Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, and this is Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. I was the head coach of the Punahou Boys Varsity Tennis Team for 22 years, and we were fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. This show is based on my books Beyond the Lines and Beyond the Game, and it's about leadership, character, and creating a superior culture of excellence. My special guest today is an impressive leader who's the founder and CEO of IQ360. She is Lori Teranishi, and today we are going beyond strategic communications. Hey, Lori, welcome to Beyond the Lines. Hi, Rusty. So happy to be here today. Thanks for having me. Lori, you and I know each other since high school. One of your best friends was my girlfriend, so we go way back. And I'm so happy to see how you have become such a highly respected CEO now. It's hard to believe, right, Rusty? We were high schoolers, and we knew each other in college, and I guess we've become leaders to some extent, far cry from where we started, maybe. Well, I'm so impressed. I'm so happy about all the impact that you've been making, not just here in Hawaii, but in the United States and around the world. And Lori, can you share a bit about your background? Sure. Well, as you know, Rusty, I grew up in Hawaii. I moved to San Francisco actually when I was 10 years old, so I started my back and forth between Hawaii and San Francisco actually as a child. But we moved back to Hawaii when I was in eighth grade, and I graduated from St. Andrew's Priory, and then went on to the University of Utah, where I double-majored in political science and communication because I actually thought I would go to law school, which I didn't do. I ended up getting a graduate degree in business, but oddly enough, I always tell people I'm a lawyer magnet because I work with many, many attorneys in my career now, which I enjoy. And anyway, after graduating, I went on to work for a number of multinational companies, including Visa, where I spent the bulk of my career before starting IQ. And so I was in a variety of communications roles. I was chief of staff, charge chief operating officer, and then headed up a division of product development in our R&D group. Well, Laurie, you and I both had the plan of going into law school, and we both didn't go into law school. And I think it's interesting to see how we both have evolved. But Laurie, your company won a big national award being one of the top 100 agencies in the United States. Tell me why you started IQ 360. Well, you know, I started IQ 360 because to be honest, I didn't feel that in our profession, our profession is misunderstood. And that part of it is self-inflicted. There are, you know, like any profession, there are varying levels of how your profession is practiced. But I had this feeling that communications informed by business strategy could be one of the most powerful tools in an organization's toolkit. And so I wanted to practice a different form of communications. And I learned that from my mentor, John Onoda, who I worked with at Visa. And actually, one of the greatest gifts I feel like of my career is having John Onoda come and join our firm a year and a half ago. And so I get to work with him every day. And together, along with all our team, we are offering this different approach to communication. So what does that mean? It means using, really trying to understand a business's drivers or an organization's drivers and what goals they're trying to get to from a business standpoint, then looking at all their stakeholder groups. That's why we have the 360 in our name and trying to ascertain what forms of communication, what messaging will help to create the understanding and, frankly, the action that we would like these audiences to take. Laurie, so do you guys help businesses with crisis management as well? We, yes. I mean, we were actually, when I started the firm in San Francisco in 2010, we almost exclusively did crisis and litigation communication because, you know, when you're in a large market, you have to specialize. And I knew I would be moving back to Hawaii, which I did in 2011. And when I moved back here and our headquarters is in Hawaii, although we have offices in San Francisco, New York and DC, we had to become more broad in our offerings. So we offer now everything from, you know, we do a lot actually of business consulting because when I was chief of staff at Visa, I managed a lot of the business planning process and a lot of the strategic planning process for Visa. So unlike, we kind of sit between what you would think a traditional management consulting firm would do and what a communications firm would do. And we're sort of in this middle area where we do both. So now we don't just do crisis and litigation communications. We do brand strategy and also what you would consider marketing and communications, you know, sort of traditional services. Now, Laurie, when COVID happened, I mean, it affected everybody, obviously. How did COVID affect your business? And what did you do to try to navigate your way through it? Like many businesses, it was a complete shock to the system. Oddly enough, I had delivered a presentation to a number of senior HR executives just one month before the pandemic hit. And I was making, they asked, they had asked me to speak on remote work. And why I believed remote work was something that more Hawaii businesses should embrace fully.  And then boom, you know, like in the blink of an eye, we all had to shift toward that model. And you would think because IQ 360 was already operating in that model, at least between our Hawaii and mainland colleagues, we would have been better prepared, but it was still difficult for us. We lost a third of our business in a matter of three months. And we, you know, we had to stop meeting in person in our Honolulu office. So we made adjustments. You know, one thing I'm very proud of, both from a Hawaii community standpoint, as well as our company is that I think we proved to ourselves that our core values as a state and certainly mine, you know, as a company of taking care of one another, being flexible, being resilient, just trying to find solutions and not panicking. I think we did that.  We actually, like many businesses, learn new ways to communicate. Sometimes we do try now that it's safe to do so, do brainstorming in person when we can. But when we want to bring in our mainland colleagues, we, we, you know, have used a number of different software tools, like, you know, virtual Post-it Noting and brainstorming tools. So, you know, I think we're all in a much better place than we were three years ago in terms of collaboration and productivity. Laurie, a few months ago, you were a moderator in Tokyo for an executive panel, one of which was the CEO of Amazon Japan. Tell me about that. You know, I was a great honor to be on stage with leaders that have tens of thousands of employees. You know, we're a fairly small firm. And, of course, they are operating at a scale. But that's so much greater. However, one of the things that I was struck by was that even Nick Nagano, who's the chair, chairman of the board of Tokyo Marine, I believe they have over 40,000 employees worldwide. And Jeff Spur Chung, the CEO of Amazon Japan, they talked a lot about culture, about spending a lot of 80% of their time on people and on communication and making sure that companies understood their purpose, which is near and dear to my heart because much of our consulting in the ESG area, but also in our business strategy consulting has to do with how are we aligning against purpose? How do we create the right culture so that you can, you know, get the most out of your teams and meet your business goals? So that's that's what I was really struck by, that they, you know, you think that they focus only on numbers and both of them have a finance background, but they really did focus on on the people aspect. No, I love hearing that, Laurie. And you were also recently on a panel for Hawaii Business Magazine talking about ESG. And can you share with our audience what ESG is and why you're so passionate about it? Yes. So ESG stands for environmental, social and governance. And it has to do with how organizations report beyond their financial performance, what they're doing in the environmental space to address climate change and other environmental issues, what they're doing on the social front. So how are they interacting with society? How are they helping their communities?  And on the government side, how are they managing their companies or their organizations? Do they have the right mix of diversity? And, you know, different voices in leadership roles. And so, you know, while BlackRock and others have really put a focus on this, this is something, you know, people, there have been attacks recently, by the way, on ESG. People who feel that, you know, it's kind of a movement from the left. But when you look in a broader scope, when I first started my career, companies were talking about corporate social responsibility, another acronym CSR. So, you know, people can argue that ESG, you know, is not is the fad of the moment. But over time, when you look at how companies have progressed in terms of their their thinking around what they're doing for society, what they're doing for the environment, this has been a decades long endeavor. And because climate change is such a critical issue, and it will be one of the most difficult issues that we will face in our time, we need to, in my opinion, be focused on ESG. So it's really been interesting for me and something I care about both at a personal level as well as a company level. Now, I can really see that, Laurie. And Laurie, earlier, you mentioned about that importance of creating a culture of excellence. And you have definitely created a superior culture of excellence with your company and your team. What does that culture look like? Yeah, thanks for asking it. It is something I'm extremely passionate about. You know, you mentioned an award that we received on the national level earlier, but actually, the word that I'm most proud of is we were awarded in Hawaii by PPN, Best Workplaces. And we've received that award, thankfully, for four years. And, you know, why do I value that award the most? It's because I have the reason I started the company is I wanted to work with people that shared the same values that I do. And I always talk about David Kelly, the founder of IDEO. I read a quote by him once. He said he wanted to start a company where he could work with his friends. And, you know, I realize in a business, we're not. You can't always be everybody's friend, just like as a parent. You can't be your kid's friend. But we we we do have fun and we work together. You know, it's like what you talk about in your book, Rusty. It's about working together seamlessly as a team. And so we have a we have one way to create a culture of excellence and a culture that everyone wants to be a part of is to have a purpose, you know, and our purpose is to use the power of communication to tackle the greatest challenges of our