Hey, welcome to the next episode of Living Pittsburgh where we are bringing you unique people places and businesses from in and around Pittsburgh To you to introduce you and today we have veto from the Neutrona bottling company veto say hi to everyone Hola. Hello Welcome and like we like to start all of our shows. Let's let's do a little bit of the Living Pittsburgh give back so let's bring that up and And veto if you're not familiar What we do is we pick a charity every week and we give up to a hundred dollars It's all based on whether you get the answers right or not So this week we are going to support the young woman's breast cancer awareness foundation Which is a local nonprofit helping young women with with breast cancer Okay, so here's the rules we're going to show you five pictures They're all local Pittsburgh pictures and that's one of the cool things about this is as we're trying to educate people On different places in town that they can go visit For every picture that you get right you're in a we will donate on your behalf 20 dollars to this nonprofit And i'll match it And you're matching it people. This is this is terrific And by the way, if you're out there online watching us right now, please hit the like button It helps the algorithm show it to more people if you're on youtube, please subscribe And if you do want to join the show and maybe ask the sultan of soda a question Feel free to type it in the chat and we will see that and bring that up on the screen for everyone to take a look at Okay, veto. Are you ready? always All right first picture This is uh one of the architectural gems in and around Pittsburgh definitely something that you need to go see When you're visiting town, how did you know this? Well, I my mother used to take me down to oakland when I was a kid like One sunday two sundays out of the month and we go to the pittsburgh playhouse And then we go walk around oak in oakland and whatnot But uh the cathedral learning is it really is an awesome building and it's the tallest Building on a campus in america Wow That's pretty good. It's a lot food for a lot. It's pretty amazing Okay, how about this this room madras factory? Uh, no, no, no You uh, any world There you go Vicki's on Vicki's calling you out that you went to pick I did I I I yeah Okay, so so you've got one of two, right? We've got uh 20 bucks going to them right now plus your match. That's 40 All right, how about this place? Seven springs. Yeah, you got it I think a lot of people that think about pittsburgh don't really think about us as a skiing destination and They might be surprised that here locally. We've got three terrific hills within an hour of the city Uh, we've got seven springs resort, which you're seeing here and it has a half bike if you can believe it Um, so you can it actually has a a pretty decent park Uh for snowboarders all together You know, it's not Aspen or the west and so on and so forth, but at the end of the day Uh, it is extremely convenient. Uh, I was in line. I was there a couple weeks ago And I was talking to somebody they were from Baltimore and So people travel Significant distances significant being three four hours to come to seven springs Uh, so I agree. Yeah It's a great hill Okay, let's wait. Hold on. I want to send a shout out to bill. He's giving you some love there. Vito. Thank you bill Yeah from the frailies and zella ziggler They're online watching you right now. Is that my old doctor? Oh Kind of things he can post. That's right. I think it is That's great. Okay. How about this place? It's tough Uh I'll give you some hints. It's got a is there about high limit No, no, you can make a call you have a somebody you can call and help you on anybody That there is somebody out there on facebook that actually got married here it sounds. Yeah, they know that one Man They might have to help you out And and bill is your old doctor just to Zello was great Yeah, zello she was my she was my uh My hematologist and she was just the sweetheart. I I thoroughly miss her. That's great um I'm gonna say a high up out Oh It's it is close. Um, this is mcconnell middle state park and what's been there. Oh, it's worth it It's only about 45 minutes outside of town Um It's got a path on both so this creek or river. It's on both sides of it It's got a walking path that you can walk around. So it's a nice real big loop Um, it is not stroller friendly. So if you have young kids in a stroller, uh michelle and I Made that mistake. Um, quite the backpacks work though. Baby backpacks absolutely work. Yeah Hey erin and debbie, how are you guys? All right Oh, how about this one? Uh ppg plaza There you go. It's the ice rink at ppg place. This is another what I think Is is a gem of pittsburgh if you have not gone down here during the holidays And taken your kids or your significant other to go ice skating you're missing out Um and at night it's just gorgeous the the buildings are lit up the tree in the center is just you know over the top It's well worth, you know, it's well worth the look Definitely All right, so we got to what was that three of the was a three of the there's one more, right? Or is that the last one that's the last one? Oh, wow so So we've got 60 dollars going and then with your match it's 120 dollars to the foundation Uh, which i'm sure that they'll put to good use So thank you veto for that And let's um, let's go back here And can you why don't you talk to us a little bit? Is there one more? Is there one more? Let me see I thought there was five Me you're shouting us out on four I gotta make one up on the spot I thought I did five but here hold on. Let's let's Don't give me that one. Yeah, give me that one That one I don't know that one. You don't know that one. No, does anybody else out there know this one?  I mean the name's right on top. So but Oh god This is great Yeah, we gotta go. So for those of you that don't know, uh, there is a restaurant down in, um, Shadyside They're no not Shadyside. That's the wrong. Is that the right? No Shadyside. Yeah, Shadyside. Thank you. Sorry Uh, that michelle and I actually love going to it's called Jarosol. It is actually veto and his family his dad, um Own and run that First off I don't know how to explain it. It is Just fabulous food the atmosphere pre-covid. I haven't been down there since COVID but pre-covid was just terrific You're you're kind of in this, um, it's almost like a family style sitting you get your own tables But you're it's kind of it's close quarters, right and the noise level is a little bit louder But it's fun and energizing I just love Love love, uh, this this place and one time on a complete win my my wife and I on our university went down Uh, because this is one of our favorite restaurants. We went down there to go and eat and he had it blocked off Michelle, what was the the show? Uh, so feel the rent It was sold out and we showed up on our anniversary. He let us in just like family I mean, he didn't know us and we had the time of our life He played all these clips with so feel around and it was like I swear It was like a 15 course meal and it was just so much fun. Uh, yeah, we were sold at that point We love that restaurant. Um, very good. It's it is a uh gem uh Jaris Holy is You know with my home for 18 years of my life um started there when I was 18 and uh I mean I lived there. Uh, I missed my daughter's childhood but at the end of the day I supported my family and it's I created a lot of relationships and um, you know, we have a lot of repeat customers and uh, you know, Jaris Holy has You know really withstood the test of time in some ways. I mean we're 21 years old now and That goes a long way for a restaurant in these days and we um Thorin COVID, I mean everyone's businesses slowed down and We were very fortunate that we have a an extremely strong loyal clientele that Really helped us Hold things together You know, everybody hurts. Thorin COVID is definitely in the restaurant industry. I don't think there was a uh, another industry that I'm sure there was but The restaurant industry service industries got killed Thorin COVID and they're still dealing with it. But uh We were very lucky and uh, we still are to this day and my father there it holds court uh daily and these 83 he'll be 83 on the eyes of arch and he throws a party For himself and whoever's there every single night. So if you guys like to have a great time It's go down and see pi and uh Get ready for something that Just isn't there anymore You know, yeah, but he's an old school doorman uh, that you'd find in the 60s 70s that You know, we'll always make you feel comfortable and he'll make you laugh and Become your friend The thing I'll go ahead and shop. Well, that's kind of how we felt when we first met you because let me back up We met you at Jarrah souls and we were entertaining some new clients They had come in from out of state and I made them a Pittsburgh basket This is before I even knew you and it was filled with in the turn of pop and turn of bottling And you walked by you say, I know that pop and I said, oh you do is my favorite And you're like, yeah, I own the company. So and from that day on I mean it's been great knowing you You've been so much fun to get to know but That's how I've looked at pittsburgh is with your with your brand I yeah Oh, go ahead. Good. Please. Please martin. I was just gonna say I think that that is a nice Trans you know a nice transition into your company. I I've always wondered How a guy from pittsburgh finds another small little business If I remember right was started in 1904 the natrona bottling company I would love to understand how you came about buying that business how you got it You know what the history is. Can you just share that? um, so I Like I said earlier. I I've lived at my family's restaurant And My mother came to me one day and said do you want to sell soda pop and I laughed in her face because it I don't mean to sound pretentious, but at the time I was studying to To be in the restaurant industry the the rest of my life. I was traveling Taking different classes on wine food coffee and uh, really That was the direction that I was gonna go I I had great love for the restaurant industry and still do But she asked me again and I came down here And realized it was only 20 minutes away from my home and it just Walked through the door Uh was watching the bottles be run the clinking and the clanking Tasted the product. It was a very finely made product and uh You know, I said, okay, I could um I could hustle this on the side Make a couple extra bucks throw it in my pocket Do something with it, whatever it may be and uh, it just started to I started to engulf myself in in the business um I knew nothing about production knew nothing about shipping and receiving um Nothing about like they they still have all these different terms for moving product from here to there that You know, I I think I get it now, but regardless I I do understand it um But at the end of the day It just It was a well-made product and uh found a cooler up in the uh in the attic and Just an old fifties vintage like uh carrying case cooler And stuffed it full of pop And I started walking the streets uh and I remember the the first week I did that I had 70 I sold 70 cases of pop And I was ecstatic. Um It was Exuberating really, you know, I had no idea what I was doing But I I'm good in front of people and I was able to just tell a story and and That's what I've been doing this whole time, you know, we We are an old school soda bottling company, you know, we make and bottle all our own products We use only cane sugar and we carbonate with dry ice instead of a manufactured co or a manufactured CO2 So what you get is a smooth tiny crisp more pleasant refreshing balanced bubble and You know, we are the last company in the country That uses that style of carbonation. I believe I have yet to find one so I always throw out there that I believe because I I don't want to claim something that's not true, but In 10 years or 11 years now. I I have yet to find anybody that is using the dry ice to carbonate their beverages Um, we use the same machinery that we've been using for over 70 years 80 years now And I can proudly say that we are One of maybe 15 left in the country that make and bottle our products In the form of fashion and manner in which we do which gives you a true old school American soda pop For the people watching I don't I don't know folks understand how important that is what you just said there One of how many seven or 15? 