Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Team of the Year is fast approaching and we need to talk about how you can prepare for this year's Team of the Year promotion inside a FIFA 21 Ultimate Team. We're gonna talk about more of a broadened approach today and then we're gonna go in some other videos after this and specifically look at different areas of the market and just talk about, you know, out-of-packs informs. Talk about the Team of the Year cards themselves. Talk about SBC fodder investing and all the content that comes out in this game of FIFA during the Team of the Year time period. But today, we're gonna kinda gloss over the whole thing as a whole and then we'll take a look at those individual sections in separate videos later. But the real thing I wanna talk about today is as we are in this, you know, the beginning of this week leading up the Team of the Year, whenever it is, this Friday, next Monday, a week from today, whatever day that is, I wanna just talk about getting our minds right and knowing where we want to go, each and every single person watching this video has a different FIFA Ultimate Team account with different amount of coins, different amount of untradable players that they have packed, different amount of players that they have keep, they plan on keeping in their team for a long time, right? Different reds, different icons, right? Different SBCs that they have completed and honestly, different goals and different objectives inside of this game. So that's what we're talking a lot about today is figuring out where you wanna go with your account this year during Team of the Year, what your goals are, what you wanna do and how you're going to attain those goals, right? So there's like three main things that I think a lot of people like to do during Team of the Year, right? Obviously, number one is they like to open up great packs, right? We all like to open packs and how are you doing that right now? What can you be doing right now to get yourself packs, to get ahead of the game on packs and also how many coins do you realistically wanna put towards packs, right? That's why this whole planning thing is so important. It's all about account management and coin management and using your coins in the areas where they can be the most beneficial to you to help you reach where you wanna go on this game. So of course, speaking of like upgrade packs, right? Let's talk about opening upgrade packs during Team of the Year, what do people do with upgrade packs? Well, they open the ones that EA put out for us and last year, of course, we had all of the league upgrade packs. I would expect those to drop again this year with rare gold requirements. Probably not by league, right? You probably won't have a league requirement for those packs because they did not have those last year during Team of the Year. Those happened during Team of the Season and I hope they don't release those upgrades this year with the league-specific rare gold upgrades. But one thing you can do right now to get ahead of the game for that is to stock your club with rare golds, whether that be by going on a signed or whether just like buying a card, putting it in the club. Rare golds are already a bit inflated, but the earlier you get on this, honestly, it might be the better if you're watching this right away early in the week before Team of the Year. Again, of course, you've already got these Premier League rares that are up to 900, 950 coins that are instantly selling on the market. Basically, you have to pay 1K to get these golds from the Premier League because people are already starting to stack these in their untradable. So, you know, if you go even and look at like the Bundesliga golds as well, right? There's still about 1,000 coins, maybe a little bit less for some of the Bundesliga golds. I think people like to buy the Premier League golds first because they expect just in case there is a league requirement, most Team of the Years will be Premier League or the predominant number of players in the Team of the Year squad should be from the Prem, so you have people buying those rares more often than not just in case. But stocking your club with rares would be a great way to start your upgrade pack grind and stuff like that. Other things to consider when you're gonna be opening a lot of packs for Team of the Year. How many coins do you have?  I've got about 2.1, 2.2 million coins as of right now. I'm probably gonna spend somewhere between one to 1.2, 1.3 million coins on upgrade packs, which doesn't seem like a lot, but with crafting, that's gonna turn into a lot of packs because these packs will give you a lot of players in return. You'll be able to put those players into other SBCs, whether those be League SBCs or whether those be other upgrade packs that are out in the game. And if you do wanna do League SBCs while you're opening these League upgrade packs that will be out during Team of the Year, one thing you're gonna wanna do to prepare ahead of time is wait for a time on the game, whether it's rivals rewards, squad battle rewards, wait for a time on the game where some silver supply will come onto the market and if you're wanting to do Premier League League SBC or the Bundesliga League SBC with the extra players you pack, start getting those silvers that you need, stock your club with silvers that you will need to complete these League SBCs if you do wanna craft those because these guys will get expensive during Team of the Year as people look to buy the silver cards and some of the non-rear golds that are very, mostly just silver cards because they're not getting packed through upgrades that make these SBCs completable, right? There's a lot of silver cards, like for the Premier League SBC, West Brom has like silver cards that have been extinct for a long time because they're literally not on the market and if you have a chance to snag some of those or to snag some silvers at a cheaper price than what they usually go for before Team of the Year starts that could be a good way to prepare your club for doing upgrade packs, right? Let's talk about other things that people like to do during Team of the Year, they like to buy a team. People like to buy teams, buy players because a lot of prices drop around Team of the Year with all the packs being opened and a lot of cards coming onto the market and a lot of different saved up packs being opened as well. That's a lot of supply for this game as well. We've seen a lot of prices drop off, right? And we talked about it, we said, hey, we're still waiting on some big time panic for a like buy time for a lot of these cards but the number one thing you can do to get prepared to get ready to figure out what cards you want to buy for your team, if it doesn't include any Team of the Year players in that squad that you want to buy or if it does, just make a concept squad, right? Make a concept squad for like my personal team, right? I kind of want to buy like maybe a Conte, right? A Conte would be a very nice addition to my midfield. I kind of want to upgrade my left back so I might look into buying like some form or version of a Premier League left back at some point in this game or another left mid. Like I might try to get a special version of like Hyunmin Sun's inform, right? For my team because I want to upgrade my Premier League squad. So what I'm going to do is I might make a concept squad and instead of having Zaha here at left mid, I would add Hyunmin Sun in or I would add Paul Pugba or I would add Conte if I want to add those players to my team and that way you kind of have a concept squad set out and you can start to lay out your plan for that timeframe of Team of the Year. And one thing you can do when you have a concept squad is you can keep track of that player's price by using the compare price feature on the game. And you know, as you have a concept squad made out and as you kind of formulate a plan for what you want to do and the players that you want to buy for that team, start to kind of figure out a target price for where you see that card going or you know, let's see like right now Mbappe, maybe you got, you want to buy Mbappe for your team, right? You're one of the unlucky people like myself who have not been able to pack this card this year that so many other people have packed. Now Mbappe's been dropping down, right? Black Friday, he was 1.3 mil early December. 1.3 mil, the dude is literally 835,000 coins right now. You know, maybe you set a target price on PlayStation for this card at around like low 800s.   But if you buy at 810 and he goes all the way back to 870 or 880 after Black Friday, then you're happy, right? You got a good price on that card and that's the whole point of buying during this timeframe is when everybody sells before team of the year is you get that low price and a lot of stuff that is meta, that is popular, a lot of people like to play with rebounds after that. So again, plan out your team, pick out what cards you want to buy, right? Make a concept squad, add those cards to your transfer targets and watch their price a lot over this next week, right? Over this next week, where we have potential panic with the actual team of the year release. If you want to buy this headliner's Hyunmin Sun, right? Guys playing really well in real life, could Spurs put four wins together and this card get a plus one for that? Probably not, you know, as a Spurs fan, we're not playing that great all the time, not very consistent, but Sun scores goals. The probability of him getting another inform in the next month or two is probably very high. So that makes this a great card to low-key invest in and put in your team at the same time. And that's kind of leading me into my next point is investing during team of the year. And again, as you're thinking about how many coins you have and what you want to do during team of the year, maybe start to set some increments, right? I want to spend two million on my team. I want to spend one million on upgrade packs and the rest of my coins, another 500K to a million coins I want to invest or I want to be trading with those coins during team of the year, right? That's a good way to kind of split it up, right? Split it up between those three categories for your foot club and your goals and what you want to do on this game because also the investing in buying a team or building a team, those can overlap a little bit, right? Because you might want to buy some road to the final cards for your team. Let's say you're going to build a Premier League team and you want to have road to the final. Mousses is so cool because you think Spurs are going to do well in the Europa League. I keep using Spurs as an example. I am Spurs fan, no bias. But let's say you want to add this card to your team, right? And you're waiting for some panic because you want to add this guy to your team because you think it's a good investment but also you want to use him in your squad, right? So that would be an example of an investment but also adding to your squad. So just kind of figure out what that increment looks like for you, how many coins you want to spend in each area. But if we're talking pure investments, right? Wow, Griezmann is very, very low. The biggest thing I'll tell you with pure investments, the stuff that rises after Black Friday, team of the year, not Black Friday, the stuff that rises after team of the year the most is the stuff that is popular meta and OP, honestly. Those three things, like we look at this popular players page on footbin, right? You click on popular right here on footbin.com and it shows you the players that people are looking at all the time. I can tell you that all these versions of Rashford, St. Maximon, this Ben Jeter, Renato Sanchez Inform, those are the guys that are consistently and constantly in this page because they're the most used players in FIFA, right? We use this PGP page, player game performance, right? Let's go sort by number of games. This is a, look at this, Raphael Voron, 19 million games played, Rashford, 18 million, Paul Pogba, 16 million. Now these are gold cards, right? We're not really looking at gold cards as typical investments because those cards just kind of tinker and go downwards throughout the rest of the year. But look, first inform, Renato Sanchez, nine million games played. Marcus Rashford Inform, six million. Thomas Partay once to watch, six million games played. Alan St. Maximon Inform, 6.7 million games played. This is a perfect place to figure out what some meta-informs might be or out-of-packs special cards might be that you could buy up and add to your team as out-of-packs investments, right? Or if you just look at a lot of cards on out-of-packs informs and special cards, wrote to the finals, you know, the special teams like the freeze cards, the record breakers, the rule breakers, very, very rare items, right? Bernardo Silva, I love this card as a post-team of the year rise. Five or four star skills, four star weak foot, position change, and the links here are incredible. He links to Bruno, he links to Joao Felix and all the other Portuguese players that we've had, Cristiano Ronaldo, you know, like this is a perfect team of the year link with the city links as well. De Bruyne possibly getting a team of the year, like that's a card that I would keep my eye on, this Casamiro, right, position change. Position change cards do really well rising out-of-packs after promos. Dembele, right, Alan St. Maximum, position change as well, like the cards that are, again, showing up in this popular page and on the PGP graphs are the ones that you're gonna wanna buy as pure investments because those are gonna rise the most because those are the ones that people want to buy for their teams, right? Road to the finals this year are gonna be massive, massive buys, and I already touched on that, but I think road to the finals are gonna be massive buys because, of course, these cards are so rare, the Champions League competition is gonna be happening very soon after team of the year ends and there's gonna be a lot of eyes on that, so that could be like the perfect quick bang for your buck investment during team of the year. Headliners as well, live items, live items always do very well out-of-packs after a huge promo, and again, like these record breaker cards are so rare in this game, right? Vardy, this Van Dyke, right? This is a card he's gonna get a team of the year. This guy is a almost like dinosaur level on this game. If you look at his sales history on the PlayStation, this guy sells all over the place because he's so rare, people just have to find a price and buy him wherever they see him if they want to have their team, right? He literally sells at 1.14 million coins and then how long after is this? A few hours later, he sells for literally 130,000 coins less. Then he sells for 90K more, then he sells for 90K less. Like this guy bounces around a ton. This Van Dyke card, he's probably getting a team of the year. He might not get any other specials until the spring. If E8 has like a foot birthday and they give Van Dyke a special card for that, that's a possibility. But since Van Dyke is injured, he'll get a team of the year. This is the next best special card that he has and he's got a pretty decent upgrade, especially for the passing over his gold card. So this card will maintain a lot of value and probably rebound very well out of team of the year after he hits a low point. So that's a card that you could say would probably be a good investment, right? Team of Group Stage De Bruyne that we were just looking at, right? He got a team of the year card last year. I think this was his best item that was in the game while the team of the year came out and look at this rebound. He was 470,000 coins before team of the year. Dip down 100K to 370 at his absolute lowest and then a month later after team of the year rose up 583,000 coins. He literally went up, he went from 470, 370 to 580. He went up 200K in the period of about three weeks after team of the year because there was hype around KDB. He had an insanely nuts team of the year card and people wanted to use KDB. They just couldn't afford that team of the year item. So they go and buy the lower tier specials of that card, right? I think Kante, and I'm not sure if this was FIFA 19 or FIFA 20, but Kante's informs did very well in that timeframe as well. So that's kind of what you're looking for when you're looking to invest in cards. And again, we're gonna go really specific, really specific. We're gonna go into the ins and the outs of investing, of the upgrade packs, of buying teams. I didn't even talk about SPC fodder, right? Investing in SPC fodder is gonna be fantastic. This is 88PK from last year. Jumps up a little bit right before team of the year as like this week, they put out content. Last year they put out like icon SPCs and stuff. He dropped down with the pack supply and then it rebounds after team of the year big time because everybody is doing SPCs because there's still icon SPCs going on. More promos came out. That happened in FIFA 19 as well. So there's a massive SPC fodder inflation after huge promos like that because so many people have coins and EA put out content and people spend their coins on that content. So we'll talk about a specific video on SPC fodder as well. But that's kind of the beginning and the basics of team of the year preparation, right? Getting that mind right, figuring out what you wanna do with your club based on how many coins you have, what your goals are, right? Some people in this game, they just wanna get messy, right? Some people in this game wanna buy team of the year Ronaldo. Very different goals, right? Some people wanna open five million coins of upgrade packs. Some people just wanna make more coins over team of the year so they can have more coins for team of the season or something. Figure out what your goals are, set a plan, make a concept squad, add players to your transfer target, start watching prices and ask questions, right? Drop some questions down in the comments. If you have any of those questions, I do my best to get to some comments every single day and try to help those out. But yeah, boys, get that mind right and preparation is key, right? Setting goals, going through what we just talked about, figuring out what's best for you and what you wanna do on this game.  Boy, it's gonna be a very fun week, especially once the team of the year starts next week. But if you enjoyed this video and if it helped you out at all, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nate the Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace.


I remember sitting down with the sister, I am a man, what did you do? I did this, I said okay, how do you feel? I feel bad, I forget it, I said good first healthy sign, did you do it again? Astaghfirullah shaykh never did that again ever in my life. But mashaAllah second box check, do you intend to do it again? Ya shaykh I will never do this again, I said for the third box check. So did you give charity and salat, did you make dua, did you make extra salat? Ya shaykh I've been doing this for 7 years but so what's that happen? O Allah will never forgive, I said okay, how do you feel? I showed her 2-3 ayahs in the Qur'an but Allah said if you do 1, 2, 3, 4 I shall forgive you. O Allah will never forgive, I said okay, how do you feel? You speak in the name of Allah or Allah speaks in the name of Allah? You are accusing Allah of lying? I ask you specific questions according to the ayahs of the Qur'an that I just showed you Allah has already forgiven you. But no Ya shaykh I did something wrong.  He made you do the sin the first and he's analyzing it.


Bagley-Fauston hosting Park Rapids. This matchup was 9-2 in 8-1 Panthers last year, but the Flyers came to play. Breton Merchman deflects the chance away. Still scoreless, Tom Melvin with the open look. Bryson Olsen the nice stop and covers up. The Park Rapids again in the first. Jack Slagle takes the loose puck. Wrists one, gloves side. But then for Bagley-Fauston. Griffin Brovol takes over. Scores all three goals for the Flyers. They win an OT. They make it win over Park Rapids in their last 38 games. What a performance.


Hey there, so I decided to share with you guys some updates about what's going on right now in my life The biggest thing probably is that I'm expanding the business into also doing web design so I thought about this for a while because web design is Arguably the thing that I'm the best at out of everything that I do I've been doing business coaching for the last three years, but I've been doing web design for the last eight years and I've dabbled with it on and off it's just been a huge hobby of mine something I've been really good at and What I decided to do was to also add that as a service that I provide The reason for that is because I found that there's something in the market for web design that really pisses me off And it's the fact that people they make you pay Usually a very high fee and there's no security So you don't know what you're actually going to get like you pay some Programmer to build your website. You don't know how it's going to look You not sure how much time it's going to take, you know, say it might say a week it might take a month and Then you have to pay him like even if you don't like the results so it's a really big problem in my opinion and Just in general, there's you know, it's really hard to find somebody that you can trust so what I've gone and done is Expand it again the business into also providing a very specific type of web design that follows my philosophy of Working big working leverage and working based on results. So what I do is I work on three principles The first one is that the website that I designed don't take two weeks to build They actually take 48 hours because I've amassed enough Experience at this point to do it really really fast and I'm also just talented at it and really really efficient The second thing that I promise which is really special is that nobody has to pay up front So this is one of the biggest selling points. I tell people all the time. Whatever you're doing in life. It doesn't matter You know, you want to make a lot of money take something that you're good at and Offer to even if you don't have a degree even if you don't have any experience professionally offer doing it for people basically For free in in the sense that you take all the pressure off of them they don't have to commit to anything and You all they only pay you if you actually delivered results that you promised So one example is I had a guy who's really really good at sales He was a client of mine 18 years old no degree. No, he probably didn't finish school But he was really really good at selling and also teaching people how to sell So he just told it, you know sold and taught people how to sell it was making decent money But really nothing compared to what he could make so he came up to me And what I suggested him to him was this I told him What is the minimum that you can guarantee to any business if you take like a sales force like five to 20 people? What is the minimum amount that you can improve their sales and he said 30% is the minimum So, you know gone to my head doesn't matter what I can improve any sales teams performance by at least 30% so I told him okay simple you go up to businesses and They're making around one to five or ten million dollars a year So basically medium-sized businesses that have anywhere from five to twenty sales people bigger than that It's too much bureaucracy smaller than that none of payoff and what you do is you promise the CEO you contact the CEO directly And you promise him that you will improve his sales by at least 30% And he doesn't have to pay you anything and if he actually if you manage to accomplish this Then he has to pay you now imagine a business does like $1,000,000 a year if you improve their sales by 30% that's an extra $300,000 of income so he'll be able to pay you a minimum of $30,000 for that job and he did just that that's exactly what my client did So he actually found a software company that teaches that sells architecture software And he he did the same agreement put on a contract and he managed to do it So he took this company and improve their sales not by 30% but actually by 80% And he got paid somewhere again if you translate it from Israeli money because the key this clan was Israeli He got around $50,000 again for one month of work Because he took the risk because he know what he was doing because when you do it based on Results you can charge a lot more and because you take away the risk and also you completely decimate the competition And there is no need for any Degree or any Testimonials because the only thing you need is basic trust because again degrees testimonials these kind of stuff are like secondhand reviews They're like a way to maybe know if somebody can trust you and invest their money with you and risk it But if they're not risking any money, they don't need all that assurance They just need to see that you're steady Ethical trustworthy and that you can show them simply by being a really really committed and dedicated person So this is a second feature of what my web design is different in is that I sit down with you We talk about your business and we come up with a price based on the solution So I'll tell you how much time I think it's gonna take but mostly What sort of work is it gonna take for me? How big is the website because I don't sell time I sell results and if it's a really really Complex project will cost more if it's simple it will cost less and you only pay after you've seen the website if you like it So I build a website if you like it you pay if not you don't and that's where the Results-based work is really amazing now the third thing that I do differently than everyone And I do this in everything that I do successfully is that I don't Invent the wheel because that's a problem that most web designers have is that the either Too lazy that they have this really basic Worthless design that's based on a nothing and it doesn't work because it's shit or they try to invent the wheel so they try to create a new design from zero and it's really complicated nobody can actually edit it later because it's so complicated and And it doesn't deliver deliver results because why would you in any field in life? Why would you try to invent the wheel like let's say you go to the gym? Why would you invent your own training routine? Why not take somebody's training routine? Somebody who has the same? Physical qualities as you somebody who has the same needs and just start by copying their sale They are training routine what works for them and then adapting further. So I do this based on this philosophy I don't take something that I'm not sure if it's working or not actually take something that for sure works because I do analysis on competition and the best Competition in your industry and I take their design model it basically take the best part of their design Use it for you, and it's not copyrighted. There's no problem with that and then you have a highly Successful website because some other company spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to Tune and improve their Their website to be the best it can be and then you can basically take that formula that's working and run with it So these are three things that I offer that are different than anybody else in the market in my opinion I've never seen anybody offer that so 48 hours delivery Again, it happens in 48 hours that not more than that. I guarantee that second thing is you only pay if you like it You don't pay anything up front and that's why of course I have to qualify you and make sure you're the right person and the third thing is that you I guarantee that you will be Having extremely good conversions because again, I'm going to use what's working instead of what I think might work based on Whatever intuition somebody may have so that's kind of the biggest update in general me and my fiancee have been Celebrating her birthday, which was really really cool and yeah I mean I really don't have anything else in in my life other than making money and Loving my fiancee. So this is the update for today. If you want to check out more about the whole Web design thing I put a link in the bottom at the description It's studio dot Robbie frank comm you can leave your details there by the way and actually We'll get to talk to you and maybe you'll be my next client and Thanks for watching. Let me know if you like it Let me know if you have any suggestions or comments and I'll see you soon in the next video


So in our lab we're very interested in the molecular biology of neurons. For example in our model system we grow neurons associated from the brain of a rat on a dish. And the neurons grow on a dish and are very interesting. For example where certain proteins are, for example where interesting protein A. And because where the protein is very often implies the function of this protein. For example this protein A is in this places of the neuron. And the conventional immunofluorescent microscopy Eury takes an antibody labeling strategy where we have a primary antibody that targets a protein A and then we have a secondary antibody that targets the primary antibody. The secondary is fluorescent it's attached to a fluorophore. So in this case so the primary antibody it finds a protein A and the secondary antibody finds a primary antibody and is attached to a fluorophore. And then through this fluorophore we can visualize this protein A. Now this is all very well and good but then the problem is when you have two copies of protein A that are very close to each other and then you would get labels that are very close to each other. In that case you have two fluorophores that are very close to each other they would actually the fluorophores would actually fluoresce like this when they're next to each other. And that gives us an image under the microscope that looks like one big cloud of fluorescence when in fact that could be one, two or any number of copies of fluorophores within this cloud of fluorescence. Now this is the problem that we face with conventional microscopy method is called the diffraction limit. And a new technique that allows us to super resolve these crowded molecules it takes a different approach to this. What it does is it takes a video of these fixed neurons where in one frame so example in frame one we see one molecule fluoresce and the other molecule despite being there it does not fluoresce and in frame two you know in another frame for example frame two the other molecule fluoresce and the molecule right next to it it does not fluoresce. So what and then in these frames you can very quickly pinpoint very precisely pinpoint the position of each molecule that fluoresce and we combine these frames in the end you create an image reconstruct the image where you have all the molecules that you've labeled and these molecules are super resolved from each other. And so this at the moment we can routinely achieve a resolution of about 10 nanometers and the diffraction limit that we have discussed here is about 200 nanometers at the best and the reason why we want to go beyond 200 nanometer resolution is when you look at these neurons they have these type of structures called synapses. These are the biological structures that that's responsible for information transfer and storage in these neurons. Now these biological this is a synapse for example the synaptic cleft is only about 20 nanometer that's way below the diffraction limit and then the size of the diameter of a synapse can be only a few hundred nanometers. So that's very close to the diffraction limit as well so that's the reason why we need a technique that allows us to resolve molecules away from each other. Now coming back to the methodology of how do we achieve this kind of blinking so that you know in one frame this molecule fluoresce and another frame another molecule fluoresce. So one way to do this is instead of putting a fluorophore onto an antibody our antibody secondary antibody is still here is instead attached to a DNA oligo. Now what this DNA oligo allows is it will capture the complementary oligo that is fluorescent that carries the fluorophore. Now this complementary oligo when it is bound to the the the oligo that's on the antibody then the fluorophore is on the protein as well then you would see this molecule but because this DNA oligo is so short it will also dissociate after a while. The hybridization lasts about a second and once it dissociates so it went away again and this protein this copy of protein you can't see it anymore because it doesn't have fluorescence so it's this kind of on-off dynamics that creates this kind of blinking effect that causes molecule to be flow to fluoresce in one frame but not anymore in another frame and this technique that that creates this kind of blinking and that eventually allows us to resolve molecules at this high resolution this copy may paint


And he made his first appearance yesterday. Kyrie in Dallas, first time as a maverick, as we're seeing him, and he spoke on his time in Brooklyn. Let's take a listen. You know, the reporting and the journalism, that was going to come out of why I left. I knew that was going to be speculation. But for me personally, just sitting in the seat today, I just know I want to be places where I'm celebrated and not just tolerated or just, you know, kind of dealt with in a way that doesn't make me feel respected. And there were times throughout this process when I was in Brooklyn where I felt very disrespected. Hmm. Isn't disrespected two-way road? That's an interesting comment. Eddie, he broke up with you. So how are you feeling? You're just what, Eddie? Kyrie handled the presser in ways that I expect he would. You know, he said a lot, but he said a little. He tried to keep the cordial kind of couldn't help himself. You know, Eddie talks about Kevin and how they, you know, set out to achieve certain things and didn't accomplish everything, but had a great time and all that stuff. But you know, what else is he going to say at this point? Unless he's going to do scores, sure he's going to have to try to play the middle ground a little bit. I think that's what he did. I think he's happy to be in a new team. I think, you know, it's interesting he said he's not talking contract stuff until the summer because apparently that was the issue in Brooklyn. But it's all whatever. I want to see him on the court. I want to be entertained by, you know, that roster and what they can do going forward. And the press conference is the press conference. He had to finally put face to the media. It's one of the reasons why I was almost positive he was never going to play the game last Saturday because if he had to play for the Nets and then talk about the Nets to the Nets media after very publicly asking out, I just, we've already seen them keep him away from media before I just didn't think it was happy. You know, look, he said all of a sudden he had to say whether he was disrespected or not. I mean, I think there's a good argument that he was but there's also a good argument that, you know he's complicit in the disrespect as well. So it's frustrating all around. I think it's even frustrating for him, but you know, soon we'll be back at basketball and can watch that. Yeah, I think the disrespect comments gonna rub a bunch of people the wrong way because then you ask yourself, well, how exactly did you respect your teammates or throw away the front office? Who cares what your relationship?  He also mentioned that his work ethic is underrated. How did you receive that? Yeah, I don't think anyone's ever questioned anything about his on the court production, about his work ethic. You don't get handles like Kyrie Irving. You don't get an offensive game like Kyrie Irving without working extremely hard. I don't think anyone's ever questioned that. And he knew like when this trade happened, he knew he was gonna have to discuss these things and he knew he was gonna have to kind of recap everything that he's went through. He's now dealing with a new organization. He's dealing with new media. Like Eddie said, he kind of said a little, but he said a lot and he's disrespected. He's frustrated and he stands by who he is and that's why he apologized for the whole anti-semitic things. He knew he was gonna get these questions and you can just tell he's kind of over. He's frustrated. He wants to just move on. He wants to just play basketball and a fresh start. Hopefully that's his mindset going forward. Listen, he addressed the media exactly how we thought Kyrie was gonna address the media. He's there to play basketball. He's there to help Luca Donkic. He's there to win games for them and that's exactly what he needs to do. He needs to keep his head down and play basketball. Dominate, play exactly how you're playing in Brooklyn. Just be a good dude. Be a good teammate, be a leader. Help these young guys do whatever you can for the next three months because as much as the Dallas Mavericks want this to work out for him, he's auditioning for them too. And then whatever you say, he wants to get paid and Dallas is really the only option for him to get paid now if this works because if this doesn't work, no way a team has taken another flyer on him after another team. So he's found himself in an interesting situation and I do think it's perfect fit. I think the guys that he has with Nico and his relationship with Michael Fenley, with Mark, guys like Derrick, they have a lot of guys. They have the best sports psychiatrist, DK, who's gonna definitely be listening to him and letting him vent. And like he said, he wants to be seen. He wants to be heard. He wants to be celebrated, not tolerated. This is who he is. And I think the Mavs have the resources to get the best out of Kyrie Irving. And again, it's a dice roll for both. If Kyrie doesn't behave, he's not getting paid from anybody else. And if he does it, then the Dallas Mavericks just made a really, really bad trade. If he walks in three months. So it's kind of an open-ended situation and you can't really ever know what's gonna happen with Kyrie Irving. The biggest thing here is he's getting a fresh slate. And I think that's what Mark Cuban, Nico Harrison, Jason K, that's what they bring him. There was just so much toxicity, so much that went on. And like Eddie said, for sure. It's both sides, both sides are gonna be, you know, at fault at the end of the day. But I think when you look at this situation, you know, to an extent, but I think when you look at the situation, when you think about the contract extension from last summer, those talks, the extension talks recently, the tweet link, there's a lot that I think principally, and I think the conversations that were had were yes, Kyrie Irving did feel disrespected. But again, on the other side, it's, you know, were you available? Were you around all the time? So both sides, you know, I think are probably better off moving on and moving to different paths. And now Kyrie Irving gets a clean slate with a new organization, different culture, different energy, different vibe, different costar. And I think everything, it sounds like everything in Dallas right now is on the up and up and very, very positive. Only time will tell. We're going to get to the Shamskoop here in a second up. Before we do though, I wanted you to hear what Pat Beverly said on his latest podcast about our teammate.  Like Shamsman, like, bring on Shamsman, bring it out, like quicker, faster. The look of it looks better. And Woz has just come with like one Woz bomb that'll be like four Shams and one like damn. You know what I'm saying? Like they got a little.


What's up guys, if you're looking to do any point of view or top-down video recording You're going to need an overhead rig in one of my previous videos. I reviewed this one, which is the glide gear overhead 100 I'll leave a link in the description of that video and where to purchase this and it's been really well It's quite limited because it only has a fixed width and height So I'm not too flexible with what I can do with this. So I've got a couple of new boxes here This is the Elgato master mount. I've also purchased the solid arm and the flex arm to go with it All of these are from Elgato and all the links are in the description. This one is 50 pounds This one is 35 pounds and the last one is 30 pounds So I want to replace this rig with the clamp that will go on to the end of the desk And only one side of it will come above the desk so I can put my camera facing down to do my unboxing videos So let's go ahead and set these up. I just want to see if it can manage the payload of my Sony a7 III I've got a big 200 millimeter Tamron lens on there as well. It's a zoom lens I'm going to showcase you guys if it's worth buying. Does it handle the weight? How flexible am I to move it around? Does it take up a lot of space? So let's go ahead and set it up. Right, so let's start off with the master mount This is the large Desk mount so it is solid aluminium. So I feel It will be able to hold quite well. There's a couple of clips if you wanted to do a bit of a Cable management as well. I think that's everything. Yep So you've got the instruction on here It says the maximum payload is 2 kilograms the minimum height that you can set is 55 centimeters and the maximum height is 125 centimeters which is actually pretty tall I don't expect to go that high up when I'm doing my filming, but I think this will do a very good job Now that is extremely solid So you can go pretty much as high as you want This has a quarter inch screw ball head there at the top Pretty much any direction you want to set something at So let's just do it for there for now Now let's get the flex arm Now there's four flex arms in here variation of different sizes, but that gives you flexibility of pointing the arm in different positions Now the longest one is 24 centimeters. The next one is 17 centimeters Then you have two small pieces that are 8 centimeters each So they're quite easy to connect. What you'll have to do is take the ball head Out by loosening it leave that to one side as that would be the thing that attaches right at the end Let's connect the larger one And finally the solid arm is just a complementary Arm that comes off to the side Which also has a ball head, but this will be clamped To the main clamp here and the last thing I want to do is just add a larger ball head Which has a quarter inch screw connector at the bottom This makes it easier to transfer my camera from the tripod directly onto this when I want to do top-down shooting so I just have to Screw this into the existing ball head. There we go final checks Make sure all of them are very tight and now we are ready to test this right so I have found a problem I took off one of the smaller pieces at the end of the flex arm just to see if it gets More secure and I've also angled it slightly higher up rather than vertically outwards and again I've tightened these so hard That I just can't tighten them anymore If I let go my camera and my lens together weighs around 1.7 kilograms the 2.5 kilogram weight I think is only for this clamp arm here the main one that's to the desk the flex arm I think the max weight is probably 0.5 kilograms Which is why if you have a mirrorless or DSLR camera, which is over a kilogram I think it will struggle a little bit to stay intact and the last thing you want is for it to fall or damage Even if it's tightened securely onto the ball head now, you can see it's slowly starting to move down and When I'm filming the last thing I want it to do is to come down by itself While I'm filming so you can see it will stay up for a little bit and it will start to come down by itself So that's not great but what I will use this for is to have my phone mount on it and Maybe use the glide gear overhead rig the solid metallic one to use for my DSLR and mirrorless cameras Because that can take up a whole lot of weight. That's super solid So this is probably not ideal if I wanted to have the camera mounted on just the Main clamp here then it would work fine But the flex arm I would recommend it's only for more lighter items overall I paid 115 pounds for all of these three items To have yourself a nice like podcast or filming set up on your desk with lighting some microphones and even your smartphones I think it's great It personally I think it's slightly a little bit too expensive than what you're getting for it If this was capable of handling a larger payload, I think it would definitely be worth the price So if you do want to check it out all of the links are in the description I will be switching this over to use my smartphone mounts, which I think is a lot better So I will be connecting this. It's got a little aperture pocket light on there as well. I think the payload on that Suits this a lot better. So what I'm going to do is remove this. This is a lot better for my setup So if I'm going to do unboxing videos, then I can use my phone to do it If I wanted to use my camera to do it, then I will use the previous overhead rig that I had I'll leave a link for all of these Let me know if you guys have any questions and if you did like this video And you want to see more videos around how to create YouTube videos and create your setup on your desks Drop a comment down below. I've got new videos out every week I review all things tech, especially around the camera accessory space If you did find this useful, make sure you go ahead and subscribe so you don't miss any of those ones Like this video and I'll catch you guys next time. Take care


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we are going to discuss Mr. Modi's claims that demonetization finished the black money economy, the parallel economy and has helped the Indian economy to grow. Foreigner, there are various claims made in that list. One was that the parallel economy was finished. And therefore, since all the money came back to the banks, therefore, it was actually finishing the black money. Now, if you remember the claims at that point of time which has been made, is that the black money will not come back to the system and therefore, they will actually be able to liquidate black money. Having failed in that, now this argument, sir, you know, the tails I win, heads I win kind of argument. What do you think about the state of the black money today? First, let us take a step back for a bit and look at exactly what Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. This was New Year's Day. He granted this interview to Smita Prakash of A&I. The interview lasted for more than an hour and a half, 95 minutes. The part on demonetization and black money was barely a few minutes. And importantly, no follow-up questions were asked. What Mr. Modi said was that it was not a jhatka. He said that the government had forewarned the people of this country a year ago that if you have black money, you can deposit this money. You can pay penalties on it and you will be helped out. You know, there was various schemes the government had, including the amnesty schemes. There have been various amnesty schemes. They also had one similar amnesty scheme. Then Mr. Modi said, however they thought, Modi too would behave like others. Prime Minister Modi loves to address himself in the third verse. So he kept saying, so very few came forward voluntarily. And then he added that there was a parallel economy running before the node bandhi happened, which had drained the country from the inside. And the currency, which used to be kept in SAC's body, they returned to the banking system. Now at best, this is a half truth. At worst, it's a down like lie. If you recall, on in November 2016, when dramatically demonetization was announced, he said this is going to clean the country of black money. At that time, it was believed that of the 15.3 lakh crore currency in circulation, a substantial amount would not return to the system. And that would be like a bonanza for the government. What is the fact? A year later, a little under a year later, or sorry, little under two years later, August 2018, the annual report of the Reserve Bank of India tells you that 99.3 percent of the total currency that was in circulation at that time. I want to stop you here. You know, the money came back and Reserve Bank had these figures actually after six to eight months. Every month, they were giving figures of how much money is in circulation. So obviously they got back, they had this amount. They delayed announcing this itself. One could argue that it was to help both the government out. But that apart, the threat, apparently, which was given as warning, was given to people who held black money. But the people who were affected were the people who were everyday users of money, not black money. And they were the ones whose money got wiped out. I couldn't agree with you more, more probate. What was supposed to be targeted against holders of black money?  It instead became an attack on the people of this country and the most vulnerable sections of the people. You are entirely dependent on the cash economy.  These were the most vulnerable sections of the economy and they were hurt the most. And Smita Prakash, she has not been happy that she has been described as a pliable journalist. She didn't mention about more than 100 people who died while they were standing in queue. Let's also look at it this way. If this much of money came back into the system, the banks, that means people were issued fresh notes in lieu of that or they can draw now money out of that. Two things I want to point out to you. One of it is that the money in circulation, that means money being held as cash, is actually more than before this was done. So if money transactions were to be affected, that's supposedly how black money transactions take place, then today there is more money in circulation, more potential for black money. With 2000 rupee notes, as you know, it makes storing of black money much more efficient. It's only now that the government is saying we're not going to print more 2000 rupee notes. The second part of it is, and I think that's an important issue as well, that if for instance you think that black money is the major issue in the economy, you have settled the black money in this way, isn't it that you helped all the people who held black money to make it white? Because that's what you really seem to have done. Effectively that's what's happened. All kinds of reasons were given for demonetization. Let's go step by step. In November 2016, it was said, okay, demonetization where overnight you, you know, 85, 86 percent of the currency in circulation is declared illegal. What do you do? It's going to dent the black economy. Two, it's going to prevent terrorists from using fake currency notes. And the third reason that was later given was that cash less, less cash society. Today we know that the minutes of the meeting of the board of the Reserve Bank of India, the same evening that demonetization was announced, the directors had expressed their skepticism about whether these very laudable goals would be achieved. That's point number one. The second point is, there is absolutely no evidence to indicate that India's so-called parallel economy or black economy has diminished in any manner.  And less than two months later, the elections in Uttar Pradesh had started. And at that point of time, when the BJP won handsomely in Uttar Pradesh, they said, look, this is evidence of how ordinary people of Uttar Pradesh have welcomed demonetization. But I think there were many myths. At that time, there was speculation that this was essentially to immobilize the BJP's political opponents in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samajwadi. Secondly, Mr. Modi himself, he says, at that point of time, he says, hang me. He also said, he said, at the same time, today his intentions are being questioned. Why? It was today found that the brief period of time when cooperative banks were allowed to exchange the old illegal currency notes for new currency notes, there were two current state cooperative banks that received huge amounts of money, over 750 crore rupees in that brief period of time. And one of them, the Ahmadabad district cooperative bank, Mr. Amit Shah, the Bharti Janta Party president, was one of the directors. Now, this is more than enough circumstantial evidence to indicate that none of the laudable objectives of demonetization that were announced, and which were justified by the present governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Mr. Shaktikanth Das, and also justified by the present chief economic advisor that the other Dr. Subramaniam. But none of those objectives have been fulfilled. You know, I have to say that when we went to UP in that period, people were very unhappy with demonetization, but they also thought that if it is going to cost so much unhappiness for me, there must be something good that will come out for the nation. They are willing to give Mr. Modi at the time, the latitude of the benefit of doubt.   They know how transactions are taking place in Black Money. All of this is not unknown to them. Therefore, the, you can see the credibility fall, which is taking place much later. It's not immediate, but after two years, people are now beginning to realize. And that's why in only one and half hours, it's only one and a half minutes, two minutes, Mr. Modi makes his claims about demonetization and you must remember that today the government is hardly raising this issue at all. It's only because Smita Ji had to show that she was not a client journalist that a question like this was raised. But there were no follow-up questions. There were no follow-up questions as to whether who had benefited or who had not benefited. And as you rightly pointed out, the elections in Uttar Pradesh were very, very close to the demonetization period. And people were willing to give in the vote today if they are not. Today, more than two years later, people have realized that in a situation where jobs are not being created, when the economy slows down, you actually make things worse. So the so-called great surgical strike on Black Money ended up being a surgical strike on the weakest sections of the people of India. It was not a vendetta against holders of bad money. It was a vendetta against the people of this country. And I think today Pradhan Mantri ka niyat ke upar sabaal othara hain. And us samae people were very charitable towards him. I think today they're not anymore. Thank you, Parujya, for being with us, explaining to us what the Black Money strike shall we say or strike against Black Money really has meant to the economy. We have not discussed its effect on the long-term, short-term economy because you've done it a number of times. But taking stock of the larger picture, we'll continue these discussions on the Indian economy, and particularly the Indian Black Economy news click further. Thank you very much. As the thanks, as events unfold. Thank you very much, Bhavid. This is all the time we have for NewsClick today. Do keep watching NewsClick and we promise to bring you many more episodes on these and other issues.


So that's not repressing the feeling. I'm not pretending. I'm not sitting there going. I'm not angry. No. No, I'm not angry at all Right, and we've all met those people. So no, I I could be furious, but I don't have to get mad at you I don't have to tell you that I'm angry what I have to do is do and say the things that will change the trajectory of the way That we're moving What's up everybody and welcome to the show today? We drop great content each and every week and we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to Do that, you're gonna have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell And if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends Well, I think another big challenge in this and we can go back to your Ali on's example Obviously, that's a massive turnaround and there's gonna be a lot of issues causing emotional reactions in that leader and part of being an ally is managing your own emotions and Compartmentalizing that and I think that's really where the rubber meets the road between a critic and an ally And we've all been there where our emotions are getting the best of us So what recommendations do you have when you're in those really high pressure situations? I mean even the example with your wife Maybe you had a difficult client who wasn't handling the coaching well And he was peppering you with emails and that emotion is now carried over into this conversation with your wife We could see how that has an impact So do you have any exercises that our listeners can use to help manage those emotions to more effectively become that ally? Yeah, I I think it's a great question It's a deep question and the answer is you know, there's a whole camp that says repress your feelings I'm not part of that camp. There's a whole camp that says express everything that you're feeling I'm not a part of that camp, right? Like I think both of those are are are dysfunctional in their own particular ways So what I'm part of the camp that says feel everything be willing to feel everything Recognize that you are bigger than any one emotion. So be willing to feel all of that energy Become comfortable and experienced feeling lots of this kind of energy in this emotion And in a way in which it doesn't overwhelm you Right and then make choices and then from that place make choices I could be furious at you and I could feel all of that fury and Then breathe and say okay So what's what's needed now like what will be helpful in this situation probably screaming at you wouldn't But what would be helpful like what you know like what would be appropriate and useful and help us to move towards an outcome That I want so that's not repressing the feeling. I'm not pretending I'm not sitting there going I'm not angry. No, no, I'm not angry at all, right? And we've all met those people so no I I could be furious, but I don't have to get mad at you I don't have to tell you that I'm angry what I have to do is do and say the things that will change the trajectory of the way that we're moving and By the way an exercise that could be helpful if it's hard in that moment is Go into a room and we could all do this now that we're you know at home and zoom Go into the room and hit on your bed as hard as you can and scream and scream and scream As loud as you can put your face in a pillow and scream and move some of that energy That is building in your body. That's a little hard to contain. It's physical energy in your body You know I run a leadership intensive this leadership program and and it's you know It's interesting it was literally ranked the number one leadership program in the world by global gurus You know over Harvard's program and Duke's program and and it's all about emotional courage And so what I the reason I find that funny is because you know H and I write for HBR And I know but all these programs are like we're gonna give you a ton of knowledge That's gonna help you and I'm in my leadership program.   I might tell you to go away Right, but it's okay We're gonna hurt each other in this world and so to be able to not let that overwhelm us But to actually be able to engage in conversation around it feels like it's the most important thing We drop great content each and every week and we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that You're gonna have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell And if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends all of that knowledge in the world is not helpful if it doesn't inspire action and Even if we have a desired outcome We know just because it's an outcome as humans We're not gonna move towards it unless we see some positive payoff some carrot that's gonna excite us So let's talk a bit about the opportunity and how we in that third step can elucidate an opportunity that gets the team Excited that gets the person we're working with on board with this change that we both need it's a great question and and you know once we've done the Critic to ally and once we've done what is the outcome and then we're still faced with a problem, right? The problem still exists this person who's disruptive in the team is still there, you know The phone beeping every three minutes is still there and so and and the question isn't so how do we solve for that? The question and this was the hardest chapter to write and the longest chapter in the book Because it you know when howie and I were working it was sort of unpacking trying to unpack what I do and you know How he would say well, so what's your technique? I'm like This is what I do like here's what give me an example Here's what it would be and it was it was sort of hard and we came up with you know a number of six or seven things The cover eighty ninety percent of the situations. So one of them is What is if someone's behaving badly one of the questions that we ask is what is good About their bad behavior Not good about them. We're not saying.  No, what we're saying is you've got this outcome, right? You want to you want to a high-performing team and and you've got this person who's disruptive and You know forcing us to talk about stuff We don't want to talk about and I understand how that behavior is disruptive How can that behavior be helpful to you in getting to a high-performing team? Right and that conversation becomes really interesting and in the end that conversation is well, you know We're a bunch of lamps like we were we care so much about politeness and and peace and This thing that we're frustrated with that will never contradict each other and so we actually need someone We need Her boldness and she could probably use some of our civility and if we can combine her boldness with our civility We will be an unbeatable team. Well now we're caught now. We found an opportunity. That's kind of exciting I mean, I don't even know this person and I'm kind of excited to work on that problem Which says, you know, we could be an unbeatable team if we just you know up each of our games both in civility and boldness We could be really effective. We have to have that conversation, you know another common opportunity is Oftentimes there is a problem and I'm scared. I'm scared of having a conversation I'm scared and always if there is an opportunity to do something I haven't done before That's always an opportunity. There's another opportunity. Let's go back to the example of of texting You know, the the opportunity is to connect is to feel feel connection like that's right That's the outcome. The outcome we're going for is to feel connection. We both want that and so There's a way in which perhaps that phone first of all putting away the phone is an opportunity to actively Show commitment to the connection right actively show commitment to the connection you go like, yeah I'm gonna put it away But there's another thing which actually could end up being kind of a fun funny thing And I actually haven't tried this but maybe we should do this Which is leave the phone there and actually turn it on and then every time it beeps Let that be a reminder to go. Are we really connected? Are we connecting? You know like are we really is there something we could say and and they're like it's it's almost You know it almost becomes a joke, but it becomes a joke that actually deepens our connection Now we've got this like little private joke now We're gonna be in a group of people and their phones gonna ring and we're gonna look at each other, right? And we're gonna use it as an example. Okay, so it's about creatively finding where the problem isn't just a problem But it's also an opportunity


Mr. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, has made a mint out of lockdown. He amassed more than $85 billion during lockdown. Amazon is not just any business. It represents a major break, even from capitalism. It's not just Amazon. Of course, it's Facebook, it's Netflix, the whole of the fangs. Back in the 1920s, even the American establishment, Theodore Roosevelt, rose up against the huge trusts the large corporations, remember the antitrust legislation that broke down Rockefeller's standard oil mega firm that was monopolizing the market for oil in the United States. So there's nothing new about complaining about cartels and large operations like standard oil, like Amazon. What is new about Amazon is the reach of the monopoly. It's one thing to say that you were walking down the high street in an English town or main street in an American town and you've got one large shop owned by a chain that effectively monopolizes everything, like Walmart. But imagine a situation where you're walking down the street and the asphalt, the pavement, the benches, the lump posts, the walls, the houses, every shop that there is, the post office, the air you breathe, the water that you drink from a tap, everything is owned by one company. That is what Big Tech are doing. It is this immense concentration of wealth, which leads to a situation where somebody like Jeff Bezos can practically, to all intents and purposes, become richer during his sleep. That is the situation we are facing today. Wealth begets wealth, courtesy of being concentrated. Not because of innovation, not because of any contribution. Look, Jeff Bezos deserves to be rich. He's a smart entrepreneur. He's had this idea a long time ago. He looked at the internet. He thought, okay, now what can I sell over the internet in a context that cannot be replicated by the analog world? And he thought, okay, books.  As he says in a famous video, there are three million books constantly in print worldwide. There can be no bookshop that sells three million books, but there can be an amazon.com from which you can actually purchase any of these three million books. So that was a clever idea. So I don't grudge him the fact that he is rich. But you know what, $200 billion plus cannot be explained as a result of innovation. It is a kind of feudalism. It's a kind of technofedalism. It's courtesy of the fact that he owns the whole thing, the main street, the high street, the complete thing. And the result of course is such exorbitant power leads to immense exploitation of workers who work like robots in warehouses under conditions that are not fit for robots. The environment just look at the facts and the figures. The carbon footprint of Amazon is greater than two thirds of countries around the world. Look at taxation. They pay no tax, 0% corporation tax. And they do this completely legally. We need to send a message to Jeff Bezos. But you know Mr. Bezos? The days of immunity and impunity are over.


While as Nigerians I wait to hear who will be declared winners and losers of the governorship and House of Assembly elections, many issues have yet again been thrown up from the exercise, from violence to suppression, to vote buying, to very low turnout by people, to the resolve by some who came out to cast their votes and the postponement of elections at some polling units. Well, we'll continue with our analysis of the exercise even as we give you updates as the process continues to unfold. Well, we're joining us live right now is Mayoko Ilo, a political analyst. Hello, Mayoko, good afternoon. Good to have you. I am Maureen Menong, where my co-host is Justin Acadone. Yeah, thanks for joining us, Mr. Ilo. And also we have our correspondent standing by at Ogung and Cano State who will be giving us live updates from those states. In the course of the program, however, first of all, let me speak with you, Mr. Mayoko Ilo. You used to be a governorship aspirant at some point, but also speaking as a Nigerian from all that you've observed, this election will build up to the election and the exercise have thrown up lots of issues. As I said a while ago, lawlessness, tribalism, violence and fear, especially but not particularly in Lagos. Let's start with the tasks ahead of whoever is sworn in as governor in Lagos, in rivers, in Delta. What are the tasks ahead of them? Towards building and mending fences. Welcome, Mr. Ilo. It's a national question that needs to happen like yesterday. There has been issues of voter suppression, intimidation, voter party violence on large scales, coming from most places in the country. I don't know how materially those things will affect the outcome of the election, but however insignificant it may seem, we want our elections to be peaceful. So from my own corner, I think I will propose a referendum of some sort to actually discuss the issues bordering on election and representation as regards the kind of democracy that we claim to be practicing. Where ever it is we got this from, this is not how they do it. People should be able to freely elect their leaders. People should be able to have some kind of dialogue about what it is that maybe they are afraid of in their neighbors or maybe in the other party. I've seen some posts, I've seen some tweets from supposed leaders of the country. At this point, somebody said, okay, if you vote this party, you have an enemy. I will never greet you again. Some young guys will be telling you I will delete any contact of anybody that is sympathetic or is a category member or is an aspirant on the ballot of this other party. These are not the kind of things we want to be hearing in 2023. Fine, now I have been straight, but I have been afraid rather. But at the end of the day, we are all Nigerians. We are one people. We should not give in to the bad instincts of our nature, bad angels as they will call it. So we should try and be more civil, be more enlightened, be more accommodating of one another. I don't want the kind of problem that happened in Rwanda in the 90s to have any foothold in Nigeria. We should see ourselves as neighbors, as brothers and sisters. And the next president should take on the task. It's not something that should wait for the next four years. Because asking somebody that is benefiting from a bad system to support change may be a bit difficult, but we will appeal to the better angels of our nature so that we will do whatever needs to be done so that there will be change. All right, we'll come back to you.


The Adventures of Frank Race, starring Tom Collins. The war changed many things, the face of the earth and the people on it. Before the war, Frank Race worked as an attorney, but he traded his law books for the cloak and dagger of the OSS. And when it was over, his former life was over too. Adventure had become his business. The Adventures of Frank Race. We join Frank Race for the adventure of the juvenile passenger. The evening had been a turkey. Following adult dinner, I'd been collared by my hostess, woman with about as much depth as a waiting pool. The conversation had been a three-hour filler buster, with me affecting my escape only after a farewell scene that would have motorized any little theater in the land. So now I was settling into bed with a sigh of relief. The windows were open, the light was out. I could call it a... Yes? Well, about time you got home. Where you been? Let's not talk about that. What do you want?  Will you come down? For heaven's sakes, why? I got trouble, Race. I need your help. No, bring your trouble up here. I'm in bed. That's just it. I can't. You gotta come down. Race, I need you. We'll make it ten minutes. Listen, better be good. So take again to back there. Well, it's a girl. Yeah. And how old would you say she was? Fourteen, possibly. All right. She's fourteen and riding around in my cab at one o'clock in the morning. She ain't got the dough to pay her fan. She says she'll kill herself if I don't keep driving. That ain't a ladle of trouble I'll put in with you. Well, do. What's your name, Drew? I don't care to say. How long she been riding with you, Mark? It's eleven o'clock. How'd you happen to pick her up? I didn't. I step into a cafe for a few minutes to lap up a cup of coffee. When I come out there, she is already in a cab. I try to head for a precinct house once, but she put the necks on it. She knows New York as well as I do. Well, let's all go for a ride. Drive around, Mark. I'll talk to him. You could tell me your first name. That wouldn't give anything away. It's Mary. Look, while you're just being mad at me, I'm a stranger. I'm not mad. It's... Trouble at home? I don't live at home. Relatives? I stay at an orphanage. Nothing wrong with that? No, there's nothing wrong with it except... Well, how would you like it if someone were trying to send you to jail? Someone at the orphanage? Just the head of it, that's all. No one can send you to jail if you haven't done anything wrong. She claims I steal things. I... What's the use? You won't believe me either. I believe you. I'd like to help you. You can't do anything. Nobody can do anything. What are you supposed to have stolen? Some jewelry. You like jewelry? Sure, I like it. All girls do. But I didn't take any, even if they did find it in my mattress. Then tell them so. Let me take you back. No. Well, you can't keep riding around in this cab all night. Nobody wants to help me. Nobody. I said I'll help you, and I will. Don't forget about going back to the orphanage. But you must have friends, someone with whom you can spend the night. Then, tomorrow? I don't know anyone. Except Pharaoh Gillis. I'm afraid a man won't do. Oh, Faris Gillis is a lady. She swelled. She came to the orphanage a couple of times and told me to come and see her any time I wanted to. You know where she lives? We could find it in the phone book. We found it in the phone book. When apartment hotel in the 60s, a place called the Wellington Arms, with the lady we sought seemed to be out. But we didn't exactly draw a blank. While we were still pushing the buzzard to her apartment on the second floor, the elevator clicked to a stop and three men got out. We drew their instant attention. Looking for somebody? You could have been the kid who takes your tickets to the theater. Skin was clear. He hadn't been shaving very long. He wore a bow tie and a pork pie hat. But his voice matched his eyes. His eyes had all the warmth of wet pebbles. You would, man. You can turn off that look of inspection. I ain't liking it. We came to see Faro Gillis. Who's the kid? The name's Mary. Mary what? What difference does it make? It's all right. I'll tell him. It's Leonard. Mary Leonard. Reads like an act to me. Vinny, you and Lou take him down at a car. Fogel might want to look at him. I'll go to the apartment. You may as well all go through the apartment. Youngster and I are going down by ourselves. What are you trying to do, Act Hard? I figure you ought to go downstairs with our boys. What do you want? A written invitation? I just want to be understood. Clearly. I have an automatic in my pocket. I'm gripping it. Take the elevator, Mary. Get onto the cab till Mark may be able to use it. Scoop. All right. You don't think you're going to make me stick to you? I'm willing to try. What's the matter, Vinny? Need a smoke? Keep your hands where they are. You can wait. You know, I figure you do have an iron in that pocket. Clever of him. But I'm figuring something else, too. You didn't expect to run into us, either. Who'd want to? So I'm betting the iron ain't loaded. You go to a lot of trouble, don't you? Why don't you relax, boy? We're strangers. We've never seen each other before. If we just not go our respective ways, we'll both stay happy. Now I'm sure you ain't got that gun loaded. He had me. And here was a boy who plainly liked violence for its own sake. There's nothing left for me but the stairwell. So I bolted the banister and got a decent fall. What goes? I was just coming up. Come in. Let's go. Where to? To that orphanage.  There were cars parked in front of the orphanage. The lights still on inside. In the office, a sort of conference seemed to have taken place. But we got an instantaneous reaction from a woman of about 50. A woman whose face suggested that she wanted no fun out of life and resented anyone else trying for it. Well, just where have you been, young lady? Who is this, Mary? Mrs. Barkley. She's had matron. Good evening, Mrs. Barkley. Well? My name's Rayce. I'm a private investigator. I'm acting on this young lady's behalf. Gosh. You are, are you? Well, I'll have you know. Pardon me, Mrs. Barkley. Now, where did you find this girl, Mr. Rayce? I have a friend who drives a taxi. Mary was one of his first tonight. She seemed upset and he found a problem. So he called on me. I see. I don't believe we've met. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Paul Westerhaven. This is Miss Doris Sanford. Possibly you know Winter of Gravel. Everyone does. Paul Westerhaven plays Polo the way Stan Musial plays baseball. Horses and money. Plenty of both. Doris Sanford I'd never seen before. A definite loss on my part. She was lovely even under the glare of a light that gave Mrs. Barkley's face the look of a boiled potato. If you were any kind of a sharpshooter, Winter of Gravel was the name to flames at. He scribed a hard-hitting newspaper column that went in for reform. You might be interested to know, Rayce, that we're here because of this girl's disappearance. She's utterly incorrigible. We've been able to do absolutely nothing with her. You ever try being kind? Well, it is somewhat of a problem, Rayce. This is the second time the girl has run off. We've been fortunate that no bad publicity has developed. Where does Ferro Gillis fit into the picture? Oh, that woman. Who is Ferro Gillis? Well, she's rather well-known, Paul. Operates as a gambler.  Why do you have that opinion? A month or so ago, Miss Gillis promised to donate the cost of a new building for the orphanage. She seemed quite enthusiastic at the time, but nothing came of it. Well, if you don't mind, we'll wait a second night. I'll come and see you tomorrow, Mary. We'll talk this over. All right. And if I've seemed to have brought Mrs. Barkley, I apologize. I don't imagine your job is a breeze by any means. Certainly isn't. Next morning, I went back to the apartment hotel that housed Ferro Gillis. The manager, pink-skinned man of the mouth that Puckett, as he talked, was still a garg over the shot that had been fired the night before, but didn't connect me with it. I mentioned Ferro Gillis, he Puckett and shook his head. No, she hasn't been here for a week. She often goes away like that, but never tells us where. Oh, no one else who might know where she is? No one. She's a very strange woman, gambled, you know. How about her lawyer? I don't believe she has one. Who knows where she banks? She doesn't. I know that for a fact. Everything in cash with Miss Gillis. It's an idiosyncrasy of hers. Always carried cash. It pays us in cash, pays everyone in cash. It must be a gambling instinct. Yeah, quite likely. Well, thanks. Oh, that's all right, Mr. Racer. Didn't you say you were an investigator? Yes. Well, I'm always willing to help investigators. Always. The house in which Dora Sanford lived had the look that spells lots of family background. The size that spells money. I was curious to know if Miss Sanford would appear as lovely by daylight as she had the night before. She did. Then some. I can say one thing. You don't look as grim as you did last night. It was a rough evening. You care for a drink? It was a little early. I'd rather wait. I have a charming house. It makes a nice frame for you. You couldn't pay me a nicer compliment. Oh, yes I could. It was just a warm-up shot. You know, you couldn't have looked grim last night. Speaking of the orphanage, I've just come from there. I had to talk with a kid. She isn't very happy. I know. We've got to do something for her. How about that Barclay lady? Oh, she's all right. She lost her sister last month and they were very close. She's making a bit of an adjustment. She'll get over it. She seemed to be adjusting at the expense of that kid. How does a woman like Farrell Gillis tie in with the orphanage? It seems that she stayed there as a child. She comes in every once in a while for a visit. You know, there's a building she was going out to write. How much was it going to cost? $50,000. A nice bundle of money. It is. You can see Mrs. Barclay's side of it. She was pretty excited at the prospect. For that drink, you mentioned. Couldn't we have it somewhere in the night and dinner to go with it? That sounds as though it might be fun. But... But you have another engagement. I could break it. Good night. I like the way you say that. Will you call for me?  All right, Ray. It's a date. What are you even doing, shopping? Oh, hello, Mike. I didn't know you were here. Well, after last night, I thought you'd be home. At least I came up. How'd you buy? A black felt hat for evening wear. I thought you had one of them. I do. But when I pulled it out today, I found a bullet hole in it. Huh? I wonder where you got that. Hey, uh, the guy called about 15 minutes ago. He fell up by the name of Tully. Tully? Yeah. Oh, he's the manager of the Wellington Arms. Yeah, that's the one. He said to tell you Pharaoh Gillis is back. Does that sound important? It might be. I've still got a couple of free hours marked. Drive me over there, will you? I found the door to the apartment slightly ajar, so I knocked. I thought I heard a voice say, come in, so I did. She was reclining on a divan, a woman of perhaps 16. She had a theatrical look. Her skin was heavy with makeup. Her hair tended to flamboyant red. She was smiling at me. And the set of her features indicated that she was used to smiling. There was only one thing wrong with the picture. Someone had stabbed a knife into her chest. She was dead. We'll return to the adventures of Frank Grace in just about one minute. Back to the adventures of Frank Grace. Finding someone murdered always presents one serious problem. Should you notify the police? If you do, you're going to find yourself involved. If you don't, you may find yourself even more involved. But this time, I didn't have to carry out my decision. Just as I picked up the phone, a voice spoke to me in the same soft tones that it invited me into the room. He'd stepped out from behind a bookcase partition, and dapper serves as a one-word description. He'd been something from a style page in a squire. He even had the leer to go with it. With him was slate. He would cause me to vault into the stairwell. The hood called Vinnie was also along. I'm Johnny Fogel. The lady is a friend of mine. If we're going to discuss the lady, we may as well get into the past tense, don't you think?  You ain't going to get nowhere with him unless you raise a few lumps on him first. Were you a friend of the lady? To my knowledge, this is the first time I've ever laid eyes on him. Maybe I should have said the lady was a partner of mine. I understand she was in an interesting business. The most interesting business there is. A few weeks ago, she made a killing, a real big killing. Yes. I gave her the tip that clicked for her, so I sort of figure that now she's gone. Lord rest her soul. I'm straight in line to be the heir to what she left behind. No, I suppose that's a logical pattern of reasoning for a person of your temperament. Talk so Johnny can get what you mean. Never mind, Slate. I get what he means. And I think he gets what I mean. Let's not waste each other's time for him. Don't reach for that phone, pal.  Frescum, Slate. I wouldn't worry none, Johnny. He's got a gun, but it's never loaded. I'd take it just the same and keep it for you, John. You see, race, it's like this. You coming in here made it kind of embarrassing. A little embarrassing for us, more embarrassing for you.  You want something, Fogel? What is it? Farrow's dough. I happened to know she was healed with better than 50 grand. And with the way every drawer in the apartment seemed to have been so neatly emptied, I'd say you'd been looking for it. Farrow wouldn't have been keeping the dough here. She wasn't that kind. I haven't the slightest idea what Farrow Gillis was like. You may as well know that I can't tell you a thing about her money. Uh, that's the trouble with you guys. You always want to play a lone hand. Let's get him out of here, Slate. Start moving, race. In this time, you ain't getting away with no phony moves. Miss Slate pushed me past the door. Fogel lingered for her last look at Farrow Gillis, which meant that Slate and I started downstairs by ourselves. He insisted on walking right behind me, and after about six steps, I simply sat down in front of him. He instantly went over me and crashed on the landing below. I leaped after him, but there was only time to regain my pistol before Fogel appeared at the top of the stairs. Drop that gun, race. I went the rest of the way on the run, passed a gaping manager in the foyer, helped to a gaping Mark Donovan at curbside. Oh, not again.  Give me hold on a hurry, Mark. I'll do to pick up a most attractive girl in less than 30 minutes. Fine. I might have known you'd do it this way, race. I couldn't think of you in any other surroundings. Not at this time, anyway. You're nice. You're beautiful. Tell me something. Ask it.  It's for my father. He died less than a year ago. I'm sorry. You don't have to be. You're observant. I like that. It's flattering. In fact, I seem to like everything about you, race. What would you like to do after dinner? Go home. The butter will have the fire going. I thought we could just... talk. Fire was going, she'd promised. And for the first time in years, I munched freshly roasted popcorn dripping with butter. I love this house, race. My father left me a fortune, but out of everything, I think I appreciate this house the most. This house and all the things that go with it. Look. These are some linens my mother received when she was married. Aren't they beautiful? She looked unbelievably lovely in the firelight. She gracefully showed me the fabrics, then carefully folded them, placed them on a nearby table. That's the last one. Now it's your turn. What would you like to do? Take you in my arms. You think that's going to be hard? Might be complications. You know, you show signs of being a very domestic young lady. Why don't you kiss me? You'll find I have other qualities, too. A big pardon to say. But Mr. Grave, I've received. I'm just going to barge in, Doris, I... Oh, I didn't know you had company. That's Mr. Race.  Oh, yes, yes, of course I remember. I came to see you about that youngster. She's been arrested, Doris. Arrested? Mary Leonard? Well, it seems that Mrs. Barkley made a report to the police about the missing jewelry and... Oh, we'll have to run down and get the child out. Well, I'm afraid they don't grant bail on a murder charge. Murder? Murder? One of the items the police recovered from the girl was a diamond earring. The make to it was found today in the apartment of Pharaoh Gillis, along with Miss Gillis' body. So it seems that the orphanage has been harboring a juvenile murderous. I saw Mary Leonard the next morning. She had no tears for me. She was terribly quiet, terribly white. I told you no one could do anything for me. Didn't I, Mr. Race? Well, I haven't been able to do much, have I, Mary? But I want you to know that I've got an idea about this affair. It's just an idea, and it's pretty easy when it's there. But it might lead somewhere. I'll keep in touch with you. For the rest of the day, I had Mark out gathering information while I busied myself doing the same thing. We got together at five o'clock. You know something you were right about that Gillis' name? She flipped all around like nothing. And the more I should give away, I should have known that lady. Did you visit Mary Leonard? Yeah, yeah, I saw the kid. Yeah, Race, she's scared. She's really scared. They're gonna have to let the newspapers in on a deal unless you turn up some. It's about an hour later that I got a call from Doris Sanford. Race, can you come to see me right away? It's important. Trouble? Well, in a way, nothing to do with the orphanage. But it does concern us. Well, let me see. I'm expecting a report on something, but... I know what I'll do. I'll call and tell them to get in touch with me at your place. I'll be right over. It's Winthrop Gravel, Race. He thinks he's in love with me. And he's become insanely jealous of you. Can't help that, can we?  But he can hurt you with that column of his. There's one call from Mr. Race in Sanford. I took it in the library. It was the report I'd been waiting for. When I got back to Doris, I found Winthrop Gravel with him. He greeted me with a frigid nod.   Yes. It seems that Farrow Gillis not only made a promise to give $50,000 to the orphanage, but she actually delivered the money. What are you talking about? Farrow Gillis always did everything with cash. And that's the way it was handed over. $50,000 in the United States currency. I guess it was too much for the party who accepted it. Because nothing was ever said about it. And that's why Farrow Gillis was murdered. So where do we go from there? To the fact that Farrow Gillis wasn't murdered just to keep her silent. Drawers and cupboards had been emptied in the apartment. She'd evidently obtained a receipt for the money, which the killer wanted, and got, I believe. And I suppose you know all about the killer's identity, eh? I do now. Who did it, Race? You did, darling. I got my lead on that from the way you folded those linens last night. Where I folded the linens? So carefully, so meticulously. The same way everything was handled in Farrow Gillis' apartment. You were disturbed before you could put the things back, but you left everything so neatly piled. You're being ridiculous, Race. I just inherited a fortune from my father. I know. But this afternoon I learned that it wasn't a very liquid fortune. Not much money.  I think the courts will accept that as a pretty good motive. You're wrong, Race. No, I'm not. The item I particularly don't like is the way you set that little girl up for a patsy, framing her with some frowsy jewelry, planting the stuff so she'd not only be suspected of thievery, but of murder as well. When this man is trying to frame me. Yes, but he's not going to get away with it. Put that gun away, Gravel.  No, you've been trying to make a fool of me. Making passes at her when you knew she was engaged to me. Unless the last pass, she will make it any woman. Why, you... Sorry, Gravel. I can only allow you one miss. Oh! Yes, dear. I've been thinking of taking a trip to Lake Louise. Why don't you come with me? After all, you can't prove I did anything. That receipt is no longer in existence, nor the duplicate. I know. But you wrote pretty heavily when you made it out. Heavily enough to mark up the blank underneath. That was what my report was about. The police lab was able to show it all up. The amount and your signature. And you can put down that poker, darling, before I forget I'm a gentleman. The Adventures of Frank Race, starring Tom Collins, with Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan, comes to you from Hollywood. Others heard in tonight's cast were Virginia Gregg, Michael Ann Barrett, Jack Krushen, Jack Carrington, and Bert Holland. This series is written and directed by Joel Murkott and Buckley Angel. The music is composed and played by Ivan Ditmars. Be sure to be with us again this same time next week for another dramatic chapter in The Adventures of Frank Race. Art Gilmore speaking. This is a Bruce L's production.


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