the man inside, a special document says it has initiated a dramatic torch from the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. Journalist Fisha Yorsshoumbo, released after being detained at the first headquarters following a story exposed in corruption in the police. And like always, we will be reviewing the dailies with an analyst, which will be reviewing them with us. Many thanks for joining us on the breakfast and plus TV Africa. I am Justin Akadone. And I am Sebo Po. It's good to have you join us this beautiful Tuesday morning. And as always, we will be starting with stories that are trending and stories are just making discussions across various platforms and various circles. And the very first one we will be analyzing right now is Fisha Yorsshoumbo, a journalist who was detained yesterday and eventually released after some time for his publication on alleged corruption in the Nigerian police force. This is just one case too many. It is not the first time that we have seen, heard and even have witnessed issues of journalist intimidation by the Nigerian police. Most times when journalists release publications that are not favorable to the Nigerian police force, they are mostly either detained or sometimes harassed as well. Well, according to the tweet that he put out, Fisha Yorsshoumbo, he talked about the fact that he was invited according to the invitation that he got. They found some elements, I mean phone numbers, his contact was put out amongst those that should be invited or investigated. And so he showed up. Now, it's okay to be invited by security agents or agency. Anyone can be invited. Anyone at all can be invited. And that's all right. But it's just the pattern. And because this is a journalist and because of the story, I mean it's all right for everyone to come up with the theory to say, oh, this is also another, you know, intimidation. This is also another form of, you know, the might, the federal might showing itself and flexing muscles at this point in time. So yes, but let's also talk about the issue of police. It's a good thing that he's been released. And we have several reports over time. Nigeria at the time ranked 120 on WordPress. Talking about WordPress freedom index, we ranked 120 compared to that. That is at 2020, if I'm not mistaken, 2021. Now, if you compare that to the previous report, we ranked 115 out of 118 countries. It doesn't really tell good for us as a country, right? Because for democracy, you would have to talk about a free press, a free media. It is very, very apt. And the issue of freedom of speech or freedom of however you want to put it is a fundamental human right across. So universal human concern or right if you want to put it. So as journalists, they're also expressing the fundamental or universal human right across right. So it's nothing very special. It's not like it's just limited to anyone. And if we wanted to talk about the issue of fake news, the issue of Libell and what have you, we have laws. We have laws that can take care of all of that. And that's why a lot of quotas were really concerned at a time where the federal government had plans of trying to regulate the social media. And if you're saying, oh, there's fake news, there's issue of Libell and what have you, there's a law that actually takes care of all of that. Cyberbullying, what have you, crime and criminality. But the issue with us over the years and over time is the fact that we have too many laws without enforcement. But you also want to agree with me that there's so much intimidation, there's so much harassment, there's so much arrest and what have you with journalists that face that. Now, there's a report according to, there's a report that was made available according to, you know, article 19, article 19 made that report sometime talking about, you know, the number of journalists that's been, you know, intimidated, harassed and detained. So you want to also agree with me that the number of the figure keeps increasing from 2019. At the time you had 19 journalists that have been attacked and detained. And then in 2020, we're looking at the case of 51. And according to those reports, the government is really responsible and behind a lot of some of these attacks that, you know, the people have been faced. So this is just one out of so many cases, you know, that journalists are really facing in Nigeria. And to begin to report some of these stories really, really very crucial.  It is so, so difficult, you know, to practice in Nigeria. All right, we just, I'm actually a glance that has actually been released that because we as journalists that we understand that, you know, what all of this is all about. Because as journalists that we bend over backwards to expose a various truth, because we are actually, you know, the ones that people look up to, you know, to, you know, to tackle the government to tackle issues of accountability. And then when this, all we are not allowed to do our jobs, it is really very unbecoming. I will move away from Fisaya Shoyombo, another story that is making headlines right now is, you know, controversial journalist that came, a lawyer, a senior advocate of Nigeria, Femme Faleno has actually asked the Nigerian police to invite, you know, a lawyer over her, quote, a reckless comment concerning the deaths of Sylvester Oremoni.  So it is actually trending. As much as, you know, one would also expect that, you know, at this point in time we should be able to be human. Okay, as long as everyone has a right and has an opinion, because that's what it is, everyone has a right to an opinion and all of that. But you also, we also need to understand that we come to the fact that we're still human beings. And so if you come from that particular angle, we probably might just, you know, be very careful and cautious. First of all, you need to understand that, you know, the family is grieving, there's a loss, a human life has been lost. And that's why secondly, you also need to understand, because it brings us back, you know, to the fact that at some point government wants to say, we need to begin to regulate, we need to begin to control what people, information that people put out. Because it could, it can be very, very dangerous and it can cause, you know, a lot of mayhem in society and the country. And, you know, you can go, I have seen a lot of emotions everywhere. I mean, a lot of persons are reacting, very angry, really, really very angry.  And if you understand the fact that you're a human being, there would be issue of empathy. I really do not know how to put it. It's not a license. I don't know if you're getting my point.  And so I think that we should not let whatever it is that we do our profession over riders. We should be guided by the fact that we're human and, you know, act in that, you know, that particular way, in that particular line. And so all of the statement, because one would expect that, I mean, making such kind of statement, having the family feel, whether or not it's the some element of truth to it or not, the fact that you have investigations ongoing, the fact that, you know, the Lord's going to take his full cost. And that's why we have the institution of government to take care of situations like this. Let's be very careful, the kind of comments that we make. I really don't know. That's the much that I can say, because first of all, you have a family that is grieving. There's a child that is dead and there's a lot of rounded. How factual are your facts? Where did you get all of this from?  And this profession is a very, very sensitive one at that. And we should take it very seriously. But however, it's fine. Like I always say that inviting individuals or persons for questioning by security agencies or, you know, security personnel is nothing wrong. As long as they do it in accordance with the law. Yeah, like you have said, I couldn't agree more. You know, as journalists, we should be, you know, careful about the things we say or write before we go to press. We should as much as possible be able to substantiate all of our claims, all of our reports. So at the end of the day, you know, we don't lose our soul. We don't lose our credibility. And, you know, so when we come out in the future to say things, you know, people would actually appreciate them and take us for our words. So I understand that the position of Falano and Falano, you know, the law firm, you know, wanting her to be invited. You know, over time, journalists should just be careful, you know, whatever they say. I don't want to start talking about Oluloy and how controversial she is. That's an aside. But the underlying thing here is that always be able to substantiate all your claims before you go to press. All right. The last story trending across some social spaces is a pandemic. That's the minister of digital economy. You know, the story is just everywhere that he had actually flown out to his family, you know, in the wake of Nigeria having a row with the UAE. Some Nigerians are saying that where does his solidarity lie when people are talking of boycotting flights, you know, to UAE and the Nigerians being stranded here because of travel bunt and everything. He flew his family out. You know, following all of this controversy with the airlines, the fact that Nigeria is on the Redleys with some countries and the restriction, you know, not to elite some Nigeria from particular location to another one. Some persons are saying that, you know, really, this is actually a concern of the elites. You know, the poor, I mean, the masses, they would say this is a concern of some specific in the society. He doesn't concern everybody because there are some people that cannot afford, they have no business, you know, going anywhere. They're in Nigeria and even within Nigeria, how many of them have been able to, you know, board a flight from a particular location to another location. So it's more like this is a justification to say that this is morally, you know, an elite concern and he consents all of them. But, you know, the issue of solidarity and concern is also another issue. It brings us back to the fact that the major concern, the major issue that we have as a country or not really necessarily the major issue, but one of the problems that is really strong because it trickles down to all of the actions of government and inaction of government is interest. When your personal interest overrides national interest, your actions will always speak for you. True. But of course, we never could tell, you know, what the emergency might be. It could be a health concern. But it also brings us back to the fact that why don't we have, you know, our health system functional? It could also be educational issues. Why can't we fix our own home? Why can't we fix our country? What exactly are we looking for outside when we can actually have it inside? Well, it is what it is. All right. That's as much as we can take on top trending. We'll be back in a minute without the press. That's a review of the front pages of various newspaper press. In a moment, let's do the breakfast on Plot City of Africa. Do join us again.


