What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here seems about Halloween kills once again I didn't think I'd be doing another Halloween kills video, but they are remember the extended cut was coming So what are the differences in the extended cut? So I'm going to be going over something on the reddit page for Halloween movies by paste button and on so shout out to you If you hear this video and I'll leave a link to it in the description So the differences in the extended cut include a well So most of this stuff I have seen but I'm just gonna go over all of it because I haven't actually sat down and looked at The extended cut I've just kind of been jumping through to identify the things listed here and go watch those moments so In the extended cut you have the scene during the flashback of Michael Myers looking at Lonnie from behind the edge with an extra track of music You have an extra 10 seconds of Lori arriving at the hospital in the ambulance This extended cut also includes a scene of Karen in the morgue looking for her husband's body and getting shoot out by a hospital worker who looks overwhelmed with the deluge of bodies Another difference is a few more shots of Michael looking at Sandra while she bleeds from the bulb wound I'm pretty sure that's gonna be disturbing and then a few extra shots of Allison in the hospital a longer POV shot of Trevally when he initially walks into the hospital a Few shot a few more shots of cameras face when he's being used as a human pinball and The big ones the only extra kills in the movie are a few more mob members deaths are shown on screen And it is less edited down Tommy is killed longer and with the broken sharp into the back going into his face Oh, that's good. Definitely gonna be brutal. So yeah, I haven't seen that one I I've seen most of the things on this list, but not that one because I stopped I wanted to go to bed And then the alternate ending after Michael kills Karen in the way shown in the theatrical cut The camera pans over to Karen's cell phone ringing on the ground. It is Lori attempting to call Karen after feeling something is wrong Michael answers and breeze into the phone while Lori and Hawkins stare at each other She says into the phone. I'm coming for you Michael She drops the phone grabs the knife and leaves the hospital with a determined look While an extra track of music plays the last shot of the movie is the blood knife like in Halloween 2018 So those are your differences in the extended cut. Do you think that sounds worth buying it or checking it out? Again, I haven't actually sat down to watch the extended cut in its entirety I'm going to be waiting to do that actually on Christmas Day Yeah, I will be doing that on Christmas Day right after I watch a Christmas story or maybe even before I watch a Christmas story The other thing I want to bring out about the extended cut as I know it will have its home media release the week screen 5 releases so for those of you who already are Anticipating and planning to watch my screen 5 review the day I put it out at this point unless plans change that Screen 5 of 5 review will be up on January 12th Which I think is a Wednesday. Yeah, it'll be up on January 12th Wednesday right after I get out of the Press screening or promo screening for it If not before if we're lucky enough to have something before that and I'll be giving out the digital code for Halloween kills It's or Halloween. Yes, Halloween kills extended cut in some capacity If you have one moment the digital codes in the past you already know have an idea of what I'm going to do I'll be talking about it more as the date nears and when I actually put out the review for screen 5 of course But as far as like these differences the one I'm most intrigued to see because I did not see the longer way in which Tommy Dole does I mean I'm excited to see that in its entirety I definitely am going to sit down of course watch this to get more context of all these differences And then the alternate ending that is the ending that a lot of us myself included because I needed to know how If how a time to it would be justified. I made a video about this I at least read the ending of the script. So then when I saw the movie, I'm like that's not the ending I read but it's going to be a part of the extended cut. So it's just like I would prefer this ending I think if it sounds a little bit more emotionally impactful and it leaves you on the edge of your seat a little bit more getting You anticipated for what's to come. Whereas with the Version we have that the jazz school version while it still I guess kind of has the same effect I don't think it's as impactful something like this, you know, you just killed this woman's daughter and The last thing we're going to see is her clearly very broken, but now she's she's going out there to fight you once again, and I'm curious to see how they explain this with a time jump How do you explain even if you kept that version at for the theatrical version? I'm just curious to know like the way the movie ends the time jump when you go to the next film is just gonna feel Unnecessary I just have this feeling that it's not going to feel very natural the time jump won't feel Natural it'll feel unnecessary depending on how it's depicted on screen It could pay off very well, but at this point in point of the game the way the movies have ended Where do you watch the theatrical or the extended cut the time jump is going to be I think off-putting to some people They're gonna turn it on you like hey, what happened? I thought she was walking out of the hospital Oh, no, you don't have to worry about that. There's a time jump. It's four years And it was supposed to be right after but you know, they changed it because I thought of a better idea so As far as like all the other stuff going on here the extra kills of the mob You know the changes that I wanted were just to have more development of Lindsey and Tommy Just more development of Lindsey and Tommy. That's really all Marion even Just give me a little bit more of that maybe some more intimate scenes or moments with them Including Lori, but I know that's probably just stuff that's being saved for Halloween ends at this point since Lindsey Wallace Kyle Richards will be returning she will be back as Lindsey Wallace and we'll get to see all of those Intimate moments, hopefully with her and Lori because I know she expressed interest in this in the recent statement She gave when it was announced She would be reprising the role of little Lindsey Wallace in how we ends She hopes that she can have some scenes with Jamie since they didn't really get to do that I know all of us kind of not all of us but some of us we're looking forward to that because of the Behind-the-scenes stuff that we saw of the two interacting and the way she jumped into her arms daughter was very cute But then they don't have much of an interaction because Lindsey kind of takes a sidelined Lune Lori and in her self is kind of sidelined for most of the film even though we see her a lot She's not in the thick of things as it relates to all of the carnage going on for a good chunk of the film so The differences of Halloween kills extended cut I mean for the most part it sounds like it's gonna make the movie a lot more entertaining than it already is because again I like this movie. It's not a movie that that I would deem bad overall There's just a lot of things if you go listen to my review There was just a lot of things that kind of pushed it down from what we have with the 2018 film It does a lot of things better than the 2018 film in terms of capturing the mood and just the climate of that 1978 vibe in those flashback sequences and the recreation of the Myers house This is just that recreation loan at the Myers house It's just something for me that'll keep you above in the positives No matter what you do as long as this as long as no matter what you do is something completely bonkers on the wall And it doesn't go that far. So halloween kills was still a pass for me. I enjoyed it just had a lot of Issues in terms of just the narrative decisions that I saw on screen at times But let me know what you guys think about this down the comments at your low What are you going to do? Are you going to buy the extended cut? Do you think these differences are making it worth checking out? If you have a course makes you subscribe subscribe turn on post a case check the evidence video in the description I'll link to my social media accounts my face with her in Instagram You can message me there, of course If there's any movies news or reviews that you would like me to cover in the future of all that in my guys I will see you in the future


initiated in the time-honoured bash-bashing, a water fight to start things off in the morning. Here's the Bulls brothers, they're on a mission from God. We've got the Bash bakers over here, say good-day fellas, and of course all the teams, we are ready to go. It's time to get the show on the road, variety of the children's charity and the Trillion Variety Bash Day 2. Let's go!


