Okay, so welcome to today's session whereby I'll be introducing you to the E-mini S&P 500 contract and the E-micro 500 contract and I'll be walking you through some unique characteristics of this contract in the trading instruments that allow for some interesting trading opportunities. What I'm going to do first of all though is just for those who are here joining us for the first time is just briefly introduce myself. After I graduated from King's College London, I joined a city PLC consulting firm. I left with some colleagues and went on to successfully co-found and exit a consulting startup focused on C-suite executive search for tech startups. Having a front row seat to the dot-com bubble, witnessing people make and lose a fortune in the markets quite literally overnight with some university friends in investment banking and hedge funds, I decided to explore the markets. So with some capital to play with and some time on my hands, I started day trading or more appropriately day gambling the S&P 500. After some early beginners luck, I racked up some pretty solid gains. However, as is often the case, my beginners luck ran out as the market phase changed. I began to average down giving back all my gains and ultimately experiencing a significant six-figure hits on my personal capital. To say this was a gut-wrenching and sobering experience is an understatement. I really had to stand back and figure out if it was feasible for me to make a living from the market. So I decided to get serious about trading and sought out a mentor with an excellent trading track record. Working with my mentor for a period of 18 months to two years, I helped not just my technical game developing a strategy that crucially suited my personality. I researched, developed and extensively back and forward tested these strategies, all of which were underpinned by a rigorous risk management approach. Most importantly though, during this period of mentorship, I significantly developed my mental game and probably the most important watershed shift I made was from being a highly goal-orientated individual focused purely on financial gains to becoming a process-orientated individual. So what does that mean? Well, it means I had to stop focusing on what I could make from the markets and start focusing solely on managing my mindset to allow me to consistently execute my trading strategy oftentimes in the face of negative feedback from the markets in the form of losing trades. But once you become process-orientated and you have a professional trading mindset and you understand that the true nature of trading is simply a numbers game in which you're playing the probabilities, you lose the emotional investment and that hellish emotional roller coaster of living and dying by the outcome of individual trades. I no longer concern with the outcome of individual trades or even a small string of trades. My focus is on the next 100 trades because I know if I focus on excellence in execution, my edge will demonstrate itself over an extended series of outcomes. My multi-strategy approach has delivered profitable annual returns since 2008. Since 2013, I've also been managing investor capital through a managed account service delivering annual positive returns. I'm currently responsible for managing a multi-million dollar portfolio. Since 2010, I've also mentored hundreds of private traders of all experience levels from complete novices to former CAB floor traders in developing the technical and mental skills to reap consistent returns from the markets. In addition to my fund management and mentoring, I'm also a resident market expert exclusively providing market and trade analysis to TITML. Most recently, I've also become the head of trading and trader education for an emerging trading education brand called FXcareerswap.com, offering development and funding to retail trading talent. At FXcareerswap, we don't just develop retail traders market and trading strategy knowledge, we work on mindset development through our structured program that culminates in managing the firm's capital at zero personal financial risk on a profit share basis. Okay, so that gives you a flavor of where I'm coming from, so let's jump into today's material. So, like I said, welcome to this introductory presentation on trading the E-mini S&P 500. We are going to walk through the trading venue, I'm going to introduce you to the unique features of this exchange-traded derivative, specifically market internals. I'm then going to explain my strategy for combining market internals with support and resistance to consistently trade the E-mini S&P, and stay tuned to the end where I will also reveal a promotional offer for TITML account holders. So, the E-mini or ES or MINI is a futures contract that tracks the S&P 500 stock market index. It's traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, CME, via their Globex electronic trading platform. Trading is 23 and a half hours a day, five days a week using the contract symbol ES. E-mini contracts are available on a wide range of US stock market indices, commodities and forex currencies. However, when traders refer to the E-mini or the E-minis or the spools, they are generally referring to the most important one, the futures contract that tracks the S&P 500 stock market index. E-mini futures were originally launched in September 1997 to attract non-professional investors into trading index futures. Previously, the only game in town had been the large S&P contract, but it had become too expensive for the little guy to trade. So, the CME created the E-mini contract, which was one-fifth of the size of the large S&P futures contract and required only one-fifth of the margin to trade. The E-mini became a huge success, not only with non-professional traders, but with professionals too. We now have the micro E-mini futures contract. It's the same as the regular S&P 500 E-mini contract in every respect, except it's one-tenth of the size. That is, each one-point move in the S&P 500 index is worth $5 per micro E-mini contract compared to $50 for the E-mini or ES, and the margin to trade the micro contract is one-tenth the size. So, in terms of the actual trading venue, what are the benefits? Well, it's equally easy to go long and short. You either buy or sell the current E-mini contract and there's no uptick rule. There's 24-hour trading, which makes the E-mini attractive to traders around the world. Overnight moves in related equity markets like the DAX or the FTSE can be played with one trading vehicle.  Changing and cancelling orders is trivial. No phone calls are the broker required anymore and you know exactly where you stand every second you're in a trade. It's a level playing field. The Globex electronic trading platform means that large and small traders have equal access to the market and trades are executed in the order they're received. Unlike the pit trading futures or equities of old, where there are no more games, backdoor games involved. There's a tight bid in our spread, so much volume is traded through the E-mini that the difference between the bid and the ask is only ever one tick or 0.25 index points, which is the minimum price movement. There's a large depth of market. Again, the E-mini market is so liquid, there's plenty of volume either side of the last traded price for large orders to be filled with minimum slippage. It's volatile, but it's not unmanageable. The E-mini is an active every day, which gives the trader plenty of opportunity to trade. Remember, a sleepy market is pretty difficult to trade, but the E-mini volatility is also manageable, except maybe around certain headline news events like the non-farm payrolls or the FOMC announcements. And importantly, it's generally not driven by individual company news events. The low brokerage rates also make it very attractive. Brokerage commissions for trading E-minis continue to fall. This excludes exchange clearing and regulatory fees, and when you factor those in, your round trip in and out brokerage commission is very attractive. Low margin requirements are really critical here. So to open a day trading position with Tickmill, you only require 1,000 US dollars in your micro account. Remember, these are absolute minimums and you should be trading with additional capital behind your positions. The lower tax rate is also very attractive. Better than forex or stocks, income from the trading the E-mini futures is taxed at a blended rate of approximately 22%. Gains from stock trading or cash forex are more like 33%. These comments apply specifically for US tax residents. So now we understand the venue and the instrument we're trading. I want to demonstrate some of the unique aspects. The fact that the E-mini is the derivative of the S&P 500 allows us to access some unique information commonly referred to as market internals. Market internals are often compared to the instrument dashboard on