Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It's a Friday on FIFA 21 and we're not sure what's happening today for content because we don't have any information about team of your nominees. EA is leaving us in the dark. Is that promo happening today? Is it not? We really do not know. We have no PAC code out right now. We have no information relating to any car designs that have been put out in this game. Literally, we don't know what is coming out today on FIFA. All we do know is Headliners 2 is ending. These cards that are in PACs right now go out of PACs at 6 p.m. U.K. today on Friday. There's not very many SBCs that are in the SBC section right now either. We got a Headliner's Tavernier yesterday which a lot of people are doing because this card is going to get a plus 1 upgrade because Rangers will win for in a row. It's an English right back and it has some pretty incredible stats. A lot of people are doing this card and SBC fodder is dropping. I want to talk about that a little bit as well. Icon SBCs finished yesterday and they did not get re-upped. There's no Icon SBCs. That is something that I do think we could see today, depending on what the content is. But again, we've been talking about the last couple of days. I said in yesterday's video, if team of your nominees are hinted at, if they do come, there is going to be a big time crash on the market and a lot of people are going to be selling cards because of what team of your nominees did to the market last year. They're going to be fearing that for this year. But as of right now when I'm recording this, which it is 6 a.m. U.K. time right now, there is no PAC code. There is nothing saying that we are getting team of your nominees, impacts or anything related to team of the year or any promo that could be coming today on Friday in this game. This whole entire last week has been such a quiet week from EA. If we take it again, a look at the SBC content this last week, we have had the Milder and the McTominay and this Tavernier SBC have literally been the only content that seems to stick from this past week. We had an 86-plus upgrade with the A.I. Go Aspas player of the month. Today, I'm expecting a player of the month SBC to come out probably for the Premier League. That would be either Bruno Fernandez or Marcus Rashford or Mohammed Salah. One of those three I think should win player of the month. But again, right now it's just such an interesting day. Like why are we being left in the dark from EA Sports? EA Sports here, we need something right? I was expecting a loading screen yesterday. I was expecting even like a foot watch tweet with some like PAC code or anything like that. I was expecting some of that and we did not have any of that yesterday or even today. Now I have traded with a few cards because since we didn't have any panic selling yesterday with Team The Year nominees being released, there were some good trades to be had on the market. I got this cane, tried them out for a few games and then sold them for a small profit. That was pretty fun. If you were there on stream down below in the description, the link is down there. We watched a lot of things on the market. Now one thing that did happen was there are a lot of cards that were in PACs, informs, headliners and gold cards took a big drop in price yesterday because of the supply. A lot of PACs were open yesterday with Marquis matchups wherever that SBC is. Marquis matchups right here and three, three new league SBCs EA dropped yesterday on Thursday with the Air Divisies Super League and the Pro League all dropping. So there was tons of PAC supply yesterday on the market and that dropped a lot of these headliner cards. Now if there is no promotion today in FIFA, if there's no team of the year nominees, which technically still could happen. So I'm not ruling that out. So I'm going to talk about that in like two different scenarios today. If there is no promotion today, what do I think happens with the market? Well, first of all, I want to talk about two different things in this game. I want to talk about headliners and possibly those cards rising out of PACs. And I also want to talk about SBC fodder and cards along those lines because a lot of players right now are buying SBC fodder, which makes sense. But I want to talk about these headliners, right? Theo Hernandez is up a little bit. He was down at 500,000 coins flat. A few of these headliners from team two that are still in PACs until today at 6pm have rebounded a slight bit, right? This is up like 15K. Sun is up about 100K. If I'm being honest, he was 1.14 earlier. Hollins was 520. He's up. Lozano was 550. Goretzka is still low. But a lot of these cards are very cheap for what they were earlier on in the week. So if you see any more panic selling on these headliners and we don't have any new crazy content today, I do think you will see these rebound a bit into the weekend because people are going to be looking for stuff to invest in as there's games this weekend. Players will continue their streaks. These are live cards. If they play well, of course, their prices could go up even more with informed potential. So that's one thing to keep a watch on with these headliner cards. And if you see panic selling related to the rest of the market today, a lot of stuff on this game right now is still pretty high, right? Because there is demand. People are playing Week in League because of the extra swap tokens. You take a look at guys like Kealini. 200,000 coins to this card. He was 180 two days ago. Hazard is up, right? A lot of these out-of-packs cards are up once again because people want those extra Week in League player picks. And we're going to be continuing to talk about it throughout this weekend, especially tomorrow and Sunday, is the panic sell-off. The Week in League sell-off this weekend is going to be massive. So if there's any cards that you need to get out of your club, take this opportunity where the market is still high to do that. Because a lot of stuff, I think, still has to drop as we head towards next week, or a week and a half from now, and the actual team of the year promotion coming out. So take this opportunity of less content and less stuff to do on FIFA to maybe have a chance to catch out on some of those cards that are still high right now in value. Now let's take a look at SBC fodder for a second, because since we had both of those icon SBCs go away, the base icon repeatable and the base mid-pack that were in the game, since they have not been re-released, we are seeing SBC fodder drop. And I want to talk about that a little bit because people are starting to buy in this stuff. Let's take a look at Jadon Sancho, right? The last, what was it, January 29th, this Wednesday of the 30th of December, December 30th, Jadon Sancho was 30,000 coins. On that Wednesday, we had the base icon that came out, and I think that was the repeatable one, right? The base icon repeatable came out, and then of course last Wednesday, the base mid came out for a one-time SBC, and so in the past two weeks, SBC fodder has been very, very inflated. Now today it has dropped off big time across the entire market. A lot of SBC fodder has dropped off, 84s were like 8, 9K, now they're down to 6 to 7K, 85s were 15, 16, they're now 12, 13, 86 rated players where some of them were like 27K, now they're down to 22, you know, 87. Like we take a look at some of these other cars, Robertson's 30,000 coins right now. Where was this guy at earlier this week? The guy was 40,000 coins. Last week on Wednesday when that new icon SBC dropped. So one thing you could probably look forward to seeing today is I think they're going to re-up some sort of icon SBC. If we're not getting a promo today in FIFA, then I think we are going to get some sort of SBC content that would make people not go wild, but it would be some sort of content that EA could put out to maybe I guess quote unquote hold us over. So that's going to be one thing I do think you'll see today, as well as a player of the month, that's going to be some SBC fodder demand for this game. But a lot of people right now are going out and buying those cards, and you know to me it makes sense, right? We've had such a slow week on FIFA. And again, it's not like EA. You would think that EA would be dropping content and more content because they want to try to take coins off of this game before team of the year actually comes out. And then of course, try to make people spend more money on FIFA points. But this last week has been so quiet. It's just a little bit confusing, right? Two weeks ago, a lot of coins suck from EA, right? This week, not as much. So we'll see what happens with player of the month today. We'll see what happens with possibly icon SBCs returning. I think that they will. And then of course, if team of your nominees do come off, there's any sort of hint or leak or anything else going along with that, then we'll have some more information along with that as well. But that is scenario number one, right? There's no content that comes today. The market probably gets a little bit of panic selling in the morning, whatever content there is around 6pm UK, you might see a little bit of panic selling into that timeframe and maybe right after 6pm UK, if there is big time content like an icon SBC, you might see some selling and then a bit of a rebound as people go and play footchamps. But that is if there is no content. Now, if team of the year nominees do come out today, then I do think you're going to see a lot of panic selling in the morning. And then most likely, depending on what happens with the PAC look for the nominees, if they do come out, more panic selling after 6pm as well. But again, keep your eyes posted to Twitter. Of course, I might be asleep if there is going to be something tweeted out, but I will do my best to retweet something and put my thoughts with it if there is some code that is announced in the game. Because team of the year nominees coming out today would be massive, right? Today on Friday, if it does come out, again, those cards were so packable last year that people are going to remember that. They're going to remember how other special cards in the game tanked so much because those other, the new team of the year nominee cards were so packable and how they had dynamic images. So people were even selling the gold items to go buy those team of the year nominees. So I would be scared for the entire market tomorrow if that promotion does come and if those cards are in PAC. So just be aware of that and know that's kind of our risk right