Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. Another one of the most popular players in EAFC 24 is getting an SBC soon. And guess what? It's another player of the month, SBC. We're going to break that down today and also look for the upgrades that have already begun. The FC Pro Live cards like Malin, Kodomani, and others have already got upgraded. Will we see other upgrades today with the Thunderstruck cards? We're hoping for that, but it's not guaranteed. And we have news about a new promo and some crazy leaks that we're going to look at with a pinch of salt today. But we're going to take a look at some pretty big leaks for what is to maybe come this Friday. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's go over yesterday's content, which isn't going to take long because it was a pretty quiet day. I guess you could say, as expected, we had the Kuti Romero SBC, Red Card Romero, as people are saying. The price is good. That's the best thing about this SBC. 70,000 coins, but the pace, the card stats, especially the pace, right, are just not good enough. And the fact that Tottenham lost their first game as a part of the set of four that worked for upgrades is not voting well for this card either since he's already behind. So you think maybe one in-form upgrade is possible here with the form of Tottenham. My club right now, it's sad to say, but you thought before this would have been an insane upgrading card. But the way that it looks right now, this just looks like a card that I will be doing for emotional reasons and other Spurs fans will probably do for that as well. It's just not big enough of a boost. I hope or I wish that EA would have given this card a bigger boost knowing the state of the club right now and where they're at already with one game played and a loss. So that was kind of a disappointing SBC yesterday in terms of a card that a lot of people could potentially be excited in. But other than that, we had you Wave of Marquis matchups, which is always a W for some tradable packs. Check your club for Napoli players because they were inflated right away when this SBC dropped because a lot of people love the chance at tradable packs to pack something good, especially with everything that is out right now. But other than that, guys, it was a very quiet content day like that was it. Now they did drop some stuff in the store, which we'll talk about in a second. And also they upgraded some cards. We've got upgrades for the FC Pro Live cards, which is very nice to know. Now we kind of have what we think is like a schedule down, right? We've talked about it the next couple of Mondays. These different groups of pro players with their pro cards attached are going to be playing in these games. And it looks like it was right a couple hours after content yesterday on Tuesday. That's when the upgrades went live. That is hype because it's literally one day after those games are being played less than 24 hours in those games finish. That's when we saw the cards get upgraded. So one of the things they did for Malin was they gave him as my game crashes. We're going to have to take a look at this on foot. They gave him a new, of course, he got the plus two upgrade. That's the biggest thing we can talk about with this is that they're not time gating these upgrades, guys. That is massive, right? So we thought maybe they would only give Malin a plus one. They gave him the plus two. They gave him the alternate position and the play style. The new play style was whipped past and they gave him left wing. I was hoping they would give him a shooting play style like finesse shot or something, but they did not do that. Now some of the other cards that they upgraded, of course, Colomani got a simple plus one overall on his card and has made his price go up because these are still live cards, right? If you think about it, Colomani has a lot more hype still to upgrade for the next time that the group plays. His pro player could again attain that play style and the position and then also another inform upgrade if he gets up to 10 points in the group standing. So there's still a lot of potential for a card like this Colomani. You can see yesterday he was low before this upgrade happened and then shot up in price based off of rarity and people wanted to go try his card out. Same thing with Monet. Monet got a pretty sizable upgrade. He didn't get a double upgrade, but he got a plus one overall. And of course, he did get a new position and a finesse shot play style, which is actually probably one of the best play styles they could have given this Monet cards. He went from 500,000 coins. He is now 565. He went to 600K right when the upgrade was put out. And then of course, if you did the SBC for Renan Lodi, this is one of the other very large, the upgraded cards. He got a plus two. He got the right back position. I don't know what play style they added to his card. But really, really good looking card play can play on the right and the left with a sizable stat upgrade there. It's just nice to know, especially as we have more of these games upcoming next week. As we think about maybe this weekend, looking at investing in some of these FC pro lab cards again, depending on how their prices move and everything like that. It's nice to know that the upgrades came in quick and that the upgrades were not time gated, right? 60K now almost for this Caramel card. One of the most popular cards that people are looking to invest in for this team two or the group B, I guess not team two group B of the pro players that are going to be playing in this upcoming week next Monday. So watch out for that because that is that is nice and that is good to see. Now, like we mentioned, will there be upgrades today? We mentioned it. It's not confirmed anywhere. This is just the hunch. I'm hoping that they upgrade the Thunderstruck cards today. Guys, I hope that they do this because again, in previous years, promos that have been similar to this, they've upgraded the cards on Wednesdays. It's not a guarantee. It is just a hope. But my fingers are crossed for a lot of the cards like Joel and Tim. We take a look at cards like Bernardo Silva, who is actually down a little bit. We talked about yesterday's content too. They we mentioned that they did drop lightning rounds in the store and that did hurt some of these prices a little bit. Gabrielae Zeus, Lukaku, Kato, Diani. A lot of the women's cards are hyped and rising right now and being invested in because they can actually get their upgrades faster because EA changed how those cards are getting their upgrades. If you take a look at the cards themselves, they're going to be able to get their second upgrade, which actually combines the second and third upgrades together. They can get them at the same time. All they have to do is win two games. Now for a lot of them, their second game is like the second week of December, like December 10th, I think is when the women's PSG team plays again for the potential upgrade. So it's a bit of a hold, but a lot of people are investing in Kototo because if they win that second game, she's going to go from a 90 to a 92 rated card and probably be the cheapest 92 rated on the market while being cracked and pretty usable in the same time. This is one of the most used cards in the promo team, by the way. Kototo at 70K with the PSG French Striker links. There's always time for a French Striker and her card is very, very popular right now in this game. So with that being said, that was kind of yesterday in a nutshell. Let's look ahead to today with the biggest leak that we have right now and it is this. It is Antoine Griezmann has won La Liga Player of the Month for the month of November. The SBC should come soon. Now the question mark around soon is what I really want to break down today, but let's look at the SBC first. This is huge. Think about it. The top three most attackers in the game this year, the most OP attackers, I should say. Hyunmin Sun, Mohamed Salah and Antoine Griezmann. Why? That Finesse plus playstyle is so good and you can actually score a goal other than a cutback from the byline, right? And across the goal, you can score something outside of the box or even inside of the box from a decent angle with this playstyle. Plus, he's probably going to have playstyle plus Finesse shot on his Player of the Month because again what they normally do with the Player of the Month, we saw it with Jude Bellingham, we saw it with Mohamed Salah, is they just take the player's normal playstyles and playstyle plus and carry that forward to the new card. Now the question is, number one, how much is this going to cost? Because guys, it's going to be a 90 rated Griezmann. It's kind of different than some of the other Player of the Months that we've had so far. This Griezmann should be the highest rated card that is in the game for him because the inform is 89 rated. He should go plus one above that to a 90 rated card and that's why everybody is assuming 90 here. I think that's a very good thing to assume. I think it's accurate. I think that is what's going to happen. Now that also brings in the question of price because his inform is 89 rated and 240K dropped a little bit yesterday. Of course, after the leak of this SBC coming, people sell on their Griezmann's because they