15 15 Yeah, there's more nfl football coaches in the country. I believe then there are Businesses like mine. Yeah Like michelle and I think that as as more consumerism happens as people are getting things from, you know China imports and just cheaply made stuff That there needs to be a swing back to quality and that's what you're offering is something that's unique You're not going to find this over in cleveland. You're not going to find this in philly, right? Unless you're shipping there through a distributor It's coming from pittsburgh and that is what is making our city so special. It's guys like you So we we just appreciate it a lot I wanted to ask a little bit and find out more about some of the brands that you you have in house So, um, let me see if I pull it up Uh, if I remember right, you have three kind of main Brands right to talk to me about what each one is and where you sell them So our our first product was red ribbon cherry We've been making red ribbon cherry for 116 years And is quite simply the best cherry soda you can get Tastes like cherry smells like cherry It it almost has like a a maraschino cherry juice type of flavor going on. It does. That's a great way to describe it it totally yeah, and it is You know, I I don't drink a lot of it because I have 16 different products and If I drank only cherry, I'd be a thousand pounds and I I did gain 20 some pounds over coven. So Um, I can't drink a ton of it. But at the end of the day We do make the best cherry pop you can get and we've been making this for 116 years So When I came in, um in 2010 There was they made we It's like nine products that were being made obviously cherry being one of them And uh, jamaica's finest ginger beer Hey leon. Thank you for the shout out to veto Thank you leon Uh jamaica's finest ginger beer being another now Uh I knew nothing about ginger beer never heard of it. I don't think many people heard about it in 2010 um I was astonished because I like ginger ginger is great And I opened it up. I was like, oh, this is nice. It bites you Tastes like fresh ginger. It's different than a ginger ale Uh, which everybody is used to so I uh You know just in the back. We ate root beer. We made the pennsylvania punch great um I would like to the station style manjulup. I was going to point out the um the birch beer, which you know, I never had a birch beer before Uh that that flavor is amazing. I actually created that product or that was one of the ones that we didn't make um When we started In fact, the first two products that I created with my assistant Mary jane were The vanilla cream and the almond cream soda Uh, which the almond cream soda is a one-of-a-kind product and is quite simply It's delicious. It tastes like an almond tort in a glass bottle um so you know fast forward three years from 2010 and uh Moscow meals really start to become popular again and everybody's searching out of ginger beer and my ties through the restaurant industry Really helped me getting um The information out there that we make One of the best ginger beers you can get Uh, so in the state store now Uh, correct What's what's funny about the ginger beer Is that I don't know if it's funny, but really without this product. We wouldn't be here today um If it wasn't for jamaica's finest Uh I probably wouldn't have been able to to to stick through Um, you mean uh, no through the fourth year Wow, um it Because of the quality of this product because of the success of this product it really inhibited me to uh Grow the other the other products as well. So as this product got busier Everything else carried behind it At the same at the same rate But this product was in You know restaurants bars coffee shops. You're turning over You know A lot more than if you're just selling A jerry pot because you're making cocktails with this so um, you know This product really was The life saving it was. I mean it's you know, we were We'd move a ton of of ginger beer So if you could um If you could come up with any new flavor that you wanted to Why you smile on the show Let her answer the question If you could make it because like marty said, what would you what would you make if you could make anything Any flavor you want Well, there's With covet I should have You'd think that I would have like dug in and started just like messing around with products and started creating flavors, but I I actually planted myself in the facility and Just really updated Everything that we were doing still staying true to our name still using the same machinery So on and so forth, but as we grow I there were a lot of things That needed to be accomplished in the house and because I was always out on the street I I wasn't able to really throw myself at it um So cope has been good to me in that way But how do you come up with the flavors anyway? Like you do it at home Do you know I just do you have an idea like uh The peach Like a chemistry set like that's how I imagine it being you get your glasses I'm not I mean we're old school so we do it the old school way, you know I mean, there's there's no chemistry sets involved. We use beakers. So you want to call that chemistry? I mean, yeah chemistry, but You know I I never was good in science um, but uh Hey, Stacey Is a is a great example of just an idea so Harding and Sons was a is a tea company that Uh, we used to get our teas for at the restaurant And they had a peach tea a peach ginger tea. I was like, oh, it's great. It was a wonderful tea I should make a peach ginger beer There it is You know, I mean You made it through the decision Decision tree pretty quickly there, right like the team focus on this you decided Listen, I'm the most add person there is in the world. So things are throwing through my head I mean speeds of thousands miles per hour So Oh, no, I'm not that sophisticated, but there's a lot of information in there. Um New flavors, uh, I really want to get a diet cola out. I actually have The formula made up But because of the viscosity of the syrup because it's a it's not going to be a diet. It's going to be a low calorie the way it Our products are made and the syrup flows through the machine. It's not viscous enough So, um you know Other than that I started messing around with a pineapple cream, which hasn't really Turned out the way I wanted it to Uh, a cherry cola is probably in the mix sometimes here sometime here in the future uh, haven't started with that yet, but I think it's inevitable That we have a cherry cola So, uh Yeah, I mean another one is uh, there's an old product out there It's not out there anymore. It was called four percent It was a grapefruit lemon lime soda I remember the 5051 and that's what they make eyeballs out of right? Correct. Yeah I think veto may have frozen here Kind of frozen Vito, I don't know if you can hear us, uh, but I think your internet. Oh, he there you are. You're back Mainly because of the mixing line of products, uh, you know, it's very good it I think it would fit very well in there And then you also grabbed the nostalgia factor out off of it as well Uh, as it was an old school product Well, I think the nostalgia factor is huge. I mean if you look at this comment from bill He's talking about you know how when he was eight years old His dad would be looking everywhere for ginger beer to create a Moscow mule right in here We have it right over the hill from us, right? It's literally in Being being created in natrona a lot of people go. Why do you why is it called Jamaica's finest? um It's a great question the the gentleman who created it Uh ginger's a A very large byproduct of of Jamaica so You know, I've had people scoff at me because it's called Jamaica's finest and it's made in Pittsburgh. I think it's kind of funny Um, but at the end of the day culture Yeah culture to the bird in fact ironically I've had quite a number of Jamaicans Say that my ginger beer is the best ginger beer they've had in the states Never better than the ones in Jamaica but in the states uh, we So they say Well, this is Go ahead.  I wasn't sure what you're reaching for You're reaching for my favorite This is actually no, this isn't the one you're thinking although we do make a great seltzer michelle because of our pinpoint carbonation, but There was an old product called Tom Tucker's Minchin Jarrell that started in the I want to say mid 30s late 30s by a man of sit by a man in the name of Sydney Harris and He built this company up guy with a top hat was his uh his emblem and uh, he sold off the company in Late 60s sold his stake out and got very bored And came to work with us so he brought along a variation of Tom Tucker's Minchin Jarrell to us, but because he just left his company, you know, it wouldn't look too well if he was The company that he's working for started making a Minchin Jarrell so we started making a product called the julep And that's the one that's colored green A couple years ago. I took the color out of it and we've created red ridden Minchin Jarrell now the It's for some reason and if any of your viewers can tell me because I still have yet to find out why Tom Tucker's Minchin Jarrell was a heavily Consumed during the holiday season Um, I do not know the answer as to why You're talking like like eggnog is a kind of a christmasy thing you Now this is in the Pittsburgh region in the tri-state area for the most part But does anybody know why we drank mint pop during christmas time in Pittsburgh? Tom Tucker's Minchin Jarrell Tom Tucker's Minchin Jarrell Okay, and it was during the the december holiday time frame. Is that the November december. Yes, November december Yeah, well if anybody out there knows that please let us know What's what's what's funny is they stopped making Tom Tucker's A year ago year and a half ago Um, it was a bastardized version of what it originally was it came in a two-liter bottle And it was made with high fructose corn syrup so on and so forth The amount calls Oh, wait, we've got somebody who said that the reason why is they used to season their ham with it They're all kinds of different uses I mean I had a guy buy five cases of this the other day Because his wife's pregnant and it helps her it settles her stomach Wow, all right So This is this product in the holiday season went berserker And um It's a delicious product It is now sold in a giant old market district in the mixer section And a lot of other small retailers around the area but Mix it with bourbon or white rum I'm telling you it makes it makes a wonderful Mention up in a wonderful Mojito without doing all the all the stuff Just add a liquor and this and maybe some mint leaves and that's it. Yeah, I love I'm in jewel up. That's one of my favorites um So tell I guess, you know, we can kind of wrap up a little bit Is there anything else you want to make people aware of maybe where they can buy uh the soda? giant eagle giant eagle market district um Grand paul joe's candy shop Yeah, labriolas Woolies east end food co-op Uh Lots of our community market is another one shop at saves lots of uh coffee shops bars restaurants As they continue to distributors carry it too, right many beer distributors will be carrying our products as well I think actually that's kind of important.  I go to giant eagle I pick up a case or a couple bottles take them home But I think a few times I've heard you say One of your big sales channels is actually through local restaurants and bars So if we have people out there that own a restaurant, um or a bar and we like to do this How would they how would they set up an account with you? How does that work?  