Good afternoon, everyone. Now we'll start another session. So this session is the lecture. There was a emerging technology and a behavior with the other technical.com. So I was a speaker there. So are you ready? Yeah, so I'm good. Good afternoon, everyone. I hope you've had a cup of tea. It's that time of the afternoon where everything starts to wind down. So the question that we have today is what do we need to consider when we're designing, learning to help people develop their soft skills? A bit of a mouthful. So in this presentation, what I'm going to do is cover hard skills versus soft skills. So we'll start with actually defining the terms. We'll look at the tech changes that have made possible various things that weren't possible five years ago. And we'll look at three points that we've seen from one of our projects as the key thing to consider when you're looking at designing soft skills. So hard skills versus soft skills. I'm told that if I want to start a brawl at a learning design conference, this is the question I should be asking. What is the difference between hard skills and soft skills? And the reason for that is you'll see we'll explore when we go into definitions. But apparently, language designers can't quite agree on what is the key differentiators between two. And so before I go into the brawl, I wanted to make a little bit of an introduction about the organization that I'm with, which is UF5 Voltec Trust. We are a grant funder in technology for vocational skills. And we're focused around skills that will actually help people make the most of their working lives. And so we fund all kinds of things from. And a lot of it actually has been around the kinds of things that we're going to talk about here today. So we funded all kinds of texts from skills for games, VR environments, for nuclear reactors. So quite a wide range. And one of the things that we're doing at the moment is we're currently funding an award. And I need to read it out because I can't remember the names of the word a little bit in my head. So it's an award for future skills. And it's really for bright ideas. So if any of you are interested or you have a clever idea, you don't actually need to have a plan for it yet. But if you have a bright idea, please do go to our website and apply for the award. So that should actually give you some more information about the award as a cash prize. The deadline is the 26th of September. So you have still a little bit of time to apply. So going back to our role of hard skills versus soft skills. I've heard all kinds of things around this. So firstly, is it an arbitrary distinction? Yes, maybe. Maybe it is an arbitrary distinction. And it can be. So they say that it's a blurry line between hard skills and soft skills. I would argue that that's the case for any two opposites. The lines between the two opposites are quite blurry. Some might say that it doesn't matter if it's a hard skill or a soft skill, because actually the learning design principles that underpin learning actually are the same. So the learning design principles they apply for hard skills would similarly apply for soft skills. Now, the fact that we do make a distinction means there are some differences. And there are probably things that we need to consider when we're thinking about hard skills that we don't need to think about in the same way or we need to think about in a different way when we're considering soft skills. So as we look at the blurry edges, I'm going to go to an Arab proverb which says that by their opposites, we get to actually know things. So what are the opposites? Hard skills often focus around technical abilities. They're often easier to measure. So you can either do an addition problem or solve an algebra equation or not. And actually, often it requires a lot of mental rigor around it. Again, these distinctions, to some extent, we are trying to create these distinctions. When we're talking about soft skills, we're actually looking more at work effectively with other people. Sometimes it's harder to demonstrate this. And it can also be less binary. So it's not, you can do this 100% or you can't. It can be something in between and often very reliant on emotional intelligence.  Now what are the technical changes that I'm referring to here that have changed soft skills?  Start with a prayer that actually works. A short video. Technical failure at a learning technology conference. This is just something to show you some of the tools that we've recently come across that are actually using VR. For soft skills training in healthcare, for example. I just wanted to show you the kind of, the techniques available, but also the kind of interactions that they have with their users. So I won't play the whole thing, but you can see from the, from the interfaces that you came across that it actually lets people interact with their environment. So going back, going back to learning design then. So if you have this sort of VR environment where people can interact with the environment, what does it allow us to do for soft skills? So I'm going to draw three key points. Number one is what I'm going to call the bouncy castle. So in a bouncy castle, you actually get to jump around. You're completely safe. Whatever you do, it's unlikely to cause any serious damage. And that's actually what something like this, the VR tool that you just saw. It's called body swaps. That's what it allows. It allows it to be a bouncy castle where people can actually interact. It's completely safe. There is no embarrassment. You know, it's only your VR.  So you don't actually have to worry about, you know, losing faith to them. So it's really a say, it allows for this bouncy castle. It allows for experimentation. It allows, it allows for non-linear learning. Now for anybody who has learned to do anything, you'll see that there's some learning that has to happen sequentially. So you can't get to algebra before you can add up correctly. It's a sequence that has to be followed. Whereas actually what this VR environment and specifically the soft skills allows you to do is actually create non-linear pathways to learn soft skills. So if you were learning to negotiate, there's various things that you need to learn as part of that. And some of it could be just being able to ask questions. The other parts would be to actually respond to some things. And it actually allows you to develop things in terms of the learning design of the soft skills quite differently because you have this bouncy castle. Now I know a lot of people don't like the idea that VR is fun. And VR can also not be fun because, you know, we've also had people using VR and actually getting seesaw from using VR. So the fun is there but it can also be, you know, queasy like the bouncy castle. So it's just something to bear in mind actually as you're designing. The people will have different reactions but actually there is a little freedom within this particular learning technology. Now the other piece of this I think is really important is around feedback. This sort of learning technology for soft skills actually allows this kind of slightly creepy thing which is a faceless feedback. So you're getting feedback but it's not from a person. So the VR is telling you you're good or not good or something else. So it means also a lot of the times there's no one really to disappoint or impress. And actually that psychologically has its own baggage, you know, because part of what happens with learning is you get validated by a teacher or a tutor. Somebody says thumbs up, you're good at this. Now in this VR environment the fact that it is faceless is helpful because you're completely safe. You don't have to worry about losing face but equally there is no one to impress, no one to disappoint. And how do you get to that point where you celebrate success for somebody? Yes, you can have a big whizzy prize or we've seen people do badging as part of this sort of process. But actually there is something very human and specifically it's very important for soft skills that you get validated by a person. So as people are designing these sort of in terms of learning design there needs to be a point at which there is a validation from another human, you know, talk about having to add a human to learning technology. So on the third piece, so you know there is the final bit and this again goes back to this human point and is around wraparound support and I know, I don't know if you've heard about this a lot, other learning technology, specific technologies but actually around these soft skills. One of the things that Body Swaps has found is actually the technology is there. A lot of the times it's very plug-and-play. They've designed it so that you can get the kit, get started, but actually it needs hand-holding and support around getting people to use it and feel, and the needs tend to be different depending on the environment that you're designing for and the context that you're designing for. So again this, so it's really important they have had to think about how do they help their customers create the appropriate support to allow them to actually make the most of the technology. So it's just something to bear in mind that that is actually a necessary part of the learning design. The wraparound support is not just designing in the technology itself, but designing what is around the technology to make sure that people are making the most of it. And finally, just wanted to show you Body Swaps soft skills library. So you'll see the kind of things people are using it for. So they have things like public speaking and presentation, around communication, active listening. And some of this, I mean this is one of the products that have been, they basically had a project with U of Five Octech Trust and their product on their own now as well. But one of the things that's really interesting is seeing who's taking an active interest in this and how important actually some of these skills are becoming when it comes to the future of work. So yes, the hard skills are necessary. But so as a lot of things are getting automated and all of that, the soft skills are actually becoming more important, not less. So I imagine a lot of learning designers will be focused around that in the future if they're not, if it's less of a focus now. So finally, the soft skills, it's really in terms of keeping in mind where it sits, I think it has a strong impact on the culture and the mindsets of people, of leadership and how they behave. And in a way, it's actually teaching people how to listen appropriately with empathy, lead their teens, negotiate. There's various things that are actually part of soft skills that are becoming more important, not less. And I think there's a role for technology where it actually makes some parts of learning soft skills easier. But the point is to actually make us more human. And so it's just something that I think learning designers really have to bear in mind as they design technology that is designed to make us more human, not less. So again, just three points again, a safe bouncy castle. How do you make faceless feedback meaningful and validating. And the wraparound support of a bear hug. So that's it from me. Thank you.


