Sam here with late in sports cards. We are ripping 10 bucks Tuesday's 10 bucks absolutely impeccable first off the line football mixture number 144 random team style Here's a look again at your random results as always you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link That's currently in chat. Yeah, hunt and gather exactly. Good luck everybody. Let's start with elites 22 Don Russ elite Feel a big auto coming out of one of the contenders Donnie. I really do. Yeah, I do. That's cool 2345 Trouble orange crack dice that means that'd be big That'd be quite the big in right there. Aaron Donald star status to 349 for the Rams sauce one of one again On it on it right now Keegan Josh Allen to 99 for the bills spellbound Sixth to go for LeBron. Oh, he's gonna break it for sure Chuckin threes up Kenneth Walker nice canine 10 of 49 For the Seahawks great first hit of the break and a canine right behind it 15 of 24 Seahawks doing well right now.  I can't man. It's like a car crash over there Hey, I got I know exactly I saw I'd argue. He's he already is a stud Jennings. He's a very solid player, man. Very solid player base He'll probably be what was either the deck Joe Burrow base Yeah, he's a beast man. I think he definitely breaks top ten Yeah, oh, yeah, I think so too my home's elitist so Oh, wait, he didn't crack about it. Yeah, it's been 50. Yeah 11 games I'm on Ross ain't brown on the craftsman 52 out of 99 to color patch for the lines Yeah, Tyler Algier technically 11 games he started but he played 15 I Would say so John I would say probably like even you can even say maybe late first on Walker probably second third though It'll go after a couple of wide receivers Sam Williams to 75 Donnie would take him in the first round I stretched a couple of times last time Aiden Hutchinson to 999 saw that Matt Ryan base guard Higley.  Well Kareem's in the building. Yeah There's Garrett Wilson to 399 for the Jets I saw there. That's Keegan, right? Yeah, there you go Keegan This Kareem like has he ever spoken like in the opinion on LeBron DK Mack after 399, I think it's LeBron. It's a little depending every he's just super respected by like NBA players in general I'm just curious if Kareem's like Excited for LeBron or views like me. I wish it was a little bit. No, I'm sure he's excited There's Bealus Jones nice one there. That's gonna be not numbered on the pen pals for the Bears and Kata and 79 of 87 for the Buccaneers Have some differences, but they respect each other. That's yeah I don't think Kareem's the nicest guy in the world to be honest. I don't know anything about like yeah I know obviously This is a record holder. Kyle Hamilton to 999. I don't know a lot about Kareem. He's like all time great Well, it's pretty salty He might just be salty like so I think Kareem came out recently said he didn't feel the same way that will felt about Kareem when he broke the record It's kind of messed up To 99 TJ Hawkinson So Kareem broke Wilts, right? Yes, I believe is that true Kareem broke Wilts. I think so. Yeah Let's do 19 contenders now 2019 contenders. We'll do to both the contenders and we'll do no huddle get all of our big base stuff out of the way That's possible for sure Elon. How old's P-Ryne though? P-Ryne? Yeah. Probably mid 20s. 26, 27, 28 around there I think. TJ Hawkinson.  I read I completely read that wrong We're gonna get your contenders Marquise Brown. I read that wrong P-Ryne is 27. Yeah Jericho Sims in the dunk contest. Who is that? Mack MacLung, Trey Murphy, Jericho Sims Gonna do a dice roll here guys one two three top four five six bottom will go for both the contenders boxes That is a six again. I'm gonna be sliding the dice sliding the dice sliding sliding sliding sliding six That'll go to the bottom. It's not a go with DK. Oh, Shaden Sharp dropping out. Who else is in it? So Sims, MacLung, Murphy, and who else? Preston Williams rookie of the year contenders Focus on the second half of the season. No, that's not that's pretty smart. Oh down to four Bortigo, Sony Michelle to 175 KJ Martin. Wow Not the most stacked lineup of all time Still gonna be fun MacLung, MacLung I have to imagine is what a lot of people are gonna be rooting for Hakeem Butler That's fine Zack Gentry nice one there for the Steelers Washington Lakers game Lakers Thunder. Yeah, I kind of agree on that Vaughn Because it's hard like nothing against anybody in the dunk contest It's just hard to think of new dunks all the time, you know what I mean? It's hard to do something that people haven't done already Mike Muscala. Two more. Two to go Kareem looks pretty happy Elise Mac Rookie Otto for the Saints nice one there. That's Andy Isabella Raven's legend. I was two points to go Ilan until he breaks the record I was toppling contenders Stop voting 2019 contenders What a time Quadrae Oleson that is for the Falcons nice one there. Yeah, run Devin run. Yeah, that's also true too That was so stupid The whole dunk contest when Aaron Gordon should have won it, but they didn't give it to him Joann Williams nice one there for the Patriots Yeah, this is one of those do whatever you can to watch moments for sure because like do you even think in our Lifetime someone else will beat LeBron's record now Should have our auto here, of course It's gonna be DK Metcalf 1998 rookie ticket gold RPS Going to the Seahawks nice one there Seattle Travis M. It is expired unfortunately But I would still see if they've got this one there Alex nice one there Congrats on that Seahawks. You can bag this one. I would say pretty cool actually Hopefully they still got that one for you So with the cards that they like get back that are really just like keep them Yeah, I mean they do that and then a lot of times they'll go into like they'll do it is like Penini rewards or like They'll put them as like redemption replacements that kind of stuff All right guys, let's do mosaic. We'll do mosaic choice next It's 2022 mosaic choice feeding LeBron for sure Skyhook we're going back to their normal lives now that he missed it. Nice. Can he pick it on the choice variation? I say a spiller Choice variation to kid reporters to kid reporters. Wow Silver Aaron Donald's one of them. We've got Xavier McKinney for the Giants There it is. He's died. There it is pretty break it. He broke it Nice Desmond Ritter Jersey numbered four of eight Going to the Falcons. There you go. Donald congrats, buddy four of eight We've got DeAndre Swift to 80 For the Lions We've got Bresaul to 80 for the Jets and Then we've got Jalen Petrae to 80 for the Texans. He did it That's awesome, dude. Let's do some no-huddle. Oh Yeah, what it's a moment like this a lot of times That's big time we're all in late and stream when he broke his record I was breaking 22 pernini mosaic choice football when LeBron broke his record. There's Christian Kirk pink Seven of 20. I'll always have the title but who is breaking when LeBron broke his record Trevor Lawrence purple for the Jags 20 out of 50 nice when they're Jennings with the Jags. I forgot to do We'll do 21 contenders after this. Sorry guys Distracting us. Yeah, lay distraction There's a silver Devin Singletary, Tyrion Davis Price Mosaic or disco disco Just play him how many people are on the court like as the game still technically I know right there's Tyquan Thornton on the variation The Patriots Mark Andrews Yeah, everyone's gonna start going home for sure. We've got Larry Johnson for the Chiefs Nice one there. No huddle-auto. Congrats Chiefs Brad Johnson mosaic be funny as they started Yeah, right now honestly, good God man T Higgins mosaic There's Kareem. Who's this guy in the suit telling them what to do? introductions is Desmond Ritter Diavondre Campbell for the Packers Silver Kyle Hamilton Harold Landry that's cool Kareem and Adam Silver is there too Jabroni in the suit telling Kareem what to do Honestly, there's blue Mack Jones 57 out of 75 blue Dalvin Cook to 75 Four of 75 so that's technically Jersey number now as he switched to four John goes cream is still taller than LeBroni can't beat that record Silver Najee Harris and Malik Willis on the disco cam Jordan. All right, let's do 21 contenders now. Shofi was a ball Curtis Martin 299 on the chain movers. Yeah, for sure. Penini instant. Oh Dude, national treasure time of moments. Ooh, that'd be cool green. That'd be sick.  Yeah, that'd be sweet, dude. That's gotta be a timeless moment next year. You have to think, right? I think they have that they should have that fadeaway shot. That'd be cool. Jared Patterson, that's 299 for the commanders Playoff ticket auto. Yeah, I agree If they don't do it, there was an opportunity Levi and Woosarika for the Lions. Nice one there On the rookie ticket auto Donny's gonna be really upset. No, I'm just saying like, you know We might get tears out of Donny if they don't do that Justin Fields, rookie of the year contenders. Such a beautiful moment. It needs to be timeless. It needs to be a sports card Eric Stokes going to the Packers rookie ticket auto And Marshall Fult, chain movers Go around dropping out Nice Classy Scridge Rookie of the year contenders. Yeah, I'm way too excited for that Scridge, dude. Of course, I'm gonna get excited Oh, Devin goes, well, that's a fine That's okay. I think he's bad. Redemption Got a pretty beat-up, uh, Ricky Williams.  