Question here is how do we track content responses, like for example, I have a spreadsheet for tracking content response like I teach that in my content courses. How do we track content when there are different levels of response on the different platforms so, for example, most of us probably get more responses on Instagram than on LinkedIn, or we might get more responses on a Facebook profile instead of a Facebook business page. So, here's what I my suggestion is for each platform. I mean, technically you of course you can track. If you want to be more complex you can track every single platform the response for a single post but that's a lot of work, more than I prefer. So, I basically track for every format of the content, I track only one platform so let me explain. If it's a video, I only track YouTube. Now that's not that may not be true for some of you something's like I get zero views on YouTube for every single video or I get three views on YouTube and I get never get any likes and that's, maybe that's too discouraging to track. So, if you're going to track videos say well where do you get the most engagement when you where you post your videos, then track that platform only. So let's say Instagram is the one. Okay, so fine then only track videos that you upload to Instagram and never track the YouTube metrics and make that decision for your life. Okay, I mean you can always switch but when you switch then you're like well, I have you know like I think a couple years ago I was tracking something else and now I'm tracking YouTube and it's like well, the other data I'm just going to say forget that data I'm just going to re upload those old videos at some point to the new platform, so I can track it so make a decision. If you're going to do videos, where are you where do you get the most engagement same thing with text only posts. Make a decision. Where do you get the most engagement with your text only posts, your articles, and just track that. So, I hope this is helpful and makes you a bit more sane and by the way each, each row that you're tracking on a spreadsheet might be a topic, and that one topic, you might have made a video about and made a text only article about. I track that in the same row it's like one row, let's say you're writing about mindfulness, or something specific about that mindfulness. When talking to your boss or whatever. And so, that's the topic. And then you'll have a column to say, or several columns maybe how many views did it get on Instagram, and then how many likes did you get. You know, for that video and then you have an article about it and you're tracking the, the responses on a Facebook text only post so like how many, how many did you reach, and then how many liked it and so now you have the topic and you have four columns to try and a very simple way of doing that for those who are interested in my more complicated template you can you can take my content flow course or my any of my content courses will have a tracking template so hope that helps. I'll say one more thing actually is, even if you don't track it on a spreadsheet. Social media platforms track those stats for you. If you go to and again this is not a, this is not a class right now I'm teaching but I'm just generally speaking if you go to tools such as Instagram Facebook creator studio or Meta creator studio. And they will give you kind of what looks like a spreadsheet to show you, you know, the videos you uploaded and how how how they did so you can quickly see which are the best performing ones and the least best performing ones.  You'll also see kind of luck like a spreadsheet, which videos did better than others which ones had the most likes. That's sort of like the quick and dirty way of tracking content but for those of us who want to take a bit more seriously and be able to have a more customizable way for us to know what what topics do we put out there that get the best performance, having a spreadsheet and tracking and only, you know, five to 10 minutes, five really more like five minutes a week tracking and it by spending five to 10 minutes a week doing this, you'll be so grateful after months and years ago it's very easy for me to see which topics my audience wants, and which topics my audience doesn't resonate with as much.


Good evening, are you all right comfortable, shall we start, ok lovely. So, this evening we are going into or we have already started got into another module called phonology, how speech sounds are organized. Do you remember I told you phonetics is the study of sounds in isolation, single sound, one sound at a time, but phonology is the study of sounds in combination, sounds in use, sounds together. Actually none of us you know exceptional situations apart, there may be exceptional situations when we just say ah, ooh, when we are too tired, when we are too sick or when we shout to call somebody we say hey, you know, but ordinarily we do not speak one sound at a time. We have several sounds coming together and when these several sounds come together, I told you the other day, they no longer remain, please pay attention, the ideal or the idealized sound that I described all of last weeks please write, that is an idealization. Phonetics describes an idealized sound generally, when you describe it in isolation, of course there can be phonetics of sounds in use, you can take up one particular sound, study it in as great detail as you like, but whatever I told you last week is an idealized description. When I say is a bilabial, plosive, voiceless it is true only of pa in isolation, it is a, but we never say pa, we say pa, we say pa, we say p, we say poo, there is some other sound and when there is some other sound, it may or may not be the same, sounds vary. I told you the other day that because of sociological reason, because of social reasons and because of phonological reasons, speech sounds have great variants, so much so that we do not produce the same sounds alike on two occasions, correct? We do not produce the same sounds alike on two occasions, then the question we will be dealing with today. If speech sounds have such a great variety, how do we recognize them? People speak differently on different occasions, we know when I speak in class it is one kind of tone, tempo, when I speak at home with my wife or children it is another kind of tone and tempo, when I speak with you guys outside on the road, it is another kind of tone or tempo, same thing is true for you, none of us speaks alike in all social situations. Similarly, phonological context also change, coming before e is produced with spread lips, it is pin, but coming before o is produced with rounded lips, we say put, we do not say put, do we? Can you say put with a spread lips, try? Can you say pin with rounded lips? You cannot. Similarly, sounds lose gain values, actually every little sound that is produced in speech on each occasion it is different. If you take a spectrogram of speech sounds, you will find that they differ on different occasions, then there is a theoretical question and this theoretical question can be important for you if you do speech engineering and that sort of thing. If each sound is different each time, then how do we recognize them as k or k or g as the same sound? Isn't there a contradiction? Yes or no? Isn't there, you know if they differ every time, then how do we recognize them that this is x or this is y or this is a or this is b? Actually it is a larger question, it is a question of philosophy pertaining to nature. Each of us differ, each of us change. Look at your photograph when you were 10 year old, is there any similarity? There are some similarities but there are lot of differences. In spite of these differences, are you with me? In spite of these differences when you look at your photograph receiving the prize in your school when you were in class one, do you have a photograph like that at home? Do you have a photograph like that? You still recognize yourself, how do you recognize yourself?  How do you recognize?   What similarity is there? Come on tell me, there is some similarity and the similarity is that it is not that you have entirely changed. The basic or what we call relative geometry is still the same, your eyes are still at the same distance from your nose as they were, your chin still makes the same triangle as it did, your jaws are still the same shape. In spite of the fact that you lose hair when you are 60, 65 like me, when I was your age, I look at those photographs and they look like me and I am surprised who is this young man. Even then you recognize yourself, right? How do you do that? You do that because that is an important point and that is where what computer science uses in artificial intelligence, in expert systems, in the speech recognition. Variation is there, please make a note, make a mental note, variation is there but it is not complete variation. It is not that it had changed entirely, it is not that a lion has become dog and dog has become lion, it is not that a beatek has gone into you know, studying some other things, some elsewhere. There may be some change but a lot of features remain, number one, number two, patterns remain, patterns of use remain. So, the question how do we recognize the same word when they are so distorted, same sound when they vary so much, how do we recognize them? We recognize them because number one, all features do not change, you know, all features do not change. Power may become sometimes bar, temple may become temple but it is still vilevial, it is still plosive, two thirds of the features are still there, it is only that voicelessness has gone and voicing has come in. Similarly, you know, when x, some front sound becomes back sound, when something which was rounded becomes unrounded, maybe one feature had changed, two, three, four, five other features still remain as they were. It is not that everything had changed, more over, more over and this is what is significant again in human behavior, in the behavior of natural elements, you know, in actually non-living things you can do a lot of engineering with finite element methods because you know, their behavior is predictable. A cement under water in eight hours at a particular temperature will behave everywhere alike but we cannot say that about human beings. A human being under water for one hour will behave in one way, if it is there with friend, another way if it is there with mother, yet another way if it is there with somebody else, human beings are more dynamic, much more dynamic. Therefore, statistics may not be the best way of predicting their behavior. However, please give me all your attention. However, it is not that our behaviors do not have patterns, our behaviors also have predictable patterns, when you greet another B. Tech, when you greet another B. Tech from another hostel, when you greet another B. Tech from another hostel, another gender, when you greet a teacher who is looking at your project report, the point is you know, I am trying to make it light for you. The point is our behavior is predictable to a large extent though not entirely. We cannot say, I can say that a large number of students after this class will go to football ground or go to Goranath. But maybe I cannot say nobody will go to the library, I cannot say nobody will go to the room and nobody will sleep. In the case of speech sounds also, these two things remain. Number one, a large, to a large extent features survive. Some features change and patterns remain, some sound occurs at the beginning of the word, some sound occurs at the end of the word, some sound occurs in the middle of the word and we know how it will look like in the middle of the word, we know how it will look like at the beginning of the word, we know how it will look like at the end of the word and that is how we recognize these words. By and large, these are the answers, there may be some variations, some changes. Let us look at the examples. See for example you know, look at pot and top in English. When you say in pot both your lips part, but when you say top lips do not part, they are not, in that sense you know there is no release, they are not plosive, they are definitely bilavian, they are definitely voiceless, but not plosive.  