melamines wrinkled. Yeah, I think it didn't wrinkle last time I did it Like when I did the hello sign Yeah, well, I think we probably didn't go that long It said, um, what did we use? Hardboard but I think I think for this one because of that coating we should have done like 80 seconds, but It's cute little hat See when I did the hello sign it Didn't do any cracking came out. Awesome. Garrett with that out of uses Kim refuses to put it up Garrett brought that from out of nowhere. I don't even I don't even know where that was Oh, it's over here in storage because you'd refuse to try to sell it I tell myself it's because you love it so much. I do love it so much. No, you don't want to part with it I do I do Jen Jen you there Jen You ready? Oh and no time in Australia 11 17 p.m. 11 17 p.m. Cool. That is cool But nicky says meant the dc area. That's the hip term Oh All right, we're ready. All right ready Jen. I hope you're still there. Can you give me a drum roll? Do we have Oh, yeah, I can drum roll That's pretty good. All right. Yes Boom the jinn built. I haven't hung it up yet But it's going right in the bathroom door All right, all right, let's move on let's some of our we don't want to bore everybody with jinn's bathroom sign Are we gonna try the other hat right now? All right. Well, yeah, I mean we might as well just go straight in with the other hat Agreed If you want to do sunflowers doesn't really match your dress or do you want to do fireworks? I think sunflower might We might be able to tell if it's uh a good A good take a good substrate With the sunflowers. All right, let's do it All right, we're just going to tape it down again. Yeah Tape it down You've got to tape it down. Oh, we didn't we didn't do our bows on this one, but that's okay. What bows Her little pigtail bows. I was sublimating those as well. Oh, I forgot to paint those My bad But you know what I have Now do you think we should do like a full minute on this guy? Yeah, I think one minute The one flat minute at 400.  Materials sublimation paper. We're going face down with this special special sauce lettuce cheese I'm not face down. It's a sesame seed bun And our teflon sheet, you know, let me get through all my special sauce I was waiting for you to come back with teflon sheet instead of the Sesame seed bun All right, what's happening over here? Oh Jen says she loves it I thought it was funny. I wanted to look classy like something you'd see in a like a 1920s theater Like going to the theater. When did you go to wawa and get a cup of coffee?  She wants a word with them It's me Jen go back and watch the Tuesday live and you will see How distracted Garrett was he was not focused on the live at all. He was too busy trying to paint your sign Just so he could get to the wheel of diy. You got to go check that out It's pretty awesome wheel of diy, although i'm not sure it's going to get any use now The manager has got a problem with it Yeah, go ahead. Let's go overhead Ready ready three two. Oh, it's stuck Oh, it's stuck So this is that one where you take a little water and a sponge and wipe it off All right Well in the meantime, I wanted to tell you that James is here from Nova Scotia Canada Oh, well Interesting it's kind of peeling up So hot it's hard to peel up. So if I have to sponge it off Wait, what are you doing? I was going to go ahead and peel it off But I feel like you might be peeling off paint Let me wet it first. Oh, I don't know you're going to wet it from the outside Interesting interesting to wet it down. It's still really hot All right, if you just joined us we are doing TikTok sublimation hacks. This one is painted wood It's painted with acrylic paint and then covered with polycrylic spray No, we actually coated it with poly with like Paintable polycrylic Excuse me, and then yeah We painted it with this let it dry let it dry overnight Just to make sure it was dry dry And now we've sublimated on it, but now it's sticking so Oh, there you go. That way I just peeled off the whole image with it. Oh, wait, maybe I didn't hold on Oh, there it is Oh He's kind of figured out. Hold on. Let's let's keep this okay. That's all right I might have messed it up if I hadn't messed with it. No, no, no, don't keep don't keep doing it No, no, because that's gonna peel up those peeling up the spray the polycrylic spray Can you guys still see overhead? Let's move this out the way I tried to zoom in But it keeps resetting You want me to do the side the side camera? Oh, yeah, try the side cam. Where is that right here side? Side cam Is that a better view? I don't know. I feel like I have to do this much work I would just cut it out I don't know. This does seem like it was a little darker. I mean look how that's super vibrant. It actually worked great Yeah, it actually came up pretty good So he just cooled off the back with a sponge He wet the back with a sponge and then he was able to peel it right up and