a car, giving indication of performance and alerting the driver to any issues occurring under the hood. So let's take a look more deeply at what market internals are and how we can incorporate them into a consistent trading strategy. First, volume. It's a particularly unique feature of trading the exchange-traded derivative as opposed to a CFD or contract for difference or forex. Volume data for forex is incomplete. There is no central forex exchange and the banks who dominate forex trading obviously don't share volume data in real time. However, we get a true reflection of actual volume which is shared directly by the CME, available to all market participants in real time. I use volume as a tool to confirm breakouts and opportunities to fade the market. Spikes in volume will often be accompanied by intraday profit taking. The next instrument I'm looking at is the NYSE tick index. This gives us the relationship of stocks up ticking versus down ticking. The tick is an extremely useful tool for intraday traders. For example, if there are 3,000 stocks trading on the NYSE, the New York Stock Exchange, and 1,500 trade higher from their previous price and 500 trade lower from their last price, the tick will read plus 1,000. But you might be asking, well, what about the other 1,000 stocks? Well, they could be unchanged from their last price. When using the tick, we're looking for extremes to enter or exit a trade. Tick readings of plus 1,000 to plus 1,500 or minus 1,000 to minus 1,500 are considered very strong and we typically trade between 600 most of the time on the NYSE. Tip for the tick here is tick readings within the 400 level generally indicate chop and we want to ignore or stay out of entering or exiting trades in that area. On a range day, we can look to fade tick extremes when I apply a moving average that can easily see the trend or the distribution that we're seeing in tick. Note that extreme tick readings for the day, when we get a high tick and a new high in price at the exact time, that more often than not will indicate the high of the day. When a high tick prints without a simultaneous high in price, we can continue to make new highs until a new high in tick is reached and obviously the reverse is true for low ticks. Next, we have the advanced decline line or the AD line for sure. It's the most important of the internals. This indicator tells us the net sum of advancing stocks minus declining stocks. There are roughly 3,000 stocks on the NYSE and there are 3,000 roughly on the NASDAQ as well. An AD line reading of 1,500 plus is very bullish and a reading over 2,000 is extremely bullish. On the flip side, minus 1,500 and below are very bearish and readings below minus 2,000 are extremely bearish. These extreme readings are indicative of trending days where once the market continues to trend all the way into the close, we look to the AD line in conjunction with breath ratio to confirm these trending days. For example, a day with 2,500 advancing stocks and only 500 declining stocks would yield a net of plus 2,000, which is an extremely bullish reading. It would take a large catalyst to shift the market direction with a reading this bullish. If at the open you continue to see the AD line move in plus 500, plus 700, plus 900, this is a sign of broad market strength. If, however, the market is moving higher but the AD line is moving lower, a divergence has occurred and this can be a sign that the market could turn. Last but by no means least, the breath volume ratio. Composed of volume flowing into up stocks versus volume flowing into down stocks. The breath ratio is expressed as up volume minus down volume. This reading is important in relation to where it's been, especially where we are now compared to where we open the day. For example, if at 10am we have 10 million shares moving up and 5 million shares moving down, the resulting breath ratio is about 2 to 1 positive. Twice as much volume is flowing into up stocks as down stocks. If at 10.30 the market is sold off but we have a breath ratio of 3 to 1 positive, this is a signal that the markets are actually becoming stronger and it's time to buy the pullback or look for a long setup. So now we understand the internals and the unique insight they provide. I want to briefly walk you through my strategy. By understanding the market context in which we are trading, I'm looking to execute two types of trades. Mean reversion in ranging environments and momentum trades in trending environments, both of which are going to be underpinned by understanding the market internals. Every day I plot support and resistance action areas that are derived from multi-time frame analysis using market auction theory and volume profile analysis. This allows me to avoid engaging the market in areas of heavy rotation or what we refer to as chop. The support and resistance action areas have three purposes. They can act as entry levels in mean reversion setups, which is the majority of the time, but in directional or trend environments, the action areas act as confirmation for a momentum entry. And lastly, they can be used as targets for trades. I also note additional key data from the prior day's price action. These levels are often important to define the bias for the day, the previous volume point of control, the highest volume price. So that's the price at which most of the volume traded from the previous day. This is indicative of buyers and sellers' perception that this price is square value for the day. I confirm the current market context. This confirms the dominant side of the market versus near-term, daily, weekly and monthly. And I also look at the globex, that's the overnight session, to give us an indication of the market theme for the day ahead. I also highlight quantitative probability plays based on where the cash or the regular trading house session opens in relation to the prior day's range, either above, below or within range. And then we have some key levels and the probability of price testing these levels over an extended data set. This can prove useful for trade entry, exit and management. Lastly, I note volatility or range analysis, as this helps to inform the current market context. Is the market in balance in relation to the current volatility? Equally, we can confirm the market out of balance and this can inform the bias for the day. It also helps to inform trade execution and management. So that's what I want to do, is take a look at a few examples of the pre-market analysis that I provide and then how the subsequent price action plays out. This pre-market analysis is provided every day at 2.15 UK time. You get the chart with the key levels mapped on. I also do a five-minute video, which gives you the setups that I'm looking for or the high probability plays that I see developing for the session ahead. So let's take a look at, this is one just from the last two weeks. We had the globe X lows. In terms of the market context, I was coming into the day bearish from the globe X session where we'd seen the sell-off and I had a neutral bias in terms of the setup for the days. That means I was able to or gives me the opportunity to face either support or resistance. And in this instance, as the day played out, we traded up into the resistance zone, the initial resistance zone, and we had bearish market internals. We had the tick falling off to the downside, negative distribution. We had the advanced decline line below the zero line, so negative advanced decline line, and we also had a negative breath ratio. So by the time we got into this resistance zone, I was confident there to fade that resistance zone, and we actually saw an 18.5 point reversal from that resistance zone into the initial support zone. Next pre-market analysis here. We went into the day, globe X tone bearish, but with the near-term bias, neutral to bearish, but we were still bullish, medium-term and long-term. So when I produced the pre-market analysis for this day, what I was looking at was the potential for a breakout of either the initial resistance area here or the initial support to target the next areas of support resistance. So let's see how price played out. Well, at the open we got some significant buying volume coming into the market. We also saw that the tick distribution was positive, and the advanced decline line came rapidly from below zero up into higher levels. We also saw a positive breath reading right from the get-go. So this meant to me, I was looking to play a breakout of the initial resistance level, traded up into it, held it at the first test as more often than not we will. We pulled back, retested the globe X highs and took off to the upside, and immediately that would have given a 10-point upside objective. Another example here, coming into the day, we were bullish across the board. So we have alignment in terms of the market context, and we were trading up above the prior days