know a new one is coming and they'll want to do the SBC. But his other card, the Trailblazers, which has a different Trivella playstyle plus is 500,000 coins. I am hoping that since this is kind of a performance based upgrade, it's similar to the inform with the boost. I'm hoping that EA look at the inform and say, okay, we're going to upgrade off the inform and maybe price this Griezmann SBC at like 500K. I hope it's 500K guys, but I could also see it being like 6 or 700K because EA know it's Griezmann. It's a French card and it's going to have the finesse plus. And this card, they could say, oh, if this card's 500K, then we can make the SBC 90 rated and make it 6 or 700K, right? I could see them doing that, but I hope that they don't because this SBC is going to be one that a lot of people will say, I'm glad that I didn't do Mbappe because I could do this and maybe Dalglish for cheaper. Now, as somebody who's doing Mbappe, I don't have any regrets, but this is going to be a great card for a lower budget. If you've been looking for something to craft, maybe you've saved up fodder and maybe you're just waiting for something to craft. Nothing has seemed fit for you in the recent days. Maybe none of these SBCs have spoken to you. This is one that's going to be very usable, very meta, and a card that, especially as a 90 rated, as long as it's a decent price, is going to be able to be used on this game for a long time. Now you're like, Nate, should we invest in this? We've been talking about fodder a decent amount recently. Do we need to invest in this SBC? To that, I would say no. I think I would wait because also we don't know when this SBC is coming. That's the most confusing part about this is the Jude Bellingham SBC is expiring. I think unlike, it's either Friday or it's on Sunday. He's only got a couple of days left, but the problem is that EA, four days left, right? I think he is expiring on Sunday. The problem is that when EA tweeted out on Monday, their content post tweet for like what SBCs were upcoming for the week, they did not post LaLiga Player of the Month on that tweet. Remember, we saw the Mbappe Player of the Month was tweeted out. Sala, we knew that a Prem Player of the Month was coming, but they didn't put the LaLiga POTM card design on that tweet that they put out, but also at the same time, it would make a lot of sense for Griezmann to drop this Friday because LaLiga Player of the Months have been dropping on Friday a couple hours ahead of content. So it's really an up in the air decision. Could it actually be dropping Friday? I think it could be. Could it also be next week because EA did not tweet about it in their initial tweet? It also could be then as well. Either way, it's not going to be a crazy, super crazy expensive SBC like between 500 and 750K. It is a decent amount, but it's craftable. You'll be able to get it done. If you need to go and buy anything, I would imagine that it's probably going to be. I mean, how much was the Jude SBC? I don't think Jude's SBC was more than like 500K, right? Okay, it actually is 633,000 coins for Jude. And the way they priced out that SBC is with 88 rated squad. The LaLiga squad here, I'm guessing is an 87. So it's actually going to be pretty comparable to like the Jude Player of the Month potentially in terms of price. So maybe kind of plan it out that way. If you need to buy a little bit of fodder, maybe stock up on some of the higher ratings. It's obviously easier to get lower rates through crafting depending on how fast you want to get an SBC like Griezmann done. So that's my thoughts on the Griezmann SBC. Guys, I guess I don't really have a guess. Is it Friday? Is it going to be next week? Friday seems the most logical play. I just I'm really thrown off by the fact that EA didn't put it on their tweet this week of like what content was upcoming. So that's a big SBC though. It deserves a lot of hype because that's a card that you could use your team for a long time. And it's a lot cheaper than other SBCs like Mbappe. Now let's talk about that market stuff and everything that's going on a little bit more. We've mentioned the lightning rounds twice. We looked at fodder. Let's take a little bit more of a deep dive into the market because yesterday we were surprised. They're not here anymore, but EA dropped lightning rounds on a Tuesday. I mean, it's Black Friday week. So, you know, with all these other packs in the store, with all the players in packs, we're not surprised to be honest. But it actually did impact the market a little bit. There was actually another opportunity yesterday to maybe get involved in some of the Thunderstruck cards that kind of kept rising up in price. Like Bernardo Silva was one of them. Bernardo Silva was rising all the way up to 80K right before content. They dropped the lightning rounds. He went down to 74,000 coins. He's kind of starting to rise back up right now. Other cards that went down yesterday, Katota was like 72. She's 69,000 coins. It kind of kept prices in check is what it's done too. On some of these cards that we were expecting to rise, like Emery Chan, still 70K. Gabriela Azuz still under 170. Quadrado still 120. Jolenten still 35,000 coins. So it did kind of pull some of those prices back a little bit and bring in a little bit of supply on the Thunderstruck cards. And it also did impact a little bit of the fodder. I mean, you got 83s that are down at about 1.4, but 82s are still a thousand coins. It's weird, right? 83s are down because they were 1.8K before the content dropped yesterday. They were all up here at 1.9. And now those are down a little bit, but 82s still maintain pretty high prices. I have to wonder if the fact that the 83s dropped off yesterday has to do with the 85 double, the 85 plus player pick and the 84 double all expiring. Now, we don't have any other SBCs, I believe, that are expiring today. Those SBCs expire, we're just kind of like a one-off thing. But what we do have today is an SBC refreshing. The icon pack is going to be refreshing today. And it could be repeatable three times once again. Like, I didn't do this the first time around, but it is coming back today. You could do it three times. I know a lot of people did. And if this does come back today, what are you going to watch out for? You're going to want to watch your 85s, 86s, 87s, and 88s. It could bring a little bit more demand to this, especially because this time, if people want to do it again, there's less packs in the store. EA could run lightning rounds today. Actually, I'm expecting them to. That happens on Wednesdays. More often than you would think, they drop promo packs on Wednesdays. But with this SBC refreshing, it would be a perfect opportunity for them to do that. And also a perfect opportunity for some of that higher rated fodder to pick up just a little bit more. Not crazy, but pick up just a little bit more in price. So maybe watch out for some lazy sales today on 85s all the way to 88s. And also watch out for Informs, specifically on the top tier. These were their lowest on Sunday night, Monday morning, earlier this week. But I'll take a look at, like, Anthony Robinson, who is one of the cheapest 86 rated Informs right now in this game. I believe all Informs are right around 37K or 35K at least for the lower rated ones. Now, they're actually even going up even further. There's still 37,000 coins apiece for all Informs. Keep an eye on some of those 86, 87 rated Informs specifically because that squad does require a team of the week in the 86 rated squad. There will be people doing that icon of SBC today and that could make some prices go up. Could also create some prices dropping on the market if people need to sell cards to go and buy that fodder today. But honestly today, I'm not expecting that crazy of a market day in general. I do expect there to be a lightning round or two and a little bit of supply, but nothing super crazy, just maybe some fluctuations here or there that could be good to trade in. But again, we do have rivals rewards tomorrow and with so much gameplay demand right now and so much demand for packs, I would not be surprised if we do have a little bit of a rise in the market. We'll talk about that tomorrow, of course, after everything shakes out before rivals rewards happens tomorrow on Thursday. So let's talk a little bit about what else is happening today on Thursday or on Wednesday. We do have a team of the week leak guys and this is actually pretty interesting because there is Caroline Graham Hansen featured in this team of the week. They've shown her as a 92, she's probably not going to be 92, but she's probably going to be 91 rated. But she has a card that is in packs right now, the Trailblazers Hansen is in packs at the moment. This team of the week probably won't be in packs until Friday guys. The way this has happened before is that the promo card that is already in packs will stay in packs and then the new one, like a team of the week, will replace it when the other one goes out. So Friday at the content drop, Trailblazers Hansen will go away. This 91 rated probably Hansen will come into packs. So that's something to watch out for there, but her gold card will be out of packs for an even longer time, which has some people wanting to go invest in it and the gold card is rising, but