It cannot occur at the beginning of the word, it is so obvious, on the other hand released you know and under pressure you can say pot, in English they do that. This occurs only at the beginning of the word, when you have the same sound in the middle of the word, it is in its neutral form, spot, sport, spear, there is neither paw nor paw, it is neither there is extra breath pulse, neither there is extra puff of air nor it is the case that it is unreleased. This kind of sound can only occur in the middle of the word and at the end of the word again you see this symbol, can you see this symbol, this diacritic looks like seven, this indicates that paw is unreleased, the plosion has not taken place, you have just said top and the lips are closed, it is not released, but this H here indicates extra puff of air, we call it aspiration. This can occur, aspirated plosive can occur only before a stressed vowel in English, similarly in English and unreleased similarly in English and unreleased bilabial plosive can occur only at the end of the word. So, we know the pattern, we know the features and therefore, we know how to predict, how to recognize, by and large you can write rules about them and we will, let us see how we go. Look at some more example, there are variations, but all are all variations equally important, equally significant whether you pronounce with a spread lips as in pen or with rounded lips as in put or push, how does it matter for consonants, we saw that rounded and unrounded lips are important only for vowels, do you remember, yes or no please write, for consonants other things are important, voicing is important, place of articulation is important, place of manner of release is important, manner of obstruction is important, the shape of lips is not important for consonant. Similarly, all variations do not change meanings, some variations do, but all variations do not change meaning, whether you come to the classroom in three piece suit or you come to the classroom in shorts, that is a very trivial kind of variation, but a significant variation will be when you come to class with a loud speaker, you speak and I talk then the class does not happen, the class will happen if only one person speaks at a time. So, you know there are variations in behavior as of human being, so of his speech sounds, but all variations are please note, all variations are not equally significant, there can be two kinds of speech variations or variants, there can be two kinds of variants, one kind can be significant, it changes meaning, the other kind be insignificant does not matter, you can ignore it, insignificant, look at the examples I have given you on the screen, say Paul for example, you know under stress when you emphasize, when you stress, when you say I am not talking of the bottom, I am talking of the peak, then you are aspirating it, but when it comes in the middle of the world as you say, well the book has been well kept or when it comes at the end are you going to keep these books, so keep and there is silence, then per has three variants, one is under stress when you add an extra aspiration, extra pop of air, the second is neutral form, third is unreleased form, these are three variants of per, voiceless, bilateral, plosive, usually units of a class behave in one kind, behave in one manner, that is why you can make generalizations, you can say all idioms will behave in this manner, all x will behave in that manner, all y will behave in that, all members of the class called y will behave in this manner, that is why you can make predictions about molecules, about variety of elements in nature from water to mountain, from sea to mountain, you can make predictions about human beings as well. Similarly, you know what is true of, is true of all voiceless plosive, also has three variants, you can say after all we pay tax, what you are doing is under stress in English, you are adding an extra pop of air, but you can have neutral thing, there are lots of cats on the campus and you can have a very neutral thing, are you going to appear at sat, there is an examination called sat, there you do not release it, because it comes at the end before silence, so all of these things you know per, per have variants, these are predictable, but look at the behavior of these variants, all of these variants cannot replace one another, released per cannot come at the end, unreleased per cannot come at the beginning, are you with me, okay, released per cannot come at the end, this, this per cannot come at the end, it can only come at the beginning of the word, similarly unreleased, this is unreleased, unreleased per cannot come at the beginning of the word, it can only come at the end, okay, this is how we indicate the end of the word and this is how we indicate the beginning of the word, okay, so this can come only at the beginning of the word, this can come only at the end of the word, the neutral thing can come anywhere else, so you know these are in a certain sense quote unquote, in a certain sense these are insignificant variations, why do we call them insignificant, because they are a predictable space, it can come only here, that can come only there, then they are bound by their contexts, okay, finally some variants may be free like per, but you know they make, they do not change meaning, where you say, whether you say tax, or you say tax, it is still remains in English, the same thing, on the other hand there may be significant variations, you try, you have a word called pit, change term with any other consonant, change it, if you change bring no meaning changes, if you bring l, meaning changes, you know if you bring k, meaning changes, if you bring p, meaning changes, if you bring ch, meaning changes, okay, so those variations are important, meaning will change, after all we communicate with meaning, for meaning, okay, so you have to pay attention and not only at the end of the word, middle of the word, change the vowel, we have pen, change the vowel a to a, what is the word now, pain, it is another meaning, change the vowel again, pen, it has yet another meaning, what is the meaning of the word, pen, where you, you know the, some kind of a tool, some kind of a utensil, you use in the kitchen, you cook, or it can be a verb, you pan, you know, satellite antenna, pan, the universe, you can say that, or you change another vowel again, it becomes pin, you change another vowel again, it becomes pun, so these changes are significant, okay, or you know change the last, or change the first consonant, so far we have changed the last consonant, we have changed the vowel in the middle, now change the first consonant, instead of pan, right, bam, is it the same word, yes or no, can, is it the same word, no, man, is it the same word, no, tan, is it the same word, no, ran, is it the same word, no, meaning changes, so some variations, the point is some variations are significant, some variations are insignificant, they are significant because significant variations are meaning changing. On the other hand, insignificant variations are, give me the word please, if this is meaning changing, this is come on make an effort, sorry not altering, yes meaning retaining, they retaining meaning, meaning unchanging, meaning not changing, feature keeping, you know you are right, we will use meaning retaining, minor changes, does not matter, yesterday he came in tie, today he is in t-shirt, does not matter, it is still the same person, it is still my friend, he has not seen. So, you know, significant variants are those which change meaning, insignificant variants are those which do not change meaning, what is another important thing here is, significant variations change meaning, in significant variations do not change meaning, let us make a table, significant variations have a technical name, these variants are called, please write, these variants are called phonemes, individual sounds, phonies sound, eam is discreet, discreet sounds, phonemes and in significant variants are called allophones, allo is like, phones like sounds, similar sounds matching, so you see a lot of scientific terminology in Europe, comes from Greek and Latin, just as we draw from Sanskrit, so you know that is why, in other words it says, these are discreet sounds and these are variants of the same sound, do you understand, yes or no please, are we together, am I speaking too rapidly or is it ok, shall we go on, the basic point is that all variants are not significant, only some variants are significant, when are they significant, when they change meaning, when they do not change meaning, they may be bilabial or rounded lips or etcetera, etcetera or released or unreleased, it does not matter, because they do not change meaning, so mind recognizes these patterns in speech, what are the differences between these two, phonemes that is significant variants are, they occur anywhere, wherever paa occurs, baa can also occur, taa can occur, gaa can occur, chaa can occur, saa can occur, laa can occur, ok, where one can occur, another can also occur, but in significant variant of a sound is context bound, paa can occur only in the beginning of the word, unreleased paa can occur at the end of the word, other things can occur only in the middle, ok, so there are differences, for phonemes we can say they can occur freely, they are in free distribution, beginning of the word, middle of the word, end of the word, ok, substitution changes meaning, we said that and third we said that their features are different, between paa and baa, voicing is important, between paa and taa, alveolar rich or baleval is in place of articulation is important, so significant variants are those, where can you can you say, can you listen to me, significant variants are those, number one, which change meaning, number two, which occur freely, number three, which have significant differences in features, on the other hand, insignificant variants are those, which do not change meaning, which do not occur freely and where there are minor differences of features, can we repeat, right, phonemes or significant variants are