Hi there, how are you doing? Dave Vellante? I'm Peter Nicolettatis. How are you? Hi, Peter Nicolettatis. Nice to see you. So, tell us a little bit about yourself. We got a guest just popped in. We got a guest. Welcome to theCUBE. Who are you? Hi. How'd you get in here? Hi, my name's Peter Nicolettatis. I'm the Chief Information Officer at Curtin University in Australia. Oh, fantastic. With CIOs, we're always welcome in theCUBE. Step up to the microphone a little bit there. Our team knows that that CIOs, we have an open door policy with CIOs here. At theCUBE. Well, so welcome to the States. Thank you. First of all, you know, Las Vegas of all places. Well, we actually refer to it as Nevada because I think it's a pretty hard sell to say I'm going to Las Vegas for a conference. I generally say I'm going to Nevada for a conference. Yeah, no questions. Not a lot of questions. In Vegas, it's like, is that legit? So, let's talk about the challenges for CIOs today, Dave. You and I have been talking about this notion of services angle. And the services business is like the meat and potatoes of the clouds. The cloud is the disruptive force around changing IT. We've been talking earlier this morning about a new breed of IT. And one of the things that in the show is interesting is that Hadoop and Big Data is the sizzle, but the stake is the solutions behind it. And those solutions are being re-architected. There's reference architectures that are emerging, new value chains around IT, new value chains around service provider, solution of providers. What's your angle on this notion of services, both being deployed and then business services on the cloud? There's a couple of opportunities here for us. I guess what's happening in the IT industry is you're seeing a lot of consolidation. And not dissimilar in the higher education space in Australia, what we're actually seeing is basically a very different service delivery model. We call it, I guess I like to refer to as de-duplication. It's basically looking at the way we do things. And if we're doing it more once asking ourselves, well, why is that? And so our focus has been on identifying, where do we want to end up? And one of the things that I'm kind of focused on at the moment is that we can't rely on a capital demand-driven budget. We're shifting towards a utility and consumption-based model. We do that because a lot of our research community, a lot of our teaching learning community have that expectation that they want to pay for what they consume, rather than be charged and overhead on the IT services. Right, so that's the sort of new cloud business model that we're all talking about, which you see with the cloud service providers and then increasingly you're seeing with organizations like your own. You know, were you in Boston last year by any chance? Yes, I was. Yeah, okay, so you remember the journey to the private cloud, right? And I remember after Tucci's discussion around the journey to the private cloud, I talked to a lot of customers, like, where are you in that journey? Like, oh, we're just sort of thinking about it now that I heard this presentation. Where were you a year ago on your journey? Talk about that a little bit. What's interesting, a year ago, I guess the notion of our migration to the private cloud and beyond had already commenced. In some ways, we've begun designing our architecture about provisioning a private cloud, largely for our corporate system data and around structured data. At the same time as a parallel activity and supporting our student experience, we were also embracing some of the public cloud. And by that I mean some of our investment with the types of tools that our students use around iTunes, around the whole email and collaborative type tools. And we're using that in the public cloud, largely because that's the area which our students are already engaged in. And rather than reinvent that, we saw an opportunity to sort of enhance and integrate that into our environment. However, on the private cloud side, this was much more about managing our data governance and ensuring that where we put our information, it's gonna be secure and we had a great understanding of how we're gonna architect it. Our future, of course, is about how we converge both the public and the private cloud together. So how do you measure the progress on that journey?  It's a good metric. But that's not ultimately how an end business or your end customers would look at it.  So how does your quote unquote business, I know you're a university, but how does the business look at that? Okay, so I guess if I went to my vice chancellor and I told her that I'm moving to the private cloud and I think it's a great investment strategy for the university, I get a kind of quizzical look back from her, you know, trying to understand what do you mean by the cloud? You have to, I guess, translate what your direction is in terms of business literacy. And really when we migrate to the cloud, what we're effectively saying to our vice chancellor, your CEO, is that I'm actually gonna change your corporate risk profile. Because moving to the cloud gives me that elasticity that really improves my ability to have effective business continuity and appropriate disaster recovery. I think we underplay that a lot. We seem to talk about cloud as a technology and a bunch of services. Where effectively what you're doing is changing the service delivery model to make sure it's much more reliable, much more resilient. That's the part that you've got to really sell to the business. So a really great KPI for me is to turn around to the board and say that, you know, if I could take one or two of those high risk corporate items off the table or lower them down, I think that's a very good selling point. Okay, so, and they buy into it, they're obviously saying, oh, what's this gonna cost us? I would imagine, right? But okay, so they buy into it. So now we're here at 2011, cloud meets big data. Now we're talking, we're hearing more about hybrid cloud, public cloud and the like. And now, of course, big data. So I want to get to that in a minute. But so you mentioned some of the public cloud apps. You talked about iTunes, maybe an app store. I don't know if you saw Sanjay Murchandani's presentation, he talked about an app store. Is that something you guys are thinking about? Where's the public cloud fit? Yeah, so I absolutely saw some of the, actually I had the opportunity to work with Sanjay a few days ago. I was invited to sit on a panel with him at the CIO forum. There's a lot of work we're doing at the moment around the whole social media area. And the reason for that is that, you know, Curt University has 48,000 students. One of the things that you begin to recognize very quickly is that students have a way of doing things. And what you got to be careful here is about being too prescriptive about the way you want them to change their behaviors. If you look carefully at how they use the whole social experience and the types of tools they use, it's vastly different to perhaps how you may have architected given, you know, a completely different approach. So we're looking at the likes of the Facebooks and the Twitter and the iTunes and you say, well, how do I actually integrate that into our environment to make it useful and practical? I mean, they're going to use those tools anyway. So why redevelop something that's very effective, it's got a high consumption base, and it's actually the way they want to communicate. And we're certainly seeing that with our current cohort, but more importantly, you know, we're architecting an environment for the next cohort of students. The kids that are born in the year 2000, they're kind of 11, 12 years old right now, they'll be at our campuses in five years' time with way different expectations. That's the group we're targeting right now. So it's about blending those social experiences into our business environment to enhance that student experience. So as you move toward the cloud, obviously everybody thinks about security, all the surveys we do talks about, you know, what's on the CIO's mind, the security, security, security, privacy, you in a way have a unique situation as a university. You've got students and we all know students, you know, they want their iPads and mobile devices and they're leading that trend. They're sharing files, music files, some of those might be copyrighted. What role does the university have to play in terms of protecting those students from doing illicit activities? Is that a policy? They used to say, hey, that's, we communicate the guidelines and it's up to them to police and adjudicate or do you actually use technology to police that? Is there an implication on the university's brand if in fact, you know, some breach of that trust occurs? How do you sort all that out?  I guess one of the challenges with policies is and we've all got loads of policies in our organizations, I think you've got to demystify it a little bit and make it plain English that you communicate in a language that appeals to the audience. One of the things that we want to do is obviously encourage the use of the social media type tools.  So at the end of the day, they could be doing inadvertently damage to their own, you know, the value of their own degree. So here's a couple of things that we do. The first thing is that we do proactively monitor the way the internet and the way our IT systems are being used. And there of course is the odd breach of copyright and sometimes it's accidental, sometimes it's careless. And what we do is really take a view that we're going to warn you, we're going to be proactive in this space, but we're going to give you one first and final warning that we've obviously identified that you're doing something which I think is a breach of our appropriate use policy and we'd like you to stop, stop, cease and desist as soon as you can. Now repeated offenders of course are dealt with very, very quickly. And we've got to send that strong message because on the one hand we want to make sure we advocate our intention is to make sure that these tools are available to the audience, but we want you to be responsible on how you use them. Okay, so Peter, you're obviously here at EMC World, your EMC's a supplier to you. What's the relationship like?  Talk a little bit about that. Yeah, it's interesting. I guess, you know, across the university sector in Australia, there's about 40 universities. We have six and a half thousand IT staff. We spend about $1.8 billion. And I think our, I guess our functional overlap for a better way of describing it is probably close to 100%. So vendor management plays a really key role in how our sector is going to be able to de-duplicate and collaborate in the future. One of the things I've always been really pleased with is that the types of partners that I've been working with have always been really important the way we shape our strategy and the types of architectures and types of solutions that we put on the table. I've been involved with EMC for a very long time. And in fact, when I talked recently to some of the public sector account managers in Australia, I was asked the question, you know, why did you choose Vblock? And it was a very straightforward answer. I think in many ways Vblock chose us. And we were one of the early adopters in Australia. The reason why it chose us is because we had the combative for one of the better way of describing it. We had the next switch in. We had a really strong relationship with EMC and we had Cisco as another key partner. And those pieces of technology fitted really well together. So it was a logical migration for us. EMC has always been a very valued and strategic partner of Curtin University. But we're more interested in not about the bits and bytes but about their roadmap and how that value proposition enhances what we do at the university. So how about this big data theme? What does that mean to you? Is it something that you're actively pursuing? Is it on your roadmap? Talk about that a little bit. You know, Curtin University is a very interesting project right now. In Western Australia, we've got a fairly significant project underway called the Square Kilometer Array Project. This is a project around radio astronomy which is looking at capturing cosmic whispers of the universe. Now there are two countries betting for this. But to give you some sort of context in terms of the data sets they're talking about, in the first three months of operation, the amount of data that's going to be collected by this project will eclipse all the data that's ever been collected online in the history of the internet. This is how big this project is. So when you talk about big data, we're talking some seriously big data. I noticed by Joe Tushy's presentation on the opening keynote, he talked about zettabytes and where he saw zettabytes being consumed by 2020. That certainly resonates very strongly with this type of project for us. So we've got to think very differently about how we actually manage that data, how we run our appropriate applications over it, and the algorithms that we need to compress and analyze that information. And how you manage the metadata around that, I would imagine. Absolutely. All right, Peter Nicolatatos, at CIO at Curtin University. Thanks for popping in. We really appreciate having you on. It was a great interview.