time and have a lasting impact. And while that seems really aspirational and it should be, there are things that we do every day to to to get there. And and and what we do is we tell we assure our people that they have the leeway and the freedom to make decisions on their own, that they have the opportunity to fail. We have a high, high tolerance for risk taking and failure at our company. And you have to create that environment so that people try to do new things. And I'm sorry to go on and on, Rusty. But if I could just say one thing, when I first moved back to Hawaii from San Francisco area, so, you know, Silicon Valley and San Francisco, I was struck by just a little more reticence in the Hawaii community for risk. And I understand that because we live on an island here. So people have long memories. But in Silicon Valley, people wear risk taking and failure as a badge of honor. And so I would I have had to try to instill that part that thinking in our culture. And it's a it's an ongoing thing because as you get bigger, the tolerance tolerance for risk is is, you know, receipts. So so it's something that we as leaders, I believe, always have to be mindful of. And, you know, just always creating that culture, that that safety so that people aren't afraid to try. Lori, I'm glad you brought that up, the the difference about how Silicon Valley companies look at risk as a badge of honor. And, you know, I'm trying to inspire companies that I work with that, you know, they need to take calculated risks because risk promotes growth, as you know. And, Lori, you mentioned my books earlier. You have both of my books. What what stood out to you in it? Well, one thing that stood out to me is in the many stories that you tell that you relay based on your experience coaching, many, many of them touch upon communication. And I think communication is an undervalued asset with organizations sometimes, you know, that's sort of like a checkbox. Like, yeah, we have to communicate that, but it's not really considered always at the C-suite level in the early stages. And so what happens is then you get to a certain point, you know, an inflection point where, OK, you have to communicate and all of the stakeholder views, all of the issues or potential issues down the road haven't been considered. And and some companies just forge ahead because it's too late, right?  Secondly, leaders need to spend time focused on communications. I think in that panel that you mentioned in Tokyo that I moderated people came up to me afterwards and said that they were shocked by how much time these two CEOs talked about communications. Three, leaders have to communicate frequently and say the same thing over and over. I don't know. There are studies out there that say you have to hear something seven times for it to stick. Well, that's true. And so you can't just say it once and expect everyone to to hear it and absorb it, right? And Rusty, the other thing you say in your book, I think I'm going to limp here because I don't remember, you know, actual an actual passage or anything, but reinforcing the communication through action. So it's it's not just your words, but how the company behaves, how the leaders behave. And so all of that is communication, right? And it's it's extremely important, but it can be hugely powerful. So it's an opportunity for all of us. Yeah, you're right, Laurie, because I highlighted the importance of words and actions and and if you can match your actions to your words, I mean, that builds trust and respect, which adds to the culture of excellence of any team. And Laurie, you're you're also the chairman of Girl Scouts Hawaii. And I want to know what is your history and connection with the Girl Scouts? Well, my my yes, I am the board chair of the Girl Scouts of Hawaii. And it's something I'm very, very proud of. They're just proud to be associated with an organization that's doing so many great things nationally, but also locally in the community. And actually, the Girls Scouts of Hawaii to me is a microcosm for how we should be looking in general about projecting Hawaii's strengths to the world. So we are the second smallest council in the country. And yet I believe we are definitely one of the most innovative, definitely having an outsized impact. So and the reason why I got involved in Girl Scouts in the first places, I was a Girl Scout myself and, you know, learned a lot of things. I talked about risk taking and failure.  But Girl Scouts taught me that I could I, you know, could enjoy nature. I could enjoy getting out of my comfort zone and learning new skills. And so that's why I encouraged both of my daughters to become Girl Scouts. And I have seen the growth and the moving them outside their comfort zones that Girl Scouts has provided them with. And in fact, my youngest, my younger daughter, just a couple of months ago, received her Girl Scout Gold Award, which is, you know, similar to the what's more known, the Boy Scout Eagle Award. But there's a number of leadership opportunities that accrue from Girl Scouts. And if I could just say one thing, make one plug for Girl Scouts of Hawaii, we are building what's only going to be the second Girl Scout STEM Center in the country. We are in the last stages of our capital campaign. We raised most of the funds during the pandemic, which I think no one thought we could do. And it's been designated an international Girl Scout destination. So my what makes me so excited is that we are going to hopefully take our state of Hawaii that ranks almost last in terms of STEM readiness for our youth and really try to inspire and expose young people, especially young women, to STEM careers. And so that, to me, is really, really exciting. Well, Laurie, when I saw that you were the chair of the Girl Scouts Hawaii, I thought, wow, they are so lucky to have you. And Laurie, you, your IQ360 company was a sponsor for the Alzheimer's Walk, and you had your team members there. And how was that experience for them? We do. So that day was, you know, was a really we're we're grateful to be a part of it. We we do participate in many, many community activities that that is part of our DNA. You know, we recently supported Ukraine relief organizations, not not by walking, but, you know, through financial contributions because, you know, people are suffering. So both on a global level, a community level in Hawaii, but in our communities around the country in which we operate, we feel a responsibility to to do that. And I think that is something that I really learned growing up in Hawaii and something I feel is. We talked about ESG earlier, Rusty. And one thing that I don't know if Hawaii leaders see in themselves, but the S part of ESG, the social part, we talked about the pandemic. I just thought it was remarkable how this entire community came together to address a lot of these issues. But that is part of how Hawaii leaders conduct themselves day to day. They don't just think, well, you know, I'm the the head of this company. And so, you know, I'm just going to focus on making money for the company. They look at the larger context because we do come from an island community. And so that's why I think Hawaii has a lot to share with the world in terms of how we think about our businesses within the larger context of our community and how we operate. Yeah, I completely agree with you, Laurie. And you and I have been around many great leaders throughout these years. And what do you feel the greatest leaders do? You know, I think that they create. We talked a lot about culture in this in this talk, and I think they create an environment where people are set up to do their very best, right? No one's the same and you want an organization that's diverse. People have diverse communication styles. They have diverse ways of looking at the world. That's why actually at IQ we have lawyers, architects, you know, engineers, MBAs. I mean, just a variety of different viewpoints. But a leader, a good leader understands how to communicate so that everyone's focused on a common purpose, regardless of the perspectives they walk in the door with. And they're all focused on this common objective and then creates a culture where they feel free to unleash those gifts and get the best. And how do you do that? A lot of it stems from communicating the purpose and how what we're doing. My father has been a longtime CEO of different organizations. And when he retired as CEO of Hawaiian hosts, they made a special box for him and it had my dad's picture on it. And the special Hawaiian host chocolate box said in big letters, you know, you can't manage what you can't measure because that's been his mantra. So, you know, communicating where you are and then inspiring people to continue to work towards those goals. That's what great leaders do and they do and they have fun. They try to have fun. We have a lot of fun because work is hard. So you need to you need to have fun while you're doing it, I believe.  And I know that some people, some people say that other people don't. I know that your team, they must have a lot of fun with you, but they must really appreciate you. And how would they describe your leadership style? I hope that they would describe my leadership as open and honest. That's that's the first thing. As a leader, I believe that. People will follow you. They'll listen to you there. They'll open their hearts and minds to you if they believe that you are honest and that they have a trust, you know, a relationship, a trust with you. So I hope that they would say that I am open and honest and ethical. That's that's to me something that's non-negotiable. Secondly, I would hope that they felt that my leadership style was empathetic. I mean, it's not that I have still a lot of work to to do in that area. I might actually mention my dad before he always tells me talk less. So I need to listen more. I know you said that on your book to listen. But I do try to look at problems from, you know, a view of the other person, the other people, the other stakeholders, because that's the only way that you can achieve your your goals usually, right? You can't just look at it from your own perspective. And then finally, one of our key tenets, you know, are one of our values that IQ is to work without ego. And so, you know, I do try to I hope that they would say that we accept constructive feedback and that we are always, always looking to improve our craft. It's continuous improvement. Not, you know, I'm also I mean, we're not perfectionist, but we always want to operate at the very highest highest levels of our profession. I agree with you, Laurie. There's nothing wrong with striving for perfection because you'll catch excellence along the way. And Laurie, I have to say that it was great having you on the show today. I want more Laurie Teraniches in the world. And I want to thank you for joining me on the show today. It was a pleasure being here, Rusty. And I'm, you know, one thing about being from Hawaii is that we really value relationships and we look at relationships as long term endeavors. It's not it's not transactional like it can be sometimes in other places. And so you and I are examples of that, right, of knowing each other for decades and still being able to support each other. And and so I'm very grateful for that. Thank you. Thank you, Laurie. And thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. For more information, please visit RustyKamori.com. And my books are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I hope that Laurie and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech, Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. 