those, number one, which change meaning, number two, which occur freely, number three, which have significant differences in features, whereas, alophones are those variants, which do not occur freely, which do not change meaning, which do not differ significantly in features, very simple, you see, all you have to remember then is, to answer the question, how do we recognize, we will say we recognize phonemes as phonemes and we recognize alophones as, alophones in significant variants, alophones are in complementary distribution, which means one can occur at home, another can occur abroad, where one occurs, the other does not, that is complement, whereas, in phonemes, there is no such restriction, where one occurs, another can also occur, let us do some exercise, right. In English has three variants, you know, first is aspirated, extra puff of air, second is neutral, third is unreleased, please ignore this, you know, I made a mistake, we could use, you know, I usually write seven and then use a superscript to change it, the superscript can be found here, you can also use it in your term paper, you can also use it in your term paper, please, right. Similarly, you know, tau has as many variants, kau has as many variants, look at in English, do you remember, we said English has consonants like r and l, l is a glide, you know. Now, l has two variants in English, alophonic variants, one is clear, which comes before vowels, you say look, you say luck, but there is another l, which comes after vowels, such as or before back sounds, say look at compare your l before, in words like milk and in limp, look at these two words, limp and c, see here, pay attention, produce these two words and pay attention to this sound, please say first limp, now say milk, milk, do they come from the same point of tongue, say it again limp, limp, milk, milk, do they come from the same point of tongue, yes or no, once again limp, limp, milk, milk, is it the same point, no it is not, because of kau, this law goes backwards, because of e, law goes forward, the following sound, so in English we say, English has two kinds of l, phoneme is written within slanted bars and alophones are written within, alophones are written within square brackets, so phoneme curl l has two alophones, two variants, what are they, one is l, it comes at the beginning of the word, it comes before front vowels etcetera, you have luck, it also comes, you know it comes before vowel, luck, limp, like, late, letter, let, list, all of these are clear, but when you have luck coming before silence or before back sounds, look at this, this variant as in words like cool, cool, milk, silk, bulk, hulk, tool, you know, either before silence or before back sounds, this is back sound, or this is silence, after this there is no word, so either before silence or before back sounds, this moves backwards on the tongue, does not remain so clear, so phoneticians call it dark l, not dark l, dark l, so English has two kinds of l, if you go to Malayalam, Malayalam has five different kinds of l, you tell l, l, l, l, l, okay, I cannot have a pronounce it, okay, we call it l, l, l, that sort of thing, okay, Malayalam has five different kinds of, no, nasals, Tamil has five different kinds of nasals, these are variants of, so maybe they are in phonemic distribution in some languages, but these are also variants, so the point we are making now is the following, how many phonemes or earphones does a sound have, does a language have, is a language specific question, okay, because you know it changes meaning, in some languages meaning may change, in some languages meaning may not, for example, look at English, in English pa and fa are earphones, they do not change meaning, but in Hindi, can you replace pa with fa, pal is moment, okay, right, but pal is fruit, it is not like English, on the other hand or in Maitreya or in many Indian languages, in my mother tongue, I speak Maitreya at home, in my mother tongue, it does not matter whether you say slok or you say shlok, it does not matter whether you say sris or you say sris, it does not matter whether you say mahesh or mahesh, actually my villagers would say why are you doing shasha like a snake, why do not you speak like normal gentleman, okay, so these things are language specific, but in English it is important, in English whether you say sip or you say ship, very important, do you take a sip of tea or do you take a sip of tea, in English it is important, so how many phonemes or allophones we have is a language specific question, so second thing we learn about phonology, you know, all these big bridge I built for you to say only one thing, that phonology is please write, phonology is the study of language, speech sounds in use, in context, number one, number two, phonology quite often is language specific, though there are generalizations, I will come to generalizations in a minute, sorry not a minute or tomorrow, but you know there are generalizations even in phonology, remember phonology uses, phonology studies sounds in actual use, okay, and in actual use there may be variations, but all variations are not significant, some variations are significant, they change meaning, some variations are not significant, but what is significant or what is not significant is a language specific question, you cannot say that sir and sir are phonemes or allophones in Telugu unless you have studied the behavior of these sounds in this language, you cannot say whether sir or sir are phonemes in English unless you have studied it there, in many of our Indian languages, we do not have as many variants of sir, we have either one or two, we have sir and sir, but English has three, French has two or three, Urdu has three, okay, and it is important, you know, they have z, zh and in my mother tongue we have only one, we do not have, you know, we do not say, you know, once again people will tell you why are you behaving like uncivilized people, okay, these things are language specific, but please note the second thing, principles are not language specific, the principle that you apply to reach these conclusions, what are the principles you apply, number one, does it change meaning, where does it occur, what features does it retain or lose, please write, what are the principles where you decide, by which you decide whether it is phoneme or allophones, can you tell me, number one, does it change meaning, number two, where does it occur, number three, how many features does it retain or lose, okay, these principles are universal, let us do some exercise, let us see, well in all languages there are consonental phonemes, there are vowel phonemes, English has all together, 24 consonental phonemes, 20 by English I mean, standard British English, American English has fewer, London English has fewer, but standard British English has 24, how many do we have, that can be a good term paper for you, that can be, you know, you can study vowel phonemes in Telugu, consonant phonemes in Telugu, or only plosives in Telugu, or only fricatives in Telugu, and you know, or in monthly, or in the, in the, any other language you like, let us do some exercise, look at the variants of in English, you know, in words like lip, lid, live, let, belt, clip, flick, it is a clear, but when you have words like please pronounce it, and feel it on your tongue, you know, these subjects are practical subjects, you must feel them, say milk, it goes back on your tongue, okay, when you say bulk, or when you say sulk, or when you say cool, or when you say fool, or before silence, okay, then it is another kind of thing, so you have similar variants, not necessarily so in other languages as well, look at this variation in my mother tongue, okay, is it phonemic or allophonic, look at this variation, there is a vowel a, and it has a variant called a, okay, it has a nasalized variant, an unnasalized variant, oral variant, is it significant or insignificant? Significant, is it significant? Yes or no? Yes, yes, why?  They are in phonemic distribution, they are phonemes, they stand for individual status, similarly look at a and a in mathili, okay, you have dhar, which is hold, but a long a, dhar, okay, pronounce it, how is it, dhar, you speak in mathili, you know, you can be a citizen of Nepal or India, you have a larger choice now, you know, as many people speak mathili in Nepal, as the number of people in India, okay, and this is the, you know, these distinctions are important there, okay, you can say car, which is do, but car, as you eat a morsel, or chur, okay, or chur, paddy field, you know, sun, which is as, or sun, which is, is it phonemic or allophonic? It is phonemic, obviously, you know, it is phonemic, but look at this now, tell me, is it phonemic, there are two kinds of r, is it phonemic or allophonic? Now comes some problem, okay, one is rug, the other is gir, the one is ras, the other is ser, okay, study the pattern, please, there are no words with minimal pairs, you know, a pair of, minimal pair of word is, where everything is changed except that particular sound, but their distribution, one occurs at the beginning of the word, and the other occurs at the end of the word, these are the things we have to look at, okay, the distribution, the meaning change, if we could have had a word, you know, where it made a minimal pair, like you know, pin and bin, make a minimal pair, only one feature differs, but meaning changes, you know, I have not been able to give you that kind of thing here, but even from whatever little we have, we find that these are in complementary distribution, where one occurs, the other does not occur, okay, they are not in free distribution, they do not occur anywhere you like, they occur in restricted context, and these are the things we have to look at, you can also do a paper with sounds in your mother tongue, look at this thing, now here we find that one rug, you know, the tap rug occurs even at the end of the word, but that retroflex, you know, written with capital R, occurs only in the middle of the word and only before, only before a vowel, you know, what I am trying to do is, trying to give you a window on phonology, that these are the things we look at, we look at features and we look at context, please write, in phonology, we look at only two things, what are those two things, context and feature, we look at context and we look at features, which features change or remain in which context, are they predictable, you write rules, your computer generates those words, etcetera, etcetera, and you know, you are doing phonology, I will stop, what I have tried to tell you is, that we are able to recognize variants, because all variants are not significant and all variants have patterns, some variants may be meaning changing, yet they have certain patterns, some variants are not meaning changing, they are meaning retaining, yet they have patterns, what we look at are the two things, number one, changes in features and number two, context where these feature changes occur, if we look at these two things, we can predict, we can write rules about them, we will look at some of these features in the next class, ok. Thank you, thanks, have a good evening, please.


