very welcome indeed. I particularly want to welcome the Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Lane. He was, as we know, appointed Governor in November of last year. And he is currently on leave from his position in Trinity College, where he's a highly professor of political economy, a chair that, of course, has had many distinguished predecessors, such as Dermot McAleese, our dear friend and colleague. The governor began lecturing there in 1997. He has a PhD in economics, which is from Harvard. He was system professor of economics and international affairs at Columbia between 95 and 97. And he has served, of course, in very many important capacities in the European system, including the advisory scientific committee of the Systemic Risk Board. His interest, his particular academic interests are financial globalization, European monetary integration, macro economic policy design, and the macro economics of exchange rates and capital flows. He has set us a new protocol today, which he commented on himself earlier. And not normally speaking, the Institute sort of closes down during the month of August, in best European style. But this was too great an opportunity for us to pass up, so we decided to host it today. It was great delight and much enthusiasm. And the astonishing thing is that there's so many people here, in a sense, that this is one of the biggest audiences we have ever had for any speaker. So I think we'll probably keep the doors open next year at the end of August in anticipation of being inundated with great numbers of people. In a certain sense, the governor has indicated that an academic style that today is a sort of end-of-term review. There have been three major publications about the Irish economy, which he will mention, and that has given him the framework in which to offer certain views. He's going to provide an overview of the macro financial challenges facing the country. He'll discuss our macro economic prospects. And of course, he's going to have a look at the implications of Brexit, for the economy as a whole, and for the financial system in particular. So it gives me great pleasure indeed to invite Governor Lane to address you. So of course, having this timing in August, it may be practiced for next year, which will be the 10-year anniversary of the start of the global crisis. So I'm sure you've got your plans for the 7th of August, 2017. So it's a pleasure to address the members of the IIEA today. As Brendan said, it's timely to provide a mid-year assessment of the macro financial environment facing Ireland, especially in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum. In addition, over the last few weeks, there's been numerous publications by the Central Bank itself, the International Monetary Fund, the European Banking Authority, and the Central Statistics Office. And all of these publications are relevant in performing a considered review of the current economic and financial challenges facing Ireland. So today, what I'm going to do is, first of all, I'll look at the provided brief overview of the Irish and European macro environment. Second, I'll outline some lessons from the IMF's Article 4 and financial sector stability assessment reports, which came out a few days ago. Third, I will discuss the recent bank stress exercises. Fourth, I'll look at Brexit, both from a macro perspective and in relation to Ireland's role as a financial centre. And finally, I will conclude by looking at the measurement issues in assessing the Irish macro financial environment. So turning first to the macroeconomic data, in relation to the broad Euro area macroeconomic environment, the latest ECB governing council monetary policy meeting on July 21 assessed that the Euro area economic recovery is expected to continue at a moderate pace. So it's happening if only at a moderate pace and in turn it's supported by accommodative monetary and financial conditions. That said, given prevailing uncertainties, the governing council will continue to monitor economic and financial market developments. And over the coming months, we concluded at the last meeting that when we have more information, including new staff projections, we will be in a better position to assess the underlying macro conditions, the most likely paths for inflation and growth, and the distribution of risks around these paths. And as you well understand by now, if warranted to achieve its objective, the governing council will act by using all the instruments available within its mandate. Now turning to the Irish economy, it is possible to filter the noisy headline data, which I'll return to later in the speech, to identify a range of domestically focused aggregate variables such as employment, consumer spending, and a suitably adjusted measure of investment to indicate that the Irish economy is performing well. Although living standards and the level of employment remain below pre-crisis levels, much of the ground last year in the crisis has been recovered over the last three years. Now even allowing for a material adjustment for the negative impact of Brexit, which again I'll come back to later in the speech, the bank's latest quarterly bulletin, which came out last week, still conditionally projects fairly decent growth rates of 4.9% this year and 3.6% next year, with the key unemployment indicator falling to 7.2% next year. Now at the same time, the legacy of high public and private sector debts and the sensitivity of small, highly open economies to international shocks, mean that there remain considerable downside risks to this central scenario. And again, the article four reported the IMF, which came out a few days ago, provides a valuable independent risk assessment, together with a range of recommendations to mitigate those downside risks, and also to support a robust and inclusive medium term growth strategy. The IMF also published its financial sector assessment report for Ireland. In turn, this is based on a comprehensive financial sector assessment program, or FSAP, which is an in depth exercise to assess the resilience of the financial sector, the quality of the regulatory and supervise the framework, and the capacity to manage and resolve financial crises. The FSAP exercise started in September 2015, and included extensive engagement with the central bank, between the IMF and the central bank, the Department of Finance, the European Central Bank and a whole range of other stakeholders in the financial system, both here and overseas. To give you a sense of the scale and scope of this exercise, the third and final mission visit in March involved 10 IMF staff on the ground in Dublin, more than 130 meetings in Dublin, Frankfurt and London, and the submission of over 300 documents, many of which were hundreds of pages long. So this is a big independent assessment of our financial sector and our regulatory environment. And the conclusion of this project and the publication last week of the assessment report is an important milestone, since it's the first such review since the crisis, and provides a timely assessment of our progress against international standards and best practice. In addition, of course, it represents a further marker of the renormalization of Ireland's relationship with the IMF. Now, the central bank welcomes the policy broadly positive assessment, which reflects the efforts of the Irish authorities in recent years to address the weaknesses in structural, regulatory and supervise the arrangements that existed prior to the crisis. The assessment of reports recognises the significant strengthening of the financial system, the major structural changes that have taken place in recent years, and the implementation of a more proactive regulatory approach. What one of the conclusions being that the authorities have been effective and vigorous in strengthening prudential regulation supervision, implementing the lessons of the crisis, and keeping up with developments in European and international practice. In relation to the supervision of securities markets, the assessment report also acknowledges the bank's leading role in the analysis of collective investment activities, which is significant and viewed as large scale and international interconnectedness of the Irish investment funds sector. Now, at the same time, the IMF has also made a number of important recommendations to increase further the resilience of the Irish financial sector and improve the effectiveness of the central bank as a regulator. We've already started to work on these recommendations in conjunction with the other Irish authorities and our European counterparts. For example, to take one issue, the bank has recently formed a new internal advisory committee on the design of domestic macro-idential policy measures, including the borrower based mortgage rules, the counter statistical capital buffer, and the famous OC buffer, which we all know means the other systemally important significant institution buffer. So in line with the IMF's recommendation to improve further the degree of public transparency in relation to our decision making processes, and in line with our own ongoing commitment to provide evidence-based explanations for our policy measures, summary records of the meetings of this new macro-idential measures committee, the MMC, will be published in due course. Another element of the FSAAP project was a stress test exercise for the banking system. The forward looking assessment of the resilience of banks to various risk scenarios is a key tool in informing supervisory actions and financial stability policies. In fact, the bank has recently participated in three such exercises. First, as part of the IMF FSAAP. Second, as part of the wider bank stress test across the European Union, led by the European Banking Authority, and the results I read came out late Friday night, and third, the single supervisory mechanism stress tests, which followed the EBA methodology and ran concurrently with it. In addition, the bank also continues to review and challenge the bank's own stress testing approaches and outcomes. So let me focus on the FSAAP and EBA exercises, since these outcomes are now in the public domain. So the IMF FSAAP bank stress test was supported by the bank's own analytical framework. Again, these adverse scenarios and stress tests are not predictive, but the FSAAP, for example, was designed to assess the capacity of Irish banks to withstand a severe but plausible scenario of a simultaneous downturn in the Irish and UK economies, characterized by a fall in property prices and a widening of sovereign spreads that, in turn, triggers increased funding costs for banks. And the exercise confirmed that the risks within the banking sector are manageable at a system-wide level. Now, not surprisingly, it also highlighted that some vulnerabilities still exist as a consequence of the recent crisis. Turning to the EBA stress tests, this is really a useful barometer to assess the health of the European banking sector and to focus on the largest banks operating in the European Union, including AIB and Bank of Ireland here. Now, relative to other member countries, the Irish banking system has experienced higher