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Hello everybody.  In this one I'm going to show you how to add motion including pans and zooms into still images inside Premiere Pro. Sometimes they call this the Ken Burns effect even though it's a little bit vaguely described these days because it's a few techniques based on Ken Burns techniques but this is panning, zooming, scaling all of these things with still images. Let's get going. First step here I've got a picture of a very handsome puppy dog, a little bulldog there and I'm now going to left click on it so I've selected it and if you guys are following along with me select any image now right click on the image and you're going to get the option to where is it new sequence from clip. All right perfect. We now have a new sequence from the clip and it's set at 25 percent my zoom level so I'm going to set it to fit. When you do that the image fits exactly into the sequence so the sequence is the exact dimensions of the image so here's the thing what you want to do next and this is tricky is I'm going to go and set the zoom level to about 25 percent actually you know what let's set it even let's set it to 10 percent yeah that looks a little better that's a little easier to work with okay so we've got the image to 10 percent now double click on the image like I just did and you're going to see the bounding box go around the image we are going to be moving the image left to right and also zooming in on it at the same time so if we don't increase the size of the image we're going to have no room to basically zoom and we're going to get black bars on the edge so let me show you how this works I'm going to take one of these corners I'm going to hold down the shift key and I'm going to left click and I'm going to expand it and I'm going to expand it to about you know what this should do the trick for this demonstration perfect I'm going to let go and now we've got it zoomed and we've got it zoomed to 148 percent which is fine that's not so bad the next step and this is not a requirement but I'm going to go up here to sequence and I'm going to go to render into out it takes only a second or so but it allows us to get a little bit faster and we're not getting ram blocked so to speak because this is very CPU intensive all right you're with me perfect the next step and this is an important one is we're going to go ahead and left click on position and we're also going to left click on scale in particular we're going to toggle these animation switches and we're also going to do yeah we're acting much more net because we're just doing some animation here some some quick simple stuff so what we've done here is we've now set key frames for the position and the scale so now we can do the panning and zooming and I can show you how this works okay and I'm also again going to go to sequence and I'm going to go quickly render into out because we're getting a little bit of a slowdown as you can see here when this is yellow that means it's I got a little bit of a slowdown when it's green yeah we're working in real time so okay so we're moving off we go the next step is I am again going to double click on this little pupper dog's face and you're going to see that I've got the bounding box now make sure your playhead is at the beginning and now I'm going to go ahead and move this to the right so watch what I do here I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to move it down so that basically the puppy dog's face somewhere around here okay so basically I've got the puppy and it's you know it's not quite centered like it was before but that's on purpose and we're going to set some motion so now that we've got the puppy dog at the beginning I'm going to go ahead now and get to the playhead here and I'm going to take this playhead and I am going to move it to the end I'm going to hold down the shift key and it takes it right to the end and then I press the backspace one time so that it gets right so it's not in the black space it's in the it's at the last keyframe okay now the next step is at the end I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to move the dog's face the puppy's face to the top left so I'm going to show the motion so I'm going to move it this way and because I want to show you the up as well I'm also going to move it up so somewhere around here okay great also I'm going to go ahead and decrease the size of the puppy as well so I'm going to decrease the scale on this to show you how that works as well so I'm going to go over here to this left side I'm going to hold down the shift key so it it changes everything proportionally holding down the shift key left clicking and I'm going to decrease the scale so it looks something like that I don't want any black bars on the outside and let's go with that okay let's just see what this works out to now I'm going to go ahead and move this back to the beginning to show you what we're working with and you'll already see that I've got the motion and you can see the motion path already so this image is now moving and scaling all at the same time I'm going to go to sequence render into out for the last time and then it will play it it'll take this out of ram and it will play it in real time okay so it's pretty quick but as you can see here we've got the image going real fast but you know what hey so be it I'm going to go ahead and increase the size of this this is only set over one second but if I set this over let's say I don't know something like 10 seconds how many seconds you want to do 10 seconds yeah 10 seconds there we go right to 10 seconds okay now watch you see actually you know I'm going to show you another technique well I got you you're going to see here that it's going to move very quickly for the first 10 seconds reverse one second and then it'll be done it zooms does its thing and then it goes slowly through the rest if we want to do and take this further you could take these final two end points and we can move those to the right so as we move them out let's see where we're at here I'm going to move them a little further actually because I don't can't have the full zoom yes I'm going to move them very close to the end and let's see what that looks like now let's go back to this and now instead of having them over one second zoom and pan we're going to go over a longer period of time so this is just a advanced technique depending on what you're looking for and of course I hit the wrong button there so I'm going to go back to editing I'm going to go out back to the editing workspace sorry guys my computer is a little slow tonight or maybe it's me and now we're going to go sequence into out render into out like we did last time and then we're going to see this in real time so let's just take a second here it's going to oh it's going to take another minute to do this okay let's do this I'll come back when this is done all right everybody welcome back we had to run that little process there and it took a little while but hey you know what we're showing you a technique all right guys the final thing I want to show you is I've just increased the size here a little bit but what it is now is it's all green now let me show you this is the effect in action I'm going to go ahead and zoom it to fit so you can see it full here and now I'm going to hit spacebar and watch there we go the it is panning it is scaling or zooming like I said it would it can be zoom it in or out and that's it that's how you get pan zooms and the ken burns motion inside premier pro thank you for watching this tutorial got a ton more stuff coming up


Next, into my blazing bowl, I've got a pair of quail. I've cut the backbone out of these quail, spatch cocked them, laid them out, I'm going to season them with a little high mountain Cajun rub, and then I'm going to go a little asian on here. In my little drip tray down here, I have butter, I have caracara orange, I've got ginger, and I've got jalapeno, and I'm going to put a little ponzu in there, and this will be the sauce that goes on my quail. You don't need a separate skillet to make the sauce. It's right there. Into the blazing bowl goes my quail. If you've got something that's a little drippy, that's maybe got a little marinade on it, a little bit oily, I wouldn't recommend setting it up on the blazing bowl, a little burner plate here. I like to season it here, pull that out, and then getting that plate hot first seems to make a difference, so don't do what I did. But it should taste okay. One of the things that I learned about my blazing bowl is when you're cooking something like quail, and as much as I like it to be crispy, crunchy on the outside, I decided to lower it somewhat. It has seven levels of, whatever, levels away or farther away or closer to the heat source, and I noticed that it was browning rather quickly, and I didn't want it to be undercooked while it was searing on the outside being a delicate piece of flesh like that, so I lowered it a little bit. Let me take a look, see what it looks like now. Let me give it a flip. What I'm amazed by is how quickly this thing cooks, and I shouldn't be amazed because 1500 degrees is really, really hot. I'm going to, there's so many things I want to try here, burgers, right? When you cook it yourself, seared on the outside, you know I like a steak that's Pittsburgh rare, they call it, it's black and blue, it's black on the outside and blue rare on the inside. You can do that with the blazing bowl, let me check my quail. So again, this quail is going to be a little crispy on the outside, I think the sauce is going to be really good, and I think we've got about another two minutes. I know these quail are done here, I can tell by the look of them. They're nice and firm, and I like my quail to be just a little bit pink at the thigh joint when I take them off and let them rest for a few minutes. Now, even though it got a little crispy on the outside, I don't consider that a bad thing. I consider that a victory because with any meat, for me, I prefer it crunchy over, there we go, I prefer it crunchy over not crunchy, I like the skin to be crisp and I know you probably do too. Let's check my sauce here. You know, one of the things that I've learned is that I may want to get my sauce going earlier in the drip pan because there's a carrot, carrot, orange, because the meat cooks so quickly and sears so quickly that the sauce doesn't really get as much of a chance to blend, so I'm just going to put all that on there, a little jalapeno, some pickled ginger, take my word for it, the Blazing Bowl works well on quail.


