While usually focusing on portability first, Acer has switched its strategy for the Swift 5 for this year, deciding to maximize performance with the Alder Lake P series. This earns the laptop a lot of points in our eyes, as were suckers for performance inside small notebooks. However, the Swift 5 has a lot more to show, so stick with us to find out what that is. It comes with a fully aluminum chassis, which is very durable and looks amazing. It's got sharp edges and rounded corners while using a mist green color with some gold touches, which make the laptop appear very luxurious. Even though it comes with a 14-inch display, the laptop remains very light, with a weight of only 1.2 kilograms and a profile of 14.95 millimeters. The lid of the Swift 5 is easy to open with one hand, while also lifting up the backside of the base. Once open we can see the keyboard and touchpad. There's a fingerprint reader embedded in the power button, which is commonplace among more premium devices. The board also has green keys with gold lettering. Typing on it is great, as the key travel is as long as humanly possible on this thin chassis, while the feedback is clicky. The touchpad uses an ocean glass material, which is essentially recycled ocean plastic. Still, it's quite smooth, but the size of the pad is smaller than we would prefer. The laptop also brings a good selection of ports. On the left side, there are two Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI 2.1 port, and one 5 gigabit full-sized USB port. On the other side, we have one more full-sized USB port, and a 3.5mm audio jack. On the front, we see the display, which is covered in glass. Acer makes it simple, by offering two panels with a 1610 aspect ratio in either FHD Plus or QHD Plus resolution. We went all out and picked the latter and it was a very good choice. The panel reaches 536 nits of brightness and has a high contrast ratio, ensuring deep black colors. It also shows 100% sRGB coverage, making it ready for creator work. If you want to take it a step further, our design and gaming profile lowers the delta E value down to 1.4, which is right where you want it to be. You can purchase our profile in the description below. The Swift 5 comes with a 56Wh battery pack which lasts for 11 hours and 40 minutes of web browsing, or 10 hours and 10 minutes of video playback when paired with the Core i7-1260P. Only 2 per 100 people watching this video are subscribers. If you decide to just start following us, we'll be able to reinvest more in our laboratory thus making even more helpful videos for you. Thank you, you're awesome! This is the most powerful CPU that you can get on the laptop, and it performs really well, matching or outclassing a lot of its competitors in 3D rendering. It's also blazing quick in Photoshop, so you can definitely take advantage of the amazing screen. Acer has picked a very good cooling solution for the Swift 5, giving it two heat pipes and two fans. This makes it the best performing Core i7-1260P laptop that we've tested so far, offering very fast speeds and short loads, while keeping cool under long runs. In terms of comfort, the laptop does well for the performance that it offers, having a hotspot of 41.1 degrees Celsius, while there isn't a lot of noise coming from the two fans. Unfortunately, with a device as small as this, the upgradeability is limited, since you've only got soldered LPDDR5 memory, with configurations of up to 16GB. On the bright side, there's 1M.2 slot for generation for SSDs. We have a separate teardown video, in which we show how to access the inside of the Swift 5 for maintenance and upgrades. We'll have it linked in the description. The Acer Swift 5 gets a revamp for 2022, which we feel is for the better. Yes, you do get an extra 200 grams to carry around, but the performance benefits and the improved design do make it worth it. For more info about the Swift 5, you can go to our website and read our written review, which has extra testing and can get you 100% up to speed with the Acer Swift 5.


Former Speaker Femi Bajabiamila has resigned from the House of Representatives to take up his role as Chief of Staff to the President. His letter of resignation was presented on the floor of the Senate of the House and read by the Speaker Tajidini Bas. Now that the member representing Suruliri-1 has attended his resignation, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will have to conduct a fresh election to field the role. Honourable colleagues, I will go straight to the point, it is with mixed feelings that I want to at this time, at this moment, at this hour, at this minute present to you and the Honourable House my letter of resignation from this House. If I may, Mr Speaker, I have the letter here to present to you.