Some Useful Blocks With the editing turned on, if we click the Add Block link in the nav drawer, we can see that there are many blocks which can be added to our course and it's worth exploring the list by adding them and seeing what they do and by looking at the Moodle documentation on each block. Remember that the mobile app doesn't display blocks and if you're on a small screen blocks will display underneath the course sections. So think carefully before adding a block to ensure it is relevant to your student's learning. Here are some examples. Later in the course, we'll learn how to add quizzes and assignments. And then, if you add the Activity Results block, you can add a competitive element to your course page where the highest scorers or even the lowest scorers can be displayed. You can use this block with any gradable activity. The Comments block allows your learners to add short comments to either your course as a whole or to a particular activity. Latest announcements displays in a block the notices you've made in your announcements forum. You can also add a Random Glossary Entry block. Later in the course, we look at adding a glossary where learners can contribute items to the glossary. And then the Random Glossary Entry block will allow entries to be displayed on your course page directly. Upcoming events displays in a block items you've added to the calendar which you can access from the nav drawer or by adding the calendar block itself. Let's take a look at another course with the Standard Boost theme and we can see examples of blocks. There is the Latest Announcements block, Random Glossary Entry, Activity Results and the Comments block. Students can delete their own comments if they wish and teachers can delete any inappropriate comments. So why not go and take a look at some of the other useful blocks you can add to your course.


Hey, guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We are talking about the Lucas Dignay SBC, the guaranteed TOTS pack that was yesterday, and also looking ahead into today on Wednesday, talking about the community TOTS guarantee when that will be. Obviously, it has to be either today or tomorrow. I think there's decent arguments for both. But I want to talk about what the yesterday EFL TOTS guarantee, what EA was doing by putting that SBC at the price point that they did, and also talking about this Dignay left-back card and how I think a lot of people are going to do this SBC, but also why that is another very smart SBC from EA Sports as a coin drain right now at this time. But also, we're going to talk about the market as well, because I really feel like we're just in this stage where right now we're getting closer and closer to the Prem Team this season. Everybody is just ready. I think people are just ready for Prem TOTS. It kind of feels like we're in sort of an idle mode, if you will. Again, we're kind of just idling into team of the season. This week is kind of just here, right? There's not a lot of insane, insane content. Yesterday's content was cool. It was good. But I feel like we're just kind of idling, waiting. A lot of people are waiting to buy cards. A lot of people are waiting for price drops. A lot of people are just waiting to see what this team of the season Prem has to offer. So we'll talk about that as well. But first of all, I want to talk about this SBC right here, because there are plenty of market movements that happened yesterday. And I think there is potential here for a potential rebound on these substitute cards that were PanicSoul because of this Dignia SBC. 251,000 coins at the moment with fodder at the prices that it is. This Dignia with 90 paces, the first TOTS moments card as well. People were kind of a fan of this design as I was reading some of the comments. But as you can see here with a thumbs up and thumbs down, I think there's a lot more thumbs down than thumbs up. Even though I still think a lot of people are going to do this SBC for the French links that he is. People are going to look at this card and say, hey, might be a decent center back. Now I'm looking at some stats like the agility and the strength. And this is only out for basically until the start of Prem TOTS. It's not until the first. So on Saturday, I believe, is when that'll expire. And that to me is just an SBC that you're going to see better cards coming out in the next couple of weeks anyway. And there's already better cards in the game than this Dignia, but it's a 90 paced French left back. Now a lot of the panic selling was caused, of course, on other left backs today on this game. You had this Robertson team of your nominee card go from like 313,000 coins down to 260. He's right now at 270. And the thing with this SBC is for this Dignia, I feel like these cards could bounce back. Just like we've seen with the Premier League center back SBC that was dropped a couple last week with the Ake card, which at least as I'm aware right now has not been updated yet, which is ridiculous because that should have been upgraded anyways. A lot of your Prem center backs are starting to bounce back. I think it's going to be the same thing with these Prem left backs, especially with Prem team of the season on the horizon. Even though we might get a left back Luke Shaw Tots card, maybe another one if they want to throw in, I don't know who else could be in Prem Tots as a left back. But I feel like these cards are not too bad of a buy. If you want to buy one for your team, if you want a Regulon, a Luke Shaw, a Van Anholtz, or a Robertson like for your team, these prices are probably going to rebound back onto the weekend unless something crazy happens. Just watch them over the next couple of days because again, this Dignay SBC is not out for very long and once that Dignay goes away, I do think you will see some people go out and buy some of those left backs back and use them instead of this Dignay because of course he will not be there anymore. So if you do want to make a play there, I kind of like Shaw the best out of those cards that have been panic sold. I know Robertson has got the 90 pace but I think I just like the look of Shaw's card. I know this is a very rare item as well but there's not a ton of Liverpool hype right now in my opinion for like links to Tots cards or whatever. So maybe try to snag one or two of these on a bid if you really want to. I like Regulon because this is a card that's moved a lot up and down with just demand on this game. He's got the 92 pace. So of course that makes a drawing that's 177K right now. I mean I have this guy on my team and he's pretty solid. So that is a card I think a lot of casuals might use because of that pace. And then of course the Luke Shaw inform. He's probably gonna get a team in the season card which is gonna draw attention to his name which we're gonna talk about in a video later coming out soon on this channel that a lot of cards that get team in the seasons their lower tier special cards do really, really well because it brings hype to that player if they're meta and good in FIFA. And this card right here has got a lot of hype. 94K, this guy was like 110,000 coins. We hasn't dropped off a ton but it's still a very good looking card and a card that a lot of people will use to link their Prem special cards as they kind of run Prem teams this next week. So if you wanna get involved with some of that panic selling, I don't mind it at all. I really don't. And then the next thing I wanna talk about is this EFL Tots guaranteed. And just again talk about what EA is doing with this SBC, 15,000 coins in 82 rated squad. Basically most of you guys watching this video were able to do that SBC with players in your club. Like if you've opened any of the 80 plus player picks you probably could do an 82 rated squad. By the way, 30 chemistry. That's about as easy as it gets for an SBC with 30 chemistry. So of course I've already done it. So it's now showing up here under the completed section of the live tab for the EFL Tots guaranteed. Now I got the Honeyman at center attack and mid guy, right? Not a very good pack pull but still he's basically 15,000 coins. I did it from the club. So boom, now I have an untradable team of season card in my club and that is the reason why EA Sports dropped this SBC today. I really think they dropped this to basically supply everybody's club with team of the season cards.  