to introduce you to Martin Owens. Martin Owens is a longtime user experience centric inkscape developer. He's also a streamer. He does regular streams on his inkscape UI developments and is very, I would say passionate about making sure users who, even those users who can't code have an ability to have a say in their tools. And that's kind of part of this whole events theme is these tools that are open source and free. We all have ownership in them. Well, anyway, I'll let Martin take it away. Thanks, Mel. Thank you for joining me on this presentation. I'm gonna be talking about the multi-page features that I developed, actually developed them the year before last and they were released last April. And we're gonna be walking through some of the, just the basics, cause this isn't a very long talk. Okay, so the first thing to note is, I'm going to be using the multi-page features to actually do this presentation. So the first time I've done a presentation using inkscape. So let's see how it goes. The first thing you'll notice is that I'm sharing the screen in inkscape and at the very bottom in the status bar, there's actually a page arrows where you can navigate between the previous and next pages. And you can actually have a drop down of pages. So I'm gonna be using this as sort of like a way to go through these as if there were slides. Okay, so an introduction to pages. The first thing is that inkscape is an SVG editor and SVG does not have pages. We worked with the World Wide Web Consortium for a number of years to try and get them to add multiple page support into the SVG specification and they wouldn't really let us. This is mostly because web browsers don't really like the concept of multiple pages, but it left us with a bit of a problem because as inkscape developers, we want to stick to the specification as much as possible, but we also want to serve our users with the functionality that they need. So what we've had to do is we've developed an inkscape specific multiple page document. They said it couldn't be done, but it is possible as long as you're willing to break the rules. The way in which pages work is there is a first page which is basically the same as it always was in inkscape. It is the SVG documents. It is the thing that shows in previews and thumbnails. And if you load it into a web browser, that's what you'll see. And then there is all the parts that are outside of that page, which are all the pages. The only thing that a page really is is just an area of the canvas, which is defined. And then we use that area in order to do things like exporting it, importing pages and organizing them, and snapping and various other functionality. Because they're just areas of a page of the canvas, I should say, you can actually have sub pages. So here I have, you can see a page that's inside of another page. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna show you by using the Pages tool, which is the very bottom on the left-hand side. You can actually select paid pages and move them around. And obviously use these controls to resize them. And obviously use a preset list of sizes as well. You can set labels using the toolbar as you can with every other inkscape tool. And then essentially this just allows you to control the very basics of it are that the page has a position and the page has a size. And then if you wanna get complicated, the page has a label. So pages, actually, yeah, you can see them moving around. You can also delete them as well. I should point that out. So as you move through the pages, just get this one, there's something very important to understand is that when we did a user study on people interacting with these features, it became very apparent that just having an area of the screen that was defined as a page was confusing to a lot of people because there are two different types of modes that you think about. One is that an object is essentially owned by the page. And if you move the page, you expect the objects to be moved along with it. And another is that a page is just a bounded shape. It's just a rectangle that you can move. And this creates all sorts of interesting things of like how do you explain to the user the difference between having objects that will actually move around and be owned by or contained within. And when do you want to just define a shape? We actually decided to go with the shape definition for the technical basis, but that didn't mean that the functionality had to be limited to that. So one example is, is that on the toolbar, this piece of functionality gets confused. There's a previous and next buttons and people use these to navigate the page pages, but this is actually incorrect. The bottom status bar is how you navigate. Not perfectly, obviously. Yeah, okay. And the toolbar is actually how you move the page pages around. So if I select this page, which is page A, and I deselect this option that says move objects with page, and then I select move after next, you'll see that like nothing appears to have changed, right? Page A is still exactly where it is, but it actually has changed because there is an order to these page pages that's inside of the document. So if you were to export it to a PDF, for example, or print it out, then this is the order that you would end up with. But most people find this very, very confusing, like I expected the page to move. And so this is why you have move objects with page as an option, and you can select it, and you can see now, when you move them backwards and forwards, the actual objects move along with them, and the page itself moves. This hopefully should encapsulate most of the functionalities that people expect to see when they're talking about multiple page pages. Oh, I should point out that the version of Inkscape that you're seeing right now is the development version. So there may be some parts of the user interface that are unexpected from the version that you currently have access to as stable, which is 1.2. Okay, so let's move on. Now I'm gonna talk about some of the things in Inkscape 1.3. I had more requests from the people who fund me in my Patreon to improve some more aspects. Margins, Bleeds, some templating, extensions, and printing. Printing is a mistake. I really should have been able to do printing from the start, but I forgot. But Margins and Bleed are actually very, very, very interesting and you can see in this document here, there's a new box next to the page size, which allows you to set margins and an advanced option that allows you to set Bleeds. Most users won't generally have to use the Bleed, but it's there so we can export it and do interesting things. That these things will probably continue to need to be developed since we need to do some more user experience testing. There are some online controls for the Margins. That's what these circular controls are, which you probably wouldn't see on an older version of Inkscape. When I talk about templating, this is essentially, this entire dropdown with page sizes has been completely redone so that it is using the same page size system that you see in the start screen and that you see in the new from template screen. This allows you to do things like load in specific templates and save templates and then use them as a page size later, which can be very useful. Extensions allow you to write some page stuff in extensions, so there's basically more support for paid pages in the actual Inkspitan library as well as being just accessible to templating. Hopefully, these features will be useful, but please do test them because I depend entirely upon users being able to try out these things before we release them and tell me where we've broken things. Okay, so that's the core of what I was gonna talk about. I know it's not a very long talk because I think there's going to be questions and people will probably ask me more in-depth things, so please do let me know. Marion Moses, the dropdown in the upper left will now show the page template size is seen elsewhere in Inkscape UI, yes, that's correct. I was just taking live notes as you were talking. Oh, no, that's not to do with this. Yeah, so one of the things I didn't talk about was the way in which you can now import. So, Jesse's not sharing it, I can see it. But imagine, for instance, that I've selected file import and that I'm now importing a file. One of the options that pops up is essentially to add the pages that are inside of the SVG or PDF on top of the ones that you have. So if you wanted to concatenate a whole bunch of files, you can actually do that. There is not in this version of Inkscape, but obviously with multiple page support, you need to be able to export your pages and it wouldn't be enough to just export single page pages as individual files. We also need to be able to export all of these pages into one document. 1.2, you can actually select in the new export dialog, PDF or SVG, both of these will support multiple pages. By default, in 1.2, it's a simple direct matter of it'll export all of the pages. In 1.3, the next week's video is actually me showing the features that I've been developing very recently, which is an improvement to this export dialog that allows you to select which pages you want to export. So imagine, for example, you wanted to export just five of them to one PDF file. Then this should allow you to do that. You'll have to imagine something a bit like this Backlatch export, but sitting here in where these image size widgets are. And it has the support for page pages. Yeah, so page support is one of those things that I developed as a fundamental technology inside of Inkscape so that over time it can be incorporated into more parts and more functionality. This is something that I wanted to be able to do so that other developers could actually just come in and go, oh, there's a page manager object and we can just facilitate whatever functionality we want without forgetting the fact that multiple pages existed. This was one of the concerns that other developers had when I said that I was gonna work on multiple pages is the fact that it touches a lot of things and you don't wanna break everything. Shout out to the Creative Freedom Summit for inviting me here. It's very kind. Because I'm not really a designer, I'm a developer, but it's my intention to be able to help people with being able to make their artwork. So Ryan Goley asks, what will browsers do with the SVG that have pages incorporated? They should load the first page and that's it. All of the other objects are inside of the document. So if you're running JavaScript or some other processing, they'll still be able to access those objects, but they won't understand any of the Inkscape-specific namespaces, so they won't load anything. Are you seeing slides for your presentation as a use case, like a whole presentation of single multiple page document or for each slide diagrams separately? What are the presenting options? So I am using this a bit cutely because I can show you the Inkscape interface at the same time as showing you multiple page pages. Inkscape has no use case for presenting things to you, but creating a slideshow, exporting it as a PDF file and then using a typical presentation tool to show a PDF should actually be pretty good. I've used it with Big Blue Button, where you can upload a PDF file and then use that as a presentation and that worked very well. Will we ever see Pantone Color Support and Inkscape PMS colors or is that something out of the scope of the software? Technically, I'm not a lawyer, but Pantone is a protected, is it trademarked or copyrighted? Probably both. It's a heavily protected color scheme that Inkscape cannot use. It might be possible for an independent construction of the color palette that either has completely different names with ink mixes that are the same or you could buy a license from Pantone that allows you to install it as an extension, but Inkscape itself could never ship with it, for example. But color support in general is something that I've been working on