now. The biggest risk on this game is if you're holding cards in your team that that promo could come out and you see a lot of cards on this market drop. Even a guy like rule breaker Harry Kane, who I was able to pick a deal up on today. This could be a card that would probably get panic sold and would drop a decent amount in price. Even if he has a team of your nominee card that is very different price from this, like just the fact that panic selling could happen on almost any card in this game. It's just those those nominee cards. People remember how high of a pack weight they had and how they just crashed the entire market because people sold gold items to play with nominees last year and they sold informs to play with nominees because the the stats were almost the same and the nominees were so much cheaper because they had that crazy crazy high pack weight. So just some things to think about today. It's really a lot of question marks today man. It's not like there's a season ending because usually when you have a season ending at the top right here, that's a day where EA sometimes doesn't have promo content for us. But today is just a random Friday man and usually we're in team of the year right now. So it's just very confusing to know what's going to come out today. Of course, we still have a lot of SBCs that are out right now. You could be crafting 80 plus player picks. A lot of people are going to be starting to try to go unassigned on Premier League rares, Bundesliga rares and rare golds in general this weekend because of team of the year coming soon. So if that's you get a head start maybe this weekend on doing that as well before more and more people start to do that because honestly it's looking like today on Friday we are going to be one week away from team of the year. It's like the one week warning. And as I mentioned again, there's going to be a lot of panic selling coming out of this weekend league. So take an opportunity if you want to if right now if you're saying, yo I have a lot of cards in my club or in my team that I can maybe play with the gold items of and still fair okay in the weekend league or if you get those cards out of your club by Saturday morning, I feel like you're going to be good to go before a lot of people start selling and selling and selling as this weekend comes to a close and as we turn into team of the year week on FIFA 21. So that's kind of the video for today boys. I wish I had more information. I wish I knew that there was something cool coming today boys but honestly a lot of big question marks today. Not sure what's happening with team of your nominees. If it's happening, if it's not happening, we'll see what happens of course at 6pm on the live stream. Link is down below in the description for the Twitch live stream. I will be live there at 6pm today on Friday. If you enjoyed this video, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nate The Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace out.


Back to my channel, if you're new here, my name... How comes me and Bedi are like the two big ones on your... Right, the two tiny ones. Alright, let me introduce myself and then we'll explain why we're sitting like this. My name is Sepi and if you're new here, welcome. If you're not, welcome back. This is my mum, Marzi. Hello everybody! This is my dad, Barysha. Hi. And that's my sister, Sina. And actually, this is the first time I can ever say this, we are all YouTubers. Oh yeah! Basically, my parents have started a Farsi-only advice channel because pretty much everyone DMs them asking for life advice. Life advice, relationship advice. Advice about parenting, advice about marriage, advice about business. So my parents just decided to answer them all in one place. So follow it, it will be across the screen in the link down below. It's called Misa Gerda Ma. It's all in Farsi though, so I'm sorry if you don't speak Farsi. But yes! I'm signing it as Persian Honey So now that we're done with that introduction let me explain what this video is all about. My parents have no idea. Sina's guess! What's on the table. So let me explain what we're doing. So today we're playing a game, guys, called Say It or Shot It. So I've got all of our names here folded up on a sheet of paper and then when I give you a sheet of paper, well, you can pick one, you get the name of someone and that person has to ask you a question. If you don't answer that question, you have to take one shot of chili sauce. Chili sauce? At least mix it with water a little bit. This is hot Sriracha sauce. If you mix it with water, do you know how much more it's going to be? I work hard for my children. They study hard. They're only a doctor. I don't want to lose my children or they taught me for this competition. So answer your question. Wait, let me get this straight. What are the questions? So, let's say we all take a piece of paper. The name that you get is the person who is going to ask you a question. Does that make sense? Yeah. My face is constantly like... So, let me mix these all up. For us it's mixed because we don't know what it is. It's mixed for me too. Okay, so everyone, grab a piece of paper. That's for me. Okay, I'll take this one. Wait, but you might cheat because that one's got... Ready? Open. Marzia. We have to go again because she got herself. No! Daddy got a signer. Oh my God, I had Daddy. Look, just take it. Thank you. I got myself too. Okay, so you two grab yourself, swap. Yes, that's better. I have my dad. I have a signer. Of course you do. He's sepi. I have my mom. Okay, so who wants to go first? Which kind of question do you have? I'll go first. No, starting from right or left. Okay, who do you have? So, mom, you have to ask, sign a question that you don't think she would answer. And like... On a normal day. Question. Tell me something you lied to me about and tell me to runa. Should I start pouring the sriracha? Dude, did it. I was always giving you two shoes. Wait, let me think. Honestly, let me think. No, you have to have time. Three. Two. What did I lie to you about? Okay, yeah, I know. So, when we were younger we had to study. And if we had to... Sorry, when we were younger and then we hadn't done our homework my mom would take our mobile phone from us. She would take on my mobile phone that we hadn't studied.  So, I used to put my sim card in mommy's phone after it and so taught me that. If time is going back to that time, I know what to buy. Okay, fine. Alright, sorry. Who's one to ask you a question? Okay. Sign us, mom. No. Who did you have? Me after you. This is easy.  Oh, I hope you don't steal the question. I'm going to ask mommy. Who is your favourite child? Not fair. I wanted to ask that from mommy. Favourite? Yeah, and if you can't say the answer, you can have the shop. Okay. Just smell it. I know that. I got different triggers and all of them is different with each other. Baba, just skip to the good bit. I can't say this one and that one and that one. Okay. I can't smell that. I'm going to smell it. I can smell that. I'm going to smell that. I can smell that. I'm going to smell that. I'm going to smell that. I'm going to smell that. I'm going to smell that. Daddy has to ask me a question. No. Sign us, mom after you. Because I can't. Mommy.  How much is it? Five seconds. Five. The biggest lie? Four? Then I was at school. I'm already bored of this story. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. My dad didn't know about it. I didn't know what it was. I'm sorry, I'm not crying People please She's crying She's sad She's sad 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5


Hi there guys, welcome to the short video, having a look at the Layout Manager in a bit more detail. One thing you'll notice on my trading platform, and you'll notice this in yours as well, is that you've got a series of numbers along the top of your platform. Well this seems to mark as you're able to save up to five different trading screens at any one time, and then easily switch between them with one click of the button. Now the Layout Manager itself, accessed directly from this little cog icon right here, gives you the ability to edit and change and copy any of your existing layouts. You can also change the platform resolution, and also turn AutoSave on or off. Now standard resolution, basically if I click this it's just going to pop everything out ever slightly bigger. I like to make the most use of all my trading screens, so I like to change that to be small. So depending if that's too small for you to see, or if you prefer things were slightly bigger, go ahead and select the resolution that's most appropriate for the side of your screen. For example if you've got a small laptop screen, I'd really recommend utilizing the small platform resolution. Now AutoSave is an interesting feature on here, so as default this is usually actually turned off. So any changes that you make to your platform, if you want to go ahead and save that change, you know what's here that is, there's a little icon right here, just click on there and it'll save that layout for you. If you turn AutoSave on, basically every second the platform will automatically resave your layout. So if you move things around, then switch them between layouts, and then go back, it'll remember exactly how you had it saved. Now personally I prefer to have AutoSave turned off. I like to build my screens up first, and then save it, and then it means that any changes that I make aren't always saved. So I can just mess around, move stuff around, and not be worried that it's going to ruin the rest of my layout. So I'm going to close that down here for a second. This is one particular trading screen that I've got. If I just click on this icon right here, you're going to get a chance to see another one of my trading screens. And this trading screen here will give you, well I've made it, have a whole selection of different client sentiment windows on here. And if I click on this screen right here, it will give me a different layout. This one here I've just called global equities. It's got a whole bunch of my favorite products on there. And it just really gives you a real flavor of the flexibility that the trading platform gives you. And you can save up to five different layouts. I would always recommend that you actually utilize all of these as possible. And I quite like to have a separate one set up for equities, a different one set up for indices, a different one set up for FX. I really recommend that you guys go ahead and do the same. And that's how you get the most out of the layout manager.