Myself, our staff, my family, we're all so happy that we're here at Purdue. This year is going to be a lot of fun. No special sauce. I don't think there's a special sauce. There's a lot of hard work. If there's a special sauce, it's how do you find young women that want to compete like crazy and want to commit themselves to a cause? When we recruit players to Purdue, the one thing that is so impressive is number one, our facilities are great here. But more impressive than that are the people.


Swayam Prabhakar, Digital India, Educated India. Smart India Hackathon is a platform that encourages students to solve real world problems through innovative technological solutions. Handling problem statements in the Smart India Hackathon involves a structured approach to understand, analyze and propose viable solutions. Today we are going to meet a past winner of SIH who will advise us on one of the problem statements of SIH-2023. The problem statement that we have chosen today to discuss is SIH-1392 which is E-Waste Facility Locator and we have with us Rudrakshi Soni to discuss it. Welcome to the show Rudrakshi. Yeah, thanks for inviting me. Right, Rudrakshi, so please let us know something about you, introduce yourself and let our viewers know who exactly you are, what do you do and what are you doing right now. So, I was the VTEC student and passed out from the Jesus Academy of Technical Education. I was also the past Smart India Hackathon 2022 winner and also the winner of NISCO India Africa Hackathon. So, I am currently working as a software developer at Morgan Stanley. Okay, to discuss this problem statement you have chosen 1392, so any particular reason for you to choose this particular PS to discuss with us today? Yeah, so this problem statement basically deals with the E-Waste or the electronic waste. So basically, if we are going to thrown out our gadgets like mobile or laptops anywhere, so it causes a big issue for the environment. So proper disposal of these type of gadgets needs to be done just to basically keep our environment safe from different types of consequences. Right, that's a pretty valid thought and I think everybody should think in those terms that you just said. So now coming to the problem statement itself, so the question here is, if you were to handle this PS this time around, how will you go ahead and do it? So let's begin with the team and how do you form a team? What kind of people do you think are best suited to team up for this particular thing? So basically, forming a team requires the different skill sets to build a project. So first analyze that what project or whatever the problem statement that you have chosen is asking or dividing the technologies. So based upon that, make sure your team should have the variety of skill sets. So like you should have a backend, frontend and ML engineer based upon the need of the problem statement and also the bonding of all the members is also required, which basically at present age over the other teams. So as an example, who all will be your team members if you were to make a team in terms of their proficiency? So basically like most of the members from my team are from my college and they are from the same year, except one of the guys who is my junior, but I basically chosen him over the other because he is basically like most the best frontend developer of that year. So like in my team, we have the variety of skill sets like we were working on the project which needs the like Android application something. So basically I took the frontend developers who are proficient in react native and for the backend, I choose one and two backend developers. And I also like include one person who is best in the UI UX design. So like it basically conclude all the members from different diverse skill sets. Okay, so what kind of research do you think this particular PS requires? What all avenues can you approach to get information or anything which is suitable to help you solve this? So basically like this problem statement is more dedicated to the environmental issues. So first you need to research about what are the types of devices that we can dispose of and what are the elements that that devices contains and what are the harmful things it causes to the environment. So you can like go through various different sites which are basically giving the information regarding that or you can also visit to the Ministry of Environmental Site which consists of these type of issues. So gathering all this information helps us to frame the solution. And as a part of your plan, what is the next step after gathering information, doing a bit of a research? Jump into the solution directly. Like first understand the problem and break down it into the key components. That what are the main feature, what are the main thing it is demanding? Like here in this problem statement, it basically asking to build a website. So that website is divided into the three major key components. The first one is the recycling of these type of waste and locating all the waste center nearby to the particular user or a particular person. So the first thing is we need to like make sure that you have all the details of all the locations. Then apart from that, it demands the educational pop-ups to just make the awareness among the people. So make sure your website consistent of these type of information, these type of newsletter or kind of things or something notification should be sent to particular user, which basically educate them how to proper dispose all these type of devices. The third one that I find out, it requires a business model to basically provide the credit points to encourage the users to dispose these type of devices particularly and how to handle these kinds of ways. So these credit models or the credit points can be used by the user to redeem various kind of offers and something. So these are the main key core concepts of the problem segment that you need to first understand. So Rudraksha, according to you, what could be the challenges in creating this kind of an application? What all do you think can be tough points to deal with? One of the tough points that I am thinking is related to the data set because from where we need to gather all these type of data because it consists of huge data about the devices, about the location and all. So you need to basically research about these kind of things very much that from where you are going to gathering these all data. Also, maybe you can able to face some issues while redeeming the credit points. So it can be in the form of manual, it can be in the form of offers where you can be able to encourage other various startups and various companies to invest and basically give the promotional offer. So there can be a bridge that you need to fulfill between those. Okay, so this is about the difficult part. What do you think is the easiest part of this? Which we should be not afraid of and we should be happy. Okay, this is to be done and we can do it like this. So like for the locations, like to pointing out the nearby location, like there are lots of APIs like Google map API, it is like very much used for the like locating everything to a particular area. So that can be done easily. The educational pop-up thing is also a very easy thing because once you gather the information, it's just easy to just send the notification to that particular person. So the notification part can be done easily. There are various kinds of notifications you can send. You can send device notification, you can send normal SMS, you can send the WhatsApp SMS messages or something like that. Great, so now we have kind of a good breakdown of, you know, easy part and not so easy part with us. Now please share with us the breakdown in terms of planning. Like obviously, I mean, when you reach the hackathon, when you are already done with a certain amount of work. So what is the kind of work and the quantum of work that will already be done before you reach the venue and what all would you be doing there at the venue while the hackathon is on? Yeah, so basically like before reaching to the finals, you should be done with your main core features because these are the things that on which you are basically going to judge on that. Make sure you have your strong MVP. It's the minimum viable product that you need to make rather than just adding different additional features into it. Yeah, adding additional features will give you an edge but first make sure you are done with your MVP. So once you are done with your MVP, just try to enhance those features, make it properly so that it will reflect that what you have done according to the problem statement that it demands and just try to think upon what additional thing you can add over that or make sure you have your if you can't even if you can't be able to add those features, make sure you have the future plan that how to incorporate those features to enhance your product. Good, those are some very fair points. So tell me one more thing. When you are in the finale, I mean going over those 36 hours, then mentors chip in, evaluators chip in, then there is a certain demand of either to alter something or add something or something which is not liked by them or processed by them in a very positive manner. So how do you adapt to that while the hackathon is on? Yeah, so we also got some good comments or some negative comments regarding our project to make our future more executable. So we worked on the team, we think about, we researched more about that particular thing that what the person is going to be demand. Don't think just that you are building just a solution to win a hackathon. Think about you are building a product that is going to be used by thousands of people and you are helping those people to make a difference in the nation. So if you are going to think your problem statement in that way, you can able to gather and think in more particular way rather than just building a thing just to win a hackathon. So we got some comments like regarding our product that it contains more or less all the features that is already present in the existing products. So we need to do something more about it like thinking out of the box so that it will look differently with that already existing products. So like we researched more about it like how we can add that thing. One of the biggest problem that we are going to face with the data side because if you are going to add that features we are not getting the data but you can use some dummy data as well in that part. Once you get the data or the support from the ministry for that data you can able to incorporate that particular feature but still just try to add that feature just to show them that this can happen if you're going to get the data. So just try to mock your database or use the dummy data at that point. Those are some very valid and very fair points. Now to wrap it up please give one single piece of advice to the people participating this time around and even in the future on how to go about solving such type of problem statements single piece of advice or any tips or tricks that come to your mind which you would want to share. Yeah, so the first thing that I always wants to say to everyone that make sure you plan and prioritize your work don't just want to basically build everything whatever comes to your mind make sure you divide your features into the main features that must be incorporated in your product and some other set of features that can be or may not be like basically incorporated in your product but they can be an additional edge over it. So first make sure you will plan and distribute all the work accordingly the skill set of the team members and work upon that and just try to build a product not just a solution for an hackathon. That's very well summed up Dr. Archie and very well put up. So I'm sure people will benefit out of your thoughts and you've presented a very holistic picture of this problem statement not only the problem statement but the competition as a whole. So hats off to you and thank you so much for joining us to share your thoughts and views and I hope people will benefit and they will make the most of it. Thank you so much for joining us today Dr. Archie. Thank you so much. Thank you, thanks everyone. Effective communication and a well thought out solution are key elements in successfully addressing problem statements in smart India hackathon. Hope you will all deal with the problem statements thoughtfully. Good luck.