loan loss rates since 2008, we notice. Since projected credit losses in the adverse scenario of any stress test are calculated based on past experience, the capital depletion in the adverse scenario is inevitably more pronounced for Irish institutions. Stronger starting capital positions coupled with ongoing balance sheet repair has enabled European banks, including the Irish banks, to withstand a more severe scenario in this year's stress test compared to the specification of the 2014 stress test. As with the FSTAP stress test results, the primary message from the exercise is that the Irish banks, included in the EBA sample, AIB and Bank of Ireland are adequately capitalised but remain vulnerable to a downturn, especially in relation to the continued work out of problem loans and the sustainability under stress of current profitability levels. So if you take the FSTAP, the EBA and the SSM stress test results, together with additional stress testing work by our supervisory staff, these are being combined with a full risk assessment for all in-scope banks to feed into the annual supervisee review and evaluation process, the so-called SHREP, which is used to determine capital requirements and capital guidance for banks. In addition, the stress tests and SHREP inform the risk mitigation programmes which are focused on driving the banks to continue to reduce their risk profiles. As the ECB is now the competent authority for the supervision of Irish banks, the focus of our joint work includes ensuring that banks make further progress in the work out of problem loans, have credible business strategies and risk management plans in place to increase resilience to deterioration in their operating environment, including any adverse consequences of Brexit. So on Brexit, the short and medium term macroeconomic effects on Ireland of Brexit depend on several factors, most directly a slowdown in UK output growth and a depreciation of sterling against the euro adversely affect UK- orientated Irish exporters. And these factors, these two factors, UK output and the bilateral exchange rate, explain why we have materially revised our growth forecasts for 2016 and 2017. While the Irish economy has become less reliant on the UK for trade over recent decades, the UK remains an important market for many Indigenous firms, with the agri-food and tourism sectors especially exposed. Now, at the same time, it's important to put the recent depreciation of sterling against the euro into context, since it can also be interpreted as the unwinding of the bilateral appreciation that began in summer 2014. So the current rate of 80.84 is very close to the average rate between the start of 2009 and summer 2014 of 0.85. So where we are now is basically where we were for most of the time, 09 to 2014. And what's happened then is just basically an appreciation followed by a depreciation of sterling. So it's important to put it into that context. Now, at the same time, the sterling euro rate remains a lot weaker compared to pre-crisis patterns. Recall that the average pound euro rate between the onset of the euro in 2009 and summer 2007 pre-crisis was at 0.67. So, you know, the analytical framework of where we are now has a post-crisis benchmark and a pre-crisis benchmark. And how we think about the impact of the exchange rate depends on that history. Despite some initial fears, we've yet to see the operation of more powerful transmission mechanisms by which Brexit triggers a more general international decline in conference indicators and or initiates a risk-off phase in the international financial system that would involve a general repricing of risk-premia, a decline in asset values and a tightening in financial conditions. Rather, so far, the international markets have focused on the likelihood of a prolongation of low policy rates with a visible drop in the yields of many sovereign bond markets and a related reduction in bank equity values. So, while financial contagion channels have not yet been strongly operative, the gradual crystallization of the prospective new relationship between the UK and the EU in the coming months carries the continuous risk of triggering adverse market developments if a harder form of Brexit emerges as the more likely final outcome. Moreover, in view of the tight economic and financial links to the UK and the high levels of private and public sector debt, Ireland is especially vulnerable to any Brexit related reversal in international financial sentiment. Now, there's also an active debate about the implications of Brexit for the configuration of the European financial sector. The impact on the geographical producers, choices of producers of financial services depends on a wide array of factors, including the accumulated track records as financial centres, the nature of national legal and tax systems, the level of operating costs, transport links and the route of attractiveness of different cities to the families of international mobile financial workers. Since the EU has a harmonised approach to financial regulation, regulatory competition among member states should not be a driving factor in determining locational choices within the EU. This applies especially to the Euro area since the ECB-led single supervising mechanism provides a unified institutional framework for the supervision of banks. Accordingly, the bank's approach to authorising and regulating financial firms is firmly embedded in the wider European system of financial supervision. In particular, the bank has a well-established approach to authorisations in line with the practice of our continental peers. We implement our mission statement of safeguarding stability, protecting consumers, by ensuring that the applicant complies with all relevant EU and national legislative and prudential requirements. These requirements protect consumers of financial services from the potential effects of fraud or failure and assure the various types of funders of financial entities that corporate governance safeguards are robust. In addition, the stability of the domestic and international financial systems is a key focus for the bank and international regulators, with well-designed recovering resolution plans for financial firms, especially systemically important institutions, an important element in limiting contagion and protecting taxpayers in the event a firm goes bust. So the bank is committed to providing a clear, consistent, open and transparent authorisation process while ensuring a rigorous assessment of the applicable regulatory standards. The authorisation gateway forms an important part of our supervisory model based on assertive risk-based supervision in line with international standards and underpinned by the credible threat of enforcement. To ensure transparent and predictable authorisation timelines for high-volume processes, the bank publishes on a semi-annual basis its service standards in respect to processing authorisations. Coincidentally, the latest report in this series will be published later today, so you have evening reading ahead of you. In relation to unique and complex applications, the authorisation process is inevitably more layered compared to routine cases, requiring a substantial commitment of resources and the assembly of dedicated project teams with the requisite skills and internal governance processes. To deliver an efficient and robust regulatory regime, the bank has expanded its target staffing levels in recent years, subject to the capacity to recruit and retain those with the required skills and experience. Since the establishment of the single supervisory mechanism, the ECB with input from the relevant National Competence Authority, the central bank in Ireland, is the competent authority for granting banking licenses. So the assessment criteria at SSM level are detailed, rigorously applied and unaltered by Brexit. Equally, the SSM is directly responsible for the supervision of significant institutions, with Frankfurt-based personnel leading the joint supervisory teams overseeing each individual institution, such that banks can locate anywhere in the year area and receive the same supervisory treatment, and this is a fundamental principle of a banking union. Banks can go anywhere and have the same supervisory regime within the year area. Now, let me turn, finally, to the challenges involved in measuring macro-financial developments in Ireland. For the conduct of monetary and macro-dental policies, it is essential that there exist robust measures of the levels of domestic incomes and production, together with reliable ancillary measures of sectoral and international financial accounts. More generally, such indicators are also vital for fiscal analysis and many private sector decisions. The highly globalised nature of the Irish macro-financial system means that accurate implementation of UN or Eurostat manuals does not provide sufficient guidance, as is evident from the debate following the most recent CSO releases. Over time, it is desirable that international conventions in the measurement of flows and stocks of economics and financial variables are redesigned in order to avoid anomalous national statistical outcomes and provide sufficient granularity that the different domestic and external uses of national statistics can be accommodated. In the near term, in relation to measurement, there are two domestic challenges. First, I welcome the initiative by the CSO to establish a consultative group, which I will chair, that will consider inter alia the potential for the development of supplementary statistical series that may enhance understanding of the Irish economy and financial system. In recent years, the CSO has published a series of high-quality explanatory notes about the impact of multinational firms on the national accounts. It is timely to build on this work in order to construct useful alternative indicators on an ongoing basis. Second, the policy makers should take care to look through the headline data in order to develop and communicate alternative policy targets that are not affected by the various statistical issues that have been much discussed in recent weeks. So let me conclude. I've covered a wide range of topics. Still, it's possible to identify some common threads that underpin the analysis. First, we should recognize that the baseline case remains quite positive with considerable momentum supporting a broadly-based recovery. Second, at the same time, it is obvious that much remains be accomplished in addressing the adverse legacy effects of the crisis and establishing the foundations for sustainable and inclusive medium-term growth. Third, Ireland continues to be especially vulnerable to downside shocks such that policies to improve the resilience of the private and public sectors are vital. Accordingly, the management of the macro financial implications of Brexit should be underpinned by due consideration of these three factors. For the central bank, the issues identified in my speech today imply a busy ongoing work program in order to fulfill our mandate. I look forward to leading our efforts in the coming months after a short holiday and later this week. So let me stop there.