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SELF AND SELF MANAGEMENT Essays about existing by Arnold Bennett Recording by Edith Carson Section 1 Running away from life 1. I will take the extreme case of the social butterfly because it has the great advantage of simplicity. This favourite variety of the lepidopteral insects is always spoken of as female, but as the variety persists from generation to generation obviously it cannot be of one sex only, and as a fact there are indubitably male social butterflies those the differences between the male and the female may be slight. I shall however confine myself to the case of the female social butterfly again for the sake of simplicity. This beautiful creature combines the habits of the butterfly with the habits of the moth for whereas the moth flies only by night and the butterfly flies only by day the social butterfly flies both by day and by night. She is universally despised and condemned and almost universally envied one of the strangest among the many strange facts of natural history. She lives with a single purpose to be forever in the movement not any particular movement but the movement which is a grand combined tendency comprising all lesser tendencies. For the social butterfly the constituents of the movement are chiefly men, theatres, restaurants, dances, noise and hurry. The minor constituents may and do frequently change but the major constituents have not changed for a considerable number of years. The minor constituents of the movement are usually serious and hence in a minor way the social butterfly is serious. If books happen to be of the movement she will learn the names of books and authors and in urgent crises will even read. If music she will learn to distinguish from all other sounds the sounds which are of the movement the sounds at which she must shut her eyes in ecstasy and sigh. If social reform she will at once be ready to reform everybody and everything except herself and her existence. If charity or mercifulness she will be charitable or merciful according to the latest devices and in the latest frocks. Yes and if war happens to be of the movement she will be serious about the war. You observe how sarcastic I am about the social butterfly. It is necessary to be so. The social butterfly never has since the earlier...


potentially very dramatic this integration event. Thank you, Jenny. Thank you, Jenny. We will stay with fluid flow problems at a little bit different setting though. And because our next speaker is Robert Weiss from Virginia Tech. He works on tsunamis, been coming to the CCDMS meeting several times in a row. So we're excited to have him as a keynote speaker and show us some of his work that he does at Virginia. Thank you very much. Thank you, organizers, for inviting me to presentation. We're going to talk about very different things now than we just saw. It will be so prudently simple. But before we start, I would like to give you a little overview. I want to express a few thoughts about hazard modeling as it pertains to tsunamis, and also to commit in a few things that I've heard during the last few days. Then I would like to tell you a little bit about the difference between tsunamis and stones, because that's a discussion we have to have. We talked about tsunami hazards. Some modeling approaches for bolder sense and prominent sort of tsunami department. So I heard a lot of saying that all models are wrong, but some are useful. Actually, I think that's not really right as it pertains to modeling that we do. This is something that comes out of statistic where we have maybe a random process that we don't know what it does necessarily and sort of blurring that picture. But with our type of modeling, we usually have a good idea what the physics are, the physical processes that guide very principle physics, like for example gravity downwards, this kind of thing. And then regarding this, we know where the target is. We just may not hit it really well. We may not have an American method that are very precise, but we know where the target is. So that's a difference. And also in terms of data, that's the same thing. We know how the data should look like, but maybe it doesn't. And so we need to think about that a little more as we move forward. What I'd like to say about models is, or my understanding of models is related to Mona Lisa, which is a model in itself because it's a picture of a woman. Let's assume that woman is real.  And if you're really good at that, you have a good model. So you learn how to draw the Mona Lisa. I mean, I draw it, it's still like this, but the thing is I learned something. I learned something about the process and I learned something about the governing processes that resulted into this picture, even though minus, not as good, but I can do 70 million of this in a day, whereas this can be only once in a lifetime. And then we have to discuss the difference between sort of deterministic modeling or the stochastic modeling. And that's sort of like the transition that I go through right now in my research, where I go from deterministic modeling to stochastic modeling, sort of losing some of the accuracy or precision and hope that with picking the right distribution around the parameter or parameter space to actually depict the Mona Lisa on average. The other thing is that I've been thinking about a lot is model coupling. And that is probably the essence of CSDMSs. I understand it over the past few years. And I have a little child that is growing up. And what I noticed is that in the past, when they were playing together, say a child builds a block, next child, model one builds a block, model child two takes the block, takes it apart and builds another block. And that's the same sometimes what we do with model coupling. So say we use a three-dimensional model to calculate the velocity, but we only need a three-dimensional velocity. We only need a two-dimensional velocity in the next model. So we take that all, average it out, and then give it over. But that doesn't mean we can leverage or we use the advantages of a 3D model of the first model in the second model. Sort of blind coupling, parallel, play, if you will. But then something really, really astonishing happens at the age of three, three and a half. When all of a sudden the child takes a block and does something with it to improve it, or gives it another purpose, another sort of insight. And that's sometimes we have to do exactly that when we think about model coupling. We not only have to model a couple models just because they get an information. I think we also need to couple models with each other that are appropriate to couple. And then the sum of them is credited in the parts. That's the goal. And that's also the transition that I'm in right now, even though I'm not a young age student anymore, but some things take a lot longer than that. And then there was a lot of talk about data, model data integration. And that's really an important thing, especially for tsunamis, such as data-driven science. Both of them have a lot of uncertainty. So ideally what we have, we have a model, let's say of the ocean or the earth, and then we have a function f, that are the governing equation that generate the data that we then sort of see as a model output. So dm is the model data. Then if you compare that to data that we measure, df would be your data, it's sort of approximately right. But what we often forget is that actually the data is a model too. We have to assume certain things of the data. So then there's something we need to understand. We need to be honest about it. Both is exposed to uncertainties. And definitely what is true is rubbish in is equal rubbish out. So you cannot expect, just because you have a good model, that your result will be good if the data that you compare to is bad and the other way around. So we need to be honest about our errors and uncertainties on the data. And obviously we have to be honest and aware of the uncertainties errors of the model. Right. Now we're going to the real stuff. So tsunami hazard from deposits. So if you look at the earth, there are lots of areas where tsunamis can strike, but there are also a lot of areas where storm can strike. So they are both agents of traumatic coastal change and impact as traumatic. And just sort of financially the most devastating disasters are related to these two processes globally, loss of life and you name it. The problem is, it's fortunately and unfortunately, depending on what side you are, none of these processes, storms and tsunami occur frequently enough that we can use the measured record as a way to project which impact. So we have to go into the geological past and interrogate the geological record. And that is a problem because it's not just a real measurement. It's we have to invert what is saved in deposits about the causative process. But before we even start doing that, we need to understand the major differences between storms and tsunamis. This is a 2004 tsunami. It's just the positive wave as a tight gauge measurement. And I think it was from the Indian Ocean tsunami somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Close to Africa, I think. You see the waves. There are a few waves dominating the... Anyway, just imagine where the six hour is. There are a few waves dominating the system and we see a very... start to decrease towards 60 hours. So it's just a few first waves dominate the tsunami hazard. It means tsunami, sediment transport and destruction. If you look at the storm, it's a very different situation. You have a built up of the storm surge and the waves and then it goes down. So that's the wave height or wave amplitude. If you look at the periods, they are vastly different in terms of how they act.  