What's the word, y'all? Did you know that the NBA playoffs are going on right now because it's extremely hard to tell, y'all. I'm gonna say this. This does not feel like the playoffs. The only thing that's making it at least a little bit feel like the playoffs is that the crowds are still going crazy. And then the Celtics are about 25 points and the TD Garden is still rocking. I respect them for that. But other than that, I'm watching these games and I'm like, can we just get, like when I sit down in this chair today at 730 and ready to watch some heat versus Celtics. These two teams are the first three games to punch each other in the face in the face. And I'm like, just give us a close one. You know, we got some injuries here and there, but give us a closer, right? When there's a team that goes out there and scores one basket in the first, what, six to eight minutes, you kind of get an understanding of how this is gonna go. And listen, I'm a seasoned veteran when it comes to this basketball stuff. So even though the Miami came out kind of slow, I didn't immediately write it off as an L because I know it's a game of runs, right? Well, they didn't ever really go on that runs. And it just hasn't really felt like the playoffs, man. Shout out to the Cs. They have not lost back to back games in this playoffs and they lost game during their home court. It would have been the end of their season. I think it would have been the end of their season if they would have lost the second game at home, but they came out guns blazing. Jason Tatum gave them basically nothing to gain number three and in this game, he was incredible. But for the first time, for the first time of the 2022 playoffs, this does not feel like the playoffs and my actions reflected that, right?  But in my room, I have the big screen TV on the wall. That's what normally majority of my attention goes to when there's a playoff game going on. I put this on there. We got the surround sounds within the room. I turn it on and this is my focus, right? I have a monitor underneath it because I'm at this point a dual sports fan. So I'm huge into baseball right now. So I was watching Blue Jays versus Cards on the screen beneath it, right? But my main attention is the basketball game and then the Miami, he decided that nobody wanted to show up other than Victor Lidepo. And for the first time of this 2022 playoffs, I flipped them. The basketball and the conference finals went on the small monitor and this random regular season game of the MLB season went on the big screen. That's how detached I am to this playoffs right now. I mean, hold on, Kevin O'Connor hit the tweet. It's only been seven clutch time minutes and an average margin of victory of 19.8 in the last 17 playoff games. Seven clutch minutes. If you don't know what clutch means, it's like five points or five minutes ago. Maybe that's not even it. Either way, that's just letting you know in 17 games, we've had seven minutes of clutch time. Like, come on, bro. You gotta think about like this because I know Celtics fans are probably upset because it feels like whenever they win big, Kenny can play, but if you look, Kenny can play about a lot of stuff and he can play about blowouts all the time. But if you're not a Celtics fan and you're a new true fan like I am and like 98% of the other people trying to watch these games, this is not entertaining. That was not entertaining. Now, I agree. If the Bulls were doing this, hell yeah, I'm coming in here and I'm talking my stuff. But since I am neutral here, it's hard for me to talk this stuff for the Cs because it was over in the first couple of minutes. I'm just, I don't know really know the solution is, right? If you look at my mentions, everybody's tweeting to me like, can he turn into the Joker? Can he now is a, what is the main in the Superman? I don't know. Kenny's turning into a supervillain. And that's basically what I feel like I'm doing. You know, watching these games and talk about these games with y'all is like one of the highlights of my day. And when I sit down to watch these things and it's not even entertaining. Listen, I'm saying this right now. So everybody that's watching this video a couple of minutes here, I'm telling you right now for blowouts from this point on, I will not talk about them unless I like sometimes I've forced myself to make videos about things because we're in the playoffs and I know people want to hear what I got to say for some reason. But if it's a blowout, I'm not uploading, bro. Or I'll focus on a different topic. I'll do some off season stuff in the middle of the conference finals. If we continue to get blowouts. That's where I'm at right now. What do I have to say? What do I have to say other than bam out of bio for some reason can't do anything when Robert Williams is in the lineup? Rob got this man number. He won't even look at the basket of Robert Williams is within the 10 feet radius, which he usually is. Jimmy Bulla said there's no excuses. Terrible performance from him.  I mean, Victor Lodipo, if anything Victor Lodipo, he's silver lining, he making himself some money this off season. I don't know how many, how much money, but he's making himself some money from a guy that spent on the vet minimum for this season and missing the last couple of seasons that feels like with all of these injuries and stuff. So to see him go out there in the conference finals and be the best player on a team is dope. I mentioned it earlier, even though I didn't even realize that Jason Tatum shot one for seven for three because by the time I switched to things, the game was pretty much over and he was hooping. So I didn't even know he missed six of his seven threes.  They shot 23% from three. 39% from the field overall and won this basketball game by 20. That's actually insane, huh? Maybe there's more to it than that. Derek White, again, Derek White might not ever shoot efficiently, but he gonna do all the other things. And with Marcus Smart being out with today's injury or whatever it is, he was used today. But that's it, that recap would have taken me 47 seconds. I'm done, I'm done doing it. I'm done doing it. I would not force myself to do things. Unless, this is the only exception. If the blowout coming to game seven and somebody get laughed off the court. Like, let's be honest, bro. When I put that son's video out, that was a one of teams, it was the best performing video. That video got me to half a million subscribers. That video, that video went up to trending because everybody was talking trash about defeating sons.  I wasn't actually super critical. Ah, was I critical? I was critical, but I wasn't devaluing those players or anything like some people were. But you know, when you lose by 70 points in your home court in the game seven, you deserve to get laughed at a little bit. And we were laughing a little bit. So like tomorrow, if the goal is say, Warriors close out the series in like convincing, convincing fashion, we might hold off on the video. We might talk about the NBA draft coming up because I've been doing a little bit of draft work. A little bit of draft work, you know what I'm saying? I've been reading some scouting reports, listen to some podcasts, listen to other people and see what they gotta say. I haven't watched a single second of film. Not one, not one second of film. But I listen to other people who have watched film and kind of take bits and pieces from each person. Even though they might be wrong and I should probably form my own opinion. This is something that I will say. You don't need to take about everything. You know what I'm saying? You don't need to take about everything. I don't need to take about Jeremy Sohan. I'll listen to what other people gotta say and take that at value. I don't need to have my own personal opinion about him after, you know, not watching him at all. What are you gonna want me watch a 10 minute highlight reel of him? And to give you all my opinion, there's a highlight reel of me out there on YouTube. And it make me look like I'm at least an average basketball player. You know what I'm saying? Highlight reels gonna make everybody look dope and it's not the case. When there's a blowout, I ain't got nothing to talk about. Actually I do. Okay, so I've been going onto Twitter and trying to figure out what are people blaming for the blowouts because that is the topic of conversation right now. Which is unfortunate again, because this is the conference finals and we should be talking about the extra nodes or the different match-ups or whatever. Everybody's talking about blowouts because that's a prominent thing right now. And a lot of people are trying to credit it to the scheduling because we're going day after day or game, gap, game, gap. And there's no two day rest. There's no three game rest. Even though we got some of that in the second round, at least a little bit of it in the second round. But I was just looking at previous seasons. In previous years, it's always game, no game. Game, no game. So I'm not completely sure. If that is the reason why, I still think that the lack of variation in the scoring matters like, but then again today, I just mentioned that the Boston Celtics shot like 20% from three and still one by 20. I don't know what the reason is, y'all. But whatever it is, I want it fixed immediately because I hate those tweets that say, bro, I'm not in the playoffs. I don't feel the same. But y'all, you know, I might be agreeing. I don't know, bro. I don't know. Wow. Somebody on Reddit has a huge write up. Let's read their opinion. Y'all know I like to deep dive on Reddit every once in a while. So let's go ahead and do that. Oh my God. Okay. I knew it was a lot, but I didn't think it was going to be this much. This is from, you still take damage. Okay. So let's see what he said. Let me preface this by saying that he played like SHIT and no one deserved this game. Depot was the only dude that showed up. That's what I said. But overall just horrible. Okay. Cool. The NBA condensing games like this is absolutely awful for basketball. Oh snap. This is actually true because like I said, I went to look at previous years to see if it was one game, break one game, breaking it was, but I didn't go far enough to go pre-play in. And this is what this person is saying. The NBA condensed these games to try to fit in the play in by and also still have the NBA finals take place in June. The real exception, the real only exception was the Bucks Celtics having a longer break. And that's because the Bucks arena was booked. I didn't, I didn't even know that was the case. Like I said, they had the one in the second round, but I didn't know it was because the arena was booked. The players are exhausted and running on fumes, which is leads to so many nagging injuries and all teams playing under man. Injuries happen. Yes. But it's turned into a war of attrition. To see stuff like this and suddenly how can anyone blame players for low management? Huh. Oh, does it turn into a low management debate? I'm kind of here for this. They have to preserve their bodies because the playoffs just become a grind to see what team has the most healthy players left. They see the change, reducing the number of games, elimination, eliminating back to backs, especially where, oh, so he's thinking. So they're thinking about the overarching thing and not necessarily just about the playoffs. They're thinking that, hey, get rid of the back to backs in the regular season. And I would assume that majority of NBA fans were not mad or would not care if the regular season goes a little bit longer. The overall even postseason goes a little bit longer if that means the product is better. If we needed extra days of rest so that every single game out of blower, I'm cool. We're going a day or two without some basketball alone. Listen, I will be okay. We will be okay. If that means that the average margin of victory is not 20 points. So again, shout out to you still take damage because this was a pretty good write-up with their opinion about why we're getting to the point where we are. Also didn't even realize that 18 total points for the starters of the Miami Heat, that is dreadful. PJ Tucker had 17 points last game and they were big win. He had a donut today. He had the same amount of points as I did and I've been sitting in this chair since 7th, 3rd. That's not true. That don't let me stop acting like that's all my life is. It's really not. I have a whole daughter that I'm, you know. Anyway, maybe I'll see y'all tomorrow. We'll see if it's a closed game or something to talk about. I'll be here.


Good day, fellow investors.  So the SEC Commission passed 14 F-regulation where US hedge fund managers have to disclose their positions usually 45 days after a quarter has passed. So every time 15th of February, so now we'll start seeing, okay, what did Zett-Klarman buy? What did Warren Buffett buy? What did Warren Buffett sell? Et cetera. David Einhorn, Loeb and all the other big shots in the environment will show what they own and many follow there, okay, he bought that, the price is even lower now, let me jump in in that position. It must be good. And in this video, I want to discuss, okay, whether there is that is a smart strategy or not and how you can imply that and what you have to think about. The first thing is, as I said, everything they do is delayed and you get the information delayed. And even if it is something very important for them, they can require from the SEC to not disclose that position until they have fully made the fully positioned because they can move the markets. So that's also something to keep in mind. Not everything is out there. Plus, short positions are not out there. Positions less than a certain amount or smaller stocks are not out there because they can move the markets. Secondly, as there is no short position, you never know whether a hedge fund manager went long and short. David Einhorn, he says it later, but you cannot see it. He's, I think, long what was a General Motors and short Tesla. So it is a long, short position, something that you cannot know. Further, merger arbitrage. So you see a fund manager being long Bristol Myers of Celgene with their merger, but to take advantage of the spread there, but you never know how much is he long in relation to how much is he short the other stock to get advantage of that merger arbitrage. So also something retail investors really cannot know and cannot do. And I received a lot of questions about this merger. What is the chance there? And there is always, with mergers, Buffett's answer is always the best. If the merger doesn't go through, are you happy holding the stock at what you paid? If yes, then you can play on merger arbitrage. If not, you better stay away. Further, said Claremont recently, the bankruptcy Chapter 11 situation. He invested a lot over the last year into debt and many say he lost a lot of money. But we don't know whether he was short the bonds, whether he bought the bonds, whether he will make a lot of money on something else, no matter what happens there. We don't know what's his long, his short position. So don't feel like, okay, he's invested there. I can invest with him. Secondly, I'm not a lawyer to answer that question. So I don't know what will be the implications of the Chapter 11 of the value there, what can happen? And what is his long time solution out there? Or he can simply have made a mistake. So it's a lot of unknowns there. And I simply cannot answer them.  You will have a 100,000, 200,000 job per year, and you will do the same. And you will not risk your money on a few stocks. So the Renaissance Technologies, someone said a comment about that I have a PhD. Why should I ever disclose that? I don't know. I did that. So I do it. But Renaissance Technologies, they have about 300 employees, 150 PhDs, not in finance, in all other sectors, mathematics, physics, etc. But if you want to invest like them, you have to understand what they are doing. Ray Dalio always says, don't look at one of my positions because you cannot understand to what else it is connected. So he was short this or that or long that. But you cannot understand, okay, what's the whole picture there. And his all weather portfolio is pretty complex. And I keep telling people 1500 people work on that. So if you can understand his positioning, simply get a job with bridge water, do that, and you will do fine. Trying to balance those things out is very, very hard. So the message of this short video, when you look at all those hedge funds and what they are doing and when you will be and even we will be looking at, okay, what did they buy? What did they sell? Try to always look, okay, what part of that transaction I might not see or I might not understand. And this will simply lower your risks in the season of hedge fund disclosures that is coming up. So keep that in mind. That's the only message. And it will perhaps in a lot of their position, you will simply say no, thank you, which is one of the best investment approaches you might ever get. Please subscribe if you like this content, check my other videos about stock analysis, investment education, value orientation and a patient investing, let's say style, where we take advantage of irrationalities in the market over the very long term. Thank you for watching, subscribe, as I said, and I'll see you in the next video.


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Here's some details of the final section. When we're going up to grab, you want to go straight up and grab. Okay, so like I said before, when you're grabbing, you don't want your arms to be completely locked. Your elbows completely locked. You don't want that. So when you're coming out from the top of you, you grab like this. Arms are slightly bent on the inside. Okay, and there's a slight curve to your grab. Alright, because it is too straight, it's too easy for you to injure your elbows. So slightly bent out and grab. When you do your pivot, lead with your hips, lead with your hips, and pull down with your arms. So imagine you're trying to pull a very, very heavy guy. You're going to need to use your whole body, so you're going to have to do that. But don't lose your balance, keep it straight. Your body is still straight. Alright, so lead with your hips. So you're going to have to lead with my hips, then pull down. From here, like I said, go punch directly here. So here we're loading, we're loading, we load it up, and then we're going to unload. So from here, you see I'm loaded up and punched, and unload. Now imagine you're grabbing a person by the collar. You yank them down here, now he's probably in this position, like that. So you yank them down there, now this punch is going to go straight into space. You're probably going to make contact here already, but we're going to follow through and punch all the way this way. So same this way, come up, wrap, yank it. Now he's probably going to be like this, because you just yank them down. So when you punch, you're probably going to make contact here, and then you're just going to punch straight through over to here. Right, so that's some details on the double grab.


Good morning friends, in the previous classes we have learned how to design the razor using the Keynes method, modulus method and the NRL method. Now let us see another topic today that is the feed metal volume. What is this feed metal volume? One must remember that the razor or the feeder should take care of the casting shrinkage as well as its own shrinkage because during the solidification casting undergoes shrinkage and the razor also undergoes shrinkage. So the razor has to take care of the casting shrinkage as well as its own shrinkage. Now little volume of the liquid metal from the razor solidifies during the process of the feeding hence the entire volume of the razor will not be available for the purpose of the feeding. So this is clear right. So if we are designing a razor with a particular amount of volume of the liquid metal this entire liquid metal will not be available for the purpose of the feeding because part of that will be freezing before it could what say feed the casting. Thus a feeder must compensate solidification shrinkage as shown by the following expression. Alpha into Vc plus Vr is equal to eta f into Vr where Vc is the volume of the casting, Vr is the volume of the razor, alpha is the percentage volumetric shrinkage of the cast metal. So different what say shrinkages for different metals we will be seeing in the next slide. Now eta f is the razor efficiency which is defined as the ratio of feed metal available to the total volume of the razor. So that is the definition for the razor efficiency. Here we can see alpha into Vc plus Vr is equal to eta f into Vr. Here we can see this is the volume of the casting and this is the volume of the razor. This is multiplied by the percentage volumetric shrinkage means this is the total shrinkage of the casting as well as that of the razor. Now this total shrinkage is to be compensated by the razor. Now what is the razor? This is eta means this is the razor efficiency multiplied by the volume of the razor gives us the amount of liquid metal that is available for the purpose of feeding the casting as well as the razor. Now these are the volumetric shrinkages of different cast metals. Pure aluminum volumetric shrinkage is 6.6 percent, aluminum 12 percent silicon alloy and the volumetric shrinkage is 3.8 percent, aluminum 4.5 percent copper alloy and the volumetric shrinkage is 6.3 percent, grey cast iron 0 to 1.8 percent, white cast iron 4 to 5.5 percent, plain carbon steels 2.5 to 4 percent, copper the volumetric shrinkage is 4.5 percent, tin bronze the volumetric shrinkage is 5.5 percent, aluminum bronze the volumetric shrinkage is 4 percent, magnesium the volumetric shrinkage is 4.2 percent, zinc and its volumetric shrinkage is 6.5 percent, lead and its volumetric shrinkage is 3.2 percent, gold and its volumetric shrinkage is 5.5 percent. So these are the values of alpha the volumetric shrinkages for different cast metals or the alloys. Now let us see another definition that is the razor efficiency. What is this razor efficiency? The razor efficiency is the ratio of the total feed metal available to the total volume of the razor. So this total feed metal available for the purpose of feeding is always less than the total volume of the razor because part of the liquid metal in the razor solidifies before it could feed the casting. That is why this feed metal volume is always less than the total volume of the casting. So open cylindrical razors have a low efficiency less than 15 percent whereas a cylinder what is a razor with an exothermic cover and sleeve its what is a razor efficiency will be more than 70 percent. The maximum efficiency of a razor depends on its shape and use of the feed aids. What is its shape and what are the feed aids? Are we using any feed aids? First of all what are these feed aids we are going to see very shortly these feed aids. Next one razor efficiency can be improved by achieving directional solidification and modifying its design. What is this directional solidification? Let us quickly review before that let us take a problem. Design an open side razor without any feeding aid like insulating sleeve, exothermic cover, etc. for a casting of dimensions 25 into 25 into 5 centimeters using modulus method. Check its adequacy when A the material of the casting is plain carbon steel and in the second case the material of the casting is pure aluminum. Means we have to design the razor for this simple casting whose what is a length is 25 centimeters width is 25 centimeters and the thickness is 5 centimeters using modulus method. The methods that we have learned in the modulus method and the NRL method that is the main guideline. So, afterwards we need to check whether what we have designed is correct or not. What we have designed is sufficient or not because different cast metals have different shrinkages. Unfortunately in the modulus method and also in the NRL method the material of the casting or what is a percentage shrinkage, percentage volumetric shrinkage does not come into picture. Only the Keynes method takes care of the material of the casting. That is why when we are designing using what is a modulus method and NRL method we need to cross check whether what we have designed is sufficient or not. So, that is the adequacy. Adequacy means will it be sufficient or not solution. Now volume of the casting we see is equal to 25 into 25 into 5 centimeters that is equal to 3125 cubic centimeters. Surface area of the casting is equal to 25 into 25 such phase are 2 multiplied by 2 plus 4 into 25 into 25. These phase are there are 4 such phases. So, we are multiplying by 4 that is equal to 1750 square centimeters. So, this is the surface area of the casting. Now modulus of the casting what is the modulus ratio of the volume to the surface area. So, VC by SCSE what is a here C stands for the casting that is equal to 3125 divided by 1750. Thus the modulus of the casting is equal to 1.7857. So, this is the modulus of the casting. Next one now we need to find out the modulus of the razor. Now in the during the what say when we have learnt about the what say design of the razor using the modulus method we have seen that the modulus of the razor should be 1.2 times the modulus of the casting. Thus MR the modulus of the razor is equal to 1.2 multiplied by MC the modulus of the casting that is equal to 1.2 into 1.7857 that is equal to 2.1429. So, this is the modulus of the razor. Now, but for a cylindrical razor that to when the diameter of the razor is equal to height of the razor we have seen that the modulus of the cylindrical razor is equal to d by 6 this we have already learnt when we are learning about the modulus method. Thus this 2.1429 is equal to d by 6 or d is equal to 6 into 2.1429 that is equal to 12.8 centimeters. This is the diameter or the height of the razor. So, diameter of the razor is equal to 12.8 centimeters and also the height of the razor is also the same 12.8 centimeters. Now, this is the what say design of the razor or the dimensions of the razor we have obtained by the modulus method. Now, we need to cross check whether this design is sufficient for feeding the casting or not or what we need to check thus the what say liquid metal present in this razor of a size 12.5, 12.8 and 12.8 what say size will it be what say will it have sufficient to liquid metal to feed the casting or not. So, we need to cross check case 1 material of the casting is plain carbon steel the case 1. Now, this is the what say expression we have learnt previously alpha into Vc plus Vr is equal to eta f multiplied by Vr where this what say this expression on the left hand side represents the total shrinkage whereas, the expression on the right side represents the total liquid metal available for the feeding or we can say the expression on the left side indicates the demand this much liquid metal this much shrinkage is there or this much liquid metal is required. On the other hand the right side expression tells us this much liquid metal is available for the purpose of the feeding. So, one side we can see this is the demand and the other side we can see the supply. So, always in the design of the razor the supply should be more than the demand then only that razor is what say sufficient for feeding the casting. Now, we need to find out these two expressions and check. Now, in this expression what is Vc it is the volume of the casting 3, 1, 2, 5 cubic centimeters Vr is the volume of the razor that is equal to 1572 cubic centimeters. Alpha is the volumetric shrinkage that is for the plain carbon steels it is say 2.5 to 4 percent. We are taking the maximum what say volumetric shrinkage and eta f is the razor efficiency for an open razor without any feeding aid what say razor efficiency is 15 percent. Thus alpha into Vc plus Vr is equal to alpha means 4 percent means that is 0.04 into this is the volume of the casting 3, 1, 2, 5 plus 1572 the volume of the razor is equal to 188 cubic centimeters means the left side expression or the demand for the liquid metal is 188 cubic centimeters. Similarly, let us calculate this right side expression eta f into Vr eta f into Vr eta f means what is that that is the efficiency of the razor that is 15 percent. So, 0.15 into Vr volume of the razor 1572 that is equal to 236 cubic centimeters. Now, the demand is 188 cubic centimeters whereas, the supply of the liquid metal is 236 cubic centimeters right supply is more than the demand. Hence, there is no chance for the shrinkage because there is more liquid metal to what say compensate the shrinkage. So, there hence the size of the razor is adequate means it is sufficient. Now, let us see the second case material of the casting is pure aluminum again the same expression we need to calculate this left side this is alpha into Vc plus Vr right side eta f into Vr. So, this is the demand for the liquid metal and this is the supply of the liquid metal or available liquid metal. Now, again Vc is the volume of the casting that is 3125 cubic centimeters Vr is the volume of the razor that is equal to 1572 cubic centimeters alpha is the volumetric shrinkage for pure aluminum it is 6.6 percent and eta f is the razor efficiency since the razor is an open one and without any feeding aid it is 15 percent. Now, in this expression alpha into Vc plus Vr is equal to alpha that is equal to 0.066 into 3125 plus 1572 that is equal to 310 cubic centimeters. Now, let us calculate the right side expression eta f into Vr is equal to eta f is point what say 15 percent that is 0.15 into 1572 that is equal to 236 cubic centimeters. Now, let us see this is the what say total shrinkage or this is the demand for the liquid metal. This is the supply this much liquid metal is available for the purpose of the feeding this is the demand this is the supply means here the supply is less than the demand this much 310 cubic centimeters shrinkage is there but the available liquid metal is 236 cubic centimeters only means the shrinkage will be more than the what say liquid metal that is available for feeding hence the size of the razor is not adequate this is not sufficient means the casting requires still a bigger razor. So, that is how we can cross check what we have designed is sufficient or not what we have means the design of the razor is adequate or not we can check using this expression. Now, let us see the methods of improving the razor efficiency one is the directional solidification second one is the by using the blind razors third one is the modification of the razor design. So, first we will see the directional solidification under that this directional solidification can be achieved by using insulating sleeves that directional solidification can be achieved using chills directional solidification can also be achieved using exothermic materials. First of all quickly review what is this directional solidification here you can see this is the casting and this is the razor and here we can see one more casting and a razor is somewhere here. Now, here we can see and this is the razor and this white color indicates the liquid metal whereas this gray color indicates the solidified metal. Now, the solidification is progressing in this direction and this is the razor and here there is liquid metal and the solidification is progressing in this direction. You can see slowly more and more material will be solidified more and more material will be solidified and it is going towards the razor this is the directional solidification. Now, let us see the second case here we can see the razor is somewhere here, but you see this is the solidified metal the gray colored one is the solidified metal whereas the white one is the liquid metal and here we can see the red colored one say is this that is the center line of the casting. Now, the solidification is progressing perpendicular to the center line of the casting. Now, what happens the razor is somewhere here the razor is what say it has sufficient metal to feed the casting, but before it could feed the casting this is slowly coming. See this portion is coming towards the center or the axis similarly the bottom portion is progressing towards the axis finally what will happen somewhere there will be shrinkage will be there and the razor though it has got the sufficient liquid metal it is not able to supply the liquid metal to that shrinkage area why because the there what say solidification is progressing perpendicular to the axis of the casting. So, this is the progressing progressive solidification always the directional solidification is good for the casting if we want there should not be any what say shrinkage cavity then there must be perfect directional solidification whereas sometimes because of the geometry or because of the what say pouring temperature or the material of the casting sometimes this progressive solidification dominates compared to the directional solidification. Generally in any solidification there will be directional solidification there will be progressive solidification also, but the progressive solidification should be less the directional solidification should be more, but if the progressive solidification is dominating certainly that would reduce the efficiency of the razor though sufficient liquid metal is there it is not able to flow into the casting because the solidified metal is obstructing the flow of the liquid metal into that portion where there is shrinkage. So, that is why directional solidification is very important. So, when we are designing the razor we have to see that there is directional solidification. So, we have to remember that excessive of progressive solidification leads to shrinkage defect. So, now let us see how to achieve this directional solidification. Again we can see here casting force geometry does not permit directional solidification here we can see this is the casting the casting has got three sections one section A another section B and another section C and this is the razor now you can see the section A has got the largest thickness whereas the section C has got the moderate thickness and the section B has got the minimum thickness. Now what will happen the liquid metal from the razor it has to feed the casting in this direction. Now solidification has to start from here slowly it has to progress towards the razor then only it will be able to feed the casting. Now what is happening in this case the thickness of the first section A is larger than compared to the other two sections. So, the thickness of the center section the middle section is minimum. So, this portion freezes quickly then what happens this portion does not quick as fast as the section B. Now because it has frozen the liquid metal has to come and it has to feed this portion now the liquid metal is not able to flow into section A the first section why because the center section has already solidified. Now how can we ensure the directional solidification certainly this casting does not permit directional solidification. Now let us see how to achieve the directional solidification using insulating sleeves we can achieve the directional solidification what are these insulating sleeves here we can see the same casting where what say the directional solidification is very difficult to achieve. So, we are taking the same casting now what we are doing here this section is covered by the insulating sleeve. Now what happens because of that there will be less heat transfer to the mould walls because of that this portion takes longer time for solidification by the time this before this portion is solidified this portion will be solidifying. So, first the section A will be solidifying because of the presence of the insulating sleeve next only the second section will be solidifying next section C will be solidifying now the liquid metal from the razor is able to flow into the initially into the section A next section B section C slowly the solidification is progressing towards the razor. So, by using the insulating sleeves we can achieve the directional solidification. Next one using chills also we can achieve the directional solidification what are these chills. Now let us take the same casting where directional solidification was found to be difficult previously we have seen somewhere here we have kept the insulating sleeve because of that it has taken longer time. So, before that because of that first section A has solidified faster then the directional solidification was possible. Now instead of using insulating sleeve we can place a chill here chill is a steel block and this chill absorbs heat rapidly. Now what is happening in this casting thus what is the thickness of this section A is larger than the B and C that is why this takes longer time for solidification before that section B can solidify. Now we have to see that section A takes lesser time for solidification after section A solidifies next section B should solidify after that section C should solidify. So, that is our what is a plan that is our aim. So, for that what we are doing we are placing a chill here chill means a steel block close to the mould wall then what will happen the solid what is a liquid metal comes in contact with this chill the steel block the steel block rapidly absorbs heat because of that this portion solidifies faster compared to the previous case where there was no feed aid. Now this takes lesser time compared to the other sections. Now the section B solidifies after that section C solidifies. Now the liquid metal is able to initially it is able to flow into A next into B next into C slowly the solidification is progressing towards the razor. So, by placing chill also we can achieve the directional solidification. Next one by using exothermic materials also we can achieve the directional solidification what are these exothermic materials these are the what is a mixtures of metal oxides oxides of nickel cobalt copper manganese iron and aluminum. Now these exothermic mixtures are placed on the top of the razor then what will what will happen an exothermic reaction will be taking place on the top of the razor. Now a typical exothermic compound is you can see Fe 2 O 3 plus aluminum when this mixture is placed on the top of the razor now you see this reaction will be taking place. Now right you can see here this is the exothermic material this much right and now when it is placed on the top of the razor the reaction will be like this 4 aluminum Al 2 O 3 plus 8 Fe plus heat. Now you see the temperature produced it is very high temperature is produced. Now what is the directional solidification first of all directional solidification means the point which is away from the razor must solidify first then the solidification slowly it should propagate towards the razor and the razor should be the one which will be solidifying at the last. Now we are increasing the razor to a very high temperature then what will happen because of the high temperature of the razor it will be taking longer time for solidification. So because of this longer time for solidification so more metal is available for feeding for a longer time that is how it is able to the feed the liquid metal to the casting and finally because of this high temperature of the razor finally it will be solidifying at the end so that is the directional solidification. So by placing exothermic materials on the top of the razor also we can achieve the directional solidification. Now there is another method of improving razor efficiency is by using blind razor. What is this blind razor yes this is the mold you can see here this is the pouring basin this is the sprue the molten metal will be flowing like this and this is the sprue well and this is the runner and this is the runner finally this is the cavity and here of course here there is a core and it flows around the core finally it rises through the razor. An open razor is exposed to the atmosphere because of that there will be more heat transfer. So to minimize this heat transfer we can use a blind razor here you can see this is a blind razor you can see. So this certainly this contains enough liquid metal but it is not exposed to the atmosphere because of that it will be in liquid state for a longer time because it is in a liquid state for a longer time it can feed the casting for a longer time finally it will be the one which will be solidifying at the last. So casting will be solidifying first and this will be solidifying last so that is the directional solidification. By what say by incorporating the blind razor also we can achieve the directional solidification. Next one by modifying the design of the razor we can improve the razor's efficiency modification of the design again there are 5 ways of modifying razor design one is the multiple razoring by using multiple razors we can what say increase the razor efficiency. What is this multiple razoring? A razor can feed the casting only up to a certain distance. So if we place a razor it may have what say sufficient volume of the liquid metal to feed the entire casting but it can feed only up to a certain distance. Beyond that distance though it contains more than sufficient liquid metal it cannot feed the casting. So this distance is known as the feeding distance of the razor. Based on the feeding distance multiple razors have to be incorporated if required. So once we know that there is a feeding distance once we know that a razor can feed only up to a certain distance which is known as the feeding distance and if the length of the casting is more than the feeding distance then what we have to do? We have to adopt multiple razors means we have to use 2 razors or 3 razors or even more depending upon the length of the casting. The feeding distance of a razor has to be calculated before finalizing the number of razors. Now the question is say there may be a long casting so how many razors does it require? How to know? First we need to find out the feeding distance. What is the feeding distance of each razor? Then we can find out how many razors are required to feed that casting. So by adopting multiple razors we can increase the efficiency of the razor. Now we are defining the feeding distance. The distance up to which a razor can feed the casting during solidification is known as feeding distance. Feeding distance has got 2 components. One component is the end effect and the other component is the razor effect. Let us see what are these end effects and the razor effects. End effect. Now this is a casting for example a casting without a razor. Practically it may not be a case. Generally we make a casting with razors. Let us consider a casting without razor. Now what is happening here? This portion the extreme portion is more subjected to solidification because it is more exposed to the mould wall. Similarly the other end is also more exposed to the mould wall. So here the solidification what say will be more here and this end. So this centre portion will be solidifying after some time whereas this extreme end the left end and the right end will be solidifying faster. Now what happens? Here because of that while it is solidifying this portion will be supplying the liquid metal because the central portion has got the liquid metal. So that acts as the razor for the end portion. So there is no shrinkage in this portion. Similarly there is no shrinkage in this portion. Now we can observe one thing. For the certain length of the casting without razor there was no shrinkage. Why? Because the central portion is acting as the razor. So the two ends of the casting have no shrinkage. This is due to the rapid solidification at the end and feeding from the inner portion of the casting. This phenomenon is known as the end effect. Means there is no shrinkage at the end. End effect promotes a distance of 2.5 T where T is the thickness of the section or the slab. Now let us see another casting. This casting has a razor. Previously we have seen that 2.5 times the thickness was there without any shrinkage. Now we are placing a razor. This is the razor. Now to this central portion this is supplying the liquid metal and because of that there is no shrinkage cavity. Previously there was shrinkage cavity without razor. Now there is no shrinkage cavity. Now this length is 2 T where T is the thickness of the slab or thickness of the section. Why? Now here there is no shrinkage in this portion, central portion. Here also there is no shrinkage and what is its length and if we measure it will be 2 T. And if we measure here it will be 2 T. Again a distance of 2 T in a distance of 2 T there is no shrinkage. Why? Because we have placed the razor. Because of the presence of the razor there is no shrinkage in that length. This is known as the razor effect. The middle portion of the casting has no shrinkage due to the presence of the razor. This is known as razor effect. Razor effect promotes a distance of 2 T. Now end effect we have already seen. End effect is 2.5 T and razor effect is 2 T. Then what is the total distance, feeding distance, total feeding distance due to end effect and razor effect is 2 T plus 2.5 T that is equal to 4.5 T. So this is the total feeding distance for a razor or when we use a razor so this much distance is covered by the razor and in this much distance there would not be any shrinkage. Now here we can see the illustration and concept of the feeding distance. Now feeding distance is the length of the casting where there would not be any shrinkage whether it is due to the end effect or due to the razor effect. Now the question is how to measure this feeding distance? Is it from the center of the razor or from the end of the razor? So the feeding distance here you can see this is the F T and this is the razor. This is the razor and this is the casting. Now the feeding distance is always measured from the edge of the razor you see from the edge of the razor to the furthest point in the casting or the casting section to be fed by that razor. It starts from the edge of the razor to the furthest point in the casting that is fed by the razor. So it starts from here and it ends here so this is the feeding distance. Now again we will see razor zone length RZL of a casting section without end effects. Suppose let us assume there is no end effect only razor effect is there.  So razor zone will be a cylindrical portion. So this must in this much portion there would not be any shrinkage. So this is the razor zone. Now let us see another case end zone length EZL of the casting means if we again if we ignore the razor because of the end effect so this much portion there would not be any shrinkage. So this is the end zone or this is the end zone length. Now let us see a problem. A steel casting of size 40 into 25 into 10 centimeters is to be fed by a side razor calculate the feeding distance of the razor. So we need to calculate the feeding distance of the razor. It is a simple problem thickness of the casting T is equal to 10 centimeters this much. Now what is feeding distance 4.5 times the thickness of the slab or thickness of the casting that is equal to 4.5 into 10 that is equal to 45 centimeters so that is the feeding distance. It is a simple what is a example to calculate the feeding distance. Now feeding distance with two razors influence of end effect and razor effect for a steel plate casting with two razors. Here we can see this is the casting this is the casting and this is one razor and this is one razor. Suppose if we have placed two razors for this steel casting what will be the total feeding distance on one side there will be 4.5 T will be the feeding distance. Again this 4.5 T means it has got two components say 2.5 times T is the end effect and 2 T is the razor effect. So total this side of the razor there is a feeding distance of 4.5 T. Again this side there is a razor effect what is how much is it it is 2 T. So this is 2 T. Again for this razor again on one side there is razor effect how much is that that is 2 T. So in the center from this razor to this razor there is 40 distance of the feeding distance. Again from this razor from this end up to here 2.5 T 2 T is the razor effect and from here from the end up to here 2.5 T is the end effect. So the total feeding distance on this side is 4.5 T. Now what is the total feeding distance when we are using two razors it is 13 T. So remember that when we are using two razors for a steel casting the total feeding distance is 13 T. Now let us see one more problem design top razoring system for a steel slab casting of size 60 into 10 into 5 centimeters using NRL method Naval Research Laboratory method. Now this is the solution a single razor can feed a distance of 4.5 times the thickness of the casting. So here it comes to be 22.5 centimeters on each side. Hence the feeding distance on both the sides is equal to 45 centimeters. Thus a single razor is not sufficient in this case number of razors required in this case is equal to 2. The casting can be considered as two sections each of 30 into 10 into 5 centimeters. Actually the length of the casting is 60 centimeters but we are considering this as two sections each section's length is 30 centimeters. So this is the one section so other section is also of this much size only. So if we design the razor for this section so other section also will be requiring the same razor. Now the shape factor for each section is equal to L plus W divided by T. So that is equal to 30 plus 10 divided by 5 that is equal to 8. Now this is the NRL graph on the x axis we see the shape factor that is L plus W divided by T and on the y axis we see razor volume to casting volume ratio V r by V c. Now just now we have seen the shape factor is 8. So if we what say put this shape factor that is 8 on the x axis you see. So this is the shape factor you draw a line such that it touches the graph. So here it is touching. Now from here we draw a horizontal line towards the V r by V c. So this is the point where the line is touching the y axis. Now it is something between 0.4 and 0.6. If we more approximate it will be say 0.45 and something more. So it is shape factor for 8 is equal to 0.55. Now volume of the casting is equal to 30 into 10 into 5 that is equal to 1500 cubic what say centimeters. Volume of the razor V r is equal to now shape factor this is the V r by V c. V r by V c is equal to 0.55. So V r by this what say V r by V c ratio 0.55 into 1500 that is equal to 825 cubic centimeters. Now this is the NRL razor selection chart. Now so this is the volume we got volume of the razor is 825 cubic centimeters. Now here we can see on the x axis we see the razor volume and on the y axis we see the razor height. Now the razor volume is 825 cc cubic centimeters. So we have to identify 825 cc on the x axis. So this is the place we have approximated 825 cc. So from here we have to draw a line vertically like this. Now so these are all the different razor lines. This is the line corresponding to diameter 12.5 this line. This line is the one which corresponds to diameter 15. This is the line which corresponds to diameter 17.5 and this is the line which corresponds to diameter 20 and this is the line which corresponds to diameter 22.5. Now we have to draw a line upwards from this 825 razor volume. Then in this process that line will be intersecting all these razor lines. You see all these razor lines are what say intersected by this line. You see at this point it is intersecting at this point it is intersecting at this point at this point also finally at this point this vertical line is intersecting the different razor lines. Now what happens we have a rule that the diameter or the height by what say diameter ratio should be between 0.5 to 1 means the h by d ratio should not be less than 0.5. Similarly the h by d ratio should not be more than 1. Now you see here we this line has intersected the 5 razor lines here, here, here, here and here. Now all these 4 lines are in all these cases the h by d ratio is less than 0.5. You see as we come down the h by d ratio will be less than 0.5. Only in this case the h by d ratio is above 0.5 and less than 1. So though we we get the 5 values for the razor height only one is feasible this one. So all these 4 are to be discarded. Now what is the razor height in this case it is 7.5. You see this is 5 and this is 10 so this is 7.5. So finally only this value will be choosing. Now we get only one case that is the diameter is you see the diameter is for this line the diameter is 12.5 12.5 and this is the height that is 7.5. So the case one only one case 12.5 centimeters diameter and 7.5 centimeters height. And remember we have considered only half of the casting for half of the casting this is the required what is a razor required for the remaining half of the casting one more razor is required. So two such razors are required. So friends in this lecture we have learned how to design the razor and razoring system using NRL method. We will continue in the next lecture. Thank you.


Fighting games are hard. This is a fact I recently relearned when picking up Guilty Gear Strive again with the release of the brand new DLC character, Bridget. Now going into this video, I thought it was going to be one of those things where I play Bridget online, get some wins, get some losses, and eventually call it a wrap. Yeah, that is not what happened. But if I was afraid of posting videos where I lose in a fighting game online, I wouldn't have this channel. So with that said, I hope you enjoyed what may be the most humbling video I have ever recorded. Alright, level 589 Zato, and I don't know how to play defense in Guilty Gear, so this is looking like it's going to be a rough first match. But you know what? My day one Bridget was forged in the fires of Guilty Gear Strive. Let me go ahead and get this win. And I'm going to do it through the power of Yo-Yo Neutral. I'm going to start by walking the dog backwards. Watch this. I'm simply going to, oh, first I'm going to skate in. Oh, look at how cool this character is. Walking the dog, walking the dog. Ooh, would you like some extra bloodshed with that beating?  Alright, first I'm going to walk the dog backwards. This is called Neutral. Watch this. He'll respect it. He'll respect it. Walking the dog. Okay, he's making me block. He's making me block. Oh, uh, let's go. Let's go. Try to jump in on me again. No. Oh, I did the answer here, but I missed. I messed it up. Oh, she eats. Alright, how do I, I should not have done the bounce. I should not have done that. Walk that. Jump again. Jump again. Jump again. I dare you. I dare you to jump again. Damn it. Oh, if I had a little more range, I don't know why I'm asking for range. He's going to try to grab. No, dust. Damn, I lose. Dust is an overhead. I got to remember that. That's my bad. That's my bad. Look, tough first round. Tough first round, but if I had a little bit better range, I think we win those. I'm going to start with a slash. Now we lose. Damn, I've got bounced back over here. Damn. Oh, he saw I was going to burst. He saw I just got it back. Oh, but we have a little bit of health for neutral. Damn it. This fight from the ground. Okay. Run for his round, dude. This guy's good. This guy's good. I got to play actual guilty. I got to know when to, I got to know when to hit him and when to fold. That's all I got to do. That's all I got to do. See if I can't get a little bit of a combo here and there, but it's looking like I'm going to have to win this one through sheer neutral. Oh, no, not burst. I wasted my burst. We blocked those. We don't block those. We don't block the sweep afterwards. Take that. Get that out of here. Damn. It's so close. It's so close. All I need is a little momentum. If I get a little momentum, I feel like I could take off. Let me take off. What? Okay. Okay. You got me. You got me. You got me with the overhead. You got me with the overhead. The grab. Am I dead to that? Am I dead to that? Or do I live? Damn. Powerful grab. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Guilty gear is tough. Guilty gear is rough. Look at my first day back on the job, dude. Let me get a, let me, let me, let me warm up a little. Look, you can only get three rematches in these games and I only need one win. So let me get this last one right here. Oh my God. He's got rain. Cancel it into the command grab. I'm nice. Oh, another command grab and I canceled out all the damage from it. Kickstart my heart. All right. We're going to get a win. Now I'm playing like a player. Now I'm playing like players play right here. Shit. That's not good. No shot. I threw that. No shot. I threw that. Oh my God. That sucked. God. That's powerful. God. That's so strong. God. That's so strong. Oh, he just knocks me out of the air. Damn. I couldn't block it all. Oh, dude. Let me get a run back. Let me get a run back. Please, dude. I learned how to play Guilty Gear in that set. I got it now. I got it now. I got it now. I learned Guilty Gear. I know Guilty Gear. I know Guilty Gear.  Please. I didn't get my run back, but I did find a biking player. Oh, it's okay. Look. Hey, I haven't fought a biking. It's been that long. I don't think I've played the game since biking was introduced. Oh, get that out of here. Oh, I got grabbed. What's that? A counter. I don't know. It did a lot of damage. It was probably a counter. It was probably a counter. I don't know the rules. I don't know the rules. All right. All right. Reset neutral. Reset neutral. That's fine. Oh, double overhead from that far. Damn. I got to learn so much defense. All right. All right. Now I know. Now I know. Okay. That is a wall, dude. That is a wall that I am not getting through that easily. No grab. No grab. I just got to hold this. I'm in the corner now. Break the wall. Okay. Break the wall. We're out of there. I got burst. We'll live the next one. Wow. That has a hitbox and a half. Oh, we traded. That is a wall. Dude, that wall is crazy. Damn. That's a cool victory screen though. Dude, how do I get past that biking wall?  All right. Now we're going up against the level 500 Potemkin here. So this is going to be interesting. He told me not to jump, but I actually don't plan on jump. Damn. That was smoothie rolled forward. I just got that no problem. He did it again. He did it again. Now he thinks I'm going to jump though. I'm just actually going to mash. Yeah, he thought. Dude, I've played grapplers in other games, man. That was not as clever as you would think. Oh, he stopped me on my rampage. He stopped me just as the goal was getting good. Oh, he's nice. He's nice. He's nice. Oh, but I did not mean to burst. I did not mean to burst. All right. Now we jump. Now we jump. Yup. Yup. Yup. Dude, I've seen your type before. Damn, I try to get my own command grab. Damn, I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm actually dead. Damage. Damage. Damage. Damage. My goodness. All right. We got to play a little safer. We got to, you know, treasure the life we have. We got to treasure the life we have. That's all we need. Look, I can see the patterns. It's just, yeah, it's rough out here in these streets, dude. All right. He jumped. Oh, he got to grab. Do I jump here or do I not? I think we mash. Oh God. I did it.   I would, I would ask first into the wall. Damn it. Okay. I keep jumping into range. Why I keep jumping into range. I will never do jump that. Oh, he command grabbed me out of my command grab. What? That is just messed up. Not just trade there. Damn it.  I should, I should R seed. That's my bad. That's my bad. That's my bad. Can't extend. Can't overextend. Damn. Just let me get one win. Oh, he keeps see. I can't believe he can see that. Damn. I jumped into him again. Okay. He's kind of nice with it. All right. All right. There was, there was a much we could do there. I kind of panic. Okay. Okay. Focus. I'm getting, I'm getting, I'm getting this way. All right. He's making fun of me now. He tried to style. He tried to style. He deserves it. He deserves it. But I do like the style choice. Damn it. Jump that. Don't, no jump. No jump. Jump this. I can't believe it. I can't believe. Oh, we live. We actually lived those. Oh, he knew I was thinking it. He knew I was thinking it. Damn. I thought, oh, I thought it was genius. I can't win. Dude, Guilty Gear is tough. God damn, get my eyes beat. Learning pocket. Well, great. Now I think we're playing somebody that's so ancient. Like they're so into Guilty Gear that they're learning a pocket character.  That was just, I'm doing it again. I shouldn't have done it again. I tried it. I'm dead. I'm dead. I'll tell. Ah, the command grab was nice. I should have jumped. I should have jumped. I should have jumped. Okay. All right. We can win this one. We can win this one. Oh, but I love doing that. It's such a, I think it's such a good mix. Oh, but what if though, let's go, let's go. Finally a win. All right. I could win this. I could win this. I'm starting to get Bridget now.  Oh, let's go. I'll play a neutral now. I'll play a neutral now. Let's go. Okay. Okay. I burst these. I burst these. Ah, I thought I had that. All right. Damn. Oh, I lost the match. Okay. All right. Please. All right. I need one win here, dude. I need one win. I just need one win this entire video. Getting back to Guilty Gear is a rough life. Oh, why do I keep doing the kick move from that range? Does it make any sense? I'm bad at the game. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I got this focus. I'm different. I'm a different breed. I got caught throwing the yo-yo. This is probably bad news. Decent range on his part. Oh my God. Oh, the sword range. Damn. It's hard not trading. I got to, I got to keep my health up so I can do these trades because I always die to trades. All right. Last possible game to get a win in. If there was ever a time to win, now is would be that time. I'm going to run up. Okay. Well, that was bad. Oh, no. He bursted there. I don't think I should have even bursted there. Oh, rough. I thought if I held the line up, I could maybe get it. I mean, great enough for him. Oh, oh, oh. Not a fan. Not a fan. Not a fan. Not a fan of how that one went for me. God. Oh my God. I bounced out so quick. No way. I missed it. Oh my God. I'm terrible. I can't do it, dude. I can't wait. I can't wait. I can't wait. I can't win. I just needed a win. Oh my gosh. Life is so hard. All right. I'm going one more. I feel like I, it's really my defense, right? My defense is what's really letting me down. Don't get me wrong. My offense is bad too. I've died to so many trades just in this video, but I just need one win. I could tell I'm right there. I'm using my brain. I just got to get one. Just one win. So let me play a bit slower. Let me play a bit slower and just think about my, let me think about all my actions here. Okay. I don't want to do the grab there. That's not great. Okay. Okay. I'm trying to steal stuff. I'm trying to steal. Okay. The dive was bad. I'm trying to think. God, I'm thinking so hard. Okay. The sweep is, the slash sweep is good. The slash sweep is good. I should use that more. Oh, I did not cancel out of that fast enough. Did not cancel out of that one fast enough. Okay. Okay. I've learned. I've learned. I've learned. I win these. I win these. That would have been a great anti-air if I hit it. A little bit of, a little bit of lag. Oh God. If I can get a counter hit, I can't do anything with that one though. Oh, that could have been sick though. Oh, nice DP. I forgot. I keep forgetting Bridget has a DP. No. I forget Bridget has a DP. I got to use that more too. Damn it. All right. All right. That's good. Learning, learning, learning, going. God, the learning process is going crazy right now. I'm going to do a whole other video where I just get wins as Bridget. Wait for it. Literally wait for the video. Go crazy. Don't believe me. Look at the next upload on this channel. The next upload on this channel is going to be me winning with Bridget. It's going to go crazy. Got the lag. Please. 90 frames. I was bored and I did. Oh, nice. Oh, DP. I forget about the DP. The DP is so nice. She doesn't seem like a character that would have a DP though. There we go. Good anti-air. And then I missed.  All right. All right. This one, this is going to be the one. This is going to be, it's going to hold. All right. We definitely win these. I'm feeling it. Oh, we actually win these. Oh, baby. Oh, I feel bad because the connection is definitely not holding up. But it is what it is. I DP here. Oh, I felt like a genius. Anti-air. Oh, you better cancel. You better cancel. You know the rules. You be here. Oh, give me the DP. You got to give me the DP. Oh my God. I didn't get the DP. I got the sweep. Oh, I gave him too much time to do that. Oh, Berset. No. No, please, please. Last match with the lag. I need it. I need it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. What? That's not real. What do you mean? Layered cable disconnected. Layered cable connected. This was a rough video. This was a rough video. But I'll be back. I'm going to get some wins with Berset. Literally, watch this. Watch this. Next video, Bridget wins coming up.


Should get a start and I'm very lucky because it's a very small group. So we might be able to actually talk, right? What I would actually like to do is not do this kind of formal introduction that I'd planned. We've been together for two days. I probably between us we've covered most of the sessions. Personally, I'm exhausted with this much information. But what I want to talk about with you today is that we can't actually make any progress in our work unless we've got a good grasp on the nature of the problem we're dealing with. So if we think about the talks we've heard over the past two days, I've noticed a number of things. Nobody, at least in the talks that I've been to, has been talking about what's called problems of simplicity, where you've got one or two variables. Like you go in a bank and you say, okay, I'll sort out the credit and debit. No one's talking about that kind of thing. I think it's because we know how to do it. I've not heard anyone talk really about what's called problems of disorganized complexity. Which are problems of statistics and probability. I think it's because we know how to do it. We can do the math. So we can help a health company on death statistics or certain illnesses. Now I just came from a talk given by Linda where this was brought up. But the issue was not our ability to do the calculations. It was our inability to be real about ourselves, which is a very different problem. So in the last two days, I'm not seeing people talk about this. Either one of those simple problems or disorganized complexity problems. What I am seeing is incredible talks, actually all of the ones that I've been to, where what we're talking about are problems of organized complexity. Where, and these are, if you want, these are the biological problems, the life sciences problems. How does something grow? How does aging work? How does an organization adapt and evolve? We're talking about those kinds of problems. The words I've been hearing the last few days are organic, complex, emergence. There was a talk on self-organizing.


rosia. SHU POSLAW BE kwa ni kha jamba 2 days bound to be a good day. Ya, it is a good day, it is a good day. Kha ribu sana 2a 2 5 4. Asante, thank you for having me. So what do you do? I am a researcher attached to a senator basically and I am a media consultant. Ya, and that involves me as a researcher involves having to find out everything that is ongoing in the nation, the country or but most importantly the county where I come from Tarakanipi. My senator is Senator Mwenda Gataya from Tarakanipi County. The first time senator but we are doing good. We are doing good. As a media consultant I basically I found that there was a very big gap between businesses or persons that would be interested to showcase themselves or their business or their agendas, anything and TV. So I fought to use my connection because I built it and in a while I built it so I felt like I can bridge that gap. Ya, so I get people to interviews, give them shows to basically that is just me. Ya, when I was asking what do you do I was thinking in my mind that when you say media research and media consultant you'd probably think it's someone seated in an office doing research in an office but then now that you're bringing the aspect that you actually give people shows tell us about that. Okay, ya, alright, I'm sorry about that. As a researcher, yes, I'm very much in the office or working, media consultancy is a part of the same thing that I do ya but basically I am a research and communications person for the senator of the Rakaniti. Diving into the media is you see there's a very huge gap between this startup businesses or a startup basically I usually basically work with the politicians and businesses ya so the fact that I can bring them closer to their audiences is ya definitely it's just a double thing. Media and research are very much separate but research is the office one ya I don't know if I'm making any sense. Yes you are. Ya, alright. You are. So in short, if we will link what you are explaining or are the saying is that on one end you'll do okay I don't know why I'm always imagining that communication people are I did communication personally. Ya, alright. So I don't know why I'm always imagining that when you're in the communication field you're hardly put power behind the same kind of work then when you come to media you're on the front line, right? Actually on the media path I am so much behind the scenes ya so you get to meet I just bring clients ya to you, to you the host. My job basically behind the media consultancy is giving clients an opportunity to showcase what they have what they want to sell to either the nation or which county just bringing them closer to their audience depending on what they have ya to bring and communication bit of it is communication bit of it is attached to the research so I am behind so many papers office, whatnot but also being a researcher and on communication I have to be so much on the field so whatever brings me closer to the scene is research and communication but media consultancy is just behind the scenes What type of clients do you deal with? My clientele is Other than the senator Actually it's just anyone it's just anyone that has anything to show ya if you have an ambition if you have a business if you have ya anything it's basically open to anyone I also support Thailand so many people are out there they want someone to bring them closer to many people are looking for opportunities to be seen and be heard ya it's just anyone for me I don't have a specific group that I say ya I want you only work with the CEOs I only want to work with the politicians behind the media consultancy thing it's everyone is welcome everyone is it's open for anyone as long as you have something to show for and to be honest I think I love I love working as a media consultant because it's just not about actually there's not much money to charge ya see it's ya you know many many times I just work with what do I see do I see something in you whatever comes ya you then we go with that mostly ya I love I love I love media consultancy thing but pretty much anyone is open to having if you give me if you communicate with me well ya you get the chance so how are you able to like save rather to tell this is genuine this one is Jason Clout how are you able to really tell the authentic client from fake ones because ya know right now I might come to you but I'm fake because I know you have probably a following one to I know you have network so I want to attach myself to you so how are you able to tell between an authentic client and a fake client I think for me basically I think for me I have that gift that we call the gift of discernment I'm sorry I have that gift of discernment it's so easy to tell when someone is it's just so easy when you have actually it's so easy because telling you can see from things they say from there you can just tell it's so easy because you have to give me a background I don't just walk with you so that you are starting up yes it's okay we also walk with startups but you have to give me a background I also do I'm a researcher so I have to do a background check is this person legit is this person a scam or what are they about what are the end goals for them because so many people in so many ways are just after the cloud so it's just basically the gift of discernment and a background check I'm a researcher so it's easy so easy for me so let me ask you have you ever found yourself rather not really found yourself but do you do branding now that you work for the signature of the Rakanizi do you do branding for him I do branding for him but yeah I do branding for him but on the higher level he does the branding for himself he is a good person when you sometimes you don't even need branding when you have the picture right in your head he is an ambitious person he hasn't figured out but I am there as an assistant you see I'm there as an assistant to the glory every person every great person has someone pushing them so my whack is just to push to push him tell him that this enthesis happening here what do you think we should do about it and he is the decision maker he is a big person he is a big person I do the branding but on the higher note he does the branding himself you see when you are a great person you don't need them to talk for you or represent you it will speak for itself and most chances most whatever he does the branding himself but I'm just there to push it do you think that politicians rather people in high for lack of a better word in high places CEOs CEOs presidents politicians name them just people in authority and actually people who have power do you think there is need for a peer branding communication consultant I really feel there is a very high need for that it's a basic need I feel like it's a basic need for them because when you have an ambition to grow you just can't say that you know I am this so I'll just stay back hold back and wait for everyone to see that you see I am good we need PR they need PR pretty much because it's a very big rank it's a very big place so PR comes in when you need to reach many many many people if he is doing for example I am talking about my boss if he needs to put on to do something for example in his county he needs PR because we need this thing to reach so many people because sometimes you just can't walk with a word of mouth from yourself PR is a basic need for them for reachability and traction for a while now there has been a notion that communication experts communication experts do the dirty work of sanitizing a politician's image I know this is a sensitive one just ask what you take on that sanitizing thing sanitizing thing the politician is a dirty dirty work we'll do I don't know how to put it let me just give an example of what Museskuria did because that was in the public what Museskuria did with NTV now you know there was someone who needed to so what you take on politicians doing the most than getting sanitized exactly but my take is sometimes politicians are human not sometimes every other time politicians are human and human is bound to era it's okay to have I am this big person if I create an image it makes me look bad and sometimes it's just human era so if you make a mistake right now and you come to figure omg I did make that mistake and you can't do that you can't do anything to clean it yourself why not I feel like having someone to I wouldn't really call it sanitizing it's just rectifying the mistakes and reminding you that it's this mistake that I have done because I am human but I can do better and I have always done there are so many things before he did whatever he did and all other politicians there are so many other good things that they do so we should not block them or lock them to thinking that when you make a mistake it's non rectifiable so I think sanitizing anyone everyone needs someone to remind people behind this person that is here is a good person are they justified to keep doing what they are doing because it's someone who it's not justified I'm not justifying it I'm just saying that human is too era so we can't keep judging other people and you told me you're a Christian so you know very well they're not allowed to judge just having someone that rectifies your mistake as long as it's a good thing because it's a good thing so I feel like if you're open to think that I made a mistake as a person and I am willing to change then yeah but it's not us the communications people that really have it's not us so them themselves the politicians or the CEOs or the CAFOs or whatever personal choice do you want if you want to be sanitized if you want to give a clean image it's up to them if they ask you sometimes they just don't want it sometimes they feel like so it's up to them it's really not up to us our job is to do our job and make an image that we are yeah let's move to digital media digital media of course now you're a researcher you know it cuts across so what do you think is the role of digital media in women empowerment oh okay I feel like digital media what I'm going to say about that is it gives a clear picture clear mind so it attracts reachability also digital when I'm like for example me being here I'm sure there's someone watching me somewhere and feeling you know this girl featured in a strength of a woman on why 254 why in the morning I feel like it builds others natchas just creates so I feel digital media is on the note for us for a strength of a woman I don't know if I answered you but rightly we're getting there we're getting there you've raced something you've raced a point that has starred I thought you look forgive my forgive my judging but you look young and being a young person this is a young people TV so being a young person and working being a young person a woman and working for let's say it's not a small person exactly I'll tell you why it's not a small person and I'll tell you that as much as we are branding them they are branding us because when it comes to working for someone like that you get the opportunity to meet other greater people you get the opportunity to meet the president who is not so yeah it's not a small person exactly so working for tell us how is the experience I'm telling you everything that has an advantage has a very high chance of having disadvantages so it's not easy when it's not easy but it's enjoyable and it's full feeling I would say as much as it's great there's also some challenges have you encountered bullying? pretty much you wanna talk about it? I really wanted this one time when I got the job this one time I went to the village so everyone nowadays my name is not even Salix no one sees me as me anymore when I go back where I call home no one sees me as me anymore everybody feels like so there's this one time I go to the village so I interacted so many people because you see now that I am in that position I have to represent the senator wherever I go so the following day I had been sent to a fundraiser I think it was a thanksgiving by the senator he was out of the country so me and my family all of us go to the church it's in Choguria coming back home we find that I don't know how they jumped the fence because it was very high we find that somebody had broken into our house and taken everything because we are in a very separate whatever what do I call it we are in anesthet that it's out of reach pretty much but we have neighbors our security was off that day so I'm telling you there's so much bullying then also there's this aspect that you are sometimes sometimes I want to encourage people to see women as women were they are not in that position because you know they are women sometimes they have brains they have what it takes I'm not here because the senator decided umstyananim anyone has more qualifications so many people have more qualifications so the fact that you would assume or think that people are in that state because they are there they have you know so there's a lot of bullying in that sexuality thing and it's not just in the village in Nairobi too you ask someone asks you so many people asking me I've been asked where do you work and then I say I'm working for the state of the Rakanipi and he's like what did you do to get I'm telling you one of the question they ask is are you related and if you're not related then you have something going on for but it's just it's just an aspect of women being bullied I would say that for myself and so many other people we got here because we are qualified to be here and because we are there to stay here yeah just whatever you just don't listen to beliefs so how do you deal with it I just don't listen I flash it out I have been here for a long time I have been a woman for a long time so I feel like at first it used to get to me it used to get to me I used to go home and just cry oh my god but then I felt like I encouraged myself I got the encouragement that whatever when I'm doing good it's a problem for someone when I'm not doing good nothing will ever make people happy about it if someone wants to be happy with you or for you they will just be happy but if so many times it's just nice it's just nice for me do you do content creation I actually do not I'm actually not so much on the forefront on the media forefront I've been here behind the scenes but I'm never that much seen when I want to appear on interviews such as this it's just once in a while I'm not that public person but I'm getting into it I get it so while you were sharing about how women are perceived you get such a job you mentioned something about you were talking about bullying and then a thought came to my mind have you experienced trolling online cyberbullying trolling online I have I have because this person this one time I made a comment actually someone commented about me and I reacted and there was all these oh my goodness there's all these trolls why not your road I'm telling you people do not people feel like so many types I don't know if people feel like I am a stone that you see when you throw me I just stand there I'll just stay still people so much throw stones and they don't expect a reaction they act and don't expect a reaction so pretty much I have sorry about the trolls but it's used to get to me it really used to get to me but right now it's just flash it off I stopped caring because now there's I realize it's not just me I react sometimes I might be reacting for myself but nowadays I have my name attached to the senator so it's not about me anymore so I just stopped I just stopped listening when I see I just assume it's someone else because now I'm carrying an identity that is not even mine I'm not even sure if I am myself I am very much myself someone else's identity so I have as much as I have to protect myself I have to protect it first because it puts food on my table yeah but also because I feel like the reason I have to protect my senator before my feelings is because there's so many people that look up to this person and there's so there's this ambition and there's this this just don't want to get him attached to my own stuff I feel like he has so much to offer the people of Tarakaniti County that is actually currently the best politician the best performing politician in the Senate so yeah yeah so that your previous comment brings me to this aspect of do you feel pressure to act a certain way to leave a certain way how do you deal with it? tell me pretty much I came on a Uber it's expected that you know you wish I've not been working for him for a long time this is my sixth month so now it's not just pressure from the people my friends or what it's pressure from even my family they expect that now you got it's more demand I feel like right now I am more pressured than I have ever been because everyone wants everyone it's just give give give it's not just that I also pressure myself because I also want to perform but yeah it's just so much so much pressure so much pressure oh my goodness I'm telling you sometimes it's hard but you have to look within you now you see someone like me it wasn't expected that right now I am getting all this group invites all of these funders are for white all of these building white what not what not and sometimes you just can't give as much as generosity is a virtue but you just can't I'm not making money enough to just be giving it out not giving it out but I'm not charity is a good it's a good purpose right now there's so much so much of give this and when you don't give them when you don't meet so many people's expectations they start to feel like oh she's bragging oh she got this and now she is this different person I want sometimes I just want to go home sometimes I feel like the day is too long I just want to go home and sleep mostly when I get home I am very unreachable nowadays because there's all these demands all these calls all these what not but we are managing it I manage it by just being silent yeah just being silent and remembering that I am myself that whatever you think it doesn't affect me yeah people's opinions so many times do not have to affect you plus I'm a very prayerful person so sometimes I feel like when I am very low I feel like I would just lean back on my bible or on praise or worship or just anything that you see there's a way there are times that you're uplifted when you're on a low spirit you're uplifted by just leaning on good yeah pretty much so having been in some prestigious platforms what would you say some of the challenges facing women in those platforms I would say bullies one bullies and then expectations so many expectations are bowed on us downed on us and also I would say so many so many inferiority complex persons try to infridge those their inferiority whatever on us so it's it's challenging it's not easy for a woman when you see a woman that is doing something for themselves I feel like pick up that person because there's so much throned on us there's so much expectations on us there's so much trashing on us that you see when a woman makes it so many of the women that have made it they have been told it's because they have dated this one or because they married to this one or because they did this no one sees the efforts of the woman because for example myself I am a parent so waking up every day preparing my children to do I have one child but also I am with my sister so preparing my kid my sister to to go to school or perhaps go to to play or what not and then also juggling being a parent and work is not easy because for a man it's easy because you have sometimes men choose not to be in the kid their children's life and it's not optional for us so it's not it's really quite a challenge being a woman and making a name for yourself or making strides for yourself or sometimes I just think it takes dedication it takes passion it takes everything every it takes good number one it takes good yeah you just need all those positivity I feel like sometimes when I am solo I sometimes as a woman when you're striving when you're thriving you realize you look ahead you see there's so many people ahead of you and then you look back and you see no one holding no one supporting you if they feel like you know so many people are okay when you're just on their level when you try to drive ahead of them or be higher than what they expect or the boundaries they set for you you find yourself alone sometimes you need someone as a woman or just not yeah you need someone to hold you but the moment they feel like you're doing something great with your life or something great for yourself sometimes you stack alone to just walk yeah sometimes you just as a woman I would encourage someone to find that person just one person doesn't have to be a man doesn't have to be a parent just one friend that you know when things get hard you can cry to them and I feel like mostly we have over what over what do you call it we have put friendship it's like something very high sometimes that person need is God mostly you have to talk to God just don't play talk to him because so many times you might have that friend you call a best friend I'm saying friends are very important in your life but you have those people that you feel like you see I am a woman now this is my best friend so I can share everything but deeply those people are happy sometimes it's with you sometimes it's just fake sometimes you just need to ask God to bring the right people to you yeah how does your normal day look like my normal day looks like I wake up I wake up I'm not going to lie to you that I pray every time but I wake up and put on some gospel music and go to the shower wake the kids up get them breakfast then go to work and then right now it's holiday so you just live on there go to work I start at the office but when we have kobiti sometimes I just go straight to the senate and if I have a client that I'm bringing on shows sometimes I wake up and make them prepare them you remember we have this and this at this time pretty much on a busy day my busiest days are when we have events in the county when we have to wake up prepare yourself to go for either a day or two when you have events in the county or any other places when you have my days are very normal but very busy sometimes on the road are you a cheetah or a totois on the road are you a cheetah or a totois okay it depends what are the aspects a cheetah you love speed a totois I feel like I am a totois you don't take a kumbisha sitaki sitaki haraka not just on the road you don't mean driving oh you mean driving alright I love the speed I love the speed you are a cheetah I love speed I thought you were talking about the aspect of life of walking I meant on the road on the road I love I feel like being a totois on the road is boring I want to explore some speed as long as it's not it's not dangerous it's safety it's safe as long as it's safe that's okay with me what would an ideal rest day look like for you if you give in tomorrow rest tomorrow rest don't come to work so what would that look like I am telling you I usually have rest days here or some of the weekends a rest day for me means go home sleep get someone to bring food I don't even go to my sitting room I just sleep I do everything from bed it's a rest day sometimes it can be hectic by the way walking sometimes can be hectic it's not just draining physically it's draining also mentally sometimes need a break to rest I don't even go out on weekends sometimes I just want to be in bed all day eat take a shower eat just be in bed so what are like 5 things you can't leave the house without as a girl as a girl an extra pair of shoes some wipes an eye pencil okay what is it olive balm 4 oh my goodness and a pad okay are you a hilt or a flat shoe person I am a hilt person what happened actually what happened today is I forgot my hilt in the house I thought I put them in my bag so I'm just going downstairs and then when the Uber comes to pick me up I'm just going to change into hilt and then when we got here I'm like oh my goodness oh my goodness so I'm a hilt person hilt anytime so I'm very uncomfortable right now it's okay it's okay now they're not seeing your feet it's okay but thank you so much for coming thank you very much for having me someone is saying to now and I'm like oh wow but thank you thank you for coming thank you for making time to talk to us sharing what you do as a woman in the county you know everything means a lot thank you that was Salix Karimi research and media consultant at Thara Karniti she works with the Thara Karniti senator at parliament and also in Thara Karniti county and she has been talking to us a lot about the impact women make in media research and the political space Val is coming back with more but before Val comes back with more nimesu kia kukuna dance challenge mahali so Val a kujetupi mani guvu nilkwa nimesu mani megonjaka but anyway that and much more is coming up now attach that down


Alrighty, let's check this out. There's no sound. Some of these notes are expecting a kaka. I do like that beginning a lot here. Love that. I love that it comes in a curve. I like that it comes back. I think we could, instead of coming about like that kind of streamline, not like out like this, but a bit cleaner in those lines. It's a bit more graphic, but then I do like, I think we are coming. Slowing down maybe a bit too fast. This is literally like four frames or so, but I would have these guys or just have to slow it happen later or bring the wings up a bit sooner. Just a bit. It's really tiny. And of course, I'm going to watch it. I'm going to get used to it. Tiny, tiny, tiny. I feel like a slight slowdown. A bit too soon as this comes down here. Love this. Love this. Why? Because we have the stopping of the momentum, right? The offset pose and then asymmetrical shapes of the wings, body kind of staying put and that momentum continuing this way with the lower body and the tail. Like that's a great moment. Right through there. Then careful. Then we're going back into weeps one axis. Everything's very straight. The tail goes up and down in one axis. The wings are going down and up shapewise the same timing. Why is the same? There's no offset. So I would tweak. I give this kind of organic awesomeness love to all of this here. Careful this one. There's something where the character goes up, but then it's kind of stuck in that angle. I think you can kind of put a little bit more with that angle, but then it's this. A, the shape of this, this feels needlessly complicated. I think I would smooth this down to a bend at the end with the membrane up just because of the resistance. Like this just feels too broken. And then at the end here again, we're smoother with the tip is then reversing. And then here's where you can start bending things. So to have less wind resistance in there, then you can start bending these more. It's fine. So what I was saying here is that character goes up and then here feels weird because A, the body is mostly in the same position. I see some moving down here, but it's mostly the same. It also feels like it's just kind of hovering forward. So it doesn't have that up and then drop like this will be up. And then we already be rotate down and drop a bit sooner. Same thing here. This feels like we're going up hit a wall and then we just float straight. This one's a bit too slow. That one, this was like it goes through swamp water. Definitely faster. And then you want to go up and lead with those upper sections here is that we have more of a bend like that in the wings. And you want to move maybe the membrane over so we understand that a bit better. So it's not this I don't stick with this, but this is an odd silhouette. And then this feels weird because now we're getting to like a frog cowboy, cowboy riding something here pose with the legs. I'll bring those knees in and keep it a bit more animalistic. Not to say that some animals can't do that, but this just feels very odd. But to twin almost as well. It's just a bit of an odd shape. And then same thing here, still with that tail where it starts to just be really low for a long time. And I think we can break from the weight and what, you know, maybe a realistic creature would do. Who knows, but I will bring this into a nice silhouette where you have a nice curvature in that tail. Even through here, through the strain, maybe, you know, the muscle, the tail is up and then so that we don't have this happening where we are like, what is this? Like a third leg, like what's going on? That's just an odd, odd pose here. And then that way on that landing, imagine you have something where again, this was this was like a human landing, that's my other thing. Instead of going so far back, I think you can easily have upper body, a bit more forward, legs could be just, you know, higher up there. The head can still be up there, but there's a forward lean to this.  So to me, it's more like you're around this area and even then bringing that neck up if you can in a nice little shape there, less of a bit like that, softer if possible. But something where if that tail was still up here, right, the nice shape on that impact, now the tail will come down, a nice impact in the tail, because to me, it seems like it's just hanging and then it's just kind of there. There's nothing going on there. It's like nine meshes with the silhouette of that leg, which also feels a bit odd. And then watch out at the end. This section feels really locked, like it's really holding on tightly. To me, it's more like, well, this would hold on tightly. You can bring those fingers back into maybe something where you hold on to this, but this could be in this here, this here, maybe with a rotation up a little bit, with a membrane down a little bit, something so that when this is happening, which again, this is in one axis, which is a bit odd, I think we can get that into a bit more of a complicated rotation sooner into profile. And through all of that, there might be a twist in here, which in turn changes that arm, which in turn moves the wings around a little bit. This feels like we're just kind of long for to arrive at doing much, and this is just select, select, rotate back in one axis and stop. I know there's more because I see the angle change in here. It's just generally how it feels like. All righty. That's that. But I would say this is awesome. Love this. It's that kind of stuff that would love to see more applied through all of this here into that ending as well. All righty. Thanks. All right. 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