The title of session is Towards Criteria and Indicators for Fire Risk and Control. So we'll have two speakers in this session and we'll be talking about different aspects of concepts that relates to fire risk for peatlands. How we can map fire, how we can do the fire risk assessment, those will be covered by two speakers. Our first speaker in this session is Dr. Mothafik. He is currently a lecturer at Department of Geophysics and Meteorology at Bogor Agricultural University, IPV, in Bogor, Indonesia. He finished his PhD from Wageningen University in Netherlands and his research focuses on hydrological aspects of peatlands. His talk title today is peatland hydrological drought and fire risk assessment in changing climate. So very interesting, very topical, I would say. So Mothafik, if you're ready, over to you. Okay, Rupes, thank you very much for the time. Do you see my presentation? Yes. Can you make it a slideshow? Yeah. Yeah. Do you still have time for this webinar? Because it's already past 30, past three, right? Yeah, we are moving along, I think, we have 10 minutes behind us. Okay, everyone, good day. I'm happy to be here in the webinar. I will present my work in the past five years, it's about hydrological drought and associated peatland fires in tropical Indonesia, actually. So to begin with, I will introduce what we already have known about the degraded peatland and contribution to GHG emission in Indonesia. It's very huge carbon emission every year. And also we have a problem with biodiversity decline due to degraded peatland Indonesia. And most of the degraded peatland in Indonesia is associated with forest fires or land and forest fires. What happened if we already have what in the red picture, it's about BRG doing peatland restoration through canal blocking. We will have a different behavior of hydrological drought or forest fire in this kind of ecosystem. Therefore, we like to explore the effect of this contrasting management, either degraded peatland and derivating peatland related to fire hazard in Indonesia. My approach is we use hydrological modeling in Indonesia. It based on our last paper published in ERL, it's about hydrological drought in Indonesia. Most of water in peatland launched to drainage. So therefore, canal water level is very important aspect of hydrology in the peatland. It's controlled groundwater level in the land. Our approach is we simulate groundwater level in the land to do the changing of water level in the canal. So we compare to degraded peatland and also the derivating peatland. I tried to simulate the groundwater level and forest fire for 1980 until 2015.  So I hope it also can see the climate pattern for the region. Then we focus on central Kalimantan around Insekbango to do this simulation. For fire drought index, we use a common drought index called Kichipirum drought index. We call it Kibidi. Kibidi is just a soil water depletion in peatland. It depends on the deke. Deke is a drought factor, depends on the evapotranspiration and also depends on rainfall. In my approach, because groundwater table is close to the surface, we propose to have groundwater table as a factor to reduce drought every day. Here is the formula for this approach. Then the result of my research, first we synthesis that groundwater table in degraded peatland and in rewetting peatland is quite different. You can see here in the orange like red, in red color is the degraded peatland and in the blue color is the restored peatland. This is the box plot for 1980 until 2015 period. So we make a summary of this water table. The frequency of daily groundwater table for the restored peatland is quite high. It's less than 40 cm for all of the time. But it's different with the degraded peatland. For the degraded peatland, most of the time more than 60% is below the critical threshold of 40 cm. What happened next with the fire hazard? Based on this groundwater table, then we simulate the fire hazard and compare between degraded and restored one. For the degraded peatland, the fire hazard that on the high criteria, high criteria means it's a high fire hazard. It's more than 10% whereas for the restored peatland, it's less than 80%. It's a big difference between the two. If we look at the low hazard, for the degraded peatland, it's around 91% but for the restored peatland, it's 97%. So there are 7% difference between degraded and restored. So we can use this low hazard or the hazard class to be one of the criteria to assess the biophysical attribute and peatland fire of restored peatland. From this simulation, we can see that peatland can reduce the fire risk by 30% if we compare the high hazard with the low hazard. A hazard in restored peatland compared to degraded peatland. Then we move to my other study. It's about a critical grid of the table for peatfire. We analyzed around 160 stations from BRG stations, but it's only for two years, 2018 and 2019. Baru means the new station built by BRG and the Sasami is from the Japanese government. If we use BRG station, Baru and Sasami, we can conclude that most of the time, high and extreme current above fire hazards occur when the water table is less than 40 cm. So if the water table is deeper than 40 cm, the probability of forest hazard is being high or extreme class. So therefore, 40 cm maybe is a good one indicator as a attribute for end peatland fires in the tropical peatland. So for the conclusion of presentation, monitoring ground level is crucial and technically feasible. As a part of management tools, Sasaki may be used as a reliable and fair compliance mechanism and relating peatland improve the ecosystem by minimizing fire hazards. So that's all my presentation. Thanks for the time. Thank you, Motafik. You also finished within your 10 minutes. So that's very good. So let's stay on time and I'll invite our next speaker, Dr. Solahin Manuri for his talk. And then both are focused on same topics. We can have a combined discussion and in the meantime, if there are any questions, we can address them. Dr. Manuri is a senior advisor at Diameter Consulting based in Bogor. He has more than 15 years of experience in forestry sector, including sustainable forest management, forest fire management, land use planning and forest biomass assessment, specifically focusing on peatland mapping using LiDAR and greenhouse gas emission accounting. Solahin completed his PhD from Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University. And today he will be talking about mapping fire. Can spatially explicit criteria and indicator be developed in this context? So over to you, Solahin. Thank you, Rupesh. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, everyone. Thanks for introduction, Rupesh. So today I'm going to talk about the fire mapping and thanks for the invitation. So my my title is given by organizers, so I will try to follow the expectations. So I hope it can meet your expectations. So let me share my screen. Can you see it now? Yes, you put it on screen show mode. Yes, it's working great. Yeah, so this is the title that the organizer asked me to contribute. So yeah, maybe I'll try to do my best to meet this topic. And yeah, you know that in the past four decades, what fires have become become a common event and repetitive in the tropical ecosystem of Indonesia. And this is due to because of, you know, this prolonged drought season in Indonesia normally caused by the El Nino, certain and oscillation or and so, and also the Indian Ocean default mode. Yeah, also a result of the unsustainable practice of forest and land management as previous presenters mentioned earlier. And during the dry season become more susceptible to fires and normally it contributes to which amount of greenhouse gas emissions. And the impact of the fires in Indonesia is unfortunately is quite limited, limitedly explored or with relatively high uncertainty in particular regarding the size of the burn areas. So in this presentation, I would like to present some initiatives related with fire mapping in Indonesia and also in the tropics. As you know that the biggest challenges in mapping fires in Indonesia or in tropical region is because of cloud resistance, which is common in tropical region and also smoke and haze occurrence during the fires. And also the short windows of opportunity after the fire season and which is started during the rainy season, but normally during the rainy season is also cloudy and once we have clear sky, the vegetation is already growing. So this is what I mean about short windows of opportunity. But it's really important to have a really reliable remote sensing data. So as you can see in this, this is from Modi satellite in over central Kalimantan during 2015 fires, and you can see most are the wind coming from the southeast direction. And you can see that most of the fires are covered by smoke and haze. So this is the challenges, biggest challenges we have so far. And here is the chart about the existing initiative on fire mapping in Indonesia and also in global tropical, pan-tropical. It started in 1992, 1993 fires, Lennards and Panzer did some quite huge studies on fire extension or fire mapping in Kalimantan using Landsat imageries.  