then now he's just I don't know what you're peeling off paper. Yeah, I think it's like paper residue There you go. All right, let's show the camera Yeah, look at that That was great. I'm still scraping this off, but oh, yeah looks good All right, yeah, I'll continue to clean this up if you want to move on to what we're doing. All right What'd you guys think of that one? That's pretty cool I think I gotta rinse my sponge. There's a lot of residue Residue Residant Residant All right, let's get this out of here. Let's stick on here and let's try the next thing. All right, we've done our two elf hats. Let's move on to something cool. What else are we gonna do elf hats? I mean With a no mats elf hats two different mythical creatures All right, I've got we got paper everywhere now. All right, that's pretty cool. Yeah, what do you guys want to try next? Let's see. Let's see. Let's see You want to see the metal shelf? Yeah, I want to see the metal shelf. All right. Let's do that You're gonna have to get out of here I'm gonna kick me out with that thing. Go on now And then take your elf hat and get for this one. I picked a cute little image That says I can totally make that. I don't know if you can see that. I can totally make that But I'm gonna trim it And then uh, we're gonna sublimate it So for this you can cut it or you can tear it so that you can't really see Can you slap it up flip it and rub it down? I'm trying to make a rough edge So you can't really tell where The image stops Oh, you think it'll matter on the metal? I don't know. I don't think so But there shouldn't be anything on that paper, right? It's like If it was white it didn't it didn't get printed. Yeah, it's assuming. That's assuming. Yeah Yeah, what they say about assuming All right. Well, I went ahead and tore it anyway. All right. I have our image paired down And um, you want to tape it down? Are you gonna be able to It's a little bit better. I'm gonna hang it off the edge Of the mat. Oh, I got something here. All right. Take it down Now If this works, we can do the peg wall behind us and make something cool on that Now some MDF pieces Oh, okay. Great. All right. So again, what I saw would be Oh, yeah, melamine 60 seconds. I already did the math earlier All right, so metal. No, this is metal. We're gonna do 80 to 90 seconds 80 to 90 seconds And don't move it. Don't jiggle it Don't wiggle it. Don't jiggle it All right, I'm going in go in go for it. You got this Not that way. Oh now the core will be out of the way. Yeah, I'm good I'm in there All right, that's 60 you got it marked for 60. Yeah, I'll just do it for another 20 Man my math skills this morning On point. Are you killing it? Killing it Rico says use parchment paper with a polycrylic Oh As opposed to What you have to put the sublimation paper down No, wouldn't you can you print sublimation ink on parchment paper? And then would it come off better? Yeah, I think so. I want to Rico will have to explain that Let's see Oh, Cindy says two favorite things together gnomes and a sunflower I think it pushed too hard. It turned off said error Oh, wow, how hard were you pushing? I don't know I thought it needed a firm press All right, we're at 30 minutes. So we got to get moving. We got to get through the rest of these cool substrates here Okay Why are you punching buttons? Garrett has hit temperature. He has hit Well, it's not counting down. So They gave me an error and I think you're good. You're good. All right. I'm good killing it. I did kill it All right. Careful. That's going to be so hot. Be careful. Oh Yep, the teflon sheet from the other ones left a little ghosting All right, don't put that on this Oh, yeah, I'm gonna mess that up. There we go. All right. Let's see. Let's see what you got I think you got to be on this side. See what I'm working with cameras a little bit further this way Ooh, that's some hot metal Yeah, oh, that looked pretty good We're such newbies. What are we doing? Who's who's a newbie kim me? Yeah Guys, what did I do wrong already? Half of you should have already picked up on it Yeah, kim, what are you doing now? We can only look at this thing in the mirror When it's underneath all the paints and I'm thinking That thing is backwards. That is a mirrored image on that that shelf that we can't see Ow Put your paper substrate with polycrylic parchment Interesting. Oh, okay This so this worked great except I forgot to mirror the image Da-da-da That means all of these Did you be fixed? Oh really? Yeah, you didn't mirror any of them. I'm sure didn't Look at that.  