Hello in this video will learn how to promote your application across environments in this example. We assume that there are three different projects for different environments development QA and production and we will set up these projects in such a way that the developer has edit access to the development project. The tester would have edX access to QA and operations would have edit access to production whereas the tester would have view access to the development project and the same as the operations would have view access to the development project. In the in the real example, I only deal with development project and the QA project production is the production project would be very similar to how we work with the QA project. So how does this work? The developer creates an application in the development project when the devil when an application gets created it it is built by open shift. A Docker image gets created and it will be pushed into the internal Docker registry now development project will have its own image stream which tells you what the what the images name is and what the tags for that image and that's that's where your image is pushed into to that particular image stream we would provide image pull access for QA project and the production project. So now once the application is built now the development product development itself might go through multiple cycles, right? So when the developer is happy with the application and thinks that this is the time to promote this into the QA environment. Let's say right at that point of time the developer can tag that image as ready to promote kind of tag, right? So and at that point of time that particular version of Docker image gets stacked and tester can pull that particular image to create the application in the QA project and same thing can be done in production once the testing is complete another question that comes up is if you're using a single installation of open shift I have some infrastructure where I want to deploy only production loads or I have some cheaper infrastructure where I can run my dev or QA. Can I really direct my workloads production workloads to specific infrastructure? Can I direct my developer workloads to specific infrastructure? That kind of question comes up. The answer is yes, it can be done to show an example of how it is done. Let's have a look at the default project. If you see the annotations here, there is something called a node selector annotation that you can define on a project and this can be done on any project. All it says is when you deploy anything onto this project the parts should run on the nodes with that are labeled as region equal to infra. Now if we have a look at our nodes in my setup anything that I run on in the default project will run only on this particular node in the same way for your setup. Let's say you have specific set of hosts that are meant for deploying production workloads. Let's say then you could set up something like environment equal to production as a label and then on your production project you can set up a node selector that points to environment equal to production and then all that workload that is created in the project will land up only on those particular set of hosts. Now let's create the project and assign permissions. So first I will create a development project and I'm using my username to create this project and in order to add other users for example as a as developers. I have a user with user ID developer dev one. I'll add that user as a developer. So I'll give edit access to the developer to this product. Now this particular developer can deploy applications onto this product. I will also add view access to a tester. I have a tester with ID test one. So I'm saying OC policy add role to user view access to the tester now. I'll also create another project and this is the Q a project and to this project I'll provide edit access to the tester. Now what we what did we do? We created the development project and we give edit access to a developer named Dev one and we give view only access to a tester named test one and we created a Q a project and we gave edit access to the tester. Next, I need to provide this testing Q a project to be able to pull images from the development project. The process is same for the production project. So I'm not doing this part. I'm just dealing with the development and Q a so you so that you get an idea. So in order to do this, I'm saying OC policy add role to group and I'm giving system image puller access to a service account that is created by default in this testing project, which is named as testing. This is the default service account will get image puller access on the development project, right? So I have created a testing project and there is a testing project default service account that gets the image puller access now. I'll log in as a developer and create a new application. So I'll log in as developer Dev one Dev one is a new user. The only project that developer has access to is development and this this is the default project that is getting used now. I'm creating a new application now. So I'm creating this new application based on a template. It's it uses the EAP six basic STI template and I'm providing all the parameters that the template expects. I'm calling my application as my app and I gave a host name my have my app have hyphen Dev which represents development dot apps dot demo v3 all the rest of the URL. Then I am pointing to my Git repository to pull the code from and I'm labeling my application as my app in a few minutes this application will be built and deployed. So I'll pause for a moment while the application gets deployed. The application is deployed and it is now running as a single pod and here is a URL that we gave my app hyphen Dev. Let me open this in a new tab. The application is running. You can see that I have put a version one as a representation here to just know what version of application is running. Now, let's look at the image streams that that are there in this development project. There is an image stream called my app as part of the development project and if I describe this image stream, I'll I'll can see the full name of the image. I'll make a copy of this and now let's say the developers have created this application and they have tested it and I think that it is a candidate to promote into QA. Now in order to promote this into QA, the developers would go and tag this image. So I'm still logged in as a developer. I'm using a command called oc tag and I'm pointing to the full name of this image and I'm giving it a new tag name. I've called it development slash my app, which was which is already there, right? This is development slash my app and but I'm tagging it as promote just to indicate that I want to promote this to QA now. If I run oc describe image streams again, it will show me that there are two tags. One is the latest this will always be the latest and the other is promote which which is just assigned by me and they are both pointing to the same full image name. Now I'll log in as a tester and I'll switch over to the disaster as access to both development and testing and that for the development project. He has view only access. That's what we assigned right? But for the testing project, he has edit access. I'll switch over to the resting project and this time I will create an application by using the image that that is tagged as promote. So you can see I'm pointing to development slash my app colon promote which is the image tag and this is the tag I'm using to create my application inside this testing project. Now when I run this this time, there is no build and deploy. I'm taking an existing Docker image from the development project and I'm deploying it in the QA project. So there isn't there is no build process involved. I'm reusing the Docker image. So that got deployed pretty quickly. Now since I created an application directly by using the Docker image, I didn't use any template. So let me look at the service. I got to expose the service and when I expose the service around gets created and this is the URL that got assigned to this QA project this time. It's my app hyphen testing. This is the project name and let me pull that pull that up in the browser and here is the this this testing application that got deployed inside the testing project. This is the same version one. This was created based on the Docker image that's coming from the development projects image stream. Now I'll make some changes to this application. So let's say I will change the welcome message. Welcome to JVOS AS application running on pen shift and you have successfully this is version 2 commit this changes and now let me switch over and log in as developer again and in the development project. I'll start a new build. This will take a minute for the build to complete. Let's wait for it. The second build is complete. So let's and it should have been already deployed. So let's go and see I'll refresh this application and development and see what happened. Oh, there is a change JVOS AS application. Oops, there is a spelling mistake. There's a typo it's version 2. That's true. But now let's look at the QA version of this application. It's still running version one, which is the older version, right? It's it's not changed. Let's also look at as a developer in the development project. What does the ISA right? There is a the latest is now pointing to a newer version. Whereas promote is continuing to point to the older version. The earlier the latest was pointing to this version. So both are there, but the the Docker image the latest is pointing to the whatever was built just a couple of minutes ago, right? QA continues to stay on that promote where the promote tag is pointing to. So that's the reason why this QA application has not changed. It remains the same now. Let's make one more change. We'll fix this error made in this development version. Now I'm fixing this mistake that I did in the past as a developer and I'm being more careful this time and this is version 3 commit the changes make sure I'm logged in as developer and start a new build. Now build 3 has started. Let's give it a minute. Build 3 shows as now complete. Let's go back and rough just this page. Yes. Now the mistakes are fixed. It's version 3. Let's look at QA. It continues to be at version 1. Now let's say we test this application and everything is good. It's there are no mistakes in this application and now it's ready to promote, right? Now I go back to the development project and I'll find the tag for the latest which is the good version. So I'm using the full image name again and I'm applying the same promote tag on this new image now. So I'm running the same OC tag command and I'm taking the newer version of full image ID and I'm applying the same promote tag on that. So right now if you see the promote is pointing to whatever was the version one. It's ending in 98 F. The version one was 98 F the latest is now D1F and I'm trying to tag it as promote on D1F. So once I promote if I log in as tester and I switch over to the testing project by the time I came here a newer version got deployed about 14 seconds back. So which means I didn't have to do anything. All I did was I applied the promote tag based on which this QA version of the project was using the application as this application was created from promote tag and since that version of the application with promote tag changed it automatically redeployed it. Now let's go back and check the QA application this time the testing application if I refresh now it's running version three. So it's as simple as that the development goes through cycles they may have some versions of their doc development Docker images that are not ready to go to QA. So you will not touch this but when they are ready to pass them on to QA they can just go and tag them as okay promote to QA and it gets promoted to QA. So we have seen how a project can be promoted from development to QA and now the QA can have its own cycles and when they are ready to move it to production they can intimate operations and the production project can be set up exactly the same way how we did with the QA project to have image pull access from development and view access from the production project to the development project's image stream so that you are able to pull the images and the images can land in production in the same way. So this is how you can do promotion across the environments when OpenShift is managed as a single deployment and there are three different projects for development QA and production. Now there is another way that you could use where you have completely distinct OpenShift environments for development QA and production or maybe one environment for Dev and QA and a distinct one from production for whatever the reasons are. In such a case what you would do is expose the Docker registry outside. So OpenShift runs the Docker registry as a part. So you would expose the Docker registry's service with a name so that and make it accessible from the other OpenShift environment where the production project is running. So that way you would deploy the application in production for example by pulling an image from the Docker registry from the other OpenShift environment. So it's pretty similar, but it's two different environments. So your access is not within internally. It has to in your QA or production, you are actually pulling an image from a Docker registry from a completely different environment. I hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks for watching.


