Financial problems have struck another eastern Kentucky sheriff's office, resulting in layoffs and reduced patrol time. MacGuffin County Sheriff Carson Montgomery says his office can no longer afford to provide 24-hour protection, and he has been forced to lay two deputies off. Well, I had to make a decision. You know, I had like four deputies to be covered. We had about 20 to 21 hour-a-day coverage several days a week. Two of them we used nights and two of them on days. It came down, days is the busiest.  They had seniority. I've been talking with the county judge for a few months now, and you know, we kind of know this was coming. He stepped into a situation here. He's got to spend his money wisely, and he don't have an abundance of cash. The fiscal court funded me three deputies before, and as of right now, he could only fund me with one. I managed to pay the other one here out of the office. As of right now, we're going to try to cover seven days' dayshift. Saturday and Sunday will probably be like from ten to six to seven to six. It's very hard on me to do this, to turn somebody down that needs help.


Thank you for inviting me today.  We've conducted national surveys of youth, and Michelle gave you a lot of information about our youth internet safety surveys. And we've also conducted studies with national samples of law enforcement agencies, one that looked at crimes that happened in the years 2000 and 2001, and we are currently finishing another study that we're replicating the circumstances of the first study for the year 2006. These are national samples of law enforcement agencies that include all of the agencies that specialize in these sorts of internet-related crimes, as well as random samplings of all other U.S. law enforcement agencies. They're big samples, and we do very detailed interviews with law enforcement investigators who've worked on these cases. So today I don't have numbers for you from our current study, but I do have a lot of examples of the kinds of cases that we see in our current study.  But then I'm really going to focus on the most serious kinds of incidents, the actual sex crimes that we see arising from online contacts, bisexual offenders toward kids who are actually victimized in criminal incidents. As Michelle pointed out, we saw a decline in online sexual solicitations between our first and second youth internet safety surveys, and we think the reason for this decline is that young people were becoming a lot more cautious about who they communicated with online. And I also want to emphasize that a lot of these online sexual solicitations were not serious incidents. We did ask kids to describe to us what happened. A lot of what they described were the kind of rude, vulgar comments that unfortunately you see in the hallways and cafeterias of middle schools and high schools all across the country. Also, a lot of these incidents did not necessarily come from adults. We ask kids what they experience online, but we also ask kids what they do online. And so we think that a lot of these incidents do come from other kids. A lot of them were not very devious. A lot of them were not particularly upsetting to kids. In fact, most of them weren't. We ask kids, very few kids reported these incidents. We ask why they weren't reporting incidents, and when they didn't report something, they usually said it was just too trivial. It wasn't important enough. So there's absolutely no evidence that the bulk of these sexual solicitations come from adult sex offenders who are targeting or trolling for victims on the Internet. We did, however, try to isolate more serious incidents. And particularly the first bullet talks about aggressive solicitations. We did ask kids a lot of details about these solicitations. So we did find a small percentage of incidents where the solicitor either attempted or actually did make offline contact with youth. So I'll emphasize that still a lot of those aggressive solicitations didn't come from adult sex offenders. Some of them came from other kids. Some of them came from kids that the victims knew. Some of these, again, were relatively mild. As someone who said to a kid online, give me your cell phone number. I'd like to call you and the kid rolls their eyes and says no way and then blocks that communicator would be in this category. Nonetheless, we think in these aggressive solicitations are where you find sex offenders who are online looking for victims. It's within that 4%, 3% of kids. In our first youth Internet safety, we didn't find any kids who had been sexually assaulted as a result of some sort of an online contact. In our second youth Internet safety survey, we found two kids who were in that category, but this was too small a number for us to make any kind of an estimate of how often young people are assaulted as a result of some sort of contact that begins on the Internet. We also asked kids about relationships that they formed with adults online.  A lot of these seem to be completely benign, but we did find some incidents that had sexual overtones and these were included in our numbers about unwanted sexual solicitations even if the kids didn't call them unwanted when they involved an adult who was 5 or more years older legally that would be considered an illegal contact in most situations. So this very small group were considered in our solicitation figures. We also asked kids about if they had talked online about sex with people that they didn't know in person. This certainly was not a typical youth behavior, but we did find a small amount of kids who said yes. As many girls as boys, almost all high school kids, it also did seem to be a group activity for a large number of kids. Now, I'm going to move from talking to that to talking about crimes where sex offenders use the Internet to meet victims. These crimes have gotten a lot of publicity as you all know. We've been told that sex offenders are moving from the playgrounds into our homes through the Internet, that the Internet is becoming increasingly dangerous, that child molesters are using the Internet, that pedophiles are using the Internet to target children. But our research has found that the image of the devious, violent sex offender who's gathering information from the Internet and using that information to track down and stalk and abduct kids is very inaccurate. And one thing I want to point out is that, well, two things. First of all, inaccurate stereotypes hamper education and prevention because they mischaracterize what really goes on in crimes. And the other thing is these sorts of stereotypes have happened before when we talk about sex crimes against children. For example, all the information, all the talk that we've had about stranger danger has deflected attention away from the true fact that the great majority of sex crimes against young children, against school-aged children, against adolescents are committed by people they know, often people they know, very well. Young people are indeed getting sexually abused by people they meet on the Internet, but the kinds of crimes that we're seeing are less dramatic, probably less frightening, and more complicated than a lot of the news stories that have been portraying these crimes. So let me give you an example of a case that was described to us by a law enforcement investigator in our current study. Mindy was 14 years old when she contacted Owen online through his social networking sites. On his site he claimed to be 19, but he was actually 24. They developed a relationship by communicating on the Internet and in most of these cases involved multiple forms of communication, by the way. Wherever kids first meet someone, whether it's a social networking site or in a chat room, invariably they exchange email addresses and website addresses and they use a lot of different forms to communicate. And also very typically in this case, Owen and Mindy were communicating by cell phone. They met each other several times over a period of about four months.  Now Mindy's mother and stepfather found out about this. They reported the case to the police. Not before, however, they tried to extort money from Owen to keep from reporting the case, but when he couldn't pay up, they reported the case. Now Mindy came from a very troubled family. She was the oldest of seven kids by several different fathers. She had problems with drugs and alcohol. She was failing in school. She had a social networking page that contained suggestive pictures of herself according to the police investigators. These pictures made her look much older than 14. And it wasn't the first time that she had met a man on the Internet in this manner that police found at least two other men that she had met this way. Mindy's mother, by the way, had her own web page where she advertised herself as a swinger. Owen had a record of arrest for petty nonviolent crimes. He was a suspect in another online enticement case, although he hadn't been charged yet. He thought this case, claiming that because the police didn't have any DNA evidence, they weren't going to be able to convict him. Mindy had to testify, but she was quite a good witness. And court gave very detailed testimony. And he was convicted, although the police investigator didn't know what his sentence was. So I've talked some about some of the myths of these online meeting crimes. Let's talk about some of the realities. The first reality is the victims in these cases are adolescents. They are not young children. And our first police study, 99% of the victims were ages 13 to 17. None of the victims were under 12. And I'm not seeing anything in our new study that suggests that this has changed in any way in the past few years. A second reality, and this is something Michelle noted, has to do with the role of deception. Deception just doesn't play a very big role in these cases. Most of the offenders are open about being adults. Now, some of them don't emphasize that fact. Some of them do shave some years off their ages, so you'll have someone who's 40, who's telling a 13-year-old girl that he's 35. And some do come off as being considerably younger. But as the relationships develop, and most of these relationships take time before there's any face-to-face meeting, as the relationship develops in almost every case, these offenders say, oh, I'm not really 19, by the way, I'm really. So in almost every case, the victims know that they are dealing with someone who's considerably older. Also, there is very little deception about sexual motivation. The great majority of these offenders are upfront, some of them immediately. And in some of these cases, the victims are quite aggressive sexually. In some of the cases, there is a more seduction is what happens, and over time, the offender brings up sex and introduces it. But in almost every single case, when there is a face-to-face meeting between an offender and the victim, the victim knows that they are going to meet the offender for some sort of sexual activity. Also, these crimes do not involve violence, and very few of them involve violence. I don't want to say that never happens, but very few of them. Most of these are what we call non-forcible sex crimes. And these are not uncommon types of crimes. Most of these cases involve what most of us know to be or called, although it has different names in different states, statutory rape. Every state has a law that says young people under a certain age, in most states at 16, can't consent to sexual activity. So, no matter if you're like Mindy, meeting men online, already sexually active, knowingly going to meet someone for sex, none of that matters. Mindy is clearly a victim because she is too young to consent to sexual activity, no matter what her behavior is in the case under these statutory rape laws. So, this is what we see in most of these cases. I do want to emphasize something about statutory rape cases, by the way. Usually, the law deems the participation of the youth to be voluntary. But voluntary has a lot of different meanings and a lot of different degrees. Remember, we are talking here about kids who are middle school, early high school ages in most of these cases. Some of them are, as I've said, quite aggressive sexually. Others have sex with an older person because they believe they're in love, because they have been seduced, because they want to please. In some cases, you do have kids who go along with a situation that they really don't want to be in, but they don't know how to get out of. So, I think it's important that we recognize that kids this age don't have very much experience, no matter how much bravado they have. And that the reason we have these statutory rape laws is to prevent the exploitation of kids by adults. Kids who have very little power in these situations. Now, we also have some myths about victims in these cases. I already mentioned the image that these kids are young children, but there's also the notion that they get in trouble because they are naive about the Internet and they're naive or innocent about sex. First of all, let's talk about the Internet. Most teenagers are very sophisticated Internet users. And what gets kids in trouble is highly sophisticated, very interactive Internet use when kids behave in certain ways online, when kids interact indiscriminately with a lot of people, when they interact sexually with people. So, it's not naivety about the Internet. Kids are quite aware that they don't know who other people may be online. But rather, it is the fact that it's a dynamic interactive environment that these kids really participate in. And when you participate in a certain way, you are likely to have results. The problems in online behavior and risky online behavior tend to be atypical behaviors that only some certain kids partake of. Also, in terms of kids naivety about sex, when we talk about kids being inexperienced, naive, innocent, it doesn't really capture the nature of the sexual activities that get kids in trouble online. We need to remember that from a very early age, any of us can look back on our own youths, from a very early age, adolescents are extremely interested in and extremely curious about sex. And the offenders in these cases know how to take advantage of that. So, we have to look at these cases in the framework of normal sexual development and how, no matter what generation we're talking about, there have always been a group of kids who engage in very precocious sexual behavior. In the U.S. right now, the median age for first intercourse is 17, but a considerable number of kids become sexually active before that. And we know from research studies that as many as 13% of young girls become sexually active before age 15 with considerably older partners. So, we're talking about kids who are behaving in precocious ways. There are also certain characteristics that get kids in trouble. There are some kids who are more vulnerable than others. I've mentioned particular online behaviors. Kids who have particular issues about their sexuality. In our first police study about a quarter of the victims were boys.  Trouble teens, teens who have conflict with parents, teens with histories of sexual or physical abuse are more vulnerable, particularly when they turn to the Internet to find friendship or to find guidance. In other words, risk is not evenly distributed among the teen Internet user population. Risk, as Michelle was pointing out, is falling in certain groups. Groups that most of us would call troubled kids. So, here's some descriptions of crimes from our latest study. A 40-year-old man met a girl 15 at a BDSM website, Bondage, Discipline, Pseudomasochism. I only know that because I do this kind of work, I promise. They met twice for sex where she worked at gym in a mall. A man 23 met a girl 14. After several lines, she sips school, spent the day with him. For those of you who are in my generation, I actually felt a little flash of nostalgia that kids are still making out in cars and police are still tracking them down when they're doing it. But the way these offenders and victims met was on the Internet. These are, indeed, crimes. I want to emphasize this. These are adult men who are exploiting young teenagers, but they're not the kinds of crimes that we are... The sort of stereotypes of the Internet predator are leading us to think that are happening out there. Now, I want to talk just a minute about Internet offenders. And I'm going to tell you another story because I want to illustrate the fact that these Internet offenders, the offenders who are using the Internet to meet victims, aren't as different from other sort of sex offenders as we may think they are. Maya was 14. Her parents were divorced. Her mother suffered from cancer.  He took her to church functions and to his home. Now, sometimes his wife was there, but his wife's mother lived in another state and was quite ill, so his wife was often not home. Patrick emailed Maya often. Maya's mother trusted Patrick completely. She had no idea that Patrick was using these emails to seduce Maya into a sexual relationship that lasted for months. They had sex in Patrick's car on the way to church functions and sex at his home when his wife is away. I apologize if some of these cases are a little graphic and disturbing, but this is what we're seeing. They spent hours online together using instant messages to talk. Patrick would text message Maya while she was at school. In the summer, Maya went to visit her father in another state. When she got to his home, she discovered that he had a webcam.  Maya saved the very graphic images from their cyber sex, and her father found them, told Maya's mother who called the police. Patrick was charged with statutory rape and statutory sodomy. He pled guilty and was given a 14-year sentence. So online child molesters. I want to make clear in one respect we don't know a lot about them. This is a fairly new phenomenon, so this specific group of child molesters haven't been studied, but there has been a lot of research about child molesters in general. And there's a lot of evidence from these cases that the online child molesters occupy a really pretty narrow range of the spectrum of child molesters overall, one that excludes both pedophiles and violent offenders to a great degree. First of all, these online child molesters are not pedophiles. By definition, pedophiles are offenders who are sexually interested in prepubescent children, not adolescents. Also, we don't see a lot of violence in these cases, but I also want to point out that most child molesters are not violent. There is a subgroup of violent child molesters. Some of them lack the social skills to get close to and victimize a child in other ways. Some of them have statistic tendencies. But we're not seeing those sorts of cases in this group of online crimes. It may largely be because the internet just isn't conducive to those sorts of cases. Online molesters have to be pretty patient. An online meeting isn't always going to develop into an offline relationship. They also have to have a high degree of social skills to get close to teenagers to gain their trust, to move the relationship off the internet, to maintain it in the real world. Because when these relationships, or when these, I'll call them relationships, they are from the point of the victims. They're also crimes, move offline. In most cases, like both Maya and Mindy's case, they involve repeated sexual contacts, not just one. I want to emphasize that abductions and stalking are extremely rare. I have heard people worrying that sex offenders are using the internet to find victims, to track down where they live, to stalk them, and to abduct them. I can tell you, I haven't seen a single case out there that matches that profile. In two national studies, and I talk a lot at law enforcement conferences, and I ask about this. That doesn't mean there's never been such a case, but they're extremely rare if they're actually happening. I will tell you an example of a stalking case. A 13-year-old girl, this is from our recent study, a 13-year-old girl gets off the school bus, she finds a man there, a man in her neighborhood, he says, I am looking for a babysitter, give me your email address, I'll email you about this, she does, he starts sending her extremely inappropriate emails, she and her mother go to the police, the police do an undercover investigation, the guy's arrested. There was offline contact, clearly he saw her, became obsessed with her, and then used the internet to find a way to communicate with her. But I haven't seen any of the other situations. We have seen some violent cases, most of them involved rape or attempted rape, and we all know there have been in the last decade at least two young girls who are murdered, but these cases are extremely rare. I want to skip ahead and make one final point because I know my time is running out here. Another area that has been the cause of a lot of anxiety is, are we seeing an increase in sex crimes because of the internet? The fact is, child sexual abuse in the United States has declined significantly in the past 15 years. At the same time, we have seen internet use grow exponentially. Now, we have a lot of information, and I included a handout about the work that some of my colleagues, David Finkelhor and Lisa Jones have done about the decline in sexual abuse cases and also in other phenomenon that are related to child sexual abuse among teenagers. And I don't have time to go into any details, but just to make it clear, we're not seeing any sort of an explosion in child sexual abuse cases. We think, and actually these slides are going to be released, but we do think that the internet-related crimes make up a very small proportion of the actual sex crimes that we are seeing among children and adolescents. And my final point is going to be simply that a lot of people are not aware that adolescents are sexually assaulted at high rates, twice the rates that adults are, particularly adolescent girls. The great majority of the offenders in these cases are adults they know face-to-face and other youth. So we have consistently, at the Crimes Against Children Research Center, urged frank and candid education of young people about avoidance, about coping with situations like the kinds of statutory rape potential situations where kids are coached on how to get out of these situations, about educating kids about what crimes are. Because not every 14-year-old knows that it's a crime when a 24-year-old gets in touch with her on the internet, and to give resources and reporting and counseling to kids. And we have a lot more information on our website.


We are blessed by Allah to witness people who are saved from the Hellfire to enter paradise. That there is a love from the Creator to that person. Otherwise these guidance will not go to the heart. And so we're going to do the following inshaAllah. We will say the word of Shahada to become Muslim in Arabic. And then repeat that after you one by one. And then we'll say it in English. Okay.   I'll say it again inshaAllah. Asshadu, Asshadu, An, An, La'a, La'a, La'a, Illaa, Illaa, Illaa, Allah, Allah, Wa Ashhadu, Wa Ashhadu, Anna, Anna, Muhammad, Rasul, Rasul, Allah, Allah, Allafa. Asshadu, Asshadu, An, La'a, Illaa, Illaa, Allah, Wa Asshadu, Wa Asshadu, Anna, Muhammad, Rasul, Allah, I bear witness that there is no God except Allah. And I bear witness that our Master, Muhammad, is the servant and messenger of Allah. On the same concept, we bear witness that Sayyidina Isa, Jesus, is the servant and messenger of Allah. You bear witness with that also, right? Allah wakba, Allah wakba, Allah, La'a, Illaa, Allah. I just want to say something to the sister, may Allah bless you insha'Allah, just want you to know that this moment Allah erased all the bad deeds that in your file on your you know book and kept all the good thing that you did. So now everything you have is a good deeds and all of us we wish to be in that position that all our bad deeds will be forgiven and clear and we have all the good deeds. So you are lucky keep that and keep the good company with the sisters insha'Allah and start learning step by step. The first thing to start learning insha'Allah how to pray, insha'Allah, congratulations.


Mr. President, what do you think of M. X. Missiles? I'm not saying I'm a low-individual because I know we're going to get through here. Mr. President, as you know, these are National Federation of Independent Unions. They represent 70 independent organizations and approximately 75,000 workers throughout the United States. They were very supportive of you in 1980 and endorsed your candidacy and have been very supportive of your approaches to the economy and to National Defense. We're delighted you're here today. 1980, very well. Congratulations. I'm not good at things that you are. We appreciate you taking the time to be confident, especially when it comes to balancing the budget through basic awareness of action from the area of civil rights. It's all a few years ago, the light at the end of the tunnel, and it turns out it's a great year. Thanks to you and the administration of you. I want to thank you. I want you to know. Also, we've come to help you more specifically. You are not here for a potentially tremendous later force. The independent unions of this country. Because the independent unions are in the plants of all the jobs today. They are closer to the thinking of the actual. Here's the true voice of what you are. The true voice of you not here. The voice is not filled with first-person power workers. Later power workers. We can help you to hear this voice. It's the aim of the AFIU. Unite all the independent unions. That communication between government and this tremendous later force. Mr. President, it was you and members of your cabinet, particularly Mr. Donald. Our voice is being heard last. With your continued support. We look forward to years of growth and service to our country. Our many thanks are expressed by this plaque. It brings with us its deepest respect. And I would like to thank the President as I do about the support of the AFIU. Incidentally, thank you also for the article in independent news. And for the remarks about unemployment and retraining. We, I know that unemployment is still unacceptably high in the country. And yet, just since December, it's down by a dense percentage point. On its way, hopefully, to a single-digit level. And we've extended, as you know, the childless benefits. The measures to encourage new creation of new jobs. We've sent the legislature bills that would assist in displaced workers in programming for job vouchers. So the person could take his unemployment insurance as a job voucher and take it to an employer who would then get tax credit for that amount. Or hiring this individual into a regular job that would last for a period of time of the unemployment insurance. We think that the job market is only going to improve as the economy improves. That's why we've fought hard against any of the usual temporary quick fixes that we've seen in the past recessions. And we think now that we are beginning to see a result. An eight-month decline, eight months now, the mortgage interest rates, the lowest it's been since September of 1980. The leading indicators, February up to the sixth straight month in a row. And housing starts are now in million seven. And that is also higher than they've been in several years. The best help I think for bringing any economic recovery is reducing federal spending. And I'm having this checked out now. But I believe the figure with all the talk today about the deficit. Lord, we hate the deficit as much as anyone else. And we're going to try to get them down. But some of those voices that are raised with regard to the deficit are ignoring the fact that if they had given us the budget cuts we asked for a two, 83. They would reduce this deficit by about 40 billion dollars or more. That's how many of our reductions that we didn't get. So I think it'll be who's someone to criticize the idea of having a deficit when they themselves are the ones who would go along with the efforts to reduce it. But our goal is going to be one in which people can earn a fair wage where they can have homes and raise their families in freedom and security. And I know that we have your support in that. And those goals. And I thank you very much. Now man. President, I have the opportunity to address this wonderful group. The key points of my talk are how great the individuals and the independence and service nation in this group, I think, are great. I think the same thing is there. I was struck particularly, I must say, with your words about not being broken through other people. Years ago, the Union, of course, that I was president of in the Guild was a negative in the Seattle Union. It became a time back then when the graduated income tax was such that it was a very definite contributor to one employment in the picture business. People would, stars would agree to make a picture but would not accept another picture when they were only getting six cents on the dollar because of the income tax. So as president of the Guild, I came back here to support an income tax reform bill before the Congress. I was representing 32 unions and management. All united together for me to come back and make this case before the House Ways and Means Committee. I might say that appearing before that committee was a little like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, the hardly upstream. But I have never forgotten at that time that when I arrived here, I was greeted by two representatives of the AFL-CIO and they handed me a book. The book was the AFL-CIO tax policy for the year. It did not advocate what I was advocating. It called for about 12 billion dollars more in taxes because they had 12 billion dollars in social reforms that they wanted passed. And they thought I'd like to have that before I went in to see the committee. And I said to them, I said, I'm representing 32 AFL-CIO unions and none of us have ever seen this. And no one ever asked us if this is what we wanted as a tax policy. But I was sent back here to support the organization and that's what I'm going to do. And it is true. There's an increasing wide gap between the rank and file worker and the hierarchy and organization. The less of breadth of freedom and representation of the worker that you march and lock stuff together, not as they do taking a leverage of paths. Great before that. I'd like to say one thing, Mr. President. We as the independent workers, I come from Michigan, where my colleague is 22% unemployment. We are not coming here as an independent organization to ask you what you can do for us. We're here to tell you that we know that unions share an equal responsibility in the future of this country and the survival of our situation. We're here to support you, help you, and we hope you will tell us what you need done and what will all be your workers to do to get this country back on the street. I bless you. That is the proper approach. A man who originally created what became the American Federation's labor single copters said that labor must never forget their partners in the whole industrial community and one can't prosper without the other. I think he'd be a little disappointed today in some of those in organized labor. But to Indonesia and then to Saudi Arabia and finally Turkey, the primary reason I asked for this meeting was to convey to you personally the message that was given to me by President Mubarak and the Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. I realize that the discussions have been intense in the Middle East recently. You may have gotten messages also from those same people or others. I promised them that I'd deliver the message personally and they were very effective. So I'm here today to deliver that message and that's probably the primary responsibility and I have one other subject that I think is primary. Right to it. Well, I thank you for joining us. I spoke to Iran's resolution before the House and I think we share concerns that motivate a nuclear freeze but however well-intentioned the freeze at current levels is called for and there's a lot to resolution to do probably more harm than good. First and foremost it would send precisely the wrong signal to the Soviets who blame their own account are neither unilateralists nor philanthropists. How can we expect to make further progress toward arms relations if the Soviets have no incentive to reduce? I think we can do better than a freeze. In talks in Geneva we propose a 50% cut in strategic missiles and elimination of the entire class of intermediate missiles in the INM discussions and it would be best to have none than some of these interned missiles but as I said recently if there must be some it's better to have few than many. We've made some progress and I believe we can achieve more. It was NATO's interned missile deployment plan that brought the Soviets to the negotiating table and start the Soviets have already gone further in discussing reductions than they have in any prior negotiations going all the way back to World War II. I think a freeze would remove Soviet incentives to agree to reductions that would be virtually impossible to verify and the freeze supporters disagreed among themselves during the House debate in March over what is to be frozen. A freeze risks undercutting our long do-over modernization program and we therefore oppose any freeze-first resolution in support of bipartisan Broomfield Price-Skratten resolution which expresses support for ongoing nuclear arms reduction negotiations in Geneva followed by a freeze at equal and substantially reduced levels. We hope this resolution will receive wide bipartisan support as did a similar resolution in the past House last summer. I also urge you to support the amendments that deal with issues of modernization and dual-purpose weapons systems, those that have a conventional and a nuclear capability and any other amendments that correctly made your flaws in the Zabaki resolution. And I hope that you tell your colleagues that I am totally committed to substantial, verifiable, equitable, and moderately significant reductions. I haven't been since before I got here. I still am. Sunday and some of the shows that were on the air I was disturbed to hear people saying that I'm insincere with this one. If I am, I'm going to offer a long way to carry my insincerity to the Soviet Union. I think a freeze resolution just simply sends the wrong message to friends and foes alike. And now I'm going to ask George Bush and Cam. George, as you know, the Vice President went to Europe to ask you to meet with the LRL on these various subjects, particularly in INF. Mr. President, I would only add that when I went on that trip to Europe and then P.S. trip to the non-basic, the trip was to the basin countries and then up to Canada, which is an important country that's under its leadership, under fire from some of the groups on testing. But in all those countries, all the seven countries I went to. That was insane. I wasn't sure that you could go to the right or go to the left. Mr. President, as you know, we called this trip together on very short notice to come to this meeting today to discuss the issue of the poll and the spokesman for the poll. There are two William Kennedy, the President of the American Bankers and the Chairman of the National Bank of Congress and Paul Fryer, the Chairman of the United States Legal Savings. Well, I thank you all for coming here and doing so on such short notice. Let me just, I know you, as you know, withholding is coming up in the Senate soon, and I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss it with you. I welcome your views, but I hope you'll remember that old saying that the best way to get the right word is to say I agree. We spend months around the stable figuring out how to fashion a budget that is fair and balanced. One thing, I needed to get the budget cuts and we must have to have a revenue component. I'll turn around now and give up on the revenue side of the budget. The rest is jeopardized. We could lose the spending cuts we need, the tax cuts that stimulate business and we'd send a signal that I back down when the bill gets rough. I regret that this issue is straining our relationship, but it's a question of defending a principle that those who owe taxes must pay their taxes rather than asking those who are already paying to pay more. It's not just a problem of reporting, it's a problem of collecting and withholding is the most effective collection method we have. It isn't workable to collect taxes just through reporting. That would require as much as a 200% increase in audits and we want less, not more IRS involvement in the people's lives. It's the alternatives. Higher deficits are new taxes. You don't want either one of those and neither do I. Congress is looking for ways to spend and not save more and I just can't step aside when I let those issues go because there's political opposition. I know we disagree and I want to hear your point of view. I just hope that the recovery that is beginning that we can cooperate to our positive action to stimulate growth and prosperity by keeping spending down and lowering interest rates instead of fighting within the family over issues that should have remained settled once decided. Let's have some more words before we get into the discussion here.


All righty, okay, again, my name is Brett Little. I am a software developer at a place called Beanstalk. It's a little startup. It's a great company. Come talk to me afterwards. If you are interested, we are hiring and I'd love to tell you more about it. Again, my Twitter handle, little Brett. Brett Little, yeah, never heard jokes about that when I was young. To start off though, I wanna focus a little bit about something I said in my abstract. I think there are a lot of reasons why native apps are chosen over a web application. But I think a core reason why a lot of times you would choose to build a native application is because the web really is kind of abysmal and providing a decent offline experience. It just really totally sucks in offering anything that's decent. You may ask yourself, what about AppCache? AppCache has been around since marketing people have been talking about HTML5. Who here has used AppCache? Anybody? Okay, five-ish people. Who still is using AppCache on an actual app? Okay, maybe like half of that, so like three or four people. So AppCache is just that. If you go check out this article, it's a pretty exhaustive list on why AppCache sucks. And I don't really wanna go into the details really about AppCache, but it's really a pain to use. And we have something better. We have something better with JavaScript 2015, as it's now called, called service workers. Who here has even heard of a service worker? Knows what these are a little bit? Okay, some people know what this is. It's talking to a co-worker of mine about service workers and his initial idea, I don't know, a service worker. Something like a web worker. Not that, give you a hint. So a service worker is an independent but a shared execution thread for all pages on your domain. That's really important. So it's independent, an independent execution thread. But all pages on your domain, so if you have multiple tabs, multiple windows, all of those windows or tabs will share this external execution thread. Kind of like a shared worker. Some specifics about it. Like a web worker, like a shared worker, a service worker cannot access the DOM. It's totally independent, it's isolated, it cannot touch the DOM, which is a good thing. To communicate with this worker thread, you do so with events. And all events that you send to this thread, all data that go through those events is essentially serialized and copied. So any data that is in your main application and any data that's in the service worker thread is copied, you can't have shared data. Which is a good thing as well, so you don't run into concurrency problems by sharing data. The last thing on here is service workers require SSL. They have to be hosted on HTTPS domain. May ask you, so why do I have to host this on HTTPS? And the reason is, because you can do some really awesome things with service workers. Specifically, you can intercept and you can hijack any request from the main primary thread inside your service worker thread. So if I had this bit of code inside a service worker, every HTTP request would get funneled through the service worker and would get a response of hello world. Whether it's an image request, whether it's a CSS request, load style sheets, HTML, JavaScript, everything. I am successfully hijacking and providing my own response for. You can rewrite headers, you can rewrite response bodies, you can do whatever you want really, which is like ultimate power and which is why you have to do that over HTTPS, some level of security over this. Also, the service worker API includes a caching API. A caching API for you to actually cache resources inside a new caching mechanism that is not index DB, it's not local storage, this is a new API altogether, where I can cast these blobs of data inside of it, which is really cool. And you'll notice here, there's a dot then method. So this is promises, but this isn't like some sort of promise library. This is native promises inside the browser, APIs that are returning promises, which is really cool. These new APIs were actually using some of this JavaScript 2015 stuff. We've already heard a lot about promises, this is just a little bit of an example of promise, a promise, how it works. So we're talking about promises, we're talking about JavaScript 2015. Is this stuff ready? Can you use this stuff right now? Like these examples I'm gonna show you, these links I'm gonna give you, you can load up in your browser and if you're on Chrome version 40, which is the current stable version of Chrome, you can be running on service workers right now. Inside Firefox, it works, but it's disabled by default. You have to go find a flag and turn it on. Opera, it also works. Internet Explorer, they're considering it. There's a big little list of commentary on it, whereas Safari, there is no comment at all. So I guess that's the Apple way. I don't know, maybe it will be supported, who knows? So I wanna talk a little bit about the life cycle of service workers. So we have our main thread right here and then we have the worker thread. Inside our main thread, we will register a new service worker. When you're registering a new service worker, you'll pass in the path to the actual service worker JavaScript file that will be executed. So once it's registered, we're now in this worker thread land where there's a series of events or things that may happen. The first thing that there's an event that's fired that's called the install event. When the service worker is successfully installed, it's been booted up. It's successfully, you're on an HTTPS domain. There are no errors. You have a valid certificate. If you have an invalid SSL certificate, it will throw an error. It will not allow the service worker to be installed. But assuming that it does successfully install, then it moves on to this activate state. And this is kind of confusing why there's this install state and there's this activate state. When you first load your page and you're installing this service worker, you will have the install event, but the service worker will not immediately be in control of the main thread. As I keep talking, I'm gonna use that terminology in control. When the service worker is in control of the main thread, then we are successfully hijacking all HTTP requests. We are actually in control of that page. And the activate event will only fire when you are actually in control over all pages currently loaded on your machine. Like it could be multiple tabs, multiple windows. Again, that install event will only fire once we are controlling all of those pages. And then we proceed to this idle state. Once you're idle, it's really doing nothing. Like it can listen to events from the main thread to do some sort of work, or it can listen for actual HTTP requests. When it gets an HTTP request of some sort, we can do whatever we want. We can send whatever we want back to the main thread. Another key thing though is this terminated state. The browser will automatically shut down and restart this thread at will on its own. That could happen in a number of ways. You could have the service worker booted up and it could be running. Then you could switch over to a new tab on a new different site. And then five seconds later, it's gonna shut down this thread in the background automatically. Then when you switch back to the tab, it'll automatically start it up again. And the important thing about that is that any state that exists inside that service worker, you need to persist that somehow. Again, because it may shut down or boot up without you really being able to control when or how that happens, which is really important. But overall, this is the life cycle of a service worker. So I wanna show you a couple examples. So this is the code that would exist inside your main index HTML page with some sort of app.js inside here. So this is inside the main thread itself, where we are registering a service worker. Register it to a particular path of a JavaScript file. If it succeeds, we'll find out. If it fails, we'll find out and print out the error message. The error messages are not always that helpful. Sometimes your service worker will just not boot up. It will not install and you have no idea why. And it's kind of hard to debug by default. So when I say it's hard to debug, if you have some sort of syntax error or you do something just that throws an error when your service worker boots up, it'll just totally die. And you'll get an error message right here that doesn't tell you anything about how or why it died. So a little bit later on, I'm gonna show you how you can debug those sorts of issues. So again, you'll recall from back here, so there's the registering of the service worker, installing it, and then activating it. So installing the service worker, so this code exists inside the actual service worker file where we are listening for the actual install event. When the install event fires, generally what you'll do here, like you can do whatever you want, this is just JavaScript, but commonly what's done is where you'll actually prefetch resources. So you can prefetch images, JavaScript, HTML, whatever you want and toss it in the cache. So these are sorts of files that you always know that you'll probably want in your application or even maybe some sort of offline pages that we can display to the user if they ever lose a connection. That's all styled nicely with CSS and HTML or whatever you want. And then again, here's the activate event. This is post install once the service worker has successfully taken control over all pages in your browser. And this is used for cache management usually. And this is kind of confusing because usually you can only ever have one service worker running at one time for your domain. But you can kind of get into a weird state where you can have two running at one time. If you can imagine I install a service worker, I cache a ton of stuff, I have it running. But now I wanna update that service worker. I wanna update it to cache new data or I have new logic inside of it. When the application loads, when you register your service worker with this slash SW.js, the browser will actually do a bit comparison of SW.js and see if it's changed. If it's changed, it will immediately install a brand new service worker which will exist at the same time as the old service worker. But the new one will not have its activate event ever fire until the old one is destroyed. And the old one will never be destroyed until all pages that are using it are closed. And so you can kind of be in this weird state where you're trying to upgrade the version of your service worker with new logic, new code or whatever it may be. And you'll do your cache management in here because if you're creating a new cache, you don't want to, if I destroyed an old cache in the install event on this new service worker, I could interfere with the same cache that's currently on the old service worker. So you manage the cache, delete cache inside the activate event so you don't step on the feet of the old service worker, if that makes sense. It's kind of complicated, but really cache management inside the activate step. So I want to show you a demo now and the demo is this very page. I am not connected to the internet. I can hit refresh a couple of times. Everything here is cached inside a service worker and this is on GitHub pages. So it's hosted with an HTTPS. So if I pull up the sources inside here, if I open up index.html, I look inside here, there's a script tag that says if service worker is a navigator, we're going to register a service worker. Oh, cool, that's awesome. If we look at the network tab inside here and I refresh the page, you'll notice all of the images and the content for this presentation. If you look at the size, it is being served, oops, it's being served from a service worker. So even though I refresh inside here, everything's loading, but it's all coming from a service worker and one of them failed the favicon, which is not cached apparently. So if I open up sw.js, which is the service worker, oh wait, it doesn't exist because it doesn't exist in this execution environment. It exists in an entirely new thread. So to inspect that, if we can go to chrome colon slash slash inspect and come to service workers, refresh inside here, we can see, actually let's come back over here. There it is. So I have a service worker on belittle.github.io. So let's inspect it and pull this up and here is sw.js right in here. And so we can see the actual logic of what makes this caching mechanism work. At the very top of the page, we are importing a script. Again, this is JavaScript 2015 sort of stuff. We are importing a script for a cache polyfill. The current stable version of Chrome does not include a couple methods for, it just doesn't include the full implementation of the cache API. And so this poly fills a couple portions of that.  So I've got HTML in here, I've got images, I've got JavaScript, I've got a font in here, all sorts of different stuff. Here we have the install event. So once the service worker is installed, we are gonna open up the cache and inside the cache we're gonna add all of these URLs. That's all it is. To add a ton of data to this cache, all we do, open it up, cache.addall and array of URLs. It's that simple. And then on activate event, we're gonna open up the cache, we're gonna loop through the cache keys and if any cache keys exist that do not equal this one up here, then we will delete them. So this again is cache management where I could update the version of the cache and automatically delete old versions of the cache. And that happens inside the activate event. And inside the fetch event. So this is where the real magic happens inside a service worker. This is where we are actually listening to all fetch events from primary thread and we are going to really hijack the response and do whatever we want with them. Now inside here, we are matching, we're opening up our cache and we are matching anything inside the cache that matches this current request. If it matches the request, we'll immediately turn the response. Whereas if the request does not exist inside our cache, then we'll move downwards. An important thing here is, and this is kind of fundamental in the way service workers, web workers, these sort of things work, is we're cloning the request before we go and actually make the actual HTTP request for the data. The reason we clone it is because it can only ever be used once. The actual request and including the response down here once we make the request and we put the response into cache, we have to clone it because we want the response to go to cache but we also want the response to go back to the main thread. And like I said, any data that goes between the main thread and the actual worker thread cannot be shared. And so we're cloning it, one goes into the cache, one goes back to the main thread. But really all this code right here is really what does that makes this entire page available offline. And you may, I don't know, when I first looked at this, when I was reading about service workers and playing with them, this is a lot more complex than AppCache. And it really is. It is definitely a lot more complex but it's a lot more exciting. But can you think about all of the different things that you could write? Imagine all the libraries that could be written to abstract all sorts of different caching mechanisms. Like, and I think that's part of the problem with AppCache in general, is AppCache is one particular way to cache applications offline. With service workers, you can come up with any arbitrary way like that your application may need to work offline and you can make it work, which is really cool. You have ultimate power inside here. So I really wanted to kind of push service workers to the max and see like, at least from the caching perspective, see what I could do with it. And I wanted something that was very image heavy, a fair amount of code in it, but really I wanted to push a lot of data into the cache and see what happened. I wanted to try to break it. So I wanna ask you, who here has heard of the astronomy picture of the day? Like, a few people, not many people. The astronomy picture of the day has been around since 1995 where NASA has published an official astronomy picture of the day every day since 1995. And as you can see the website itself looks like probably what it did in 1995. So there's thousands of images on here and a lot of them are very fascinating. It's just really difficult to explore them. And so I thought it might be fun to A, mine all the data out of here and provide a different user experience and cache all this massive amount of images and stuch inside a service worker and see what happens.  So apod.io, astronomy picture of the day.io. And here is just an interactive mosaic of astronomy picture of the day images cached offline. So I can refresh this page, I can click on images, read images, I can share them, download them, et cetera, and read about it. Just a lot of cool stuff in here. Makes a little bit more fun to just explore what's out there. Oops. But, so if I open up the code for this, so I have a service worker for this particular domain. So I want to show you inside here as well how you can explore what's inside the cache too. This is only available on like the latest version of Chrome. So like if you're on Canary or something like just a less stable version of Chrome, I think it's 42 and up. You can actually see the service worker cache. And I can come inside here and see all sorts of data that is currently residing in the cache. I can see, you know, I've got Font Awesome inside here. I've got these Ajax requests inside here. I've got some JavaScript.  And look, I've got 649 images inside here. I've successfully put over 800 megabytes inside the service worker cache. And I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's there, but I'm like kind of unsure about, well it's there. Because everything I'm showing you also works on your phone. So you can hit these slides in this page on your phone, pre-cache stuff, and then hit it offline as well. And so I assume there's some sort of mechanism for automatically clearing some of this data out, especially on a mobile phone where it's not actually gonna cache 700 megabytes. But it didn't break when I went through and tried it. But I wanna show you the code for this as well. So if I go inside sw.js, I wanted to write, like as I was thinking about this, I was thinking, well there's kind of a limited, I don't know, maybe a subset of caching mechanisms that by default a lot of people might wanna use. And so I thought, well maybe I can write a really simple app cache like manifest inside a service worker for caching data. And so this entire astronomy picture of the day application is cached using this service composer library that I wrote. You can go check it out if you'd like. But really the way it works is you compose your cache manifest by passing in a series of objects. Every HTTP request that comes to the page will be matched against a matcher, which could be a regular expression or a string.   Once I download them, I always want them to come out of cache. Whereas everything else, I only want it to come out of cache if I'm offline. Else I always want it to get an ever ready, ever green, I guess I should say, copy from the server. So you can kinda check this out if you're interested in, like, so essentially 20 lines of code that defines that much. I can also attach an event listener for when a success succeeds. I can test if it's a particular type of request, like it includes page, which happens to be an Ajax request, and I'm gonna prefetch all the images inside that request, which just includes a big list of image paths. But really, I think the beauty of service workers again is I think this opens like a Pandora's box of opportunities for developing applications. I was just speaking to Ryan Shaw just 20 minutes ago, 30 minutes, I guess maybe like 45 minutes ago, hearing about ideas he has about pushing JavaScript like a hot JavaScript loader through a service worker. Like there are so many different things that we can start doing with service workers that have never been possible. And I'm really excited. And the API itself is changing. There's new things coming in the API too. There is a push API for actually pushing data from the server directly to the service worker. There's a background sync API, and there's a geofencing API. There is some really cool stuff coming, all enabled through these service workers. I would highly recommend you guys check out service workers. You can very easily add some level of offline capability to your app right now. The very least you can add in like some page that's nicely designed branded for you that says, hey, you're offline. I don't know. You can do that very simply and very easily. I'd recommend you check it out. Here are some references and additional information. You can learn more about these. It's an exciting technology and doesn't even have any questions. So anyway, thank you.


My kids are always making stuff. It might be a new kind of paper airplane or a homemade pinball machine made out of cardboard and duct tape or a painting of a monster on roller skates or a fantastical story or a Minecraft building or a Lego village or a sport played with random items. You could say my kids are naturally creative however I'd argue that all children are naturally creative. They need to make and build and tinker. They need to play and experiment. They need to ask questions and follow their own curiosity. But ask your child what did you make in school today? And too often you'll get silence or shrugged shoulders. So this is why AJ Giuliani and I are launching the Global Day of Design. It's a one-day opportunity to use the design thinking process in any classroom at any school. We realize that it's just a single day but sometimes a day can spark a movement and a movement can transform classrooms into bastions of creativity and wonder. So join us for the Global Day of Design.


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Foot birthday set two is here. I wanna talk about it. I wanna talk about all the SBC's objectives and these beautiful new FIFA Ultimate Team foot birthday cards that are in the game today and that are in the game as of Friday. And I wanna talk about the crazy market movements that we have had these past two days as well because this market right now is literally crazy, crazy high in price. Prices are soaring across the board with so many people on the game, new content being rolled out and just a lot of, there's a lot of hype and a lot of people able to play FIFA. So stuff is going very, very high on the transfer market and I wanna talk about that in this video. But first, I wanna kind of cover the content that we got today and a few of my thoughts on it. I'm gonna start with objectives, roll through this and the SBC's pretty quick and then start talking about the market. But make sure you guys are kind of doing these foot birthday daily objectives. I know it's easy on the weekend, but try to keep up with these during the week as well. You get some, you get like mega packs I think for this, doing three or four of these. It's absolutely worth it in my opinion for those. Bakuyoko and Cordoba came out today as well as the, we knew about these Weekend League picks but they actually, we can redeem them now because Weekend League is open. Bakuyoko is an 88 rated CDM in this game. Really, really high passing. I wanna go show you guys this individual stats on Bakuyoko because if you are on the fence about grinding this objective, I would highly recommend doing it. A CDM, I know he's French, I know he's in league on. The links are okay. Maybe it's a link to your Neymar and your Mbappe that this guy could provide. But honestly, it could be a center back as well. Look at these in games, 93 stand tackle, 93 strength, 94 aggression. I don't even know if you're gonna be able to get by this dude. He's literally going to be a wall in the back. Just 96 short passing and 92 long passing as well with the five star weak foot. He's gonna be able to distribute in the midfield wherever he needs to go. This card looks really good in my opinion. Agility of balance is a weak point for this card. Doesn't fit the meta, I guess you could say. But maybe this guy feels more like a Vieira-esque card. How tall is he? He is six foot two. Six foot two and he's got 82 jumping as well. The heading accuracy isn't as great but he's probably gonna feel kind of like a Vieira-esque to kind of compare him to a body type.  So it's not gonna be super, super hard to grind this guy. Although if you can do it, I would highly recommend doing it because I think if you're gonna do either of these two players, Bakioko is the one to do. Cordova looks cool, looks fun, really juiced card. But again, doesn't really fit the meta this year unless you're a fan of Cordova or you need that for like a Bundesliga first owner. I would highly recommend doing this. You do have to win seven rivals games. You have to score and assist with a midfielder with a four star weak foot. So that might be a little bit of a grind but you can knock a few of these out at the same time if you can do that in rivals at the same time. So that's something you can kind of try to do there. I would recommend going for Bakioko this week though if you are available to do that. Talking to SBCs really quick, we got a new center back today, Malang Tsar. And I find this really interesting. This promo is dominated by French players and French cards in this game. We had a French left back, Amavi, five star skiller, right? Now you have a nice little green link to him with Tsar and a green link to Tsar and Amavi with Bakioko. You can make a nice little league on French triangle with those guys. So EA is thinking about these things when they put cards out, right? They know you maybe went and did Amavi because it was the first or the second for birthday SBC. And now maybe you want two five star skillers in your back line, I guess. But they put out the Tsar SBC today. This card looks really good to me as well. It only requires two 85 rated squads.  Right now with how expensive fodder is, it's actually 200,000 coins. You also have to have a lot of chemistry for these SBCs which is not helping the price stay down at all. But I think you guys should be able to craft this if you're doing some upgrade packs at all this week for a bit cheaper than what the going price is on the market. Low, high work rates, five star skills, four star weak foot, good acceleration for a center back, really good agility and balance for a center back, 94 strength and 94 composure. Those are the two key stats that I'm gonna talk about. 94 composure, that means the ball will stay at a speed really well and you shouldn't have too many of those bounce back tackles. Of course, DDA, this gameplay, it could happen but 94 composure should mean that he keeps the ball at his feet pretty well. 94 strength means he's gonna be pretty strong, maintain some of those tackles. If you're gonna do this SBC, maybe throw an anchor on him, boost up the tackling stats, the defending stats, if I could speak a little bit on that card. But pretty solid, am I gonna do him? He doesn't really fit my team, but maybe if I can craft him at some point, I will. Do that card right there. We also got a foot 14 player pack, SBC or not player pack, just say untradable pack, SBC today as well. So that was the SBC and objective content. Now, to talk about this team, man, talk about this team. We had some price range issues today, but if we forget those for a second, if we just look at this team overall, not a bad squad, right? Some really, really cool upgrades in here. Van Dyke, awesome, cool. You just give Van Dyke another special card. This Theo Hernandez is pretty awesome. I think another French left back though. Seriously, another French left back. What is going on here with the French left backs? And again, promo just dominated by French cards. We have one, two, three, four, five French cards in today's team, and in team one, I think we had another three or four cards. So crazy amount of French cards in this promo. But Bale, Lacazette, Costa, Pogba, DeMaria, like there's some really, really hyped up cards in here because of the weak foot upgrades. Lacazette is one of them. Reviewers are saying this guy is really, really good. He was 1.5 mil on the PlayStation earlier today. Some of these guys right now are getting a bit low in price. And that's what I wanna talk about first of all today is the price of these cards out of the bat. Day one, as they went into packs, we didn't have all the supply on these cards as we did with team one last week. So you didn't see a lot of the prices dipping down really low and then recovering today. What you kinda saw was prices maybe starting low or starting at a point. They went down a little bit during the second lightning round, then they rebounded up after that with the whole market rising today after lightning rounds. And then now they're kinda trickling back down again. So we're thinking that there's a possibility we could maybe do some overnight flipping on a couple of these cards. I'll talk about that here in a second because some of them have dropped off a little bit. You know, it is really risky to do that kind of flipping. I always try to put that out for you guys and kinda notify you that it is pretty risky doing those things, but it is a way to trade right now. And we'll talk about some ways you can trade in this market as it is so high later in this video. But looking at some of these cards on the market, I wanna talk about some of the price ranges and actually show you a tweet as well at some point of some of the stuff that went on today. This Gareth Bale is around 2.3 million coins on the market. He was extinct at 1.8 earlier today, 1.8 mil. He went back up when he's got his price range update to like three-something. And now he's back down to 2.2 where he's kinda settling and getting bought. This card's gonna be used for the rest of FIFA, man. A five-star weak foot Bale. It's gonna be a lot of people out to get this card that wanna try him because of that weak foot now makes him really usable in game where he maybe wasn't as usable before just because of the weak foot that was hindering him only being a three-star. But that's a pretty hyped up card. Lacazette as well. I wanna check his price at the moment if I could. Lacazette is 1.32. So he's chilling kinda low. These guys don't have a lot of supply. DeMaria doesn't either. And I wanna talk about this card. I'm glad that they made DeMaria. I'm honestly very glad that they made DeMaria a right wing. I'm glad they made DeMaria a right wing because, or right mid, because you can now run a Neymar left mid or left wing, a little 4-3-3, like pregame situation. You could run Neymar on the left. You could run Mbappe in the middle and DeMaria on the right. And that is a PSG strike force of dreams with upgraded cards that you could use now. Five-star, five-star on the DeMaria. Again, the five-star weak foot has been hindering, or the three-star weak foot's been hindering this card for a long time. Not a very aggressive player, but he's gonna feel great on the ball. 99 agility, 87 composure. Maybe boost up the shooting a little bit. Maybe boost up the passing a little bit if we're gonna put a chem style on this card. But this looks like a really, really fun card to use. He's very rare as well. I'll show you this right now. This DeMaria card is very, very rare on the market for his rating, 91 rated. He's got three pages, four pages of supply. So these cards, I think, have the same pack weight as the ones that came out last week. But again, a lot less supply today on these than the foot birthday set one. 100K packs, 1.9%. So just about the same pack weight on these cards right here. But talking about price ranges, once again, I wanna talk about Douglas Costa because this is really kinda scummy from EA today what they ended up doing on some of these price ranges today. So Douglas Costa was extinct. This man was extinct at 750,000 coins to start the day off. He has since increased his price range, I think to like what is, it's price range now is like 115 or something like that. So they increased his price range. But there was a point for an hour earlier tonight where EA reverted those price changes back. So Douglas Costa went from 750 to like 1.5 mil. Then they reverted it back to 750. So you had people on the market that were buying some of these cards for crazy high prices. Like this bail right here, I took a screenshot of on my companion app because bail's price went from 3.4 mil max down to the 1.8 mil max where it was before. So if anybody was getting bail, they were listing them up at 1.8. It was getting sniped immediately because people knew that was too cheap. And there was only one Gareth bail card that was sitting on the market because this was listed before the price range change happened. So it was still an active listing that wasn't changed by the price. So again, this is another thing. And the reason I made this tweet and I tagged EA FIFA Direct in it is because we don't have a lot of information on price ranges. They just change. And then we don't know what is the reasoning or what's the timetable that EA uses to try to update price ranges in this game. And that is something that we need to know. I want to know EA sports. If you're listening to this, please give us some information on when, what you look for. Do you look for a certain percentage in price before you go and update a card's price range or extinct for a certain amount of time to make sure that it's not just because of lack of supply? Give us some info. Tell us why you do upgrade price ranges at sometimes and you don't upgrade price ranges at sometimes. That is one area in foot we don't have a lot of information about. And I would love more info and more openness. If you're open to give that EA. I'm just saying I would love that. Please do that. But that was like our only issue today. We didn't have server issues. So that was nice at the very least. But I want to talk about this market rise because this market seriously is going crazy, crazy, crazy high. I've been watching a couple icons, watching a couple cards today. I did, excuse me, I did get a lot of good sales today. It was a very, very good day to flip cards. But showing you the transfer targets once again during that little price range fiasco. This Douglas Costa went on bid for 1.12 million coins because there were none on the market that were less than 1.4 because they were all max by now listed. So that was part of that whole fiasco. But the market today rose incredibly, incredibly after rewards. I flipped a bunch of icons today. It was fantastic for flipping. And then I flipped some of these other cards as well. This Gareth Bale. Once I saw that the new Gareth Bale was extinct and I saw the card that he had, I knew there would be hype for some of his lower tier cards on the market. So I went out, literally right at like 6 p.m. UK. I went out, I looked for this Bale, right? This is something that you can do for future promos. This happened with Kevin De Bruyne last week. How much, I don't even want to know how much this card is right now. How much of this card? Okay, so he's backed down. This is crazy, man. This just goes to show how crazy the buyback was. Whoa, thank you. This just goes to show you how crazy the buyback was earlier today on foot. I'll take that Gareth Bale. Don't mind if I do, 330K is pretty cheap. The buyback was nuts. Gareth Bale was 340,000 coins at 6 p.m. UK, right? He was literally that price at 6 p.m. UK. And that's a little bit of profit there, right? Ooh, that's not a lot of profit. I kind of listed that too low. Shoot, because I can get 370 for that. That was a bad listing. My bad, boys. Shouldn't be listing cards and trying to trade when I'm trying to talk about this. But Bale was 350 or 330 earlier today. He was 330. I bought mine for 337, I think, the one that you see on my transfer list. 337 is what I bought it for. And the amount of buyback, two hours after the lightning round started, right? So we're talking like 8 p.m. UK, 8 to 10 p.m. UK. The buyback was incredible. I bought these Havertz as well for 420,000 coins or less. Just because I knew there was gonna be some rebound after the lightning rounds ended, but the rebound was incredible. The rebound was seriously incredible. How much is Havertz right now? How much is this card? Oh my gosh, all right. You're still kind of high then, right? I bought all these. I'm not in the right price range. I need 400. I bought all these again at 420,000 coins. I've sold them for 455. And boom, the dude is back down at 400. Look at this, bro. This is just how insane the buyback was after all the packs today. Wow, are you kidding me? He's back down to like 430. So he's literally almost back down to where I bought him at today. But the rebound was so heavy after the lightning rounds. And when people got coins and they went to go buy cards for the week in league teams, the rebound was so heavy in those couple hours that we saw prices just skyrocket. That's insane that some of these are back down. Let me check some of the icons that I flipped as well, right? I flipped some icons at decently crazy prices. Like Socrates has been 1.9 mil all this week. Sold him at just over 2 mil. Well, that's crazy. This Vieira card, I sold them on bid at 1149. I bought this at 1060. And I watched himself for 1.189. If you look at his footpeg graph, let me show you his footpeg graph because this is honestly incredible. This is honestly incredible. The amount of buyback that we had today, 86 Vieira was the card that I bought. He's 1.245 right now. I doubt that he's actually selling at that price. But look at his price, bro. He's usually around 1.1 mil or under 1.1 mil. So yes, I got an undercut, right? At 1060. But I was thinking, okay, I might be able to sell us like 1.13, but literally look at this buyback. The man is shot up in price. That's what happened with all of these cards today. This Rivaldo was a 430K card two days ago. Now you can sell them for 530. Up 100K on that price of a card is nuts. Seriously incredible. I bought this at 1.32, sold at 1.47. This I bought at 1.3 flat. I bought this at 1.83. I bought this at 1.5. I bought this at 1.16, sold at 1.27. Bought this at 1.2 flat. I bought this at 1.050. So there were tons and tons of flips to be had today on this game. If you were able to buy stuff in the, there wasn't a lot of panic heading into the promo today at 6 p.m. UK. There wasn't really that much panic. I was watching some cards. Like I was watching the left wing sterling, right? I don't know how much this card's gonna be now, but I was watching the left wing headliner sterling. I don't know what he went to like upwards in price. He is 2.90, so he's kind of about the same. But it's probably the same situation with all those other cards that we saw today. We saw so much rebound within the hours right after the packs came out. And now you kind of see some stuff trickling back down as there's not much demand. But that's why I'm interested in possibly picking up a few of these foot birthday cards overnight tonight. And if you have any of the cards from set one that are still high in price, we're talking like, I think St. Maximon is like 1.5 mil. These cards boomed today as well. When people saw the prices of some of these new foot birthdays, they went out and they bought, this guy was 1.5 at one point. He literally was 1.5 at one point. Now he's back down to 1.4. But this is still 200,000 coins greater than what he was before rewards on Thursday. So foot birthday team won, the meta cards, like Griezmann as well. He's up 100K, Rashford's up 100K. Musa Susoka was like 8.80. Now he was 990K at one point. So a lot of cards really boomed up today. Literally across the market. They went crazy, crazy high. But what I'm envisioning for the rest of today is there's so many people on this game playing week and league doing objectives because they have time and there's a hype promo out right now. Of course, with these extra week and league player picks, a lot more people are on the game playing week and league. I am going to expect a more centralized sell off than last week because we don't have a week and league extension yet at least unless we have some server problems today. But I would expect a more centralized week and league sell off today. Saturday night, starting on Saturday, I think in the afternoon, you're gonna see some prices start to trickle down. Even if we get a good SBC content today, if we get a massive big time SBC, like a player SBC or something else that EA would put out that could drain a lot of coins off this market. That's one thing to think about right now. The market is so high, the market has a lot of coins. You're seeing some of the prices on these cards. People are paying 3.5 million coins for this Pogba card, right? 3.3395, what? What did I search? I searched 3.5, what? Where's the next Pogba, man? Are you telling me that's 100K undercut and it's the cheapest on the market just chilling there? Wow, crazy. But people are willing to pay 3 million coins for this card. There's a ton of coins that are on the market right now. SBC fodder is still pretty expensive all around because of mid-icone SBCs. SBCs were getting almost every day a new player SBC. There's tons of them out there that you can craft or you can kind of work towards right now to improve your team too. So I see EA this week possibly taking advantage of the high price of fodder. We'll take a look at it right now. The high price of fodder, I see EA taking advantage of that this weekend because this mid-icone SBC and all the other SBCs that are out there are causing all of these high rates to shoot up in value.  Not that I really want the market to go down, but I just think so many things are inflated right now. It's hard to invest, right? And that would be my, if you want to be trading today on the weekend, on Saturday, if you want to make some coins, my advice to you would be focus on the special cards, the out-of-pack specials, right? Like, you know, we talk about guys all the time out-of-pack special cards. Like, future, even some of these new promo cards past team of the weeks, past promo cards, like the habits right now. I'm going to lose on this one because this price is not up. See if I can hold them into the morning, right? But look at some, maybe some headliners or I already said future stars, winter refresh players. Do some chemistry style trading because maybe especially with the first set of a birthday, what is like Lucas Hernandez, right? Lucas Hernandez, I think, is like 280K-ish. Basically what we're going to be doing is chem style trading, 271, what is he, 270, 275 for Lucas Hernandez. What is Lucas Hernandez with a shadow? On the weekends, chemistry style trading with these cards is fantastic. He's not that much more, 280K with the shadow. But just be on the lookout, especially on the lower level, right? On the lower level of cards, maybe like a Renato Sanchez shape shifter, right? Renato Sanchez, can I find this card please? Yes, Renato Sanchez, the left back version. That's probably only as, they're in champions like I think, right? So left back, Renato Sanchez, 50K, 60K. Ooh, dude, this card boom today as well, 60K-ish for Renato Sanchez. This might be the type of card you could flip and then try to find him with the shadow chem style or an attacker with a hundred chem style.  And of course, watch the sell-off when we have the weekend league sell-off this weekend, watch the sell-off on center backs, right? Cause some of them got hit today. Watch the sell-off on French center backs, especially as maybe people finish the weekend league and they say, hey, I'm gonna go get this guy or I got this guy this weekend and I'm just gonna sell the card that I have in my club. So watch the sell-off on a guy like, you know, center backs across the game, maybe like that Kamara Future Stars card. You might see a drop on him a little bit. Maybe watch the drop on Kante if people are gonna go try Pogba or Bakayoko instead of having Kante in their teams. And then maybe watch the drop off on other left backs that are pretty meta. 466K for this Theo Hernandez, people might wanna go try him too. So watch the drop-off on cards. I actually think that you might see the icon market dip a little bit lower this weekend because again, we have another set of very high priced, very high quality cards that people might wanna try. And instead of using like, you know, maybe an icon moment, Chef Shenko, somebody wants to go and try out Lacazette, right? That could be something that happens this early into this week, Saturday night, Sunday with weekend league and getting past the weekend league. So I do think the market will again, kind of trend down into the evening this weekend, but there's still a lot of coins on this game so I don't expect prices to really dip that much. Just trend downward from where they were earlier today with the immense buyback that we had from this promo. So just be careful with some of that. If you're gonna overnight flip these cards, be careful with those. And I hope that we get some sort of content today on Saturday as well. Maybe get some upgrade packs, all right? Since the SBC fodder is high, I noticed that EA has been giving out a little bit in the 81 pluses. If you do those 81 plus double upgrade SBCs, you have a chance of getting some decent stuff out of them. You really, really do. They're not that expensive to make. It says 8,000 coins. If you buy the cards during a lighting round, you can get them on bid for 650. And that's another thing we'll have today. If you're gonna try out any of these foot birthday cards, I would say get them out and sell them before lighting rounds because these are gonna have another wave of supply coming through today. This is a long video, longer than I wanted it to be, but there's a ton of stuff to talk about with the second set of foot birthday, tons of market movements.  Hopefully we can make some coins today. Yeah, hopefully you did make some coins today. That's what I mean, because the market really, really flew. And if you were able to buy stuff before, even if it didn't look that low, if you bought stuff before, even if you bought your team, that couple hours after the lighting rounds or the market flew was honestly just incredible. So I wanted to come on and talk about that with you guys today and cover all the new content that we did get. So if you enjoyed it, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nate, The Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace.


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On 20th March 1962, Aldous Huxley, author of the book Brave New World, published 30 years earlier in 1932, gave his speech at University College Berkeley about what he saw as elements of the book coming true in the modern technological world. 60 years after that speech, and the book's projection of the world's population being hypnotised to love their servitude continues to evolve. Well now, in regard to this problem of the ultimate revolution, in the past we can say that all revolutions have essentially aimed at changing the environment in order to change the individual. I mean, there's been the political revolution, the economic revolution, the religious revolution. All these aimed, as I say, not directly at the human being but at his surroundings. Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where a man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows. This has generally been of a violent nature. But if you are going to control any population for any length of time, you must have some measure of consent. Well, it seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this. That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy, who have always existed and presumably always will exist, to get people actually to love their servitude. This seems to me the ultimate in malevolent revolution, through we say. And this is a problem which has interested me for many years and about which I wrote Brave New World. Since then I have continued to be extremely interested in this problem and I have noticed with increasing dismay that a number of the predictions which were purely fantastic when I made them 30 years ago have come true or seem in process of coming true. But if you can get people to consent to the state of affairs in which they are living, the state of servitude, the state of being, having their differences ironed out and being made amenable to mass production methods on the social level, if you can do this then you are likely to have a much more stable and much more lasting society, a much more easily controllable society than you would if you were relying wholly on clubs and firing squads and concentration camps. But I think that in so far as dictators become more and more scientific, more and more concerned with a technically perfectly running society, they will be more and more interested in the kind of techniques which I imagined and described from existing realities in Brave New World. This, as I say, is in this field of pure persuasion. I think we do know much more than we did in the past and obviously we now have mechanisms for multiplying the demagogues, voice and image in a quite hallucinatory way, the television and the radio. This alone, of course, creates an enormous gulf between the modern and the ancient demagogue and the ancient demagogue could only appeal to as many people as his voice could reach by the yelling of his utmost but the modern demagogue can touch literally millions at a time and of course with the multiplication of his image he can produce this kind of hallucinatory effect which is of enormous hypnotic and suggestive importance. I think this is peculiarly important because as one sees in looking back over history we have allowed in the past all those advances in technology which have profoundly changed a social and individual life. We have allowed them to take us by surprise. I mean it seems to me that during the late 18th century, early 19th century when the new machines were making possible the factory system it was not beyond the wit of man to see what was happening and to project into the future and maybe to forestall the really dreadful consequences which plagued England and most of Western Europe and most of this country. For about 50 or 60 years the horrible abuses of the factory system if a certain amount of forethought had been devoted to the problem at that time if people had first of all found out what was happening and then used their imagination to see what might happen and then had gone on to work out means by which the worst applications of the new techniques should not take place. Then I think Western humanity might have been spared about three generations of utter misery which was imposed upon the poor at that time and similarly with various technological advances now I mean quite clear we have to start thinking very very hard about the problems of automation and again I think we have to think still more profoundly about the problems which may arise in relation to these new techniques which may contribute to the ultimate revolution our business is to be aware of what is happening then to use our imagination to see what might happen how this might be abused and then if possible to see that the enormous powers which we now possess thanks to these scientific and technological advances shall be used for the benefit of human beings and not for their ultimate degradation.