Γεια σας και ευχαριστώ για ένα από τα πιο ευρωπαϊκότητα μου σε αυτό το κανένα που βρίσκω 10 καρδιά από 1 καρδιά. Σήμερα, εγώ βρίσκω την καρδιά της Σπελβάινδας, το καρδιά της Φεβρορίας. Όπως πιστεύω, θα πάμε ένα σκέψι κομμάτι με όλα τα καρδιά που βρίσκω στην καρδιά και τότε θα βρίσκω 10 καρδιά που βρίσκω πολλές από τα πιο ευρωπαϊκότητα. Λοιπόν, θα φύγουμε ένα λευκό, που μπορείς να δεις κάποιες ιδέες για να μπορείς να κάνεις κάποιες καρδιά. Εδώ είναι το βασίδι σας, σαν ένα σκέψι κομμάτι, ένα σκέψι κομμάτι, όπως και 10 καρδιά που βρίσκω στην καρδιά της Σπελβάινδας και 10 ανοίγεις, όλοι και βασίδια. Τώρα θα φύγουμε και ένα λίγο γεγονός της Κωνφέτης. Είναι ένας εξογραφός με πυρκό και πυρκό λόγος. Είναι πολύ καλό να βρεις ένα λίγο σκέψι στον καρδιά σας, τώρα θα φύγουμε ένα λίγο γεγονός της Κωνφέτης. Είναι η εξογραφή για αυτόν τον μάγμα. Τώρα, εάν βγήθηκαμε αυτά τα εξογραφή, θα φτιάξετε ένα σκέψι λόγος μπροσφασίδιο. Και θα φτιάξετε ένα λίγο γεγονός της Κωνφέτης να φτιάξετε ένα σκέψι λόγος, ή κάποτε άλλα πρόγεκτα, as well as a couple of sentiments. Τώρα, αν είτε πινά, πώς να βάθω αυτό το σκέψι, λιγόρια. Στο κύριο, υπάρχει ένα παράδειγμα των κατάρων. Αυτό είναι like the project life cards they are 3x4 με καλύτερες δοσστάσεις, τα δυνατή. Είμαι αυτοίς αυτοίς της λόγας κόμπινικής σε αυτήν την κύριο και θα εξετάσω πραγματικά από αυτά, αλλά μπορείς να δείξεις μόνο ένα κομμάτι πίκ ή όσο they look. Θα θα χρησιμοποιήσω πολλές από τα μου κατάρια σήμερα, όπως θα κάνω πολλές από το κομμάτι, αλλιώς με τα κατάρια που που βρίσκονται σε το κέντρο. Ας δούμε ένα σημαντικό επίπεδο για αυτό το μήν. Επίσης, με την ίδια φοριακή κομβινή, όπως τα καρδιά. Υπάρχουν 20 διαφορετικές δημιουργίες. Κι κάποιοι είναι σημαντικό επίπεδο, για να μπορείτε να δείτε ότι έχουν κομβινήσεις στο κόντρο. Υπάρχουν 40 δημιουργίες σε αυτό το επίπεδο. Αυτό είναι 6x6. Υπάρχουν 20 δημιουργίες. 2 δημιουργίες για κάθε δημιουργί. Και they are not double-sided, as you can see. Λάυλοι χαπικόλες. Σπελβάιντρες κομβινήσεις usually include stickers, so this time you get 3 pages. The first page has dimensional stickers. The second has sentiment strips. And the third page has a variety of sentiments and banners. And here is the clear stamp set for today. It includes a lovely unicorn design, stars, rainbows, hearts, as well as lots of sentiments. There are 9 different colors of cardstock. One of them is a gold one. And of course they coordinate with the color combination of the kit.  Here they are all together bright and colorful. You get each design twice, so you have plenty of die cuts to play along and create way more than 10 cards that I'm going to show you today. Now just like every month the cards are going to be super quick and simple, really easy to replicate and you will be able to make them even if you are a beginner. So for the first card I'm going to combine two of those journaling cards. I'm using some foam tape at the back and I'm going to stick one on top of the other in an angle so that I can see some color peeking through from the back. And the piece of cake is the exact same design as the one on the paper, so I just had to pop that with foam tape directly on top, cover up the design underneath, but at the same time I'm adding some dimension. So just to finish it off I'm going to stick it on top of a standard card, one of the ones that are included in the kit. I'm going to move it around until I'm happy with the placement and then I'm going to add a few of the die cut stars. Just to embarrass it a little bit more, these have some foiling on top so they are nice and shiny. Now to finish it off I'm going to add some glossy accents where the flame is and I'm going to call this card done. Now as I'm looking through the die cuts I try to find things that match together so you can see you get a palette as well as a couple of brushes and this lovely card with those colorful pencils that say you color me happy. Now I'm going to combine all of these with this patterned paper from the pad. It has all those colors pluses and I think that all these little products that I picked together match perfectly. So I'm going to cover up completely my card front with this patterned paper that I cut out to be 4.25 x 5.5 and I'm going to use lots of foam tape at the back of all those elements to make them look more special with the dimension. Now the roll of foam that I'm using is by Artisa. It has a great price and I do have a 15% coupon code just in case you want to check it out. Make sure that you see the links down below in the description area.  I had it on my table from the previous card so I just had to use it one more time. I'm going over the paints to make them glossy and they look milky at the moment but they will dry nice and shiny and I'm going over the words happy just to make them pop and shine a little bit more. And here are some close-up photos on this card. For the next card I picked this dream catcher from the die-cuts and I'm going to combine it with two of the purple cards from the kit. The idea came from the one that says follow your dreams and instead of having that dream catcher I decided to have a popped-up dream catcher so I'm mixing and matching different elements to create something similar but completely different. So I'm going to cut out the sentiment from this one and I'm going to stick it underneath the other one and for that I'm going to use my Nouveau Deluxe Glue and where those two papers meet I'm going to use a very thin strip of gold cardstock just to embellish my element a little bit more. I'm going to use my scissors to chop off the excess paper and now at the center of this dream catcher I have foam square at the back and that makes it sticky so this is where I decided to stick on top a little sequin from the kit. I'm going for the silver one but this is where I made a mistake this foam tape is not as sticky as I thought it would be so I need to add a dot of glue later on you will see that in the finished photos this little sequin has fallen off so I need to go back and add some glue and put it back in place again. Now I'm going to combine this with one of the yellow pattern papers I think it matches perfectly the stars on the purple pattern paper and I'm going to stick this on top of my card base. Now the panel that I created is lightly smaller since I always like to have that white border all around I think it makes my cards look more finnished and I absolutely love this look and that's why I love using liquid glue instead of a tape runner it is more forgiving so you can wickle your papers around until you are happy with their placement I'm going to stick a few of those golden stars and my card is ready From my next card I use a rectangle die to cut out this little white panel and I stack on top a piece of gold cardstock as well as that die cut that comes with a little arrow you can place it at the center and instead of sticking this arrow directly on top I'm going to make my card a little bit more fun so I'm going to poke a hole and I couldn't fight my crop at all so I just had to use this tool here and I'm going to add a little brad this way you can easily turn the arrow around and it can point to any of the wards on top of the die cut now the wards read cool, super, amazing, magical and majestic in gold foiling so I think all those wards match perfectly with this puffy unicorn this is one of the dimensional stickers and I'm going to also stick down the word that says birthday so you can have a cool birthday or a magical birthday whatever that arrow the white arrow is pointing at I cut down my pattern paper to be slightly smaller than my standard card and that's 4 by 5 and 1 quarter I'm adding glue at the back I'm going to place it on top having that white border and then on top I'm going to also stick the panel that I created then I'm going to move your arrow to point in any of the wards that you like and you are ready to go and I think this one makes the perfect birthday card for a little girl that loves unicorns now let's move on to the next card and this time I used a rectangle die as well as a circle die to cut out this little panel I'm not going for a shaker card I just want to have a window where I can nest inside my die cuts and stick my window on top so I have a lovely background there and here is another unicorn sticker that I'm going to place right inside the window as a sentiment I went with a word unique and then I just created my normal background with white cardstock a little bit of pink pattern paper and added a few of those golden stars and of course I have to create a flower card so in this pack you get two die cuts of these flowers which I'm going to use both of them just to make it look more fuller so I'm cutting out bits and pieces so that I can tuck underneath I'm going to stick my main flower image with foam scores at the back so I get some dimension there and then from the next bits and pieces that I cut out I'm going to use glue and tuck them underneath in different areas trying to make it look fuller but again this is completely optional just like to have dimension and fuller elements on my cards you don't have to cut out the second die cut you can just use it to create a similar card now for the sentiment I went with a word happy which I'm going to stick underneath and I'm also going to bring in a stamp set that says birthday I'm sure you all have a sentiment that says birthday this is from a previous card kit by Spellbinders we love this stamp set it has lovely words and sentiments and now my sentiment reads happy birthday and I'm going to combine that with this rainbow patterned paper I think it looks super pretty and it matches the colors of the flowers so this time I'm cut out the rainbow patterned paper to be 4.25x5.5 I'm placing my panel on top stick the whole thing on top of my card base and now I'm going to embellish the flowers a little bit more and I will use some of those silver sequins from the kit at the center of the flowers and here is the finished card lovely and shiny with lots of dimension and color perfect for any birthday the kit comes with lots of rainbows so I decided to use this one with the falling on top this is a die cut and there is a sticker that I absolutely love the clouds from that but there is gold falling around the clouds which are actually dimensional so I'm going to combine bits and pieces to create my very own element and I'll end up having a bigger rainbow with falling both on the actual rainbow and the clouds I'm going to stick down this card with foam tape just like usual and the rainbow is going to go on top again with foam tape and this 3x4 card is absolutely adorable it has all those clouds with falling hearts so I'm going to place a rainbow on top and now I need to add a sentiment for that I'm going to stamp one of the sentiments from the stamp set that says never stop chasing rainbows and I'm going to cut out this into a cloud shape now if you have a die that fits that sentiment use that I decided to draw my own cloud so I'm just going to use my pencil draw it all around and I played a little bit with this design drawing it again again until I was happy with the cloud that I got I wanted to resemble the clouds of the background paper so now I'm using my scissors to cut it out and if you follow this technique don't forget to use your eraser to erase any pencil lines that are still on the cloud after drawing and cutting I'm sticking the cloud down and to finish off my card I'm just going to add a little heart sticker it's a very simple card to create but it has so many elements on top of it and I absolutely love that foil ink it gives something special to the card and it is super adorable here are some close up photos on this one now the kit comes with a couple of white faces of cats which I absolutely adore I think they are super adorable and I just had to use them somehow so I'm going to create two cards which are great for teenagers they are really cool looking so for this card I'm going to mix bits and pieces from the kit I want to have this speech bubble so I'm just cutting it out with my scissors leaving that purple border all around as I'm cutting it out and I also used some dies that I had alphabetized to cut out the letters that spell cool that you can see at the background with white cardstock if you don't have such an option like very tiny little alphabetized then you can always write it down or you can use your stamps this is going to be my background paper this matches perfectly with the phone it has the phrase but first let me take a selfie written all over it so I'm going to create a little composition there with the card which is laughing the phone because forever online written on top of it as well as the speech bubble that says lol and again just like always for some of my elements I'm going with foam tape at the back and for others I'm going with my glue now for the sentiment I'm going to use the hashtag as well as the die cut that says stay which I'm going to glue directly on top of my panel and then at the bottom I'm going to stick the little letters that read cool but I'm sure that my teenage daughter is going to love this one it combines her favorite things including cuts as well as the phone and the truth is that she needs cards for her friends birthdays but she's not into cutesy at the age that she is at the moment so I think that she is going to love this one and the next one that I'm going to do now now for this one again I'm going to mix and match elements from the die cuts and again I'm going to go with a smiley cut I absolutely adore this one I'm going to stick this die cut in place so that I have a place where I can nest the cut on top and for my sentiment I'm going to use stay happy this again is a very quick and simple cut to create but I think it looks awesome I'm going to stick one of the big golden stars and here is the perfect background pattern paper full of cuts and little speech bubbles so I'm going to stick this on top of the other one and then on my card base and one of the things that I absolutely love when I'm working with a kid is that you push yourself creating things that you wouldn't normally make thinking outside of the box and ending up with such cool cards that I wouldn't otherwise create and finally to the last card for today for this one I'm going to stamp my sentiment on the white space where the cloud is and I'm going with one of the sentiment that says may all your dreams come true so this is going to be another beautiful birthday card especially for little girls I used black ink to stamp that and I picked this unicorn die cut which I'm going to pop on the right bottom corner of my panel I'm also going to stick down this golden banner that says original but it is golden foiling on the unicorn as well so this ends up being a lovely focal point with lots of shine but I didn't like the look directly on top of a white card base that's why I'm going to bring in a rainbow card so that I can place it at the back which adds a pop of color I also added a little label sticker at the top that says love this and here is the last card for today absolutely cute and adorable and just like always let's take a quick look on all the 10 cards that I made for today while using products from the February card kit by Spellbinders I still have lots of pattern paper die cut stickers and many many more of the products to make way more than 10 cards so I hope that you had fun today that you got inspired don't forget to leave me a comment down below to like and subscribe if you haven't done so already you will find links to everything I used down below in the description area thank you all so much for joining me today and I'll see you all next time


Hello.  So there's going to be two sessions, as Santosh said. So mine is more overview kind. We'll just see what's the scenario, what's happening while it's more hands-on with Santos. So people think like AI and bots just started. It's actually not so. There's a lot of hype since recent days, since Mark Zuckerberg announced that they would support bots in a messenger. So yesterday, I had lunch with a friend who is also a starter founder. A couple of months back, he started a fintech company to do V2P lending, and yesterday we had lunch and before we had lunch, he made me sign a NDA agreement. So I said, what's this? I mean, I know him since last five years, I never signed the NDA before having lunch.   So what he plans to do is he plans to do like a money lender bot, so people come and chat with it, and the bot decides whether to give money or not. So it's- How much can you see or just revealing that he- I don't know. So basically, I mean, I said that because there's a lot of hype these days around bots, people think bots can do anything, and bots can get your investment. So if you're doing a startup, just add bots to it and you will raise a million. So I think it's just a hype. I mean, part of it is hype, part of it is true. There's a lot of things happening. So I think like through my slides, we'll analyze how much is hype and how much is truth. None of us are experts. So if you guys know more, if you are doing interesting things, please chip in, it's a discussion forum. And it's like we discuss as we go. So the things we are going to cover is, we'll just see what's the chatbot, what's the history behind it, and why is this chatbot hype happening right now? Who are the major players, some of the use cases, and how is the future going to shape up like? So what is a chatbot? So a chatbot is just a piece of software that is designed to start conversations with you, to talk to you as if it were a human being. And mostly the use cases would be like, to answer queries, to get certain things done, people. So if you think like chatbots just started, you are wrong. So the first chatbots was developed actually 50 years back in, so that would be when? 1966, yeah, and it was developed in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and it was called ELISA, and this is how it looked like. So those days we didn't have windows and you didn't have graphical user interfaces, so you had to go to the DOS prompt and actually type all these things. And it was like text-based. And the way the logic worked it, it was very programmed. Like if someone asks you this, you answer this. And the main use case of ELISA was for entertainment. And these are the kind of the conversation people used to have with ELISA. People just used to like play a fool around with it. And so many, many years later, there was the next version of the chatbot, which was Alice. So apart from talking, it also had avatar, so you could actually see someone move around and smile at you when you talk. So when I was a kid, I used to actually talk with Alice, like, you know, and that time also there was a chatbot hype. So this is like early 2000s. And people used to put such bots on their websites. So when you open a website, someone will start coming and talking to you in voice. So that time there was a hype as well. But then after a couple of years, this hype died down. And no one uses, no one puts such avatars on websites these days. But then like, you know, this trend has been growing. As in, so artificial intelligence and virtual agents, like maybe 2005, there was again a hype of virtual agents. So that's when like technologies like Jopim, live person and all came on, where you're like, you know, if you go to a website, now either is you find a support button, talk to us button and you can click and talk to it. Some part of it is like automated. And this thing started happening in 2005 onwards. And the last thing is none of the chatbots have passed Turing's test. So what is Turing's test? So Turing's test is like, you know, so if you build the chatbot and you want to pass this test, what you have to do is so you have to create, so you have to create two instances. In one case, a person actually replies. And in the other case, your bot replies. So and you bring in a person who doesn't know whether it's a human being or a bot and he will not be able to like really recognize. So none of the chatbots developed till now actually have passed this test. That means it's always possible till now for a human being to identify this is a bot. So basically it will be interesting when things develop further and actually the bots pass this test. That means it's no longer possible for a human being to actually identify, oh, you are not a human being. So the way like the current chatbots that work for most companies is like when a person talks to the bot, this bot, say if you talk through Facebook. So you immediately pass your Facebook ID to the chatbot. So the chatbot now knows who you are. It can pull out whatever previous conversation it had with you, if you had talked to it before. It can also pull out data from, if you're talking to a business, that business might have some history about you. It might have some, you might have purchased things from the company before. So these things it can pull out. It can then match patterns. If there's some patterns the company has filled in, it can match the patterns. And then it can have some intelligence so that it can predict like what are you trying to do? And based on that it drops the response and sends back to you. So the advantages of chatbots are like, there's nothing to install. No longer you need to download an app which takes you one minute or so. It doesn't take up your phone's memory. The UI, once you start a conversation with the chatbot, it actually remains. So if you have Facebook Messenger, you start, it actually remains there. You can get back to them. They can get back to you at any time. It's more social because people are getting used to chatting. So this is social where you are actually talking to the company. It's no longer, it's a more, you have a stronger relationship with the company. It's leaner. You don't need to build heavy apps. You can just build simple and the interface is chats. And the main advantage is there's a lot of services. You can bundle into a single app. So if you're a Facebook Messenger, there's no limit to the number of businesses that can come on top to it. And you can just search for the company you want to talk to and you can just talk. So the chatbots, again, as I said, is not new. So if you do a search in Google for chatbots and you try to see the trend, you can see actually in 2005, the hype was even more than it is in 2016. So it's a sustained interest that people have in artificial intelligence and chatbots. So and it's going to get stronger over time. And to the reasons, why is this chatbot revolution happening right now? One is like app fatigue. Like maybe a decade back, people started building apps. Apps were new. Apps could be better than websites. You could get things done faster. But then as more and more people build apps, there's app fatigue. So people don't want to download apps anymore. People want to download few apps and get things done through them.  That's when the person actually downloads the app. So if you are just building a MeToo app, the people don't download. App stores are getting crowded. So if you're building a new service, it's hard for people to find you. And you have to, so one is like the development effort for apps is too much. You have to spend a lot of time developing iPhone app. You have to develop an Android app. You have to develop Windows app. And then you have to keep updating it as these platforms develop. So with the messenger, with the messaging bots, you don't really need to worry about building different versions. It's purely text. It's simple. As the person updates his messenger, you can have new updates automatically happening. 2015 was actually a historical moment for messaging. The amount of conversations happening in messaging apps actually surpassed the amount of conversation happening in the top four social networking apps. So everyone is like, the amount of time people are actually spending on Facebook is much, much less than what people, the time people are spending on WhatsApp these days. So it's like, I was talking to another friend of mine yesterday and he was telling, oh, if you are not on my WhatsApp list, you are not my friend.  So they are on WhatsApp. So that's the difference between, in social network, you want to keep it as wide as possible.  The other thing that's leading to this chatbot revolution is strengthening AI platforms. Like, so most of the big companies like IBM, Google, Facebook, they have been working on artificial intelligence since many, many years. Actually, if you see, if you ask me, which is the best bot today that I have interacted with, it's actually Google. So every day people go and ask questions to Google and it replies and it remembers what you actually talk to. It doesn't look like a bot, but actually it's a bot. As in, it doesn't look like you know, you are chatting with it, but then people actually keep searching, people search for one thing, then you search for the next thing, you search for the next thing. So it's actually artificial intelligence that goes behind it. And although it doesn't look like a bot, it's the best bot that's available for us right now. So the different technologies that they were working on are actually coming down from the laboratories to real world in the form of these intelligent startups, AI-based startups. And this is like the number of new prominent companies coming up in the AI space over the last couple of years. So you can see there's a strong growth in 2010 to 2015. In the artificial intelligence landscape, you can see these are the different kinds of companies that have come up over the years. So when it comes to bots, there can be two kinds of interaction. One is through text, one could be through voice, like Siri, Google Now, you can interact through voice. So part of it is the speech processing. Also, there are some companies who are working on avatars. So basically you don't talk to someone without a face, but actually there's a character who actually when you talk to it, when you can actually see the person actually smile at you and do things. There are companies working on face and gesture recognition. There are companies who are building platforms like NLP and machine learning for other companies to use them and build bots. There are companies who are building virtual agents and customer support bots. So basically if you're running a e-commerce business, you might need a customer support bot. This bot actually talks to all your customers about if they have complaints, it addresses those, and there are personal advisors, people are building bots which can actually advise you on stocks, which stocks to trade. If you give the example of customer service, it is known that a lot of people get frustrated. And there were high-profile cases where companies had lost a lot of PR points because of transition from human to both places. Yes, sir, what would you... Yeah, so just last week, there was this conference, Innovation Unbound, and there was the CEO of LivePerson. So LivePerson is actually one of the leaders in customer support, the chat-based. So what he said was, so definitely the bots are not good enough right now at this stage to really replace human beings. So a hybrid could be actually put in place where the bots actually face the human being first while the human beings actually monitor. They can take over the bots anytime. So that means like in most of the cases, like say 70% of the cases, the bot can actually successfully answer the query. If the bot thinks that it's going to face trouble, it's not going to answer, it doesn't have the answer, or the human being thinks that the bot is not doing a good job, they can jump in anytime. So right now at this stage, I mean, in future it might be possible that bots actually replace human beings, but at this stage it could be, if you want to build an intelligent solution, it could be a combination of both human beings as well as intelligent software. So where the intelligent software, intelligent bots actually try to answer the queries and if they cannot, if they think that the person is not getting satisfied, then they just pass a signal to the human being and the human agent actually takes over. I think that's the best strategy as of now. So people are expecting maybe it will be like 70, 30, as of now, so 70% of the queries can be answered by bots, while 30% actually comes back to the human beings. So it reduces staffs, increases productivity, and this number can go increase higher as this technologies mature a lot. So this is the AI landscape. So if we go to a bit narrow down to the chatbot ecosystem, these are some of the players in the chatbot ecosystem. So the right-hand side you find mostly the messaging apps. So that's where the consumers come in and try to reach you, while on the left-hand side you have the messaging apps. So that's where people come and talk, while on the right-hand side you have the companies who actually do the task. And in the middle you have the companies who are building the bots. So for example, you have Facebook Messenger on the left-hand side and you have like magic in the between. That means like a person comes to Facebook Messenger and chats with magic, can you book me a taxi? So then magic can actually link up with Uber and the Uber taxi actually comes for you. So you can see the three verticals. So one is the messaging, one is the input, where that's where the people come and talk. Like for example, you have Siri, you have Google Now. So you can come to Siri and ask, I need a taxi. So then the bot actually lies with the providers, like say TaskRabbit. So TaskRabbit has freelancers who can do things for you. And this is how it works. So when you're building a bot or you're building a platform, you can identify yourself with one of the three categories. The investments that are happening in the AI and bot space is also increasing. You can see like over the last two, three years, it has like almost doubled up. And you can see here, what is the investment actually going into? So a major part of the investment is actually going into the companies who are actually building the platforms. The infrastructure, which will be used by other companies to build their bots. And all the bigger companies are actually rushing to acquire the companies who have been working in the artificial intelligence space. For example, like Facebook acquired with.ai. Now with.ai is a part of the development framework that you can use to build Facebook bots. Similarly, every company like Google, even Yahoo has acquired a couple of companies in the AI space. Amazon, Intel, everyone has tried to grab some of the other company, which is in the space and doing well. So that they, if you see what Mark Zuckerberg said in the last F8 is like, in their next 10 year timeline, one of the key areas they're going to focus is on AI. So because like all these missing apps are becoming platforms and as businesses come, some kind of automation is necessary. And people want to spend time on these platforms to get things done. So that's why like AI and other things are necessary. That's why there's a rush for acquiring companies. So the major players who are actually providing the platforms where you can build bots are, I have just listed some of them. One is like Slack.  Since people spend most of the time, I mean like say you use Slack, you always have Slack running on your desktop or on your phone. So people want to maximize the things that they want to get done through Slack. So for example, you want to do a deployment, you want to get it done through Slack quickly. If you want to get notified, if someone tries to hack your system, you try to have those notifications come on Slack. Similarly, Telegram has also opened its platform to bots. Actually, Telegram is leading in the bots space. I mean, Telegram has much, much less users than what WhatsApp has. It's mainly used in like Russia, Ukraine, and those countries. But like, so it tries to get an advantage over WhatsApp by taking a aggressive approach on bots. So if you go to Telegram, you can actually find all kinds of bots. I installed quite a few. You have like hotel discounts. So this bot actually gives you discounts if you can choose where you want to go. In Singapore, there's a craze about gambling and 3 or 4D. You know, you have like Lucky Bot, which can give you 4D numbers and you can go gambling on it. If you want to play simple games, you have the Tic-Tac-Toe and other games that you can image bot. There's a bot which can actually get you images. So, and the best part of it is like, now you have a bot which can actually create bots. So this bot is called Botfather. And you can just go, I'll actually show you. You just type new bot. So it already created a bot for me. Now it asks, what's the name? But like, you know, as the conversation goes on, it actually creates a bot for you. It'll ask you for a keywords and without actually doing any development, you will have a bot ready. What does the bot do? Sorry? What does the bot do? No, initially, you can just give keywords. So saying like if a person types this, answer this, but you can actually, so they have a platform open. So you can get a developer to build a stuff for you so that the bot does actually useful stuff for you. It just creates a basic bot for you so that it's ready for you to start. You can build more complicated things later on. So it's hosted? No, so the simple one is like, they have a directory with some of the keywords and all. So that part is hosted, but if you want to do like, you want to, you have a e-commerce business and you want to do more complicated things, you have to host it on your own. So there's assist bot. This is mainly in the US. You can see it can, you can do a lot of things with it. Like you can get a ride, you can get food delivery, you can reserve a restaurant, you can send flowers, you can visit places, you can book tickets, you can book hotels, you can send letters. There's this bot called dinosaurs. Every day it sends me some news article about dinosaurs. This bot sends me horoscopes. People who believe. This bot sends me maths puzzles every day so that I can solve and develop my mathematics. There's iClinic bot, which actually, so I complained to it that I had a headache last week and it found some doctor for me and gave me some advice and medicines. So you can visit this website called storebot.me. It's the telegrams app store for bots. There's a lot of bots in different categories. You have games. You have the bad bots as well, the last one. Yeah, there's this Andy bot, which actually every day it tries to teach you grammar. And the other thing is like telegram has just launched a $1 million developer challenge. So if you're building bots, you can apply for it. And I think maybe it ends in two months time. So you might be the lucky one to get a million dollars. I think the most interesting and the most impactful was Facebook's announcement about AI. So if you see in the 10 years timeline, I think AI is the focus for Facebook. So a bit about Facebook bots. So Facebook allows, Facebook gives you this messages buttons. These buttons you can put on any website. You can have this button on your Facebook page. So that what this means to the consumer is that they can talk to you on Facebook. That's how the conversation actually starts. Facebook also allows you to create this kind of codes. So you can put this code on a product. You can put it on, like say you are doing this event. You can put it on your door. People can scan this code with your messenger and talk to you. And also like if you have a bot, Facebook puts the bots category in messenger so that people can easily talk to the bots that they have recently talked to. Also Facebook does something called customer matching. So this is right now available only in the US. So that means if you have a person's phone number or email, the business can actually initiate a conversation with the consumer. So for the bots, mostly it's about the person initiates the conversation, not the bot. So Facebook doesn't allow you to go spamming everyone. But if you have the phone number of the person or the email of the person, you can actually be the first person. The bot can be the first person to start a conversation. But this is available only in the US and it costs 99 USD per year. So the messages that you can send in Facebook can be text, can be images as well. You can have structured messages, that means... So the current scenario is the NLP and the AI technologies are improving, they are good, but not good enough. So there's a lot of chances that the bot can actually go wrong. So the companies are trying to minimize the chances of failure of a bot. So by giving options. So that means so you want the person to actually choose only one of the three things. So that's where you give the structured messages. That means you are telling a person don't type anything, just click one of these. It's easier for the bot to understand actually what option did you choose? Sorry? Yeah, okay. Facebook also provides you the WIT.AI framework. So if you want to build an intelligent bot, you can use this. You don't have to develop your own NLP engine or anything, you can use this to create a bot. There are other bot platforms as well, like Chatfuel, Pandora Bots, which you can use to create your own bots without actually reinventing the wheel. So the current scenario is bots are getting popular right now. More and more people, businesses are thinking. So I just heard some a couple of marketing agencies talk last week. There was a round table. Do we have a bot strategy? Like earlier, like a couple of months back, couple of years back, people were saying, do we have a digital strategy? People were trying to move to digital. Now, do we have a bot strategy? So basically, bots are getting significance. People are thinking about them. Should we do something about it? And people want to come, but businesses have concerns as well. What happens when you build a bot is you build a bot on WhatsApp or Facebook and you expect your customer to actually come there. So that means you are actually giving your customer to Facebook. Like there was some discussion forum about building bots for fintech. And so then the concerns that these people, the finance companies were had is what if Facebook itself starts a finance business? What if Facebook itself becomes a bank? Then it takes all your customers away and goes with it. So people are still not sure. People are evaluating what's their bot strategy. So it's the right time for...  You want to build something. You want to build bots. Or you have a entirely new business model to do something. This is the time to actually start and get visibility. And bots can definitely simplify operations like filling forms, collecting data, getting opinions. There are many limitations of chatbots. One is like if you want a bot to be like really good, you want it to be close to passing Turing's test, which is like being close to not being identifiable whether it's a human or a bot. You really need significant computational complexity. The program behind it cannot be very simple. So the more complex it is, the more real like it is. The other complexity is like languages. For English, it's getting slightly easier. What if people come and speak in Chinese? We have a customer in Cambodia. And half of the people speak in English. And some of the people speak in the local queer language. And people mix both and speak and chat with you. So you don't know what is the person actually talking? Is it Chinese? Is it English? Is it Chinese English? Or what? So I mean the more the permutations and combinations come, the more complex it becomes for the bot to actually identify what the response should be. And people have hundreds of ways of asking the same thing. So I mean the chances of failure is quite high there if you haven't programmed the bot properly. And like you know, bots don't recognize humor and sarcasm. So they might take it for the actual. And so how about the future? I mean, this is like just my personal thoughts. People, so when Facebook announced and so every news article was writing, oh, apps are dead. You know, bots will replace apps. I personally don't think bots will ever replace apps. Apps will have their own, they have their own strength. Bots have their own strength. So I mean they will coexist. Bots will be used for the things that where a conversation actually matters. I mean if you have to think like you want to book a taxi or you want to consult a doctor or do some common things, doing it through a chat, you will have to talk five lines to actually get to the same thing that you can actually click a button and get done through app. So there are some advantages of bots. They will be used in that case. There are some advantages of apps. So both of them will coexist. People will start building, so right now most of the focus is going on building bots on Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and other things, but there's also a potential of putting a bot into your app. So whatever your app you have, you can put a bot into it and it can actually guide people about how to use that. It can help people when people have problems. There's an interesting company in India called Help Chat. I don't know how many of you have heard of it. So since people are coming and talking to businesses on messengers, so this company Help Chat, so initially when they started, they didn't have any business sign up. So they started promoting themselves, so they built a messaging app and this messaging app's focus is answering business queries. So they will answer, so if you have a query about a particular telco, a particular TV channel or anything, they will answer it. So they created channels for every business that they could, so people came and started answering. So that time they didn't have the businesses signed up. So they put like around 100 to 100 people, these people started answering questions, human beings now know what. And as time passed like maybe in a half year or so, a lot of people came and started asking all the queries whatever they had in this app. So that is the time they started going to businesses saying, hey, do you want to come on board to this app or not? So now businesses started coming and being providing support staff behind this apps. The other thing, I mean, as I said previously, like I said that the best bot available right now is actually Google, which doesn't look like a bot. So in the future, I think like the best bots will actually be not visible. You don't know it's a bot, but it will be in the background doing stuff and communicating with you, sending you things, understanding you. I think those are the cases which I think will succeed and will grow to greater heights. Yep. So for my company, so I ran a startup called Noise Street. It's a five year old startup. We have been focusing on the media marketing advertising industry. We build products which are used by companies like SPH, MediaCorp, some of the big guys here. We operate in multiple countries. So recently we have been focusing on AI and bots as well, but ours is more product based. So we build solutions which a lot of people can use on a software as a service model. So we are building intelligent customer support. So this customer support is like a hybrid. So you have both human beings and bots. So if the bot tries to answer 70% of the questions and if it can't answer, it signals it to the support agent, the human being and the human being can take over. We are trying to build simple games over messaging apps. And also using that for marketing campaigns. So what happens is we, I mean over the past four, five years we have been doing a lot of marketing campaigns with retail brands. And so if there's a physical event going on campaign, a lot of businesses try to make people download apps or visit a website which is slow. So things can be a lot improved if you ask people, hey, add us on Facebook Messenger and say hello to us and you know the conversation starts and they can participate in the campaign. Bots also have a lot of strength, a lot of potential in actually educating kids, simple maths, science. People like kids especially love bots, they love to interact with them. So if things are presented in a very fun way, the chances of education, learning and people liking it is fairly high. So like learning for kids is another area we are focusing on. That's it. If you have to contact me, you can just drop me an email at helloandnoisery.com. Any questions for me? Or maybe we could start with Santos and later we'll. Yeah. And this chatbot AIs will be fused together with WhatsApp. Right now WhatsApp doesn't allow that. But very likely it will be opening up as well. So there's a couple of companies in India who try to fake, not fake, as in try to overcome this by they wrote some scripts which actually talks to you on WhatsApp, but WhatsApp has been very aggressively trying to block them. So that couple of companies who change their numbers every day and at the end of the day WhatsApp blocks them. So right now not possible. You said to start a conversation, you need to have their email. That's only available in the States. Do you know if it's gonna open for the rest of the countries? I don't know yet, but most likely. And that's even though the person opened a talk with me, I can't reply to them tomorrow, for example. No, so if the person actually starts a conversation with you, with the bot, the bot can reply back. At any time. At any time. Yeah, we. Yeah. So I can still do some notifications. Yep. Is it possible to, okay, so I have my own messenger account, a Facebook account. Is it possible to put a bot in front of it? Or do you have to, you know what I'm saying? Like if I have an account already, can I, is there APIs for me to make it into a bot? So you have a personal account? Yeah, my personal account. Personal, I think it needs to be a Facebook page. So people come and talk to Facebook. So you need to do the $99 thing? No, you don't need to pay. You need to pay if you want to initiate the conversation. But then if a person comes and talks to you, you can reply back. No problem. Okay. So that $99 is just for that. And it's to prevent people from spamming. So basically what happens is that it's not there. I mean the $99 will also come with you feeling reforms, identifying yourself as a company and whoever. So that it's not that easy for people to just come, spam and go. So it's a general bot, I don't think. Yeah. I heard that WeChat is pretty mature. Yeah. So Facebook actually is behind WeChat in terms of functionalities. In China, WeChat is free. And all these platforms are open. And anyone can develop all these things. Why is that? Line just opened up. Earlier it used to cost quite high to actually have a line official account. So right now you can create a free line account. But I don't think the developer platform is open to developers yet. You need to apply and... You need to apply. There's approval process in many ways. Yeah. But it never gets through as in... I mean they're trying to streamline things. I mean with all this competition happening, they're trying to speed that up but it happens slow. Any other questions? Okay.


Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. The big day has arrived. The icon swaps two is here. Now it's of course confirmed for today because we have this loading screen telling us that icon swaps is dropping today on Monday. I wanna take a look at how it might actually be a pretty crazy day of Monday content in this game with icon swaps, maybe that flashback Greensbin SBC and upgrade packs. Those are the three big things potentially that could be coming today. Of course, icon swaps and upgrade packs basically just about guaranteed. Upgrade packs aren't guaranteed but we get those just about every single Monday. So we're hoping for something insane in that category and department on this game. And of course everybody's gonna be switching their minds over to grinding objectives and getting either icons or packs. And I wanna talk everything related to icon swaps two and how that's gonna affect the market today on this game. So if you're excited for icon swaps number two and maybe a flashback Greensbin SBC hit the thumbs up on the video and of course subscribe if you are new. Now we know that icon swaps is coming, right? The loading screen tells us and once again we have looked over these choices. These are the confirmed leaked rewards from icon swaps number two. And some things that we know about icon swaps that are basically factual every single time that they drop. Yes, we have like the first nine tokens or what we usually see drop the first day. Now there are some rumors out there that are saying that this time for icon swaps two we'll get all 18 tokens at once. I really don't see that happening. They've never done that before as far as I can remember. So I think just like icon swaps one we'll have nine tokens released then probably a date with those objectives expire and then nine more tokens released after that. Now again, if you're looking at the best value for icon swaps two today in my opinion, especially right now we were talking about this on stream earlier. These times 25 packs there are 18 man of the match cards that are in packs right now and 22 different road to the final items that are all in packs right now at the moment. I feel like if you're gonna be going after icon swaps or whatever you're gonna be going for if you're getting any of these first three packs I would try to grind those first and get those packs this week because again having the potential to pack all 22 promo cards which is a lot of promo items on this game there's a lot of those cards in packs but also having the man of the match cards in packs as well it gives you a few more fodder cards you know and some other decent items you know DiBala, the Romero, the Cliver, the Lukaku, the Jota. So I think that if you're grinding swaps either any of these first three packs if that's any of your goals this week I would focus on getting those first like somebody was talking about hey I want it to do the 82 times 25 the 83 times 25 and Gerard right? Boom that'd be your 18 tokens I would go and get those two packs first because I think it's really good value right now if that's a word right if you can think of it in that way really good value to open packs because there's so much that is out in the game in terms of packs right now at this moment so just wanna throw that out there of course these are the leaked rewards though so we expect to see these dropped into the game today of course people would only be able to attain nine tokens from the objectives that would drop today unless you do something crazy and drop more than nine tokens at one time now again we talk about objectives right these were the objectives that were released with icon swaps one we had silver, Aridavizi and then an icon swaps one as well for the second set of objectives you know they're all pretty similar so we don't have any leaks right now about what the objectives are actually going to be but often times they're kinda similar right you pick some silvers you pick a nation and then you know that's kinda you know first owner that's something that you usually see as well it'll probably be under the milestones tab today just so that you know where it is when you go to search in the game so maybe stock your club with some silvers right they're all really cheap I'm hearing at the moment Brazilian silvers Argentinians, Portuguese you know it's probably a good shout maybe to stock your club with a few of those just to maybe stay ahead of what might be coming in terms of objectives today where people would go out and try to get their icon swap games in and you know that's gonna be the big part of content for today on Monday is icon swaps and we've been talking about it a little bit before how is that gonna impact the market? I'm very curious to see how the market is impacting today and see how many people go out and start grinding the stuff I specifically remember on the first set of icon swaps when it was released Ronaldo who was like 490,000 coins at the moment at that time in the game there was a lot of these meta cards that you know they didn't have a huge drop off but like I think Ronaldo at that time dropped off like 20, 30,000 coins I do think that you will see some of the market drop off today as people sell cards from their teams to go pursue these objectives and the rewards that are inside of those so I think that'll impact the market a little bit today and you know I gotta talk about SPC fodder too as we maybe talk about what's going on in the market right now SPC fodder is dropping a lot at the moment and you can tell not just by looking at this page on footbin with all the cheapest players by rating but if you take a look at the homepage and you see some of these SPCs look at the price of Ben Yetter 280,000 coins so much cheaper than he was it's like 60,000, 70,000 coins cheaper than what he was the Eric Baye showdown SPC is down like 30K in value so all of these SPCs that are out right now are down in value and everything's looking kind of cheap just because SPC fodder is down now if you want to invest in fodder because you're like man Nate this stuff Kingsley Coman is 16,000 coins he was over 20K last week on Thursday with all of the hype content that was out I understand why you want to invest in fodder but in my opinion I feel like we're headed for a little bit of a fodder downturn I don't know what they're gonna do with all the SPCs that are upcoming I feel like we just don't have a ton of hype SPCs that are you know upcoming you know last week we had not one but two icon upgrade packs with the mid icon player pick being so popular that is now gone away unless it comes back today and we get more leaks of crazy SPCs whether it's players whether it's more of those like reunion player picks or stuff like that we need that sort of content in this game like multiple times per week to keep fodder at these high prices that it's at right 16K for an 86 rated card that's kind of actually inflated right usually what we call low for 86 is is like under 15, 14,000 coins for both consoles so fodder has been up a lot recently and I just want to kind of put that into perspective as well fodder is usually more expensive in this time of the year because there's a lot of SPC content as EA is trying to keep people engaged with the game but I think we might just be headed for a couple days where it actually drops further down and just through the little research I look back at last year in FIFA 21 icon swap set two dropped on the 19th of February or 18th of February last year take a look at 87 theme Maria who went from 41,000 coins down to 34K 88 Tony Cruz went from 48,000 coins down to 43K so I think that there's a possibility that we would see some fodder drop off now you may be like Nate people are going to be opening these fat packs with times 25, 83, 82 and 81 pluses and then they're going to go out and do SPCs and I'm like yeah, you know what that is a very fair point and every single year is different in terms of what content is out at the time when they drop icon swaps but I just feel like right now there's a lot of player SPCs but the stuff that really gets people going are these types of SPCs and especially that player pick so if the mid icon player pick comes back if they keep releasing those gamble like the year in review or the party bag type SPCs those if those are released and repeatable then I guess I could see fodder continue to go up but all I'm saying is just be careful with it so if you want to buy some fodder right now all that I would do is really just go and do a club stock I wouldn't do too much else more than that and also people are going to be getting fodder from upgrade packs I really think today it's a Monday right and we have all these insane cards that are in packs I would be very surprised if EA sports did not drop upgrade packs today of course the 80 plus player pick which was released during the first week of the Future Stars promo was a huge, huge hit and that SPC was incredibly OP I really hope they bring that one back with all the special cards that are in packs right now a player pick upgrade pack would actually bang it would be so good it'd be really, really OP so I really hope that they bring that back now of course they're probably gonna drop like 81 plus double packs today instead or something like that but we can hope for something insane now also you'll notice that our Gareth Bale rode to the final card right now again we're on the topic of Monday content the content we could see today this card has dropped like 20,000 coins in the last couple hours I think there's some leaks going around that the flashback Antoine Griezmann is going to be today because the last time that we saw the first leak about an Antoine Griezmann flashback this Gareth Bale dropped in price some he's dropping more right now I've seen a couple people tweet about it not really credible sources so again believe that with a pinch of salt per usual but it sounds like that Griezmann might be today on Monday and I think that would be why this Bale card is down a little bit in price right now so just be a little bit careful with that and speaking of these rode to the final cards of course we've got weakening rewards that are coming out today and people will be opening those if they haven't already there's a lot of these cards that people are trying to invest in you know Deneir is a very very popular one right this is giving me if you guys remember from team one of Future Stars from Sunday night into Monday Elmas rose a ton as a very high player Deneir is giving me Elmas vibes the only thing I'm gonna tell you a lot of people are investing right now and it makes sense right normal you know mindset would be okay it's a great time to invest in some of these cards rode to the finals some of them have games this week where they could potentially get upgraded a lot of the pack supply happens on the weekends we get packs on you know the foot champions rewards being pushed out to everybody on early Monday mornings a lot of people are investing in these cards I think we could see some of them go up right Tellez is already up a little bit again I already mentioned that Deneir he has already risen in price a little bit from where he was there's a couple other cards in here Kai Havertz keeps slowly inching higher in price because people know that those are some of the items that have games this week and they're hoping that with those teams potentially playing and winning games that those cards would rise with the hype of an upgrade coming soon so that's why they're getting invested in now again it's the only thing that's counteracting that in my mind why I'm being a little bit careful with some of the stuff is icon swaps is again today and I just want to be a little bit careful with that I know these are live cards I know they're decently rare and a lot of people want to get their hands on them but I feel like that of course you know you got to be careful with this sort of situation yes we could see some cards rise up after week and league rewards into the day today on Monday and then maybe after 6pm UK when the content drops and icon swaps is released in this game then maybe you see some of the prices drop down a little bit all I'm gonna say is with a lot of people investing and maybe having that kind of thought process in mind just be careful right just be careful because when there's a lot of people investing that can mean some very interesting things and you know that can cause a lot of panic and undercutting if there is really insane content today on Monday not saying that there is but I don't know I just have something in my gut that tells me to be careful so I'm kind of being careful with these cards I have bought a few but not very many and you know I'm just picking my spots very carefully and hoping to see some stuff that will maybe rise up a little bit I was watching Quadrado I'm kind of watching Kempembe kind of watching Renato Sanchez just because these cards are high tier very popular and they're also really rare so might try a couple flips on some of these cards but again with all the hype being on the icon swaps today I'm just gonna be careful with it right and I'm gonna play a little bit cautious it's been a really really great week of making coins the past two weeks so I don't wanna jeopardize that at all and I wanna stay in the winning margin and I wanna stay in the positive so that's why I'm playing it a little cautious right now especially with you know upgrade packs maybe a Griezmann today fodder is pretty cheap and if people are gonna go out and grind objectives you know that's again gonna be more things that will turn people away from really going out and grinding upgrading their team and opening you know not opening but going and buying players off of the market to be upgrading their side so that's gonna be one of the most interesting things to keep an eye on today and to watch out for but you know these cards right here the Mahrez that was dropped yesterday it is a pretty dope card it almost feels like the second week or even the first week of Future Stars with the mini release I mean these cards are expensive like Ried Mahrez being he's over a million coins he was extinct yesterday over a million coins right now he's 1.03 I see no reason in the world that this card should be 1.1 million coins I feel like this card should be 600 to 700,000 coins yes he does have five star skills he's medium medium yes it is Ried Mahrez and yes of course he's 91 rated so what really is being built into the price of this card right now is the fact that he is hopefully gonna keep winning as city keep winning and that's gonna press his card up higher and higher and higher in value and that's what's gonna keep his price high right and that's why he's kind of inflated because of that right so I don't like this card's price right now of course I know city are up and they're gonna get upgraded right and they have to win the second leg and he's gonna get a plus two and he's gonna go to a 93 rated card and that seems basically confirmed it's the same situation with Sadio Mane right Sadio Mane got a price range update yesterday till he was 1.6 mil and he was extinct man these cards are so so expensive and I mean I understand a little bit why they're expensive but the other thing to consider with especially Mane and the Ried Mahrez card is that we don't have Champions League games for the second leg of the knockout rounds for those teams that have already played that second week is like not until the first week of March I'm pretty sure round of 16 second leg is let's see Tuesday March 8th, Wednesday March 9th and then March 16th, 15th we're like a month away for the second leg almost on a couple of these cards three weeks away for some of these so again a guy like Mane yes he might be getting a plus two but that's also a long time from now so I think that the time between now and then there's a whole lot of potential for EA Sports to release some crazy content that would make a card like Mane or make a card like the Mahrez drop off in price a little bit so that's why if you're looking to maybe flip any of these cards that are still alive like that's why I'm keeping an eye on Renato Sanchez because yes they are playing and they're playing Chelsea right so they're definitely not favored but they play tomorrow on Tuesday so we're gonna have more price movements on the cards that are active in these four games and the cards from Europa League and Conference League that are active in the next two to three days later on this week so that's something to kind of keep an eye on as well those are the cards that I would really hone in on and focus on because those are the ones that are gonna have movements based on their actual upgrade potential and we could have some of these items depending on who wins on these knockout games we could have upgrades by the end of this week on some of these cards right that's where some of the hype here is built in that's why you see Havertz rising up as people think okay they're going to win against Lille so Havertz has gone from like 214K on Saturday he's been continually bought up he's now 250 as this card continues to go higher same thing with Alex Tellez right he's not up as much but he's 265K coins he was 240 those are the best two examples right there of cards that have continued to rise of course heading into their games later on this week because they are a clear advantage there's a clear advantage to those teams to potentially advance so that's the one thing that I would be careful with and just a word of caution for these road to the finals but also on the flip side you look at these cards and you're like man these are road to the finals that are alive that are upgrading and you think about a card like Renato as well maybe his price right now is dropping off a little bit extra because people expect them to lose and that's why he's down 400K from where he goes on the weekend while other cards have gone up in price so it's a whole situation and something that we're keeping an eye on with some of these cards yes they're very rare yes they're very hyped but the ones that really have games this week those are the ones that I'm going to be focusing on and I hope that EA upgrades cards soon I hope that they don't push it off and wait until they all of the first round knockout legs are played you know the second legs as well hopefully they upgrade after the first leg and not wait for the second leg that's what I'm trying to say so hopefully they upgrade these cards sooner rather than later that would be a huge, huge thing for these items so just keeping out on these today of course we mentioned the bail that is dropping in price if a Griezmann was not to come today I know this bail is not getting an upgrade anytime soon because their second leg isn't for a while and they have to win that game to get the upgrade and if they do win the game then technically they would be going on to the next round as well because they're down 1-0 so if they win then you know they're winning on extra time or something and then actually I don't know how it works with penalties I don't forget how it works with showdown cards and road to the finals but an outright win if I believe that if in the second leg of the PSG Real Madrid in the second leg of that knockout round if they were to actually like draw and PSG would go through then Campembe would get a plus 1 and Gareth Bale would not get upgraded at all so you really want a team to win you don't want any draws for any of these matches you know again I don't know how it comes down to when you know I don't know if it goes to penalties first I don't know if they go extra time then it's probably got to be extra time plus penalties but I don't know if EA will upgrade these road to the finals if it's a draw at 90 minutes time but then let's say a team goes on to win in extra time or in penalties if that counts as a win I know for like some of the showdown cards in years past a draw at extra time or at 90 minutes would actually be a you know a plus 1 instead of a plus 2 so that's something that I guess will probably we'll run into that issue when we get there but again the main premise is we might have upgrades on some of these road to the final cards by the end of this week and also you know keep an eye out for these main of the match items just keep an eye out on them I mean some of them look really really cheap and I feel like they're undervalued I think this Christian Emerald card is undervalued this is an 86 rated Christian Emerald card Kutir Emerald 22k it's actually it's on par and it's cheaper than his 84 rated in form that has of course way to a plus 4 pace like what a boost that EA gave to this card so I think that this card is pretty cheap as well maybe he gets really low tonight during that squad not squad battles during the weakening rewards time frame so I might pick a few of these up because yes man of the matches are really good cards to trade with yes they are gonna be a lot more supply than they ever have been this year that's just the way of the market right I don't expect these cards to be super duper insane in terms of like rising out of packs it's gonna depend on the item but these cards are definitely not gonna be as rare as they were in years past but again that's kind of what we're looking at today on the market we're looking at all the cards in packs seeing how the market reacts after rewards but then of course after 6pm today and with icon swaps number two dropping I think that you will see some cards slide down a bit in value so again reinforcing that narrative that we talked about earlier this weekend a lot of stuff is still kind of like chilling some cards are down a little bit like Golden Bop is now under 800,000 coins and I think you could see these cards slide a little bit more I don't think it's gonna be a drastic sell-off or a drastic panic sell just probably a few cards sliding down a little bit more in price as the demand shifts if you will and people playing games where they're playing those games not with their main team and objectives as that demand shifts so that's the video for today it's a big day of content on Monday I hope for Griezmann I hope for the 80 plus player pick maybe some other sort of content maybe E is just gonna drop a banger day of Monday content since yesterday on Sunday was literally just the road to the final mini-release and then this Milestones Bundesliga league player Tommy which is not very well received I think with icon swaps on the way a lot of people are probably not gonna wanna spend time grinding that so that is the video for today boys again if you're excited leave a thumbs up for icon swaps comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new it's been Nathan Ford Account and I'll catch you guys later peace


The Golden Bulls parking lot didn't always look this great. Just ask restaurant consultant Marvin Wells. Parking lot itself was just a blacktop with faded stripes, a rod iron fence that ran along the roadway, but then a clear view of the trash bins and the channel, which sits behind us. None of it very appealing. None of it appetizing at all. Today it's got astroturf, tiered levels, heat lamps, shade covers, and a gardener. It feels as relaxing as its surroundings and Santa Monica Canyon. It is actually the biggest part of the restaurant that we've had ever. We're busier than we've ever been. But this is not a local news story about a neighborhood steakhouse repurposing its parking lot. It's a story about a city that loosened its rules during the pandemic and unlocked a new world of possibilities for how the entire city could look and function. And it all ties back to parking. I think the government can comfortably step back from trying to dictate how much parking every single property owner provides on their property and that in stepping back, they will make cities more efficient, more equitable, and more environmentally sustainable. Car ownership didn't start to become the defining feature of life in Los Angeles until the 1920s. Then Los Angeles automobile ownership actually started to explode because this was actually a great place to own a car because of the mild weather and so forth. Michael Manville is a professor of urban planning at UCLA where he studies parking. Well, what happened here is what happened in a lot of places when auto ownership started to grow, which is that people would buy them but they didn't actually have houses with garages or driveways or off-street parking. And so most people would park on the street. And so the concern was that as more people got cars and as more people moved to neighborhoods with cars, the street parking would get congested. And so the policy response that seemed easiest to solve that problem was to pass a law saying that whenever you built anything new, you had to supply off-street parking. The city first imposed minimum parking requirements in the 1930s. By the 50s, they were part of the zoning code not just of Los Angeles, but of every major American city. What they have done in Los Angeles because so much of the city has been built since then is that they have quietly transformed the entire city into a built environment oriented around owning and operating automobiles. Parking requirements for new buildings were intended to prevent new residents from competing for curb space. What planners didn't anticipate is that they would make cars and parking the defining characteristic of the urban landscape. Someone was gonna build a building on my street and I was worried that it was gonna screw up the parking on the curb where I put my car. And so we passed a law. And because of that law, I got the building I wanted. It had a parking lot next to it. And then we kept doing that for 70 years. And everybody got the building they want. And nobody got the city they wanted. Parking lots and garages proliferated in American cities and especially in Los Angeles where the number of parking spaces grew decade after decade. The requirements were such a big part of city life that allowing developers to build less parking than required by the zoning code became a bargaining chip between city planners and developers. And so the way this might work would be developer has a plan for an apartment building with 50 units or something like that and either through the state government or the local government strikes a deal where the developer can take some combination of extra density, they can build more units, reduced parking, some more height. If, for instance, they set aside 15% of their units as affordable housing for lower income people. This concern is misplaced. We know that parking requirements do a lot of damage. The way they encourage driving, the way they reduce density, reduce walkability, debase the built environment, undermine walking and so forth, we shouldn't just keep them on the books because occasionally we get some affordable housing out of it. Reducing unnecessary parking requirements would allow all developers to build more housing, creating more supply and reducing the cost of housing for everyone. When developers need a special arrangement or variance to diverge from the official zoning code, rules aren't consistently applied. Same goes for restaurant commercial spaces. Most restaurants in LA don't have onsite parking that satisfy zoning code. The Taco Bells, the McDonald's, the Sizzlers, those are the ones that satisfy parking code. Matt Smith, whose company rents out commercial kitchen space, is also a member of the Council of Infill Builders and advocates for easing parking requirements for restaurants. Everybody else is either going into a grandfathered space or they're getting a variance. And if you wanna know why food is expensive and why it's hard for restaurants to survive, this is a reason number one is that we make them comply with these way outdated parking requirements. It's a system of insiders and outsiders with consultants for hire that help restaurants navigate the red tape. Meet Fast Eddie. So Fast Eddie comes from me playing music. I grew up in Los Angeles. I was a young musician. Playing in clubs I wasn't even allowed to get into at the time. And that was, had a lot of energy. He's paid a lot of speed metal and punk rock. And then once I got inspired into helping restaurants, I went back to help bars and night clubs with getting their permits. And so they always knew me as Fast Eddie and so kind of carried on as a person to be called for in these types of situations where they needed permits. Eddie Navarrete began helping restaurants almost 25 years ago obtain city permits, including those for parking requirements. The permitting process is especially hard for smaller restaurants. The kind Navarrete says make up an important part of LA culture. And I like helping those types of people. I like defending them. And I kind of look at it at this way of like using my street skills and using them for the forces of good to help these folks against, you know, getting through the permitting process. An LA's permitting process is among the most complicated. A lot of my friends are restaurant owners and what they have to deal with on a daily basis is inconsistency from regulatory, you know, folks, whether it be the city or county officials, right? You need a permit for having over 50 people. You need a permit because you put an awning up.  Ice machine, you need a permit for that. There are just so many requirements out there, whether it be state requirements, county requirements, or city requirements. There's just how are you supposed to know what those things are? If all you've known in going to this business is how to make biscuit sandwiches. Minimum parking requirements are the most challenging obstacle that new restaurants have to contend with. This is the hardest thing for a restaurant to have to comply with. Then the world turned upside down. The World Health Organization has declared coronavirus a global pandemic. We have no immunity to this virus. We have no vaccines for the virus. Currently, we have no approved treatments for the virus. The lockdowns meant that LA restaurants had to close their doors to dining customers. Local businesses are the ones that were most hurt by the pandemic, the ones that had the smallest runways, the smallest reserves. And when the shutdown happened, a lot of them tanked. I mean, the job losses in the restaurant industry in particular were just absolutely catastrophic. The city didn't know what to do. In March 2020, their first attempt was an $11 million emergency loan program for restaurants. But that would have been a drop in the bucket for LA's almost 30,000 restaurants. The city had to think differently and come up with low-cost or no-cost plans. LA city councilman Bob Blumenfield wrote a motion directing city regulators to hold meetings with restaurant professionals to help understand what the city could do to help businesses. Navadete and Smith sat in on the meetings and talked to many of the city departments that demand permits from restaurants. Building and safety officials, city planning officials, fire department, health department. In that, the main number one thing that we needed was the removal of parking requirements. The city came up with an emergency ordinance that temporarily suspended minimum parking requirements, which allowed restaurants to serve food outdoors on a larger portion of the sidewalk and in the street itself. Everyone started to scramble. I think that you saw that outdoor patio furniture was gone, two by fours, anything and everything, chairs, heat lamps, all those types of things were snapped up right away just because people had to invent on the fly. We started with astral turf and card tables. A new world of activity was born on LA streets. Everywhere across LA, people are having this experience where they're seeing other human beings on the street and they're seeing these parking lots that were these awful desert heat islands next to places they wanted to go and they're full of tables and chairs. They've got the market lights above. It's turned on the vibrancy of the city in a way that people couldn't have even imagined as possible. As parking spaces disappeared to make way for tables, plants, artwork and creative lighting, restaurants discovered the customers figured out their own arrangements for how to get there or for where to store their cars. People are figuring out the parking situation. It's not like there's been parking armageddon because these parking lots are not dining areas. They're full. Diners took Uber and Lyft or public transportation or relied on valet services to park offsite as they do at the Golden Bull restaurant. Once we got our rhythm, once we got things kind of in motion, it was like we were back inside but we just had a bigger ceiling to work with. People started walking more allowing them to see the city from new angles. As you pull away from the restaurant in your car going 40 miles an hour, one, you're less likely to notice something interesting on the street.   And then if you do see it, all you have to do to check it out is pivot and walk in. You don't have to circle the block four times. A pedestrian city is in many ways a city that allows many more people to be more spontaneous and that of course is good for commerce, it's good for culture and so forth. More foot traffic makes the streets safer. We feel that because there's more folks on the streets, because there are more eyes, that we're not alone. In New York, shed dining has taken over the city and offered up some eye-catching architecture on curbs. The same is true in St. Paul and San Francisco. This isn't the first time the city has rolled back minimum parking requirements in Los Angeles. In 1999, developers looked for ways to repurpose downtown's abandoned office buildings. Most of these buildings were built before minimum parking requirements were in place. So the city passed a law suspending the rule for converted structures. Though many were skeptical it would work without parking, residents figured it out. The Efresco emergency order has been extended into 2022, though it may not become permanent. The hope is that the order's popularity will make reverting back politically unfeasible. That language is still very vague. It's the city still somehow manages to not make the language as it was intended for. And so it's a major problem. Even the planners who helped to write the ordinances, once it gets to the city attorney's office, it becomes something completely different. Then by that time, we're so exhausted, we're just like, can you just pass the damn thing? And then now we have this ordinance that's language that's kind of makes sense, but then there's a lot of like, does it apply here or does it apply there? And so that's the problem with the city of LA and especially the county of LA. There's just not a lot of transparency in the process. Efresco dining, I believe, is the future of Los Angeles. To have been in a situation where Efresco dining wasn't something that we did well was always just kind of like a mystery. So I think we've kind of solved the mystery. I think that moving forward, I think restaurants will build with patios in mind, especially as the restrictions and permitting become a little bit easier. It's not clear whether the change will be limited to restaurants or whether Efresco dining will serve as the linchpin that leads to a broader rollback of LA's parking requirements. A proposed bill in the California legislature would move the city another step in the direction of abolishing local requirements for new residential and commercial developments near bus or train stops. Doing this from the state level makes some sense because it probably won't get solved another way. This is an appropriate place for the state government to step in and say, enough. The bill that was supposed to ease parking requirements statewide, AB 1401, died in California's Senate Appropriations Committee after it wasn't brought up for a vote, meaning it's up to cities like Los Angeles to deal with parking on their own. If everyone could vote on the parking requirements of the city two towns over, we'd have no parking requirements. From a distance, you understand the harm they do, right?


My name is Maria Shirley Castro. I work in ICU at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Hackensack Meridian in Pertamboy. And I've been here for 31 years. When I was a child, I have three aunties and they succumbed into illness. So being the youngest, I ended up taking care of all of them. It became a second nature to me to take care of people. I came here in 92. What happened was there was short days of nurses. Being in Raritan Bay Medical Center, it is an awesome place to be. I love this organization because it offers many opportunities for growth and development. I got my master's and I never thought I'd go for a doctorate, but I did and it was through the help of tuition reimbursement. So I stay because I love it here. Taking care of the patients, it has its emotional rewards. Seeing people that were on the verge of death and coming in to say thank you, that's more than enough.