Hey guys, it's Nate A.K., the Foot Accountant, and welcome back to the channel. I've got a bold prediction, guys, and it has to do with that loading screen and the upcoming FC Fantasy promo and what it could do to FC 24 Ultimate Team. Today, I want to look forward to that because that's all the hype in this game, right? Now, Future Stars is ending. Today is the last day, but I want to look forward to that FC Fantasy promo and how it actually might change some things, at least what I think, for the better on this game. We're going to talk about that, some leaks that we have with official players already coming in that promo, and a lot more. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's go over yesterday's SBC content, which was not the Udogi SBC, yet again, another day without seeing that player SBC. Today has to be Udogi Day, or else it's going to go into the graveyard of unreleased SBCs with Foot Miss Gabrielle Jesus, if you know, you know. Let's talk about the SBC that was released yesterday, though. It was the other French center back, two days in a row, with French center back SBCs. DeSasi two days ago, and Bade yesterday, sick dynamic image with the mask. The card itself, I think, is also pretty good as well. If you compare it to DeSasi, which is what I think a lot of people are doing, it's pretty comparable, and in my opinion, it might even be better, but it's not a Premier League card. And I think that's why he is less upvoted on Foot Ben than, of course, the DeSasi is. Taking a look at Bade, he has 39,000 coins to complete. It's literally just one squad with an inform, but he's got more downvotes than upvotes. The SBC as well is way more downvoted than upvoted for 40,000 coins, but this card can do something that DeSasi cannot do. I think it's cooler in that way. It can go into the Glow Up Evolution, which takes him to an 89 rated card. If you're doing this Bade SBC, I would tell you to do the Evo. If you haven't done it already, this would be a really good card to put in that Evo. Absolutely insane looking card. If you put a shadow or maybe an anchor on that, that is a disgusting looking center back card. Pinged pass, you could say might not be very useful, but actually it could be very useful. 99 short passing with pinged pass. He's going to be able to deliver a ball to your midfielder to get the ball up into the attack very quickly. Slide tackle, maybe not the best, but he also has anticipate bruiser and jockey, which are very solid. Of course, anticipate is by far the best defensive play style. So I'm not trying to hype up this SBC. All I'm saying is, if it fits your team, if it's something you want to do, go ahead and do it. Good play styles, solid price, good card, and I think better value than DeSasi. Some people are going to say, oh, Nate DeSasi is cracked in game. He's just, he's different. I'm not going to argue with that. DeSasi is his own kind of beast, right? I think body is going to be a pretty good card as well. The dribbling difference is the biggest thing. 70 dribbling versus 85. That's a crazy, crazy difference. So pretty cheap SBC. At least we like that. Also yesterday, the bigger news was probably the refresh of the 88 plus icon player pick, which I don't think I'm going to do this time around. I just don't have enough fodder for it, and especially I'm looking to do Yudogi if he comes out today. So that SBC refresh though, which did actually make fodder go up. Your 87s are now 16K per card, which is crazy. Your 88s are up at about 12,000 coins. Sorry, not 88s. 86s are 12K. 85s are 7,000 coins. Fodder in that low to middle tier is up, up, up. 88s are 22K a piece as well. They even went up. The 89s, 90s, and 91s continue to stay very low, as there are no major leaked SBCs that are coming out soon that are going to require those 1 million coin plus type of SBCs with the 88, 89 rated squads inside of them. So this fodder though, the 86, 7, 8s is what is moving a ton again because of this. I would say if I had it, I would probably sell it. I don't understand. I don't see at least a market where those cards continue to go up today with rewards. At least go up much, especially with marquee matchups coming in. And I think a lot of people maybe starting to save packs for the FC Fantasy promo. So that's kind of what's upcoming also yesterday. You probably heard a lot of conversation about compensation. This is the tweet all the way back from January 28th that EA put out about the mistake with the hero player pick guys. And a lot of you maybe got compensated yesterday. Now, the good thing is I don't think they're done with compensation because they haven't responded to this tweet saying that people who had an incorrect player pick have been compensated. Whenever they replied to this tweet and say that the compensation is done, then it's probably done. But yesterday it seemed like some people were being given out player picks, but I was not one of them. And I know a lot of you guys were not in that list of players as well. And I opened that hero player pick and I looked back earlier today. I had an 86 in the player pick when I should not have. So I still am awaiting compensation on my personal account. And I'm sure a lot of you guys are as well. But EA did start giving out the compensation for that yesterday. Some people were getting four player picks. And I have to imagine something with that is messed up. Because again, it was a two times repeatable SBC. Again, back again almost a month ago when it was released. So EA maybe messed up with the compensation as well. But if you got four player picks yesterday, I think you got a little bit extra. So yeah, that's kind of going on right now at the moment. We don't really have much else to talk about except if you didn't check your ultimate team yesterday. Maybe check the store. Hopefully they finish paying out that compensation today or soon because that is kind of embarrassing if they mess up the compensation as well. Let's talk about the team of the week that was dropped yesterday because it includes something that ties along with my prediction for FC Fantasy. Two playstyle plus cards in team of the week. We have Correa, we have Joel Gomez, and we have Bastoni. All of the featured cards in this week's team of the week got double playstyle pluses and more cards in general got regular play styles. That seems to be almost like the bare minimum. Now, apart from like a couple cards here in the bench, like this Schlotterbeck card, actually he does a playstyle as well. Do all of these have playstyles? Does every single one of them have one? Okay, yeah, see that to me, this goes really well with what we're going to talk about today for FC Fantasy and the changing seasons on this game. I think every single one of these Inforums, even the 85s, has a playstyle plus, of course, besides don't ruin because goalkeepers don't have any. But that's a big change for team of the week. All the featured cards are going to be getting playstyle pluses, two of them now, it looks like. The team of the week is not that crazy. Corea does look pretty good, but Flare plus, again, Trivella plus, cool, Flare plus, that is probably the most usable, less usable, least usable playstyle plus that is in the game. So that was a team of the week that was dropped yesterday, bit of a downgrade from where, of course, we were last week with Holland, Vinnie, and Theo. Let's talk about road to the finals because there were some more movements with these cards yesterday. Pedri with the draw. Napoli and Barca drawing in the first leg. It is Pedri and Zambo and Guisa both getting upgraded. Pedri's price went to the moon pre-game. It's like 1.2 million coins, which is crazy for that card. He's going up to a 91. Zambo and Guisa is going up to an 88 rated card. These upgrades should take place tomorrow on Friday. And Galino with their shock, his goal, his last second goal, really, he got himself the upgrade, scoring against Arsenal in the 90th plus and added time. He's going to go from an 86 to an 88 rated card and Gabriel Jesus is not getting an upgrade and he is down horrendous. 2.1 million coins after he started the day off yesterday between 3.2 and 3.6 million coins, technically. Yeah, that card was very, very expensive. I mean, was it worth that much? Probably not even with Arsenal winning yesterday's game. I don't think his card was worth 3.6 million. But they lost, so this card is down to 2.1, down over a million coins. A crazy drop there. That's the risk that you run with playing with these cards. We have some risks today. Rafael Leal and Romulo Lukaku are both playing in the play-in games to get themselves into the round of 16 in the Europa League. So watch Lukaku and Leal today. Those are the only live cards that actually have a game. Nobody in the conference league, Gonzales, Bailey, they're already upgraded and moved on, right? Tella, Emerson, Fatih and Nunez are the same way. So watch Lukaku and Leal today. If you want to sell on the hype, go for it. Still 4.5 million for Leal. It's crazy, but today they are playing for an upgrade. If they move on to the next round, Lukaku will go to a 90 and Leal will go to a 92. So that is there. They actually have a chance to get upgraded today, but I wanted to mention that. So then, yeah guys, I think these upgrades should take place tomorrow. The ones that deserve them, like Suley getting an upgrade this week. The cards from yesterday's games and Tuesday's games getting upgrades very soon. So that's kind of everything that is going on in this game at the moment. Yes, there was a really quiet day to be completely honest. Day to get some gameplay done. Maybe craft a couple of SPC's, do some player picks and the like. And of course, it got the conversation stirring with the loading screen about Fantasy FC. And that's what I want to talk about for most of the remainder of the video today. Guys, because we do have a couple of leaks and some big names and it all started off with this loading screen. And I want to get to the big prediction that I have because it just, it makes sense, especially with the team of the week changes that we've just seen. This is the loading screen. Pretty simple, pretty just average. Shows the two different cards says, hey, this is coming in a day in 23 hours and Fantasy FC, something with the background looking blurry, making it look like futuristic-like, fantasy-like, I guess. Card design pretty simple though. Again, we've seen this. We know that it was coming, not too big of a surprise there. Let's start taking a look at these leaks. First leak that we had yesterday was Furland Mendy, which a lot of people saw this and were like, oh, yeah, another special card for Furland Mendy. And also, of course, good to point out that Furland Mendy's special cards this year have not been performance-related. He had an Ultimate Dynasty and a Centurions, which were, of course, promos that were just kind of like Ultimate Team promos, nothing to do with live cards, nothing to do with a performance achievement upgrade, anything like that. This one, I guess, is also not like a performance achievement upgrade as well. Like, he didn't play well to get this card. He's getting this card and then we're hoping he plays well and Madrid play well so that it gets upgraded, right? That's kind of how it works. So, another version of Furland Mendy. These are predicted stats, of course, not confirmed, but that's a big-name player. So, he's going to represent Real Madrid for all these potential upgrades. Once again, this is how these cards upgrade and this impacts our conversation today. Greatly, it's all about getting a goal or assist for attackers or midfielders. We haven't had this confirmed yet, but I'm assuming for a defender like Mendy, it would be keeping a clean sheet in the next four games, club winning two games in the next four, player making three appearances in the next four, and then, of course, the hard one to get is going to be scoring 11 goals in the next four domestic league matches. So, what we're going to do is we start to see these players leaked and, of course, as we see them dropped into game is, it's going to be time to look at some