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Determinism, Chaos, Universe and Free Will. You are welcome to this video. It is appreciated that you take part in this experiment. Note that our institution does not take responsibility for occurring existential crisis during the experiment. The experiment consists of three steps. First step, presentation of several academic findings and relevant definitions. This will allow those of you unfamiliar with the topic to get an overview of the covered conceptions relevant to follow the discussion. Topics covered will be Determinism, Chaos Theory, Astrophysics and Free Will. Second step, leading to severe presuppositions and a logical construct of arguments as a basis for the discussion in step 3. The debatable hypothesis will be derived in this step. Third step, discuss or perish. Now you, the participants, should reflect about your very existence. The first topic to discuss is called Determinism. Some states all events to be determined completely by previously existing causes, which mostly is recognized as casual determinism in a physical sense of cause and effect. This means that each event, the effect, we observe is triggered by a reason, the cause, based on physical rules. Events existing in a predefined paradigm are bound by causality, which means any state is completely determined by prior states. This can be interpreted as events completely being caused by the past and no other influence of any kind. Only past states or evolutions are responsible for the current state or event. If all properties of a system are disclosed and a loss of physics are known, one is capable of perfectly predict the future which is labeled path dependence. To formulate this differently, once we know about all the characteristics of the system and the evolutionary laws or rules the system is obliged to, we can perfectly predict the future. Know the game and its rules perfectly, predict the next step perfectly. This is labeled as path dependence. Past and loss of nature define the exact course of everything from that point onwards. True determinism means everything is determined. Thus, there are no other influences than the loss of nature. The opposite of determinism is indeterminism or randomness. There are different kinds of determinism. There is the casual, historical, nomological or physical determinism elaborated on earlier. Past and present dictate the future entirely by rigid laws of nature, nothing is uncourced or self-caused, for example, referred to as a plus demon. The future is only dependent on the past and present which is reflected by the depictions on the previous slide as well. The second kind of determinism is labeled necessitarianism which defies possibility and means there is only one true state of the world. This means that the concept of possibility and chance is neglected and only one true state of existence is given. Third, one can note predeterminism which means that all events are set and determined in advance. This basically means that all your choices and all events are predefined to happen. Fourth, one may note fatalism or theological determinism which states that everything is fated to happen, one has no control over their futures and casual or deterministic laws do not apply yet God does. This means that unless God wants something to happen, nothing does. You are just a pawn of a higher entity. Finally, there are many others which are not stated here. For example biological determinism which means your preset disposition in terms of genetics. Next will elaborate on chaos. Real world systems tend to evolve in a similar manner and occur repeatedly leading to a presupposition of predefined levels of plainness and predictability due to determinism. Real world systems are for example economic systems, nature or the weather. Highly complex feedback systems also exist in nature, rendering predictability seriously complicated in contrast to straight deterministic systems. Parallel to previous assumption that the noted examples are all highly complex feedback systems. Within a feedback system, the interconnections between these systems variables are not clear, thus leading to complicated predictabilities. A whole field of science revolves around this topic. Furthermore, chaotic behavior is seen as one major characteristic which is possible in such systems. Chaos constitutes a deeper reasoning about the essential characteristics and the underlying nature of the evolutionary processes thriving a system. This means that we are able to reflect on a deeper level of thought and factual arguments about the functioning of such systems. With chaos theory, such elaborations on the behavior of complex feedback systems is possible, thus enables us to describe evolutionary dynamics properly in some cases. Meaning, slight fluctuations or even marginal perturbations of the initial conditions render precise predictions on a long time scale meaningless. Furthermore, our planet and universe is such a system, implying that even though deterministic, no predictions are possible. This incorporates sciences through nightmare, namely, living in a predefined existence without the capability to forecast perfectly or at all on self's outcomes in the future. Nonetheless, the question is imminent, what is chaos? According to Edward E. Lawrence, chaos is, when the present determines the future, but the approximate presence does not approximately determine the future. Imagine a game you play. You know the current state of the game and all its rules by heart, thus you are able to determine the outcomes perfectly. Now, if you do not know those instances perfectly, yet just approximately, you will not even be able to approximately determine the next turn to come. This is primarily contraintuitive, since you may believe that if you start marginally close to each other, you would end up marginally close to each other some steps ahead. But in chaos theory, this is not the case. Chaos reveals apparent randomness of complex systems, yielding underlying patterns, interconnectedness, feedback loops, recurrence, self-similarity or fractality, and self-organization capabilities. To put this into perspective, you are faced with two time series, for example, taken out of real-world system observations. Both appear random, so modeling with stochastic processes seemed a proper course of action. Nonetheless, one time series is chaotic and hidden under a cloak of randomness. For the observer, without specialized methodological tools, there is no distinction between randomness and chaos possible. Yet, the chaotic time series incorporates all the denoted properties. Chaos yields three dominant characteristics, namely, sensitivity to initial conditions, topological transitivity, and density of periodic orbits. The latter two are mathematical properties, neglected in this video, while the first property, namely, sensitivity to initial conditions, is perfectly reflected by the presented citation of Lawrence. Therefore, chaos means that a chaotic deterministic system in which cause and effect applies perfectly is not predictable. Imagine the presupposition of the previous slide stating the researcher's worst nightmare. Existence in a predefined system which is not predictable. Get more technical, several concepts need to be elaborated on, namely, the phase space. Phase space maps the state of systems at various points in time and one can describe the systems evolution in time with iterative points or so-called snapshots in time. The phase space can also be seen as the space where all the states live in. Imagine a house with cats living in it. You are not able to grasp the house in its entirety. Nonetheless, you may track a cat via GPS, providing a position each second. Thus, you may not observe the house, yet are able to follow the path of the cats, which is the resemblance of the snapshots or trajectories. Systems may exhibit patterns called attractors, which means no matter what the initial conditions are, the systems end up evolving into attractors. But even on an attractor, no pattern or no path will intersect nor repeat twice. Previously, we learned that sensitivity to initial conditions means that not approximately the presence is received, but for a predefined combination of such conditions, the same set of outcomes will be derived, namely, the attractor. Referring back to the cats, each cat entering the kitchen door, even several centimeters apart, will end up circling the table and finding its way to the cat food suspender. Each cat has its own way and will never intersect with another cat's path, particularly, no cat will ever take the same route twice, meaning, system has preferred set of states, the attractor, but the same state is never repeated, leading to fractal structures as only way of describing such structures. If one wants to quantify such attractors, one requires a mathematic which allows non-intersections and non-repetitions leading to fractals. Slicing through an attractor reveals a fractal set. Note that there are attractors which are not fractals, yet those are not chaotic, except one regards Hamiltonian systems which are excluded in this video. Therefore, chaos implies that chaotic deterministic systems are not predictable, yet evolve into strange or fractal structured attractors on which states are never repeated. As implied before, the universe will be explained in more detail in the following step. Next to those examples of real-life systems such as economic systems or the weather stands our whole universe. Economic systems are everywhere and in fact dominate our universe. Our universe turned chaotic 10 to the power of more than minus 40 seconds after the Big Bang. This means practically immediately our universe, that is the place you exist in, turned into a predefined unpredictable system. At the moment, our universe is no longer chaotic, yet it may return into chaos and cause the big crunch which contradicts the big cold assumption of other researchers. Chaotic systems are also referred to as dissipative systems. Such systems have a significant positive maximum Lyompunov exponent measuring the exponential divergence of nearby points in phase space and reveal a negative Lyompunov exponent spectral sum. The phase space of such a system deflates. The deflation leads to the phase space to collapse towards its strange attractors. Now referring to the big crunch, should the universe turn chaotic again, it may deflate and collapse. The big cold is the contrary assumption, namely that the expansion of the universe continues in such a manner that every object in it will be so far away from each other that everything is just freezing to death. Thus, researchers argue about whether we will collapse or freeze to death in the future, cheering, right? However, following Idina 2018, proposing a chaotic universe model, state strange attractors between dark energy, dark matter and matter, stating the time evolution of parameter densities to follow chaotic Lotka-Volterra type equations. The Lotka-Volterra equations describe biological systems, namely the chaotic behavior of predator-prey relations. This could solve problems such as singularity, cosmic coincidence, big crunch and many others. Now, to not only theoretically refer to attractors, the system depicted in Idina 2018 will be shown next. As you can see, the interaction between dark matter, dark energy and matter is graphically displayed and the attractor of the system shown. Note that each initial set of conditions lead to another trajectory which never repeat nor intersect. Please note further that even if intersections are graphically indicated, that those are not possible. There are systems of higher dimensions which simply cannot be displayed properly in our three-dimensional world. To elaborate on the universe further, following Shevchenko 2011, calculates the Lyonpunov time for our universe, meaning the time after which a system collapses into chaos and states that chaos has a velocity or diffusion time, which means that adiabatic versus non-adiabatic chaos has to be discussed. The Lyonpunov time is the inverse of the maximum Lyonpunov exponent, which can either be interpreted in standard time or in the academic notation of the time units of the underlying dataset. It is further my personal assumption that the diffusion time and the Lyonpunov time are related. If any of you has an astrophysical background or can help me out with this, I would be more than thankful. Shevchenko 2011 states that most parts of the universal chaos plane thus exhibit non-adiabatic or fast-diffusive chaos. This would simply mean that if the universe turns back chaotic, the deflation would happen rather quickly. Since you now have a theoretical background, enabling you to follow the main debatable presupposition, the second part of the experiment will now be initiated. Step 2. Leading to severe presuppositions and a logical construct of arguments We stick to the universe a little longer and elucidate some academic statements. Alternate AL 2019 states that the existence of a non-infinite, which means smaller, fractal dimension, in this case the correlation dimension, in a time series implies a non-zero deterministic part of the world decomposition, thereby proving the existence of a non-zero deterministic part to be mandatory. The correlation dimension is a measure applied to time series data favorably. In short, if this measure is not turning infinite and is small, determinism as discussed before is mandatory be given. This further means that events are prone to determinism and physical loss, leading to cause effect relationships. Following Ekman et al. 2003, a set of galaxies in the universe should settle to a fractal dimension between two or three. Therefore the universe's deterministic part is assumed non-zero in this sense and is shown to be fast chaotic in nature. This would mean the academics nightmare becomes more real than one may anticipate. Lastly, the concept of free will has to be discussed. Most of us feel as though we can freely choose our actions. But what if this feeling of free choice is an illusion? Is your life following a set fixed path?  One may also refer to the early Matrix movies elaborating on the freedom of will, furthering following Professor Griffith. If determinism is true, everything is determined. Since we are beings in the physical world, our own brain states and behavior will be determined too. If determinism is true, what I choose to type next seems to be an inevitable result of the loss of nature plus every event from the beginning of time leading up to my moment of choice. As initially discussed, if determinism is true, nothing you have done so far would have been the result of your actions yet could be predefined from the very beginning voiding your existential weight into nothingness. Suppose I convince you right now that determinism is true. Would I be able to convince you that you've never actually done what you wanted? We now enter the third phase of the experiment. Which is it? Determinism or free will? I will now propose an argumental chain to be discussed and reflected upon by you. First point. The universe is chaotic. Implication 1. Chaos implies nonpredictable deterministic systems, which means some sort of path dependence due to preset paths on attractors. Second implication. Determinism means everything is predefined and due to cause and effect. Second point. We are part of the universe and once the fractal dimension of system is in acceptable terms, the deterministic part has to be non-zero. Implication. The universe has an acceptable fractal dimension, thus leading to the existence of determinism in our lives. Which is it? Determinism or free will? Before opening the debate, I would like to state the applied references. Do you exist as a puppet on strings or do you exert your own free will? You are more than welcome to enter your thoughts into the comments. 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Chief of Naval Personnel, Vice Admiral Robert Burke and Fleet Master Chief, April Beldo, flew onto the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Sunday afternoon. The two toured the ship and talked one-on-one with members of the ship's crew during their visit. The crew was also able to ask questions concerning Navy personnel policies during three separate all-hands calls. During the calls, Vice Admiral Burke emphasized the sailor's 2025 initiative. But we really kind of divide the effort into three components. The first component is to completely overhaul and modernize our personnel system. The second component is called ready-relevant learning and that's about changing the way we do training for our entire enlisted force throughout the continuum of a career. Burke and Beldo also clarified aspects of the Navy's new rating policy for the crew before departing the ship. The Eisenhower and its carrier strike group are currently deployed in the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. For USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, I'm Seaman Casey Treige.


In this video I'm going to be teaching you how to make stablemate switcheroo's. A stablemate switcheroo is when you take briar stablemate models and switch around legs heads mains and tails different parts of the stablemate to create a new one-of-a-kind stablemate. This is a super easy way to make a drastic custom with not much skill time or tools required. I really like this form of customizing because these pieces come out very unique and they're super easy and fun to do. The most time-consuming part of this process is the planning phase and the reason being is that there are a lot of briar stablemates to choose from and a lot of them vary in their sculpture. Briar has released several kinds of stablemates over the years so I spend a lot of time sorting through my body box finding the right models to combine. Generation 1 stablemates are the oldest of the briar stablemate collection and you identify them by the thin legs, small hooves, and large seams. These guys lack detail in the face and body structure but are quite realistic in proportion. Generation 2 stablemates have a little more detail in the body and the face but generally the legs are still quite thin and the heads are small. These guys are also quite accurate in terms of proportions. Generation 3 stablemates are a little bit different in that they have slightly chunkier legs and hooves. You'll often even see detailing of frogs in the hooves. Their heads have more detail as well and almost have a cartoon-like style that gives them a lot of personality. And then recently briar has been releasing different kinds of generations in the shrinky versions of traditional briar models. There's also generation 5 and generation 6 stablemates but they all kind of fall into the category alongside the generation 3. So once I've picked models that I feel like match in the legs, body shape, and head sculpturally then I can line them all up and get them ready. It does take time to accumulate enough bodies to do this but you could buy a briar deluxe stablemate set and get away with doing some switcheroo. You just have to be careful that the molds are compatible. So I've chosen this jumping mold, this Mustang mold, two of these warm bloods because I really like the face and legs on the scalp. I have a standing Thoroughbred, a running Mustang, an Arabian, and the new 70th anniversary Raring Stallion. In order to plan this properly there are two methods. The first method is the printout method. So you're going to want to take a photo of your stablemate and I'm just using my cell phone here, photographing them in the same direction, in the same positioning so they are in the same size in the photograph. Then you can just print these photos out at the same size and cut them out in order to see how your switcheroo plans will work. So here I'm cut out the Mustang and I've cut out a warm blood and the other Mustang and then I can chop off heads just as you would in the customizing phase but these are photographs so you can play around and see if things actually work and because you took the photos from the same orientation the different body parts should line up accurately. Here you can play around with lots of different combinations to find the look that you want to achieve most. So another method is taking images from online of the stablemate sculptures that you want to customize. I like using the website identifyyourbriar.com that's just because they have the full archives of all of the briars that exist. In putting them into a program like Photoshop, cropping them out, and digitally manipulating the photographs to become your switcheroo. I do this method because it's a lot easier for me but it does take the software and understanding how to run the software efficiently. So I understand that's not for everyone and that's why the photograph method also works. So these are my final plans for all of these stablemates that I want to complete. That's nine stablemates in total and they will be based off of those original models that I chose.  So I made a printout of this sheet that I made in Photoshop and I'm able to Sharpie on those cuts in the plan that I think will work best. Then I'll take them over to my Dremel station and the most important tool you'll need for this video is a vise and I just have it attached to my desk and that works just fine. You'll also need a mini hacksaw. I got this at home hardware. Now one of the more important tools is to practice safety in the studio and so I do recommend wearing a glove. I have a work glove here that has a rubber finish to it. To be fair, during the filming of this video, I did in fact cut my finger pretty badly. So I would recommend wearing gloves. You'll see me not wearing gloves in this video but I do not advocate this because I did hurt myself and it's very easy to hurt yourself. I'm going to be cutting off the tail of this model and so I insert her into the vise and make sure that the vise is good and tight so she doesn't wiggle or wobble around in there. If you have a vise that doesn't have rubber like this one, you can put the model in between a piece of paper towel