So, you know, we'll talk make it work and We'll get the pop to you. I have the distribution channels to to get it into their hands. Um, But it really is a great table side beverage for a restaurant And we obviously we make bar mixers We make a high our our bar mixers are high quality. I mean, they're they're very well made so, uh, you know Put it behind the bar make simple easy delicious cocktails with it Is this your mom? Is this your mom veto? Who's vicki? That's my wife. That's your wife. Okay I just thought maybe your mom giving you Your wife is more important for sure I love it Thank you so much for your time veto. We can't wait to see you driving around your saltless soda bus I see. I hear you've got another one too. You got a white one and a green one now We have well the green one that's you know, 64 65 conaline super van which is in the garage right now and then I Is the heavens would have it? um A the conalines the early edition of conalines were were made in vans and in pickups So the front ends of them are the same. They have a flat front end It's kind of a funny-looking vehicle, but it is Very different. You don't see them out there at all No, because you have the pickup version, right? Well, no, I have the van is the one I've I've had for quite some time The pickup is the one that fell into my lap and it I've made it into a bar. It's a mobile bar. So, you know weddings outdoor events where you have gatherings of people that you know, they'd like to hire a bartender or a you know, just take the entertainment value as far as the alcohol goes out of their hands let them enjoy themselves We'll roll up in this awesome 1961 conaline with a bar Okay, and we'll make and pour all the drinks I love that. That's what I want. I want something like that when I grow up. I'm going to show you a meal that's cool well Actually for for folks that come to Living Pittsburgh events You know, I want to throw it out there to the world, Bito I think we're going to bring your your truck to our next event have you set up. It'll be wonderful I think this is uh, you know phenomenal idea. It's actually something. I didn't know you did So, you know, I learned quite a bit just in the last few minutes here I I haven't done an event now in a year and a half basically I don't know if I remember how to do them. I'll be honest with you. It's been so long Well, if you can open a pop soda can I think we're okay Before we jump off so we can clarify, um, is luceo is that your Lucho Lucho is my son Son it's lucho talking not vicki. So he wants to throw out some love just so you know I love my little man. He is the best. He just got his hair cut and he got it into a mohawk I'd love to see a picture of that.  My daughter is Just as awesome. She's 15. I love her to death too You know, uh, I'm really lucky Uh, to have my wife and just the support system that I have around me, you know, she's She I'm here till four in the morning five in the morning sometimes at least twice a week doing work in the house and uh, she's uh It's hard to be in small business people don't realize there's a lot of a lot of it for myself, you know, yeah A lot of sacrifice and we really appreciate it Thank you. We love your pop or should I say salt soda? And uh, we love you as a human and we want pittsburgh dot to really get to know you soda pop soda pop It straddles that line. It does right? He goes both ways. We all know it's pop, but we gotta throw a bone at people that like soda too Well, thank you. You know very much uh for being on the show for those of us for those of you that follow us Uh, we this show comes to you every thursday night at 8 15 p.m. Eastern Uh across facebook and youtube next week. We're gonna have another unique, uh, pittsburgh business called calamity wear Which uh started with a guy drawing on one of those blue plates all of us get from our grandparents Uh drew a dragon on it and thought man, this is pretty cool And if you can believe it, uh is now a pretty successful and growing business here in pittsburgh, uh that that Put stuff on on porcelain. So I think it's pretty cool. We're going to be interviewing the next week We hope you join us. Thank you guys. 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Live from Atlanta, Georgia, it's theCUBE, covering Citrix Synergy Atlanta 2019. Brought to you by Citrix. Hi, welcome back to theCUBE. Lisa Martin with Keith Townsend, day two of theCUBE's coverage of Citrix Synergy 2019 from Atlanta. We're excited to welcome principal analysts of Creative Strategies, Carolina Milanese, to theCUBE. Welcome, Carolina. Thank you for having me. So we were chatting before we went live about some of the great announcements that came out from Citrix yesterday during the general session. And one of the things that Keith and I have been hearing over yesterday and half of today is Citrix has really done this pivot towards the general purpose user. One of the stats that they shared yesterday during the general session was historically enterprise software has been designed for power users, which makes up 1% of the population. So putting users first now is something that we really heard yesterday. I wanted to get your thoughts on that. That's my passion. When I talk about enterprise, the people that I really want to talk about are the final user of the technologies. And a lot of times, not only corporations design for the power users, but they design for the IT manager, which is even worse, right? Because that is less than 1% of a workforce and put things like security and if you like the way that you can be productive first, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but that shouldn't come at the price of designing an app and a tool that really speaks to the end user and want the end user to be engaged. And so it was fascinating yesterday during the keynote here Citrix talk about a service that Gallup ran and saying that 85% of the workforce is disengaged today. And they are because they often not have the right tool for the job. They don't have the right data available to them to understand what the task is that they're trying to achieve. So there's so much there that I think something like workspace is helping disenfranchise in a way and try and break into pieces and make it more user friendly. That's the best way that you think about consumerization is making user friendly tools. So user friendly and enterprise IT really go together. Like when I remember moving from office 2003 to office 2007 and thinking, oh wow, why did I do this? This is not user friendly. We have five generations of the workforce in the workforce. So there is varying degrees of adoption. What do you think? How do you think Citrix is enabling not just the consumerization or bringing consumer products into the workforce but adoption across generations? I think if you're starting with a user, you're in a good space, right? And so it doesn't matter if you are a baby boomer, a Gen Z or a Gen X or a millennial. We all want an easy life. We want something to be straightforward and not to get into in the way of us being productive and getting the job done. And so I think if you're starting with that in mind and making sure that you understand the goals that the company is trying to achieve and then with the design, your attentive at that simplicity, baking in security. So the security is at the core of your design and your tool, but doesn't get in the way. I don't want to use a tool at work that is not secure unless it's more convenient for me, right? And that's how we always gone around what was available in the consumer space and we brought into the enterprise either as a device or an application. And I think that putting simplicity first is allowing Citrix to avoid the issues so that IT departments don't have to worry about renegades that are going to bring in something from the back door but really embrace this technology as a new way to think about how I work. And along those lines, thinking about how I work. I as an employee, you as an employee, Keith as an employee. We all have habits and tools and ways of interacting with different applications that are really personalized to us. And as consumers, on the consumer part of our lives we have this expectation that we're going to be delivered this customized personal experience. Whether we're going on Amazon to buy something or Keith was saying the other day in Facebook, Microsoft surfs up an ad to him about not a service because they know he's bought one but some additional value add accessories that might be beneficial to him. So those are things that we kind of more and more I think across those five course generations are expecting. What are some of the things that you're seeing that Citrix is doing to enable that personalization at scale in a way that's secure? Yeah, they put an intelligence in the midst of all of this because all the things that you're talking about the example that you're giving in my consumer experience are enabled by intelligence. And so artificial intelligence or machine learning that look at what Ada looked at or what page I visited and some of it is a bit stocking, but that's all right. From a user perspective, that stocking is still giving me a benefit. Now you take that into an enterprise environment it's much easier because advertising is not something that comes into play but when you're looking at what Citrix can do from an intelligent workspace and so they are able for instance to look at say I join Citrix in the marketing department and they're able on day one to show me what my colleagues in the marketing department are using as their apps, their favorite apps, their workflows so that from an onboarding perspective my experience is already easier. I'm not given a blank PC and I don't know where to go and they tell you go on the internet, find what you need. That's really overwhelming if you're just starting a new position. So being able to look at how applications are used either at a team level or across organizations you can do this with analytics, you can see organizations that can belong to the same vertical, say they're in retail. They have a similar number to employees to yours. This is how they work, that's their best practice and you can learn from that and then customize to your own needs. So we learned the new term yesterday, TOMO, Total Motivation, the measurement of how motivated or how not disengaged employees are. So employee experience is becoming a big deal. You know, if I come to a new company and I have to wait two or three days to get a laptop or get my device that's a pretty bad indicator whether or not I'm going to be able to perform well in my function. I'm starting to think, are you seeing really great examples of enterprises that will make consumers jealous? Like, wow, that enterprise experience of computing is so great, I would like to have that in my life. There are some things I saw on stage yesterday and I'm like, wow, that would make build paying so much easier. Are you seeing enterprises kind of inject some ideas into the consumer space? I think that we are starting to, right? I've been in this industry for a long time and I've been preaching for a long time about how looking at consumers and putting the user first is important. We're just starting now to come around to the idea that consumer satisfaction is important, that consumer engagement, sorry, employee satisfaction and employee engagement is important. It dawned me yesterday that, you know, if you're looking at consumer brands, engagement is the first thing they target because if you're engaged, you're going to be loyal. If you're loyal, you're going to spend more money within the brand and ecosystem that they represent. But yeah, in the enterprise, we're not that yet. And so what you're talking about will happen in my opinion, especially with new technologies, if you're thinking about deployment of 5G or you're thinking about VR and XR, there's a lot that in a way takes us back to how technology used to be, which was not as affordable as it is today. And so we'll be deployed in enterprise environment first and then come to the consumer. And so along those lines, I see some things that consumer can look at and think, you know, that would be nice in my own life. If you're looking at workspace, why can I not use a similar solution to just organize my kid's life?  