Well, you know what? I have them all saved on the computer in there and they're up This metal is hot But it did work. No, I can't see but do a Side give me a little sidecam Oh, hey, we should have flipped the footage and then it would look good It would look correct No, I think it looks good Just um, yeah, it's it's backwards It's backwards Otherwise, I think that looks great and we should uh, let me go. We should do all of the shelves behind us mirrored And then they can see hidden messages in them Let me go print the some more of our logo real quick and then we can do that mirrored. Yeah, just one second Well, I'll start gluing the uh, what are we doing next? Um, was it going to be the bags? I think it was going to be the bags Bet you it was going to be the bags All right. Come here Smurfette get you glued down. I'll read some comments Well, I'm glued. Do you have these cut files? Oh, yep professional I usually do but what kind of paper Try wiping. I don't know how to make it reflect residue. Yeah this was the paper residue is uh Really hard to get off. Well, I guess not really hard to get off It just took a little bit more elbow grease than I would expect I thought that I would press it down and Rip the paper off. Do how's it going in there? Um I don't see anything happening on the printer I need I need you to come do it for me Okay, here Come talk to some people I glued the uh The elf together Here's rotate, but I don't know how to Reflect. Oh, let's do it as we print it Okay I couldn't get to reflect so now we have to do something else Oh, I have an idea. We can do a bag With a pattern image because this won't matter. Good thing we started with patterns So we have our little paper bag here See it's just a regular old paper bag. I wanted it In a little bag like this, but I couldn't find an all-white one We did I did go ahead and get the polka dot one. We could try it on that one But since he sprayed this Did you spray the little white bag? Yeah, I sprayed them all All right, let's go ahead and try this bag with this printed image All right, let's make sure my butcher paper didn't have any ink on it And then since this is a pattern, I think I'm just going to lay it on top there No, I'm still going to tape it down just in case and I'm going to double check the settings for paper Everything's 400. I'm just going to do this for a lot fewer seconds because we're not trying to burn this thing up Don't move Candice is out there shouting us out. I do appreciate that I gotta go back and see what Jen has to say. All right I was plenty of time Whoo, and it worked like a champ look at that well a little not quite in the middle and I think that's because of uneven pressure on the table Let's see But it does work. I think we'll have to tweak that a little bit Let me get a sidecam and show you Can you see can you see that that is fireworks? Now I don't know why the center didn't quite work, right? There's our paper. I just put our bag right down on it. You think I needed more time. Maybe I needed more time I was afraid I was going to burn it up, but where it did work I mean look how cool that is I think I see on the back of the bag Can you see on the camera The back of the bag it's the sides the sides took Well, there's a fold in there Look. Oh, hey, that came out pretty good. That's better than I expected. Yeah, that's really cool I bet you could reuse that it doesn't look like it all came off Well, that's why I said should I have gone a little bit longer But where it did work. I mean it looks really cool I think Garrett's got some images printing for us Did you just mirror it right on the printer settings? No, I couldn't get to him You had like limited drivers on here Do you think you can do This one for me. What's that one? It it you'll see it says piece is a tab It's all in the same document all ready to go just print it and reflect it if you can Yeah All right. All right Let's see here. I am going to Keep moving so that we can I can't get through all of these different materials that we have even though I was not thinking yesterday Do as I say not as I do we often say that to you guys All right Use our little paper trimmer here to trim up some of our little logos And our logos are what I was planning to put on the bags But I had an extra Pattern paper so I thought we'd use that What else can I put this on? He is going to reprint my image Correctly for the mats So we'll have to wait on the mats just one second There we go turn that back on And While we're waiting, let's try the napkin. I don't have any spray or anything on it But we could give it a try Let's see. Hopefully we don't burn up this napkin We're going to put our little logo right on this napkin and see what happens I'm going to use a little bit of tape And if this works, I'll show you Mm-hmm That has been used before There we go I'll show you the brand and everything 400 We're going to go 45 seconds What does it mean to reflect it?  