Hey Virgo, welcome back to the channel. This is Kelly from House of Virgo. If you're new, welcome. Please smash that like button and subscribe if you enjoy the reading. Keep in mind this is going to be a general reading from the time you're listening to this through July. Some messages may or may not be for you. Take with it. Leave the rest. This is a channel for Virgo sun, moon rising, or Venus, but all suns are welcome. All right Virgo, let's get into this. We're going to take a look at like just the general energy. If love shows up, love shows up, but I want to see what other messages it can pick up for you. Other things going on in your life could be happening going forward June and July. And yeah, don't forget if you want to get a personal reading, there's a link in the description box below. Okay, you're starting off with the lovers. So, you know, I don't know, maybe spirits like nah, we're sticking with love, but we'll see. I definitely see some type of a partnership coming into union with someone. This could be through business contracts. This could be actual love, a love situation to people making a decision to come together into some kind of union. You could be signing something with another person that just kind of like this a long deep commitment as well. Let's see what other information they can give about this. So there's definitely, I will say like the overall you're signing into something you're agreeing to something with another person. Okay, something, you know, either you're signing marriage certificates, you're signing for that deal or the loan or the mortgage on the house or for a car going into business together. This is gonna, this is like the other person is saying yes, I'm hearing, you're saying yes, somebody else is saying yes, this is agreement coming into agreement. Okay. And this is also like loyalty and responsibility as well. Oh, getting a nice shuffle in at least. All right, you guys, what else does her need to know? There we go. Wow. Okay. Hmm. Judgment. So someone signing off on a judgment could be, um, somebody getting like a reconciliation situation is happening and awakening or a revealing about two people. Um, gosh, it's like an awakening happening. It's such a, they're both major arcana. So you've got Scorpio, you've got Gemini, could be Virgo, it's Mercury rule, the lovers, but and I think judgment is, no, it's just Scorpio. So there is some kind of an awakening that's happening here or this realization. Okay. That's occurring. Um, is that noise? So I hear, um, someone is like two people are making a decision. Okay. To do something together, coming together. And this is like final. This is like a find, there's a finale here. This is a final decision. Could be two people talking about doing something together or bringing, I'm just feeling like a coming together and this is it. Like that's what judgment is. This is like, yes, we're going to do this. Yes, we have clarity. This is a wake up call. This is what we need to do. Okay. Um, so as far as love goes, this is it. There's a decision. Two people make a decision and this is it. And yes, we're going to do this. Okay. Or this is two people waking up to, you know, in love yet. Yes, we're meant to be together. Yes, this is it for it's done, sign sealed and delivered, whether in love, in business, in some kind of decision, it's a, it's final. There's a final decision being made. All right, let's see what else is going on here. Wow, this is crazy. What does that mean for you, Virgo? I'm going to have to like read these comments to see if this is resonating for you. It's two people or you might have a decision to make. Somebody's waiting for you to make a decision. They're waiting for you to make your final decision. It gets made. You both agree or vice versa. Okay. You're waiting for someone to make the final decision. They get the clarity and it's done. Yes. And it's, it's signed, sealed and delivered, sealed with a kiss. Okay. You've got the star. Wow, this is amazing. So here we have Aquarius energy. Wow, that kind of looks like, so the female in this, the female in this situation, okay, the feminine in this situation gets a sense of renewed hope in her life. Okay. She gets a sense of renewed hope. The female in this situation really needed to pray about this or seek guidance from spirit about making some kind of decision, a final decision here. And she is renewed. She is renewed by the guidance that she received. So I feel like there's definite, there's so much renewal and reconciliation happening here and final judgment and clarity. And I also feel like a sense of relief as well. Now I am hearing, you know, the star can represent someone's getting signed either to be in a position of fame as well. Okay. So that could be you. It could be another person that you're connecting with, but I'm definitely feeling like with the lover's judgment and the star, this is a wish that Virgo, I feel like you've been hoping for for, I don't know, how long for some of you six years, 20 years, 17 years, seven years, some of you've been hoping for something for such a long time, wishing and hoping for something. And it's a wish coming true. I'm just seeing like, yeah, just keep getting this vibes of there's an agreement, somebody agrees to do something here and says yes to it. And there's a revival, there's a renewal of the spirit, there's a renewal of hope, there's inner clarity, it's like a miracle, faith being restored. I mean, it's pretty amazing, Virgo, the way this reading is playing out here. All right, let me say, and it's, it definitely involves you and another person. Okay, let me say, I don't even know what we're talking about. I just know I'm, you know, I was thinking today, like somebody asked me, well, how do you get your visions, right?  They're not really visions. They're not really things I hear so much as voices. I get what I like to, I couldn't think of the word, but I figured it out today. I call it impressions. I receive impressions. It's like, when someone puts a thumb print into like a cookie, there's like an impression left, and it's, it's powerful and it's intense. So like, for example, I could get an impression of a prediction. I don't know how to explain it. It's almost like, if I'm meeting aliens, and I have to tell you what I saw, it's almost, it's difficult to articulate, but I'm sure some of you could relate to this, I'll get impressions of, of a prediction. And they're almost like little, it's like an impression clue, I guess to say, you know, like when you're looking at fingerprints, I don't know. But I was just thinking about that earlier today, because I really never really relate to what other people say, as far as like, getting like these absolute visions, I get just impressions. I'm going to have to look more to see if anybody know what, what that means. But I haven't found anything about that. I don't really hear voices and I don't really see things. I mean, I can do remote viewing, but I don't really see things. So to speak, I just get impressions. That's it. I'm leaving it there. So if anybody has, shoot me an email if you know what I'm talking about. Because I don't know really what it is. I don't know there's a term. Okay. Anyway, back to your reading. I'm sorry about that. I just felt like I needed to blurt that out there. Okay, maybe I'll cut it off. We'll see. So yeah, there's definitely something major happening here in this time period going forward for you, where all I can say is it's going to be a yes. So if you had a question or something you were hoping for, whatever it's in finance, business, career, love, whatever it might be, it's a yes. It's a definite yes. There's a renewal. There's a return of something. There's clarity. A final decision is being made and there's hope. Okay. You know what we're going to do? Let's clarify a little bit more with a star card. I'm doing your reading a little bit differently. Okay. All right. So again, with clarity, there's definitely an offer being made, communication, as far as love goes, an offer being made, a decision about partnership, a long term, an offer about partnership, whether it's in love or business, there's communication. A pen is being passed across the table where someone, you know, basically says here, sign. Now you can sign. Yeah, there's definitely some kind of contract, long term, life contract being offered and being signed. This is a victory. It's a victory coming in here. Let me just see judgment here real quick. That didn't want to pop out. Okay. Wow. This is long overdue. A long overdue, well thought out decision being made to do something here. Clarity comes. I feel like the overall message here with the energy is that it could have something to do with money, investments, finances, whether or not to invest in something. And it feels like it does get money comes in. There is an investment that's made. Oh yeah. Look at that. The Hierophon could be coming from a corporation, an investment from business or into business or into banking, a bank of some sort. There's a big reveal. Money comes out. Money is shown.  I'm also feeling like digging up buried treasure. Somebody finds, one of you, Virgo, is just going to, it's going to be revealed a tremendous amount of money, a source. They're giving me like a gushing, gushing oil for some of you or a source of clean energy tapping into an untapped reservoir. Do you know what I mean? Somewhere under your feet or it's revealed to you. And I'm going to say this, and this is really, really strange, but if we're going to X marks the spot to an untapped source of wealth, I'm going to tell you that there's some kind of connection to a graveyard for you. I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means, but there's it somewhere near a graveyard or please don't go digging up graveyards, but somewhere near a graveyard, there's an untapped source of wealth. It could be in a graveyard. I don't know for sure. They're just all of a sudden impression that on me. Okay. Where there's a church, there's a church, and there's a graveyard attached to a church or near a church. It's not just a standalone graveyard. Okay. You know how sometimes they just have those graveyards and there's like no churches or anything connected to it. It's just plot a land. It's not that this place has like a church of some sort on it. Okay. Somebody's buried some money or there's something near there or in there that I don't know, Virgo. That's a weird message. I know some of Virgos could be out with their magnifying glass. It's like, let me at it. Let me at it. Where is it? I don't know who that's for, but it might be a spiritual message that someone is trying to tell you also. Is it that I've got hidden, I've got hidden wealth somewhere. Okay. We're going to leave that there. That's weird. Just, it's very Halloween-ish, but show me what this star is here. These messages are kind of bizarre because I started off with one, but now I'm really kind of like getting into the sub messages here. That's star two. It does feel like your health as well. So, you know, we're going to split this. Yeah. We're going to split this. Okay. This star message does feel like your health and there's you, King of Pentacles. Let me see here. Oh, wow. Okay. So, as far as your health goes, Virgo, I do feel like you need to get some rest. You need to like get sleep. You need to recharge your batteries. You need to get into meditation. You need to pray. Some of you need to visit a graveyard to, you need to visit some spirits or you might get some visit from spirits from someone who's passed on as well. Somehow that's attached to your health or that will be good to your, good for your health. It could be attached to your health, though. I feel like an angel, maybe, coming from, to visit you. Someone who's passed away, they have a concern about your health and they may be coming to you in your dreams or visiting you. And that's, if you've already had that experience, they're trying to tell you, take better care of yourself. Okay. But I also feel like some of you are just, yeah, you're working too hard. You're not getting enough rest and this is going to be affecting your health going forward. Okay. You're really like, and listen, I'll blame you. The world is crazy and everybody's just trying to make money and save money and stash it away like squirrels.  