My name is Sam Badnid. I'm the author of Malignan self-love, Narcissism Revisited.  Their cacophony drowns the few voices of wisdom, expertise and experience, and their sheer number overwhelms all systems of governance and all mechanisms of decision making. Imbeciles and narcissists are a menace to the continued existence, not only of our civilization, but of our species. We may end up being all homo, no sapiens. The percentage of stupid and narcissistic people in the general population may not have changed. It may even have decreased, but in terms of absolute numbers, there are more stupid and narcissistic heads now than the entire human population only a century ago. Modern medicine makes sure that the retarded, narcissistic and the plain dim-witted live on to a ripe old age. That we are faced with the daunting prospect of idiocracy is the fault of the Malignan transformation of the democratic ideal in the recent onslaught of media both old and new. Start with democracy. In the not too distant past, stupid people had the right to vote once in a while and thus express their completely inconsequential opinion where it met at least in the ballot box. Alas, the inane idea of one person, one vote, never mind how pinheaded, unqualified, narcissistic or ignorant that person is. That idea has invaded and permeated either two hierarchical environments such as government, academia, the workplace and the military.  Even the generation and transfer of knowledge have been so-called democratized as crowdsourcing yielded enterprises such as Wikipedia, the so-called encyclopedia that anyone can add to and delete from. Internet search engines rank results not according to the merits and authority of the content but by the number of votes cast by, you guessed it, mostly dense people who now congregate on social networks. This widespread and much-loaded vandalism reflects the utter collapse and disintegration of the education system, which turns out illiterate, nascient and irrational graduates having annihilated its standards in order to embrace them as students in the first place.  But while in the past these remained mere sentiments, today they have become an ethos, code of conduct, a set of values and ideals to live by. It is politically incorrect and impolite to claim any type of expertise, advantage or superiority. Egalitarianism is running amok. Everyone is equal, doctors and their patients, professors and their students, experts and laymen alike. Continue with technology.  There, in these isolated enclaves, the intellectually challenged could safely torment each other with their vulgarities and rampant, uninformed idiocy. But the advent of radio, television and most egregiously the internet has changed all that.  Thus, the new media have transformed stupidity and narcissism from mental endemics to viral epidemics. Why is it unknowledgeable?  What with Google, Facebook, Twitter, Blogger and YouTube, decimating the traditional print and electronic media. This technological empowerment is the crux of the problem. There are no barriers to entry, no institutional filters and no erudite and experience intermediaries to hold back the avalanche of doltish baldu dash, the tsunami of nonsense, the flood of misinformation, factoids and conspiracies that now corrupt our intellectual space. Commercial interests inevitably and invariably cite with brainless masses and why because these masses have a superior aggregate purchasing power. The privatization of education is one manifestation of this creeping materialistic decadence. The mindless nature of television programming is another. The empty one-liners that comprise most conversation on social networks are its culmination. We are surrounded with cloths harassed by the lame brain, criticized, censored and ordered by narcissistic simpletons. Welcome to the New Dark Ages.


Alrighty, I'm ready to drop the tea on 2023 and we have done so much research. Not even kidding, we have literally dug up everything we possibly could dig up. We're literally looked everywhere we could possibly look. We've studied every single construction marker, every single distance marker, everything. We've scoured the park and I'm ready to make my official 2023 predictions on what Canada's Wonderland is going to announce. As always, these are my opinions and nothing is official until the park makes an announcement. With that said, I do pride myself now on having really accurate information for those of you that saw we were really good at predicting lazy bear lodge coming to Canada's Wonderland. And I have a feeling we're going to be pretty darn close, like pretty accurate with 2023. So as you can see on the screen right now, this little red circle in Frontier Canada. So we fully suspect that a flat ride will be announced for Canada's Wonderland in this specific spot. We'll show you the flat ride we think is coming a little later on, but we're just going to touch on areas at first. We obviously, everyone can predict this from our videos pointing out the construction markers. There will be a kids expansion. How big the kids expansion is is up in the air. The entire yellow is areas of construction markers. So there are construction markers in the entirety of this yellow space. There are coaster construction markers, what we think could be coaster construction markers in the red area and food upgrade gas lines and everything in the brown area. This tells us that this is most likely going to be a kids expansion. Wonderland is in desperate need of a kid coaster, not a family coaster, a kid coaster. So the red coaster is not going to be anything exciting for your thrill seekers. You probably won't even be allowed to ride it, but it's definitely going to be something probably along the lines of a junior coaster from Zamperla. But again, we'll show you in a little bit. The third area that we're not entirely sure about, this is where we could end up being wrong. So this area here has the same distance markers and markings of where we know a flat ride is going in Canada's Wonderland. So it has us thinking that there could potentially be a second flat ride coming to Frontier Canada, but we haven't heard that from our sources. So just to confirm, we only can a hundred percent put our backing behind a flat ride in Frontier Canada in that Yukon area would be our guests. And we're not entirely sure of this yellow area. So keep an eye out there. It could just be upgrades, but there are markings similar to what we see where the flat ride is going. Now what flat rides could be going in that very small grass plot of land next to Yukon's second drop? Well, one of the most likely options, which I'm really crossing my fingers isn't, is the Nebulas. So this is by Zamperla. To be honest, it's not marketable in my opinion. I can't see Canada's Wonderland going down this route because I'm advertising this to the adult audience and the teen audience. I just can't see it working. This seems like such a family attraction, and they're putting a lot of money into the families and kids in Planet Snoopy. So they're going to be looking for a high thrill attraction to get that other part of the audience. And I personally think that's going to be this next option, the air race. So I think a super likely option is the air race coming to Canada's Wonderland in that plot of land. My only reservation is I'm not sure. Can it fit? The distance markings on the Splashworks building Yukon supports has me thinking it is going to be something that swings, which then has me thinking that this is actually extremely likely, even though I'm not quite sure about the plot of land size. So again, keep that in mind. But I will say out of the two options, it's either going to be a Nebula or an air race. It could be an endeavor. I'm not going to show it because it's very unlikely. I'm thinking Cedar Fair bought Carolin's and Canada's Wonderland's rides at the same time, which all also has me thinking we could see two flat rides. We could see an air race and a Nebulas. One could be going over by action theater, and the other one could be going over right next to Yukon's second drop. So maybe the air race will go beside flying canoes and the Nebulas will go in that little grass field and Yukon's second drop. It could end up being that. But if they were only to get one out of the two, I personally would love to see an air race. It's more marketable. It is super more, super more as if that's a word or a sentence, but it's more attracted to their other target audience. They'd be going after outside of this kids expansion. Now, what could this kids expansion mean for Canada's Wonderland? What could be coming? Well, we know that Zamperla has been visiting Canada's Wonderland a lot this season. We haven't seen any other enthusiasts talking about this. But if you've been paying attention walking around the paths, Zamperla has been at the park quite a bit. So we think that a Zamperla junior coaster could be coming to Canada's Wonderland in the Camp Snoopy or Planet Snoopy. Again, we're not sure the direction Wonderland is going to go with that. Are they just going to extend Planet Snoopy or are they going to build Camp Snoopy like they do at the other parks? I personally would love to see Camp Snoopy and I hope that's the direction they go. But I personally think we'll see a junior coaster, some food upgrades. I think they're going to need a food building back there similar to the one built on Firework Hill, Lazy Bear Lodge, but obviously a little smaller because Lazy Bear Lodge is designed to hold around 600 people. A smaller version of Lazy Bear Lodge in Camp Snoopy, upgrades to the food facilities there, and just overall more flat rides that can run during Winterfest. They're going to need this space for Winterfest and the summer season and Kidsfest. Kidsfest is super popular for those of you that did check it out. Now, with all that said, again, fingers crossed I'm super accurate. This was a really hard one. Normally we find out about Wonderland's additions much earlier than this, so kind of shocked we didn't know until the last couple of months. But super interesting to see how accurate our information is on this. Feel free to comment down below if you think we got this nail in the coffin if we hit this nail on the dot because I'm stressed. The announcement will be August 11th, by the way, Thursday coming up, so you will find out shortly. And again, super excited. Comment down below your guys' opinions and thoughts on all this. Thank you for watching this video and have a good one. Bye!


