What's up everybody Jason here from jazby's case breaks comm we just sold out 2020 tops five-star baseball picker team number 15 This is a eight box case break Just remember guys That there is no diamond backs here. So I almost forgot that no dime back hits. So Did not sell them if we do get something randomly, I guess then we'll randomize that by believe there's no hits And then of course we had a little R&B for these teams There will be some Hits including autographs relics base cars, etc. That'll be unnumbered So the customer names that are part of this randomizer here We'll have a shot at all those in one lot at the end of the break and there's the teams Good luck everybody And then here's everybody else they're bottom straight up very nice very nice All right Tops five-star All right, so just two hits guys this is a High-risk high reward type of deal break guys. There's only two autographs two hits per box So only 16 total hits popping out of this case break But all it takes is the one hit We got the first one it's Mitch Garver from the Minnesota Twins When a Conrad how about a one out of five to start us off? Raphael Devers One out of five Um Patrick I Don't think you have a team You bought into the R&B so you have a piece of all of these teams random number block style This wasn't like a team filler. This was a random number block break So depending on what happens what number you get on the left side of the serial number and Red Sox Kyle Harper Bought that straight up Patrick Gordon for the Washington Nationals going to Gregory next one We got a little Nick sensile for the Reds. That's Tom Jones straight up five out of or eight out of 50 next one I Little Matt dies Angels Part of the R&B remember that's unnumbered guys so everybody in that list She's gonna have a shot at this and there's any more unnumbered hits. It'd be randomize a one lock and we got an adigar Martinez That's 25 out of 40 Golden Grafs 25 spot 5 went to Matt L For the Mariners We got Robel Garcia for the Cubs. That's another R&B hit. That's unnumbered So everybody have a shot at that and wow, what a patch right here JD Martinez for the Boston Red Sox 14 out of 25 Boston Red Sox straight up Kyle Harper I former to go guys I Yeah, Sam Hilliard Autograph another one there for or sorry Seth with the Rockies and a one out of 15 Jorge Soler for the Royals When a Sarah I Nick Solak for the Rangers going to Rex And we have a redemption guys good luck Five-star base autograph of it is Bo Bushett Toronto Blue Jay is going to Shawn Matic. There you go. I bought the Blue Jay straight up very nice two more guys I Jalen Davis Giants gonna Andrew Webb And we have Silver signatures Rod Carew That's 30 out of 40 Minnesota Twins Edition When a Conrad all right guys last box guys. Good luck You Got Wilson Contreras six out of 50 for the Cubs that's part of the R&B six Gonna Jack and the last hey guys Is Logan Webb for the Giants and Logan Webb but Andrew Webb There you go. All right you guys will again two hits for the R&B and Two hits that were unnumbered for the R&B. So everybody have a shot at this in one lot give away both of those hits So we'll randomize just the customer names in the random number block Boom customer number one gets both of those Let's roll it 12 times Well, I mean Rex. It was only like how many teams those eight Two out of the what's 16 possible. It's not too bad. I guess But some of those teams were the bigger ones like the White Sox and angels and stuff that probably more tough to hit Like trailing them. All right, 12 times Good luck one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven 12 and actually there was four hits for the R&B out of 16. So it's actually not that bad All right, 12 times Anthony at the top. So there you go You're gonna get both of these unnumbered R&B splots Anthony who had spot zero redemption slot They go guys that was tops five star baseball eight box case break pick a jeans over 15 on Jaspies case breaks.com


Tens of millions of dollars. They were losing I think a hundred and thirty million dollars hundred and forty million dollars And he turned that around in a few years to a thirty million dollar profit and he did it with all the same people So meaning he didn't just fire everybody and hire a bunch of new people the same people who were losing a hundred and thirty million dollars Before he came in as CEO were suddenly, you know instrumental to making thirty million dollars a profit after that What's up everybody and welcome to the show today we drop great content each and every week And we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that You're gonna have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell And if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friend Well, welcome to the show Peter. We're excited to talk about change with you Thanks AJ. I'm very excited to be here Now we've all heard the truism that you can't change other people You can only change yourself Why do we believe this myth and struggle so much with changing others? You know, it's because we try to change people in the wrong ways, you know, people don't resist change They resist being changed, you know, we all make changes in our lives. We change jobs. We get married We have babies we change careers. We build careers. We get education. We do all of this stuff So I'm very willing to change but if you try to change me that reflects my loss of control it reflects my loss of autonomy and I'm gonna push back and so so the the way in which we try to change people often generates the kind of resistance that we end up Complaining about when we say you can't change other people. You can only change yourself. I have to Completely agree with you there and not only that I see that in myself More than anything and AJ and I have been working together for close to 15 over 15 years now and That is certainly how I am about things. I don't like strenuous pressures and And any time I start to feel that it angers me and it puts the brakes on anything that I'm doing And I'm happy to change and I love to be growth-minded and always looking for opportunities to grow However, those outside forces certainly do number on me You know Johnny, I really appreciate that and I appreciate you saying it and also like I noticed that I React to my own sort of Adult self trying to control myself I react with that way and what I'm thinking about is you know, I have a sugar thing like I love sugar I like ice cream I and I know it's like not healthy for me and not a good idea to eat You know like a whole pint of Ben and Jerry's like that's just not you know smart But I'll start eating it and then my in my mind I'll say Peter You know, you really shouldn't be eating this like this is not healthy for you. It's not smart It's not aligned with your goals and my response will be screw you. I'll get to you whatever I want You know like I resist my own You know the the the control that I try to put on myself I resist that which is why you know, then we say well, we have really weak willpower and but it's it's not that it's you know I have very strong willpower It's it's that we resist being changed even when we feel like that strong hand of change is coming from ourselves What I've also found is that often times when others are changing me I feel the need to rationalize that I'm the one in control of the change Absolutely So when I think about my relationship with my fiancee She's definitely had an impact on me But I will always rationalize that that these were my choices in the change that this was my idea Yes, sure. I'm dressing completely differently, but that's good. I want to dress completely differently. I look pretty good, right? Exactly Now we also know that change is a part of organizations growing and you argue It's really the most important skill that we can develop as a leader. Why is this ability so important in your eyes? You know, that's what a leader does I mean the role of a leader is to set vision. It's to align people behind the vision It's to sort of collectively aggregate the work of everybody and move everybody in the direction of You know what they're trying to achieve and help them collaborate I could tell you countless stories of Turnaround leaders who come in and without changing over the workforce Give the example in the book of Brian Gaffney who I worked with as a coach And and Brian was the CEO of Allianz Global Distributors and he went in and they were losing Tens of millions of dollars. They were losing I think 130 million dollars 140 million dollars And he turned that around in a few years to a 30 million dollar profit and he did it with all the same people So meaning he didn't just fire everybody and hire a bunch of new people the same people who were losing 130 million dollars Before he came in as CEO. We're suddenly, you know instrumental to making 30 million dollars a profit After that and so that's his job his job The job of a leader is to go into an organization and see what's happening and help change the way people are doing things So that they are aligned Connected committed and driving towards a common goal. That's what leaders do. We better learn how to do that Well, also the one other thing I'll say is that you know leaders when they're really effective Help everybody around them perform at a higher level like what I call up their game And so you know like that's our job as leaders is to bring out the best the best of the people who are working for us So that they perform at a level the higher than they were performing beforehand. That's changing I think the easy easiest example for everyone to see with that is in sports And a lot of times you'll have the the same ragtag team that that didn't put together a winning season last year But maybe it's a new coach who came in who got them Motivated and on and focused on the same vision or perhaps the coach who was there had figured out a way to get everybody On board with that vision. Yeah 100% and you know, you also see that with a player who comes on and it's not that the player him or herself You know changes everything because they're so amazing. It's actually you see, you know, Tom Brady's an interesting example I'm pretty sure he's not deflating all the balls, right? I think when he goes I think when he you know, he joins another team and suddenly that team's winning the Super Bowl You might just say wow, he's amazing. You could put a group of you know Gorillas on the field with him and he would win. That's not it But he's having an impact on the team and the team is playing in a way that is much more effective as a team Based on some things that he's doing. We drop great content each and every week And we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that You're gonna have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell And if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends What do you think are the biggest misconceptions that we have around change? Obviously in writing and researching this book you have a model But many of us as we talked about we're resistant to change We even bought into this truism that you can't change others. So what are those misconceptions around change? So why don't I lay the Foundation of what it takes to change and then and then I'll share the what I think is the biggest misconception So I'm gonna like try to build some suspense here when awesome and and the biggest misconception that I think Especially in corporate America. We get totally wrong and we get wrong in our relationships So it's all over the place. So what people need to change is four things ownership independent capability Emotional courage and what I call or how we and I on my co-author we call it future-proofing or resilience, right? So ownership is I have to own it like if I own it if it's coming from me Then then I'll make it successful if I have an idea that is a hundred percent perfect and you gave it to me Versus an idea that's seventy five percent there, but I but I I invent I created it myself How much more likely am I going to work and put everything? I have into it in order to work make my seventy five percent Idea successful than to make your 100% idea successful, right? Way more like if you're a hundred percent idea doesn't work.  If my seventy five percent idea, you know works. Wow, I'm brilliant So so that's you know, I'm gonna work that time out independent capability means we've got to be able to To to be able to follow through we have to be able to execute, you know It's not just an idea, but it's executing emotional courage is the willingness to feel something which is critical to follow through Right, so my the book I wrote before this one is called leading with emotional courage And that's the that's the underlying idea behind that book if you think of a difficult conversation You're not having right one that you need. You know you need to have but you're not having Consider why you're not having it. I bet you know everything you need to know to have it I bet you're perfectly skilled enough to have it and I bet you've had time and opportunity and that's usually what we try to Solve for when we're helping to execute, but that's not the stuff that gets in the way What gets in the way is you're gonna have to feel something if you have that hard conversation You might have to feel their anger or you're hurting them or shame or that weird passive aggressive thing that happens When you give someone feedback and they go, thank you so much I really appreciate that and then they don't talk to you for three weeks Like you have to be willing to feel that stuff and if you're willing to feel everything If you're willing to feel the shame and the embarrassment and the anger and the path if you're willing to feel everything You can do anything so emotional courage is a key piece of this and then finally future-proofing or resilience Which is if you get very very good at solving certain kinds of problems and performing What that buys you is more difficult problems and a higher need to perform afterwards And so you know like that's the gift of succeeding is you get more challenges to succeed with and so so in order to really change In a way that sticks you have to be able to continue to do that So that's that's what we need its ownership independent capability emotional courage and future-proofing So now the reveal right like what what's the big thing that gets in the way? Actually the big thing is that almost always when we try to change people we approach it as a critic and not as an ally We are not approaching it as someone who's helping them We're approaching it as someone who's trying to point out what they're doing wrong and and in Organizations the place where we get so stuck in this is feedback Right and and we get stuck in this in our relationships, too Right, which is that this sense that okay? I'm gonna be brutally honest with you right because I'm a good guy and I call it straight and I believe in transparency So I'm gonna be brutally honest with you Which as someone who just put a comment in in I did a LinkedIn live this morning and they put a comment saying Brutal honesty is almost always 90% brutal and 10% honest, right? And I love that I think that's totally true and and it's like you know brutal honesty Just knocks people down it has the opposite effect And so we we're building these cultures and organizations where you know the whole idea is radical Truth and I'm gonna be you know totally honest and it's very very destructive and people spiral down and we approach Change by being critics which by the way takes away all ownership Mutes mute their independent capability Limits what they can do afterwards because now they're in defensive mode and they're not gonna take chances to build and learn and growth mindset and It it you know emotional courage it makes it even like it creates the bar of emotional courage Now you're gonna have to take massive risk, which is gonna risk being knocked down again by this destructive feedback And you know you're never gonna be able to perform in the future after that So if you think about what what is required in order to make change right ownership and independent capability future Proofing emotional courage all of those things get knocked down all of those things get reduced when we just Come in as a critic or we give you feedback or where you know transparently brutally honest with you That's I think the biggest mistake that I see happening. Well, we all want to have an impact and in large part those four traits or pieces to actually change are Tied directly to us feeling that impact seeing that impact and when we are faced with a critic Immediately our impact is diminished we feel less than and that doesn't inspire change that Requires us to start to retreat and feel less of an impact And of course that cycle is then hard to break when we talk about team members and really trying to bring People in to a plan to execute to enjoy that change You


TLO, what's poppin'? We are on Twitch, we are live. What you probably won't join us by the time we'll still be, damn, what do I normally say? I'm gonna edit that out. TLO, what's poppin'? We are on Twitch, we are live, so you can come join us if you want. If not, just leave a like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post notification bells. Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK. If we happen to go live and you miss it, this is what the highlights will be. This channel right above me. We do got the Patreon, we just recorded Miss Fit season finale for season four. More characters dying. And then we got the Discord. Resend all your requests. I think tomorrow I'm just gonna do Discord reactions. So be ready for that. Let's get into this, man. Eight deadliest animals in the UK. You see what I'm saying? That title alone is making me weary of doing certain things. Why I don't visit Australia? Because y'all got something called a huntsman spider. What I'm gonna do with that? And then they be everywhere. Like, what I'm gonna do with that?  Got me bent.  Okay, I don't know what that music was about. Eight deadliest animals in the UK. Like, what is this? False black widow spiders were originally from the Canary Islands because in the 1980s, these spiders were on the fruit crates in British ships traveling from the Canary Islands to Britain, and that's why these spiders ended up in Britain. Whoever edited this video, this is terrible grammar. And that's coming from me, an American. We don't need sound, I'm sorry, at that point. I don't know what they was playing, freaky 70s music. I don't wanna hear it. Look at the back one, like what's in here? What's in this? Y'all got these? Y'all seen this? What's this, a dinosaur? Snapping turtles were on the rise and sightings experts believe that the homeowners keep them as pets and when they are ordered, they let them free in the water. See, that's not that bad, though. I could deal with this. I could deal like, what's the chances of me bumping into a snapping turtle and not noticing that I'm about to bump into it? Like, come on now. He's the main character in Mario, so I know what it looked like. You get me? I don't need to pause. Wild boars were once extinct as they were hunted down, but some wild boars have escaped from zoos across Britain. The wild boar population has rised ever since. Has risen ever since? First of all, how are these escaping from the zoo? What's going on? How is Pumba, or Timon, whatever one this is, escaping from British zoos? Tell me, you know? That's not even feeling real right now. And I heard these things was fast, too. They run like 30 miles an hour, so that's tough. Wolves are found in the northern parts of Europe, but even though wolves are not in the UK yet, experts predict them that they will end up in Britain by packs moving west. So this six years ago, y'all got wolves now, or yes or no? This don't put no fear into me. Yeah, I'm not scared of this. Yeah, this is, I don't believe in this. This was like somebody's after-school project. Like, this is for extra credit, and then how you failed in extra credit. I know you wanted extra credit and didn't get it. Portuguese man-of-wars look weird, and they are not actually a jellyfish as they have a different shape to a jellyfish. Also, they like warm water. As Southern Europe has waters warmer than usual because of climate change, so they decide to move north, washing away on the beaches of Britain. Don't look like a jellyfish. Don't look like a jellyfish to me. I don't know if it'll look like it hurt. Damn, I just cursed, my bad. They got jellyfish in Miami in the waters over here, so. This hasn't been as bad as I thought it was gonna be. I don't really swim because, you know what I'm saying? That's not what my culture does. So it's not hard for me to stay away from water. Asian hornets are the killer bees as they already are dangerous in Asia, but they have arired in France, killing the bee population and affecting Angliculture in France. Black panther. Black panthers have been spotted around the UK as the very rare to see one roaming in the countryside, but people believe that the cats were released from pencil. Black panther? Y'all got black panther? Is there such a thing as a black panther? I thought they were just leopards, but they were black. Okay. But anyway, I don't believe this, this fake. Fake news. What's that, they look like dogs.  What is that? Dust mites? Dust mites are the deadliest creature in Britain as it's responsible for 1,000 depths per year, which is a large, which is a lag amount as the dust mites feed on asthmatics. It's ugly. Please what? What you gonna ask for? I'm not liking it. No, I like it. You know, I watched it. But a simple fact that I watched it, I like it. But the spelling and grammar, all of that was terrible. I don't like that. TLL, leave it like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post notifications. I know this is, this is gotta be cat.


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Hi, my name is Karsten Schnitter. I work as a development expert at SAP Business Technology Platform. My team provides logging services for applications running on that platform. Today, I want to share our experience with Fluentd when providing logging for Cloud Foundry applications. Let's have a short look how logging in Cloud Foundry works. An application can write its logs to standard out and standard error. Those logs are collected by the Cloud Foundry LogoGator system running in the container runtime. It can forward the application logs as well as the access logs coming from the Go router via syslog. Any component that receives such a syslog stream is called a syslog train. I want today to show you how to set up Fluentd as such a syslog train. That means I will explain how to register a syslog train in Cloud Foundry in general, and then how to configure Fluentd as such a syslog endpoint, how to pass the application logs, and finally, how to pass the access logs from the Go router. So let's start with configuration of a syslog train. We assume that Fluentd is already running, and we know the URL to Fluentd. What we now need is a service binding to forward the logs. That can be a service binding to a user-provided service, which we will use here, or any other managed service. So the steps for user-provided service are first to register and create a user-provided service, and then bind our application to that service instance. So let's have a look at an example. We say Fluentd is running at the URL fluentd.example.com. And we also have an application running on Cloud Foundry by the name of MyApp. We will create a service with the name Fluentd logs. For the forwarding, we can choose between three protocols. The first one we will use is plain syslog, and there are more secure options with TLS support for syslog or syslog over HTTPS. So let's use the CFCLI commands for this thing. So first, we create a user-provided service with the name Fluentd minus logs, and then with the minus L switch, we give it the syslog train URL that points to our running Fluentd instance. Then we bind our app, MyApp, to the newly created service instance, Fluentd logs. And that's all there is. Word of caution, you need to secure the Fluentd instance you are binding here against unwanted access. So what do we see at the Fluentd site? Incoming messages will have the following format, and you will get them by configuring source type syslog. The message format is RFC5424, and the transport will usually be TCP, depending on the Cloud Foundry configuration, it can also be UDP. So let's have a look at the parts of this message. The first is the priority that is default to info by Cloud Foundry. And the next thing is the ingestion timestamp. That means the timestamp when the Cloud Foundry logger data received the message. And then there's information on the origin of the message. So this is the org name, the space name, and the app name. Unfortunately, all three kinds of information are a little bit unhelpful if you really want to distinguish the log messages. The first really useful thing is the app ID. I use the placeholder here for the UID that is usually there. And the next thing is the source type. I will explain about the source type later on. So all of this you get just from the syslog configuration to the lab. But as you can see, there are more parts. The first part is the so-called structured syslog data. And this contains all the CF metadata to attribute the logs to its source. I will explain how to pass this part in the next slide. And the final part is the log message itself. And depending on the source type, there can be different formats in the log message. So it can be the application log messages. It can be the assess logs from the go router, or it can be runtime events from Cloud Foundry. And I will explain that one as well. So let's have a look on how to pass the metadata. So the extra data field will look at something like what you see below. This contains a lot of source identification. So it will tell you the app, the message originated from the space the app was deployed in, and the org the space belongs to. And also, if the application is running in multiple instances, you can distinguish the running instances by the instance ID also contained in this metadata. And then there is more information. And this is information about the Cloud Foundry runtime. So you will get to know what the ego cell deployment was running on, what the IP of the cell was, and such things. So to pass the extra data as below, we apply a three-step process. The first is a pre-processing that just removes the brackets at the beginning at the end of the content. Then we pass the metadata fields. And for this, we use the labeled tab-severated value filter because then we don't need to know how the fields are called. And finally, there's a post-processing step. You will notice that Cloud Foundry quotes all the values and that one we want to remove. So in configuration, this looks as follows. Removing the brackets is a small Ruby code snippet. Then you see the configuration for the LTSV parsing rule. So also very basic. And finally, in the post-processing step, when we remove the quotes, this again is done with a small Ruby expression. But here you need to know the name of the fields. So this is no longer dynamic. But still you specify all the fields you want to have. So you don't need to take off just the ones that are interesting to you. So now we have the metadata. We know where the message came from. Let's see for the message itself. So there are different message formats depending on the source time. The first part, everything that starts with app slash, these are messages that come from the application itself. It's jobs or the sidecast that are deployed by the user, by the application developer. And this is user-generated format. And here is where you put your custom rules depending on the application you're looking at. Then there is RTR, that stands for Go Router. So these are the access logs. This is plain text. And it's basically an extended Apache log format. And I will show how to pass this with the general RECX pattern. And finally, there are a lot of source tabs like API, staging, log regator, SSH and cell. And these are runtime events from Cloud Foundry. They are in plain text and we leave them just as is. So if you have these kinds of different formats, there are two approaches you can take. The first one is to use the multi-format parser plugin and that's the one I will showcase. And the second one is to really switch the parsing by the source time. So how would this configuration look like? So here you see the multi-format parser in action. For the application, I assume it would write JSON format. So that's the first part. The second part is the Go Router logs. I left the expression how to you because it's rather lengthy and I will show it on the next slide. And the last one is just the format none for all the then runtime events. Okay, now how do we pass the router logs? Of course, this is an SS log. So it has a lot of fields. The first fields are fixed in format and they're very similar to Apache logs. So you get for every request, the host, the user, the method and the protocol and also requests and response sizes and such things. And then there is an additional optional fields and they depend on the Go Router configuration. So they may differ from different Cloud Foundry installations. So there might be HTTP headers, for instance, for tracing like Zipkin or Open Tracing, there might be response times or again some metadata about the application. So if you want to pass such a router log, the expression that I will give now needs to take care of this. So again, we can use two steps. The first is to pass the fixed format. You find the expression down below. So you see it is rather lengthy but it's just taken from the Apache 2 filter and extended a little bit to cover more fields and also to take care of the quotes that Cloud Foundry once again emits. And once you have this, you'll notice at the very end, there is an additional data field and that will contain all the optional fields. And this is the second step. You can pass the optional fields just as we pass the CF metadata. It's basically again key value pairs. But this is now a very Cloud Foundry configuration-specific thing. So this needs to be tailored to your landscape. So summarizing all of this, Cloud Foundry can forward lots of applications via SysLog trains. Fluent D can easily receive those messages as a SysLog train. And if you want to pass the incoming messages, you will require an advanced rule set to first pass the SysLog path and then take care of the metadata and the log messages and the three kind of formats of log messages you will get. So I hope this presentation is interesting to you and thank you for your attention.


I would like to start by reminding you a little bit about PQ-Webs as duality in type 2b and what happens when you place these three brains in the mix. And then I will discuss in detail a billion mirror symmetry in three dimensions and a stepwise approach. Can you hear me now? Then an approach which is called stepwise dualization and then if we have time we will try to generalize to the non-habilian case. So these are the brain setups I would like to talk about. Let me introduce first of all the standard honey-witten brain setups. The main players are D3 brains, NS5 brains and D5 brains. And usually you draw something like this. You have NS brains and then you have D3 stretching between NS brains. So here I explained where the various brains are stretching. So all of the theories we are discussing will be three-dimensional. So all the brains stretch along the first three directions in type 2b. Then there will be X6, will be the direction where the D3 brains are going. Then there will be NS brains will go vertically. So this will be X4, 5 and 6, 3, 4, 5. And then we can add the D5 brains which will go along the remaining three directions. So these setups if we just stop at the first three lines we have N equal 4 supersymmetry. There will be an SO3 acting on this coordinates which is the SO4R symmetry of the N equal 4 supersymmetry in three-dimension. So what is known is that if you do S duality in type 2b you replace NS5 brains with D5 brains and D3 brains stay D3 brains. You will have a different gauge theory and this is related to 3D mirror symmetry. And this part of the story with N equal 4 supersymmetry is quite well understood. What I would like to do is try to generalize to the case with half the number of supercharges. So one way to do is to rotate some of the brains. So we will have NS5 prime brains where instead of stretching along 4 and 5 they will stretch along 8 and 9. And similarly for the D5 prime instead of stretching along 8 and 9 they will stretch along 4 and 5. So once we do this we have half of the supersymmetry. So the theories which live at this type of brain setups will have just N equal 2 supersymmetry in two dimensions. In this case even drawing a generic brain setup with NS and S prime, D5, D5 prime one does not know what is the gauge theory living on it. So what we would like to do is just take one example and try to work out the gauge theory. So one example where we know is the following. Instead of having just NS5 we put NS5 and then we put many D5 prime brain, one on top of each other. So this is called the PQ web. If we just do this, this is a five dimensional theory because if we take the NS and the D5 prime you see that they have 0, 1, 2, 4, 5 in common. So they have five directions in common. So this is a five dimensional gauge theory. In this case it's an easy gauge theory, it's just free. But what we would like to do is to add a D3 brain going like this, transversely. So this would be now the sixth direction. So if we, this is known how to do, let me just do the case where we have two D3 brains arriving on the PQ web which is what I drew here. And then we also add the two NS prime brains just to stop the D3 brains. So what is the gauge theory over here? We have an S brain, an S brain, and then we have D3 brain. So this will give us two U1 gauge theory if we just put one D3 brain. So I draw it in this way. The circle means gauge node in the theory. Then we will have, by fundamental matters, which will be something like this. These are massless strings, which will get, these are strings which have zero length. So they will give rise to massless state, massless multiplets. So this will be chiral multiplets. I use arrows. There are two of them. And then I will add, I have to add the D5 prime. So if I add just the D5, this will give a fundamental field for this gauge group. If I add the D5 from this part will give a fundamental for this. But if I put the D5 prime on top, then I have many massless states going from D3 to D5, which will be fundamental. There will be some fundamental of this group and some fundamental of this group. Then the result is this. So we have K arrows going from one to this global symmetry group. So the square means it's a global symmetry group. So I have an SUK global symmetry, another SUK global symmetry. And they have all these type of lines. This was well known. This was known from the 90s. Now there is also super potential here, which is a cubic super potential. I just wrote it down. It's related to loops in the quiver. Now the question is what happens if I do an S duality? What happens is that instead of having a PQ web with one NS and many D5, I will have a PQ web with many NS brains and one D5. In this case the answer is not known. What is the gauge theory living over here? It's probably going to be some billion gauge theory because I have just one D3 brain. But the answer was not known. So the purpose of the talk is to work this gauge theory out and along the way we will find some interesting things involving monopole super potential, which means we have gauge theories where in the super potential there are monopole operators. These are the monopole operators which were discussed yesterday. But in the case discussed yesterday it was N equal 4 supersymmetry and the super potential was never involving monopole operators. But with N equal 2 you can add monopole operators to the super potential and you don't break the supersymmetry. So first of all let me review again 3D mirror symmetry. So the simplest example is just one gauge group U1 with one flavor, one anti-flavor. And let me add also a singlet. So this is P and this is Q. And then I have the super potential which is sigma PQ. So this is actually N equal 4 super young meals, U1 with one flavor. And this is the super potential which ensures me that we have N equal 4 supersymmetry. The mirror here is just a free hyper. So this is the simplest example of 3D mirror symmetry and this was given by Interligator and Cyberg I think back in 96.  When I do the S duality I get an S5. So this is the free hyper. These are the massless things that give the free hyper. And this is U1 with one flavor. So we can read off the duality very easily from the brain setup. What is important here is that what is the mapping of the operators. So here we have two free fields. Let's call it P and Q, three chiral fields in N equal 2 notation. And what are the fields which are mapped over these two free fields? These are the monopole operators of this U1 with one flavor. So if we call them N plus and then minus, we have that this is mapped under the mirror symmetry in this way. We also have another gauge invariant operator which is sigma here. So where is sigma mapped? If you remember from the talk for yesterday, sigma satisfies some quantum relation which is the following. Sigma is equal to N plus and minus. So sigma is mapped to the product of P and Q. Okay, are there questions about this? Okay, so let's try to do... This is the very basic example. The next example would be U1 with N flavors. But then we can do it for N equal 4. And then we will have some generalization. We will have sigma to the k equal to plus and minus. This is what was explained yesterday. So first of all, let me modify this duality a little bit to go to an N equal to dualities. What we do is that we can flip some field. What does it mean? Flipping a field. Let's say we have a gauge theory with some operator O. We couple this operator O to a new field, sigma. And we get... So we have some theory with some super potential and some operator O. We change the super potential in this way. And we add a new field. So in this case, I want to flip this operator sigma. So the super potential will be sigma PQ. This will go in sigma PQ plus sigma times... Let's call the flipping field X. So in this case, you can see that sigma and X become massive. So I can integrate them out. So I have to use the question of motion of sigma and X to integrate them out. The question is that I get W equals 0. And I lost most of these fields. So I started from U1 with one flavor in N equal 4. I flipped this singlet. And I just get U1 N equal 2 with one flavor and W equals 0. So basically I lost this singlet. What happens on this side? I have to flip sigma. But sigma is P times Q on this side. So the duality now, the mirror duality becomes a theory with three fields, which I can call sigma PQ. And W is equal to sigma PQ. So this is an N equal 2 duality, which is the simplest one you can have. And it's just equivalent to the N equal 4 duality. Just you can go from one to the other flipping at one field. This is called usually X, Y, D model. It's a Vestumino model. There is no gauge symmetry over here. But now it's duality between two interacting field theories. The simplest one. So now we can try to do something more general. We can go and do U1 with K flavors. So we start to get something similar to this. You see, now here we have the U1 with K plus one flavor. So let's try to do U1 with K flavor. One way to do it is to use this duality in this direction, or the duality we had before in this direction. So we have P and Q, which are two free fields. And we can replace them with U1 with free fields and the super potential. But now I want to do it for each flavor over here. So I will pick the first, let's call this small. I want to pick the pair P, I, Q, I for each I, and replace it with the U1 with the flavor and the sigma I. So once I do this, what happens over here? I have a U1. This is what I call that wise dualization. This type of approach was advocated by Kapustin and Strassler, always in the 90s, where now the super potential. So I replace every pair of fundamental fields with the U1 with one flavor. I do it this K time. So I have K object like this. So now this theory is not the U1 theory anymore. It's the U1 to the K plus one gauge theory. And there will be a super potential which has K terms, sigma I, PI, QI. But now there is something missing in this picture and is the following, that when I replace this fundamental field here, these fundamental fields become the monopole operators. So these fundamental fields were charged under the U1. So this means that the monopole operators of all these K gauge theories must be charged under this original U1. The way to do is to add the BF couplings. So what is a BF coupling? This is like a Champ-Simon coupling. So a Champ-Simon coupling is usually for a billion theory, something like ADA. But if I use different gauge groups, gauge fields, then I will have something like ADB or BDA. Let me put it like this. But DA is usually called F, so this is a BF coupling. So I started from a theory which is U1 with K flavor. Now I have a theory with many U1s, the same number of charges multiplets. I add the K singlets, sigma I, and then I have to add many BF couplings in the Lagrangian. These are equivalent. I just use the basic mirror symmetry K times. But now something happens here. We see that this U1 doesn't have flavor anymore. This means that I can do exactly the path integral over here. So once I do this, this path integral gives me a delta function. Because this gauge field, I can exactly integrate over this gauge field U1. This will give me a delta function that tells me that the function of delta function, that the sum of all these field strands is zero. So I can think of this theory as the product of K U1 with one flavor, but then there is the relation that the sum of all the field strands must be zero. So a different presentation for this theory is something like this. Take a linear quiver. Instead of K gauge groups, I have to put K minus 1. And then I have many singlet fields, which are... I have many singlet fields, which are flipping to zero with all these bifundamental fields. So this is the statement. Now this is the statement about 3D mirror symmetry for a billion gauge theories. U1 with K flavor is dual, is mirror to a linear quiver. What we did is just assumed that the original symmetry was correct, and then we proved this. So if you believe the first original duality, then this is just the... this just follows. One way to see this through brains is the following. We can start from here that we have an NS brain, a D5, an S prime brain, which is rotated. So we have N equal to 2. Then here we put many D5. And then we do the S duality, whatever. The D5 become an S. And then here we have a D5 prime. And here we have a D5. So we see that also in this picture we have a linear quiver. So many U1s, one connected to the other. And then there is a flavor for the first one and the flavor for the last one, which is precisely this. So again, all this goes back to 97, I think. But this type of procedure is some kind of procedure that we can try to apply to this theory. So here we have K plus K plus 1 pairs of fundamental fields where I can apply this basic step. When I do this, I will create many U1s. So we can already see that here we will have a theory which even if it looks like there are only, you know, the NS brains are all on top of each other. We will get a theory with many U1s, which is kind of strange. Anyways, let's first do the case K equal 1. Because if the case K equal 1, you already know the results. And also we learn something. So the case K equal 1 we have from one side. We have this theory, U1, U1. There are six fields. And from the other side we know what is the theory here because we have just one NS5. It's basically pretty much the same theory, but it's not gauged. So there are six fields, which you can see them as massless strings going from D brains to D brains. But there are no gauge fields because there is just one NS brain in order to have gauge field you need two NS brains and these three that can slide upon them. And we have this type of super potential, the cubic super potential. So this would be S and S, D5, D5. And here we always have the same 1-1 PQ web which upon S duality goes into itself. So this is the same on both sides. Okay, so we can try to understand this duality but one way to understand this duality, first we would like to prove it, usually always using the basic Abelian mirror symmetry. So all this talk is based on a paper that I wrote with Sara Pasquetti, which is <IP_ADDRESS>5. And in the paper we prove this duality but along the way we found the third theory which has just one gauge group and so this duality actually becomes a reality. So one way to find a theory with one gauge group is to basically start from here. So let's put here K equal 3. So you see that the matter content is the same as this. We have a linear query 1 cross u1. The difference is that here we have three singlets with this type of superpotential. Here we have zero singlets and a different superpotential.  So what can we do is that we can try to modify these to arrive here. But we know that there is a mirror in this case which is u1 with three flavors without superpotential. So let's try to add here, we can deform and add sigma i xi. So we have three singlet fields and we flip the sigma i. If we follow the map, the mirror map, the sigma i's where, so this is like P i Q i. This was where like P i Q i. So there are three sigma's and here there are three mesons that I can write. So what it means is that here I should add a superpotential which is xi P i Q i. So three terms in the superpotential. So I can write, let me write this differently in this way. So now I break the su3 global symmetry to u1 to some power. And here again I can integrate out sigma and x and I get w equal to zero. So this is a different presentation of the basic duality but this goes, now we are getting something similar to here. Now we have to add this type of superpotential, apq. So what was the map before? When we had u1 with k flavors, the map of the mesons, so we had P i Q i is a matrix of mesons. So let's do the case of three flavors. Then here I have P i Q i P 3 Q 3. And this is a non-trivial aspect which is not discussed usually. So the diagonal one, they were going to see to the sigma's in the basic ability of symmetry. The off diagonal one, they are going to monopole operators. So for instance P i Q i goes to the monopole operators which charge one and zero. So here I have two gauge groups. So when I say a monopole operator I have to assign the charge under both gauge groups. Then I can have the monopole operators which charge one and one. And this goes, this is map to P i Q 3. Then I have charge zero and one. And this goes to the other one. On this triangle is the same but with negative charges. So this is the map for the basic mirror symmetry for you one with three flavors and it's possible to generalize. Here we also have mesons. M with charge plus one here is mapped to the operator product of all the P i's. And M with charge minus is mapped to the operator product of all the Q i's. So we have a linear quiver. We take the product of all the operators going in this direction. We get a gauge invariant. This gauge invariant is mapped to a monopole on the other one. On the other hand here we have mesons, quadratic, gauge invariant. These are mapped to a monopole on this. This is a generic feature of mirror symmetry which is mapping normal operators to monopole operators. So if you have some relations which are satisfied by normal operators on one side they will become quantum relations for monopoles on the other one. OK, so here we want to add the APQ to the story which is the product of all the P in this direction. So we want to add the super potential. This is P1, P2 and P3. We want to add to the super potential P1, P2, P3 plus the other P1 tilde, P2 tilde, P3 tilde. So we get, now this theory, so if we do this becomes the theory describing the APQ web. But we saw that what are these two terms mapped? These are mapped to the monopole. So here we have to add monopoles plus one, plus monopole minus one. So let's say it again. This is a U1 cross U1 gauge theory with some super potential which is precisely the one that we know describes this PQ web. This is due to a U1 gauge theory with three flavors, three singlets and monopole super potential which is not obviously related to the brain picture. But this is a duality. Now it is also possible to show that this duality, one way to do is, I'm just going to sketch the discussion, one way to do is to think about this theory as U1 with two flavors. So we have two incoming arrows and two outgoing arrows, but then I gauge these two U1s together. So basically I take U1 with two flavors and these flipping fields, then I gauge and I get this theory. But if instead of starting from U1 with two flavors and the flipping fields, I start from its mirror, which is just U1 with two flavors, I get some theory which if you inspect a little better, you see that actually it becomes, so from one side I have this, from the other side I have U1 with two flavors. This is the mirror symmetry for U1 with two flavors. Now I gauge something over here and I get that theory. So these are U1 cross U1 gauge theory. When I do the same gauging here, I get the product of two separated theories, which is U1 with one flavor two times. But this again is equal using the XYZ, this is equal to XYZ model and this is equal to another XYZ model using duality again. So I see that the product of two XYZ models is equal to this theory. But this is exactly what we have here. We have six fields with two superpotential couplings which are XYZ. So basically what we found is that there is a reality here. This is one presentation, this is another, and this is obviously related to the brain system. This is another and this is related to this dual brain system. So what we want to do in the next half an hour is to generalize this reality in two different directions. One is to add more NS5 and the other is to just look at this. So one is to generalize this part of the reality and one is to generalize this part of the reality. Here we have U1 with three flavors and here we have just the vestumino model. So what we're going to do is that here we can replace U1 with three flavors, with UNC, with an F flavor, generically. Add the monopoles and see what happens. This will be a Haroni cyber type of duality. But for the moment, let's just try to generalize in this direction. So there are questions. Okay, so let's apply this stepwise dualization to this theory. So here I have many, I have the two U1s, then instead of taking A and A tilde, which are despite fundamental, I just replace it with the usual big A, big A tilde and sigma A. Then instead of having PI, PI tilde, I replace it with U1.  So I have K of those. Same story from the other side. BF couplings, which are connecting me. And then I have a BF coupling like this. So I just use the 2K plus 1 times the basic abelian bill of symmetry on this case theory. And I get this strangely looking object. Now I can do the integral of the two U1s. I get two deltas now. When I implement the delta, I get a linear quiver exactly like the beginning. Then I get this U1 in the middle here. So these are A and A tilde. Here I have K minus 1. And then I get another linear quiver from the other side. I have all the singlets. I'm not drawing the singlets, but there will be many singlets. 2K plus 1. OK, so we see that what we are getting here is a theory with many U1s, which should describe this brain system. We should be careful about the super potential, because here we have all the singlets and all this type of super potential, which will be sum of sigma i, pq, pi, qi, pip and so on. So we have all this type of flipping super potential. But then we also have the super potential coming from this cubic. So what is this going to become? It will become some monopole operator super potential. But the monopole operator here is not local on the quiver. So for instance, the terms pi, qi, a will be a monopole. So the super potential here will be this. Then we have sigma a, a, a tilde. Then we have something similar to this with the tilde, with the qs. But then we have a monopole. A monopole will be something like all zeros, one, one, one, all zeros. This will be one monopole term associated to p1, q1, a, p1 tilde, q1 tilde, a tilde. This is just the first half. Then we have the same with the minus, all zeros, minus one, minus one, minus one and so on. Then we can do p2, q2, a, and this will be this object. Zero, zero, one, one. Then we have one in the middle. So this notation is the charge. These are all the charges under all these ones. This one is the one in the middle. Zero and the same with the minus. And the last one will be m with all one all the way. So we have many monopole operators, 2k monopole operators, half with the plus sign, half with minus sign, but they will involve groups which are not attached to each other. So this is not the local in the quiver. Usually everything was, when you have a quivering with n equal 4 supersymmetry, every node will just talk with the nearest neighbor. This is a little bit more complicated. Another thing we can do, we can use the result from before and replace this one with three flavor in the middle with the square. So before, if you remember, we had this duality. So we can apply this duality inside here and we get a theory with one less gauge group, this is one gauge group, this is zero, and we have six fields. So this is a presentation which, in the case k equal one, reduces to what we know. The other one didn't reduce. So now we have four different theories. We have this theory, then we have this one, which would be the dual of here, and then we can also use this duality inside both to change the presentation a little bit. If we use this presentation, we lose this term, the sigma tilde a tilde, but we get, if we call this is p1 q1 p1 tilde q1 tilde, and this is xx tilde. We have a qubit term, px p1 q1 plus x tilde p1 tilde q1 tilde. And here we lose the one in the middle, and it's just like this. So again, we have many superpotential operators. We have the cubic terms, and then we have flipping terms. So this will be the result for this question mark that I drew before. And the interesting thing is that there are many ones more than you would get if you spread this k NS5 brains, because we have k NS5 brains, so in n equal 4 you would expect k minus 1 in one, but here we get 2k minus 1, so almost twice as much. And then we have all these monopole superpotentials. So this is the result. So I think for the one thing one can do is to map the chiral rings from here to here. This is not easy, we just mapped the generators of the chiral rings because it's easy to study the mesons, it's not easy to study the whole set of monopole operators. So for instance here we have many mesons which are mapped into many monopole operators that you can construct here. And then we have a few monopoles, this is the one you can construct out of these two U1s, and this are mapped to many mesons or many type of normal meson operator you can find over here. But you can check that at least at the level of the generators of the chiral ring there is a perfect matching between the two sides. Okay, if there are no questions I will go back to this duality again. So let me write it again. So from one side we have U1 with three flavors and the superpotential is, let's call it this Pi, Pi tilde. The superpotential is there are three flipping terms, Sigma, Pi, Pi tilde. And then there is the monopole with charge plus one and the monopole of charge minus one. This is this side of the duality. From the other side you just have six fields, A B C, A tilde, B tilde, C tilde and the superpotential is A B C plus A tilde, B tilde, C tilde. So this presentation of the duality is not SU3 invariant. So what we can do is to get rid of all these three singlets in such a way that we have SU3 times SU3 global symmetry. What we have to do here is to add the Sigma i xi. Now we have to look at the map. So here we will be introducing some more cubic terms because the Sigma i are mapped to quadratic operators over here. The end result is the following. We have U1 with three flavors and just a simple monopole M plus one plus M minus one is dual to this object. This is X ij. This is a bifundamental matrix of SU3 times SU3. So there are nine fields. We started from six fields. We added three fields. And the superpotential is just the determinant of X as a matrix, as a three by three matrix. So there are nine terms in the superpotential. In this way you can see immediately that the SU3 times SU3 global symmetry here is preserved on this side. One thing is that the duality, this duality we discussed at the level of the field theory, but if you put the field theory on S3, so we take n equals, this is what in the previous talk we heard about this S3 partition functions for n equal to n equal to on S3. You will find some partition function on both sides and this will be something like dx.  So this will be a U1 gauge theory with three flavors and three entry flavors. And from this side you will see that there is just a product of nine singlets. So basically you are projecting down the duality from the level of the full gauge theory to the level of S3 partition function. You will find some identity. This is the identity, it doesn't really matter. But this identity was already present in the literature. So for instance already in 2002 there was a paper that was discussing this identity. Of course they didn't know about the relation with gauge theories and it was called Ultimate Integral Identity because apparently for their purposes which was some integrable system story this was a very basic identity. Otherwise it was also known as New Pentagon Identity. So what we did in a paper which we didn't publish yet with Francesco Benin and Sarapasquepis to try to generalize this story to the case where you have UNC with NF flavor. So I just tell you the result. The result is you have NC, then you have NF flavors. And the superpotential here is just M plus plus M minus. So these are the two basic monopole in UNC with charge. So M plus is the following. The charges are if we go on the carton of UNC there will be plus one and all zeros. This is M plus. M minus will be something like all zeros and minus one. So these are two different monopole operators. We have to add both of them to the Lagrangian. And once we do this we are left with the global symmetry which is SU and F square. Because the monopole operators if you don't have Lagrangian here you have SU and F square but then you have a U1 topological symmetry and then U1 axial symmetry. But these M plus and the minus are both charged under both of these two. You want symmetries with different charges so you're breaking both of them. And the dual is U and F minus and C minus two with two n-flavors, with the n-f-flavor, sorry. And the superpotential is the usual cyber superpotential so some i and j, M ij, qi, qj. So this is very similar to their own duality but their own duality doesn't have the minus two. And then here we have the other superpotential is again M plus plus and minus where these M plus and the minus are the monopole operators of the dual gauge group. And here is another difference. Their own duality, there is a flipping of the two monopoles. Here we don't have any flipping but they both appear in the superpotential. And again here the global symmetry is SU and F square. So one way to argue for the symmetry one can check that this duality makes sense for instance one can compute the modular space of acqua on both sides and it matches. Another way to argue for the symmetry which also provides a ultraviolet completion for the theory is that because the one question you can ask here is whether starting from just U and C with n-f-flavor and adding this superpotential is relevant. So generically if n-f is too big the superpotential is not relevant. The boundary case is n-f equal to 2 and C plus 1 anyway. But we can start from a duality in four dimension so this is a 3D n equal to duality. We can start from a duality in four dimension which is a USP duality. USP 2 and C with n-f-flavors usually it's called 2 and f with 2 and f-flavors. So this is not anomalous in the four dimension and there is a dual which is the interligator-pullo dual which is USP 2 and f minus 2 and C minus 2 with 2 and f-square-flavors. And here there is a superpotential which is mqq. This is very similar to, can you read here? So basically this is like the cyber duality for USP gauge groups. If you take nC equal to 1, USP 2 is SU 2 and so this is the notation I'm using. So this you can reduce to three dimension. You find the same duality except that when you reduce to three dimension you are turning on a monopole superpotential. So in 3D, let's just go directly to 3D, you have this duality but now the superpotential here is the monopole which is there is just one monopole for USP and again here we have the monopole. Now there is a way, so this theory is SU 2 and f global symmetry. There is a way to turn on real masses in such a way that the USP is broken down to U and C and the 2 and f is broken down. Half of the flavors become massless, make up massive half of the flavor. But now the superpotential gets doing this. Again you are going, you are giving some expectation value and giving some expectation value. This is a mechanism which was discussed by Polio back in the 70s. Generates monopole super, can generate a monopole superpotential in the infrared.  And if we do the same on the mirror, on the dual, we get precisely this dual. So this is another generalization of this reality I was discussing at the beginning. One nice thing is that if you plug nf equal 2 and c plus 2, which is in some sense the self-dual point where there are charges for instance of the basic fields will be exactly one half. So if you are familiar with the cyber duality in four-dimension, if you have SUN with two n flavors, it's a similar situation. This theory lives at the s-duality wall of a four-dimensional gauge theory, which is SUN with n equal 2, with two nf flavors. So this is n equal 2 in 4D. So this theory can have a s-duality wall. These were discussed by LeFloch. And he found some sort of duality like this, but he didn't show that there is a monopole superpotential. So some things are not really working well. So anyway, the last comment I want to make is that if you start from this s-duality wall, you have a co-dimension one. You have a wall in four-dimension. On the wall, there is a three-dimensional theory which is precisely this type of theory with the monopoles. So this is another example where going from higher dimension to lower dimension, you generate monopole superpotential. The other example was when you compactify on s-1, you generate one monopole superpotential and also here. So I think I can stop you.


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all right welcome back it's time for another review and today I'm gonna take a look at sticky bones all right so I got actually two of these they're supposed to be different colors I haven't opened them yet they also came with flight rigs obviously two of them and this is supposed to be a metallic base to put the character on once they're assembled and they have magnets in the shoes or the feet so they can stick so I'm very very curious how this is going to turn out I haven't animated some motions in school so this is not going to be a review from a point of view of a master stop motion artist but sticky bones has released a new clip with a really really good examples I'm gonna link that in the description the animation is absolutely fantastic I am unable to do this but this is going to be part one so part one is going to be the unboxing showing you what the package contains how the assembly is going to be I will fast forward through the assembly again there's a link in description sticky bones has a step-by-step clip of how to assemble this properly so I'm not gonna parrot their clips so go on their website it's fantastic it shows exactly what to do but part one is going to be kind of a look at what is this package again two of them with flight rigs and the metal base and then part two is going to be me animating and trying not to be absolutely horrible but then it's going to be a perspective of if you are a beginner like I am and you want to start stop motion how is this going to be for you now given the fantastic example it's a great piece of armature so I'm sure it's gonna be great it's gonna be limited by my horrible attempts at stop motion but I think it might be an interesting point of view of if you haven't done stop motion in a while or not at all how is this going to be for you all right so let's get the big package out of the way first let me see oh this is nicely taped I might need a tool there you go and let's be very careful not to cut onto the surface another cut doctor I'm watching a lot of ER so I know how to do this all right this is the surface there are holes on the corners interesting maybe potentially to nail this into the surface or whatever working table you have for a better stability I think that's pretty cool actually all right there you go this I have dirty fingers there you go that is the surface nice and sturdy good way to it I'm saying this as if it was a specialist and how this works I'm just saying these are my impressions I know I'm a child let's put this to the side next up we have these guys so I'm gonna actually just unbox one but I'm open both to see which colors they are because I thought I had different colors now they did come with probably that's what I have on my fingers you know your shipping might be different so this came with specific coding of something on there let me see I don't want to completely ruin this package look at that beautiful and and okay that's number one you got your instructions here you have what is this a sticker and you have a base as well you can see the hole there all right and this is the blue version sticky bone number two then same thing instructions with a more neutral gray cool face well I'm gonna go with this one for no reason so that is the content here so you got your pieces you got your instruction you got the base a sticker I don't know what this is what is this looks like more weight we'll see what that is got your body your arms and your legs that is it inside here it's nicely protected mating California it's all we have on the packaging got your sticker well I'm gonna use this right away all right so these are the pieces and we have here the instruction booklet pamphlet whatever you call this step one layout parts are shown in diagram on the left to watch our follow along video snap parts together start posing these are the steps look at that nice detailed very cool I'm gonna try to follow this there is also the back that's the fly rig very cool also in a very convenient green with your green screen purposes to key that out or paint it out so let's do a time lapse of me assembling this wish me good luck okay that was it so what I did was I assembled this just using that I had to peek every now and then to see what piece is what I did not watch the instructional clip why because I wanted to see if I have no idea what's going on how easy is this to assemble without any instructions besides this and I have to say it's very easy it was great it looked someone intimidating having all the little pieces and there I say take this actually it takes pretty well I'm not sure if I assembled the thumbs correctly I think it's okay not sure if that's what it's supposed to be so I'm definitely going to check on that but it's super cool how this happens every now and then the fingers come off I was gonna say it's super cool how you can pose the fingers and it is super cool but because I am not used to this and I'm not good at this I'm popping off the fingers also your fingers are not bending this way only they are bending in all directions so you can rotate them in any direction which obviously gives you a lot more freedom in terms of posing but just be mindful of that but if you go too far they will pop off which makes sense I mean that's the construction it's not going to just stay on but it has a magnet which is cool here again they're easily foldable so I'm very curious to see how bad I'm going to be at this the cool thing is this that the head can do this right you have two sets of rotation so you can actually do this so your head can be like this right and at the same time you can really bring that head forward it's really cool you can get a really interesting hunch over position with the head like that that's a massive range of motion there it's very cool it's definitely on the delusor side so because you have those tiny little movements that you can make you probably get a lot of subtle movement out of the head it's very cool right as the upper body like this the torso aspect again this is speaking from someone was zero idea this is really hard to move at the same time I'm assuming everything needs kind of like a break in phase just kind of get this a bit looser on the hip aspect and this is cool then you have the legs feet I'm expecting the ankles to be hard which they are since you want to hold a pose like this you can see how easily can hold that pose which is very cool put this on here look at that no problem holding all the way back look at this it doesn't bend at all it just stays put that's fantastic but this is what happens when you don't know how to do any of this the fingers turn into that so for me that's gonna be interesting how I'm gonna be able to control the finger poses like that there's definitely a big range of motion in your shoulders also bit hard whoops and then it come off but again that's all normal you know you go beyond a certain point it's gonna come off but the range of motion in theory is really good is there hard to turn gotta say the upper chest so this area of bending and the shoulders are a bit hard but again it's probably all purpose term in terms of what the hand is supposed to do holding weights because they also have magnets here do you have magnets there and you got magnets there so if your character is doing I don't like a cartwheel or something and I'm gonna put these guys down here and that's the pose see that that joint is very loose there so it's not gonna be holding just on the hand alone but as pretend it's it's really holding tightly on your wrist however you want to do this you can see that it does bend down so it's not super hard and not super loose so it all depends what you want to do motion wise again this is speaking from someone who has zero idea this is just my current impressions it's very cool though I really can't wait to see how bad I am at this but yeah you got full-on bendy poses on the feet again you can I mean the posing I mean obviously if you've watched the professionally made clip you can get so much out of this armature came off again this is just me I don't fault the product just got to be very very careful how you move things but you know I can't wait to see and to practice was I always wanted to get into stop motion on some you know very superficial level because I think the art form is just bananas the quality that people get out of stop motion the fluidity and the acting on something that you have to you know tweak like this frame by frame and if you bump the table everything goes wrong crazy now the other one that seemed a bit softer than I thought was the fly rig so the fly rig you can see here you got all kinds of options cool get your magnets there and then I can lift this whole thing can't here on the edge I can strong enough now if I put this up here and I put the guy so he has a little backside so you can put this in here and you can put this you know as strong as you want it's gonna be looser or not depending on your motion you want to get this quickly in and out of it but holds pretty well you go forward and let's say I'm gonna do kind of a bendy flying pose it's not too bad it's definitely wiggly so that's gonna be interesting too if you do something that has a you know a midair jump or something you're gonna be I'm gonna cheer up be at this if I had something where you have to use this and then bring your character over and again I don't know how to use this I'm just you know you probably pose like this and then you want to bring it into another flying pose but then it bends down it's just all about you know experience in practice so looking at the professional clip that's the level okay well you can do this so if I can't do it it's not the fault of the armature it's just I'm not good at it so I think the build quality is great I'm very curious about the fingers I gotta be very careful to not snap these off again I think that holds also pretty well the magnets are great the magnets on this cool you know I mean you can see how well this holds look at this it's very very cool I'm massively intimidated by this by the way but yeah I'm I really is I know not that you want to do all your poses like that I really really like this so much range it's if you bring that at the shoulders up see I already feel like the shoulders are getting looser it's great it's really cool so that look at that straight pose holds holds on this it holds really well yeah I'm very very impressed I do take the head off all the time but again you want to be just very careful because you want little subtle head moves and everything it's cool so cool sorry I'm just now playing around with zero purpose I'm just fascinated by this now I had two more of these it also has an extra set of feet and palms so these are my impressions now this is not a critique this is full on just a wish list because this is really cool and again I'm very concerned about my stop motion abilities but I really can't wait to get into this now if there was a wish list if you know if this gets millions and millions of dollars and they have so much money and they can go and do more what would I love to see well the interesting thing is that again I don't know if that's a because of production issues and time and or maybe just a stylization and simplification but as you can see you got three fingers in a thumb so it'd be cool to get potentially different hands five fingers it would be cool obviously to get a woman so you have male and female and it'd be cool to get me a potentially different packs of maybe there's something you can clip on on the head for hair that could be a cool interesting maybe something with a magnet as well and then you get flowy hair that might get assembled kind of like the fingers so you get flowy hair potentially and you can almost go into props with ties and coats or something which sounds very complicated that could be cool it would be interesting too as you can see this is one one head so it'd be cool to potentially have a jaw so you could do kind of a basic jaw lip sync pantomime muppet style animation as well you can extrapolate that into also having creatures again that they're probably busy just getting this and sending it out to the last backers and then seeing where you can just buy this in general this is just me thinking a lot in terms of wish list kids creatures different hands different feet get a different shoes hair y'all can do props I know I think the possibilities are obviously fairly endless so yeah that's it if you are interested I have all the links in the description with the sticky bones website their instructional video of how to assemble this properly not like me the professional clip that they did with a fantastic animation and overall again as a summary I'm really impressed and again take this with a grain of salt since I have you know zero experience but just as someone goes well I would like to dabble and see you know what I could do with this this is very encouraging and I'm just a big fan of how you can pose the fingers I think that would say that's it for part one look out for part two where I'm actually gonna animate this and see how it goes if you've got this as well and you got any comments in terms of hey JD you did something wrong or hey you can do this with that whatever experience that you have with it I'm curious to know if there's anything that I overlooked or if you've started animating with this what your experiences are if there's anything I need to pay attention to I hope this was helpful in terms of just a general unboxing and a general impression of if you have no idea what's going on you take this out how quickly can you assemble this and is it easy to do and it is can I say as a complete layman I thought this was really really easy to assemble as always if you like this like and subscribe bell button would be awesome I would love it and this is a longer-ish clip so as always if you watch this till the very end thank you very much and to everybody who is involved with this construction with the sanding the marketing the builds the Kickstarter as a whole I would say Sticky Bones team congratulations this is super cool