So you mentioned engagement and some of the things that have popped into my mind as a marketer the last day and a half, when they talk about employee experience as a, how I'm hearing it from Citrix is, this is a critical catalyst for digital transformation, talking about the employee experience from the very beginnings of even recruiting for talent and writing job descriptions to talent acquisition, to training education. You guys both talked about some of the onboarding things that should be in place to make that process pretty seamless. But one of the things too that I think of in terms of employee experience is that like a marketing funnel, nurture, lead becomes an opportunity, convert it to a customer. But you want to, you want to turn that customer into an advocate, turn those employees into advocates so that you're able to retain them. And they add more value to the company. That was something that I thought was really pretty, I wouldn't say revolutionary, but it was nice to hear Citrix talking about the employee experience as it really relates to the essential talent attraction and acquisition issues that a lot of businesses face. And one of the things that you said, looking at how they're using AI to look at tool efficiency rather than productivity of each individual is really a great way to foster that, I would imagine, loyalty on the employee side. It definitely is. I think that, you know, we talk a lot about millennials and the fact that they're going to come into the work space and they are expecting a different way of working because their relationship with technology is different from the relationship that my generation has had. They are comfortable with technology. They are used technology every day and they don't understand why it cannot be the same way. But I think beyond that, it's not just about millennials. I think companies really need to look more at what, if you like, you know, digital transformation and consumerization of IT actually brings to the whole company.  And I think a lot of times we need to get away from how we measure something new using all tools, right?  How much is that going to cost me? That's not it. That's the wrong way of looking at what a new tool and rethinking about your processes is bringing as a value to your company. And a lot of times it's soft, you know, it's not a hard number that you can put there, soft advantages that you're going to have.  That, you can't put a price on that. So in terms of customer, I want to kind of riff off that if you're saying, because one of the things that they said yesterday is with workspace intelligent experience, we aim to give back every worker one full day a week, which is two months a year. And my first thought was, wow, how much is that going to save a company? Because one of the things that Keith and I have been talking about the last day and a half that also was announced yesterday was the $7 trillion that companies waste every year on the disengagement. So that certainly is something that was attractive and was a very strongly resonating message. But you're saying, how should companies be kind of looking at that, okay, so yes, I'm going to be able to save each person a full day a week, two months a year. How is that going to, one, turn them into advocates for the company? But what's the benefit going to be on the end user customer? Well, I think that if you're spending less time fighting to get your job done and actually focusing on doing a good job, that's already going to benefit your customer, whatever customer it is, right? It could be that you're able to research whatever it is that you're doing, like if I look at my job, if I can cut down an hour a day, I can spend that time reading, being informed, reading books or reading articles that will add to my thinking, engaging with my peers and discussing what is going on. The same thing can be in an enterprise, right? Where I have actually time to spend with my manager and making sure that he knows if I'm happy or not happy, engaging with my peers to problem solving or spend more time with my customers. You know, I think a lot of times there's a little bit of a mentality of, oh, you're saving money, so you're going to work less and so why would I need to do that? There's plenty of jobs to be done, you know? And so I think that saving that time and saving the aggravation that pushing paperwork or doing one thing that could take three steps, 15 steps, it's just not helping you. It's not helping your morale. It's not helping how you've been interact with your customers because you aren't happy and that transpire and transpire with your teams as well. So let's talk about 5G and the impact of 5G on employee experience. One, we're a little bit away from 5G becoming a thing, but when it's, talk to us about where it's at today and where the potential of impacting employee experience when it finally all arrives. Yes, we are a little bit away. We're starting to see deployment in markets actually today was the launch in the UK with EE and we had Verizon here in the US. So we're getting started. But for me, the power of 5G is two falls. Yes, on every employee will have the power of connectivity anywhere and at any time, which is good and bad because potentially you're never disconnected ever. But the other side is we're talking about that intelligence and that data. There's going to be way more of that. There's going to be more data available. So if you're thinking from an employee perspective availability of data and what that can do to you as far as understanding your customer base and how to serve them, that is going to be exponentially bigger just because so many more devices are going to be connected. And I think that for me is really what excites me about 5G. Yes, I can download a movie in one minute and five seconds but that's not it, right? It is really about, first of all, new experiences like augmented reality and what that can bring to an experience in say, in a retail environment, an experience environment, entertainment, but then the amounts of shared data that you can get from devices being connected. So we're at the tip of the iceberg. It is. Carolina, thank you so much for joining me on theCUBE. I know we can keep chatting, but we'll have to have you back because this is a dot, dot, dot to be continued conversation. We appreciate your time. Thank you. For Keith Townsend, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE live from Citrix Synergy 2019. Thanks for watching.


My name is Bruce Byers, I'm from ECDPM, which is nothing to do with Eastern Cape, as a couple of people asked me, but it's actually the European Center for Development Policy Management. So maybe just as by way of introduction, maybe I should say that ECDPM is an independent non-partisan think tank based in the Netherlands, but it's been set up since the 80s looking at EU-African relations. So basically we're looking at development policy, but in particular trying to see how European policies, whether it's on trade or aid or external diplomacy, how these then fall on the ground when we're talking about Africa, Caribbean and Pacific, but particularly in Africa. So there's been a lot of experience at ECDPM of working on trade agreements, on regional integration, and as time has gone on, there's been more and more recognition of precisely these political aspects to all these discussions. So Mike just called for more discussion on the political economy, so I'm going to respond to his call by talking precisely about those kind of things. So when we talk about political economy, I think that the point that Mike was beginning to point to was that any kind of policy reform creates winners and losers. And if we don't make an effort to try and understand who those winners and losers are and therefore what sort of policies, sort of responses they might have or non-policy responses, behavioural responses, then we may be barking up the wrong tree and end up sort of frustrated with, as he was talking about, this very institutionalised approach. So today I'm going to talk about two corridors, actually, which I think are important for a number of reasons. One is that these kind of corridor approaches underpin some of the discussions we've been having over the last couple of days about regional industrialisation. So potentially these are ways of linking ports to hinterlands, to spatial development zones, to economic zones, to promoting accompanying investment around corridor infrastructures. So they're already sort of a basis for that. But I think perhaps more importantly, I think hopefully they provide an illustration of where some of these issues that Mike was referring to, sort of where within country politics and between country politics around a regional project basically come out to play. So this has been done actually a couple of years ago, but it's part of a longer process of work at ECDPM where we're now looking at, even currently looking at the political economy of the industrial strategy in Sadek. But that's one that's not quite finished yet, so I need to come back another time to talk about that. So just very briefly where I'm going to go over just a little bit what the context is of this research that we did, a little bit on the approach, some of the findings and of course policy implications. So the starting point basically for this was around the region I don't think it's any secret that the high cost of transport, the relative low formal intra-African trade. So if we're talking about informal trade, of course, that is quite a lot of trade, but when we start looking at formal figures, high costs, high transaction costs, difficult borders, difficulties in trading across borders, all of these things that have led to this long run sort of rhetoric about the need for more regional integration and nowadays more regional industrialization. So this is let, so we can go back far to here, we can go at least as far as the 80 Lagos Plan of Action, the Abuja Treaty, we now have the TFTA, which as was mentioned yesterday was signed, although with very little sort of meaty content within it, we've got the boosting intra-Africa trade. So there's all these sort of long standing commitments or at least statements of commitment to boost intra-Africa trade and boost regional integration. At the same time then we have more and more of these sort of more concrete attempts to actually link economies together through the corridors, which is why we began to focus on this, starting a lot actually with the initiative, the Post-Apartheid South African Spatial Development Initiative, which then got taken up by NEPAD in the Spatial Development Programme, it's then also links into the PIDA, the TFTA with the North-South Corridor, which is what I'm going to discuss, which also links in, there's lots of mention of corridors within the SADEC, the RAISDP, even within the Regional Agricultural Programme. Corridors are there as this instrument to be used to promote integration and to promote trade integration and some of these sort of regional value chains that we're talking about. So, sorry, I missed the last bit, but the frustration with this has always been about implementation deficits, all these commitments over the years, all these plans, all these strategies, all these action plans, but nothing happens, well, not nothing happens, sorry, with frustration at the speed of implementation. The question that's usually asked is why do we not have much more progress in this? Well, one is actually a legitimate one in a sense, is that there's lots of overlapping REC membership, so countries are members of more than one regional community, obviously that then complicates how they do things. What I'm going to suggest is that there's a strong logic for why countries join all these different RECs, so instead of sort of deciding why doesn't everybody just join one and get out of the other ones, you just have to work with the fact that these different interests are being served in different RECs. But the usual suspects that are given then are the overlapping REC membership, lack of finance, lack of capacity, lack of political will, lack of interagency coordination, which was mentioned this morning as well, lack of bankable projects, lack of regulatory frameworks. Now, the point that I'm making is not that these are not legitimate in some sense, but that we need to think more about the politics that then leads to these. So why do we not have these capabilities? Why do we not have this coordination? How come we're not able to come up with these bankable projects? If you look down these long lists of projects that each country and region has, what is it that's missing? So the proposal is to think more about politics within countries and between countries, and the way that I'm going to do it, and I'll come back to that in a minute, is to kind of talk about some of these long-run historical structural factors. Also talk about some of the formal and informal institutions. So these kind of strategies and action plans and agreements are just sort of the tip of the iceberg in terms of describing formally what should happen. But if we don't understand what actually happens in the way that actors interact around these agendas, then that's where some of the action is going to happen. And so the rules of the game that are kind of set by the formal setting, but also informally, then influence the different actors in the way that they sort of play out within. And there we're talking about public sector actors, but also private sector actors, regional actors, civil society actors. We also need to understand some of these sexual specificities. We just heard a lot about the water sector, where there is much more of a legitimate argument that you do have these cross-border water resources. Maybe there isn't as much scarcity as some would say, but the logic for cooperation around that is quite different to cooperation around soil value change, which is one of the sessions that we just listened to in the other room. And then, of course, there are external factors. Some of these are very externals, climate change, global terrorism, but also technological. And some of these are also to do with the donor sort of patterns and donor ways of thinking that then also influence the way all these trajectories play out. So the question that we were trying to look at here was when do the key actors, especially political elites, credibly engage and commit to implement regional integration agreements? So it's really trying to say, OK, where does this stuff happen? Really? I thought I had 15 minutes, no? OK, so I'll skip through that. OK, so we look to the Maputo Corridor. We look to the North-South Corridor. We basically run from Dar es Salaam down to Durban, both of which are, or at least Maputo Corridor obviously is a bilateral. The North-South Corridor is done as part of the TFTA, as the tripartite. And the point basically being, well, OK, so this is just highlighting some of the challenges in terms of transport costs and complications. But as soon as you start looking around these corridors and looking at who are the people that are involved, then we have private sector actors like market sellers, fruit producers at a larger scale, informal transporters. We have the storage people, the transporters running along the corridor. We have the mining companies. We have Mozal, we have Sazal. So basically all of these people, if we just take, just looking at the Maputo Corridor, all these different acts have some kind of interest in, A, making it work, B, potentially protecting some kind of interest. Do they really want to have more competition? And this, then, is sort of one of the keys and questions that we need to ask, then. Who are the actors that are involved in these different initiatives? And what is it that they're actually sort of trying to promote in terms of their own interests? And to what degree is this actually sort of just anti-competitive? Incumbent firms sitting in Zambia, are they interested really in having easier flows of goods from South Africa to Zambia? Or actually, are they doing very well? Thank you very much. Serving East DRC, serving East Angola, which is one of the points that, again, also came up from one of the presentations earlier on. So here are the five lenses that we went through, which is the five I talked about before, structural factors, the institutions. And then I'm just going to quickly run through some of the differences between the two corridors. And again, I think the point here is just to highlight the way that there are similarities, but also these big differences. So in the structural factors, we have this. I mean, it's a bit like what Mike was even just talking about, the water flows and who's downflow and who's upflow. So we have Maputo Port linking to this huge industrial heartland in South Africa. We have this long history of minerals out, labor in, running along the same corridor. We have a long political attachment between Freelimo and ANC. We have the timing issue of just post-apartheid South Africa, just post-Civil War Mozambique. Both countries suffering major fiscal constraints, which then led to a common interest in finding a PPP. And then these huge income disparities between the two, which also form a basis for the way that this corridor basically played out. Where were the power relations between the two? If you look at the comparison from the North-South corridor, you're suddenly not talking about two countries, you're talking about eight countries. So I have much wider disparity of interests. Five landlocked countries along there. Extractives are still important. And you do have sort of some common institutions between certain countries. So the Chirundu One-Stop Border Post is commonly flagged as a big success in the North-South corridor. And when you go into that and you look precisely some of these structural factors, the common institutions between Zambia and Zimbabwe facilitated the kind of engagement that could go on, as well as the lack of competition between the two. So Bate Bridge was next in the list for a One-Stop border, but that one's still hanging on a long, long, long time. So maybe just to go down, I'm not going to be able to go through all of these, apparently. But in terms of sort of the formal, informed rules of the game, as I say, light and formal structures in the Maputo case, much heavier involvement of donors, of the TFTA, of NEPAD, of all sorts of other actors along the North-South corridor, where it is really not clear who's actually pushing the agenda beyond this outside influence from donors. And so when you move down to the sort of the key actors that are there, whereas for the Maputo corridor, you had high presidential engagement, we had Shisano and Mandela. There's a close political linkage from before. We had key civil servants that were put within the two different ministries. So there was a political drive. You actually also had the private sector intros, both at the Maputo and through the Mozal investment, and at the South African end, in terms of looking for other options for Richards Bay and Durban ports. You also managed to set up a private sector association, and you even have sort of now a memorandum of understanding between the Maputo corridor logistic initiative and outside chambers of commerce promoting inward investment. So the structures around, the actor interests around Maputo corridor are much clearer than when you go to Zambia, again talking to sort of interviews that were carried out for this. There was much less of a private sector interest in having this, precisely because there's a reasonable manufacturing base and even production of capital goods which are serving the market, and at the moment are basically protected to a degree from South Africa. And also politically, in the previous government, basically under SATA, the big strategy was rural roads. That's the vote winner, not regional integration. So if we become frustrated with these things, then it's because we're ignoring some of these specific factors. So the main message I think then we need to get to is that the capacity constraints and all these previous sort of usual suspects are real, but the political economy factors are at least as important. So I think the point that you come to is that whereas signing up to something like the TFTA does serve a purpose as a kind of political signal, as a long-term ambition, in fact, the reality of implementation always has to come down to these narrower interests. And in order to understand those, we would do well to look at these sort of five different areas, the foundational factors, et cetera, and take all these things into account. So these are just some of the, okay, final one. What can you do with all this? One of the criticisms of political economy analysis is often that, well, it tells a good story about why things don't work, but it doesn't really help you in terms of trying to design a policy for looking forward. So this isn't actually in the paper, but I think maybe one of the things to discuss then is what could you do? And there are sort of four different strategies. One is you can try and alter the interests that are at play, which is what's been done often by donors trying to provide money on condition that, XYZ. Another is to try and adapt to the conditions that are there. So okay, well, if the interests are there, private sector interests are there, why don't we try and work with those guys? Or you can try and avoid, and that's a little bit what Mike's example of the Tennessee River Authority was saying, okay, let's try and just get by-pass some of those interests and do our own thing. And maybe finally, what Maputo Corridor one sort of highlights is timing. Timing is often crucial, so maybe sometimes you just need to await the right time, the right people, and then you'll be able to align the incentives. So I'm sorry, that was very fast, but the paper is in the pack as well, and I'm happy to discuss more of this afterwards. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


तर्ट्टी फुर्थ अलिन्टिया कुन्फरेन्स अलिन्टिया किशान सबा इस बिंहेल at this पंच्याद भावन अप फिसार अन it is historically memorable for us because 25 years back in 1992, September our 27th conference was held in the same venue and that year the government of India accepted the neoliberal economic policy so first in our last conference we passed a commission paper on neoliberal policy and in those we apprehended that what type of damage the neoliberal policy can create now after 25 years we came here in the 34th conference so in this occasion we got a 25 years impact of this neoliberal policy on the life of farmers and the life of Indian people so it is an opportunity for us to assess the impact of neoliberal policy in 25 years during those days no organization, all the kishan organizations they said it is good for the country India and farmer will be benefited by integrating with the international farming but we opposed it and we thought it will not happen fund bank philosophy will dominate and ultimately farmers will be in great difficulty in course of time apparently our understanding was proved true and those organizations like Bharatiya Kishan even and all big kulak organizations those who supported neoliberal policy now they have all come round and say no no this policy is very bad it is damaging the farmers interests so we understood that this happened and in this conference we are evaluating in that how deep it was its impact and how the farmers are affected in different aspect of life we will discuss that so we decided to hold the conference here and now yesterday it started the conference about 758 elected delegates from 25 states they are participating now we are suffering the agrarian crisis not problem, problem can be solved but crisis because of the people are committing suicide because they want to leave this as a profession their children are not coming because there is no future so we want to discuss the depth of the crisis which started during this UP government and intensified during this NDA rule we will discuss that depth of the crisis the different aspects of the crisis that we will discuss here then other problem is that how we what are the strategy we should evolve to fight back that also one of the area of discussion in the conference then another problem is there when you are uniting the farmers then the communal and casteist forces are trying to divide the farmers another area of concern how we will work or intensify our work to unify the farmers how we will be able to engage in more and more social struggle and this unity of the people against casteism, communalism all these aspects they attack on the minorities in the name of cattle trade ban so all these issues will come how we will unify the people, farmers that will be another area of concern we will discuss then it will be discussed this government is making the country junior partner of the imperialist forces but on the other hand they are drum beating that they are the nationalists actually they betrayed the nation during freedom struggle now they are becoming the champion of nation that is fake nationalism Indian patriotism is those who fighting for the people so these aspect also, ideological aspect also and imperialist aspect also will evaluate and form decision united struggle is the most important necessity of the day four formation already formed kishans have had a big role that is one is Bhoomiya Adhika Randolan for three years unitedly working then last two months two organization emerged one is rastivya kishan, mahashank 60 organization are there another is all india kishan, sanghas coordination committee about 170 organizations are there joined we are in both the combination we are also helping them to build up and we are actively participating because wherever farmers are struggling we have to be there so these two formation is fighting for two demands one and half times price of the crops and low number but our organization has 15 point charter of demands for which we are campaigning including these two another demands other demands are there and we will take we are taking those demands to the farmers that created an atmosphere on which actually the present movement emerging last three years we are campaigning this 15 point demand now we will concretize that farmers half of the farmers are women but we do feudal society we do not recognize that women they are farmers they have no land, right they have no joint part they have no equal wage for equal work so we will fight for that and majority of women are coming in Rajasthan movement in Maharashtra movement more than men women are coming in this struggle so this is a new strength for the Kisan movement so women should be mobilized more and more in the Kisan Sabha not only in the rally but in the organizational setup leadership will try to promote more and more members in them another problem younger generation that is also we have to mobilize younger generation is now a bit frustrated so how we can mobilize the younger generation and to encourage them to join the battle that area also is our concern so all these organizational issues also we will take up and try to strengthen the organization so that we can bear the responsibility in coming days we are going to face


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Good afternoon. This is Melissa with thestockswish.com and welcome. Welcome to Alta. This is the golden gap to the bullish side for the day. And really, actually, what a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful bullish gap here. You know, Alta was one of these plays where if you didn't know how to re-gaps correctly, you might have thought this was a fade, simply because of the fact that the stock had closed the night before at $100.16. And open today at like $114.10. So, you know, that's a $14 gap up. And people may have tried to fade this. In fact, I'm sure that people did. We were going over this early in the trading room in the morning because I showed where someone could have shorted it and how you have to see the gap correctly to know to take the entry right in the right direction. This was a long today. Actually, call this as a long today. Beautifully.  And even with the big stop that it had, it actually is a four-hour trade here into the target. It's like six to seven or eight wherever it goes. Target for this today is $120. I actually think it gets there. It's, you know, almost getting here into two o'clock in the afternoon. And the reality is that this got all the way up to the first target, which was $118. And it actually got over $118. And so $120 is very likely even here today. And this did this all, all of itself, all of its own accord without the market. So it's a beautiful, very strong, nice trading gap. And the way that it held here so bullishly in the morning was great. And actually right here in here now, this is actually setting up like a breakout play. Now, there's no entry here. There's nothing to do. This could do a tail and then do it, but this looks like it's getting ready to break out. And if it does, it'll go to 120 lickety-split without any problem at all and no hesitation. Here was the morning. You know, I recently wrote a class on entries. And one of the very important things about trading, well, there's two, there's two things are important. One is having a correct strategy, which means picking the right stock symbol to trade in the correct direction, reading the trade for the stock that you're going to trade to take it in the correct direction. In this case, this is a golden gap, a bullish gap to trade to the upside to buy, not to short. The direction is to buy this, not to short it. It is a bullish gap and is a high quality bullish gap. It was 21 points. So if you're watching this in the day, you're looking to buy this, not to short it. I'm sure traders did short this and thought it was a short to come in to some crazy number that they thought it would, but it didn't do it. Why would they have wanted to do that? Because people don't understand how to read gaps. And again, the key to entries is knowing how to take something like this aggressively to get paid in it to have the risk to reward number one, and number two, knowing not to kill it if it does something like what this did here. This is actually an entry to go short if you wanted to short this. I didn't do it. I would never do this. This is a terrible short, but this is what people do. There's shorting this in here. But actually what is this? This is the confirmation to go long. So you take 1,000 people and you line them up in a room. If you clip this chart and took 1,000 people and line them up in a room, this is a one-minute chart based on the gap today in Alta. How many people would have gotten this right? There's the play in there. Where would they have seen it? What would they have done? You probably would have had 1,000 different examples. Who's the one that actually has the correct answer? The one that calls the trade with the best risk to reward with the correct entry, the correct stop that holds and doesn't get stopped out, gets the trade in the right direction, that reads the gap in the right direction, that gets paid and does the trade before it goes. Anybody can see this is a long now. The idea is to get the trade before it sets up.  So, you know, this is what I teach in the entry class. This was a long today. This was actually a very nice, solid entry to go long. And people were shorting this in the topping tail here. Maybe somebody shorted this in the open. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody shorted this in the open or here or even here. Okay? But it was a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful bullish gap. Never broke the low of the day and isn't going to. The follow-through hire is on this here today into the close, into 4 o'clock. It's going to close looking exactly like this or something even more bullish. There's no way this doesn't close looking like this. So, if this comes in a little bit here, it's going to flip on up and through and run up into the close. This is going to close looking very much like this. This is Ulta, the bullish golden gap for Friday, September 13th. And, you know, it is a great example of why you have to understand how to take quality entries in trades. Number one is getting the strategy right, which is picking the correct stock in the correct direction. You won't be able to pick a stock symbol correctly on the day to play in the right direction because you can't read trends or don't have a strategy to do it. So, you've got to have that first. But then after that, you still have to know how to take entries right. Because if you don't know how to take entries right, it's going to be challenging for you to make money even if you get the direction right because you won't know where to get in. You won't know where to put the stop. You won't have any defined risk. And you may also miss the trade or get in late or get in too early and then you're down before it goes. There's a whole host of reasons why you must enter trades correctly. And there are people that actually have directions right on certain stock symbols but because of poor entries, lack of money management, bad stop placement and taking trades at things they think are entries but are not entries and then therefore even putting a stop at the incorrect place because it really was an entry where they entered in the first place that people get stopped at and actually lose money even if they read the direction right. So, you must have both. You've got to be able to pick the stock symbol, get the direction right in the overall trend and pick the trade correctly. What does that mean? Entering it right. Putting the stop at the right place and getting out. And people who don't like to take stops is just because they don't understand what a stop means, the purpose of a stop or how to take trades right in order to enter them. A stop defines your risk. You must have a defined risk in trading. Otherwise, your risk is limitless and that cannot be. That is not the way to trade and have a correct business plan. However, you do have to be skillful in taking entries and I really nailed this thing today. Really, really. It was gutsy but I absolutely nailed it and beautiful, beautiful, beautiful call, beautiful trade. Beautiful gut. This is a late entry on this thing in here now but this is definitely higher. No questions about it in here for the longer term for this thing. It's made its mark. Today is the answer. Talk about reading directional institutional money direction is exactly what I did with this today. I read the GATT and it told me that institutions are buying this. This is new buying, new money today in the GATT, new buying. You do not fade this. You did not short it. There's no such thing as a GATT fill. It doesn't work. There's nothing to do. There's no one even taking profits in this. It's new buying today. There's no one taking profits. There's nothing to sell out of. This is new buying. You see? Beautiful bullish GATT. This is Melissa with the stockswish.com. For more information on the entries course, it is this coming week, September 18th and 19th, Wednesday and Thursday from 1 o'clock to 6 o'clock Eastern time. If you're interested, email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com. And if you would like information on the upcoming GATT course, email me for current upcoming dates. My email is Melissa at thestockswish.com. Thanks everyone. Have a great weekend.


Meanwhile, the Brazilian Navy-shaped UNIAO visited Lagos and conducted drills with selected Nigerian Navy ships amongst other engagements in Lagos area. The delegation also paid a cut to COOL on the flag officer command in Western Naval Command, Rerad Miro Yacubu Wambai, to deliberate on vital naval issues. The Navy's internationally have a standard role which is diplomacy. The Navy is the only military that also has a country's military with its hardware and it is received only. So, their visit today is not just to the Western Command but is to Nigeria as a whole and, militarily, we are receiving them in continuation of our collaboration, cooperation, in having or ensuring safe waters. Like His Excellency the Consulate General stated, we share a common water body which is the Atlantic. We are to the east, so it is a commonality for all of us. What goes wrong here will affect them. They are for their coming here, obviously we have seen the way here last year. We are here now, by October hopefully, the Obama exile and other ship will be coming, to continue to foster the signage that we've had right from time of independence because security is not the one person thing, it is an all of government approach. Look, we've been cooperating since we recognized Nigerian independence in the 60s, in 65 and a military component was very strong in the beginning. Now what is happening is a resumption of these good relations that we have in the past. So, we're trying more and more to reopen a defense attaché offices in Abuja some years ago and this is helping in growing training, participating in joint operations. I think this is quite positive for both countries and we hope now, not only to receive Nigerians in Brazil, but Brazilians starting to come to Nigeria to do training here. Of a Brazilian Navy force here and we call it because we have here a frigate called União, a helicopter and a special group operations working together and we are here to work with the African people. We went in other countries before we came here and we are doing many exercises with them because we want to cooperate with the other so then we can improve our exercise, our training and our force together and the idea of staying here is to improve our cooperation to train together and so we are doing some boarding exercises, some type of maneuvering, helicopter operations and things like that so that we can make our backyard, call it SOFA plant a good place for both of us. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Happy Saturday, dudes. We have to talk about the summer heat voting SBC that is coming out today, either between St. Maximon and Usman Dembele. Who is going to win? I'll offer my thoughts, offer the price in the SBCs and what other market movements you're going to see. The market's already going down in preparation for this SBC. And because of the Ribery SBC that came out yesterday on FIFA as well. So I'm going to talk about all that today. Why prices are dropping. Can you invest in some SBC fodder? And are there some other cards that are maybe like flying under the radar as a possible investment as well as prices are dropping across the board? I want to talk about that and also go over the content that we saw yesterday on Friday. All inside of this video, we're going to do it all in this video. Also talk about batch two and the price movements on some of those cards today as well. But I want to talk about the SBCs that are coming today first because it's going to be big. It's going to be big today. This is a very anticipated day in FIFA Ultimate Team. St. Maximon getting a striker card today if he wins. Usman Dembele getting a center attacking mid card today if he wins. And I feel like that's some information. A lot of people are also forgetting and missing out on right now is that it is a position change. So the cards that you voted on, the Usman and the St. Max and the Monier did not have the position change on those voting cards, the loans. But the SBC that comes out today will be a position change. Will they upgrade St. Max's weak foot if he wins? I hope so because they're going to put him into a striker card.  But I think Usman is going to win personally because of the Barcelona badge and because of the amount of people that would be interested in that player I think over St. Maximon. But I think it's going to be close. And I really hope that EA would like somehow show us a metric. Probably won't get anything like that. But I would love to see a metric. So first thing I want to talk about is the pricing. How much is Usman or St. Max going to be today? I feel like they'll be around the same price regardless of who wins. Honestly, I'm going to give you a big price range here just because I don't know based on the Franck Ribéry SBC that came out yesterday. How they're going to value this SBC either somewhere between 400,000 coins and 800,000 coins is where I feel like this SBC is going to land today. I know that's a big range. I know that's not really helpful for a lot of you guys. But I'm really not sure what to expect because before Franck Ribéry on Friday, I think the most expensive SBC that we had was either Jovic or Firmino. And that was like 350 to 400,000 coins. Like that was the most expensive summer heat SBC we had had yet. Now we have this Franck Ribéry who is tipping the scales right now on the PlayStation for around 680,000 coins. Four different squads. This is the most expensive one. Yes, I know Ribéry has some hype. A lot of people did this. I did this SBC myself today. Added to the team. He's going to be playing weak and weak for me. But I'm really curious to see since they value this SBC so high, if they knew Ribéry would have a lot of hype and people would still do him, if they're also going to value the St. Maximon or the Usmandan Bailey that comes out today at a high value as well. That's why I give you that big range because they could make it a very cheap SBC and that would do wonders to the market. If they did that, that'd go crazy. And also they can make it a more expensive SBC, which would make people think about it, but still probably completed because it's July. And we've been waiting so long for a Usmandan Bailey special card in FIFA Ultimate Team. So somewhere between the 400 and 800K range is SBC fighter going to rise from where it is at right now. Some of the cards I guess I do like is maybe like the 86s and 87s because I feel like today the 84s didn't rise, which I was surprised with because of course of how they value the Franck Ribéry SBC. But I feel like if they're giving 86, 87 and 88 rated squads for an Usmandan or a St. Maximon, that seems pretty legitimate to me. So maybe some 87s, 88s, 89s that haven't risen yet. Maybe you're looking to some of those today for the SBC. But if you've already got your fodder locked and loaded and it's already up in price, maybe stick with that. Some of this fodder is up. Some of it's not. We have a new batch of special cards that is in packs as well. Batch two is officially in packs. I'll talk about that a bit today and look at some of those prices. But now we have a whole new range of informs of man of the match cards. There's a lot of man of the matches that are in packs right now. We have a whole new set of those fodder cards that are now in packs that are going to replace some of those SBC fodder cards that have gold versions out of packs because they have other versions like maybe team of the group stages or for birthdays in packs at the moment. So does SBC fodder rise today? If there's any rise, I think it's mostly going to be in like the 86 to 89 or maybe even like up to 91 range. If they would require two 88 rated squads for whoever's SBC is coming out today, I do think you might see a bit of a boost in the price of those higher rated cards like we did yesterday with Frunk because he has an 88 rated squad. There was I think Ter Stegen was who I looked at earlier today. Mark Andre Ter Stegen's 90 rated card which is not in packs right now. This card is not in packs right now. Went from 39K this morning all the way up to 46K and this card could even pop up more tomorrow because you might need a Barcelona player, you might need some La Liga links especially for the requirements that could be required for an Usman and Bailey SBC. Not saying this is a really like great investment but maybe a little bit overlooked. So he's not getting supplied in the market right now. He's only up about five, six thousand coins. Maybe you catch a couple on bid. Just the cards like this could pop a little bit tomorrow for like the hour or two after the SBC is released. Maybe you look to see a bit of inflation on some of that stuff because of that SBC coming out. Other than that 84s again if we take a look at 84s these are very low but is there going to be an 83 or 84 rated squad as a part of any of the SBCs that come out today for Usman or Alan St. Maximon? I highly doubt it. I highly doubt it. I feel like they're going to be more high profile especially again after the pricing of the Ribery SBC today. So that's kind of what I expect. What other market movements can you expect today? A lot of cards that I've already started to go down. This tells me like Headliner Neymar is somebody who I saw a price of today and I was honestly very surprised at how far this guy has dropped today in FIFA Ultimate Team. This guy was 2.7 million coins this morning almost 2.8. He is dropping by the minute man. This guy is dropping like 50k an hour still. He's 2.36 at the moment and still dropping. He's out of packs but people I think are selling this card because they have to fund. They don't have coins number one to do the Franck Ribery SBC and a lot of people want to do that card because it is meta. Very good upgrade and it's just an emotional player for a lot of FIFA Ultimate Team users and also Usman or St. Maximans coming today and they could be especially if Usman wins a replacement for a lot of people in regards to like their center attack mid and their team. So like this Neymar could even go down further tomorrow but prices across the market are down like even cards that are out of packs right. Like take a look at my favorite guy Kenny Lala right. This guy has since rebounded a little bit. He was like 520k last night today during the panic selling when Usman came out or excuse me when Ribery came out. He was down to 450k rebounded back over 500 and now the stuff is kind of starting to simmer back down again and I think you're going to start to see more sell off as we get into the six period 6pm time frame across the market. I think this is not just going to happen on you know like the cards that are impacts that rebounded today which we'll talk about those for a second but like all Tots cards seriously if it's a center attack in mid if it's some sort of card that people have in their squads it even could be a link investment to a possible another French player that could go up later this week because of the of Usman coming out or because of St. Maximans coming out but literally I think almost everything is going to get panic sold today. You have Tots Neymar team of the season Neymar 98 rated is down 500k today. This guy's he was 5.6 mil. He was 5.6 mil this morning. He's down. He's almost 5. He was 5.1. He's 5.2 now. He's 5.1. This guy is dropping because of Ribery and because I think people need coins to do Usman whoever is coming out today Usman or Saint Maximans is there going to be a rebound of some of this really high tier meta stuff. I think there is a little bit but right now people are losing a lot of coins because they're selling cards because they want to do these summer heat SBCs and they know a big SBC is coming today so I would expect market wide panic and prices dropping again as we head into 6pm UK again today and when the SBC is released if it is Usman or Saint Max and it is a good boosted card and it's not more than like 700,000 coins kind of like the same price as the Franck Ribery SBC if it's no more than that and the boost is good I think you're going to see even more panic selling on the market because either of those cards that come out today are just going to have so much hype you're going to see panic selling on icons that are out of packs maybe like a Maradona could go down a Pele could go down somebody might sell their middle Pele card that they've had for a while that they've been trying out this guys 2.585 right now they might sell their Pele card because if Usman comes out tomorrow he's going to have stats that look just like this or even better and he's got the five-star weak foot right that's the kind of thing that you could see panic selling these icons I would get kind of interested in that I know it's the weekend they sell off so just be very careful with that cards that are very rare like these icons that are out of packs do interest me in the fact that they just don't get any more supply so if you see big undercuts on maybe some of these cards today be careful with those but for the rest of that for the market movements today a lot of you guys have been asking me about like foot birthday Griezmann right Griezmann is now in packs had some crazy market fluctuations already today which we'll talk about in a second but is this guy going to rebound tomorrow honestly I think this is what's going to happen right let's say you have a Barcelona card even like shapeshifter messy what I think would happen first is since this is a center attack in mid same position as what Usman would be I think this card would drop first and then rebound after people sell cards to go to the SBC then they would maybe go buy this card to link to him or maybe a right wing that is French or a left wing that is French or a striker or a center back or a CDM that you might link to an Usman or to a St. Maximum I think people would panic sell those cards first you'd see panic on the market and then a rebound for the next two to three hours but then we're also getting into this Saturday night and Sunday time frame where a lot of people are finishing their week and then there's not as much demand that's what I'd be very very careful with and you might see some prices go even lower especially on a card that has impacts like this Griezmann you might even see some cards go lower on Sunday so just be very very careful with that if you're trying to mess around with some fluctuations today I'd be very careful with it honestly I don't know if I would mess around with it too much but that's kind of what I expect for the market today I would expect panic at 6 p.m. UK a lot of sell-off a slight rebound not as much as today on Friday from what we saw with the panic the rebound today but more or less of an actual rebound and then prices coming back down on Sunday and then reaching a low Sunday night where we might be able to buy some stuff especially French links going into later into this next week as people will be rocking their Ribber Ease they'll be rocking their either Usman or St. Maximon and that's going to be very interesting for the market but again I want to look at some of these foot birthdays because batch two is out and that's what I want to transition to talking about next the stuff that happened on Friday and FIFA Ultimate team there was a lot of stuff that happened and there's actually some new information from Foot Watch that just came out and I want to look at this first it looks like EA is kind of trying to kill fodder and keep its prices at least subdued and lower because they're releasing a new pack guarantees a rare gold player rated 85 to 92 and then guarantees two rare gold players 84 or higher so an 84 plus double whoa what is this 85 guarantees five rare gold players rated 88 or higher wow that's actually crazy I don't even know what you would turn in for that five rare gold players rated 88 or higher 88 or higher five rare gold players do you know that what that's going to look like that's almost like a foot champions uh an elite reward pack all that that pack is going to contain tots on tots on tots like 88 rated or higher yes you'll have some of these forums and some of these special cards in there but if it's anything other than 88 plus you go into the 90s and like you're getting look at all these tots cards right a lot of tots cards in your 93s 94s that's actually crazy that is this pack right here five rare gold players rated 88 or higher that is going to really hurt the high rated fodder on this market and a lot of people are going to want to do that pack if it is repeatable even two rare gold players 84 or higher it's going to get interesting I would really watch the prices of these 82s and 83s 83s are down about a thousand coins a piece from where they were if you're on a low budget some of these 80 82s especially if they're out of packs because they have a special carded packs right now I might get kind of interested in some of that because I don't know what you would even require for an 88 five rare gold players 88 or higher that's an absolutely crazy pack so I might be kind of careful with the high rated fodder that I have um in my club this is interesting wow this is like a way at the at the end of the game where you can just delete your entire club this to me is liquidate your entire club hit a bunch of these packs and this is how you end FIFA Altman team right here these packs this is going to be the end of some people's clubs they're going to rinse this in the prime icon packs they're going to rinse this into the Usman into the um river read so EA is really setting us up here this makes me think they might make Usman a little bit more expensive with higher rated squads to make you try to craft it and like you know push all your coins into that and then you're just out of coins so then you have to buy FIFA points maybe um this is like rinse your club central right there with that SBC code so if you thought prices dropped today I think I would expect prices to drop even more on Saturday um that's crazy that is honestly crazy I was even thinking about buying some shapeshifter Ben Yetters which I'm still interested in but that pack code right there I'm going to be really watching the price of this card man because there's not very many right wings that are French that are usable in this game but since that pack code has come out I think I bought a Yetter today at 390 I don't know how much buying I'm going to do so I would say if you want to do a club stock on some high-rated before the SBC comes today go ahead and do that that's a safe play but that code's interesting man that is a very interesting code I don't know if any of that relates to like the twitch prime pack that would be coming out if we have another one of those coming soon but that is some market crash material right there and a lot of prices are going to be dropping because of that but again I did not get to the point that I was going to talk about batch two did come out of packs today we still have 81 plus packs if you want to grind some upgrades that are cheap to do that is absolutely an option for you as well but I want to show you these price fluctuations because I think I nailed this yesterday in the video I talked about how in the week prior or the batch prior there was a drop and then a rebound on these cards because they were meta that is exactly what happened today Griezmann was 420k right before the content drop went all the way down to 320 we're under 320 and went back up to 380 and is now at 370 again this happened on like all the full birthdays today and Bobbitt was down like 48 he's back up at 5 mil this same Maxman was at 840 he went down to 740 went back up to 870 now he's back down to 800k it happened on all the usable for birthdays today probably happened on some of the team that groups age cards as well but the cards that they did put back into packs was basically everything we expected except they put team of the year nominees in packs and they didn't put like secondary league team of the seasons I was hoping to have these tots cards back in packs but they didn't which is an unfortunate so I'm guessing those are going to come back during batch number three which I think is going to be in like what did they say this batch is out for two weeks as well yeah basically if two weeks exactly two weeks exactly we've got road to the finals FFS cards foot birthdays team of the year nominee and team of the group stage cards in packs for the next two weeks with batch to rerelease so no tots cards yet again but again a lot of informs and man of the match cards that are coming as well speaking of new things that were added to the game there were some new man of the match items that I think they added from over the weekend Harry Maguire 87 Tierney William and Sterling all got man of the match items not that they're really relevant but that's just something that did happen and Phil Foden got his SBC upgrade to a 95 rated card footprint as an upgraded it yeah but I can show you the card in FIFA if you do want to see it the upgrade on this card was it was okay I don't think the upgrade was as good on Phil Foden as it was in Diaby in my honest opinion if we take a look at some of these Phil Foden's 95 rated card he got a plus three shooting plus three passing plus three pace plus three defending and then plus four defense and physical I think we all would have wanted to see Fabinho win but still there's your upgraded Phil Foden card if that had any interest to you and then the objective cards I need to talk about these really quick as well very grindable very easy you don't need a lot of wins you don't have to spend a lot of time for Mbabu or for Pope this card is five star skills so again these fan favorite SBCs are like a re-release with better stats of a popular card from earlier in the year with the Pope for birthday SBC and the Mbabu wrote to the final item is what they're basing this card off of pretty nice stats on this card so like Hakimi dropped a bunch today because that was a bonus that you're right back because of now there's an a grindable objective player that is out there and so that kind of caused his price to go down as well but again this looks like it's going to get pretty serious for the market I think a lot of prices are going to continue to drop the rebounds are going to be short they're going to be really quick and they're going to be far between honestly it's going to have to be a really meta and a really rare card if it's going to rebound today icons are something that I could see being profitable later in the week next week we'll look into some of these prices on maybe Sunday night I'm just going to wait and see what happens tomorrow I'm probably not going to spend a lot of my coins I'm going to stay pretty liquid I don't have too much going on on my transfer list at the moment I've got some benedirs and then some I think I have some mutinos and a couple other shapeshifter cards but really I don't have much going on I'm going to put more coins into upgrades this week see how the upgrade packs are see if I can pack some for birthdays that'll be pretty fun and then we'll see what happens this week for the rest of the content because it's looking really interesting right now with what all they're going to put out last thing and I'll leave you with is my rigged pack luck because I did open my engagement reward pack today the 125k pack and what a freaking pack this was terstegin in moments Yoris Guerrero Veron Henderson five special cards to just start off the pack right there with two nineties two eighty sevens that was awesome that these cards right there literally were very key in me completing the first squad the 88 rated squad of uh ribbery so that was a w from that today we did get that engagement reward pack coming out today in FIFA as well so it's going to be a busy Saturday on the market boys and I think you're going to see a lot of prices dropping so if you've got cards and you want to take the coins on them you've got my blessing to do so because I think they're going to continue to drop some more if you guys enjoyed this video smash the thumbs up on it comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new it's been Nathan put account catch you guys later peace out