Wow. We've got redemption is Justin Fields rookie ticket rps reverse variation Boom going to the Bears. Wow Justin B with Chicago. Congrats, buddy. Monster Fields Get that into a mag for you, man Ah, you don't have to Yes, Stockton's.  Let's go. Thank you, Devin Glad I got my rightful place once lay distraction Got his I know Fields is signing now too. So that's that's a that's a good sign that they that might be signed already Tyson Williams for the Ravens nice one there on the rookie ticket auto I want to see what the reverse variation is all about once that guys will do XR next I just want to look this up that same field for seven months. I know he's signing you see. I know he's signing which is good Oh, it's a new Short print. All right, let's do XR Well, if I'm the thunder, I'm happy for that like 10 minute rest True go back to slapping them around again impending greatness brissol 10 of 99 Uh, Kyle Phillips the 249 Titans James Cook to 99 bills rookie Romeo Dobbs base base And nice Malik Willis to 99 27 out of 99 is rookie jersey on 11 seasons from today Ken Thomas He's going 40 in every game Ken Thomas is gonna average he's gonna put up like wilt chamberlain numbers Average 53 points a game or whatever craziness that will average That'd be funny dude Derek Henry to 99 for the Titans Blue James Winston to 199 Rookie Chad Mooma, that's Caleb super collection at Devontae Wyatt 7 out of 49. That's going off to the Packers And nice 14 out of 49 is Vila Jones jr. All right, let's do origins Go origins spectrum finish with uh impeccable And we'll get to personals guys again gonna get to as many as I can tonight. I do work tomorrow, so Um Probably have a cut off it too, but whatever I don't get to tonight. I'll get to tomorrow marquise brown to 299 And green chris godwin two of 10 nice Uh, I started five tomorrow, but forest is uh breaking during the day uh base in Hutchinson It's gonna be promising. We've got Trey Lance two of 25 nice going to the Niners The uh two-color patch very cool Finger adds nice Got a sauce gardener four of five signed and inscribed sauce boom Let's go keegan dude. That's sick signed right there and inscribed sauce Four of five. Holy cow, man.  Congrats, buddy. Yeah, there he is. Congrats keegan.  That's so cool, man That's so freaking cool. I love that card and tyrian davis frice That was sick For the Niners nice one there Niners. Wow, dude. That's so cool. I didn't see his auto like on the camera Yeah, I didn't either. I was like I was like, oh, he's I saw the one where he signed it on his jersey I'm like, okay. He signed it twice. Great. Like let's way to go sauce That's cool. Uh, he just has like his normal auto brat on the um on the jersey It was signed he actually autographed on the jersey and then inscribed sauce Like he wrote sauce his nickname on where the the auto is supposed to go 22 spectra Yeah, no problem, Brett right we've got danie gray on the hyper to 75 for the Niners as well as rookie aura three of 25 on the meta that is john matching Got 59 of 75 is john dottson hyper jersey card for the commanders 99 aj dylan full spectrum auto for the packers nice one there, uh green bay Oh, that sauce is so cool. It's saucy. It is saucy Literally blue alec pierce 20 out of 50 James cook rookie That's one here 72 of 75 is berry sanders Very nice on the epic legends. You can tag this next one Going to michael t with the stealers to 125 kenny picket Two colored rpa Nice one there. Congrats on that hit michael Very solid Jared golf netta 21 of 25 for the lions Damian pierce silver rookie We've got 25 of 25. That's uh, austin neckler on the meta three color patch For the old chargeronis and 37 of 50 leroi butler. Nice one there on the auto Leroy butler. All right, let's do this Patch my homes on the astral two of 60. I'm surprised you don't know about that. That was like right around your time Is it like an overwatch? No, it's from uh world of warcraft actually like very like a very long time ago. I remember watching that in elementary school Danny dimes 52 out of 75 is monumental zamir white two color patch And 24 of 30 matt corral three colored rpa with the purple ink purple pandora. Very nice There you go panthers. Let's do some absolute There's one of those things where it's like I knew what I heard it.  That's just something you can always yell We're all Jank and they just get destroyed to 75 Jerome Ford orange color match base and base We've got jordy nelson championship fabric 22 of 49 for the Packers and desmond ridder Uh 15 of 25 going to the falcons Yes, I'll break overall for sure man. We still got it uh impeccable to go to Wow one of one carcin strong Boom Go to the eagles. There we go. Philly Uh is eric r. Congrats, eric I Can't even believe that's a real thing jonathan We'll get that magged up nice carcin strong davis mills erin rogers We've got elie manning championship fabric 7 of 49. That's uh donnie's boy What donnie's favorite qb Huh, and harrison bucker 33 of 75 signature standouts for the chiefs It's my favorite quarterback. We beat sound Brady There Yes, it is That is a gold explosive.  Holy cow. What a break on them Yeah, yeah great break in general man origins produced 21 contenders went crazy absolute gave us two mags Um spectra gave us a mag What else there's one or two other ones in here too Yeah, the both contenders gave us something big and a big one out of mosaic choice. Wow Sam williams the 275 Yeah, we got london on the track, baby And alec pierce 5 of 49 on the patch auto do the thing sam Nice one there illegal. Why'd you remind him? We got london on the track. All right guys impeccable first off the line photo photo photo photo Oh I like photo. I like photos. I like photos instead of I like those. I like photos.  I'm just imagining the kid that's why I like photos Because the kid doesn't know pronounce words. I'm gonna start doing that. I'm gonna start doing that for every first Off the line, we're doing that. I like photos We've got nice jamar chase three of eight nice one there for the bangles I feel bad for the 170 little people watching. I know me too Zach wilson, uh, 46 of 50 Number's gonna go way down after that one registers Uh, Tyler boy 275 for the bangles as well Uh, yes, justin you may want to wait for the recap. You may want to wait for the recap my friend Oh god Carl We've got roger mccreary 71 out of 75 for the titans West welker nice one there 15 out of 25 on the master strokes on card for the patriots It's uh dolphin's legend west welker bronco's legend west welker Nice one here is gonna be tj watt That is gonna be 81 out of 99 You got it just and no problem, buddy And mac jones 2 of 10 canvas creations second-year auto nice one there congrats pats What's this welker answer? Kind of sweet It's like a hawaiian vibe. It is cool. Yeah. All right. We've got Jahan dotson 2 of 19 silver bar auto There we go commanders david v congrats, buddy Nice one there.  Let's do a recap guys. No random. I have to do a random all day No randoms all day Which one for the contenders for the Oh, yeah, honestly. Yeah, uh, elie manning jordy nelson zamir white Austin eckler berry sanders jahan dotson trey lance vealish jones amon ross st. Perron non-magg autos We had tj walked mac jones west welker roger mccreary alec pierce harrison bubker desmond ridder mac chorale problem steve leroy butler a j dillon tyrian davis price davontae wyatt malik willis uh tyson williams eric stokes levine wuzarike jerry paterson larry johnson joan williams quadrae olison alize mac zap gentry vealish jones kenneth walker Now our magtards man. We have a stack of mags coming out of this. Look at that Very nice. I don't even know where to start here donnie Uh, the one that's The last bull dealer true Um They really are we'll start with the drake london explosive case hit One up ten. I feel two of these two of the ten of these because I pulled one for joey in a personal. Yes Nice london on the track. We had really cool 1998 rookie ticket gold rps dk matcalf unfortunately is expired Hopefully they still have this one. If not, hopefully they hook you up. Congrats again on that seahawks We had a Desmond ridder that is jersey numbered four of eight on the black gold mosaic choice auto Kenny pick it on the rpa six of 125 Steelers We had a one of one that is karson strong going to the eagles A jahan dotson two of 19 one try ounce of fine silver going to the commanders bar auto A sauce gardener four of five signature on the player and inscribed sauce Color match for the jets and a just in fields rookie ticket rps reverse variation Going to the bears congrats just then that is awesome, dude That will do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the fill next up personal You