After a long voyage from San Diego across the Pacific, the USS Green Bay received a warm welcome to their new home port in Sasebo, Japan. I'm looking forward to operating. I'm looking forward to being part of the Bonhomme Rechard ARG, working with the 31st Mew, working with the partner nations in and around 7th Fleet, and having the sailors see what all their hard work is for. Get to experience some new things, the lifestyle, pretty much everything. See the different change of pace. And Sasebo seems like the place to be right now. Instead of just being focused on training and the what ifs, we get to do what's real. They're going to see lots of places that they wouldn't normally get to see. And a lot of us join the Navy to see the world, so this is the best way to do it. Fatty Officer Sarah Villegas, Fleet Activities, Sasebo, Japan.


Hi, beautiful. Today we're doing a Mondo makeover and I'm so excited because it's with my good friend, Melissa, also known as Chunky's Dad, also rebranding her name soon, so wait for that. She's crazy, she's wild, she's beautiful and I cannot wait to get my hands on her hair. She has never professionally colored her hair before, so this is gonna be a dramatic change. Let's do it. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Brad. It's so good to see you. I'm glad you could make it today. Yeah. Oh my God. She was only like an hour late. I'm sorry, okay? I literally just woke up having brushed my teeth. I feel crazy and I'm just like sweaty and I'm wearing a straight jacket. So you're alive, girl. You're alive. Dude, yeah, I'm more alive than most people. This is actually me tired, so. You took your affirmations. Yeah, I did my affirmations. I used to- I love myself. I have this, okay, so I have like a three page affirmation done because if I didn't tell myself for three minutes straight, I love myself. I love myself, I love myself, then I wouldn't.  I was just like, I don't mean that. I'm better. Like that's too seos-y. All these people are in their seos and now like every morning I wake up and I'm desperately clutching to my three page Google Doc being like, today I will choose how I feel. Pain in and out. Oh my God. I need an animal that's suffering is optional. We'll talk more about that later. Yeah. We'll get more into that. Yeah, more never. If you guys don't know who Melissa is, she's an amazing comedic content creator. That's how you explain yourself. I basically say that I'm a force to be reckoned with. My name in Chinese literally means brute force. I'm an artist. I used to work for Google. Got internet famous in the pandemic or whatever. And now I'm just saying all my intrusive thoughts in various art forms. It's time to tell me what's going on. I see that it's lightened. Just know that I am saying this with a heart full of shame and regret. Last summer I was just like, can I want my hair to be lighter?  And now I'm like doing the total opposite where I just want to be a vampire. So we have sun in here, which might make it a little bit difficult to lighten, but we'll see. And then we also have some damage on the ends. You know, just a little bit of crispiness. It's feeling a little rough to the touch outside. Yeah, I know. I'm embarrassed. With a little haircut. Okay. So what are you comfortable with cutting?  Probably use as little as possible, but if it's been coughing my life. Great, sounds good. Okay, we're gonna try and get you light in order to put the pink on. We also just came out with a new color called Vortilite, which is like extremely bright, gorgeous, like cool pink. And I really want to do it on you today.  I want it. Okay, good. I want that. Give it to me. I'm so excited. We're gonna give it like a lived in moment though, with the lightness. Like I want you to be able to maintain it easily. So I don't want to go all the way up to your root with it. Yeah, there's no way I would be able to take care of that. I don't know. Like you know me. It'd be like a hard line, like in the middle of your head and I don't want that for you. Yeah. No one wanted that for me. A good balayage moment with the pink, a little cut, it's gonna look fabulous. Okay, I love this.  Yeah, and I'm so excited because I wanted to do this before I filmed my music video. I was like, well, I'm doing like a whole thing. I've been working on this song for, but I just wanted to like fully redo my look before the video started with the hair. Woo!  Let's get started, shall we? Let's do it. There's gonna be a little chopperoony just to get us started here. Ooh, this feels so good for me.  Oh my God, that's so different because before I would run my hands through my hair to the end. It would get stuck at the end.  And I'm just like, no, that was last year, okay. Oh! Ooh! Oh! No, no, it's giving me life too. Oh my God.  But yeah, I love hair. We're getting there.  It already is like, I feel so much cleaner and smoother already. Just like, freeing. That hair was holding down. All right, we're gonna start your color now. Yeah, I don't really spell therapy. Oh yeah! We're gonna start your color and your cut is looking already so much better. No, you're- I just cut off of your head. I know! I like went into it being like, oh my gosh, just a couple inches. I just kept going. Like, I needed to be done.  Girl, it's literally like, ugh! It's a loaded question. No, no, no. I know you always have crazy things going on and a lot of things and a lot of wild stories. Actually, what's your number one most wild story from the past year? Basically last year I just felt like, oh my God, all my dreams are coming true. Everything's happening at once. And so in particular, there was this one week that was like the craziest week of my life where this song that I've written called Don't Kill Yourself or Too Sexy. It went viral, that song. Yeah, it went viral.  And I was like, whoa, like, this is good. And then last year my friend, Eric, who's the CEO of Carrot, it's like the credit card company for Influence or whatever, was like, yo, do you want a Times Square billboard? It's like part of having the card.  If I'm gonna have a Times Square billboard, what's like the most positive message that I can spread?   Because I love just going to the bathroom randomly for no reason at all in the middle of the party. Just spending a little time there. As I was having that fun time in the bathroom, I get a message or an email for like one of my agents being like, hey, like, you're invited to the Kanye Genius premiere. And I was like, wait, that's so awesome. Of course I wanna go to that. They're like, yeah, but it's like in LA and it's like tomorrow. That means I have to go like literally right now. And this is all stuff that my friend was telling me because I was actually blacked out while this was happening. And then I wake up actually on the plane back to LA and then my friend kind of fills me in on what happened. She was like, don't you remember? Like when we were blacked out a thing, you were like manic and you were telling me that like, we're gonna go to the Kanye thing that you would sneak me in as your assistant. And I was like, well, that does sound like something I would say. We get back to my place in LA. It's the afternoon or whatever. And we have like a few hours until the Kanye thing. And I was like, f***, I'm so tired. The only way I'm gonna be able to get through this is if I put this little square of paper in my mouth for no reason. We get there and I'm feeling really good and really wavy gravy. But I didn't know Kanye was gonna actually be there because similar to me, he's very unpredictable. The screening is cool. And then Kanye comes out and surprises everyone in the screen. I was like, oh, s***, Kanye's here. That's surprising. And I was like, wow. I'm so glad I got to see Kanye from like a hundred feet away or whatever. I walked in the after party and Kanye's like literally right there, like five feet away from me. I was like, holy f***. I was just really nervous the whole time. And he was kind of like, can you stop talking to me? I was like, okay. I didn't say that. I could feel the vibe. And I was like, okay. So yeah, that's the time I met Kanye with little square in my mouth. After having it, don't kid yourself. She's like the time square four. What the f***? Now it's like 24 hours. It was like 36 hours. And for those of you who don't know, for those of you who don't f*** me, for those of you who don't know- Gladly. She used to work in Google. I always, this thing called a UX researcher. Like at Google, they'd be like, okay, what are people doing? And I'll be like, they're looking at porn. What do you think they're doing? And they're like, cool. Well, what are we going to do about that? And I'm just like, I don't like, like make it more like that. Well, I cannot imagine you in like a corporate meeting.  