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Okay, hi everyone, let's make a start, shall we? I think it's just under quarter two, so I think a few more people will see, join. But I hope everyone who's tuned in already is enjoying the event so far, and so thanks to the Resolution Foundation for finding a way to bring us all together like this. So in this session, we're going to be talking you through what it is like to work in communications and working with the media within a think tank. So my name is Simon Keane, I'm the media and communications manager for the Nuffield Trust and we're a health and care policy think tank. I'm joined here by Thomas Housechild, the communications manager for the Centre Progressive Policy, and we've also got Melissa here, the digital communications manager for the Institute for Government. We're going to each take a few minutes now to talk you through our respective roles and give you an overview of how our organisations communicate, our work, whether that's to the media, government or social media users. We will then open up the floor to you guys and we'll do our best to answer as many questions as we can within the 10 minutes. So if you guys can ask questions via the Q&A function, which I think is at the bottom of your screen, I can see we've already got one in there now, so I think you guys know how to use it. So yeah, the Q&A at the bottom screen rather than the chat function, please. You can also raise your electronic hand if you want to speak. After the session there'll be an FAQ circulated, so if we don't get your question, don't worry, hopefully they'll be picked up in there. So I'll jump in first and just give an overview of my role and then we'll come to Thomas and Melissa. So I'm a public relations graduate from Bournemouth University and from the southwest of England originally. Before coming into the think tank world, I worked in a couple of events companies. I've worked for PR agencies as well, so promoting health technology companies to kitchens at one point before moving into press office work in health. At the Neufield Trust I run the press office, which means I'm usually the first person journalist or television and radio producers end up speaking to if they want to work with us. The media are a really important stakeholder for the Neufield Trust, they're really important stakeholder for think tanks in general. They're a vital tool to reach a large audience and with good timing and broader appeal it can help to influence policymakers and too. And also I think our researchers love to see and hear themselves on television and on the radio. And I'm basically the person that gets the right people talking to each other so that we can get our work out to as many people as possible via the media. So through newspapers, through specialist magazines, through the radio, through television and online. Like other think tanks we have a broad range of experts, each have their own speciality. So we have an expert in workforce, an expert in social care for example. Part of my job is to brief them and to run mock interviews with them to make sure they feel supported and they feel able to talk about their work live on television and when they're questioned by journalists. I also write press releases and issue comments highlighting key findings from our work and explaining why those really matter to you to the readers and watch as a television and radio channels. So it's a good role, it's a great role I think in terms of where it sits in your version because not only do I get to work with communications colleagues who cover a range of stuff such as digital design publications. I also get to work with the researchers, get to work with the leadership team, so you get a really good oversight of everything going on inside the think tank. And it's a rewarding role as well because you see that research on television and radio and you can see the impact it's making and hopefully changing people's lives for the better. So we provide all sorts of works, briefings, reports. We've been doing a chart of a week series during the pandemic, we promote events as well so we're working on our online summit series which is coming up in the middle of March. So there's plenty of stuff to talk about and I think the trick is in any piece of research if you really boil it down there's something of interest in there for people like being new but the trick is finding that and then communicating it in the most clear way possible. So yeah now I think think tanks, communications is really valued in think tanks. I think think tanks are filled with different people. I think different perspectives and viewpoints are really important there's no point in knowing you're talking to people like yourselves and I think in terms of communications itself it's a very varied career and I've certainly had the chance within a smaller think tank to get stuck into different areas outside of my own media role and I've certainly found my experiences and other jobs to be helpful in doing that. So that's it for me so Thomas I'll hand over to you. Thanks very much Simon, I hope everyone can hear me clearly. Well I'm Thomas, I'm the communications manager at the Center for Progressive Policy. It's a rather small think tank, we are only around about 10 people and that's set up one about three years ago so we still in our startup or possibly called it scale up phase now. I've been previously at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the World Society of Arts. Before that I studied international relations and conflict resolution and before I went to uni I had a very different career. I spent a few years at a bank in Germany doing an apprenticeship and I must spend a few years in the German Navy so if you want to talk to anyone who drastically changed his career please do approach me. So the Center for Progressive Policy or CPP as we call it focuses on making inclusive order reality that focuses mostly on project or research areas like skills and health, local government finance and the role of business in society because all these factors are quite important if you want to empower as many people as possible to benefit to but also contribute from economic role. The biggest difference between us and large or more established think tanks is probably that we don't have a large const team. We are one and a half comms people to me full-time someone else part-time and the advantage is that in such a small team you really get your hands on everything you do and the media engagement be proactive or reactive and you do the website social media and you coordinate the report production, you work on more support stakeholder engagement and then you also support the events with marketing to get as many people in front of the stage from nowadays in front of the screen as possible and what's involved in the post-event marketing to disseminate our videos. So in large organizations you're probably more likely to find people who are specialized on certain areas whereas in the smaller ones you have more like a jack-of-all-trade who does a bit of everything. So as I mentioned I lead on the communications in our think tank which is basically all about getting our message out and as Simon just said connecting the people that do the research with the people who should know about the research there's not really a typical day for a comms manager in a think tank I would say. If you would ask me what my highlights are it's probably our report launches, my support the production or the coordination of the report production and do the media outreach, make sure the website and social media up to date and sometimes we have found events as well to accompany the report launch. That's probably the most exciting time, also the busiest time I have to say but it's truly rewarding if you get your message out there and you get attention by media or influential stakeholders and on other days I might do a wide range of things I might pitch blocks to the media to keep us in the conversation in between major publications or just to be part of a bigger debate and so for example we've just done quite a bit on the proposed council text increase then we try to be a voice in that debate. We think about how we respond to major announcements like the upcoming budget next week for example that's always a big thing for the think tank world. I respond to media inquiries and help to prepare team members, I write newsletters, I disseminate as I said already event invitations to get the right people in front of the screen or the stage. I support the marketing of events afterwards or we discuss public relations and met us so for example we talk about what kind of language we should use to engage with which parties when it's the best time to hold an event or report. That's pretty much me I would say my role in a nutshell. Great thanks very much Thomas. Melissa let's come over to you then. Yeah so hi everyone so I'm Melissa I'm the digital communications manager at the Institute of Government and so we're the leading think tank working on making government more effective and so I've been at the Institute of Government for about five years now but before that and so I did a degree in politics at the University of Southampton. I also worked in local and regional press so I actually did a national council for the training journalist course and that kind of helps me develop a lot of the skills that I actually use now and then eventually moved into press and communications roles and mostly in the university sector so I worked at Sussex University and also LSE and then eventually moved into the think tank world with IFG so when I saw that IFG was hiring for their comms team it seemed like a really good fit having done politics at the university and then the sort of work experience that I had. In terms of my role now it is very varied as I think Simon has said communications roles can be very varied and so I focus more on the sort of digital side of things and my role is probably more focused on content and content management and so our researchers produce excellent reports and they write comment pieces and explainers and so on and so my role is to kind of make sure that all that content is flowing through properly across all of our digital platforms so I manage our website and that can be anything from uploading content to editing, proofing, making sure that the copy is optimised for search engines because obviously we want to make sure that people can find our work and to also thinking about how we communicate work on the website, how we present things, the layout and you know is it accessible are people able to find what they're looking for and I also manage our social media channels so from Twitter to Instagram we haven't quite made it onto TikTok yet but you know writing tweets I work very closely with the researchers to think about best ways we can use social media to promote their reports for example, head of report launches, planning content on social media with an eye on what's going on in the news, I will also monitor discussions on social media you know if there's something quite topical that lots of people are talking about I will say to our research teams you know hey people are talking about I don't know civil service relocation perhaps we could do a tweet thread on this or you know if we've got existing content on that fishing that out across all of our platforms as well. One other aspect of my work as well is I suppose content design so I do a lot of things like producing videos and infographics data visualizations so I work very closely with our research teams on that I mean not everyone has time to sit and read a 70 page week report so I will work with the research teams to think about creative and visual ways that we can pull out some of the key messages in their research and perhaps distill it into something that's quite eye catching and will capture people's attention as well. In terms of other things that I do I work quite closely with our head of digital marketing to think about our audiences, who they are, what's the best way of engaging with them, how can we reach them and also work very closely with the events team and thinking about how we can promote our events and how we brand them how we live tweet obviously with the pandemic we've moved all of our events online so that means that we've got lots of great video and audio content from our events we have lots of brilliant speakers that come in so also thinking about what we can do with that after an event has taken place. I do a little bit on sort of general public relations handling press and media contacts and media bids and tracking when our researchers are on BBC news and