Welcome back to FNA and today I want to talk about workflow and specifically my default Maya workflow. So I want to start a new series about my animation workflow in terms of the tools that I use in scripts, how I animate, like all kinds of things that are hopefully helpful to you if you want to look at this and emulate this or build on top of that and so on and so on. But the first thing that I want to do is that if I open up Maya, how do I change Maya to make it better for my workflow so I'm faster? So this is not using any scripts or tools like animbot because you might not be able to afford them or you don't have access to them. So this is purely what can you do with Maya and specifically Maya 2020. Again, this is very subjectively. This is what I do in Maya 2020 when I first set it up so I can work faster. That being said, caveat, this is also a workflow I'm used to for like over a decade. This is how I started at school and then at ILM and it's just something I'm very comfortable with. I'm very fast using that type of setup, but I'm always looking at other workflows to see if I can incorporate something new and find ways to be faster. But I always kind of go back to that standard setup. So let's take a look at Maya when you first open it up and what do I change? So this is a brand new version of Maya 2020. I have not installed anything. I haven't done anything in terms of the layouts, the scripts or anything. So as I'm getting familiarized with 2020, I will definitely find new things. But usually what I do right off the bat, I open up my preferences and then I start changing some of the defaults that fit my workflow a bit better. I want this at 24 frames per second, which is the first thing that shows up. I don't go up on interface. I want to keep this on animation for sure. Then I'm going to settings. This seems to be all okay. Then animation, I'm going to put my tangents to linear, which is silly because I should keep them on spline because I switched to spline more instead of linear, but bear with me. This is just how I do it. I leave all of that depending on some whatever you work on or on the shows that work. Sometimes we enable and disable color management. Undo actions are finally on on infinite. You don't have to switch that off, but it's always good to see. So right off the bat, I want to do this. I'm also enabling auto key right here. I'm definitely a fan of that. And then I got to go in there and change my hotkeys. So you go into window settings, preferences and hotkey settings. And since this is 2020, some of the things have changed. So I'm going to create, duplicate this and create a new set called JDH. And there's some of the things I would like to change. So for instance, so I'm going to go into menu items. And I want to do something where I have nerves controllers on off. So there's a new hockey for this.  There is a hockey, which I believe is all one that turns this on off. But I have to tap and on tap. And I used to have this on actually G some lefty. So my left hand is for my pen. And my right hand is always in this position where I do everything around here. I don't want to change anything. I want this to be right around this area so I can be fast. So what I used to do is G press and release.  If you look for this on application command, you find it here in its old one. So what you can do here, you say add additional hockey. And I want this to be G on press. And then also on release G save. So now what happens when I press, you can see this I press and release, press and release like this, you can see this press and release, press and release. So if I load up a rig, and this is Quinn from my animation mentor, who is super cute, I can just press and release, press and release to quickly see my curve. So if this is my shot camera, and I have some sort of animation on there, I don't have to go up and open this. So if I switch to this view, and you can see usually, actually, I do this here, I know this is super weird. And I don't know why sometimes this shows up as empty. Sometimes it's the outliner that's at the top. So I want this and this is also weird that we get two. So I want to just close this, then I want to add the graph editor. So that's actually usually my setup at work. And I have the channel controls here. That's usually kind of how I work. If I need more, I can do a tear of a copy here, which is off screen. But then I add this to to the left of my screen. If I need more and especially at work, we have a lot of assets and I do a lot of stuff where I need multiple outliers. So if we change this and create this perspective, let's say this is a shot cam, whatever you want to call this. And again, this is always strange. I need to figure out how to disable this, but this would be my shot cam. So this whatever I'm seeing in here, that's the view of the render. And here, and always in respect of what I can check if there's anything wrong in the 3D view. But if I need to animate in this again, hold and release, press and release, gives me a quick access to that. So that's kind of how I prefer to see things. Well, a lot of people do this, you do a right click here, and they do three panels split at the top. So then they switch this to the graph editor so they have a much bigger view. So this could be your perspective. And then in here, you would have your shot camera with all the textures and everything. And you can see that the press release is for every active view panel. It used to be that you have to designate panel four or three, whatever, in a custom script. So I like that Maya changed this where it's much easier to set up. And you can see here too that your hotkeys are visible if you change anything. So by default, Alt 2 will turn on off the polygons, which is really cool. There's a lot of workflow, faster workflow options right now. But anyway, this is not how I work. Again, I'll go back, then I'm going to switch this back to Outliner. Let's pretend this is the shot cam. And in here, I would have my perspective. And once again, close this. The other thing that I want to change is that I don't want to go in here and lower my hands to the arrow keys or whatever default there is, which I can't remember actually, to change the frame forward and back. I usually have it in Alt 4 and 5, which right now obviously doesn't do anything. So going back, you can search for frame. And you can see here, next frame, this is on the animation playback, next frame, previous frame. So I usually do next frame, Alt 5, previous frame, Alt 4. Save this. So let's say I change to a different scene here, which changed. And then I get additional things here. So there's always some funky things every now and then in Maya, but that is what it is, isn't it? So here we have again, my setup that I like. If I go in here, and I'm in a scene where you have the blinks, this is a bit slow. So I'm going to change this to body resolution low. And now you can scrub through and it's much faster. So this was my example that I tweeted out where you have your blink that's static. And then you have this, I want to show this frame by frame, bringing back the hotkey editor. I'm going to menu items and you can say, let's say just frame, and you have in animation playback and next frame and previous frame, I'm going to change this to next frame for me is Alt 5 and previous frame is Alt 4. I'm going to save this. And now you can see as I'm doing this, it goes back and forth. So now I can frame forward. And I can show exactly what I'm doing here frame by frame, again, because I would like to stay within my hand radius when I go back and forth. And I don't want to, I know it sounds trivial, like moving your hand over wasting time, but I want to be able to flip through my frames very quickly. At the same time, I also want to play this quickly. So again, opening up my hotkeys, there should be a playback toggle. There you go, playback toggle, which was actually missing in 19s back in 20. And I do this on Alt 6, actually, save. Let's move this out. So now I can press and stop, press and stop to quickly see what's going on. Of course, it also depends if you can have real time playback here. And then for five is to frame through and look at things. And again, all G press releases this. The other thing I want to change is my undo button. So if I go back and we check undo, I know again, this sounds trivial, but I took this from work undo, I have on the letter U. So save this. So I got over here, I take my eyes and I move those eyes around I want to undo, I can just move over my pinky and undo. Yes, I could do control Z. But this is something I'm used to since I worked at ILM to just undo using you. And it's for me, it's very helpful again, because it's very close to my pinky where I can do everything like this. G press release and U is for undo. The other thing that I want to change is that sometimes you have, let's say, let's look at a controller, we have a chest controller or something with more channels. Let's take the route. Here you have all your translates and rotates. If I hit S, that's usually keying everything. But I don't want to care because sometimes you have also scale and visibility, depending on what controller you use, you have all kinds of things here that I just don't want to key everything. So what I do, I'm going to delete this. I like to have a hot key where I only key what I selected in the channel editor. So if I select translate X, so when I open the script editor, then I'm going to clear the history, have it all empty. And when I do a key selected on this, you can see that it shows you what happened. But if you turn echo all commands on, and you do it again, you can see a lot more is showing up. I'm going to turn this off because I don't want this to show me everything. Now, as I'm going through the command that I want to look at is channel box command key. I'm going to copy that, go back into the hot key editor.  And this is the command. I'm going to save that command. And I want to use this on s, not capital s, shift s, whatever you have, it's just s, I'm going to save this. And then when I go back to menu items, and I see a set key, you have here set key is empty, I want to do shift s. Save, save and close. So what does that all mean? So now when I select again, my cog, if I do shift s, it keys everything. Let's undo this. But now with my new script, I can just select this and hit just s, not shift s, and it only keys this. So if I have something like this, I can just key this because I don't always want to key everything. And then you end up having keys and everything here, this gets very complicated, I want to keep things clean. So for me, having something like that, where I can just say I only want to key whatever such a scale only, I can just hit s instead of always hitting everything and clogging up my graph editor. So in a nutshell, this is what I have, you got your frame forward, toggle and stop, you have press and release, you have your undo on a different one, you have your shift s and s for key framing. And that's my initial change of the setup, in terms of like this, and the keys. Now you might wonder, well, what about animal and all those other tools? There's so many great tools. I 100% agree. This is in case you do not have access to those tools, or you can't afford it. So what would you do if you just have Maya, right out the box, what could you do to just help your workflow? Because I don't want to always switch into perspective mode and then find this in case again, you don't have an anim picker, right? You don't always have all those tools. So how can I speed up my workflow so I can frame through and look at my eyeballing like, hmm, I prefer my offset to be even bigger. I can just do press G, and then look at this and look exactly how it's going to look like in my viewport. Instead of going in here and filling around, this is going to be much faster for me if I don't like this undo and so on and so on. So that is my initial setup when I use Maya with tools that are there right out of the box. There you have it. Maya 2020 has a lot of cool changes. So I'm going to definitely adapt and change my workflow and the upcoming chapters will incorporate different tools and scripts and things that I would like to use that again, speed my workflow up so I don't have to do things by hand or some kind of things that helped me just be a better animator that may or may not help you. I'm not sure if you have any other tools and comments and questions and requests. Comments are open as always. Leave me a comment of any tips that you have or maybe you use the same things that I do and you want to add something to that. And speaking of adding, I'm just trying to find a segue. If you feel like this adds to your workflow and you want me to add more things to you, I do have workshops if you want to work with me and you want me to help you with the shots that make them even more awesome. You can sign up for my workshops at any time. Link in description with all the information we can start whenever you want. And speaking of time, if you're still watching this, I really appreciate this. And if you don't want to miss anything that I upload, you can subscribe and hit that bell button so you get notified about all of the uploads if you want to do that. And other than that, I think that's it. I will say ta ta and see you in my next upload.