You heard of Ashta Vakra? Ashta Vakra means eight types of deformities he had in his body. He was born this way because he was cursed by his own father when he was in his mother's womb. His father was also a very famous sage and a great scholar, acquired many things we don't know how many lifetimes. When the wife is pregnant, it's part of the culture that when a woman is pregnant, she must hear all the scriptures and all the good things and knowledge because she should not hear wrong things, negative things. She should hear nice pleasant music, she must hear good things. People read Bhagavad Gita to her, Vedas to her. Whether she understands or not, it doesn't matter. The child will listen. Slowly its evolution will be affected by what the child listens to. So as a part of it, the father was saying something, explaining something about a scripture. Then suddenly they heard a voice disagreeing with what the father was saying. The child from within the womb said, no, that is not it, you didn't get it right. The father got so incensed by this, an unborn son already negating him. It should happen after he is eighteen years of age. An unborn one already saying you are wrong, it happened when they come to teenage. He got so incensed and cursed him that let him have eight forms, eight types of deformities. So he was born almost an inhuman form, twisted out body. So he was named as Ashtavakra, eight types of deformities. The father was a... what to say? He was in the King's court, in King's Janaka's court. As a scholar, a very accomplished scholar, King Janaka has such a thirst to know, he wants to become enlightened. So he gathered all kinds of sages and scholars and the works anybody who could get anywhere, he brought them into his court and he wants to listen to their teachings. And he himself became accomplished yogi over a period of time, but he is still not realized. Then one day, Ashtavakra's father took this little boy to the court. When the King Janaka saw Ashtavakra, Ashtavakra held the King's eyes. When the King looks at you, you're supposed to look down, which all the scholars and the... everybody do, but this boy just looked at him straight. So Janaka was little taken back. A boy, such a distorted body, he almost has not even a human looking body, but the boy's eyes were such he just stared at the King and said, all these scholars who are sitting here, with all due respect to all of them, nobody, none of these people, including my father, will be able to give you what you're looking for. The King was flabbergasted, this eight- or nine-year-old boy saying this to him and his father wanted to nascify him. This fellow has this habit of saying these things right from the beginning. Then Ashtavakra, at the age of twelve or fourteen, he left the family and went into the forest. One day King Janaka went hunting with his retinue of soldiers in the works. And in the heat of hunt, he got separated from the soldiers and he got lost in this forest. Then he found Ashtavakra sitting in the jungle. So, the King Janaka sitting on his horse looked at him and said, you are here. He said, yes. And Ashtavakra in his own way said, and it's me who has drawn you here from your people, away from all of them. If you're willing to just take instructions from me, I'll get you there, what you're looking for. So, King Janaka wanted to ask, did you see any of my soldiers? Did you see any of the royal retinue around? Because he wants to find them and go back home. So, Ashtavakra asked, what is more important for you?  Or you want to find your way home? Which way is it? This hit the King so much. He said, no, that's the only thing I want. I don't care whether I go back to the palace or not. And he wanted to get down from the horse. He took one leg off the stirrup and he was up. One leg up, one leg here. Ashtavakra said, just stop. Stop right there. When he was just getting off the horse, he asked him to just stop there. Stuck in an uncomfortable position on the horse like this, one leg up, one leg in the stirrup. So, just stay there. This is the first act of Zen, okay? This is some eight thousand years ago. And Janaka realized in that uncomfortable position, he suddenly burst into enlightenment. He got down and bowed down to Ashtavakra and wanted to stay there.  King Janaka said, no way. The palace means nothing to me, I am not going back. So Ashtavakra said, the question is not about whether you want to be a king or not. The people of this nation need an enlightened king, so you must go. So he sent him back.


fragrance lovers. I have another unboxing for you today and this one is from fragrance direct celebrity fragrances stashed up from Sarah Jessica Parker and finally getting to try fantasy by Britney Spears. I have heard so much about these. Not a sample in there.   But here we go. She's going to open up the fantasy bottle first because I've been keen to see this cell phone. I like these. Such a beautiful box. I love the colors. So teeny tiny as well. Really really adorable. Okay then we've got the stash up. Is it just me or is the cell phone around perfume bottles really hard to open? Really really hard. So I'm getting very sophisticated vibes from the packaging on this. Let's get you open. Can't wait to get my greedy little hands on you.  I don't think the bottle is anything to write home about. So these are celebrity fragrances that I bought because I was watching other YouTubers mainly notes from Josephine and she was talking about some underrated celebrity fragrances and I think she mentioned one of the Britney Spears is one. I'm not sure I bought the correct one but I do like the bottle. It's so cute. It's really so adorable and it's pink and just from the design I'm expecting this to be a fun, fun perfume. Right okay. I'm not getting anything from the bottle. There you go. It's very bubble gum. It's like a bubble gum shampoo but some depth to it with a little bit of... what is that vanilla that I'm getting? I guess vanilla is patchouli. But not that actually.  We'll have to see how it goes on with my body chemistry but so far so good but I do like the bottle. I think that the bottle is a great addition to the collection and so far the smell stands out quite well for me. Okay let's try Sarah Jessica Parker stash up. So this one was mentioned in one of Jeremy Fragrance's videos. I can't remember which one it is and it was mentioned in several other videos as well so that I'll try it. I don't like the bottle. I don't like the design.  Let's see if the juice is any good. Okay. No. Yep. No. Muscles to open this. All right. Starr anise straight away but let's see what it sprays like. Oh I like the atomizer. Very easy to control. That felt very good. I could easily control how much I wanted to put on it and it wasn't jerky or jumpy. It's like a warm, warm, spicy. That's it. I'm getting a little sense of spiciness. It's not my favorite. It's yet another blind buy which is a habit I need to stop now. This is the third item that I've done a blind buy on and yeah. My initial impression is that I didn't quite enjoy it but I'm gonna give it a chance. I will try it on my skin and I will report back to you. Love the fragrance people. How I get on with it. Though my initial is a little bit. But this one. Oh yes. Bubblegum pop. So that was a Britney Spears fantasy. I think that this is the original fantasy. I think that there's a midnight fantasy as well which I'm keen to try out at some point once I've saved up some money to do another epic perfume shopping but there we go. Stasher by Sarah Jessica Parker. Not quite yet but we're gonna go on a second date and the third date and see how we get on. This one definitely liked our first encounter and we're definitely gonna be doing a bit more. Thank you so much for watching. Please subscribe and I'll see you next time with another lovely perfume.


Hi, welcome back to Think Tech. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Trump week, one of our most important shows in these times. And today we have a full house. We have Tim Appichella. We have Winston Welsh. And we have Stephanie, Stephanie, Stephanie, Stephanie, Stephanie, Talton. And they're all hosts in Think Tech. And we're all going to collaborate and cooperate on trying to figure out what Trump did this week. And it wasn't easy, but it was all around the coronavirus. Tim, let's start with you. What are your thoughts about his performance this week? Well, Donald Trump has finally made the transformation from Nair of the CV-19 virus to a believer. And unfortunately it took way too long for him to get to that position. And I don't think he really got to that position on his own. I think he was prompted and prodded by Fox TV station, specifically Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson made a very, very definitive proclamation about the seriousness of CV-19 virus. And I think other people have been working on him, specifically Dr. Fucci. And the bottom line is he's here now. I mean, serious. And I think that's good for our nation. Yes, Stephanie, do you agree? Do you think Trump has behaved himself properly? Is he good for the country? What he's been doing lately? I think that he, I certainly agree with Tim's point. I think that he is coming around way too slowly, but he's being, I think, coached to address this in a presidential manner. I think he's doing a lot better with his, with reading off of his prompter and in the kinds of statements that he's making. However, I did hear that people are wishing that he would be okay to step back and let the experts and the scientists and the researchers and the doctors take on the major responsibility of communicating to the public. So hopefully he'll feel he can do that and let Vice President Pence step up there and be the MC kind of person. So we'll see if any of that statement from the, from, I think it was on NPR or the radio someplace. Maybe he'll hear that. Maybe he'll do it. Maybe not. It would be better if he did. Yeah, Winston, you know, I think these guys are being soft on him.  How do you feel about it? Well, I think all of those are true. He has been very late to just recognizing this as something where, you know, even on the, I think it was the sixth, he says he's not concerned at all about the virus on the seventh, I'm sorry, down in Mar-a-Lago and that it could be maybe just washed right through. I think since our last meeting a week ago, you know, there was the news conference on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, the markets continue to tank because they realize that the response from the federal government has been a day late and a dollar short.  People do want to rally around a leader. They want to see him or her perform to the best of his or her ability. And sometimes that may be stepping aside, analyzing, you're out of your depth here or breadth. And there are people that can step up. But with our, you know, the government being eviscerated at this level, they're really having to put things together. Fortunately, we're seeing that he does seem to recognize the seriousness of that. I think a, as Tim said, that Tucker Carlson got his ear as well as a report from England showing the what's going to happen if nothing is done. So all of this together, I think he just realized, wow. But that said, his approval ratings are up just from Newsweek, which I was reading this morning. So the masses are saying, Hey, you're doing a great job. And, you know, we want success out of this. There is zero question about that. So how we best support this man who's in office is in the moment, I guess.  You know, what happened? What happened to the testing? See a lot of testing around the country? I don't see a lot of testing around the country. It's peanuts. We're way behind, you know, Korea, for example, if we have drive drive drive in testing, it's only in one or two places in the country, the test kits are not here yet. Of course, the respirators are critical for people who are dying. And he's not providing respirators. He's telling the states they have to, you know, somehow find them and pay for them themselves. You know, he's, he's, he's hoaxing us. If you want to looking for a hoax here, it's him. That's my opinion. But Tim, what do you think about is the specific programs that he's talking about? And what do you think about the possibility, the fact and the possibility that he will achieve those programs? Well, in programs, let's talk about the packages in Congress. Just to do a little history, Donald Trump suggested that 2.5 billion would be enough money to care, take care of the problems. Immediately Chuck Schumer said, I don't think so. It's going to be much, much more than that. So fortunately, Chuck Schumer worked with the Republicans and they passed the 8.3 billion dollar package, which now I believe the Senate as of this morning or this afternoon has approved that package. It now goes to Donald Trump for signature. That package is a drop in the bucket, which is going to be required in combat this virus. It does have some provisions for relief for the airlines. It does have some provisions for relief to the those who have. I'm not clear whether or not it has provisions for sick leave. That was a hotly contested provision of that bill. I think if it's not in the House bill, Senate bill, but I'll tell you one thing that was a complete waste of time and that's why the market sunk is the concept of having payroll tax cuts. It doesn't help anyone who's been laid off. It doesn't help anyone that hasn't paid their mortgage or has to pay their landlord. This is completely useless and certainly has nothing to do to help those who are on earn their wages by tips and commissions. Let's work on programs that are going to aid the package for Americans and I guarantee you the stock market will stop bleeding. But if all the package elements are designed to help businesses and ignore the bottom line of what's causing this virus and those measures to stop it, then we'll continue to see the Dow fall. The Dow is at 19-8 right now. It's going to go lower. Oh, bad news. Yeah, I mean sometimes he says something and the Dow goes up, but mostly it goes down dramatically. So, Stephanie, is he putting too much emphasis on raising the stock market or preserving the stock market and helping big business as opposed to helping save lives?  Well, I just don't hear anything about that. From him, nor does he have the expertise for the stock market or any of those financial issues. But I do agree that he's listening. He is listening to other people and that's why we're getting some really good news here. I think the mercy and the other ship, the comfort, getting those out to solve a little bit of our hospital shortage of beds is encouraging that he is doing that. So, which is evidence that he's listening, because mostly he doesn't really have that depth of knowledge about the government and what are all of these fabulous resources that we have to bring to this crisis in which he didn't bring or even know about to begin with. Now, he's learning. However, I agree with Jay very much that this is a hoax. Again, that there's this hoaxness to it, if that's a word, because even with regard to the payroll tax, I'm just so sensitive to his predationary, his predator instincts, because that is another first step. It could be a first step in that the disaster fantasy is, of course, to take the payroll tax out is to have people stop paying their social security contribution. And what is the point of that? And also, it may be a lever for or set up a track here of experience with relieving people of that to getting at reductions in the social security benefit. So, I mean, that is just a hugely threatening move is to fiddle with that money. And I certainly agree with Tim that exactly all of those things he said about what it can and cannot do it. Absolutely correct. Winston and Winston, although they're late, you know, it's taken a long time for Congress to get its act together, even after it was clear that Trump was taking Mnuchin's advice and all that. We won't see any money on this for at least a couple of weeks. So far, it's really all talk. But let me ask you, you know, is this been fast enough? Have we seen political will here? Have we seen the government getting together? Have we seen Trump actually leading Congress? And I suppose I like your thoughts on on how it would work because they're bandying about trillions of dollars. Do we have that kind of money? We already ran into a big deficit. The Republicans have been spending, you know, gazoos of money now more. Another trillion here and there.  After a while, it makes for real money. Didn't you say that? Well, you know, this presidency has been an unmitigated disaster for our nation. All of it. But what I'm seeing signs and hope right now is that there are some experts stepping up, that there's governors, that there's school boards, that there's companies. Everybody else is saying we're not seeing the leadership, so we're going to take it ourselves. We're going to do what we need to do to protect our family, our workers, our states. And then at the federal level, I think we are seeing a concerted effort. I think he's not leading Congress so much as Nancy Pelosi said, this is what we need to be said to the Republicans from what I understand. You guys need to get behind this. Stock market tanking. Now it's lost all of the gains since he became President. He's really looking at legacy issues. I don't even know if the idea of re-election is sparked in his brain, but it does feel to me really for the first time that he is talking about all Americans in this. I don't feel like it's just the people that voted for him or his fans. I feel like there is an all Americans thing and maybe it's just that he doesn't want literally millions of people to die on his watch in a catastrophe that may have been much more avoidable. But that seems to be my perception of it. You know, again we all hope for that he has the wisdom to put the right people in place to make those decisions and that he can step up to the moment. He has not shown this for his whole presidency but now may be his time that he can say, look maybe I haven't been hitting it right with the whole country but now's that opportunity and I do hope for that. The most rational cool voice has been Mnuchin, not him. He can't even read a teleprompter script but let me go to that. It's a good segue because I always feel that what Trump says and what Trump does may not be the same thing.  I mean this is the week if you will recall that he's been leaking the notion that he's going to pardon Michael Flynn which is something you know really awful, awful. Flynn pleaded guilty. He's going to pardon him. So doesn't that suggest that it's business as usual for Trump? Well Jay I'd like to take that on. Yeah. Yeah I mean remember there's things that are seen and unseen and for the last three years of his presidency we've always been talking about the shiny object. Well we don't need a shiny object any longer. It's called coronavirus 19 but he's still doing things under you know out of sight that we don't even have time or want to pay attention to. We've got a national crisis. We have a worldwide pandemic, a worldwide crisis. So it's amazing to me that these these headlines are even making its way to the papers. You should not even be involved in such discussions. But getting back to Winston's comment about legacy just yesterday he's going he's trying to preserve his reputation and he's deflect responsibility. Now remember he said he's going to give himself a perfect 10 on the way this is being handled. Well we all think that's not the case I'm sure of it. But he recently just said no one could see this coming. Well I just heard an interview from Chris Liu who is the Obama cabinet secretary and he said specifically he was in a meeting with Trump administration folks and they did what is called a tabletop exercise for disaster preparedness. And in that exercise they covered at least two things. One is there's a massive hurricane that hit the United States and two is a massive pandemic virus. So they trained, they talked about it, they planned for it. That's before he really even stepped into the office. They were they were planning for these things. So for Donald Trump to say no one still is coming that is patently false statement. Well while I have you and what about that extraordinary statement he made that he didn't know that the epidemic team had been disbanded. He didn't know that CDC had the budget of CDC had been seriously cut. I find that extraordinary and he turned to somebody else. That really happened was that you wasn't me? No. What is that? Trump as usual? February 26th he was quoted to say yeah we laid off those people because I like to save money and we can get we can get them back together. It's almost like you know animal house. We can get the band back together again. And the bottom line is he fired him. He wanted to save budget. Okay I get it but does he not realize that you know these tabletop exercises were performed and a coronavirus or something like it was a very real possibility. So he laid off the team. Yeah and he gave us a whole song and dance about it wasn't him. Stephanie you talked about the Defense Reduction Act and I think that's another one of those things that he's doing behind his back. Can you talk about that for a minute? Yes I think that these points about his repertoire are really important. I mean in these things that we're citing that he's saying are that are self-serving. This is just thematic throughout all of his statements. And another thing that is thematic or important to watch are some hints that he gives about what's going on in the backdrop. And so one of those that may be in in play right now has to do with not only did he as you know invoke the Stafford Act which brought the FEMA operations and activation to the highest level level one and this is good. And he also invoked what is called the Defense Reduction Act and this was a 50s law that came out of the Korea War experience and it has been invoked numerous times. But one of the concerns about him mentioning that and he just mentioned it in passing that he was invoking that and there was no explanation or no description or no sign of any of his intentions for what to do with those additional powers or enhanced expanded powers that are allotted to the executive through that power through that act. So that is worrisome because he has this crisis situation and he's not thinking as you want to point out that we're not about unity and coming together and serving the people and saving the people's lives which are going to be downed on him if they're not saved presumably, even though he's very Teflon I don't know how you're going to get out from under that we've already got 106 deaths in the U.S. from this virus. But what is he going to do with the Defense Reduction Act powers that he now has invoked and my concern, my disaster fantasy is that we're going to move towards a situation of hopefully not drastic laws that are going to keep us sequestered or are in place, protecting in place but maybe reconsidering the 2020 presidential election and I just think that this is an important warning that we need to listen and we need to think about what are these key notes that are popping up when he speaks off script and what is the background on that what is going on where are the questions from the press about that what is it and what are you going to do with the national the Defense Reduction Act please Yeah, and I remember a situation where the where I was at the PBS reporter asked them why he terminated the you know the infection team and he said that's a nasty question I love that is it Tim and I predicted this months ago that in the period between the his exoneration quotes and the election that he was going to attack the press we're going to see more and more of that but you know actually I've saved my favorite question for you Winston my favorite question of the week is what is going on with China so you know he dumps on them he says it's all their fault he locks them out of the United States he makes statements to evoke all kinds of racist reaction around the country okay and then they in return blame the United States but now he is trying to defend against that that claim and it's sort of the perfect storm what do you make of that how and I guess the most important thing is all of this considered how are his diplomatic relations doing with China and with Europe it seems to me that this is a time as Stephanie says to come together in fact that diplomatic relations are not coming together at all well it's not helpful it's not helpful from Donald Trump or from the Chinese to take the bait I think all nations around the world realize this is an aberration in in American history and American policy and they've just been waiting it out until we get someone who's responsible and and doesn't say just inflammatory things like that we need international cooperation now we don't need the Chinese kicking out our reporters are them kicking out ours people can well I want to say people can see fake news when they see it but maybe they can't however when you have I don't know if the report was true about trying to buy this vaccine from Germany and that's oh yeah but this is ridiculous this is vaccine is for people and when you I think the more important thing is that when you have a president with over 16,000 documented unlies lies are untruths or deceptions and then many of them about even this virus if you just go back a couple of months there's a credibility thing here so that when something is said we have to second guess and his own administration have to come on and do just major cleanup work and say actually maybe the entire opposite is true so whether it's with China or Europe or the American public he needs to stand aside and just introduce the people and say this is the expert on the topic she is going to tell you what to do he's going to tell you what steps you might take and that sort of thing and let other people take over and that's probably the most presidential thing that he can do right now is realize he doesn't have the answers and he just needs to be a reassuring figure at this point as much as he possibly can be when with the nation so divided but you know if he gets up there and says folks I'm out of my he's not going to say he's out of its depth but here is Dr. So-and-so here's Director So-and-so and they are looking out for all of our best interests that would do a lot of way to kind of calmer pair of sympathetic nervous systems while the stock market continues to I hope so you know I think the stakes are so high in terms of lives you know the statisticians the mathematicians are projecting huge numbers of American deaths like a million people are at risk of losing their life in this thing I don't know if he takes that seriously I don't know if he's capable of doing you know what we hope so Tim we have enough time to go around Robin and give final thoughts and projections if you will expectations for the next week here on Trump week what are your thoughts my thoughts are I want to agree wholeheartedly with what Winston said if we can get him out of the picture and let the experts take over I guarantee you that will come at least the financial what but when he says one thing and he means another and he miscategorizes the truth that is not helpful for the American public to hear nor the financial markets so if they could just get him to be mum just for once in the three years of presidency things and the way we proceed on this coronavirus is going to go a whole lot better all right Tim Apachele Stephanie Stephanie Dalton what have you got for us as a sort of closing thought and a projection for next week well I have a rather dismal thought based on news I've heard lately coming in from international sources and that is the special protection that we thought had been given by the virus to the children is not actually playing out that way and that now that there's more data that they're able to see that that's not the case and there may be of vulnerability and jeopardy for youngsters to be given the virus as much as our our capuna and our elderly folk are eligible for so I'm very concerned about that we do have the 109 deaths right now but they're not they don't include any children so I think that if we go forward and this this news starts to come in and actually affects our population we we are really going to have some dreadful work to do it's going to be time you know you mentioned you mentioned Winston about the the deal that Trump allegedly tried to cut with the German company called CureVac where the word is that he try here as administration tried to buy exclusive rights to the vaccine that that was promising they have two vaccine candidates that they're ready to do trials on and it's interesting about that is two two things he was going to pay a billion dollars to them and of course the second thing is he wanted exclusive to the united states that is no other country and possibly he saw it as a profit center which is a pretty ugly concept in these times and that the Germans you know you know said no rejected that entirely and made it public but my question to you is what what what are your thoughts about these other strange things that are happening will they continue to happen I mean if Trump took Tim's advice and just shut his mouth and stopped with the tweeting would that solve the problem or there's so many other problems threads if you will that are going on with this administration that it could never be clear and clean or as we hope well you know there's a great article in salon by historian David Perry and he says after Trump will need a truth and reconciliation commission to begin healing from the harm done to the country by the Trump administration's lies and system abuses of rule of law not to mention its criminality corruption and other risks all static values such a commission would also be a necessary first documenting the Trump regime's crimes on assault on truth reality in America's collective memory including corruption manipulation of the judicial system his media messaging and psychological effects that Trump and his authoritarian regime have on the American people that is not to say that Trump is not in any event read the article at salon I think it hits to the core that this is even before this whole coronavirus has hit I'm really concerned about as we go forward as Stephanie said what are we looking at with these laws are we going to have some emergency powers act that's invoked that says we can't have an election this year it's not going to be free and fair because not enough of you will become to the polls or we don't have a mail by voting or whatever it will be and therefore I'm suspending elections it could very easily happen or Congress could I don't know what could happen in that but or he could just tell his folks you know it's not going to be fair I'm not recognizing the results of it there's a lot of things that could happen hopefully none of that will happen he will realize this was this was a fun four years and I'm done and let someone else take over I don't think that's his instinct so I do have a lot of concerns but echoing what Tim said if he can just step aside right now that would be the best for the nation just stepping to the side and introducing people he's not going to give up he's a fighter but hopefully his best self-preservation instincts will take over which would include taking care of the nation as best as possible right now and at this point we just have to this is what we got so we have to step up in our every way that we can city, states, organizationally and personally and and look out for each other yeah amen to that I only want to add that after some of our other shows where we titled it something about is this is this a hoax on YouTube we had an inordinate number of comments from people saying yes the coronavirus is a hoax and that leads to an article that I saw recently how a lot of Trump supporters a lot of Republicans still feel that there's nothing to worry about and they remember Trump's early remarks but not his current position on the seriousness of the the pandemic so that has to change for us to go forward in any you know robust way I think and hopefully we'll see it change all right you guys look forward to next week next week on Trumpy thank you all thank you Tim thank you Winston thank you Stephanie great show Aloha and wash your hands


Hello everyone, I'm Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I'm going to demonstrate a scenario related to record trigger flow. Let's understand the requirement of the scenario first. So in this scenario, I'm going to compare fast field update with actions and related record option. So if I go to the developer console, sorry, if I go to the developer edition org and click on new flow and select record trigger flow and click on create. So here at the bottom, you can see we have two options to optimize the flow for fast field updates and actions and related record. So the difference is, for example, if I'm creating any account record and on the creation of that account record, if I want to modify some values of that account record only, then I can choose this fast field update because I need to focus on that record through which this flow is triggered only. If you want to focus on actions and related record, then you can choose this option, right? So here I'm choosing account, then trigger the flow when a record is created, and then I'm choosing fast field update and I'm clicking on done. So if I click on plus, so here you can see we have very less elements available. So update triggering record, then assignment, decision, loop, collection sort and collection filter, then update record or get record, right? Now, if I change this to actions and related records and click on done, so you will see more elements like send email alert, actions of flow, these logical elements are same, and in data you can see we have create and delete record elements as well, right? So this way, I hope like on element point of view, you understood the difference. Now with the help of an example, we will see the differences between fast field update and actions and related record. So if you want to create any account record from the UI and if on that account record, industry is media, so then you want to set rating as hot. So this type of requirement you can do with the help of fast field update because you just need to update the record through which record trigger flow will be triggered, right? You don't need to perform any actions, you don't need to do anything with a related record. So in this kind of scenario, you can go with fast field update. So here I'm choosing fast field update, clicking on done, right? So if I click on plus, so from here I can choose update triggering record. So labeling it as update account, if you want to set the filter condition you can, right? So here I'm setting the condition like if industry is equals to media, then rating should be hot and done. Also you can read this because this flow runs before a record is saved, you can only update the record that triggered the flow to run, to update other records, configure the trigger to run the flow after the record is saved, that is actions and related record. So I'm just clicking on done. So here you can see update record element is available, right? So now I can save it. So with this name, I'm saving this flow and I'm going to activate it. Now moving to accounts, so here I'm going to create account records. So here we have industry field and I am selecting media and rating you can see is done. So I'm clicking on save, moving to details and here you can see rating is equals to hot. If I create one more, this time I'm not selecting industry or maybe if I select agriculture and click on save and if I go to details, you can see rating is blank because at the time of update, we set the condition if industry is equals to media then only rating will be hot. So these kinds of scenarios you can implement with the help of fast field updates, right? Next requirement is actions and related records. So when to use it? So upon creation of account, create a related case automatically. So if this kind of requirement you have like you are creating account and you want a related case should be created automatically. So now you can choose actions and related records, click on done. So I'm just deleting this element now and here you can see like more elements are available and create record is also available. So I'm just selecting it, create case. We need to create one case and through separate resources and literal values. From here I'm selecting case. Now we need to see like which fields are required on case. So if I go to case, try to create new case and click on save. So you can see case origin and case status. These two are required. So here I need to select case origin. So I selected phone and then status. I selected new. And if I want to link this case, newly created case record with the account. So I need to populate account ID lookup with the account ID. So from here I can select record.id. So whenever any account record is being created, so that account records, all the fields will be available in this global variable that is dollar record. Through that you can access that value and you can assign that into account ID. So I'm just clicking on done, right? So this way this create case or create record element is available here. Now I'm just clicking on save as saving it as a new version and clicking on save and activate. Now if I go and try to create an account, right? So I'm not putting any other value and I'm clicking on save. So here you can see a related case is created. If I open this case, so you can see here this is linked with the account. Status is new, priorities by default, medium, case, or reason is phone. So the fields which we set are available here. So this way if you want to do something on the related record, so you can choose actions and related record.  So these actions are also available.


Hello everyone, I don't know if it's working. Yeah, it's working now so I Am deduce and my real name is Andrea Thank you so much for for attending this presentation. The presentation is about my journey with Chris Marcello I will talk about how this tool changed the way how I work and it changed all my process and all my career for the best So this was all done in Blender Obviously, I don't know why I have to tell that Who will come here and say I did this is a max and free this is your max and I have I'm going to talk Yeah, it's Blender. Okay. You already know it. So it's all done with Chris Marcello Blender This is the art that I did before before a new Blender. I did two drawings on a digital art and I wanted to show this because there is a parallel between The art that I did before and the art that I start to do once I started using Blender the thing is Before Blender, I was drawing on my spare time. I was a full-time web developer and I was drawing at night and I had two main themes in my drawings. I loved science fiction but I love to put some comedy in my artworks and I wanted to tell stories, but it was I was beginning. So I just got inspiration from my real life So the big adventures in my life This is like one of the most Exciting adventures that happened to me at that time So so it was also like a self therapy. I have to admit But the thing is that I'm showing this to you because these two different artworks I realized that I like so many things and I start to try to merge all these things To try to find my style. So I have so many slides I I don't know why I put so many slides, but I go fast on this first chapter This is the result of my search like trying to mix this and this it ended up with this kind of artwork This is what I've done on to the digital art before Blender if you look at this closely You see that there is not Really something new. It's a little piece little pieces of Manga's Some French comics some pop art, but then if you look at the big pictures it looks a bit new because it's a merge of Different things and I also put my own Interpretations of the different things and that makes it quite different and This is this is why my journey before with pencil then I discovered the software Blender and then with pencil tool And I thought oh You can put drawings on the plane and animate it put it in a 3d space That's interesting that also it's just it's not just Simple drawings you can move the layers and put them in different axis Rotation and you can deform them and in the end you have something that if you look closely at the details It's not really new. It's Sailshading is drawing is 3d, but the whole thing all these things together plus your own Interpretations of all these things it makes something that You don't expect so I didn't expect that I would do this kind of artwork Before I used Blender so I tried I started to apply this and The interesting thing is that It's like these tools already existed before we call this 2.5d It's putting 2d drawings in a 3d world But the difference is now is that it's all in one software and the fact that it's so easy to do that you can go to extreme Extreme artworks with this style. So it's something that I could have never done with other softwares and in the end This kind of artwork ended up airing on adult swim in in the US this was a commission that I made for them and If you look at the artwork, it looks like nothing. It looks completely messy But then you play it from the right camera angle and you have some slight You can see parallax effects, but here is not parallax. It's real 3d And the fact is doing this on other software will have never been possible It would be an item air to try to place all the pieces because you see the the arm of the guy here It is completely at a different place the girl behind is a different place It's impossible to to try to to do do this without having the real-time feedback so this is Like where Christmas see led me I started alone in my room I did all this alone by myself and it it got Seen by some people a professional people and it it added on TV and I continued exploring this This tool I added 3d elements at I mixed drawing on top of 3d But you know you can draw on top of surfaces of meshes with with Brazil and this is the Thing that I'm doing now But but now that I have learned all that I try to remember What why am I doing all this? What is the purpose the things that I want to do? Yeah, I want to tell stories and I want to make a good scenes And cinematic scenes because watching movies is my favorite thing If you saw my other conferences on that I did in parallel other places I mentioned this this topic on every talk that I do. It's it's Poker also, so I'm sorry if you already saw it me talking about it, but I like to mention it every time Like 2d animation is still my favorite thing. I like technology. I like 3d. I like the for new tools but today It's it's really the the thing about today is that it cannot get old Like if you watch poker or so Movies like this everything that you see in the frame is an artistic choice if it puts one just one line for the for the silhouettes the people have Two or three shades not not more for the shadows and lights and it's not because of a technical limitation They could have done more but it could it would have it would have taken more time But they chose to do it and the thing is when you have a 3d software the The danger is that when you're like too much on the technology you use it Thinking that it's good, but it can get old really fast for example, if you create an artwork in 3d without putting any 3d any art direction in it You just use the software as it is for example you you buy a plugin that generates a tornado And you make your whole movie about this tornado and it's awesome Then in five years someone will come to you and say hey, you know, I remade your movies and I made it better And you ask him how do you do that? Well, I just added more polygons. I updated the software's plugin so your movie gets old just because of the update of the software But if you put art direction in it You can try to enhance this this art direction, but it won't be better. We just be different So for example, someone can come to you and say hey, I remade Boca Russell. I made it better How did you do that? Well, I added more lines So it's it's not better. It's it's just a different movie by the way, I did the I did myself. I made a copy paste of the backgrounds Don't mind so 2d is still my favorite thing, but what I like about 3d and softwares like Blender Picture is completely unrelated. It's it's I didn't have time for this slide, but It's a scan of my house that I rendered again. I don't know why I scanned my house and I rendered it so The in 3d you can make a whole movie and once the movie is done You can go back and edit little things. You can add textures to the cloths. You can change the backgrounds You can still learn while you do the movie and with all your knowledge You can go back to the past and redo these things in today. It's really hard to do but now because of softwares like this like responsive you You can you can at least have something in between which means that it's 3d But there are drawings. There are some things that you cannot completely redo But at least if you change the camera angles of some stuff you can still fix it So you and you can also add some pure 2d elements in a 3d world That's what I like about at Christmas Hill and you can do also the opposite. I started to to experiment to do Full 2d drawings, but with 3d elements on it. So in this case I Won't be able to edit the character anymore But at least I can edit the glasses once the movie is done So it's a balance as you can find it and then and that's makes this tool super great so And I know I think that happens when I started using Christmas Hill that there are some things that I didn't expect that happened So this is me filming my little puppet. I do some paper and stop motion animations In the background it's Blender playing in real time. I didn't want to bother doing the green screen I just put a screen there. I played it's a viewport of Blender Actually, I forgot to and check the overlays. You see the cameras there, but it's playing and The interesting thing in Blender is that I can work like I work in the real world Like the the Blender viewport for me is like a real space if I want to add something there I just add it there. I don't I don't do do it later like I will do it later on another software It's you need for example. I wanted to do a Tilt shift effect on this the tilt shift is when you blur some part of a drawing to make to fake Depth of field so to do the mask for the For the blur, I just took the Christmas Hill brush and I drew the lines for the mask So the mask is just there at the same place I separated it in the compositor and in the end I have The the mask on the blur at the right place So if I wanted I could animate it this this blurry effect because it's it's the drawing that is playing at the same time So now on each of my artworks, I do everything in camera. For example here. I have some Length flares. So if you know that flares they they appear on the lens of your camera they are supposed to be on on front of everything and They have to be stuck on the camera, but they have they need to be around the light source So I did that literally that on Blender. I've put the lens flares with some rigs With some constraints so each one when the camera moves the lens flares moves with it But they stayed in the axis of the of the Light source so all my contents that are doing Blender everything is there on the place I don't go anywhere else And in the end in the end of the animation there are so many things happening, but I cannot list everything here I have just another example for example this in this video. I wanted it to end with Fade to black so how you will you do a fade to black in the real world? Well you would draw Lines in front of the camera and it just makes the fading So it's it's like an obsession for me most of my artworks. It's all One single thing render from Blender like I just press render and I wait and I deliver the fight to the client Everything the the lens effects the even some grains. We don't see it but there are some grains appearing in front of the camera and There are some dust and I couldn't find a good dust texture So I just use the ducks dust manually on the timeline on a grease muscle object for floating in front of the camera and and now so So now now I have my own process this ended up with commissions for Google or for for for brands and for For pens in YouTube and all around the world So it couldn't and I couldn't have done it with another software Now I am I still have some experimentations that I do at home. I There is the puppet animation that I haven't explored yet. I Wanted to do paper animations to Puppet animation, but the thing with this style is that it forces you to have the arm of your Character either a robot arm or a spaghetti arm, you know Because when you fold it the the computer cannot guess how the the cloth are supposed to be folded on a drawing So I thought maybe if I use Multiple drawings and switch between the drawings at the right time depending on the angle. I could mix Traditional animation with pet animation, but this requires so much work first I used the time offset modifier and I said if you are at the angle of over five degrees Then go to frame one or else you go to frame zero and frame zero means there is nothing So I just hide it, but then I thought well, but no my timeline is completely Unusable I want to have the timeline playing so I really did the same thing with different arms But this time I made it animated So the timeline is playing at the bottom and at the same time you have all these arms Switching on and off depending on the angle. It's it's a lot of work I wanted I wanted to make an add-on with it But imagine so here you see you can show for example an animated tattoo on the arm and you you press play and And you have your animation playing at the bottom and the puppet animation is playing at the same time But this is impossible to maintain like I thought if I wanted to send this to To someone else if they wanted to update the character They would have to upload the images with the right naming and I would have to try to make a automation I left it in my In my my folders if their developers who are interested in this we can talk I see the blender team here So so I would try to harass them But the thing is actually in the end I always like I think like Many people here when you see a software like blender you want to put your you want to put your Your idea say could you implement this and this and this and I realized at some point that the tool is already great as it is so I left this project on hold and I went back to drawing and Actually dressed without the current drawing tools just placing Wait, wait, this one is not playing just placing the your Christmas ill objects On the freely space and just moving at the right speed It is really enough. You have discovered tools that have to create interpolations and this this animation ended in It ended in stores in the US in the Crocs shoe store And this this of animation Well, if we have veteran animators here They want to be impressed by what I'm going to say, but for me. It's a big step. I did this whole animation in two days It's it's I started the sketch on my sketch the draft on my sketchbook on a Sunday afternoon Because the client wanted so many modifications and I said, you know what we'll start from scratch It was two days before the deadline. It was right. It does For like like a big big big things in Play so I did this two days before the deadline and it I and I could finish everything just because now I am I know the tools and There are so many modifiers that can help you to add extra motions Noise effects the depth with the mask everything was done all with with pencil So now well Of this light this was about social media. I mentioned it on on my on my presentation Depending on what at what time you saw it But I realized that there are so many slides in my presentation, but I can talk to this to you later I'm trained and the idea is to tell people update your social media It's it's nice to have a community You can also have your community of your own like we have the blender community and The community helps me a lot in my creations and The awesome thing with blender. It's awesome. It is scary at the same time This is me sculpting things with blender easy playing in real time at the background like now I realized that everything is possible and You have no excuses now You cannot say oh, I can't have money. I don't you just need your computer Anyone has a computer now so anyone can do anything here. Thanks. Thanks so much to to to the the Blender developers In my case, maybe the only things that can stop me. Maybe he's procrastinating on watching series But it's it's also part of the job. Yeah, I have to watch our kind I have to I have to stay update to what is going on so so I But this is it it all started on on my desk and now it's big projects going to places I've never expected So I'm super happy with it. It started I remember it started when I was on holiday and I saw the trailer of the hero movie And it was a pretty presentation by Daniel Martinez They say that we are going to add to to the animation in our software Thank you for the idea and I know that the same way has as as people Hacked Blender to do things that even the developers did not expect I think that people will do the same with with pencil like we just do a 2d software And I think people are going to hack it and do an amazing thing. So thank you so much for watching the presentation and I'll be around if we have some questions


Hey guys, it's TaneadAK, the foot account, and welcome back to the channel. It is Wednesday, so that means we're going to be looking ahead to tonight and into Thursday for some Thursday flipping investments on the channel because another week in the rewards time frame is upon us, and we have some interesting things to talk about with new objectives that came out yesterday. Are they going to impact the market rise that we see after the week in the rewards periods? Do I think people are going to be buying cards to play Weekend League this weekend? While we know Team of the Year is still upcoming, we don't have an actual date in stone yet. We don't actually know it yet, so we're still thinking it might be a week and a half to two weeks away. So even though we've had a nice little bit of a sell-off in this past week, as people know we're getting closer until Team of the Year, what happens this week, especially with these extra player picks that they have put out? So I'm going to put kind of this. I don't know if this really affects how I think the market's going to rise that much, to be completely honest with you, because in my opinion, it all depends around Team of the Week 16, which comes out today. Now, Team of the Week 16, I'm going to look at a couple of predictions because the way that it's looking, it's not looking too good, right? And these player pick plus, like the extra player picks we'll be getting from Weekend League this coming weekend will be only Team of the Week 16 players, nothing else, right? Not like Team of the Week 1 through 16, just from Team of the Week 16. Now, this is a prediction from Foothead. We've got Royce, Griezmann, DePie, and those are kind of like the top three guys in this prediction. And if we take a look at Footbin's prediction as well, it's basically the same thing. They've got a Griezmann, they have a Kailor Navas and theirs, DePie and Royce. So unless EA does something to juice the Team of the Week this week, I really feel like these extra player picks, yes, people are going to play Weekend League and they might get one, two, or three extra to get that 17-win gold two margin to get the extra two player picks. But if I'm being completely honest, what cards do I want from an extra player pick from the Team of the Week? Now, I guess you could say, hey, it's an extra player pick that I could get to put in a Footchamps red upgrade or whatever, I totally get that. I'm just saying that unless EA, if EA is gonna put out an objective like this, then they better boost the Team of the Week, right? I know we had Royce in predictions. I thought we might see a Sancho. I think actually Sancho is even kind of being, not panic sold, but his price has dropped today on the game because I think people are expecting him to get an inform after having what I thought was the man of the match performance on the game this weekend. I mean, this card has been down to like 220,000 coins, even in the like two teams today. I bought one at 209 on a snipe and sold it right around 230. But if Royce gets in instead of Sancho, you might see this card pop up in price just a little bit. And again, I mentioned it too, if they really wanna go all out with this Team of the Week, they could put in Sancho and Royce or Sancho and Holland because of course, Holland had a goal in that game as well. He might have had an assist too. But let's talk about the market. How is the market gonna react this week? Now, I think there will be a little bit of extra demand for the Weekend League rise and for people to go out and buy some cards for their teams because of those extra player picks. There's gonna be a little bit. Even if the Team of the Week is bad, some people are gonna still say it and say, sit there and say, hey, that's still extra picks that I can get. I'm gonna play a Weekend League this weekend and maybe get a little bit better of a squad so that I can try to get a little bit better of a finish possibly. But just like we were looking at in the weeks before or the weeks leading up to when we thought Team of the Year was actually going to be, a lot of stuff that I like this week is in the lower tier range. Some gold cards I like this week, we'll talk about those in a second as well. But I like a lot of the lower tier, under 200,000 coin cards. This Bomba Inform is one card that I watch fluctuate around a lot today. Now, you have to be careful. It's the 84 Inform, not the lower one. But this Bomba Inform's 76K for this guy. He bounces back and forth between mid-70s and 80K, basically at 80,000 coins. We only have one page here, so I'm gonna snipe this Bomba. I'm not really buying cards yet. I might buy this for a flip and I'm starting to stock a few of those low-rated cards on my transfer list. But Wednesdays in the past couple of weeks have been big days on FIFA. So we'll talk about like buy time here in a second. But let's continue talking about some of these players. I like Informs, like this Bomba. He's been fluctuating around a lot. We go back over to Footbin. I like this Joel Felix, 94,000 coins. He doesn't have any other cards in the game that are in this. He has the headliner that's 700K that is in FIFA and this card is 94,000 coins. This card was at 110 on Friday and he's been pretty low all day. And the 94, he even hit like a 92K. If you see this in the low 90s, I think this goes back over 100,000 coins. Because again, if you look at these Team of the Week predictions, there's no Premier League cards in Team of the Week because they had cup games over the weekend which don't count for the Team of the Week. So it's going to be League Un, Bundesliga, it's gonna be the other top four leagues excluding the Prem this week. So maybe you don't see Prem cards do as well. You'll still see Prem cards rise but maybe not do as incredibly well just because people won't be linking those to their new red foot champions cards they get. Now of course some cards are probably gonna continue to fluctuate, right? You take a look at this Zaha graph. This guy goes up every week, 131 to 145, 133 to 153. Last week he didn't go up as much but I can tell you you could have bought him during the week in the 130s. He went up to 150. This 86 Zaha is a mainstay of Thursday flipping every week. He was 200 last week and he went up to 227. It doesn't show or like 220K was his max on the weekend. This guy went back down to the mid 180s. This card's probably gonna be a sale right at 200K or a bit above this weekend league in my opinion just because this is a card that a lot of people like to use in FIFA. So you are gonna still have your under 200,000 200,000K coin range cards. I think they're still gonna bounce. I think they're still gonna be pretty good flips that you're gonna wanna keep an eye on. Even some cards like Bruno Fernandez, this guy is 660K. He links to the new McTominay and he was down at 640 today. If this guy gets back to 640, he was 710 this past weekend. I still think some rare cards like that could bounce as well even though he's not under the 200,000 coin range. I think he still does pretty well. This Ali Watkins is a striker, probably does decent as well. This Llorente, center forward card, the in form. He links to Joao Felix, he links to Carrasco and he might link to the team of the week Gaia. If Gaia gets in team of the week that might be a card people use if they're running on tradable teams. Looking through some of these other squads, right? This Holland card is just rare. He's just straight rare. This De Bruyne was 460 this last weekend. He was down to 400K today. This is a card that I expect just to pop up from rarity too, right? Just take notice of which cards are rare on this game and which cards move up and down every single week. This Pogba fluctuates a lot. This Salah, I mean he's down a lot because of Mahrez and stuff like that. But this Sun card as well moves around. Foot freeze items are great to trade with too. This Hazard fluctuates. This Kealini is down right now. I have a couple of them right now. I'm a transfer list trying to flip him for a quick flip. Road to the final items for sure. And some of these recent informs, like this Levin Dotsky moves around a lot in-game. This Inform, this Kempembe could be good if Navas would get in. He's just a French center back anyway. And team of the week 14 interests me because these guys dropped down earlier this week. This Cancelo card, 49,000 coins. I know he was affected by Mahrez. I know that he was, right? But this guy was still 58K midweek last week. He went down to 48. He's still kind of chilling. I bought one of these because I think maybe this is one of those weeks where Cancelo bounces up a little bit if you're playing a 352 and you want to run him at right back or whatever. I kind of like that one. I like this Langley as well. He was like 125K in the middle of the day today. And he was up at 140K on the weekend. He was up at 140K on the weekend. So if I see this at 125 French center back in the La Liga, I don't mind that card as well. So just kind of taking a look at some of these more recent Team of the Week items and other informs and special cards in this game that I think could move around pretty well. Of course, Jamie Vardy is like a mainstay every single week. So if we're talking about the cards to buy, like the cheaper range, like I'm looking at this Kunde Team of the Week card as well. This guy fluctuates between like mid-70s and low-80s constantly on this game. When is the best time to buy? Now I'm not buying my Thursday flip investments yet, right? I'm not actually buying my flipping investments yet because I'm waiting to see what comes out today on FIFA for our Wednesday content in the game. I'm waiting to see what comes out as our Wednesday content. So one thing that we were thinking earlier was for the past two weeks on Wednesdays, we've had big-time icon SBCs released. Now the base icon repeatable pack goes away on Thursday and so does the base or mid-icon upgrade. This came out last Wednesday and EA put it out for eight days instead of seven. So usually we've been buying the past couple of weeks on Wednesdays because we have big Wednesday content which drops the rest of the market. So the stuff on the market right now as I look around really isn't that high. So that's why I'm still waiting until today on Wednesday. I wanna see what the content is and then if there's not a lot of content today on Wednesday, what you might see is a lot of people go out and start to buy their cards. So that might be one thing you wanna keep an eye on. I kind of hope there is a little bit of content so that we could see a little bit of selling, maybe a bit of panic for people to go and complete an SBC or two and then we could see a rise from there. I like this Van Dyke. This is one of the only gold cards that I think I would consider this week as a Thursday flipping investment, this Van Dyke item. If you can get them close to 200K on the PlayStation I think that would be pretty fantastic because again, people are running on tradeable teams. We have the newly updated Kliber. We've got the Robin of course and this Van Dyke was 240,000 coins last week. So this is a card that I would probably keep in mind this week for a Thursday flip as well. You know, maybe you do Gold Veran. Maybe you do Gold Furlan Manny. Those cards usually bump up a little bit, Gold Pugba even possibly. Those cards might bounce up a little bit this week but I like this Van Dyke because the Netherlands and the Dutch Lynx that he has and just the fact that a lot of people are messing around with the Robin and with the Kliber at right back. So I do like that card as a gold card this week. I think that's gonna start to get invested in pretty quickly because that's gonna be a very popular card to kinda look at. So a lot of cards again, stuff you could be looking at this week, just add a bunch of stuff to your transfer targets. Right, this is what I've been doing just for flipping trading today. Or yesterday has been, it's been a really good day to fluctuation trade. This Werner Inform is down a lot. A lot of the market has started to be sold off before a team of the year and if you can find a card that's just kinda dropped realistically too low. Like I was watching that Bomba in the Kunde. Kunde was 90,000 coins last weekend. I know last weekend was a bit uncharacteristically high but I feel like you could at least go to the upper 80s again this weekend. Maybe 87K for like a max price for a Kunde. So I'm trying to get him in the mid to low 70s and make a nice little bit of profit there. And doing this is just a great way to keep track of card prices, whether you wanna fluctuation trade them over a 24 hour period or if you're trying to actually, you know, figure out where they can go and where you can maybe get a buy for a week in the flipping investment. So again, the buy time, I'm gonna be waiting until content drop today just to see what happens. I'm not really sure if we're getting big content today. We've honestly, we've had the McTominay, we've had the Milner, the McTominay. I think a lot of people are gonna run in their teams. So I guess you could argue that Premier League squads could be a good one this weekend as well. Maybe some of your other Prem links like that Pogba or maybe some of the other attacking guys from Manchester United or like the Kieran Tierney left-back card. Cause I think a lot of people did McTominay but not like that many, a decent amount but not like a crazy, crazy amount. So, you know, this content came out yesterday. Yes, it's kind of cool content but it's just overpriced. So it wasn't that hyped up in my opinion. So we haven't, we've had the last couple of days of just really like chill content. I wonder if EA changes that today or if they're waiting until Thursday to drop something big. And if you do want to get rid of your investments by Thursday at 6 p.m. UK, you can. I don't know if we would see a loading screen for team of the year nominees if that were to be coming this Friday but if EA really wanted to ramp up and cause panic on this market. I just want to put this out there that if we see team of the year nominees in a loading screen or in a foot watch tweet with a card design being added to the game that's going to cause a lot of panic on the entire market because people will remember last year what team of the year nominees did to this game. So just be careful and keep your eyes out for that because if you do see that content, tease that with a loading screen or anything like that you will see a bit of a market crash and people will start selling cards if we see team of the year nominee information that it could be coming this Friday. So that's something to kind of keep in mind as well and being a bit, not hesitant I guess but again, I'm waiting for today's content on Wednesday to see what happens. We'll be looking at it live on stream today on Twitch, link is down below in the description if you want to check us out there and have some fun with that. But that's kind of my thoughts for Thursday flipping. I might be getting my stuff out before 6 p.m. on Thursday and maybe sacrificing a little bit of a rise. Hopefully I can double dip again as we did last week sell some stuff into 6 p.m., make some profit there and then if there's any stuff that gets low around 6 p.m. Thursday depending on what the content drop is after rewards, possibly buy into that and sell later in the afternoon there. Of course that is assuming that we don't have anything big coming with team of the year nominees. Again, under the 200, 250,000 coin range this week. Again, just look at cards. Go through literally, go through this link right here on flipman.com, go to team of the weeks and scroll through these past team of the weeks. We do it every week for Thursday flipping, right? Even this like quadrata right back. Like this guy was 114. He was 105,000 coins on yesterday I believe. He was 105 yesterday. He's bounced up a little bit. If you see this guy under 110, that's a buy because this is one of the best right backs in the Serie A. If we do get a couple Serie A informs, then that could be a good buy. Now, your only worry is that a Danilo, Brazilian right back from of course P Monte Calcio, aka Juventus gets into the team a week as well. That might make this card drop a bit. So just kind of keep that one out there and just be ready for that. So a lot of how much hype there is going to be for week in league depends on the team of the week that comes out today. EA could juice it if they really want people to play or they could just leave it as is and then people will be complaining about why am I going to grind extra wins for week in league for the shocking team of the week. I can see that happening as well. So that's kind of my thoughts on Thursday flipping this week. I think it is going to work. I try to do it every week. It's all about picking your spots, finding the right cards that move up every single week or that may have an increased opportunity of moving up on a certain week depending on links, depending on what SBCs have come out and how much coins people really want to spend on a team given what time period we're at in the game. So if you enjoyed this video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nate The Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace out.