things like that and I also get to work on quite a lot of long-term projects as well so thinking about how our processes work within the communications team and things like web redevelopment so yeah it's a very varied role it does mean that you're having to be across quite a lot of the detail across all the teams but it's also very rewarding you know there's something quite satisfying about you know as I think Simon said you know when you see like your researchers on on the news or in the media and things like that so yeah hopefully that gives a little bit of a flavour of what I do. Right thanks, thanks Melissa yeah what I think an IFG TikTok account would be would be a very popular TikTok account. I yeah it's striking to me that you know certainly Thomas you're doing a bit jack of all trades there small comms team, Melissa you're covering in bits of the media social media as well as the digital publication side as well and then you know a lot of those roles are familiar in my role as well so I look up to social media in our organisations as well so I think it just gives you in terms of communications you know coming into a communications job and entry level it's a really good career option because you can pick up different skills in different areas and you do get a chance to get involved in policy or events and then specialise your career as you go on so I'll try and get some of these questions in because we've only got about five minutes left of the session. There's a question here from from Ella which I think we can probably all answer quite quickly how sociable is your work in general? Are you working with a team or you sat alone behind a desk? I think for communications people this year has been a really tough one because we've all been I imagine you guys have been well I can see that we're all sat at home rather than our offices so it's a very sociable job and I view it as a very sociable job. You work across the team you're regularly talking with each other, you're regularly exchanging information I don't think there's any kind of part of my job that I could do without the rest of the team behind me. I don't know what do you think Melissa? I totally agree I think you know we are one of the teams in the organisation that I think we do have to work with everybody from you know people in ops to events to partnerships to all of the research teams and so it is a very sociable job and I suppose with working from home there is something that you know it can be quite difficult to kind of recreate that you know whereas when you're in an office environment but yeah it's definitely a sociable role and it's probably one of my favourite things as well is that I get to work so much with with all the teams across the organisation and to get to know what they're doing as well. And Thomas? Yes I totally agree with that I think as a comms person you are almost at the center of everything because you have to engage with everyone the research of the engagement the directors the ops team the events team and you sit almost well I wouldn't say I sit in the center but you're connected to everyone in the team and as soon as you finish working on one research project you move over to the next one so you have quite a lot of variety yeah so it's very sort of a yeah. Okay thank you both looking at the questions here from both Hugh and Matt that touch on the NCTJ journals and postgrad that you talked about Melissa how I mean obviously myself working in media I don't have that particular qualification I come in from the public relations point of view and also there's also lots of entry-level kind of communications jobs you can come into where you pick up skills for other people why don't you tell us a bit about the course Melissa and how you how helpful you think that's been or or whatever you think that there are other routes in as well. Yeah I think for me it was very helpful I initially had the idea of actually you know doing journalism as a career and so obviously it was useful for that in terms of building those kind of key foundational skills and yeah and a lot of that I still use now so when I did the course we did things like news writing which is obviously very useful if you're working in a press role where you're going to be writing press releases and it's also a great way of just getting a sense of how journalists work and and the ways in which they they reach out to sources and that sort of thing and you know I also had the chance to do things like type setting and layout and that can also be useful if you want to do more of a publications editor type role within a think tank and I wouldn't say it's the the be all and end all of you know I wouldn't say it's necessary to get into a communications role I mean I I feel it was a good stepping stone for me to get my first well I suppose it was an internship that I did that was my first sort of role in communications and press and it was so it was a good way of of moving into that and but I do think that I ended up learning a lot more on the job so I think having that real life experience and it's perhaps more important than as I said you don't necessarily need the NCTJ in order to to move into communications I think communications is something that you learn quite a lot on the job so I wouldn't worry too much about making sure you've got that specific qualification and Thomas just to wrap up you said you had quite a career change from from the Navy into communication so obviously how would you consider your sort of on the job training I think what helped me quite a lot is while I was at university I did a carol of internship to get this visual and I started off in project coordination and then communications role in the first thing I've worked and took it from there but I don't have any form of communications qualifications and I think most people who work in that field don't to be honest most people have probably a bit of a social science background and I'm sure it heads but I didn't feel that I needed it in my job because similar to what Melissa says it's a lot of learning by doing in the job thank you I think we're because the session is only 20 minutes long there is a 10 minutes sort of break in between this one and the next session so just before we wrap up I'll let you know that next two sessions are starting at quarter past five one's covering policy work and new opportunities outside of London and the second and the other session is covering communications and events and the links to those sessions have already been emailed over to participants all the sessions are recorded so you can watch any back that you haven't seen later on so yeah unfortunately we don't have time to address too many really good questions actually that have come through clearly we need more than 20 minutes daily to kind of talk about ourselves and all right but hopefully we've given you an insight into communications career into the into think tanks so it is it is a very very career very rewarding fast-paced lots of different things to get involved in very sociable so yeah I think there's certainly three of us would recommend it so with that I'll say thank you for joining us and enjoy the rest of the event


Just a disclaimer. We're not actually going to build our own but we're going to show you like what happens if you're very good at browsing the internet and buying one So let's see First of all lawyers make me say this We're here because we do cool shit on our own time. We're not representing our employers or the university or whatever also What we're going to be telling you is stuff that we've been working out like while working on a project We haven't had formal training or anything. So please double-check anything. We say if you actually want to use it Well, then now we have that over with I'm Peter boss. I'm an offensive security researcher at the Intel Corporation and You can find me on Twitter Besides that I'm a hardware hacker Which means I break all kinds of things like to build things do but breaking is more fun And I might spend a bit too much time on the various auction sites trying to buy cool lab equipment Which is kind of where it's came from Now together with me is Peter Sawinsky. Okie-dokie.  I do security studies at Lyon University and not the type of security studies You're probably thinking of more of the kind with you know, alkyda isis and the IRA thoroughly good time I'm also the person running a lot of the chemistry stuff over ref space and Recently I've been getting into photographic chemistry trying to reverse engineers some of the old Polaroid peel apart process and I realized Hey a lot of these patents papers mention electron micrographs So that kind of got me into the project also I'm up eBay addict Mark Lotz addict eBay Klein and Sagan addict and basically if it's sold on the internet I want it in my house or office and now we'll head back to TV X Right. Okay. So for me it's kind of started With looking at all these cool photographs you can find of chips on the internet and thinking I want to do this For myself, so I started out just modifying crappy old Biology microscope, so it does the right kind of lighting for that and that gradually got out of hand And at that point I was able to do some pretty interesting stuff with it Some of which involve figuring out microcode on Intel CPUs at one point But then Yeah, I was kind of not satisfied with The things I was able to see it was like, okay, I could see enough to do my work But it is still a bit fuzzy and now I remembered what I learned in university Yeah Optical microscope simply don't get much better than resolving things of about 200 nanometers You can get a bit better with some fancy tricks, but there is a fundamental limit there glass of physics Yeah, so you need something else and Well, that's something else is the electron microscope It will do four nanometers resolving or even way less The reason I have the four nanometers here is the one we ended up having it. That's what it does so But there's another Cool feature to it that kind of sets it apart from the optical microscope an optical microscope tends to look at a really thin slice of something so only Like a very small distance is in focus You can see here on the right That's an optical shot where you see the the bond wires kind of fade out because they're out of the plane and on the left you see a fly through our electron microscope and You'll notice that it's more like a photograph. 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It's March 2021 And the prices were a bit high So we're thinking let's wait surely they'll get better, right? not exactly So we're waiting and we're waiting because you know Simply at these rates the place he volunteers at wouldn't have been able to afford that it just didn't make business sense So that thing was sitting. I think an Osaka somewhere for Better part of a year In the meantime She just keeps looking and I Get this discard notification. Hey, I found this it's in Germany Looks pretty cool. Doesn't it? Only 2,500 euros like sure, okay looks a bit old, but nice And we could even pick it up by car Or have it shipped for Not too much money. So Also has some nitrogen doers with it a Sample prep device and another one Gotta be catch, right? Yeah, it's big and Not just is it big It needs to go through there. Oh Yeah, and that's also on the one and a half floor or something Well In the end we got it sorted which involves such fun things as having a friend from the hacker space Call a German window contractor for us to rip out the window of some random businesses building Which they let us do they were like no you have to get the contractor We're not gonna help you. Let's see you Do not turn transmitter off Oh, yeah, then There were no Vans with tailgates available at that moment. So we had to do some load bearing club matter Surprisingly, this is not where the next hurdle appeared That was just a bit later when we found out that even though we literally took it out of the lab It was in ourselves It had been playing home to some rodents Yes, he does stains. That's not just stains.  Is it gonna go up in smoke when we turn it on? So I have to take the whole thing apart At least the electronics part of it and put it back together. I know what We're very worried, but we were about to turn it on and It works Just works. I mean sure turns out We will have to do a lot of work to get it working. Well, but we got an image and it's all working now That's a bit of the story part. You might be wondering How the hell does such a thing work? Is it all very complicated? Right, it's not just a bunch of lenses and you stick a slide under there So, yeah, let's take a look First of all Especially the more Insane kind of sense you find in universities have a lot of bells and whistles on the actual physical like physics part of it And there's also always a lot of knobs now that is not specifically the one we have the control panel you see there is So we might be wondering how does that work? Where can I even start to understand this, right? Well, I Hope everyone here is old enough to have been in front of One of these well, maybe not a terminal, but a television or a computer screen that works like this It's really not too different If you have a picture tube like isn't that screen you have something that emits electrons Something to accelerate them towards the anode a bunch of lenses made out of either Electrodes or coils and some coils to deflect the beam with so to move it around So That's something I hope most of us have kind of a bit of a feeling for at least conceptually Now turns out the electron microscope is not that different we have what is called the column instead of the neck off the back of the screen and it's Got the gun. It's got the electron beam coming out of that a bunch of electromagnets working as lenses some apertures to make sure the beam is nice and clean and Some coils to move the beam around instead of hitting it at a screen. We're now Focusing the beam on something we want to view Now You might have noticed something about the name of the device. It's a scanning electron microscope So what's the scanning part mean? Well, just the same as it does for TV Instead of forming an entire image as once we're moving a dot around and Yeah, in doing that We can kind of just have a signal against time just a video signal and Plot that kind of like having a scope with an x y and z input Now what's the signal we're plotting in? How do you get an image out of slamming electrons into a sample? Well, it turns out there's a whole lot of physics that happens You have electrons coming out of electrons reflecting x-rays normal light coming out There's a lot of electrons going through there's a current flowing out of the sample each one of these you could Record and plot against position and you'd have an image and in fact For about each one of these there is a module you can get on a sim that will do just that We're going up and more into that later So what about those controls right do I need to know all this do I need to understand this physics to use one of these? No Really the controls aren't that exciting There is a few for Setting how fast those electrons are going by deciding how many volts you want to put on the on the anode And you can turn it on and off and you can monitor how much current is actually running there your beam There is the video mode How many lines what's the frame rate also not terribly complicated and I'm sure everyone will have a sense of what these do and Yeah, that up button That's the closest thing you're gonna get to the CSI and Hans and Hans and Hans thing in real life Because you're not sitting we get on a digital picture You're actually changing the area that you're focusing on So like if you push up you will see the images blow up and it will stay sharp and it focus if you've done everything, right? So it's really cool to see You of course you got to focus it The right hand one here is the part where it gets annoying. You need to make sure that your beam is round It's not too much science behind operating these Just fiddle with the right three knobs until your image is good, and it can be very frustrating Fortunately, there's a nice auto button there If you're seven is new enough it might actually do something so I've kind of been avoiding the elephant in your room here It's just like a picture tube, right? What's the one big difference besides what we're aiming these electrons at that tube gets sealed in the factory It's that vacuum. It's just that way you buy it that way. It's fine Here you want to be able to put stuff in so you can't do that So yeah, you got to get all the air out of that and You might be wondering Get the air out of that engineering doesn't do absolutes all the air no atoms left. Nah, not how it works So instead we look at how far a particle could travel without Bumping into a molecule of air. That's what we call the mean free path We need that to be At least a bit longer than our device Otherwise the electrons will just hit some air molecule go off in a random direction or get absorbed cause problems Well normal air is at one bar, and it's about 66 nanometers is what you can travel without bumping into a molecule So if you start having a vacuum like maybe a vacuum cleaner that doesn't do very much Now if you go to your hardware store by a vacuum pump, okay, we're getting somewhere Still not quite there Okay, what if we go professional? What if we get like a real vacuum pump right scientific great thing? Okay getting somewhere, but that electron microscope, that's about yeah big You need more than 10 centimeters Now there's a problem here If you want to put the air out of something you're kind of relying on air behaving like we're used to with gases Like you pull out a piston and the pressure and it decreases right if it's sealed Well, it turns out if you get really low pressures Air kind of behaves more like a bunch of like ping-pong balls bouncing around instead of like a continuous gas So you need a different kind of pump a normal pump won't cut it anymore So that's where these come in The so-called diffusion and turbo molecular pump and they go to insanely low pressures That's a millibars by the way, so We're talking like a lot of zeros Even after like if you're doing it a percent of something like that's very very low pressures Now these are not things you commonly deal with so I'm kind of Gonna show you the main differences between these because this is actually important as older SEMs will have mostly diffusion pumps Newer SEMs will have mostly turbo molecular pumps And it's not just as simple as the turbo molecular pump is newer does better. No, these are nice They have no moving parts. They do some magic with oil and does Not having any moving parts. They don't really break But the oil in there is very special and expensive think a fill of oil might be five hundred two thousand euros and if they fail they fill your whole SEM with Boiling maybe even burning oil And that is a terrible work to clean up also they take a While to warm up like half an hour or something so you decide.  I need to catch the last bus out of Hacker space Let's turn it off. Nope can't do that. You have to stay around and wait until it's cooled down Because the pump of the water pump cooling it still needs to be running. So yeah They're not ideal, but they're they also really can't break that easily Now turbo molecular pumps are cool They start quickly they won't send oil everywhere and They're doing around 90 k rpm That's I think that's more than a jet engine And the way it works is the blades are moving faster than the molecules are at average and it just smacks them out of the way Now these can be expensive to fix There are some bearings in them if those break The whole thing will kind of just die if you're not Replacing them in time and it's not really something you can easily fix If you don't maintain it, it will just break game over You're thinking how bad can it be? I mean people say things is like beyond repair all the time. How bad can it really be? that bad There's a lot of kinetic energy in that rotor at 90,000 rpm if something sees us it will just tear itself to shreds And there's no coming back from that now That was kind of the basic stuff We're already kind of a bit into technology, but there's some more technology differences You need to know if you're thinking about getting one of these electron microscopes or using one Besides a vacuum system we need to get the electrons from somewhere What the the display tube does is it just has pretty much a light bulb and That light bulb because it's hot the electrons will also Statistically sometimes be outside of the metal and if you put an electric field on that they'll just get ripped away and you have your beam Just like the old radio tubes you might have a guitar amp It works That's good because these are cheap and they don't require a pretty They don't require that much of a vacuum They're also not too bright in terms of the image that you get out of them They're fine for low magnification once you get really high magnification You want to be so selective in the electrons that you're using because you want a really small beam That with this you're kind of fighting the signal-to-noise ratio now. There's other options You can place a fancy crystal on top of it that is better at emitting electrons Great, but these are expensive and they also need a better vacuum. I Think that's not a large difference But we're getting into the domain where it's not just a matter of hooking up a pump anymore No, if we're getting into the main where fingerprints or sample. That's not completely dry. We'll just mess it up So that's a bit annoying then there's field emission where you just Rip the electrons out of the material directly. It's great. It's amazing But also needs insane vacuums. You can't use o-rings anymore. You need to use metal to metal seals a fingerprint somewhere Will mean it won't work might even damage itself They're more expensive than you're probably willing to spend on the microscope in the first place, so In my opinion, it's the tungsten filament that you want to go with Because that's the one that you can realistically as someone without a lot of experience keep working and replace You might even be able to put your own tungsten wire on one of the bases if it breaks and you don't want to buy anyone if you have a spot welder so About all those signals each one of these is something interesting if you want to know about the the surface of your Of your sample you might want to look at the things that start near the top If you want to know more about the actual composition, there is things like the x-rays or Backscattered electrons that could tell you something and your sample might even emit light when you hit it Like think of a phosphor on a CRT that'll blow if you hit it with electrons Well turns out a lot of materials actually do and you can measure that and that's one of the things you can use Now the way you actually put this into practice is there's detectors on your stem So you have the main column which serves to get the electron beam onto your sample and then you have detectors you stick on to measure these signals The most common one you'll find on Every stem is the secondary electron detector. It's also some how sometimes called the everhard friendly detector after its inventors And it's pretty much as a standard every electron microscope will have this and What it does it looks at the electrons that get emitted when you hit your elect your sample with electrons so imagine Kicking a ball into like dry beach sand Some sand will be thrown into the air right like same thing as with the sea of electrons in matter You shoot an electron in there at high velocity. You get a few slow electrons out this will pull those electrons towards it and Then convert it into light. You see little flashes. It measures that and you get really nice images such as this one or These so it's pretty cool. You can also go to pretty small skills there there's little White specks you see there on the right. That's actually bias between different layers in a chip there are well, 200 nanometers across I think so You could get pretty high resolution there now Sometimes she wants something else with this you only see the top surface of something if you're looking at a chip and you didn't add It right to the Exact layer where you want it you might want to look a little deeper right with an optical microscope You're always looking through the transparent parts with an electron microscope is secretary electron mode You're only looking at for really the top bit of it So there's also the back scattered electron detector. That's a lot more useful if you want to look a bit further inside the sample because it looks at the Electrons that got turned around. So you have your high energy electron There's an atom there. It slingshots around and it comes back to one of these photo diodes And the signal is also more dependent on what's in there a higher atomic number. So like heavy metals will Reflect more so you get images like this. I don't have the detector yet. So this is from Wikipedia but you can see like there's some spot here of some heavy metals in this glass and and The rest is just silica and heavy metals really stand out as being these bright spots So this can be useful if you're looking at a chip that isn't perfectly prepared