it could go further up. That's a very meta card. Barca links actually I think if you want to pick up a Graham Hansen for your team for the next week or two, probably the next week, I think that 480K is about as good as you're going to get because yesterday after this leak came out, she went from like 470, 480 all the way to 513. She's probably going to rise back up a little bit during this next week, depending on what the promo looks like. So watch out for that. Also, Garnacho is going to be higher than 80 rated if he's actually in team of the week. All the team of the week so far have been 83 rated or above, so definitely keep an eye on that. Taylor Hernandez is going to be kind of crazy. French left-back first special card for him this year. That'll be a very in-demand inform as well. And in other content to watch today, we've mentioned it, but we haven't seen it yet. Probably the last Thunderstruck player in an SBC format, Lee Kang-in from PSG is expected to get a card. He's already had an inform. It's a decent card. His PSG links also can provide some links to like Hyun-min Sun or maybe Park Ji-sung if you did the hero or the hero evolution. Some interesting links there, maybe even Hwang Hee Chan with the Korea links there. So watch out for that SBC. That would be a Thunderstruck live card that would upgrade based off of PSG's league success. And then of course, guys, we have more UCL games on tap. And when we talk about UCL cards, a lot of them, or at least a couple of them, have dropped off big time in value. Yesterday, Usman Dembele was almost a million coins, but PSG, they didn't lose, they just drew. But he needed the win for the upgrade and also to keep them in a prime position to move on to the next, the knockout rounds from their group. The group of death is just absolutely crazy.  Newcastle winning almost the whole time, PSG eating a penalty at the end and Bobby scoring. This is how the group sits right now. PSG is on seven points, Newcastle on five and Milan on five. So Usman Dembele and Kalulu, both of their cards have dropped big time. Kalulu was like 30k. I'm pretty sure Kalulu is like 16,000 coins right now. This is kind of crazy because technically if you think about it, 14k, that's the cheapest Kalulu and I just searched at 16. Okay, I guess we're going to make a couple thousand coins there. But like the fact that this card's 14k is pretty wild. But also if you think about it, any of these clubs, except for Dortmund. Dortmund's already locked it up. They've moved on to the next round with 10 points. Newcastle and Milan and PSG, they're all playing for that number two spot in the final matchday. Technically, if you look at the live cards here, if we go and actually look at the trackers for Kalulu, Kalulu could still get upgraded. Same with Usman Dembele. If they win their last game, that would be his second win. That would be Milan's second win. So we would get an upgrade for that. And if they win against Newcastle, that would put them up above Newcastle on eight points. So if Dortmund were to beat PSG in that last matchday, then technically Dortmund and Milan would go through. And then Kalulu would get a double upgrade, right? But the same could also be said for Usman Dembele. If they win, he gets the second win, which would be a 90-rated upgrade. And also if they win, they would lock themselves in joint top of the table in the group with Dortmund on 10 points apiece. And then they would be going through and getting a win as well. So you really have to watch Kalulu and Usman Dembele. It's kind of all or nothing for those guys. And I guess Newcastle, you're fighting for Brunel Gimaretsch and you're fighting for... Well, Gitarana is already going to get upgraded because they're on to the next round. But that's just super interesting. It's kind of crazy to see Kalulu drop off as much as he has. I mean, he never was a super duper expensive card. But the fact that he's dropped off this much is just something to kind of go and show that when these cards are no longer going to receive live upgrades, they absolutely get destroyed in price. So I'm glad I picked up that one for 14. I'll try to sell it for 19. Just take the quick couple thousand coins. Water flip. And there's that. Other cards like Lewandowski. And this is what I want to talk about for today. Lewandowski, it was looking grim. I actually sold my Lewandowski because Porto scored first and I was like, oh my goodness, this how the game is going to go, it's going to be bad, right? If they would have lost, Lewandowski would be like 250k, right? Because it would be not good. Maybe not 250, but he'd be pretty low. So, you know, that's what I was trying to avoid. So I sold my Lewandowski a 520. Didn't make any coins on it. He's back up to 550. But what I want to talk to you about today is if you invested in Bruno, Fernandez or Saka, these guys are expected to win, right? So bar a catastrophe today. Let's say if Man United win, then Bruno is probably going to go up and he's just going to slowly rise. They're expected to win. It's kind of like with Lewandowski. He didn't explode in price. Bruno might jump up a little bit because of Man U Hype. But with Bruno and with Saka today, I would just say if you invested in those and you got a low price, especially because they've been re-releasing packs, I would just hold because I think these guys couldn't continue to rise today as people are excited for their upgrades as they both, especially Bruno, deserve or should be getting a couple upgrades. Bruno plus two, if they win, they would clinch a spot in the knockouts for them. And also a Saka plus one would be, of course, in time if they win today and he would be clinching a knockout spot for Arsenal as well. Now, the last thing I want to talk about in today's video is kind of bananas, okay? We're going to look forward here a little bit, guys, because there was a massive leak. It was posted by a guy that we do see leaks from every so often. We're going to talk about this more in a couple of days from now. But it's the whole entire promo team that's going to be coming out Friday. Now, we're going to be careful with this because, again, we're taking it with a pinch of salt. But evidently, this full, this radioactive team, we looked at the car design, we saw the messy concept, right? Messy is leaked in the promo now by this guy, ASY Foot Trader. He says that every player gives two chempoints for their nation, league and club. That's our prediction. So it's basically like you put the card into your club and they're automatically on two chempoints and they also give two chempoints. It seems kind of like a promo that makes unlinkable cards linkable. And you see, with a lot of the players that are leaked to be in here, you've got Messy and you've got multiple MLS players. You've got Taliska from the Saudi League. How many MLS players do you have in here? Vella, you've got Pookie, you've got Puig, Shakiri. You've got multiple of those guys in here. You've got other very hard to link cards, like Araujo, a little bit harder to link with the nation link there. You've got Zaha, Galatasaray, where he's at now, Kessie in the Saudi League. You've got Mazraoui right back from Bayern, Frank Houski in Ligand. You've got Kaisetto in here. You've got Nani, Tim Wea, Gavardiol, Zinchenko, Kevica, first promo card for Kevica other than an Inforum. Scrinny R from PSG, Christian Erickson, my goats. You've got Akante, it's actually kind of funny. We just had Akante Evo and now they're giving us Akante special card. That's kind of funny. A lot of people did Gavardiol on one of the most recent evos as well. He's now getting a promo card. So take this with a pinch of salt because this is a guy that has had leaks correctly in the past, but also at the same time, it's very early. So I would wait for Foot Sheriff and some of the other guys to start confirming these leaks. But I wanted to show you guys this today because you're probably going to see it circulating on X on Twitter. If you're active there at all in the community, you're going to see people talking about this stuff. And some prices have probably already started to move with some of these, but like a bomb yank in here, it looks like an okay promo. It looks okay. I mean, nothing is going to follow Black Friday and seem amazing because Black Friday is going to be like the tippity-top, right? Nothing's going to follow this and be like, oh, wow, OMG. But it's probably still going to be decent. There's some big names in there. Oshawa, that's a big one. SoboSly, he just had an Evo that a lot of people were doing as well. So we'll see what the cards look like. We'll see if we get some more news and information. Wednesdays for new promos are loading screen days, especially if it's a brand new promo after Black Friday. EA are going to want to keep people engaged and involved. So what I would tell you to do is watch out for a loading screen today. That seems very, very possible. If I can snag a friend-pong here on a bid, I will do that because that might be a flip I can do overnight tonight into Wednesday and make some profits. But that's kind of the video for today, guys. If you did enjoy, smash thumbs up. Comment below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan with Accountants. See you guys in a stream today. Peace.