An 82 rated squad, they're giving you a reason to just say, well 15K I really can't lose because if you look at the actual team of the season EFL side, there's like the cheapest Tots card is 14, 15,000 coins. So you literally can't lose on quote unquote value of the card. So that's why EA priced it where they did today. I really believe that's where they priced it where they did because now they can require team of the season cards for SBCs upcoming. And I do believe that either today or tomorrow we're gonna see that guaranteed community Tots SBC and that is going to require a Tots player. Now in the past couple of years I was just doing a little bit of research again. Last year in FIFA 20 it was an 85 rated squad with one Tots player and 60 chem. And in FIFA 19 it was an 84 rated squad with one Tots player but 80 chemistry. So the chemistry definitely is higher on these in years past. Now if I had to make a prediction this year if EA wanna be real nice, I think they should go 84 rated with one Tots player and like 50 chemistry lower the, keep the chemistry low like they did for EFL Tots. And then just require that one Tots player because again, so many people now have team of season cards in their club just from that SBC or you might have done with the objective card so that you know you could have had a couple of cards in your club added from the Correa or from the objective. So I think all those things combined people now have team of season cards in their club and that just allows EA to start requiring them more for SBC. So what they do is they give you a Tots card like that and now with the 80 plus player picks that are out they're gonna drop that community Tots guaranteed. And for a lot of people on FIFA it's gonna make that SBC seem a lot more achievable for them since they already have that Tots card. So kind of smart thing in there. I guess you could say by EA sports. Now also we didn't have some road to the final movements. I'll take a quick second to talk about this. We have more Champions League coming today, PSG and Citi but we have got Rafael Varan and Hazard the only two cards on the market from the games yesterday. These guys are down of course cause Real Madrid it's one to one on aggregate but of course as you guys know they did give up the away goal. So technically they are quote unquote down. This Varan right now is chilling at 1.21 and he's probably gonna go a bit lower because it looks like there's still some cards here and it's late night. So we're probably gonna get some more undercuts and listening same thing with Hazard as well. He's down a decent amount. Now, you know, could these cards come back up? Yes, just potential, right? But of course the next leg isn't like tomorrow or anything. Hazard, what's going on with Hazard right now? 750, this guy was just 615, he bounced back up. Or 650, sorry, he just bounced back up but just keeping on those cards because yes, they're probably gonna fly under the radar with what's going on this weekend but if you wanna kinda keep an eye on those I have a Gabriel Jesus card it is on my transfer list right now that I got for 520K. He's still chilling on like 540, right? So there's not a ton of hype with relative to finals right now it's all about team of the season. So if you did trade with those today, GGs there were some movements for sure in that game but now they're kind of getting sold off post-game and I think, you know, they're gonna kind of fall in the back burner as we get into prem tots later on this week. Now today on Wednesday, what the heck are we gonna have for content, right? Again, it feels like things are just kind of slow and quiet, not necessarily quiet but just slow because we all know what is coming and that should be prem team of the season. Now of course that has not technically been confirmed by EA Sports yet because if we look over here it says team of the season, you know, it's not confirmed as to be announced over here what are the next leagues that are upcoming but it should be prem, right? And if they did anything else other than prem it'd be a massive, massive L. So I think maybe not today on Wednesday but potentially tomorrow and Thursday is when we should start to see some hints about Premier League team this season and that of course makes me think a little bit that today on Wednesday we could see back to back days where they released the guaranteed tots, SBCs. I think they might release the guaranteed tots for community today because on Thursday usually what you see is you have rewards of course but then for Thursday content you do have a loading screen sometimes for that next tots league and they kind of like switch the focus from what has just happened in the past few days onto the next or the upcoming Friday. So that's the only thing for me right now that I do think it's possible that we would get that community tots SBC today. Now will that make fodder move on the market a little bit probably? Right now SBC fodder is still, it's still low in total but it is up a little bit, right? 86s or 18K, 85s or 11K, these, they're up just a slight bit, right? They're up a slight bit not much. We haven't had tradable packs apply because all the SBCs that we have had were untradable. I think the sorry ball is untradable. By the way, tots purple lightning kit I heard that that is like really, really purple. I haven't even looked at it. And I'm not a big fan of the kit SBCs because it just kind of clutter up this whole SBC section and get annoying. But I want to take a look at this kit because I heard it's actually kind of crazy. Tots purple lightning kit. Wow, that is pretty purple. Anyways, I don't think we haven't had any tradable pack supply, right? No tradable pack supply and we actually saw team of the season cards drop yesterday. Now of course we talked about how we might see some panic when a guaranteed pack comes out. There really wasn't much panic today. Aaron's was like 1.30 this morning, he's 1.26 now. Buendia's actually higher than what he was. This Tony card went from like 1.90 down to like 1.70 on snipe 1.80 and now it's back up to 1.94. So apart from that card, we really didn't see too much movement today but there were some community tots cards that have fallen off, right? Wadi Sok is back up now to 5.65. He was down at 5.35. Valverde was 8.70, Alibis kind of low right now. So you might see some of these cards rise back up into the day if they were low and Cuckoo's 140, Barnes was 450, he's now 4.90. So these cards are continually fluctuating because people are trying them out and they're giving these cards a shot. Now of course with less content being put out on the game, this is gonna drive, since we're getting closer and closer to rewards, this is probably gonna drive more people to think about investing for Thursday flips and investing in cards that will be linking to Premier League tots, right? So this Adama was 675,000 coins today, Atal is up, Kent is up and this just might be some of the nighttime rarity, but it might be also some people actually going out on the market and buying up some of these Premier League out of pack special cards, expecting a rise this weekend, which is a rise that I 100% think will happen. But I myself, I really don't feel like I wanna get involved yet. I think I'm gonna be waiting a lot until actually Friday morning to be buying a lot of this panic sold stuff because I just don't wanna get involved too early. So right now what I'm doing on the market is still again, quick flipping. I saw some middle eye or baby icon, Godinche, I got pretty low today. I still have my Loms, I got a Salah at 910K. He was selling at 990 earlier. I bought a same maximum at 280. That still might not even be his lowest price. And then just a quick update as well. I flipped some cards really nicely from Saturday, sorry, from Sunday night into Monday, that's where these were from. We actually made a solid like 400K or so from those flips. That was a really, really solid kind of like 12 to 24-hours period while I was technically on the day off from Sunday night into Monday. But those are kind of the trades there and that's why I don't have a ton of coins right now. It's because I'm flipping a lot of this stuff right here. But again, I don't know if you guys feel the same way, but it's just kind of like we're all waiting for Prentots or at least we're waiting for rewards because rewards on Thursday is gonna be a time it'll shake up the market again. Now, could we see more content today on Wednesday? Of course, I mentioned the team of the week. That should probably come out, but that's gonna fall behind and just, the only thing either we're gonna have to watch for with team of the week is the SPC fodder informs that'll be out. That's kind of the only thing we have to watch for there. Of course, if you're grinding the 80 plus player picks, I'm probably gonna set up a set of these for the stream tomorrow because I wanna give myself a chance at packing in Dambilay or some of those cards. There's only 6K at pop, so it's not. And we're gonna get SPC player content. It's just nothing that has really been super duper hype, right? Zapata, Kiesa, Nisaru weren't bad. Dignay, and of course the attacker icon pack, which is really not good value. It seems like, again, a lot of these SPCs, especially the past two days, have been just put out there to kind of drain your coins and make you try to craft something with upgrade packs before we actually get to the big team of the season, Grind, which is going to be coming on Friday for Prem Todd. So that's kind of how it feels to me right now at this time. But again, EA yesterday was making a very, very calculated move by putting out that EFL Todd's SPC. I honestly think that again, the whole conversation around Thursday is kind of turning towards the next promo. I could very well see the guaranteed community Todd's being today or tomorrow. Now in years past, it has been a two day, or like a one day in between. So like, you know, Tuesday, Thursday would be kind of how it would go this year based off of them doing Saturday, Monday, and FIFA 19, and Monday, Wednesday, and FIFA 20. So we'll see if they do back to back days. I think it's possible. But I also think they might wait until Thursday, which would make a very interesting day for Thursday for those community Todd's cards. We'll talk a lot about that stuff later in a video coming later today. It's actually a cheeky double upload day. So get ready for that one. But yeah, not a ton going on on the market. If you're still grinding the trades, good luck. Open bids are out there. There's still a lot of fluctuations as cards are rare on the market and all that sort of stuff. But we'll see what happens today on a Wednesday. If you enjoyed this video, smash the thumbs up on it, comment below if you have any questions, and subscribe if you do. It's been Nathan Ford Account. I will catch you guys later. Peace.