to protect it and I'm just going to hacksaw into the tail here and you can see that it takes not much effort, time, or frustration to remove the tail. For the head is same kind of thing and I'm just switching angles and now like I said be very careful of your fingers if you're not wearing gloves. I would recommend wearing gloves and here you can see the head pops off the same way and for the hip removing it in the same fashion just hacksawing and you can take it in at different angles. One thing to be precautionary about is that the plastic inside the briar as stable mates are solid gets very hot with repetitive friction so be sure not to touch the hacksaw blade when you're done hacksawing and also make sure to be careful of the plastic because it can get quite hot. The fumes also are a problem so you'll want to wear a respirator in most cases as well. So here you can see taking off the entire hip of the model allows me to attach a new leg in the correct hip flexion position. So this is really important that we cut off the entire hip and not just the leg. In some cases though the leg can just be removed like off of this jumper and often the leg doesn't have to be from the same side of the briar so if you're just cutting off a leg it's okay to attach it to the opposite side of another horse because stable mate legs don't have enough detail to differentiate the inside and the outside of the leg. If you're cutting off the whole hip though obviously the whole hip needs to be transferred to the same side of the horse. The next phase is I'm going to be using a dremel on a flex shaft. I have a dremel 4000 hanging on a dremel stand. I'm using a quarter inch sanding drum 120 grit so it is the fine grit and it leaves smooth marks. I find the 60 grit is too coarse and it will leave scratch marks so the 120 is much better for stable mates. I will also be wearing my respirator 3m mask in medium with 2097 particle filters as well as some goggles. You look super cool when you wear this but eye protection is super important and I'm just going to dremel down the briar logo off of these guys and all of the cuts that I made I'm just going to smooth out the edges. You don't have to use a dremel for this. You could get away with using sandpaper and more hacksawing but the dremel definitely speeds up this process. I understand these are expensive tools and not everyone can access them. You can see my thumb is quite close to the sanding bit so you definitely want to be wearing gloves while doing this. I see a lot of people not using gloves in the dremeling scenario and to me that seems super dangerous. So even dremeling off these little legs make sure you have a good grip on them because they will go flying otherwise and I'm just going to sand out and smooth out all of these seams and make these models super pretty and ready to be put back together. Then I'm going to take a drill bit the same size as the armature wire that I have in the studio and I'm going to create holes in all of the locations where I will be reattaching parts. Using wire as reinforcement is really important because it increases the longevity of the custom. So after everything's sanded you can take a moment to check and see if everything does work in reality and you will find that some heads are too big for some bodies even though they look like they're okay like in the case of this rearing horse that head looks just too big and this jumper head seemed to look better. Still not great but better and then I'll be taking my wire cutters some super glue and some baking soda which is the magic mix and I will be putting in some armature wire into those holes and creating these bonds between pieces. So just checking how long the wire needs to be cutting it appropriately and super gluing that in once I have the correct size. Doing this for all the parts prior to gluing allows you to visualize even better what the custom will look like having those parts attached and then just adding a bit of super glue into the hole and around the wire and then dabbing some baking soda on there. This is just a q-tip that I have in there to dab on. You don't want to touch this stuff because it can cause a chemical burn on your skin. The super glue acts as a chemical reaction that will bond the model together instantly and so adding more baking soda to the glue just makes that glue dry just a little faster than it would letting it sit and you'd have to hold onto it for a significant amount of time compared to curing it instantly. If you have a part that's too long I find holding a piece of sandpaper flat on your table surface and scraping part of the stable mate across that is a really easy way to sand down. So once I have all of my stable mates reassembled with the appropriate legs, heads, and tails in certain cases I can start the sculpture phase. So you can use any kind of two-part resin-based clay. I have used epoxy and magic sculpt before. You're gonna need some isopropyl alcohol the higher the percentage the better and some silicone sculpting tools. I like these individual ones that I bought from a Canadian online art store but you can find them on amazon as well. So you mix up parts of your clay here. I'll be using magic sculpt that's my personal preference and you're gonna put on a glob. You'll use less than you actually think you'll need and I find that I glob on too much and then I end up taking a majority of it off and I like working with my bare fingers and dipping them in the alcohol to smooth those seams. You want these seams super smooth so that you have less sanding work to do later. Dipping the tool in alcohol before you sculpt is really helpful because it allows the tool not to stick to the clay and make the clay drag in weird ways but it rather smooths the clay out really nicely and running my finger over stuff really helps and I use this tool to actually pick off some of the clay that I put on as too much and you're gonna want to create like the detail of a seamless connection between neck and body and doing so we can add more alcohol as we go to smooth out those sculpture lines. Running a paintbrush over the sculpture also helps in the smoothing process.  If you have a complicated custom that's switching all four legs or too much happening on the body at one time it's best to sculpt in chunks and let the model dry so if you have too many legs on one side and you're gonna end up touching things and wrecking things you're gonna want to go a little slower and let things cure there's no harm in letting it cure even for a couple hours to come back to it later and finish it off. For the hand quarters here we actually need quite a bit of clay because there was a quite a large gap in between the leg and the body and so I'm smoothing that out with my finger and just doing more refining using those tools the paintbrush and a combination of my finger and I will repeat this phase for all of the stable mate minus the couple that needed new tails because the tails will have to be applied after the model has cured fully and I can drill into that epoxy. If the clay appears hard and firm and is hard and firm when you drill into it it's generally okay. The epoxy and magic sculpt cure in 24 hours so I let things sit overnight for sure as long as you let the model cure fully before priming it for paint. Then after the model is set to the side to cure I will come back in with some hand sanding so I use a combination of sand papers and sanding sponges actually. I prefer using a 220 grit as a starter and a 400 grit as a finisher. Anything less than 220 is just too coarse especially for steel mates and it'll show up in the priming so if I have big areas to sand down of epoxy or like the barrier logo you're gonna want to use that 220 and then to smooth it out so that there's no sandpaper lines I will go back over that with a 400 grit and that just really smooths out and finishes off the model. The finer the sandpaper the smoother the finish you'll get and the less prepping issues you will have. If you don't understand sandpaper essentially the lower number is a bigger grit and the higher number is a finer grit so you can get up to like 4000 grit which is super fine. I like including mistakes in my videos and this was a mistake that I had. This leg turned out too long for my opinion so to pull something out you just snap it off and pull out that wire with some pliers and remove the extra epoxy sand down and you can reattach that way. Then I'm gonna give these guys a little water bath and that's just because they've had sanding and they are gonna have a lot of granules on them. You're gonna want to let these guys air dry because if you use a cloth of any kind you can leave linties that get caught in the primer. If you're impatient like me with waiting for models to dry you can actually use a hairdryer to dry them really fast on hot. I will be using duple color sandable primer in red oxide. The color really doesn't matter you can use rustoleum primer as well and I always prime outside and bring the model inside to cure. I prime the horse in small strokes you're gonna want coverage but not necessarily dripping coverage. You want to do more layers in finer coats than one vast layer in a drenched coat and once you let that primer cure once again a couple hours before sanding usually and a full 24 for cure. So I work on these guys in phases but you can prep a model in a day just waiting a couple hours between each prime job and you'll know it's wet when it appears quite tacky and it doesn't sand very nicely. The duple color is very chalky and I like it for that in that it's really easy to know when it's dry. So here we have some in-progress horses happening you can see the lumps really show through the primer and you can see the flaws and see what's working and what's not just by adding a coat of primer and essentially you will sand down imperfections prime sand and prime until you're complete. For this bucking bronco guy I added some wire reinforcements into his hooves because he will be on a base and I cut these wires to be about the similar size and I just super glue those guys in and I'm not going to worry about sculpting around them because you're not going to see his feet as long as he's primed