Now there's even more precise things you can do in terms of composition. This just tells you oh that Bright spot probably has a higher atomic number You can also look at the x-rays and the x-rays actually have a spectrum that depends on the actual elements Just like when you have a neon sign You can know what gases are in there. We're looking at the spectral lines. We could do that for x-rays in this case as well Downside is most older detectors for this require liquid nitrogen and That's a bit of a hassle, but it's really cool. Like we have one of these and you can put something on there and Know what it's made of like what is that white ceramic? Well, it turns out it's like some sort of magnesium silica Oxide mix Oxygen isn't really there because it's a very light element. It's not good at emitting x-rays Now it's even better This is One signal is one point, but what if we do this for a whole lot of points, right? Just like what we're doing with the scanning earlier Actually can make a map of what element is where We're like in this chip where you can see the soldering and the bond wires and the chip itself all different colors There's not well, it is false color, but it's not made up by some artists This is actually different signals from different wavelengths of x-rays that we're looking at so yeah, that's a Kind of in my opinion the really surprising ability to have because you can actually look at the composition and see it mapped out like that so Yeah, this is kind of the basic technology that we have here and Oh Here is where my colleague takes over Your phone, please. Thank you So now that we have all of our theoretical and practical background How do we actually capture these images? Well Turns out you can just grab them like any other analog or digital video signal with a frame grabber However, as it turns out that is not always the best way to do it It can introduce noise and cause other problems you can get around by using something called a photo CRT Because two CRTs are always better than one basically what you have is a CRT built into the chassis of your microscope and then you take this delightful device Which is a four by five inch film camera remember film and stick it on top Unfortunately, you have to like figure out the exposure, but when you do it once it'll just stay that way and The best thing is you can load it with Polaroid film so you don't even have to go to the one-hour photo place Unfortunately, that film has been discontinued and this might be part of why I want to reverse engineer it You also have something called a chamber camera now This is really really important because it's actually Kind of like a webcam inside your vacuum chamber. Why is it so important for certain types of things? You want your detectors really close to the sample and I hear you asking How do I not crash my $40,000 detector into my two-year-old sample? chamber camera We have one and if you come on down and see the simulator We can show you how that works You also have new versus old electronics or well new versus old sense old sums are a Thing you'll have to be prepared to put love into they'll be crusty There's a lot of electrolytic capacitors However Documentation is great for our Hitachi. We have component level Schematics like all of them and we know what the components are they're commercially available if we really wanted to We could duplicate the thing However new Sims tend to get more complex you have a lot of a six FPGAs and If you need a new one They tend to start around 900 dollars on eBay and that's assuming you can find the right component from a place It services sends a lot of modern manufacturers aren't exactly gonna Send you a placement for it because come on just get a service contract. It's like five grand a year Okay. Oh, sorry So stages are another thing we need to discuss Right here in the back you see a manual stage with knobs like the 70s And here you see the stage of the microscope that we actually brought here because we're very smart and camping with Electron microscope is a good thing to do So mechanical ones use my cross screws, which is tedious I have unironically had to twist something around 40 times once to get it into the position where it will not crash If I try to open the door Motorized ones have joysticks, which is great, but more importantly you can do automation Which saves you a lot of time and then there's something called a use centric stage which kind of follows a more axes more better rule and Will be very complex to take Apart actually for all of these please consult your manual before taking them apart because a lot of them have very factory calibrated linkages So now let's discuss the actual practicalities your physical requirements So you decide to go on to some government auction site and you win one What do you do? What do you need? first of all You're gonna need a water chiller. You're also gonna need a roughing vacuum pump. Those are often included and You'll definitely want to get an oil mist filter because good God when you first rough it down You don't want your pump to start vaping oil mist all over your nice new equipment And then you might also just want to run a plastic tube outside. That's what we currently do and It's not failed us yet vibrations are a concern and initially we were much more concerned about them But it really comes down to your model and whether it has vibration dampening External fields an important one if you have a collection of neodymium magnets, please keep it far away from your column and Also very important. This was actually like an Exclamation point in bold in the Hitachi manual. Make sure your floor can bear the weight Grounding is another thing every manual will tell you to consider and that is actually the PC running our edX or EDS Look at that copper. That is thick the whole cable weight weighs like two kilos and Last but not least if you're running an eds You'll need liquid nitrogen and a liquid nitrogen doer. We have a liquid nitrogen doer. It will not fit into our car So once again our TFM Get a manual figure out what you need and And Make sure you can hit that there are some risks of running a SEM first of all you have a vacuum chamber with an electron beam More specifically the electron beam is also crashing into something So kind of like an x-ray tube Except it is an x-ray tube so if you actually have a commercial off the self shelf or used SEM and You've not modified it in any way and it's not been modified and all of the blanking ports are covered with their original parts.  There is a chance of contamination and And it is generally a very good idea to clean them extremely well and rub down every surface While wearing gloves an apron lab coat and safety goggles now Because that wasn't fun enough. We also have some legal stuff for example in the Netherlands if you're going about 30 kilovolts in Vacuum chamber you will need to register that with the safety authority Check this for your country if you're going to be buying one or Don't your choice Also, make sure your SEM isn't blocking a fire escape route because they are big Yeah No Yeah, we're not lawyers. By the way, you might want to check this but Yeah So software is another fun can of worms if it's newer and you get a PC with it There's a decent chance you'll have the software There's also an equally decent chance of the seller remove the hard drive and drill the few holes through it The good news is electron microscopes tend to come from a few manufacturers and what you do is you Google the model number and you figure out who else owns that model and then You send them a nice email saying hey, I noticed your lab has the same model of electron microscope Any chance you could send me a copy of that CD pretty please. I promise I won't tell anyone There is also the problem of calibration data but if you get calibration slides, which are pricey you can generate your own and Your manual should provide all the procedures for that Battery-backed RAM is another thing you can be concerned about Ours, I believe had a coin cell on it So that's also another thing to check when you're disassembling and initially cleaning your new microscope Now consumables are always a thing. So for your detectors, you have a scintillators. See these two little discs when we first bought it and Took it apart. It was the one that you see on the top You will notice it is clear like a piece of glass, which is bad because it's supposed to be coated in opaque scintillator so after going on eBay and Thankfully finding the exact part for a hundred US dollars We replaced it and our image quality went up exponentially and we no longer had to kill our machine by running it at full power Next up if you're doing EDS, you need liquid nitrogen and If you have a mishap and transport you'll need a new photo multiplier tube But the good news is those are pretty pretty affordable compared to all of the other stuff that can go wrong Your vacuum system will need maintenance if you're running a turbo pump. You'll probably have to get a little oil cartridge and Here's the thing. I'm a big fan of buying new old stock Not a thing to buy new old stock The good news is they're still made for almost all pumps, but prepare to spend around 70 to 150 dollars O-rings are important and if you're running diffusion diffusion fluid is important and That oily fluid is not cheap Filaments you'll have to buy unfortunately, especially if you're running tungsten, which most hackers systems are They last around 10 hours each, but wow That was mostly when we weren't quite good about Calibrating it yet when you get better. They should be able to do a few hundred, but it's Yeah, expect to go through the first few very quick and the more important thing on those is Especially if you're working with small budgets, they tend to come in packs of 10 So $50 doesn't sound bad, but when your supplier says yeah MOQ is 10 That is something you might have to save up for apertures are another thing you might have to replace and they You can get them custom-made or there are a lot of new old stock ones You can also bake them out in the vacuum chamber and make them last longer and Last but not least one we recently discovered was something that could go wrong our vibration dampers basically the rubber and ours kind of deflated over the decades and After adding a few nuts and bolts we raise it up and now we can play dance dance revolution next to the sun so transport remember how a your Washing machine comes with all those bolts in it that you have to remove Well, this same goes for your son more importantly you have to put the bolts in Before moving it around otherwise you risk damaging a lot of stuff detectors See the thing covered in a glove do that the last thing you want to do is Accidentally put a ton of weight on that and not support it and Care really is of the essence so That over there is the photo CRT port and we put a glove over it to stop Whatever stuff might be in that van from getting in Yeah When saying don't put a lot of weight in it that big liquid nitrogen tank Yeah, if that's gonna like wobble around transport it will bend shit. You don't want that. Yeah, that would be bad Very bad. Okay sample preparation Now for this one I have brought some visual aids So this is called a sample stub, and it's basically what you mount your sample to if it's conductive You can mount it straight away using one of these nifty double-sided carbon tabs They are cheap and the cost is basically negligible and Here's one I made earlier very full Problems start happening when you have non-conductive samples Basically you need a path for the electrons take and you'll have to do something the easiest way is gold sputtering and That basically means you buy a sputter coder as pictured It's a very cool instrument. Look at that plasma, but It is pricey and it is gold However, the cost of the gold on the actual sample is negligible and sometimes when you buy one you literally get About three times what you paid for it in weight of gold still in it because the seller probably didn't know it was Upgraded with a bit more gold that should have been put in there This message is brought to you by eBay Klein Einstein and point day Now stuff gets even funkier if you want to do some more edX EDS stuff and map Samples that aren't conductive. What do you do? How do I get better results? you evaporate carbon onto it using a carbon coder and Then you get something clear to x-rays So you can still detect the x-rays However, not the best choice if you want to image stuff visually Documentation.  Well the manual explained it to us If you don't have a manual, which is something that might very realistically happen Go to micro wiki. They have a lot of manuals also Do what I mentioned earlier Google for the sem model figure out of some universities still running one email them Maybe they have a PDF Another thing you can try and will be very helpful is just find a manual for Another sem made by the same manufacturer in the same range because a lot of the stuff is very basic and applies to a lot of their instruments and He's still definitely good to know like warnings Yep So now you're thinking all that effort Just to take some pictures me It's a good time looking at things up close and seeing how beautiful they really are but sometimes you want to do more and sometimes All that stuff about reading manuals were hackers, right? We're gonna do more than what's in the manuals more than was was intended so one of the things you can do besides look at things is actually Modify things with it like not a chip you need a bit or expensive equipment for that unfortunately, but Say you have plastic and you shoot it with electrons It might like the chain will break and you could do things now. So there's a thing called e-beam lithography, which is You Take a sample stick it on a PC fan or something Cover it in a layer like put a drop in there. It spins around it's covered now in a layer of plastic And they can draw things on the plastic like an etch a sketch both of electrons because it turns out You can put an X and Y and put on a sem Just like an oscilloscope Does this work? Yeah. Did I say just like an oscilloscope? Don't we all love oscilloscope clocks? Okay, sorry this video player is being annoying, but yeah, don't you just love oscilloscope clocks? What if we take the beam of the electron microscope? Yeah actual samples like somewhere in here, but You can make it move around in fun patterns Even though you can't turn it off like if you move it faster here than in some other places you can actually draw pictures Now you're thinking what's the use of that, right?  Well turns out that those shot-apart molecules if you use something as simple as plexiglass PMMA They become soluble and acid for an alcohol. So if you rinse it with some rubbing alcohol There won't be any plastic anymore where you hit it If you then do that on top of something that you can edge just like doing a circuit board but smaller that QR codes that's Under a millimeter across and this is really kind of a coarse one. I Must say I got some Interesting responses when I posted this on Twitter when people were scanning it, but Like what do you put in a QR code right when you twit it?  So don't try Yeah, the lines in there. There's a bit fuzzy because this is an optical image. Those are the narrowest lines in There that we've been able to make were about three micron across. So this is kind of cool, right? We can now make very small things That's another thing with these electron microscopes We saw a lot of people in other countries doing really cool stuff with them and with other advanced technology and We're thinking why is no one in the Netherlands doing this in our hacker community We want more people to do that but also we want To start working on even more high-tech hacking such as maybe making our own chips There's some folks in the States that have done it like that's some guys working as garage those chips in there Can we do that here? Like are there people who feel like you know That would be cool to try Well, we're kind of carefully looking into what that takes this this whole ebm-lifo Kind of appendix to this talk was what that was about if you feel like that's cool Please come talk to us after the talk now. There are some useful sources. You might want to look at The jail company has a very very useful and short booklet like really not that thick It explains a lot of these concepts in Somewhat more depth definitely enough if you want to use it if you want to repair some you might need a little more knowledge, but and there's also like Ben Krasno applied sciences DIY stem has a lot of videos where it really goes into detail about how some of the things work and Last but not least We're crazy enough To take the other stem because we have to write we have the one from Japan and the one we bought from Germany We have that one here on site. It's working. It got a bit rained on didn't die. Fortunately. Let's take it apart Vincent and alcohol put it back together Which is also why this was a bit less prepared than I hoped but It still works you can come try it and yeah, that's in the arcade hacking slash I Keep forgetting the very long name my friends big for it It's apparently a reference to something arcade people would know but you know come on down you can look at the book and You can experience what it's actually like to use and Good God Transporting all those bottles of vacuum pump oil on the shuttle made some people give me some weird looks Yep, so I hope you enjoyed it and I Don't like let's see. Do we have time for questions? We'll turn it over to our You have about two minutes so one or a maximum two really quick questions if anyone wants to Do we have? Comments questions concerns complaints brought in tomatoes You mentioned that conductive and non conductive Samples have to be treated differently Semiconductors are famously Semiconductor, how do you need to treat them? You don't really coat them usually but they can be problematic and that The electrons don't always have a path to run to ground So if you put a chip in there charge might build up it might die because of that like you're putting it full of Electra like electric charge, right? This means that you get some imaging artifacts because if there's a lot of charge at one point the beam will bounce off it And it won't take the path you think it's taking so Yes, as always there's a lot of new ones to it However, for example on the send that we have right here, there is a convenient discharge button So there are a lot of things you can do about this Once you realize it. Oh my sample is a semiconductor it might build charge. I need to press this button I'm showing for the manual now, but I hope that answered your question and time is up. I'm sorry But you can probably ask them afterwards. I'm sure they will be available. So please give them a round of applause


It's the mid-week round-up Hey folks, welcome to the mid-week round-up. This week we are joined by Martin. He's going to be critiquing all your lovely artwork. Hello, everybody. You've got my head in this time. I've got your head in this time, yeah. I'll do this. What have we got this week? This week, first of all, we're going to apologise if you hear a lot of banging and clattering from the door outside. We've tried our best to keep the noise down, but we're shipping the Kickstarter. It's Hellboy Kickstarter yet again. Everything's starting to leave our building. Everything's starting to leave some of the hubs, so it's all go, go, go. It's great to see so many boxes. We've not seen the store look like that for a long time. It's just jam packed. I'm both excited at seeing stock in the shop leaving from a yay kickstart point of view. I'm also really excited because I don't have to ship it now. I've moved out of the warehouse and into the office. Double win. Shall we look at some lovely photos? Yeah, I'm trying not to look at the screen. Okay, I'm looking at the screen now. Two screens. This is Anthony Donati. He's done a rather large orc fleet. That was amazing, isn't it? I think the two things that stand out for me are the close to the box art. Yeah, very similar colours, isn't it? Yeah, and the way he's done the scene as well. Because of the matte, it's so like an azure blue, isn't it? Very bright blue. I think any of the bases that people do that match that kind of brightness, I think works really, really well. The brightness of the sea as well. It's quite a dusty sort of matte finish to the actual ships. Lovely job. It's nice. It was Britcon here in Nottingham this weekend just gone. I believe Elliot Morris won with his twilight kin. It was great to see lots and lots of Kings of War being played. Obviously, the past couple of years we've had it's fantastic to see people out there gaming again. Is it 3,000 points? I believe so, yeah. Off the top of my head, I'm not too sure. I know Ronnie got to go. Yeah, Ronnie went ahead and knows he didn't. I didn't have time to go no more, but brilliant. Last week, we had Ewan Turner with Strider, and Rob was really keen to see when the rest of the strike force was finished, and we've just found this other image as well since, where they've got some more troopers painted, and I think you'll agree the basin's great. It's great. I like the gold on the screen. It's giving that shine, and the basin's brilliant. Yeah, we were saying last week that the gun of Strider being yellow just really adds a bit of contrast to the rest of it, and then also brings ties in the hazard stripes. And then when you've got some of the red as well on the shoulders. So that's a nice bit of colour variation there. Great job. For you. Nice marauder-ripper. Lovely job. It's done quite a lot of weathering in it as well. Yeah, it looks to be. It's like bronzes and silvers, but then sort of toned down with weathering over the top, yeah. Yeah, and a bit of a modification. I think he's removed the teeth, necklaces. Sure, that was a good thing. He stood around again. I suppose it's the option if you decide you want two in your force, you can make them look a little different then as well, can't you? Yeah. Some more boats, another Org Smasher. It's time with black sails. It's really, really nice. I love the flame work in the mouth. It's even given a bit of OSL in there, I think. I think so, yeah, just a little bit, yeah. I think it goes to show how characterful the, certainly some of the earlier ships were we have with the Orcs. It was just amazing to see. It makes me laugh every time I see them. I think Orcs just in general in the fantasy setting are always just great for being able to just go above and beyond with your imagination really. We'd love to find that meme. Have you seen the meme with the two golfers? Is it Daily and Tiger Woods? Yeah. Yeah, find that meme and post it up. Okay. Nice to see some fliers as well. Always good to see. Yeah, we just got back from GenCon and the star of the show was it absolutely was Armada. It was, like, from the moment we opened to the last sort of demo was pure Armada. And, yeah, it sold really, really well. So, and it's nice to see it getting out there and more and more people. Those are shows as well, isn't it? That I know when I've done shows as well. If you're walking past tables and tables of brown and green boards and you see a big blue board, you go, oh, what's that? Yes, exactly. It's very eye-turning. Yeah, it's one of its strengths. Eye-turning? Eye-catching and neck-turning. There we go. More votes. Idiot-proof Dalek. If you've seen any of the work previously on our midweek roundup or anything, you know, the paint work is absolutely superb, isn't it? And it's really nice to see that. It's framed for his bass and laying, hasn't it? Yeah. Because he's been showing those off for the past few years because I've been looking enough to get to Clash and he's always up there or there about so we've best painted for his armor. Yeah. So it's interesting how he's carried his Kings of War theme color theme through to his armada. Yeah, he ties them all in nice and pretty well. Yeah. And then Kevin Haney has done a rather large amount of plague zombies for firefight. I picked these out because I really liked just how subtle and plain and the paint work was. It's great, isn't it? It's something really different. It's a map horde coming towards it. Yeah. It almost looks like it should glow in the dark. Yeah. And the fact that all the basing matches as well it's a good job. Yeah. Really nice. And then lastly we've got Marcus with his cronious. I picked this out because I thought it was the really nice different highlights of the different colors within the cronious. And I just thought it was a great battle image as well coming up against the frost fathom. It's almost like a reverse of what you'd normally expect with the flames being the dark and the actual torso and arms being the light. Yeah, not a thought of that actually. Yeah. And it looks like a rather violent encounter, doesn't it, with the horn of the frost fathom. Which way are you putting that horn? Yeah. Good job. Yeah, fantastic work by everybody. That's it this week. Thanks to Martin for joining us. No problem. As we say, usual, if you want to be featured, make sure you use the hashtag MyMantic, sticking it on all the socials, and we'll keep an eye out for some more fantastic painted miniatures. Cheers, everyone. See you later, guys. See ya, bye.