Problems for learners of English in Italy. Learning a new language can be a wonderful experience. However its success depends on several factors. Personal propensity above all. By this I mean interest and passion for whatever language it is we have set our minds to learn. More often than not this propensity involves a sort of an innate talent, which makes it easier for some students to master specific language skills. The right hint of motivation goes hand in hand with the environment. At a very early stage, this environment is represented by our teachers, masters, and tutors. Their ability to pass on the interest of another language will be crucial. How are we ever going to enjoy foreign language classes if they are carried out in a monotonous and dull manner? They have to be diverse and engaging and leave us wanting for more. However, there is another environmental component which I find to be of utmost importance language exposure. The language content we spontaneously hear around us, mostly on TV, DVDs, and music. This particular element is almost entirely absent in the country, whose language acquisition problems I would like to discuss, Italy. Cultural challenges. Due to a twisted set of circumstances that originated during the fascist regime, the Italian cultural system tended to be mostly introverted and focused on itself. Italians took great pride in the richness of their vocabulary, musicality of their words, and overall prestige of Italian language made famous through oligieri, patriarca, etc. Hence for as long as the old generations can recall, there had never been books read in any other foreign languages, especially not French and for that matter English. An enormous wave of excellent translator formed throughout the 20th century, and books are written in all the languages were translated into Italian, brilliantly if I may add. The same happened to the movies leading to an incredibly popular surge of dubbing, an art still present in Italy. It is so well regarded that the Italian dubbers are somewhat celebrities, and up until recently they enjoyed the same reputation as actors themselves. Phenology. Which brings me to one of the problems Italian students face when learning English. They lacked familiarity even on a phonetic level. This means that most of the times they will not be able to pronounce words correctly. One reason for this is the lack of exposure to the language. As they have never heard what certain words sound like, consequently they are not able to reproduce it. Another is in a different accent system especially in multi-syllable words. The accents tend to be placed at the beginning of a word, and a lot of words originate in Latin and they sound differently in English. Given this problem Italian students take the longest time to learn to speak and pronounce the words properly. This might be their biggest challenge. Grammar. Secondly the Italian language has a very complex grammar system and it is a bit unruly too. By this I intend that the usage of this system is not widely applied. Italians themselves are often unable to correctly use their language as it poses a lot of problems. On the other hand, English is more simple and the usage of tenses is very specific context oriented. Italian students struggle to understand the difference between past simple and present perfect, because time is handled differently in these two languages. Take for example the adverb of time recently. On English it is strictly connected to the usage of present perfect, whereas in Italian it can be applied to both past simple and present perfect. This is all very confusing, although sometimes there are similarities between languages too. Vocabulary. Finally, vocabulary can be quite tricky too. This is only because there are sometimes a lot of words that are very similar with the exception of the pronunciation obviously. Other times however Italian student think that the word will be similar when it's not, and they get stuck with the thought of the word beginning and sounding in a specific way, when the reality is that it will be completely different. Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course today. To summarize, Italian students have to deal with a lot of difficulties when learning a foreign language, whether it is English or Portuguese. These problems mostly have to do with political and cultural order, but in the last couple of years it has been changing quite a lot and nowadays thanks to huge platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime, people are given the opportunity to choose the language they want to hear. It is still not as common as it should be, but it is a work in progress, and hopefully the generations that come will be better.


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We are talking about some big questions, some theories today, and talking about the process of when to buy teams, when to buy Tots cards, batch three cards, when to buy basically anything that you need for your team upcoming this week of batch three summer heat, the end of this promo where things are kind of coming down to an end and we're getting Chris and kind of wondering, what is EA going to do after this promo? So we're gonna talk about a lot of very popular cards today that a lot of you guys have been asking me about, is this stuff gonna rise? What's gonna happen? And I'm gonna basically give you my best shot because right now again, we don't know what's gonna happen, right? Summer heat is ending in three days. In two days from now on Friday, 6 p.m. UK, summer heat is done and dusted. We'll talk about the potential scenarios that could happen today. And also I wanna look back at yesterday and about the new content, kind of explain that, what happened with that. And also look ahead to today's content because we might get another dynamic duo SBC today too and that could be pretty hyped. That'd be pretty dope if we saw that. So first things first though, what's gonna happen with this market in the next couple of days, pertaining to these team of the season cards and stuff that is impacts that's gonna get hit with supply at rewards? I've been telling a lot of people this whole week that if you wanna buy a Tots card, I think you wanna buy it either right before rewards, if there's any sell off of people selling their cards right before, we can make rewards this week or I think you wanna buy them within the first couple of hours, like the hour or two or three of rewards when these cards are getting packed, tradable on the market. Because all these team of the seasons are gonna get supplied that are impacts. Now we'll talk about stuff that's out of packs a bit separately. But a lot of you guys wanna buy some of these team of the season cards that have dropped so much in price, you can now afford them. And you're looking to say, hey, when is the best time for me to buy this because I need it for my team? When can I pick this card up because I need him, right? And that's what I'm gonna try to answer today and talk to you about because it's a big question, right? Ramos right now, 700,000 coins. A lot of these cards, you know, every card is almost, it's a different scenario, a different story, right? This Ramos cards dropped a little bit this week. He's dropped down a tiny bit from where he was earlier, he's like 700,000 coins. But then other cards have actually gone up in price. The Bruin was like in the 1.9 range, I think, on the weekend. And I think right now he's over two mils. So like this card has actually popped up a couple hundred thousand coins. And this happens though, right? These are rare cards that a lot of people don't have on the market, just rare cards. 