I don't want to go too hot All right Garrett Somebody's at the door Somebody was right on the other side of the camera knocking on our door But hey, there's a tiktok hack that definitely worked Let's see sidecam Look at that If you left it at this door here That worked great Now let me show you what napkins I used Let me go back to main cam. I put them right here So if you ever want to do any party napkins with someone's name or graduation and customize them Right here. I use these vanity fair Everyday napkins this one says two times thicker than the leading tube line napkin. So it's a little bit different. It's not red It's actually purple, but it is those vanity fair napkins. So that turned out great Look at this It turned out super cool. That's nothing on it or is just just the napkin just napkin I just pressed pressed our logo right on it Yeah So that's awesome. That's pretty cool. That's a tiktok hack that worked I don't know how much the sublimation in costs Versus like well getting custom napkins. Yeah getting custom napkins. I think that would be expensive All right, I got you over here That one's done Only one page came out. Did you grab the second page? No All right, so for the last one for the fun one We are going to do the bath mats you guys let me know if anybody's seen the bath mats On tiktok tiktok You can sublimate your own bath mat. These are from walmart And they are 100 polyester So i'm going to do the little one first And see how it goes Kind of cool. I'm excited about this one So for this one I'm going to trim the image It's going to fit on this center square here And it is larger than an eight and a half by 11 sheet of paper So we are going to tape our image together. We're going to trim it and tape it Are you because it says uh, I had it set to print page one of one. Oh, so change Surprise I did that to him Do you see where I set that? File print Yeah On it On it All right, I'm going to trim this image down And then I'm going to tape it to the other half All right, you want to say something you've been gone a while Hi I'm back That's how I do all day I'm just like All right, and here's the second half of our image And should we I don't know Yeah, I wouldn't do the second half. I you think so you're going to trim that piece too Well, I didn't want it to be two layers and then I don't think the sublimation will come out even So I'm going to tape these two together Oh Maria was late live. We just sprayed it with This stuff Kryolan color max that's the clear crystal clear I'm supposed to use poly acrylic. I think this is I don't know It worked though, right? Yeah, did you do the bags yet? Um, I did well you saw the bag Oh, yeah, I did see the bag Here it is But I think we could try again. Yeah, I made a mess over here stuff is everywhere Okay, we have our image taped together Oh, is this the bath mat? Yes. Oh, yeah, I'm very skeptical of the bath mat All right, let's see.  Yeah, just a little taping a little taping little taping All right It's a bad tape job How long how long is this one? So bath mat we're going to go 60 seconds. I'm gonna have to do it in two sections, right? Yeah, I think so because it's a little bit long 1660 120 look at oh man with the math today Mike Garrett can't normally do math I'm on top of it with the addition. Oh debbie says lint roll at first. Oh debbie. I missed it Haste makes waste. Oh, so Rico says use the parchment paper not a teflon sheet. Oh, yeah, okay All right, because then uh, you get rid of the I noticed that the teflon sheet has like Ink residue that I cannot see that's why it looks clean We stopped using them because of that same thing. Yeah What is happening over here things under I have a mess And yes, we're gonna use this this pink stuff is just butcher paper Um, I have the roll. I'll show you guys what it is that we're using Um, it's under it's by Garrett's feet. I'm gonna reach down here and grab it Oh, I turned it off All right, we got this on amazon. This is meat hugger butcher paper So it's pink and I was super skeptical at first as to whether or not it would work I haven't glued her together. I couldn't do it together But it works great. The pink does not mess up anything. It has been it's been great Right. I don't want to I got the extension cord down here. I'm gonna know I'm trying to trip over it Yeah, then we could catch it on film and then submit it to america's funniest home videos Win ten thousand dollars I have another one. I want to do this image for our bath mat It says get naked just kidding. This is a half bath. Don't make it weird I love this one. I think it's so funny and I think it'd be great for a bath mat for a half bath downstairs But that one didn't have a lot of color. So I really want to showcase what sublimation can do So that's why we chose this image All right, we got both sides. This will go into teen's bathroom All right, I'm thinking it looks pretty good We'll see we'll see how it goes still skeptical Oh, wow Wow, that was a lot more vibrant than I thought it would be that is great came out great Yeah, just rough it up. Oh, it's still hot. Oh my gosh. Look at that All right, stand corrected. I stand corrected Look at that that is awesome. All right, I'm totally gonna do that again tic-tac hack confirmed Isn't that a great gift idea didn't seem to mess it up either. Yeah, it still feels good. Yeah Oh the paper everywhere. Yeah tic-tac hack confirmed here. Yeah side cam. Let's see. Let's show you guys You guys see that It looks so cool. I don't know if it looks as vibrant on Unfilmed. Yeah, I don't I don't think it's really coming across How bright and perfect these colors came out. Look at that. Yeah, that's pretty good I was expecting it to look more like the melamine. So I'm impressed Was that it? Was that all of them? That is it, right? So our five substrates where our melamine Our polycrylic paint over wood Um, I'm metal. Let's just say how hold them out how they did. All right We never finished the gnome lady The way did you glue her a little did you glue her a little nose on I did so we can swap her hats in I just didn't put her hands or anything on I don't know this just look good. This looks good. I know hold this up. Put this hat up. Yeah All right, so let's run through the hacks Hack number one was the The shelf right well no hat number one Hack number one Was this sub sublimating on the hats one was using melamine And one was using the painted wood with polycrylic spray over it So I'd say melamine one out of 10 I think you got a seven today because I think we went too deep on the heat too long But I've seen it do Great before so yeah, I still give I'll give it an eight overall. It's not perfect sublimation material, but it's And then this I don't know this uh polyacrylic on there I'm although it did rip on the corner. Well, that was me deduct some points For the exit. I think I pulled that off. I shouldn't have been messing with it before you wiped it down But how much it pops I would give it I'd give it an eight Eight out of 10. I'm a harsh critic Then what was the next one that it was the metal, right? Yes This one's hard to see because of the reflection back there But it's not super vibrant, but it did work. It did Did sublimate on this which is pretty cool Too bad. I didn't mirror my image. I would give this a seven out of 10 Because I think it could pop a little more Well, I it there were watercolors, so they're not gonna be super vibrant anyway Um, but I did want to show lots of color. I'm sticking with seven out of 10 I'll give you that. I'll give you that Next was our bag. Oh, I have a can in it You're standing back there you go now where it wasn't on the seam That's a 10. Yes, we're wasn't on the seam. That's definitely a 10 the seam Oh, it's because the bag was folded there. That's what I was trying to say Where the bag was folded It came out beautifully and in the center where there is no fold on the inside Um, I just I think you didn't get enough pressure Sounds like a pressure thing But I would give that I'd give it a 10 out of 10. Yeah, that works great that it did do well. And if you had enough pressure I give it a 10 out of 10 cancel Hopefully that worked. Hopefully it canceled everybody's alexa's too. In case you had something happening All right, and then I did the napkin. Oh the napkin the napkin came out great what came out 10 out of 10. Do you think 10 out of 10?  It's a napkin. Yeah, but I think the blacks could be blacker I think it could pop a little more Harsh critic. It's a napkin. Come on. Okay. I'll give you 8 out of 10 But now 10 the bath mat 10 out of 10 10 out of 10 shocked and surprised I love this one.  Are you think so? I mean, look at it. It's just a it's a slightly off white. I don't know if you guys can tell It's maybe a slight ivory color to it. Yeah It's like Very pale tan All right, I think everything worked. We didn't have any fails, right? Well I mean, maybe some of the things are backwards. Rico thought you were going to go for the tough launch heat. No Um They like the mat. Yeah, the mat's cool. Minnesota makes it. She didn't know we were going to be live today We didn't know we were going to be live. We didn't know we were going to be live This was the last minute thing because of a project Fail well fail. Yeah project in progress. It's taken a lot longer than I thought. Project in progress is what that is Like we did a uh resin pour Wednesday and it's still Still pliable somebody was surprised you could do a napkin. So was I? Yeah, I don't know And uh, we did it with the easy press. Yep. I did it all with the easy press All with the easy press We are going to get a new heat press because we're doing a lot more with sublimation and While the easy press works great I think that bag with the right amount of constant consistent pressure would have come out perfectly. Yeah, I think so too If we were using an actual heat press So we're gonna we had a heat press and we were consistent less jiggling less wiggling. 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Well, we'll do it build it and make it again I'll shimmy over here so you can shimmy over there I tripped over the the cord. I know I can't it's the whole thing