Thank you very much for a very warm welcome and thank you again for me for the very generous introduction with generous words. It's such a pleasure to be here at King's College and at the Africa Leadership Center and being here is somewhat nostalgic for me. I was a student at the LSE many years ago and looking around at the so many young faces here, I'm a bit embarrassed to say how many years ago that was but I'm also a professor and so I'm happy to be in this academic environment especially after the utter madness of politics. I think that is a very nice, very nice place. I must thank the management of the Africa Leadership Center for the kind invitation to be here. I think this is a good place to be after the rough and tumble of our politics. King's College London I think is also to be commended for its contribution to training so many outstanding leaders in Nigeria over the years and of course so many who are here now, Professor Lonysha King is of course one and so many others who are here. Professor Kenneth O'Kan Dike, a distinguished historian who was also the first indigenous vice chancellor of Nigeria's first university, the University of Ibazu, is an alumnus of King's College. We also have Mrs. Kofora La Prat, the founder of the First School of Nursing in Nigeria. She also was here at King's College and a recipient of the Florence Nightingale Award from the International Red Cross, the International Red Cross. The doctor in our team, in this my team coming from Lagos, Dr. Nicolas O'Difren, is here also. He's also an alumnus of King's College and he never lets us forget about it and some of us have had to caution him that to no avail of course that being here at King's at some point doesn't make you Desmond Tutu. I think we should agree that the African Leadership Center deserves commendation for how it has in a few short years of its establishment gained a stellar reputation for teaching and research and for leadership studies that have focused on the African continent and training a whole new generation of scholars and practitioners on issues of peace, security and international development. I know that the theme of the King's Africa Week 2023 was, as has been said, changing Africa in a shifting global landscape. So I will tell all my remarks this evening to this broad theme while also seeking to answer the question of how Africa can prosper in this shifting global landscape. I think that a point on which there will be no reasonable dispute is that we live in a complex and somewhat confusing period. The lines have never been more blurred in the various conceptual prisms through which we view the world. The existence of several centers of political and economic power since the unipolar world of the 1990s has meant that there are various ways in which global developments are viewed. Of course in addition to the United States we now have we have China, Russia, the European Union, the UK, India and Brazil as dominant regional powers. The perspectives, decisions and actions of these actors impact not only on their regions but across the world including in multilateral forums all across the world. The Russian-Ukrainian war is, if we start with that you just consider how that has impacted the world and in fact has impacted Africa. Apart from its consequences for international peace and security that war has signaled a breakdown of the global order which emerged at the end of the Second World War and is a source of concern to many African countries who now have to stare their way delicately between the major powers. But the more immediate and consequential fallout of the war as we all know are the sharp hikes in food prices especially wheat sunflower and sunflower oil and even rice and maize and then fuel and fertilizer prices. Many African countries of course are heavily dependent on one or both of the warring parties for food and oil. So when the conflict began in February last year the price of wheat increased by 67% from the price in December 2021. Oil prices similarly went through the roof. International prices for oil averaged $100 per barrel in 2022 as compared to about $70 per barrel in 2021. And then also given that key manufacturing countries are all importers, higher oil prices invariably translated to higher prices for manufactured products as well. So these price shocks and disruption of supply chains of various commodities across Africa led to high inflation at the time when most countries were struggling to overcome the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic especially debt and foreign currency crisis. The situation was relieved somewhat by the deal that was broken to enable the export of Ukrainian wheat. For Nigeria let me say that despite a strong objection to the invasion of Ukraine as evidenced by our support for the UN resolution condemning the invasion. We've managed to maintain good relationships with both parties. We are now in the process of working out a grain supply from Russia coordinated by the World Food Programme and recently accepted to provide some space, port space in Potakot, Nigeria for the distribution of grain from Ukraine to other West African countries. But I think the economic fallout of the war for us in Africa should be an introspective moment especially on the issue of self-sufficiency in food production. And there's some good news here and there about that. Zimbabwe for instance had its highest ever wheat harvest of over 375,000 tons in 2022 and by that increase in production it achieved self-sufficiency at least in wheat production which is a major component of its food. It achieved this feat by increasing land under cultivation by improving fertilizer distribution and ensuring irrigation in the winter months and an active collaboration between government and the private sector. This means that Zimbabwe is insulated from the sharp increases in global wheat prices or indeed further fallouts from the war in Ukraine. What this clearly shows is that by proactive measures African countries can turn this crisis and others into opportunity. It may also be a moment for even bigger ideas. We may reconsider our approach to food production using climate smart methods that protect and enhance soil health and resilience. There's a lot of work being done by the Climate Action Platform which the Climate Action Platform for Africa which is an NGO concerned with introducing a different concept. Now I might talk about that a little later but CAPA as it's called you know has some very interesting ideas on how we could actually turn some of the some of the problems and crises that we've experienced into opportunity especially in the climate in climate action area. But the final word on the Russian in Creme War a few days ago President Lula da Silva of Brazil proposed a peace club probably led by China. He said he was going to talk to China about this peace club to seek ways of ending the crisis. I think that that sort of thinking is certainly the way to go. The world must find parties that can be trusted by both sides to intervene. Ultimately this war the Russia-Ukraine war would have to end by negotiations. I think the earlier that started the better. Let me then talk a little bit about the climate crisis. I hope it's not my microphone that's making that that's humming away like that. It's not. Oh okay it's a phone. So let me talk a little bit about the climate crisis. The climate crisis is central to current global complexities. Just a few days ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change the IPCC released a report where it cautioned that if speedy action were not taken global warming might attain the 1.50 degrees centigrade much earlier than expected even possibly in the 2030s. Now this is a warring prospect if we consider that African countries despite being the lowest emitters of carbon are the worst hit by its effects and the least capable of quickly responding to or mitigating the damage that may be caused by extreme weather events. At the same time a competition for increasingly scarce resources such as water and arable land is fueling conflict and complicating tensions between communities in many parts of Africa especially the northern parts of Africa in our case in Nigeria and the northern part in the central and northern part of Nigeria. We have a lot of what we call the farmer-herder crisis you know and these are of course these of course very deadly conflicts over arable land and water. But African countries have a little more to worry about even in the inevitable transition to net zero by 2050 and in our case in Nigeria by 2016. For us in Africa energy poverty and its implications for extreme poverty are as existential as a crime as a climate crisis itself. In 2020 52% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa about 568 million people had no access to electricity. 