schedules and see who plays who, how likely is it that they do get the upgrades based off the health of the squad, where that player's position is in the squad, and, of course, the fixtures, the form of the club as well matters a lot with this, but Mendy's going to be a very, very expensive left-back, very, very expensive. Let's look at a couple other leaks that we have. The other one that we got yesterday was Delict. Another pretty big-name player, I'm going to be honest, and this kind of fits right into my prediction as well. Big-name players, big cards. Delict is a standard-back card. He always lacks a little bit of pace, and he hasn't had too many cards this year. I'm trying to remember, does he have an inform? What are the specials does Delict have? I think he's got just an inform, and I think that might be it. An 88-rated inform card is the only thing that he's got, and it does have 80 pace. He could be pretty good. He really could be pretty good. His base inform does not have anticipate, but it does have block, slide tackle, bruiser, long ball, and power shot for this 88-rated card. Could be good, and again, I know Byron are not being viewed in the best of lights right now. They're having some trouble. Their form is not that great, but it's still a Byron special card, and there's potential for upgrades here for sure, especially with the run of fixtures that they have upcoming. So that's a pretty big-name player. And the last leak that we have is actually for an SBC. So we're getting two Spurs SBCs in the next week, Yudogi and Werner. I guess that's what it sounds like according to the leaks, still, right? Team over, this is the wrong pace, by the way, guys. It's got to be 96 pace because his base goal is 91. So that's just a graphics error there. And this stats predicted for all these cards, of course. But that could be a really, really nice SBC. Now I'm excited for it as a Spurs fan because, you know, Spurs. But also, this could, Timo Werner, this could be a really nice card. And of course you would hope for some upgrades. I would imagine that a Timo Werner could at least get an assist in the next four games. He has been coming off the bench a little bit more since Sun came back from international duty. But he has been subbed on, I think, in just about every single game. He does have a couple assists, but that was when he was starting. So I would hope that he could get at least a plus two for the appearances and the assist or goal. And then I would hope that Spurs could win two as well so that they could get a plus three. So I don't know. That's a very early look at the potential upgrades for a Timo Werner fantasy foot SBC. Those are all the leaks that we have right now, official leaks, right? But here is what I want to talk about with this promo upcoming and with these cards upcoming, guys. Here's my prediction. I think that EA is going to turn it around. It's a bold prediction, guys. It's a bold prediction we're about to make. I think EA is going to turn this game around with this promo. They are going to drop cards with boosted stats that we're going to be excited about. Skill move and weak foot upgrades on the base version of the cards. And I think they're going to give every single card in this promo to play style pluses. I think every single card is going to get in his promo with two play style pluses. Maybe some of the like the fodder fodder ones have one. But one of the things that makes me think that is what they just did with the team of the week, right? They started giving out two play style pluses and at least one play style plus to the entire team of the week. I think that's changing the meta just a little bit. But I really think this is where the meta is going to change, guys. I think they're going to do it because the biggest complaint in the last couple of weeks in this game is none of the content, none of the players, except for the top tier most unpackable ones, even from future stars, get into my team. The SBCs have not been that insane. I packed Trinity Rodman and she almost doesn't... I feel like I'm putting her in my team because I have to use her card because I packed her and it was a very rare pack pull. That's how it feels. I would rather play Rogoni because I have more fun with him or maybe even the new Cloudia Peña per se. But it feels like for a lot of us we haven't had great very meta cards to put in our team. We talked about that literally yesterday with the disaster SBC. I think EA is going to change that. I think EA is like, all right, it's been a couple of weeks now since team of the year. It's been three weeks of promos. We're getting more and more double play style plus players released. But I think this is going to be the promo that actually takes it to the next level. Now another reason why I think that is, again, look at the upgrade path. These, for upgrades, for all these cards, say nothing about play style upgrades, play style pluses doesn't add a weak foot or skill move. So in my mind, I think they're going to add that at the beginning of the promo and then they're just going to upgrade the stats along the way. So they're going to get us excited with maybe a weak foot or skill move upgrade for a card that deserves it and maybe even adding a play style plus, right? Two play style pluses for those cards or two PS pluses depending on who gets into the promo. Make those cards seem really juice straight off the bat and really insane that we want to go out, try them, put them in our teams. So it's going to be a combination of the skill move weak foot, double play style plus and the stat upgrades that are going to be good in my opinion. And then from there on out, we'll be excited for the cards to still get further upgrades. And I think that's what's going to bring the hype with this promo. So that I think is what EA is going to do. Now for the pack weight sake, who knows? Like pack weight, I don't think these cards are going to be crazy packable. But as long as they're semi-attainable and we have decent SBCs, then it will create hype because again, that's how team of the year was, right? The SBCs were so great. The team of the year cards weren't very packable once the full team came out in terms of a team of the year sense. But it created a lot of hype for crafting and for SBCs and all that sort of jazz. We're going to have heroes impacts as well for FC fantasy heroes. So yeah guys, that's why I think they're going to do it. And I think it's going to impact this game a good amount because that's what people have been asking for. So if something comes out that makes people actually change their teams, it's going to shake some things up. And EA know that this game has been dropping off drastically since team of the year. People have been saying, nah, it's not good enough. I don't want to play this game. It's just, it's repetitive. It's dead, blah, blah, blah, right? EA definitely sees all that. I'm sure they see the usage statistics of the people that are logging onto their game, interacting with the content, buying packs from the store. EA's got to give people to get excited again and I think they're going to do it again. I'm trying to think from EA's perspective here guys. It's been three weeks of road to the final and then two weeks of future stars where it's just solid downhill. I think they're going to, I think they're going to juice this problem up. I think they want to shake some things up. And we talk about the valleys and the rises, the mountains and the valleys all the time. I think we're going to be coming out of a valley now and rising back up. That's just my opinion. Again, it is just a prediction and we'll actually see how it goes down. But that's what I think will happen. Now, if they go ahead and do this, if they juice these cards up with double playstyle pluses, I think it's going to impact the market a bit. I would say that we said this for like weeks now that team of the year cards are probably just going to maintain their price, slowly drop over time. This could be one of those moments where a team of the years take a little bit of a dip. If every single new card comes out with double playstyle plus and they're not as cheap as future stars, maybe, but like halfway affordable on the market, you know, for some of these cards, especially because they're live. I do believe you would see some people selling a team of the year, selling maybe a road to the final card that's very, very expensive or even a future stars. Some of the future stars cards still seem a little overpriced to me. Cold Palmer for three, six. Like watch a card come out during this promo that has similar or maybe just slightly less stats to that but with two playstyle pluses that are pretty good, like in the Premier League for sure, might drop this card's price a little bit. You know what I'm saying? So it comes down to, of course, how much they boost the cards. But if they drop boosted two playstyle plus cards, I think that people will be excited about. Then you're gonna see some price corrections on the market and they could be pretty significant. They really could be. It all just depends on how much they juice the stuff and also the SBC. So that's one thing I wanted to point out. I wouldn't tell you to go out right now and like Panic Cell team of the year cards for any stretch of the imagination but I would tell you just be prepared. If you have some of those cards in your club, if we start getting official stats leaks, guys, that's the big thing. Today on Thursday, maybe late in the day, we'll start to see some official stats but then probably tomorrow on Friday before the promo drops, that'll give us a big hint into what this promo is looking like. So again, I have no leaks. I have nothing except just how I know EA tries to operate this game and how I think they might do it this time around to make me think that this could be the way that they go ahead and do it. Now, of course, also a couple other things to mention.  Like, yeah, it's only four matches this year for these cards. If they give them these good boosts that we're thinking they could and then there's upgrades on top of that. We're going to have some crazy, crazy cards leading up to an early start to team of the season this year because it's only four league matches. Last year, it was six league matches to get these cards upgraded and you see how the Alexa Sanchez went from like 88 pace, 89 shooting, 89 passing, 94 drill. If that card were to drop in this game right now, people would go crazy for it. Give that card two-play style pluses with those stats. That is nuts. I know that's one of the top cards in the promo, but this year, Rente with two-play style pluses, that would go crazy. This Saliba, I know we just had a Saliba SB. This Saliba with two-play style pluses would go freaking nuts. So that's why I'm saying I think this promo this year can change it up and make things really, really hype. Now, also we have heroes and we already mentioned it as a part of this, but I think the SBC players for the heroes really, really matter as well. They really matter. Like we need, I'm not going to say yaya toorai, but like maybe a Lucio. Lucio is one of the card for the hero's cards that gets shot at all the time. He's like, oh, he has had a special up this year. He needs one. It's possible that Lucio gets himself a fantasy heroes card for sure. 100%, it's possible. I haven't seen any official leaks, but if we get an SBC for a player like Lucio or, you know, back during trophy Titans, I was at last year or two years ago, we had the Marquisio, right? The Marquisio SBC that we had, that's kind of like a middle to higher tier hero card that could definitely get an SBC that would be hyped enough and also expensive enough for people to want to go and craft. So I think there's potential there for some of that as well. Again, I am very optimistic guys, but I just think it's been enough weeks of mid slash L slash not meta enough content that it's got to be shaken up. So that's kind of what I'm trying to portray today to you guys. One thing we can also look out for is the more leaks that come out and the players that come into this promo. Again, we've already