Hello, Columbia, and welcome to City View, where we give you an inside view of the city of Columbia. I'm your host, Alicia Utsi. In our top story, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Mayor Daniel Rickerman hosted the annual Isabel Law Breakfast, which focuses on assisting those who are survivors of breast cancer through a fundraising effort. This has been a 21-year tradition here in the city of Columbia, and it really is an effort of heart. It comes from deep down inside where every employee, everybody in the city takes part, and really to try to make this a successful event. But this is really about celebrating survivors, trying to change the breast cancer and how it is affecting our lives. Well, that was a great breakfast, and you can still participate or support the effort by buying a t-shirt from one of our locations in the city of Columbia. 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Please visit Eventbrite and look for the Mayor's Walk Against Domestic Violence, or you can visit our website at columbiasc.gov in order to register and receive more details. And October continues to be a very busy month because it is also Code Compliance Month, which focuses on code enforcement efforts throughout the nation, and of course, right here in the City of Columbia. To kick off the month, code enforcement staff were presented with a proclamation by city council members during the October 4th meeting. Also, interviews have been held on local media outlets, and there's an effort on the way to share information about 10 tips to make you a better neighbor. Well, I mean, it affects the overall quality of life of your neighbors and people who are visiting Columbia. They like to see that Columbia is neat, well-capped, clean place to be. But a lot of code enforcement violations are a quality of life and life safety issues, so it makes for a safer environment. Be a good neighbor, do your part. So again, during October, which is Code Enforcement Compliance Month, be a good neighbor and do your part. And speaking of being a good neighbor, we also wanna make sure that you learn how to love your block. The Love Your Block grant program was recently announced by Mayor Daniel Rickerman, and here's more details about how you can participate. Hello, Columbia. I'm excited to announce Love Your Block grant program. This is for neighborhood associations who are interested in making a difference in their community. Eligible projects include cleanup efforts, beautification, revamp signage, and neighborhood events. The grant application is now open in the deadline as Thursday, November 10th. To apply or receive more information, please visit communitydevelopment.columbiasc.gov or email Charmaine Clark at Charmaine.Clark at columbiasc.gov. And now, moving from our neighborhoods into our business community. Recently, two new businesses opened in different parts of our city. Beauty Art by Roy recently opened in North Columbia in the Eau Claire community, and a Healing Touch Chiropractic opened their doors on Elwood Avenue. That this building had been empty since when? 80, 1980. 1980, and this is my district, and one of the things we wanna do is make sure we start using these empty buildings and putting some life in them. And if you were to ask me, I really want black people to own the buildings, okay? Is that okay for me to say? And so, I'm not a shamrock, I'm a raider, and there are a few raiders out there. It's okay, I mean, I just gotta say it. Y'all know I gotta say it, I'm a raider. But for me, it's always been critical in one of the reasons why Ramper City Council is because this area is changing, and I wanna make sure that African-American people who've been here all these years have some ownership. So thank you. Well, good afternoon, everybody. I wanna thank you all for coming out and sharing this awesome occasion with me. I'm gonna cut the ribbon. This is really not our grand opening, but it's more so our celebration, 15 years, and the dedication of our new building, 901 Elmwood Avenue. So this is my little boy, Aiden Lucas Robinson. He's what keeps me going. He's my heart. And he's gonna help me cut the ribbon, okay? And now for an item in order for our planning ahead, folks. It's time to participate and apply for scholarships for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Keeper Scholarship Awards. Scholarship process is now open. Please visit our website at columbisc.gov if you know of a student who would need to apply for these scholarships in order to assist with furthering their education. Again, that's the Dr. Martin Luther King Dream Keeper Award Scholarships. Applications are now being accepted. And that wraps up City View. We'll be bringing you an inside view from the city of Columbia. 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Dropshipping can be an extremely lucrative business model, but sometimes it's made out to be a lot easier than it actually is. In this video, we're going to be talking about some of the hard truths about dropshipping that other gurus don't tell you about. So without wasting any time, let's just go ahead and get straight into it. Let's go ahead and talk about the hard truths about dropshipping. Let's go ahead and run that intro, and let's get started. What's going on, everyone? Mario here with AutoDS. And if you like informative videos on the dropshipping business and pretty much anything related to dropshipping, then make sure you hit that subscribe button as well as ring that little bell notification so you don't miss out on any future videos. As always, to go along with this video, we have the ever popular cheat sheet. If you want access to that, all you have to do is go ahead and comment down below, hashtag hard truths along with your takeaway from this video. And once I see that you commented, I'll go ahead and reply back with the link. Now, even though we're discussing hard truths, remember that we make it easy for you with all of the different resources we have available at pretty much your fingertips. So for one, we have our blog section over at AutoDS.com. And there we have tons of different articles on all of the different topics based around dropshipping from tips and tricks and some of the best strategies to some of the hottest products to sell. You can find it all there. Another awesome resource that we have available is this YouTube channel. You can simply go over to the playlist section and see all of our different videos categorized on there. Okay, so let's go ahead and get into it. And the first thing that people don't really talk about are profits. Well, they do, but they don't always give you the full picture. So when it comes to profits, you have gross and you have net profits. A lot of the times what people are showing you are the gross profits. What you really have to focus on are the net profits. Well, what exactly is the difference? Simply put, gross profits are the entire sum of all of your sales without subtracting your cost of goods or any other services that you're paying for. So for example, if you're selling this squeegee and you sell 10 of them for $5, you have a gross profit of $50. Now with net profits, you're actually subtracting the costs of your goods. So let's say this same squeegee costs me $2 to make. And I'm selling it for $5. So when I sell 10 of them, it's going to equal out to $50. But then we need to factor in the cost of goods or how much it's costing us to make this. Now, assuming that it does cost $2 to make one of these, then that's going to make our production cost for 10 of them $20. Now $50 minus $20 is going to equal out to $30. So our net profit will be $30. Net profit is the number that you need to focus on. That's going to be the number that tells you whether or not you're actually being profitable and making some money or if you're losing money. Let's say that instead of $2 to make this, it actually costs us $6. And we're selling it for $5. Obviously that's not going to be the case, but just as an example, that means if we sell 10 of them, we're going to make $50 gross profit. But when it comes to the net profit, we're actually going to be negative $10. Since it would be costing $6 per product, six times 10 is going to equal out to $60 in production costs. So we're not going to be making net profit. It's actually going to be considered a net loss because we're going to be negative $10. Now, I know in this example for the squeegee, I did mention production costs, but that's not necessarily the case. It doesn't have to be an actual production cost. All it is is really how much it's costing you to come up with the item. So how much does it cost to make it or how much does it cost to purchase from our suppliers? Now, that being said, that's just one part of all of the expenses that you need to factor in a few of the things that you always have to think about are going to be fees. So you have things like selling fees, channel fees, transaction fees, marketing fees.  