19 of the 20 countries with the lowest clean cooking actress mix are in Africa. In practical terms these energy deficits produce staggering defects. For instance the clean cooking deficits lead to about two really huge numbers of premature deaths from household air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa in particular annually. Of course gender inequities are exacerbated and millions of women and children suffer from critical health conditions on account of clean cooking deficits and of course the use of heavy pollutants like firewood. Due to the electricity deficits half of secondary schools and a quarter of health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa have no power and for many gas-rich but energy poor countries in Africa such as Nigeria we are extremely gas-rich who have huge reserves of gas but energy poor. We recognize that the role of natural gas being a much cleaner fossil fuel must play a transition role. It must play as a transition field in the short term to facilitate the establishment of base load energy capacity and address clean cooking deficits in the form of LPG. But there has been strong resistance to this. I mean we believe that not just because we are gas rich but because also because gas is much much cleaner fossil fuel. We believe that gas must be a transition fuel for us. And the reason why we take this position is because there is no country yet that has been able to develop industrially using just renewable energy. And just for base load just to get sufficient base load for industry you absolutely must have some and in our case gas. But several Global North nations have placed restrictions on the use of development funds for gas infrastructure in Africa with ripple effects in the private financial sector. While I think it's just important to explain this a bit. So the Global North countries argue that gas projects in Africa should not be funded anymore. And the reason of course is that this is seen, I think I know how to do this now. The reason of course is that this is seen as in some ways a hindrance to net zero by 2050. While some others the US and others have created exceptions in their policies you know the intended flexibility is not yet clear. So clearly the limit limiting the development of domestic gas projects which is a critical energy transition pathway for Africa in our opinion of course violates the principles of equity and justice. And of course this challenges for African nations while in truth making an insignificant dent in global emissions. Even if we triple electricity consumption in African countries aside from South Africa solely using natural gas this will just add 0.6 percent to global emissions. But and really when you look at this you know especially in relation to what what what can happen to poverty using gas as transition fuel and the dramatic changes that that could have on livelihoods and lives in in in South Suriname Africa in particular we think that is only fair to argue that gas and gas projects in Africa ought to continue to be funded by you know by the multilaterals and by Europe and US and the US. But Africa can also lead in my view a revolutionary approach to climate change. One that recognizes climate action as the job engine for Africa. James Wangi and his colleagues at Climate Action Platform for Africa have presented this compelling point of view. They argue that instead of pushing the narrative of Africa as a victim and or insisting on business as usual growth it would make Africa eventually a big future emitter especially as doubling population and possibly even quintupling of income per capita could propel Africa to the top of the emitter league tables in the coming decades. Africa should instead lead the way in tackling climate change by leveraging on its renewable energy potential young workforce green energy green manufacturing. In other words Africa can provide jobs for millions of its young people it can prosper can lead in the fight against climate change by becoming the green or carbon-free civilization and we have the comparative advantage to do so. I think that this is an I think that is an interesting proposition and I think that just looking at all of the components of it of course won't have the time to do so today really does present an alternative pathway for Africa especially to look at how to tackle climate change and at the same time address concerns of poverty address concerns of job creation but won't have time to elaborate too much on that today. Let me say a word now about China Africa and the West and of course you know there's I was talking about China Africa the US in mid December last year the US hosted the Africa US summit only the second of such the last was in sometime in 2014 and there was no question at all that the summit was meant to at least register the to register America's interest in being a more active player in Africa in response to you know the evident dominance of the Chinese. China is Africa's largest bilateral trading partner and China does about 254 billion dollars in trade in Africa in 2021 we did about 254 billion US dollars in trade China is also the largest provider of foreign direct investment in Africa supporting hundreds of thousands of African jobs now this is roughly double the level of US foreign direct investment and China remains by far the largest lender to African countries Chinese companies have also taken the lead in exploring minerals in Africa many now in lithium mining in Mali and Guinea in Nigeria in DRC the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Zimbabwe and in Namibia most African countries as you can imagine are in my view rightly apologetic about their close ties with China China also shows up when the rest when the west will not or is reluctant to show up and many African countries of course are of the view that the warnings about the Chinese Trojan loans maybe wise but are probably self-serving Africa needs the loans and the infrastructure and the Chinese offer them in any case the history of loans from western institutions is not great the memory of the destructive conditionalities of the Bretton Woods loans are still fresh and the debris is everywhere and the preoccupation of western governments and the media with the so-called China debt trap might well be an overreaction and I will recommend to you a very eye-opening lecture by Professor Deborah Brottingham about two weeks ago she gave the lecture about two weeks ago at the Jesus College Cambridge the truth that she points out is that all of China's lending to Africa is only five percent I think she's you know roughly accurate there of all the outstanding public and publicly guaranteed debt in low and middle income countries compared to 23 percent held by the World Bank and other multilaterals Chinese lenders account for just 12 percent of Africa's private and public external debt and the Chinese as I've said have always been there when the debts even cannot be paid in early 2020 as COVID battered African economies and of course economies worldwide China came together with other G20 members to launch the the debt service suspension initiative the DSSI as it was called 73 low income countries benefited from the suspension of principal and interest payments through the DSSI Chinese banks provided 63 percent of the total debt relief while it only owed 30 percent of the debt service payments that were due so by and large you know in the arguments about Chinese how you know the Chinese debt trappers sometimes called and the large amounts of loans to African countries etc I think that what is clear is that the Chinese have proved to be by and large quite responsible in their approach to the giving of these notes of course there are always arguments about whether or not you get the very best deal all the time or the real question for Africa and African governments is who else is offering these loans who else is offering the support so really isn't the question of here or there really is the question about this is what is available and you know seems to me that it makes sense to take what at least is available then to the question of insecurity there's some restiveness as many of us would appreciate in the continent and this is driven in part by poverty alienation environmental degradation and in many cases poor governance the more pressing problem today is the encroachment by franchises of the global terrorist groups in Africa I think that's what we're seeing today the Islamic iswap for example Boko Haram and several of the several of the of the terrorist groups that we find of course in many cases franchises of terror groups you know in other parts of the world although many African countries to be fair have acted very vigorously to tackle these terrorist groups there's still much more that can be done especially in partnership with the rest of the international community the Sahel appears to be the worst hit according to the 2022 global terrorism index the Sahel has become home to the world's fastest growing and most deadly terrorist groups and Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 48 percent of deaths coming from global terrorism the Sahel is also said to account for half a million internally displaced persons and 1.8 million people facing food insecurity 5.1 million people needing humanitarian assistance so given the scale and the scale of the problem and the threat of terrorism you know and my view is that the threat of terrorism anywhere is is is is really the threat of terrorism practically everywhere because as we've seen many terrorist groups shall simply develop franchises that can operate in other places so I think it's time for the global community to treat the menace of terrorism especially in the Sahel as a common challenge this is one area where the great powers and emerging powers can put aside their libraries and work with the Echoers and the Africa Union on an initiative to stamp out terrorism in Africa especially in the Sahel Africa has been and and I think that you know we we need to look at this as quickly as possible and of course governments such as ours have made over choice to several you know of the global powers and we've spoken you know privately publicly about how to you know how to work together to deal with terrorism in the Sahel because we strongly believe that if it's not dealt with it could really spiral out of control and give rise to severe problems in many states that many states which already have have problems of institutional weaknesses law enforcement weaknesses etc. Africa has and remains a force for global good and when I say that Africa has been a force for global good I often like to refer to the agreement way back in 1963 when African countries barely out of colonial rule agreed to respect colonially inherited boundaries and this has been likely observed and I must say that this is a big deal especially where we recall that most wars in the world in previous centuries were often linked to disagreements about boundaries and following from the from respect for colonial inherited boundaries Africa has also shown in my view outstandingly good example in using its regional integration agreements to promote peace and security on the one hand and trade and industry on the other African regional organizations have taken responsibility for the maintenance of peace and security on the continent and the sub regions I think notable in this regard is the strong resistance that has been that has been made to unconstitutional changes of government especially at the Africa Union and also the regional economic groupics echo us for instance has sanctioned countries like Burkina Faso Guinea and Mali where soldiers seized political power by coups d'etat such sanctions include suspension of memberships travel bans freezing on financial credits amongst other things and the Africa Union has backed echo us and is also suspended membership of countries that echo a sanctioned it would seem that the sanctions have had some bite I mean it I would not go as far saying that they have been very effective they have had some bite especially to the extent that the affected countries approached echo us even recently they approved the echo as leadership at the last AU summit requesting that the sanctions be lifted there is a good measure of you know of a bite that they that the sanctions have had but I would argue that the measures taken against these countries could have had even greater impact if the rest of the international community had rallied around and reinforced the measures taken by echo us and must of course acknowledge that of course the US government issued a statement of specific support for echo as sanctions in Guinea in particular and and and this has helped a great deal what it is is that sanctions by African regional groups or by the Africa Union are only as effective as they are supported by the international community especially international finance I think it's important of course we all know the interconnected connectedness of global finance it is well nigh impossible for for the West African for West African states thank you for West African states to effectively sanction other West African states I mean there are West African states that would simply look to France or look elsewhere for support so the the involvement of the international community thank you is important in ensuring effectiveness of sanctions I think Africa has also has also shown a standingly good example through the establishment of the African continent of free trade area excuse me so while some parts of the world were quitting regional integration and agreements etc African countries were building on the pan-African legacy of leaders like Kwame Nkrumah to establish continent a continental market and I think that the AFCTA will overcome the constraints of Africa's small fragmented markets and it will have significant impact on commerce within the continent both in goods and services and this will be particularly so if adequate attention is paid to building regional value chains within the continent and so I think you know just looking at the possibilities for the for the AFCTA they're huge and I'm glad to say that a lot of work is being done today to ensure that the market is as robust as it was planned and one expects that the participation of of of African countries it has almost 100 percent subscription will make this truly you know a model regional market for many of us there's a strong conviction also that digitalization offers the best opportunity for leapfrogging for Africa and of course as we know digital technologies have been deployed across Africa to provide solutions in agriculture in education in fintech in healthcare it's also been deployed in logistics and transport and I think it has a potential to be used also in practically you know all all aspects of commerce and business smart housing solutions smart power grids you know it's there's just potential everywhere the story of mobile telephony for instance has provided a platform for the use of digital technologies in daily lives in Africa due to mobile telephony Africa is ahead of other parts of the world in terms of fintech and payment solutions the continent accounts for about half of the world's mobile money accounts and African countries are using AI enabled surveillance technologies for facial recognition to monitor and to respond to crime perhaps even better known I'm I'm sure that many of us are familiar with the use of drones to deliver medicines in Rwanda and it's I think there's some effort to do that also in Ghana such as the impact that this is hard that the the that digitalization has had that just since 2016 and despite two recessions in Nigeria and even a global pandemic six technology startups have achieved the status of unicorns in other words companies that are valued at over a billion US dollars so there's great potential and of course a lot of hard work going on there another great resource which I believe will enable Africa to cope with a rapidly changing world is our diaspora and I think that instead of lamenting the brain drain which admittedly is costly Africa should organize itself to take advantage of its diaspora some of whom of course here in this audience and I'm not about to suggest that you should show sheep home or anything like that you know because I see a few apprehensive looking cases out around here I think that African diaspora and of course Africa diaspora is substantial I mean we already see your remittances in the order of 96 billion and so so on and so forth and even just in sub-Saharan Africa but the African diaspora is a major source of strength and they have also in several instances offered themselves for public service which is in my view is also very important however I see the diaspora as a vanguard for keeping up with the rest of the world diaspora is a secret weapon as we've seen time and time again members of diaspora keep a close tap on developments at home and they often invest their resources in business or setting up facilities with cutting-edge services in medicine and education in finance for instance the contributions of the Ethiopian diaspora that help to fund the building of the great Ethiopian Renaissance dam is one such major example of diaspora involvement in development Kenya has also licensed the diaspora investment fund that will enable Kenyans living abroad to invest safely at home the hospital where I had an operation last year where I had a procedure is based in Lagos and the specialists that treated me practice both in Nigeria and the UK as a matter of fact just this just today I was at one I was seeing two of the six surgeons who carried out the procedure here in in in London and what I what what is evident is that we can derive benefits from all of our resources both at home and the diaspora and it's becoming easier and easier by the day in my few years of service as vice president of Nigeria I've been quite fascinated by the place of academic regal in both policy formulation and perhaps more importantly in execution in Nigeria our social investment program which is possibly the largest in in in sub-Saharan Africa was a product of excellent policy research that's also addressed the problems that also address the problems of how because that is always a big problem how how how do you get it done how do you get it done effectively and the results in in in our case you know homegrown school feeding program was an award has won several awards where we feed about 9.5 million children daily and created huge opportunities for farmers who sold their produce to the program our micro credit program for 2.4 million informal traders was also rigorously evidence-based the delivery mechanism was also well researched and the electronic platform which was developed by a very young team to deliver it is now called the growth platform it also has won you know at least two three international awards so I think that there is a lot to be said for serious policy and serious policy papers serious especially those that address the house similarly the insights from the study title conflicts in the Sahel region and developmental consequences which was undertaken by Fumi here professor Aloni Shaki and her colleagues helped to inform the thinking and design of our national livestock transmission plan which is an innovative sustainable approach to resolving the deadly conflicts around pasture and water between farmers and herders in Nigeria and one which became a template for addressing similar problems in the Sahel so our national livestock transformation plan again was based with the product of serious research and you know especially research that speaks to how to get things done so I think that there is a lot that can be said for working together with research institutions with universities and all of that I think that that is becoming better appreciated by governments and and government officials determined to make a difference in their in their countries let me conclude by saying that Africa can take a full advantage of the global complexities we see today and indeed thrive in the face of uncertainties and disruption the decisive factor will be knowledgeable leadership committed to good governance knowledgeable leadership committed to good governance indeed if you asked me three things that will determine our ability to turn the problems and complexities of our continent around for good I will say one knowledgeable leadership committed to good governance two knowledgeable leadership committed to good governance and you can guess three knowledgeable leadership committed to good governance thank you all very much


Congratulations on your Young Research Award. What is your research about? My research is about a new way on how to profile learners based on their dispositions and their preferences to us using technology for learning and learning online. It's based on peer-bodied key constructs of capital dispositions and habits. So more or less it is a journey towards a new way of providing learners as opposed to the recent theoretical models that have been used in the past. Very interesting. How are you finding the Eden Research Workshop and what's your experience until now? Well the Eden Research Workshop is very impressive. From the keynote speaker, from the presentations and the parallel sessions so far, I've been learning a lot from fellow presenters as well as seeing a few opportunities for collaboration in the future. And I also have been, through my presentation, have been given a lot of feedback on how to improve the presentation and on things that needs to be clarified a bit more. And particularly in the sense that Eden gives young scholars an opportunity to share their research journey so far. So I think those are very good attributes to a workshop for young scholars. Yes.


Hello everyone, my name is Dylan and today I'm going to show you how to design your own logo with GoDaddy Studio.  It's like the flag it flies out there in the world. So it's an important job to get done, but it's also a really fun and easy project that you can definitely do by yourself in GoDaddy Studio. So let's dive right in and take a look. Alright, so today we're going to be working in the web version of GoDaddy Studio. We've accessed the content creator and now we have a blank canvas in front of us and to our left hand side a template feed. Now templates as always are a great way to get started quickly and easily in GoDaddy Studio. You could simply search for what you're looking to create. In this case a logo and you'll be given a bunch of really beautiful professionally designed options that you can use as a starting point for your logo design. You would simply pick one of these and make some minor adjustments and customize it to your specific brand. So that's the easy way to start, but let's give ourselves a little bit more of a challenge and begin with the blank canvas. So I'm going to close that template feed and draw our attention to the blank canvas. Now this default option that we get given in the content creator, the transparent square canvas is actually the perfect starting point for your logo design. So all we need to do now is add various elements to that canvas and build up our logo one step at a time. Let's begin with text, arguably the most important aspect of your logo design since it contains the name of your brand. In this case I'm creating a hypothetical brand called Ascent which is an adventure travel company. So I've written that there but that's looking pretty lonely that word floating in this giant big canvas. So I'm going to move on over to the editing menu on the right hand side, click on text. And the first thing I'll do is just change that text size from 48 to something like 250. There we go, that looks much better. And now I can adjust the font moving away from the default option to something customized for my particular brand. So I can either search through the selection of fonts that I have already downloaded into my personal library or if I'm looking for others I could click browse fonts and that will take me to the full font library in GoDaddy and here you'll have more than 500 options to choose from. Okay for today I'm happy to use one of my all time favorites which is a font called Lulo. Let's see, yeah there it is. There's a few different options of Lulo. You get the thin version, the outline version but I'm going to go with the bold version which I think works really well for a logo and that looks cool except there's one thing I'd like to change and that's the letter spacing. To my mind the letters are a little bit far apart so I'm going to click on letter spacing and then just use the down arrow just to tap it a few times and you'll see that moves the letters a little bit closer together. Okay that looks good to me and you know what for a lot of people that's good enough for a logo. For a lot of famous brands that's good enough for a logo. You'll see it all over the place where people simply write the name of their company, the name of their brand in their unique font and that in and of itself is a logo. So that's definitely one way you could play it and for many people that's going to be enough but I'd like to show you how you could go a little step further than that by adding a graphic to your logo. Now as I mentioned Ascent is an adventure travel company so I was thinking something like a mountain would really give a sense of what our brand is about, what our story is about and communicate to people what we do. So let's move on over to the left hand menu click on graphic and I'm going to search for mountains. Now as expected I get given a whole range of different styles of mountain graphics. We have our very thin basic linear options. There are some watercolor options here, some playful childlike options of mountains, Japanese style graphics and eventually we come to something that I think looks perfect for my particular brand and that's this one over here. I'm going to click that. I really like the thick graphic style of this. I think it works well with the font that I've chosen. So I'm just going to set these up on the page to align in the middle and by the way that yellow grid line that comes down the center. There we go. That tells me that I am in the center of my composition which is very useful for aligning different elements together. Okay so that's looking good. I think I'm just going to make the text ever so slightly smaller. You can also just grab the text box and pull the corners, make it a little bit smaller. Okay so just one thing I noticed is that this graphic although it's very dark it's actually a dark blue rather than a black. I prefer it to be black so I'm going to click on that. Hit color on the side here and I now have the option of selecting my color wheel. I could make it any color I want but as I said I wanted to match with my text so I'm going to keep it black and just a little tip. I would definitely suggest when you're making your logo for the first time keep it black and white and that's going to be your safest option. Down the road you can always start to add color. Okay so we have a graphic, we have our text and once more for a lot of people that's going to be perfect. That looks good enough and to my mind that already starts to look like a professional looking logo. But let's add a couple more elements just to show you how much further you can go. So what we often see with logos is a second line of text which maybe tells you what your company does or where it's based or when it was established. So let's click on text to add another line of text here. I'm going to move it underneath the brand name and I think I'm going to tell people a little bit about what we do so that there's no ambiguity because after all, Ascent is an adventure travel company. Okay so that looks good. I quite like that default text by the way so I'm going to leave it as it is. I just want to adjust the letter spacing again a little bit more this time just to make it ever so slightly wider. So I'm going to tap that up and up and up a few times and then I'm noticing the circular shape that the graphic creates that could be really cool if the text underneath continued that circular shape in one continuous circular motion. So we can easily do that by adjusting the curvature of that text. So I still have my text editing menu open on the right hand side. I'm just going to move down a little bit lower until I see the curve scroller and look what happens if I move that just a little bit over to the left. Once you see that text starts to curve little by little you have to kind of judge it by your eye in the first pass and something like that looks good to me. So I'll leave it there bring it into the center and you can now see how the curvature of this text starts to work with the roundness of the graphic that I've chosen creating a kind of circular shape all around.  It is worth being a perfectionist as you are creating your logo because you're hopefully only going to create it once and so it's worth doing properly the first time. Okay once more for a lot of people that would be a great point to finish and save because I think this looks like a really great logo already but I'm just going to add one more element just to wrap it all up quite literally and that is a circular shape that I think could look quite nice around the entire logo. So I'm going to move on over to the menu on the left and click on shape and that will give me these options right at the top is precisely what I'm looking for an empty circular shape so I'll click on that and now it's just up to me to resize this until it fits perfectly around my logo. Just need a moment to make sure everything is in the right proportion keep it in the center, keep it equally spaced and you know what that actually looks pretty damn good to me. So I could arguably take a couple more minutes and make some tiny little adjustments here and there but for now I think that's looking pretty good and it gives you an idea of how quickly you can actually put a logo together. So let's leave it at that and export this. So to do that I'm going to navigate to the top right hand corner where I see the export button and like with all designs I have the option of exporting this as a JPEG or a PNG but please pay close attention when working with logos we definitely want to always export that as a PNG because that's going to keep that background transparent so that you can now use this logo in a range of different situations and it's not going to affect the background at all. So keep it as a PNG, click on export and that's going to save that now to my downloads folder. Okay so now when I'm done I can head back to my dashboard because I'd like to show you how you can apply your logo in designs going forward. So if I head now to my photos from my websites and marketing dashboard we should notice that that logo I've just created is sitting in my photo library. Here we have it over here in my uploads we see it's ready and waiting for me to use. So now if I return to my dashboard and from here return to GoDaddy Studio via the marketing drop-down content creator I can now start creating designs that use my logo in it so I could create an Instagram post or a Facebook header that incorporates my logo in it or I could for example create a product design that showcases my logo so I'd like to do that in this case I'm just going to add an image to this template let's say we wanted to see what our logo would look like on a t-shirt I could simply call up a t-shirt graphic like this find a nice blank canvas of a t-shirt and now when I click on my photos at the left hand side here that's going to take me to my photo library and websites and marketing dashboard I can find the logo that I've created click on that click on insert and voila now my logo is sitting on top of my design and remember I told you how important it is to using a PNG and we see now that that has kept the background transparent so that it's very easy to move around and add to different designs and that's pretty much all there is to it so as I said at the beginning designing a logo is definitely something you can do all by yourself in GoDaddy Studio give it a go, try it out and show the whole world that you mean business with a beautifully designed logo


We trade because of there's value, and if the stocks are sitting in the middle of their ranges, you're not in this for a 50-50 shot, right? You're not in this and say, well, the stock's either a go or it's not. No, it's up to what works. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey, guys, giving everybody welcome to another edition of the Axis of Trader.com nightly wrap-up show. Hope everybody is doing well. So let's kind of review from yesterday. We talked about the Nasdaq 100, the Qs, putting in an inverted hammer, which is a short-term negative. Does it mean the market's going to go to the lows? Does it mean it's going to go to pandemic lows? It just means it's a short-term sell signal that the market high probability will go to its next demand zone. And that's exactly basically what happened today. You had a day two of selling, and we went through the 10-day moving average pretty quickly. In the morning, we went all the way down to the 20-day moving average. And just like all bull markets, it's structural, right? And that's all it is. You don't need to have a throw the baby out with the bath water scenario to kind of be proactive in potential selling pressure. And what we saw yesterday, what we saw we were prepared for today, going to today's session, is just day two of high probability selling coming into the session. Now that you're getting more and more people, and it was pretty evident this morning, now that you're getting more and more people starting to go on their Thanksgiving holiday, you saw the volume this morning, very, very weak volume. You saw the spreads this morning, really, really widespread. And that's just goes to show you that participation in the market is everything. So when people are talking about this market is driven by algorithms, it's false. It's absolutely false. Yes, do algorithms have a huge role in market structure? Absolutely. There's the R2-D2C, 3PO society control a lot of the volume that you see. Absolutely. But a stock doesn't trade at a $50, $70 spread because R2-D2 is involved. It's there because market participants are lagging. That's exactly what we saw today. At one point, we saw Tesla trading today a dollar dollar and change spread. That's not a normal thing. That's caused a lack of market participation. We saw the same thing at the open today. Google at some point was trading with a $6 spread, right? That has nothing to do with algorithms. It's market participants not there. So we're going to see probably the same type of scenario going into tomorrow's session. And I'll be honest with you, if you don't see any value tomorrow by like lunchtime, just call it a day. Call it a day. Tomorrow's me, today and tomorrow, the two busiest travel schedules of the holiday season. And the market has been absolutely phenomenal, incredible action. People are just decompressing. And I've said this today in the webinar, you don't need to go nuts every single day. Be a better friend to yourself, right? Once in a while, just take a deep breath. The market's been really strong, both sides of the aisle, but especially on the bullish side, you're getting terrific value in those days. Sometimes they listen. The market, less volume, bigger spreads, blah, blah, blah. The continuity is there and that the theme is not really there. Just throw in a towel and say, look, let me see what I can get. Worst case scenario, there's always another day ahead. And that's exactly what we're seeing today. Big moves down today early. A lot of names were collateral damage of Zoom. Zoom took down a lot of the stay at home names early. You saw Chewie get hit. You saw Docu get hit. You saw Netflix this morning getting hit in Peloton and everything as well. So the rise in COVID cases now that you're seeing in different parts of the world, yes, it's absolutely something to monitor 100%. But I think we're doing as good as job as possible, at least here in the United States. Even in New Jersey, we're still getting 2,000 cases a day. But I think people have gone to a great deal to learn to live with it. Everybody's still very, very concerned and everybody is still really, really on the ball of what potentially could happen.  I think that's the key. I think people altered some things in their lives. But people for the general have gone with their lives. I do believe with this whole holiday season, we probably will see a pretty big spike in cases. But the most important part is that the cases don't turn into ventilation, all that stuff. I think most of us who are vaccinated, eventually you will get this thing, but hopefully it will be a lot less significant than what we saw in the first, I guess, three waves, as they like to call it. So you got some big moves down today. The one group that really stood out for the day was financials. Again, you see the Goldman Sachs of the world, the Morgan Stanley's of the world creeping up above supply. That's a good, good thing. If you look at everything else, and that's probably one of the main focuses going into tomorrow, financials look pretty good for a day to run. When you look at everything else in technology, just because we had a pretty significant sell-off back-to-back days, when 1% yesterday, we were over 1% today, there's a lot of charts that kind of damaged a little bit, not to the point of you have to sell everything. A lot of things are just in the middle of the range. So if you look, for example, on NVIDIA, NVIDIA got down to the 10-day moving average and bounce. You look at Amazon, for example, you look at Amazon, for example, got down to the 10-day moving average and bounce. You had Tesla, for example, got down to the 10-day moving average. So a lot of names going into tomorrow, they're not long, right? They're not long, they're not short, they're just kind of in between. So when you have a scenario that is setting up that there's no clear bias going into tomorrow's session, that's the day, again, kind of day two, you want to say, okay, you know what, let me see what I can get. I'm not in any rush, just because the market's open, I don't need to trade. Again, we don't trade because the market's open, we trade because of this value. And if stocks are sitting in the middle of their ranges, you have no, you're not in this for a 50-50 shot, right? You're not in this to say, well, the stock's either going to go or it's not. No, it's not the way it works. You want to make sure you have a definitive edge on every single trading day. And tomorrow is setting up especially the day before Thanksgiving and to be kind of a toss-up session. Yeah, I mean, is there names that I like on the long side and the short side? Yeah, I do. I like this ABV, ABBV looks pretty decent. Goldman, I obviously like some of the financials I like. Even the stock like car, you guys remember this meme, I guess it turned into a meme, this whole Avis car rental that had explosion, keep an eye on this channel. Again, this is a type of such a weird market that if it starts taking out this whole channel here, maybe it could wake up, right? Maybe it could wake up. If you look at the downside, there's some names that I'm definitely watching to the downside. N-T-E-S, stop at the 10-day, we'll watch for confirmation. A name like Zen, you guys remember all these plays that we've been doing recently, these earnings lows? Well, first close below the earnings lows. So we're going to keep an eye on this thing. I'd like to see a stuff green to red and maybe starts a multi-day, multi-week kind of selling just like kind of what we're seeing right now in beyond. It triggered yesterday off the 7670s, got down under 74, I still like it. I think a couple of bucks in this thing, thing still looks like it wants to visit 70 bucks. So that's what happens with these earnings plays. They break the earnings low, nobody cares about them and they just kind of drift for like four or five days. Again, look at the letter Z before it had a little bit of a you know, a little bit of a bouncy, right? The stock sold off one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven days in a row. You have nearly two weeks worth of selling. That's exactly what we expect. Well, at least I expect, I hope you see in beyond, right? Maybe another four or five days of selling, but that's exactly what we're kind of watching for the Zen going into tomorrow's session. I kind of like this Akamai, right? It never sold off. This actually looks pretty good here. I like the top of the range here. So you could see here, you know, I'm not talking about the stocks that we usually talk about, the Teslas, the Facebooks, the Amazons of the world, because again, they're kind of not here, not there. So this is a perfect time to kind of decompress, be a better friend to yourself. Do you have to trade? Do you want to trade? It's, you know, potato, potato. Yeah, you want to trade, especially when you're newer, but you don't have to trade. Again, that's the most important part. That's the discipline and it's the money you save, not the money you make. That's going to give you value in your account. So let's talk about tomorrow. So again, I'm kind of 50-50, I don't know, you know, I'm not really feeling tomorrow's session. Again, there's some names that I do like, but nothing crazy. You know, Google got hit really aggressively today. 29-21, if it builds below, can flush. Here was Google. Again, it was very, very thin this morning. It was trading a four or five dollars spread. It took out at 29-21, went perfectly with this Bollinger band in the 2880 area. It was down at one point about 50. Nice move there. Micron never got, you know, never got down to this 83-60 level, got saved on an upgrade.  It felt like the market was going to go through the motion. It went down like a dollar. There wasn't big moves.  SWKS kind of just sat there. This one went unfortunately pre-market that I didn't have a chance to. Just went straight down. Aggressive pivot for experienced traders, 319 held twice. This thing got hit really, really hard. The problem is it went down so fast pre-market. I don't think anybody had a chance. It went down about 11, but again, I didn't have a chance to trade this thing. Chewy, straight down, 65, 50, 65. It builds below, can flush. Here was Chewy. All right, so he took out the 65, 50, 65, went all the way down to 62. Again, the casualty of the stay-at-home names. This one again, way too thin. It literally went from 617 to 605. It felt like on two shares. It's just way too thin, impossible to even trade that thing. Dock you got hit. Again, another example of the carnage that Zoom laid in distracts 242. If it builds below, can flush. Here was Dock you. Here was Dock you. So it took out the 42. It took out the 42, went down to 337. Nice move there. In Dock you, AMAT, nothing huge. AMAT went down maybe a dollar and a half, nothing big there. Tesla, boy, did I screw up Tesla. Here's a perfect example of what I mean about how the market was. You could see there was no participation. So 1154 was the pivot on Tesla. I shortened his second entry. It goes down like $3. And it was trading literally like a dollar, dollar and a half spread. I saw it stalled out. It took a little bit of flow, break even on the balance, went up to like five. And the next thing I know, it turned around, it sold off like 50 points. So okay, I dropped the ball. I definitely dropped the ball on that one. Anyway, it is what it is. So that's it. And here's my message. I go take the gas off, take volumes light, spreads a wide patience. We've been blessed with huge value. We don't need to trade because the market's open. That's exactly what we talk about every single day. Tesla just got absolutely destroyed, lucid, never got down to the 4870. So look, it is what it is.   But I think the key is always remember two things guys, premium hands only, and we trade because there's value guys. God bless. I want to wish everybody a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. May God continue to bless you all stay healthy. Stay happy. And I will see you all tomorrow. Take care.


Thousands of women and children in Iran have been poisoned in recent months, in a campaign that appears well planned and highly coordinated. The attacks come as authorities struggle to suppress a popular movement led by Iranian women calling for fundamental change to the Islamic Republic. This article was authored by Joel Keep and David Heslop.


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