And in the meantime, there is also another database on burn area provided by Sigurd, now it's version 4.0, they already start the mappings in 1995 actually, but they already include the most recent Modi's burn scar area until recently. And then in 2000s, the Modi's burn scar are already, so the Modi's satellite is already operational and there are two types of burn area datasets that are provided by Modi's NASA. They call it MCD-45 and MCD-64. So MCD-64 is the latest version, so it is commonly used by any studies in global and also at national level. So this defect 4.0 also incorporated the burn area MCD-64A1. And then in 2006 the Ministry of Environment, sorry, actually Ministry of Environment started the mapping in 2016 to map the fires even in 2015. So where the huge El Nino was occurring. And now they are planning to extend the period until 2006 to, this is the, in order to estimate the emission from pit fires for developing the reference level for red plus activities. So they are doing, it's not published yet, but the one they published is in 2016 or fire in 2015. And at the same time, there is another studies in Indonesia about fire mapping using radar satellites. So this is the Sentinel-1, so this is a passive active sensor. And also LAPAN do the three interiors in 2015, 2016, and another one in 2019 also doing the mapping using combinations of Landsat and also Sentinel-1 hybrid between optical and active satellite. And yeah, also Copernicus started in 2014 until recently. So yeah, you can see there are four that is continuously, continuous initiative in fire mapping in Indonesia. This is the detail of the methods that the summary of the method that they use. So mostly using Landsat imageries and also radar satellite. Yeah, and also MODIS, they have a lot of global scope for global coverage. They mostly using MODIS satellites. Yeah, and the most recent one is Sentinel-1. So they already using Sentinel, which has two different sensors, optical and also active sensors with wide, often repetition from about five to 12 days. So this is quite promising and most of them are using either object-based image analysis or pixel-based classifications and also visual classification. So you can see the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, they are using the physical visual classification of Landsat imageries with the aid of other auxiliary data. Like hotspots and also verified by ground data and high resolution imageries. And this is the one that data that we can compare in fires in 2015. So you can see from GVET, MODIS, Bernskar, and also studies from Low Burger in 2017, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, and also LAPAN. So LAPAN is a space agency in Indonesia. And the GVET, MODIS, and most of them has data on feed-length fires. So, Lihun, you wrap up really quickly, your time is almost over. So this is basically the comparisons of the, and yeah, this one is the summary, maybe I can skip that. And also we have a pro and cons on the sensor type resolution and also classifications. As you can see in the previous slide that both sensors are used either passive or active and LAPAN even using the hybrid using both sensors. And for resolution, most of the national coverage, they use medium, at least medium resolution from 10 meters to 30 meters. So I think that is better than the low resolutions. And for classifications, yeah, they use manual and also automatic classifications. Yeah, this is the type of satellites we can use. And this is also the lifespan. This is very important when we select the satellite imagery we want to use. So not only because of free, but also the lifespan. So some of them already not operating, so we cannot have the historical or future data for fire mapping. So this is very important to have better knowledge about the lifespan of the satellite. And one more important thing is the accuracy assessment. So this is very important to do. Some are using like high resolution imageries, like the modis, the 500 meter resolution modis using 30 meter lens set for four validations. 25 meter maps validated using the ground measurement and ORS RL survey. So this is something that the mapping should be part of the mapping initiatives. And apart from that, also burn pit depth mapping is also one thing that very important, especially when we want to estimate the emissions from pit fires. So accurate information is really important. You have to wrap up in 30 seconds at the most, otherwise we won't have time for the rest of the day. This is the last slide. So main message is basically we have already initiatives on fire mapping. And especially explicit criteria should be developed depending on the methods and data they use, combined with knowledge from a ground and IRL survey. So I think it is one thing that really important validations and also selections of methods should be depending on the mapping coverage, reporting interval and technical capacity. So a lot of variations can be used depending on the needs. Yeah, I think that's all my presentation. Sorry for taking a longer time. Thank you, Rupesh. Thank you, Salahin. Thank you for sharing. Your presentation was quite informative with a lot of very, very interesting and useful information. I'm sorry we have only limited time, but you did provide a good flavor of where this mapping fire science stands. So just to very quickly wrap up this session on fire was very useful in the sense that we kind of get the two extremes. Well, first speaker Muthafik talked about this monitoring of groundwater table and then, you know, like right at the level of location, like, you know, in the physical in the field field setting, what is happening there and getting the information from that level. While Salahin talked about more from a very kind of a top down if I can use the term with the radar and those kind of technology, how you can do the large scale regional mapping. And both of these are quite important, like in terms of validating the data which is collected at a very broad scale. It becomes very important, like having boots on the ground, someone measuring someone collecting the data in the field. And I think that the interesting and important aspect is how do you sort of stitch them together into useful relevant criteria and indicators. So they are useful for people who are practitioners who are has the responsibility of making some decision based on that. So this ties together very nicely with the previous two sessions where it has to be thought up from what are your principles and then criteria and indicators and all speakers have presented very detailed approaches when it comes to biophysical aspects. There are so many nuance that we need to know their scientific approaches, there are technology, there are advancement, but then it becomes what is cost effective, what is good enough. So I haven't seen any specific question coming for this session. There was one in Basha Indonesia which I requested Daniel to translate and that was for Tophik. That's right, this is for Tophik. Tophik's question is about ground water level you presented. How can you use that information to estimate greenhouse gas fluxes? The second question is still related to your categories of pitland. This is from Pablo Martin. How do you categorize pitland is restored and how is it degraded? What kind of criteria you use? Okay, thanks Daniel. For the first question we can use ground water table as a proxy for greenhouse gas emission as already mentioned, Professor Makrit I think from your question. We can use ground water table as a proxy for instance through, sorry, for your approach for instance to estimate greenhouse gases. For the second question from Pablo, thanks. How to make a classification of degraded and restored? Our approach is just simply if we have a canal brooking or just a restoration project on there, we will simply, it is a riveting project, so it's riveting pitland. Otherwise, if it is a degraded, that's simplification. Thanks, Pablo. Thank you, Tophik. Are there any other questions? Daniel, did you notice something else that we need to address? Yes, it's very general questions. Maybe anybody can answer that even from the previous session. It's about the term use as sponge cities. Is it something to do with pitland or is there any merits about categorizing city as sponge city? Yeah, if you want to respond, just unmute yourself and you can respond. Well, while the speakers are thinking, it's another one I picked about the canal blocking. Again, I think any of those who speak about canal blocking can respond to that. There is a negative impact also on blocking the canal because it will raise, sorry, it will lower the pH to some extent. Any comment on that? Yeah, this relates to, I think, the phygeochemistry of soils, how the redox changes and what impacts it has. So any panelists want to take this? Rubik is still. Sorry, I haven't been working in that area. I don't see really how immediately canal blocking can have an effect on the pH. Maybe this takes some several years. So it's a bit of a tricky question, I would say. Yeah, and it could also be that there would be some pockets where you could have this effect and then there would be, you know, at a landscape level there would be some areas which are not that affected. There was one more, I think, question or comment about the behavior change in terms of fire because sometimes the soil is dry and it is very vulnerable, but sometimes it's a human action that caused the trigonite. So that is a point very well taken, but there are also natural fires with lightning and all that. So it has to be taken into account that if a peatland is vulnerable because of less water, then it's not only always just human action that the risks are there, of course. Okay, so I think there is no comment about cities unless you want to say anything partennial. Otherwise, I think we in the interest of time, I know you have to wrap up and we have to have closing remarks from you. So I will yield the time to you. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much, Rupesh, for sharing very interesting and lively session. We have 172 people in the room, virtual room, and they are very active and watching us. Suddenly, the five speakers have been bringing us an incredible travel right from the sky in the outer space from the satellite down to earth, not only on the ground, but also going down below the ground to look at groundwater table, biochemistry, etc. So it's been very rich conversation we have, and this challenge us to really think about how to use this kind of information, which we call technology, Ravi characterizes criteria into the people we are working for. And it's been very clear about that how to make these people centered. So this information can be gathered getting more and more easily today's and how to bring that to communicate that with people in the context of pit restoration. So the way I see it is really challenging to look at our information that we can generate very quickly and perhaps more and more accurately means something for people. So bringing this into people, you know, conversation day to day conversation is not easy. This is going to be a challenge how when we are going to talk with them and verify this kind of thing. And what does it really mean for them. So today we learn a lot from this conversation about those criteria that's been described from the hydrology from the emission of greenhouse gases fire hazard and risk. Again, what does what do they really mean for people.  So the indicators that Ravi underline as as information will be will be based on data. So data is very useful. It's, it can be easily generated now even if you do it through a virtual way by synthesizing or assessing reviewing papers that can be generated but again, what does it mean for people. So with that, I guess we have a lot of challenge in front of us to do. And at the same time was also challenged by Harris about people around us about their agenda. So that might be our next round of webinar or discussion to have. So thank you very much again for those who've been very patient and sincere and and also based on to follow this conversation and also contributing person and chat. Thank you for your kind contribution. And with that I would like to close this webinar today. And again for the speakers we will be having our debriefing session in another room. Thank you.


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Hi, this is Gabrielle with Oxmoor Auto Group. We're here at Oxmoor Toyota today. I have Chuck Schuman with me. We're going to talk about a 2017 Tacoma and a 2017 Tundra TRD Pro, which are the vehicles right behind us. A couple of features that we're going to be going over today are the TRD history and the off-road capabilities. So I'm going to turn it over to Chuck. So Chuck, go ahead. Thank you, Gabby. You're welcome. So the TRD Toyota Racing Development's been around for about 35 years in the truck division. And the TRD Pro specifically has been developed and tested and grueling races like the Baja 500 and the Baja 1000. What we do is we take these trucks, we work with other major manufacturers of off-road equipment, and we test the heck out of them. We beat them up. That's how we develop things like our, if you look down here, our quarter-inch aluminum steel plate down here has been developed actually in the deserts, banging this thing on rocks, everything. And what we create is a very capable, very durable skid plate here, and all of our components and parts are tested to the max. And so everything with our partners that we work with as well, with racing like Fox Racing, for example, we work specifically with them to develop these one-of-a-kind shocks that we've got on both the TRD Pro, Tacoma, and the Tundra. And so also with our tires, we put on good year, Langler tires with Kevlar reinforcement. There's not much these things are going to run over and, you know, bust a tire on. This is one of the most off-road capable vehicles. The Tundra as well, I want to show you under here. This shock right here, it's 60 millimeter piston with a 48 millimeter reservoir. Now this is the type of shock they put on fire trucks. So to say this is a little bit overkill is an understatement. These things are the most capable off-road vehicle, factory made in the market, hands down. They've been driven over volcanoes. We took this one to the Arctic Circle, nothing out of, you know, this exact truck drove it through the Arctic Circle. No issues at all. You're not going to find anything around here in Kentucky that this thing hasn't ran into before, that you're not going to be able to handle in this truck. All right, awesome. Thank you, Chuck. So you guys, we actually have quite a few in stock right now. We have about 16 new Tacomas and 17 new Tundras in stock. As far as a few of the colors that we have is blazing blue, pearl, infernal red, black, just to name a few. A couple of the price points that I have pulled for the Tacoma price range from about $31,000 to about $38,000. And for a Tundra price around $32,000 to $49,000. And also these two trucks that are behind me, these are going to be featured in the Louisville Auto Show, which is really cool. We're really excited about that. So if you guys have any questions or would like to come in, take a look at some of the other Tundras or Tacomas we have. Give us a call at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Visit our website at oxmarttoyader.com and we'll have the links to these vehicles below. So thanks, you guys. Bye.


Hey guys, so... I may or may not have let me reach the start of the zombie apocalypse. Ah, classic, boss. Don't worry, don't worry, I have a contingency plan, which is to get the hell out of here with my private helicopter. I hope you're not thinking of leaving without us. But lucky for you, I have spare seats. I'll meet you at the instant ship, trying to signal me when you get there. That sounds far too easy. What's the cap? What do you think? This is zombie apocalypse, and we are the only ones survived, boss. Ah, I see.  I am not, hey, Rochelle! Oh yes, you are!  And they've succeeded! Look, this intro cutscene has gone on long enough. Just get your weapons and get out there! I'm gonna get a good vantage point in the garden. Good luck, fella! The second you can. Me and Smith already have a plan, Pertwee. So get out, or the next victim of my giant arm will. If you don't follow my plan, you will be dead. And again, that's our problem. Go. Okay, so I'm very confused. 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Hey everybody, this is Brian. Welcome to the 81st Qt tutorial with C++ and GUI programming. We're going to make something a little different today. We're going to work with the graphics view. So let's just call this view one, put it in the usual location, and of course we're going to make a Q dialog. Next, next, finish, finish. Once that's done, we're just going to bring up our dialog here. It's been a while since we've actually worked with the dialog, and we're just going to drag and drop a graphics view onto our dialog here. Very simple layout. We just put the graphics view right in the center of the dialog. Just be sure to save all. All right, now let's just add some includes here. If you don't know what a graphics view is, let's actually compile and run this really, really quickly here. You remember from some of our previous tutorials, if you watch them, Qt has a model view architecture, meaning you have data, which is the model, and then you have a view, which displays it. Well, they've done something similar with graphics here. Here we have a graphics view, which is just a viewport, and inside this view we'll display a scene. So we have to create a scene, add items to it, and the view displays the scene for us. I know that sounds like really vague concepts at this point, but we're going to go over this really quickly. All right, so first thing we need, of course, is a Q Graphics scene. Let's see if we can find it in the list here. There we go. Q Graphics scene, and we're just going to call it scene.  And if you're wondering where I got those names from, I didn't just pull them out of thin air. They're actually part of the Qt documentation. So go out to the help system and actually look up Q Graphics scene while I'm typing this out here to show you what this looks like. So this Q Graphics scene is a class that provides surface for managing a large number of 2D graphical objects. And just kind of while I'm typing this out, go through that really, really quick. We're going to add a Q Graphics rectangle item. We're just going to call this rectangle. Now what we're going to do here is very simple. We're going to create a scene, which is going to be displayable by our view. And in that scene, we're going to put an ellipse and a rectangle. Now you may be asking yourself, why don't you just draw it? I mean, that's what we've been doing. This tutorial is just simply draw a rectangle, draw an ellipse. Well, I'm going to show you some very powerful features, very simple features that you can use just starting off. Okay, let's go into our dialog here. And first thing we need to do is actually create the scene. So we'll say scene equal new. And we want Q Graphics scene right in there. Give it a parent that way, you know. And then we're going to say UI, Graphics View, set scene. And then we're going to give it our scene object. Now at this point, if we run this, it's going to display absolutely nothing because the scene is just a blank canvas. There's nothing on there. So let's actually make a few brushes and pens here. So it's a Q brush. And we're just going to call this red brush. Whoops, hit the wrong key combination there. Of course, now that I'm on the spot, I'm actually doing the tutorial I completely and totally spaced out of what the key combination was to copy that line. It's just been one of those weeks where no matter what I try, I cannot remember just basic things. We'll call this black pen. Whoops. Now the reason why we're creating brushes and pens is we're going to tell the scene we want to create these objects. And to do that, it's going to say, okay, what pen and what brush do you want to use? And let's actually do that right now. We're just going to say ellipse equal, I'm going to say scene, add ellipse. Now you notice how there's a bunch of them in here. Add ellipse, add item, add line, etc, etc. Well, Q has made these classes to help you like ellipses, lines, paths, polygons, pick maps, recs, rectangles, simple text. You can also add item. So you can actually make a Q graphics item. I think it's called or it's a Q graphic scene item and overwrite it yourself, which is what we're going to do in the next tutorial. But for this one, we're just going to keep things simple. All right now, it's probably gone off my screen here, but we've got to add some coordinates in here. So we're just going to say it 1010. And it's going to be 100 wide by 100 tall. We want the black pen. And we want the red brush. And what that does is it actually creates an object creates a Q graphics ellipse item and hands back the pointer to us. That's why we've got this right here. So let's go ahead and run this real quick. So you can see what we're talking about here. Maybe if this ever builds. There we go. So there in all our glory is our circle. We did absolutely no code to draw this. We just said add ellipse. Now you notice how it moves around because the view point is always centered to 00, which is probably about right there. Actually, because this is the only object that's actually on there, but you notice how we get these scroll bars free of charge. That's the view showing the scene. The scene is bigger than the views. So the view is going to show those scroll bars. And we're going to add another object here just to just to make this a little more understandable. We're going to get our rectangle object. We're going to say scene. We're going to add our rect. And this time we're going to say negative 100 negative 100. And we're just going to get 50 by 50. Give it the black pen. Sounds like a punishment. Almost give it the black pen. And give it the blue brush. Make it really sad here. Compile and run. And once this pops up, you'll have two objects. You'll have your rectangle and your circle. You notice how the circle is no longer the center because what it does is it takes the entire scene and says find the center and then center it within the viewport. And now you can really see those scroll bars popping in there. So that's the bare basics how to work with this. Now because these are objects, they have special properties. For example, you can say set flags or set flag in this case. And we want cue. Graphics item. And we're going to say item is movable. And if you have any guesses of what that's going to do to our rectangle, well, if you guessed, we can now move the rectangle. You are absolutely right. Now you notice how the canvas, or should say the scene, will move with it. Very simple. Very easy to do. So that in a nutshell is how to move an object. We can get a little more complex with this. Let's actually, let's get a little funky here. All right, let's find some push buttons. Let's say here, here, and let's do this. There. Now we got two push buttons on here. And we're going to say negative one and positive one. And we're just going to create a slot here and click. And we're going to say scene. Sorry, not scene UI. Graphics view. Rotate. We're going to rotate the scene. And we're going to give it a real number. And what you do is you rotate it based on the number you're giving it. So we're saying negative one. So we're going to rotate it counterclockwise. Let's jump back here. Positive one. And then let's give it positive one here. A pile and run. And tick tock, tick tock. This always seems to take forever whenever I'm recording for some reason. And you notice how now we can rotate that scene. I'm clicking a lot. And let's actually bump those numbers up a bit. Let's do like, let's do 10. Nice big number. That will be much more noticeable. There you go. Now we can rotate that. And we can still grab this and move it around. Now you notice how when it rotates, it rotates at zero zero on the scene. So we're not rotating individual objects. Even though we can do that, we're rotating the entire scene itself. So this is Brian. I hope you found this tutorial educational and entertaining. And thank you for watching.


It's still plus politics, now there are indications that the 2023 presidential elections may be the last chance for the eminent Nigerians or some of them who have been within the corridors of power for a very long time. Now, since the return of the current political dispensation in 1999, the lax of the People's Democratic Party presidential candidates, Attiku Abubaka and Bala Ahmed Tinibu of the all-progressive Congress presidential candidates now have been in the corridors of power for a very long time. While Attiku was Nigeria's vice president from 1990-2007, Tinibu was involved in the creation of political parties that brought President Muhammad al-Buhari to power. Now, since then Attiku has moved around political parties in his quest to occupy Nigeria's highest political sit. Like Attiku, Tinibu belongs to the class of octogenarians with his age put at 70. Joining us to discuss this are Uche Chita, a political analyst and Ufomai Bwamuna, who is a journalist. Thank you so much gentlemen for joining us. Thank you for having us. Thank you for having me. Great. It's very interesting that we're talking about these two people who seem to be the flag bearers of the two major political parties for 2023. Now there has been chatter in some corridors about this being their last shot at any form of power or relevance. But then for Attiku we keep seeing him reinvent himself and continuously being the flag bearer of the People's Democratic Party. But if he were to not emerge as president come 2023, does he still have a lifeline left? I'll start with you, Ufomai. To be very honest, we can never say never for a Nigerian politician. That's the honest truth. Yes, Attiku is in 70, as we speak. If he doesn't get elected, he'll come next year, 2023. There's still an election cycle in our five years time, which will be 2027. Honestly, we don't put it past Attiku Abubata coming up again in 2027, just in case he doesn't get the presidential victory next year. However, another way to look at it would be, a lot of practices are already suggested in 2020, that before Attiku would retire, this is his fourth try to be president of Nigeria. Since 1992, that's about 30 years ago or a bit about. Some are already suggesting now that he possibly should retire and possibly look for someone younger. So you would expect those calls to also come up again in 2027. However, he's a dogged politician. He was not one of those who said he was his life long ambition, but he wants to think that Attiku Abubata wants to be president of Nigeria. If he doesn't get it next year, I would not put it past him trying in 2027. Uche, looking at the two somewhat, I'm using the word underdog loosely here, movements that have seemingly taken over not just social media, but even the streets of the different parts of the country with the hashtag or BDN to movement. And we also have the Kwankwa Sia movement. It may not be as huge, but it is a movement of sorts, as opposed to the APC and the PDP who have these, in quote, strong men. Do we see, if again, like I said, there is an opportunity for them to be president, it does not necessarily happen. Do we see a reemergence of any of these gentlemen, be it a Chinubu or an Attiku, especially a Chinubu? Many have complained. Many have queried his health. Many have queried his capabilities. Many have said, I've even questioned why he's so intent on being president. But do we see a reemergence of a Chinubu or an Attiku in 2023? Well, in the political landscape of Nigeria, starting from the PDP, I don't see any other individual that can wrestle the presidential ticket from an Attiku. Once he put his heart in the ring for the 2023 elections, I told people, like I was so, I could put money on it. I was almost guaranteed that he was going to win the ticket. There was nobody in the primaries, an Attiku formidable PDP. He knows the politics. He has been doing it for a long time. I mean, he's trained with the best like people like God best saw me, General Yadwa, the PDM movement. So he knows what to do to get the tickets. He knows what to do to get in the PDP. The only time he encountered some kind of obstacle was in 2011. And even then it was very formidable. I mean, he made Babangila, IBB, Gustavo, and a couple of other Northerners stepped down for him and he became the Northern Consensus Candidate against Good Luck Jennifer. By Providence, Good Luck Jennifer is still in marriage, but I know the sweat that was put in place to make sure that it happened because I was actually part of that campaign of Good Luck Jennifer to become the candidate for 2011. Moving forward, he can always get a 2023 ticket. Nothing stops him. Now the same thing with Tinnubu. Tinnubu basically can get a ticket of APC anytime he wants. Even the president, Major General Bohari, actually tried to stop him using different means, but could not stop a Tinnubu from taking the ticket of the APC. He's basically unstoppable. He's basically his party. He put the people in place. He's helped a lot of people along the way. They all came politically. So if a 2027 comes about and he needs the APC ticket, they will hand it over to him. The world, as we know, has no problem handing tickets to all people. People who make noise, I can quite noise about this, but he's retired. I'm just looking for an easy way to remove the biggest obstacles to getting part. We see the case in the US where Joe Biden got the Democratic Party ticket and he became president. Are they the best people? No. They're definitely not the best people, but because of the way party politics is in Nigeria, and the party politics are all around the world, such strong men always emerge. So that's just the reality of things we can't evaluate. What does this say? I mean, following from what Uche has said about the fact that these, in quotes again, strong men will always emerge, being that they seem to have the party at their whims and caprices. But when we talk about the revolution or evolution of politics in Nigeria, has there even been any whatsoever? Again, I go back to the movements that we're seeing. Many people have also queried those movements saying that they're just social media online movements. When it comes down to it, these are the guys who know the political terrain and these are the guys who will always sail through. But have we really evolved in the politicking process? Will there come a time in the future, after 2023, where maybe these strong men would not be a strong anymore? Or maybe there will be a time where the parties will not be at their whims and caprices or be wary of them and how they politic and decide that they would go with another? Maria, the honest answer to that question is I'm not sure that's going to stop anytime soon. See, you can hate them for all you care. You can say all the things you want to say about them. The bottom line still remains that these guys have been entrenched in the system.  My youngest sister was just about a year or two old at the time. She's married. She has a three-year-old son.  These guys know what it takes to politic. They've entrenched enough into the system. A Tudubu, for example, did not just wake up and get the ABC ticket overnight. You know, he's worked for it. Since he left power in 2007, he has been ensuring that he gets people into power from governors to legislators, new senators, House of Assembly members in the States. And at the end of the day, in 2022, all of these things came back to play to ensure that he got the ABC ticket. So, the same thing with Tudubu. You know, my colleague over there mentioned the fact that when Tudubu put his heart into the ring, he said that he was going to win the election. That's exactly what I said. As far back as last year, you know, or even earlier this year, there are two people as it is right now in Nigeria who have the name, the wealth, the experience, and the political clout to become president. Those two are the two front runners or the two candidates of the two biggest political parties. I'm sorry to comment, but let me quickly ask you something before I lose that train of thought. You talked about the personality and the political clout to win these elections. Does money politics play a role? Is that the clout that we're talking about? Because we saw that there could have been a shift of sorts just before the electoral process in itself started for both political parties. The clout we're talking about here, is it just about knowing people, the spread or the spread of their monies, their bank accounts? Merlian, it's all a comparison. Unfortunately, you cannot really win money politics. In Nigeria, unfortunately, you can. For those of us who live in urban cities or urban centers, you know, it's not so easy to sway us with cash ingestments. But go to the native land. Go to Orogun, for example, in Delta State. Go to the remotest of villages in Borno State where some of them don't even have power. Talk less of even having what they call supply tees to watch us, for example, right now. These guys can be swayed with as low as 500 naira. 500 naira, Merlian. So the truth of the matter is that money still gets involved in all of these conversations. However, aside money, I just told you about how entrenched these guys are. Before 2014 or before 2015, remember that the ruling party at the time, the PDP, repeatedly told us Nigerians that they were ready to rule for 60 years. There was a reason the PDP kept making those boastful comments. They were the only national party who had their spread in all the new concurrent of this country. Until the Bolatino Gurus and the Buaris of this world decided to merge together and form the ATC. But right now we have two dominant parties where in every word or every local government that you go to, you can see their imprint. Unfortunately, for you to win an election as big as the presidential election, you need to be visible in almost, if not all, local government areas. Sadly, as great as the momentum of EPITA or B, for example. And I love the fact that he's coming up and a lot of Nigerians are supporting him. But a lot still needs to be done by EPITA or B and the number of Nigerians supporting him to be able to match the kind of political clout and visibility that the likes of the APC with Chinubu and PDP with Attico have been able to garner over the years.  Again, from what Ufama has said, he's talking about the money politics part. So I'm going to tie it to the other question. Why do we expect change politically and otherwise if money politics always takes the day for whatever elections, whether it be local, state and of course at the federal level? Again, Ufama makes that case of the fact that these strongmen will continuously emerge because of the prowess that they have politically. When will the system give way for others to emerge, including those who have been tutored, mentored and even those who have the best of Nigeria at heart, the best ideas to lead us? When will there be a paving of way for these people if we ever want the kind of Nigeria that we're all praying for? I mean, it's going to be tough, very tough. However, there's a possibility that it will be unfair to move all the hope that is being carried into the 2023 elections, that will be the obedience wave that's going on right now. And the possibility I see is that we have two grids. When I use the word grids, I see that very good people would. Just how big they are. I think we are one in. And because of how their strengths and how they can match each other, there's a possibility of somebody just stealing the crumbs and taking anything can happen. That's really the only reason why it has a chance because we have two candidates, PTP and APC fighting head to head. So we can just come in from somewhere and just, you know, it's by chance. It's a very sad state to say Nigeria has become, we are now subject to chance happening for us to make some positive change. But honestly, at this point, that's what all of you have left. There is no working way for a proper country to emerge where good leaders and you are the best candidates who are intellectually standard and who can actually contribute and take Nigeria to the next level. The system as it is does not allow such people to emerge and that's the truth. But those people can emerge, there's something called chat fans. And they say it's time and chance happening to them all. If you go publicly, they talk about people don't think all of us means anything. They talk about people who are strong, who are straight, who are this, who are that. By the time people develop capacity, then their time and chance can happen. What we imagine right now, winning, can be a situation of where his time and chance happened, where he has developed himself, he has done this and done that and he's now the most prepared person there and his time and chance have happened. But he imagine not necessarily because he can compete money-wise he can compete, rich-wise he can compete and there's a path, there's a direct path. No, there's no path. We have to be truthful about that. But anything can happen. Does that time and chance happen in 2023? Is it possible? Do we see that emerging in the horizon? I ask because early this morning I was on the radio and I was talking about the fact that we are seeing every day more than ever more people leaving in droves. Is this the sign of, you know, more like we're throwing our hands up in the air or throwing in the tower as to how this country can make progress? Because I keep asking, when we all leave, who stays to make that change? Who will be the disruptors that we're hoping will emerge? I mean, we'll try. But we have a system where people write results. A hundred people might go vote and by the time you see the results they've changed, you know, the right whatever they want. Yes, we have the system where they're transmitting votes in real time and the electoral act has been changed. But have we tested this electoral act? This is the next election that's going to change the changes in the electoral act about transmission of results from the polling booth. We've seen the numbers that are being registered in the north and any constitution says, okay, the new system is like you register online and you see these numbers in the north and we know the internet connection is not outgrates the medugri and the bonds and all these remote places that have Boko Haram, but the numbers are increasing. So what does that tell you? I mean, you're preparing a situation whereby you write results and you can only write results if you have strong men who can defend their turf. And that's the reason why we talk about strong men. We don't talk about strong men because they have the command votes. No, we talk about strong men because they can command strength instead of the people who have the possibility and the ability to cost mayhem if things don't go their way. That's what a strong man is. A strong man is somebody who can go to the INEC official at the highest level, at the REC level, at the commissioners level and set to them and say, you know what, let's do this, let's settle in costs. Let anybody who has anything against us come to court and fight the matter, you know? And that's just how it is. Okay. So that's the nature of this step. It's not changing over the years. We can't expect it to change overnight, right? And I really don't know. It's time and chance can happen, but this is not the reality. Fine, new formal, we have just one minute. Uche seems to paint a picture. Let me just quickly ask. What shred of hope does the average Nigerian have to hold on to now? You're telling them not to jack bar, but then what should they stay for? What's the hope that we need to hold on to because we need something to hold on to? Okay. Just to correct a little bit of the notion, Nigeria is living in growth not back today. It will stop today. Back in the 80s when I was a child, I remember the song, people were living in growth in the 80s. People left in the 90s. People are living in the 2000s. People continue in the years that we are in right now. But that's not to say that the government in power are not doing enough. That's the honest reality that they are not doing enough. Also, the electoral act 2022, I've been saying this for God knows how long. I think it's one of the best things to happen to Nigeria. It's been tested already in the government election in 1956. We saw how prompt results come in. You see all of that reading that usually characterizes Nigerian elections. It is going to be reduced to the barest minimum in 2023. If you do not go out to converse for votes, I am sorry for you. If you are hoping to write results the way they've been writing it all this while. Marianne, I can assure you that the chances of that happening in 2022 is going to be reduced to the barest minimum. Which is why I think, to a large extent, that this stands a chance. What is the chance we have? We would have to wait until the elections come. Okay. Well, that's a way to put it. I want to say thank you to my guest, Uche Chita is a political analyst and Ufa Maikwamuna is the head of news with 99.3 Nigeria info here in Lagos. Thank you so much gentlemen for being part of the conversation. Thank you very much. All right. And that's the show tonight. I want to thank you all for being part of the conversation. Tomorrow is another day. We look at the big stories in the political scene right here in Nigeria. And sometimes we go outside of the country to spread our tentacles. I'm Marianne Anacon. I'll see you tomorrow. Have a good evening.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late sports cards. We've been 21-22. If you need to follow this basketball hobby, two bucks full case break number two, tiered random team style. Here's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find those on the website under the results tab, as well as the link that's in chat. So good luck here everybody. Let's see what we got. Good luck. Another couple crazy cards here. No, not even the slightest idea, to be honest. Works big time. All right, here we go. We've got Deandre Aitin. That is seven of 20 on the game use patch. Three color for the Suns. There you go, Phoenix. Seven of 20, Deandre Aitin. We've got seven of 10, gold three color RPA. That is Josh Christopher. Nice one there for the Rockets. Congrats Rockets. Next up, we've got four of 10. Carlos Boozer, let's go. That's awesome dude. Carlos Boozer for the Jazz. There you go Utah, Boozer. That's a little dim. I'm gonna send an empty box and wrap her with this one. So I'll grab you the brief. We'll just do it after we grab the brief. Just put that one to the side just to remind us again. Five of 15, Big Shot Bob. Robert Ory on the Distinguished Signatures. Going to the Lakers. Nice one there. That is six of 15. Congrats Lakers. Sam, pretty cool one here. Three color Patch Auto, number nine of 15. Bradley Beale. Bradley Beale, nine of 15. Crafts on that one. There you go Wizards. Nice hit there. We're Florida Gator Legend. Eight of 15, that is RPA. Let's go into the Kings. Three color Davion Mitchell. Davion Mitchell with the Kings. Nice one there. What's up Jason? Davion Mitchell RPA. That's pretty sick. That's gonna be six of 10, Larry Bird. Larry Bird, Larry Legend. Going to the Celtics. There you go Boston. Let's go C's, Alvin S. There we go Alvin. New Alvin was coming in with something. Some sort of heat. And then to end it, two of five, Mount Zion. Zion Williamson on the Emerald Momentus Auto. Hell yeah man. Hell yeah. In case stuff, yeah in case stuff. We've got 19 of 20. Cade Cunningham, a rookie diamond. There you go Pistons. Hang Y, our first rookie diamond, like true rookie diamond we've seen. Today I'm pretty sure we had the dual of Mobley and Audubio. Or Mobley and, no Mobley and Embiid, excuse me. Mobley and Embiid. This is the first true rookie diamond we've seen. 220. And nice one here that is going to the Thunder. 16 of 25, Josh Giddy. Congrats, Sean M. with the Thunder. Josh Giddy. All right, I'll do it for box number one. Congrats guys. Yeah, no recaps on these because they are pretty quick overall. Yes, yes, yes. I guess actually I'll do the case now. So that'll go with the jazz. Pretty noticeable. There you go, that's got the inside of it. Stack it up. I'll do that for you for a minute. All right, here we go. You've got 11 of 20, Jimmy Buckets. 11 of 20, nice one there for the heat. That is three color at Arpia. Or not, three color Patch Arpia. What am I talking about? Nice one here. This is an Arpia, that's going to be three color Luca Garza. Six of 15 going to the Pistons. Yeah, exactly. You got it, Stefan. Another Ben Simmons in there. BJ Armstrong going to the Bulls. Two of 10 on the gold distinguished autos. Congrats on that Bulls. Chicago. Next up we've got for the Blazers, Anthony Simons. Draft Gems signatures, five of 25. He's a star. He's really good. I'm a big believer in Anthony Simons' game. I'm an Anthony Simons' true third, as the people would say. We've got 18 out of about 25. Jamal Murray for the Nuggets. Nice one there, Denver. Wright's Law, right? I've been like that Hardin from the last break I've been talking about for like two and a half weeks now. That's all I've been talking about about Flawless. I've been telling everybody when they mentioned Flawless and like the 17, 18 Hardin logo man autos in there. Hold it, it's all that matters. Trey Mann, 14 of 25, nice one there. That's going to the Thunder on the 10th anniversary of Rookie Auto. We've got USA Basketball, nine of 25. That is Vince Carter. Nice one there. I'm assuming that'll go since it's USA that'll go longest tenure since he is no longer in the league. I believe that'll be Raptors, but double check. He played a billion years. I got one more in me. Yeah, that's going to go out. I could have just literally could have, I was here counting the season and said literally going to go to Toronto. Seven seasons in Toronto, that'll go to Toronto. Duh. Nice one there on the Vince Sanity. And Rookie Auto, one of 25 excellence at Jonathan Kominga, chair Maya. That'll go to the Warriors. Nice one there. Congrats, Golden State. Very nice. Kominga, this is going to Dallas, a six of 20 at Spencer Dinwiddy. Spencer Dinwiddy, six of 20 on the Diamond. This is like two of 10, Steph Curry, two colored patch auto. Number four on the day, on Curry Autos. Unreal, dude. Unreal.  Is this real life? Is it real life? We're exclusively, yeah, exclusively pulling chefs over here between Hardin and between Ferry. Literally, we're just cooking over here. Unreal, man. Congrats. Who's got Golden State in this one first off? Benjamin B, congrats, Benjamin. He might be a good player. He's okay. He's okay. He's all right. All right, guys. That is going to do it for the break again. No recap. This is a break. Let's go. There he is. Congrats, Benjamin.  Let's go, man. Let's go. Oh, that's awesome. Thank you again for getting this filled up. I do appreciate it. Up next, we've got number three now.


So in this video, I've got two brilliant products to show you in the pet niche, in the dog niche, specifically. Both these products are selling really well right this second as well, making them great options for you guys to test out if you want to, of course. I'm going to show you the products, obviously. I'll show you the Ed Creative, I'll show you the results it's getting, I'll show you where to source it from, and I'll show you what these guys are selling it for as well so you know exactly what kind of setup that you're looking to replicate. One thing I will say is, or one thing that I also want to do in addition in this video is talk about the strategy behind these products because it's one thing to show you a product that's selling really well, but unless you understand why it's selling really well, then it becomes, it's a lot more difficult to replicate that same success. Obviously you don't just want to copy and paste somebody's businesses, somebody's business, it's bad practice, it's not always guaranteed to work, and unless you actually understand the business yourself, when you come up against that first roadblock, that first hurdle, then unless you understand things on a deeper level, you're not going to be able to get past or overcome that roadblock. So today I'm going to talk about the strategy these guys are using and how it can replicate it into your own business to grow that into a success as well. So the first products I'm going to show you, I'm quite excited about to be honest, because the amount of engagements, the response this product has got, the popularity is pretty phenomenal. So it's from a company called Pawsome, definitely go and check these guys out. It's a shop if they saw that you should be following. They seem to come up with winning product after winning product. If you're in the pet niche, definitely a good company to follow. This particular post has been going since January 4th and in that time I've got 83,000 reactions, 4,000 comments and nearly 6,000 shares. So it goes without saying that people are responding and engaging with this on a pretty high level and it's also pretty obvious why as well. I mean, just look at the first couple of seconds of a puppy wrapped up all snuggly in bed with this teddy. It's pretty cute, to be honest, isn't it? It's the sort of thing that when people see they just they want to watch it, not necessarily because they want to buy the product, but just because it makes good viewing. And that in itself is the strategy that they've gone for. And it's also something that I think a lot of people forget about as well. Like we're advertising on social media platform. Our goal is yes to sell a product, but in order to do that, we need to get eyeballs on it. And to get eyeballs onto a creative, there needs to be a reason for somebody to want to watch it or even better to share it with somebody who would also want to watch it to piggyback off that kind of like organic reach. Another strategy that they've definitely followed and encompassed, which is a brilliant one to adopt is they've taken a product that's done really well in one niche and sold it in a completely different niche, which I've seen quite a few companies do over the years. If you've been following the channel, you'll know maybe a year or two ago, I did a video on a company that it was this flapping fish toy that was specifically for cats or for dogs and somebody sold it in the baby niche. So the opposite way around to what this is. This is quite clearly a children's toy, a baby's toy, a newborn baby you would put in the crib. It plays these lifelike heartbeat sounds in the movement and the warmth helps them sleep. So somebody's taken it from that niche and applied it to the dog niche and the success has been pretty awesome.  So that emotional kind of connection and wanting to give your puppy the best transfers across from the baby and children's niche as well. So let's just see what people are saying about this. So I bought one, it's cute, but my dog won't cuddle with it. So one hour ago that just kind of proves people are indeed still seeing this, it's still active, it's still working. Just look at how many comments, these aren't even the newest either, these are just most relevant. And just see what people are saying about it. As I mentioned, look, it's a Lynn here, but I had something like that for my baby. I want this for me, I'm definitely getting one. Even for children love this idea, fantastic idea. I use my dogs as a calming pillow, now I have one of their own. So what I'm looking for is intent from people, but I'm also looking for people who have said they've actually bought this product as well. Because obviously engagement is one thing, but we want to know that people are actually going to buy it too. It's a great for young animals, great toy for calming, what a great idea, I need one for myself. We ordered one, so there's a couple of people, I think we could do with one of those. I'm waiting for mine, I'm in a hurry, so there's another person who's ordered one of these. Let's just have a look at what sort of traction this is getting. And let's go for the newest. Let's load up, so three hours ago, one week, 36 minutes, one hour, one hour, three hours, three hours. I bought one, it's cute. Five hours, five hours, nine hours, 11 hours. As you can see, significant amount of comments, all in the last 24 hours, which proves this is working right now, right this second. So what are you waiting for? Get the Sunday Shopify store and start selling it. Let's jump on to the actual store that I was selling it. And just to point out some of the few different design pieces or strategies that I adopted in my stores as well, which I really, really like, is the different bullet points for the different benefits of the product. So somebody doesn't have to scroll all the way through and spend five minutes or so reading all the different paragraphs and headings, so on and so forth. If you bullet point them nicely at the top, they can get all the information they need in that first section of page that loads, and they can just go straight ahead and click that add to cart button. They've got when delivery is still expected, what the returns policy is, and there's more social proof with the reviews and the 20,000 plus customers there. I will just double check the reviews. So this is another popular strategy I'm seeing from quite a lot of Shopify stores is at the top here, they'll have 4.8, 4.7, some kind of like review score, followed by the amount of reviews, but then when you actually try to find them, there's no evidence of them. So that would indicate, I've not tried this myself, but it would indicate that a lot of consumers aren't even checking out the reviews, and they're kind of taking a word for it. Obviously, this is super important to do as long as you have a product that people want. The number one thing that will change or influence somebody's decision is their desire to buy the product, their desire to want the product. So they're selling a one-off for $27.99. If we jump on to AliExpress, we can see the same kind of stitching for the tiers. Let's play this video. We can see the same movements, it's basically the same product. This comes with free shipping, fire shipping as well within eight days for €3.20, which is about £3. So there's at least that £20 room that I keep mentioning when you're selecting your products. So definitely, definitely, definitely a strong contender for anybody watching this who is in the dog niche. Before we move on to product number two, I just want to make you aware of my mentorship program that currently has just one spot left for April. It's a one-to-one mentorship with myself. I will hold your hand for the entire process of selecting your product, launching the product, introducing you to suppliers who can deliver it quickly to your country of choice, and of course, launching profitable social media campaigns and getting your business past that 10k per month milestone. If you are looking for somebody to help you guide through the process and simplify it and avoid the easier mistakes that people make, then what you need to do is once you finish watching this video, check out the description below. You'll see this mentorship link here. Just click that. It's going to take you to this type form once it loads. It's a series of three or four questions, super quick and easy to fill out. It's a chance for me to get to know you briefly, where you are at the moment, where you want to get to, and then if you've got a realistic goal that I can help you achieve, you'll get through to my calendar where you'll be able to book a date and time where me and you can jump on a call and have a chat about how the mentorship works. So if that sounds good, make sure you check that out in a second. Moving on to product number two, then, is a brilliant, brilliant product. It's not a stereotypical drop shipping product that's easy to get hold of. I believe they will have some kind of relationship with a supplier probably on Alibaba that's selling these things. As you can see, the product does come branded. If I can find that again for you. There we go. So clearly they've got their logo on this and it arrives nice and branded, really professional. It's not just a run-of-the-mill drop shipping product that anybody can copy and replicate. I can't stress the power of this enough. Too many people build these pop-up drop shipping stores that anybody can replicate in a space of a couple of hours and they expect to succeed. When, if you think about it, if it really was that easy, everybody would be multi-multi-millionaires by now. You have to be willing to go to that next level that most people are not willing to get to, because in the house reality is, in any industry, it's like the top couple of percent maybe that actually make money and go on to be successful doing this. So you have to be willing to do what the 95% of people aren't. This is a brilliant product. Then the strategy they're using, which you guys can use at home, is they are combining two passions into one. So they have the passion, obviously, of dogs and they have the passion of people who are military, have a military background. So it's a product that speaks specifically to a specific type of customer. They're not just trying to sell a dog product to all dog owners. They're selling a military dog product to people who probably more than likely have larger dogs and they have a military background. So it's a match made in heaven for anybody who matches that kind of customer profile. When they see this product, they're just going to have to buy it because it's one of the only things they have seen that has been aimed specifically to them. Sometimes the difference between a business succeeding and failing is just narrowing down on who your ideal target market is. Like I mentioned, instead of trying to sell a generic dog product to all dog owners, they're selling a specific product to a specific type of dog owner. Let's have a look at what people are saying then. So 7.9 thousand reactions, 857 comments, 1.2 thousand shares. Let's go for the newest and see when they're from. So 14 hours, 16 hours, 16, 16, 16, 19, 21, 22, 23, one day, one day, one day. So not quite as many comments from the last 24 hours as the previous post, but that previous post was pretty phenomenal. It's going to be difficult to compete with that. But nonetheless, they're still doing a very good job. There's still a significant amount of people commenting in the last 24 hours, which just showed you. It's still active. It's still working. And it's the strategy that you can take and adopt into a different product. Let's go through the comments and see what people are saying. See if we can find anybody who's bought one of these things. So got one from my dog straight away in the last week. There's somebody with the American flag in the background as well. So that kind of there shows you who the ideal kind of customer is. It's somebody who's obviously with a military background, somebody who's patriotic and obviously has dogs as well. So the dog goes nowhere. Does not go anywhere without it now. Loves it. Need one from my German Shepherd. I kind of touched on that earlier about going for the larger dog breeds. I've got one, Chris White. We have a German Shepherd that's retired. He loves it and extremely durable. My boy, Gunny needs one. I got one from my canine. My dog loves this. So as you can see, there's quite a few people that have gone for this and actually gone ahead and bought one. Jump into the store then. As you can see, again, it's just not a typical Shopify dropship in store, which I like to see. Consumers can, they can smell. They can see a dropship in store from a mile off now. So try and do things differently to the typical kind of Shopify store. What's really interesting about this though is there's no price. There's no price on the product page, which I've not seen somebody do before. It's interesting that and perhaps something I'll consider testing, but it's almost like people have to click the add to cart button in order to find out how much it is. And because it takes them that one step further into the checkout process, maybe people more often than not are thinking, sorry, I'll just go all the way and actually buy it. So an interesting strategy, perhaps something to test in your own stores, but just approach with caution. It's not a textbook thing to do, but it must be working one way or the other. Otherwise, they wouldn't be doing it, obviously. And with that being said, that's it for this video. I hope you guys stay tuned and enjoy it. I found something valuable and I've sparked some ideas and got you excited about your own business. As I mentioned before, if you are looking for some help from myself one-to-one to hold your hand for the entire process and launching your business to that 10K per month milestone, make sure you check out that mentorship application and I'll talk to you soon. Thanks.


What's up, guys? We're back with another epic battle video where we're battling against Yu-Gi-Mou. We lost the 7-game series by losing 4 in a row last time, but we were taking it easy on him. Now we're going to open a Rise of Destiny 1st Edition booster box, and we're going to beat him. This box is a European box, so there should be one hobby, ultimate rare, and one retail. So naturally, decoychee and creator. How about that? That be crazy. We're also doing a giveaway for this video. I'll be getting away. These two cards, yeah. The Dark Magician Girl and the Arcana Art Dark Magician. Pretty awesome. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, and let me know your favorite card that we pulled today, and let's get into it. All right, guys. Let's open this thing up. This is actually a pretty expensive booster box now. They used to be a lot cheaper. They've gone up quite a bit, so this is going to be pretty awesome opening. Hopefully better than yesterday. If you guys didn't see yesterday, check out the Cybernetic Revolution opening. That's the box right there. Also, if you want to get you a playmat, check out the link in the description. Use code ruxen. You can get 10% off. If you want to get you a cyber dragon, I think they have more options as well. All right. Here we go. All right. This is definitely European. They always have way more room in there, I feel like. Let's start off here. I don't know if they map these Rise of Destiny or not, but let's see. I've seen some pretty crazy stuff out of Rise of Destiny booster boxes, so hopefully that'll happen. By the way, since we are battling Yu-Gi-Oh, make sure you guys check out his video after this. He also has a really cool intro for the battle. He put in a ton of work on it, and it's really funny, so make sure you check that out. Creeping Doom Manta. Back to square one. What do we want out of here? We want the Dekuichi Rare. We want the Ultimate Rare. We want the Creator. We want stuff like that. Darkblade the Dragonite is a great retail Ultimate Rare as well. Invasion of Flames, Foxfire, and Ballista of Rampart Smashing. So this is our first battle since the 7-game series, so we're going to need to come back. We're going to need to do better. Let's see what we can do here. Rise of Destiny. Here we go. Nightmare Penguin. Homunculus, the alchemic being. Spell Purification. Chain Burst. Let's hopefully not get that one as an Ultimate Burst and Eagle Eye. By the way, if you're interested, this is the code for these specific packs. 102-758. The packs are usually like one off of the box number, I think. Let's see if we can find the box number real quick. Yeah, 102-57. So 102-757. Does that make sense? Alright. So Hobby Retail is a different code. So if you see a code that is not the Hobby Retail code and you have both of those, then it's probably the European code, which is this. And in terms of a lot of the sets, you get one Hobby and one Retail Ulti. Element Magician, which I think how they should have done it, I always. That would have made sense. Sasuke Samurai Number 4. Moki Moki and Eagle Eye. So so far, we are opening back-to-back GX boxes in these last two days, but so far, we haven't pulled anything good out of this box, but we also haven't pulled, you know, anything at all. So just keep it up. These packs open really easily. It's really nice. Okay, we've got the Mirage Dragon. Raging Flame Sprite. Zing Zin Hu. Rock from the Valley of Haze. Eighteen Travis... I'm just going to go and say it. We're definitely going to pull that as an Ultimate Rare. We do it every single time. Somehow or another, it comes out, and that's what we get. All right. I really hope that we get a... I mean, the Perfect Machine King is really cool. And Creator. Those would be crazy Ultimate Rear. Muddy Go... Mirage Dragon. Rock. Harpy Girl. Good one. And a Pikachu Circle Enchantment. That is a Super Rare. Nice. Creator. And Moki Moki Smackdown. I mean, it's impossible for us to do worse than we did yesterday in the CRV box. That is literally the worst possible box, I think. Unless maybe you take out the Cyber Twin and replace it with some other random Super. And then we don't get a Power Bond. We get, I think, Winged Caribo Level 10 would have been worse as an Ultra Rare. Because the Power Bond Ultra is actually worth quite a bit. So we were close, but we weren't quite there. So today, I mean, it's just all up from yesterday. It's all up from here. We get a Tactical Espionage. Harpy Lady 2. Creeping New Manta. Back to square one. Machine Duke. That would be a great Ultimate Rare. And Moki Moki King. We would definitely take this one as an Ultimate Rare. I have pulled this one before out of Rise of Destiny Special Edition. And so it was... No, Rise of Destiny Special Edition is the first dead. That's right. So it was first dead. All right. Let's see what we can do here. So far, one Super Rare. That's it. Homonculus. Mind Haxwinks. Raging Flame Sprite. Spell Puri. Rare Metal Morph. Okay. Rare Metal Morph. And Moki Moki King. We have pulled Moki Moki King so many times already. We have Harpy Girl. Mind Haxwinks. Harpy Hunting Ground. Element Magician. Divine Rat. Okay, that's actually a really cool one. It's the hobby Ultimate, though. It stinks. That does stink quite a bit, but that's a really cool looking one. That is a cool one. It's better than some. Like, if we got Peeru Circle of Enchantment, that would have sucked. This is pretty good, though. I mean, check that out. That looks really, really good. I'm a fan of that card. I'm a fan of that card. I don't know what its value is, though, so we'll have to check it out. But that's a cool one. I wish that was a... I wish that was a Rare and an Ultimate Rare. That would have been a lot better. If that was a Rare instead of a Super, it'd be better. Okay, so we're pretty much now. We're hoping for D'Koichi. We're hoping for... Machine Dup. Stuff like that. Zingsin Hu. Harpy Hunting Ground. Harpy Girl. Oh, we got the Creator Ultra Rare. That's awesome. We got the Cover card in Ultra. That is really, really cool. Check that out.  Oh, I didn't check the Waxing on the other one. There's a little bit of an indent right there. You guys can see that. You see that? Small indent. That is really cool. The Creator. What a nice pull. Let's check the back on this. See how we're doing. We're doing okay so far. Oh, yeah. There's that Rise of Destiny Wax. You guys see that? Rise of Destiny. You're not going to be grading those Ulties. That's for sure. Okay, Harpy Lady 3 and Moki Moki Smackdown. Okay, we still got three packs on this side. We're doing pretty good. Pull three foils. It's not bad. What are the supers that we want? Divine Wrath. It's like a $4 Super, so maybe in Ulti it's like worth a lot. It might be like maybe like a $50 card or something. Mighty God. Mirage Dragon. Rock. Serial Spell. Let's see. Look, we could have gotten that. No, that's a Rare, so we could still get that. We'll probably still get that. Okay, two more packs of this side. And then we're going on to the left side, which apparently... I wonder if that's always the retail side. That's interesting to think about. I wonder if the retail Ulti is always on the left. Tactical Exponage. Nightmare Penguin. I'm a magician. Ooh, the Koichi. Let's go. We got the Rare to Koichi. That's a good one. Like a $5 card. We'll take that. Very solid in goat format. Hello, hello. Okay, one more pack on this side. We're doing okay. We're doing okay. We're going to see how Yu-Yu-Mo does. I think we can win this one. But every time that we do pretty good, he just does amazing. So it's kind of unfair. All right, we got a Harpy Earl. That's a good start to that pack. Homunculus. Mindhack Swords. Raging Flame Sprite. Ultimate Insect Level 3 would be a cool Ulti. I would take that. I don't think it's worth too much, but I just love how it looks. Yeah, especially in the Euro print. So we could get some cool Euro print cards. Just be one that looks good, at least. We're starting on the left side, so we could get our Ulti over here somewhere. We've already pulled an Ultra Rare, which is nice. We've got the Creeping Doom Manta. Harpy Lady 2. Taxical Espinage. Element Magician. We've seen those a few times. Monster Reincarnation. That would be a cool Ultra Rare as well. Monster Reincarnation Super Rare. We will take that. We've already gotten our hobby, though, so we can't get it. Okay, Moki Moki and Woodborg Impachy. 11 packs left in this booster box. GX, please bless us with something epic. Decoichi Number 3. I have two now. I had zero for a long time. Or at least, Ultis. So I need one more. Black Sklirm one, if I ever use three. Light in the load. Harpy Lady 2. Creeping Doom Manta. Serial Spell again. Bo-coichi. All right. Okay, Bo-coichi. I see you. I see you. If you guys are enjoying this video, make sure to like the video and be subscribed. Make sure to subscribe. We're doing a crazy opening. Even crazier than this. Much crazier than this. Crazier than Cybernetic Revolution. It's going to be huge. Mardi Gras. Nightmare Penguin. So yeah, make sure you're here for that. Decoichi Number 2 out of the box. And Bo-coichi. That means we get to draw two cards. That is awesome. Draw two cards when we flip. We'll take that. On to the next one. We are doing pretty well so far in this box. Compared to the cost, maybe not that well. But overall, we're pulling some pretty valuable stuff. Like, you know, stuff that has value. Element Magician. Harpy's Hunting Ground. Mindhack Swords. Harpy Girl. We'll take that. Ultimate Insect Level 3. That's a cool one. Moki Moki and Harpy Lady 3. Next, Pacaroon. Let's see what we can do. Can we pull the next Ulti? Whatever it's going to be. I don't know. That pack just ripped up really weird. Mirage Dragon. Rock. The load. Homunculus. Tragedy. Oh, that was yesterday. This was a tragedy opening that cybernetic revolution box. Okay. Today hasn't really been a tragedy. Tragedy's been pretty good. I'll take that. Harpy Lady 3. Okay. Okay. Next pack. Ultimate Rare. What will it be? I have a good feeling about our next ultimate. I think it's going to be decent. Back to square one. Do you blue guys believe? Let me know in the comments. Will we pull a good Ulti? Creeping Doommanta. We've got Harpy Lady 2. Tactile Espinage. Covering Fire. Oh gosh. This is reminding me how many bad options there are and rise of destiny for Ultis. Okay. Let's hope it's not that one. All right. Next pack. The Mirage Dragon. We've got the Harpy's Hunting Ground. The Raging Flame Sprite. Zing Zinhu. Oh, the Fusor Dragon. That's a cool one. The dual mob beast. That's a pretty cool Ulti. So that would be all right. I would be okay with that one. All right. All right. Next pack. Next pack. We are waiting in suspense for the next Ulti. Come on. Homunculus. Spell Purification. Mario. Nightmare Penguin. Oh, a machine duplication. That is one of the ones we want and not much scuffing. Okay. There's a little bit. You can see it there. But for Rise of Destiny, that's pretty good. That's a really good Ultimate Rare. We're looking all right for this battle now. If he doesn't pull like the cover card, Ulti, we have a good chance. We have a good chance. That's a really good one. That is a really good one. So let's just check out what we've gotten so far. All right. So far, we've pulled pretty good. We've got tons of Harpy Girls. Cuppie. Cuppie. Couple of Koichi's. We've pulled a machine dupe. We've got the Creator cover card. Two Ultis. Yeah. We're looking good right now for this battle. And for the rest of this pack, we got another Koichi. Koichi brings us the luck, apparently. All right. Final four packs of this box. Here we go. Let's pull something good. Let's pull something insane. We've already pulled two Ultimate Rears. So we're probably not getting another one, but you never know. You never know. We already pulled two really good ones. Spell Purification. Mario. Big Core. Super Rare. Okay. Not the craziest card, but it is a big core. It is a Super Rare. I don't know if that's our last card or not. I don't know. So Super Rare. I'd rather have the Divine Wrath than that, probably. It's a cool looking card, but it's not very good. All right. We got Zingsen. The Dragoon. Rock. Lighting the load. Oh, and Flint. Yeah. That could have been one. Flint. That would have been fantastic getting to Flint. All right. Second and last pack. Raging Flame Sprite. We got the Zingsen, who? Rock from the Valley of Haze. Lighting the load. Oh, it keeps happening. Gaia Soul, the Combustible Collective. I pulled that one. I pulled that one against Team Sam, actually. And the final pack, guys. Maybe nothing in here. We're not sure. I think nothing, but you never know. Overall, an amazing box so far. Marigold. Mirage Dragon. Harpy's Hunting Ground. Raging Flame Sprite. Necklace of Command. Okay. The meme itself. Okay. All right. So let's go over what we got in this whole box, guys. We did pretty good. We got one, two, three, four. I think I'm going to miss some of the Harpy girls that might be in there. Then we got two de Koichi rares. We got a machine-duper rare. Big core Super Reincarnation. Tragedy and Peekaroos. That's four supers. We got the cover card the creator. That's really awesome. And two pretty nice Ultis out here. Machine-dupe and Divine Wrath. I think, overall, we did pretty good. We actually pulled some pretty decent value out of this box for what you can actually pull. And I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you did, make sure to like the video, subscribe for more epic content. Check out Yugi Moe's video in the description and let him know who won, me or him. I think we did pretty good. It's going to be tough for him to win. And that's it for this video. I'll see you guys later. Peace.