got big names. If they keep coming out with the big names from the big clubs, because you know the big clubs are going to be represented, right? Madrid, Barça, City, United, Chelsea. We're going to get players from all those clubs. This has been a two week promo in the past because it's live cards. EA know they get people excited with live cards. But if they keep putting out big players from these clubs as well, then it could be, again, kind of to our point. So that's kind of what I want to get across today, guys. I think this promo could go crazy. I really think that it could. And if it does look crazy, you're going to start to see a little bit of panic. But you may not see a ton of panic also until people realize that it's crazy once it drops and then you see prices dropping later on this weekend. So that's something that's possible as well. Again, the flip side is if this promo sucks and if it's just unpackable cards that aren't boosted that much, maybe they do have two place-out pluses, but they still aren't that good and they're super-duper expensive, then yeah, it's not going to be that fun. It could be literally Road to the Final 2.0, right? Road to the Final wasn't that great. Yeah, we had some cool cards. Yes, a lot of people invested and made coins off of these, myself included. But it didn't feel like that great. Wasn't replacing cards in our teams. If that's how this FC Fantasy promo feels and it's going to destroy the game even more, and that's why, again, I just feel like EA is not going to let that happen. So I'll get off my soapbox. We're talking about that for too long. Let me know in the comments what you guys think. I know right now it's really easy to be like, ah, this game sucks and all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's going to turn around at some point. It always does. This is kind of the normal cycle. It's just hit a little harder, I think, this year after Team of the Year. The negativity with, and honestly, it's EA's fault. It is, to be honest. It's their game. It's their fault. The menu content, not being as crazy, but it spiked up so much during Team of the Year. We've talked about this, and then, of course, the gameplay issues, all that combined. It's been tough, but we'll see if it changes. Let's talk today, all right? Let's move past that talk today here right now. Thursday content, Marquis matchups. You guys know every single week. It's going to be refreshing today. So watch out for that. And then I would also say for today, we got to get Yudogi men. If Yudogi doesn't come out today, there's going to be a lot of upset people, especially for that Evo. I believe the Evo, you only have a couple more days to do this one. So if you want to do Yudogi like myself, like, I got to get that SBC done. And then, yeah, three days. Is that what that said right there? You have three days to unlock the Future Star glow-up. So if we don't get him today, then he's going into the SBC Google log. And if we don't get him, then I don't even know. Would I put in Richardson for this? Maybe I'd put in Richardson, but I tried him out yesterday and I wasn't super impressed. I, maybe I'll do, I don't even know, man. I'm not sure who I would do. I'd have to get something exciting about somebody in that. Maybe I'd try to get to level 10 and do Musa, but I'm only on level six right now. So that would be a grind. We need some XP as well. I mean, I'm not, don't feel like I'm super behind. I don't want to go and pay whatever 85K in the store to go get some XP. But I do feel like we do need some of it. I know I'm going to get some here with the weekly, which I got to get this done because it's going to refresh. Got to play one more game. It's going to refresh tomorrow. Weekly objectives to get more XP, but still, that's like not even enough. I think they decreased the amount of XP you get in that. And yeah, we need some more EA. We need some more XP to get us a level 10 here before that EVO goes away so that we can put in Musa if we so desire. And yeah, guys, I think it's MMS today. I hope it's Yudogi as well. And then an updated loading screen and some more leaks. That's literally today, guys. Get those quality games done. Get ready for the footchamps, the Week in League, all that good stuff. Get those games in today. Just get your four and dip. I don't know what it is for you guys, but I'm going to get my four there. I would dip. And I think I'm going to do a little pack save, just a one-day pack save. I'm going to save the 82 times 20. And I'll maybe save the 85 plus player picks as well from the refresh today for tomorrow with FTFC Fantasy. I'm going to call it FTFC Fantasy so many times. We know what we're talking about, right? FTFC Fantasy, basically the same thing. So that is that. I still have on my transfer list, Zair Emory. Yesterday was a slow day for flips. I lost coins on Korea. I lost coins on Korea because it looked like it was going to work. And it kind of did. He went up and then he went down. And we were playing games in the meantime. So I've lazy listed my Suleys. And I still have the Zair Emory, which I'll probably try to get out for hopefully just shy of 2 million coins today. Oh, last second. Will any of these cards rise up out of packs? A couple of them could. Like Hoylan, two-playstyle pluses. It's Hoylan. I have been cooked by that card multiple times in-game. I could see him rising up a bit just because it's Hoylan. If he's like 200k flat, that's pretty good, I think. Olyse, you know, he's already up so much that if you can get him for low 80s, I think that's fine. But I think he just kind of is rising with the saucy and the French links. So and he's actually pretty good out here. So yeah, I think he's going to keep going, but you got to get him at a good price. Other than that, I'm personally not going to put any coins into this team, especially with what could become this weekend. I'm just going to sit back and wait it out. That's what I'm going to do. Watch the leaks today and see what happens. But that's the video for today, guys. If you did enjoy and if you're excited for FC Fantasy as well, it's a live card promo at the very least. We'll get excited for that. Drop a thumbs up on the video, comment below if you have any questions, and subscribe if you're new. I will see you guys in the Twitch stream today. Got to get some qualies wins and open some more player picks. It's been Nathan with Accountants. See you guys there. Peace. Thanks for watching.


Pressurization is all around us, literally. Earth's atmosphere exerts a pressure force which influences everything from the weather to the boiling point of water to our ability to breathe easily. That last one is especially important in aircraft since a fuselage needs to be pressurized to an altitude where we can breathe. We just learned about the concept of pillowing where the parts of a fuselage unsupported by frames tend to bulge out when pressurized. However, this phenomenon is sometimes difficult to see on an aircraft since the changes are so small compared to the size of the fuselage. We could take this knowledge and accept that it occurs without seeing it directly, but if you're like me, it's easier to understand a concept if I can do it myself. Luckily, pillowing is easy to replicate using some things you might have around the house or leftover from a birthday party. But Hannah, where's your hypothesis? What are you doing here without one? You might be asking. Well, sometimes I like to do quick demonstrations in addition to my usual experiments just to show how something works. But since you're all curious minds, we can come up with some questions to ask as we go through the demonstration. To show the pillowing effect we'll need two simple items, balloons and rubber bands. An inflated balloon is like a pressurized fuselage without any frames on it. With no stiff support, the balloon is free to expand in all directions. When I put two rubber bands over the balloon, you can already see that the bulging is restricted in those areas. Look even more closely, the pillowing effect is quite clear. There's an obvious indentation at the band as the air inside of the balloon redistributes to the non-restricted sections. So what do we think will happen when a third rubber band is added to the balloon in between the others? Will this create larger peaks in between the bands since more stiffness is added? Let's find out. When the third band is added, it starts to flatten out the peak created by just the two rubber bands. Interesting. We can still see the pillowing, but it's less pronounced now. Let's add two more rubber bands. What can we see? It seems that the pillowing is still occurring, but the bumps are much less prominent and there's more consistency between each rubber band. This is exactly what's happening in an aircraft fuselage. If we look at a schematic diagram of a fuselage, you might wonder why there are so many frames. If the point of aircraft design is to be as light as possible, why are there so many stiffening frames which are adding a lot of weight? Why can't engineers just make the fuselage skin thicker thereby increasing stiffness? Interestingly enough, adding thickness to the skin to the point where it is stiff enough on its own would be a much heavier option than using frames to support a thinner skin. Considering the huge pressurization forces on a fuselage in flight, it would take a lot of extra material to achieve the same results. And what we see with the balloon and rubber bands is that as more stiffening elements are added, which contain the pressurization forces, less pillowing occurs and the distribution of forces becomes more equal. We can contain the pillowing effect while keeping a thin fuselage skin, thus minimizing weight. Now that we've taken a quick break from our usual hypothesizing, it's time for me to get back to working out our next experiments. See you next time.


Dude. Avara Foods is a poultry producer which formed in 2018 as a joint venture between Fusenda Foods and Cargill. They are the third largest poultry producer in the UK and produce 4.5 million chickens and turkeys every single week. They supply some of the UK's most popular chains such as Nando's, Asda, Morrison's, Sainsbury's and most notably Tesco. If you were to have a little scroll through Avara's website you'd see statements like, we are committed to protecting the health and wellbeing of the animals in our care. All of our sites are red tractor assured as a minimum and subject to high standards and regular audits. We employ and work with professional, experienced farm teams and provide them with the training and support they need to look after their birds. We are able to trace each product back to its root. We're proud to have some of the most experienced, knowledgeable and passionate farming teams in the business. We want to ensure our customers have full confidence in us. Confidence in our products, confidence in our processes. Interesting. Now, do Avara Foods really live up to what their clever PR pitches portray? Or are they just like every other animal product supplier where what they say on paper and in their advertisements and what actually happens in reality are so far detached from each other that it defies belief. What you're about to see is what I found when I stumbled across an Avara turkey farm a few days before Christmas. Please watch till the end. Looks like they may have been unloading here. So I'm not sure what we're gonna find here but I have to give it a go. This is the fifth place that I've tried to access trying to expose the turkey industry before Christmas. This place completely emptied out. Look at the size of it emptied out for Christmas. All these birds are all gas chambered by now. They're all murdered. There's a lot of feathers there. All right, look at this. As you can see down here, there's blood everywhere. They've been culling turkeys in here. I'm gonna go check this bin over here. As you can see, there's a blue outline of a turkey who's been spray painted on this floor here. The reason for this will become apparent very shortly. All right, so this is a murder scene here.  