flying machine. And Charlie and Jean François were with you in the tunnel. Houston we're on board looking into the spacehab. Hello Jean François.  The folks in the spacehab we're looking over your shoulder in. Houston in preparation for the upcoming biorect activity per our pre-flight agreement we think it'd be more efficient to split the air to grounds. Affirmative and we're setting up the CIC on the ground to match. We see Charlie and it's a good clear image. Tell me aren't you a bit scared about boarding the Russian space station because it's been a pretty dangerous place to be hasn't it? The difficult thing we did yesterday and that was a bit often that has by far the highest risk in it because you're going from zero miles an hour to 17,000 miles per hour and when you're traveling in that kind of speed it's also quite hard to know over which part of the country you are at any one time because you're moving so fast. We've done that. We're in space. We have all that energy now. We're in orbit and the rest of it is actually quite a lot easier. Thank you Michael. Can I first of all ask you how do you view the prospect of more than four months on Mir? Will you be lonely? No I don't think so. There are two other people going to be on board that spacecraft with me and that's the city Superlev and the station of Zutkin. I already know them well and have spent some time with them both in Russia where I live for a year and a half and then also on travel with them in Houston and that's a result I feel quite close to them and we've exchanged the messages before my arrival to the Mir and by email that is as well as also by radio from Russia from my house in Russia so I thought I'm going to be with friends and so I won't be feeling too lonely in any way. How confident are you that Mir will be safe because it has had some serious problems recently hasn't it? I don't know if other people see this way but I see the Mir is a very successful but old car in a way. It's been in space up to 13 years and they've been putting new parts in replacing old parts and if anyone's had an old car maintained it you know that as you keep on adding and repairing things continue to break around those new parts and that's really a fact a function of the fact that the Mir is living a lot longer than it was originally designed and yes there has been some problems but none of these are ever big showstoppers. They are serious to some extent so we can always continue to repair, improvise and work around those problems and the Russians have been extremely good at doing that today. Now this is all in preparation for the international space station which is due to be built soon in orbit. What do you see as the main purpose of the space station? Basically conceived to conduct science and operations development in space and a big big part of that is the endeavor of international countries working together to achieve those goals. As a result of an international cooperation in space you not only get a good science platform in orbit around the earth in which many many investigators from other countries can all work in or send experiments to you also get the experience of many countries working together and working in a great project which I see is leading us eventually out of Earth orbit to the moon and to Mars and to settle other planets. Now I put a question to the commander Charles Precourt what's it like having a British astronaut among you is he made of the right stuff? He's warning me that I'd better say yes to that one. Mike's a great asset to the NASA program and he brings a load of experience from a lot of different areas to us and you know he kind of hinted at the fact that the benefits of an international space station is that the fact that we bring together the talents of many different nations and in fact many different cultures and new ideas bring new ways of doing things and we discover new things together so yeah Mike is a great asset we're gonna miss him when we close the hatch but we're glad that he's representing us when we do. Mike again can I ask you what are you looking forward to most? Hard thing to answer because when you're looking at a flight that goes on four and a half months or more there's a whole number of events and of course you always choose the operational ones as being the most glamorous and therefore you say they're the most interesting. Well and there are one or two out there there are EVAs being done by the Russian cosmonauts they're also we're going to get in the Soyuz spacecraft at one point put on our spacesuits leave the space station mirror in the Soyuz and then fly around to the back side of the mirror and join up again with it so we'll get a nice fly around to the station I'm sure that will be a great thing a single event to look forward to but really the best thing is actually just living calmly and easily in space with two friends and spending time together. Houston Atlanta time back in we've got you on the downlink and Eileen Ecom is happy with the bag


Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, go. One, two, three, four. What's up guys, welcome to today's vlog. Today what we're gonna be going over is one of my long time clients, one of my longest clients that has been in my book over 12 years consistently came to me. So today I wanted to film this haircut for you guys. The thing that I like about this cut that we're gonna go over is that there's a lot of different aspects to John's hair that could be tricky for some people. So we're gonna get really into detail with this haircut. It's a basic haircut for men, but we're gonna get very detailed so that you can understand fully everything that I'm doing in the cut. Hope you guys like it. Let me know in the comments below if you have any questions. Here we go with our step by step, thanks. All right guys, so we're gonna start off our haircut on John and the thing I like to do before I start the haircut is separate the top and the bottom. What that helps me do is kind of divide where I want that weight line to