These are all different types of fees and costs that ultimately do need to be factored into your gross profits. Now, as a general rule of thumb, you can safely assume that your net profit is going to be about 15 to 20 percent of whatever your gross profit is going to be. Now, another thing that I've noticed a lot of people talk about that they don't really go too deep into or they don't give you much detail on is the type of store that you're going to be opening. Do you want to open up a general store or do you want to open up a niche store? Now, if you decide to go with a general store, then you're going to be selling pretty much all different kinds of items. You can be selling things from kids toys to bedroom furniture. If you open up a general store, that means you're going to have a store that really encompasses pretty much every niche.  So are you going to be selling kids toys or are you going to be selling bedroom furniture? Maybe you're going to be selling certain articles of clothing for a certain demographic.  Now, if you're still debating about opening your drop shipping store and you don't know if you want to go with either a general store or a niche store, then here's a quick tip for you. Start with a general store and have different products pages on there. From there, see which items are selling best for you, which ones you're working with best. And from there, then you can start to decide whether you want to niche down or if you want to keep going at a general store. Really, a general store is going to help you test different products, different niches, and it's also going to help you interact differently with different suppliers, because in a general store, you're typically going to be using multiple suppliers. So from there, you can also start to see which one of these suppliers is best and which ones you want to stick with. Now talking about products, the next hard truth that we're going to talk about is product research is number one. You can't just go ahead and sell any product because it's not going to work. For one, you want to make sure that the products that you're offering have a wow factor. And not only that, you also want to make sure that they bring value to your customers. Unfortunately, this is something that takes time. While there are tons of different resources out there that you can use, ultimately, it's going to be up to you to find the product that works best for you and that works best for your store. Now, product research can take quite some time. It can take a few hours, if not a few days, to find the right products for you to sell. As I mentioned earlier, there's tons of different resources with different types of product suggestions that you can start to test out. For one, you can check out the AutoDS Marketplace. Now, from here, you have tons of different products that you can choose from. And best of all, you have multiple suppliers. So check this out here. We're at our platform over at platform.AutoDS.com. Now we're under the Marketplace tab. Once we're in here, there's a little section labeled supplier. Click on that and you can choose from three different ones. We have Amazon, AliExpress and AutoDS. Let's go ahead and choose AutoDS really quick. Then you can scroll down and you can find tons of different products that you can choose from. Now, let me show you an extra feature on here. So if you see down here, this particular item is actually shipping from the AutoDS Warehouse. That means that your customer is going to get their product fairly quick. In this case, it's going to take between nine to 12 business days. And that's not nine to 12 business days to ship the product. This is nine to 12 business days from the time that your customer places the product to the time that they're going to be receiving it in their hands. That's pretty quick shipping, to be honest with you. Now aside from that, there's another really cool feature here, especially if you have a niche store.  All you have to do is look for the items that show branding logo. Now, the way this works currently is fairly simple. Once your customer places the order for that product and you have your logo already uploaded to your store, then the item is going to ship to your customer with a custom thank you card with your logo on it. So as you can see here, there's a custom AutoDS thank you card. Obviously, in your case, it's going to be your logo rather than the AutoDS logo. Now, you can also see a couple of bags around it with the AutoDS logo. Just take that as a sneak peek for what's to come. Now, aside from that, we also have the winning products hub, which on here you have tons of different items that are proven to sell and have been trending in the past. On top of that, if you click into any of these items that are under the winning products tab, then you're going to have tons of insights from AutoDS to help you market and sell these items. So for example, here we have the item cost, which is about $10. And you can see that it's currently being sold for if we just scroll down a little bit for $54.39. That gives you a potential profit of $29.72. That's actually a pretty good profit. So next to that tab, you also have a target audience tab. These are suggestions for audiences to target when you're advertising on Facebook. So in this case, it's geared towards males between the ages of 18 and 50 who are single and married that have interests in motorcycles. And to take it a step further, you can also add an occupation, which in this case would be office worker or motorcyclist. Now, once again, these are just suggestions. You can change it by adding in different interests or different occupations, maybe a different age range. Really, you can customize it however you'd like to target whatever demographic you'd prefer. Now, on top of that, there's also some more information. So from one, you have an example Facebook ad. So that way you can see more or less how you can structure yours and you have some more AutoDS insights along with the link to an actual website that's selling this particular item, just like this one right here, this hot sale, cool, half helmet. Now, another option that you have is the Aliexpress dropship center. The Aliexpress dropship center is somewhat similar to our marketplace, except in this case, you're going to have the amount of units that have been sold along with a star rating. All of these different items have actually been proven to sell. These have been trending up until now. Now, speaking about Aliexpress, that's another hard truth that we need to get into. Everyone talks about sourcing items from Aliexpress, but I'm here to tell you that that's not necessarily the best option. Aliexpress is fantastic for testing products. They're great so that way you can get your hands on a product, test it out, see how it does and see how it sells. But unfortunately, Aliexpress actually has some pretty slow shipping times compared to other suppliers. Also, communication sometimes can be a bit wonky. A lot of the times it's a bit frustrating to be able to communicate with some of these sellers. Ultimately, though, when it comes to Aliexpress, you do want to use them mainly to be able to test different products to see how they sell. Once you find a winning product and something that works for you, then you can start looking for a few other suppliers. You can check either the AutoDS warehouse. You can head over to platform.autoDS.com or you can check other suppliers such as CJ dropshipping, DHK, Wayfair or one of our other many supported suppliers. Now, aside from that, you can also check out seller recommendations. So if you aren't a seller's page over at, let's say, CJ dropshipping, all you have to do is just go ahead and scroll down. Keep scrolling, keep scrolling, keep scrolling until eventually you hit this section where it says recommended products. These are products that are either recommended