It's a torture chamber. They've been slaughtering innocent birds here for Christmas. All right, so I just found this bin down the side of this turkey farm. I'm gonna open it up and have a look inside. There's a bunch of dead birds in here. They do this bird, look. They have hacked this bird up. That's his arm, dude. Ah! That's the wing is completely torn off. Oh my God. The wing is completely torn off. Only a human could do that to the bird. I mean, maybe the bird was pecked by other birds and then culled, but to see the bird shredded in half like this, this is brutal. Who knows what happened when they were catching these birds to send them to slaughter, because a lot of these sheds are empty. Maybe there was an injury happened. They just snapped their necks and threw them in this bin at sickening. These are fresh dead birds culled by this farmer here. The stench here smells like pure death and this is what happens at every Christmas. All throughout the year, but more so on Christmas time. Look, I don't know how people can still eat birds after seeing something like this. It's intelligent, beautiful animals. It's a morgue in here. So after scrubbing up and putting on protective gear, that's when I saw it, the Avara food sign. Amongst other things, these charts show how many birds are in the barn, their reasons for culling and their mortality rate. It looks like there's about 10,000 birds in here and this is actually an Avara shed. Avara Foods. Sounds familiar, that name, Avara. This is one of the biggest turkey slaughterhouses in the country? Yeah, it's probably one of the top three, yeah. They come from Red Tractor farms here.  Yeah. Red Tractor's the minimum? Yeah. I was just at an Avara slaughterhouse in Scropton the other day. One of the security guards said to me, the welfare on this place is the highest I've ever seen. But it wouldn't turn you off eating turkeys working here, smelling. No, no, no. The welfare on this side is the best in the world. Best in the world? Best you've ever seen? The best I've ever seen is if I've been part of this industry. OK. You obviously don't see the welfare on the farm, though, because you're not there. I don't have anything to do with that. Yeah, yeah, interesting. Wow, really, really good welfare at Avara. So this farm was more disgusting than I expected. All the farms I've been to, this one was the filthiest. There were turkeys covered in feces. This bird here is covered in crap, dirty, dirty.  And the floors and walls were splattered with diarrhea.  He's a boy. Usually they would have been presenting feathers at the back there, but he doesn't have anything back there, does he? They can't even exhibit their natural behaviours in here. Another face here. The animals looked pale and anemic. Their faces looked sad and disturbed. As you can see here, this turkey is injured very badly. There's blood, blood all down the side here. Very, very bad. Feces all over these birds. I saw turkeys with large scabs, bloodied body parts, and various other injuries. Another scab on the back of this bird here, see? Some type of injury on the side of this bird here. That's disgusting, man. Why on earth weren't these birds being treated at a vet clinic? To think that these birds are being grown, to be slaughtered so people can have a celebration? How sickening. For Christmas? I saw limping turkeys whose legs could not support the overgrown bodies the industry has selectively bred them into. They are literally stuck inside bodies that fail them, and they suffer their entire lives because of it. Also humans can get the maximum yield of flesh to eat at Christmas time. There was a bird with what looked like dislocated hips from carrying the weight of her oversized frame. I can't imagine the agony she was in. I saw birds who could no longer support their body weight and had fallen down and could not get back up. What's going on with this bird here? This bird is injured.  These are the type of birds that Varro is slaughtering for Christmas.  Completely immobile. Another one had collapsed. And another turkey stepped on her neck. This will mean certain death for birds like this as they cannot get to food and water. And if the other birds don't peck them to death, the farmer will either cull them and throw them in the bin with the others. Or it's not all that uncommon for birds to be thrown into the slaughter truck like this. And then I saw her. She was in some of the worst condition I've ever seen. All right, so just down next to me, this poor turkey is severely injured. Cannot stand up. Oh, my God. I could almost guarantee that when the farmer finds this turkey, he's going to either snap their neck or bolt on them in the head and chuck them in that dead bin. They won't try to offer this bird any veterinary help. They'll just cull the bird. This bird is suffering really badly. Like you can see in their face. Wait, look at this. How awful. Do you see how the difference between what I will tell you and what the turkey industry will tell you? Two different stories. We show you the reality. Obviously, I'm in here with a camera right now. You've seen on the wall there, this is a Navara farm. We show you the reality. And the turkey industry tell you what you want to hear, which is like, oh, yeah, it's all humane. It's all fine and dandy, you know? All right, here we go. There's a dead bird here on the ground. There were also corpses of birds who had slowly suffered to death on the floor, being trampled on by other birds. Walking over the dead there, see? It's poor birds living amongst the dead. Look at this. There's a turkey standing on top of a dead turkey in a Navara farm right before Christmas. These birds are ready to be slaughtered. They're at slaughter weight. They talk about diseases coming out of these farms. And look at this. VCs, dead birds, injured birds. Disgusting.  Is this not a risk for spreading disease? Yeah, so this place here is growing Christmas turkeys for people. I was absolutely shocked by the appalling state of the turkeys we found here. It reeks to high hell in here. How many more farms were like this? How many more birds are suffering in silence behind closed barn doors? And does this look like the spirit of Christmas to you? This is what Christmas Day and every other day is like for these sensitive, conscious beings. God, if this is what Christmas is supposed to be like, I don't want anything to do with it. What's your Christmas look like this year? Will you celebrate with their severed body parts on your table? Avara foods speak highly of the animal welfare on their farms and slaughterhouses. But as you've seen here, the reality is much different. And this isn't the first time Avara foods has been exposed for the cruelty on their farms. And I want to be very clear, this isn't just about Avara. As it's become very apparent after years of consistent exposés by investigators all around the world that all producers of animal products mislead the public about what's truly behind the label. After all, they are salespeople at the end of the day. But along with selling violence, cruelty, and death, they also like to sell you a fairy tale that animals are raised well and put to sleep humanely. But of course, that's all just clever marketing. Believing in humane animal farming is like believing in Santa Claus. You eventually find out it was all a lie. Let's end this nightmare for animals and live consistently with the spirit of Christmas by choosing vegan. Thank you. So this is Christmas.


As the Global Practice Director for Social Media and Digital, I work with my colleagues around the globe to build the most aligned, connected, and deeply experienced group of rock stars that are delivering success for our clients like they have never seen. Our ideas, our insights, our strategy is just a strong digital and social core to that. Some of the core values of the practice are speed, agility. We never stop innovating. We're looking for products and services, new platforms, new technologies that deliver digital and social media solutions for our clients in new ways. The influencer marketing space is exploding recently. And at MSL Group, we're thrilled to announce that we've launched a proprietary product called Impact. It's our influencer relationship management solution. It really allows us to scale influencer marketing for our clients and to also provide that strategic insight of which tech vendors our clients should be partnering with. So probably the most innovative thing about MSL's proprietary methodologies is, again, the accuracy, cleansing of data, and categorical breakout so that you really understand how people are relating to your brand. It's a constantly changing landscape, both in terms of what channels are available to consumers, but also how consumers are using those channels. The thing that makes the MSL digital social practice really interesting and really differentiated in our competitive landscape is the way that we look at content creation. We are not creating Facebook posts or Twitter tweets or YouTube videos. We're creating content that diversifies and differentiates a brand within its target market and we're using that content wherever it is appropriate.


Stevenson winning 7-0-1 against Newman and I, Christian Taylor, head coach Torrey Amoff after this one. How nice does that feel? We definitely needed it. I told the team in the locker room my favorite part of tonight was that they remained united, they continued to work together. You know it's really easy to get selfish at this point and you know you want your goals you're gonna take it end-to-end and that didn't really happen tonight so we're happy about that. There were seven different goal scorers tonight so that was really nice. Gracie Payne though first of the year how'd she like that one? Good I mean she can score you know so we're really happy that she you know got one in tonight and can finish this season excited to put more up next year and you know feel confident moving into that fifth year. How about Megan Croyle these last two games she's been terrific what's been going so nicely for? Yeah you know she actually was in a little bit of a mental rut she was having some trouble scoring and you know we had a lot of conversations and we were just like look like it's not you know it's not just about what you're putting up on the board and it'll come and you know she committed to staying focused she's been working hard staying on the ice extra and she made it happen and it was great. So this might be like trying to choose your favorite child but which was your favorite goal tonight of the seven? Okay my favorite goal was Maggie Dean's goal just because the effort that it took to get there in a finish you know like we talk about that all the time like finish to the whistle you know hard to the net drive the net put pucks away we pick up the garbage goals and that's exactly what she did so that was that was my favorite for those reasons. It's a good effort I'm really bright full out a good one too didn't she? Yes yeah that was pretty I mean they all were so good all around but my favorite part is that we had those seven different goal scores for sure. Coach thank you very much congrats on the win. Thank you. That's Coach M off I'm Christian Taylor and go MustangSports.com


Today's Profound Black History sees will be more, a cigar-smoking lawyer-politician, marine-militant activist, and man of the people, black people. Born in West Virginia, raised in Kentucky, and crowned in Philadelphia, a black star worth of justice forged his way towards leadership after serving in World War II. This brother of Kappa Alpha Psy fraternity financed his way through law school at Temple University while working as a liquor wholesaler. He built his reputation as a no-nonsense attorney who fought police brutality cases on behalf of poor black folks as he was in regular conflict with Philly Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo. CISO was most recognized for integrating the All-White Institution of Gerard College and he later went on to become president of Philadelphia NAACP and a Philadelphia Councilman. CISO will be more an uncompromising example of black manhood.


It's always a question why Super Mario Logan got much darker and more adult-like. But do you know why this was the case?  It's a question that I was thinking about before, this has been like this since 2014, but just last week, I had the answer on why the web series went way more adult themed and darker. There have been dark moments in the show during the past, but it wasn't too bad, or is likely just very cartoonish at the same time. No more, or maybe add something like a chop-like in Toad's mistake too. Something like that, however years later, SML had a huge turn. Things get more serious and more realistic in the upcoming years. When Junior was introduced, there have been multiple darker episodes to the series. Swearing has been uncensored, there was scenes of more adult-related themes, and there was a character who is a sex offender.  What he was killing instead were robbers. Then the episode, Bowser Junior's punishment, where Chef P.P. forces Junior to tell Bowser that he threw a ball into his bowl. This lead Bowser to abuse Junior and continue doing it, while Goodman tells him to stop. He eventually tries to take his own life from all the abuse he receives from Bowser. Then there is the episode, Bowser Junior's lightsaber. In this episode, two of the three friends were playing, until one of them cut Cody's head off. There wasn't too much gore, but there is pink inside Cody's body. Then we move on to the Jeffy era. The Jeffy era is where things got more mature and more edgier. They introduced Jeffy, as some character that mocks disabilities. He is wearing a diaper, and gets on it. Jeffy's parents is probably one of the darkest episodes that features Jeffy. He is seen getting abused by his mother, and is really hard to watch if you ask me. There are more realistic and darker elements to these episodes. In the episode, the gun, Junior and Joseph finds a gun in the playground, and accidentally shoots and kills Cody with it.  Chef PeePee gets his hand cut off as well. It was later revealed that the person, who had the gun, was Winkles, the same person who was the sex offender in the earlier episodes. In the episode, the secret door, Mario, Rosalina and Jeffy finds a secret door in their house. When they open it, they all of a sudden find a pile of mutilated bodies covering the closet. This freaked them out, and revealed that Brooklyn teedized when was the one responsible. He tries to kill them but gets shot by Brooklyn. But do you know why this has been from mildly edgy to dark humor to something downright distasteful? That's because back in early 2014, Logan 30 Acre, who was the creator of Super Mario Logan, received lots of comments from Bowser's biggest fear, and they were saying, Make your videos more dark as possible, or, this is lame Logan, it's time to move on for something like family die related humor. But then there were comments saying, make some future episodes into something grotesque, make it dark, make it best up as much as possible. Don't regret it Logan. The problem was the fact that this wasn't just comments from all accounts, they were 10 comments, they were at least around 40 to 60 of these in each of his videos. One person threatened doxing Logan and said, he knew his address. This led Logan to be worried, and thus made his series into something more dark by adding these two episodes in. They are no longer on YouTube due to the deletion of his channel. The first episode was called, The Breakdown, where Mario drives his car to go to McDonald's. All of a sudden, he gets a flat tire. He tried to fix it, but for some reason he couldn't. He then would say the word thug uncensored for the very first time. The episode continues with Mario raging, because he couldn't get his car running. Hours later, and Mario dies from a heat stroke. The episode ended with Mario getting eaten by a bunch of coyotes while his body is still there. And the next episode is called, The Rock. This episode centers around Toad going to the shores to find some rock. Out of nowhere, he finds a rock. He picks up, but here's where things get dark. There was a rock that flies towards Toad's left eye, and smashed into his skull. However this isn't any rock, it infected Toad with some sort of played-like disease. It kills him days later, which he dies a slow death. You could see black covering on his skin and the blisters. So now you know, why Super Mario Logan went from mildly dark, to a much more darker and adult web series. That's pretty much it to tell you, but it made sense on why Logan made it more edgier.


Coming into the season, the ninth ranked class 2A Pequot Lakes girls basketball team knew there would be high expectations this year, especially since they made it to the state tournament last year. Taylor Archer has more with the Patriots. An 8-in-1 record is only a small step taken in the direction of the type of season the Patriots want to have this year, but their drive has made them out to be a tough competitor for other teams. I think when we play teams are extra aggressive on us, especially with us winning a lot of our games now and beating teams by 20 points, it's a big target on our backs. And it is still a young season, but the Patriots are focused on again making it to the state tournament. I think we always have high expectations for ourselves every season, and I think every year our goal is to go to states. So this year, same thing, our goal is to make it to the state tournament. And this year we'd really like to actually compete at the state tournament. I think in the past couple years we've gone, we've been eliminated the first round. So this year we'll not actually just go to the state tournament, but really compete at the state tournament and do well. While five players scored in the double digits in the last night's game against Purim, it is this team's ability to play unselfishly that will help them go far. At the end of the day, it's a win-to-win. It doesn't really matter who scores the points or who gets the most rebounds or who gets what. This is one of my most unselfish teams that I've had in the past few years. So I think that's really good. They're just not so worried about points. You know, they're more worried about putting the W up on the board. Besides their physical strengths, the Patriots rely mostly on their team chemistry. We're very quick, and we move the ball really well. We have good team chemistry, and we all work together to score points. And scoring points hasn't been a challenge yet for the team this season. In Pequot Lakes, Taylor Archer, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


New year, you boys, man, I'm here. I'm done for there. All good? So good, you? Good to see you. Good to see you. I'm not late. I'm on time. As you go. Okay. Okay. What have you done? I don't know. Never a good idea. Give it to me. Oh. Hello, drivers. Welcome. You will ride the 12 hours of seabream to get up for the first time. Ullala. And you've never been in the same car at the same time. And hopefully not in the same moment. We have some questions. We need to have you, also, the guy then. When did you guys meet for the first time? So with Matteo, that's an easy one. Easy one? I mean, the first, the really first time I met you was in 2014 for one Grand Prix in Spa. I was a supporter, actually, I mean. Yeah, yeah. I was cheering for a month. Now it's my team. Ullala, dream come true. Exactly. Andre, when did we meet the first time? I remember 2008, I think, when we met before. Yeah, yeah. 2006 Barcelona. So a long time ago, huh? Yes. Well, we are all there. You are young. How many times have we raced seabream? This is going to be my fifth time. 12 hours, I did twice before this. So I think, like, four, five times. Share a quick curatorial before hitting the track. I know why. Good question. Let's see if Roman knows mine. He bends his knees, puts his elbow inside of his knees, and you push them wide. A little bit like Valentino Rossi. Well done. Well done, my friend. Very good. For myself, nothing important. You tied your shoes. You didn't love with the shoes. But this is true. This is true, but it's only with dead shoes. Normally with the other shoes, I... Just got it. Just got it.


Penguin presents Nothing Stays Buried by P. J. Tracy, read by Sarah Borgias, prologue. Something horrible was going to happen to Marla. Somewhere down the road there had to be payback for her perfect childhood, her perfect career at the veterinary clinic, her perfect apartment in Minneapolis, her consistently perfect life. Her friends who adored her envied her in equal measure and secretly waited for the tragedy to come because they believed in the law of averages and the irrefutable balance of good and bad in every life. And also because in the darkest moments of their own less than perfect lives they had to believe that some day Marla would get hers. Good things come to good people. Her father was fond of telling her on those rare occasions when the shower of her good fortune made her feel just a little bit guilty. But if that were really true, why did the rest of the world believe the opposite? The notion that goodness was punished was so pervasive that even the language was permitted with warnings.  Phrases like that had often given Marla pause, made her think she should try harder to do something bad occasionally, like forget to return a library book just to even out the scales. And then she'd run over the bunny.  Her father had tried to comfort her with semantics, probably the same one that ate every lick of my spinach plants last week, every last lick. But he hadn't known the worst of it because she could never bring herself to say it aloud. The bunny hadn't died right away, she'd seen it in her rear view mirror, trying to drag itself off the road with its front legs because the hind legs wouldn't work. She'd had to go back and run over it again. It had been the right thing to do, but oh my God, that image in her rear view mirror would be with her to the end of her life. And although her father had felt great sympathy for her distress, he hadn't felt a bit for the rabbit. How could that be? How could you feel sorry for someone for being sad and not feel sorry for something being dead? She spent the next week imagining that the bunny had been a nursing mother and that somewhere baby bunnies were cold and mulling in a hidey hole, slowly dying of starvation. She never admitted that to anyone because people tended to think you were a bit unbalanced when you empathized with animals to the point of torment. But empathy was the disease Marla had inherited from her mother. And there were no boundaries to it. She couldn't help connecting to everyone and everything she encountered. She couldn't stop speculating about their lives, their families, their pain.  Normally Marla didn't mind the night drive out to the farm, especially on a Thursday, when the freeway was empty. Tomorrow night the frenetic weekend race to Lake Cabins would fill the two lanes heading out of Minneapolis with a jam of lights, white and red, crawling, bumper to bumper, for 60 miles before it started to thin out. But tonight, and every other summer weeknight, the road shot straight and true into deeper and deeper blackness, where the exits were few and far between. Her exit, just three miles up, was what worried her. That particular two-lane road was one bunny shy this week, thanks to her, and she greatly feared a repeat of last week's carnage. She took the ramp more slowly than usual, stopped at the top and spent a long time looking both ways before easing right onto the two-lane road. There was no moon tonight and the darkness seemed to swallow the beams of her headlights as if she were shining them down the throat of a monster. She slowed even further as she approached the S-curve through the woods where the bunny had once lived. And that was the only reason she didn't run right over the large black shape in the middle of the road. As soon as her headlights hit the thing, she recognized it as one of those large plastic bags, the volunteer crews used to pick up the occasional litter on road cleanup days. Still, it had startled her, and she could hear her heart pounding in her ears as she pulled over onto the shoulder and stopped. She sat there for a minute trying to catch her breath, her fingers still curled tight around the wheel, eyes wide open. Sample complete. Ready to continue?


MCAS Iwakuni's Extreme Work skate park provides an opportunity for residents to practice a hobby that would otherwise be illegal on the streets of Japan. There's a lot of Japanese skaters off base and it was kind of sad to know you can't skate with them too much. They do have a little skate park out there but it's not too great. Recently the talk of the skate park has shifted from tricks and new ideas to the new skate park construction. We know it's getting put up on monzen over there since they have to tear this down but it'll be a little bit smaller but it'll be cool. Whether it's raining or sunny outside, you can find MCAS Iwakuni's skaters practicing new tricks, perfecting old ones or just spending time with friends that share their passion. I get on my skateboard even though it's raining outside, I come up here to base and I just skate for an hour. It's really hard to keep practicing, you gotta have resilience but it's hard to learn but it's really fun once you can learn it. Reporting for Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, I'm Lance Corporal David Bickel. Copyright © 2020 Marine Corps Air Station All rights reserved 啟 All rights reserved 啟 All stripe 啟 All tuning in to be resupply 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟 啟