sit. So we're gonna start off with our two guard. This is a plastic guard, so it's different than the metal guards. Make sure as you're working through, you pick the right tool with the right length and also understand that every two guard is not gonna look the same on everybody's head because John has pretty high density on the side of his head and then a little bit lower density on the top. So we're gonna work our way through the sides. You can see how I rock out as I'm going through with the clipper. So I just pull away wherever I wanna start to leave that weight line. Now I'm gonna leave the weight line a little bit heavier. We're gonna go through with some clipper over comb later on. So I just work through, figure out where I want that weight line to sit, what works best with his head shape. As you're looking at John, I think one thing that I've worked on throughout the years of doing his hair is that it's a pretty standard haircut like we talked about, but it has to work with his head shape. So he has a little bit longer head so I wanted to drop that weight line a little bit lower and then work through the top and I don't want the top to live too high because that'll make his head look longer as well. So I just work my way through, building up that weight line right on the sides, keeping it nice and sleek though because I don't want his head to look super wide and going through with the haircut. I think that's the thing that separates hairdressers from just people trying to cut hair at home. You need to understand what it's doing on the head shape. It's not just going through and cutting with the two guard and getting it over with. It's really, there should be a lot of thought going into what you want your guests head shape to look like. So now I'm going through clipper over comb. So we started off with our Andis Master Series Clipper with the plastic guards. Now this is the Andis Supra ZR. I went through with the triple zero blade and worked clipper over comb. And now I'm going through with my Andis T-Trimmer. I just happen to really like these tools. I use different brands and different things when I do men's cuts, but these seem to be my three go-to tools that Andis sent me, so I like to use them. We go through with the T-Trimmer. One thing that you're gonna notice, I do round off that corner.  So I go through, just round that corner slightly, but not too extreme as well.  So I'll go down the line, follow his hairline, and then I'll use the trimmer just to glide over the comb after that, which will take it a little bit tighter to the skin, helps it live a little bit longer, helps it look a little more natural. So now I'm gonna go through and cut the guideline for the top of the head.  And what that's gonna do is leave a little bit of extra length, but not too much length at that recession point, whereas hair goes back a little bit. I wanna leave a little extra weight. And also we're gonna pop the front of his hair up just a little bit so I wanna pick my length for that. Then I go through horizontally, all the way down the head, and meet up with that guideline. So starting the back, pick my length there, then I work my way across the round of the head and connect it to the very front. And I'm gonna work that in a traveling guide across the top of the head, and then I'll check it vertically as I go through. Some of you guys might look at this as vertically, so just take it however you were taught in that way, but just I work my way across the head one way towards the forehead, which connects my guideline. And then I'll go through the opposite way at the very end to do some texturizing as well. So one key thing that I want you guys to notice here is I talk about combing a lot and how important combing is to consistency within a haircut. I'm combing the hair towards the center. On the other side, I was doing the same thing. Now when I go to this side, now I'm pushing the hair away from my body towards my guideline, which keeps the hair consistent. It's also important to do that with men's hair, then go through and create your texture. So now we're gonna go through with a point cutting technique. I'm also using my DB20 scissor from Mizutani. It's a 5.7 inch scissor. I always talk about this being my go-to scissor. There's a lot of power in it. If I was doing scissor over comb, I would go with something a little bit longer, but I could also use the DB20 for that. So if you do a lot of barboring work, maybe go with the 6.2, 6.7 inch to work through that way. Little detail on the front. Now I'm gonna go through using the YS Park 339 comb to really just kind of comb the hair as I blow it dry to smooth it down. We've now shampooed John's hair, got all the loose hairs out, give him a little hot towel treatment, and now I go through and I give him his finished style look. So we just go through. I'm using the nozzle of the blow dryer to push his hair where I want it. That's a very, very key component with men's hair and women's hair, but a lot of men don't think of it that way and they don't use a blow dryer. So we go through, we blow dry it exactly how we want it, then we add the product and we get our finished look. So once I get that product worked through his hair, then I'm gonna take the comb and I'm gonna actually place the hair exactly where I want it. So that will finish off the entire look. All right guys, there's our end result on John. We got a nice sleek haircut, fits his head shape really well, nice textured top to it. Let me know in the comments below if you wanna see more of these salon reality type haircuts on my clients. I can definitely put out more of these type of videos. So let me know. All right guys, if you like John's cut then make sure you post that in the comments below. I'd love to see that. Also if you made it this far in the video, I love seeing that as well. And make sure you hit that subscribe button and share this video with all of your friends out there. Thank you guys so much for watching and the support. I'll see you guys on the next video. Thanks.


is TFNN. The Tiger. Financial News Network. TFNN. Headline. News. Update. Good afternoon everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. 2 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday. Two hours left to go in the trading day. We've got markets hanging around negative territory. S&Ps right now, negative by three points, trading at 29.30. We have the NASDAQ right now, negative by 26, trading at 8,113. And the Dow, negative by 61, trading at 26,595. Dollar index with some strength, up 350 ticks, trading at 97.670. Notes and bonds, higher price, and lower yield. Ten-year note, up 12 ticks. 123.16, 30-year bond, up 26 ticks. 147.10. Gold, up $6.00. Catch and a bounce after some negative action recently. Gold, trading 12.79. 20 in oil, with some negative action today, negative 45 cents. 65.84. That's after a bit of a surprise build in the EIA inventories we got at 10.30. Jumping over the futures markets, we'll start it off with the Dow. So it's kind of just been a slow slide throughout most of the day. We started the day about 8 in the morning. We're at 26,691. We're about 100 points exactly on the dot below that level, 26,590. NASDAQ 100. Little bit of a similar story as in trading lower for most of the day, 78.17. We made lows for the session about an hour ago, 78.07. S&P 500. Earlier in the day, we were trading up there at about 29.40 on a couple occasions, call it 29.39 being the high. S&P is about seven points off that level, trading 29.32. Crude oil, there is your volatility on the inventory build on the EIA. 10.30 this morning, we were trading about $66.20. Crude oil had a build of about 5 million barrels. The estimate was for an increase of about 1 million barrels, more supply than the market expected. With that in mind, prices go lower. 65.89, still a pretty muted response as we're hovering right around $66 crude. And gold, there's your acceleration to the upside. We peak above $12.80 briefly, gold trading at $12.79.16. In terms of what else you have happening, it is earning season in full swing. Caterpillar reported better than expected earnings. We'll jump over to that chart in a moment. You have Boeing pulling their 2019 guidance, basically saying we can't guide you through what's going to happen for the rest as we deal with this 737 MAX. And Tesla, after the bell today, down about 1.7%. There's Caterpillar, down 2.5%. Boeing though, seems like that was already priced into this stock. Boeing, basically flat. Stay tuned folks. Dave White coming up right now. Tom O'Brien, back of the saddle, live from 3TEL 5.


Hi everyone, this is Hermia. I'm from Hong Kong. I'm working as a project officer with the SDSM Youth SDG Student Programme in particular. So in the past couple days, I attended a few side events that mainly revolve around Indigenous issues, Indigenous communities, and there are a lot of discussion on how to make sure the fund going directly to Indigenous community instead of their government. And they're also very concerned how Indigenous community will be engaged or would they be participating in the decision-making process or how to manage these funds, whether they have the literacy to manage these funds or how to empower people to be able to make the best use of these funds. So what I want to do after COP will be having building an Asian youth coalition. As we had a little bit of discussion before in the past few days that Asian cities, Asian countries, we really like to compare to the neighbouring countries. And by urging all of them together, we might be able to make a larger or future impact than just to talk to individual government.