What's up, what's up? You are watching Bouncing Nation, that is the hashtag. Where are you watching from? Nilwa memi nita wawita bouncers because if you're tuned in, you are already a bouncer. Say where are you bouncing from? Represent your hood so that we can know nim tagani ikonao bouncers we know. Alright so at feeling zinat kwaikiki and today we are answering your very simple question. Una pwa mita tanu utembe, amma mario celebrity crush, you know. Marriage is a serious thing. Serious thing and minambia kengili. If you marry them, they already have that celebrity status Tuneza kuwa ma-influencers Ako na do Mi already shao moka Ma-sao e-influencersi wewe So si mi kwa na e-te Nani, nani Nikiwa na e-te People will know It's not guaranteed It's not guaranteed Unless they want to keep things on the low But maybe it's that I don't want to be kept Kwa ni mi ni ilekitu Aso no no, mi ndapu na ma-fili Mi si ilekitu So sezi pituakai ilekitu Mi mi ya, you have to show me to the world I'm just kidding, I don't like that I'm lying But the thing is, a celebrity already has money So because they have money Ako na do, nani bata love Uo ndakatu 5 million And most people are like you We don't need love We don't need love When you have money, you get love for free Unapenda bure Unapenda bure Nisha na wu CEO Like he literally stood up Kwa podiam Ako ndapu na meseitu And Mike, he's a billionaire I just said many things He just said Ame sama tu Ma kofi No, ma ni do Anyway, Kingsley na I feel like 70 people today are with you 60% No, 90% 40% are with me 60% na mesewako Please don't call me here right now Why would you call me right now? Anyway So let's talk about our guest in studio I already told you before we went on a break He is a fashion designer Likutulazimaiweze And then, guess what else? He is a choreographer Danzmovziko to Sawa Guess what else? He's a recording and performing artist And we have the privilege of hosting me today On Bounce Nation So ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome once again Katoone 47 Hey, hey, hey Kingsley lume umesubalu Ikotusa Welcome to the show Today is a yellow thing It's a yellow affair I see what you're doing All right Okay Ikotusa Uwe mo nuliko sa memo Ulu ko api Ulu ko api tukipanga vile ptava Lekuli vabi atuza white But they tume vabi atuza white Ino nene mene uchaka genu ko kufumzako Ikotusa Uzi jali No pressure Hey, Katoone Hi, upadzeu, kofiti? I can't believe that You can dress me If that's how you dress We're down How have you been?  Anashkuru niko poa Ya, sayimambu menda poa Mekuna projects nyingi Apakule Kenya na Injaya Kenya bia I see that you're even in South Africa at some point Ya So kafikul komenda goma, bieshara Wana desa we muna bieshara We ni dancer, we ni manamziki So ni ga nil kupile kawka Nili wana mefata goma Ya, kuna album na tanganeza Lakin nisi jasemera toka lini Kuna wasani toka Injaya Injaya So lazima ni wafate wukona Kikita kakufanya namitu kazi lazima umfate Lazima Lazima you have to go We see adakutafuta, where when do we endakutafutana And you was there All right now so Those who are watching you for the first time They don't know about katoon maze Asa kwa mimi Jinaku it's very interesting Sababu, mili lisi ya Katoon ni bile ulikwa namchezo sana Ulikwa Onaskuru loma sayimangam If you joke too much water na sayimang Aw ni katoon na tuna me And then 47 sababu Kuchoka nomba 2 kai na nomba 47 Ha ha ha ha Emocha amdi e kuliyanda jze So apokuamchezo Nimpaka sayi Like ni watu wa churches Nona jaw ni kiwa serious Kuna mdana kasiri kanga na watu Lakin no ona umuse When I said about it Na sayimu kwa serious Nalewa So I 47 na nambangu ya muimu sana Nambambai I liwa iku na mili kini kai chikuwok toka kuati So when I pender to you boy. No, that's not what I mean. I wrote you because you said count is 047. In the kufana. When I was born, it was 047. When I was born, it was 47 counties. When I was born, it was 47 body counts. Ah, really? It was 47 cars. Enjoy yourself. But I was the number 47. What happened? Madem, he said madem. Okay, he's a ladies man. Ladies, miskiya. I said Madem, he is a ladies man. I said Madem, he is a ladies man. Ladies, miskiya. I said I was the number 47. The number 47, the number of women I saw in the kufana. I was the number 27. I said I was the number 47. I said I was the number 47. I also want to say it's a very simple question. Celeb, I'm a peza. Yeah, he is a celeb. He has the biggest crowd. Zuchu. todo n Makapa Knuka Nb해요 Nbero No We were unable to pay 100,000 kwa na reya zuchu. You had to give zuchu 100,000 kwa na reya zuka. Na kumasingeku wa nan iwa pesa? Iva jatufu matia, before suwa riya lewo, yae urediya liku wa nga peli kwaSee do. Yae miniya na mahambiya, niikon na 100 kwa na fartia. Look do you know n'fikiya by the way? Yaa do nii llikuwa mainyalfa kufu kisha, yendo mainya kukuja. Yendo mainya kukua straight forward. Lakin nii unajiwe yae zuchu alikwa na takado by the way. Siria zututa nii anakura zares.  Kwa noongu tu matu kwa counti ake? San tu me VIP, siyata juzini me towa 30k ya kum pajoviu lancha kakata kukuja mene. Miya kikuja nampata mbele out. Okay, okay, okay. Ya me sumasi kiki by the way wange come through. Anga fenyevo. All right, so onar performi ango mako. Ringa. Sesa iwi witu ki endanga because we don't have a lot of time. But before we go, wukumisha say social media wana kupata wapi. YouTube, Spotify, wapi wana kupata. So media twitter wana wenda kufoloa api. Mimi kila maali kiandikatu underscore katun 47 wana nipata. YouTube ndiyo katun 47. But kila maali ni underscore katun 47. Uspohi kaya 47 yon nambam mesgi ya niki liyaba. Haise uta niyona. Uta niyona wali. Hato melewa katun network. Anyway, it's... It's been great having you right here. Niman ki nanganga. So that you can perform for us. Okay, okay, okay. All right, so... And it's performed by Ringa. I don't know wusha to perform here by the way. So to perform here to ki endanga. And that would be nice. The hashtag is bounce and nation. I feel in jeen at Ken, Kengsi. And of course at Y to Fefe channel. That's where you find us. But don't co-op about it. We still have a lot more to show for you. Stay with us.


Hey friends, today I'm going to take you on a full day of my life as an internal medicine hospitalist. Now today's going to be an extra interesting day as I'm triaging for the entire hospital but more on that later. Now my mornings usually start around 5-5.30 am where I get up, shower, and get ready to go to work. On days where I do wake up a bit earlier I may do some work for the YouTube channel or side business for about 20-30 minutes, otherwise I'm sleeping until the last second to make sure that I'm well rested, and of course that morning coffee always helps. But now it's time to head to the hospital, my drive is about 20 minutes in the morning which I spend listening to medical podcasts or an audiobook. And thankfully I happen to get to the hospital right before 7 am today. Now as an internal medicine hospitalist my job is to take care of admitted patients in the hospital. This includes patients who come overnight. So the first thing I do when I get to the hospital is I look at my list for the day and identify new patients that I don't recognize. These are the admissions from the overnight team. I'll then move these patients to my personal list on the electronic medical record and print my daily patient list. Now between 7.15 to 7.45 am usually reading everyone's charts, looking at their vitals, their labs, and overnight events before I go see them. And the time this takes will vary. For example my old patients will likely take me 1-2 minutes to scan through since I know them pretty well so I know what to look for. The new patients however will take me anywhere from 5-10 minutes to read through and understand why they're there in the first place and what's been done for them since they were admitted overnight. But once I'm done scanning through everyone's chart now it's time to get ready to go see everyone. And usually between the hours of 8 am to 9.45 to 10 am I'm seeing all the patients both old and new. Thankfully throughout my rounds today everyone is doing well so the rounds are moving quickly from patient to patient. But look at that I got an admission. Now remember as a hospitalist my job is to take care of admitted patients right? This means that admissions during the day will also come to me. Now every hospital and hospitals group does this differently. At my current group we use a round robin admission format. This means one person takes the calls for all the admissions and transfers and assigns them to the next doctor in the list who's up for an admission. So right now it's my turn. And so I take a look at the message and admission, pull up their chart and thankfully this admission is a simple one. This current gentleman is a surgery admission after a knee replacement. Now it's important to note that at many hospitals the procedure teams like a surgery team may not have a primary service. Which means that after a procedure they won't be the primary team taking care of that patient. Which makes sense for a surgeon to spend more time doing surgeries for the hospital. So if a surgeon thinks that their patient needs to be washed after a procedure for pain control, complex medical reasons or physical therapy then they'll be admitted to the medicine team and doctors like myself. And while sometimes hospitals will complain about these admissions honestly they're the easiest ones. It takes me about 10 to 15 minutes to read their history and medicine list and then I go see them in the post op area as soon as they're waking up from anesthesia. And this particular patient was a simple knee replacement done on an elderly male so he was going to be washed overnight to be evaluated by the physical therapy team since he lived home by himself. But there we go one admission done for the day. Now back to my daily responsibilities. Now at 10 a.m. every day regardless of where I am on my patient list I have to meet with the social work and other ancillary staff. This is where we discuss each patient, discuss who's ready to leave and who may have additional things to do such as rehab placement, equipment for home or referrals before they're ready to leave. And after these multidisciplinary or social worker rounds I finish seeing all of my remaining patients and then begin my discharges for the day. But as soon as I'm about to sit down sure enough another admission. Now unlike the first one this patient is sick. This is an elderly male with a history of a current brain who bleeds, who comes with his family due to confusion. Now a patient like this requires me to see him ASAP. Given his bleeding history we had to order a head CT given his confusion and sure enough there was slight worsening bleeding from his past imaging. This led me to immediately call the neurosurgery and neurology team to see him and get him to the ICU ASAP. Now a patient like this makes the day a little bit more difficult because it requires me to drop by and check in multiple times a day to make sure they're not worsening. So I already know that this patient is going to keep me busy for many reasons throughout the morning. But after seeing this patient in the emergency room and discussing with the consultants and understanding that he's currently stabilized, I go back to seeing all the other patients for the day. And once I'm done