I was just doing something that I hated and working in an industry that I didn't like because I was too scared to like pursue my actual passion, which apparently is making but whole jokes online. How has your journey been online? So I started TikTok in the pandemic. So like beginning of 2020, and then I like exploded in five months. I still have that like Google grind in me. So I was like waking up every single day at like six or seven, doing a workout, like running along the Hudson River or whatever and then just making as many videos as possible from then until midnight was gradually growing. It took me two months to get my first 10K. And then after that, it was like 10K a week. And then after that was like a hundred K a week. Just kind of exponentially snowball. And then once I hit one million in May, I did the step chickens thing. Basically I started a cult online where I was like, everyone changed their profile picture just by to my face. And it's called the step chickens and it's based in this skit that I made called what are you doing step chicken? Which is like a pro thing where it's like, what are you doing step brother? And it's like two chickens. And it's like, don't worry, it'll be just like doing it with a rooster. Like I won't tell a motherhand like... I thought he talked for a second because I need to mix color. Yeah. Brad's like, Oh my God. Everybody's on my cult in May. It just went way more viral than I expected. and I thought that maybe like a couple thousand people were gonna do it and then it was like millions and then like a month on the app, everyone had my profile picture and I went from one to two million followers in like a week and was like in all this press and got like signed and yeah, it was just really crazy fast and I think I'm only now beginning to process that moment because after that I was like, oh, it was just a lot and I got caught up in like the excitement of like just the sudden fame or whatever. I'm chilling for now. Melissa, you never cease to amaze me. I just finished the Blonding portion. Hell yeah. I'm gonna just put some darkness between these oils. You have really good dimension in between. Hell yeah. And then way back, once you have a nice blonde palette to work with, we can start applying that pink color.  I'm sorry, you were way through there. Barely. Like at the beginning, I love myself. Ben over. Um, and now I'm gonna pass out. That's okay. Just, you feel differently sometimes. Is that it? Yeah, you're having a relaxing moment, just finishing the color. Oh finally, I think this is Brad's first time ever seeing me relaxed. Yeah. Literally ever. Yeah, and it's only because I'm tired.   I'm really excited. It's really different when you walked in with.   I just wanna have pink hair now. We put our new color, Rotolay by X-Mondo in your hair and it is so bright, extreme pink, but it's a very cool toned pink and it still looks so hot with your skin tone. Okay, I love this. I love this for me. I can't wait. I can't wait.  I'm microdosing my own black pink. So we're gonna let that sit for about 20 minutes. We'll rinse it out.  Ooh, okay. I'm so excited. Let's do it. Well, hello Brad. Hi Melissa, I'm down here.  Your color looks sick. Like this is a huge change for you. I'm actually interested to know what your hair means to you. I feel like my aesthetic is very important to me even though I'm inhabiting the body of an Asian girl.  Like I definitely feel different. It's like, oh, when I have straight hair, I feel like this, when I have curly hair, I feel like this.  You know when you're just like, you see the same hair over and over again.  I need to totally do a new thing. And your aesthetic has changed dramatically. So much, so much. How would you describe your old style versus the new style? Oh my God. I just kind of felt like I had to conform to this life. I was living because I was doing the like, yeah, I'm like in my early 20s and I'm living in Manhattan and I'm working at Gull. And so I kind of was just doing the like, what everyone else is doing where it's like, okay, I guess I'm just wearing all black and doing what everyone else is doing, which is what? Getting my grow blading logic extensions in a manicure every two weeks? Like what? I was just doing the uniform thing. And I also was like, well, I have to wear stuff that's gonna be okay for work and then for late, right? But now that it totally doesn't matter and I can just do whatever I want. I just was like, wait, what do I actually like? And then I just kind of exploded into the like, the sex anime demon goddess and I love it.  I would say I am selected with my fucks and I don't get my self-worth from other people's opinions. Like I just have inherent self-worth. You know, I used to care about what other people thought of me, but I only cared about what they thought of me because it impacted what I would think about myself.   That's what I'm trying to live, girl. I am about to start styling your hair but I'm putting in our recalibrate bond building cream and first because your hair just went through a lot of bleaching. We gotta make sure it stays nice and healthy and looking fabulous and shiny. So we're gonna put this in and then I put a little force field heat shield in your hair. So when you're at home, make sure you're protecting this hair, putting some cream in there to moisturize and a little bit of viper smoothing oil which is gonna obviously smooth your hair and make it even shinier and like glossy. So all right, I'm gonna start blow drying and... Blow me, baby. You guys will see the final look. Blow me until I'm dry. Well, Melissa. Rad.  Like top five favorite makeovers ever. Really top five? You look dramatically different. You look dramatically different. Well, that top five is a lot coming from you. Wow. I'm so excited to show you. I'm so excited to see it. I've like literally always wanted to have my hair pink and I just never did it until now. Let's turn you around in three, two, one. Marvel super villain. When you told me black pink, I really said, girl, I'll give you black pink. I'm literally speechless. I'm literally speechless. It's perfect. I'm choking. This is what I needed. I just wanted to like... Like I've had the same hair kind of my whole life. Yeah. Wow, okay. You came in with this warm chocolatey brown. And it was just... It was transformed into this very contrasting balayage, rhodolite pink color. And it looks almost too good. That it looks naff. No, no, wait. I'm like, am I like an AI anime? I feel like I look too good to be like a real human right now. I'm just like, am I like an anime? Doesn't the color look almost fake? It's like unreal. Also, we were skeptical as to whether it would work because I had all the sudden in my hair. But you're you. It was a little tricky. Yeah. You had some orange banding. You have some yellow. You had some white. Not to mention it was just very dry. Like when you cut off all the hair, it was like, oh, that's a dead animal. That's a road kill. That's a tumbleweed. And I'm afraid. The new link and the layering. And like also just like... No, I just feel like my hair is actually alive now. I just feel like I just have dead hair weighing me down.  And now this is totally different. And I actually came to New York because I was having a mental breakdown and now I feel really good. I know, right? I feel really good. All you need was a hair color change. Yeah.  It really works. Thank you so much for coming in today. Thank you for... I mean, I was going to beg you to do this. So, we've been trying this for a long time. You look just amazing. Normally, I'm not this speechless. Just like normally I have a lot to say. You're talking a lot. Okay. No, okay, fine. You got it. I love you. You're amazing. No, I love you. Thank you for coming in. Thank you for transforming me. That was a long day, but it was very worth it.  Stunning. I hope you guys like the makeover as much as I do. And if you want to check out any of the products I used in today's video, they're all linked right down below. Or go to xmondohair.com. That is all for today. Thank you guys for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life and I'll see you next time. Bye.