I feel like that's a really strong message for your health. Okay. I'm not seeing anything here like, you know, and I wouldn't anyway predict any major illnesses or anything, but I do feel like I need to take better care of yourself. So it really is just your sleep, your sleep is everything, your rest, your R and R, even if it's just taking power naps, you have to do that because that's like your sleep is everything. That's all I can say.  It washes, you get like a brainwash. That's where that comes from. And when you don't have that, there's, it's like a refresher. When you don't have that, you don't get enough sleep. You don't instigate that moment and you suffer. I know that's a strange message, but there's some kind of a brainwashing. You're not getting enough brainwashing. Crazy. Yeah. So as far as love, here we go. Okay. You're definitely going to be getting an offer coming in from someone definitely taking the lead in this. Okay. And I do feel like you both make a decision to come together. It could be an Aries as well, but this person does show up in the Emperor energy, respectful, taking a lead, strategic, planning a father figure type, someone who is you know, their, their head of household, so to speak. This is someone who is, they really take on definitely a gendered role position as far as being very masculine. They have a very masculine way. Even if they're feminine, they're very masculine. And I don't know, I just kind of feel like you sign something with this person. You agree to, you agree to an offer that they make. Okay. Cause they will be making an offer here right now starting now in through July. Tell me a little bit more about this Emperor. Okay. Wow. Double Aries energy here as well. Could be Scorpio. I mean, this person is going to commit, it's going to be really shocking this offer that gets made. I feel like with this tower, this is kind of like rebuilding, but it is going to be shocking. I don't, yeah, I don't feel like you're going to be, you're going to be expecting this, this love and signing something with this person or signing some kind of contract or going into agreement or committing to something with them. I don't, I feel, I don't know why are you going to be shocked by this person? Okay. Five of Swords. Hmm. Because they mean business. Virgo, I don't know why that would shock you, but I'm telling you, and it really doesn't matter. I'm telling you that this, this person, I feel like you're going to be shocked because you're serious, because you mean business. They're not playing around. They really want you to sign something. And do you feel like they're going to hand you the pen? They really, like maybe it's prenuptials. I don't know.  I mean, this person is serious about this. So whether this is marriage, you're moving in together, buying a home together, starting a business together, could be coming from your boss. It could be coming from someone who's way older than you. That is just a bizarre, like you never thought this person would ever remarry or get married again or would want to. It comes from someone who is in an extremely high position that you're not even really a part of. And I feel like it just comes as a shock. It's unexpected because they're really serious about this. I just want to get one more for that. Okay. Wow. Hmm. Okay.  They're going to support you for something. They're going to give you money and they're going to sign whatever needs to be signed. Some of you, this is a gift. Okay. This person, it could be, it doesn't have to be romantic. It could be coming from a father or a father figure. Remember I said this person can show up as like a father figure. This person like, you know, all you have to do is sign the paper and it's yours. You're set. You're set for life with this. Okay. Give me a call, Virgo, after this happens. They just said to me Libra. I don't know where. I just heard Libra right when I said that. Okay. So that must be for somebody, some kind of connection to Libra. All right. Let's take a look and see what this little graveyard thing is, this money thing. Oh, wow. I am telling you, listen to me, Virgo. There's an investigation of some sort that I feel like you might be attached to or find out about as far as this tapping into this wealth source. Somebody's looking. Somebody is looking. This is prying eyes. This is seeking information. Now that could be you, Virgo. I feel like you need to start looking. You need to start investigating. I don't know what the hell this means, but it's something to do with like, I don't know, finding oil or finding some very treasure or some wills about someone who's passed away, questioning whether there was money left for you or an inheritance of some sort. Yes. So it may not be buried treasure at a graveyard as well. It could be somebody that's buried. You may need to go into a church to get information to see if there's any paperwork, where that person is buried. Like if they're attached to that and start like some kind of an investigation process, there's money for you. There's a ton of money for you. Start looking. Oh my gosh. The Ace of Wands. Here you go. All right. And it's attached to a queen of cups. So it's maybe a mom or an aunt, a female. There's a female. There's money. She's left money for you somewhere and it wasn't, it wasn't found. You might know about it or you might know that there's some finding, there's like something or maybe you have a hunch or maybe you've been wondering. Start looking. I'm telling you. I'm also hearing. Okay, that's a strange message. Some are out by where there's a garden or if she planted a tree, it's under the tree also because we are talking about burials, buried things. A tree by the house or a tree behind some kind of building. I swear, if any of you leave in my comments, I know exactly what this is. I'm going to freak out. I will freak out about this because she's left something buried. Look even how she's got the lid on this here. She never told anyone. It's kind of a secret and it's specifically for you. You know, maybe it's your mother, maybe it's a grandmother or a great grandmother or an aunt or a friend or something like that. It will be like you're meant to find this. She's trying to reveal it to you at this time. Okay, and she's saying it's somewhere somewhere where it's somewhere in the ground where there's like new growth. So either there's like a tree planted or she planted something. It's near there. Okay, one more card for her. One more card, one more message for her. Oh, okay. All right, now there's two women, two queen of cups and a queen of wands. Okay, for some of you it's on a property that's been sold to a queen of wands. You need to go talk to her. That's the message I'm getting. Go talk to her about a tree or I don't know. You need to go talk to her. She might know something about it. She might be the new owner of this piece of property or maybe she's related to this queen of cups. They could be sisters or they could could be a daughter of the queen of cups. She knows something. She knows where this property is. You got to get a hold of her. That's what I'm feeling. Weird message, really weird, but I'm telling you there's like there's a gold mine. It could be just papers. She might have something in her basement that's left that you didn't know about. There's information. There's papers. There's some, your name is written on something that maybe you signed or someone signed for you a long time ago and it's yours. You own it. It's yours. All right, let's take a look. What's going on more with your health? You have the three of wands. You have the high priestess. Okay. And you have the six of cups. All right. You've got a friend that's really thinking about you at this time. You've got a friend from far off, whether that's time, distance. You've got a friend who wants to see you or that you might be thinking about and you need to go see them like on some kind of R and R, some kind of vacation of some sort. You need to go see this friend for your better health. I don't even know what that means for some downtime. If they live far away or if you're thinking of traveling or if you're thinking of planning a trip. Yes. See all those boats there? Maybe they're across the water. You might be waiting or planning for a trip or waiting for the date to come. It could be on a boat. You go to see this person or, you know, just maybe you fly out there. I'm definitely seeing some type of reunion or reconciliation with someone from your past. It could be with a Virgo Taurus or Capricorn as well. But this might be someone that has been, for some of you, it could have been like a secret or someone that you just haven't spoken to in a very long time. Now they might be coming to you. They might be thinking of you or planning to come see you, but this is connected to not just your physical health, your mental, your spiritual, your emotional healing. It's a very healing thing. Whoever this person is, them wanting that reconciliation with you secretly, keeping it hush-hush, you wanting that with them. I do feel like there is some kind of plan in the works here that's going to be, for some of you, like I said, this might be a wish or something that you've wanted to happen or wanting to come true or wishing you could reconnect with someone or them wishing it's going to happen in July. That's what I'm saying. Okay, yeah, night of one. So there is going to be a trip definitely. This can be a very lusty energy as well, but there is going to be a trip made from this point now into July that's going to bring you absolute joy and happiness and a feeling of refreshing to see this person. This is a miracle happening as far as like your health goes. So what do I mean? It doesn't necessarily mean physical. I mean, yeah, do you feel like you need to get some sleep? You might be working yourself to the bone. You need that brainwash, but you also, this could affect your emotional health, your spiritual health, your physical. This is very, very necessary. I feel like for you, if you're going to reconnect with someone, it will be very healing for you. And if you receive someone who's trying to connect, reconnect with you will be very healing for both of you, but especially for you, because this is who this reading is about. Let me see. Okay, you do have family celebrations, wedding and engagement party happening during this June through July, the end of June into July. Let's see. So you might be attending some type of an event, reconnecting with family, maybe you're going to a wedding. You may, you may be hoping to be engaged or to receive a proposal. I feel like here, endure and be patient. It's coming. That's a really strong message for you, Virgo, because you might be getting impatient. Some of you I know are just like, nah, I'm good. It's good. But I know there's others who are maybe you've been dieting, maybe we've been dating someone. You're just wondering when you guys are going to actually progress to it and be patient. It's coming. Okay, financial loss, that showed up in the reverse pretty much.  It's money, it's assets, material things, material wealth, something amazing. You've got this devil card in the reverse. So awesome. That's great. Basically, this is, how can I say this? This is like recovering. This is healing from something toxic as well. Some of you might be in recovery from something or you might decide to get clean from something and maybe you're just going to start eating clean, whatever it is. There's definitely breaking some toxic cycles or some toxic behaviors as well. So that's positive for you. Okay, some of you will get an opportunity to reevaluate your career as well. Maybe because you're going to be coming into some money, you're going to have an opportunity to look at the whole situation differently than you've ever seen it before. I don't know if you get kind of a light bulb moment because I feel like you might be in a career situation that there's really just no other way to see it. There's no, it can't get any better if you're, if it's, if it sucks, the only way for it to get better is for you to leave. But I see something comes to you. You have an aha moment. There's a slight change in your view about a career situation that you're in that will make it more sustainable. I don't know what that means. Okay, so reevaluating your career doesn't really mean reestablishing a new career. This is kind of like taking the career that you have or the job that you do and improving upon it or changing your role in it or finding a way to change your role in your career, change the value of the career. Right? So you're kind of like reevaluating, looking to see is this really what you want to do? Is this enough money? Are you kind of like, how can you make it better? How can I make improvements in this career that I'm in? Okay, so it's very positive. I don't see you leaving your career, but I do see coming into a lot of money. So that might spur you on whether or not you want to invest the money that you get into this career to expand it or is it just fine where it is and put your money elsewhere.  Okay, so you definitely got a committed love relationship coming in as well during this time. Okay, somebody's committing to you, definitely and you're not going to have to wait for an answer anymore. It's coming and that's what you're seeing over here as far as love goes. You got a lot like amazing stuff going on in the month of July.  I mean, it looks good and I feel like, hold on a minute now. I just want to tell you guys, July 23rd. So right now, we are in the pre-shadow of Venus retrograde and then it goes direct, I believe, or it's in actual, no, it doesn't go direct. It's an actual, I believe July 23rd is when it's an actual full-on retrograde, right? Because that pre-shadow period lasts for like a little bit of time. I think it's like a month or three weeks to a month or something like that. So that Venus retrograde pre-shadow is when things begin kind of pulling away and then we start reevaluating love relationships and our connections and sometimes people from the past also return more so during the Venus retrogrades than during the Mercury's. The Mercury retrograde just tends to make communication difficult because Mercury is about communication whether it's virtual or face-to-face or what have you, or technical issues. A lot of people do say, oh, you know, Mercury retrograde, my people came back. That's not generally, unless there was a Mercury retrograde during a Venus, from my experience, Mercury retrograde really just is kind of like glitches and losing things and a lot of Virgos tend to feel like kind of sideways, you know, when Mercury retrograde happens. But the Venus retrograde is when people start kind of coming back into your life because Venus represents love and relationships. So you're in the pre-shadow phase right now. So you might start beginning to get some strange things starting to happen that might just be like, huh, that's really odd. And if it's just one, okay, that's fine. But then when it starts to be, now there's a second and now you're going to start seeing people that you knew before that you have been disconnected from for a really long time. And they're going to, these are going to be people that are just going to show up out of the blue. And sometimes they are the people that you have on your mind. You might be drawing them in. But for most, most of you, this is going to start happening now. Okay. So that's what I'm saying. Like, you've got like either someone that you might be connected to or related to is coming back. There's this family connection here where like there might be an aunt or a mother or sister or someone that's left some kind of money or something of value for you. Okay. That's that person coming back.  This person, like there's a commitment coming in here. And so you got someone from your past returning like a friend as well or it could be a sibling they haven't seen in a while or just another other person from your past. It's going to be maybe they've been gone. There's a reconnection. So a lot of this Venus retrograde will have a lot of people from the past coming back, but they're attached in different ways. They have different, different gifts and different offers and things that they're coming forward with. So it should be really interesting. You might have already be feeling this now. I know some people who have already been telling me that this energy is weird and strange things have been happening. And I can even account for three certain instances myself that this has already started to occur. So I'm going to leave that there. I'm really not going to, well, actually, I'm not, no, I just, they just said get a couple more messages and then I'm just going to do some charms here. Oh, okay. Well, this just fell out this charm. So this is a horse. Wow. Just like that. Just out of the blue like that. There you go. A stallion? Some kind of connection to a horse. Things are going to start moving pretty quickly. Very powerful momentum coming up here for you in this time period. Maybe you own a horse. Maybe you've got some kind of connection to horses. Or you just love horses. Maybe you'll be riding horses. Maybe your person is born the year of the horse. Or there's someone pretty important to you who was born in the year of the horse. Maybe you are. Okay. Let me just get a couple of names and see what the other messages are here. I'm going to keep these really short and sweet and simple. All right. Yep. You've got transformation. Initials. There's an initial C, a significant life experience that requires changes to be made. Powerful and often unexpected revelation. That's what I'm saying. Breaking free of procrastination, releasing old belief systems. So either you, your name, you've got a C in your name or there is another person who's showing up. Did I just hear the name Chandler? Wait, are we in friends? Chandler? Ross? Rachel? What's going on? I did though. There was a name Chandler. I was impressed with a Chandler. Okay. All right. You've also got the initial P. Okay. Logical, perceptive, insightful, blunt and exciting intellectual challenges coming. Beautiful insights, brilliant insights, information that you need, but might be challenging to receive. Review all documents very carefully. So Virgo, yes, I'm telling you, I keep saying it. I just, I saw somebody kind of like slide in the pen across the table and be like, sign. You're signing it. You're getting something Virgo. Okay. What other name or initial does Virgo need here? Okay. You've got a J, a happy marriage, happily ever after, emotional contentment, a loving relationship with your children, raising children wisely and successfully and being around people you can trust. This is pretty amazing. All right. So the initials, we have a C, we have a P, we have a J and we have an O. Okay. Pretty amazing. Capricorn, Leo, Scorpio and Virgo. Okay. We have someone born in 1981. We have the number 708. We have 59. We have 109 and the number two. I'm also hearing the 28th. Okay. 2014, significant year. We have 920, 1218 and 41. Okay. September and August, Virgo birthdays. Okay. August 28th. There you go. 24th, 23rd, August 29th, September 11th, September 4th, September 20th, September 23rd. I don't think that's Virgo. I think that's Libra. September 2nd, September 9th, September 18th and also the numbers 4040, 4040 and 110. Okay. And then two, three, six, eight. Okay. Crazy you guys. Crazy. Oh wait. Do you want your Chinese signs? I'm doing everything backwards today. Let's just do your Chinese signs real quick. Show Virgo. Virgo's Chinese sign because we have too many people in here to pick one person. So show Virgo's Chinese sign. Okay. Virgo year of the monkey, year of the horse. There you go. That just would mean as you're reading year of the dog, year of the dragon, year of the ox, year of the goat, year of the horse again, and year of the rabbit and the rooster. Wow. Pretty amazing Virgo. I think that's it. Awesome. So I'm going to leave your reading there. I hope you enjoyed that little shift and change. I thought it would be fun to try to tap into the different energies. I think I might make this go this way. Maybe Mondays I'll just do a complete love thing. Sunday do singles and then the rest of the week try to tap into finances, health, a little bit of love and all that. See what's coming up for you. So yeah. I hope you guys have a great night. Hope you enjoyed this reading. Make your choices, be happy. I love you and I will see you tomorrow.


Everyone joining us today for this important topic in Sustainable Development Impact Summit session titled A Green Transition Starts with Blue Water. This session supports the World Economic Forum's ongoing work on water where our focus is on elevating and inspiring new ways of thinking about water in the context of our economy and our society and how water importantly links across other key sustainable development topics like climate and nature. We work very closely with our forum partners to support and advance public-private cooperation, whether it's the 2030 Water Resources Group, which has grown into a leading network of over 900 stakeholders across 14 countries and states and has enabled more than about $1 billion of investment into technology and water infrastructure. To the 50-liter home, an emerging partnership looking to transform the urban water and energy systems to the hand hygiene marketing accelerator looking to strengthen markets and supply chains of critical hand hygiene supplies. All of these efforts have innovation at its heart, new ways of seeing, thinking, and collaborating on water, which is our focus of the session today. Today, we will have two segments. The first segment will be on the record and made public and where we will hear from our forum partners and some pretty exciting innovation and ideas that we love to build on. And in our second segment, we'll engage in a peer-to-peer Chatham House Rule Exchange where we'll build on these ideas and try and look forward and see how we might accelerate and take these to scale for greater impact. Again, thank you all of you for joining us today and please do remember to keep yourselves on mute for our speakers. With that, I have the pleasure to introduce Heather Clancy, Editorial Director from GreenBiz and an award-winning journalist specializing in transformative technology innovation. She's a perfect person to help but navigate us through this session as our moderator. So, Heather, thank you very much for joining us to all of our speakers. Thank you. And Heather, over to you to take us through. Thanks. Thank you, Alex. Good day to everyone. Whatever time it is, wherever you are, thrilled that you're here with us today. This is one of those topics that we could spend many, many more hours discussing than the limited time we have. So, I'm going to just make a couple of comments and let our speakers get right to their framing commentary. One of the things as a journalist that I've been grappling with for many years is the focus so much on carbon reduction and there's so many elements of a green transition that require attention. Water is so critically important. It's part of so many of the sustainable development goals. It applies to food, poverty, climate, biodiversity. And we know we have two of us here in the New York area and have very vividly seen water challenges the last few weeks. Actually, three of us, probably more of us. But we know that our resources are being pushed to the edge. There are so many competing demands. We've got water pollution to handle. We know we have not been investing in our infrastructure. There are things that are happening that are impacted by climate change. Everyone is affected. Food production, energy generation, livability of cities, the health and well-being of all of us, no matter where we are. Doesn't matter how developed the country is, we are very beholden to the water around us. For businesses, we're talking about risks that could erode over $300 billion in value. That is five times the cost of taking action. There's many reports that underscore this. Addressing these risks require us to innovate, think differently, and to, it's an opportunity. There are many opportunities that businesses have to take us to a better place by addressing these issues. It's not just about conserving water, but that's part of it. But it's about how we can handle things differently. That is what we'll explore. Each of the panelists, I will introduce in a moment, we'll be making a three-minute or so comments, and then we'll be having some exchange after that. And I would love to just briefly mention all of them, and then we'll get right into it. We are privileged to have today Usha Rao Menari. She is the Under Secretary General and Associate Administrator for the United Nations Development Program, welcome. Mary Draves is Chief Sustainability Officer for Dow, and Patrick Decker is the Chief Executive Officer for Xylem. And with that, I would love to pass it over to Usha. I think one of the things I really love you to address right out of the gate is what business, what the business world really does need to do in order to tip the scales on the challenge that we face. Usha? Thank you very much, Heather. Thank you, Alex, for inviting UNDP and myself to be part of this important panel. So, you laid out some very important facts, and I'd like to just take it up from there. Your question was, how does business, or what should business do to do more for water? And I would take a step back, Heather, and I'd say, actually, given where we are today, where we are in some sort of, I believe, hopefully post-pandemic situation or post-crisis situation, which has caused an unimaginable socioeconomic crisis globally with no one that has been spared from this crisis, we're at a point where I think we look at progress and solutions in terms of partnerships. So, when you say what should business do, right, to tip the scales, I think was the exact question, towards more in water, I would say it's a partnership between the private sector and the public sector and civil society. I think it has to be a partnership. Alex, you mentioned the Water Resources Group. Indeed, that was a model that has tried to do that, and it has been immensely successful. But what do I mean by that? If I look at the private sector, and I look at Patrick and I look at Mary, and I immediately think of two things as a public sector person. Now, I used to be private sector. I say, I'd like finance and I'd like innovation. And in innovation, it's not just about new technologies, but I'd like your help on new business models. How do we do what we want to do in a more sensible way? What do we do about this continuing issue around pricing or valuing of water, et cetera? So, I look to the private sector to help me with that. Of course, finance. I mean, finance is needed for any sort of progress anywhere. So, how can the private sector put money into water?  And I find that mildly shocking, given that I've been associated with this sector for two decades or more. And I hope Patrick and Mary will prove me wrong on the innovation side there. But what does, so what do we have to do? So on the one hand, government has to put in place an enabling environment, whether it's regulatory frameworks, whether it is policies and procedures to, to not incentivize, but to enable really, I use that word intentionally, the private sector to come in with the expertise that they bring. But I don't think that anybody should think that the private sector can do it all. They cannot. They need this partnership between public and private and they need, as somebody said in the film, youth activists and civil society to help create the integrity and trust of the interventions that we make going forward. In UNDP, we consider this a whole of society approach. It's a big term. And when I came in, I was like, what is that? What that is, is exactly this. We connect dots all the time as we go forward to create the solutions. We connect dots between participants. We connect dots between finance, governance, innovation and infrastructure. These, in my view, this is the way, this is the whole of society approach that we have to take to go forward and create more finance, more innovation, more advancement in the sector. Back to you, thank you. Yeah, I wanna go back to something you said early in your comments, which is the chronic underinvestment. What is keeping businesses from investing in this? The industry from investing in this? Is it those policies not being in place? What's the issue? Well, I don't, that, you know, honestly, you will all know this on the panel. We could literally talk four days about this, but I think the issues are around the file. I'll just enumerate them Heather, if I may. So one, water is not priced or valued properly enough for it to be something that you can invest in to use that word intentionally, right? Exactly. Number two, water has unfortunately become over politicized globally and people just don't wanna have anything to do with it, I'm quite frankly. And thirdly, it is a molecule. It's a very fragmented sector. It's not a molecule that can easily be transported. It's heavy, it's local. There is, if you look around the world, there's never been any governance at the federal level. I'm exaggerating, probably somewhere there is, but I haven't seen as much as there should be, unlike say, energy, where there's always a federal level ministry looking after it. So I think those are three reasons. Okay, do you, as you point to the need for public private partnership, which we know is, well, not just, I mean, for a partnership, collaboration around these solutions. Do you, can you point to any examples of worth emulation, things that an area or a place where you see things that you'd love other people to model? Well, you've given me a real lead in. I mean, one is the Water Resources Group, which Alex was talking about. I think it was set up as a simple and unambiguous partnership between three parties. And the idea was to create these multi-stakeholder partnerships in country. So it did two things. One, it created the partnership, but two, it took it down to the country local level, wherever. So it wasn't some great global, many global partnerships work, but many don't, because they don't take it down to the country level. Again, I think this is a place where UNDP excels because we work in 170 countries, boots on the ground. So those are the kind of things that I would love to see emulated. Yeah, as we know, this is a very local issue. So that's super important for those resources to be there. One more quick question for you before we draw the others into this conversation. If you could tell the business industry leaders on this panel, well, you're going to, what would you like to see them do? Especially what we do, we have a very important summit, the first UN Water Summit in over 40 years coming up, 2023. What, and we've got, of course, COP next month, action, specific things that businesses can do now, can take now in order to prepare for those two very critical junctures. There are a lot, but the one or two requests I have for the private sector, for Patrick, for Mary, for everybody else is please come into the discussion around water with patients and without your flags. Let's sit together as colleagues and come up with solutions that work for the people and the planet because if you come in with your fly, if I came in and I said, I'm UNDP and this is how I want to do something, it's not going to work, if Patrick came in and said, I'm Xilin, this is what we have to do, we have to make 20% IRR on every dollar we put up, it may or may not work, I hope it works for you Patrick. But the point is that let's come together, that's my request, let's come together before the summit and at the summit maybe even announce some exciting initiatives where we kept our flags at home but really came up with some excellent solutions. Does that make sense to you, Heather? Yes, it does, thank you for those visuals here, yeah. Okay, with that, thank you, Usha, Mary, you're on the spot now. So you've just heard what UNDP would like. I know you have a lot of things going on in terms of innovations that have to do with the water space and you wanted to address one of them specifically today, you have more than that, I know, but how does Dow look at this? I mean, you're in the business to make profit and obviously you have opportunities to help and also to grow in other areas. So what do you see as a space that Dow can innovate in as far as water technologies? Yeah, Heather, I think that Usha's comments are right on the mark, right? And I think what themes I heard from her is we have to work together to solve this. It's like any of the other major challenges we have, as we see climate impacting our freshwater resources, we must work together to resolve, how do we get freshwater to be in abundance rather than as a scarcity? We believe it's our responsibility but yet also our opportunity to do just that and we have to collaborate with other sectors of society to do that and how do we do that through our own operations, is how we optimize our operations? How do we focus on using less freshwater? How do we also though innovate? I think that Usha also challenged was bring innovations to us. Dow also participates in the UN Global Compact CEO Water Mandate and the Water Resilience Coalition. We believe that along with other members of the CEO Water Mandate that we have to, as you say, put a stake in the ground to say that we need to lead in this space rather than, I think Usha, you said, come with our own flags. This is about us collaborating and working together. I think the one thing that we really think is important is action. And how do we bring things to the market that help us improve our water use? And I'm wearing one of those innovations today. So one of the most exciting things that we announced this year in a partnership with Ralph Lauren is the use of a product called EcoFast Pure. Now, if you think about how we innovate, and we're a material science company. So we are constantly bringing best science to the table. How do we make things more sustainable? How do we make things use, that use less energy, less water and create less waste? I mean, that is in our fabric. That is in our DNA. It's like safety for manufacturing organization. But EcoFast Pure is a brand that is amazingly, it hits all the marks in terms of environmental performance. It can dramatically reduce water. It can dramatically reduce energy. 50% less dye use in the process, 40% less energy. So EcoFast Pure helps the apparel industry. And this is a shirt dyed with EcoFast Pure use less of everything, right? And I think that's really, really important. This is that we've brought that innovation to them. We partnered with Ralph Lauren to bring this to market. And the collaboration has just really truly been amazing. The other thing, Ralph Lauren, we share very similar sustainability practices and principles. The performance of our product for Ralph Lauren also doesn't compromise the performance of the brand that they have, while also meeting all of our sustainability requirements and what we need to deliver for the world today. We also believe that things like this, we need to scale them, scale them so that we can have a continual impact. And if you think about what could happen in the apparel industry, if everyone cut their water use by 50%, if all fabric dyes cut water or energy intensity by 40%, that could be have a tremendous impact on this just one industry. So we're very excited also to bring our thinking on this with Ralph Lauren to the rest of the world. So available in just a few weeks, you'll see a step-by-step guide and how to actually do this, right? How to actually implement and take action in your manufacturing process. And I think that that's really at the core of who we are as a company, right? Sustainability as our fabric and our DNA, our responsibility to act, but also to innovate to help our customers do the same. That's a really super important example. I love that sharing of what you're learning. How do you think, I mean, is that, you've got this super focused partnership with Ralph Lauren. How do you scale that to other companies? Is it that through just open sourcing these innovations? Yes, I think it is. Heather, and I would say too, transparency is really important. How did we get there? Frankly, what did we do to get there? What mistakes do we made so others don't have the, what did we learn? All those things are now, there will be available. And it also helps, I would say helps the rest of us understand how we can move forward and implement these very similar solutions. I think also too, transparency is important in how we use water. Dow has reported our sustained, we've been transparent reporting our work for the last 18 years and most recently issued our first combined ESG report called Intersections. I think I challenge all of us as a business to do that and to also talk about our use of water and we do that very clearly and what actions we're taking to use less and improve our performance. Super, let's draw Patrick in now. And obviously we just heard from a fashion industry example. There's many, many other industries that Xylem is working with on similar solutions but also very different ones. What other innovations do you see that could really help scale what we need to do and what the actions we are that we need to take? Patrick. Well, thanks Heather. I mean, thanks Alex for having me. I wanna go back to something that Usha said earlier and that was how do we come together? Our tagline is let's solve water and every single form that I ever speak in front of I always say let's remove the apostrophe from let's and it's let us solve water. So it's not about Xylem, okay? It's about all of us coming together. Secondly, there's something that we don't spend too much time talking about in the world that I think is gonna become more and more prominent and that is what is a watershed? Everybody has their own net zero commitments but it's within the four walls of their factory or within their own kind of section of things. And I think we have to create more awareness of kind of the impact that we all have including things like the fashion and textile industry that it's more than just the water that's taken in or discharged. It's the impact it has on the broader watershed. Many communities around the world are already dealing with water scarcity and it was happening long before the pandemic or recent climate crisis. To tackle the issue in my own humble opinion, we've got to address the water issue with the same urgency that we have the carbon challenge. Water is an economic force. It is the essence of life. Alex, as I mentioned to you the other day, anybody who's on this session right now already kind of gets that but the challenge for us is how do we get that voice out? How do we create awareness around that? And one of the ways that I think we do that is through youth. Getting youth engaged in this conversation to the point where, again, I forget what the name of the band is but we're not gonna take it.  And Heather, the point is they're all affordable. So when we talk about investable, we can talk about that separately. I mean, of course, Xylem is a for-profit organization but we're doing things in an affordable way. We're helping customers do things in an affordable way because if you check with any one of our colleagues, they will say, Patrick always talks about how do we create social value and economic value? The two go hand in hand. This is not a competition but it comes down to things being affordable. We're also seeing the power of aligning sustainability and business strategies. I mean, I get so tired of hearing other CEOs or companies talking about what their ESG strategy is. Really? But really? Like you're doing it because you want the investor to jump in that you're doing the right thing as opposed to sustainability needs to be at the core of what your business strategy is. Yeah. I can't agree with you more. Yeah, I can't agree with you more on that one. That's just for sure. I would love to, you talk about the affordable solutions. Could you point to a few of them? I mean, some specific things. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, no, I absolutely, I'd love to. Again, I'll keep it very brief. So we had a terrific opportunity a couple of years ago in South Bend with, at the time, Mayor Pete. Now, Secretary Pete of Transportation who's leading all of the infrastructure bill discussions. And one of the biggest challenges he faced was stormwater overflow. The St. Joe River, it floods pretty frequently. And he was facing an EPA mandate. Again, for those that are outside of the US, the EPA has mandates around certain key regulatory things like stormwater overflow. It was gonna cost South Bend upwards of $800 million. And at a household level, that would have been thousands of dollars that would have had to have been assessed. So the technology that our team brought to bear was to use distributed technology sensors around the entire watershed to be able to mimic how does that water distribution network perform during a storm event so that they could find ways to move water around so that they could reduce the impact of the storm. More importantly, affordability. The team was able to give them a solution that literally was less than 20% of what they had originally signed up for. It made it more affordable. It made it more practical. And more importantly, it empowered the local water utility to say, hey, as long as I, as somebody's helping me with technology, I can do a better job. I can bring new ideas and new solutions. What we don't do, we don't go in and tell somebody how smart we are versus what they're, they are, we're trying to say, meet you where you are. What are the critical challenges that you are dealing with as a water utility? And how can we use innovation and data to empower you? Super example, thank you. We only have a few more minutes left of this public session and I know we're going to lose Usha for the second part. So I have a lot of questions for Mary and Patrick in the second half, but I'd love to go back over to Usha for some sort of final thoughts, particularly on Patrick's comments about watershed approach, but I think that's, I'm hearing more and more water-positive declarations now by companies. How should businesses be looking at watersheds, not just sort of this universal goal? Thank you, Heather, and very quickly. I mean, Patrick is absolutely correct. I think, and it goes back to the point, I think I believe I made about connecting dots and taking integrated approaches to making solutions. When you consider it as a watershed, because there are many users of the resource, businesses just want. And so if business just takes actions based on their use pattern or use profile, it doesn't work. I mean, and they will find that their walls and so on and so forth and they can't get beyond them. But if you take a watershed approach, I think that's the, you take everybody's interests and needs and motivations into account when you create an integrated solution. It was, when I was younger, it used to be called integrated water resource management. I mean, that took a watershed approach. It wasn't very fashionable at the time for some reason, but I do think that we should revisit it today. So Patrick, thank you. I think that's exactly right. And if more businesses would think like that and bring in their incredible intelligence and expertise and technologies and so on and so forth, I in the sector would be in a better place. And with that, I'm afraid I do have to go off rather quickly, Heather and Alex and Patrick and Mary.  I have to be with you. This is the best part of my day this far. And I would say, what I would also say is we, everybody that's listening into this, we are the privileged ones. So if we can't figure it out, nobody else can. I know. You couldn't be less, Patrick. Even the idea, and I'm gonna come back to all of you, Mary and Patrick on this idea and then we'll take it from there. Thank you very much, Alex, Heather. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful rest of the session. Pradeep, I hope you're somewhere there. Okay, thank you. Yes, I am, Ushua. Great, thank you so much, Ushua. Before we do go to the one-on-one exchange or the peer-to-peer exchange, I wanted to just give Patrick and Mary just one very short, quick response for the public session here. One big key for another business that's really just starting to grapple with the blue part of the green transition. What would you tell them to focus on first? Mary, I'm gonna put you on the spot first. Yeah, I would say, Heather, Dow started a journey 30 years ago and we said, okay, what is important to us in how we operate and start small and then grow? Get some traction on some things. We started with our safety performance. And if you see where we are now, we're talking about being carbon neutral. We're talking about reducing our freshwater intake by 20% by 2025, which is huge for us. So start, but you have to start. And I think Patrick, you made some great comments as you have to start somewhere. So drive the stake in the ground, start somewhere and then you'll watch this just really grow, grow, grow in your company. And as Patrick said, it becomes who you are. It's just how you operate. It's not something you go do. It's part of our fabric of our being. Speed answer, Patrick. Build it into your sustainability goals, make it real, make it measurable. But secondly, find ways to engage all of your colleagues in water issues in their community from a philanthropic standpoint, like get them involved so they actually see and feel what people in their own communities are dealing with. Great. All right, so plenty of things to ask about now in the peer-to-peer exchange, which we will be going to in a moment. I wanted to thank you, Mary and Patrick for being here on our panel today. Thank you so much, Alex, for asking me to do this. This is one of the highlights of my day because it's an issue I've been thinking about a lot.


The Independent National Electoral Commission has urged political parties who have not uploaded their nominations to do so before the date expires. The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday at the Commission's quarterly consultative meeting with political parties, stating that only six parties participating in the state governorship election have so far uploaded their nominated candidates into the Commission's portal two weeks after the portal was opened. Recall that INEC had announced the opening of the portal for the uploading of party nominations, which was billed to commence on 4th of March 2024 and automatically shut down at 6 p.m. on Saturday 24th of March 2024. On the off-cycle elections in Andohi, he hinted that the party primaries will start on the 6th of April 2024 and end on 27th of April 2024. The INEC Chairman says 16 out of 19 political parties have so far indicated interest to participate in the on-do election. For the on-do-state governorship election, party primaries begin in the next two weeks on 6th of April 2024 and ends three weeks later on 27th of April 2024. So far, 16 political parties out of 19 have indicated interest in participating in the election. I urge political parties to adhere strictly to your proposed dates and modes of primaries. Frequent changes, as we witnessed recently, during the Edo primaries are not only disruptive but costly. The commission cannot mobilize, demobilize, and remobilize our officials for the monitoring of party primaries for the convenience of political parties. Parties should stick to their proposed dates and modes of primaries for certainty and optimal deployment of resources. In his response, the Chairman of the Interparty Advisory Council of IPAC, Yusuf Dantal, says party leaders will ensure that the conducts of the front-coming Edo and on-do governorship elections meet the expectations of Nigerians and the international community. We will live up to its mandate to ensure an environment conducive for the conduct of successful elections. Accordingly, IPAC will set up a constitution and electoral act amendment committee to review glaring irregularities in recent elections and make proposals to the national assemblies in its ongoing constitution and electoral amendments, act amendments. In this regard, IPAC will be proactive to ensure that the Edo and on-do state governational elections meet the expectations of Nigerians and international community. So there should be no excuse for poor performance. IPAC will constantly engage INEP, as usual, and major stakeholders to ensure the success of the elections and will be there from mobilization and voter centralization of monitoring of the polls, as usual. I expect that the Commission will prove meaningful as we have always done before. Thank you.


While the football team stumbled this weekend, the soccer team continued its perfect season, defeating Winona State 2-1 yesterday. The Beavers sit at 8-0 this season and 5-0 in the conference. It's been a full team effort, their first in goal scored and tied for second in the conference and goals allowed. Head Coach Jim Stone says it's been a perfect storm leading to their hot start. We've had good leadership. I think we had some confidence going into the season where we could be good and I think we've been relatively healthy. I think those three things have enabled us to kind of get a good start to the season. Offensively, they've been led by the duo of Rachel Norton and Allison Smith. Norton leads the NSIC with 8 goals scored and Smith scored three times this weekend to be named NSIC Offensive Player of the Week. I think they were already coming in with a good understanding and a good foundation of knowing what the other person is thinking and it's one of those things where it should only get better and it did and hopefully it continues to. A big credit to my teammates. Every goal I score, every goal the team scores starts from defending and so if we don't have good defending and good build-up and the hard work for my teammates, I don't get goals, I don't get the credit. They're not focused in program history, but they're not too focused on what others are saying about them. Honestly, we don't really focus on it. It's cool to be ranked, but the biggest thing is we gotta look forward to our next game. My next game is the biggest game of the year, so we just gotta take it one game at a time and not to think too far ahead into the future. Beavers will be back at home next week on PBS.


So a variant of the hex exists I've only seen once and that was ages ago due to researching another grenade which I covered in a video. Today I have this rare variant and today we check out what it's capable of and compare it to the king of hexes. How's it going guys? My name is dpj and I'd like to thank you for stopping by and checking out the video. If you do enjoy it leaving a like truly helps me out and subscribe if you want to see more Borderlands. Also guys every week I give away copies of this game. To win one for yourself or a friend simply subscribe and make sure you have notifications turned on. Drop a like and a video and leave a comment down below. So this started ages ago with the upload of a specific hex grenade where footage I was sent was claimed to be an actual in-game drop on PC while playing. The grenade itself you guys noticed as well as I did that although it had the hex stats it also had the stats of the quasar grenade tied into it as well. Watching this thing in action was just unbelievable. Now most people in the video in the comments section claimed it was a mudded grenade. I wasn't sure as the guy was adamant it dropped while playing. I then saw a comment from someone on that same video stating they had this exact same grenade drop on Xbox and with a little more information on it. It seems as though in ultra rare instances when both these grenades drop at the same time somehow the game glitches and fuses them into a single grenade. That was the explanation I got. Either way it isn't a grenade you can legit chase in game. But after seeing it in action and what it's capable of and although it reads amazing it spreads into four then spawns nine additional merves. I mean wow but it is very unrealistic to think it's obtainable. But seeing this I had a look around the internet and I found a hex variant which although it didn't spawn nine merves in it did spawn in six. It's called the Mervtacular and today thanks to my pal trawling donkey who sent me this for a review we can see what this thing is capable of. Now I have searched high and low I have many many friends who play the game who have done the same. None of them have come across this hex variant. So I'll go on to say it's got to be the rarest out of the bunch. Now because it's the rarest does it mean it's the best? Well today we will find out because I already have the current hex king the recurring hex. Both of these are at the same item score both are through that shuck elemental damage so comparing them will be an absolute doddle. So how does this Mervtacular work? Well you throw an initial grenade that explodes and spawn six merves. Now each one of these six merves then go on to spawn another merves so in total twelve merves and it makes sense with the double merves stat.  So how is this different to the recurring hex? Well the recurring hex actually spawns the exact same amount of merves and this I believe is due to the divider stat on this variant. The initial grenade splits into two then each spawns three merves equaling six and each of these six spawn one of a merv equaling 12 merves in total just like the Mervtacular. So really there ain't much between these two at the moment. Comparing them stat wise though you can see the recurring hex as the slightest edge damage and radius wise. But because they're literally so equal the only real thing I could do to compare the two was to face them up against the same boss. So on mayhem one some modifiers didn't come into play I threw one grenade of each at Gigamind and witnessed the results. So on screen now we can see both grenades against Gigamind's shield. One throw and because they're both shock we can see true effects here. Now looking at each damage wise we can see that the recurring hex does have that slight advantage here. I'd literally say having 20 to 25 percent extra damage which in reality to me isn't really a surprise. It's something I actually expected going into this test. And after a close inspection I believe the only difference between the two and where that 20 percent extra damage is coming from is the divided stat on the recurring hex which makes the initial grenades split into two and because the both grenades are impacting Gigamind at the same time this is where the extra damage is coming from because it also gains extra lingering damage too. So yeah even though the Mervtacular is the area of the grenades you still can't stand next to the king. Now maybe there's a different variant out there maybe there's a cloning version of this Mervtacular that really could make the difference here. But at the moment the recurring hex still reigns king and like I said even though the Mervtacular is a rare route seems the recurring hex if hex is what you want is the one for you guys to chase. Now both of these are world drops both of them are pretty rare to be honest so you will need luck in finding them so good luck to you. So the Mervtacular although it isn't a complete let down it still can't stand tall to tall with the recurring hex. Now I do have a few different variants of the Mervtacular and comparing them again against their recurring hex counterparts do result to the same every single time. So yeah it is what it is but on that note we have come to the end of the video if you guys enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out if you're new around here and want to see more Borderlands videos be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button because thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one


This is TFNN, The Tiger Financial News Network Update. Good morning everyone on this Thursday, the 26th of October, Tiger Financial News Network Market Update. Of course, I follow Tommy O'Brien's Morning Market Kickoff, great show, 9 to 10. Here we go. The Dow is down 67,000 to 32,958. In this arch formation, you might get a little pop up, which is what I was expecting because there were so many really good announcements in Dow stocks over the last couple of days. Well, it didn't last very long because now we're down and the target is 32,846, 32,962 to make that H-pattern. The S&P's already done that very weak, it's down 27,4159, 4216 was the left side low. We took it out four days ago, we're even lower today. Remember, I mentioned that 9-period moving average under the 14 in the weekly chart, that's a worry. Now look at the QQQ, it's even more, so it's down almost at the 200-period moving average down 3.5 and 346.80. Look at that weekly chart, that 9-period moving average underneath, we waited and waited to see it happen. It happened in the futures, that's the futures on Friday. It only happened yesterday and today, for Tuesday, Wednesday and today. So we're looking also at the IWM, the Russell 2000 small caps, making lower lows, taking out the low of April. It doesn't look good, in fact, it's about to test the low, they're going from 2022. Not good. Gold is up, announced down 6th at 1988. It's holding quite well, but you would have expected, well, the whole initial thrust of the upside in the early October with the Middle East configuration, that really spiked the chart behind. But look at the GDX, I'll do this more in my show, GDX is actually down 27 cents, that's the gold minus. So it's really gold that is the factor here that we're looking at. And let me just go to crude oil, crude oil right now is, down $1.60, let's look at the dollar. The dollar was up earlier on, it's up a little bit, up 10 ticks and 1 is 6.63, broken the resistance level we see if that can hold and bonds, bonds the TLT, just about unchanged at 83.53. Man, those yields, they just do not want to come down. I'll be back for the target technicians in a few moments, hope you can stay. Hold on, it's going to be an exciting day.


In my opinion, the Minnesota Timberwolves are the most intriguing team for the 2023-2024 season. And guess what? I'm a believer in them. I mean, to an extent, I don't think they're about to win an NBA championship or anything like that. But I think that the over under for them right now is 43 and a half. And I think that they can be a lot better than that. Now, Timberwolves fans, before you get super excited because Kenny Beachman is on the bandwagon, I do want to admit, I make videos like this every single season during the off season. Like, these are the teams I'm excited about. These are teams I'm not excited about. And I have missed a ton. Last year, I made a video about the two teams that got left in the dust by their contemporaries. The first team was Chicago Bulls. They're pretty good on that. They were a 41 team last season. And the last team, the next team, I said, hey, don't expect them to be good this year. Was the Miami Heat? Yeah, they weren't great in the regular season, but they made an NBA finals appearance. So I'm just saying just because Kenny Beachman, I think the wolves going to be better. Don't mean that that's even close to being a reality. But let's talk about the things that make me think that they could be better than people anticipate. So we all know last off season, they made a huge huge decision. They went all in. They went all in on a roster that wasn't close to being amazing. But that's okay. Maybe. I guess the time will tell. They traded all the first round picks, plus some young players to bring in Rudy Go Bear. And you're one of the Rudy Go Bear experiment with Carthony Towns and Ethny Edwards did not go well. I mean, it was good enough to make a playoff appearance, but that wasn't what the expectation was.  It was not pretty. I remember the trade going down and just we making videos asking who the heck were they bidding against to give up all of that? Danny Ains, finesse. And that has nothing to do with the talent level of Rudy Go Bear, but just like all of that. And again, I'm a big Rudy fan. He's one of the best rim protectors we've seen in the last 10 years. He's gonna go down in history as one of the best rim protecting centers ever. He's gonna be a Hall of Famer, but that was a ton of capital to give away when you already had a center on the roster. You traded for a center when your center, this ain't all NBA. Anyway, the trade happened so we don't wanna digress on it too much. We gotta think about the future now. We have to try to accept the fact that trade happened and how can they be better? Y'all know I don't be having a script when I write these, so we gonna be all over the place. There are a couple different reasons that make me a believer in the Minnesota Timbers. The one that's above all is Anthony Edwards. And this is actually a weird time because I was gonna make this video regardless, but as I'm recording this video an hour ago, Team USA won against Team Germany and Anthony Edwards was a man. And that's two rosters with a lot of NBA talent. You know what I'm saying? It's not like they're beating up on some team that don't have NBA players. They wanna get Franz Wagner, Mo Wagner, Dennis Shroud, Isaac Banga, Daniel Tice. Anthony Edwards dropped 34 points closed out the game and he was the best player on the court. And we talked about this on the Kenny Beecham podcast, the Kenny Beecham podcast, go check it out about how there are certain players that in the Feeba Ball for the USA that are standing out from me and those players were Anthony Edwards and Austin Reeves for different reasons. I'm not saying that Anthony Edwards has been the best player on the court every single one of these games because that's not true. There's just so much talent on the team. Some days it is Tavis Halliburton. Some days it's Anthony Edwards. Some days it's both and you kinda saw that today. So he's not always the best player on the court, but boy, his impact is always felt. Whether it be hitting clutch shots to close the game or getting clutch steals to close the game against Spain like he has been everywhere and doing exactly what you want. Like when I watched these international games it's not just about representing the country as a fan because that meadow don't mean much to me, but it's about, okay, who's using this offseason to be the better version of themselves? And I'm seeing that in Anthony Edwards. And that's saying a lot because last year he made an all-star appearance. I think the next jump is happening. Now, I don't know if that means super starting because in my opinion, there's only a handful of superstars and all of basketball, but he looks really good and there's nothing for me to believe that he won't be dramatically better than he was last season. And it's also been this evolution. And maybe I'm reading into this a little bit too much because that's what we do in the offseason. We got nothing else to do. We looking at NBA schedules, which we will talk about when we talk about the Minnesota Timbers, we look at NBA schedules and stuff and we dissect stuff, right? When the Rudy Gobert trade happened for Anthony Edwards, we're talking a month or two into the season. Anthony Edwards got caught on Instagram like in a post that was talking about it being the worst trade in the history of ball. He went into post game interviews saying like, hey, I can't be myself because the pain is clogged, which yeah, you know what I'm saying? There's a double S or Rudy Gobert. You saw it last season. The Minnesota Timbers were from a team that were okay defensively to one of the top eight defensive basketball if you adjust for getting rid of garbage time. But their offense took a stab in the back and that can be the Rudy Gobert experience. We're gonna be really good defensively, but we might be really bad offensively. But it hasn't always been the case, right? The Utah Jazz had one season where they peaked as the number one offense of all of basketball, Rudy Gobert are being the center. So there is a world where their offense could be a lot better, but last season was not that. One thing that those Utah Jazz teams had was the right amount of spacing so that Rudy Gobert can be effective, right? Rudy Gobert led the league in screen assist, which is a stat that people care about, I guess. And he also led the league in dunks like a hundred different times. Like that's all the brother did was dunk the ball, dunk the ball, dunk the ball. Both of those things took a drop, especially in the first half of the season when D'Angelo Russell was there. Now you saw it go up a little bit when Mike Connelly ended up in town because Mike Connelly and Rudy Gobert had a connection from their previous stop. And at one point a couple of years ago, they were one of the better pick and roll duos in all the basketball. And I haven't dug into the elite numbers about the second half of the season when they started back playing together. But let's just go out on the limb and say, it was probably better with those who was pick and roll versus D'Angelo Russell and Rudy Gobert. Anyway, I believe Anthony Edwards is gonna be a stud. The next thing that makes me excited about them is Carl Anthony Towns. Now, again, this experiment between the two bigs did not look pretty. The first month and a half of the season, it was awful. They ended up losing some really bad games to the Spurs on back to back. You lost to the Spurs twice in one week, bro. That's hard to do last year. That team was trying to get Victor with me. Yeah, man, they were successful, but they were bad on purpose. And you lost two different games to them. And then eventually you saw Carl Anthony Towns get injured and the injury ended up being, I don't wanna say better than anticipated because he did have a setback. But when I was watching that game live, it looked like he snapped his Achilles. Like he even did the whole thing that Kobe and Boogie both did when they hurt their Achilles with like they kinda look back because they thought somebody stepped on their leg. He did that. And I'm like, oh, that Achilles is out there. But it wasn't Achilles. But if you look at the numbers with the two centers together, it's dreadful. The defense, elite. Because you think about the Minnesota Simbots. They have a bunch of really solid defenders. Jada McDaniels, who we will talk about briefly in a couple of seconds. Anthony Edwards, again, can defend pretty well. Mike Holley, post trade that line, positive defender. And of course, Rudy Gobiar in the center position. Their defense is really good. But the offense with those two together was an ugly sight. And the numbers say it as well. It was bad. Like really, really bad. Now, I think a big part of that is because there is a lack of familiarity between Rudy Gobiar, Anthony Edwards, and Carl Anthony Towns. And you gotta think about the type of player Carl Anthony Towns has been in his career where he's been a legitimately three-level scorer and he has been one of the best offensive bigs that we've seen in a minute. Well, in the top tier, let's not say that. Because Nicolioca's exist. But he's been a top tier offensive talent for a while now. As far as putting the ball in the basket and now you add Rudy Gobiar, he's not really three levels anymore because the paint is clogged up similar to what Anthony Edwards had mentioned at the beginning of the season. So now he had to try to adjust his game to be more second level and third level. And though we know he's one of the best shooting centers of all time, that's not where all of his buckets came from. But last season it felt like majority of them had to come that way. Again, only when those two were together because when you split those two apart, you saw a lot of really good lineups, whether it be Carthony Towns at the five or Rudy Gobiar at the five and having Rudy Gobiar and Cal Anderson, even though they hated each other the last game of the season. When those two players went to court together with no Carthony Towns, the team was great, offensively and defensively. When you look at lineups at Carthony Towns and Jada McDaniels as the four, those lineups looked really good, offensively and defensively. But you have a lot of money tied up into the center position. So you need to try to figure out a way to have Carthony Towns and Rudy Gobiar flourished together. And I think part of that is just with continuity. I cannot express how important continuity can be in this league. It's rare that a team make this much of an adjustment and they look amazing the first year. Now, of course it can happen. It has happened. But it's a rare occasion unless we're talking about some of the greatest players of all time. And as of right now in Carthony Towns, Rudy Gobiar and Anthony Edwards don't fit into that list yet. You see Anthony Edwards? I'm saying yeah. So I just trust with having a full year under their belt that things are gonna be better. They also have a ton of players playing international ball right now between Anthony Edwards at USA, the DR having Carthony Towns, France having Rudy Gobiar. Who am I forgetting about to be? Nikio Alexander Walker is playing for Canada. And I feel like there's one more player that I'm just forgetting about. Oh, Carl Anderson is playing for, I wanna say China? Now this is where we get extremely nerdy because there are some things that like 95% of NBA fans don't care about. Last week, the regular season schedule was announced. And some people just used it as times to watch the cool videos that all 30 teams end up dropping to announce their schedule. And some people like me, look into their schedules and try to figure out who has the best advantage due to the schedule. Now everybody knows that you play against the same team X amount of times. There's no advantage there. But the advantage has to do with travel. The advantage has to do with back to backs. The advantage has to do with three games of four nights. Which team benefited the most? The Minnesota Timberwolves are one of the top teams up there. Yeah. And again, maybe stretching a little bit. I might be stretching a little bit. But they benefited a ton. So this comes from Jack Borman. Link will be in the description to the original tweet. The Timberwolves have been given a gift with their schedule in terms of rest advantage. They have 44 of their games with equal rest to their opponent. They have 23 games with the rest advantage and only 13 games with a disadvantage when it comes to rest. Now what does that mean? Over half of the games this season, the team that they're going against is on the exact same rest schedule. Which is cool. That means it's a one-to-one battle of talent slash X's and O's and all of that stuff. But the contrary to that is they have more games at advantages where they have fresh legs but their opponent is on the second day of a back-to-back. And those are games that we typically see the more rest of team win especially earlier in the regular season.  Now they also did the same thing last year. And again, I mentioned that they were not very good in that. But continuity! Continuity, ladies and gentlemen. Carly Townsman's 50 plus games last year and he's looking great right now in the DR. I think that they're gonna start off their season a lot better than they did last year. And then we got Jada McDaniels. There's rumors that he is now sitting at 6'11 this season. Rumored. I guess what we'll see officially once we get to training camp and stuff. But a 6'11 wing that was personally on my all defensive ballot. He didn't make it, but he should have been there in my personal opinion where he is a hound on the defensive side of the ball whether it be one-on-one defense in the passing lane. He does a little bit of everything and we've seen over the first three years of his career his offensive game has got better and better and better. And last year he ended the season as a 40% three-point shooter. Is that gonna be sustainable this season? The Timber was definitely hoped so. The Timber was definitely hoped so.  So you add really solid point guard play, one of the best defensive bigs in all of the basketball, the elite offensive talents of Carl Anthony Towns and Anthony Edwards and the defensive Jada McDaniels. That makes me excited. The one thing that is holding me back is that last year when it got down to the clutch, when it got down to the nitty gritty this offense stinked. And this was also the case before the Rudy Gobert trade where one of the biggest knocks on that young Timberwolves team was like, man, they blew, they blow in a lot of games. And we saw it in the playoffs, 15, 20 point leads just gone like that. And that carried over to the Rudy Gobert era as well. And hopefully with the maturity of Anthony Edwards going up and we see him taking over some games at Feebleball that that will happen a lot less, that's a lot less often and it accounts for a little bit more wins. Did I say anything to make you convinced that the wolves should be better? Here's my closing argument, Anthony Edwards. That should do it, yep, that should do it, that should do it, okay. Yeah, Minnesota Timberwolves fans, I want to come to Minnesota, come to the Target Center to watch the game. But that's only if y'all live up to y'all part of the bargain by making me look good with this video.