seeing everybody given the busy morning it's finally time for some food. Now as a doctor I like to have a lighter lunch to avoid getting sleepy from a carb heavy meal. So today's a nice salad, yogurt and some topochico. Which by the way thankfully are all complimentary for all physicians at our hospital. And while eating my lunch I'm also writing the history and physical notes for my first two admissions from the morning. And to make sure I'm even more efficient enough for getting into orders, here's exactly how I write my notes while making sure that all the orders are placed for each patient. So just as I'm talking to you guys in the middle of today, so as I'm finishing up this H&P, this history and physical, sometimes the things that doctors forget how to do is to put in orders or they'll put in orders and they never get to their note. Often what I'll do is I use two screens like I'm doing now on one side I have the orders, on the other side I'm writing my notes. So as I'm writing my note I'm pretty much adding in the orders as they go and then I go to the next problem, add in the orders and then move forward. The orders and notes are all done and my note is consistent with the management I'm actually doing. So about maybe 10 minutes away from finishing this note and then I'm pretty much done for the morning. Now as soon as I'm done finishing those H&P notes I go ahead and knock out the rest of my progress notes for the day for the remaining patients. And if we look at the time it's 11 a.m. which means it's time to triage for the entire hospital. Now like we mentioned before there is one doctor for the entire hospital who takes all the requests for admissions and transfers. So today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. that's me. It means that anytime I can get a call from a surrounding hospital, surrounding clinic, other emergency rooms as well as our own emergency room to admit a patient. And because this role can get very busy very quickly it also thankfully means that I have no personal admissions coming for the rest of the day. So while I'm waiting for those guaranteed calls from the emergency room and other hospitals between the time of 11 to 3 I'm finishing any of those remaining notes for the morning although most are thankfully done already. And I'm also already starting to field calls from the transfer center for new patients in surrounding areas saying either yes or no that they can come to our hospital. Most tend to be appropriate requests and some of them require additional workup or discussions with consultants like a surgeon. During this time since my notes are done I'm also using this extra bit of free time to call family members to update them on their loved ones. And after calling that last family member and a busy morning I am beat and need a break. And so often during the quieter parts in the afternoon I will go for a 10 to 20 minute walk in the hospital and of course my phone on. This gives me that added boost and energy that I need for the remainder of the day. But today after my walk I returned to my call room and finished any remaining work which usually includes updating my notes for the day for all my patients for any changes that may have happened since I signed their notes in the morning. I also go back to check on our patient who had that brain bleed to just see how he's doing. Thankfully he's doing better and on the right management and supervision in the ICU. But now it's about 3 p.m. and I'm free to go home. Now this is the interesting part about being a hospice. Although my shift starts at 7 a.m. and ends at 7 p.m. at this point I have no more admission responsibilities for the day. So as long as I believe that all my patients are stable and I've done all my work I can technically take texts and pages from home. So now it's time to drive home and turn my home office into my workplace for the afternoon. And during this time I'll often get a few messages from nurses each hour about medications, labs and orders as well as giving me updates on the patients. And to make sure that I'm constantly moving while at home I'll do some many workouts in between. And of course get some cuddle time with Kobe who's my golden doodle. But this is one of my favorite parts about being a hospice where I get to do that last bit of work from home. Definitely makes the day go faster and look at that it's almost 7 p.m. And during this last half hour I usually look at everyone's labs and vitals and keep an eye out for notes from consultants once more before calling it a day. And for any patient that I'm worried about for example our brain bleed patient or anyone who needs follow up on their labs or vitals I'll go ahead and text the 19 to say hey these patients may need a closer eye overnight. And by this time it's 7 p.m. which means I'm done for the day. I hope you all enjoyed following me today and my full day as a hospice. Be sure to check out this full breakdown of exactly what a hospice is in this episode right here and as always my friends thanks for being a part of my journey and I'll see you guys in the next one.


So, ladies and gentlemen, rise and shine and don't be, get bored in any way because the bureaucracy is still on. 49th module of Weber's view on bureaucracy, bureaucracy, structured, bureaucracy, pursuit type of exercise, legal authority, bureaucracy, permanent, bureaucracy, administration, bureaucracy, abstraction or conduct, bureaucracy, control and command, bureaucracy, system and persistency, bureaucracy, top to bottom, bureaucracy, bottom to up, bureaucracy, timeline and framework, bureaucracy, set structure and design, bureaucracy, framework, bureaucracy, input, output, bureaucracy, input, system, output, so all these things that I have told you, that is, your command structure rules, a set of rules is called bureaucracy, this bureaucratic structure or bureaucratic word coined by Max Weber and Max Weber's theory of social change on this topic is ultimate. Now, please understand what I am telling you about today's entrepreneurs and their capabilities, I have seen a lot of sudden systems, I have seen a lot of people who manipulate the business and stock market, money market and reach very fast, I have seen those people who break the laws and go ahead with the system by bribing them, this can be done, but remember that according to Max Weber and even according to the Quran and the Quran, if you look at Surah Yusufal carefully, I am not quoting his verse now, but I am not quoting one verse, it is said in one verse that when Jesus was brought to Egypt, that is, he came as a slave, after the slave, when he began to become Jesus, before he began to become Jesus, he came and Allah was the one who presented himself and said that Allah, now I understand that I have these things, these knowledge and I feel that if you give me authority, then I can run this whole system in the right way. This means that after showing me the time of Kishwari, it means that until I know that I have these instincts, I have these wisdom, I have the way to control the structure, and I will win this thing, it is said that wars are won in the mind, first they are won here and then they are won there, so this means that until I am not worthy that I have bureaucracy, that is, I can achieve something, then I will never achieve it, so here it is proved that the need for legal authority is as much as the need for administrative rules and you read the Surah Yusuf carefully and understand and you will understand the set of bureaucratic structure very well, first they became accountable and said that I am ready to handle it, then I will become the heir of these people and I said that I will not give up on these people, then the matter of wisdom came and after the dream of seven sisters and seven sisters, that is, it means that a divine set of guidance is also with you, it is a different structure, but in the bureaucracy, they said that those who are not following will not be given the time of Ghazaq and Kilalat, it was made a structure and it was followed in a strict way by the law, it was not softened, in the same way, you can see it in the entire audience of the Prophet, it is also called the Constitution of Medina and to see it in the Constitution of Medina, it is also called the Constitution of Medina, so the rest of the laws said that the British law also said Roman Empire, if you look at it, that is, look at this 1400 years ago, 2000 years ago, and if you look at it in Greek, before that, look at the Homo Robi, all these constitutions of bureaucratic laws continue to be made, so in the time of the Prophet, there are many things that are more important than the Quran, bureaucratic structure, we have created money from you and you pay your money and you pay your big money, then pay your small money from you, then pay your small money from him, that is, a hierarchical structure was created so that there is a system of money, till the time you will not define money, you will not define money, no structure will lead and will not move forward, so the leader, after the leader, the subordination does not mean that you have to become a slave, the subordination means that certain leaders are taking, according to the rules and regulations, you have to follow so that you get certain results, this does not mean that it is not up and down and it does not mean that it is not even small and big, it means that you have to operate the systems, every person has their own system, so every process has its own things, encode, decode, recode, when encode, decode, recode will not happen, then decode, recode and encode cannot happen again, that is, there is a process to go to the Prophet, there is a process to go to the Prophet, if the system comes out, then we cannot live in the system, so precisely, for the entire entrepreneur, it is necessary to define a structure, risk taking is one, idealism is two, rationalism is third, but along with that, when you bring idealism and rationalism into bureaucracy by structuring, then this will become a pragmatic design, then it will be called the right entrepreneur, if you stay in idealism and make a system, you will soon become a flop, it is not called short cut, it is called short cut and it is called street smartness, you will soon get duped, but if you add idealism to rationalism, then you will go to pragmatism and when you go towards pragmatism, then the bureaucracy and bureaucratic structures will be in good, refined, in which there will be horizontal linkages and a good sharing capacity will also be developed and a good change model will come in front of you, which Max Weber says that this is a theory of change, this is a theory of organizational change, this is a theory of societal change, thank you very much.


Red Lake Tribal Chairman Daryl Siki Sr. says he will seek re-election. Siki was elected Tribal Chairman in 2014 when he tallied 60% of the vote and defeated then incumbent Floyd Buck Jordan. He says during his first term he and the council funded two fire departments, two fire trucks, a chemical dependency treatment center, a dialysis center and a new Red Lake Nation Solar Energy initiative. He also says the battle against opiates and the drug epidemic will continue under his direction if re-elected. Other candidates who are seeking the Tribal Chairman position are Jordane Vince Brown, Jim White and Williamette Hardy-Morson.