You need to think about how many waves does the tsunami have. Let's say four or five are important. Guess how many waves are important to erode a sand grain of like two millimeter. How many waves do you think could erode that sand grain or move that sand grain in a regular storm, an average storm? Is it hundreds? Who's for hundreds? What do you think, 100 waves? How about 1000? Let's go orders of magnitude. 10,000, 100,000. There were so many people here that didn't actually answer, so maybe it's 33,000 waves. And you can imagine that the deposits that are generated where potentially 30,000 pulses can generate a or can cause sediment transit would look different. And from those that are generated by 102, so here's the question, which one is the tsunami deposit? Okay, so first, who's for the right one, this one? So who thinks the right one is the tsunami deposit? Sorry, it's for you left, sorry. So this is your left, right? My right, sorry. So who's for the other one? Brave souls. They're both tsunami deposits. And I could show you the same for storm deposits. You would not be able to distinguish them. And so everybody who says they can distinguish tsunami from storm deposits is really confident in a very wrong way because of you can't, you really can't. And that's where the context is important and that's where we really need to study how these sediments are formed. And I believe that, and I've come to the conclusion with deterministic modeling, where I thought, if we know how the precise physics is of a tsunami and then look at how precisely sediment is moved, we can not only explain the top layer, which is the 2004 tsunamis, but all of these other bright layers underneath. And I no longer think that's possible. I think we need to look into other ways that are much more statistical to do that. And I think that's an important transition that is going through the tsunami community right now. It's the acknowledgement and the beginning quantification of uncertainties around deposits. And that's, and I'm talking about the generation processes. I'm not talking about the processes that take place after the tsunami was deposited and so is the top of it. What we call the post-depositioner processes. They altered tsunami deposits as well. But this is a hugely complex problem that I'm afraid that we will not necessarily solve soon. When we talk about tsunami deposits, we all know about sands, but we also talk about something like that. And the height of the yellow and the height of the white is one meter. So I don't want to be near that thing when that moves. But that's also transported by a tsunami. And that tells us something about the causative process as well. I'm going to tell you a little bit about the motion of both of these deposits. Let's talk about boulders first. The boulders are anything that's above 25 centimeter. And so it's a wide range of possible brain size. We did a little study. And when I say we, I mean mostly my students, we did a little study with a three-dimensional hydrodynamic code called GPUSBH. And we coupled it with one of these gaming engines that do very fancy particle motions. It's really physically very accurate. And so we decided to look into that and expose the boulders that we placed in this experiment, this experimental sort of setup and different water depth, different sizes and so forth. So we created a little parameter study to see. And then we said, let's do a little scaling analysis to maybe see a difference between boulders that are moved during tsunamis and those boulders moved by storms. We did that parameter study. It's very limited because of the runtime of the model is about a week. And so you need to, you know, you need to sort of plan ahead of these things. And unfortunately the size is not very large. Here's some snapshots. And you can really see very complex motions how boulders are sliding and roll. And it's really, really cool. And then if you analyze the data in a sort of systematic way, sort of look at the geometry of the parameter space that you just created, we were assuming that we could see a sort of simple parameter space, a geometry, in the sense that we could discriminate between boulders moved by tsunamis and storms. But that is not the case. So you can see they're all together in a form of really, really complex parameter space. And that was the first hint. For me, physically speaking, we may not be able to see a difference or we're going to be able to discriminate. And I thought, well, that's great. It's a really nice complex model, but I want to use a more simple model. And that's what I did. So I assumed a spherical boulder, which is as realistic as a spherical cow, place it on a slope, put some roughness in front of it, and then assume that the boulder is lodged when it reaches this critical sort of, or passes the critical angle. This sort of simple approach has been done many times in our models around that do similar things, but they just assume that the sum of the forces is larger than zero, and then they can see that the boulder is dislodged. But I argue that's not the case. If the boulder doesn't reach the dislodgment angle, then the boulder will move back in this original position, and we will talk about it in a second. So it has to reach that dislodgment position so that we know that the boulder is actually dislodged. So we used the most simple equation that there is, Newton's second motion. We do some of the forces. It's a very standard way. The term in the first equation with the seventh, fifth is because of the yarn water, and we have to displace water. There are some issues there. But in a sense, it's a very cheap equation. It's very simple, nothing fancy. But it has a fundamental sort of change how we think about recognizing boulder dislodgment. So that's the starting point, and as you can see here, it has to overcome this little step before we can recognize that it's dislodged. At the moment, the sum of the forces at some point, the forces start, and the boulder starts moving. So what would happen if the boulder, if the forces would stop now? The boulder would move back into its original position, and we would not be able to recognize that the boulder moved. And we can continue this until about here, and now the boulder can dislodge, and now we can recognize in the field that the boulder actually has moved. Compared to previous models, that just used the threshold of the sum of forces larger than zero as an indication of motion, we introduced a 30 to 70% error in the estimate of the wave height. That's not good. And the not so fortunate thing is that we cannot predict which one it is. It's 30 or 70, it depends on a lot of components. But the good thing is now is, as you notice, it takes some time for the boulder to move up there. So maybe we can use this as a way to discriminate between storms and tsunamis, because we not only linked to the maximum amplitude, but also to a timing, and we know that storm wave periods are orders of magnitude smaller than tsunami periods. So I was very happy about it, and I was like, yeah, cool, let's move on. So I also thought that back in the day, we used to do a lot of like monochromotic sine wave sort of assumption for storm tsunami waves is, again, as realistic as a spherical cow. And it's not really functional. So I start using sort of nonlinear waves and used frequency domain models. So you can see here that instead of using one wave to describe a storm wave, we use many, many, many waves and perturbations. And we used a triad's equation, a very simple slope. We placed the boulder there. And then we simulated the wave evolution as we go ashore with this frequency domain model. So what we see here is in the upper portion is A, B, and C are different water depths. The left one, right one is 20 meters and then to five meters. And as you can see, the spectrum changes significantly on the left side of the boulder. And that's what we call the infracravity domain. So infracravity domain means longer waves. So as the waves move ashore, more and more energy, wave energy, is pushed into the longer components of the waves. That's important for boulder transport. If you look at the resulting sort of time series, you see that in greater water depth, they are very symmetric, sorry, very symmetric, and they're not a lot of spikes. But if you go to the shore, the wave signal becomes asymmetric. The crests are higher than the troughs and they are more spikes because of wave wave interaction. That could lead to boulder transport. And exactly that's taking place. For these different realizations of the same spectrum, we can sometimes, we can see that not always the same boulder mass is dislodged due to the non-linear interactions between the different wave components. So we see, for example, that for a really small wave, sorry, mass for like, let's say, 255 kilogram... Yeah, for 255, almost all of the realizations, dislodged boulder, as we move towards 7.5 tons, less and less and less realizations are able to... That's great. So we generate sort of a dislodgment frequency. And if you plot that up over the entire spectrum, and this is about 80 million model runs in there, you can see generally, it's pretty nice, you can see that larger boulders need larger waves to move where to dislodge the boulder. And you see that there is a... It sometimes takes a larger mass area to move from blue to red, and red meaning all of the boulders are dislodged and blue meaning no boulders are dislodged boulders. So that is great. So we could bring it into the realm of statistics or some likelihood. So we no longer bound by deterministic description of the boulder dislodged boulders. So now if you compare boulders moved by storms, classical storm amplitudes and periods, and those moved by tsunamis with classical wave characteristics of tsunamis, and then you can divide the amplitudes with each other by each other and you see this block. So this is, and this is really discouraging. Why is this discouraging? Because it's the ratio between two amplitudes to move the same boulder, and we see that the maximum difference is 36%. And my feeling is it might not be enough given all the uncertainties that we have in the field, not knowing where the boulder came from, not knowing how large the roughness was, the boulder had to go over. Not knowing how far the boulder moved. If that was its original size, did it break up during the process? It might not be enough to actually say that this is a difference that we can actually work with. So we're looking at other ways to see if you actually can discriminate between boulders moved by tsunamis and storms, but my hopes are not rising at this stage. But now we're going to talk about sand in the last seven minutes. That's going to be a real roller coaster ride. So this is what I call, this is what I call the honeymoon equation. Those of you who know my wife, this will not come to your surprise, but this is what we did at our honeymoon. We were shipping down the Nile. Others enjoyed their spring, and we worked out these equations, which are very similar to some small situations sitting over there. But anyway, that was actually very romantic. But that's obviously an equation that we cannot solve in the context of a stochastic system because of that is way too expensive. I mean, you can't in a sense of an inversion, because you want to retrieve information from the deposits. We also ventured out, and this is thanks to my student who sits back there. We developed a model called strike that then eventually will replace, hopefully replace the forward model that we have in our inversion system in the future. And here's a comparison to your Johnson's data who sits somewhere over there too. And it looks really good actually, but it's super, super different. Just way too expensive still to put it into a context of inversion system. And an inversion system consists of model data, a forward model, and an inversion technique. And oftentimes, our inversion technique is nothing else than trying to error and substitute data. And we actually tell you if I get to it, to show you a real inversion. So for tsunami deposits, what we usually assume is that we have an equilibrium profile, and we know that since the 30s or so that larger grain size are closer to the bed than smaller ones. It's a very simple situation. It's physically very intuitive. It can be described by the Rauss equation. If you do that, or if you assume that then you find that you have a normally graded deposit. Large deposits are at the base because they're closer to the bed than other ones. So if you then take the same approach and you know the result, you can then place the respective grain sizes in the water column to a position that would allow to create a certain grading made it be normal or inverse grading in the deposit just by settling out. That's essentially the forward model. And we do that by simply trying to error. Try one, settle out, doesn't fit. Try another one. Obviously that's a little more quantitative. If you do that and we've done that to several deposits, this is for the deposits in India, from the Indian Ocean tsunami and we see it's actually kind of good what comes out. But we cannot really tell anything more than this. So this is the inverted flow speed and they're kind of confirmed by measurements. We can give a minimum and a maximum, sort of an average, but this minimum and maximum is not actually in the traditional statistical sense because there is no distribution or anything involved. It's just bound by these values, physically informed. And we applied these also to storm deposits and you can see here that we have to cut out some portions of the grain size because simply we cannot deal with it. So this is for a high end, I believe, in 2013. It does a reasonable job. So we are very convinced that this model can apply to certain situations for storms as well and we can even extrapolate. But now we want to talk about real, real inversions. We actually have a data-informed inversion technique and that's where we implemented again also thanks to Hui and his friend to implement the ensemble common filtering technique. That's what we've done now, but again we need a lot more from the deposits in order to inform this technique because you have a time-dependent sort of situation in there. And the NKF is often used in weather forecast and you notice that weather forecast becomes a lot more accurate in hindsight as we come closer to a certain date and so it's the same here. And we use the sedimentation flux, I believe, as a way of informing this. And I don't want to go too long for this, but this is my last slide. And what has allowed us this? I could show on like 35 slides on how cool this is, but the real cool thing is that we can now actually look at the errors. We can assume if we take artificial data we can put an error model on this data. We can study the different impacts of the errors on the result. Obviously we have model errors that we also can control. If you do an error analysis, I can tell you that rubbish in rubbish art is a pretty good assumption, a pretty good model because if you have a really accurate data and your model is not good, your results will be not good. I mean, it doesn't come to the surprise, right? And it's the same the other way around. If you have, I don't even remember what I just said, but the opposite. But it also was fascinating what I found fascinating. So what you see here is a sample frequency. That's a tsunami deposit and you take different, a different number of samples from the base to the top. So we start out with five and end up with 30. So now if you talk to field people, they will tell you that any number of, after 15 is sort of insane. At least I've been told I'm insane when I propose to have a large number and it's, I guess, very difficult to do that. But what this, what shows you is that the error in the inversion sort of has a sweet spot in the number of samples. So if you would take on the left side, yeah, if you would take, let's say 11 samples, the error, the overall error of the inversion is minimized. And the other one is I believe nine. And I think it's for the left one is for inversion of flow depth. And the right one is for the inversion of the flow sweep. So we can, so that's good. Now we can say, okay, we now have approved that if you, if you take 12 samples or nine samples or some number of sample that's larger than five, it's smaller than 15 because of then the error in sampling techniques that takes over, you actually minimize the error. And that shows that we can actually inform field work. That's, I think, probably one of the most important outcomes of this. I think I have last slide some panel thoughts. We obviously need better models, but that's always true. We also need better data, especially for data that comes from deposits that are not directly measured but inverted. We need to think about carefully how these deposits are analyzed, how the model is analyzed so that we can actually compare apples and apples. It doesn't matter if you have, if you take a deposit and you, in the field, and you put a lot of work and taking samples from different layers, but in the model you have just a depth-arrived sort of situation. That doesn't mean anything. We need obviously a better integration between field work and modeling so that people who do modeling understand the boundaries and problems are in the field and vice versa, because oftentimes I feel talking to people that don't understand the difficulties that we often face. And then, and especially when it comes to inferences from deposits, we need to just make sure we understand there are uncertainties, communicate what uncertainties mean, and maybe need to move to other techniques that allow us to study those uncertainties more and more specifically. And with that, I leave you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Robert, for a thought-provoking talk. We're starting to run a little over schedule, but we'll take one question. I see Katie there in the back. Thank you for a lovely talk. So, I think a challenge in bringing data, field data, what have you, into the sort of inversion framework is that really what you want is to have some sort of prior distribution on that data. If you're collecting a tsunami deposit, how, as a model or a field practitioner, how you actually think about assigning a prior, that kind of data is really challenging. And so I wanted to see if you had any insight from your work on thinking about how you put the kinds of mathematical descriptions onto the kinds of data that you need to use in this model data comparison framework. I would like to have just reliable data that tells me at which height above the base of the deposit. What grain size was in a very robust, statistically robust way would be awesome. I'm not asking for trying for priors or whatever in a statistical sense to see. There's so many uncertainties associated with the modeling that we have to be very brave in our definition of distributions of certain parameters anyway, but just very reliable and standardized data because of tsunami deposits can be this thick or this thick and they are generated by the same tsunami about half meters apart. So it's like a standard way that allows me to look at the robustness of the data that is measured or the procedure. Because what we did in our modeling is oftentimes we try to create a situation where we can sample the model deposits in the same way as the field deposits, but we don't have to deal with the dirt because we have a number of grains because we can just shove it in there, right? But they have a... In the field, you collect a fired amount of grains that at some point impacts your stuff and just the standardization of that would be enough and not even sort of thinking of it in a more advanced way. And also make people understand to collect this data that it's actually important to be precise and accurate to get it back. No offense to any field process. Thank you, Robert.


How could you ever disrespect a man's child that got murdered out here in these streets? I mean, rest in peace, first and foremost, your son, man. That is honestly one of the things that pisses me off the most. And I wouldn't even mention it if it wasn't getting thousands of likes.  Illuminati. That makes my blood boil that they would use a situation like that. That's like so tragic.  The Illuminati came down North Philly and killed my son.   What Jay-Z saying? You get so good, they wish the devil on you. Yeah.   I'ma give you all the fame you looking for. Anytime I get a motherfucker, he told me to get them. I'll protect him from anything.


Now, before you start watching this video, I want to say to disclaimer. First of all, I'm not a cryptocurrency trader. I'm not a speculator. All I'm doing is I'm reading stuff online, talking to people, using critical thinking, summarizing all this information, then presenting to you, okay? I just want you to understand that. So without further ado, the million dollar question is, should I invest in Ripple? Let's first talk about the history of it, what it is. Ripple is simply a private blockchain created by the banks for them to use. They want to go on the blockchain, send value from bank A to bank B. It's that simple. It is a permissioned private blockchain in a nutshell, okay? It's not very confusing. So the goal for the banks is like any business. They want lower transaction. They want to reduce their overhead and they want to make more profits. And they're trying to do this with Ripple, okay? Couple of things to take into consideration though. Since it is private and they control what goes on and it is centralized, it's not a true distributed decentralized blockchain. It's kind of like a hybrid fake blockchain. They still use blockchain technology, but it is privatized. It's not like Bitcoin or Ethereum. They own 70% of all the coins in circulation, 70%. So at any given time, they can be like, oh, inflate the price, deflate the price and do whatever they want to do. Think about that for a second. They own 70%. Remember, the banks created this for themselves. Like any business, they don't want to go out of business due to cryptocurrencies. To summarize, Ripple is a private blockchain for the banks that is centralized, that they control more than 70% of all the coins. Okay, that's it in the nutshell. But as of today, Ripple is roughly 17 cents and some people are predicting a dollar in the future. Who knows? But if you look at CoinMarketCap just yesterday or even today, it dropped tremendously. So there was a recent pump and dump and in fact, there was two major pump and dumps in the past below and there should be a graph somewhere over here. So there's nothing new in the world of crypto. Every single coin gets pumped and dumped, but take into consideration that this is a private blockchain that is centralized, that the governing bodies who own the centralization of this own 70% of the coin. Just keep that in the back of your mind, please. So a couple of thoughts for me. A lot of people will view this as, it's a bad thing in the crypto world. It's a bad thing in the blockchain space, but I really don't view it that way. I actually view this as a learning opportunity because it's really good to have competition. It's really good to have new fresh blood coming in and whether they're reinventing the technology or innovating the technology, they're still implementing certain new ideologies and thought patterns that you can actually learn from. So I always say it's good to have people doing new things or old things in new ways so you can learn from them. Second of all, you just got to put yourself in the bank's position. Even though in the blockchain space, obviously we all about having options, having a decentralized distributed ledger and giving power back to the people. If you put your feet in their shoes, and what I mean by day is the board members and executives of these major billion dollar banks, obviously they don't want to go out of business, they want to stay in business, so they're trying to be competitive and they're trying to do whatever is necessary to be relevant where technology is going.  It's simply banks keeping up with the times and using technology to their own good. It's simple as that, okay? And they're not going anywhere. If people think banks are disappearing anytime soon, I beg to differ on that suggestion, okay? I do have an interesting theory though. It could possibly be that the banks are trying to take a large position in the crypto world where they can actually control the ebbs and flows of certain prices because obviously we all know that with Bitcoin and Ether and any of these top five coins, if one drops drastically within 48 hours, it affects everything else, no different in the stock market. So if a large governing body owns 70% of a coin, that's in the top three market cap of coins right now, they have a lot of sway over the other coins when it comes to prices. That's just one theory, just top of mind theory. It's almost akin to very competitive nature of banks where they want to have a oligarchy over everybody else. So just keep that in mind. So to summarize, should you invest in Ripple? Well, it depends on who you are.  I'm not gonna tell you to invest or not. But if you are an individual that cares about the true nature of blockchain technology that it should empower people, that it should be a decentralized distributed ledger that is spread across the world, not really owned by anybody that is permission less as opposed to permission by a select few, then you can determine based on your values what you wanna do. As for me, I hold zero Ripple. I don't buy Ripple. I am not against Ripple. I understand what they're doing. I understand what the banks are doing and good on them for doing what they gotta do to stay relevant in the space. So there you have it. That's my summary of Ripple. Where do you go from here? It's your call. Do your own judgment play. You gotta figure out what your ethics are. You gotta figure out what your priorities are and based on your own judgment, based on your investigation and based on what kind of risk portfolio you have or psychological risk portfolio you have, then you can make your most accurate answer based on that. Okay guys, like always, if you enjoyed this video, leave a comment below this video. Let me know what you want me to make the next video about. Also make sure to share this video if you find value, put it in the forums wherever that is and make sure to click the like button. I'll talk to you guys later. Peace.


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Hey everyone, so I have an update I want to make on the Bayonetta 3 situation. For those that are unaware, voice actor Helena Taylor came out and called for a boycott of Bayonetta 3 over the weekend, essentially claiming that she had insulting offers for salary. The final offer was $4,000 for the entire game, which did sound a little low, however it kind of came out that maybe it would only be about 16 hours of work and that's right around union rates because she's part of a union. And look, people were kind of not really happy that she called for the boycott, although some could agree that maybe the pay should be higher. She also said that Jennifer Hale, the current voice actor for Bayonetta 3, does not have any rights to be that character and sign autographs as that character because she felt that she owned that character, which also seemed to rub people the wrong way. But at the core of this, of course, was her complaints about being offered what she called a pitiful rate of pay and a non-livable wage, which was quite interesting. People dug into her past and realized she hasn't actually been doing any voiceover work in eight years, so there's that while Jennifer Hale is obviously one of the biggest names in voice acting both in anime, TV and obviously video games. Well a new article came out here by Jason Schreyer over on Bloomberg that shed some possible light on this from multiple sources that she might have been lying through her teeth and actually was being extremely unreasonable, but we're gonna go with what Jason Schreyer said here because he is not someone who beats around the bush when it comes to this and he is well known to stand up for employees during contract and labor disputes. So here is what he said. So a tense pay dispute overshadowed Nintendo's upcoming Bayonetta 3 by Jason Schreyer posted today. A pay dispute between the creator of a critically acclaimed video game series and its star voice actor reignited a long simmering debate over wages in the industry. As is often the case in these sorts of disagreements, the details surrounding negotiations and casting for the upcoming Bayonetta 3 are more complicated than what's been portrayed publicly. The feud spilled out into the open over the weekend when Helena Taylor, the star of the first two Bayonetta games, said she would not appear in the next iteration set to be released on the Nintendo Switch on October 28th. She posted a series of videos Saturday on Twitter accusing Nintendo Company and the game's developer, Platinum Games, of offering her a total of $4,000 to reprise her role. She said she rejected the lowball offer and asked fans to refrain from buying the game. If you're someone who cares about people, who cares about the world around you, who cares about who gets hurt with these financial decisions, then I urge you to boycott this game, Taylor said in one of the videos. The videos went viral, racking up more than 9.5 million views on Twitter. Taylor's story touched a nerve among gamers. Voice actors are beloved by fans, but failed to command anywhere close to what a Hollywood actor makes. Game actors have long complained of being underpaid and underappreciated. Some have said they receive little information about their roles until the show up in the recording booth. The industry operates in such clandestine ways that actors sometimes won't even know what game they're recording lines for until it's released. The tension that lasted crested during contract negotiations in 2016 when the union representing many voice actors, the screen actors guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists orchestrated a strike that lasted nearly a year. One of the sticking points was residuals, meaning compensating for actors when sales of a game outperform expectation. Voice actors gave up that fight in exchange for receiving bonuses based on the number of sessions they work. In the case of Bayonetta 3, the developer appeared to be determined to rehire Taylor, according to two people familiar with the negotiations, as well as documentation reviewed by Bloomberg. So there's actual documented proof here, not just people talking. Here's where their accounts differ. Platinum Games sought to hire Taylor for at least five sessions, each paying $3,000 to $4,000 for four hours in the studio. Said the people who asked not to be identified because they aren't authorized to discuss private contract negotiations. It's NDA territory, right? That would make for a total of the game of at least $15,000. That's obviously the low end, someone would be $4,000, so it could be closer to $20,000. Either way, it's a lot higher than the initial $4,000 that Taylor presented forward. In response, they said Taylor asked for a six-figure sum as well as residuals on the game. Platinum declined, and following lengthy negotiations, took auditions for a new actor. Platinum later offered Taylor a cameo in the game for a fee of one session, which she turned down, the people said.   Representatives for Platinum Games and Nintendo didn't respond to requests for comment. Hideki Kamiya, the executive director of Bayonetta 3, also called Taylor's allegations sad and deplorable in a Twitter post. So what did we get here?  They're lying. They have reasons to lie. They're lying. Multiple sources, Breaking NDA to give this information to Jason Schreyer, and they have actual documentation that they verified going over all this. This is important to note because obviously, this has turned into a massive deal in the industry, because the rate that she originally set was $4,000 for the whole game, and they came back and are basically saying, no, it was $4,000 for a cameo session. As we know, according to the trailers for Bayonetta 3, sorry if this upsets people, the OG Bayonetta dies early in the game, and we saw this in the actual trailers. This isn't a leak. This is in the official media that the OG Bayonetta dies. So the cameo was likely for that original Bayonetta character that she was voicing this whole time. They said, hey, look, we couldn't get you to agree to come on for the whole game because you were asking for six figures. To put this in perspective, that's more than the game director makes. I want to make this clear. The salaries for employees that develop and direct games in Japan are anywhere from $30,000 to $80,000, depending on what role you have. And yes, these are livable wages in Japan, by the way, we're not talking about this being some sort of you're living on the street wages. But what's interesting is that those are wages that employees get for an entire year's worth of work. And Helena Taylor was asking for that level of work in, say, you know, 20 to 25 hours of actual work. She wanted that level of pay, if not higher, plus incentives. And it's possible they would have been willing to give bonuses on sales, but they definitely weren't going to hand over a six figure salary to somebody who's basically doing what amounts to less than one week worth of work on the game. And I understand that obviously voice actors out there want to be treated like Hollywood actors, but Hollywood actors are obviously a little different. Oftentimes, as an example, when you get a voice actor, that's a Hollywood actor. And like for the Mario movie, Chris Pratt probably got paid millions for the lines he read one. It was probably more than a week's worth of lines he had to read, probably more than four to five sessions, because it's the main character in an actual movie that has a lot of talking. On top of that, they are paying that kind of money for the name, the name that person made in a different profession where they were actually on screen performing. So there is a difference in how that is done, and companies obviously put a value on the name being attached to the movie. Helena Taylor's name doesn't really boost Bayonetta III's sales by having her name attached, because she hasn't been active in the voice acting community in a long time, and even having Jennifer Hale, who is one of the best voice actors for females in the entire industry doing this.  Like voice actors just don't get the same sort of notoriety as people who are on screen that you physically see and performing in major roles in movies. So that's just the way it is. The job of an actor versus a voice actor is different, and unfortunately for voice actors, when you're an actor that gets hired to do some voice acting, you tend to get the benefit of your acting career with your salaries. I know that it's kind of BS and it's dumb, but what appears to have happened here, and this is obviously just based on Bloomberg's reporting, is that Helena Taylor lied, not only lied about the amount of money that she was initially offered, she lied a little bit about the final offer, because she said final offer for the whole game when it was final offer for one session, $4,000 for one session, that, by the way guys, would have been one four hour session at $1,000 per hour, and you're gonna be very hard pressed to find anyone out there, voice actors included that would think that that is somehow a bad rate. Now, I am guessing that Jennifer Hale probably took a three to five, maybe even a $6,000 per session offer to do the entire game, I would assume that's pretty high rates in voice acting, and yes, folks, this is literally 20 to 25 hours worth of work, and especially if you include the tryouts in there, so yeah, I would safe to say that that's, most people are gonna say that's a pretty damn good salary. I understand that people wanna make millions, and yes, actors do factually make millions, but that's because the actors sell the movie. Actors that aren't A-listers don't make that kind of money per movie. In fact, if you go watch a lot of indie movies, there's a lot of actors in there that are only making $5,000 to $10,000 for the entire movie, because that's just what it is. That's just the way it goes. You don't make the big bucks unless you're an A-lister, and Helena Taylor's not even an A-lister in the voice acting community, so it's just something to consider. She's obviously really upset about this. She's gotten a lot of support, but she's also gotten a lot of backlash as well, and I don't think she was prepared for the amount of backlash. I think she thought it would be a universal, where you're right, good job standing up for everyone, and instead there's been a lot of questioning about her career and her motives, and firing back that she was asking for six figures for a week of work is gonna rub people the wrong way, no matter which way you slice it. So of course she wants to deny and call it a lie, and I mean, the bottom line is if they have a documentation showing the contract, and she already broke NDA anyways, she could also show her the contract as well, because I'm sure she has a copy of it. If she doesn't have a copy of the contract, then she's got nothing to back up her claims, whereas Bloomberg has a copy of the contract, and the contract offer, it seems to show that Taylor was lying. Now it's possible that this was all leaked, and this is one elaborate hoax to the Gray Taylor, and if that is ever found out to be the case, then Platinum Games and Nintendo are gonna be in some deep water for falsifying documentations to slander somebody else. But in the moment, evidence actually being supplied, it kinda looks like Helena Taylor might have actually been making some stuff up to make herself sound better, and had actually been asking for a significant chunk of money that doesn't really equate to the work being asked for. Anyways, folks, I am Nathaniel Rumpeljant from Nintendo Prime. You guys let me know what you think about this very sticky situation down in the comments below. I honestly, this is something that is so far out of my depth that I'm not really sure what to do other than just give you guys what's being reported, and you guys tell me what you think. Catch you guys in the next video.


Russian fighter jets damage US drone over Syria. A Russian fighter jet flew within a few meters of a US drone over Syria and fired flares at it, striking the American aircraft and damaging it. The US military said the latest in a string of aggressive intercepts by Russia in the region. A senior Air Force commander said the move on July the 23rd was an attempt by the Russians to knock the MQ-9 Reaper drone out of the sky and came just a week after a Russian fighter jet flew dangerously close to a US surveillance aircraft carrying a crew in the region, jeopardizing the lives of the four Americans on board. One of the Russian flares struck the US MQ-9 severely damaging its propeller Lieutenant General Alex Grinkiewicz, the head of US Air Force Central said in a statement describing the latest close call. We called upon the Russian forces in Syria to put an immediate end to this reckless unprovoked and unprofessional behavior. This incident is the latest in a series of encounters between Russian fighter jets and US aircraft flying over Syria. In all but the one instance a week ago the US aircraft were MQ-9 drones without crew members. On that time however the Russian Su-35 jet flew close to the US MC-12 surveillance aircraft with a crew forcing it to go through the turbulent wake. US officials at the time called it a significant escalation in the ongoing string of encounters between US and Russian aircraft that could have resulted in an accident or loss of life. They said the Russian move hampered the crew members ability to safely operate their plane. In recent weeks US officials said Russian fighter jets have repeatedly harassed US MQ-9 drones which are conducting anti-Islamic state group missions largely in Western Syria. On multiple occasions in the past three weeks the officials said Russian fighter jets flew dangerously close to the US reapers setting off flares and forcing the drones to take evasive maneuvers.


Let's try to solve 2x squared plus 5x equals 12. We'll use the quadratic formula. First, we'll have to rewrite the equation so it equals zero. So we have our equation 2x squared plus 5x equals 12. We don't want it to be equal to 12, so we'll subtract 12 from both sides. And that gives us our new equation 2x squared plus 5x minus 12 equals zero. Now we'll apply the quadratic formula. The equation ax squared plus bx plus c equals zero has solutions x equals negative b plus or minus squared b squared minus 4ac over 2a. In order to use the quadratic formula, we have to fill out the form. We need to know what a, b, and c are equal to. So a is the coefficient of x squared, so for our equation, a equals... b is the coefficient of x, so in our equation, b is equal to... and c is the constant term, so in our equation, c is equal to... equals means replaceable, so every place I see a, I'm going to replace it with 2. Everywhere I see b, I'll replace it with 5. And every place I see c, I'll replace it with negative 12. And at this point, I'll do a whole bunch of arithmetic. Now remember this plus or minus means that we'll either add or we'll subtract. And so that means I'll actually have two solutions here. Minus 5 plus 11 over 4 or minus 5 minus 11 over 4. And we'll simplify this a little bit. And remember, if it's not written down, it didn't happen. We can summarize what we did. We used the quadratic formula. We filled in our values and we got 3 halves or negative 4.


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We have three good riders in the Grand Prix. They finish pretty good in Warsaw with there was two Danish in the final and the same in Gorlican, so It can't be Danish time right now. I feel like we have a good development system there and and you know talent development too we have some some great coaches and stuff to to help the like guide the young riders In Denmark when you when you learn race speedway when you're coming up from the young classes and and that You you learn to race a little bit more technically technically because the tracks in Denmark are Much smaller like they are in Poland for example The family is all together with the sport. We have a lot of tracks. We can practice Yeah, every week on different tracks, so I think Maybe because also back in time we have like all holes near it Hans-Nielsen was so big name that the parents always look at them and say hey, maybe you want to try the speedway kid It's a big thing for Denmark. I'm sure it's gonna be a really good week there and Especially for the Danish riders. We know the track pretty well. We've been there since you were small kids We saw how how nice it was for the English guys to win it at the home soil, you know, and we would like to do the same in Denmark This year in Espia, you know, how much more nice it would be to win in front of your home crowd Hopefully this year, you know on home turf on a track that all of us know very well, and we've done many laps there You know it hopefully can be the year of Denmark success. I Think we end a better place than what we've been, you know, we got three riders in in the world championship I think that's great, you know, it's great for for us as riders But it's great for for speedway in Denmark and growing the interest in Denmark for speedway But hopefully we can bring the next new golden era Denmark they really hung up our world champion, you know in a sport like speedway that's something you The nation sometime needs they needs to have a world champion And it's been quite some years ago since we had a world champion when Nikki won it and hopefully I Can win it Rather sooner than later


DCUSU VP for Engagement and Development, Carol McGovern gave a statement on his attendance at the controversial A&F AGM during the first class rep council of 2018-2019. At the AGM, there wasn't a massive capacity. I was there as a previous rep president of this society. I assure you, I've had no part of the organization or running of the AGM. I didn't know what was planned. I'm devastated that this has happened. The situation caught on the house control. I didn't know what to do. I should have, I shouldn't have been very great. I was not on the side of everyone that was involved. I'm sorry to all of these two students. They shouldn't have known what happened again. McGovern gave his statement after chairperson of Femsoc, Amy Colgan, questioned all sabbaticals on whether they were present at the A&F AGM. I'm Cauch Caden with DCU TV News.