highs. Let's see how things played out. This is a common setup you'll see in terms of the E-mini S&P. One of the measurements that we want to pay attention to during the day is the opening hours range, because more often than not, once we break that range to the upside if we're bullish, any retest into the high of the opening hour will often find algorithmic trading or programmatic trading buying there, and we can join that trend. And again, that's set up for a move of another 10-point move to the upside. Lastly, we had, this was Friday's analysis, we came into the day, bullish, medium to long-term, neutral on the daily, so we could fade either initial resistance or initial support, depending upon the internals. So we wait then for the market to open and see how we're printing from the internal perspective. And you can see here, we took out initial resistance on very strong market internals. We traded up into the next resistance zone, so that's a 10-point move there. We didn't get any suggestion of exhaustion as we traded into that area. As we got up there, we were still bullish in terms of momentum, tick readings were positive, and we had positive internals. And so you could have actually held that trade for at least 20 points of profit to the upside. So there are just a few examples. I'm not a big fan of going over historical chart data as it's somewhat of hindsight capital approach to things, but the only reason I'm doing this is because I provided this pre-market analysis before the actual cash session each day for each of these examples, and it was accompanied with the video so that you knew what I was looking for in terms of trading opportunities and how I was looking to play the day ahead. What we'll actually do now, given the time here, we're coming up to half one, we'll actually take a look at the live market here. And what I'm looking for in terms of today's session is we'll give you an insight into where I see the opportunities today. So we're basically consolidating in the upper range. We printed a new high yesterday, new all-time high, and we've continued to hold above support. So what I'm looking for now is a break through the GlobeX highs. When I refer to GlobeX, I mean the overnight trading session. So through 41.85, we'll open the test of 41.92 to 41.93. From here, a common pattern that we see is that we get a pullback to retest the GlobeX highs as support. So if we've got bullish market internals, so strong market internals, good reading, positive distribution in terms of tick. We've got the advanced decline line above zero trending to the upside. We've got positive breath above zero trending to the upside. Any test back into the GlobeX highs here would be an opportunity to set long positions. And then what I'd be targeting would initially a retest of the initial resistance area. But I would anticipate we'd break there and trade up into a pivotal 42.02. Now when we get into this area, if we get exhaustion signs, so if we get a new high of day with a high in tick and a volume spike, that would be an opportunity to set short positions targeting a retest of the 41.93. The alternative scenario is we break GlobeX lows and trade down into initial support. I'd be watching there for a low in price of the day accompanied with a low tick and a volume spike to set long positions targeting a retest of the GlobeX lows from below. If we take out the initial support with negative market internals and a negative tick distribution then you can look to be short, initially targeting a move down to test 41.57. And again if we don't get any exhaustion signals here, you can let the position run and target a move down to the next pivotal support area at 41.42. And again from there you want to watch for exhaustion signals as an opportunity to one take profit on shorts and potentially set long positions. So that gives you a quick sense of what it is I'm looking at as we head into today's cash session. And what I will also show you is the actual tick mail e-mini futures and options chat that we have. This is a private group. This is where I post the analysis each day, live video and the trade sheet for the day ahead for your reference. I will also share some other insights in terms of investment banking insights here and some market views that I share as well with respect to market dynamics and the key drivers from a narrative perspective within the markets at the moment. And like I say, you get the trade video posted in here and you get the trade sheets. So you have that already for the session ahead. Those are posted by the latest 2.15 UK time each day. And that concludes my introduction to the e-mini S&P contract here and like I say, what we are offering as a promotional offer to technical account holders is the opportunity to join the e-mini strategy group whereby you will have access to all this information and you'll be fully prepared for the session ahead. What I would stress is here at this point is that this is not a signal service. I'm not giving you signals here for you to just automatically execute and see how it goes. We're actually trying to educate you in a consistent approach to training this extremely attractive product. Like I say, at the beginning that depth of market is incredibly important and it provides opportunities pretty much on a daily basis. I personally tend to stick to looking for one or two setups per day and if I don't get them, then it's a scratch there. I don't get involved. But more often than not, you will get one or two opportunities each day to enter a trade and see how it plays out. So with that said, you can access the group if you contact the client services team and you have a live account with Tickmill. They'll put you into that group and you'll receive all the analysis on a daily basis. So I will now open this up for questions. I'll just check and assume the chat here. Matthew asks, can I get a PDF document? Yeah, Matthew. Sorry, do you mean a PDF of the slides, Matthew? Okay, I'm presuming he means a PDF of the slides. Yeah, Matthew, I'll send you a PDF of the slides. That's your email address there. Ben, do you need to have an account funded to get into the chat? Yeah, the current requirement is having a funded account. Any other questions? Yes, you would like slides as well. Gideon, if you leave your email address in the chat there and I can send you a copy of the slides. If anyone wants a copy of the slides, you can just leave your email in the chat and we'll happily send you the slides. Any other questions? Okay, if there are any questions, I'm going to wrap this up here and I hope to see you all in the one second copy of that email. I've got that. Okay, so I'm going to wrap this up here and I hope to see you in the private Future Strategy Group. Thanks very much, everyone. I hope this helps.


Over the past several decades, a concerning health trend has emerged among children. ACL injuries are on the rise. That's got clinicians rethinking the best approach to recovery. Non-operative measures such as physical therapy, bracing, and activity modification used to be the norm. Now, given the concerning statistics, many believe surgical reconstruction could actually be the more conservative approach long-term. New findings reported in the July issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine appear to support that view. They suggest that ACL reconstruction through an iliotibial band technique can restore kinetic and kinematic function in the growing knee and maintain it well into adulthood.  Because individuals enrolled in the study were of different ages, they represented a spectrum of post-surgery follow-up times ranging from 1 to 20 years. Individuals were assessed by 3D motion analysis as they performed two forms of exercise, a drop vertical jump, and a single limb vertical hop. The authors compared the performance of the surgical limbs versus the non-surgical limbs across five different variables, the mean peak knee moments in all three principal directions at landing, the ground reaction force at landing, and for the single limb hop alone, the mean peak jump height. Paired T-tests and the equivalency analysis revealed no statistically significant differences in knee moments, ground reaction force, or jump height between operated and non-operated limbs. These results suggest that iliotibial-band ACL reconstruction in childhood restores normal, symmetric, kinetic, and kinematic function in the knee as soon as one year after reconstruction and maintains normal knee function for up to 20 years. The findings also appear to address the criticism that the non-anatomic features of this form of ACL surgery might compromise functional outcomes. Larger studies are needed to confirm these results. An in-depth look at these and additional features of reconstructed knees could help clarify the long-term benefits and risks of iliotibial-band ACL reconstruction among growing children.


So obviously we're more than a year now into COVID, a great deal of money's been spent by the government, debts, deficits, paying it down, austerity, taxes, that's the debate we're having, of course, it's so reminiscent of what was going on before the 2010 general election just after the global financial crisis. There is less than a minute of TV broadcast on BBC News with the BBC economics correspondent Andy Verity. It's the most important minute of television that we broadcast on BBC News this year telling you the truth about government borrowing. And why actually the public debt, particularly the money that's been borrowed this year, is not a problem. So let's look. This isn't like household debt. This isn't like running an overdraft. Just how important is it that we pay this off? That's a really important point. We've been talking like it is like household debt for a very long time. But when you're a homeowner, what you worry about with debt is what's going to happen if you can't pay it. The bailiffs might come around. You might have a repossession, but it's not like that for the government, not least because of who they're borrowing it from. And if you look at that, who do we actually owe this money to? Well, of the money borrowed since the pandemic, actually 92% of it is owed to the Bank of England. Now, that's really ultimately another branch of government. So if you're borrowing from yourself as you are with government finances, you have a much more patient creditor who's not going to be banging on your door too soon. There's a lot to unpack there for less than a minute. Firstly, 92% of the money the government borrowed for furlough schemes, for public investment, for infrastructure projects, for test and trace didn't need to be that much, but it was more than 30 billion in the end. 92% of that came from the Bank of England, what's called quantitative easing. How does that work? How does the government borrow money from itself? The Bank of England is an arm of government. They effectively print money and they're buying government debt, guilts from the government in exchange for this money, which is basically created out of nothing. Now, I don't want to go into an argument about how sustainable that is. That's what they're doing. That's what they did after 2008. It hasn't led to rampant inflation actually as a way of combating inequality. It's highly ineffective, but in terms of the short-term response to COVID, it's what the government is now proceeding to do. 92%. It's important to say a great deal of money has been borrowed this year. About 350 billion pounds is the size of the British deficit, which is to say how much money is being spent over how much money is being brought in, how much more. The surplus being spent. If you're on a surplus, you're bringing more money in than you're spending. If it's a deficit, you're spending more money than you're bringing in. 350 is the figure. 350 billion pounds. Now, cast your mind back to before the 2010 general election, George Osborne and David Cameron said, we're going to have to have budget cuts because Britain is on the verge of bankruptcy. We are going to ensure, like every solvent household in the country, that what we buy, we can afford, that the bills we incur, we have the income to meet, and that we do not saddle our children with the interest on the interest on the interest of the debts that we were not prepared ourselves to pay. And the deficit then was half the size it is now. And one of the wonders and marvels of this video, as he says within the first 20 seconds, the national budget is not like a credit card. Oops, somebody better tell George Osborne too late because he screwed the country up for 10 years with austerity, which was never necessary, according to the BBC economics correspondent. We've been talking like it is like household debt for a very long time, but when you're a homeowner, what you worry about with debt is what's going to happen if you can't pay it. The bailiffs might come around. You might have a repossession, but it's not like that for the government, not least because of who they're borrowing it from. Austerity after 2010 wasn't necessary. There's the second point. Most of the money this time around is being printed by the Bank of England. You know what that means? We have found the magic money tree. But there isn't a magic money tree that we can shake that suddenly provides for everything that people want. The whole debate around the 2019 general elections. Labour can't afford to do X, Y, Z. It was a couple of hundred billion pounds, by the way. The spending commitments weren't that big by the standards of COVID. And every single journalist, BBC, ITV, Sky News, Channel 4, Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Express, Telegraph Times. So watching that less than one minute clip from BBC News, what two lessons do we draw from it? Well, for me, they both relate to two separate general elections nine years apart. The first is 2010. And of course, it's legacy of austerity. And what Andy Verity is saying on the BBC is actually that didn't need to happen. The kind of metaphors that were used and so common nine years ago, 10 years ago, actually weren't true. So if you think about all the bad things you associate with austerity, EMA cuts, university tuition fees tripling, hospital waiting times going up, ambulance waiting times going up, being unable to see a GP for weeks on end, youth centres closing down, libraries shutting, local government having no money, public sector workers not having a real wage increase for the best part of a decade. All of that was avoidable. You think about the grim, grinding desperation that so many people had to go through for 10 years.  It was a political choice. Just think about that for a second. Now, why would the Tories do that? You might think you're saying Aaron's saying this is a political choice. Why would a politician who wants to act in the public interest do things which were necessary and which clearly harmed and damaged so many people? You know, one estimate says that more than 150,000 people died because of austerity. Indirectly. That is, I'm not saying that the government went and murdered them, but you had excess deaths, deaths that wouldn't have happened had those cuts not taken place. Now, why would politicians do that? And the simple reason is that they represent an interest and it's not in the interests of the wealthy, the elite, the 1%, for working people in this country to get cheap, affordable education, housing, transport, energy, water. That's the whole base of privatisation. It's not about getting a good deal. It's that somebody can make some money off you. If those things are cheap and in public ownership, nobody's making a buck. So that's why austerity happened. It was to create new profits for wealthy people and to make generally poorer people pay for it. So that's the first lesson, austerity didn't have to happen. It was a political choice to benefit the 1%. Then the other lesson for me is the 2019 general election.  It's uncosted. It was costed, by the way, fully costed. And about 250 billion pounds, we can't afford it. Well, excuse me, but if you look at the deficit for this year, it's 350 billion. It's 250 billion for the year after. So we could afford it. And it turns out that it was the Tories who had the magic money tree all along. It's called the Bank of England and quantitative easing. So we're being repeatedly told lies about what is politically possible in relation to government spending, debt, and taxation. And that's not me saying it. It's the BBC's Andy Verity. And so I think that means the next time there's a general election, it shouldn't just be a BBC economics correspondent or Aaron Bustani out of our media saying that debt is not the issue the Tories are making out to be, it should be all the major political parties and it should be all the major media outlets because anything else is inaccurate, pseudoscience. And so the 2019 manifesto labor offered, you know what? I don't just think that they should do that again. It should be more. That was underwhelming. It wasn't ambitious enough. We have the resources. We have the mechanisms and we have the institutions to build housing and utilities and decarbonize pretty much within 10 to 15 years. We can build a very different kind of society. And what's most ironic of all is that the means by which to do that when it comes to financing things was unveiled by the Conservative Party. I said I would do whatever it takes. I have done and I will do so.


Hello, I'm Mike McKee, the Bishop of the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. During this season, the doors of our churches will be open to welcome people. And what I want to encourage you to do is to invite someone. Someone you know who is hurting because of an experience in their life, or perhaps someone who is deeply searching for meaning in their life. Invite them to one of our open doors in the United Methodist Churches to worship with you during this Christmas season. What better time to capture what it means to be truly alive in the faith with Jesus the Christ than at Christmas time? So I hope you'll be inviting someone you know to worship with you this Christmas. May you have a blessed Christmas.


I'm Dr. Judy Aschner, and as Chair of Pediatrics and Physician-in-Chief, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center. We are a full-service children's hospital with more than 25 medical and surgical pediatrics of specialties represented among our outstanding faculty. As one of our largest and strongest divisions, the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology has risen to national stature. As a U.S. News and World Report ranked subspecialty, we are so proud of the outcomes that we have and the diverse programs and therapies we can offer our patients. Our Pediatric Hematology and Oncology program is a vibrant growing program. We have disease-specific programs within our Pediatric Hematology Oncology Division, in Pediatric Oncology, in Pediatric Hematology, as well as in our stem cell transplant and cellular therapy divisions. There's a very strong stem cell transplant program with CAR-T cells and other cellular therapy and gene therapy. It's a very complete program that is really cutting edge. We have a really experienced and enthusiastic faculty. They're here because they love to teach, and they love to do research, so they're very academic. We have 11 faculty within our division, all in varying areas of Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplant. Each of these faculty are available to be mentors for our fellows, depending on what their own personal goals and aspirations are for their training. We also have a phenomenal Pediatric Research Institute that helps us in the Joseph Empson Zari Children's Hospital. The second and third year fellows are going to be spending the majority of their time doing research, and so those fellows will either be doing clinical research in our hospital or they will be on site in one of the laboratories that they choose. This is a cancer program where fellows will get exposed to the full spectrum of diseases in Hematology and Oncology and be mentored by faculty who are committed to their development and training. We want to create or develop fellows that are really well-rounded and well-educated and can develop their own areas of expertise in year two and year three of their fellowship. We want to develop the next leaders of HEMON. Any fellow that comes here will find that the Joseph Empson Zari Children's Hospital is a great place to come. It is very supportive with all its sub-specialties outside of Hematology and Oncology, but inside Hematology and Oncology is an exciting place to come.


Hello, welcome to SSHiritech, so since this side and this is continuation of SQL Server performance training. This is part 7 of SQL Server performance training and today we gonna discuss about Btree. So what is Btree and how it looks like. So go to our next slide to understand about the Btree. So when we create any index, it could be cluster index or non cluster index, then data pages are arranged in a logical order and that order would be called as Btree structure. If table doesn't have any index, then data are stored as a heap and heap doesn't have any structure. Basically the data pages are spread into three nodes. First is root node, then intermediate node, then leaf node and data are stored into leaf node. How data would be arranged in Btree once we will create the cluster index. So go to our next slide. So here as we can see we have root node, then intermediate node and leaf node. So data would be stored in leaf node only. So here as we can see, so once we gonna create the cluster index, then our data would be stored like this. So here we gonna store the data for 1 to 500. So our root node would be 1 to 500, then it would be divided into two parts. In left side it would contain first to 250 and in right side it would contain 250 to 500. Then again it will divide into two parts 1 to 125 and 126 to 250. So this is the structure basically once we gonna create the cluster index. So here if we will search for 126, then first it will start from the root node. So it will get left side will have the 126, then go to on intermediate node, then move to 1 to 150. So this is our second scan, then it will check 126 is available on right side. So it will goes to this and again 126 is available on the left side. So it will goes to this. So it will scan only four scans. This is our first scan, then second, then third and then fourth. So by using cluster index if we will scan, then only four scans will be done and we will get the data. That's why we need to create the indexes in the table. Let's move to next slide to understand about the once we will create the non-cluster index then how data will be stored. So this is our non-cluster index. As we can see below in this image this is our cluster index and it will have root node, intermediate node and leaf level node. So basically here we have three type of nodes as we have discussed in cluster index. So once we will create the non-cluster index then it will arrange the data in B3 as well but it will separate from the table. So this is our table and this is our non-cluster index. So here it will have the data up to 200. So as we can see if we will search for 51 that is Mary then it goes to left side because data is available on the left side then 50% of scan will be reduced in our first search. Then it will go to right side because 51 Mary is available on the right side. Once we will reach the Mary as we know we have the cluster index. So it will get the cluster row ID for the 51 that is Mary. So it will directly move to the Mary and get the record from the cluster index that is our table. So this is the structure for non-cluster index. So thank you so much for watching this video. If you like this video please subscribe our channel to get many more videos. Don't forget to press the bell icon to get the notification of our newly uploaded videos and please share to others. Thank you so much.


Principle 10. Celebrate success and recognize those who have done good work. A great coach pushes their team to find their own greatness, but never forgets to celebrate the wins along the way. As a leader, inspiring people is part of your job. Yes you have to drive accountability and focus on delivery, but you also need to motivate those who do the work. Recognize good work and praise your players who elevated their game to a new level.  Generously and publicly acknowledge those who demonstrate the leadership behaviors and capabilities that make strategy succeed. Ask them to share their experiences and inspire your team by empowering them to inspire others. So go ahead, haul out greatness when you see it. Celebrate that winning game, but keep your eyes on the prize, because there's always another season.


This study estimates the cost effectiveness of the hemophilus in fluency type B, HIB, vaccine for preventing childhood pneumonia, meningitis, and other vaccine-preventable diseases in mainland China from a societal perspective. The decision tree and Markov model were used to estimate costs and effectiveness, with disease burden estimated from literature, statistical e-books, and field surveys. Vaccine costs were calculated from government reports and UNICEF website. Using the WHO cost effectiveness thresholds, the study found that the HIB vaccine was cost effective at a market price of $13,640.1 US dollars per dose, which is less than three times the GDP per capita of China in 2016. The ICER of the HIB vaccine was negative $59,122.90 at the UNICEF price, indicating a cost savings. The largest portion of uncertainty in the result was caused by the annual incidence of all cause pneumonia, proportion of pneumonia caused by high vaccine costs per dose, annual incidence of HIB meningitis, and costs per episode of meningitis. The models were robust considering parameter uncertainties. Overall, the study concludes that the HIB vaccine is a cost-effective intervention among children in mainland China and should be introduced into Chinese immunization programs with reduced costs. This article was authored by Gui Jun Ning, Zhu Endong Yin, Yixing Li, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


We all know that this new variant by name Omicron has recently been detected in South Africa. Why they raised the concern about this one is because this particular virus was spreading quite fast. The number of cases that they found to be detected were rapidly there was a steep increase in number of cases in that area. So far there has not been any increase in mortality in that area, although there has been increase in the detection of number of cases. I think there is nothing to panic, WHO has warned us against panic but you know they want us to be very cautious and trust our mask again as we used to do. The measures which we were taking earlier, social distancing, avoiding crowded places still remains important and they still probably will save us from the disease first day.