We have established communication with the Yankee Santa Fielder, Aaron Hicks. Hey, Aaron, how you doing? I'm doing great. How are you guys doing? We're doing great. Two more walks for you. Why do people walk you when you have Stanton hitting behind you? It's amazing. I'm sorry, what did you say? I said you have two more walks today. You would think that pitchers know Stanton's behind you. They should try to go after you, not that they would have an easy time with you. You think Stanton's going to give you some protection, right?  You know, that guy's a huge bat for us and huge for me as well. You know, the guy that can definitely give me a lot more pitches to hit in the zone just by him being behind me. Michael King is on the mound for the Yankees after a strong four for Hermann. What did you think of Hermann? You had a bird's eye view of him out there in center field. How do you look to you? I mean, he looked phenomenal. Every pitch wherever he wanted to throw it, he threw it right there. And, you know, he was pinpoint. Now, I'm just hoping that you get a fly ball to center so you could do the play by play, Aaron. I'll just lay out, all right? All right, I'll see what I can do. There's a 1-2 called King. You like hitting third, Aaron? It looks like that's what they're pretty much going to pencil you in as. You said hitting third? Yeah. Yeah, I like hitting third. I got a lot of protection in third with judging in front of me and then deep behind me. So I am extremely happy there. Yep. There you go. You got one, huh? You got one. Well, Aaron, the good thing is that you're healthy. Are you healthy? Yeah, I feel good. I feel really good. It was offseason was huge for me. I was able to strengthen my arm and strengthen my body.  Hey, Aaron, back to the two walks earlier. How do you think you've developed such a good eye at the plate over the years? And do you ever get frustrated? I know you're getting on base, but there has to be part of you that wants to just send one over the wall. I mean, I just try to, I don't know. I've just always been a patient hitter. So when I go up there, I'm definitely looking for a pitch that I can drive. And, you know, sometimes I get it, sometimes I don't. But to make sure that before two strikes, I'm going up there and I'm looking for something that I can hit hard and hit in the air. And, you know, it just so happens to work out for me as far as not swinging at balls. Do you look at the outfield right now? You have Brett Gardner to the left. You have Aaron Judge in right field. It looks like Gardi's going to play some right field this year. How do you think he'll make that transition? I think it'll be easy. He's a phenomenal outfielder. And he can definitely make that adjustment to right field. You know, he's going to be huge for us. We've definitely seen it in the past two, three years with him signing back.  I've always heard, Aaron, that spring training outfield, it's very tough because you don't have that third high deck. Is it tough? Yes, especially with, oh, got it. Nice. Yeah. I really like that. There you go.  That third deck or second deck actually comes in huge. Here's Jeff Mathis. And there's the strike. You didn't do play by play, Aaron. You just went and got them all. I had to react, but I had to react. How's King look? He looks good. That was a nice little front door cutter right there. Too soon it's been looking really good as well. Now you call this pitch, Aaron.  So you don't have any promising the signs from out in center field? No, I can't see the signs. I just can't go off what Gary's doing. If he passed the glove on the ground, that obviously means he's going to throw something on the dirt. Gotcha. Yep. Come on. Top of eight. Thank you, Aaron. Let's do the stirring opening day. What do you say? Thank you, guys.


Hello friends. I am Mrs. Gita Dhundarwar, Assistant Professor of Communication Skills, Department of Humanities and Sciences, Valtran Institute of Technology, Sholapur. In this session, today we are going to discuss about importance of soft skills and introduction. It is said that soft skills and essential ingredient for success, learning outcome. At the end of this session, student will be able to understand the importance of soft skills for personal and professional success. In this session, today we are going to discuss about definition of skills, difference between hard skills and soft skills and importance of soft skills. So, this presentation contains all these points. Introduction. The success at all level is a motivating factor. It will be really good if you can measure your own values and employ a yastic to gawk your merit. To achieve success, three important things are necessary and they are knowledge, talent and skills. And definitely to become successful, we should acquire all these things. Now, knowledge. Which means facts, information and skills acquired through experience or education. It means also the theoretical or practical understanding of subject. Next is talent. Talent is a sum of personal abilities, instinctive, gifts, intelligence. It is about nourishing your skills and owning your latent skills. You may be naturally blessed with flair at technology and computers, must be the best thing you can do. But if you look at management views, it is lot of skills that you employ at your workplace that will help you upgrade your performance. That is why the skills are the most important facts. So, let us discuss what are skills. Take a pause, think about this question and try to write the answer. So, skills and ability and capacity acquired through deliberate, systematic and sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively carry out complex activities or job functions involving idea. It means that cognitive skills, things means technical skills and people means interpersonal skills. There are two types of skills, hard skills and soft skills. In this competitive world, both hard skills and soft skills are required. One can have the hard skills. During the job application and interview process, employers look for applicants with two skill sets, hard skills and soft skills. Success comes with the combination of hard skills and soft skills. So, let us discuss hard skills in detail. During the job application and interview process, employers look for applicants with two skills sets, hard skills and soft skills. Hard skills are teachable abilities or skill sets that are easy to quantify. Examples of hard skills include proficiency in a foreign language, a degree or a certificate, typing speed, machine operation and computer programming. Now soft skills, soft skills on the other hand are subjective skills that are much harder to quantify. They are also known as people skills or interpersonal skills.  And the examples are teamwork, communication, flexibility, patience and time management. Now let us discuss about the importance of soft skills. Reasons why soft skills are more important than effort. You may be highly educated or knowledgeable but it is your soft skills that actually matter. It is very essential to develop soft skills in you not only to be a good human being but also to be a successful professional. Almost all the positive aspects of a man and the values he respects will fall within the ambit of the term soft skills. It is all about emotional intelligence which is reflected by the manner in which a person manages his feelings in such a way as to express them in the most appropriate and effective method. It is all about how one should act and react in particular situations and with particular persons. So, to be more precise it is all about how you behave and interact in the society. There are certain personality traits like respect for others, common sense, responsibility, integrity, sense of humor, optimism, personal habits, hygiene, friendliness, etc which we find as existing in a person. Take an example of a common sense, a person is expected to speak, act and react depending on the situation and surrounding he is in. What would you generally say of a person who starts speaking loudly on his mobile phone during a funeral? Though it is evident that he lacks good manners, we tend to say that he lacks common sense. You may be a computer with a scientific genius or a master of mathematical theories. However, to be successful you need more than just expertise in your given speciality. In fact, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employees, when participating employers were asked to name the attributes they see in candidates they responded as follows. So, this is the good example how important the soft skills are in your life. So, in this session we have discussed about soft skills. So, soft skills are very important for the overall development of a person. We must realize that at the earliest and start practicing them so that they become part of our character. These are some of the links whatever I have used to make my PPT. So, go through these links. Thank you.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We're talking about Bundesliga team of the season cards today in the video a lot because yesterday they were rising in price up until the content drop. But then all of a sudden one simple player pick pack that was actually in the store sent them crashing and prices across the whole entire Bundesliga team of the season are down bad. The question is, will these cards rise back up today with the Bundesliga guaranteed SBC coming out? We normally do see a rise after that. SBC does rise on those current impacts. Tots cards that are pretty meta and popular. We'll talk about that in today's video. And of course, what else to expect today on a Wednesday in FIFA 23, specifically looking forward to the end of the week with LaLiga team of the season and some of the preliminary leaks that we have for those players and also some really cool SBC content that's going to be upcoming in the next week on this game. So if you're excited for the video, if you think it'll help you out today, drop a thumbs up on it and of course, subscribe if you're new. Let's quickly go over yesterday's content because we did get a player SBC yesterday. It just wasn't the one that we were hoping to see. We got Griffo instead of the Guerrero. Man, there are so many people that want that Guerrero card for the links and everything. But if this SBC gives us any clue on what they might be doing to the upcoming Guerrero card, yes, I do still expect that SBC that Guerrero could be really cracked. A massive boost for Griffo. High, high work rates, four star, four star. A lot of different positions that he can play as well. You know what this kind of reminds me of? A lot of people have been shouting this out. Reminds me of that cracked Cali Aguri card from last year in FIFA 22 towards the end of the year. Not quite the same, but similar. It's not that great of a card, but at least EA made it cheap. Coming in on footpin at 48,000 coins. You really can't complain too much about that, even if he's not going to make your team, even if he's not the most meta. 48K for that is not too bad. Even for a fodder aspect, I might rinse some of my extra 83s, 84s, 85s that I have to complete that SBC when we're doing some upgrade packs later on this week, since it's only an 85 squad and a team of the season players. So that's pretty easy to get done there. Also, yesterday we had the hopeful Christian Ronaldo pack, right? But most of all, as we mentioned in yesterday's video, this pack was probably the worst out of all of the guaranteed team in the season player packs. I mean, just look at the cards that are available once again. And if you were lucky enough to hit a Romarino and Anderson Tlisco, or if you were crazy looking to hit the Ronaldo GGs, because there were a lot of Marcelo Groles yesterday, Hagazi, the Moroccan, right mid, right wing. So, you know, the pack weight, of course, was not there for this SBC, but at least EA did make it pretty cheap. Now, the real content yesterday, we're going to get right into things, guys. There's a lot to talk about with the market today. The real content was in the store. And remember on the weekend and even last week, we talked about the one of three bundles, the 83 plus player pick that we were that we saw in the pack code. And I said, guys, at some point this is going to come out and it's going to impact prices. It didn't come out during the weekend. Instead, EA dropped it yesterday. There was a lot of action in the store yesterday. They refreshed the 10 coin energizer pack, which I was actually lucky enough to pack Julian Brandt from Unshredable.  That's the only new Tots couple of other dupes that we got, like a Sane. I packed a Sane out of that 60,000 coin, 500 FIFA point. Bundesliga, one of three Tots player pack that was tradable, right? And that was the big thing that really affected the market. So it affected the market in the way that we thought it would. It was just a surprise to actually see it in the store yesterday. So with the 10 coin pack and the Bundesliga player pick being out, of course, what did we see? We saw these card prices drop like crazy. And they're still dropping. I have bought some Diabetes. I bought them on stream. I was buying right around here, 520 K and with the supply of this player pick with so many people getting on and opening it, you can only do it one time, which is good, because if you could do it on limited times, it would have been D-Day out here, but it was not quite that bad. You can open it one time. It still has a lot of impact in the market, right? You can see prices were rising up. This Diabetes was 624,000 coins yesterday in the peak of the hype before content. He was about 600 K at the content drop, and he is now down all the way under 500,000 coins. One of the biggest falloffs in price yesterday is that Diabetes card and also some of these cards on the low end. Look at Le Quas. I sold two Le Quas yesterday at 85,000 coins a piece. And he went from the high 70s, low 80s all the way down to where he is right now, 57 K for Le Quas on this market. It's crazy. The price drop offs that we're seeing on especially the lower tier cards that were packed pretty often from this player pick pack. Now, again, I wish I could show you it because it's not in my store because I actually opened it. But a lot of people were asking, where is this player pick at? It is in the store under promo packs. Can you see it under ripped items? Oh, you can't. I wondered if that was like ripped packs, but it's just like, you know, some cosmic cosmetic stuff. But that player pick was dropped in here. And I don't know if it's going to refresh, guys. I really don't know that it is. I don't think that it will because I believe they refreshed the 500 K pack yesterday. And I think last week they refreshed the 500 K pack one time and then it did not come back. So I'd be surprised if that bonus like a player pick does return. But if it does, it would impact these prices a lot more. And again, like we said, these prices are dropping like big time. Should you be investing? Now, I know a lot of people bought yesterday because we didn't expect the supply to keep coming in like this. And I think a lot of us didn't expect these prices to drop as low as they are. These prices are very low right in the grand scheme of things. Kimmich being 440,000 coins yesterday before the content drop, now being 370, these prices are very, very low guys. It's kind of created a supply window where, man, these prices look pretty good. If that player pick does not come back and the rest of the week kind of goes as planned, if you will, some of these cards might be near their lowest today, right? It's kind of created a scenario where that's why a lot of people wanted to invest and are investing in these cards right now because they have just dropped off so much. And this, again, is one of the most cracked teams of team of the season that we might see. Absolutely insane stats. And we've seen so much fluctuation on these cards during the week that makes them very popular candidates to invest. Now, the real question is, should you be buying? Will they go up? Now, I'm torn between two things here. Number one, last week, Premier League team, the season cards, we were very confident about those rising and they just flat out didn't. You guys remember there was a couple fluctuations here or there, but those cards were low. They would rise up a little bit like, I remember Bukai Osaka going from like 600k to like 640, 650, but then he went back down. And then, of course, we all know what happened on the weekend. Those cards got destroyed, right? Now, is that going to happen again with these cards? I don't rightly know. Every week is different. You just never quite know. I feel like these Bundesliga cards were more rare and less supplied, but that kind of changed yesterday, right? And like I'm saying, I'm saying this while I have about eight to almost nine million coins in these Bundesliga Tots cards, maybe not that much, about seven, right? On my transfer list that I'm trying to flip and hoping to see some price rises on these cards. And right now I'm looking at some tax losses and a lot of these more than that. I'm looking at like 50k loss on Diaby per card. I think I have like four or five of them because I thought he was too low at 525 during the UCL game yesterday and he has now gone lower. Personally, this is what I would do. I would look to buy these cards for a short term flip and I would look to buy this specifically if it's for your team. So a short term flip investment if you want to risk it. But more so if you want to buy one of these for your team, see this as an opportunity where, especially for a guy like a Diaby, a Kimmich, a Goretzka, who I think is a really, really cracked card for the stats, Alfonso Davies is catching a lot of hype as a really meta card. And compared to some of the other ones that have dropped off in price, he's dropped off in price less, which actually, to me, makes him maybe a little bit better of an investment. That means that if he's dropping off less, there's more demand there and maybe less pack supply. So for some of these cards that have dropped down, if you want to buy them for your team, I think this is a solid time to do so. Again, if you're buying for your team, you're less concerned about making coins. You're just hopefully to buy at a bit of a lower point and then they could rise a bit back up. Now that's the question. Will they rise up today? I think some of these guys will rise up this morning because think about it, today's weak only rewards. And that always makes the market rise back up a little bit. So I do believe some of these cards will rise but will they rise after the guaranteed SBC today too? That's something that we wanted to see last week with the Premier League Tots guaranteed SBC, but it didn't quite happen out as well and as kind of, I guess, fruitful as we thought it would with the investments. So I'm a little bit leery of that with some of these Bundesliga team in the season cards. It could definitely happen though, because if you take a look at the Bundes, not Bundesliga, the Saudi League Tots cards that were packed yesterday, right? We had the guaranteed pack. We saw guys like Anderson Talishka go from 430,000 coins. He was all the way up at 470K. He's back down a little bit now, as you can see, maybe these cards are dropping as well at the moment with the Bundesliga Tots cards, 420K. So he is back down. Romarino went from like 480 all the way up to 530. And I think he's even down right now in like 480K range. So yeah, he's back down 475. But those guys, I can even show you the graph. They had really, really good fluctuations yesterday after the guaranteed SBC dropped. And that is a common trend, right? Boom, 480 kind of spiked to like 525.30. And it kind of just settled right there, 500K. And he's down a little bit now. So could this happen today where we see Bundesliga Tots cards rising? Yes. Wow, Musiala 184. That is a big undercut. And that is so low from where he was, right? These cards are all taking a hit. But again, I could also see by the time we get to the weekend, by the time we get to Saturday and to Sunday and to Monday, especially if the LaLiga leaks really pick up and a lot of hype starts to build for LaLiga team of the season. These cards could kind of start to just follow the trend of the Premier League Tots cards and they might go up a little bit into the weekend. But then they also could start falling right back down as everybody is excited about the new LaLiga team of the season and those sorts of cards. So that's kind of my, I guess you could say my problem right now. I like these cards because they've dropped down a lot. They've shown really good movements in the week. They could be good investments. But I even saying that having a lot of coins invested in them right now, I just don't love these cards past this morning, past, more than this morning, past this afternoon or tonight, right? Past this guaranteed SBC and maybe a bit of a rise there with those cards. I just don't love these Bundesliga Tots cards because I do believe that LaLiga is going to be pretty high. So they could rise a bit tonight. They could also rise, they could also fall after the guarantee, depending on what we get today. It's a really unknown situation. And that's why I would say only buy it if you want it for your team and you want it for this weekend league with qualifications, rabble's rewards, of course, coming out tomorrow. So that's the only place that I'd be buying these cards today and if you are invested in, if you have these, hopefully, hopefully we get a nice rise today or after content and we could take some of the coins there on some of those investments. But, you know, it may not be as lucrative as we originally thought because the supply yesterday really, really hit hard. So let's talk more about today, right? We're talking about this guaranteed Bundesliga pack and the guaranteed Tots pack for the Bundesliga, which is what we expect every Wednesday. The main league gets showcased in an upgrade pack. Now last week with Prem, they made it really expensive, right? And we were all upset about how expensive the guaranteed Premier League Tots SBC was. Will we have an opportunity today to do a Bundesliga Tots upgrade for cheap? Now last year, I know this may not make sense because they're not following what they did last year as we saw last week with Prem. Last year, the Bundesliga Tots upgrade was an 85 squad with one team of the season player. But again, if you compare this team right now, 16.6 million coins in turn of the total squad value, you compare that to the Premier League squad value, 16.4 million coins.  Moussiala and Kunku, Jude Bellingham, Delict, Mane, so many players add a million coins or above or around that range. I think this SBC today might be similar to that of the Premier League of last week. It might be two squads and it might not be the 50,000 coin upgrade pack that it was last year. I think the Premier League Tots upgrade last week was like 150 or 160,000 coins. I think it might be around that range again, which makes me think that fodder today could move a little bit more because people are still gonna, we're all still gonna do that upgrade pack, right? We're gonna do it, like, whether we have to do some upgrade packs to get it done, whether we have to, I don't know, wait and play our, wait for our rivals' rewards or play our qualities games to get quality rewards to get some fodder to get it done, we're gonna be doing that pack because that's just kind of part of team of the season. You wanna get a chance at packing some of those best team of the season cards. So if they're gonna make it two squads, probably those players, again, in that money range, 84 to 86, like they do every single day. It's like clockwork, man. You could probably make the best coins in this game right now, bidding on 86s at night and selling them during the day. Look at Imoblay, 8.8K, all the way to 11.6,000 coins yesterday for this 86-rated card. Did all of these guys go to 11.5K and then come right back down? They went to about 11,000 coins per card. So maybe find some of these 86s that went up higher than others like that Imoblay went above 11K. Maybe that just means he gets in the solutions a bit more. Thiago Silva went to 10.75. Get in on some 86s today. I would say get on some bids. Get a look at a couple of these cards. Stock up a few if you wanna make some coins or if you just wanna get ready for this guaranteed pack. These guys are probably gonna have a spike today. Maybe they spike even a little bit above 11K. Maybe they go to 12, right? 87s are at 11,000 coins. That's kinda why I think the 86s kinda have a stop there, a ceiling there at 11,000. But these guys have gotten pretty cheap tonight. So keep an eye on those. 85s, yeah, they could go up two. 84s, they could go up a little bit as well. But I think 86s might be the place to go and to be. I think, what was the Premier League win last week? Like 85 and 87 or something like that. It really might be a similar sort of requirement today for the bonus thing it taught. So like myself right now, I have like no fodder in the club. I'm gonna go and do some upgrade packs. Gold rares right now, I believe are still hovering around 850 to 900. Yeah, they're 850 expiring right now. That's huge. Making the upgrade packs really cheap. These were 950 yesterday during the day. So if you invested in gold rares, I would say if you have a lot of them and you're starting to need to get them out before we get towards the end of the week, what I would tell you to do is probably start listing these up at 950 to 1,000 today. Start collecting more sales because you're gonna get more sales than if you were listing at 1.1 to 1.2. And then you should probably get more sales and then you can start getting those out and collecting your profits. Because I think now we just have to accept that these cards are probably not going anywhere above 1.2K, like just on their own because A, they're invested and they're kind of supplied as well. You see here, a lot of these cards that are listed up have multiple owners, no games played. That's an investment, right? We talk about that all the time. So that's kind of the update situation there and also a talk a little bit about fodder. Fodder is seriously guys, like that might be the best place to trade right now. The way that I'm seeing these TOTS cards now and this is kind of two weeks in a row now that we've seen this fluctuation, right? I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna trade with the TOTS cards on the weekends, trading with these brand new team in the season cards is absolutely incredible on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. But after that, the movements through the week are just unpredictable and most oftentimes they just kept dropping, right? This is the second week in a row now where we have the same sort of trend. I think I might, going forward into the LaLiga team this season, I might just say I'm not touching any of the TOTS cards to trade with just from a trading perspective throughout the whole next week. I might just say, you know what, let them be and then I'll mess with them once again as they're maybe about to go out of packs but then focus on maybe out of pack special cards or icons or cards that people are using like Bundesliga specials this week. I think are fluctuating a lot in prices. People are playing the cup, right? So you've got periods of cards that are being panic sold there but at the same time you've got periods where those cards go up a lot in price as well. That just might be the safer way to do it going into the next couple of weeks on this game and you know, I've lost coins two weeks in a row trying to mess around with these TOTS cards, right? So probably gonna stay away from that next week. Just kind of wanted to share that with you guys because maybe you're feeling the same. I'm tired of losing some coins on TOTS cards. I feel like we make coins on the weekend, make a lot of coins on the weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sundays, but then during the week we just kind of like lose it all back. So I end up in a negative because I'm spending coins on upgrade packs. And yeah, I still have a lot of coins. I'm not complaining by any means. I know that I have a lot of coins and it is a great thing but I just want to be consistent, right? During the season. I want to learn from the trends and always get better, right? So that's kind of just me sharing my thoughts on how I feel a little bit right now about those TOTS cards. But besides the Bundesliga team in season guarantee today, Silver Stars should be returning and it should be a Saudi League Silver unless they change it up and look ahead or do something different. If you have not done this, like me, try to get it done so you get the XP, get it done, get it out.  It's not another SPC we're looking forward to. Once I get this done, it's kind of done and dusted but we'll get another TOTS swap objective on Thursday tomorrow. So watch out for that. Now, the last thing I want to talk about in the video today is we're going to look a little bit ahead to La Liga. La Liga team of the season. We have some leaks that started to come out yesterday. Now the players, eh, you know, there's been a couple that have been leaked, right? Militao, Kunde, Pao Torres and Isi as objectives, a Carrasco flashback objective, right? Those, okay, we'll look at those. We'll talk about those in the future. Probably gonna get some more leaks today. Maybe a loading screen as well. Last week on Wednesday, they dropped a loading screen for La Liga, right? And that was another thing that did not help the market last week for Prem Tots cards. But this is the leak that I'm drawing a lot of attention to because this is big. Daily icon SPCs. Yes, you heard that. Daily icon SPCs. Next week during La Liga team of the season. Get ready for a daily release of exciting SPCs, featuring existing icons that have left its mark on this league, so La Liga, right? And that is really cool. That's really cool, really hype. And there are gonna be a lot of icon SPCs upcoming, man. We started thinking about yesterday on stream, who could EA put in as icon SPCs? And there are so many players that have not had icon SPCs this year that could be featured. Team of the year icon, David Beckham would be great, right? We joked about it like, wow, would EA put in the prime version and not the team of the year? If they would do the prime and not the team of the year, people would be absolutely livid, right? It is May. Halfway through May on this game, drop us some WI icon SPCs. Ronaldinho, right? Would be a perfect SPC to release during this. Now, I would love to get excited about Ronaldinho getting a prime card SPC, but I honestly think, guys, that EA would probably drop the mid and it would be disappointing. But if they dropped the prime, that would be a game altering SPC for so many people, even if they made it like a two and a half to three million coin SPC. Fodder is so cheap right now. If they were to drop a three million coin, four million coin SPC like this, it would have to have like 30 squads and like 92 rated squads. I'm really interested to see how EA dropped these icon SPCs this next week because high rated fodder is so low. You already see them doing it, right? We had like an 88 rated squad instead of Serge Nabri and the price of that SPC still is 150,000 coins or 160K. I'm so interested to see how they price these icon SPCs and what requirements they put in them because high rated fodder is so low. And that also scares me a little bit to maybe they're like we talked about with Ronaldinho. They might put in his mid version instead of the prime, because it would be back in the day. Remember the terminology was above the threshold. So hopefully there's no issues with that. But all in all, from just a league standpoint and from excitement building standpoint, that is sick, right? That is very, very cool. I'm excited for that because that just means more SPCs as we're opening upgrade packs and we're kind of grinding through the upgrades and we have all these other 81 plus, 84 plus, all the packs that we get, all the fodder that we get. A lot of people have been complaining and saying I got nothing to craft into. Well, we're gonna have icon SPCs coming out this next week every single day and that is legit. And that could give us a lot of even cooler cards to be crafting into as long as the cards you're dropping are mostly primes and above. They kind of have to be primes and above for all of these, right? I mean, we would love a team of the year Ronaldinho but it's not gonna happen. He's extinct at 15 mil, right? So we need the dynamic image versions team of the year trophy Titans, foot birthday, those sorts of icon players in the SPCs this next week. So along with that, watch out for your LaLiga special cards on this market. I'll just give one quick shout out to these cards here. They're moving, they're moving up. This Yerente, oh my gosh, he was just 380K and look at him now, 419,000 coins. These guys fluctuate a lot. Some of them are down, some of them are up, some of them are anywhere in between, right? So just keep an eye on the leaks for today because the leaks are also going to really start to move these cards. If there's a Real Madrid player leak, a guy like Hazard could potentially go up, right? That Yerente is going up because of that Carrasco that we quickly saw there for a second. You know, other leaks from different nations, different leagues, or not leagues but different teams and clubs could make cards move. So just be careful with your LaLiga specials. We'll talk more about that in tomorrow and on Friday's videos, especially selling into the hype on some of those because LaLiga specials are very, very invested in right now on this game. So specifically today though, especially on stream, we're going to be watching the Bundesliga Tats cards a lot. Get your father ready, maybe buy up some 84s, 85s, 86s for the club. I probably should go stock some 86s right now so that I can get those at a good price but also be able to do that SBC today for the guaranteed Bundesliga Tats and we'll see if EA drop any surprises today on a Wednesday as well, like they drop surprises yesterday on Tuesday. So that's the video for today guys. If you did enjoy, drop a thumbs up on a comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan from the Count and catch you guys today on the stream. Peace out.