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Foot birthday trading methods is what we're going to be talking about today. I want to talk about these new foot birthday cards and also last week's set one. Talk about maybe the movements we'll see for these cards this week and how I'm feeling it right now. And some of the movements that we saw today as well, there was a lot of interesting movements on these cards and also talk about some of the weekend league sell off because we're starting to see some of the week in league sell off in certain areas of the market. And I kind of want to cover that with you guys as well. First example of that would be this Furland, Mendy, I just saw this card on foot bin is kind of getting down low. And it makes sense, right? Watch for the panic selling this week, not panic selling, but the sell off on week in like 705. This guy was like 750 at a point this weekend. He's a French CDM, right? And think about French CDMs that just came into the game. We have Pogba as a French center mid. And of course, we had Baki, Oakland objectives. So watch the sell off this week on like the French center defensive mids on the icons, on the cards that are in, you know, maybe the 400, like Conte probably get hit in price a little bit. And then also watch the center backs that are French. Just watch center back sell off that are French cards because you might see a little bit extra sell off with those from the weekend league as people go out and try some of these. But Bakioka for sure is definitely taking a hit on that Furland, Mendy price, at least a little bit extra than normal for a week in like sell off. But the week in like sell off is kind of starting to happen. I'm monitoring a few cards, some out of packs cards that are literally low, this Havertz like literally right now, this Havertz card is 400,000 coins. And I actually bought one just now at 399. And this is honestly crazy to me because this guy, I sold him literally like 12 hours ago. Literally this morning, I sold this card for 455,000 coins. And this is the most used foot birthday card in terms of games played from set one. So I know this card is out of packs. I know that he's freshly out of packs. I don't feel like he's overvalued, though. And a lot of people want to use him. He links to the new Dacosta card that came out. He links to the Ballerabi objective that a lot of people did. You can make a nice little trio with the Dacosta, Ballerabi and Havertz. So and even Eggstein, the new center mid from for birthday to so maybe this guy at 400K, you know, there is the possibility for the guaranteed foot birthday SBC coming later this week. But some of this week in the sell off stuff, sometimes it just gets too low and it actually pops up in the middle of the week, because it especially has the opportunity to do that now, as there's a lot of people on the game. So sometimes like Saturday nights and Sunday nights, we see some of the lowest prices on some of these cards out of packs that are on week in the sell off just because they are. You know, people are on this game and they're playing during the week. They're doing objectives and they're doing stuff like that. So I want to talk about these cards today because they took another hit in price. I want to talk about Douglas Costa as well. As you can see, a lot of these guys are down because of the lighting rounds today, a number one. And of course, number two is the week in the sell off is starting to happen. These guys were not going to be their cheapest on day one, as I talked about yesterday, because there wasn't a bunch of packs opened in the first couple of hours. There weren't the saved packs opened this week, that there were last week for some of these cards. So that's why you're seeing them drop. Some of these drops, though, are making me a bit intrigued. Lacazette Lacazette this morning was one point four mil. I saw him last night at one point two eight on the undercut. He went back up to one four. So the flipping was possible on some of these cards from Friday into Saturday, not a lot of them, but the upper tier high range like Lacazette and Demaria specifically. Worked the best and these now down under one point two. So if you see this guy drop, you know, this is pretty low for this card. I know that we're having more lightning rounds coming today on Sunday. At least, I think we are for set one. They ran lightning rounds on Sunday. I believe they'll do it for set two as well. So I would expect these guys to drop down a little bit more. But there's a possibility you could flip these guys into the morning on Sunday, if they just get too low tonight, because they've dropped a ton, man. Like I could see this guy being back to one point two three, one point two four or even one point two five on Sunday morning. So just keep an eye out on that if it gets to be like super crazy low. Same thing with Demaria. He's dropped a lot today as well. And of course, the five star wheat foot makes this card so much more usable than in years past. He went also to I sold one at one three nine this morning. I bought it at one two seven. Basically, I flipped it right here. According to the graph one two seven up to one three nine is where I got my sale and he was one point two most of the day. And now he's down to one point one six. So a lot of downturn on these cards on the market at the moment. Is it done yet? You know, it's hard to say it's always risky trying to mess around with these cards that are impacts, right? Like the Demaria, like the Lacazette, even though they're hyped up, even the Bale, it's always a little bit risky messing around with these cards because you just never know that there's always that that that sort of risk. Wow, one one five. There's always that sort of risk with promo cards because they're they're still in packs, right? They're still in packs. There's still a possibility that EA, you know, could drop some packs, apply, SBCs out. They could change the pack weight. They could drop a big time SBC that makes people go and sell these cards to go complete that SBC. All of that stuff could happen this week. And so it's kind of hard to really give you guys a time where it's like, OK, here now now is when you go buy these cards, especially considering a lot of people are talking about that guaranteed foot birthday SBC coming later this week. Some people think it's a guarantee that it's coming. I don't know that it's coming yet, but the fact that a lot of people are thinking that it will come does make me intrigued. So if you want to try any of these foot birthday cards, my recommendation for you would be if it doesn't drop any big time SBCs this week, but look, look at them starting today on Sunday. Watch their prices during the lighting rounds and Sunday night during squad battle rewards. And there might be a window, a timeframe window in there where you might see these guys like they or Hernandez is 400 K right now. It was 490 last night. Maybe he drops down to like 360 or 370 for a short bit tomorrow night after the new lighting rounds and after squad battle reward supply. And then you might see a bit of a rise into Monday, Tuesday. That's a possibility. If there's no big SBCs, these guys might hit a low on Sunday night and kind of especially for the high tier range, Lacazette, DeMaria, Bale, Pogba and maybe Costa and Van Dyke. The guys that are pretty rare on the market that a lot of people want to try because of their week foot upgrades. We saw this last week with Team One. Now, Team One kind of just continually rose, but they were a little bit lower and then they kind of rose into the week a little bit. If you look at the prices on some of these cards, they rose a little bit into the week. Because people were just trying them out and using them. And I think there's a bit of that with these cards in this team as well. There's a possibility for that this week. Now, the guaranteed foot birthday SBC. A lot of people are going to start talking about that. And I think this could go either one of two ways. If you remember that this happen happened with the shape shifters earlier this year in FIFA, like about a month ago, right? So this is what happened. It's not going to show it here on the graph, but Venetius Junior, the guaranteed shape shifter SBC, which I don't really know if we were expecting that SBC. The SBC was put into the code late overnight UK time. So it was like 3, 4 a.m. UK time, like evening time for me in the US. This Venetius was like 460, 470 K while he was in packs. It was the Thursday before they went out of packs. This guy went, people saw the code and they thought these cards were going to get panic sold and they thought they were going to drop. This guy went from 460 to 400 K flat and then rebounded back to 500 K almost in a matter of one day's time frame because it was Thursday Rewards Day two. So if we see that happening again, that's that scenario. Number one, with these foot birthday cards, I think there's going to be some panic selling because of the guaranteed foot birthday SBC, and that might be our time to buy them. But is there going to be a little bit earlier panic selling because people are already talking about this guaranteed foot birthday SBC. What's it going to require? You know, what is it going to cost? Stuff like that. It's not even guaranteed that it's going to be coming yet. So that's why I'm taking a cautious approach and saying that if you're going to try out any of these foot birthday players, check their prices on Sunday night as possibly your buy time. Look at them on Sunday night and kind of watch them even now. Watch them in these next couple of days. But then I think I would get out Tuesday. If there hasn't been a big SBC, it's caused a lot of panic selling because I think there could be some more downturn on Wednesday. And whenever day, we get that SBC in the code, which I would imagine would be Wednesday night is when we would get the foot birthday guaranteed SBC pack in the code. Then the SBC would come out on Thursday and we would be heavily, heavily watching the panic selling as that would be like the best time, most likely to pick up some of these foot birthday players. So that's just one thing to think about with the foot birthdays and those cards this week. But if you want to try one for your team, I think your best time is today during, you know, maybe the squad battles time. Kind of like right now it's evening. They kind of get low in the evening anyway. People are finishing the week in league and stuff. There's a lot of people playing week in league this weekend. And you could tell that by the massive buy that we had after lighting rounds on Friday, like that. And on average, you just saw my transfer list was 455,000 coins. And again, this guy right now is looking a lot, not panic sold, but a lot of week in league sell off action is happening on specific cards in the market. He's 411 K. I actually just bought one and put on my transfer list at 399 and I can show you that for proof because I have the proof. But like this to me, I think this is just too low, bro. I really do just think this is too low. So watch out for some of this stuff. Like I was talking about shapeshifter Mendy, right? I think this is getting a bit low. This Christian Ronaldo, he foot been just clocked in his price at 2.23. So basically, somebody undercut it is he's 2.32 right now. Somebody listed at 2.23. Somebody undercut by 100,000 coins. I think you're going to see some stuff like this around the market. I'm especially intrigued with shapeshifters. I know this guy is down because of the Bakioko and stuff. But this Ferland Mendy, you know, he links to the new bail. He's French. He links to like all the guys in the promo team. There's a lot of French cards going around right now. I know Bakioko is out in the game. But that if that stuff starts to get too low, that is a major, a major point on this game to be looking at. For just stuff that gets too low and how do you know that it's too low? You kind of just have to use your best judgment and use the graph, right? Use the graph to kind of help you figure out when stuff is just getting too low based on how high it's been and how low it's gone. 700 K this weekend. The man, he was 600. If I saw him at like 685, that to me would be too low because he was 740 K this weekend. What did he get as a high? He was 730 all day. What about Friday? 