You also quite often don't get to choose what You can sort of force yourself and you can you can make yourself get into a state of inertia But it sometimes just random things just catch your attention and it's really difficult to stop thinking about Really difficult stop doing stuff around this this certain time


Hi, I'm Rina from the Artificial Intelligence Group at TU Dortmund, Germany. Together with Jan Niko and Alex, I work on debugging tools to support trustworthy machine learning. As most of you know, trustworthy machine learning is especially important for safety-critical areas like medical applications. The main problem with machine learning errors is how they accumulate over time, making it hard to pinpoint a single root cause. At the first steps towards developing automated error detection tools last year, Jan and I conducted a small survey on errors in machine learning pipelines to determine which errors could be detected. We generated a web-based questionnaire where 85 people from academia and industry participated. We asked the participants at which stage in the data science project they observed the most serious errors. On the x-axis of the graph, we see different stages of a machine learning pipeline. Here, the data pre-processing appears to be one of the most critical stages in both academia and industry. With those results, we decided to first focus on error detection tools for the data pre-processing stage. Here different errors can occur, like wrong handling of missing values or outliers. Now the question is, how can we automatically detect errors in the data pre-processing stage? As an easy-to-understand example, let's have a look at the normalization error to get a rough idea of how we plan to detect errors. In general, we want to extract automated checks from expert knowledge. On the left-hand side, we have a code snippet. So first the data is loaded, then some pre-processing steps are applied to the data before a support vector machine is trained and tested. Every data science expert would tell us that an SVM classification needs normalized data. Otherwise, we get wrong results for the future importance. This might not be clear for beginners. Our debugging tool could now check different parts of the machine learning program to figure out if normalization was applied or not. First, the debugger could run a test of the input data set to figure out if the data was already normalized. We could also statically check if we find function calls like scaling used for normalization. Some machine learning algorithms support default normalization. This could also be checked via the list of parameters of the SVM function. So from one expert rules, we need to extract several checks to construct a useful debugger. As our goal is to develop error detection tools for machine learning pipelines, our next step is to gather more reproducible code examples to test our tools. That's why we appreciate your contribution. We will also share our code examples and tools in an open repository. If you have executable code examples, please contact me via the email below. Thanks a lot.


Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Sussman joined today by our own game, Marensi, who's here to give us his best bets from Wild Card Weekend. What's happening, Gabe? I'm ready to rock and roll. Let's do this thing. First game on the slate. It's the Buffalo Bills taking on the Houston Texans. Gabe, it's the one-time slot you did not want. The Raptors are in town facing the Nets. What are you going to do? That's the first time this year that the Raptors actually come to the Newark area. And of course, it has to be at the exact same time as the Buffalo Bills playoff game. The Raptors will be back to New York. I'm not so sure about when the Bills are going to be back to the playoffs. When you consider they haven't won a playoff game since 1995. No surprise, Greg. We saw this coming. We knew that the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Texans, we're going to be the first ones up. It's the annual Houston Texan Wild Card game, all right? What I am surprised about is the fact that nobody wants to bet on the Houston Texans right here. You know that the action is extremely one-sided when they move a home team to two and a half as opposed to three. They just can't find anybody who wants to bet on Houston. And I'm sure there's some Texan backers out there somewhere that are just waiting for the number to come down even more. And truth be told, I think it actually might at this point in time. If you believe the defense wins championships, then you can talk yourself into believing that the Buffalo Bills could beat anybody on any given Saturday or Sunday, right? You look at this football game, it's a tough game. Josh Allen's never played in a playoff game before. He has to go on the road. And truth be told, I think people are underestimating the Houston Texans. Now the Bills do catch somewhat of a break if Will Fuller doesn't play. Yet, how much of an impact does it really have? Let's be honest, Will Fuller seems to be hurt every second game anyways, right?  J.J. Watts gonna be back as well. That's gonna provide a little bit of an emotional lift for the Houston Texans. But they still have Bill O'Brien on the other sideline. Now listen guys, I am a die-hard Buffalo Bill Fed. I'm concerned about this game. I think they can win. They could also lose this game. But we got four games on the board so I'm gonna give you a picks here. I do think the Buffalo Bills find a way to win.  And I think Josh Allen will do enough to make enough plays to win this football game for the Buffalo Bills. I actually think Devin Singletary is sort of a sleeper dark horse in his football game to have a couple of big plays and be a difference maker. So we're gonna take the Buffalo Bills but really the best bet in this game guys is the under. I don't understand this number. It got as high as 44. It's starting to come down a little bit. And if you like the under of this game, I think you should probably bet it like immediately. I think it's only gonna continue to come down as people start to realize, why is the number so high in this football game? The Buffalo Bills guys are 12 and four to the under on the year, all right? The Bills played 16 games this year. Only one team scored more than 24 points on them. It's an incredible stat. Baltimore got there and the Patriots got there and to 24, Philadelphia was the only team to actually go over 24. The Houston Texan defense is good as well. They played nine and seven of the under on the season and they didn't care about the last game of the year. So let's just sort of throw that one out. It really could be 10 and six to the under.  So I really do like the under a lot here guys. And what I really like a lot here in the playoffs is the quarterback rushing props, okay? You throw everything out the window right now. If a quarterback sees it, he's able to pick up seven, eight yards, he's gonna take it. He might not take that in the regular season. If it's week or week, you know, if it's week seven, week eight, week 10, he's thinking, I'm not gonna get drilled by a linebacker to pick up six yards right now in his regular season game. You see, I'm gonna think of all the famous quarterback moments in the playoffs guys, John L. Way laying it out there.  Josh Allen's prop is a little high in the 34 and a half range. Let's go to Sean Watson over 26 and a half man. This kid can run. He's gonna be ultra aggressive and in his last three starts, he sailed over this number 32 yards or more 26 and a half. It's a little like, I think Josh can get there, but there's no value at 34 and a half. There is value at 26 and a half with the Sean Watson. So Greg, give me the Buffalo Bills plus the two and a half points. Give me the under in this football game. And give me the Sean Watson over 26 and a half rushing yards. You knew he was coming ultimately with the Buffalo Bills plus two and a half with the under is games favorite bet from this game. It's simply too high. It's a number that he expects to go down significantly by the time this game kicks off on Saturday afternoon. So get, you know, on that under early before it happens game. Wildcards have really played to the under. Let's dig in here, guys. The last, the last two years wildcard weekend, Greg, six and two to the, to the under. And if you want to dig a little bit deeper, the last 28 wildcard games, 20 of them, 20 of them have gone under the number 27 and one to the under last 28 wildcard games. Wildcard weekend plays to the low side. Absolutely. Get the under in now. And also Gabe likes to Sean Watson over his rushing yards. Saturday night after that battle between the Bills and Houston, you get New England and Tennessee. It feels like everybody's on Tennessee. And yet this number hasn't really moved. It's the Titans plus five and a half. Why is that? That's an interesting observation, actually, Greg. Because you notice pretty much every handicapper, talk show, host, fan on social media thinks that the Patriots are on the ropes. We've heard this before, right? That the Patriots are done. This is the end of the line for Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. No, no, but this time it's really different. No, no, this time, but not now. This time it's really, really different. They're really on the ropes. Well, let me tell you, this time it really is different. They really are on the ropes. They are. They're done. They're like Jason Garrett. They're done as a matter of how and when this goes down. It's the same thing. The New England Patriots aren't getting back to the Super Bowl, all right? And in fact, this might be Tom Brady's last game as a New England Patriot. Think about that, how crazy that sounds. But he is a free agent, guys. And he wants a lot of money. Things can take a turn real fast here.  It wouldn't surprise me if the Patriots won this football game. And how about this for Bill Belichick? 17-1 straight up in playoff games versus teams that he didn't play in a regular season. They played Tennessee last year, not this year. But I'm a lot like a politician. I discount negative polls and I tell positive polls. So that's a trend. Ah, who cares about trends anyways, right? You know what I do care about? Let's just break it down here. Who's got the better quarterback coming into this football game? At least who's played better football this year? Well, no one's played better football than Ryan Daniel. That's the guy's seven to three years as a starter. He's got the highest QB passer rating in the National Football League. They also have the leading rusher in the National Football League. And Derek Henry, you know, yeah, they also have the leading wide receiver as far as rookies are concerned. And AJ Brown, and you know what they say, you're not a rookie after eight games. You're not a rookie when you're playing in a playoffs right now. The Tennessee Titans have some skill. They've got some skill position players. They're gonna be able to put some points on the board, guys. You know that the Titans have averaged since week seven, 30 points a game. I don't think people realize because you don't see the Titans, but they play very up tempo. They throw the ball a lot now, suddenly with Ryan Daniel. But the thing is, Daniel is 0-6 in his career at Foxboro. It is Ryan Daniel versus Tom Brady on the road. But with all that being stated, I think the Titans are gonna give them all that they can handle. And if there's anything more fitting than winter storm Henry that's on its way right now because Derek Henry is also on his way. Weather could be bad actually. It looks like weather's getting worse right now. Rain, sort of wet snow, not extremely cold, but it's gonna be a really wet game and it could be pretty windy as well. The Titans are gonna be able to run the football with Derek Henry and I don't think the Patriots offense is suddenly going to start like lighting it up right now against this Titans D. The Patriots might survive this, Greg. I'm not giving you the money line, but if they do, they're not winning this football game by six points and then they'll lose next week on the road. It wouldn't shock me if Tennessee wins this game outright, but we're here to make money, so give me the five and a half points. As Gabe said on the morning after this week, the Titans come in in this game with the better quarterback, better running back, better wide receiver. They have plus five and a half, but I get it, it's in Foxboro. And Mike Vrable, Greg, not intimidated by Billichek. Mike Vrable has never coached under Billichek, guys. He's not one of these, you hear this often this week. Why is a member of the coaching tree? He's not. He played for them, all right? He was a player. He's his own man. He's never coached. And in fact, he's actually coached with Bill O'Brien. He's never coached before with Bill Belichek and he beat Bill Belichek. And who would know the inside outs more than the former captain of the defense? The guy that's won three Super Bowls that's been in a pit with these guys. Vrable's not intimidated going in there either, Greg. Vrable's not intimidated, but I don't want to say he's better than Coach Bill Belichek. The weather's not going to be good as you stated on Saturday night. Unless you're Vince Lombardi, it's hard to say you're better. Still a tough spot to play in. And even then, if he wasn't a cheater, then rename the trophy after him. But he's a cheater. For Ryan Taddeo on Saturday night, his playoff debut in Foxborough, it is not an easy spot to be in. The Titans, right now, they're playing better. We'll see if they can get the job done. But they don't need to. You just need to cover five and a half. Let's move on to the first game on Sunday. Gabe, that's Minnesota and New Orleans. You've been all over Mike Zimmer in non-divisional games. Mike Zimmer in the playoffs, the Saints. Everybody loves New Orleans in this one. You. Well, we all know what happens when everybody loves the side of a game. I'll tell you guys right now, you don't even need to watch my videos, all right? Just log on to any gaming site that covers sports betting and look and see what the public consensus is on a football game and fade the public consensus. Same thing with all the betting contests and all that type of stuff. Whatever the top five consensus plays are of the week, they never win. I'll tell you what, I seem to be all alone as I wait in line right now to bet on the Minnesota Vikings. Everybody loves the New Orleans Saints in this game and I understand why the Saints are a dangerous team. Michael Thomas is unstoppable and the Minnesota Viking secondary does not match up well with Michael Thomas. Thomas is gonna have like double digit catches in this football game, but I think people are underestimating the Minnesota Vikings offense a little bit here and really this is a leap of faith play. If you believe the Kirk Cousins won't be terrible and the Kirk Cousins isn't, for lack of a better term, gonna choke in the big moment, then the Minnesota Vikings are gonna take this game to the wire. They have the talent to hang with the New Orleans Saints. They have the offense to trade points with them as well. Calvin Cook is 100%, wow, is 100% as you're gonna be at this time of the year. And as Greg alluded to, we talked about this on a weekly basis. The Minnesota Vikings are one of the easier teams to handicap in the National Football League. They own non-division opponents and they stumble within a division. Now 43, 18 and two against the spread, against non-division opponents. Now I get it, Kirk Cousins has struggled in prime time games before, but last time I checked, one o'clock Eastern, it's not prime time. They sort of catch a break a little bit that it actually isn't a night game. And Kirk Cousins has played in a playoffs before and he wasn't terrible. It wasn't his fault the Washington Redskins lost to the Green Bay Packers. It's a leap of faith here, Greg. In Cousins, I trust. Give me the Minnesota Vikings plus seven and a half points as you know what? I'll be the silent minority in this. Give me the points. You like that? You like that? Come on Kirk, get it done. We're going to get it done in a high scoring game. It's going to be a track meet Vikings cover. There'll be a fun one down in the Superdome this week in New Orleans. We're not talking about Clemson and LSU. We're chatting about New Orleans Saints taking on the Minnesota Vikings. Kirk Cousins tries to pull off what Case Canem did and beat the Saints in the playoffs. One final game to get to, it's the final game of Wildcourt weekend. It's the Philadelphia Eagles at home taking on the Seattle Seahawks. This is a pretty evenly matched game.  The wide receivers are beat up.  The defense is always stunk. You got to like the Seahawks, right, Gabe? You know what? It's hard really not to respect what the Philadelphia Eagles managed to do. Now listen, they dig themselves a hole all the time. You know the Eagles, Greg? They're like a gambler that starts off the night like one in four every night. You're like, oh my God, I'm in a lot of trouble. I just lost a lot of money. And then they always scrap back at the end of the night. They're like, no, I hit a parlaying late and actually came out just a little bit ahead. That's the Philadelphia Eagles for you. The record in these elimination games is unbelievable under Doug Peterson. But now they're facing a guy that also has some unbelievable records. But I do tip my cap to the Philadelphia Eagles. Their fan base is psychotic. It's not going to be an easy environment for Seattle to go into. But let's go through a couple of the pros here for Seattle. Number one, they caught your break, guys, that this game is at 440 Eastern time. And what does 440 Eastern time mean? I don't know, that means like 618 kickoff, I guess. But you get where I'm going with this. Seattle's a West Coast team. They're playing in the latest possible start here on Sunday at 440. So for them, you know, the East Coast thing is not really a factor. And in fact, though, Seattle's actually been very good on the East Coast. And a weird anonymity, you know, we always hear about the 12th man and stuff. But the fact of the matter is, guys, the Seattle Seahawks are 7-1 on the road this year. All right, they're 7-1 on the road. In fact, they have a better road record than the Philadelphia Eagles do home record. Let's dig in a little bit deeper right now. And listen, Carson Wentz has something to prove. He's played good football over the last couple of weeks. He got his team into the playoffs and we give him props for that. They also played some pretty horrible and freaking football teams down the stretch. Seattle don't have any running backs. And I'm not big on Marshawn Lynch. All right, it's more of a publicity stunt more than anything right now. But Marshawn should be a little bit better now that he's got a game under his belt. And the fact of the matter is, I also like that you can't run on Philadelphia. I don't think it matters. Like, honestly, like, I don't think it matters who to running by. If Carson was there, I still don't think he would have a lot of success. Philadelphia is just that good against the run. But you can throw on them. That's no secret. As long as Seattle's play callers get out of the way and let Russell Wilson do his thing, run around, make some plays. He should be able to pick apart this secondary, Greg. I like Seattle in this game. Let's dig in deeper to some of the numbers here. And I don't know if it's just me, Greg, but it seems like every week we're talking about Russell Wilson. I'm like, hey, you know, he's never lost to this team. Or it's like, yeah, Russell Wilson's never lost to this team. He's never lost to that team. Well, Russell Wilson 4-0 in his career against the Eagles, including, oh, yeah, they just played like last month. All right, it was late November. They actually got it. They went in there, got a 17-12 road win. The Seahawks are also five and one against the spread in their last six wild card games. They're five and one against the spread in their last six road playoff games as well. The Seahawks are battle tested and it's gonna be a fun football game. Carson Wentz is gonna make some plays but I think ultimately a turnover or two will be the difference that I expect Wentz to turn it over more than Russell Wilson. And Wilson, I trust, give me the Seahawks money line. Russell Wilson never lost to the Philadelphia Eagles as Gabe said and the play callers just have to stay out of his way.  Last year Seattle got down to Dallas. It was very, very tough for them to be able to come back because all they did was run the football. Now, as Gabe mentioned, they don't have any running backs. So hopefully they can't do that. They leave it in the hands of Russell Wilson. They're a playmaker, get it to DK Metcalf, get it to Tyler Locky, get it to Jacob Hollister for God's sakes and just make sure he's leading your team to victory, Russell Wilson, money line this weekend. That's gonna do it for us here in the Fan Null Hurry Up. For Gabe Marenzi, I am Greg Sussman. Thanks so much for watching. Good luck, wild card weekend and we'll see you right back here next Friday. Review the divisional weekend around the NFL.


Springfield Armory Emissary. First shot. Hey there friends thanks for checking in. Here is a Springfield Armory Emissary. Springfield released this July 28th 2021 and it is a beautiful 1911. It has all the modern features that shooters love while keeping that 1911 platform with a 5 inch barrel and a shooter right out of the case. I shot this so well I was just amazed. It is a nice 1911 handgun. Many modern features. I thought it would be cool to compare the differences between the emissary and some of the modern features with the Springfield Armory Millspec 1911. Now the Millspec the one that Springfield makes is as close as anywhere that you're going to find to a true John Browning Millspec 1911. Many reviews on several accounts from highly respected publications say that this is the closest that you are going to get so they are very different in many ways. Both excellent shooting handguns but let's check out some of those differences that the emissary offers compared to a Millspec 1911. Let's start with the grip. Check out that G10 grip. Not only is the color contrasted but the texturing on there is amazing and what they are able to accomplish with the flat main spring housing is that same texturing as well as the front strap. So when you grip this emissary it just feels so nice in the hand. If we look at the Millspec it has wood grips that have diamond checkering and a arched main spring housing does have some vertical serrations there but it is an arched main spring housing as where the emissary uses a flat main spring housing. No texturing in the front and the Millspec has a seven round magazine and the emissary comes with two eight round magazines. If we look at these you can see that the followers certainly are different as well as the base plate. Okay we can check it out. Maybe down here is a better look. You can see the difference there. An additional round with the newer emissary opposed to the Millspec model. Let's take a look at that slide. See that gloss finish and on top here it is a matte finish and it does have serrations on the top. If we look at the Millspec 1911 it has a parkerized finish and so it's no there is no reason to do a matte finish because the whole slide the whole frame everything is a parkerized finished and no serrations. If we look at the beaver tail you can see that you know it's not as long as what the emissary offers but the thumb safeties are very similar. Of course the placement is but the emissary is a larger thumb safety. Let me get a better view of that. Here is the thumb safety with the emissary and the thumb safety with the Millspec. Hopefully that will pick up. If we look at the slide serrations you can see that you know they the back in the day this was pretty standard. They just used vertical slide serrations and then with the emissary it has deep cut slide serrations that are very modern as well as forward serrations and of course you're not going to see that on the Millspec model. If we look at the business end of the pistol both these are unloaded by the way made sure of that. You can see that what Springfield offers is called a try cut as where with the Millspec 1911 it is rounded very different in many ways. Now you can see that it does have a barrel bushing on the right with the Millspec model the emissary uses a bull barrel that is bushing list and therefore the disassemble is quite different we're going to talk about that. On the dust cover there is a pick rail to add accessories not so much with the Millspec all right we wouldn't expect that but here we're talking modern features. The sight system they use a very similar sight system to the Hellcat does have a U dot I love this sight system they also have it on the elite models and a tritium front dot that is that has a luminescent outline just an amazing sight picture works great at the range the Millspec 1911 has three dots and you can see that it is a much thinner rear sight and then the front sight is is right there right into the slide as where this is much wider more heavier built and then of course if you look at the frame you can see the the color contrast with the emissary compared to the Millspec I've shot them both both on occasion you know several times and I I think they're great I'm a huge fan of 1911s and shooting the emissary was just so nice you know I love that single action trigger pull and then if we look at the trigger we will see that they went with a flat face trigger that I am measuring at four and a half pounds and it's a beautiful trigger right there with the reset right there for the follow-up shots the Millspec 1911 also has a single action trigger right it's 1911 but it is not a flat face but you know I don't have a problem with this I like the emissary one a little bit better but I am measuring that at four and three quarter pounds so not a great difference in terms of the trigger weight but we noticed that there are so many changes from the original design that Springfield offers with the emissary I mentioned that this has a bushingless bullbarrel as where the Millspec model has a bushing therefore the disassemble is a little different let's go ahead and check that out and I'll speed it up a bit here we can take a look at the hammers the Millspec model on the right uses a spurred hammer okay very very traditional as where it's a skeletonized hammer with the emissary and the trigger guard on the Millspec is rounded off as where the emissary uses a squared trigger guard both nice 1911 both their Springfield armory it just instills confidence but I will mention I shot the emissary so much better those modern features along with that flat trigger and the overall feeling function of the emissary just was so nice I cannot even explain you'll have to try it for yourself no arguments with the Millspec I think a lot of 1911 purists would choose the Millspec because it is the closest you're going to find to a Millspec original job browning design however if they give the emissary a try and they experience the same accuracy that I did it just might win them over if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe