Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Rule Breakers 2 is here. Team 2 of the Rule Breakers promo is expected to be inside of FIFA 22 Ultimate Team today. As of right now, we don't have an official loading screen telling us that that is gonna happen, that could be loaded in later today on Friday, or maybe we won't get one at all. But we're really confident that Rule Breakers 2 is coming today because of two different things. Number one is just how EA have been formulating these promos, right? We've had team one in packs for seven days with ones to watch and Rule Breakers. And then team two has been in packs for five days going out of packs on the Wednesday instead of a full seven days on a Friday. So with how EA's been doing promos and also the leaks that we are seeing basically the whole entire team, we like already know all the players that are supposed to be coming into the game today as Rule Breakers players. And we'll take a look at those cards here in just a second or those player names here in just a second. Again, we always take leaks with a grain of salt, right? We put, you know, we don't put our full belief in those leaks because just like we saw yesterday on this game, there was a lot of leaks and a lot of people saying that there was gonna be a flashback in BAP ASBC and we have no flashback in BAP ASBC. I did really not think that it was coming if you watch yesterday's video, I wasn't sold on it, but there was a lot of market movements because of that. And yesterday what we saw is a lot of panic selling and then, you know, nothing else really happened because then a BAP did not get released. So again, we take these leaks with a grain of salt and we only slightly believe in them because we know that it could be wrong. And if you wanna put, I guess, what we call your tinfoil hat on here for a second, imagine how crazy it would be if we didn't get a Rule Breakers team to an EA completely, you know, messed up what they had been doing before because of all these leaks, I mean, that would be crazy. It would be a boring Friday on FIFA, but for a leak side of things, it would be nuts because I'm not a huge fan of leaks sometimes because it kills the surprise factor of knowing and seeing these cards ahead of time instead of seeing them at the content drop at 6PM UK. But without further ado, let's look at the cards that we are expecting to get today inside of FIFA 22 as the Rule Breakers team too. Now these are the names that are being thrown around by pretty credible sources, they say. Luis Suarez, Colostraman, Cornette, Kesty, Foden, Bomba, Davies, Kappa. Now, those are team two players that are expected to be in today. If you take a look at all these cards, absolutely, you know, tons of options here. Tons of options for stats that could get upgraded, right? You guys know how the Rule Breakers worked. We take a look at a guy like Holland, right? Holland from his gold card to this Rule Breakers, he got a plus 25 passing boost and got a slight reduction to his shooting with all of its other stats being upgraded. So if you look at this set of cards in here, Luis Suarez, right? Colostraman, Cornette, another Prem left back, Kesty could be an absolute monster of a card. Foden, who would be a center attacking mid, right? He would not be a left wing as his inform was, he'd be a center attacking mid card because with these Rule Breakers, we don't have any position changes. All we have are stat upgrades and those specific one stat big boosts on these cards, right? There's no position changes. I don't even think we have school move or week foot upgrades. It's a little bit early for that still. But it's all about that one stat that gets exploded, right? From what it normally was. Bomba could be very good today. Davies, Kappa, one thing I'm very interested with these cards, if this is actually a team today. A lot of these guys in here are Pacy, right? Bomba, Davies, Kappa, and Colostraman for a center back, all those guys are really, really Pacy on their base gold cards, especially Alfonso Davies. So, what I'm hoping for today is that EA doesn't just drop the pace on all of those cards. Now, I'd be fine if they dropped Davies to like 93 pace, but then upgraded his physical to like, I don't know, 89 or 90 or something. That would be kind of crazy if they did something along those lines. I just hope that they give a lot of these cards legit, like, you know, nice boosts, right? Of course, we had the Verati SBC that was released earlier this week and instead of getting a pace boost, he got a physical boost, which makes his card interesting, but also it makes his card look a lot less like meta and usable in this game for some people because he does not have that pace boost. So, I think we're hoping for some really good boost on some of these cards today and it should be very, very interesting with these cards in packs. Now, this is the guy that was talking about the Flashback and Bappe, so we take these again with a grain of salt, but we have got Sangare. He's got Corona in this list, and my cheese Lopez and Kulusevsky. So, this is his full Rule Breakers Team 2 leak and he said one of these will be an objective and one will be an SBC. Lopez, this would be like the first promo goalkeeper card that we would have this year, which I do think we need some promo goalkeeper cards, just not a ton of them. So, it is nice to see maybe a goalkeeper get in there. I would be very curious to see what stat they would boost though, like speed or reflex, I don't even know, but that is supposedly the full Rule Breakers Team Number 2 and an SBC objective player that we would be seeing in the game today. So, again, speaking of Rule Breakers Team 2, it's a normal promo Friday in the sense that of course we should get one SBC player and we should get one objective player. Now, I believe there's a decent amount of these SBCs are expiring and Kunku is still here for one more day, but if we take a look at a few of these, I think there is one or two that are expiring. Maybe not actually. Fofana is still here for 16 days. The Foot Hero upgrade night fright. So, I guess there's not much that is expiring in here today on Friday. We'll probably be getting at least one new SBC. There is another SBC that I'm expecting though. Alongside of a Rule Breakers player, we'll talk about that in a little bit, player of the month possibility for La Liga, but also we would get an objective card. Now, we haven't had an objective card in here besides Antonio and he actually goes away in 16 hours. So, in my opinion, we're gonna get another one of these objective players. It'll be out until next Wednesday and that's what I would expect for team two of the Rule Breakers. It would be out until this coming Wednesday, right? So, it would be again, a five day promo instead of a full seven days with a mini release coming on Sunday. They did that Saturday or Sunday. They did that with the Rule Breakers last week as well. So, more again for today on Friday. Let's go back to the SBC that I mentioned. We actually might have a player of the month SBC coming today on Friday. If you guys remember, we had the first player of the month, SBC of the year, I believe. The first one that we had this year was the Benzema Player of the Month. La Liga seemed to start their voting and end their voting earlier than all the other leagues did this past month for October. And the la votación está cerrada, right? It is over and today a lot of people are expecting to see either the Alaba or Luis Suarez win this Player of the Month award. And of course, since you saw this, Luis Suarez was in as a team two player for the Rule Breakers promo. I feel like EA would not want to have two versions of his card around in the game at the same time. In my opinion today, David Alaba might win this Player of the Month. That's who it seems is the most popular card to win this award for the month of October. So, we might have a David Alaba Player of the Month as we see today on Friday as well. And that could be interesting, right? Because Alaba has a really good card in game, very well-rounded center back, and usually a Player of the Month at his rating would get a plus two. So if Alaba gets a plus two, imagine this 86 wants to watch card becoming, well, his wants to watch card would an upgrade. But just imagine this card with a plus two boost on top of it, you know, we're talking 81 pace, 87 defense, 83 physical, 86 passing, 84, 85 dribbling. That's gonna be a really good looking card. And depending on the price of that SBC, if it's like 150K or less, maybe like 120,000 coins or less, I think you're gonna have some people that would be very interested in doing that. So it is not guaranteed that this comes today, but I think it's very possible that you would see this SBC coming today. And that could, you know, move some prices around on this game. And of course, people would be very interested if that is a well-priced SBC. People would be interested in getting that done is Real Madrid Lynx. Of course, you've got Vinicius who's very hype in this game right now. You have a Casamiro special card that just came out. Real Madrid Lynx are pretty hype in this game at the moment. So that would be a very popular SBC if it is priced well today, if it does come out. Let's talk about the market though, right? Because we know promo packs are big on Fridays. Now, the second week of the Road to the Knockout promo was the first time that EA released the 50K pack. Now, today we're expecting supply, but if they release the 100,000 coin pack today, however many of them there are, 100,000 coin packs, of course are double a 50K pack. Wow, I have a preview pack? Oh, let me get involved with this, bro. Let's open our preview pack. Goodness, I forgot to open this earlier yesterday on Thursday, but of course, nothing good. But watch out for 100,000 coin pack today. Because if we do get 100K packs, that would mean extra dropping on the market with these cards being so supplied with 100K packs. 50K packs destroyed the market two weeks ago when they came out. It's probably gonna happen again. So if you have gold cards that are in your team today on Friday, specifically the cards that are going to be in packs, I'm talking about maybe if you guys bought Ferland Mendy for your team. This guy has gone up about 10,000 coins in the past 24 hours. He was 67K, he's up to 12,000 coins now. 79,000 coins, this card has gone up. A lot of gold cards have risen up with these La Liga hyped up links. I think Marcus Llorente is 70,000 coins as well. That is up over 10,000 coins per card. I would sell these before the content dropped today on Friday. I would sell them. Now, again, let's talk through our scenarios, right? Scenario number one, we get Rule Breakers Promo as we're expected. Team number two, supply comes. These cards are gonna drop in the first hour. You're gonna see probably some pretty significant price drops and panic selling at the same time.  So, for some of these gold cards that are high in demand, like a Marcus Llorente is at the moment, like that Ferland Mendy. As we take a look at a couple other gold cards, we look at some other ones like Kempembe, like Verran, Yunmin Sun, Usman Dembele is coming back into packs, so I would expect this card to drop off a decent amount. Marquinhos is out of packs as it didn't form. Hakimi with the PSG Lynx, the Verati SBC that is still out. Pogba, Bruno Fernandez, Teo Hernandez, you know, with the Cassie coming out today, these cards are most likely going to drop in price during that pack supply. So, what I would do is take a look at them in that first hour to see when there's all that panic selling, all that listing, especially on the higher tier cards, like maybe Amane, again, or the more popular ones, like a Hakimi, like a Mendy, Kempembe, or Verran. Maybe you could sell, I think there's an opportunity, again, as it normally is on Fridays, to sell some of those players before the supply, buy them back afterwards, and you will then find yourself losing less coins on the card that you sold for here, and it bought it as it dips lower onto the market. So that would be my number one thing to say today. Now, a couple other spots that are looking very interesting on this market today regarding the supply rule breakers. These cards are going out of packs, a lot of people invested in them today actually on, sorry, yesterday on Thursday, a lot of people invested. I bought a Holland with the panic selling and with the panic that we had yesterday on Thursday for the big SBCs that were expected. Holland dropped down after rewards from 627k down to 530,000 coins. I was able to snag one at 525, and I sold it at 600. I would look to see maybe a little bit of panic selling, just a little bit. I wouldn't expect there to be huge drops on these rule breakers cards from team one unless there's some big SBCs leaked or some big stuff going on. I would expect their prices to stay about the same, not move too much, but of course, after the new cards come out today and when these cards go out of packs, if nothing crazy happens, you might see them go up a little bit. Now I know there's a lot of people that are investing in these, they're expecting their prices to rise, but if content today isn't anything spectacular, I don't think they will really drop. So in my opinion, you should see these cards rise up a little bit into today on Friday as people are playing their champions finals games, and of course, these cards go out of packs and people are maybe buying them last minute before they make that movement out of packs. So watch out for those, they're not gonna get supplied anymore, but team of the week number seven is gonna get supplied today. Guys like Carrasco, Marquinhos, Tavernier, Rhys James, of course, Vinny Jr., keep an eye on these. I almost guarantee you that there's gonna be some selling on these informs heading into 6 p.m. UK today because of course, people are gonna be scared about that supply. People are gonna sell this Vinny's inform. I would not be surprised if he is 550K or below, because again, he went from 6.80 before rewards to 5.80, and then it's now slowly risen up just a little bit into the early Friday morning hours, but I would expect to see, especially Marquinhos and Vinny's to drop off a decent a bit in price. Rhys James, this is gonna be a good card to trade with today, right? I know he's in packs, but it's kind of a budget right back option. People are probably tired of using Kyle Walker, Cancelo, Aaron Juan-Besaca, they wanna upgrade. This has a dynamic image, it looks like a really solid card. Same thing with Tavernier, just less links. Obviously not being the Premier League, but it's still English. Watch this team of the week because it could have interesting movements today on the market and be good to trade with as well. And for the rest of the market, that is not in packs. I'm talking road to the knockouts. I'm talking other team of the week cards that are out of packs. Maybe even the ones to watch cards as well. Keep a close eye on some of these that are still very popular, meta and usable items that a lot of people like to use in their teams. Renan Lodi, if there's panic selling on him, today would be something to watch out for on that card, right? Other road to the knockouts, like maybe Hyunmin Sun. Last week, Hyunmin Sun, I bought for 750,000 coins on Friday. In the panic selling, there was no Premier League left wing released as a part of rule breakers. So of course, people bought this card back as a very rare item. He went from 750K to 840,000 coins where I sold him. And it was a huge, huge after tax profit on that flip. I would watch some of these cards because they're very rare. Watch Robertson today, right? Because if we do get Cornet in the team, that's another Premier League left back. But depending on what stats Cornet gets boosted, and of course, he does not have as good of links as Robertson does. Of course, Robertson with the Liverpool links, this could be very interesting. But also, people might try out Cornet because he's probably gonna be a lot cheaper than Robertson and he's gonna have pace if they give him a nice upgrade. So that's gonna be the most interesting part about the market today that I would keep an eye out for. Watch out for these past team movie game forms if they do get panic sold. Watch out for like this Phil Foden, right? Phil Foden, if he gets a new card today, he's actually up a lot right now. He has 70,000 coins. If he's down like under 60K today, that would be a card I would look at buying because it doesn't look like there's a prem left wing that is released as a part of this team as we look to players that are in here. And the way they're doing these positions, if Foden gets a special card, it'll be the same position as his base gold item, which is center attacking mid, which is what I think a lot of people would rather have for a Phil Foden anyway. But if you see panic selling on this Phil Foden card, or of course any part of the market today that is out of packs, that is a meta and usable card, especially ones to watch as right as a lot of these cards are getting very hyped up right now, as they're getting closer to their wins to watch upgrades, keep a special eye on the ones to watch as well for those cards to maybe get low, get panic sold, and then potentially bounce back in this game today. So that'll be a very interesting market movement to watch. Icons, as we always talk about icons, there's gonna be panic selling on these too. I love trading with icons on promo Fridays.  We saw that a lot of their prices drop off yesterday. Rio 750, now that's a big undercut. That's a really big undercut on Rio as he is very low at the moment at 750. That's probably not even on the market. But I would watch for panic selling on your icons and I think there will be rebounds post 6pm UK like we usually see on some icons. Not all of them, some of them will rise up. The ones that people want to buy for their teams to complete their squads after they add rule breakers into their new team, if they wanna try some of those new cards out. Now, one thing I will say is this new card design was added to the code. Now it's gonna look very, very familiar because last year we had cards just like this. If this looks familiar, that's because it should. Last year in FIFA 21, we had cards with this exact same design, Delufeu and Bellerin. These are basically the objective milestone cards. I'm pretty sure they're called. These could show up maybe not today. If not today, it would be most likely very soon. Inside of the objectives section. This is something that we haven't had yet this year and it came around this time last year was the cards that were inside of this milestone section. They would drop a league. They would drop two or three or four cards underneath a league where you would have like a couple that you would grind for or you just have one main item that you would go through a set of objectives for to get that card. So that could be very interesting. A couple more objective cards in milestones potentially coming soon as well with that pack code being released. Last thing I wanna talk about is trading with the rule breakers in the first hour of the content drop today. Now, last week, there was a lot of fluctuations. Like if you remember the Holland card started off on the market under a million coins, like 960, 970,000 coins. And then after like about an hour or so, people opened their packs and he shot up in price because he was, well people I guess valued him too cheap and he was a very rare card. So he went from about 990K all the way up to 1.1 million coins. Now a more often and a more common fluctuation with what you see is some of these lower tier cards, right? If you remember as well, when the Onyeka was released on the market last week. Frank Onyeka's card was like 130,000 coins. He went from 115K, 110,000 coins up to like 130, 140, all in a span of like 15 minutes.  And especially if you were to have 100,000 coin packs in the store today, there's an opportunity for all that supply to come in in the first 10 to 15 minutes. You have an opportunity to buy cards.  They see the ones that people wanna try is the most meta, the most popular. And especially as you think about a card like it's Onyeka, yes you have Kante, yes you have Fred, but they're all above 300,000 coins. Even the Kante SBC right now. This Onyeka card was 100,000 coins. It looks very similar to Kante. So as the most popular league in this game in the world, the Premier League, a lot of people went out and they bought this card right away to try him out. So that's why he went from 110K to like 130, 140,000 coins. There's probably gonna be some cards today in the team. It's obviously we don't know which cards would have the best rise, right? If you remember Road to the Knockouts when those first came out, Esok had an incredible rise. He went from 110,000 coins all the way up to almost 190K before dropping off a little bit later. So in that first 15 minutes, first 20 minutes, you can really take a look at some of the brand new Rule Breakers cards today. Especially if you're watching this stream, we'll be doing some of this live on the Twitch stream tomorrow, trading with some of those cards as well, trying to time some of those flips as there'll be many, many windows in my opinion to trade with those cards. That kind of depends on the 100K pack supply bill. Even if it's 50Ks, there'll probably be a lot of supply on those and they'll get packed. But especially with knowing the team, again, I still think that it kills a little bit of the hype on the promo today. So that's what we were expecting. I've been trading over the last day or so with just chemistry style flips. Again, the Highland that I bought at 525, sold at 600, I bought this Sun at 405. Just some flips, right? With a lot of panic selling, you see a lot of opportunities to buy low and sell high. It's gonna be the same thing today on Friday with a lot of the market. So hopefully that is a very useful video for you guys. Hopefully we get Rule Breakers Team 2 today and hopefully we get a legit loading screen. Maybe EA is not giving us a loading screen because they've seen all the leaks on Twitter. I don't know. But we thought we had a new loading screen coming and then EA dropped this. They dropped a advertisement for their own Twitch live stream, what they do around the content drop. So I don't know, that was kind of crazy. But hopefully Rule Breakers Team 2 today, hopefully the content is good. SBCs are priced well and objectives are also a W as well. If you enjoyed this video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and of course subscribe if you're new. It's been Nate the Foot Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace, out.


Putin hopes for a decrease in support for Ukraine and plans terrible war of attrition. Russian President Vladimir Putin does not intend to cease military aggression against Ukraine and plans for a war of attrition. The Kremlin leader in his expansionist plans hopes for a reduction in support for Kiev from western countries reports Bloomberg. Despite the fact that the Russian occupying contingent cannot break through on the Ukrainian front and is advancing slowly, Putin remains determined to achieve victory on the battlefield despite losses. Against the backdrop of his recent re-election for another six-year term in power, the Kremlin leader is attempting without evidence to accuse Ukraine of alleged involvement in the terrorist attack in Moscow suburbs on March 22nd and to continue the occupation campaign. This comes after previous diplomatic contacts with the United States at the end of last year ended inconclusively according to four experts familiar with Kremlin military strategy. According to US representatives, they see no signs that the Russian President took seriously the search for a way to end hostilities at the end of 2023. They have dismissed the idea of negotiating a ceasefire without Ukraine's involvement. Putin's likely to escalate now. His goal is victory, said Alexei Mukhin, the head of the Moscow-based Center for Political Information, which provides advisory services to the Kremlin. He added that Russia is ready to continue this conflict for as long as necessary. However, according to Bloomberg, Russia may face difficulties in conducting new, large-scale offensives due to a shortage of troops. This could hinder the Kremlin's aspirations to capture cities like Kharkiv and Odessa, especially for attempts to create a buffer zone in Ukraine. I don't believe the takeover of Kharkiv is possible. The Kremlin doesn't have enough forces for such a task, and the city is too big. For a real breakthrough in this war, Russia needs much better communication capabilities, many more high-precision weapons, and many more people. Voiced the head of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, Ruslan Pukhov. Ukraine's security service and main directorate of intelligence under the Defense Ministry were behind the attack on Russian Niznokansk oil refinery in Tatarstan on Tuesday morning. Ukrainian media reported, with reference to unnamed sources within the intelligence department. A Ukrainian long-range drone hit the primary oil processing facility at the Niznokansk refinery, after which fire broke out there, according to the report. The capacity of this processing unit is 8 million tons of oil, which amounts to 2.6% of the total annual refining of the Russian Federation per year. In addition, this plant is among the five largest refineries in Russia. We continue to work systematically to ensure that Russia has fewer and fewer opportunities to finance the war of aggression against Ukraine. We will continue to cut off oxygen to the gas station country in order to minimize the flow of petrodollars to the military budget of the Russian Federation, the source told media. According to Baza, at least three people were injured at the refinery. This is the Taneco oil refinery in the city of Niznokansk in the Republic of Tatarstan. The region's governor confirmed the attack on the refinery, but in his statement, he did not specify the name of the refinery that was attacked. Russian media has confirmed that Niznokansk oil refinery was hit, while stressing that the technological process was not disrupted. The Russian media also claimed that drones allegedly attacked a hostel in a special economic zone of Alabuga, and that two people were injured during the attack. Ukraine in recent months has stepped up attacks on Russia's oil refiners and a bid to impact Kremlin's highly lucrative trade in refined products. Kiev believes its drone attacks on Russia, the world's second largest oil producer, are justified because Ukraine has suffered large-scale damage to its infrastructure from Russian airstrikes since the start of Russia's full-fledged invasion of the country in February 2022.


It's time for the Lawn Jean Chronoscope. A television journal of the important issues of the hour brought to you every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. A presentation of the Lawn Jean Wittner Watch Company. Maker of Lawn Jean, the world's most honored watch, and Wittner, distinguished companion to the world-honored Lawn Jean. Good evening. This is Frank Knight. May I introduce our co-editors for this edition of the Lawn Jean Chronoscope? Larry Lusser of the CBS television news staff and Kenneth Crawford, National Affairs Editor for Newsweek magazine. Our distinguished guest for this evening is Anchor Nelson, Administrator Rural Electrification Administration. Mr. Nelson here in a big city, even the poor of the stuff take electric light and power for granted, but how much of the United States is actually without it right now? About 9% of the firms in America are still without electricity. Well, we talk a lot about aiding underdeveloped nations here on this program, and we've heard a lot about it in the United Nations. But how much would the electrification of the whole United States help us in building up markets here? Well, the electrification program has provided a tremendous market for equipment of all kinds. It's been estimated that for every dollar spent in distribution lines, there has been four dollars spent in equipment and wiring and one thing another, and in addition to that, the productivity of agriculture has been enhanced because of the availability of electricity. Mr. Nelson, isn't it so too that from now on, the ratio will probably increase because there is more equipment. Air conditioning comes along, things of that kind. I believe that on farms, you will find air conditioning moving into that field as well as in the city dwellings, and in addition to that, many other pieces of equipment, as the farmers are able to buy them, will be buying them, as has been the practice in the past.  What kind of equipment do you have on your farm, for example? And what are you planning to get? How long have you had it? 1938, we received electricity on our farm for the first time, and we have milking machines and water system. I have electric welder in the shop, electric drills of all kinds. In the house, we have a deep freeze in the basement, hot water heater, and in the kitchen, all of the appliances that you will find in a modern city home. It makes farming a wonderful occupation. In addition to that, we have television. Enjoy your programs. Well, Mr. Nelson, we've all, in driving through the country, seen poultry houses lighted at night, which is the most unusual sight, and I understand this is to help the production of eggs in hens. But actually, if electrification were expanded throughout the United States, would it bring down the cost of farm production? I think it has already done that. I believe the cheapest help that we have on the farm is electricity. Without it, we would need many more men per farm, and without it, we would not have been able to produce through the emergency period in keeping with the demands that has been made on agriculture for more foodstuffs. Just 9% could be electrified with that to bring down some of the screams of the farmers right now about low prices on farm production? It always helps. Mr. Nelson, how big a role has rural electrification had in all of this? How many farms have been electrified as a result of the activities of this federal agency? About 4 million farms have been electrified. The government has loaned about $2,700 million to these distribution systems, and it has been an extensive operation, one that no one ever realized would have gone as far as it has. Well, this system has been in for 18 years now. What is the attitude of this administration towards the rural electrification administration and the use of cooperatives in producing and selling power? This administration has gone full speed ahead. We have a loan program that I think everyone must agree is adequate, and we have tried to set up an organization that will give more for the dollar in our administration of rural electrification. We have reorganized our department, and we have not thrown out the career people. We have picked the best ones that we have put them in responsible positions, and they're doing a very good job for the farmers of America. How much have you cut down, Mr. Nelson? About 10%. We estimate we will save about $300,000 to $400,000 of administrative costs, but we're going to do as good a job, maybe better, by having a little better and a little more superior type of an organization, in my opinion. In all of this, actually, the initiative is taken by the cooperative out in the field, is it not? That's right, and we're encouraging the farmer to assume more and more of the responsibility of administration of his own system, because we believe, and I think everyone else recognizes, the future of our system will depend on, the wisdom of our own policy judgment back on the grassroots level. Mr. Nelson, we are told that Washington is crawling, as they say, with power lobbyists. Do we have some clashes with the public utilities as to who shall produce and sell this power? We haven't been bothered too much about that. We find that 50% of the power that is used on our systems is purchased from utility companies. We think the big battle is pretty much over as to controversy about who should do what, and we're trying to cultivate now an atmosphere of working together because we must do that, to say that we cannot, would be admitting defeat. You're making some loans also, are you not, to telephone systems? Yes, we have... So you have a clash there between private and public? Some, not too extensive. About half of our loans have been made to private independent companies, so it does demonstrate that we're working with both the cooperatives and the independence in our systems. Well, actually, sir, how much electoral generation power is there in the United States left? Have we got enough here to supply all the places that you'd like to put it in? I believe the supply of electric power has never been adequately reached because the demand continues to grow. You must build and build, and I believe it will require the resources of all of us to meet the demand because of the tremendous value of electricity. Mr. Nelson, this 10% which you have not yet reached, is that hopeless, or are you pressing into that area? Well, we don't think it's hopeless. Of course, the areas that are not served at the present time are very difficult areas to reach. They're not feasible, as far as a loan is concerned, and perhaps not exactly extensive farm operation areas and distances between farms is so great that the cost capital investment is so heavy that they're hard to reach. Where are these areas, General?  I think it's estimated, for example, in Kentucky at the present time there's about 40,000 farms that are unelectrified, and that, of course, is quite extensive when we need to do something about it. You do have the materials now since the end of the war to get this stuff out there? Oh yes, there's adequate material available for all type of work. What is holding up the extension of rural electrification right now, sir? I believe the only thing that holds up the completion of the job is the fact that under the terms of the Act, the REA Act, loans are to be made only to areas and to projects that are considered to be feasible or will repay to the government with interest. So when these loans are calculated, if it appears that there is not an adequate income there, the result of it would be that we couldn't, under the law, make the loan. The projects, many of them are so successful with existing systems, they're beginning to reach out and try to pick up some of these un-served farms. What's your experience on repayment, Mr. Nelson? Do you get this money back? So far... There's about a $3 billion investment, I think you said. So far, the experience in that respect has been very good. However, it must be admitted that we have a five-year period to get our systems in shape before amortization payments come due. And it's evident that in some cases there will be projects in some difficulty, but we hope to help them organize their administration so they can repay. But up to date, there's only two-tenths of one percent of delinquency as far as interest and amortization is concerned. Well, sir, do we have enough electric generative power in the United States? Have we harnessed every bit that there is of hydropower? Well, no. There's hydropower still to be developed. And we hope one of these days there will be some cheaper means found, perhaps in atomic energy. I see. Well, as a last question, I'd like to ask you, sir, do you feel that the development of atomic energy for peacetime uses will have a great benefit to the rural areas of the United States? I think that in the field of generation of electric power, the atomic energy will someday be a blessing to the country. And certainly, if we can get electricity at a cheaper cost, there's no limit to how much we can use. Well, how far off do you think this is, sir? Well, I've heard some estimate two years, some 10, some 20. I wouldn't know. I'm not an engineer, but my guess is that it would be from 10 to 15 years. And you think that this would bring down the price of food and farm production all over the United States if this power could be extended to everywhere? Oh, very definitely. Well, in what particular way would it reduce costs? Well, for example, on the farm, we use it, as you mentioned, with our poultry. We use it with our milking machines. We grind feed. We might dry hay. We might dry grain. We might dry our corn. There'd be any number of things we could use it for if we could afford to buy it at the price that it's costing to generate it. It would be cheaper when you can have lots of small atomic plants. I think so. Your transmission costs would be cut down because it's assumed that the capital investment in generation through atomic energy will be much lower. 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This is the second part of our series on oxidation-reduction reactions, and in this video we will be looking at electron exchange. If you watch the other part of the series, you already know the definition of oxidation and reduction. Oxidation is the gain of oxygen, and reduction is the loss of oxygen. But there is another way of defining those terms. Oxidation is loss of electrons, and reduction is gain of electrons. This time, game and loss are the other way round. Instead of oxygen, we are talking about electron exchange. Electrons are negative, meaning that gaining electrons makes an element more negative. In other words, it is reduced. If you find this difficult to remember, the pneumonic oil rig might help. Oxidation is loss, reduction is gain. Why is this definition useful? Well, not all oxidation-reduction reactions involve oxygen. Take HgCl2 and Li, for example. Lithium metal, the more reactive of the two metals, is more keen to be part of the compound. It is therefore oxidized from lithium metal to lithium plus. This is known as a redox reaction. Let's take a closer look at what happens to the two metals. Lithium gives up one electron to form lithium plus. This means the lithium is oxidized. At the same time, mercury Hg collects two electrons to make mercury metal. In other words, mercury is reduced. Its charge or oxidation state is lowered. These are known as half equations. Only one ion is shown, and seemingly three electrons appear. Half equations are an easy way of looking at what happens to one component at a time. Joining two half equations together and balancing charge eliminates the electrons. This balanced equation needs two lithium species for every mercury. Let's revisit the hemoglobin example we used in the last video. When the ion 2 plus in hemoglobin takes up oxygen, it is reversibly oxidized to ion 3 plus. The half equation for ion is very simple. Ion 2 plus is an equilibrium with ion 3 plus and one electron. Ion is oxidized in the forwards reaction. Can you write the half equation for oxygen forming the superoxide? Pause the video for a moment and think. The answer is that oxygen remains bound to oxygen, but undergoes reduction, gaining an electron from ion. Transition metals, like ion, have variable oxidation states. The number of electrons they can lose is determined by where they sit along the periodic table. Metals with high oxidation states often want to have lower oxidation states and be less highly charged. This means they are very reactive, positively charged species. Oxidants. When a highly charged metal, like chromium 6 plus, reacts with a less highly charged metal, let's say manganese 2 plus, it takes electrons. Chromium is reduced and manganese is oxidized. If we look at this from the perspective of chromium, chromium is doing the oxidizing, making it an oxidant. In the same way, manganese reduces chromium to chromium 3 plus, which is a stable oxidation state. Can you balance this equation? Pause the video whilst you work it out. Ready for the answer? OK. This reaction can also be written as two half equations. Write down the half equations for chromium and manganese. Which species is the reductant? Pause the video again whilst you work it out. Ready? Chromium is the oxidant, so manganese is the reductant. In a real reaction, chromium and manganese ions are parts of compounds like sodium dichromate and manganese chloride. This can often make it more difficult to see what is being oxidized and what is being reduced.


Hi everyone, it's Monica Wachee here, teaching you how to combine your health analytics background with data science concepts. Today, we are going to be reviewing the different ways application development teams are configured. Increasingly, health data analysts are being asked to analyze data originating in applications. That's why I developed this online course called Application Basics. It's to teach the basics of applications to professionals in the health data space so they can better understand the data that come from applications. And in this video, I'm going to focus on the different configurations of application development teams because that impacts how the applications they build turn out. And you'll see how in this video. Remember how matrix management used to be the way application development teams were put together using the traditional method? Here is an example of a team. We have Carol, who is a backend programmer and we have Nock, who is a network engineer. We also have Tyrone, who is a front end developer and Amanda, who is a physician serving as a subject matter expert on the Medical Records Project. And we have Fatima, who is a user interface user experience specialist. Back in the days of traditional application development, we had our sponsor at the top and that sponsor would communicate pretty often with the project manager. The sponsor and the project manager needed to have a shared vision of the project. Then the PM would translate that vision for the rest of the people on the team. Basically, the PM would scurry around trying to get the team members to produce deliverables and to meet project milestones. This was not really ideal when I look back at it. Basically, all the techies at the bottom of the slide would congeal into sort of a click. They would kind of make fun of the PM and the sponsor, mainly because they would ask for ridiculous things that were not technologically possible. I remember one experienced PM telling me a sponsor asked her if we made a picture on a piece of paper and put it under a computer with the computer just automatically make a webpage based on what was written on the paper. He seriously asked her that. So while this diagram looks theoretically okay, in practice, it resulted in a lot of disconnection within the team. This is part of what caused the traditional development approach to take so long. But that issue with internal team disconnection wasn't the only thing that dragged out the development timeline. Another problem with matrix management is that there were always these issues in the background that would haunt us. First, most of us were on other projects. We couldn't just focus on one project at the time. Sometimes even PMs would be placed on multiple projects. I remember back in those traditional development days, PMs would get paid a lot of money, but they would work like 80 hours a week. When I think back in my mind to the ones I knew back then, I always see them in my mind's eye with sweat pouring off of their faces and arms. It was really crunch time for PMs back then. But PMs weren't the only ones distracted. Team members were distracted because none of us actually reported to the PM. In fact, no one reported to the PM. We all had bosses out there somewhere who were not on the gantt to whom we reported. And they also required things of us that were not part of established projects. So basically not only did we have all this disconnection, we had all this distraction. Distraction led to confusion, led to dysfunction, and all that led to added time and expense we needed to allocate to the project. Now let's talk about agile teams. You will notice that the same people are involved in the agile configuration. We still have the sponsor telling the PM what to do and we still have all of the team members dealing with the PM. But notice how the PM is kind of in the middle now. PMs are not these exalted high level people anymore. In fact, they seem to have a lot less power. Notice that the arrows now go back and forth between the PM and the team members. This means that there is more crosstalk between the PM and the team members. And the PM doesn't have the top down power over team members she once had. Agile teams usually start the day with a meeting called the scrum meeting. These meetings do not have agendas. Instead, the PM and other team members tend to keep track of action items and other tasks using software that supports the agile methodology. So what I've seen is that they generally spend the scrum meeting going over entries in the software applications and planning what everyone is going to do that day. Scrum meetings remind me of those cooking shows where the kitchen team meets at the beginning and gets ready to cook a meal for a hundred people at a wedding or something. They tend to be hectic and quick and run at a chaotic pace. In fact, the whole day seems to run that way under agile. Agile methodology allows the sponsor to be more involved in the day-to-day development of the app. That way, the whole project can pivot relatively quickly. Think of the different technological earthquakes we've had over the last few years. Hacks, ransomware, electronic terrorism, even new laws banning or promoting certain software. The agile methodology and these daily scrum meetings make it possible to pivot a whole application team on a dime if needed. I have found that when I get data from applications that were developed using the agile approach, they tend to be a hot mess. I attribute that to a missing design step. You won't see much effort devoted to design in the agile approach. So you are probably wondering in this day and age, how do you do application development in healthcare properly? Well, to answer that question, I first recommend you take my applications basics course. In the course, I give an example of a rapid application development or RAD approach that I prefer. And if you wanna take your health data analysis career to an even more data science direction, consider joining my data science online group mentoring program. This applications basics course is part of the foundational curriculum for that program. Have you ever served on an agile development team and participated in scrum meetings? Or have you been in a matrix management scenario and have stories to tell? Please add your comments about your experiences. And thanks for watching. If you like this video, please hit the like button. And also please enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you for watching this video, which is part of the Public Health to Data Science rebrand program. If you are interested in joining the program, please sign up for a 30 minute Zoom interview using the link in the description.


One of the big mistakes that Europe is making now are the extreme cutbacks, you know, the extreme austerity, and in many of the countries, those cutbacks are going to have results that will lower the growth potential. Not only the growth today, you know, we all know that growth today has been a disaster, but lower the growth potential for the next quarter century.


Hey guys, Drew with GeoArm and I am back to talk to you about the M2M MQ03-LTE Dual Path Communicator. And this is how you're going to get it wired to the DSCPC 1616, 1832, or 1864 panels. Very easy to do. It's going to be six total connections. I'm going to go ahead and show you my panel here first. This is completely powered down. There's no battery. I've unplugged it from the wall, so there is no power currently to this panel. This is how your panel needs to be as well. Make sure it's completely powered down before doing anything. Now the next thing I'm going to show you is on the communicator itself. I have one ahead and I've already pre-wired this. So you'll see four connections that I've made at the very top. Red is going to be going to plus, black to minus, green to DAT1, and white or yellow or whatever color it is that you have to DAT2. By the way, you will need two lengths of 18 to 22 gauge four or two conductor wire. This one is a four conductor strip and this one is a two. You're going to need six connections back to the panel, so however you do it, it's up to you. But this is how I was able to do it, my 22 gauge four conductor and my 22 gauge two conductor. So as I said, I have red going to plus or positive, black going to minus or negative, green going to DAT1 or data one, and white going to DAT2 or data two. And then I have a red wire going to ring and a black wire going to tip. So once you've made those connections, we'll go ahead and put that over to the side here. You're going to go ahead and get it wired into the panel itself. Our panel is powered down at this moment. So we're going to go ahead and get this wired into the keypad bus, just like a keypad would. So red wire, you're going to wire into R-E-D red. There's going to be wires in there already. That's fine. Make sure that you put this in there with it and just tighten it up.  Once you get that in there, tighten that up as well. Once that's in there, you're going to move on to the white or yellow wire, whichever it is in your strand. That's going to go to Y-E-L, green wire, and that's going to go to G-R-N. Once you have those connections in place, we're going to move on to our phone terminals, which is just a strip of two conductor. You're going to go all the way to the far right. There's going to be ring, tip, R1, and T1, these four terminals. You need to go ahead and make sure there are no wires in those terminals at this point. This will be the only thing wiring into those four spots. So the black wire we are going to put into tip is also labeled B on the strip there. So tip B. And then we're going to take the red wire and that is going to go to ring A. Once you do that, tighten it in place. At this moment, it is wired into the panel. You are almost ready to go. What we need to do next is we need to get the antenna attached. As you can see, the antenna just screws on very easily. And then you can put the antenna on the side of the box or the top of the box. It magnetizes.  Here's my ethernet connection and here's where the ethernet gets connected. So we're just going to go ahead and snap that in. And at this moment, we are completely wired in and we are ready to get this thing activated. So power your system on, give us a call. If you guys have any questions or comments, go ahead and leave them below. Take care. Thank you for your services.


Cats sleep a lot, as most humans who've ever lived with a feline companion can attest. Adult cats often sleep for 15 hours a day, but that can extend to 20 hours. Healthy cats sleep a lot for several reasons, including preserving energy for short, high energy activity spurts, but cats also sleep when bored or not feeling well. Changes in sleeping patterns are more concerning than when pets regularly spend hours snoozing. Cats are corpuscular creatures. Cats prefer to hunt around dusk and dawn, and their eyes, ears, and whiskers give them a serious advantage when hunting in low light. Many cats naturally wake up around sunrise and then snooze during the day, particularly if their favorite person is gone. If your cat sleeps a ton during the day, it may just be because your pet gets active when you're asleep. Cats sleep to conserve energy. Cats are predators that rely on sustained bursts of energy to stalk, hunt, and catch prey. All of that activity requires lots of energy, so kitties need plenty of rest to be ready to spring into action. Domestic cats retain many of the predator instincts of their wild relatives that often snooze during the day when not hunting or patrolling their territory. Your cat may just be storing energy for later escapades. Cats sleep when bored. Some cats snooze when they're bored. If your cat naps while you're away or busy, it could be because they don't have anything to keep them occupied. Cats do best when they have many places to explore and activities to engage their minds. Food puzzles require cats to use their curiosity, problem-solving skills, and paws to find and liberate treats. Cats sleep when anxious. Cats often sleep more when they're anxious, stressed, or depressed. Other signs of feline stress include hiding or withdrawing. Some cats vomit or have diarrhea, and others begin to eat or drink less. Changes in household routines often result in feline anxiety. New babies and pets are other common causes of stress in cats. Creating a safe space for your cat where they can hang out when things start becoming too much can help lower their stress level. Make sure the room has a litter box, food, water, and plenty of high perches where your cat can relax in peace. Cats sleep when sick. Cats that aren't feeling well often sleep more than normal. Healing requires energy, so it's normal for sick people and cats to be tired as their bodies recover. Other changes in sleeping patterns can signify illness in some cats. So, reach out to your veterinarian if your companion is suddenly sleeping more or less than normal, particularly if they're exhibiting other signs of illness, such as lack of appetite and lethargy. But if your cat sleeps a lot in general, there's probably nothing to worry about. Cats sleep when ill. Cats sometimes start sleeping more when suffering from a condition such as a kidney disease or hypothyroidism. Older cats often snooze more if they're having trouble hearing or suffering from dementia. It's best to have your veterinarian examine your cat if they start sleeping more than usual. An early diagnosis of severe disease can benefit the treatment process considerably. Cats sleep more at certain ages. Cats often sleep more as they age and when they're young. Just like humans, older cats begin to slow down over time. Once cats hit their senior years, it's normal for them to spend more hours napping. But make sure to take senior cats for the twice-yearly checkups recommended by veterinarians to stay on top of their health. Cats are generally considered senior when they hit 11 to 14 years, and those over 15 qualify as geriatric. If your cat has hit their golden years, their increased sleeping may just be part of the natural aging process. Kittens can sleep for up to 22 hours per day. Cats often nap. Your cat may be napping when you think they're sleeping. While cats spend a fair amount of time sleeping, they also spend plenty of hours just napping, a sort of light snooze from which they can wake in a snap. Cats often nap when hanging out with their favorite people, as it allows them to relax and keep an eye on you at the same time. Cats sleep more in bad weather. Cats often curl up and snooze when it's cold and rainy outside. Even indoor only cats seek warmth and comfort on those cold, miserable days when humans long to curl up with a book and a warm cup of tea. Several cat owners have mentioned that their cat companion sleep more during foul weather. Make sure your cat has warm places to snuggle if you live in a location where the mercury regularly drops. Cats like it warm, but they're generally fine if the thermostat hovers around 70 degrees Fahrenheit. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


Welcome to ITW Extra, powered by JSA, the official live broadcast of ITW 2023. I'm Buffy Harakitas of JSA, and we are coming to you live from the National Harbor for day two of ITW. And joining me today on the Expo floor, which is already buzzing this morning, is Bob Cromley. He is the Senior Director of Sales for Precision OT. Bob, welcome to ITW Extra. Thank you, glad to be here. You're right, we're seeing a lot of foot traffic. It's pretty exciting for us. Yeah, I mean, day two, the floor is already buzzing bright and early here at the National Harbor. It's gonna be a beautiful day. We have so many interviews lined up for viewers at home. So for the viewers at home that might not already know about Precision OT, can you tell us a little bit more about what makes it so unique? Definitely. And so one of the things, I'm relatively new to the company, been here within the past 90 days, but I've been in the space for quite a long time. And I chose to come over to Precision because of the uniqueness of the desire to take care of customers from a solution standpoint. So it's more than just an optic. We're selling a total solution for the network and helping them get up and running. Yes, we've been working with Precision OT for quite some time now, so welcome to the team. Thank you. I heard you already hit the ground running and in February Precision OT announced a new distributor alliance program. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Sure, definitely. We've partnered with Nordic Navigator, AMT and also Wood Communication. And purpose is, we've already had a strong presence with a global footprint, but we wanted to define that even more so that we have an extension of our team. We're working with product quality. We're working with sales groups and also the technical support in other areas. And when it comes to some of the trends, network providers are interested in, can you talk a little bit more to that? Sure, definitely so. It's really important, obviously, for 400 gig, 800 gig support of 5G, but really the trend that we are seeing is that need for the back end support and making things for operational simplicity. The idea always comes through, we've got the technology, we're working on technological advancements, but it's how we take care of the customer and help them drive their network and then their customer success. Yeah, I mean customer success is everything in today's world. What can we expect to see from Precision OT in the next few months ahead? Oh gosh, there's tons coming. We've got one of our VPs, Jerry, he'll be giving a talk later today, so I encourage everybody to get to that. But also the idea that precision is very focused on technological advancements, working with current product line, finding different product lines to bring to the table to help our customers. And then again, just that excessive customer interaction, we're laser focused on that and providing those to our teams. Is there anything else you wanna add today, Bob? No, I appreciate you having me here. Yeah, it's been a pleasure. And what booth are you guys? I can see it right over there. Booth number. I don't know the number. Well, they are right down. Apologize. Right down at 200. I'll 200 here at ITW 2023. And where can viewers go if they wanna learn more? PrecisionOT.com, join us. PrecisionOT.com, I'll 200 here at ITW on the Expo floor. Thank you again, Bob. Congratulations on joining Precision OT. We can't wait to hear more. And thank you viewers for tuning in to another episode of ITW Extra, powered by JSA Live from National Harbor for ITW 2023. Happy networking. Bye-bye.


d the challenge I guess back to us on that as well is this is information which is valid all year minor injuries and I suppose the question is whether these are behaviours that you can build in across the year you made the point around pharmacy and with prescription for excellence we see pharmacists increasingly as a frontline primary care service provider so again that might also be a location but I think that idea of local information is something that we can take away okay and I appreciate that many GP you send a letter out in relation to flu immunisation so actually having the winter plan for over the Christmas period as part of that letter and saying look this is one we're going to be open your pharmacy will or will not be open or whatever gives local information I think it's an excellent suggestion that Bob's made and it wouldn't cost a lot to actually say this should be done as a regular thing we've got a meeting lined up with the directors of communication from each of the health boards early in January and it is a good idea we'll build that into it GP's tell us repeatedly that they should be the centre of a community health hub and that this certainly gives them a key responsibility to take that message forward perhaps for next winter my final question was going to be asked how we monitor the effectiveness of all these things so I'd like you to answer that but actually one of the things we haven't really spoken about today is in terms of over the winter period preparedness for at home care packages I think we'll all know from family members that it's not just about having prescriptions, having medications knowing when A&E's open knowing when the chemist is open knowing when the GP's are open et cetera et cetera et cetera but given the nature of leave or these areas or agencies how much work has been done to make sure if you get a care at home package for maybe I can think of constituents of mine who require four visits a day for primary care fundamental primary care assistance and to make sure that that continues seamlessly throughout the winter period because if we don't get that right apart from the dignity of the individual of course what's left open to them is family members taking them to A&E and the like of its very vulnerable free individuals that would be involved It's a really important point and it's probably the location of care that more people will receive care over this winter is care at home certainly the work that we did in 2009 when we had significant issues around access and availability and travel with the snow and the ice and everything we liaised very directly across that period with local government systems to understand to ensure that they had appropriate arrangements in place to provide continuity of care that they knew who was receiving care what the nature and structure and to be assured that it was continuing so we would look to our local government colleagues we don't monitor that in quite the same way that we monitor the NHS but again that's part of the part of the overall resilience work that we will be doing a key component I think of how we've changed the guide in some winter for 14-15 from previous years is also that we're now bringing in the interim chief officers of the integration bodies which will have that responsibility for social care and an expectation that they increasingly play a part seeing that interaction between health and social care at present the arrangements that we have in place are the resilience approach to ensuring that we've got appropriate liaison in place should winter become challenging we don't have the same degree of granularity in terms of individual services or individual authorities as we would for hospitals or health boards I don't really have a follow-up question other than to make the observation it would appear that that's an area that across Scotland we need further work on and hopefully integration will help with that if your care visit doesn't turn up on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day who do you call how do you get that resolved that kind of thing I'd make a comment on that we've been working with directors of HR from health boards and directors of personnel from local authorities for the past nine, ten months probably and one of the key priorities that we've asked them to focus on is joint workforce planning across both of those organisations for the delivery of integrated health and social care okay, thank you the health boards themselves in Glasgow Clyde there's about 20 bullet points in and around all of that I think what's missing though is the evaluation and it's quite interesting I think to give a plug for the joint initiative for the British Red Cross to provide transport services that supports this charging elderly place so the Red Cross is involved as well with the added benefit that they can take people from A&E in receiving wards particularly well received initiative because the British Red Cross not only transport the patients home but see them settled and ensure they have basic essentials and if necessary can wait for relatives and garers so there is a great detail that's going on in terms of the planning I think but what's not obvious I think Bob is correct is that the same analysis of what works that you apply in the health services maybe not being applied in other areas but certainly the components they seem to be there anyway it's coming together and we can see in preparation for the integrated joint boards we are having much closer contact with through COSLA but also directly with the shadow chief officers the David Williams the chief officer of Glasgow city is on the national and schedule care steering group he's advising us he's working with us and just a comment the Red Cross initiative is a really good one that works Graham Day just to look at the work that's being done the flow of patients through hospitals in the winter time in regard to time of discharge because as I understand it one of the biggest obstacles to getting people who are able to leave the hospital out of the hospital time is accessing prescription medicines that are being dispensed by the inhospital pharmacy and it strikes me if you've found the way to crack that for the winter time we want to watch here for 365 days of the year what works going on there have you found the way to tackle the pharmacy issue we are working on that and one of our key messages through our on schedule care programme and in our winter guidance is that the focus has to be on time of day discharge as well as and weekend discharge rates because we've got a significant reduction in weekend discharge and also the time of day makes the big difference in the balance so there's a lot of work going on to answer your question have we cracked that specific no we haven't yet but in terms of the work that we've got and the programmes of work that we've got with the royal colleges of surgeons and physicians the Royal College of Nursing focusing in on that we believe that we will be able to make the cultural and behavioural changes that we need to do and the issue of how you get the script out quicker is around the way the ward rounds take place and it boils down to the most junior doctor writing the scripts sometimes so therefore what we're doing is looking at the way the ward rounds go change and we're also introducing things like board rounds hospital instead of a full ward round just board rounds that quickly by which patients can go home and then to prioritise that so we are working on that we're also looking at things like delegated discharge and in the Victoria in Glasgow they've introduced that and in the wards that they've introduced it they've moved the time of day of discharge prenoon discharge rate from 13% to around about 35% so we've got learning events we're rolling that out our unscheduled care six monthly learning event in September that we used to launch the winter campaign we rolled that out we had a session on that and we're developing improvement programs around that Just to echo Alan's points the pharmacy script on is quite a difficult one to crack but there are things you can do in terms of the night before make sure if you've got patients who have a care package starting the following day the discharge script can be ready the night before to go home with the patient and I think we're really starting to better understand the reasons why people aren't going home in the morning there's been work done on something called the day of care survey that we've been looking at in conjunction with the Royal College of Physicians looking at patients who are in hospital at any one time and what proportion of those are no longer needing acute care and it depends where you look it's broadly the same be it's Scotland be it England be it Australia about between 20 and 25% of patients don't need to be in hospital anymore and they're waiting for various things it could be pharmacies it could be consultant warjans consultant decisions multidisciplinary team decisions and so having a better understanding of why these people are delayed in hospital allows us then to thank you just to just in the delegated powers of discharge to speed up the process that means that the words this circuit discharge or a allied health professional how has that been received by patients and families in terms of I know that waiting in the consultant doing these rounds can delay it for but there is a certain reassurance in that dealing with vulnerable people or older people in particular that we're not being rushed out of the hospital or whatever criteria is that there's agreement against a set criteria that if the patient's blood's come back and they're okay or if the X-ray result comes back and they're okay and there's no temperature set criteria that gives the reassurance to the point that you've just raised is it widely talked about better? I think that communication with the patient is absolutely key so for example I see patients on the warground and I'll make very clear that I think that you'll get better tomorrow and if your temperature's better and your blood tests look better then this is my junior doctor, Dr Smith he'll come and see you and we'll get you away home if these things are met they know that we're planning to get them away home and you're thinking about discharge when the patient first comes in but they're fully aware of what needs to happen before they can be discharged and also the junior doctor knows that the nursing staff know and the patient and their relatives know and just one final comment on the robotic people can remind me but I think to discharge someone early in the day they would actually need to be in the robotic centre in Glasgow the night before would it not? So it's not you know it's got to be there or there's an automatic delay I think it's not a matter, it would be nice for the script to be there the night before it's almost got to be there the day before it's got to be done isn't it? Yeah, there are ways of getting the scripts obviously expedited for certain patients but yes the standard practice is to get the script down before a set time but clearly as the ward gets busier the junior doctor may not get that script done and then it's delayed overnight so there are reasons in the system why I have a plan this time Is there any way of circumventing that in a work in the local pharmacy and during a busy winter period I think what your point draws out maybe more strongly is the need to at the point of admission and through care be thinking about discharge so that discharge isn't a surprise on the Tuesday morning in that discharge was contemplated on Sunday afternoon and so that the steps that were going to be required are being taken even if they're not things which are done directly by the treating clinician is being part of a system and that it's part of a system that they're interacting with the other health professionals to ensure that the individual gets the objective which they have which is to return home as quickly as possible so it's probably a mindset component as much as fixes that help when you haven't done the thinking properly and that's the objective Is there any other question? What we saw in Glasgow was this centralized robotic dispensing two local dispensaries in the hospitals but the patient's also keeping their own medicines within a defined area within the ward so that can be topped up and got ready for discharge it seemed a very sensible approach a combination of centralized robotics for the whole of Glasgow plus localised dispensing so 4th valley has a variation on that which works very well as well Can I ask a final little point about patient flow just within the hospital as opposed to coming out that clearly the issue of boarding out is quite a vexed one we have a recording system in place supposedly but actually you have to define what's a boarding out and I think Dr Beckett and I have had conversations about this and I just wonder if you'd like to put anything on the record on this because I know he's done some work particularly on that area I think you're right we've traded emails and it's surprisingly difficult to define what a patient who's boarded out is but we've done that, we've redefined that and we're asking boards to report on a weekly basis the number of boarders that they have I think in terms of patients being boarded out it's important to recognise what that is and that boarding is a item of poor flow rather than boarding being the problem itself there are multiple manifestations of poor flow so boarding patients being one crowding in the emergency department being another high readmission rates being another so if we were to tackle one of these in isolation then we would risk causing problems elsewhere in the system and clearly what we need to do and what we're looking at very carefully just now is how we improve patient flow across the whole system measuring boarding as one outcome measure of that also measuring performance against the four hour standard in the emergency department as another marker of that and that's work that's being progressed through the unscheduled care steering group and the unscheduled care programme board as an aside you'll know that we are looking to Scotland really is the only country that's done any research looking at the outcomes of patients who are boarded to publish that I hesitate to put a date on that but within the next six months would be nice and the other issue I've been pressing in a number of forums is the linkage of cognitive assessment to boarding out because the dangers of that I don't know where we've got to on that because clearly if you board out if you have to board out patients and you board out people with cognitive impairment that creates a further problem downstream of how you get them home because you institutionalise them further they have particular difficulties if you move them around so I just wonder where we are with linking those two systems which we've now got in place I'm not aware of any direct linkage between the two I know that a couple of health boards are looking to gather data on proportion of patients with cognitive impairment that are boarded out at any one stage but I think the message that I would be keen to get across is that all boarding is bad and we should look at eliminating all boarding through improving flow a lot of patients clearly a significant proportion of patients that come into hospital are elderly with cognitive impairment and we should be looking at making sure that those patients are getting to the right ward first time through improving flow looking at variation in the system and that's work that we're taking forward and certainly what we're doing in the steering group of the unscheduled care is around eliminating boarding wherever we can and I know that in the older people in acute healthcare audits of hospitals they go round and emphasise the importance of not boarding people with cognitive impairment we have done some particular work around dementia as a subgroup of people with cognitive assessment or cognitive impairment and I could certainly pull together what we have on that if that would be of help thank you Bob I think we've got one last question in this area more of a moping up exercise so we get an opportunity to put some of this on the record we mentioned right at the start planned elective procedures being downsized in the scale over the festive periods there'll be less of them and then some of them depending on other pinch point pressures may fall by the wayside as well and I know that that's been routine quite frankly for many years in terms of managing winter stresses and strains but within that of course what this committee would be concerned about would be particular elective procedures which are seen as urgent or emergency perhaps cancer treatments that kind of thing so we've just a few words on that to get something on the record in relation to that I think it was mentioned right at the start of what evidence session today it's just to get some of that on the record I'll offer a couple of comments certainly one of the areas where we expect NHS boards to be very much on the ball in terms of their winter planning in that elective by the term indicates that this is planned work and so that they should be looking across the period of winter particularly the two weeks around the part which is likely to be the most busy and to be thinking of smoothing work in such a way that they're not relying on beds being available that might not be available some boards have also worked in that way to think in terms of a 9 rather than 12 as being their planning presumption and that means that they're likely to be more robust in that area so that there is work already in place the particular reference to cancer has been picked up in the this year's winter guidance which draws the attention of boards to the need to meet the 31 and the 62 day standard and to be thinking again about that as part of their planning process across the winter period again because 31 days and 62 days are longer than the 10 or so days of Christmas so there is the opportunity with robust planning for boards to perform effectively in that area and so it's a particular area now drawn out in the checklist which they're offered but Alan will say a bit more about elective I mean it's part of the winter planning process and it's an escalation process that the last patients that would ever get cancelled would be urgent patients and all the systems are geared to make sure that that doesn't happen the chief medical officer as Jeff said, wrote out on 30 October reminding boards about the importance of planning for maintaining the cancer MDTs over the festive period and putting in place extra diagnostic support to maintain that if required so our tried and tested systems are and I've witnessed them it would not be the urgent patients or any cancer patients that would be cancelled if they have to but the objective is not to board patients into surgical beds wherever possible so the first thing is to avoid that wherever possible I think that brings this very interesting session to your close I thank you all for your attendance here and the extensive measures that are being taken lots just looking over it over the last couple of days and I think it was very interesting coming along and speaking to that evidence it's very significant planning measures indeed and we wish you a very happy Christmas and I hope that all of that planning is rewarded by coping with all the stresses and strains over the Christmas and New Year period thank you very much for being here this morning we're going to suspend very briefly and we're going to go quickly to our points on the agenda


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Welcome into the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein and we're gonna hit a Lightning rod of a topic right now a hot button issue. That's been percolating online for for a little bit Definitely more recently. We're gonna talk about Michael Francis who I just want to you know get off You know get off my chest right off the bat. I got nothing but respect for this guy He is literally a genius both in what he did as a wise guy and What he's been able to do in his legitimate business over the last 30 years he you know that this idea of You know people branding themselves and and making themselves a brand that's kind of been more you know in the Influencer social media era Mike Francis like he invented the blueprint for this in the 90s So, you know, he he's a real visionary and pioneer and there's a lot of debate about whether or not He cooperated or what his cooperation can be categorized as You know, is he a Rat is he a snitch? Is he a cooperator? Again, I that's neither here nor there. I'm not I'm not into editorializing I'm just gonna give you the straight facts and Norby Walters a Incredibly powerful prominent and popular music agent power broker in the entertainment industry he passed away this week at age 92 and Back in 1989. He was on trial for Racketeering related to a sports agency that he opened up And I'm gonna give you a little backstory on him in a quick second and Michael Francis was the star witness at that trial and Norby Walters was initially convicted Sentenced to I believe 10 years in prison and then never did any of the time the the case was thrown out His conviction was thrown out and he went about his life returned to the case was out of Chicago returned to his life in Hollywood and and You know was was brought right back in with with open arms over the last two and a half three decades He's been holding a pretty Swanky Oscar viewing party in Beverly Hills. It's gotten a lot of attention from the tabloids But he is without question. It's not it's not really debatable. These are facts during his Business career starting back in the 60s Maybe even in the late 50s in the New York nightclub restaurant scene he was under the protection of Sonny Francis the legendary underboss of the Colombo crime family and Michael Francis his dad and mentor and He was paying tribute From his nightclub businesses in his restaurants lounges Sonny Francis went to prison in the late 60s early 1970s and According to testimony and FBI Documents records court filings Norby Walters continued to pay tribute to the Francis crew through Michael And then at some point he goes to LA and Becomes the number one music agent booking agent for all of the biggest R&B disco Funk and Soul acts of the 70s and 80s. I mean, it's just a a list of Hall of Famers the Commodores Marvin Gaye Cool in the game Gloria Gaynor Dionne Warwick Luther Vandross new edition the Jackson five there was just you know, he represented them all and According to Michael Francis and and his testimony the the Colombo saw a piece of that business and That that piece of that business grew as the business group there was a incident an anecdote that comes up in a FBI file Record document and Michael Francis also testified to this that after Sonny Francis got out of prison in 1979 he had It'd been a long time battle with the government over, you know, multitude of things but at the end they nailed him on a very questionable bank robbing conspiracy And then that's really what jammed him up until the end of his life kept on getting violated and going back to prison Into his you know He was in his 90s and 100 died at 103 a couple years ago that true og and it defines the term og You look up og in the dictionary Sonny Francis's faces is staring right back at actually so he gets out of prison in 1979 and he calls Norby Walters to a meeting by this point Norby Walters had become a really big deal in the music industry and Francis and the Columbus were seeing a piece of this But it all changed in 1979 when when Francis got out of prison and he He gets Sonny or he gets nor Norby Walters At a meeting and Sonny Francis says you all right All the kind of nickel and diming is now a thing of the past. I'm in for 50% I got half of your business and that continued through the 80s when he got into trouble and this is where Michael Francis's testimony comes into play Norby Walters had had found such success in the music industry decides that he wants to throw his hat into the world of sports agent team and in 1985 opens up a sports agency In a shady move, I don't know how illegal it was but in a shady move he Go in and throughout the 84 85 college Athletic season football and basketball Him and a partner of his go and they sign up like 60 College athletes that have pro potential and this is totally illegal in the in the eyes of the NCAA it's a huge violation in terms of college athletics but in in the world of the justice system it falls in some gray areas and With within those contracts that he's signing these kids to he's giving them cash advances and cars and trips jewelry At the end of the day He didn't turn out to be able to close on those deals and like 58 of the 60 people that he had signed up ended up going with Other agents once they turn pro But a lot of money had been Put out and norby welter's gotten trouble by trying to collect That money to some of these now pro at that point pro athletes that had taken money from him as amateurs There was racketeering As well as a mail fraud and wire fraud charges that he got hit with Francise gets nailed Michael Francise gets nailed in the end of 85 In a racketeering money laundering extortion all tied to Get various rackets, but if that the center of it was that you know classic You know brilliant, you know bootleg gas scam and he wants to leave the life and He doesn't have to testify against his father or any of the persicles or any of the Colombo bosses but he had to testify against norby walters takes to stand in 1989 he admits to Not so much with the sports agency, but when he's given backstory he admitted to you know muscling a lot of famous Musical acts in order for them to stay keep their business with norby. He mentioned specifically The Jackson five the on Warwick new edition. I think with the new edition guys they wanted to leave norby and Michael Francise steps in and says, oh, you know that You know that thirty thousand dollar alone that norby gave you well twenty of that is mine and You ain't going anywhere and another situation. He goes to the Jackson five Manager with with some guys with him including his best friend at that time champagne Larry Coroza who ends up getting killed issues with drugs and Francise's sister and They tell the Jackson five owner that you know both the Jackson five manager that You know that tour you're going on that you're trying to cut norby off from it You ain't going on a tour unless Norby's and us, you know by proxy are in for a piece of it And then same thing with the on Warwick's Representation and this was all testified to a date 1989 trial, but Michael Francise now again he's a superstar and You know, he's he's laid the foundation for all the stuff that's going on online right now and YouTube and branding He's just he's really the gold standard. So I Got nothing but respect for the guy, but with norby welter's passing I thought I'd add some clarification to that whole situation and that's you know the long and the short of it for OG pod Scott Bernstein