750, 750. So, I mean, if you see this guy at like 685, that's getting too low for me. All of these cards are super rare to begin with. Trent Alexander Arnold is another good example. Somebody who's getting low, right? Only 200,000 coins. He was to 220 at some point on the weekend. Now he's down to back under 200 K. That's pretty low for me, right? That's pretty low. But just be careful with this stuff, right? I mean, this guaranteed for the birthday SBC is going to have a lot of people starting to sell stuff later in the week. If it does come out and if it's rumored to come out, because that's going to be an expensive SBC, people are going to have to sell stuff for. And it's also going to be on the day of Thursday rewards. If that pack does get put into the code. So we're going to be watching that very closely. But if you do want to do some trading this week, look for just the open bids, like especially tonight and like Saturday night, Sunday night, as we're coming out of squad battery or out of Weekend League, look for the open bids and a possible uptick and just deals that you can find on open bids. Look through the past promo teams and watch cards, right? Palacios 269. I think he's is he down a little bit because of Eckstein? Yeah, the man was like 300,000 coins and now he's 269,270. Stuff like this might get a little a little bit harder because of the the cards that came out with this new promo team. A lot of people are talking about this Iconi, right? This guy was 200 and like 15 K on Wednesday before awards. And now he's 263 with all the French links. Just kind of watch this stuff that's hyped up right now. This stuff will maintain its value pretty well. And you will be able to trade with these cards, even though they're going to be probably falling a little bit in value. You should be able to trade with them. Kamara interests me a lot, actually. This is again getting hit by the French center back. The SAR card, this guy was 136 yesterday. It is lowest. What about Friday? What did he go to? Wow, 138. So if I see this guy under 140 again, I'm tempted because he still went to 138 and then rebounded because of weak and weak demand. Now, if a lot of people you see are selling this card because they're going to do the SAR SBC, this guy right here, then I would keep an eye on this. And, you know, other French center backs in the gun because that could be a possible buy and hold situation for the next couple of weeks or maybe even a week because this card's only only out for a week, this SBC. But yeah, if you wanted to trade on stuff, look on the open bids because as I go out and I look on the market, I see so many cards listed up on open bid as people just go and finish their week and leave and they just kind of chuck the card up for sale. I'm like, yo, I'm done, right? Like I am done with this card for week and leave. I just want to get my coins. Like that's kind of their thinking. It happens with icons as well. It definitely happens with icons. I don't know. I've been watching this best because I'm partially wanting him for my team. I need a left wing 535. 525. OK, Dino getting a little bit low there. Just watch out for the open bids. Seriously, is there a good filter for this? I don't really think that I look for for filters in terms of open bids. I just look on a card by card basis. Like I just looked at Kamara, right? And I set kind of a buy price for Kamara at like one one forty. That might be a little bit low because people know to watch the panic on this card now. And there's just a lot of hype around the French. But look at all these open bids, man, not open bids, but like low bids, right? This guy's a hundred and fifty thousand coin card. Boom, there's one to one forty six. There's one at one thirty. How many open bids can I find for this card at like one forty, which is kind of like my my buy range area one forty three. How many open bids we have? We have to sort through the inform. But boom, we've got one there. Now, this is an Autopex special, so we probably won't have too many. You might have more on informs or more, you know, popularly used cards. But that's the kind of stuff that I would be doing this weekend. Again, focus on the chemistry styles who you can do this on on gold cards. How much is gold sun? It's gold sun like one hundred and ten K. He's one hundred and seventeen thousand coins. One hundred and seventeen thousand coins. How many open bids do we have on sun? And like one hundred and fifteen or one hundred and ten K. This is the kind of stuff that you can do. You could very easily win this son on a bid for like one oh five. And then all of a sudden, boom, you can quickly quickly flip him at one fifteen. And then chemistry styles, again, are very important as well. Because there's some people still playing the weekend league, right? Still playing the weekend league. Hume and son with a hunter chem style will probably sell for a little bit more than the the sun without the chem style and one hundred and twenty K. We have a few of them here. Ooh, one twelve. That's an undercut right there in itself. But, you know, just kind of keeping mindful of some of these things and trading with these, you know, it's really it would seem fun, right? To trade with some of these new cards. Like I'm really eyeing Lacazette because I know a lot of people are interested in this card. Again, if I saw him at like one one five, I might pull the trigger because I think he'll be one two five in the morning. Same thing with kind of like D Maria. If I saw him at like maybe a little bit lower than one one five. One one five honestly isn't bad because this could easily be back to like, you know, one two three in the morning. We only have what sixty K of tax there. So one one one two would be a buy price for me on D Maria. If I could snag that that bid, just keep an eye out on the market. This is this is my thing. And this is what I'll tell you this works with icons. This weekend, when you're trading with stuff, there's a lot of people on this game. The SBCs that they are putting out, at least in the past couple of days, aren't draining a ton of coins yet. A lot of people did Bergwine, be a beyondy today and Sars are right. But he's only 200,000 coins. He's not like a just not breaking the bank, right? Could we see more SBCs this week that are big time? Yes, it's possible. Yes, that could affect the game. But trust in this market with its coins. Trust in the ability that people are going to be on this game, right? We're still locked down with coronavirus stuff. Not a lot of people are getting out. More people are doing FIFA, right? More people are playing this game and on this game. So just trust that the market will be there to buy cards and it's not going to be a big crash. The prices that a lot of stuff went up to this weekend. Like we looked at that a Kona is 200 and what 60,000 coins, right? He's like 260,000 coins, 270 ish. This guy probably won't drop too much lower than like 250, right? He might not go too much lower than 250 because he's gone up so much. Maybe he goes to like 247, 245 at the very lowest. But he's going. He was 210 K last week. These cards are going to maintain their higher value just because there's more people on the game. They're playing there on FIFA. And that means there's just more demand for cards in general in this just crazy time in what's going on with the coronavirus and all that stuff. So don't feel like you're going to lose a ton of coins if you're buying in these cards to flip, right? Flipping is going to be fantastic this week. Cards with the hunter chem styles, cards with the shadow chem styles. I've got some refresher videos on that specific type of trading in the FIFA 20 trading methods playlist on this channel. But I wanted to talk specifically about these cards today. These cards are going to fluctuate around in price, too. If we don't get lighting rounds today on Sunday, I do think, wow, what is Lacazette getting put up? Nah, man, is this real? But Ben says Lacazette's 1.1 mil. OK, it's just because they're only showing the first two decimal spots. He's actually 1-2. Yo, that's actually scared me for a second there, because I thought this dude was like 1.1 flat. And I was about to say, hold up, give me one of those. But yeah, trust in the market's ability for these cards.  They're not going to drop off all the way from where they were just because there's so many more coins in this game.  But there's just so many people on the game that the demand for all these is just really high. So I need to do these SBCs to get myself some player picks. And then, of course, if you want to do the 81 plus upgrades, they're only here for another day. So keep an eye on those. If you're if you're testing your luck, just a cheeky plug. I did pack Ronaldo like Cristiano Ronaldo tonight from one of those, not in my account, but on a mods account live on the stream. So that was nuts. But again, trading this weekend, we can make sell off look for open bids, look for fluctuations and trust the market. You might not see that big of drop offs. That's why when I saw this habits today down literally 50K from where it was this morning, that's why I'm interested. That's why I'm interested in this because this market is staying high. It's going to stay high because people have coins on this game right now in foot. So maybe that was a good buy. And now he's kind of going back up. But, you know, these are the hype cards, foot birthdays, the new ones, you know, the rare cards like the shapeshifters, the any out of pack special card. People of all levels in this game are using right now and people are buying cards, trying them, putting teams together and stuff like that. So believe in the market and its ability to sustain prices this week when you're flipping cards. All right, that's my little spiel, how you could maybe make some coins and just talking about these foot birthday cards on today's video icons as well. They're going to maintain some decently good prices. Some of the higher tier cards are really dropping off. Some of like the really high level moments and some of these like Ronaldinho is down a little bit today on this week and they sell off. Some of these cards are going to go a little bit lower because they're just getting packed more and they have more and more supply on the market like somebody who an icon moments who I've watched continually drop over these past couple of weeks is Raul. This guy is 1.8 mil. I would not be surprised if you start seeing listings under one eight in the next couple of days just because these cards are continually getting supplied on the market and they're not the hot item, right? The foot birthdays are the new hot items on foot. So that's kind of my stuff talking about these. Items again, trust the market. You'll be able to make some coins and be careful if you're trying to live flip some of these impacts for birthday cards. And we'll be monitoring the situation with these cards all week this week and with whatever SBCs and stuff that we do get. So good luck with the rest of your week in leagues. And good luck with trading and stuff, too, if you're trying to make some coins and especially with upgrade packs, if you're hitting those, if you enjoy this video, smash thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel. If you're new, it's been Nate, The Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace.