Hey guys, it's Nate, 8K, The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. Little extra Monday upload talking about winter upgrades, because a lot of people are starting to ask me questions about what is winter upgrades, how's it gonna work this year? Last year they changed it, but are they gonna do it the same this year? When could that be coming? I wanna talk about it all today and give you a preliminary look on how winter upgrades have changed over the past couple of years, because some people have already started asking me, hey, yo, can I buy informs or is my player of the month, Bruno Fernandez, gonna get upgraded? Is my player of the month, Joao Felix, going to get upgraded? In years past, we would have said yes, but last year EA changed upgrades, so I wanna talk all about it today and even look at some cards and kind of lead you guys on a path to help you find cards that might have informs and stuff that do get upgraded if they do upgrades a certain way. It's very confusing. This is always one of the most confusing things about FIFA every year is winter upgrades, because EA always changes it, right? They always change what cards they're upgrading, how they're doing the upgrade to the special cards, if a player's base card gets an upgrade, how do you know if their informs get upgraded as well? And just kind of like the differences between the years and I'm gonna talk about all of that today because that is something that we could see this Friday because that is something that has always come out with the winter refresh promo. So winter refresh has always kind of included winter upgrades in this February timeframe. Let's talk about it, right? So we're starting with last year because last year EA changed it up completely with what they did, right? Last year they only had the top 50 most improved player upgrades and they linked us to this FIFA forum to see the upgraded players, which they said these 50 players will have their ratings permanently updated to reflect their outstanding form in the first half of the season, only new base player items found in packs will have updated ratings, but certain existing informed items will have their ratings automatically updated, right? Automatically updated. Now, of course, before we look at that list, this was the big thing that was different about FIFA 20. The criteria for a winter refresh upgrade, only players who are receiving a plus three overall upgrade from their current base item are eligible to receive a player upgrade. So it was only plus threes, whereas in years past, they did plus ones, plus twos, and lower than plus threes. They also said for informs and special cards, if an upgraded player's new overall rating and or face stats do not equal or surpass an existing informed rating, his informs will not get an upgrade. And if it does, if they do equal or surpass his existing first informed rating, his informs will get an upgrade. So last year in FIFA 20, this was the list, right? You had so many people that were buying special cards for regular upgrades that should have been plus ones or plus twos, and those didn't come. So a lot of people lost coins last year and a lot of the market dropped because only these 50 players got upgrades, right? There were some big names in here, right? Jamie Vardy getting in, Mason Mount, Daniel James, Adama Treari, James Madison, I remember some of those special cards that got upgraded, Holland got an upgrade last year, Timo Werner, Zakaria, you look down the list. Those are kind of the big names, Alexander Esok, right? Rekia Lawn, we got some of these players even in Future Stars just a little bit ago. But the big change in FIFA 20 from what it was in years past was only the plus three overalls got upgraded. So like no special cards got upgraded. There were very few special cards that actually got updated in FIFA, whereas in FIFA 19, with FIFA 19 went to refresh, what they did was they released the certain players by league and they did basically how they do team of the season. They did Premier League, Bundesliga Serie A at the top, five leagues and then a rest of the world and they put these cards in packs with their upgraded ratings, right? Take a look at the Premier League. Harry Kane gets a plus one. So then what you would do is, you would go out and look, did any of these stats, so Kane got plus one shooting, plus one passing, plus two physical and those were all the stat upgrades overall inside of his plus one player stat boosts, right? So you would look at Kane's informed cards and you would say, hey, are any of these equal to or less than his new card? And that would in turn mean that his special item would get upgraded, right? But you see plus ones, plus threes for Van Dyke, a plus one for Abam Yang, Allison, all the way around. I remember specifically in FIFA 19 making coins off of Abam Yang's informs that got upgraded and selling into the hype because again, this has been the way that EA has done it for so long with the plus ones, plus twos and plus threes and above, whereas last year in FIFA 20, they only did the plus threes. So I've already had people start to ask me what cards could get upgraded this year and could we see in a boost for special cards, right? And these are three players that people have started asking me about already, Joao Felix, Bruno Fernandez and Erling Holland because they are due upgrades. How do we know that they're due upgrades? How do we know which players are due upgrades, right? It's based off of, we think, the card stats that are in the system for career mode and EA updates those all the time. But this website right here is sofifa.com and I'm pretty sure that it mimics that career mode database. So we're gonna take a look at Joao Felix, right? Joao Felix shows in Sofifa as an 83 rated card. Now we know that his base item is 81 rated and he has an 84 rated inform. This is the card that's in question for the possible upgrade because if they do do upgrades this year, like they have in FIFA 19, FIFA 18 years before last year, then technically Joao Felix will get an 83 rated gold card and most likely you would hope that they would boost that 83 rated gold card enough so that one of his face stats, he got all plus threes and plus fours from his gold card to his inform. But you would hope that they would upgrade one of the stats. Let's say they upgrade him to 77 passing. That would equal the amount of passing that's on this inform. So then in turn, this inform would get another boost and it would probably go to an 86. This inform could go to an 86. I don't know if they'd make an 85 or 86 but usually 84s go to 86s so then he would get a boost as well. And then since that would press his 86 rated inform would probably overlap with some of the stats on this player the month. You would then see a possibility of this player the month going up to an 88. And the possibility of this headliner card going to an 88 as well because of those cards getting pushed up by that overall rating. So let's look at like Bruno Fernandez, right? Cause you know, I got play them with Bruno Fernandez 92 rated. I'm interested if you're gonna upgrade Bruno which in Sofia he shows as an 88 rated card his base cards an 87, right? And he also has an 88 rated inform. So let's say what's how much of a boost do we have here? Plus one pace, so like almost guaranteed if they do upgrades the way they did last year that you would see this Bruno inform get upgraded because plus one upgrades like that's bound to happen like we saw with the Harry Kane, right? And the abominion abominion plus one shooting plus one passing one physical and two dribbling. That's a pretty normal upgrade from like a plus one style and a card, right? With this 87 Bruno if he was actually to get an 88 rated gold card he would probably have some stats that would overlap or be surpassed. And even just the 88 rated face card stat would push this inform up. Yeah, easy enough. This car will go to 88 rated or his gold card would. So that means this one would automatically go to an 89 pushing all of these Bruno Fernandez cards up one except for the team of the year. Team of the years don't get upgraded. Now that leaves us with one question. Last year they said they did not apply the upgrades to ultimate scream items nor did they apply it to future stars objective players because if you look at this list and think about what happened last year Daniel James had an objective card and I think of Victor Oseman was in here as well. I thought I saw Victor Oseman and he had a card as well. Maybe that wasn't correct. I'm not sure if I saw him right but Dan James got a plus three and his objective card was not upgraded with that plus three stat boost. It looks like scream items and the future stars are kind of the only ones that we have to worry about about that. I think down here in FIFA 19 as well it said non-informed players will not receive an upgrade. If an upgrade's new overall rating does not equal or surpass it won't get an upgrade and the exception was the ultimate scream cards as well. And then of course the UCL items were different in FIFA 19 so that's kind of not relative to this year but this is the big question that I want to answer to you guys and talk about a little bit more. Are they going to do upgrades the same way they did in FIFA 19 where we saw a lot of special cards get upgraded or are they only going to do ones in FIFA 20 like they did with plus threes and above? Last year winter refresh the promo itself was one of the biggest L's of a promo that we had inside of FIFA 20. It was bad. It was literally bad. There was no hype because the winter refresh and the winter upgrade specifically were just dead and nobody really cared because all we wanted was the winter upgrades, right? And that's what people are wanting this year as well. So EA, if you're listening, it's not too late, all right? Do upgrades like you have done before but can you invest in these cards for an upgrade? Now here's what I would say. I'm not going to be doing it. I'm not going to be doing it. I'm only, if I'm buying any cards it's going to be because I want to get ahead of people that are thinking that they could invest for this possibly happening but since EA has switched it around a couple times now between the last two years with the way they're doing winter upgrades I don't really want to risk it. I don't want to chance it, right? So this Joe Alphelix, I bought one today at 93,000 coins because he was selling at 100K earlier today but I can see a card like this with his plus two potential boosts coming. If they do winter upgrades the old way this card would get upgraded. So I am just honestly thinking right now and starting to see this honestly that if cards are getting boosts especially some of these hype cards like this Holland that people like to use which I probably should have bought one of these tonight because he was 500K at a point and now he's 540. That's besides the point but people are going to start to look at these and say hey he's supposed to get an upgrade he should go up in rating, right? And especially if you find players that are going to get a plus three it's kind of harder to do that because usually it means they're more of a lower level. You know, I'm not entirely sure which players could be getting a plus three this year but this website would be a great, great help in finding that. Renato Sanchez, 79 rated. What is Renato Sanchez's base card? I think his base card is still a 79. I don't think that's actually an upgrade. Okay, it's a plus one, a plus one. So I'm not entirely sure which players are getting plus three or bigger boosts this year in FIFA but if you go around and you find some of those cards I've already heard of like people investing in Andre Silva actually. Andre Silva is one informed card that I've heard a lot of people, 82 plus one. So does that mean he's going to be an 83? Andre Silva, let me take a look at him.  