You're welcome back. It's still the breakfast on Plus TV Africa and we're being joined by Mr. Adebayo Oluwake. He will be talking to us on a very, very sensitive issue, if you may, because we're finding IDPs in our country and then we're finding people that we need to ferry back home from foreign lands that are war-torn right now. A case in point is Sudan. So we want to look at some of the challenges that are being faced by the people themselves and by governments that are trying to evacuate their people. Mr. Adebayo Oluwake is a Consulting Research Fellow, African Resource Development Center here in Lagos. Good morning and welcome to the program, sir. Good morning and good morning. Thank you for having me on the viewers. Okay. Yeah. Well, let's kickstart with some of the challenges that are being faced when you're trying to evacuate people from another country because one of the problems we've had is paperwork, as our diaspora commission has told us, a minister of foreign affairs has told us, about why the delay in evacuating the people from Sudan and some of them are stranded at the borders and all that. So many stories coming up. But we need to have an insight to some of these challenges, bureaucratic bottlenecks or diplomatic challenges that need to be solved before this kind of evacuation takes place in any country with your experience working with the Red Cross. Thank you. Okay. But today I'm speaking in my personal capacity. Yeah. And yes, you asked a very pertinent question. In many, most of us are conflict environments. Even if you have a major disaster, what we might call a complex emergency, there would be, it would throw up a lot of challenges. You have to get people out of Hamsway. You may have to turn to those who have been injured right from the location because they cannot move. And then of course, if you have to move people, in the case of an armed conflict, you need the authorization of those who control territory. Okay. And I think this is one of the things that a lot of people didn't completely understand when they started talking about the urgency that was required to move people out. If you do not have the authorization of those who control territory, either the armed groups or the conventional or state military forces that control territory, you cannot move anyone. It's decided to try to move anyone. Then it also depends on the mode of transportation of those that you want to move. If you're going to move them by air, you need an, you need authorization as well. You need an air corridor allocated for your aircraft, you know, and all that. So, so many protocols to go through. And I think as well that in the case of what has happened in this span, even though we could have predicted that something like this could happen, given the dynamics of the Sudanese situation, the country that's been at war for almost, I don't know how long, you know, on and off. But that conflict in the Sudan or those conflicts, because there were a few conflicts, you know, happening side by side, never actually got to Khartoum. Khartoum was relatively safe. And I think this was also what might have veered many governments into a false sense of security and a lot of Sudanese themselves. That since Khartoum has been, you know, relatively unaffected, except for the revolution that brought down Mashal Bashir, you know, when there were a couple of firefights in Khartoum. Khartoum had always been relatively untouched. So that might have veered some states into a false sense of confidence that Khartoum will not be affected. And then lastly, when Khartoum was finally affected, we saw that it was sudden. You know, there were two allies who had been working together who suddenly fell apart. And then we saw the crisis on that day. So in that, in that kind of, so that's one, one, one, perhaps that's the background. Okay. Now, when you are moving people out, some people will not want to leave.  Now, you find us on citizens ignoring, even when they are asked to either leave or to move, they ignore it, right? But of course, when you have the kind of scenario you had in Khartoum, everybody wants to leave. And then you have to now know where they are. You have to be able to reach them. And as I have said in one or two other fora, my experience with most of our citizens in a few countries, especially African countries that have worked is that most of our citizens do not like to register with the Nigerian embassy for whatever reason. Okay, I don't want to start throwing it to that. But the truth remains that if you are in some countries that are prone to say violence or conflict or countries where you have an active hostility taking place, it is only common sense. I mean, common sense requires that you must register with your embassy. If you take Nigeria, for example, we've had the Boko Haram insurgency. We've had banditry and kidnapping. Many foreign nationals in Nigeria, as of necessity, will register with their embassies. It is mandatory. Because if, okay, we are not praying for that. And I think Nigeria is fairly maybe much more stable compared to Sudan and the rest. But should in case something goes terribly wrong, the embassy must know how many people need to be evacuated, their geographical distribution and the means of getting them to assemble in a specific place. So those are some of the challenges that you would have if you have to evacuate people in a conflict environment. Well, thank you for giving us that background information. And as our topic is mental health consequences of fleeing conflict zones, tell us is mental health welfare part of the things that should be considered in dealing with refugees and is it part of what they consider in dealing with refugees from your experience? Absolutely. I mean, it's a very pertinent question. And you see the problem with the challenge with this particular phenomenon is that those whom it affects often don't know that they've been affected. You know, you have post-traumatic stress disorder, although I'm not an expert, but of course we, some of us worked in such environments and we were exposed, you know, to those kinds of phenomenon. So phenomenon, sorry. So you would find that people who have been traumatized in the course of, for example, bombardments, okay, a lot of people talk about conflict. Some people even when they're having disagreements, they say, ah, we have to fight. They are saying none of that because they have not seen armed conflict. When you witness armed conflict, you don't pray for it. Okay. Bombardments alone, even when they're far away from where you are located, they can have serious traumatic impact on whoever is affected, you know, shootings and they're not to talk of seen, maybe dead bodies, people or people, not even dead bodies, some people whose body parts have been dismembered by the violence, you know. These always have traumatic impact on people and therefore, or maybe your friend goes out to buy something and never came back and you never knew if he or she was alive or dead, you know. So all of these things impact people and their mental health is affected and definitely in the evacuation process or in the management of displaced persons or refugees, the question of their mental health should always be of utmost priority. Okay. Let's talk about policy because in Nigeria, we have IDPs. We have people who even though they're not fleeing other countries, they are fleeing their ancestral lands and being placed in IDP camps. These people who are coming from Sudan and the ones who came from Ukraine and all that, who have come somewhere, maybe outside the country and all that is the same thing. But the next government that is coming needs to be deliberate about policies and what kind of policies do you think can be put in place to make sure that processes like this of taking care of people in the IDP camps or bringing people back home and all other things that relate to moving, forcefully moving where you're supposed to be to another place of temporary abode. What kind of policies do you think should be put in place to make that seamless? In terms of policy, I think Nigeria has, I think we have very good policies. Over the years, most governments we have had, you know, have had very good policies. The disaster management policy in Nigeria, for instance, I think is one of the best anywhere. And we have structures on the ground, you know. And you have NEMA, for instance, the National Emergency Management Agency. You have the Nigerian Red Cross, which is an auxiliary to the Nigerian state, as in other countries, in the management of emergencies. And they are present in all the local governments in Nigeria. And they have volunteers all over the country. So if you, and then you have the armed forces who have specific capabilities. And then you have some construction companies who have certain heavy-lift equipment. So in terms of policy and in terms of apparatus or apartheid, I think Nigeria has, internally, we have very good policies. I think the challenge for us is always coordination and cohesion. And I have seen now that even in the management of our citizens trapped in the Sudan, in my view, I think coordination could have been better, especially in terms of information management. First of all, who to contact, where the person is, and then who speaks publicly, you know, to Nigerians and to the international community about what our citizens are going through and the processes that we are undertaking to bring them back home safely. So I think the incoming administration needs to just re-jig some of these things. And other player courts, you know, lines of action, if you like, for us to follow. When we are dealing with Nigerians, first of all, there are Nigerians in almost every country. And then there are Nigerians in countries that are experiencing conflict. You take Pokina Faso, you take Mali, you take Chad, you take Niger, you take Cameroon, countries impacted either by Boko Haram or Iswap, or countries impacted by the Sahili and so-called Jihadist movements. There are Nigerians in all these places. Now, are these Nigerians properly accounted for? In other words, is the Nigerian Embassy in these countries, do they have information on the exact number of Nigerians in those places? And should there be the need to evacuate them? Does our Embassy have, you know, the names, contact addresses and all that? Now, the Embassy can only play one part of the role. The citizens, so they have to play a significant part. They have to go to the Embassy, they have to register, and they have to keep updating their, if I'm living in Ume Duman in Sudan, and I register in the Embassy, I say I am in Ume Duman, and one year later I have moved to Darfur, and I do not update my record in the Embassy. God forbid, if something happens, then they would think I am still in Ume Duman, not knowing that I have moved to Darfur. So these are some of the challenges administratively that the authorities may have, that the larger population may not understand, and I'm not defending anyone. I'm just saying frankly what the situation is, so that when you now have an emergency, everybody starts shouting, oh, get everybody out, get everybody out. But then, if you don't have some of this information, it's going to be extremely difficult to plan, not to talk of coordinating and then doing the evacuation itself. So the incoming administration has to make sure that all of these things are clear and for me, the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs must manage all public communication regarding Nigerians in other countries and whatever processes are being put in place to evacuate them, including our engagement with those countries or transit countries. It must be the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and no other government agency. Okay. I wish we had more time. We would have looked into a lot of other things and what you would recommend for the people who are coming back that the government should do. But we've run out of time. I would like to thank you, Mr. Aloha, for coming on the program and giving us insight as to what happens. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Always a pleasure. Okay. We were talking with Mr. Adebayo Loaki, Consulting Research Fellow, African Resource Development Center here in Lagos. We'll take a short break and we'll be joined by Wale Agbede, the sportsman who will be taking us around the world of sports. Stay with us.


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