Everybody forced here ripping spectra basketball full case number four pick your team style read off the names and teams here give me just a sec Alexander M. King's Andrew H. Nick's Anthony T. Nuggets Bernard H. Mavericks Bob H. Magic Bogey B. Pacers boss with the Clippers Brian L. Hawks Chihau Bucks Ching has the Rockets Ching Hua with the T Wolves Chun Wei Hornets Eric W. Has the Pistons Ezekiel Warriors Frank C Thunder Joel T. Celtics and Jazz Mark M. Cavs Mike Y. Grizzlies Nathaniel S. Wizards Noah B. Lakers Phillip N. Spurs Robert P. Blazers Talun with the nuts Tommy L. Sons Tony W. Sixers Tony C. Heat Victor F. Raptors Wade T. Bulls and Wang S with the Pelicans Let's do this Let's do this Ice cream trucks out there.  You pay on your own Other businesses like yo, what's going on over there this week, right that trucks every day All right case four All right first up. You've got Roddy rookie Ubrey and Murray that one's numbered to 199 for the 149 for the Hawks Pistons autograph or she'd Wallace deep space Or she'd Wallace Pistons deep space auto the 99 Nice she'd Twins are gonna win the L central by default, right? They're like the same they're like the same record is like the red sox Got Jeremy Grant to 99 for the Blazers Bucks and Sons retrospect auto Goren Drogic Bucks and Sons Number to 99 Could have like eight teams of that guy too The Raptors There's a couple of there's there's there's one that he played for like four games that thing Nice Fontechio rookie to 25 for the jazz Redemption Chris Middleton color graphs go into the Bucks Color graphs Chris Middleton Hey Sounds good. Jay might be able to I might have to have someone order for me Aiden on the psychedelic for the Sons Everything you hear that Jay everything and a 49 is spurs malachi brand on murky jersey auto He played for bulls too. I don't remember. I don't remember that. That's too none of my mind Nice brand them for the spurs good stuff I wonder What's gonna say is it just ice creamers or other stuff? They got like Dairy Queen going on out there chicken tenders french fries Alvarado to 99 for the pelicans And there it is magic and bulls horse grant retrospect Number to 25 magic and bulls That holds that whole set is the magic tray murphy bam out of bio malik beesley lakers to 25 Patrick Baldwin jr. On the rookie jersey auto for the for the warriors numbered to 75 Lamella ball for charlotte's out of 99 five of 99 And xire williams to 99 radiant autograph grizzlies Got the iron box on the hyper there yannis number two 149 for milwaukie And paul pierce illustrious legends on card autograph for the celtics The truth eight of 75 nice hit sees They should just do they should just do autos where it's all the teams they played for Ev like chris paul has just like He was a wizard, but his contract was with the wizards Guys still two to go it's warriors And it's uh nuggets in the next one warriors and nuggets Yeah, both teams are on sale. We got to share something on slide. What do we got? Oh, here we go here we go. Yeah, dude. Oh, I'm gonna Yelp, that's for real. They got a frozen cereal bowl What okay? Yeah, that's what is that? I don't know. It was in cereal. I saw that and I'm like, yo What is frozen cereal bowl? That's gotta get yeah gotta get that now I'm doing that and I'm doing a an Oreo an Oreo cone Maybe a hurricane dude. I don't know. I might just get like eight things and You got a lid put in the freezer Take some home She did say and I quote it's probably recorded get whatever you want. She said get whatever you want All her kessler. We got kaminga to 149 for the warriors Richard's getting like why did the ice cream truck cost two grand? We got a shengun auto sky high for the rockets. Everybody got 10 things rich. It's like, how do you get 10 two grand with ice cream 40 Jeff green for sure Jeff green would yeah They run out of room on the the checklist to be way too long for his for his card alone balance units, it's like treasure chest Jeff green Dorian Finney Smith to 99 for the Nets You're probably walking at 25 rookie autograph for the blazers Oh, yeah, trevor orisa autoporter juniors approaching that territory too Yeah, it is Walker you got jordan goodwin rookie to 149 for the wizards 275 windelmore jr. Ricky jersey auto for the teawolves Austin rivers could do that as well D'Angelo Russell might get up there Yeah, I could do them back and forth a lot between Two kings got brooks bones penny. It's a 99 magic And who's mind jang to 199 ricky jersey auto for the thunder Kenneth often junior ricky to 149 for Memphis and kareem Abdul Jabbar retrospect Lakers and bucks Very nice kareem Abdul Jabbar. Good luck on that random Oh, man rondo. Yeah Dwight Howard will be a fun one magic rockets lakers hornets hawks sixers Uh, there's there's one team. I'm missing to 99 rookie is malachi brand of spurs And avante gram three of five spurs hornets retrospect on the neon marble Neon marble retrospect avante gram spurs hornets were random at the end They could do a magic laker said it'd be like 10 cards They should do a magic laker said They really could it's palo base Randall out of 49 for the nicks And shonkem sky high signatures sonics going to the thunder 55 at 99 got jaren allen to 149 for the calves Dave cowans to 99 on the Celtics auto You don't have to ride on the back of those by the way They got the logos on the back Parks into 149 jazz and Jabari smith jr and keegan murray rookie dual patch autograph rockets kings beauty Number 18 of 25 rockets kings jabari smith jr and keegan murray fantastic hit here Let's see The kings is alexander m the rockets It's Is ching l we'll get that magical random that at the ends good luck Give out some bad beat for that one some bad beat break credit for that one. It's a great hit Anthony davis that have 99 for the lakers Derek Coleman deep space auto nets It's a 99 Barkley carter bobby portis bucks number to 25 rookie auto green jaclar avia for the grizzlies number to 50 Mad barns. That'd be a fun one josh mc roberts. You say josh mc roberts. Excuse me This is a menagerie kevin durant for the suns And david roddy orange to 15 on the aspiring rookie auto David roddy orange, maybe you sound like you're putting the freezer. I guess I don't know Yeah, I see it. What's the what's the limit? What's the limit to 149 net story if any The limit does not exist It's a 49 hose the alvarado auto for the pelicans. Yeah, jay and I think are two and everything I will challenge you and raise you to three Dude, they got a pumpkin milkshake tis the season, right? Your float could be better in September officially. So like it's close enough that it is like pumpkin seeds It does feel like fall outside. It is only 96 degrees Yeah, I miss Dude, they got pretty they got a fruity pebbles hurricane. Oh, yeah, just let me know what you want after this breakers banana boat Yeah, we need to see an sp So 99 is jared allen for the calves Can we get 15 teams? Yeah josh mc roberts. Wow rookie jersey auto blake wesley for the spurs number two 199 make sure that later was sam Vaughn Sam's got to hear about that one Lake wesley Uh, there's some peeling top of this card. I'm gonna send a box and wrapper to the spur spot. Try to get that one replaced You got it there. It's all in there. I haven't even land There we go Rookie walker kessler to 149 for the jazz. Do you guys want to see the ice cream menu? I know I know you guys are curious to 49 dominique wilkins auto for the hawks nice neek magic legend dominique wilkins actually played like 15 games of magic like the early 2000s when he was like late 30s After his injury and like that was it like pretty much fast. Yeah, it wasn't good He didn't play a ton of minutes and they're like the percentages like field goal percentage Yeah, dude, it is bad. It's bad. Levine the 49 for the for the uh bulls And we got mo bomba magic and lakers retrospect autograph random at the end The lakers and magic are duking it out for some of these retro specs Hopefully motion what it tastes like like pumpkin spice kind of I would assume. I'm not good. I don't think I'm gonna get it, but I'll show you guys in between breaks The ice cream and you get the ice cream truck out there today I'm ordering like yeah, I'm gonna get like two things at least k g menagerie for the uh Seawolves and Caleb houston to 99 rookie aspiring autograph magic I get something I can put in the freezer Eat that tomorrow Yep universal die cut is call anthony for the magic one of eight porter and turner Nick's auto to 49 bernard king redemption kade cunningham out of 149 for the pistons And redemption Is palo ben caro rookie jersey autograph going out to the magic Holy cow, congrats magic I know you probably bought the magic hoping for a mo bomba. Well, at least you got that palo as well Nice consolation prize Good consolation prize there. Congrats magic God dear and fox the 49 for the kings And jaylin mcdaniel's to 49 sixers autograph You gave me he's going to halloween hornites. I think tomorrow. That's fire That's fire ours is good too ours is very good ours is very good Not comparing the funny thing is I already had my tickets to the game So I would have been going to both of these things either way halloween hornites or Which is which is interesting You guys are going for free though. That's good. Yeah, sg8 and 99 for the thunder Not every palo, um Yeah, stickers are live on card is not it's a 99 james worthy lakers icons auto Rob, what's up, man? Yeah, it's been a crazy day Pretty good a lot of big redemptions in this product So every time there's redemption. I'm like, oh boy. Here we go. Here's one right now Marge on boat champ rookie jersey auto celestial for the bucks And kg to 149 wolves Kind of glad everyone else got their ice cream first now. We can ask hey How does this taste? What is what is this like? Uh diabata at a 99 rookie for the clippers. Although I can't trust a lot of them with their food takes I heard yesterday The tacos were like Like pretty close to authentic and people were like, oh, there's like onion and like, what do you do? Yeah, it's a delicious taco. Of course got onion and lime and cilantro like get out of here 25 is an illustrious legend auto pistons bill lambier Yeah, they were expecting white people tacos weren't they? Yeah, nah Nah Why don't we talk with truck? I didn't I didn't come in but if I came in and there was white people tacos I'd have been so mad that I came in for that. I feel like what do you do? What are we doing here? We want an authentic when I hear taco truck.  I'll eat it.  There you go Rockets nice patch 35 tari eason That's a lot of randoms man. That's six More than we beat out the other ones. Yeah, dude. My god. Okay All right before we keep going we've got denver and golden states still guys denver and golden states still available Both teams mark down All right, give me a few minutes here. Give me give me some time Where's the horse? Would you get pretty pebbles? You're gonna eat one that you can eat one and then go back The mango Italian ice That sounds pretty fire What happened of course he's calling shots now j can't have ice cream because he has a fantasy team wait So we face off against each other Wait, you do have a lot of backups Like a lot of back Jay got the team waiting on all the entries to happen then he's gonna be in first place Later on in the season, but oh no trust me listen later on All year because uh, uh, probably I wanted to see the Serial ball option. They don't have the cereal That's why I just got fruity that you can get everything outside of the cereal So you can just get a bowl with like fruity pebbles or lucky charms with either vanilla or chocolate He got the banana It sounds pretty fire. I'm allergic though. So I can't have it terrible. All right, holy cow a lot of randoms Yeah, uh Big random here mo bomba magic and lakers Horace Grant magic and bulls bulls Then the next one is spurs hornets davante grand this one's the five Next one is kareem Abdul Jabbar bucks lakers to 75 The next one is goren dragu draguage with the bucks and the suns And then we also have dual rpa Jabbar is with junior and keegan murray I'll give out, uh, 10 dollars bad beat credits whoever does not end up with that one. Good luck on that one especially all right Holy cow, man Didn't random it Five and one six times on everything whichever is up top on all of them. We'll get the cards mo bomba's first one two three four five and six magic you get the mo the Horace Grant one two three four five and six magic you get the Horace Grant Fonte Graham one two three four five and six hornets Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Good luck on this one one two three four five and six one of the bucks Draguage one two three four five and six suns And the dual rpa again, uh, 10 dollars bad beat very good. I go into the account of whoever does not end up with this one one two three four five and six it's going to the kings the kings so the rockets in number four The kareem went to the bucks. So recap everything else here Buck's Redemption Marj on Bochamp, rookie jersey out of Celestial, Buck's Redemption Chris Middleton color graphs We have Blake Wesley, Usman Jang, Rashid Wallace, Derek Coleman, Dave Cowan's, Zair Williams Sean Kemp, Patrick Baldwin, Jr. Caleb Houston Paul Pierce, James Worthy, Wendell Moore, Jr. Jake Laravia That's Alperin Shengun, Malachi Branham, Bernard King, Dominique Wilkins, Jalen McDaniels Jose Alvarado, Tyree Eason, Bill Lambier, Jabari Walker, and David Roddy And Magic Redemption, Palo Bancaro, rookie jersey auto. Thanks again everybody moving on now to number five


Item number SCP-2059 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-2059 is to be contained within a modified containment area designed for Class IV hostile amorphous entities. The unit must be comprised of a shaft 40 meters deep and 15 meters in diameter, composed of high-gloss steel plating. This plating is to be replaced as need be to maintain a fine polish throughout. The opening of this shaft is to be covered with a shock-proof plexiglass plate that can be removed remotely. Additionally, the containment units be equipped with necessary video and audio surveillance equipment, as well as a speaker system in order to facilitate communication with SCP-2059-1. Description SCP-2059 is an autonomous and sentient mass of flesh, bones, and organs. The entire mass is seemingly dominated by a large yellow sensory organ that does not correspond to that of any known species. The organ resembles an eye in composition, but further study has shown it is capable of detecting infrared radiation and heat signatures. SCP-2059 appears capable of rearranging itself at will, but normally it follows a usual composition. The exterior is smooth flesh covering a grid of bones that protect vital organs and brain tissue in the center of the mass. SCP-2059 does not require extraneous sustenance. Any living creature touching SCP-2059 will be absorbed into its mass, but carentinous material, skin, hair, and nails is discarded. The time of writing SCP-2059 consists of one blue whale, one giant squid of unknown species, two bottlenose dolphins, several specimens of various livestock, approximately thirty human beings, one dead human being in advanced stages of decomposition, several specimens of various household pets, approximately 300 rodents, and undetermined amount of insects. SCP-2059 has the tendency of attempting to fill a space completely if it is confined in one. This is assumed to be to help it retain cohesiveness. SCP-2059 exhibits highly aggressive behavior towards all human and animal life. It will attempt to either kill or assimilate any organisms on site, while in a passive state SCP-2059 is usually gathered on the bottom of its containment, but most of its mass is pressed against one of the quarters. Despite SCP-2059 having multiple sets of vital organs, it does not appear to be using most of them. PET tracer scans have shown that almost 85% of all organs within SCP-2059 are inactive and unused. See Interview Log 2059-02 for more information. Addendum 2059-01 on ██████ a verbal connection with an individual within SCP-2059. There are individuals hereby referred to as SCP-2059-01, the following is the audio transcript of the event. Interviewed SCP-2059-01, interviewer Dr. Nd… forward, transcript of initial contact, Dr. Nd… was assigned to supervise SCP-2059, SCP-2059-01's speech has been translated from Hindi. Dr. Nd… is in the observation room filing paperwork, surveillance cameras show a face emerging from SCP-2059 gasping for air. Ah, finally, he let me on the surface, Dr. Nd… is visibly startled. What? Hello? Is… is anybody out there?  The sound of a coffee mug being shattered is heard and Dr. Nd… opens communications to their supervisor. Stuttering. Sir? SCP-2059 is speaking. I can't figure out what it is saying. Where is this? He feels cold. Site director. Please remain calm. We will send someone there. Where is the sun? End log. Closing statement. Following initial contact, Dr. Nd… was reassigned to supervise another SCP object. Dr. Nd… has been assigned to this object due to their fluency in Hindi. SCP-2059-02 SCP-2059-1 was questioned about his identity and referred to details about SCP-2059. It was soon established that SCP-2051 was ██████ a Buddhist monk who was reported missing in India in 18██. The following is an audio transcript of a conversation with SCP-2059-1. Through SCP-2059-1, interviewer Dr. Nd… forward, this event occurs shortly after initial contact with SCP-2059-1. During the time in between logs, SCP-2059 has rearranged multiple times. Begin log. SCP-2059-1's location has changed during the time Dr. Nd… was being transported to the scene. The audio is muffled due to SCP-2059-1 partly facing the wall. Why is there so little light? He cannot see anything. Dr. Nd… enters the observation room, opens communication into containment. Hello SCP-2059, this is Dr. Nd… of the Foundation. A man or a woman? A medicine? I hear you, sister. Where are you? I am in an observation booth above you. You shouldn't be able to see me. Could you answer some questions? SCP-2059-1 is silent for a duration of three minutes, until SCP-2059 rearranges. SCP-2059-1's face is now on the surface, with all its features present. I ask him to move me upwards. Ask who? The child, of course. Who else could I ask? Child? What do you mean? Well, not exactly a child, he is ██████████, the son of ████████, glurbed ████████. What? Garblord? What I feel that he is afraid, like a child who is cornered. How are you able to tell that? We are connected as one, but sadly our thoughts do not quite translate to one another. His thoughts are great, loud and terrifying, while mine are much, much smaller and easily drowned. Data redacted for brevity. Our scans show that SCP-2059, the thing you are in, does not use more of itself. Why is that? He simply doesn't know what to do with them. Poor child, unsure what all these bags and tracks do or where they go. He has barely even understood how a heart works, less deliver. To you it might seem obvious, but he comes from a different place, with different rules. Where has he come from? ████████, third cycle of ██████, unintelligible, far shorn, far horn? I think it really isn't that easy translating it. How are you sane? All the other individuals aren't. I am a learned one of Buddha. It is my duty to show him the error of his ways. He may be but an infant, curious to learn, but he still knows so little. He needs guidance, and I am ██████, SCP-2059-RIA ranges, and SCP-2059-1 withdraws underneath the surface. End log. Closing statement, SCP-2059 returned to an idle state. Later occasions of SCP-2059-1 appearing are yet to be recorded.


Okay, very good morning. It's Friday the 17th of September. Hope you are doing well. Apologies for no briefing yesterday. It was our summer analyst party on Wednesday night and so you have to forgive me for having the morning off but absolutely fantastic to meet some of those analysts we've been working with all summer virtually so hope everyone enjoyed it and if you're listening to this, it was really great to meet everyone in person but don't forget as well, we've got the Market Maker podcast episode coming out. I'll be having a chat with the head of trading peers coming a bit later on so feel free to check it out on Apple, Spotify, Google podcasts and the rest as we look to review the weekend summary but let's get straight to it and talk about what's going on in markets this morning and a couple of things to be aware of. We've got a little bit of softening here just occurring in the British pound and this comes after we've just had the release of UK retail sales come out. Came in for August month to month minus 0.9% versus expectations of plus 0.5. This is the second month in a row that retail sales in the UK have missed expectations. As you can see here, we've seen a bit of a move lower now. It's time to just pick up traction but fairly contained I would say despite the fairly sizeable myths. Perhaps somewhat explained and the move a little bit more controlled given the fact that there were some lingering effects of the PAN or the Ping Demic, if you remember in the UK, self-isolation rules were not eased until the middle of August around the 16th so perhaps explains why actual retail activity was pretty weak in that particular month but just a small down tick observed there. The euro was quite interesting actually yesterday evening you can see here quite a clearly distinguished green candlestick over a 30 minute timeframe here. I'm looking at this, I'll put a rectangle above it here. This move came at around just 8 p.m. last night, London time and the rationale behind that was this article here came out as an FT kind of exclusive and the FT reported the ECB expects to hit its elusive 2% inflation target by 2025 according to unpublished internal models that suggested it's on course to raise interest rates in just over two years. Now it's a bit of context, that would be at least a year earlier the most economists expect the ECB to raise its deposit rate from its current record low level of minus 0.5% so much hawkish interpretation of inflation and the consequent timing of rate hikes and hence the reason why the euro rallied last night. However, and quite interesting to see how quickly this happened and also the fact that it was pretty much in the middle of the night. So at just after 11 p.m. London time, so a few hours after the ECB themselves came out and said the story regarding inflation and potential rate increases is not accurate with the conclusion on rates not consistent with its forward guidance. So whether or not this is quite a controlled way, some would say there's no smoke without fire, the ECB kind of drip feeding in because they don't want a divergent policy too much between an ultimate tapering and tightening commencing in the US whereas the ECB is too far behind and you get this extreme divergence. So perhaps it's a little bit of calculated drip feeding in to keep the markets in check, not that that the ECB are gonna be too passive with things but regardless the euro this morning has continued to just move a little higher here coming up to near term resistance as you can see from the lows that we were seeing back at the beginning of the week and also being a bit of an inflection point that we had in yesterday's session we're just up there testing at that level around 117.94 in the futures this morning. So again, even though the ECB have kind of denied that story, it's still carrying a little bit of weight for the time being for those aforementioned reasons. Otherwise elsewhere, equity markets, we had a slightly negative finish and the S&P and Dow both down in a region of about two-tenths of 1% and NASDAQ was up marginally outperforming about 0.13%, not really too much there to speak of at the moment but one thing to note in the overnight Asia pack session was some commentary in regards to quite a talking point for this week which has been the property developer in China Evergrande Group and particularly because the kind of mouthpiece of the Chinese state media, the Global Times editor wrote overnight that China Evergrande is not too big to fail and obviously that wording very much because people are looking at the potential contagion effect it could have given how large this company is and how tegror is to potentially a systemic risk to the Chinese system in a Leamonesque type way of what we saw during the financial crisis so again, still under pressure still a major talking point there domestically has been a bit of a weighted factor overnight as it has been throughout the week. If you're still thinking, you know, who Evergrande, what did they do? How did they end up in the situation? What comes next? All of these types of questions I had a really great chat with Eddie on the team a bit earlier this week so feel free to check that out. I'll drop the link into the video when I post this if just to make things easier for you but definitely Eddie's got some fantastic insights and worth having a look at that video when you get time. Sticking with the Far East, just a quick update on COVID. Here, an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19 in southeastern China's Fujian province has spread now to a fourth city as new cases continue to rise. And elsewhere, we've seen South Korea's health authorities now bracing for a possible spike in infections as millions of South Koreans are expected to travel across the country for Korean Thanksgiving holiday that starts from Saturday as well. So definitely worth keeping an eye on case rates within that region. And obviously China's still very much so tackling that ongoing Delta outbreak that they've been seeing and comes in the context of a number of challenges they're facing at the moment. The Evergrande story, the moderation they're seeing in economic data, price pressures on the PPI number, 13 year high, so on and so forth. Other things just wanted to quickly mention was Rishi Sunak, UK Chancellor. I definitely don't think that this is a consideration for the pound in the short term intraday from a trading perspective but from a political perspective it is quite interesting. Sunak is planning to use next month's budget to lay out new rules to reign in government borrowing amid treasury concerns that any rise in interest rates could blow a hole in heavily indebted public finances. While the new rules will commit him to stop borrowing to fund day-to-day spending within three years, it's said to be a move intended to illustrate the kind of more classical approach of Tory fiscal discipline ahead of the next election. And of course this comes after that cabinet reshuffled we had out of Boris as well, clearing out some of the more PR damaging characters like Dominic Raab and so forth. And so this as well, given the post-pandemic environment as Boris looking to reassert himself in the same way as well, the Chancellor looking to do that with more fiscal prudency. And then on the geopolitical front, you might have heard about this in just the more broader news in general because there's a few unhappy people in regards to what's happened here with a new security pact between the UK, US and Australia. So China has hit out first at Australia, UK and US for playing what they called political games after they struck a new security pact with Australia to acquire nuclear powered submarines. And the reason why the French have got their backs up is the fact that France was in conversations for a $90 billion program with Australia who were going to buy conventional powered submarines, but instead the UK has swooped in with their nuclear option submarines, not equipped but powered by that technology in combination with the US. So the French are incredibly unhappy. And so the US have kind of brought in one ally to distance the other, i.e. bring in the UK, push out the French and actually the French Navy and the head of the French Navy themselves is actually in the US at the moment. And they were supposed to have done like a joint symbolic exercise about their strategic relationship over many hundreds of years. And that's now not gonna take place because of what's happened. And China of course seeing this as quite a negative development in terms of the Allied forces, if you like, against China and put in that specific region. And so yeah, interesting because what a week or so ago we were talking about the first more lukewarm telephone call between President Biden and Xi Jinping. You know, we fast forward another week and it's kind of like we've made very little progress on that regard to be honest. So again, not really too much for trading today but definitely worth being aware of. From the Canada perspective, we already had the UK numbers as I said, a little bit soft, some slight weakening and sterling currency. Otherwise this morning, the HICP numbers coming out of Europe are final reading. So unlikely to be market moving. No major 130s out of the US, but a couple of things to be aware of. We've got the University of Michigan prelim figure. So the more market sensitive of the two prelim final, this is the first reading for September and it'll be a three o'clock. We are for that expecting it to remain fairly unchanged from the prior reading. The headline expected at 70 spot two was recapping that last month's though 70.3 was the weakest reading we've had in more than a decade. And so why are consumer confidence? Why is it collapsing in the US? Well, it's mainly down to the fact that personal financial prospects continue to worsen due to smaller income gains amid higher inflationary trends. Plus also we've got this Delta variant still very much present as well. In the US so expecting that number to remain fairly depressed might not be the most unexpected thing then. And thus market ration might be relatively tame in that regard. The other thing then if we scroll down is here, you can see there's a whole bunch of explorations happening today. And this is very important. And the reason why is because it is quadruple witching. So as you can see here staggered with the FTSE first at 10, 15 London time, Eurostocks 11, DAX 12, US indices at 230, the Cat Courant in France at three o'clock and so on. It's quadruple witching. And that refers to the date of which derivatives of stock index futures, stock index options, stock options and single stock futures expire simultaneously. So as a guideline, quadruple witching occurs once every quarter the third Friday, March, June, September. Can witness heavy trading volumes in part due to the offsetting of existing futures and auction contracts that are profitable. While it may result in increased volume and arbitrage opportunities, doesn't necessarily translate into increased volatility in the markets, but it's something you might hear about today. It's a word that obviously you hear pop up on the third Friday on every quarter. So something to just be aware of from an intraday trading perspective, it does mean that when we go into these exploration times, there is generally just a little flicker of volatility very short term around those periods. And we do as mentioned see higher volumes more broadly. So just worth being aware of that. And that is it. So gonna leave it there. Gonna wish you guys a fantastic weekend. Please do remember to check out the podcast as well and I will see you on Monday morning. All right, take care.


What's going on guys? Got Kyle here with Layton Sports Cards and we're ripping 2022-2023 UEFA club competition soccer. This is 6 box number 9 random teams. We did a random before the break. Show you guys results again real quick. We had Darius M with Liverpool Roma down to Rich H with PSG. You can always check these results guys at our website, LaytonSportsCards.com, all the way at the very bottom. Have the quick link of results tab. Alrighty guys, good luck on this one. Let's see some fire. Tops, Chrome, UEFA. I can check for a camera. I believe you are. I believe you are. Got orders in pretty early. We're still not full so yeah, I believe you will be. Yeah for sure Cameron.  We're scheduled to end at 12.40 so around one or so you'll be up Cameron. Combine both the orders there. So we'll definitely get you in tonight. We're very close to full though guys. If anybody does want to get a personal, a little bit of space for tonight and Matt will be here 10 a.m. tomorrow doing Sunday morning personals. We'll be going all morning till about 3.30 so plenty of time for personals the next couple days. Rony Vargy rookie, we got a Gonzalo Ramos, Benefica. This is Sadio Mane on these specimens for Byron. I haven't heard anyone say anything bad about specimens. Everyone says they're really, really like that insert. There's a Matias Tell, a nice one there. Golasso for Byron. Matias Tell. Yeah I like it with the color too. I've seen a bunch of the gold lavas come out. They're not number ones and then they have a super. I saw one of the supers as well. Oh really? Gunduan on the insert. Yeah I forget which one it was though. I've never seen those though. Maybe Darwin Nunez or someone. I remember seeing it super for sure but it's not the biggest set. There's a rookie Fabio Blanco for Barca. There's a wonder kids, Rico Lewis. Man City. Blue, this one is Ansu Fati number two one fifty. Nice one there, Barca. It's Wong, the Ansu Fati to one fifty and we have a rookie Kalimindu for Stab. This one is Olivier Giroux, specimens Roma or sorry Enter. AC Milan almost there. Got a Baca Yoko rookie there for PSV. This one is Raphael Leao on the Fuchsia Mini Diamond. Nice player there from Milan to one seventy five. AC Milan. A Firohashi for Celtic. This is Jared Bowen on the Aqua Shimmer. West Ham. Refractor Paolo Dybala. Roma. Future Stars to a Mani. This is wonder kids insert. Nicolas Zalouski. Roma. I like how most of the inserts have autos as well. It's kind of cool like the wonder kids and the specimens. There's a refractor there. Marco Lisetic. Lisetic. AC Milan. Can we see the specimens auto yet? I haven't know. I don't remember seeing one. It'd be interesting though. First auto. It's going to be Pablo Torre on the rookie refractor auto. Barcelona. Wong getting the first auto. They're not numbered on the refractor base auto. Nice Pablo Torre rookie. There's a rookie Rooney Bargi. Nice one there for Copenhagen. Young player on the Pulsar rookie. This one is Neymar for PSG refractor. Had a box with two autos last night and one of these. Very nice. It had a gold auto and a rookie auto. Personal or for break? Personal. Got Ugarte there. Sporting. Jamal Moussaila there on the Aqua Lava. I want it's not numbered on the lava. Nice one there for Byron. Great young player. This is a Pulsar rookie of Gabriel Verón. That one is for Porto. Pulsar rookie. All righty guys. Box two. Let's keep it going. I don't know if you heard me so. Oh I was about to ask if that was the answer or not. Yeah. Yeah. I figured I'd give an extra slide. Slippy slidey. Box two. There's a golasso Karim Benzema. Royale. Slow down. Julian Alvarez rookie base for Man City. And we got a specimen. This one is Vinny Jr. for Royale. Vinicius Orange. It is Future Stars of Takahiro Nakai. That one is numbered five out of 25. Nice hit there. Royale Madrid. On the true orange number to 25. Very nice one. That is rich age with the Royale one there. Can magnate that there. Orange Future Stars. Got a Iling Jr. rookie refractor. There's a refractor of David Silva. Rookie Charlie McNeil. Refractor of Christopher and Kunku. There is a rookie of Gory Stott. This is Purple and Yellow not numbered there. It is Rodrigo Ribeiro. That is for sporting on the rookie purple. This is Night Vision Luca Sousic. That one's going to Salzburg to 225. Alejandro Garnaccio on the throwback there. Nice one, Manu. Garnaccio. Wonder Kids of Muhammad Ali Chil. This is Green Shimmer rookie Morera Jr. That one is for Benefica of 399. Morera. It is Gold Otto. It's going to be Dominic Sobasly for Leipzig. Nice hit there on the true gold. 50 out of 50. Nice hit Leipzig. Dominic Sobasly. There's a rookie refractor Fatabu. Wonder Kids Garnaccio rookie. All the inserts of Garnaccio. Anthony Longa there on the Future Stars Pulsar. Sobasly went to Liverpool. Nice. Fallen Base. We've got Tommy Abraham there. Roma. I feel like a lot of those German league guys and Austrian league guys definitely end up at EPL spots quite a bit. There's a Johansen rookie for Copenhagen and Blue. It is a Johansen rookie for Copenhagen. Same card back to back to 150. Nice one there Copenhagen. This is the blue and yellow seismic that's Adam Hasek for Leverkusen to 75 and Charles Deketler Pulsar Alfonso Davies on the throwback. Refractor Mosalla Liverpool. Ready guys. Box three. This one says it ends at 755. That's not correct. This? Yeah. I think it's an hour on 655. I was looking at it. Wait a minute. I was like no way. This one's taking an hour and 10 minutes. No way. We're gonna have to go real. I know I have to stretch this one. Alrighty guys. Box three. Good luck. Good luck. Let's see one of these dual or triple autos. This one is rookie for Manu Kobe Mandu or Manu Kobe Manu. Come on. Let's see a super. Let's see a super. Wonder Kids of Gavi. Oh, this one is going to be for Leverkusen. It's Zidane Cerkdemir. Not numbered there on the base auto Leverkusen. Cerkdemir. Refractor of Cody Gakpo. Liverpool. Pittsburgh just getting beat on. Yeah. 10-0. Jeez. Jeez. There's a rookie Pulsar of Fareed Alidil. Almost Frankfurt. Where are the Brewers in like somewhat of a drought for a little bit or were they pretty like consistent? I don't know. I feel like at some point they had like a rough week or two. Oh, it's Goldamee. Gold Lava maybe? Gold. That's also Gold Lava. Gabriel Martinelli. That one's going to Arsenal on these specimens. Sick one there. Not numbered Gold Lava and behind it Alfonso Davies. Also on the not numbered Gold Lava. Double Gold Lava pack. Nice one there Arsenal and Byron. Double Gold Lava. Yeah. Yeah, I like the specimens of some color. There's a Georena there on the Fuchsia Shimmer. BBB 250. Refractor Darwin Nunez. There's a Golasso Jeremy Doku. Come on, come on. There's a Mimbape on these specimens. Mimbape. PSG. Phil Foden on the Green Shimmer. That one's a 399. Man City. Refractor Dennis Burkamp. Arsenal and Phil Foden on the throwback there Man City. Now when it's numbered to 75. Nice hit there Man City. Foden but the Ketlier. Wonder Kids Silver is Amar Dedich. That one is for Salzburg. Salzburg. Antonio Nusa. Rookie for Club Bruges. Refractor Anthony Manu. No, John. These are group breaks. Group breaks all night. We'll have a little bit of space for personals at the end of the night. Group breaks are scheduled until 12.40. Marco Verrati. These are all group breaks right now. Pretty close to full on group breaks tonight but we'll have Matt tomorrow morning starting at 10 a.m. He's doing personals all morning. There's a Rookie Alley-Dew for Frankfurt. He starts at 10. He'll go till 3.30 all personals tomorrow morning John. Personals tomorrow. Future Stars. Refractor Matthias Tell. There's a Inter Javier Zanetti throwback. Milan. Box sport.  Cords underneath me. There's a Refractor Mohammed Ali-Chil. That one's for Sociedad. Nice Rookie Refractor. A Wonder Kids. Matthias Tell. Florian Verts for Leverkusen. Auto is PSG on the Rookie Auto. It's Warren Zaire Emery. Nice one there, the not-numbered Refractor Auto, PSG. This one is Pulsar for Man City, Jack Graylish. Nice, it's Rookie Gold Mini Diamond. Gonna be Fabio Carvalho. Nice one there, Liverpool. That one's 38 out of 50. Great hit there on the Gold Carvalho. Can bag this one as well. Nice hit, Liverpool. One of the better rookies in this set. We'll take a Gold Lava Carvalho. There's a Zidane throwback. This one is Karim Adiyemi on the Galasso BVB. This one is Aqua Shimmer, David Silva. Number to 199, Sociedad. Wonder Kids, Benjamin Sesco. Better than Benjamin Lesko. You gotta really be obnoxious with this. Nunez on these specimens there, Liverpool. Yeah, I don't know. Not for me. Make that audio bar go in the red, Kyle. Gold Lava. Oh, God. Maxing out. Red line in the audio bar. I like it. There's a Levin Dotsky there. Nice Gold Lava, Gold Lasso going to Barcelona. Not numbered on these Lavas in a Kai Havertz Refractor. See, what is that? The fireworks starting a couple days early? I don't know. Some random noises going on. I don't know. Christian Asilani, Rookie there for an intern. I do know from Levin, like around the corner, like we have had people, like they'll start shooting fireworks off like a couple days before. Oh, for sure. Definitely on the weekend. Yeah. Decetlier. My lawn throwback. Yeah, definitely something tonight, I think, for sure. Orange. This is Orange. Antoine Griezmann. Nice one there on the Orange Seismic. That one is not numbered. Short printed though. Very nice one there for Athletico. Antoine. Now the Seismics aren't with that little yellow design. Oh, I barely see it. Yeah, yeah. There's a Stanisic Future Stars buyer. Like the purple and yellow are a little bit more. The blue and yellow is actually numbered to 75 though, which is interesting. Yeah, that's kind of weird. Like all the Seismics set for blue are not numbered. Zalouski there, Rookie Roma. I think they are short printed by the color like, like a red short, like, orange. Right. But obviously they're not numbered. So, got a Luca Jovich there. Fiorentina. There's a Luca Susich Salzburg. Gonna eat Jude Bellingham throwback. And gold. This one is yellow to 125. We got Erling Holland on these specimens insert. Nice one there. Man City will mag this one as well as Ashish with the Holland to 125. That is sick. Nice Holland. Two boxes left. Good luck guys. Alrighty guys, two left. Box five. Good luck, good luck. There's a Rookie of Noah Sasa, Copenhagen. Seems like a lot of high scoring games today in baseball. Yeah, for sure. Blowouts. There's a Bacchioco on the Rookie Wonder Kits. I really would like to know what the eight angels will score on the Rockies of Shohei would have played. Good. Yeah, right. A 26 to O game. Otto, this one is for Chelsea. Number two 150. Gonna be Giorginho. Nice one there. The Italian signed in the black ink. It's from ours with Chelsea, I believe. Nice one there. To 150 on the Blue Auto, Giorginho. A Pulsar, Kim Avenga. Ray out. They just keep running around the bay. 19 to four now? Oh, there's supposed to be a replay. I was like, okay, they keep just running around the bases. Okay, that makes sense. 19 to four. Geez. That is a Moretti there. Rookie for throwing the ball home.  Good lord. You see the Little League of South Park, right? Yeah. Yeah. Those was America. We're in although Barcelona. Bad dad. All the kids are sitting there. Bad dad's like, he's going home throwing. Got a Casamiro. They're trying to lose. Yeah. Like now, we're, uh, they're getting the best at losing the kids. Such a good, such a good, uh, Nacho Rookie. Those was America. Got a Aqua Shimmer. That one is number 2199. Harvey Elliott, Liverpool. This is Golasso in Sir Elling Holland. Man City. There's a Holland Specimen. Not numbered that time. Jamal on the back. That is a Night Vision. Jamal Moussaila. Nice one there. Byron. Moussiala to 225. Sergio Ramos throwback. PSG. Wonder Kids. Elling Jr. Juventus. Holland Base. This is Refractor Benzema. Refractor Emile Smith-Rowe. There's a Fabio Moretti throwback and Harry Kane on the green, uh, Shimmer. Number 2 399. That's one there. Tottenham. There's a Noah Lang. That one is for Club Bruce. Pulsar. Fabio Canovaro throwback. Juventus. And Future Stars. There's Anthony Alanga. That one is Fuchsia Shimmer. Number 250 for Manu. Like Gabriel Veron. Rookie for Porto. Purple. It's like a purple seismic. It is Jamal Moussiala on the purple seismic. Nice one there. Byron. Great young player for Byron. Not numbered on these seismics. Righty. One left. Good luck guys. This is, uh, six box number nine random teams. Get number 10 going next. There's a Tyon Buchanan. Canadian. Club Bruce. Hey Wonder Kids of Fatalu. There's Otto. It's going to be Kaio Jorge there for, um, Juventus. Juventus on the Otto. Not numbered Base Otto. What's up Pete? How are you doing tonight? Hope you're having a good weekend, sir. Getting some, uh, Fourth of July getting ready. We got some good plans. Got Hatate there. Celtic on the Pulsar. This one is a specimens of Mosala. Liverpool. And Matias Delet. This one is Aramlulu Kaku. That is the Fuchsia Mini Diamond. Number to 175 for Inter. Karim Benzema throwback. There's a Griezmann throwback. 59 throwback. There's a Golasso Jamal Moussiala.  This is a rookie Luka Jovic, or not rookie sorry, Luka Jovic for Fiorentina. Green Shimmerton, 399. Jack Graylish refractor. Wonder Kids, Fabio Carvalho, rookie, uh, Liverpool. Refractor of Fiora Hashi, Celtic. And Marlon's not looking too good. Nope. There's a Benjamin Sesco. That is for Salzburg on the specimens. They need a Reese to just be their whole nine batting lineup. That would work. Or a Rice, I forgot. Arayas. Nicholas Gonzalez there on the, uh, Fiorentina. Yeah, he's almost at 400 man. That's crazy. At like 390 something. Yeah, it's absurd. So crazy. He has any homeruns. He just makes contact, man. He's in 400 a couple of times. Rookie Carvalho. That is, um, Pulsar rookie. Nice one there for Liverpool. I'll go with the gold from earlier. Hey, nice Pete. There we go. Elway, man. Take that. Got a Pepe Porto. That's pretty sweet. Yeah, Elway's a, uh, legend. Got a Gavi on the throwback. And this is Lava Joga Bonita of Dennis Bergkamp. Nice one there. Arsenal on the super short printed Joga Bonita. That one is Lava not numbered. Go Arsenal. That one goes in the recap. Okay. This is purple seismic of, uh, Dyson Mayeda. That one is for, uh, Celtic there. And last pack. Good luck. Quick hit recap here. Got a Julian Alvarez rookie. And rookie is Bruno Iglesias for Ray Almadrid. Close us out. Alrighty guys. Do a quick hit recap here. Appreciate y'all getting the break. Uh, this is a Joga Bonita of, uh, Dennis Bergkamp on the Lava. Nice one. Arsenal. We had a Otto Kaio Jorge for Juventus not numbered. Rookie Otto Warren, Zaire Emery for PSG not numbered. We had Zidane Certe Demir, Leverkusen, Pablo Torre, Rookie Otto for Barca. We had a Giorginio Otto to 150 for Chelsea. We had gold Dominic Soba slide number 250 for Salzberg. Or sorry, Leipzig, Leipzig, both the Red Bull teams Leipzig there. We had Holland on these specimens, uh, yellow numbered to 125. We had Rookie Fabio Carvalho, Liverpool numbered to 50. And we had a Future Stars of Takahiro Nakai for, um, Ray Almadrid numbered to 25 on the True Orange. Alrighty guys, that will do it for the break here. Club competition is number nine, random teams. We'll get number 10 going.


So that eyedropper was fluorescing to help with the parents on the Myers so that you can see them when you're doing the pressure check. So the way in which I like to check pressure is with the patient aligned at the slit lamp. Bring the tenometer in, of course, over to your cobalt blue light, a nice broad illumination. I actually like to look through just one of the oculars leaving so my right eye through the left ocular and can sight the patient with my left eye and then as I move in switch over to looking through my right eye to bring into view the Myers and adjusting until I see the proper alignment of the centric circles or half circles. Pressure is 14 today. Note that at the time of placement of fluorescing the eye was also numbed. Otherwise the patient will feel the Myers touch the front of the eye. For the the tonopen on this particular model there's two dashed lines that you'll see when it's ready. You can assess that by clicking the button and they should come up. And then standing to the patient's side so you can directly visualize the tonopen touching the patient's surface just lightly tapping. Give some auditory feedback and then we'll give the measured output and degree of error. So we measure 13, which corresponds to this goldmine appellation of 14 with the air bar in this case is at the 10% level. So I would maybe consider repeating it to get down to a 5%. To repeat, simply push the button again to get back to the two dashed lines. Have the patient again looking straight ahead lightly tapping at the central corneum. If you do not hear the auditory feedback, I like to check the to make sure that the tip covering the tonopen is properly seated. I repush to get back to the double dashed line after a few taps we get a pressure measurement of 10. With a 5% error. So the eye care tonometer does not require numbing the patient's eyes, which as a corneal specialist I find particularly helpful that if my technician checks the eye pressure I can still subsequently check the corneal sensation, whereas were they to use the Goldman or the tonopen, I would not be able to check corneal sensation later on in the exam. The eye care tonometer has a upper orientation bar that can be adjusted with this knob. That is designed to rest against the patient's forehead. In this case, we've already placed the tip into this lower part for measurement of intraocular pressure, which will essentially bounce off of the patient's cornea. The lower button is pressed to actually extend that and check pressure. Here it's giving us an error because it's not hitting anything when it extends. We can reset or just actually in this case proceed by again resting that against the patient's forehead, that upper bar, once aligned repeatedly pressing to bounce that off of the patient's cornea and we get our output. In this case, 12.


people of video. We fought a good fight. AlphaGeek did its best to shorten the refresh time and Sergeant Muffin has fought this battle as well and I'm in club.tv but at the moment we can't beat the leg and so we start our videos early now a few minutes before we start the audio podcast. For some you may think wow I get a little bonus lecture from Tom now. That's awesome. Others of you may say gosh I wish you would just start the audio podcast right now, and that's why I'm explaining it. Veronica over to you. I just really want it to be tomorrow right now so I can play Fallout. That's all I can think about. I literally have not been able to concentrate on almost anything else. By all means make as many Fallout references during the show as you wish. Okay, let's unleash that. Yeah, let's not cage that impulse in. So if I do the PipBoy app, but I don't own Fallout the game, can I still play the PipBoy app's special games? I know there's a crack for it. I have no idea. I'm excited because I'm going to watch this new movie episode 2 Attack of the Clones tonight.  You're like making yourself a lot of work. No, I wanted to watch these anyway leading up to Force Awakens. So this is actually a way to justify it, and it's fun. Okay, I think we can do an audio show now. You ready? I just want you to be happy Tom. Thank you Veronica. I appreciate that. I do. I do. We have an awesome intro from Comey. Comey edited this and sent it to us. Here we go. If you donate $10 per month, you can say 1.4 seconds of every single episode is brought to you by you. Head to DailyTechNewsShow.com slash support to adopt the second I call dibs on the first two seconds. Have that beautiful theme music. This is The Daily Tech News for Monday, November 9th, 2015. I'm Tom Merritt joining me today. Ms. Veronica Belmont, DTNS contributor, host of Dear Veronica on Un-Gadget and so many more of the things soon to be playing Fallout I hear. Yeah, apparently I you know, this is it's still Monday. I'm very anxiously awaiting it to be Tuesday. So I can be doing that thing instead of these things. As we record this, it is still Monday. So if you hear distraction in the corners of Veronica's voice, no, it's not you. I'm just I'm mentally in the wasteland already. I mean, maybe you thought that already about me, but now you should know it to be true. Mentally in the Wasteland is our first title suggestion. Let's take a look at the headlines. Google announced it will release some of its deep learning code called tensor flow as an open source project under the Apache 2 license. The engine can run on a single machine across multiple processors. Developers can make applications for the engine in C++ or Python. Google will also share algorithms for training machines and recognizing photos, handwritten numbers and an analyzing text. Thanks to Kyle for posting this to the subreddit at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. We're going to talk more about this in our main discussion, but pretty big deal. Google open sourcing a whole engine, not just I mean, Android's an operating system, which seems like a big deal, but that's a mobile device platform versus an entire machine learning deep learning engine. Yeah, and with Apache 2, so that's even more of a big deal. This whole thing is wide open. Of course, we will talk more about this later, but I think the only thing that's really holding anyone back is not being able to have the hardware infrastructure of Google. You can do it on one machine over multiple processors, as you mentioned, but not quite the same. You can also order a 12-inch Apple's iPad Pro online this Wednesday and you can find them in Apple's stores later this week. November 11th coincides with Singles Day in China, which the Verge notes is the world's largest online shopping day. I had no idea. That's huge. It puts Black Friday to shame. A big surprise to me. The iPad Pro will go on sale in 40 countries besides China, including the US, Canada, Australia, most of Western Europe, and Japan. A 32-gigabyte Wi-Fi model sells for $799 and the 128-gigabyte LTE model is priced at $1,079. That's an expensive iPad, folks. That's real, but they're all definitely expensive. These are laptop replacement prices. I don't know if they're laptop replacement devices. And I need a new iPad. This is what frustrates me is I was hoping there would be a new 10-inch iPad because my current iPad is long in the tooth. And I don't really want a mini because I use it for things like Promptor. And yet I don't know if I need to spend $800 on a 12-inch iPad Pro, which leaves me buying last year's model of 10-inch iPad. And then I know this is pattern recognition. But today, first of all, a big thanks to Comey for putting together the intro for today's show that was edited together from other pieces and intros. It was fantastic, but I was trying to put that on the iPad to play it. And, of course, the iPad couldn't sync and was having problems and throwing errors. As if to say, no, Tom, you have to buy a new iPad. It's time, Tom. It's time. Yeah. Well, I'll save some money by not buying a new watch from Tog Hewer. Oh, I just said I almost got you. You almost got the perfect segue. I said it's time and you should have said speaking of time. Speaking of time, Tog Hewer announced its first Android Wear watch called the Connected Watch. It's also the first Android Wear smartwatch for $1,500, making it the most expensive Android Wear smartwatch yet. Here come the specs. A 46-millimeter titanium watch is powered by a 1.6 gigahertz Intel dual-core processor, a giga RAM, 4 giga storage, 360 by 360 circular trans-reflective LTPS LCD screen, Bluetooth version 4, 802.11 BGN Wi-Fi, a gyroscope, tilt detection sensor microphone, haptic engine, and a 410-mAh battery. Also comes with three Tog Made watch designs. Of course, you can get any other designs from Android. And can be customized with six different rubber straps. The Connected is available today from Tog Hewer's website and selected Luxury Boutique Stores. Ooh. Well, it's a luxury brand. It's a luxury brand. I once owned a Tog Hewer ripoff that I bought for $15 on Canal Street in New York City. It was a very nice watch. Congratulations. Thanks. Do you still have it today? Are you going to pass it down to your children? It lasted two years before it broke. Xiaomi Unveiled, it's second wearable device today, the Mi Band Pulse. The new bracelet adds a heart rate tracker to the original Mi Band's ability to track steps and sleep. The Mi Band Pulse will work with Android and iOS and cost 99 Chinese yuan or around $15. It will only be available initially in China as part of the Singles Day online shopping festival. November 11th, man. Singles Day. Yeah, everything's there. And unusually, Xiaomi's not talking at all about bringing it internationally at this point. I think they're just wanting to focus everything on the Singles Day promotion. But I would assume, I mean, that's one of the things they've been doing is bringing accessories to a broader international market. So I'd assume they would bring this as well. What are you going to buy for Singles Day? I'm going to buy. Are we allowed to buy things for Singles Day because we are in paired couple groups? Oh, I'm sure you're allowed. Yeah. I mean, Black Friday has been infecting Europe from the United States. Why couldn't we let Singles Day come over here? That's true. Though I feel as though since I do not participate in Black Friday, I should also not participate in Singles Day. Ooh, just leap over bringing Singles Day into being the hipster who opposes Singles Day I'm going to make up a hashtag like not my Singles Day or something. So over Singles Day already. For Singles Day, yeah. Couples against Singles Day. I don't know. Couples against Singles Day. I'm going to buy the new StarCraft expansion because it needs some love from someone else's planned fallout. Didn't you pre-order it? I pre-ordered it on Sunday. A Belgian court has given Facebook 48 hours to stop tracking people with cookies if they are not a member of Facebook's social network. The cookie is installed when someone visits a Facebook page even if they're not logged in. Court ruled Facebook needs to get expressed consent from the visitor to use the cookie in such cases. Facebook has said it will appeal the decision. Okay. Pinterest. Facebook wants to track people across different websites. They use Facebook logins or Facebook embeds so that they could sell better ads. That's what this is all about. Track all the people. Track all the people. That's what they want. They almost have them all anyway. Pinterest introduced a new visual search tool for its apps and website. You can tap the search tool and select the portion of a pin image you're interested in. Pinterest will then return pin results matching what you selected, which can be filtered further by selecting tags on the pins. And that feature rolls out today well in advance of singles day. Do you think this would cause you to buy more things? Would it be bad for your wallet? I don't buy anything for my interest. Okay. So you're not one of the people who's getting sucked into the shopping pages? Or not even through the shopping pages, I mean the buy buttons are there now in Pinterest, but like looking at things and then clicking through to the source websites and shopping. Yeah. I just look at it for the pretty pictures. Okay. So you're safe. Yeah, for now. For now. This is pretty cool technology though, being able to be like, oh, I like that lamp. You know, just highlighting it and finding other pictures of that lamp. I use house for that. Does that work well? House. Yeah, it's good for interior design stuff or if you're remodeling. I'm gonna end up in trust. All right. Opera announced it will partner with 14 device makers to pre-install Opera Max, the data compression software that you may have used on Opera Mobile to keep your data usage low. Among the partners with Opera Max are Samsung, Xiaomi, Acer and Hisense. Opera claims Opera Max can reduce data consumption by 50% when applied across apps and can reduce video data consumption by 60% without loss of quality, including Netflix and YouTube. It's on series of phones. They're called on, the Samsung on series of phones with Opera Max in India last week. Hmm. Saving data. Saving that data though. I would need to get this from my mom. My mom has used six gigabytes of data on her iPhone. What is she doing? In the past week. In the past week? Yes. What is she doing? To be clear, she doesn't have Wi-Fi. So every bit of data she uses goes through that phone's data connection, but still... Oh, hmm. That could be it. Some video. I think she's watching video. Yeah, because we've got five gigabytes on our family plan. I don't think she has Netflix. She's watching lots of YouTube. Oh, mom. That's adorable. I need to figure out Wi-Fi. That's crazy. Yeah. Xbox is sending out its new experience update on November 12th, which is the day after singles day, in case you were wondering. Which, among other things, includes backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games. The full list of 104 titles that will work on the new system was released today. The list does not include some popular titles, but Microsoft says it will continue to add to the list, and you can vote on future titles to be included at xbox.uservoice.com. Are you excited about any of these? I'm excited about the update in general, but I'm not sure any of these in particular are things I've been dying to play on the Xbox One. Lego Pirates of the Caribbean. I already played that. Rainbow Six Vegas? Rainbow Six Vegas 2? Yeah, but are you going to play it again? That's going to be the problem with Xbox 360 is that there's a lot of arcade titles on here, things like Plants vs. Zombies and stuff like that. Maybe that if you bought an Xbox arcade, you could port over now. Oh, Piva Pinata. Yeah. Romance Dance Time. So my thing is that I just don't replay a lot of games. So for most of these that I've already played, I don't really need that backwards compatibility. But if the Xbox is your, you know, if you didn't play on the 360 and you want to play some of these games on your Xbox One, that's a nice, you know, get you, buy it for cheaper and it works on your console. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Yeah. Cool stuff. You need a big data connection for that though. And UK Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to implement a universal service obligation to guarantee residents the legal right to a connection of at least 10 megabits per second by the year 2020, no matter where in the country they live. Wow. Cornwall, the mountains of Wales. More than 83% of homes and businesses in Britain currently have access to a super-fast broadband connection of 24 megabits per second or more, with that number set to rise to 95% by 2017. So it's filling in the rural areas. That's the big issue here. Culture Secretary Hunt promised in 2012 that the UK would have the fastest broadband in Europe by 2015. But according to Accombi's latest report, that distinction goes to Ireland and Sweden. It's number two. I wonder if that's why so many startups come out of Ireland. Ah, or vice versa, right? It's like a self-feeding broadband wheel. I think you will probably hit the nail on the head. I think it's probably because there's such a good startup culture in Ireland that the Wi-Fi and broadband access has been ramped up. Yeah, that helps. Although you would think that would make San Francisco the hottest broadband market in the United States, and it's definitely not. D2Philip submitted the boing boing post about a leaked European Commission document summarizing plans for 2016. Among the plans are the idea of creating a copyright interest in links so that any entity that links to infringing material could be liable for infringement themselves. The document was meant to go public December 9th. Yeah, so the German publishers are really stuck on this idea of everyone paying to view their websites. And not even for like, they've gone round and round and round with Google over Google News where Google says, we're sending traffic to your website. Why are you upset? And Germany is saying, yeah, we also want you to pay for that, too. We want you to pay to send people to our website. And for snippets and all that. So this seems to be springing from that idea of like, let's make it so if someone links without permission, then we can charge them with infringement. Yep, way to go. Yeah, bad idea. Hey, but you know, it is a good idea. Letting us know about stories like this at our subreddit at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com like D2 Phillips did. Thank you, folks, for doing that. It definitely helps us create our rundown every day and gives us some insight into some unique stories as well. And it's actually a great place because there's more in there than we could fit. Go check it out and find out some good stories for yourself. And that's a look at the headlines. Okay, let's talk about TensorFlow. I'm a developer and I'm a licensed deep learning learns from data to identify similar, but not necessarily identical data. So the cats thing was the most famous one that Google did.  Which I mean, it's the internet. That's where you start. Pictures, spoken words. They've even done an experiment where they can feed dialogue from old movies in, you know, conversation because it's based on dialogue from old movies. Now, here's the thing. You can do this as Veronica mentioned on a single computer with the open source software. What Google does is they run it on a huge data center over multiple computers. And that's the key to this because this could be tantamount to Google open sourcing their search engine software in 1999, right? Yeah. Go ahead. So basically what they're doing is saying, we will give you the search engine, but you're limited to running it on one computer so that you can't go create your own search engine company out of it. But you can write apps for it in Python and C++ and they're hoping people will develop other languages that can work with it because it's open source. You can run it on mobile devices. It's actually capable of being executed on tablets and phones and they want you to be able to experiment with it and then contribute back. And then Google can take the advantage out of that and run it on their huge data centers and make an AI service out of it. And I think that's really the key is that by open sourcing it and by giving lots and lots and lots of very, very smart people the capability of running this intelligence on their machines and iterating on it and teaching it and building on it means that in the end Google is benefiting from this knowledge base, from this disseminated knowledge base of other people working on the product which only benefits them in the end. I mean there's really no way that they would suffer from this, I think, other than giving people the opportunity to build products off of this baseline. I think it's really wonderful. I think it's a really cool thing for Google to do and I'm having trouble seeing the potential downside. Again, I mean... I'm sure there are many. Yeah, there are other open source projects. So a lot of times when we talk about a single project people like to write in and say, well that wasn't the first one to do it. We don't necessarily claim that everything we talk about is the first thing to ever do anything. And obviously Torch is out there and it's open source and is still used by Google's DeepMind. Yeah, DeepMind people are still using that. People, yeah. There's also Cafe and Feano. A lot of the originators of Torch are at Facebook and they have their own project there as well. So we're not saying Google is the only one to do this. We're not saying they're the first or the only ones to open source, but it's a big deal when Google, which is by some accounts, not my own, but by some accounts five to six years ahead of where a lot of other people are with deep learning and machine learning, says we're going to let you take advantage of that. And I think that's what Google gets out of it too is we think that progress in deep learning will be faster if more people are working on it and we're letting them catch up by sharing what we know without taking away our business advantage. At least that's the hope. Yeah, I think this is really exciting just because I love the idea of machine learning and artificial intelligence, improving stuff that we use every day, whether it's just basic software, like calendaring or productivity, stuff you don't really think about needing AI or machine learning, but it does. And it only gets better the smarter it gets. And I think that's what's really intriguing about this is that instead of one company or multiple companies working on different systems, now we're going to have the ability for anyone to tinker with this and to play with it and improve it, and that's just going to make it improve exponentially, very quickly. Yeah, the idea that you can create a program that runs on this engine and then distribute it as an app, I mean Google Translate is trained using the TensorFlow software but then is distributed as an app that you can use on your phone and it doesn't need to be connected to the data center. It doesn't need to be connected to anything. It runs natively on the platform that it's on, Android, and then you can use it, even if you don't have a data connection, that's pretty impressive. Like there are lots of things that people could potentially make that don't in any way directly benefit Google. They benefit the open source program maybe, but it could create a whole startup section here by doing this. Now, granted, if this was going to happen, maybe it would have already happened with something like Torch, but it doesn't hurt anything. And it's a good license, the Apache 2 license, unless you're someone who hates the Apache 2 license that you think it's awful. And there are people who have problems with it. No, I think this is a good thing and I'm very excited about it and I think a lot of cool stuff is going to come of it. Not that cool things weren't already happening. I feel like we're caveatting a lot of this discussion because yes, there is a whole world of this already happening, but when a big name like Google gives away the software and the algorithms for free and says, yes, you are limited to one machine, but imagine what you can do once it lives on something the size of Google's infrastructure, hardware infrastructure is pretty incredible. Now, as I always disclose, my wife works for YouTube, which is owned by Google. If there were a downside to this, I would say that Google is going to continue to run the open source project. These sorts of things are generally more trusted in wider circles when you create a foundation to run it, to say, look, the open source code is now run by an independent organization and we'll obviously contribute people to it but we're not trying to control it. The fact that Google is saying, no, we'll run the organization too could make some people hesitant to contribute because they worry that maybe they'll close off the source at some time in the future and obviously the license prevents them from doing that in some cases, but it does mean that everything's still in Google's hands and running to the benefit of Google. So if you're going to find an objection, I guess that's the one that I could find. What happens if I, and I just am speaking from ignorance here, what happens if they do, I mean, the code is already out there under the Apache 2 license. So if they decide to stop giving it away, it's still, what has already been put out is already still free to use, right? They can't take that back. I don't know enough to really get into the nitty gritty of it but essentially they can't stop the code that was already introduced under that license from being distributed under that license but they could stop contributing to the project. They could just, you know, they could take all the wind out of it, essentially. I'm just curious if someone builds a product or a company based on the existing open source code if Google could do something about that later down the line if they revoke access to it but I guess they probably couldn't from earlier earlier builds of... No, especially because they're not saying and you have to use our data center to run the stuff. They are making it an actual, like, self-contained engine. What they could do is if somebody was trying to implement it across multiple computers, they could maybe go after them for that. Say it's not intended to be used that way. Yeah. Or that your modifications are breaking the license terms or something. I wouldn't even expect them to do that. I would expect them to allow people to say, yeah, if you can implement your own software that runs across multiple computers that still takes advantage of this engine, that's fine because that's what Google is doing. They're saying we're not open sourcing the part that allows it to be run that way. I think it's going to at least attract people to try it and the idea would be to spark more experimentation and accelerate machine learning and then we start to get into the worries of the Elon Musk's and Stephen Hawking's and we being responsible in our development of artificial intelligence and in that case I think it is responsible to open-source this sort of thing so that lots of eyes can see what's happening and keep and ride a check an ethics check on that sort of behavior. Oh, so much interesting stuff is happening so quickly. What a time to be alive. Yeah, if you're interested in this, especially if you're like a Python programmer, C++ programmer TensorFlow.org is the place to go to find out more. Our Pick of the Day comes from Mike, a.k.a. Gadget Chaser. It's based on last week's episode discussion of Generations their names and their general personalities.  Gadget Chaser writes... Snake people. Yes, the snake people, yes, exactly. Way back in 1990 I read a book that fascinated me and still affects my thinking and views of the world called Generations the History of America's Future 1584 to 2069 by Neil Howe and William Strauss. It combines history, which he loves and sociology, which I'd never really given any thought about up until then and completely changed my outlook of our nation's history and its future. Their premise is that there are four archetypes of generational personalities that repeat themselves in a cycle and throughout the course of American history has been shaped and the events dealt with by these types being at certain ages during these crises. He says, it was amazing and still holds up today, especially when talking about us Gen 13ers, that's the name for Generation X because it was published before Douglas Koopland's 1991 novel and the Millennials, which name they did use and some predictions about the generation after the Millennials, Generation Z. He says personally, I think of them as Generation GWT. I haven't read it in a few years, but I think it's time for a reread. Maybe I'm overstating the profoundness of it, but to me it was profound. Plus I like being a Generation 13er, but I've learned to accept my ex-ness. As always, Tom's wife works for YouTube. Mike, that's how he signed it. Mike, a.k.a. Gadget Chaser. Yeah, this is a really interesting book and I think it's one of the books that influenced Douglas Koopland in writing Generation X. Neat.  I bite your only. I do not feel an affinity towards my fellow Millennials. I'm very close to the cutoff. Yeah. Unfortunately. We'll send your picks to us, folks. Feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. You can find my picks at DailyTechNewsShow.com slash picks. A few emails before we're out of here. David wrote in and said I emailed a few days ago talking about how, in my experience, Amazon still practices targeted pricing on the back of having my email read on DTS. I heard from Amazon. Be careful what you send us, folks. The explanation I received from them sounds plausible to me. Product prices can vary from country to country. When I go to amazon.com with my browser in incognito mode, I'm presented by default with the United States price. However, when I log in and it becomes obvious that I am in the U.K., I am then presented with the price for my region, which may be higher. Anthony from Amazon promised to carry out further investigations. He might be contacting you, meaning DTNS with his findings. Either way, I'm impressed with the openness he provided on behalf of his employers, and also I bet David feels bad about saying that they still do the adjusted pricing. But it sounds like they don't, although there are different prices in different regions, which makes sense. So confused. This was all brought about by talking about the Amazon bookstore that they opened up in Seattle where they said the prices will be same online as they are in the bookstore. I would assume they mean the U.S. prices, because the bookstore is in the United States and someone had asked, don't they do the variable pricing? And I said, I don't think they do that anymore. And then David said, wait, I have evidence that they do. And then Amazon said, no, that's not what you're seeing. So there you go. Mike in cloudy DC said with the fall of big box bookstores like Barnes & Noble, I think Amazon should stay out of the retail space and partner with local bookstores. My favorite local bookstore, Cramer's in Washington, D.C., has signs in the door threatening to throw people out with kindles. In addition to being a great bookstore, otherwise they have a bar and cafe, both of which attract customers as well. If Amazon could become a supplier and partner to local bookstores, they could come up with a model to sell Kindle titles directly at the store or even offer discounts on Kindle versions with the sale of physical books. If people are using bookstores as a showroom, Amazon could at least send a little money their way with a partnership agreement. Nice thing about local bookstores is that they're built for the market and have deep roots in the community by partnering with Amazon. Amazon has access to Amazon's low prices and maybe finally make peace over eBooks. The store would take on the rent, brick and mortar risks, but get to come up with a business model that brings in customers. Just a thought, Bezos call me, says Mike. Be careful, Mike. He might. He might. He might be listening. Yeah. I don't think Amazon has enough interest, has enough self-interest in partnering with local bookstores as much as I love this idea. I just bet Amazon looks at it and goes, I don't see what we get out of it because we can sell books all day long. On the other side, I wonder if a local bookstore is going to trust Amazon in any kind of partnership anyway. Maybe they feel like they don't have a choice. Maybe they feel like they have to get with the Amazon or potentially lose out. But it's an interesting idea. It's an intriguing idea. Thank you for writing in with that, Mike. And finally, Jan Cuddy in Chili Detroit wanted to share this with us. He sent it. Jan Cuddy, I shouldn't say he. Jan Cuddy sent it as a pick. But it was in the news today, so I thought we'd just read it out anyway. Sound recordings from Edison Wax cylinders are being archived before MP3s, before CDs, even before LPs. These were the first commercial audio format known as the Edison Wax Cylinder. The University of California's Santa Barbara Library is digitizing its collection of late 19th and early 20th century Wax Cylinder recordings and has placed more than 10,000 songs online for anyone to stream and download for free. UCSB says there are 2,000 more cylinders yet to come, and it's allowing benefactors to adopt a cylinder if they want to encourage the practice for 60 bucks, which will then be used for upkeep and further digitization of the collection. If you're interested, go to cylinders.library.ucsb.edu to know more about their archived recordings. I love that. That's very cool. These are public domain, I would assume. You could download them and use them in projects, make some newsreels. I don't know. That's great. I love that idea. There's lots of opera, lots of classical, some animal sounds. There's an interview with Shackleton, the guy who went to the North Pole. There's an interview with him on Wax Cylinder about going to the North Pole. There's some crazy stuff. There's even some of that crazy jazz music that the kids are listening to. Wacky jazz. On their cylinders. Well, thank you, Jan Cuddy, for that. And thank you, Veronica Belmont, for joining us. Twitter.com. If you would like to follow what Veronica is up to, I would assume most tweets tomorrow will either be absent or about follow-up. Is that right? Yes, I do have a podcast recording tomorrow at 4 p.m. for a sword and laser. Otherwise, I'm going to be engaged. Yes. So you want me to put in the feedback, user feedback? Yeah, if you could just do all the rundown throughout the episodes, that would be great. Sure. Yeah, got that. And folks, send your questions on Twitter to Veronica. Hashtag Dear Veronica. Is that right? Hashtag Dear Veronica. I always enjoy them. Thank you. Even the ones you're not on? Yes, which is most of them. You've been getting great guest answerers, too. 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Good show. Let's find out. Showbot. What should you call the show? Showbot, what you got. Show me what you bought. Show me what you bought. Brick and Morty. Brick and Morty. Let's see. Yeah, Amazon opened a Brick and Morty store. What's that? What do we got? My singles day. I like that. What? Not my singles day? Hashtag nice. Couples against singles day. Every day is a singles day. You're single. Is that possible? Is that what it means? Is it about singles? Buying stuff for themselves? It's basically a government-sponsored day to get people to hitch. To get married. I'll see you buy something for someone else who's single in the hopes that they'll marry you. Hopefully they marry you. Couples married. I got you this Xiaomi wristband for 99 Yuan. Will you marry me? No. No. Singapore actually has something very similar. I don't think it's a day, but they have a campaign to get people to hook up. Any of those is fine. Paying by the link. There's a lot in here. I need to pick a fantasy book for Sword and Laser. For next month? Yeah. I'm not feeling OK. Here's what I did last time. Because I was like, we need some classics. I looked for 1970s best science fiction.  I pulled names off of those lists. Things we hadn't read already. Or from authors we hadn't read already. You can try that. Go 80s instead of 70s. Or 60s even. It's not the same decade. Best 80s. Go 80s. We can put on some leg warmers. Play some Pac-Man. Read a fantasy book. Tour has got a nice list here. I looked at two or three. I think I looked at three just to get a cross-section. The ones that were showing up on multiple lists. I was like, all right. Next few books. That's how we ended up with Time and Again. I don't think I would have ever added that to the list. But I just saw it on all the lists. Welcome to Sword and Laser pre-production. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Seriously, I'm going to get up at like six o'clock in the morning tomorrow. Are you really? Wow, you're that excited. Play the game. Maybe I'll just stay up all night tonight. Play the game tonight. Wait, there's no multiplayer. No, no. I'm just wondering. No. Why are you so upset? No. I'm not angry. Because you're not Fallout 4. That's why.  Why are you not Fallout 4? Why are you not Fallout 4 right now? Ah! Is it not my singles day anyway that I'm not realizing? Yeah, probably. I would not do that. I just assume that it probably is. Even as I said, I just assumed it was offensive. Well, it's one thing to say. It's another thing to title the whole episode. Should I? Should we do Mercedes Lackey? Oh, yeah. I don't think we've ever done her and she's huge. She's hugely popular. I mean, I don't know her size. She's enormous. She's very popular. I'm going to go with Mentally in the Wasteland then. Okay, I like that. I'm biased though. No, we haven't read any Trist. Oh, yeah. Go Bob. Well, I knew you could put it up for a vote. No, you don't like democracy. I know. You only like democracy when you participate in it. Yes. Not what it participates upon you. Basically, I like it when it works. It goes my way. Yep. Is that the whole George Bush thing? It's like, oh, Britain, please take us back as a college. People voted against the way I wanted it. I'm all for democracy until people make the wrong choice. You know, I've seen so many of them.  TV Z-Guns like, how'd you miss Mercedes Lackey? So. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. TV Z-Guns like, how'd you miss Mercedes Lackey? So even TV Z-Guns. I know, but is this the right Mercedes Lackey to read? That's a good question. That's a good question. Well, you could do it that way. Instead of limiting yourself to the decade, you could put up like a few different Mercedes Lackeys titles for a vote. So many. She's got so many books. Pick one. Thanks. Thanks, Rog. Like hundreds, hundreds of books. So take two tenths. What's her best selling book? Parts. No, it's not. She never wrote a book. She never wrote a book. That is not pleasant. Yikes. The Valdemar books are apparently like. That was one of them. Arrows of the Queen. I was looking at Magic's Pawn. Magic's Pawn. Valdemar, The Last Herald. Mage, number one. Arrows of the Queen seems to come up on a lot of lists of what are the best Mercedes Lackey books. What was the one you mentioned? Magic's Pawn. Magic's Pawn is number two on most of these lists. Okay. Arrows of the Queen. I see that. I know it's in the 80s. Seems kind of like a lot of stuff we've read. Talia, The Queen's Pawn runaway is made a herald at the royal court after she rescues one of the legendary companions. When she uncovers a plot to seize the throne, Talia must use her empathetic powers to save the Queen. Yeah. It's like newcomer to the court. Makes a big difference. Mercedes Lackey is an antidote to Grimdark, too. It's going to be a fun fantasy novel. This is just Tolkien all over again, but it's also not going to be tired of gritty stabbing novels. I don't know if anyone's ever said that. Gritty stabbing novels. GSNs. Yes, GSNs. The Game Show Network. I love Joe Abercrombie. I'm not against gritty stabbing novels, but we have read a lot of them. That's all. I am guilty on the sci-fi side of a lot of post-apocalyptic stuff. I guess I could ask. I'm a baby. Ask Ellie. What should we read? Which one? Which one? All the things are ringing.  See, Gordon MacLeod agrees. They have their time and place, but I don't know if I can read them everywhere. I'm just scared that this is going to be too similar to other stuff we've read also. But not recently. She's sort of the forerunner of... Was it not similar to uprooted? Was that not featuring a female who gets... Yeah, but it's a forerunner of uprooted. In some ways it's kind of cool to be like, all right, let's go back to the root of these kinds of novels because Mercedes definitely blazed a trail. All right. You got me convinced. It'll be different. Even if the outline seems similar. It will be different. And there will be blood. I don't know why I said that. There will be blood! I don't think there will. It's fine. Look at that. You're like way ahead now. What? On picking books. Well, I'm trying to... You were supposed to fill in your choices too on the lead sheet. I haven't yet. Did you? Oh, maybe I didn't look. Oh, did you do that? Okay, thank you. Tried and convicted. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm filled out through May. Oh, you did? Although those are subject to change. I at least have an idea. Why this book? Because I say so, Veronica. Wait, where does it say why this book? Oh, when you pick a book for the upcoming bookreads. Oh, in the Goodreads thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotcha. I know. That's funny. I don't remember what I wrote. I think I wrote because you voted for it. I chose this as one of three to vote on. Goodreads group chose this out of the three. Out of the three, you said. Yeah, well, because, you know, I just wanted to make sure they didn't miss the first the. What happens? Geez. Also, you know, I learned a lot of Russian in college and they don't have any articles. So I feel like I need to throw some extras in from time to time just to make up the balance. Can I go on November 23rd? Why is it November 23rd? That's very early. What? Oh, we need to figure out our Thanksgiving week recording. Oh, yes. Because, um, Eileen, why is it still on? Oh, you said you wanted it to be on Wednesday. Because Eileen booked us to go to that museum on Tuesday. But I know Eileen's going to want us to leave on Wednesday. So can we do it Tuesday? This is great video, by the way, I'm sure. I'm almost published. Hey, Gordon McLeod, good job on NaNoWriMo, by the way. NaNoWriMo. NaNo, NaNo. Actually, I'm going to be maybe change my mind. Maybe. Call me. Maybe. Call me eventually. Call me if you want. All right, we're done. Goodbye, everyone. Fare thee well. Enjoy the show.


A big force to the body that usually results in injury, so sudden acceleration, sudden deceleration usually means injury. For example, this is my daughter, that's my wife, here's my mother-in-law, anywhere you induce a sudden change in velocity you have big injuries. So if you look at car safety features, they're all about making the interaction time as long as possible. If you can spread out the interaction, you can do the deceleration with a smaller force. And that's what we have with crumpled zones. Here we have my mother-in-law's first parking lesson. Crumpled zones are deliberately engineered weak points in the car and they absorb the force. So rather than you coming to a sudden stop, you come to a halt over a larger period of time. Another thing that you would have is airbags. Here we have a car with no airbag, his face will be decelerated by the steering wheel. Do you see the way it bent over? Here we have one with an airbag and his skull is nestled in the welcoming bosom of the airbag. A shorter side here, you can usually tell if the car was being driven by a male or a female by examining the airbag afterwards. If it was a female, there tends to be a ring of lipstick in the middle where she goes oh! There was a time in the 80s where that rule didn't really hold because you had adamant gerand gerand and all the modern romance things. Everybody was wearing lipstick, even me for it, never mind. Every features in cars, everybody thinks, oh, seatbelts. The term for them is a real inertia seatbelt. It retards the inertia. We can take a look here, seatbelt on, seatbelt on, no seatbelts here. Look, oh, kiddies are launched forwards, there's a skull impact there. Now it looks like the babies, the kids are launched forward, but they're not. The car is brought to a halt and they just continue at their original velocity. So it's their inertia in action. The larger crash test dummies are held in place by the seatbelt, but just because you're wearing your seatbelt, that doesn't necessarily mean that you're safe or free from injury. What I want you to do now is look at what happens to the skull motion of this crash test dummy. Go back, do it one more time. Watch the skull of this one here. Do you see the way you get that overextension of the cervical part of the spine?  Come on, it's not a rhetorical question. Ten kilos is too much, seven kilos is too much. Five, four to five kilos, depending on how brainy you are, all right? That's a lot of mass at the top of your spine. So when the car comes to a sudden halt, the body is stopped, but the skull continues on. And that's what you get creating what's the name of that injury? Whiplash. Now there's two kinds of whiplash. The first kind of whiplash you get when the car is brought to a sudden halt. There's a second type where the car is already stationary, let's say at traffic lights, and someone coming behind you hasn't noticed that you've stopped and they drive into you. Under those circumstances, your car is shunted forward, your body with it, but your head, which was stationary, its inertia, wants to stay where it was originally. And that gives you a second type of whiplash. Now I scoured the internet for an example, and I couldn't see one relating to a car crash, but I did find this. Let me see now. Oh, go by. Where are we? There's my mouth. Come on. Now, watch the lady. She is attached to a speedboat. The lady is also attached to a parachute. She was supposed to go rising majestically into the air for an experience that she would never forget. Well, she will never forget it. That's for sure. Now, I'm going to show that again, but what I want you to notice is on the moment of acceleration, she's looking at the camera. And when she moves off, her body moves and for a second, her skull remains stationary and it's hinged back. The back of her head almost hits between her shoulder blades. Now that's the end of her holiday. The fact that she was turning sideways means she's activated another pair of muscles that will also be extended beyond their elastic limit. So she's going to be in a cervical collar at least five to six months if she's lucky. But let's just see it again. Look at the camera. That was linear momentum, the inertia where the motion is in a straight line. There's a second type of inertia, rotational inertia and things that are spinning like to stay spinning. We can see an example here. You spin the raw egg and then you stop it and if you let go, the fluid still rotates inside and it starts rotating again. It's simple enough. You can all do that at home. There's not a whole lot of science involved. You might say to yourself, well, big deal. What's the point? There's a very similar effect in the body that means if you didn't have that kind of rotational inertia, you wouldn't be able to stand up and walk outside the lecture theater because it's the basic principle in your vestibular system, your balance in the ears. Here we have your semicircular canals and you have three loops of fluid. One, two, three. And if you look at them mathematically, they're all mutually perpendicular. It will detect rotation in the x, y or z direction, well, the xz plane, the yz plane and the zx plane. And I need a couple of volunteers now.  Thank you very much. One volunteer will do and I'll only do the one demonstration. Now, the vestibular system helps you with your balance and the way that you detect rotation. Thank you very much. What's your name? Andrew. Andrew. Do you just stand there for a moment? The way that you detect rotation is when you rotate, the bones in your skull go one direction and the fluid, the endolymphatic fluid in your semicircular canals remain stationary. You have a little hinge-like door there and when you have rotation, these things get bent and it activates the nerves. So you're all familiar with dizziness, yes? Come on over here. Sit yourself down. Now, you're all familiar with normal dizziness, yes? Anybody can get normally dizzy.