So I know for a fact that people have been buying up this inform surely for the fact that he could get a plus two in rating or a plus three and that would push this card up to a very high rated inform which would then make him worth more on the market. Now I understand why you're investing in that but this is already an investment that has gone up from 17,000 coins to 25K, 27K based off of that thinking. So I'm not interested in this card in itself but look and see if you can find other cards, right? Just search players in here that might get plus three ratings based off of their performances in this past year and if you look at the list from last year in FIFA 20 it's a lot of young guys, Adama, right? James Madison, Jack Grealish. There's that Victor Osman I was looking for before. Erling Holland, Marcus Taram, you know, Zacaria, Hakimi, Onana, Demiral, Lautaro Martinez. So there's a lot of younger cards that got in last year because they have lower base card ratings so a plus three for a lot of those guys a lot of the upgrades that we saw last year were like 77 to 80 rated whereas this year and in years like we saw with FIFA 19 you get the 89 rated Harry Kane to the 90 rated Harry Kane. So I'm really hoping they do upgrades like they did in FIFA 18, FIFA 19 and not like last year in FIFA 20 but since we don't know what exactly is gonna be happening I'm probably gonna stay away from that and if you guys wanna invest in some of that again I just wanted to lay out this video today and talk about the potential risk versus reward type situation with some of these cards. I don't know about Cancelo. What kind of upgrade is Cancelo getting with the year that he has had? Cancelo shows here as an 84 rated card on so FIFA. What is Cancelo's base card rating? Is it 83? So Cancelo would be getting a plus one technically and then we would look and see okay will the new 84 Cancelo if they do it that way have high enough physical or probably pace. Physical or pace, physical dribbling or pace is what I would think would be the stat that would equal or be above the inform and then of course upgrade the rest of the special cards. So that's kind of the game that we're playing right now. So I just wanted to make this video today to kind of talk about it and if you do wanna do some intensive research you can look at some young cards on that website. I'll drop the link down below in the description. Again, I'm not gonna be investing in these upgrades because I just don't know how E is gonna do it and there's plenty of other ways to make coins on the market other than investing in that stuff. But if you do see some of those cards rise up this week that is why they're rising. It's because people are potentially buying because they think they could get upgraded and if we do get information about winter upgrades later this week we will update that and we will update you on the market accordingly as stuff changes. So that's why I wanted to make this second video today talking about it and clearing the questions and clearing the error because a lot of people are just assuming that upgrades are gonna happen like they happened in FIFA 18 and 19 where plus ones and plus twos will happen whereas last year a lot of people forget that only plus threes and above got their boost. So that's the video for today boys. If you liked it, make sure to hit that thumbs up comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Ford Account and catch you guys later. Peace.


Hi, thanks for joining me for an overview of livestock drinking water quality. My name is Eve Brantley. I'm the Extension Water Specialist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and I'd like to thank Dr. Kim Mullinex who is a big part of putting this information together for the invitation to speak as part of the Animal Science and Forages webinar team series. As we get started I'd just like to say that of course water is one of the most important substances on earth and the quantity and quality of water influence not only our quality of life but also of our livestock and herds. If you have a concern that water is causing a health problem please contact your veterinarian to make sure that you get a correct diagnosis. As we get started with this webinar we'll talk about how much water to cattle need, to thinking about the quantity. Cattle need between 7 and 20 gallons per day. It's a pretty big range and it's because it depends on several factors which include forage dry matter, the season and the physiological state of the animal as well as the size. Green forage has higher moisture than dry forage so animals that are consuming primarily green forage won't require as much water as those that are primarily consuming dry forage. Of course temperatures have a lot to do with how much water needs to be consumed. Higher temperatures increase the amount of water that animals need but interestingly high humidity can reduce that daily consumption. When we think about the size of animal a 400 pound calf compared with a thousand pound steer and a mature cow you can see the difference in water needs. Also in those two columns you'll see the difference between a somewhat cooler day 50 degrees Fahrenheit compared to a 90 degrees Fahrenheit day. More than double the need for water between those cool days and the warmer days and then you'll see that the mature cow needs more water in those warmer days than the thousand pound steer. Continuing on with physiological state water consumption will increase with age, weight, pregnancy and lactation and if you're thinking about a plan for how much water your herd needs think about two gallons of water per 100 pounds of body weight each day. So now we've talked about how much water is needed. Let's switch gears a little bit and talk about the water quality. I mentioned earlier that water is one of the most critical substances on our planet and that quality of water that we consume we like to have clear water, cool water, good tasting water and livestock are no different. They prefer water that tastes good and that is cool. One interesting thing that I'll mention a couple times and we'll spend a couple minutes on is that the more water that livestock are able to drink means that they also have the ability to consume and process more feed and this equals increased weight gain. So thinking through that we want our animals to have access to clean water so that they can drink more of it to be able to graze more and increase their weight gain and again just like us if water tastes bad or has high levels of contaminants that might be a risk for their health they might tend to drink less of it which again translates to less potential weight gain. There was a study done that looked looking at clean water that is water from a well spring or river that was pumped to a trough comparing that with water pumped from a pond or directly drinking water from a pond and what was found is that the cattle that were offered clean water spent more time grazing and less time resting and loafing than the cattle that were drinking directly from the pond. So again on this theme of the more water consumption the more time that the animals will have to spend grazing and increasing their weight gain. So the characteristics of water then that are preferred by livestock include temperature. Cattle prefer water that's between 40 and 65 degrees Fahrenheit and if the water is very warm over 80 degrees Fahrenheit they will drink less of it. Besides the temperature of the water, taste of the water also comes into play. Total dissolved solids which is also a measure of salinity common items like sodium chloride, common salt, magnesium like epsom salt, calcium and sulfate can influence the palatability of that water. They also can have a health concern if salinity levels are greater than a thousand milligrams per liter you start to have potential concern with increased diarrhea and as well as limited water intake. A pollutant of concern is nitrate. Safe drinking levels for nitrate are below 100 milligrams per liter. Nitrate levels that are above 300 milligrams per liter can result in severe health problems and even death. It's important to be aware of balancing nitrate levels not just in water that's being consumed but to be aware of the amount of nitrate in feed that's being consumed so that you can have that balanced diet and not exceed the safe nitrate levels. Why are we concerned about nitrate? It's reduced to nitrite in the rumen and nitrite can limit the ability of red blood cells to carry oxygen so your animals will actually be starving for oxygen because they have no ability to carry it. In humans this condition is known as blue baby syndrome and if you do a quick internet search you'll find pictures of people with blue lips and small children with blue lips who have had excess nitrate in their diet and it limits that oxygen supply so this is of course a real health concern for cattle and again just going back to the need to be aware of balancing not only the nitrate that's in water but in feed. During times of drought certain forages can accumulate high concentrations of nitrate and you'll see those listed here um summer annual grasses Bermuda grass Johnson grass if they've had high nitrogen fertilization so in times of drought another opportunity to be aware of concerns with increased nitrate consumption. Pathogens are another concern for herd health pathogens are disease causing organisms that can be introduced by untreated animal waste. As you might imagine consuming untreated animal waste can lead to health problems. Untreated animal waste plus nitrate and and other nutrients as it enters into a water body can also lead to concerns with harmful algal blooms. Last summer we heard a lot about harmful algal blooms especially as it relates to blue-green algae that produce toxins called micro systems these can lead to severe health concerns and death. Well what are some steps we can take as we consider livestock drinking water sources and understanding the quality of the water that that you may already have. Well one easy thing to do is to have your water tested annually if you have a concern about it. Auburn University of course many of you are familiar with the soil and forage lab well they also have the water testing lab there and they can screen a water sample for 16 parameters that includes some of the things we've talked about nitrates total dissolved solids and pH and others. In fact you can go to their webpage and pull down their water sample form and see that the w1 analysis will test for calcium magnesium potassium phosphorus copper iron manganese zinc boron aluminum cadmium chromium lead sodium nickel as well as pH soluble salts and nitrate in nitrate nitrogen. On the right side of your screen is just an example of what that form looks like as it comes back with the different elements and parameters that have been evaluated and just as an example in this particular sample the nitrate was very low five milligrams per liter and total dissolved solids was also low and 103 milligrams per liter parts per million. So this is a nice screen again if you have concerns you can send a water sample there for a quick screen. If you have an algal bloom in one of your ponds and you are worried that it might be a blue-green algae that may release some of the toxins described earlier Dr. Allen Wilson has a service lab that can test that algae you can visit this webpage get more information on how to send in a sample and learn more about what he has to offer very very helpful service lab he's at Auburn University. All right so we can test our water understand more about the quality that it is right now but we can also be proactive in protecting drinking water and protecting our herd health. So one way to do it is to consider limiting the opportunity for livestock to loaf in ponds or around ponds and in wet soils. Those wet soils the longer that cattle loaf in them and are exposed to them means that there's an increase in opportunity for soil-borne bacterium like foot rot to be transmitted so keeping them in areas away from ponds and standing in those wet stagnant soils can be beneficial for other health concerns too. We can also think about managing livestock access to ponds and streams only allowing access at certain times or in certain locations where you have a reinforced substrate to keep them from loafing or from having contact with wet soils for long periods of time. Another recommendation is to keep a healthy streamside forest those healthy streamside forests help filter out any concerns or pollutants before it reaches into the streams. We can also think about the watershed that area of land in your farm that will be contributing water to a pond or to a stream and just being mindful of the amount of chemicals and maintaining the correct levels that we want to put out so that they aren't transported to a stream or to a pond and away from where you want them. The study we mentioned earlier about water being piped from a clean source whether it was a spring or a well can also be put into place with piping water to a water trough or another type of waterer. Freeze-proof troughs like the kinds with floating balltop waters do a great job in cold weather of keeping the water from freezing so that livestock have access to it and year-round they're beneficial they keep water cool in the summer and they also keep water relatively clean and free of debris that might be dropping off animals mouths and limiting the sunlight like these balltop waters do means that it decreases the amount of algae that can grow. So speaking of algae, what if you have a trough that needs a good scrubbing? Well, working with several of our extension colleagues in the Animal Science and Forges team, we've put together a Lessons Learned and Cleaning Trough Tips that you can find at this website to learn more about recommended bleach amounts. We even talk about opportunities to goldfish and then just some suggestions on maintenance schedules and just keeping that water trough clean so that the water that your animals come to drink is that high quality good tasting water that means it's good for them so that they can process more of their time grazing and putting on weight. So as always, there's more information at the aces.edu slash beef systems website to learn more about how all of these topics fit together for productive farm that is good for your animals good for us and really just puts together a nice overall system for livestock production. I really appreciate your time and if you would like to learn more there's more information on drinking water quality and quantity for livestock that's at the Alabama cooperative extension website aces.edu if you do a search for livestock water quality and as always don't hesitate to reach out and ask us questions and we'll be very happy to help answer them. Thanks so much for your time and have a great day.


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Lever Brothers Company makers of swan the soap that gives you a wonderful new kind of suds presents Swan with my friend Irma starring Murray Wilson as Irma and Kathy Lewis as Jane Friendship friendship Just a perfect friendship when other friendships have been forgot There's will still be hot my friend Christmas Eve at 8224 West 73rd Street, New York City And on the third floor in apartment 3b all is serene and quiet except for Irma Peterson who is reading Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house had a creature was stirring. I love Jane a mouse Now don't get excited don't get excited. It's lost. It's probably looking for professor Kapotkin's room I've never been so happy on Christmas Eve and that's because I have such wonderful friends you Richard and Mrs. O'Reilly and Professor Kapotkin. Of course Al. Oh by all means Al Of course, I can't really consider Al a friend because I'm going to marry him Well naturally and Jane you don't know what it means to have a few good friends you can count on Especially on Christmas Eve and you'd want you'd like to be with your family But but mine lives over 1500 miles from here. You know Irma you never say much about your family Oh Jane there isn't much to say. They're just an average family just like me Perfectly normal people No, for instance, there's a well, there's birth of Peterson my younger sister She's not as old as I am Yeah, it figures and there's my brother Ernie Peterson. He's engaged to be married of course, of course I what what about your parents? I miss them the most. They were just like a mother and father to me You know that happens in most families Pearl and Minnesota, I'm here But I'm not lonesome because because I'm surrounded by good friends and Jane. I really appreciate them That's why I'm giving a Christmas Eve surprise party tonight for you Richard professor Kapotkin, Mrs. O'Reilly and Al tonight.  Oh, yeah, hello Richard What? Yes, yes, I know it's formal No, I've never been to the Long Island Country Club Yeah, I'm terribly excited. It'll be our first Christmas Eve together Yeah, I'll be ready Goodbye dear Can you mean you're going out tonight with Richard? What about my Christmas Eve party? Well honey you you didn't say anything about it and Richard invited me to a Christmas party At the Long Island Country Club, and I'd hate to miss it. It's the affair of the season But this is Christmas Eve, and I thought we'd be together Christmas Eve isn't like other holidays, you know, well, I realize that honey Oh, I could understand if it was independence day, then we wouldn't have to be together. We could be independent Honestly, honey, I'm terribly sorry, but there's just nothing I can do about it now You see Richard asked me weeks ago, and well anyway, my not being here shouldn't spoil your party You'll still have Professor Kropotkin and Mrs. O'Reilly and Al. I understand Jane.  Merry Christmas to you, too. Merry Christmas, Professor I hope you'll excuse me for coming down. I don't mean to interrupt But I wasn't feeling so good and when I don't feel good I always rush out of my room as fast as I can why I wouldn't be found dead in that place Well girls, do you realize tonight's Christmas Eve? Oh, yes And just look at that blanket of snow outside. Isn't it lovely? That is a matter of opinion If Mrs. O'Reilly doesn't put glass in my windows, not only will I have a blanket of snow, but I'll have a carpet of the same material You better ask the professor about this evening, honey, before it's too late. Oh, yes Professor, will you come to my Christmas Eve party tonight tonight? Oh, I'm so sorry You mean you can't come either it can be helped them tonight. I'm playing my fiddle at the gypsy Tero I've been practicing all day. Oh, that's terrible. I know but they pay me for Gee first Jane disappoints me and now you well look honey the professor can't help it He must earn a living and after all you'll still have Mrs. O'Reilly and and maybe the Martins upstairs and of course There's Al. Oh Hello everybody Merry Christmas the same to you. Mrs. O'Reilly Merry Christmas. Say Mrs. O'Reilly That's a beautiful reef you got on your door downstairs, but that sign in the middle of it. Oh, you don't like it Merry Christmas lots of cheer. Remember the landlady or you'll freeze next year To me, it's not a sentimental thought Oh, Mrs. O'Reilly, I'm giving a big surprise Christmas Eve party tonight for you and Al Will you come tonight? Oh Erma darling, I'm so sorry. You mean you're busy too. Yes, the Martins have invited me to go to Jersey with them And since they owe me four months back rent, I can't afford to let them get on the train by themselves This is awful first Jane turned me down and then the professor Would maybe next year at my very Christmas and good-bye Sweetie now stop crying. I know you're disappointed, but you should have told us about your party earlier Besides you won't be left alone You won't be left alone. You bought some food, didn't you? What do you mean of course I bought food and I will show up I'll guarantee it Speaking of food, I think I'll go up to my room and have my dinner. Oh, are you cooking professor? No, I take one look at that dump and I sit down and eat my heart Merry Christmas girls, and I'm sorry Honey, I'm sorry things turned out this way for you. It's all right Jane This is one way of finding out who my real friends are They're Al every one of them Come in Hello, Jane. Hi chicken Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas Al. Oh, well Merry Merry Christmas I'm so glad to see you seen here chicken.  Well that ain't from the cold chicken. They caught me with yesterday's transfer Oh my goodness look at the time and Richard's gonna pick me up in an hour.  Oh, thanks, Jane, but I ain't staying this come in the wish chicken a merry Christmas I got to be on my way got a big deal brought Oh Chicken it's important you and your deal. Oh business is business chicken. I gotta be running along But I'll be left all alone on Christmas Eve and Ally depended on you my own boyfriend chicken if I could only explain bother none of you must think very much of me if You can leave me alone on Christmas Eve fine friends. I have good-bye How do you like that? Out of all the low down contemptible good for nothing. I won't have you saying those things about the girl I love Talking about her I mean you How could you desert her Christmas Eve of all nights? Gee me I have to go out with Richard, but you're her boyfriend Jane I love her when a man is in love. He's not responsible. He may do strange things Things he'd never do in his right mind What are you talking about? I went and got a job You got a job Al have you been drinking? No, it's shock you but it's just for one night want to make a little dough and buy your ma present well, I apologize Al I'm sorry. I yelled at you Forget it. Listen Listen now. It's a Christmas carol See that's pretty. I Like to stay but I got to get to work to tell her I'll see you tomorrow Bye Al. It's me Richard Jane Jane. What's wrong? You sound terrible Richard? I can't go with you to the Christmas dance Why not are you ill? No no Richard? I'm all right. It's just that well Irma you Well, you see Well Irma hasn't any family or relatives in New York and and this Christmas Eve all our friends seem to be busy and oh Gee, I just couldn't leave her alone Richard. I wouldn't want you to are you sure you mean that Richard? Of course, honey I understand but I'll talk to you tomorrow Goodbye and Merry Christmas Jane Merry Christmas Richard. I thought you left came back for my hat I didn't mean to eavesdrop Jane But if you're willing to give up a good time tonight for Irma, I guess it's my duty to be with chicken, too Oh That'd be just wonderful What about the presents you were gonna get for him if you don't work tonight? Where'd you get the money for it? Gonna hot my watch. Oh But Al that's the only thing you own You know that no matter how bad times have been you always said you'd never hawk your watch well a man like me don't need a watch I Sleep all day. So time is not important And at night it's too late to do anything Come in. Oh It's you professor. Excuse me, Jenny. I've been thinking about poor little Irma Well, I decided to give up the job. So tonight I could be with them Oh, but professor won't that cost you money you get big tips during Christmas on Christmas Eve It's not important to make money. It's important to be with friends after all what's money? Well, it's pretty important.  So tonight professor Kropotkin will be her father and a boy pop Listen now the first chance I get I'm disinheriting you Excuse me everybody. I took the liberty of walking in. Oh, Mrs. O'Reilly I thought you were on your way to New Jersey. Well, I changed my mind I've got to think it about poor little Irma being all alone tonight I'm not just didn't have the heart to go. I'm going to stay here with her Oh, isn't that wonderful professor Kropotkin just said he's gonna be her father. I'll tell you if that's the case I'll be her mother. I Got news for you If you're the mother, I'll be on the train for Reno in the morning Listen everybody. I've got a wonderful idea Irma was gonna throw a surprise party for us And now we'll throw one for her. We'll give her the best Christmas any girl ever had Well, I'll go out and hawk my watch and buy the press and I'll go get my violin And we can have the party in my apartment. It's bigger. Come along Janey. We'll start decorating. Oh, it'll be a merry Christmas Come on professor take my arm Fair swap. She's been taking my blood all year Just wait until Irma finds out. She'll be the happiest girl in New York Chicago next where to miss please mr What is the fare to Minneapolis? $58 around trip $58 I only have six Where can I go for six dollars six dollars? Let me see. How about Niagara Falls? Oh, I couldn't go to Niagara Falls I'm not even married I'll find some other place to go Merry Christmas And now Susie swan sings to us listen My advice says Susie you like this brand new kind of lather so be choosy Swan gives you beauty lather riches cream your skin stays soft as any dream and Fresh as do I swan do you says Susie? Say Susie swan you must have been eavesdropping on some beauty experts to come up with such grand advice for the ladies Complexions and for you ladies listening I'd like to say that Susie's advice about swan soap is well worth taking because swans wonderful new kind of beauty lather gives you the kind of Complexion care you've been dreaming of yes swan will leave your skin fresh soft and lovely now for one thing Swans new kind of beauty lather is gentle for even the most delicate skins Why when you smooth on that extra rich extra creamy lather you can fairly feel how gently it cleanses and how thoroughly Your face is left glowingly clean then rinse your face and you'll notice another swan beauty advantage That's the way your face feels smooth and fresh not all tight and over-soaked No, because swan's wonderful new kind of lather rinses away so completely So the next time you wash your face take Susie swan's advice and try white floating swan soap's wonderful new kind of beauty lather And Mrs. O'Reilly's room the professor and Al and myself we're setting the table and Mrs. O'Reilly's out trying to find a Christmas tree Irma, Irma's probably walking around the block when we're all set to surprise her we'll send Al out to find her Right now Al is beaming proudly Come January the first he will have completed a solid six years of steady unemployment Professor Kupatkin seems to resent Mrs. O'Reilly's quarters My my she lives like a queen and I live like a dog Now look professor, I know that you and Mrs. O'Reilly have had some differences in the past But now this is Christmas Eve and I want all that to be forgotten You know, she's really a warm-hearted person. Look at the trouble.  I've walked all over and I can't find a Christmas tree Did you see Irma anywhere in the neighborhood? No, I didn't but it's nothing to worry about We must get the tree before she gets back tree Now there's only one man who can help us Who else who else but Hello, Joe Al got a problem need a Christmas tree right away Huh, I can get one at Macy's already trimmed for a dime Oh the dime is for a glass cutter the tree is in the window No, Joe, this is Christmas Eve when I hear jingle bells. I don't want them on a patrol wagon What Joe You're playing Santa Claus tonight Going down to chimney Joe, there's quite a change for you, isn't it? Or you're going in with an empty bag and coming out with a full one Well, Joe, nothing I can say except good luck and Merry Christmas Oh Al, what are we gonna do? It's getting so late. Oh that that must be Irma. No, no, let's all surprise her Stand over there. Let's put out all the lights and give her a big kiss Come in Merry Christmas, honey Here's one for me You too my darling daughter for goodness sake will someone please put on the lights Richard I thought Irma needed a shame Richard, I didn't expect you I thought you went to the club I couldn't take it same old crowd same old monotony So I realized that I'd rather be here with real people on Christmas Eve. Oh, Richard I'm so happy and you're more than welcome Where's Irma? Well, she kind of thought we were all deserting her so she went out in a huff That's why we're throwing a surprise party for and we're waiting for her to come back Don't want to find chicken until we can get a Christmas tree though Got any ideas Richard? Why don't we go out and buy one? Nice gesture Richard. We'll wait here for you Richard you don't have to Oh, it's my pleasure Jane. I saw several on the way over. I'll have one in a few minutes. We'll be right back And I'll get the cake out of the oven and I'll make some punch and I'll tell you when it's right Hey Jane, what are you crying about? The party's taken form. I know So wonderful having everybody pitch in Richard getting a tree and all of you giving up things This is the most wonderful Christmas I ever had Look lady, this is your third round trip on this ferry boat. Ain't you got a home? Ain't you got any friends? No Well, take my advice Go get some All right, I'll I'll try Thank you and Merry Christmas to you Jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way Slay Oh, what fun it is to ride on a sleigh Oh Hold it hold it fellas. Look lady. We're christmas carolers Now we don't do this for a living, but we enjoy it and we rehearse a great deal Now we don't mind you joining us, but we like to have the sleigh come after the horse I'm sorry. Okay fellas Let's do it again Jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride when the horse comes after the sleigh Look look lady, uh, would you mind running along? All right. I was just lonely Merry Christmas Come in lady. Have you got a dime for a cup of coffee? Yes poor man and Merry Christmas Uh, maybe you ought to have another dime for a donut Oh, thank you Oh dear, I don't have any change. Would you like me to break that five for you? What if you don't mind Uh, are you all alone in new york too? Yeah, how about you? I'm from minnesota Minnesota How well I know that place You know, you look very familiar I do Well, my name is Peterson.  Yeah, let me think Peterson Say that must be George Peterson How did you know? Why I remember you used to live in um, uh Minneapolis Hey, let me see George Peterson Minneapolis That's the place I never forget a name Oh, well, it's so nice to meet to meet old friends. Yeah, especially when you're lonely You can keep the five dollars, sir Oh, thank you. But this is only a loan I'll return it the next time I see your father Good old Fred Petersburg in wisconsin Oh, no, it's it's Peterson in minnesota. Oh, mister, mister Al we've walked for miles Maybe we better go home and call the police to look for ermah. Yeah, maybe you're right james Pardon me, but you've got a dime. Oh Al it's yo. You got that courtey.  How can your panhandle on christmas eve great pickings tonight? Just got a fin from a blonde told her I knew her old man peterville Peterson in minnesota Peterson al wash face. Which way did she go cross town? You know, what's the difference?  Yeah, thanks and Merry christmas But you've got a dime Come on out. Come on. Let's go home and call the police. I'm really getting panicky. All right, jane. I'm with you Look lady, I seen that picture milled pierce now you get off this bridge I was just looking at the water mr. Watchman. Oh Look lady. Don't look down there. Everything. That's beautiful is up here. It's christmas eve. You know Yes, I know And i'm so lonely. Oh, I get it.  Yes, uh, you got new friends Yes, but my closest friends are far away Oh now don't cry sister. You're coming home with me. We ain't got much but we're happy to share it Hey, bill. Yeah, that's happen to see a blonde girl Say lady. What's your name? Irma Peterson. That's all we want to know. Come on along sister. I didn't do it. I didn't do it You didn't do what? I don't know but my boyfriend always says to say you didn't do it Oh, look, jane. If you got to be brave now, it's up to the police. They'll find it But we got to take our minds off it Mrs. O'Reilly, would you like to dance? Oh, I'd love to Al dance with her I'll play the fiddle. Merry christmas everybody Merry christmas How do you like that? I just started playing already the neighbors got the police here No, it's a squad car pulling up. I think it's Irma my chicken. Oh, Al it's Irma the police have found her She's coming up the steps. Not quick. Turn out the lights everybody. Come on. We can still surprise her and have the party Come in dearie Oh, Irma darling. Surprise chicken.  I just keep this going Merry christmas. Where have you been?  You're the one we love the most Exactly my sentiments.  You're like me old daughter. Sure chicken. I'd never leave you I want to spend all my christmas eve with you. Oh, this is the best christmas a girl ever had Surrounded by her friends Oh, it's midnight Is that right Al? Wait a minute. Look at my watch Al, why are you going to the window?  It's 12 o'clock Merry christmas chicken Merry christmas Al and merry christmas professor capotkin and mrs. O'Reilly and richard And jane and all our friends marry merry christmas And as for me my sentiments are the same as those of my friend Irma Ladies you can be sure you're getting complexion care That's the last word if you make white floating swan your facial soap You see swan soap gives you a wonderful new kind of lather a new kind of beauty lather that's extra rich Extra creamy a new kind of lather that smooths on your skin gently and softly yet cleanses so thoroughly Your skin is left fairly glowing with cleanliness and swan's new kind of beauty lather gives you another beauty advantage You'll love and that's the way swan rinses away So completely your skin is left fresh and lovely not all tight and over soaked So ladies for a complexion care. That's the last word. How about trying swan's wonderful new kind of beauty lather? 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