from the supplier or from CJ dropship. Typically, these do have a proven track record and have had some sales in the past. Now, I did say it before, but I do want to put some emphasis on this. Even though you have all of these different resources at your fingertips to be able to find some great products, it's up to you to test them and see which one of those actually sell best for you. See which one works best in your store and which one you actually like the most. Now, the last thing I want to cover when it comes to the hard truths about products is the fact that not every product is going to sell. No matter how much research you do, there's going to be times where you spend maybe one or two days researching a certain product. And then when it comes time to import it to your store and try to start getting some sales, it's just not going to sell. It's going to happen. Just remember, don't get discouraged. Start doing some more product research and move on to the next product. Just make sure that you keep going and you stay on that never give up hustle mindset. Now, the next hard truth is actually one that I personally had to learn the hard way and that's organic traffic isn't going to last forever. Now, what I'm referring to are things like take talk videos or Instagram reels that tend to go viral and just bring in tons of sales at once. That's not really sustainable.  People are going to stop watching it and sales that are going to your store from that video are going to cease.  But just always keep in mind that the hype for that video is eventually going to die down. Now, how can you combat this? Well, it's pretty easy. Just keep making more videos. Hopefully, a few of them will catch on and also go viral. But always remember, not every single video is going to go viral. Some videos might only get one or 200 views even though you put in tons of work into it. That's just how it is. Just got to keep going making more videos. On that note, I also know that making these videos can be pretty time consuming. Sometimes it can take anywhere between one to maybe even three hours to make a 15 second to a one minute long video. Now, when that's the case and if you find yourself spending way too much time making these organic videos, then you can start to look into things like paid advertising. For paid advertising, there's quite a few different ways to go about it. You can either look into TikTok ads or Facebook ads, maybe influencer marketing. There's a lot of different ways that you can go into paid advertising. And if you want more information on that, then just make sure you check out the cheat sheet because I'm going to have all the details in there. Remember that if you want access to that, all you have to do is go ahead and comment down below hashtag hard truths along with your takeaway from the video. The next truth that we're going to cover is order fulfillment. When you first get your first order, you feel absolutely amazing.  But the truth about this is the fact that if you get one order, that's awesome. You can manually fulfill it and you can get it done fairly quick. But once you start getting more orders, you start getting maybe 10, 15, 20, then it's going to get extremely time consuming to go to each and every one of your suppliers and place an individual order for each individual customer. In this case, it's best to use either automatic ordering or something like fulfilled by Autodesk to be able to help you fulfill all of these different orders at once. So when it comes to automatic ordering, what ends up happening is whenever you receive an order from your customer, then Autodesk is going to go ahead and log into your supplier's website using your credentials. And then it's going to make the purchase on your behalf using your banking or your credit card details. Once that's done and the order is shipped, then Autodesk is going to go ahead and take that tracking number and update your customer with it. Now, the other option is fulfilled by Autodesk. This one is probably one of the better options to go with, mainly because it can help with things like account suspensions or account restrictions. Now, with fulfilled by Autodesk, instead of logging into the suppliers using your credentials and making the purchase with your banking or credit card details, Autodesk is going to log in using its own credentials and to pay for the item, it's just going to use a balance that you top up. So you don't even need to have accounts with CJ dropshipping or AliExpress to be able to use fulfilled by Autodesk to make those purchases. This next truth is pretty crucial, especially when it comes to legal terms. And I'm talking about the truth about taxes.   So whenever you're setting up your dropshipping store, always make sure to check the local laws and the local tax laws. Just to make sure that you don't get in any hot water or any legal trouble. Now, I can't really say too much about taxes because this is just too broad of a topic. But if you want any more information, just go ahead and check out the cheat sheet. I'm going to have a link to a relevant article in there. Now, the last but certainly not least hard truth that we need to cover is the truth about customer service. So we all know customer service is absolutely crucial to anybody's dropshipping business. If a customer reaches out to you to get some information about a certain product and you don't get back to them within a certain timeframe, typically within 24 hours, more than likely they're going to go to the next dropshipping store and place their order through there. Or at the very least, they're going to go to the next dropshipping store and contact them about the item. And if they reply back to them within time, then they'll place the order. Now, a couple of things about customer service. For one, not all customers are going to be happy customers. And that's just a fact. That's just how it is. That's just part of the business. Just always make sure that you respond to them and you reply back to them in a professional and courteous manner. If they have any issues, make sure to address that issue within a certain timeframe again, about 24 hours. Now, one big thing I want to mention about customer service is you could potentially get overwhelmed. And the reason I say it is because let's say you have a TikTok video that goes viral and gets, I don't know, a few hundred thousand views. If from those few hundred thousand views, you start getting some pretty good sales, then you might potentially be overwhelmed with the amount of sales or the amount of customer service requests. You can either be getting a lot of questions regarding an item or you can be getting some people that are requesting a refund or maybe an exchange or just people asking, where's my item? In this case, there's actually a pretty simple fix to this. You can hire a virtual assistant.  You don't have to grant them access to your entire store. You have the option to grant them only access to what they need. So right now I'm actually in the settings page of my platform over at platform.audios.com. From here, all I have to do is click on users. Now, once I'm under the users tab, all I have to do is click on add a user. Then all we need to do is just fill out everything we need. So you can add their name, their email, their password that you would like for them to start off with. And then you can give them access to whatever you need. So you can either give them access to all of your stores if you have more than one or you can give them access to only a select number of stores. Then you can select the different privileges you would like them to have access to. Now, even though dropshipping isn't as easy as some people may get out to be, it is a fairly simple business model to get into. All it really takes is patience, research and dedication. Remember that if you want everything that I covered in this video in a quick and easy to reference cheat sheet, all you have to do is go ahead and comment below hashtag hard truth, along with your takeaway from this video to get access. Once again, my name is Mario with auto DS, wishing you all nothing but success in your dropshipping business. And if you haven't done so already, just make sure to hit that subscribe button. And if you found this video informational and if you liked it, make sure to leave a like. Thank you all so much for being here today and I'll catch you on the next one.


I'll, too, use the Consistency Time page of the dashboard of the WHO Data Quality Tool. Let's click on the tab for Consistency Time. And then so that our screen will match up with the screenshots and the guide will set data to core, period to April, and disaggregation to district. Now, if we want to free up some space on our screen, we can make the Settings window disappear by clicking on the Settings icon. Let's look at the charts on this page. We see that there are charts for several indicators, A&C first visits. If we scroll down A&C fourth visits, HIV tests done. Institutional deliveries, 10 to 3 given before the age of 12 months. And under 5, OPD malaria has a percentage of total outpatient malaria. For each of these indicators, the page has two charts. The chart on the left has three different lines in different colors. Let's explore these lines. The dark blue line is showing the trend in the number of A&C first visits from May 2019 through April of 2020, which is the period that we selected. And then what is this light blue line? Well, the light blue line is also showing the trend over a 12 month period. But in this case, it is the months from May of 2018 to April of 2019. And then the orange line shows the trend over another 12 month period, which is May of 2017 to April of 2018. So each of the lines is showing the trend over a 12 month period, whether it's between one and 11 months previously, or 12 and 23 months previously, or 24 and 35 months previously. This is an example of what is called a year on year chart because we have placed the findings for one year on top of the findings for other years. And we notice from these charts that the values of A&C first visits go up and down a bit, but most months they don't jump up or down a great deal. But we see two exceptions. There's this outlier, this value that's very different from other months in January of 2020. Back here in May of 2019, we also see a jump up. So the year on year chart is good to show how the value for a single month can be quite different, not only different from the months in that year, but different from the value for months in other years. Let's look at now at the chart on the left, on the right side of the page. This is special kind of chart also. It's called a scatter plot. This is because the values are scattered and each of these dots represents the values for a single district. If we place the cursor on the dot, then a window appears showing that this is for district C5. And what does the value along the vertical axis represent? Well, as we see, the value on the vertical axis is the number of first A&C visits in April of 2020, which was 3,917. What does the value on the horizontal axis represent? Horizontal axis is the average value of A&C visits for that district during the 11 months prior to April 2020. So this would be from May of 2019 until March of 2020. And the two values, they aren't the same, but they are close to each other and that's why this dot is close to the line. This line represents districts which have exactly or almost exactly the same value in April 2020 as they had during the average of the previous 11 months. And all of the dots where the two values, the value for April 2020 and the value for the previous 11 months, where those two values are almost the same, they're close to this black line and they fall between the two gray lines. Now there's one dot where there's an exception. There's this dot down here and notice that the dot has a diamond shape rather than a circular shape of the dots that appear between the two gray lines. So dots which are suspicious have a different shape. This is for district B2, which in April of 2020 reported a total of 1,425 first A&C visits, whereas the average reported by this district during the previous 11 months was 4,595. So these are quite different. The value on the vertical axis is quite different from the value on the horizontal axis. So this dot is placed outside and identified as an outlier. Let me show you how we might investigate this outlier. By changing the period, the outlier appears in January of 2020. So what if we change the period of these charts to January of 2020? Again, let's free up space by making the settings window disappear. And notice how the charts have changed. Now we still see trends, trend lines in the chart on the left, but in this case the trend for the blue line is from February of 2019 to January of 2020, the period that we select and we see our outlier here. Look at the chart on the right now. Well, apart from these districts which had values in January of 2020, which were reasonably close to the average for the previous 11 months, there's a single dot appear and it is for District B2. So in January of 2020, District B2 reported a very large and probably incorrect value of 36,835 first A&C visits. When you compare this to the average of the previous 11 months, it reported only 1,363 first A&C visits during those previous 11 months. So this dot is shown far from the reference line, far from the line showing equal values. And can you explain now why it is that we saw, let's go back to April. Keep in mind the value reported for District B2 in January of 2020, almost 37,000, if we change the period back to April, can you explain why the dot was below the line in April? Well, in fact, this dot is below the line in April because the average of the previous 11 months, when we are looking at the chart based on April, the average includes this very high and incorrect value that was reported in January. And so that increases so much, the average over the previous 11 months that it pulls this dot away from the reference line. So that's an example of how you can do some investigation by changing the period. And you could also do some investigation by changing the organization unit and drill down. However, we will see how it is much easier to drill down and do investigations when we talk about the outlier page. Before we leave the consistency time page, I want to show you how we can change data and what happens to the consistency time page when we change data. At present, data includes, as you see, one or two indicators from multiple programs, anti-natal care program, HIV program. This is labor and delivery program immunization. And a malaria indicator. Notice that there's only a single immunization indicator now included when we have data set to core. But what happens if we change core to immunization? We wait a while for the data to be processed. And now let's scroll down the page and see which indicators are included on the consistency time page. Well, we see a new indicator, a new immunization indicator, BCG, measles, OPV1, OPV2, 3, PENTA1, 2, 3, rotavirus 1 and 2. So by changing to a different group, changing data to one of these other groups, we can look at a larger group of program-specific indicators. And we can do a data quality review that is specific to that program. Here, if we change to the HIV program, we see a larger number of HIV indicators on the dashboard. So that's an example of how data, changing data, allows us to provide a more detailed look at a more extensive set of indicators. And later, we will practice changing this to the district group, which has been especially designed for data quality review of indicators of greatest relevance at the district level. Thank you.


I've been keeping an eye on a young man by the name of Raw Bliss for about a week now and outside of expecting to find him at the end of a rainbow in a pot of chickpeas, his appearance has deteriorated drastically over the past few months. Towards the end of June, he was your average skinny fat fairy boy, now he looks like a skeleton, you would fight in Dungeons and Dragons. Perfect example of what a vegan diet is, a fast for your body.  Look at those guns baby, there are so many logical flaws with a fruitarian diet. Fruit is incredibly seasonal, he had to relocate to Southeast Asia to even follow this diet. Even if you were in such climate year round, humans are not adept at gathering fruit compared to various jungle animals such as bats. If you've ever actually tried growing fruits or vegetables in a garden, you know something is going to get to it first whether it's a squirrel or a bird, but vegans are completely out of touch with nature despite trying to act so spiritual and so in touch with nature. That's why we as humans hunt the animals that eat those plant foods, otherwise we would be in the jungle all day shitting on ourselves looking for fruit. Even if we were in said circumstance, our caloric need for our large brains cannot be met with fruit, especially if you actually allotted the energy needed to gather the fruit.  Obviously emaciated very gaunt, but you know what's disgusting, he's a health coach offering diet planning consultation who in their right mind would contact this guy. I'm assuming he's getting clients and man would I love to hear that conversation. What is he going to coach people on, becoming infertile? And it is no FAP November, so I want to shout out everyone out there for starting on this journey or continuing on this journey of abstinence, no poured, no masturbation. It's a beautiful thing to utilize your life force energy and use it to manifest things in your life differently, to increase your energy, to increase your productivity, better athletic performance, better cognition, all these things, clarity of mind, better mood overall, all these things just come when you stop wasting your energy, just literally your life force energy that is coming out of you. Some people on a daily basis and that's why they're so depressed, they're stuck in these lower chakras, this root chakra, this base survival instinct, and they're never moving up into the higher realms of consciousness, reaching access to the akashic records of these, getting these downloads and really being able to manifest your dreams.  Four years of no sexual activity in your early twenties is certainly the opposite of what nature intended. What exactly is he manifesting? He's in the middle of a Southeast Asian jungle starving to death, eating fruit.  I mean I guess he does have orgasms when he eats the fruit, I guess that enthusiasm requires quite a bit of energy fueled by the glucose and the fructose that's going straight to his liver. This young man also had quite a bit of nonsense to spew about the carnivore diet. I wanted to talk to you guys about this carnivore diet. Carnivore. Now obviously it's scientifically proven that we are frugivores by nature. This is how our digestive system works, this is how our teeth are designed, this is how our jaw is designed, our eyes, we can see color, meat eaters cannot see color, we can see color so that we can see the fruits. In a field of grade we can pick them out, we have an amazing sense of smell which meat eaters do not have, we don't have claws, we don't have teeth to shred raw skin and raw meat, yeah we don't have claws to catch our prey. All these things are very simple, very basic observations you can make in nature. Every animal in nature eats their food in a raw, natural state. Now we look at the foods, all the foods that humans eat, what is the most natural and nutrient dense and satisfying? I've done a whole video on herbivore versus carnivore anatomy and digestion, mouth and facial structure isn't necessarily indicative of the animal's diet, you have to look at the actual internal organs which he is wrong on, our intestines are designed to extract nutrition predominantly from animal foods with plant foods as a secondary saying that our ability to see color to find fruit doesn't make a shred of sense because seeing color is an incredibly useful tool at procuring any sort of caloric nutrition in nature, especially hunting. If you had black and white vision it would be far easier to see stationary fruit in a tree than to distinguish a deer in chest high grass. We also should consider that frugivores consume a large amount of insects and will consume animals if given the opportunity, that doesn't include the insects that actually occur in fruit as well as other vegetation, especially bug butter which vegans never seem to mention aka almond butter aka peanut butter, I guess they were too busy spraying those bugs with insecticides to grow their GMO soy burgers. No idea why he would say we have an amazing sense of smell compared to other carnivores because a bear or a dog can smell their meal from miles and miles away, it's safe to say our sense of smell has diminished due to lack of nutrition during developmental stages I can barely smell anything, I used to work as a bartender I never smelled any floral or fruity notes online, I firmly believe humans are supposed to have a sense of smell similar to dogs and some of you may have met people with this heightened sense of smell sometimes referred to as super smellers but everyone is supposed to have this. One other thing vegans always like to dismiss is tool usage, despite blending all of their meals in a Vitamix, despite using a knife to cut open all of the fruits he's eating, by being able to hunt animals without claws, without massive amounts of muscle that something like a bear has, our brain requires less neurons for said body size. In addition, since we don't require large herbivore digestive systems which also require brain power, our unique ability to maintain a small body size and eat animal foods is why I'm standing in this house and not a wild animal. When vegans use the word nutrient dense, it really irritates me, I guess the same can be said about carnivores calling grain fed beef nutrient dense, yeah, compared to what? A bowl of rice? And you look at fruits which are the reproductive organs of a fruit tree, of the plant. The plant wants to reproduce and it can't do so without certain animals like birds, humans, orangutans who disperse seeds.  Nobody, I think that's called a sugar rush. Hormones that do occur in plant foods are phytoestrogens, which are actually made by the plant to hopefully make whatever eats said plant infertile, unable to reproduce, and I guess it's worked in your case, so that group of animals ideally goes extinct and stops eating the plant. These phytoestrogens aren't going to make you feel good. Going back to the need for animal foods in our diet, whether you're on a grain fed beef carnivore diet, a raw fruit boy mango fest, or a standard American seed oil diet, you're not obtaining the nutrition your body needs from quality animal foods, grass fed beef, pasture raised pork, free range chicken, raw dairy, wild fin fish and shellfish. I always mention how much I want to improve people's health. The first basic step is eating more of these quality animal foods. So thank you guys for joining me today. You could please like the video, subscribe, hit that bell icon, share the video if you can. If you guys would like to support me further, you can definitely check out Franky's Re-Range Meat, high quality nutrient dense animal foods at the most affordable price online out of any meat store guaranteed. You can also go to Franky's Naturals for Minimal Ingredients, Minimally Processed Hygiene and Cosmetic Products. 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Let me start by first thanking the Almighty for providing me with another opportunity to extend Christmas greetings and best wishes for the new year to my constituents, staff members in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Physical Planning, Natural Resources and Cooperative and to the many stakeholders and agricultural organizations I had the opportunity to work with during the past year. This is the time of year where most of us reflect on our accomplishments and also to set our goals for the coming year. This season is also an opportunity for us to offer best wishes to our family, friends and loved ones and whilst we are engaged in this exercise of reflection, let's not forget the less fortunate among us. We should also be thankful that in 2019 we did not experience a negative impact of climate change and we look forward to the coming year with a high level of optimism. We pray that we will continue to be blessed and protected. My call is, let's stay focused on our many plans as we continue to champion and make progress in our respective areas of endeavours. Some of our major projects for the coming year will be the vegetable import substitution program, the construction of the meat processing facility in January, the agricultural feeder road program, the opening of our national agricultural diagnostics facility, the opening of our wildlife educational centre at the Gabriel Charles Forestry Complex, the formal launching of the new marketing entity, the construction of the agricultural complex at Union, the building of our new livestock complex at Volet and the finalisation and presentation of our fisheries policy. To my constituents of Babunu, let me first thank you for your continued prayers and words of encouragement. I am grateful for the confidence you have placed in me. I have no doubt that you will provide the support for us to continue the progress we have started. We shall endeavour to continue the many employment programs within the constituency. Continue the many social and educational programs in our schools. Organising the many sporting programs that has been providing our youth with an opportunity to display their talent. I will continue discussions with the Youth and Sports Council to identify and implement other sporting activities and programs. As it pertains to infrastructure works in our community, we shall see the improvement to the many community roads under the government road rehabilitation program. Many of our main roads will be resurfaced and a number of agricultural farm roads will be improved. We will continue to work on the expansion of the Gara Cemetery. Whilst the fencing is now complete in the new year, we will construct a mutable road, toilet facilities and a proper shelter. We will improve the lighting on the courts in Babunu and construct a community hall in Timon. We shall also construct a change room, toilet facility on the Balata Plain Field and undertake the expansion on the Debawa Field. We shall see improvement to the Larger Field and major works on the lighting infrastructure that was neglected. I am happy to inform the parents, teachers and students for after long meetings, discussions and renegotiations, we shall see the commencement of the construction of the new school in Larger. To the many farmers occupying agricultural land on the Maki Estate, please be informed that negotiations has commenced for government to purchase the remaining lands for agricultural purposes. My dear constituents, these are some of the many projects for 2020. So let us continue our collaborative effort in working together in the best interests of our beautiful community, Babunu. Do not be distracted because many are called but few are chosen. So as you celebrate, take time to reflect and commit to making the changes in your community. Wishing you an enjoyable Christmas and a prosperous 2020.