Hey guys, Thunder E here, and I've been waiting to do this video. I finally got the device in hand I am talking about the brand new Huawei Mate 40 Pro And as you guys know Huawei year after year has been doing some really incredible stuff with your mate and also the appeal lines, but the Mate 40 Pro is the premier line of devices and this thing is no slap It is a lovely looking device comes in the 6.7 inches It's got an OLED display 90 Hertz display So you should be getting some really fast smooth scrolling and also will help with your gameplay sessions Which is what we care about in this video So what we will be doing is we're looking at a speaker test Gaming and then we'll see how this device functions overall now some of you may ask How am I getting some of my apps? I use of course perl search as well as also apk pure which allowed me to download the apps that I wanted to use for This device now. This is also powered by the Kirin 9000 Yes, it is almost over 9000 if you get the DBZ joke there But this is a brand new processor that has shown some really impressive benchmarks But we want to see how that processor handles in terms of gaming now besides that you've got eight gigs of RAM You've got this beautiful design all together in turning you looking like a 4500 milliamp battery With some incredible charging you've got 66 watts charging 50 watts wireless charging 5 watts reverse wireless charging I mean, that's insane. That's some insane Yeah craziness like all the honking you're hearing outside, but that packs in a lot for what this device can do now It's also got dual speakers, which is something that's really nice because previous Huawei devices had kind of like a mono speaker setup But let's not waste any time and let's listen to the speakers and see how well they sound Impressive much louder richer And just overall solid speaker performance from the Mate 40 Pro now when it comes to gaming How well does that Kirin 9000 and 8 gigs of RAM come into play now? I got three games that I went ahead and played first one. I'm gonna start off with is Gentian impact now Gentian impact I wasn't able to do my FPS benchmark test for some reason. It just didn't work with this game I'm sure there'll be updates to it at some point But I was able to run the game at the maximum setting at 60 frames per second as you can see There were no visible slowdowns while playing the game. That's one thing I will mention There were no visible field that slowdowns the game played well it handled pretty well overall You can play on 30 and 60 and I like the performance. I got from that Now moving over to call a duty mobile now call duty mobile was quite interesting because We technically didn't get the highest setting I think this is what you will probably see with a lot of games on the Mate 40 Pro Because not all the games would be optimized to run on this device I'm gonna give that warning now first of all because again, there is no Google services So I'm sure a lot of developers are gonna take their time in terms of updating to match Of course the Kirin 9000 processor But you can see the settings on screen and we were to play that and we play the game It ran pretty smooth looked really nice altogether, but when it came to performance We did a solid 60 frames per second a hundred percent FPS and also the CPU usage was quite low think about 15% or so So again, you can see this thing runs very very well now moving over to pubg which usually is a performance hog Here again, we saw that we couldn't get the highest setting that is possible other vices aka the settings of ultra HD ultra But we could do smooth extreme which also task is the system and we decided to play at this And then when we played pubg at smooth extreme, we got a solid 60 frames per second a hundred percent FPS We didn't weren't able to see the game run at a higher frames per second at its You know screen refresh rate, but again, I'm sure that has to do with updating the game to match The device but overall performance was pretty good I was gonna play some Vainglory, but I couldn't play Vainglory because it just wasn't able to play it on this device So when it comes to gaming on the Mate 40 Pro as you look at the games and you play the games They play really well. The one thing I would add is that the touch sensitivity of the screen is Really really good. I don't know the exact numbers, but it feels so smooth And I really enjoyed playing called you do mobile on pubg on here was felt much better to aim Felt much better to strafe along the screen. So those are kind of things that tell that pretty nice Now when it comes to temperatures of the device while playing for about an hour or so The max temperature I got was about 98 degrees and that's it now while we doesn't mention any special cooling on this device I would say heat dissipation kind of feels around the device overall Which I think works pretty well for what they're trying to do and keeping those temperatures at 98 or roughly 34 degrees Selfish that is good to see on the Mate 40 Pro I think there are a lot of things you would like when it comes to the gaming performance here You couple that with the audio you're getting from the device I think you're gonna get a very smooth gaming performance Just remember this that at least as for now you have to download your APKs for the games You want and they may not be updated to the latest version while you're gaming But I will honestly tell you the gaming experience from what I've got it from the games that I played Has been pretty smooth the fact that it ran genshin impact That's a game that on the Galaxy on the iPhone 12 Pro had slowdowns had not up so slowdowns this I did not experience for the time I played which is roughly about 30 minutes or so So take that as you will maybe that would change once there's an update But we'll have to wait and see now the other aspect of this device that while we really does well is the Camera and while we has a brand new camera module here a 50 megapixel wide sensor 12 megapixel Periscopic zoom at 5x zoom 20 megapixel ultra wide and a front-facing camera. That's 13 megapixels Giving you some really cool looking photographs I've got to say why we does an impressive job with photos overall and we've seen it continue I wasn't able I wasn't able to shoot video. It's been raining. It says been really drab outside But if you guys want a video on the camera, let me know put those comments down below If you want to see a camera battle would save the iPhone 12 pro and the Galaxy That's something I like to do especially with low-light photography because this is really striking photos Just seeing this on the device right here when we come to the end of this video What do I think of the mate 40 pro? I absolutely love the device I actually do I've had it for a little bit of time and I've got to say that Gaming performance really impressed me The speakers are also really nice the cameras also came out pretty well and you know again It's only it's missing Google services, which kind of hinders it especially here in the US But if you're in Europe and if you're in other parts of the world where that isn't such a so important I would recommend this device fully I can't wait for Google services to come back to the mate to the mate line on the p-line because I think Huawei has done a really good job with their hardware. They've improved it They've showcased it and here's the other thing battery life, which I almost forgot to mention for playing about that hour hour and a half roughly is a total amount of time I played but battery life drove from hundred percent to 88 Which has been better than any of the devices I have used so far this year. I'll just put it that way It's not it's not a one-to-one test per se But I've really enjoyed the battery life on this and I've also heard from other youtubers that their battery performance has been really really good So take it as you will but if you have any questions any comments on the mate 40 pro Let me know guys also if you want to get that camera comparison leave those comments down below and please don't forget to Hit the like button smash the subscribe a button as well and of course the notification icon to get notified about latest videos So you can see more from this channel. Thank you very much Always enjoy your entertainment


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says simplify minus 5 multiplied by minus 11 plus minus 11 multiplied by 3. Before moving on to the solution let's recall the distributive law according to which we have if a, b, c are any three integers then a multiplied by b plus c is equal to a multiplied by b plus a multiplied by c. This is the key idea to be used in this session. Now let's proceed with the solution. We need to simplify minus 5 multiplied by minus 11 plus minus 11 multiplied by 3. Now using the distributive law here we have minus 5 multiplied by minus 11 plus minus 11 multiplied by 3 is equal to, now minus 11 would be common here so we take out minus 11 multiplied by minus 5 plus 3 and so this would be equal to minus 11 multiplied by minus 2 since minus 5 plus 3 is minus 2 and this would be equal to 22. Since both these numbers are negative so when we multiply these numbers the sign would be positive and so 22 if I will find an answer this completes the session hope you have understood the solution of this question.


Okay, by my timing that's 12.15. Let's kick things off here. Welcome to the weekly charting analysis webinar with CMC Markets and myself, Jasper Lawler. Just kind of a quick breeze through the risk warnings here. I should mention, as always, that feel free to fire through questions at any point. I'm happy to address them, whether it be some particular instrument you're interested in or some setup on the charts or a particular piece of news. I'm happy to give my opinion. So here's your blows here as the CMC Markets platform. We're about to see a new record open in the S&P 500. These are all the various sectors. This is something I posted last week. You can see that it's the technology sector that's gaining the most ground and pushing the market higher the most at the moment. But if we just view our traditional candlestick analysis, we can see that we've basically pushed above this tight recent trading range that we've been in just about and into new record territory. I would argue that it's not a very confident looking breakout with that previous peak and it's definitely some scope for a false breakout still. If you're brave, there's room for a countertrend trade here, but we're over 70 on the RSI, so looking a bit overboard, but obviously the trend is higher. So power for lease resistance is for higher prices, but only narrowly outside of this trading range at the moment. Another thing to bear in mind is that the US 30, our proxy for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, is still beneath those peaks that we reached earlier in July. But I would say given that the S&P is set to open in new record territory, I would say that odds are favouring the US 30 at least going for a run up towards that 18-700 mark, which would be just a bit of round figure resistance as we trade up into record territory where it's obviously all just open air. There's no previous support resistance to really tell us. And as I mentioned last week's webinar, a very optimistic scenario is that the Fibonacci extension of this move in correction would push that up to 1900-700, but obviously got 19,000 in the way first, and that would be quite an impressive move to get up there. So summarising, I think the trend is higher, but obviously it's difficult mentally to buy into record highs. We always have a temptation to believe the top's in, and obviously there will be some short term top at some point. It's almost impossible to picture exactly where my attitude towards it is, just from the experience I have of watching the markets, is that it's really better to try and ride the trend rather than try and predict its end. So what's driving these gains? Well, I think certainly the Bank of England has played its part. We can have a look at the UK 100 as well to see that. The Bank of England obviously stepped in with more aggressive monetary policy than most expected, and having done so, it pushes back the expectation that the Fed can be the only central bank out there diverging with the rest and hiking interest rates. That's obviously positive for US stocks, if the Fed hold back, but maybe the economic data in the US is improving a little bit, judged on the non-farm payrolls result that we had on Friday. So that's a bit of the Goldilocks scenario that stocks like monetary policy in the Fed is remaining easy in the US, getting easier in Europe. And of course, economic growth looking a bit better in Q3 than it was in Q2 for the US at least. We had some economic data, not economic data, but some data from Visa, suggesting that consumer spending was pretty stable, actually rose in July, month over month. And so they said that the growth in consumer spending had moderated a bit, but still growing. So obviously no real signs of Brexit fears there, not evidence matching that of what happened with business sentiment where manufacturing and service companies reported a big drop-off in new orders. So it remains to be seen who's going to prove correct here, the consumer who keeps demanding these goods and services, which companies should respond to and keep producing them, or the business is right to be uncertain after the Brexit vote and the uncertainty around the trade deals and things. It remains to be seen. We do have some hard economic data for the UK this week, but it's industrial manufacturing production and that has a bit of a lag. So unfortunately that won't tell us too much about post-Brexit Britain, but it will be a bit of a hard economic data to corroborate where the UK economy was up in that lead-up to the Brexit vote. And so far the hard economic data, not just surveys and sentiments and things, has actually been fairly decent for the UK in the end of Q2. So here we are, having broken out of this previous range in the UK 100, and we've stalled at this peak from August 6th. Now we're up at this previous peak around July 20th, July 17th. We did pop above there, but we're coming off the highs a bit today. So this I would argue is quite a solid resistance. And I actually had this line in. It didn't really have this previous peak, which actually did work quite well, just because I noted the strength of the pullback back in May of 2015 when it was acting as support and then it acted well again as resistance later. So I had that as a stronger level than this level. So we are up there now. And if we do get a pullback down past this previous peak, if we pull out to the weekly chart, that would start to look a bit like a false breakout. Nonetheless, same principle, the trend is higher, but we've got a bit more resistance, because obviously we're below record peaks for the UK 100. So I think we really need to be clearing this 875 up here before we can start feeling a lot more confident and thinking that we can actually go up and challenge that 7100 again and new record peaks for the UK 100 and the FTSE 100, obviously. I mean, if you project this range of about 5800 to about 6500, you call that a 700 point range, you add 700 points on top of 6500, that puts you to 7200. So a very simplistic sort of mirror effect of that range projected above, now that we've broken above it, would be positive for the market. So if you are looking for some sort of emotional stability when you're buying into these new peaks, that's something to bear in mind. There is some technical reasoning here that this trend could continue. Let's have a look at the Germany 30. So this is interesting. So we had various levels of support and resistance working quite effectively here, in a complicated manner, I should add. So we had the downsloping trend line, which we broke above, but we failed at the previous yearly resistance, the 2016 highs. Came back down, broke back through that declining trend line, found support of the 200-day moving average, and we've rallied straight back up to that 10,500. My interpretation of this situation is that while 10,500 certainly could be resistance again, I think the fact that we're back up here so quickly after having touched it recently, to me suggests that the market is poised for a breakout higher. And the next major level of resistance in my mind is about 10,870, which in a way looks much similar to the kind of support and resistance that we're looking at in the 1,100 different dates. But that same principle as to why I've actually pulled out that level, just because it's worked on a couple of occasions. And obviously just above there we have the 11,000 round number mark. So still inside the range for now, but looking at the higher lows on the RSI momentum, the fact that we're not actually overbought yet, and that we've so quickly turned around off the 200-day moving average to me suggests some demand. And if you're looking for an excuse fundamentally, I think again it's the Bank of England of East Policy, while that's not necessarily great for exporters from Europe into the UK, because obviously sterling is weaker, Euro proportionately higher, it probably does increase the odds of the ECB expanding policy at some point in the not too distant future. And so that would obviously be supportive of European markets and the Germany 30. Another sort of big mover today is the oil market. So the chatter today has been that Venezuela and a few other oil producing countries are trying to organise a freeze in output amongst OPEC. We've already had a good rebound off the lows, so this is just kind of adding to it a bit. And obviously given that we've already seen sort of three pretty solid days of gains today, the momentum's slowing off a bit despite this news. But I would also argue that it's in part due to the fact that any sort of agreement at this stage to me seems unlikely, because we still have a big spat between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Saudi Arabia, if you remember, basically refusing to freeze its own output unless Iran's involved, but Iran doesn't want to do anything until it's scaled up its production back to those kind of presanctions levels. And so Iran actually has expanded production a lot faster than most people thought. The general expectation was it would take Iran a couple of years to get their oil output back to the same extent that it was before the US and the West in general put sanctions on them because of their nuclear program. Obviously since that those sanctions have been lifted, the nuclear program's been sort of agreed upon to some extent. They've really ramped it up and Iran is not far off its presanction levels now. And so to my mind, November when the next OPEC meeting is, it is a bit of a live meeting if you like. It's potential that actually they do reach some agreement because if Iran has got its all output back to where it is, they have more of an economic reasoning to go along with an output freeze to try and stabilize prices because they've got their output to where they want it again. So the timing as far as now looks a bit dubious to me as far as any kind of agreement. So on that basis this rally may run at a steam fairly soon because fundamentally it's not all there to my mind. And I would still characterize this as a downtrend, but we have basically, if you take the median of the Brent WTI prices, Brent basically found support at 41, WTI found support around 39, the median's 40. So you could sort of say 40 plus the 200 day moving averages, quite strong support. And so that's why I think we're getting a good technical rally here. But it certainly would not be a surprise to me to see sometime before, using our cash prices here, before 45 or 4550 where we had the low from July, it wouldn't be a surprise to me to see the market roll back over and try to retest somewhere near those lows. But I think probably what we're looking at here in general is that this sort of 45 to 50 range has transitioned into a new lower range of maybe 40 to 45. And obviously you've got to change that opinion should we break below 40, that median level of 40, 41 on the Brent chart. But to my mind that looks less likely at the moment given the strength of this rebound. If we do take out 41, then obviously the random number 40, that corresponds quite well with a 50% retracement of this entire up move for this year. So if we see some big selling coming into this rally here, maybe it can get halted down there at some quite strong confluence of support. But even if we get down to 40, obviously that still kind of supports a sort of 40 to 50 range in Brent. Switching over to gold now. So I mentioned in my, well we mentioned in the evening note on Friday, the evening call that the fact that gold put in a lower peak here, not quite been able to take out the highs from July 11. Well I think that's why I was here July 6. To me this down move here suggests maybe gold's in a bit of trouble. I mean the reason that gold's fallen off obviously is that we've got a big rebound in the dollar. So the rebound in the dollar is because the economic data in the US was strong. And as we were saying earlier, yes the economic data in the US is strong, but can the Fed really go up against every other central bank in the world which is cutting into a state and be the one to diverge so strongly by in fact tightening policy and hiking rates. It's quite debatable. So if you're of the opinion that the Fed aren't going to hike rates, obviously that's negative for gold. That supports the idea of something along the lines of a double top forming here. Or if you believe the Fed doesn't really have much scope for tightening and they've got the good excuse of the US election coming up as well. Then actually this is just a correction in gold and you'll be looking at that 1,300 level to hold. By the way I've got this line in here and I think it is significant. We had a series of sort of opens and closes in around this sort of 1,330 type area and that's right where we are now today. So a close above that level today could see Kitty Gold supported in the interim below there and I think a test of 1,300 is certainly on the cards. Of course not certainly, but likely. And if you do use momentum indicators just sort of thinking it through here that we've had a couple of failed attempts to get through the 50 level down below 50 on the RSI would denote a sort of more bearish momentum. And then obviously that is coinciding with this apparent level of resistance turned support where we currently sit. Now I'll jump over to the FX markets. As far as the economic data we had some data out of China today and the trade data you know it was fairly weak but it wasn't anything to really write home about and I don't think it's worried markets too much. You could see mining shares are stronger than the 50-100. A good indicator of the markets not being too phased but really is the data out of China that's going to dominate proceedings this week. Industrial production, retail sales, inflation data all coming out from China this week. And we've got the RBNZ so the Reserve Bank of New Zealand rate statement. Not typically something I put a lot of focus on but I think it would just be interesting because obviously the RBA, the Reserve Bank of Australia they cut in just right so given the closeness of those two economies there's a bit of an increased speculation that the RBNZ might do the same. So I'll just pull up the Euro chart here. As I've been mentioning for several weeks in a row here just very choppy in the Euro. We basically had a false breakout through 112 so that was our resistance and we got an immediate close the next day and that was a bearish engulfing candlestick so to my mind with the benefit of hindsight that's not a bad setup when you have a decent resistance like this zone here that I've highlighted. A breakout here and then a sell right beneath it the following day with a bearish engulfing candlestick with the benefit of hindsight and it will sell down to the 200-day moving average and we found some support there. Obviously it took some strength for the market to be able to push out above that 112 and so I think the scope now for a fairly well-defined downsloping RSI trend line here that could turn into support near the 50 level and that would obviously be matching up with the 200-day moving averages of support so maybe with a bit of confirmation this could be the beginnings of another attempt at that 112 and then a push up towards 130. What can cause that? Well obviously for the Euro to be rising the dollar has to be weakening and that's not the current state of affairs. The one bit of US data worth noting is US retail sales but that's not until Friday. The expectation there is for a bit of a slow down growth to moderate from 0.6% to 0.4%. We do have on the same day we've got German GDP data as well and the first reading for European GDP so two big data points but we have to wait until Friday for those. Let's have a look at Sterling. I hope you're able to catch my colleague Michael's video update on Sterling post the Buoy decision. So far for those who attended last week you remember that I mentioned that we had some scope for an inverse in shoulders so this trend line is holding together quite remarkably so we came down to those new 3-week lows in cable but we bounced off this same trend line trying to just get it clear to look at but you can see it's holding up quite well. Basically it extended right shoulder in this inverse hidden shoulders pattern so the fundamentally with certainly a bit more of a sledgehammer than the many were expecting they kind of doubled down on the cheap financing for banks to make loans and more QE than the most expected. I didn't expect any QE and so the fact there was over that 60 billion a month in new asset purchases including corporate bonds is certainly above and beyond the core and so that fundamentally is pretty negative for Sterling so it certainly wouldn't be a surprise to see it come and test down those Brexit lows around 128 like I said at the moment this is a possible formation where this would be the kind of simple breakout from here but this is becoming an extended right shoulder so feasible certainly still that we get a rally up to 134 would probably be about where you see the neckline at the moment. Oh got a question on copper, yeah I'll jump across to that. Question being on high grade I mean we just have the one copper contract we've obviously got futures interpretations of it but in terms of the cash variant this is really the only one that I follow and you can see that we've basically had a series of false breaks through the sort of 205 type level failed to get beneath 200 and we're right up towards the top of the range we got up towards the top of the range before faltering right into the middle and so I'm looking at this as a very trendless market at the moment and this is one of the kind of least lower probability trades is to buy or sell in the middle of a trading range and I know it's choppy but to my mind this is sort of 205 to 220 trading range and so given the fact that we're right in the middle at 215 I mean it could go up, it could go down from here there is no real obvious trend to my mind that said we're above the 200 day moving average but it hasn't helped on these previous occasions has it so the moving averages they only help when they're trending in the right direction we're above the 200 day moving average but the 200 day moving average is actually sloping downwards so if we are in a bottoming process it's still taking place it hasn't happened yet so that said it's a pretty good support down from this previous low because we obviously have these string of highs we had that big drop down but failed to close below there and so the sort of 210 to 11 has been really strong resistance broken and then really strong support twice and it's only going to be a shade away from the 200 day moving average so should the price drop further to there that would to be an obvious inflection point but like I said that would be trading of support but not in an uptrend just still within a longer term range which does pose some risks theoretically a busy week for the outlook for copper this week we have the Chinese data I think copper at the moment is not as closely synced with Chinese data as you might have thought and I think that's just because the Chinese data continues to underwhelm but there's a sort of a bit of a confidence that things can improve because the government is doubling down and just doing a lot of extra kind of government spending doing some deficit spending even so that hope that that kind of infrastructure spending is going to feed through particularly into the housing sector and maybe beneficial for communities so as long as we get more hawkish talk from the Chinese government I think that's generally positive should they start to reel back from that that would maybe be the reason to be worried on the downside equally we've had some very spurious kind of news about copper being used as a sort of guarantee for loans in China and so they were warehousing lots of copper using it as collateral for loans but then it turned out there wasn't actually as much copper as they said in the warehouses so that was a bit of a kind of confidence shocker and suddenly they weren't using copper as much for collateral so copper is not as useful as maybe it was in a financial sense when it was getting a good rally earlier in the year so that again is maybe a bit of a weight around its neck I'll slide back to currencies if it's alright so we looked at sterling let's have a quick look at euro against the pound so we've held this rising trend line pretty well a big bullish engulfing candlestick off the rising trend line taking us above this previous resistance taking us above the previous peak so I think generally looking quite supportive at the moment in euro sterling and again the ECB kind of unhold at the moment even though eventually down the road they might be forced to do more whereas obviously the Bank of England are in sort of easing mode so fundamentally reason for euro sterling to push higher and I would say that's still generally the short term trend at the moment it's a weak looking trend and then I think obviously the guide post for me as to whether you remain supportive of this market remain supported or not would just be this rising trend line below there and I think all bets are off then we get a drop down towards 80 again but at the moment it looks like it's looking for a challenge back of the highs around 86 last but not least dolly yen so certainly one of the better trends out there this is the weekly chart so really a nice strong downtrend to be part of but we've hit that 100 level so the question mark is does 100 call the bottom in dolly yen I think there is some scope for that we took out this I had a rising trend line off the lows here but it was only two touches they're not too much to be read from that you want three touches at least on a trend line for it to be valid but people are buying in at 101 obviously taking us above 102 signs that there is some long term buying at this big psychological 100 mark so at the moment we're range bound and we're kind of back this is a lower probability trade as we get up towards 103 but any dips down towards 101 100 again you're in a downtrend and you're buying the bottom of a downtrend but it looks like it's transitioning to a range that said should we get a push to 104 I think by the time we get there we'll be back in the vicinity of the 50 day moving average and that was good support from July 13th and July 26th so scope for a fall away from that 104 mark should get there but maybe won't be enough to be sustained drop down to the lows so that pretty much calls the 30 minute mark for today's webinar thank you all very much for attending much appreciated good luck with the trading this week see you at the same time next week Jasper signing out


What's up everybody and welcome to another special edition of the Falcons final whistle podcast Recorded right here in the ticket master studios and We have 17 little news nuggets to talk about Tori. Why? Because it's schedule release day and as you put it on Twitter Happy schedule release day to all who observe and there are lots of you. Yeah and celebrate. Yeah Who are super into it because we've known the opponents and who the foul the teams the Falcons are going to play I just had that battle of is it who or whom so I'm right teams instead I'm not sure of my own grammar and my English teacher from the 12th grade would be really disappointed if I mess that up non sequitur over We have the Falcons schedule. We've known the opponents for a long time now. They're in an order and They have the lowest in the NFL strength of schedule, which can mean something sometimes because it what it technically means is that the The combined record in 2022 of the opponents on the 23 slate lowest in the league Which kind of makes you think if the order is good Then it's quite possible that the Falcons have a chance to make hay in a wide-open NFC self Right, we're gonna go through this in segments, right, but it's kind of boring podcast You know yeah strategy, right if I just read a bunch of names. Yeah, so we're not gonna do that But how about this everybody have like a two-screen experience? Load up this podcast on YouTube open a separate browser or if you're listening in your car Don't mess with your phone and then we can read it to you, but nonetheless Just real quick kind of highlights. They open up week one against Carolina. They obviously play Jacksonville in London They have on they have an 11 week a week 11 by they actually play every team that took the top four quarterbacks So so there's a lot of interesting things for us to discuss before we get into this thing Chronologically Tori their buy is also in week 11 not after the London game. There are no Thursday games on this slate So the rest is pretty even yeah now when you first looked at the schedule. What did you make of it? What kind of themes did you extract? from what you saw yeah, I think first things first was just from a You know 5,000 foot view you were talking about the strength of schedule And I think there was something that we were reading where it's like, you know when you this is the Easiest strength of schedule of any team since 2018 Wow And since that time four of the six teams that have had the easiest strength of schedule during that time made it to the playoffs Not saying that this is like track record for you know The Falcons or anything like that but when you that's just the facts of it Those are the statistics of it when you have a strength of schedule that looks like this And I think that that was something that more than where they're playing who they're playing the totality of this was where I kind of zeroed in on but just to kind of like Go go into it. I think This was something that I said and I kind of laughed about I was like, you know There's no such thing as a perfect buy, but thereby we can week 11. I think is very Good Especially considering, you know two years ago They had the earliest buy because you at that time you had to take your buy after a London game And they played the Jets in 21 in London and had to take the buy in week six It was the earliest by week last year. They had the latest by week in week 14. Yeah, and that was late Yeah, the guys were you could tell we're feeling it and I was 12 and 13. Yeah, I mean it was that was tough Like and having it early in the season in 21 was tough But now they finally have a buy week that sandwiched in a really good spot kind of right before The Thanksgiving week, which I think is you know that that time in the middle of November That's where you would want it. All right, so let's break this thing down not in quadrants I mean 17 is an odd number anyway, but let's break this schedule down into three segments. Let's start with the first four games I want to highlight A couple of them week one at home against Carolina week two at home is starting with a two-game road trip Against a Roger List Green Bay Packers, and then they go on a two-game road trip and it's there's a lot of Frequent flyer miles being collected there week three they play at Detroit week four They play quote-unquote at Jacksonville, but it's really at London's Wembley Stadium So that's our first segment that I want to dive into. Yeah London is an attraction. We're gonna get to that But let's go to week one here because this is super fascinating Oh, I love this game air of mystery Surrounding this game. Yeah is palatable and that's what that's why I think it's gonna be so entertaining to watch How this plays out because there's so much mystery it really is I mean you think about it, you know Just in and of itself the Panthers have gone through a coaching change this offseason and then they you know send Bukus of draft capital and you know They really the break the break the bank to get Bryce young and they get him They get the number he is the number one overall draft pick in 23 in the 2023 draft and he is a Carolina Panther He's gonna be their starting quarterback week one, you know, that's just gonna happen barring anything absolutely crazy happening You have no if you're the Falcons you have no earthly idea what that means for Carolina You don't know what it means you don't know what type of Carolina team you're getting you don't know You don't have anything to go off of because preseason don't even get me started on preseason preseason doesn't matter I don't care about the preseason. I mean I do care But not really like in terms of being able to discern who a team is in week one, right?  It's kind of cool I mean, it's kind of I think this is when things are it's most fun, but the other layer to this There's another side of this coin in that the Falcons defense specifically looks so different than it did in 21 or 22 they have so much more I mean, I'll say at firepower more money has been pumped into more resources has been pumped into this defense a new defensive coordinator and Ryan Nielsen who you have no idea really what his game day play calling is because Didn't do that with the Saints And so there are so many layers of mystery in this one game Happening in week one that I think it is the best opportunity to really see like a true chess match Yeah, in in real time and there's no way Arthur Smith is gonna throw out any offensive scouted looks either he likes to add layers of the unknown to it and Seeing Bryce Young in week one probably the best possible thing because there will be nerves And maybe they won't be as reliant on his Magician-like capabilities as they might be when they play Carolina later in the year and in week 15 So to catch the Panthers and their new dynamic quarterback in week one Probably a plus for Atlanta, especially with the Smith Nielsen uncertainty of it all Green Bay is kind of in a team in transition Detroit is a team that used to used to be able to just like write a big green W right right there not any more Yeah, this is a fun up-and-coming team that plays like the Falcons built up front I'm skipping past these because we have to get to facing a real upstart franchise in Jacksonville And going across the pond to do it combined with not getting a buy on the other end All that stuff break that down for us because it's gonna be a challenge for the Falcons Especially Jacksonville is also of note is gonna go set up shop in London for two consecutive weeks So they're gonna go make a home base Atlanta has to go in there play an AFC playoff team and come back and get ready for week five Yeah, and I think that's it's pretty difficult to do when you really think about it And I but the thing is is I understand not having the bye week after the London game because at this It's the right thing for the Falcons right at this point I especially looking at the totality of the the schedule. I mean, it's not to me It's not a necessity to have it and especially because of the way that I think I don't know these London games have become More of the norm, you know going overseas the Falcons did it in 2021 and at that time I didn't think they needed a bye week after that. I mean you get home after the game It's just like it's like a West Coast trip, you know, it's in I think it's not It's not as big of a deal I think and here I'm saying that not suiting up not playing not really having to like to have the whole time change and Affecting that but this is a 9 30 a.m. Body clock game though, right? That's the one and that's the way Yeah, I wish that it was later in the afternoon and not a 1 o'clock kickoff like in eastern time You know, I think that that kind of I don't like but I will say I think that where it is and Looking at okay. You have Carolina. You have Green Bay. You have Detroit I think those three teams get you to a good place to where you're ready to face a team like Jacksonville who like what you said is Up and coming there, right? I mean they were in the playoffs last year and they made a run, you know And I think they they're a team that has done a lot via the draft in in recent years That's they're a fun team to watch Rebuild as well. So I I don't know. I think but in terms of like breaking this up It's not that's not the hardest part of the schedule in my mind and especially started with two home games I think can be a real advantage and that leads us into segment two, which I'll call the trap section Yeah, because you can we don't do W's and L's here But you could look at Houston Washington Tampa with a new quarterback Tennessee in a bit of a rebuild mode Minnesota when a lot of one-score games in Arizona is seems to be Really rebuilding and you could look at that and say oh They say if I can pronounce that correctly that they're gonna come out of that with a lot But I'm calling it trap section meaning that you got to be healthy. You're a long way from the buy Yeah, you it's possible possible to surge during that section and build some confidence Or you could also look back and be like we didn't take that seriously enough We didn't take enough advantage of this part in the schedule and maybe you're maybe you're Regretful when you get to that week 11 by right and that's what you don't want if you're the Falcons you want it I have called it, you know, you're calling it like the trap part of the the schedule I've been calling it the October grind because you start October in London playing the Jags And then you have four more games in October against the Texans the commanders the Bucks and Tennessee and that two-game road trip Against the Bucks and then you'd come home and then you immediately go up to Tennessee to play a pretty good Titans team. I mean That that's a really that part of it when you have now gone. That's in week Seven and week eight. You've gone that many weeks without, you know a break or anything like that I think that's the part of the the season that I think is kind of the grind That's the grind of the season is is from week Seven to to the buy right and that's what you how you want to be able to like grind through it and get the winds And I think this is where the Falcons run game You would hope is like fully established and you are just like firing on all cylinders And at this point in the season, but if they're not that's a different story and it what happens in October greatly impacts How you go into week 12 after the buy? Yeah, and when you look at this buy We're talking about placement in terms of in terms of time on the calendar It also comes after their only West Coast trip wet They're only Western trip and then you come back and you play the rival Saints at home with an extra week That's a huge swing there But if you look at the third segment of the year four of the last seven are against the NFC South Which that's all the Falcons should care about yeah is can you win the division? What will it take to win the division? And I think winning the division is gonna come down to two games against New Orleans a home game against Tampa a road game Against Carolina. Yeah, and this is the point in the season where you are 100% the word playoffs should be in the back of your head Honestly in the forefront of your mind You are playing to get a playoff birth and Arthur Smith has said it before too He said it last year, you know the easiest way to get into the playoffs is to win your division the Falcons Could win the division if you go and beat the Saints and you beat Carolina and you beat Tampa Bay in This chunk of time at the end of the season Yeah, and that's why it's gonna be interesting and you'd think coming off of that buy They would have had a chance to tinker with some things But the these Vic not like any game is more or less important than any but they're also gonna have to Play well in close games. That's something that we always talk about. They never travels between seasons Two years ago. They were really good in close games in 2022 they weren't and that impacted their record. Now. This is a better overall team a deeper That's a huge word a deeper overall team that they're gonna need to withstand Especially Saints at New York Jets talk about strength of schedule being sort of misleading That that that low Jets number included Zach Wilson and not Aaron Rogers a little bit different team now So I think when you look at that section in totality I think it's definitely a very crucial section But you've had the buy you've had an opportunity to gain some momentum or to figure out what all these new pieces can do And when playing together now as we wrap this thing up Tori And this is kind of the big question when it comes to the schedule when you look at this schedule It seems maybe not advantageous, but I don't think it's disadvantageous in terms of how it's structured When you look at this schedule and you consider the parity within the NFC South is there a path to the NFC No, they have to play well and execute But is there a path or are or are there any obstacles standing in their way to winning the NFC South? I mean, of course, there's obstacles are always are but I do think that when you're looking at the team that the Falcons have put together In 2023, I mean, we're we're near a complete team at this point You know, you got to go through OTA's and you got to go through training camp and you'll cut down to a 53 man roster But I feel like if I were to go out and make a depth chart right now It'd be pretty dang close to what it'll be in week one barring any injuries or any major reconstructions So all of that to say I Think it's really important to remember that over the last two years This Falcons team this organization has been pieced together with rookies who were asked to start their careers and in to be Playmakers and to be important pieces really really early in their careers and A lot of veterans on one-year deals because the Falcons just didn't have any money to pay anybody in the long term That's what they had for these last two years and they were seven and ten both years in 21 and 22 I think the Falcons outplayed expectations I think they they did more than what I think a lot of people gave them credit for and that was with the team That was put together with rookies and vets on one-year deals That's not the team that you're looking at right now You're looking at a team that has been meticulously put together Those rookies are now better for the two years that they have had to be relied upon There are a lot of them are you're in area in year two year three, then you got and get Jesse Bates, David Onumata, Caden Ellis Colise Campbell, Bud DePri, and those are all just guys on the defense Then you get Bajon Robinson. I Mean this is a team that When I'm looking at this schedule Knowing what Arthur Smith and Terry Fano and the whole football staff was able to do with what they had the last two years and go seven and ten I Mean it's hard for me not to to feel Very different going into this season than I had the last two years and I think when you look at how it's broken down You need to start well not hot You need to start well come out of that 500 of the first four you probably feeling okay And then you talk about the October grind so so start well Don't dig yourself a hole grind through the middle of the season and find your footing to finish strong post by I think if you can somehow do those three things over the course of those three segments of this schedule The Falcons can at least put themselves in position maybe to play for all the marbles in week 11 against the New Orleans Saints So did we come up with any absolute answers here? No, we can't because it's the spring and I refuse to But I do think that there's a lot of insight to be gleaned and there's ways to understand how the Falcons depth can play into it It's gonna be fascinating to watch it play out. We're gonna start actually watching some version of football pretty soon We have rookie minicamp coming up on the weekend of Friday, May 12th They were gonna lead into OTAs and minicamp Everybody's gonna go find a white sand beach and a Mai Tai and we're gonna come back and we're gonna Attack this season. I think it's gonna be so much fun guys. Thank you so much for joining us here on Falcons final whistle Recorder right here in the Ticketmaster studios and we will talk to you again really soon probably post OTAs post minicamp Something where we can bring in more football Falcons Falcons football analysis. Yeah, rate review subscribe all that fun stuff Appreciate you guys for joining as always. We will talk to you again soon. See ya


Live from Barcelona, Spain, it's theCUBE, covering KubeCon CloudNativeCon Europe 2019, brought to you by Red Hat, the CloudNative Computing Foundation and ecosystem partners. In mid-2014, announced the world coming out of Google, led by Joe Beta, sitting to my right, Brendan Burns and Craig McLachy, all CUBE alumni, Kubernetes, which is the Greek for governor, or helmsman or captain. And here we are five years later at the show. I'm Stu Minim and this is theCUBE's coverage of KubeCon CloudNativeCon here in Barcelona, Spain. Joe, you know, you've got your title today, is that you are a principal engineer at VMware, of course, by way of acquisition through Heptio, but you are one of the people that helped start this journey that we are all on, on Kubernetes. Thanks so much for joining us. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. All right, so the cake and the candles and the singing will hold for the parties later. We have Fippy and the gang have been watching our whole thing for people don't know. There's a whole cartoon, you know, books and stuffed animals and everything like that. So, you know, Joe, when you started this merchandising, that was, you know, what you were starting to know.   Was this what you were expecting? I mean, you know, when I remember Craig and Bren and I sitting around and we're like, hey, we should do this as an open source project. This was before we got approvals and got the whole thing started. And I think there was like an idea in the back of our head of like, this could be a big deal.  And so I don't think anybody involved with Kubernetes in the early days really thought it was going to turn into what it has turned into. Yeah, so when we look at open source projects, you know, I remember back a few years back, it was like to succeed, you must have a fanatical dictator that will make sure that the community does this or like, we don't want too much vendor, we're just going to let the user community take over. And you know, there's all of these extremes out there, but these are complicated pieces.  It's like, I've got all of these APIs and you know, by itself, Kubernetes doesn't do a lot. It is what it enables and what things put together. So walk us through a little bit of that, you know, the mission, how it changed a bit and you know, a little bit of the community and we'll go from there. Yeah, I think so early on, I mean, a big one of the goals with Kubernetes from Google's point of view was to essentially take a lot of the ideas that had been incubated over about a decade with respect to Borg and other things. And so a lot of the early folks who got involved in the project had worked on those systems and really bring that to the outside world as a way to actually start bridging the gap between what Googlers did and what the rest of the world did.  We brought in some of the Red Hat folks early on, Clayton Coleman, some of the other folks who are still super involved in the project. And I think there was enough of an understanding that we looked and said, okay, we got a lot of work to do, let's just get this done. And so we didn't really need sort of the benevolent dictator because there was a shared understanding and we had senior engineers that were willing to make trade-offs to be able to go and move forward. And so that I think was a key bit of the success early on. All right, so you talked, it was pulling in some other vendor community there. Talk a little bit about how that ecosystem grew and when was user feedback part of that discussion? Yeah, well, I mean, when you say we pulled in the vendor, we pulled in people who worked for vendors, but we never really viewed it as like, there was really, from the beginning, this idea of like, well, what's good for the project? What's going to actually create sustainability and for the project over, sort of project over vendors, really something that we wanted to establish. And that even came down to the name, right? Like when we named the project, we could have called it Google XYZ or some sort of XYZ, but we didn't want to do that because we wanted to establish it as an independent thing with a life of its own. And so yeah, so we wanted to bring in those external ideas. And I think early on, we did have some early users, we did listen to them, but it really resonated with folks who could actually see where we were going. I think it took time for the rest of the world to really catch on with what the vision was. Okay, when you look at today, there's a lot at the show that is on top of her next to or with Kubernetes. It's not all about that piece. How do you balance what goes in it versus what goes with it? One of my favorite lines last year overall was from you saying Kubernetes is not a magic layer. It is not the be all and end all. It is set with very specific guidelines. How do you avoid scope creep? I mean, as engineers, it's always like, I don't know, we know how to do that piece of it better. So this is, I mean, so when we started out the project, we didn't actually have a governance model.  Over time, and as the project grew, we knew that we needed to actually get some sort of structure in place.  There's a SIG architecture that we formed. And these are the places where we can actually say, well, what is Kubernetes? What is Kubernetes not? How do we actually keep, make sure that we maintain sort of good taste with how we actually approach this stuff? And that's one of the ways that we try to contain scope creep. But also, I think everybody realizes that a thriving ecosystem, whether officially part of the CNCF or adjacent to it, is good for everybody. Trying to hold on too tight is not going to be good for the project. So Joe, tremendous progress in five years. Look forward for us a little bit. What does Kubernetes 2024 look like for us? Well, a lot of folks like to say that, in five years, Kubernetes is going to disappear. And sometimes they come at this from the sort of snarky angle. But other times I think it's going to disappear in terms of like, it's going to be so boring, so solid, so assumed that people don't talk about it anymore. I mean, we're here at something that, the CNCF is part of the Linux Foundation, which is great. But how often do people really focus on the Linux kernel these days? It is so boring, so solid. There's new stuff going on, but like clearly all the exciting stuff, all the action, all the innovation is happening at higher layers. And I think we're going to see something similar happen with Kubernetes over time. Yeah, that being said, the reach of Kubernetes is further than ever. I was talking to the special interest group looking at edge computing and IoT, you know, people making the microcades version of this stuff, when the team first got together, I mean, you must look at, said there were many fathers, many parents of this solution, but could you imagine kind of the family and ecosystem that would have grown out of it? I think we knew that it could go there. I mean, Google had some experience with this. I mean, when Google bought YouTube, they had a problem where they had to essentially build out something that looked a little bit like a CDN. And so there were some examples of sort of like, how does technology like Borg adapt to an edge type of situation. And so there was some experience to borrow and we definitely knew that we wanted this thing to scale up and down. But I think that's a hallmark of these successful technologies is that they can be used in ways and in places that you really never thought about when you got started. And so that's definitely true. All right, Joe, I want to give you the final word, the contributors, the users, the ecosystem community. What do you say with five years of Kubernetes now in the world? I just want to send a huge thank you to everybody who made it happen. This is, it was started by Google. It was started by a few of us early on, but we really want to make it so that everybody feels like it's theirs. I mean, a lot of times, Brendan Burns and me and Kelsey wrote a book together and I'll do signing. And a lot of times I'll sign that and I'll say thank you for being a part of Kubernetes because I really feel like every user, everybody who bets on it, everybody who shares their knowledge, they're really a big part of it. And so thank you to everybody who's a big part of Kubernetes. All right, well, Joe, thank you as always for sharing your knowledge with our community. Thank you so much. We've been happy to be a small part in helping to spread the knowledge and everything going on here. So congratulations to the community on five years of Kubernetes and we'll be back with more coverage here from KubeCon, CloudNativeCon 2019. I'm Stu Miniman and thanks for watching theCUBE.