99 rated cards are rightfully so. Pretty rare. So these cards don't get supplied that much. And, you know, a lot of times for these really high tier Tots cards, they do get supplied at rewards, but it's not a very high amount of supply and they rebound very fast. And honestly, your best time to buy these guys is whenever there's panic selling. And that makes me want to say, is there gonna be any other panic selling this week? Based on the content that we saw yesterday with the Puel Sick SBC, there really wasn't that much panic. Some left wings in the prem went down. I think Sun Tots went down a little bit more even after he went down because of Trezzagay the day before. So what is gonna cause these cards to actually go down in price? From where they're at right now. And in my opinion, the thing that's gonna make them go down in price from where they're at right now is most likely going to be either a massive dynamic dual SBC that would come out today, which some people have said it could be a pretty good one. I don't have leaks. I don't know leaks. I don't know stuff that is coming out early ahead of time. Basically, all that I know is what you know from Twitter, right? Twitter is where a lot of those people talk about leaks and I don't have any of those. But that would be the place to kind of look out for those today if there are any. That's where they would be technically. So, you know, do I have leaks about a dynamic duo? No, could there be a really high SBC today that drops the market for a short period of time if it's an SBC that everybody wants to go out and do that is cheap, but expensive enough that people have to sell cards to go do? Yes, you could see some panic selling today on Wednesday around the content drop time. That's when a lot of cards kind of hit their lowest anyways because people just have been used to selling cards now. I think EA, especially with this promo and with Team of the Season, have really gotten people used to panic selling their cards every day around the 6 p.m. UK timeframe just because there's new content every day coming out and people know they have to be ready and they have to have stuff, they have to have coins available to maybe participate in that new content. But other than the dynamic duo SBC that could come today, I really don't see any other content coming this week that would really cause a lot of panic on the market and a lot of panic selling at least before rewards time, right? I don't think we're getting any more upgrade packs. I don't think we're gonna get any more, you know, maybe an Ultimate Tots guaranteed pack would be something that would crash the market a little bit but I feel like it would be cheap enough that it wouldn't crash the market that much and it's also not repeatable. So that's another thing as well. It's not a repeatable SBC or a repeatable pack but I don't think that supply or that SBC would really hurt the market if we got like an Ultimate Tots guaranteed SBC which I don't even know if we're gonna get cause we have this repeatable one out right now anyway. So yeah, that's why I'm saying I think Thursday is gonna be the best buy time for anything that is in packs, right? Tots cards like in Boppe, Neymar, you're gonna wanna get on those as soon as you can, right? As soon as you can, you're probably gonna want to get back on those because they're gonna get bought off fast and people that have coins at rewards this week, there's gonna be people that make a lot of coins at rewards like it's been every single week because people are packing these Team of the Season cards. People are gonna pack them even more this week since they're actually in packs.  This guy was 3.8 mil on Saturday. You're gonna see some of these really popular cards start to go up in price because they don't get packed a lot and guys that make a lot of coins from rewards AKA elite above top 100 rewards, they're still making a lot of coins every week. So you're gonna start to see these cards continue to trickle up in price, I think after rewards because people are gonna buy them up, right? Especially for the out-of-pack stuff like the Mbappe full birthday is already up in price because people just started buying them. The content this week, wow man, 4.2 mil, 4.3 million coins for a full birthday Mbappe after it was 3.75 mil last week in packs. I think people maybe envisioned him dropping a little bit this week with all the tots prices that could have been dropping as well. And unfortunately that didn't really happen because the content this week, it's been decent but not like insane enough to like drop a card like this. Obviously this guy is not gonna get supplied at rewards, tradeable. The only way he will get supplied tradeable would be through the elite plus packs. He could get packed. So you might see a couple of fresh ones pop up on the market but I don't think that would really crash his price. He's not in regular packs but he will be in reward packs for the elite and above packs. Same thing with actually not the same thing but same maximum kind of provides an interesting situation as well. This is a very, very meta card that's actually rising right now. This dude was 450,000 coins earlier today. He'll probably get back down to that point in the next day or so. He just fluctuates around a lot but this guy's not in packs either, right? Some of the out of packs cards because maybe they're tosses in packs and they have a full birthday version that is not in packs because of that being the case. Those kind of cards, they're really, really meta. You might see a rise on them. Maybe a guy like Griezmann, maybe a guy who also would be another example of that of a full birthday card that would be having out of packs Tots card right now. So Soko no, Havards probably not. Griezmann and Boppe would be the number two, number one and two examples of that for me. Possibly Rashford just because of the position change and we've had some English SBCs lately we have a lot of Man U cards coming out lately. Actually, he's up right now. The Daniel James actually makes this interesting. He was 250 earlier today, peaked at 290 back down to 267. So if you would see this card at maybe like a 240, 250,000 coin range, I would get interested again if there's any sort of panic selling today on these out of packs cards because a guy like Daniel James is gonna make this rise. People wanna link those cards together. Bruno, maybe Bruno's special cards that are available in-game go up a tiny bit. I just feel like everybody who would want to Bruno probably already got that card. But most people are worried about these cards, right? Team of the seasons. What can you expect on rewards day, right? Let's say you wanna buy Carvajal for your team. You know, Carvajal this week has gone down to a low point of around 110K, it looks like on the PlayStation, 109,000 coins. Again, you see a common theme here is that a lot of their lowest times in the market is around the content drop time. Just because people are interacting with the new content, then they kind of rise back up into the nighttime. So maybe you look at today on Wednesday for that as another possible opportunity as well. There's a lot of panic selling. But this might be the type of guy that you see during rewards drop down to like 100, 500K flat for like a very short period of time and then he bounces back up. Because this is the type of card that would get packed a decent amount in rewards but would also have enough demand to rise shortly thereafter because he provides links to so many of the most popular center backs in this game. Same thing with Lala. I know we just had the Danilo upgrade, which by the way, I need to show you that card ASAP because this card is looking saucy. 92, now 95 rated Danilo is a correct out looking right back. So you might see some links to this card rise up if they haven't risen already. Maybe some Brazilian links and maybe some of the right backs don't rise up as much this week because this card looks incredible. EA gave him the juice on the upgraded card just earlier tonight. Crazy crazy, this might be like the best statistical right back in the game because Lala only has 93 defense. He has plus three passing Lala does but he's also got minus five dribbling. So this card compared to Lala is better in my opinion and that crazy stats on this card. So I think you're gonna see a lot of people using this this weekend, probably shapeshifter Ronaldo is up and other Brazilian right mids, other P Monty Cauchio players have started to go up in price already kind of like that team of the year delict that we talked about earlier in the week. So if you wanna buy a player for your team, again, we also have to consider what could be coming next week, what's gonna come on Friday, right? So there is the only problem with buying your team this week is we're unsure of what EA is gonna drop this week after the summer heat promo ends and that's a lot of uncertainty, right? I see a couple of scenarios with this, right? Scenario number one, they actually, they re-put out batch three for another week and basically summer heat is out for another week with the cards and packs, with the rewards and the SBCs, the upgrade packs and basically they just for some reason tease us into thinking it's gonna be one week long and then they put it out for two weeks. That's possibility number one. Possibility number two is we get nothing on Friday and the game is just kind of dead and cars start to rise, get rare and it's really like the end of FIFA. Option number three is we have either an icon moments, SBC that comes out on Friday or another promo that starts on Friday right after summer heat. I just don't know what's gonna happen, boys, so I'm gonna say it this way, right?  I don't know how they're gonna make a promo if there is another one, even if there's a UCL related promo. What else is gonna come out in this game that is going to be more hype than the cards that we've seen released during summer heat? I don't see anything that couldn't surpass that amount of hype, I really don't. The only thing I guess they could do that would really crash the market is that icon moments, repeatable SBC, people would go bananas for that and in that case as well, this week it rewards if you really think that's gonna come, what you could do is all these Tots cards that are SBC fodder are gonna get supplied this week it rewards, right? We're talking 87s, 88s, 89 rated cards, like all these specials are gonna get supplied at rewards, what you might be able to do is just buy one and chuck it in the club if you're really interested in doing that. Even some of these 86 rated cards as well that have really good links, like a Parasitch or like an Eggstein or a Colorov, left back 86 rated cards with 14,000 coins with the amount of chemistry that that would provide. Maybe you club stock some of these high rated cards, maybe like the, even some of the like the higher 90s, like 90s one, 92, you know, you might just buy one and throw it in the club. If you've got a lot of coins and you think an icon moments repeatable is gonna come, those cards would absolutely boom if that SBC does come. The rest of fodder is getting a little bit cheaper but what we usually see on Thursdays is and especially as the promo is ending, if you have fodder that is expensive, I would cash it out before rewards. If you have 82s, 83s, I would cash it out before rewards because this stuff is gonna get hammered with supply like we saw last week and the week before, fodder gets hit pretty heavily at week and week rewards. So again, that's something I guess you could do to be proactive if you do think there's an icon moments SBC coming out later this week. But if there's anything that you wanna buy for your team, I think what you wanna do is, if it's a card that's out of packs like St. Maximon or for birthday and Bappé, try to see if you can find any panic on the market today and maybe the hours before rewards possibly. But if you wanna buy Todd's card that is in packs or you wanna make an investment on a card that's going out of packs, I think you have to do it in the first couple hours of week and week rewards because last year when these Todd's cards were in packs, they got supplied a lot. Now it was, they came into packs on a Wednesday, then they got supplied on a Thursday. So there was just a lot of drop off happening there but I feel like there's gonna be a decent amount of drop off that would happen again this week with all these Todd's cards in packs and with all of the foot champions rewards that will be opened this week in FIFA. So that is my advice to you guys on those cards right there. Going over the SBC content that came yesterday, Christian Pulisic, is this like a cracked out card? No, but hey, us Americans are very happy. So thank you. If you are across the pond and you voted for Christian Pulisic, thank you for letting this card win. Us Americans are very, very happy to be able to collect a special American card in our clubs for Captain America himself. Is this SBC craftable? Yes, is it insane card? No, it's probably pretty decent in game. So I'm gonna craft him this week through the rest of the 81 plus double upgrades that I do end up doing. So thank you for doing that. And then we also got a player vote today. And I wanna pull up the tweet really fast from what EA tweeted out for the player vote that was actually released today. Summer Heat Bundesliga nominees and this might be the worst vote that we've seen yet, in my opinion. Delaney is probably gonna win, but St. Giuste is very popular and Luca Becchio is basically a troll from EA putting out the Luca Becchio card that had a super overpriced foot mist SBC. In my opinion, I think Delaney wins because of the Dortmund badge and the highest rated but St. Giuste has got a lot of hype in the FIFA community for his screen card that came out earlier this year. We've got tons of Bundesliga centerbacks though. So do we really, I don't know if we do, but I think Delaney is gonna win. That SBC will be out on rewards day on Thursday. So I would keep an eye out for that. And honestly, other than that, today's content that will be coming today, some people have rumored about a dynamic duo SBC that could be pretty special. And if it is, then if you're somebody that wants to buy cards for your team, I would definitely hop on that because you could see a little bit of panic and you might see a few undercuts around the 6 p.m., 7 p.m., UK timeframe, just as people are going to participate in the content that is released today. Now Bellotti and Verdi are expiring in 14 hours because the new summer dynamic duo players could come out then. So just be careful with those cards if you are wanting to do them, they're gonna be going away very, very soon. And then other than that, I think all the rest of the SBCs, I guess there's the voting day SBC which I should probably do for, oh, a draft token pack. I'm all right, I'm probably not gonna play draft. No offense, EA, Vidal's got three days left, Prime Icon, two days left. So the SBCs are coming down to an end man. It's really, really, really coming down to an end, the summer heat promo is winding down. A lot of unknowns on what's gonna happen next week. But honestly, if you want a card for your team, you have the coins to do it. I would buy that card in the first couple hours of rewards unless it's an out of packs card, I would buy it before.  And once August comes, then it's basically over and done with, right? That's when FIFA 21 info is gonna start coming out. We're getting a FIFA 21 trailer on Thursday. So mark your calendars, I guess, on the YouTube page for EA Sports FIFA. There is going to be a trailer premiere of FIFA 21 and there's new Twitter hashtags that were put out today with the graphics and stuff. So that is kind of interesting that we're starting to get FIFA 21 hype and stuff like that. We're probably not gonna learn a lot on Thursday with the reveal trailer. In my opinion, I wouldn't get super duper excited for that, but it is something FIFA 21 related and we'll start to talk about FIFA 21 in a couple weeks, right? This game isn't dead yet, so I'm not done talking about it. That's how I'm viewing things on this game right now. So good luck with your Wednesdays. If you do open any of these 81 plus packs, we've been opening them like nonstop on stream. Tweet me if you get good stuff. I love seeing good stuff from these packs and from the Tots SF guaranteed. So if you get good stuff, let me know. Tweet it to me with that link in the description. Yeah, boys, that's kind of the video for today. When to buy those cards for your teams. I think we spelled it out pretty clearly and explained all the scenarios. So make the best decision for you and what you want for your team and going forward. Don't be worried about losing coins. At this stage of the game, don't be worried about losing coins. You've got all of next year in the fall to be worried about losing coins during FIFA 21. Don't be worried right now.  All right, boys, it's been Nate, The Foot Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace.


y to again to thank you for that initiative and we took that opportunity to innovate as part of of progress as part of the evaluation of our company thank you very much well thank you for that and it's a nice note to end this panel noting that the UPU is supporting innovation in our member countries and so thank you for that and I'd like to thank all of our panelists for this lively discussion this morning and I think they deserve a really strong hand of applause bravo Wendy that all went very well I'd like to thank Paula as well Hongmei thank you all for your participation and I think that it was a very interesting panel it's time for us to conclude this morning our deputy director general is going to give us his conclusions on this first innovation in the postal sector forum hello yeah I'll do it in a less traditional way and thank you Kayla and Paul for providing me the notes but I will do it in a way differently innovation is also about people and maybe some of you remember when I was here in Spring CA I said that we will not offer you a plastic bottle anymore so this is in a way an example and I did my best second thing is again your opinion matters so please take the survey take it and we would like to share it and from a part of the executive management Metocissan and myself we have here today that the managers or the management they should support innovation and you have the promise from our side that we will support innovation also in this building second thing I was in a way very much impressed by the speakers two were in a way very impressive for me the CEO of a Brazilian post where are you okay I hope this is like a start of a new friendship and we would like to hear and see more of the successful CEOs in this building so thank you again from my side the second one was the guy with the excellent shoes alexander I'm amazed thank you for sharing this I can advise you already you can start to look for a heart tax tax this is a ticket which gives you a discount in Switzerland for railways and another one is do they have it in the yellow color as well okay so next time in the respect I will wear yellow shoes if I will be a moderator enjoy it it was a pleasure thank you very much just to say thank you very much and bon up we'll see you this afternoon at two o'clock for the plenary starting in this room see you then


The MiTech Brooklyn now has a version with Integrated Network Bridge that renders from both DNA and Rune sources. It is in fact a MiTech Brooklyn DAC Plus with Integrated Network Bridge, hence the app name Brooklyn Bridge. The versatility of the Brooklyn Bridge is such that you initially might be overwhelmed by the possibilities. But if you look at it structurally, it isn't that complex. Let's start with connecting it to a power amplifier. You could of course also use an integrated amplifier and bypass the volume control on the Brooklyn Bridge. The network connection on the bridge is connected to your home network by a network cable or wifi. You can store music on a NAS or on a shared volume on your computer. The NAS or computer has to run a DLAS server program. I use Minim server on a Synology NAS. You then can select the music to play using a tablet or smartphone that runs DNA control software. I use Glider but there are also free apps. The Brooklyn Bridge further has a stereo analog input that can be switched between line level and pick up with either MM or MC cartridge. If you like, you can connect digital sources like the digital output of a CD player, the optical output of your TV and for instance a game console. If you have active speakers, there is no need for an amplifier, you connect them directly to the bridge. If you want to use Roon, you need a computer to run the Roon server program on. The music can be stored on the same computer or on a NAS. The Brooklyn Bridge uses the same housing as the Brooklyn and is available in black and silver. It measures 218 x 206 x 44mm and weighs 1.6 kilos. There are two 6.3mm headphone jacks, one in absolute polarity and one in reverse polarity. If you have a balanced headphone, you use both over an adapter cable. The OLED display has two channel metering for peak and average levels with on the right numerical representations thereof. Below that the resolution, sampling rate, MQA indication and indication of the active output, headphones, line or both. The lowest line on the display gives you four menu options at one time. Using the rotary encoder other menu options appear. The two buttons on each side of the display correspond with the four menu options. Pressing the most left button changes the left option, here the input that is set to network and so on. The rotary encoder becomes the volume control when not used for some time. It's all about the same as on the Brooklyn DAC+. The rear differs clearly from the Brooklyn DAC+, since the input options differ. On the right the IEC mains input with, on the left of it, a 12 volt DC input for if you want a higher quality external power supply. The internal power supply is a decent switch mode type and if you really want better sound by using an external power supply, select an audiophile grade one that is capable of delivering at least 5 amps, like the Syntax Xtreme Performance Linear power supply I use. Then there is the Wi-Fi antenna, a trigger connector, the USB B connector for connecting to a computer, two SPDIF inputs, a USB A connector for storage media, the network connector, the Toslink input, the stereo analog input that can be switched from line to M or MC phono, the ground terminal for the turntable, the single ended outputs and the balanced outputs. All digital inputs, including the bridge function but excluding USB, can handle signals up to 24 bit 192 kHz and DSD64 over DOP. The USB input can do PCM up to 32 bit 384 kHz and DSD up to DSD256. It has been developed to have very low latency and special ACO and wasabi windows drivers are provided. Mac and Linux computers need no drivers. All inputs can handle MQA. When a DLNA or Roon signal is sent to the Brooklyn Bridge it automatically switches to that input while the volume can be controlled from the DLNA and Roon software. That's handy since selecting the inputs using the remote control requires you to read the display menu and that's harder the distance of more than a meter or so. There are many menu settings, for instance you can choose between digital and analog volume control, polarity inverse, incorrectly named phase inverse, a home theater function that passes on the analog input to the analog outputs, display brightness, logo color and brightness, display auto off and all kinds of reconstruction filters. If you choose to have MQA detection on you can only select the MQA reconstruction filter which to me is the optimal choice. Compared to the Brooklyn DAC Plus the professional standard interfaces are left out so there is no ADAT, no SDIF and no AES EBU. And that's no loss unless you have ties with the professional audio industry. Don't think that a professional interface per definition is better. AES EBU is pretty equal to SPDIF with the exception of the voltage and the impedance and some for sound quality in unimportant status pins. Only for long leads this might be of importance. ADAT is even inferior to SPDIF but it can do 8 channels over a tossling connection. As you might know I use the initial Brooklyn DAC and have not reviewed the newer Brooklyn DAC Plus. According to my tech the Brooklyn bridge uses the same electronics as the DAC Plus but with the added bridge electronics. So it is more or less a review of the DAC Plus too. And while measuring it struck me that most measurements were dbs better than those of the original Brooklyn DAC. I will show you one, linearity. It shows how accurate the output level is. If there is a digital signal of minus 40 dB full scale there should be an analog signal at minus 40 dB below the maximum output, which for all Brooklyn's is 4.88 volts. If we look up the minus 40 dB point on the horizontal scale and the vertical scale their line should meet. The yellow line shows the measured values and they meet perfectly. We can do the same at minus 90 dB and again it is perfect. The red line shows the deviation from the optimum at all levels. Down to minus 115 dB's there is no deviation at all. Only below that there is a minute deviation at minus 124 dB. The red line uses the right scale so let's see the deviation in dB's. Only plus 0.8 dB. Since it is an upsampling DAC, it uses the ESS Sabre ES9028 chipset. This means that an extremely precise clock is present and the circuit board is very well designed. Still the difference in sound quality with the original Brooklyn DAC, both used over USB for fair comparison, is rather small. The Brooklyn bridge is just somewhat more refined on voices and brass and sounds even a tad more relaxed. But the differences are small. Like James Brown's band I will take you to the bridge. For the question is, of course, what sounds better, the internal bridge or the SOTM SMS 200 Ultra Neo connected to the USB input? To be frank, I can't say. There are small differences, like better sibilance control for the SOTM and more fluent voices on the bridge but it took me quite some time to discover them and I needed listening with the external syntax power supply. Since I am a highly trained listener you might wonder if these small differences are relevant, especially since I can't call out a winner. The syntax power supply does make a clear difference so if you are in the market for a Brooklyn DAC Plus and SMS 200 Ultra Neo or Brooklyn Bridge, I would go for the last one with extremely high quality power supply like the syntax. Both options sum up to about the same money. Mytech keeps developing products that not only sound very good in its price class but can also be upgraded by using a high quality power supply, as the British bands like NAME and SARES also do. For some the quite good phono input might be interesting too, my son uses the Brooklyn DAC Plus as a preamp and has his turntable hooked up. It sounds great. The addition of a very good bridge function that supports both D&A and Roon for €800 over the price of the Brooklyn DAC Plus is a steal unless you do need those professional interfaces and who does. As always I challenge other manufacturers to prove their product to be even better. They don't have to advertise, just lend me their product and arrange transport in both directions. Next week there will be another review, as always at 5pm central European time. If you don't want to miss that, subscribe to this channel or follow me on the social media so you'll be warned when new videos are out. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up. Many thanks to all that support this channel financially, it keeps me independent and thus trustworthy. 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