Thank you very much for inviting me to the stimulating environment where we have a lot of different fields which are coming together and on a kind of similar topic perhaps from the different aspects. And today I would like to talk about the knots in the more pneumatic system. So it's a simpler system compared to the semantics what we heard just recently. But there are also possible complex structures which I would like to show some of them. And it's a kind of overview of the work which was going on now for like five, six years in this field. And now most of the work on this simulation site was done from my younger colleagues like Simeon Chopper, Tina Porenta, Michal Raunik and David Setch. They all have been my former students. And now it's very important that a lot of this work is tightly connected with the experimental research efforts, particularly from the group of Mushevich in Ljubljana and partially also by a group of Ivan Smalyuk in Boulder. So without experimental support from one site, I think this modeling which I will present would stay in some kind of in the air. But now with experiments which show that some of these things really work, some of these things have been supported in some way. Now to say a little about the broadness of this complexity of structures in even pneumatic or cholesteric systems which are here just as a few examples. So these are kind of knots in the planar system of colloidal particles in the pneumatic. And that's a kind of Hopfian structure which was also a Garrett who is here strongly involved in this. And then there is also a knotted colloidal particle, then magnetic colloidal particles, then cholesteric shells. These are thin layers of cholesteric in a spherical shape. Then blue phases confined by the presence of polymeric network. And then topologically interesting structures on surfaces which induce defects and then here defects on the simplest spherical drops but penetrated by a fiber. So these are just examples. But in all together all of this area is a kind of topological soft matter which we try to use for the characterizing the systems where we have defects in the orientational order which are stable. Stabilized by external effects like external fields or confinements and on the other side by chirality of the system if it's present. And just pneumatics in these conditions or chiral pneumatics are very nice examples of this topological area in soft matter. So here are just some examples like liquid crystal in blue phases where you know a case and then confined liquid crystals in tiny drops and then colloidal liquid crystals and this the last one will be mostly the topic of my talk. So first I will go through a little of the modeling also we heard a little already from Randy so I can do some of this even faster. Then I will shift to this colloidal systems in particular to the discrimination entanglement there which is then leading towards systems where knots and links in these pneumatic braids are possible. And then also more complex colloidal particles which are itself knots will be interested while the last topic which is a kind of inverse geometry of cholesterol drops will be presented on Friday by Simon Chopper. So if I go to this our basic pneumatic system which is probably known to everybody here is a system of fluids where you have molecules of elongated shape that spontaneously in certain temperature range exhibit the pneumatic phase or if they are chiral exhibit the cholesteric phase. And so this is a kind of schematic presentation of such a molecule and also then schematic presentation of our pneumatic and of cholesteric. And for this pneumatic it was very important this orientation order is characterized by a director which is not a real vector because we have both there is no polarity present so that means that up-down is the same. So in some way beside the usual description by using just a vector and then the degree of order by the scale up order parameter is better complemented by a kind of tensorial approach where we have the tensor where this direction is no problem because we are talking only about the axis of this frame of the tensor. And then we have the degree of order and then also by axiality the order local is not symmetric around the principal director that's important probably in the defects or close to surfaces. So these things are a kind of base for the simple description which we will use later. And perhaps it's important to stress that confinement in the system is bringing a coupling with this interface which is usually an energetic question and also a question of direction of what the molecules do on the surfaces and this is important for the further. And then in the enigmatic what one observes also we have seen before some pictures that these deformations are something what occur very easy particularly long scale deformations where on the several microns scale or even larger scale they are very cheap and they are terminally excited so visible a lot while deformations where you have really variation more molecular scale where order parameter and axiality changes are more localized and these are in principle in the areas of defects. Now we have seen also before these descriptions of elasticity of the smectics here it's very important that we have deformations of the director field which are like splay twist and bend which are the basic type of deformations and then each enters in the energetic considerations and on the other side is a coupling with surface where it's important at what angle director is coming toward the surface and usually it's taken as a kind of contact interaction then one should add also external features and so on. But as we heard before there are defects in the systems and we call these topological defects and if there are point defects which for instance like this hedgehog here or hyperbolic hedgehog one can define topological charge and so on. But for us will be perhaps more important defects which are lines so line defects which can then form these more complex things as we are our aim are links or not and line defect here perhaps should be stressed is characterized by the winding number before in the cross-section it's like this 2D defect which Randy was introducing and this line for instance the basic one have this winding number one-half means that director turns 480 degrees going around and what's typical this is typical for the pneumatic order which as I said is not vectorial and it's different from what we are used from electrical systems or magnetic systems and so this one-half lines and also energetically the lowest so they appear the most but then the other side for instance the higher lines where the director turns more like for 360 degrees are observed that they are not stable in fact they are too costly energetically too costly so it happens that in the central part the director turns out in the third dimension like here or here and then it becomes non-singular. For us it's important that when we will have some results to treat or to demonstrate then what will be how to present the situations and therefore we cannot use always director field like here the cross-section particularly if you want to show something in three dimensions it's not very easy to use just director fields so therefore for instance if we have a defect line we use many times simply a kind of tube which is characterized by an isosurface where other parameters have some prescribed value usually this thing is going around the core of our defect so that's for instance one of the presentations but the other thing is that one should be considering here is this inclination line here is an example of this minus one half line does have some detailed structure in the three fold symmetry so we have here this bend deformation and display deformation in different areas and for instance using colors one can show display and bend deformations which exhibit a three fold symmetry so the disclinational line is like a general ribbon which is important later on when we want to make links or knots out of this and the measure for this is for instance some derivative here second derivatives used to measure this so there are also ways how people observe them and the simplest are this which we heard before polarization optical microscopy and we have here these collections which Randy have shown as well but now there are many more other more fancy techniques which can reconstruct the director field in a more in the space in three dimensions so one thing which perhaps should be mentioned are these bontriagin term surfaces which are simply a kind of extension of these brushes here to the systems where for instance director has more complex structure and this surface is usually constructed in this way that you choose a certain direction usually symmetry direction of your structure and then you go perpendicular to this axis and observe where director is laying in this kind of surface and by colors for instance here you then tell in which direction in the plane is the director for a simple droplet for instance which have this so called this kind of structure that director is here perpendicular to surface but here this clinical ring runs around so from the top looks like here it's here mostly up and here is planar and then if you construct as a surface then you get something like that and colors are simply illustrated where director is and this illustrations particularly from Randy's group have been introduced more in the field and it's really coupled very well with new techniques and can be of use often so perhaps the base of our simulations which I will show later are in fact that we use phenomenological approach where we for the base have a Landau type of expansion of the free energy in order parameter so in such way that you construct the lowest invariance out of the product of order parameter and then also gradients so gradients again are put in such a way that you have invariance and then in the simplest description one have just one constant here we say one elastic constant and then this term here but if system is chiral you need to have this breaking symmetry term for instance we were in both pitch of our system is hidden here so that's the usual thing also as a kind of lift sheet stern norm from other fields and then coupling on surface is a quadratic type so just coupling the order parameter with some preferred value by the surface and then one can introduce fields we usually it's a dielectric coupling what's relevant and this one that's the whole system which is probably enough for most of the simple descriptions and one looks for the minimum of this free energy of such a system by a numerical procedure which here I will just skip these details and then we go to examples so the colloidal system where we will go and look for our knotted braids, pneumatic braids first one should understand when that one simple colloidal particle can do in a pneumatic environment so a particle which have a homotropic boundary conditions so somehow preferring perpendicular orientation on the surface produces for instance in a bulk something what's a kind of radial director filled around but when it's confined to a thinner layer which is usually in experiments this thinner layer means in general homogeneous far field of the director then you get two known structures like the Saturn ring defector here or point defect here accompanying and all this is satisfying the topological condition that in general environment charge topological charge should be zero so that means particle together with the defects either this or this are really yielding topological charge zero perhaps it should be mentioned that there are also planar anchoring where defects also appear like here you have two surface defects but this one is coming as a more less interesting case because defects this doesn't stimulate creation of this inclination lines they are mostly point defects accompanying this and then the variety of structures is weaker smaller so for instance here are this now with the simulation showing these two structures which I mentioned and in the micron size for typical thermotropic liquid crystals both have very similar energy so they appear both in experimental situations now depending to some extent also how thin is the layer of an emetic where they can find this but this structures or colloidal structures of the particular particles interact together effectively by being attractive or repulsive depending how they come together and the source of this attraction is the minimization of the free energy of the distortion so if you put this so-called dipoles looks far-field looks similar to somehow dipole they come together in this way and at certain distance they have optimum energy and the similar thing is here where by symmetry of the field is globally more quadopolar type so often this is called quadopolar defect dipolar defect and interesting in that you can form chains out of this in a 2D so and lattices for instance a few years like now 10 years ago there was a first experimental proof how one can construct these lattices of such or such particles so both can make this and what's more interesting that this can be done also in 3D also it's much more demanding because this interaction in 3D is not helping too much to self-assemble while this one self-assemble to large extent so that means that this is the situation with both kinds of defects you get this thing but what is then further more interesting to how one can create more complex break that's again a story which is known for quite some years so if you bring two such quadopolar particles together then the disclinations are a little deformed and nothing happens but if you put if you change the temperature either in simulation what was first done to go to isotropic phase and then you wait what will happen with your solution you will see that beside this solution appear other which are entangling two particles together by a single line more symmetric figure of 8 or less symmetric or by two lines where one they are orthogonal and the experiment are really directly showing that this really happens and it happens also with certain probability when they do experiment because the energies of this system are different the idea is now how this discrimination line when you go together with the two will somehow couple and that's something what this question was also addressed on the DNA case yesterday and here I would like to show what is here relevant how these things couple together so if you look at the loop so you have a minus one half discrimination line making simply a loop and if you connect it back it should fit together so because it has a cross section of this refold ribbon and so that means the rib this ribbon can be twisted as we heard here before the previous talk so but twist is not arbitrary this twist if you come around could be 120 or more depend left or right and this thing can fit together that you can make a loop and that's a question is energy there how much you must have but because we have this complex situation it's not only the twist present things are more than twist because we have a 3d mean mention a situation so this situation is like that that there are areas where two discrimination lines are close here here and this here here here these are all these examples which I showed before but more schematically and here is this kind of the 3d space where the discrimination lines comes with certain angle together and if you look in details here when two lines goes close also direct or filled in between is such that it really fits well so it's directly orthogonal to this direction to the both lines in this and what can one see that reconnecting lines just in these small points you can reach all these different different structures by simply visualizing this twisting of this either in different way what they do in experiment or could do in experiment is simply use a laser light which will manipulate these points but in principle this was not done but one can for instance see if shining light with the right polarization direction because this enforces the director can switch here such a reconnection what happens in fact you must first go to isotropic phase or nearly isotropic because otherwise it's an energy barrier in between and then you have a present field in the right direction in the right connection will happen but if you do just by heating and waiting you will get different reconnections depending on the energetic difference now topological question of this linking together or different discrimination lines is important that one as we heard before I saw some of this is that something should be conserved as I said before we need a twist which would be right that you can make a loop but beside the twist we have some kind of three-dimensional right which happen which is present in the systems because it's not in plane it's everything is in 3D so both things are changing so and what is important here that we have this we stress here self-linking number which is simply some of our right and twist it's a well-known thing but now if one could connect these things more in a general form for instance for minus one-half network why just network of minus one because there we know how much you should twist these twists are 120 degrees which are needed at least to reconnect or 0 or 240 and one can put together that if you have more loops which could perhaps link together or be not it and if we have a total topological charge of this system and we have then also besides this self-linking number also the linking because two loops can link because you can have such an object for instance and then you put everything together and what happens that the sum of this self-linking linking numbers plus number of loops should be equal to the topological charge but unfortunately model is too so it's no precise difference so it could be 2 0 2 minus 2 but that's the limitation which is then here possible form topological consideration so now if we go and see this case which I showed before so in this case one first observe that in most cases when you even numerically analyze twist is practically 0 but what is relevant is right so if you have in this case here and in this case right is also 0 because they are mostly planar while if you go to this case where you have a figure of omega right is non-zero so it's plus minus 2 3 depending on which direction it goes and if you put these things together in our formula then it works now within this that it could be you get minus 2 and it fits in this so that's topological simple analysis of what is going on on the other side is also energy if you looked both of together what is the energy of this thing so this energy is here in my coincide objects are high so several thousands KT so termally will not happen too much so but helping with the laser tweezers so if we go here further yeah so if we just simply extend this and you can extend and at some moment this breaks or this one the same so it's a miracle explain but it's also experimental evidence so by laser tweezers they do the same thing so they extend and then release and measure the force effective force and also energy in this way and you see that this energy is here several thousand KT but it's what's interesting here energies are practically linearly depending on distance so it's a kind of force which is string like so it's not the usual force if you would have these two objects separated then the force very much depends on distance while if they are connected entangled forces as long as they are connecting practically constant not within and working well in the modeling and also in the experiment now let's go further to this systems which can really link together into a linked system or not a system here if we started with two particles you need more of them to somehow support a kind of nothing so this way perhaps a simple example is if you take four particles and then if you bring them together for instance this is experimental picture when you analyze what this inclination line does you observe that there is a link behind so for instance another case here is this experimental evidence of three objects three already interlinked colloidal particles here and here and then there is one free and then this one has a set on the ring but this is less clear what it is but it's a single line connecting all of them and now if we do by laser tweezers a little helping so this was done in Mushovich lab few years ago and if you do this with some patience and perhaps some feeling for the system you create something what's more complex and now this object really re-analysing then mathematically what does the single declination line you observe that out of this you get a three-fold knot so it's a complex structure supported by the particles it's in fact the knot but this knot would disappear if you would remove particles particles are here stabilizing we heard before for some yesterday about metallic particles metallic ions which were helping to stabilize some of the knotting systems so in some way that's here this into similar okay so that's in but the question is where to realize think in a larger scale so one can realize this in a simple structure like a twisted cell why twisted cell because in a twisted cell declination lines are running in appropriate way that you easy do reconnections on a broader system so here is a 2D arrangement of particles interconnected by single lines running like that here or in this direction or in this direction but I here mark these areas where reconnections are possible because here these two are close or here this is close to the one which runs down or this one is close to this and if you reconnect these areas you can and the question is how usually what they do they just use laser tweezers and here are examples for instance of this a little bit bigger system mark here and here you see different local connections and if you analyze the lines here is a more complex this composite knot or 3-4 knot or prime link all realized in the same 4 by 3 particles but here just simply doing reconnection in these points or schematically here down is this shown how it looks so these areas are reconnected so this goes to this so this and that works also the numerical example or obviously experimental one so now if you play more with this more things could be done so in this way it was also connected this description of this interconnected interlinked or knotted system by description of graphs but in all cases you go from this which looks complex to this mathematical description of our simple knots but as I said without colloidal particles knots are not stable in this system and now if we go even more further introducing our formalism of linking and self-linking which I was showing before so one can make a kind of graph which showing if system is 2 by 4 and then adding something or how you go to this 4 by 3 system and here you have if you look for solutions you see that this small system 4 by 2 can have simple loops and have a trip or not and then we have here a link and here two other links and here another link and that's all what could be realized on such a small system and then one can also calculate this self-linking number and then the number of loops and so on and looking all satisfies our rules which I showed before so if system is bigger here we see much more possibilities so for instance we have here all kind of different knots from 3 4 to higher some also higher and a lot of different links which all should be possible on this 4 by 3 system which I showed before and then how you go from one to another behind always this reconnection on some local position in our array and here is a 3 by 3 system which is smaller and have left only one 3 4 knot possible and knot more so if we go and we see here that here then this links also possible so this system is somehow a 2D system where this interconnect, reconnecting of the inclination lines induced by laser tweezers in experiment or numerically by certain local simulation is fitting everything together quite well. The question is what to do if this can go into 3 dimensions so 3 dimensional system so that you have an array of particles which are 3 dimensional so there was not very few experiments in this direction and perhaps one which is already 15 years back was a form-clugged group where they had opal structure of this face center the distribution of particles which have chromatropic boundary collision on surface and then infiltrated by pneumatic and here we tried to make out of this also kind of understanding how one can describe the networks in such a system and again we were looking for minus one half this clinician lines and here first one can observe that there are areas in between this spherical particles which are C-trader and some which are cubic like and now the whole problem of finding the possible structures here is simply analyze what can happen in this cubic object or in this C-trader we know from before so if you put this together and then analyze what kind of lines of minus one half type can go and you observe that there are seven different states possible here with this kind of this clinician lines and in one case also point defect is together and that is then that together with this you can have more possibility because you can take rotations out of this but it's in principle the same object while this our C-trader system from before we know it has three different three different possibilities so that means that here in this case putting everything together you can have an answer like for numerical solving I think that you start with this kind of distribution in this white and then you calculate then further on by numerical relaxation something what is then given by numerical procedure so that was done for instance in some cases and it is immediately seen that even if you have very few whites you have a lot of possible states these calculators for some case of 4 cubic whites and 80 trade you have 10 to 14 different realizations so all different in energy some are higher some are lower but definitely there are many states the question is if one could use this for any kind of memory the question is addressing I don't know so that's now I am still okay so if we go further to the situation now which we had simple spherical colloidal particles and then they were in all cases practically chromatropic on the surface as I said that's the clue for going toward more complex networks and then the question is if one goes to more complex particles so there opens a lot of possible realizations of structures so there were many trials like elongated particles or just fiber-like particles and then faceted particles and again depending you do in 2D one can get some kind of quasi-crystalline here structures and well known I think genus particles where genus means that you have at least 2 different areas with different boundary conditions like chromatropic or planar and then again such a particle would create this particular defect forms and also then the interaction between them very particular but here I just put as an example something what was few years ago starting on some our meeting or in fact workshop on knots it was this meeting in Santa Barbara like few years ago and there was the idea that perhaps why not to have a knotted type of particle so particle in a form of one knot here and what would happen in a pneumatic if you have perpendicular boundary conditions on such a particle that you would get this inclination lines which would simply run around all the particle so in some way both are knotted so knot is physical and knot is in the inclination line in this case so this is the kind of suggestion and it's true that soon after that it was also realized in the lab of Ivan Smalyuk in Boulder they created such knots of different kinds simple more complex and simply by 3D printing and you see the objects were on the scale of 10 microns so small and uniform so that means now technology can do anything but now then you cover this with certain agent which promotes a certain anchoring type and then out of this if you put this into an pneumatic phase you will be getting structures so in the case of perpendicular anchoring so homotropic as I said inclination lines running around this loop and it's everything in some homogeneous field and then how this was tested then this complex fluorescence microscopes were used to really detect the director field and certainly showing that it really works in the way what was known less interesting is perhaps the situation when planar anchoring is because then only point defects appear on the surfaces on different spots and but everything is according to what happens an interesting question is here now if the knot is thin so that means not knot but our this cylindrical object which is formed in the knot is thin compared to the scale then this are very well separated these declination lines but if they come closer together then there are such crossings like mark here and this really restructure and that's something what is expected that should happen now here is an example of such numerical what happens here that simply if you fix the volume of this object but simply changing the aspect ratio between diameter and land and then at some moment you see that there was a transition in the structure and then it was somehow cut and then if you go further and knot it completely tight then the final object for instance here is more a sphere like topologically with features on the surface but it's no more has no more topology of this knot and then these areas which are marked here there were these restructuring perhaps in another presentation here where also it was used this reagentome surfaces to show the area where things are things still okay yeah so here I would like to mention that beside these colloidal systems which I showed two examples so one based more in details on spherical particles and the other on complex particles themselves already induced the knots knots but then they are coupled with these knots of the inclination lines one can ask if there is a possibility that the knots will stay without support of colloidal systems and here idea was that probably that should happen perhaps in a cholesterol system and some time ago we analyzed the cholesteric in a drop with planar boundary conditions and then some nice features appear well known so this is so-called radial defect of power 2 and concentric cholesteric layers so nothing very particular and the reason why it's nothing particular what can be catched in such a sphere spherical confinement is that when this clinician line comes toward the surface then if structure is complex can relax easy in some way transform to a simpler less energetic structure because of a boundary condition so this clinician line can touch the surface if you go to homotropic boundary conditions on a spherical again for simplicity this clinician line can come close to surface but doesn't touch so that means it cannot relax if you have a complex structure in a simple way except going over high energetic barrier so this was idea that perhaps here one can not in a cluster and on this topic there will be much more in the Simon Chopper stock on Friday which was there was a change in the order because he's coming from Friday but that's already in there so if I say what was done here so we tried to use phenological restriction for analyzing and presenting and understanding of complex pneumatic braids mostly in colloidal systems and starting with two particles going to more particles seeing that knots and links can be supported and that a role of particle is crucial here and particularly boundary conditions on them and then we have seen that with more complex particles certainly you can create even more complex structures so then the story of knots should go further and see if one can see a support of knots not only by particle but for instance colloidal cholesteric structure itself so here I would like to stop


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What's up everybody? Welcome back to another video on the TI Inspire Calculators. In the last few videos we've been installing the TI Inspire Computer Link software, the CAST Student software, that sort of thing. And now I want to get into more and more of the meat and the core of why I'm recording these tutorials. I want to introduce you guys to Endless. And you can go ahead and Google this if you'd like. I don't know if it's Google. And Endless is spelled without an E in this case because it's some software for the TI Inspire that doesn't have an I to inspire. And this is not spelled with the E for Endless. It's just N-D-L-E-S-S. Endless. And you'll notice there's a WordPress kind of blog about it and it's pretty awesome. It's the TI Inspire wide open and that's what they kind of advertise it as. Finally, version 3.6 is here. This just came out just recently over in March, March 15th, 2014. It's April 15th now, just about. So we're finally excited to release version 3.6, the latest and greatest version of Endless. Now, the TI Inspire operating system has been at version 3.6 for quite a while now. And Texas Instruments was not allowing you to downgrade. Only version 3.1 for Endless was out, version 3.6 was not out yet. And it would not, version 3.1 would not work with the TI Inspire operating system of version 3.6. That just makes sense, right? The numbers don't match up. But you had to be using the operating system version 3.1 to run Endless. But finally, this version is here and now we can run it on all the calculators version 3.6. And we don't have the problem of not being able to downgrade and really be screwed. So this version opens up a way for native programs to the latest generation of TI Inspire hardware sold with the locked version OS 3.2 for many of which you couldn't downgrade. We now encourage all of you to update to the latest OS version 3.6 and keep it because we still don't know what to expect. So they really give credit to the awesome people that had made this. There's tons of programs and things available for it. The 3.1 version programs will work except some of them might need an update. And they note that this installation is non-persistent or non-reboot proof. So you might have to, you are going to have to reinstall Endless over and over again whenever you turn your calculator on or anything goes wrong. That isn't a problem though because you do keep the file on your calculator. So whenever you need to enjoy Endless, you would just run the program and then do anything that you need to do with Endless. Endless is now distributed from its dedicated site Endless.me and they wrote a nice little tutorial to guide you through installation. So let's check it out. Let's head on over to Endless.me And you'll notice this is a pretty nice webpage probably on your end. It's a little scrunched together on my screen because I got to resize things so you guys see it all well. But Endless possibilities. You can install new applications on your calculator, image viewers, emulators to play games, video players, text editors and so much more. You can even program on the thing. There's extensions, there's USB devices work and it's the very best for your TI Inspire. That's kind of cool. Scroll down here. It does show an Endless SDK or a software development kit. You can develop your own applications in C and C++. There is a source code editor available for Windows. That's why I'm on Windows and the audio quality and video quality so terrible. But we're going to get into the SDK very, very soon. Right now we should just download the package. Let's download Endless version 3.6. You can click on this tab right here to Endless it. And that'll bring you over to NSP Tools over here and just a list of downloads. We'll click on this zip file. We'll want to download that. We can go ahead and open the file with winward.zip. Winrar, that's what I have installed right now. I'm using that to extract things. And I'm just going to bring it over to my desktop, drag it down and leave that installed. Now if you notice, I've got that. I'll put it right over here so you can see it. I just have it extracted to my desktop. Nice. Okay, let's keep moving. If we go back to the previous page, there is an installation guide that we can follow. And that'll link us over to tiplanet.org. Typically this is in French, but if we scroll down the text right here is in English. There is a tutorial available for version 3.6. This is what we're going to be following. It's pretty simple, pretty easy. For one thing, you have to download the package, which is what we just did. Endless 3.6, which you can download here. It really gives you the same link or at least host it on their webpage. And it'll work on the click pad, touch pad, whether it's CX-CAS or non-CAS. There's a video tutorial for it, which I recommend you watch because it will do more justice than whatever I'm saying. But make sure that your TI Inspire handheld is running version 3.6. That is the case for my black CX-CAS. And for the student software that I installed recently, you know as like I showed you, I am running version 3.6. And I'm assuming if you're following this tutorial, you are as well. You'll notice over here in my emulator, I can go into settings, check the status of this. And this is version 3.6. So I have the same on my calculator. It's version 3.6.546. I think either of them work as long as you're running version 3.6. You can go ahead and download the operating system available on the webpage here or you can probably find it on education.ti.com like we were doing in the earlier videos. And you're going to want the computer link software, which is why we already downloaded it. So I'll get that fired up. That's the student software. We do want the link software as well. Okay, get the computer link software ready for us and connect to your TI Inspire or your calculator and grab that. And let's go back to the guide see what it has us do. Plug your calculator and go to the content explorer tab which is really over on this side on the bottom over here. It says create an endless folder and transfer the required files. At the root of your Inspire, create a folder called endless and we can do that by right clicking down at the bottom here. Right clicking and selecting new folder and we can call it endless just like that. And you'll might notice on your calculator screen your actual handheld that it will say okay, folder created or files dropped very soon and we'll transfer over these files that we had in the folder that we just downloaded. The one that's on my desktop it says that these are in the calc bin directory in the package and I can see that right here. Let's click on that and here are all the things that it just said that we would need to copy. So if we have our handheld right over here in the endless folder let's drag these right over into here. You can see it copies them all and now they've been successfully placed. You can even see on your handheld that it is showing that on the screen of your calculator and now once that's done go on to your actual handheld and go on to the calculator. You might be able to hit control O to go to your documents. Go over to your endless folder and go ahead and click enter on the endless installer. You don't have to save anything that you're already working on if you had an open document or an unsafe document and hopefully if you've got everything working just fine you can go ahead and hit the menu key so everything is installed. Thankfully it should successfully say it should return you back to the black home screen and it will say in green letters endless has been successfully installed over at the top left corner of the screen. So that's the way it should work. If you do experience any issues you can just go ahead and restart at step five once you have all the files copied over to the handheld and it notes that anything you put in a startup folder inside the endless one can automatically be launched. You can kind of customize or install and if you ever need to you can uninstall by pressing the U key. That should work relatively well for you. In the next tutorial we'll be looking at really more things that we can do with this. We'll finally start to install the SDK or the software development kit and we'll see what programming stuff we can do and what more we can do with this tool and with this program. Thank you for watching. I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next tutorial.


Hi, I'm Jim Rice, Deputy Director here at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. I'm here to talk to you about Bootcamp. Yeah, Bootcamp is a workshop that we run for SCX learners, and last year we had over 80 SCX learners from 26 countries. It was awesome. It was awesome for the students, but also for the instructors. You want to learn more about it? Keep watching. Why did you decide to join the Bootcamp? I would say the first reason is because MIT is such a prestigious institution. I thought that it was a really good opportunity to put in practice all the things that I've been learning. To be together with my colleagues? The communication I've gotten back with professors is still something that is very important and efficient. And it's also very fun to see the people that you see on video for such a long time. Tell us a little bit about the experience so far. I would say, most of all, it's busy. The schedule is completely packed. I really, really like how the week was in terms of all the case studies, the discussions, the ideas that people put together. And it is interesting to see that there is always a different point of view. The master of the topic. You take the courses and say, okay, you can trust that guy. He knows what he's talking about. And that's really, really, really great. So we work a lot. We spend many hours working, but it was so good. You can be one of those learners too. We'd love to have you here on campus. So you want to do that? The time to register is now. The program runs from July 30th to August 3rd. Go to the URL, register. I look forward to seeing you.


Hi everyone! It's Monica Wahee here, your friendly neighborhood epidemiologist. One of the measurements we use in epidemiology that is not commonly used outside of epidemiology is called the odds ratio, or OR for short. This little lesson is going to show you how to calculate and interpret the disease OR and the exposure OR from a 2x2 table using the software OR. So here's a blank 2x2 table. First, we are going to go over the disease odds ratio, which is what you would calculate from a cross-sectional study design. When I worked at the U.S. Army in one of our data centers, I noticed that soldiers with college degrees were less likely to be injured. So let's use that as our example. Our binary exposure then is having a college degree, yes, no. I-binary disease or outcome will be having an injury, yes, no. Let's say this is a cross-sectional study. Let's start by filling in the A, B, and A plus B cells for the exposed, or for those with the college degree. Now, we'll fill in the C, D, and C plus D cells for the unexposed. And finally, for the column totals A plus C and B plus D as well as the grand total A plus B plus C plus D. Okay, take a good look at those numbers. Next, we'll go to R and do our calculations using the numbers from this example 2x2 table. So here we are in R. Remember how I said take a good look at those numbers? Here they are at the top. See how we start. We are assigning values to A, B, C, and D corresponding to the values from the 2x2 table. Let's run this and assign those values. Because I said we are making an odds ratio from a cross-sectional study, technically we are going to first calculate the odds of disease in the exposed. In our example, that means the odds of injury among those with college degrees. As you can see, the odds of the outcome in the exposed is calculated as A over B. So let's do that now. Let's look at what value we got. It's a pretty small number, about 0.16. Okay, now we will do the odds in the unexposed. As you can see, this is the calculation C over D. Let's run it. Okay, and let's see what that number looks like. Okay, a little bigger than the last one, 0.37. Now we can calculate the disease odds ratio by dividing the odds in the exposed by the odds in the unexposed. See, that's what I have here. Let's highlight it and run it. Now to look at the OR, let's highlight and run our new variable, disease OR. So this is smaller than 1. It's about 0.44. Now, because this is the disease odds ratio, it would be interpreted like this. Those with college degrees have only 44% the risk of injury compared to those without college degrees. Or you could take 100 minus 44, which is 56, and say those with college degrees have 56% lower odds of having an injury compared to those without college degrees. But that's for a cross-sectional study. What about a case control study? Okay, now let's go back to our 2x2 table and calculate the exposure odds ratio, the one used in case control designs. Remember, in case control designs, you select your cases first. Imagine we were focusing on a particular type of injury, such as motorcycle accidents. Let's hope there are so few that they are considered rare and we can do a case control study. In this example, let's say we found 41 cases. The first thing we do is figure out their exposure status. There.  If we were using the database I used to use at the Army, we could sample these from our records of soldiers who were in the Army and maybe even had a motorcycle but did not get in an accident. And we'd discern their exposure status so we could fill out cells B and D of our 2x2 table. And from this, we calculate our row totals. So you see, same numbers, different study design. So the 2x2 table gets populated in a different order. Now let's go back to R and use these numbers from what's now a case control study to calculate the exposure odds ratio. Okay, here we are back in R. Notice this time we are going to calculate odds of exposure, not disease. So see here, we first calculate the odds of exposure in the disease by dividing A by C. And here, we calculate the odds of exposure in the non-diseased by dividing out B over D. Let's run those. Now we'll take the odds of exposure in the diseased and divide it by the odds of exposure in the non-diseased. And that will be our exposure odds ratio. Let's highlight and run that and then take a look at it. What a surprise! Our exposure OR is identical to our disease OR. Actually, it's not a surprise. There is only one OR per table. The difference is not in the numbers, but the interpretation. In this case, given this is a case control study, we'd interpret this OR to mean cases had 44% of the odds controls had of having a college degree. Or those with an injury had a 56% lower odds of having a degree than those without an injury. But in terms of the actual values, as I just demonstrated to you, there is only one odds ratio in each 2 by 2 table. And we can calculate it using this shortcut formula. AD over BC. Let's run this to convince ourselves. Now let's look at our shortcut OR. It should be the same as our disease OR. Ta-da! It's the same! So to conclude, the OR is easy to calculate with the shortcut formula, but in order to interpret it, you need to know the backstory of the study design it came from. If it's cross-sectional, you will interpret it as the odds of disease, and if it's case control, you are talking about odds of exposure. I hope you enjoyed my little video about odds. I don't know about you, but now I'm going to go play poker.


All right, welcome back. It's still the Independence Day special right here on Plus TV Africa. And of course, our next guest is seated and aptly poised to do justice to the next discussion on the state of the Nigerian economy. Professor Indubusi Indubusi Radha, Wokoma is a director at the Center for Economic Policy. He is a director at the Center for Economic Policy Analysis and Research University of Lagos, Nigeria. Or should I say, Koka, Nigeria. I hope I got it right. Prof, welcome to the program. Thank you. You're getting markedly. Nice to have you this morning. I would love to start on a very controversial note. I'd like to describe the Nigerian economy as it is today. And please, could you kindly face your camera? Yes, in one word, all right? In one word. And then proceed to tell us, give us your thoughts on the performance of this administration as far as its macro and micro policies are concerned, based on your description of the economy in one word. Now, one of the things President Buhari said today in his speech, Independence Day speech, which is his last before he goes back to his farm in Daru, like I said earlier, he said, quote, efforts in resetting the economy manifested in exiting through economic recessions by the very practical and realistic monetary and fiscal measures to ensure effective public financial management. He also said in addition, well, we'll stop at that. So he seems to have given himself some plaudits for exiting through recessions, hence giving himself a pass mark. So those two questions you can answer. Well, if you want me to describe the Nigerian economy in one word, I would say, presently scrambling. Yeah, the things are falling apart in so many respects. And I'm an examiner, I'm a professor of economics, and it is not the student who will tell you he did well in an exam. It is the examiner, the consumer, the people who say, look, our conditions are better in terms of unemployment, in terms of inflation, whatever. So when you are the cook, you wait for the consumer of your food to tell you, oh, this is tasty, the food is good. And like people say that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. So I think to that extent, we can say that the people of Nigeria should be able to say, yes, we had the president, he came into office, and our lives are better, or our lives are not better. I cannot look at the indicators and I say, in this area, or this area, look at the exchange rate, look at that, that the economy is doing well or not doing well. And let's take a look at, when we go forward, about how the current government made the economy. We can look at the statistics and look at the data, and look at the excess food accounts, well, how much was it, and how much is it now? We can take a look at inflation with a single digit. Currently, it is over 20%, it's more expensive. And look at increase in income. The income level has not changed significantly. Take a look at the exchange rates, take a look at the environment, take a look at the recession that the country came out of, what led to that the country been able to exit the recessions. It was basically due to developments in the oil and gas sector, because when you have to change the price of oil globally, it affects the level of income we get as a country. So the monetary policy and fiscal policy actually have made that contribution, but they are not the major reasons why the country came out of the recession that were reported in 2016 and 2020, 2020 because of the COVID-19. So if you look at the whole thing totally, and look at the level of money the country has been able to borrow, by the time we have, if we have time for all this, we cannot go into them in details. I think the economy is not doing very well, in my opinion. I think a lot still has to be done because that will explain why many young persons don't find hope in the country. And they are looking for alternatives outside this, I was sure. So there are many issues that can be looked into to know whether the economy is doing well or not just, yes, it's good. There are areas you can say that the country could have had some progress, maybe trying to focus on infrastructure and all that. But largely speaking, I think the economy has not been, it's like packing up in so many areas. Okay, but let's talk about the fact that our economy is over dependent on a certain sector. And we know the economy is divided into several sectors. The primary sector, which oil is patrolled, we'll get to talk about agriculture. But let's talk about the over dependence on just the primary sector and oil and gas sector of our economy. Now, prior to now, we know that agriculture was immensely, in 1960, contributed about 60% or over 60% of the GDP. Now we're looking at 25%. How did we get here? Yeah, basically the policy environment has gradually been positive. Taking a look at the government's program, the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ARGP, which this current government brought in brought up to be able to run the economy. For all indicators that the ARGP had, it fell below targets. All, the only targets that the ARGP met was the price of oil, because it was underestimated, because we did a study at our center on the performance of the ARGP in the first two years. You find that for all indicators, all the sectors, What is the ARGP? What does that mean? Economic Recovery and Growth Plan of the Bwari administration, which was a four year medium term plan, which was meant to enhance the economy in three core areas, the macroeconomy and the issue of trying to get the economy diversified away from oil, that is the first plan. The second one is on investing the people, being able to give the money to those who are vulnerable and all that. They thought what would be the economy competitive. These are the three core key areas that the ARGP focused on. For all the projections of the ARGP, none of them met a target, not one, over the four year period. And like I said, the only area in which the government did not think that the part of oil would go as high as it did. So it underperformed. We've been able to get the economy diversified away from oil. Up to today, oil is still the mainstream of the economy. So not much has really changed. And if there's anything that happens to the global economy in the area of oil or oil price, the economy begins to pick up. Either the price goes up or if the price goes down, the economy begins to falter and begin to shake. So it is still dependent largely on the oil sector. And I think a lot has to be done. We need to talk about developing the non-oil sector. For now, we are just speaking. I've been an economist for many years and I know in our various conferences, we're talking about the economy being diversified. It's been like a sing song over the years. It's just like talk. But not much has happened. And this government has been able to talk more about it. Not much has manifested from the ARGP plan. But Professor Ndubisi, my question is, how did we contribute? I mean, did agriculture then contributed 60% or over 60% to our GDP? And now we're struggling and grappling. Even though agriculture 25 is still the largest that you have in our economy now, looking at other sectors, 2%, 9 and thereabout, you can't still compare with agriculture, but we're not where we should be. And so what could be the issue? Yes, like I said, the issues about policy and focus on oil. For example, when we talk about getting the economy transformed, economy transformation globally, third world countries move from commodities, agriculture. You move from there to industry and then you move to services. When the GDP of the country was rebased under Jonathan, you discover that more than 50% of our economy is on services, ICT, insurance, banking and finance and so on. And then the middle, which is industry, agriculture, manufacturing, was very thin. And because of the focus on oil, we get cheap money from oil, we've been able to abandon agriculture and manufacturing. And then we now translated, even the agriculture that we had that was as high as up to 55% of the GDP contribution actually began to shrink. And in recent times, it's also been affected because we're now focusing a lot more on livestock. This year about headers and so on, which also affecting crop production. Agriculture has two major components in GDP computation. We have the crop and we have the livestock. The bulk of agricultural contribution is in crops. And for crops, we have cash crops, we have food crops. Now, if you take a look at livestock, the major component there is poultry. But you know, because of the need to give prominence to cows and other kinds of livestock, we've been able to affect the production of a car, of a crops because of livestock production. Talk about livestock transportation plan, which basically is about 2% contribution to GDP. We are destroying the other 30, 40% because of 2%. So I think the issue is about policy. The focus of government and focus on oil has actually been able to bring down this proportion that agricultural contribution to GDP from what it was before to what it is now. So it's about policy and the focus of governance. They've been able to drive the economy. All right. Because we're looking at Nigeria 62, we would also go back in time to look at what's been happening over the years. And since independence then, what has been Nigeria's economic development been since we took reins and we switched to self-governance or government. I remember that some national leader from ahead of state said the problem of the country is not how to make the money, but how to spend it. And of course, I do remember some years ago, I wasn't alive, then maybe I may not have been alive, but Nigeria was the mecca of the Dubai of Africa or West Africa where people were tripping into this country, including my parents, came from Ghana to Nigeria. It was a place where you could come and see skyscrapers. You could come and see flyovers, the flyovers and Lagos and the butterfly interchanges have been there for years. I mean, it was a time where the cement production in the entire world was affected because of the humongous construction going on in Nigeria. So this is a country that even before Egypt and Dubai began to plan and build cities, Nigeria had already started building a city from scratch in the mode of the FCT Abuja. So Nigeria has been there before Ghana got there. Nigeria has been there before Egypt got there, before Dubai got there. What went wrong and when did it go wrong? Yeah, in my opinion, Nigeria has three problems, basically three. Number one is leadership. Number two is leadership. And number three is leadership. Leadership, leadership, leadership. If you take a look at economy that have actually been transformed across the world, even in Asia, take a look at Singapore. Singapore, for example, we have a look at you. Look when you came in and transformed that economy. Take a look at even Ghana. From third world to first. From third world to first world. Take a look at Hong Kong. Take a look at South Korea. These economies in Asia, even Taiwan, they moved from third world to first world in the literature. And if you find out what are the growth drivers, it's just leadership, principally. Ghana was worse than Nigeria. We had this, that is why we have this language of Ghana was good. They all tripped into Nigeria because the country went down until a man emerged, Rollins, and he turned things around for the whole country. And the Ghanians went back. Many investments actually come into Africa, or West Africa, go to Ghana, not Nigeria, because of leadership change. And I think the critical thing is, if you get it right, that is number one. The next thing is about the structure of Nigeria. Needs to be taking it, we seem to look at the structure of Nigeria. Because the structure of production, the structure of governance is very critical. When all of us actually are going at the same pace, that is not how it was. Even in the First Republic, the country was doing much better. I had the Western region going at their own pace with their own policy structure. We had the Eastern region, we had the North. We need to look at the structure of Nigeria. We don't all put all of us, we don't talk about everybody being centralized. It affects economy growth. We need to look at the structure and then make sure that we have the right leadership. It will turn around the economy. This economy is a great, this country is a great country with huge potentials. But because people who have been squeezed together and then we don't have the right leadership, everybody comes in, want to defend the interest of its own people and all kinds of, it is compartmentalized and it affects economy growth. So I think the issue is leadership is so important. Get it right and make sure that we have the right structure. I believe in restructuring. It affects economy growth and they will be able to make sure the country will achieve what it has planned. Well, I'm sure that we have to let this go, but just to just leave this at this point, Professor Ndubisi, there's been... Wocoma. Wocoma. I don't have to call you entirely, entirely. But I mean, it's been stated that the kind of structural legacy that we inherited from the colonial government is responsible for what we're faced at the time with because we inherited a system where as much as we were good with exportation of raw materials, we're very dependent on the Western market for commodities. So the discouragement of industrialization has continued and we see that in the disguise of green environment and green policy and green economy. And Niger and other African countries are binding to this. When you ask yourself how much of the gas are you emitting into the globe at the end of the day, it's not even up to 10%. Why are we even continuing in this line? But I'm sure that it will be another time to have this thought. I'm sure you want to say something just in a few seconds, Professor. Well, basically, we need to gain from our natural resource. There's always a trade-off in any economic policy or any economic action. There's always a trade-off. You gain here in this day. So if actually we need to generate income, make sure we minimize oil theft because we are now, it's like double Joe party. You have the negative effects of oil production. You have the stealing and the ordinary person is not benefiting. So if we're able to get as much as we can from our fossil fuels and also bear the consequences, I think we can still do one at this in the short term. All right. Thank you very much. Professor Undu Bisi Ngokomans, Director of the Africa Center for Policy Analysis and Research, University of Lagos, Akoka. We appreciate your time. Thank you very much. And happy October 1. Thank you. All right. Congratulations. Yes indeed. We'll be right back. We have more ahead on a special independence program right here on Plus TV Africa.


Hey guys, how are you today? So I'm gonna try to going forward do like once a month do a favorite thing Sometimes most of the time I will probably be probably be a favorite art thing But I can't guarantee it always will be it might be something else occasionally But this month is definitely sort of an art thing and this is the arc punch by Staples This is my new favorite thing. Yes. I finally broke down and bought myself an arc punch It is the most heavy reading the reviews. It's the most heavy-duty Disc binding punch out there. You can do thicker papers with it multiple sheets of paper without it breaking or binding up It is kind of big and bulky and it's not super cheap but if you have a Staples rewards card save up some rewards money to get it and It is a big but it does have this lock on it. So if I unlock it, then the handle comes up So that I can use it and punch with it But when it's in storage, I can push the handle down and lock it And I have to say the disc binding system in general is my new favorite thing, but this arc punch is definitely I have a lot of punches and I like planter punches and binder punches in particular and This one is really nice and the disc binding system is I have a zutter bind it all which I like This is way easier to use And this Staples one has a guide here So if you're not doing a full length of eight and a half by eleven paper, you're doing something smaller You can move this guide up and down And line it up so that when you put your smaller pieces of paper in you just back it up to the guide and Punch and every time that you do that. It's gonna all come out the exact same Plus it has a little drawer down here and all the little punchy bits There you go. All the little punchy bits go in the drawer and I did get some rings now most of your ring binding systems you can use Rings from different systems with the same binding the arc is no different So these are the arc rings which I can get at Staples. You can use happy planner rings With this and the arc ones really don't come in as many fun colors as the happy planner rings Do but they will all work. I Got it specifically so that I could do this So I'm not gonna tell you exactly why I did this until October, but I will share with you what I did This is a planner sticker book I use the ring binding system to make it and in it I am able to flip and I have all my planner stickers here or a good selection of them And I can just pull a sticker off stick it in my planner and then fold it up It's much easier than looking through the bigger store it bind Blah blah blah storage binder that I have which I still like for the bulk of my stickers They're in there But I'm when I'm just looking for a planner sticker to put in my planner or in one of my other journals I don't want to dig through the binder and have to dig the binder out every time So I have this smaller little book that can live on my desk that I can just flip it through real quick and go Oh, yes, I want a bunny sticker and I have this thing for Korean planner stickers in case you haven't noticed and he does stickers So I really enjoyed making this very much. I put a clear plastic cover on the front Which is actually a flexible Cutting mat from the dollar tree and they come really big to you get two of them for a dollar So check them out in the kitchen aisle and they punched like a dream on the arc punch Which is something else I wanted to be able to Punch this kind of stuff on that without too much trouble and it punches this like a dream Then I put a piece of card stock This is from Webster's pages before anybody asks and I just have a couple things tucked inside But then I cut some smaller strips of paper That are that the height of the book and they're about two and a half inches wide and I used tape runner to stick My planner sticker sheets to that little strip of paper You can see it here and I did it on both sides and I punched everything and stuck it in the album And now I have a really great planner sticker album. This is not my original idea. I saw somebody do something similar here on YouTube I don't remember who it is. If you all know let me know because I don't remember Because we will definitely link her video in the description below and I don't remember who it was But I thought it was such a genius idea that I did it with my stickers and I think it's fabulous and it's gonna Work really well going forward and why I did this like I said, we will discuss going forward in October and or November and Yeah, so my favorite thing this month My arc punch so I will try to include a link in the description below to where to get this if you don't have a Staples nearby so that you can order one if you would like to start getting into the Ring disc binding or ring binding system. I don't know what disc binding maybe you call it. I don't know It's really handy. It works like a dream and wow, I don't know why I didn't do this earlier That's it for today.  They probably do too. All right, that's it for today. See you later. Bye


Most galaxies form new stars at a fairly slow rate, but members of a rare class known as starburst galaxies blaze with extremely active star formation. NGC 3310 is forming clusters of new stars at a prodigious rate. There are several hundred star clusters visible in this image as the bright blue diffuse objects that trace the galaxy's spiral arms. Each of these star clusters represents the formation of up to about a million stars.


Yeah, so he's not gonna be 007. It's done the last time he was 007 was back inspector and here. He's just gonna be James Bond Yeah, at least he still called James Bond, but I mean they're not taking that thank unless like he's now James Swan because like You know Welcome everyone I'm rejoined here by my good buddy John from the YouTube channel haphazard stuff I hope you know him because like I always say he's my biggest inspiration and Welcome back to the channel John. How are you doing? I'm doing very well, and I'm anxious to discuss this movie that we've been waiting for How long now? Well, yeah, how long has it been? It's it's that's the thing This thing we've been talking about it for years and I feel like we've this series of videos We're about to do we've kind of already discussed a lot of the topics in our trailer discussion We did like two years ago. Yeah, two years ahead. We're still at the same point, but yeah looking forward to this thing finally releasing We're now in late June recording this in this video and the movie is gonna come out in October For the UK. They'll get it late September as of now.  Um This seems like a lifetime a lifetime of waiting for this movie. I'll tell you I Think initially it I was a lot more excited Like after that first trailer like that we saw with the DB5 and Craig and all that It was it was it was better than I thought it would be after specter because as you know, like I wasn't a big fan of specter Yeah But since that first trailer came out and I don't even remember when that first trailer came out When we first saw the shots the images of like, you know, how he was gonna look and all the other characters everything Since then it's had to has to be like two years. I Don't even remember last time like that when I moved that trailer first came out, but since then Things have tapered down for me and like at this point I just want to just see the movie and almost kind of get it out of the way. Yeah I think I think that is only natural for I think most people who will watch this will Completely agree with you because I don't think where it's humanly possible to just keep the hype All the time for this movie is they they build it up and then you know our balloon has been popped like five times And now we're I think we're finally really getting it, but Yeah Hopefully by August, of course, you know the hype train is gonna restart and we'll hopefully get excited again to see this But that is what these videos will be about because me and John will be doing a six-part series In the lead-up to no time to die discussing various topics About no time to die and in today's video. We're just gonna be talking about our general expectations Maybe some concerns here and there that we have for the movie But yeah, I feel the same as you the hype is kind of died down There's there's nothing about it in the news I think at the moment not not a lot of stuff going on at least at the time of recording this Yeah, it's been a while since I've heard any new news about The the film or you know, I think any behind-the-scenes photos or Rumors it seems like you know, we've gone through it all right. I don't know if like they they if there's anything new in the last six six eight months since To learn about this movie other than the new release date that it just got Yeah, I agree and I do I am of the opinion. I don't need much more stuff anyway Because the whole movie is gonna be dished out. I think they they released like a full scene as well Like a while back. I don't see that. Yeah, I skipped it I Like you like I've seen enough from I think it was two trailers that I saw. Yeah, that's enough I don't need to start seeing extended scenes or even more additional shots or anything like it's been long enough that I They wedded my appetite fine and now like they're in the position of having to Try to they keep reminding people that no time to die is gonna be coming out So they have to put something new together and oh, well, we'll use this shot of Rami Malik sitting in his throne room or you know, Craig or Martini or some new stuff that we haven't seen I'd like to be able to have a little bit of surprise and I don't I can kind of from a PR standpoint think about like how frustrating it must be to try and Promote this movie in a fresh way every time like normally it's just Without the COVID situation and movie releases and you get one period of Generating hype and it comes out, but they had to generate it every time with new posters and different trailers and Thinking like when the the cast finally do those interviews for the this movie Are they even gonna remember any stories from the production like when they were filming it? It was so long ago The interviews are probably gonna be different on the red carpet like here. How was it there to film this movie? Well We think it's been a while. It's probably like filmed like Two three movies since then like all these yeah, maybe yeah Yeah, but it is what it is, but I'm sure there is stuff to be excited about in no time no time to die Is there anything you are really looking forward to see within this movie? I Don't think anything specific honestly.   They had him driving away in the DB five in Skyfall he like returns to the office like ready for more missions, right? What else can you do? That like something different between those two those two extremes. Yeah for a final like you know goodbye to him well, I also Really hope the killing off thing won't be in there and you you said like oh, I don't think they'll do it the rumors have been around like even Around the bed the Danny Boyle stuff like back then when he was gonna do it So those rumors are around it still isn't confirmed whether or not they did it I think there were even rumors like there were multiple endings filmed at some point I don't know if those are true But that meant that gets me thinking that there might be Alternate L endings to this I don't know it's been a while since those theories popped up, but I Hope they don't kill them off because to me Even if you know, they're gonna reboot it after this That would still not be a bond a thing I would want to see in a bond movie to see our hero essentially just die like that in the ending Yeah, that's another that's another topic and we're really starting into the pessimistic side of your things I know we are but the talk about the 007 controversy I know we've we've kind of touched the edges on this before probably in the trailer discussion How do you feel about it today? Like are they gonna give Lashana because it still isn't officially confirmed. Is it are they gonna give her 007? What do you think? I thought I thought they did confirm it. I Maybe maybe it sounds whiny. I still don't like it No, I agree. I Don't I I get like what people say it's just a number It's just a vacancy in the service that has had to be filled and everything right like to me 007 It's an important number to me It's yeah, if you look at the thing your background alone, you see the 007 logo on that book you have there on shelf Yeah, it's like you see that and it's synonymous with bond and you know to anyone watching this I don't need to explain it. It's like 007 is bond. I know my my mother because Was so confused like see she texted me When the news came in in the mainstream and she's like so this new black woman She's now James Bond. Yeah, right, and I'm like, well, no, no, no She's not James Bond because she's a woman. She's like, yeah, I know but it says here and then she put a link and it says Lashana Lynch is 007. I'm like, well, she's 007. She's like well 007 is James Bond, right? So what am I saying wrong? You know, they that's what you get when you do this stuff And they know what kind of words they would open with this. I mean did they I mean, is that what they were expecting like When they did this like what kind of reaction did they anticipate from moviegoers when they say, okay She can be 007 were they expecting controversy where they think it like I think they try if they go this route and I think definitely on the set there must have been at least discussions about this To me it sounds like a political statement, you know, like black female strong lead character can also be 007 that's the that's the only I mean, there's no reason not to give her 006 or any other number other than a political statement at least in my view That's the only thing I could think of like why they would do it. Yeah Double the number 007 is important to like me you like all Bond fans like 007 is James Bond In the context of the movie what difference would it made if they made LaShanna like 009 That's the thing and I think I feel like we've also talked about this before but yeah Like all this old ground like it's still it's still the same concerns But it's it's I think it's a really valid concern because Like you like you said if she was the only thing you're gonna get from this is like Bring 007 in and then the door opens and all of a sudden it's not Daniel Craig. It's a it's LaShanna Lynch Whoa, it's like the reaction but other than that story wise Well, you can't bring it any more deeper than the statement like there's not it wouldn't be a different story like late like Rami Malek sends his bad guys out and he says go kill 007 and they like he means he means Bond But no that they start attacking know me here. Yeah. Yeah What difference does it make if if Craig sees Somebody as 007 in his old his old job Why would he kid? He doesn't he's he leaves the that job every movie Like what does he care like you know about his title going to someone else the guy doesn't even want it. It seems like half the time No, I agree. It's because this this goes deeper than the movie itself It's mainly for us audience. Yeah, I guess it's big impact Oh, I guess it's the proof like oh Anybody could be 007. Yeah. Well, thanks for the education like I kind of realized that Yeah, I was going to these movies because I like that guy James Bond and As 007 like I don't know about this new one if I have any interest following this person so nobody's ever asked about this and it's it's and it also changes like state staples of the Bonsie is like the movies that opening titles it always starts with So and so playing Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 isn't it's an old 24 movie openings and I'm now really Concerned like are they gonna do it again? Is it gonna say Daniel Craig as James Bond's 007? You know, is it gonna say that in the in the titles because technically he's not 007 they'd have to remove that. Yeah, they would remove 007 Like that'd be part of the cool title design will have that traditional opening but 007 will fade out Exactly like Ian Fleming's James Bond Goes away like he's not anymore vanish That's actually what what you would do if you're Daniel Kleinman and you're making yeah, like I'm already got that like map Yeah, no, that's a good point And another thing is the gun barrel like this is is correct gonna walk in that if he if he's 007 or not, right or are we gonna open the movie up with Lashana waxing? I mean, maybe you would he'll be in that in the gun barrel But he'll just be hanging out at the local bar because like he's no reason to be wearing The PPK anymore And we just watch him in the gun barrel like But like it's almost like I'm kind of exhausted with the whole 007 I Start not to even care Do it do it. I'd hopefully she's just written as a Decent character from those trailers. She just seemed annoying to me. She sings. Yeah, Jinx. You know, I Agree, and I think it's even worse because at least with jinx there weren't any politics surrounding it They day we could go on and on about but about this. Yeah I'm honestly, I'm tired of the 007 thing and the Just do it. I've accepted it. She's gonna be 007. He's not getting it back. We know that right? He's not gonna get it back at the end. So like if you have any hope about him getting it back There's no way She's gonna she's gonna have 007. He is gonna enter this movie and end the movie By not being 007 at all Because he's five years out of retirement There's no way he's gonna like you know hit the gym for a week and then come back and then the 007 title is already taken by No, me so unless she dies which they're not gonna kill her off because that would signal like a week a week character Yeah, do not want this do that.   Yeah, she said oh, oh, I'm sorry I held John to your number here. It is sir, you know, can you imagine they would never do that? Oh my god, you know, it's This kind of signals The weirdness of what we're in like we do a video about our expectations Yeah, I know we end up talking about 007 number and killing how far because those are our concerns are like Initially that shows you how deep ring because never before Are your expectations?  It seems like like people are gonna be saying says why are you guys even going to the movie? We're still I mean, it's fine. It's fine. I'm gonna see it. I've accepted it. She's gonna be double a seven No, it's just something that I associate with James Bond and it's kind of annoying that they're just giving it off to somebody some other character And it seems like a gimmick. We are assuming though because I've seen Numbers rumors like one of the rumors was like the 003 was on her car that number or some number. I can't remember but like the Like her she has a car in the movie Lashiana Lynch and the number 003 was written on it I don't I don't know if you would do that if you were spying in the stories like to get your code number on there Just actually I had like a personalized plate that like secret agent That like like they supposedly prove like well actually they changed it He's not know what they've heard the backlash and now she's no longer 007, but now I don't know any more what to expect Who knows I mean they could have done like you know a thing like who was the one? They could have just made her. What was it? 009 and she shows up Inspector like he stole 009's car and wrecked it So maybe that'd be like you know she'd be 009 coming back and that this is the reason why she's You damaged my vehicle that made that mission a little bit extra tough because you bond Where's my Sinatra tape or you know something I was just thinking like I wouldn't even care I don't I don't see Lashana listening to Sinatra. Oh, yeah. I know that other than that It's that would be funny like all 009 from specter that that will be a funny connection to get it out of the way And I mean there's a continuity and like I wouldn't even blink I wouldn't even oh, she's double or not So we'll delve into something different because people are gonna be like, yeah, let's see if we can get something positive in I Because I'm really struggling to think about this Positive stuff. Yeah, I mean the DB 5 I was hesitant about like you know them bringing it back again But like that that chase the chase scene That that looks like something that's gonna be really fun like I'm anxious to see that thing Yeah, actually actually being used in like a action scene and not just a prop Him just sitting in it stuff like that's that that'll be cool That's gonna be something new and I just picked up on a positive here on your side Because I remember when we did the trailer discussion two years ago. So this is the one positive thing That that timed it for you because I remember you said back then like I'm fed up with seeing a DB 5 Now it's like well the positive thing is we're gonna see the DB 5 again So that changed for you that did change for me now like we've seen it enough times It's gonna be hopefully there's gonna be some of the cool moments in that chase scene that we haven't seen yet But when that thing like has the guns out and it's spinning around firing at the guys Okay, now that's cool. That's not just like you know them pulling out pulling it out and into a garage and having fun You know just drive it down the road. They're actually doing something new with yeah Like I'm not even going that like I remember like being really upset with this The continuity between the DB 5 and in Skyfall and Casino Royale, you know the the steering wheels on the wrong side It doesn't make sense. Why would he have these gadgets and stuff? I'm not even gonna question it. It's like alright It's all loaded everything and that's fine Yeah, there is there is still a lot of stuff to be excited about luckily For once for me on at the armist that's that's one I'm excited about even if she probably gets less screen time I am curious what Rami Malek is gonna do with with saffon. That's another one. Yeah, I mean, I think he'll make a pretty good villain Yeah, the story itself. I'm just curious what they're gonna do with that. Another topic. We're gonna be discussing I'm gonna be kind of anxious to finally hear this Billy Ellish song That's that's funny because that's also been out for two years. Yeah Never popped out on the rain. Maybe it popped out on the radio before you didn't even notice I've somehow like avoided hearing that still and so that one I'm gonna keep in the back pocket I'm just gonna watch it watch it in the movie and hear it like how it is Like did you like the song? I didn't even know review that I Did kind of I I don't want to spoil too much because you've never heard it, but My opinion is it's better than Sam Smith's riding on the wall Over I did get need to get used to it need to need to grow on me But now that it's two years old already. It's like or something. I've heard it enough to kind of enjoy it it is kind of An emotional song and the lyrics actually are pretty cool when you actually listen to it It does have a bond connection. It's a lot better than what I was expecting from her beforehand That's my opinion, but but did you also maybe so you didn't hear the Billie Eilish song? but hand simmer also They also released the hand sim a score for them Oh I recommend you did the gun barrel. It sounds amazing. I think I did hear that But that was a while ago. They released that wasn't it? Yeah And you can visualize Look, I think at least really cool in the opening with that tune. I think that had simmer nailed it Oh, definitely gonna be official one.  It's like the start of it's like a Dunkirk score score It's like it's that kind of danger sound that he produced for that movie Those first notes that he does for the for the movie. They sound like Dunkirk You can you can look it up. It's it looks pretty cool the sound of the movie. So it's gonna compliment No me walking in that Circle like pretty well then you think So anyway our expectations For no time to die Unfortunately, most of the stuff we ended up talking about is negative Good But we have good hopes and I am being sincere here that this is gonna be a good movie What are your expectations beforehand of where it's gonna be ranked in the five movies of Craig? Oh, I still think like I know I sound like a Debbie Downer, but I think I think Generally, no time to die is gonna be Decent it's gonna be good I still I've been saying this for a long time now, but I still think it will be a decent movie and It's not gonna be as good as Casino Royale or Skyfall But it's gonna be better than quantum inspector. So it's gonna fall right right in the middle I think it will be satisfying. I think it will be satisfying with with even with all the silliness with you know You know 007 and no me and some of the other stuff We'll we'll talk about that I have reservations about but I think it'll be decent I think you took to the words out of my mouth because that's where I would rank it in Where I expected to be ranked as well I think it from the looks of it It looks like better filmed and a more competent story than quantum and it looks capable to be a More fun movie than specter maybe I did like specter a lot more than you But I also feel it won't top Skyfall and and Casino Royale, but it is able to do the other ones. Yeah, I mean it could change it could it could I could be completely off I'm just these are just our expect expectations, of course Kind of a prediction, but yeah, that's where I won't be surprised yet It'd be like, you know ranking three and Craig's a bond list. Yeah No, we're on the same page here. So those are my expectations as well And we're now a couple of months out to see it and we'll see Afterwards if our expectations were correct. Well, we'll see what happens We shall see So in the next part of this ongoing series, we'll be discussing the no time to die story over on John's channel all the odd number Episodes are gonna come up online only even a number episodes are gonna come up on John's channel So go find part two over at haphazardstuff's channel Check it out and we'll be back to discuss the no time to die story. Take care


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