in 2022, the end of, you should check out some of the videos. It's a long road, I'm gonna say, for getting color support into Inkscape up to scratch. A page can be inside a page, how does that work? Okay, so because a page is only defined by its position on the canvas, your squares can be inside other squares, is basically, it's just a way of saying, it's here and then there's another page here. Is it possible to set up a fixed gap between pages so that content can be nicely aligned to a single grid rather than manually reposition each page? Yeah, so pages themselves can actually be snapped. You should be able to use the snapping tool on the side and then select page borders, I think grids, yeah. So it should be possible. I'm really hoping this doesn't crash now because I'm using the developer version, properties, grids, your regular grid, yeah. So this is aligned to a grid, for example, but there's no automatic way because what I've done is when you're importing new pages or you're creating a new page, it just has a fixed offset in the code to say, I'll just shove it to the left of the last page by this amount. It's a bit crude and in the future, I would hope to improve it. Question, are coordinates say the x-coordinate per page or per whole document? I think I noticed the other day version 1.2 that I had to calculate the x-coordinate on page two of a document instead of just entering saying 50 millimeters like on page one. Yeah, so in 1.2, all coordinates are relative to the first page. So you'll find essentially that the ruler at the top and when you go to place objects, they'll all be relative to the very top left-hand corner of the first page. In 1.3, there's actually an option. You can either have that or you can have per page support. I should have added that to my list of features, but yeah, so you'll notice that this rectangle that I've created on this tiny little page actually has an x-coordinate of zero and a y-coordinate of zero. And so that should be fixed. Is there a way to share templates? Sure, yeah, so if you save as a template, it creates an SVG file and then you can just give that SVG file to somebody else and they can then put that file into their templates folder. Although, you know, the way that I would do it is I would open the SVG file in Inkscape and then use the file save template. That way it'll save it into the correct folder for them and they don't have to think about where it is on their system. Is pages part of the SVG spec or is it Inkscape's own feature? So yes, as I described at the very beginning of the stream, pages is something that Inkscape tried to get into the SVG spec. We sent a representative to the World Wide Web Consortium working group on SVG 2.0 and they were not able to get almost anything into the SVG spec because most of the functionality that a tool like Inkscape needs for editing are not things that web browsers want to have. And ultimately the World Wide Web Consortium is for web browsers. To decide on what these specifications should look like for them. So we've had to develop pages as a function of ourselves and I can actually show you what this looks like by using the XML editor very briefly. Each one of the pages is one of these page nodes. It has an ID. You can see bleed, margin, height, width, X, Y and then the label. So it's a very simple node and the order that they appear here is the order in which they would be exported. Hopefully in the future we might end up in a scenario where multiple pages is such a useful feature that maybe the W3C will reconsider. Time for a new editable SVG standard. It's not an insane idea to imagine that we should have a specification driven by graphics editors from like vector editors because you could imagine even if you invited people like Adobe Illustrator people and CoralDraw and Penpart and Inkscape and we all sat down in a room we would be able to come up with things that suit our needs better than Firefox and Chrome can. And yeah, it's something that I've thought about but I imagine that the organizational infrastructure would be quite considerable. Off-topic question related to Inkscape will there be support for Smexel? SXML. I don't know what SXML is. I presume it's a vector format of some kind. Have I talked to the Penpart developers on their SVG editing work in the browser? Yeah, Penpart is interesting because it's inside the web browser itself and they actually work around the SVG spec. So when they do text, for example, they do it in an entirely Inkscape incompatible way by doing foreign objects with HTML inside of it so they really have a blended approach of both SVG and HTML and I'm not entirely sure what to do about that because the only way to support importing those files into Inkscape would be now to include an entire web browser into Inkscape and I really don't want to do that. But maybe there's some place we can get to where we can make, for instance, SVG 2.0 text support work well enough because that's the other problem is that SVG 2 wasn't supported by browsers even the things that they agreed to support haven't been implemented and so SVG is sitting there with text with very, very incomplete text support. Inkscape has now implemented three separate text implementations and only one of which has been supported by Browse browsers. It feels like I'm ragging on Browse browsers and the working group. The real answer is that they have very different focuses. Okay, are there any other questions? Yeah, if we've got to everybody, I'm happy to break it. What would you want to add to Inkscape if you could? That's what I'm going to ask everybody for the last handful of minutes. If you could wave a magic wand and add one thing to Inkscape. Yes, surprise. It was a quiz all along. A knife tool. That's basically cutting shapes in half. That's cool. One of the nice things we have coming out in Inkscape 1.3 is the shape builder tool. Not quite a knife tool, but it is fun. Fast rendering, yes. We have a guy called PBS who has been working on multi-threading and GPU support. It's a bit of a slug. CMYK supporter I have been working on and it is.  We need support for CMYK in PDF, and that's the problem. There's a hacky way to add underlines via CSS and XML, but no UI. We had a developer who was adding the underlying support and then didn't complete it because our implementation of CSS was incorrect. I still think that we should have added it anyway simply because for simple cases, it would have worked out fine. Does Inkscape support XML translations? I think that is Excel, ST. It does if you use... We have a couple of extensions you can have a look at that do XML translations. One of the merge requests that I have actually supports importing PDF files and retaining their CMYK and ICC profile information. Please do test that if you're interested. We are about finished. It's 11.59. I'm going to turn on my sound. I don't know if you can hear me, Martin, but thank you so much for... Okay, cool. Anyway, we are gearing up for the next talk.


Hello Aces, welcome back to module six, lesson number four, the four golden pillars in creating a consistent and predictable stream of revenue. As you already know, if you're just relying on one source of revenue, which is you're dying in, then most likely you're going to be out of business by now. That's the reason why we need to have four different golden pillars, four different streams of revenues coming in so then that way you can diversify to withstand any economic downturn. So make sure you guys pay attention. Now, before we dive into the four golden pillars, I need to share with you two terminologies first, and then these two terminologies would allow you to understand how you can achieve your goals a little bit better. And they first might seem very intimidating, confusing and complicated. However, as we go through each and every single one of them within our golden pillars and to provide you with an example, it becomes more and more clear on how you can execute them. But nonetheless, you can always replay this lesson to get more clarity as you work and as you work and progress. First terminology, OK, our objective and key results. I will what is the objective, state the objective as measured by what is the key result? OK, so first off, what is an objective you want to achieve within your business or within your campaign? Specifically, I want to create the best experience for my customers. And yet when you have this statement and when you have this objective, if you don't back it up with data, if you don't back it up with measurable results, then there's no way your team can be held accountable. There's no way you can be held accountable, which is the reason why we need to identify some of the key results that need to happen in order for you to say that you have created the best customer experience, which is the reason why we would set out metrics that measures the progress of your objective. Some of the metrics would be I'm going to increase my revisits from 4 percent to 10 percent, because if I have the best customer experience, then people will come back in again and again. So we're going to uplift that from 4 percent to 10 percent. That's a clear indicator that you have good customer service. Next up is Yelp rating. My current rating is probably at four, and I'm going to increase that to 4.5. And thus hitting our objective of creating a better customer experience. Same thing with service complaints. We're going to decrease that from 15 percent to 11 percent. And thus that shows that our objective is being met. These are just examples of metrics that I'm throwing out there. It really depends on what objectives that you have and the key results would follow. And once again, if this doesn't really make sense to you right now, it is OK because we're going to go through examples and it will become more and more clear and you can always come back to this lesson and re listen to what this truly means. And you're going to get more out of this. OK, OKR is not a concept that I just coined up. It is a concept that is coined by Andy Grove and it's used by companies like Google, Airbnb, Twitter, Microsoft. So then that way that creates the alignment and engagement within your team and allows you your team to all roll and sink to achieve that one objective. This is very powerful stuff if and when you can actually implement the OKR within your plans. Now, next up is KPI key performance indicator. So this is measurable values that shows your progress towards achieving your goal. So just think about this like your smart goals, the mini bite size chunks that allows you to see are you working closer to your objective? Are you working closer to hit your key metrics? Once again, we can always come back to this and we're going to go into an example right now. So let's go back to the four golden pillars that's going to help you create predictable and consistent sales. Number one, local business events, service, local business events. This is a huge diversified stream of revenue that a lot of people don't take into account. For example, Casual Fridays, customer appreciation day. And usually these businesses have a budget because they usually work into the culture that they want to pay back to their either their customers or their staff, and thus they will reach out to different restaurants or different parties to cater and to order food to thank their own team. What you need to do is to list up businesses around five kilometers radius of your restaurant and create an offer for servicing these businesses. Cold approach them by either direct mail, call them or send coupons to draw them in. For example, what we've offered to our local businesses are two free ice cream coupon with a corporate catering brochure. So basically we approach the branch manager of a bank that was close to our ice cream shop and we gave him two free ice cream coupon and our corporate catering brochure. So in that way, when they saw the brochure, they're like, oh, interesting, and I get two free ice cream. Sure, what is this brochure? And then they start reading. What we want to do is to increase our business this specific pillar by 10 percent of store revenue. OK, local business should account for more than 10 percent of our store revenue. This is our goal. OK, and this is our key results for us to increase our local business accounting. We need to make sure that our key results are 10 percent of store revenue. Now, because you wouldn't be able to calculate the 10 percent until the year is over, and that's the reason why we need KPI, KPIs, KPIs or short term goals that allows us to achieve the 10 percent store revenue, which is why every month we need to have at least four local businesses catering through us in order for us to consistently hit the goal of 10 percent store revenue. So, for example, Bank of America catering our ice cream sandwiches for their monthly meeting. And once we have that one business signed up, we just need to find three more. And every month, if and when we have four business caterings that come through our shop, then we're going to hit that local business accounting for 10 percent store revenue. Hopefully that makes a little bit more sense to you. Number two, second pillar is the event catering cater products to events. So for us, ice cream sandwiches, bubble teas for weddings, work functions, offers lunches and movie shoots. These are all great ideas that people would actually find our ice cream sandwiches and bubble tea of value of a good thing that they can give and and incentivize their team. So for you, identify two to three segments of events that you would cater to because you need to attack them, you need to reach out to them. And if I were to reach out to movie shoots, I'm going to reach out to all the production companies within my area and hound them day after day, cold, call them, email them, drop by. And this is the way for me to get into the production industry because time is limited. You need to just reach out to two to three different segments of events that you would cater to. For us, specifically our ice cream shop, we know the fact that our chances of success are much higher when it comes to weddings and corporate lunches. And that's what we focus on as our core segment that we reach out to. List out complimentary service providers and propose an affiliate program. So in this case, I would reach out to wedding planners, photographers, because these guys are complimentary services to weddings that are happening. And then I offer them a 10 percent kickback for every successful event that they offer. So I'll give you an example. My friend that does wedding photography, he he's shooting for a a couple for their whole wedding and he brought it up to the couple that he, you know, whatever friend that has an ice cream shop, they have amazing bubble tea line and amazing ice cream sandwich that would be good for your dessert bar. Do you want to check them out? And then he introduced us to the wedding guys. We matched and they loved our product and then they ordered 500 ice cream sandwiches from us. And because this whole deal went through, I paid my friend, who's a photographer, 10 percent as a kickback. Now, this becomes a win-win-win situation. My friend's happy because he earned an extra, what? That's like an extra 200 bucks. And the couple is happy because they get to have amazing food catered to the wedding. And we're happy because this expanded our reach. And when we're at the event, we have brochures that we have on their table. And the guests that arrived and attended their wedding saw how great our ice cream sandwiches and this acts as a really great marketing tool for their friend's wedding, perhaps. So this becomes a flywheel as we stack these items. So now it's time to talk about the OKR. What is the OKR? What is our objective? Our objective is to increase brand awareness by traffic count of 10 percent or more. Oops. There you go. Event catering accounting for 10 percent of store revenue. OK. Now, how do we calculate that? Hey, this will hit that 10 percent store revenue. Four event caterings per month. That's what our calculation is. So as long as we close four different caters per month, we're going to hit that 10 percent store revenue. Lift for accounting from the events. So this is why OKR and KPI is so important because with these metrics, now we can share with our team. Hey, guys, go out there and sign on for caters. If you don't sign on for caters, you're not doing your job. So they're going to go out there. They have a goal to achieve and thus they will achieve. They're much more likely to achieve the goal when they have a goal in mind. It's a very different story if you just tell them, hey, you know what? I want to increase our catering. How? Like what are metrics? What is what is successful? What is not successful? Is signing on to catering is happy or not? This is the reason why it is so important to have the OKR and KPI. Number three, cross promos with small and medium sized business, small, medium sized business that complement to what you have to offer. So once again, OKR is to increase our brand awareness and traffic count by more than 10 percent in the year. What does that mean as a KPI? What is how does that show up? Three collaboration events per month. OK, MOQ stands for minimum order quantity. OK, so basically it's just minimum. We need to hit three collab events in order for us to hit that 10 percent uplift. And it is an example of a collaboration with small business, small, medium sized business would be for us, let's say we work with a brand called Baby Macaroons and we create a special edition using their Macaroons. And on top of that, we retell their Macaroons at our store as consignment. This acts as a great win-win situation and allows our brand to be shown to their followers, their brand's followers and vice versa. And that's how we're going to be able to increase brand awareness by showing how versatile our ice cream shop is and being able to tap into their specific audience. Next up is discount programs. What does discount programs mean? Means to collaborate with clubs and associations to cross promote our brands. So first step you need to do is to identify the clubs, associations that have the similar profile to the people that go to your location. So, for example, if your avatar are college students, then consider reaching out to university student clubs. And that's exactly what we did. Let's tell all the clubs and propose an affiliate program. What is an affiliate program? It means that you oftentimes have to pay back their club for them bringing in business. For example, 10 percent back to the school clubs in exchange, they need to host one event per semester at a location. And why do we want to promote that? It is because when they host event at our location, they let their students know and when the students come to our location, they see that, oh, this is a pretty neat place. They have beautiful ice cream. They have great desserts, great experience. I'm going to come back with my friends outside of this event. And that's why we would want to partner up with these these associations. Now, you may be asking, how do I reach out to them? Well, get in touch with the clubs, president or external relations relations team. Oftentimes, they do have these positions and teams available, so make sure you reach out to them. Now, OKR, what is the OKR? What is the objective? Once again, it is to increase brand awareness for ice cream shop. And how do what is the key result that needs to happen in order for us to count this as a win, increase our traffic count by more than 10 percent. KPIs, what is a KPI that we can fight for that we can let our team know and to align on that, sign up 10 clubs per year and have at least one event per club held at our store so you can actually segregate that so then that way you're not pushing all the traffic to come into your store at once. And you always have this consistent stream of revenue coming through your doors. As an example, University Club codes a meet and greet at our ice cream shop and we provide 10 percent off to all their members. This becomes once again a win win situation for your brand and the restaurant as well or the club as well. When these four golden pillars stack on top of each other, you can now have a stream of revenue that you can count on that is predictable and is consistent. And that's the reason, sole reason. I can't say sole, but actually this is a very big reason why our ice cream shop is so popular and that's how we were able to grow by using these four pillars that stack on top of each other. Just imagine that if you're able to attain 10 percent uplift here, 10 percent uplift here, 10 percent uplift here, collaboratively, that's 40 percent increase in your revenue. That's huge when it comes down to it. Now it is your turn to create your OKRs and your KPIs for each pillar.  Next up is to create 20 service providers that you can offer a win win situation and affiliate with. And then you're going to create a list of 20 small and medium sized businesses that has similar complimentary avatar as you do. So for us, ice cream, hey, macaroons, coffee is another one. These are all small businesses that you can collaborate with. Next up is to create a list of 10 clubs and associations that have the similar demographic as you do as well in the worksheet below. You can download the worksheet, the template, so then that way you guys can follow along and go through this lesson together. In this lesson, we've just shared with you the four golden pillars that has allowed us to pick up a lot of traction and to create this flow of ongoing, consistent customers, and that's what you need. You don't need that summer spike and then winter, no one comes. You want to have that consistent curve of people coming through your doors. So then that way your cash flow can be dependent on. Next up, we're going to create a loyalty program to stack on the four golden pillars. So then that way we get your customers to come back again and again. I'll see you guys in the next lesson.


Welcome to this activity on the dial caliper. Calipers are basic measuring tools for most machinists. Not only are calipers easy and fast to use, they are also versatile, measuring inside and outside dimensions and depth. When should you use a caliper, and when should you use a micrometer? People often assume that because the caliper reads to a thousandth of an inch, it's accurate for tolerances of plus or minus one thousandth of an inch. However, experience has shown that the dial caliper is not reliable for tolerances less than plus or minus five thousandths of an inch. Misalignment errors often occur when people measure at the bottom of the jaws because this line of measurement is so far away from the scale standard. These errors can be misalignment of the caliper on the part or misalignment due to play in the jaw. To minimize these errors, measure as close to the beam as possible. It's particularly easy to misalign the caliper in depth and step measurements. Hold the caliper squarely against the top surface and firmly against the front of the part. Check the zero setting frequently. Clean the jaws and the part before taking a measurement. Overtightening springs the jaws. Check for this by holding the closed jaws up to the light. Avoid dropping your calipers even once. Frequently check the jaws for burrs. Don't hold your calipers too long. Holding a 24-inch caliper with two hands for just five minutes will expand it by one thousandth of an inch. The internal jaws may measure a hole smaller than it actually is because they're offset and also because the flat caliper jaw is trying to measure around diameter. The smaller the diameter, the greater the error. Keep your calipers away from oil and chips. Chips that get stuck in the caliper rack can be difficult to remove. Store your calipers horizontally in a case with the jaws slightly open. The metal-to-metal contact of closed jaws can corrode them. You have completed this activity, the dial caliper.


Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. While visiting Toy Hacks, make sure to check out the Toy Hacks Armory to see their line of Transformers weaponry in multiple colors and toy stages for awesome display backdrops. Each purchase from Toy Hacks earns you Robocents that you can use for future purchases. You can check your balance anytime in your cart. Toy Hacks is a company run by collectors for collectors, so make sure to check out toyhacks.com and tell them Patriot Prime sent you. Now, on to the review. The featured bot in this video is Transformers Studio Series 86 Perceptor. Now I just got Perceptor in from Entertainment Earth thanks to a pre-order and I am tickled to death. I didn't realize he was going to be out so early. And I cannot wait to open this guy up and check him out because really we haven't had a good Perceptor in years. I think the closest one we had was in the Titans return line and he was still kind of meh, but man did he go up in price. So anyway, taking a quick look at the packaging we got Transformers Studio Series 86 Perceptor right there behind the plastic. Some great looking artwork and Perceptor is very happy to be running off into battle. More artwork of Perceptor right there. On the back you see Perceptor in tank mode, microscope mode and robot mode. This side of the box, more of that great looking artwork. So now without further ado, let's get this scientist open up out of this packaging and check him out. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now once you get Studio Series 86 Perceptor all open up and out of the packaging you'll see he does come with a sheet of instructions that as usual is very well illustrated and easy to follow. He also comes with a blaster that looks very reminiscent to his old G1 toy. He comes with this backdrop right here that shows the battle of Autobot City. So if you do have the room on your display shelf you can put Perceptor right there and display him as such. And I just now noticed the number beside the Studio Series 86 11. So Perceptor is Studio Series 86 11. Took 11 figures for me to notice that. So now let's take a closer look at Perceptor himself. Now before I start going over Perceptor here I do want to point out one thing. I am from the south so I'm going to be calling Perceptor Perceptor not Perceptor. So there we go that's out of the way. Now taking a closer look at this guy, he is amazing looking. He is spot on to his animated appearance both in the television show and the movie. Great sculpting all the way around. And I love the fact the face sculpt is very stoic looking instead of so jovial as on the package art. I just can't get over this guy. He looks so good and he feels good too. He feels like a more solid quality plastic than the other figures. That may just be me. As I said, lots of sculpted details all over. Very few paint applications though, but what he does have really works up here on the head. He's got a yellow crest, blue eyes, silver face. He's got an Autobot logo right there, but that is behind this translucent plastic shield. So you fold that down, you got the Autobot logo right there like how solid that is. Paint applications here for the dials on the forearms and those are static. They do not move and that's pretty much it for the paint applications up here on the shoulder cannon. That's a static dial as well, which is kind of disappointing because always liked how the old Perceptor you could focus the microscope back and forth. But oh well. So all in all, he looks really, really good. Very impressive figure. Now on the back, he does have a big gap right there for transformation. That's very unsightly, but nothing I can't live with because well, I don't pose my figures like that. But I do know of a 3D printing buddy of mine who is making a cover for that. But like I said, for me, no big deal. Now articulation for Perceptor, the heads on a ball joint can look up and down slightly, can do a complete 360, but the shoulder cannon is going to get in the way. And speaking of shoulder cannon, this thing has tons of articulation. You unsnap it right here and this thing can move up and back and forward and listen to that. Ratchets. I love ratchets. You don't have enough ratchets in figures anymore. And of course it locks into place just like so. So you won't be doing that accidentally. Arms can go out. They can go in. They can do a complete 360 as well. There is a shoulder rotation or, excuse me, bicep rotation. No wrist rotation. Waste rotation. Legs can go out. They can go in. There's a knee bend, forward, back, and kind of a foot tilt. Not a full ankle because you got that section right there. There's also a hinge right there, but that's for transformation, but it's kind of loose. So I've caught myself a few times when I pose him and I give him a bow-legged look. So now let's go ahead and get Perceptor transformed into microscope mode. And it's a fairly easy transformation. First thing we'll do, let's go ahead and unsnap the shoulder cannon and rotate that out of the way so we can get the head in that big gap.  Now you're going to take the arms and bring these down on these little blue hinges right there. Make sure you rotate the arms up and bring those down like so. Now you got this little section right here. You're going to flip this up and over, and that's going to bring the microscope here to the middle. There's also a tab here on this side. You're going to bring this up and see that tab right there is going to go into that slot right there. So you've got that locked into place. Go ahead and take the fists, fold these in, and see the slot right there on the forearm. That's going to slide in to that peg right there. It's kind of a soft snap. Do the same with the other side. Get that fist flipped in. So now we've got the top half done. Go ahead and flip the chest plate down. It has a very tight joint right there. Love that. Now for the legs, you're going to bring the legs forward and out like so. Now using that hinge I just talked about earlier, bring the legs in, fold the feet down, bring this section up right there, and there you have Perceptor in microscope mode. And that is awesome. I love that. But like I said, I miss how you could dial or focus in the microscope. It's kind of disappointing that one complaint, the only complaint I have with this figure. Microscope mode, it is what it is. There's no new paint applications, no new sculpted details whatsoever. It is a microscope. And for a fun comparison, here is Studio Series 86 Perceptor with his G1 counterpart. And like I said, check this out. Come on, Studio Series 86. Why couldn't you have done that? Now, I did forget to mention, you can look through the microscope, but it's a blur. You can't focus on anything. I even popped my old readers on to see if I could see anything. That was a no-go. And almost the same with the original Perceptor. If I can focus on anything, you could see through him. Where is it? There we go. But still, wasn't great. But that is a fun comparison right there. I love the fact that we now have a Perceptor that turns into a microscope. Now, Studio Series 86 Perceptor also has another mode that is a throwback to the G1 toy, his tank mode. So what you're going to do is rotate the legs back around. And now you're going to bring them up. And very simple. Once you've spread them out like this, you've got these pegs right there, or those holes in his leg that's going to peg into this little hole right there below the dial. So you want to angle that down to get that lined up in that hole right there. Go ahead and peg that in place. And peg the other. So there you have Perceptor. So he even has tank treads in his tank mode. And for me, when I was in the military, I was in artillery. This looks more like an artillery piece than a tank. I guess if you could fold the barrel or move the barrel down like so, he could roll around. But I think he's more of a howitzer that could lay down suppressive fire. And really the only change with this mode is you have those molded-in tank treads right there that actually look really good. I mean, it's a fun mode and a nice throwback for us old G-1ers. And for another fun comparison, here is the G1 toy in its tank mode. So its tank mode is a little bit more like a tank because you get extenders right here that extend the base of the tank plus he has wheels. So that works a lot better. I think the G1 pulls the tank off a lot better than the 1986 Studio Series 86 version. But like I said, it's still fun that they added that. I almost forgot to show off Perceptor's weapon here. And like the rest of the figure, I really like this. This is a nice throwback to the original Generation 1 weapon. The only thing the Studio Series one is missing is the little scope right there. So we can go ahead, put this in Perceptor's hand. And now we have Studio Series 86 Perceptor all armed and ready for battle. And now for some quick size comparisons, here is Transformers Studio Series 8611 Perceptor with Generation 1 Optimus Prime, Generation 1 Perceptor. And for those of you who didn't know, the original Perceptor had a mouthplate and not a face. You can just head up there a little bit more. So fun fact for you real quick. Titan's Return Perceptor. And I want to point out that the Titan's Return Perceptor does have a couple things I wish Studio Series had. The barrel can extend and rotate left and right. So a couple things there I wish that he had. And also look at the size difference. We're complaining about sizes now. And his Transformers the Movie Battle Buddy Kingdom Blaster. Transformers Studio Series 86 Perceptor is a great Transformers toy. I have no complaints with this figure whatsoever other than the minor nitpicks with his microscope not being able to focus. Other than that, this guy is perfection. He is a fun transformation, fun alt modes, great throwbacks to the original Generation 1 toy. And he looks spot on to his cartoon counterpart. So there you go guys. Transformers Studio Series 86 Perceptor. So does a Transformers Studio Series 86 Perceptor belong in your collection? Absolutely. I love this figure. This is now one of my top tier Studio Series 86 Transformers. I love the guy. He is just awesome. And most importantly, he is a fun, fun transformation, fun alt modes. Just spot on to the animated look. Hasbro, you knocked it out of the park with this guy right here. If you see a Perceptor on the shelf, do not hesitate. Pick this guy up. You are going to love him. 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The best Zelda game ever created. It's debatable. The answer definitely isn't Spirit Tracks or Phantom Hourglass. I can tell you that, but Ocarina of Time. No, this isn't part five of my Breath of the Wild playthrough because Yal didn't get that to 20,000 likes. That could be dead for all I know. Go watch that video, smash like. Instead, Ocarina of Time. Now look, you might be thinking to yourselves, that's an old, why would you wanna play that? Well, I'm not alone. If I pan the cat, where did you go? Hello. You know, Ocarina of Time, it's a great game, but there's literally no way to play it legally anymore. Literally no way. Don't at me. So instead, we're gonna rum hack this and do it to player. By the way, Bab is here. Hi, that's me. Go check him out. Actually two milestones are about to be hit. You at the gorgeous cool half meal, and then myself is getting dangerously close to the meal. So go check out Bab and also subscribe if you haven't already. If this video gets 20,000 likes, which apparently is a number that's really hard to hit on this channel, we'll do another one. And yeah, I'm roping you in on that. Oh boy. We have to do the tree thing, right? Don't ask me, man. I'm the last person to say anything about this game. How much of this game do you remember? So the last time I played it was the remake on the 3DS. Okay. And I got to like the second dungeon and then I was like, all right, I'm good. Do you not like it? I don't like it that much. What? Why? It's a lot of, what do I do now? Oh my God. All right, we'll get you through this. Breath of the Wild, though. Great game. Also never beat that. Let's show me how to play this. All right, we got to get the little crappy sword, the little starting sword, which is up in here. Where did you go? I don't know. I'm going to guess it's in this thing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. All right, I went in. All right, this way through this little thing here. Okay. Oh yes, it's all coming back to me. Now here's my question. When I open this, do you also get to open it? Or am I the only one that has a sword for the start of the game? Let's see. Baby, baby. Also, if this video has a sponsor, here it is. Do you love coffee? I sure do. I adore coffee. I will not get up in the morning without coffee. This is my favorite room in the house.  But there's no point making a fresh cup of coffee with all gross beans. You need fresh beans to really wake you up in the morning and trade coffee has some awesome roasts. Trade sent me these two packs. Both were freshly roasted the day before they were sent out. All I had to do was take a quick quiz about how I love my coffee. And they curated these matches to me and I gotta say they nailed it, specifically with this one. Best part is you can choose how often the coffee rocks up at your front door, which right now is awesome since we really shouldn't be out there sniffing coffee beans in stores. It's not the time for that. And then you can rate your matches on trade so they can continue to send you amazing coffee that you love. But sadly, only the first 100 of you to click that link down below will get 30% off your entire order as well as free shipping.  If you don't mind me, I've almost finished this one. I still got this one. Whoops. Beautiful. Very often does. Every little thing, oh! What? The boulder scared me. Every little thing I do in this game, I feel like it's gonna crash. But it's running like amazingly well. It's very smooth. I'm shocked we were able to get it to work in like less than an hour. Yeah, we set this up in like 40 minutes. It wasn't bad. Okay, next thing. How many rupees do you have? Seven. Wow, okay. I'm rich, baby. Going to the sizzler tonight. Roll your little booty through that grass and then throw these rocks and then roll your little booty through the grass over here and try and build up some rupees. Oh wait, there is a mini-map. Okay, we need 40 rupees total. What are we getting? A shield? Yeah, we need a shield and a sword. So the little gatekeeper over there lets us through to see the Deku tree. I'm at 25. Staying alive. All right, just 15 more for you. There's some rocks. There's some rocks. Pick up the rock. Pick up the rock. Holy. Pick up the rock. Oh my. Swore. Okay, check your inventory. Hopefully you should have a shield. Oh, you got it already. You did the thing. Oh, I'm all over it. I'm a Zelda pro. Finish this game countless times. I do not have a shield. It's okay, I'm still in the little menu for it. Try now. It's there and I didn't even leave the menu. All right. Look at that. Fantastic. Would you like to save? Yes, I would. Thank you for asking.  Man, this guy is rough. Wow. I don't like the way he just slid out of the way with his handle. We are the same person. Yeah, we've merged into one. Finally, Baban Wolf. The circle is complete. Baban Wolf? Baban Wood. Wolfwood. Wolfwood. Wolf down that wood. That is my PlayStation name. Wolfwood? Yeah, all of my Xbox gamer tag from the 360 Wolfwood. There is too many weird connections between us. I don't like it. Okay, all right. We want to climb up here. I actually don't 100% remember how to do this. That's okay. I know 0% how to do this. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Take it off my jacket. I'm seeing things you're not supposed to see.  Like, look at this. Oh, why? I don't know. I guess it's just something that happens, but you never actually see it. Yeah. You can open a door by standing in front of it. Thank you so much, Navi. Thank you. Oh, I appreciate it so much. What would I do without you? Oh, I ran in and blocked. I hope you can get in. I can't. Okay, good. I was real scared I was gonna do this all by myself.  You get hit when you do that. Cool. How do you block? I'll be talking to him. So I have to actually beat him. Oh, no, I don't. I don't have to. Ow, yes, I do. Yes, I do. I have to beat him. What just happened? He snuck attack me. Oh, wait. The door opened. You're welcome. The guy's still there. I can still fight him. Just let him be. All right. We'll let him live today. What did you get? I got the slingshot thing. He's just staring in his face, holding nothing in your hands. We got to set that to one of the C buttons, right? Yes. And then you shoot the ladder down, but I might have already done it for you. I don't know how this game works. I'm really confused by it. All right, the ladder is down. I'm coming up. Sweet. Just coast through this game while I do everything for you. That is the plan. Then I could say I beat Ocarina of Time. You technically could say that. As long as no one asks any questions, you'll be fine. I am up on the wall. There's a spider. I'm coming back down. Yeah, I forgot about that one. All right, I got it. You got it? Okay. I guess it works for both of us. All right, you ready for your first timed challenge? I remember this. Ha! I believe in you. He. Who. Ah, we both did the same thing. I was trying to be super quick because I didn't want to block you. We could probably make this really easy. Yeah, only one of us really has to do it. All right, I'm going to friggin... No, you hit it. I need things to do. This needs to be Bob's time to shine. I need to prove myself. You need to prove yourself? I need to experience everything Ocarina of Time has to offer. The height of the game right here. Here. I am the best Ocarina of Time player. Give me this. All right, Bob, it's all on you. What do you think you do here? I think I go back through the door. And how would you do such a thing? I think I would go over here and press A. No, I can't. Okay. I have to light these on fire. Yes. I got my giant stick. I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. What are you going to do with that? I'm going to go over here. I'm going to go meet. I'm going to go over here. And I'm going to go meet. You meet it. Great job, buddy.  Now put your stick away before it burns out. Oh, God, this spider. Please don't. Please don't kill me. I might have died. I will avenge you. It's cool. This is for my friend Bob. Oh, I just think I just respawned right at the beginning. And we should still be the same as you. Yeah, it's like a weird little lag skip. And in the corner, it told me Bob has died. And it was a picture of Link looking real angry. I'm trying to remember if you just jump off of here and break the spongy thing, which I think it's what you do. So don't you have to light it on fire? I was thinking that might be it. But let me try this. Yeah, you have to light it on fire. I'm going to jump too. Oh, no. No, I had to because I wanted to see you. OK, well, nice to see you, buddy. Now we've got to go all the way back up. Well, we're definitely not speed running the game. We're half an hour in. What are you talking about? It's the fastest I've ever played it. I can't imagine playing this any faster. This is the hardest temple in the game, right? Yeah. All right, I got this. Yay. Let's go. No. Uh-oh. The spider came back and my stick burned out. But every time I leave, the spider's going to spawn. So I can't jump off with fire. How am I stuck? I'm supposed to be the Zelda guy.  Maybe you have to do the big attack jump. It's cool. I'll figure this out. I'm the Zelda guy. That is undisputed. This is what you do. I did it. Yeah, that was what you do. Why didn't it work the first time? Would you jump off? All right. Yeah, just come. I'm coming. Unless I have to do it too. I don't. Great. All right. So now we actually do have to bring fire. Bring the fire over there, which I'm pretty sure it's pretty simple. I think we just go boom. And then don't fall in the water. All right. The next puzzle is all yours, buddy. Oh, I got this. No problem, man. Let me kill this guy.  Oh my god. Can you block his stuff and take it back to him? Like you can in the other Zelda games? Yes. So one button will target him. And there's another button, a separate button that will bring your shield up once you're targeting. For me, it's right trigger. Right trigger? Oh, there it is. I did it.  Do it. Oh, I did it. Oh, get effed. Please forgive me, master. I'll never do it again. I want to murder you. All right, what else did he say? The order is two, three, one. Good. Remember that. All right. Now how do we get out of this room, Bab? We need to get through that silver door. What possible way could we have of getting through that door? I go up to it and press A. No, that didn't work. I don't know. I'm stuck. It's a good start. Just eliminate some options. What is different about this room to other rooms? There's like a little eyeball above it. Yeah. Do I just look at it? Yeah, but then something else. Heat loop. I hit it. Congratulations.  OK. And then you can ride that platform to glory.  Yeah, I guess we have different platform. Don't worry. Stand back. I got this. I'm pretty sure we have to kill him again. I rolled into him. I rolled into him again. Stop talking to the story, man. Sorry, hero. I got him. OK, well, I have to kill him as well, sadly. But that was very fun to watch.  Yeah, that one feels like one we've already done. Nintendo game design. You're slipping. Yeah, come on, dude. Get better at you. You've had 20 years to make this game better. Also, I want to throw out there. We've been playing this for 45 minutes, and it's been really smooth the whole time. Like, I'm very impressed. Yeah, I am shocked. I have had less issues with this game than pretty much every current day online game, trying to play it with friends on like Xbox. All right, come this way. Which way is this way? On the map, it's the right path. Not the wrong one. The right one. Oh, you could do the little spin thing from Smash Brothers. Well, technically from this game, but... Nope, Smash Brothers. Let's go. Oh, yay. Yeah. I'm going to break my little legs. Oh, no, OK. Oh, OK. All right, Beb. Hold on, I'm fighting the bad guys. Before you fight the bad guys, I'm going to... I died. I'm coming back, don't worry. Bob has died. Where did it start you? At the beginning of the temple. And guess what? The spiderwebs are still here. So I have to... Oh, you have to climb all the way back up and break them again? Mm-hmm. My gosh.  It's the moment of truth. All right, did it for a second. I thought it didn't do it, but it did. You should just fall down in here with me, right? Oh, I got to fight this guy now. Hold on. Just fall down the hole. I fell down the hole, but now I've got to fall down another hole. OK, so when you fell down the hole, was the block that I pushed down to make it easier to get back up that one part still there or not? Yes. Climb up that. Yay, that only took 10 minutes. OK, Beb, before you start dying and killing these things again, do you remember the clue we were given earlier? Three, no, two, three, one. OK, that's all I'm saying. Oh, I get it. That would have taken me a really long time. I know. Especially after all of that, I would have just returned the game to Blockbuster. All right, you ready to beat Ganon? I am ready to beat Ganon. How do you think you start this boss battle? Do I light a fire? He's above us, isn't he? Yeah. There he is, I found him.  Oh, I do have to hit him with the slingshot. Oh, he saw me. He saw me aiming for him. Help. Now I'm curious, are we fighting the same boss? I doubt it, right? I don't know. Did he just come down for you? Yeah, because I looked at him, too. Well, I looked at him as well. Oh, we might not be fighting the same boss. So I'm doing things to it? He's gone for me. Really? Does he go back in the ceiling? Yeah, sometimes, but usually not until after you attack him. He immediately went back to the ceiling. Maybe you attacked him? This is so confusing. I don't know what's going on. Like, I kind of want you to beat him for us just so you could say you've done it. I don't know if it matters. It doesn't matter, but. I feel like I'm on a different instance right now. You are, but I'm pretty sure if you beat it, it would cancel the instances for both of us. Oh, true, true, true. Shoot the thing. Shoot it. Link, my guy, we got to have a talk. Shoot the thing. OK, good. I knocked him down before. Oh, he's dead. Hey, you did it. The hardest boss in the game, Ganondorf himself. I don't like that I was immediately spat out of the dungeon.  Yeah, I'm going through like the cutscene. It spat me out immediately. Now I'm just outside here. I didn't get my heart. I'll get it for you, would. Oh, I almost didn't get it. Hey. An extra heart now? Yeah, I do. Yo, this is awesome. Yeah, it really is. I think I like this more than just playing it alone. Ah! You just, where did you come from? That was actually really cool. I like that a lot. 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Britain's still one of the most powerful countries on earth, so who we vote for on 12th December matters to people right across the world, and to many it's a matter of life or death. So let's look at the Tories record on foreign policy. In Yemen, Britain's sustaining an indiscriminate Saudi bombing campaign that's killed thousands of civilians. British jets form a large proportion of the Saudi Air Force and those jets can't fly, let alone carry on bombing civilians without ongoing technical and logistical support from the UK. The Saudis have imposed a blockade on Yemen that is the leading cause of what's now the world's worst humanitarian disaster. We can't afford a decent meal. We're now begging to eat and feed our children. It's a man-made catastrophe in which 85,000 infant children have died of starvation or preventable disease. The situation in Yemen today right now to the population of the country looks like the apocalypse. In Yemen Britain is an accessory to mass murder. On climate change the Tories are on course to miss their own targets to reduce carbon emissions. Britain's the world's sixth largest economy so what we do on climate change matters. With time running out, Tory failures were a death sentence to millions in the global south with the worst effects of the climate emergency already being failed. There's more. Under the Tories Britain intervened in Libya in 2011 promising to deliver democracy, but instead Libya is now a failed state and the country's still gripped by civil war eight years later. All we hope is a little kind of the peace. Britain increased arms sales to Egypt after the country's first elected government was overthrown by the military. Their first experience of democracy in Egypt is threatened at birth by the military coup against the constitution. And even after the coup regime slaughtered over a thousand civilians in massacres described by human rights watch as a crime against humanity. This was a systematic planned attack on protesters. Britain increased arms sales to Bahrain after the regime violently crushed a peaceful pro-democracy movement in 2011. Britain carried on selling arms to Israel even as it gunned down unarmed protesters in Gaza. And Britain maintains warm and friendly relations with Donald Trump the world's leading racist demagogue and the world's leading threat to international security rolling out the red carpet for a state visit last year. Is this really the sort of country we want to be? We can see from Boris Johnson's own long record of racism. Already vulnerable Muslim women when they are described as looking like bank robbers and letter voxies. And the fact that the Tories chose him as their leader that this is a party that holds the peoples of the global south in total contempt. Their record in office puts that beyond question. In Yemen right now Britain is contributing directly to the deaths of tens of thousands of people. This can't be allowed to continue. The Lover of Pledge to immediately end support for the Saudis in Yemen, cease arms sales to human rights abuses and to implement a serious plan to tackle the climate emergency.  Lives depend on the outcome.


The Food and Drug Administration recently reopened comments about their policy of allowing some intestines, but not others, into the U.S. food supply. When the first few cases of mad cow disease started popping up, the FDA's gut reaction was to ban all guts from food and personal care products. But in 2005, USDA and FDA amended their draft rule to permit the use of the entire small intestine for human food if the last 80 unquilled inches going to the colon was removed. Since then, though, studies have shown that infectious mad cow prions can be found throughout all parts of the intestine from the stomach down to the cow's colon, raising the question of whether all entrails should again be removed. The North American Meat Association says no wanting to keep all cattle inside the food supply, similar to what we heard from the CTFA, the Cosmetic Toiletry and Fragrance Association.  There could be a tallow shortage for soap, for example. The FDA may not realize that cosmetics and personal care products are a quarter trillion dollar industry worldwide. In the end, the FDA tentatively concluded that intestines should continue to be allowed in the food and cosmetic supply because only trace amounts of infectivity have been found throughout the bowels of cattle, a conclusion they have to make since otherwise all meat would have to be banned as well, because new research shows that mad cow infectivity is in the muscles, too, and not just the atypical cases of BSE, like the last mad cow found in California, but now we know the typical BSE as well, a bovine spongiform cephalopathy, mad cow disease. Low levels of infectious prions found in the ribs, shoulder, tenderloin, and sirloin tips and round cuts of meat. The latest estimates out of Britain suggest 15,000 people are currently incubating the human form of mad cow disease contracted through the consumption of infected meat. Fewer than 200 Brits have died so far of variant carciliacum disease, but the incubation period for this invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease can be decades. The time between eating the meat and one's brain filling up with holes. The fact that so many people are carrying it as important implications for the safety of blood transfusions, that's why many Americans who've lived in England are barred by the Red Cross from donating blood, as well as the safety of handling surgical instruments that may have cut into someone who's a carrier since it's so hard to sterilize anything once contaminated. Given these factors, it may be prudent to err on the side of caution when regulating which intestines are allowed on and in our mouths, but it's a balance. As one meat company points out, guts are not just used for lipstick. Intestine is human food, providing us with a precious source of protein which is evidently essential for our human population.


The Nittara, who now vexes us, is from one of the few timelines where Vaternians do. When they discovered other timelines and the failure of Vaternians within them to flourish, this Nittara's Vaternians mobilized for war. If they are not vanquished, they will enslave all beings to Vaternis.


Hey guys, this week in the rundown, CNL has released a strategy for maintaining superiority at sea. CNP is visiting the Pacific Fleet and the Surface Navy Association is scheduled to host their annual symposium to discuss future strategies. Welcome back everyone. I hope you had a great time during the holidays. We're early in the year and CNL has released its design for maintaining maritime superiority. The strategy is designed to ensure the Navy is capable to adapt to changes involving security while continuing to fulfill its missions at sea. In the document, CNL outlines 4 lines of efforts he wants to guide the Navy and its leaders. Strengthen naval power at and from sea, achieve high velocity learning at every level, strengthen our Navy team for the future, and expand and strengthen our network of partners. CNP's Sailor 2025 initiative is included in CNL's campaign design. You can read the full version of CNL's strategy on navy.mil. So this week CNP is visiting sailors throughout the Pacific Fleet. He plans to conduct a series of all-hands calls at each of his stops to discuss personnel policies, his visions for initiatives going forward, and to answer your personnel-related questions. He visited San Diego late last week and is making his way to Yakuza, Japan to talk with sailors in the 7th Fleet. His final stop will be in Hawaii where as part of his visit he will embark a submarine overnight. Check out the story on Navy.mil which provides more information on CNP's packed fleet trip. Finally, the Surface Navy Association, or SNA, will host his 28th annual National Symposium in Arlington, Virginia, January 12th through the 14th. The symposium gives Navy leaders and government officials the opportunity to discuss the future of the service community, including the latest in technology. DoD personnel are encouraged to attend the event. Read the navadmin003-16 on NPC for more information, or you can visit navy.sna.org. That's all we have for this week. For any questions, send us a message at usnpeople.com. For the Chief Enable Personnel, I'm MC2 L.J. Burleson. Thanks for watching.


Baby What'd you just tell me five seconds ago? I'm getting anxious. You're getting anxious For what what are we doing today?  Yeah, like this is happening Yeah, so what's going on? So we gotta leave here at about 15 minutes to go to my Consultation So pretty much I am planning to get LASIK eye surgery I'm really praying that I can get it if you don't know what LASIK is basically It's a procedure where you don't have to wear glasses anymore They basically like replace like these lenses in your actual eyeball to make you have hopefully 20 20 vision Yeah, it's like you will get 20 20 vision I'm sure there's cases where you have him, but the likelihood that happening slim to none Yeah, I might not be able to get it because I have a stigma on my right eye And I've heard that if the stigmatism is too bad you can't get it But I also read that it also helps stigmatism. So we're gonna have to see so hopefully they are even able to do the Procedure, but you guys the reason I have been really considering this and I actually hold the trigger and I'm gonna Do it is because I have been absolutely so sick and tired of wearing glasses and contacts Any type of my contacts in they hurt me. They either get really fuzzy. I do my makeup and literally like blurs it I don't know what's been going on with them, but they've been making me so mad And that's why I haven't been doing my makeup or getting ready as often because it's really hard for me to want to put My contacts in it's like it's like I hate I would hate that I have 20 20 vision I'm happy for that, but I see this girl the past almost seven years within dating like daily Just has to worry about putting content in take their contacts out her contacts getting too dry her contacts having to clean them Overnight getting daily like spending all the money on glasses I'm just so sick of it and I was thinking like I do not want to spend my whole wedding day worrying about my contacts I know I wake up at 7 30 in the morning to get my makeup and stuff all the way until friggin probably midnight I have to take care of lunch really till midnight and I was like I just want to have 2020 vision like I want to be able to wake up on my wedding day and See and not have to worry about anything like I just don't want to be work like out when I walk on the aisle I want to be able to see you and not have to be like linking a lot Not like your eyes watering or imagine waking up on your wedding morning You're just like like you rub your eyes, and you're like I can see Like I want to be able to see you down the aisle without having my contact blurring up or just like anything I just want to be able to see and just in general like I just want to be able to wake up and My contacts in or wear my glasses. I am just so sick In the context of been really bugging me lately, I don't know what's been with it But they have been really really really bugging me and that's why I've been wearing my glasses I don't know if you guys noticed but I have not really been doing my makeup It's also because I've been getting my face cleared up. Oh my gosh guys my acne It's all just scarring now and we're in the process of doing my macaroni laying and stuff But that was another reason why I haven't been wearing makeup But it's also because I haven't been one of my contacts in and I don't really feel like doing my makeup behind my glasses on it Kind of kills the effect of my makeup.  I'm able to get it done When I do get it done, I hope that I see 2020 and go through all that for nothing You know even though it's a lot of money, you know how much money you're gonna save not having to buy contact I know and it's not even it's just consultation imagine the day I fight when I actually get it done like oh So scary I think it'd be fun, but we're literally about to head over there right now We're gonna show you the insides what they say what they suggest Mariah if she could get it done And if she can get it done, oh my gosh I feel like it's gonna be like a weight lifted off your shoulder But it's also gonna be a weight put on your shoulder because I already know you she can be you're gonna be like we can I already know but that's not my anxiety is the worst.  I'm praying for you wishing you luck, and we got to leave Guys we made it I'm an anxious mess I am freaking out like I'm literally like shaking and it's not even my surgery like I'm not getting surgery today I'm just getting a freaking consultation and I'm freaking out the place looks really nice, and we're about to go in It's already three o'clock. Yeah, we're late So we actually have to get in there right now and on top of that we're almost out of gas We're literally on ease so I don't even know if we're gonna be able to make it to a gas station And we're a half hour away from home guys wish me luck. Just wish everything luck I'm just trying to get it done and it's go smooth. It'll be good. I promise you we're getting there I'm sure they'll have good things to say because I'm sure you're not the first person to freak out about no Especially surgery Incision and a lenticule so it kind of maps out the porno tissue that needs to be removed The surgeon goes in through that little pocket and extracts the lenticule kind of like if you look out of a pillowcase The incision is much smaller So their recovery is a little bit faster in the sense that visually is the same 12 24 hours before things kind of start settling down starting the next day you can Start working out wearing makeup There is one week no water exposure to limit the chance of infection So which one do you recommend? I would just smile smile. Yeah, so I was gonna do smile I just couldn't because I end up having a baby Yeah, you're pregnant or trying to be pregnant. They recommend holding off Just because during pregnancy and breastfeeding the hormonal changes you go through can change your vision Oh, did you see by chance like because people sign the past she has a little like what? Yeah, have you a car's a stigmatism? Um, yes, especially your amount of stigmatism the laser to create the incision in the lenticule is 24 seconds Oh, and then the surgeon does his portion within the minute. Do you even feel it? No, how is like LASIK is it like do your eyes?  She had LASIK 17 years ago and her distance vision to correct her distance vision. It hasn't been it hasn't changed Look at how happy she is I'm happy but also really nervous y'all y'all heard the conversation, but basically To sum it up. It looks like you're gonna get late. So it looks like we're gonna get LASIK The room looks really nice And they said they record it Yeah, my response so they're literally gonna record the surgery so you'll get to see her getting LASIK So we saw the operation room I know you guys didn't see it, but we were walking around and like while she was showing us the bed She said like there's massage chairs back there to like ease them a little bit and Actually, I should show off the car really quick because we're almost out of gas But Mariah can get LASIK and we're literally gonna be record the entire thing So I'm officially getting the procedure done in next month I go in for pre-op next week, which is like you make sure everything looks good and everything and I already scheduled my surgery It's just so crazy because I don't know how I get to see you. I get to see clear I don't have to wear my contacts or glasses anymore Like this is just so crazy to me like I can't believe that she walked and said I'm a candidate And I was like oh my god, and then the smile one is so different than the other one Yeah, just like crazy that I was a candidate for that too like oh my gosh. I can't believe it's happening I'm nervous, but I'm also so excited like this is like gonna be so life-changing for me Like not having to wake up and put my contacts in or my glasses on like it is going to be the greatest feeling ever I'm nervous for like the actual day, but they are super super super nice in there And just looking at like the area and how we're like the surgery room is I feel like I'm gonna be so comfortable It looks so relaxing didn't it like the vibe and the energy like it was so nice in there Like they said they just moved in that building like literally a year ago So the building was like brand new it was beautiful. It was gorgeous in there. My gosh guys. I can't believe it's actually happening I'm so freaking excited less than a month less than a month or like in a month. Yeah, that's crazy No, it's so freaking crazy. I'm a little nervous to take value though. I'll be fine. I'm there taking value It's like a pain. No, it's like a relaxation Honestly, I want to get on by like the week right now I'm just trying to make it to the gas station. I see it But when I tell you we are on empty like we were riding on empty model squad So just let me give me a second. I'm not even getting up.   