again he should be fine and I'm curing that super glue with some baking soda and then I'm going to take a tile that I have just like a floor tile and put some parchment paper over it to create a smooth surface. Using a super sculpting polymer clay I'm going to knead out that clay into a workable form and press that down onto the parchment and so the tile is just working as a flat base and the parchment is what the clay can actually be baked on. The polymer clay is a clay that you do in fact bake in the oven and I just find this faster and good context for bases generally because you can form and play with it a little easier than you could in epoxy and taking some crumpled tinfoil we can create some texture on top of that base. I like to add static grass and realistic turf elements to my bases so it's not super important what this clay looks like but we can create some dirt texture and I'm going to insert the horse in there to create his marks and we can play around with some more texturing just using random objects around my studio that seem to look like nature and once I'm ready with that base I can pop it into the oven or toaster oven works as well 20 minutes at 275 degrees and you can see it burnt a little bit it was in there a little too long and here are all of the completed stable mates in a row after their prepping phase so you can see that they all turn out very unique and very individual and that's what I love about this process so this cannering mare is so cool we've got a spicy Mustang to kind of charging we've got a prancing Arabian that looks very majestic I love this side of him turned out really cool we've got a standing proud warm blood type we've got a angry pawing horse here we've got a running Mustang type and a buckin bronco who's looks super drastic super cool and this wearing guy didn't turn out as cool as I thought I don't love the neck attachment so I never really finished him but it's pretty cool that we can take these stable mates in just a few steps and create them into one of a kind original pieces I think that's so awesome and these guys turn out so cool I hope that you learned something in today's tutorial I really enjoy creating stable mates with your roos thank you so much for watching happy customizing


Sell carry on Johnson. I hate talking about selling talented players in fantasy football You guys know if you listen to the show, I love carry on Johnson I've been talking about a rational coaching on this show with carry on Johnson for a while now But that's the thing we can't expect rational coaching in Detroit Let's look at what happened in week seven. Everything kind of came together nicely Theoretic was out which helped Johnson see the highest snapshot that he's seen all season long He had a 59.4% snapshot. He saw three targets, which might not seem like a lot But Matthew Stafford only threw the ball 22 times Those three targets actually ended up being a 14% target share and then there was the matchup going into week seven Miami had allowed a top 12 RB1 performance to a running back in every game that they've played So the matchup was there and the lack of Theoretic helped too That's why if you joined my Facebook live on the fan dual Facebook page on Sunday morning You heard my carry on Johnson love. It was because of those two things the matchup and no Theoretic But the thing that's hurting carry on Johnson long term is his goal line work. It's Ligaret Blunt It's rational coaching Johnson did see three carries within the Dolphins 10 yard line on Sunday That's great. Ligaret Blunt only had one but guess what Ligaret Blunt scored Carry on Johnson on those three carries had zero yards I think you have to be afraid that coaches will still want to utilize Ligaret Blunt in that role given this small sample The Lions are also facing the Seahawks Vikings Bears Panthers and Bears again over their next five games That's not the easiest month plus of matchups So I do think the carry on Johnson will provide a weekly floor He's a great running back and that's something that's not easy to find at the running back position in fantasy football But I do still have concerns about his usage moving forward and he's coming off a big game Which is why I'm talking about him as a cell


Airmen from the 482nd Fighter Wing took part in an agile combat exercise called Golden Gecko. Agile combat tests the innovation and grit of the airmen and trains for a new advanced warfare. They loaded up a C-17 with tools, armament, mechanics, and security personnel and traveled from Homestead Air Reserve Base to Avon Park's Arbuckle Field in Florida. Only using the personnel and tools that were brought from Homestead, the airmen had to refuel, rearm, and redeploy 4 F-16s quickly. While all this was happening, another group of airmen created a protective layer around the whole operation to ensure that both the personnel and equipment had 360 degrees of protection. After the fighters took off, all equipment and personnel had to be quickly loaded back into the C-17 and returned to Homestead. Reporting from Homestead Air Reserve Base, Air Force Sergeant Paul Cook.