Yes There's a gas station right there, but look at it. It's not even There's a gas station right there. You're fine.  It's on E The line is like It's like this Fine, we're gonna make it. I see it.  We made it to the gas station We're all good safe and sound. I knew we would build a tweak over here and things We weren't gonna make it just like when we went to Home Depot and there's a box for the skeleton He didn't think would fit in the car. I wouldn't fit in the car Yes, it would I have put so much stuff in this car, right more than you and I looked at the box And I'm like there's no way it's fitting in that car. Why would you chance buying it bringing it out to the car? And then it not fitting. What do you do then you just go back and return it? Why would you buy in the first place? No, he's just he just doesn't think smart. All right, whatever anyways guys. Lasek is here. It's coming I honestly was kind of hoping it wasn't gonna happen, but at the same time like I wanted to have it I think that would have been super devastating. She told me I wasn't a candidate. I was waiting for that I'm like when is she gonna say like she should know probably by now Yeah, what about she knew on the inside, but she wasn't saying anything like office girls guys And it's crazy because it's like bing bing boom like I'm getting this procedure done so quick like it's gonna come so fast I am just so excited. I honestly wish I could just get it done tomorrow to repeat what she said She said the procedure is gonna take like a minute. Yeah It's gonna take 20 seconds for the laser and then another minute for him to fix your eye back Well, maybe five minutes per eye, but the actual surgery part is like the lasers like 25 seconds And then the guy putting the flap back and making everything good.  This is huge. You realize this is a huge procedure Like this is like I don't know like being able to see is everything like that's just like and so important It's four thousand five hundred dollars which to some may sound like a lot But it is a lot in the sense of one payment But if you think about it like that four thousand five hundred I would be spending on my contacts She would be spending five like each glasses is five hundred dollars and she gets a new pair every couple years because they go bad Yeah, and her contacts are like five hundred dollars a year, right? Yeah contacts So if you think about it in just three years you would have spent just as much as if you just got the procedure and the Doctor that had that got it done. She said it's been good for 17 years and her eyes have been fine Yeah, it's crazy. So this is like so cheap compared to how much you would be spending Ultimately excited about the fact that I don't worry about it on my wedding And you're saving time in the mornings.  Oh, I need to clean my contacts. Oh, I need to go to the eye I can just wake up. She gone in the eye doctors like 80 times Spending hours and hours of your day now. I've never been to an eye doctor once babe now you're gonna be like that Well guys, thank you for tuning in We will definitely be filming the day of the surgery and like the week of like repairing and recovering She said this one I can go right back to working out within a day. Well, yeah, but I think we should so Oh, well, it's gonna be a whole week and I'll wait and recover. I won't go that Monday But I'll probably go like Tuesday. Yeah or something. I'll go that because you just on a Friday. Yeah, but oh my gosh That's exciting. I'm really nervous though. It's coming up like I hope I don't feel it. What if I feel it? You'll be good. She just said you won't you're taking like the volume. I'm sure they numb your eyes That's what they said like they'll do all that you won't even feel it and it's so fast. It's done by a laser It's so quick and precise like you'll be good. So nervous. What we're gonna do it We're gonna co-together and I'm so happy I have you guys alongside with me and I'm kind of excited to see the video afterwards even though I really don't know if I want to watch it So stay tuned make sure to subscribe to our channel if you have not already first of all Welcome to family second of all we are literally are gonna be showing the entire surgery you will see Mariah laying down in the chair and Getting it done. That's crazy. The fact that we could film that is just insane You could be in the room with me and I'm gonna be able to be in the room with her So you'll have me in there you'll have Marvel Squad in there with you everything will be great Stay tuned for those videos. They're gonna be coming soon like literally in a couple weeks All right you guys we're gonna end the video right here Yeah, I need to go put gas in the car because I still haven't yet and we will see you guys in the next one But until then ease. Love you guys


My name is Srandi Khattalik. I'm from Iglulik, Nunavut. And tell me about your participation in the NCCIE project. Why did you participate? Why was it important for you to be in this project? With NCCIE, I'm a researcher. So I go around Nunavut communities and interview different educators and elders in Indigenous education. And it's important for me because I'm in the teacher education program in Nunavut and studying to become a teacher. I'm going into my fourth year this coming fall. So I want to bring as much innate culture into our education system as I can and be an advocate for Indigenous education anywhere I want to teach in Nunavut. Why is it so important for you? Because back around 100 to 50 years ago, we were forced to, in a cultural transmission, more specifically a diffusion with modern Western cultures. So we lost the context of our education. We didn't lose our upbringing because in our home, when we go back home, we still speak our language and we are still raised to go out and hunt. But in the education, that's not our choice. We are taught by Caucasian people, mostly, or Southerners or not anyway. So I want to see more anyway in our education system. When I was younger in elementary school, I could hear my classmates saying, why should I listen to you? This isn't the only way of learning. This is not our way of living. Why should I listen to you? So we need more Indigenous education in our school systems. And we can do that. We just need to begin it. With social studies, we can learn about Inui morals, family roles, Inui traditional names of geography, biology and Inuktitut. Also, it's like gym, physical education. It's mostly encompassed around biology, health, physical, which is fine motor movement, along with gross motor movement. And in the Inui culture, the women often saw using their fine motor skills and the men go out hunting using their legs and spearing animals. And that's physical education right there. And they're out in nature too. So they're always walking. They're always, their heart rate is up. And with English too, I can see more emphasis in our language and Inuktitut being taught. Like for instance, the way we pronounce certain letters like ka, it's more towards the back of our glottal area in our throat. Inui students can learn things like that. And that would help them learn our language even better. As a future educator, what have you learned from the elders that you will transmit to your future students? If I was a student in Randy's class in five years, what am I going to, what are you going to teach me that you've learned doing this work? What I've learned throughout my whole life is the Inui character. I'm a quiet person. I'm an honest person. When I speak, I try to speak with importance and significance. Like... Being proud of being Inuit? No. I try not to be proud because I know it's that we need to be pride, pride-proudful in our culture. But at the same time, one of our principles is Inuktitutut, which is being, living in harmony with each other, with everyone. So at the same time, I need to respect different ethnicities, not only Inui's ethnical cultural values. For instance, when I was packing, I was going to bring my sealskin vest to the conference, but I forgot to bring it. So I felt bad for a second, but when I got here, I realized it's not just us Inuit. It's also First Nations, Métis, Cree, Caucasians, Afis. And there are many different trees, many different cultures, and each tree bears different fruits, apples, oranges, pears. Those fruits are like students, and the trees are the culture, the teachers. And I saw a fire being lit to the tree, which is colonization, the destruction of our culture, our education, our upbringing. And I saw it being destroyed in pieces, burnt down. And afterward, the pieces of wood rose in ashes. So the ashes are spread out all across Canada for indigenous people in broken pieces, burnt down, exhausted. But at the same time, with us, our initiative with NCCIE, coming together, telling our stories, by doing that, we're collecting those pieces and bringing them together back to a tree so that we can once again practice our culture. But at the same time, ashes can dissolve into the air and become a substance that gives life, fresh air, energy. But that air is an accumulation of not just Inuit culture and wood that is dissolved. It's also Cree, Métis, Caucasian, African-American, Asian, that we all live in harmony together.  What's the interview or the one that kind of comes to mind? If I say NCCIE, what comes to mind? The one that kind of, oh yeah, remember that interview, it just blew me away. When I interviewed this one elder, she said, I wish there were more Inuit programs in our communities and she was not aware of our initiative and what we were doing. What we were doing is we were gathering stories of indigenous programs across Nunavut. And there are already programs in our culture that teach Inuit education but it's not spread out across Nunavut. It might be happening in one community for preschool students but in another community it's towards adults, in another community it's towards teenagers. What we need to do with the stories we gather is communicate to the public saying this is happening in our communities. It's different from 50 years ago, there's more cultural programs but you're not aware of it, you're wishing that there's more Inuit programs but there are, we just need to communicate with each other and expand those programs across each community and work together. Okay, is there anything else you want to add? Do you think it's important that people know? I'm grateful that NCCI took me along with this initiative because I'm passionate for our people and I want to be a fine representation of an Inuit youth who live the Inuit way and teach younger generations how we live as Inuit.