I understand the magnitude of the task ahead, President-elect Bola Med Tinibu says. As we count down to inauguration day, we address concerns of ethnic and religious groups and the task ahead for Bola Med Tinibu and all Progressive Congress' Governorship candidates in River State, Tonya Cole denies withdrawing petition against the results of the state This is Plus Politics. I'm Mary Anna Cole. President-elect Bola Tinibu yesterday began his final movement to Asovila, the seat of government. He reflected on the weight of responsibility on his shoulders as he received the baton of service and transitioned documents from outgoing President Mohammad Buhari during an impressive ceremony at the State House in Abuja. The President-elect who paid tribute to President Buhari is a Democrat. He said he understood the magnitude of tasks ahead of him, assuring that he will not disappoint Nigerians. Critics say there is a little to show for Buhari's excessive borrowing, but Tinibu, who inherits three times more debt than Buhari, did when he was first elected in 2015. His concern will be how to boost revenue since he cannot borrow as much as Buhari did without worsening the precarious debt burden. Joining us to discuss this is Baba Shala Dehwih. He's a political analyst. Also joining us is Sunni Madhika, also a political analyst. Thank you so much, gentlemen, for joining us and good evening. Thank you, Anne. Yes. It's interesting because of course all eyes are on the FCT looking forward to the inauguration of the President-elect while I met Tinibu and his vice, Kashim Shetema. Of course for the states that will be also experiencing inauguration for their governors. The whole country is going to be a gug with ceremonies, pomp and pedantry. But what's most important or the most concern for Nigerians is the task that lies ahead for the President-elect. I'll start with you, Baba Shala. Most people are seeking for political will because many who have criticised the Buhari administration have criticised the lack of political will to make a lot of things happen. In assessing the person of Bola I met Tinibu, do you see a man that is armed with the political will to do the things that need to be done to push Nigeria to where it ought to be? Baba Shala, can you hear me? Can you hear me? I can hear you. Go ahead. I believe you can hear too. I can hear you. Go ahead please. Yeah. I'm so sorry Baba Shala, we're having issues hearing you. I'm so sorry Baba Shala, we can't hear you. I think that your connection is really bad, we cannot hear you. I'm going to toss that question to Madukah to see if we can answer it while we try to fix your audio.  Yeah, you can hear me. Yes, we can hear you. For the first time in the history of Nigeria that we're having a celebration or inauguration where Nigerians are not truly happy and you can't talk about what you want to do for the people when the citizens are not carried along. Just recently the military has declared every Nigerian in terms of coming to even be part of the inauguration. Abuja's are today's lockdown. So I don't know how we're going to do on this inauguration that people are talking about. At least in order that I know inauguration should be a national celebration. If you look at what is happening today, you discover that it's as if the whole country is in mourning and probably because of the expectations that we had met in terms of who is coming on board. I remember during the second term that it was rumored that there was an election, rigging, violence or whatever. But never have I heard it so bad that citizens as are today are not part of the inauguration. It is like this inauguration is for certain allies, not for the terror citizens. It's like the selected people who should be part of the inauguration, not the terror citizens. And when I watch other countries inauguration of their president, it's a national affair. Every citizen has a right to be part of this particular celebration. But you can see what is happening. Everybody is quarantined. You're not supposed to step out of your house even to go and witness the inauguration. So as of now, in respect to whatever the promise, the issue is that, and I want to say this, any victory that tends to break down the constitution of a nation will not be legally recognized. And probably why the citizens are not in this mood of being part of what is happening or what is going to happen. I'm trying to understand what the legality here is because whether we like it or not, INEC had announced him as the president-elect, clearly stating the number of votes that he had. Yes, of course, the tribunal will run its costs, but until then, there cannot be a vacuum in government. He was announced as the winner. He's going to be sworn in and the cuts will be left to do their job or the tribunal. So I don't see any legalities. You might be talking about justice being done, but that is left to the court. So because there is somebody who's going to be sworn in, we definitely have to talk about what the person is capable of doing. Now again, let me tell you where there's illegality. We have a constitution that spells out most of the things you are supposed to do. Even the announcement was hardly known. Have you ever heard where an announcement was made by 4 a.m.? Have you ever heard where an announcement, somebody who is telling you to go to court? Have you heard that? You see, the issue is that we all know the truth. I think this country is that, which I used to describe, I've been abnormal in this country. We talk about the 25% in FZT. Has he been? Is he not a constitution? So if you are against that, it's illegal. So everything about this particular thing is illegal. And let me take you back. If you look at the number according to you that is all about the number of votes, no. There are other provisions that you will meet before you are declared presidentally. As of today, I'm talking to you. Anneke is still uploading the presidential result in the IRF. So which result did they use in bringing out this election result? Which result? Then you talk about other things like... You know, in 2003, this same issue of 25 was, you know, as I judged. It was between OBJ and BME. It was clear. And it was stated there that 25% is mandatory for you to be declared as a president. Did he get it? No. I think we are just trying to play the gallery. As Nigerians, as those allies we are, everybody will say, OK, let's go. It is not the truth. Your constitution is your framework. It's your foundation. It's like you're building a house and you start digging out the foundation. How would the house stand? These are the issues. It has become very, very serious for citizens to even go to court. You can see the three judgments. The three judgments all against the citizen. We talk about the $14 million. We talk about the $15 million. We talk about the $2 million. So every citizen that even goes to court now is going to be probably charged for even asking for rights for the constitution to be interpreted. So the country, as far as I'm concerned today, is just living on a pedestrian of, you know, nothingness. And let me tell you, even in sports, if you win a race, you are supposed to jubilate with the spectators. The spectators are supposed to jubilate with you. They are supposed to embrace you. They are supposed to be happy. But today, can you say that citizens are happy? Can you say that citizens are happy? But there are those who are happy, whether we like it or not. There are those who supported the presidency. There are people who are supporters of Mr. President or Mr. President-elect. And then they are happy. And when you say that, you know, people are shot out from the event, there are people who will be in attendance. It's just for security reasons.  But I'll put a plug here now. I'll put a pin here now and come back to you. Let me go to Babashala. Babashala, just picking up from where Mr. Madukah stopped, looking at the task that is ahead of the President-elect, of course, the Tunibu administration after being sworn in on Monday. Issues such as the one that Mr. Madukah has raised, obviously, will be daunting for him having to be able to calm Fred Neves and, of course, somewhat trying to convince people that he is deserving of this position. How easy a task is that going to be? Okay, sorry about the network issues I had. On the agenda 17, I think the President actually, the incoming President actually has a lot of things to face when it comes in after this point in on May 29. There is something that I can be certain of, and that is just that I believe that we perform better than we are. That is my belief. But I can tell you, demand is not going to meet up with the expectations of Nigeria based on the issues that have been on demand. For example, the issues of how you want the election and the issues of security, the issues of the division among us in Nigeria. It has a lot of things to face, actually, as the President for May 29. So demand has to be strategic. We actually want to do this country and make it the dream of meeting up. Even up to the corner of the expectation of Nigeria, I would say it is a great plan for achieving that. But there are all the main issues must be addressed. They must be addressed because the country will come on in, the country will come in as a President, and we want to continue for where the last President or the outgoing President are. So just like they have said that they will continue to build on the performance of the achievement. So if you ask me, what is the performance of the achievement of this President? I can tell you President Boal is the sonata period. So if you are telling me what to continue on that ground, it means that you are telling me that you want to make it more worse. You get what? I want to believe that it's not the inspiration that we make and the time we are making it. I just don't want to believe. I want to have this belief of it. I believe that if the President, the incoming President is serious, I remember is an advocate of the responsibility of Nigeria. Let's start the key. Let's keep the ball rolling immediately. It's not a party fight. Nigeria expects a place that would make the better Nigeria, not a part, not a nation for the few. Just like we have it on this current regime. We want a nation that we can be proud of. We want a nation that we Nigerians can say yes. Before we get to making the nation what it is, I ask a simple question. How easy is it going to be for Bola Metinu to convince Nigerians that he's deserving to be President of this country, knowing what's marred the election, how the election turned out? Again, because it's one thing to say you're President. It's another thing for people to accept you and your administration. Whether we like it or not, it's going to be sworn in on Monday. But he has a job of convincing. How easy is that going to be? Definitely, it's not going to be easy. It's not going to be easy because there are issues surrounding his personality. Apart from the issues of hiding, declaring the election, and opting out there are still plenty of results. There are issues surrounding his personality, has been accused of being a drug baron, has been accused of not having a U.S. university certificate, has been accused of not having any bank identification based on the primary or secondary school, has been accused of his name. Oh, it's not the right's name. He's using another person's certificate. He has a lot of things to play, even about himself. That's not a lot there. In the country, he also has issues. In respect of running out the blooping, your plans for Nigeria, we need to be convinced that yes, later we like it or not. He has a certificate and it's going to be sworn in. So we have no choice but to work with him until the judiciary set up. Otherwise, for me, he has a lot of things to do to convince Nigeria in respect of him. Or else, we will just be there at the ceremony and we know that we have a candidate that is not even controlling, that does not have to disturb the respect of Nigeria. Back to you, Mr. Madukah, a lot of people are saying, let's pray for him and hope that, because again in Nigeria, it's very quick to jettison our responsibilities and go to religion and say, oh, let's pray for the man and hope that he can deliver, even though there are concerns about his health. But then there are same concerns about President Buhari, and here he is, eight years down the line. Many are also saying that there has to be a sustained implementation of people-oriented policies. Again, we go back to the personality of the man because, yes, you can have an idea. Many would also say that President Buhari had the best intention for Nigerians but the establishment worked against him. Now, this has been a man who's called himself a king-maker and now the king-maker is king. Will the king-maker be able to put together the kind of people that will surround him, that would be able to help him, one way or the other, bring together or bring about these people-oriented policies? Or do you see a man talking about his political ambition? Yeah, and let me tell you something. Leadership is all about service.  It is my tone. So that alone has given him a minus. So he came to Nigerians alone. I must rule. So it's a different thing where you are championing to be a leader of a country. It is not going to be a must. For the prayer you talked about, I just laughed because I don't know who is going to pray for him because the witches and the wizards, they've already intensified their thought to pray for him. Which of us are going to pray for him? Is it the Muslim or the Christian? I see the issue is that we have used religion in Nigeria to the extent that we have not even understood what is spiritual and what is religion. Everything has been ritualized. You know, pray for who? You can only pray for somebody who believes in you. If you watch from when he was campaigning, there was fake prophets. There was fake bishops. So everything about this man, like my brother said, is fake. So where do you start to pray? The only thing I have just asked him that he should do is if he can, let him start by being sincere. Talk to Nigerians in the way they should understand. Because he had this proud, bright enigma. He feared that he owned Nigeria. He feared that he owned everybody. That is why he cannot even come to media house. He cannot even go to court. He doesn't go anywhere. So how can you pray for this kind of person who failed and has even gone to Nigeria?  So this is the problem. You can only pray for somebody who says you pray for me. He never asks for prayer any day. So in that aspect now, then the other one asks how can he help if he can start from trying to reconcile the ethnic nationalities. As of today, we are disjointed. I'm telling you the truth. Most Nigerians don't even believe in this editing. It is now becoming ethnic and they created it. Because I was expecting when we had the problem in reverse, we had the problem in legacy. I expected him to come out openly and condemn that. Not on press statement. There's a difference between press release and you talking to your citizens. But only press statement and nothing happened. As of today, those people who perpetuated those fraud, those violence, those mayhem and see nothing around. They are still working. Okay, let me ask you and as a few days or three days ago, we saw Asari Tokubo and Saria in Nabuja with a lot of people, the best people they call them. Are these people religious? Are they threatening the Nigerians that if anybody calls them, they are going to deal with that person. I didn't see my president talk against that. I didn't see my president say no, I'm not part of that particular group. So as of today, Nigeria on that seat, nobody can even talk. And that is what I'm saying. If you want to have a better leader or if you want to be a better leader, it's not from you.  When people see you, they will say, yes, this is a leader. But what we have, you cannot see him when there is a national event. And that is why we see him in national TV. I've not seen him, especially now. He went to France or where, spent two weeks. He didn't talk to Nigerians. After four weeks of war, he didn't talk to Nigeria. So this is the problem we're having. When you have such a people or such a leader, you can't know where exactly you're going to start to pray. But I agree with one thing that my brother said, if he can start from restructuring this country, after he's a part of NEDECO, he has the blueprint of NEDECO on how Nigeria will work. I think that will be better. I will forgive him for everything. But let him start from where this man stopped. Where PMB stopped. If he starts from where PMB stopped, then we are all, we are going to, I don't know if we are going to say, because now we are in NCP. They probably were going to be in a theater. But I pray that whatever it is, the man should come down. He should remove this gap of pride. Come down to citizens. Embrace citizens. How many times have you even seen him publicly? But you can see what the presidential candidate coming out. This is citizenship. Citizenship got we and them. Master's slave identity. That's what we are seeing. And he cannot continue to work. And he cannot end his citizens, have their citizens support. If he cannot talk to them. If he cannot meet with them. If he cannot meet with them. If he cannot feel them. This is what we need now. Nigeria needs healing. That healing should come from the president. Who understands what healing means. And that healing means that he will start from him and he will start to come into the public and embracing us as citizens. All right. Let's talk about some of the other issues that have to do with policies that the president is going to inherit. We can talk about the fact that, look, Nigeria is dealing with a high level of indebtedness, whether we like it or not. There's some level of hopelessness right now for the average Nigerian. And there's so many pervading problems. Last minute, in the space of one month, this administration that's outgoing has borrowed and borrowed and borrowed as of yesterday 225 billion also in the works. And they're saying it's payment for court cases or something about the judiciary. And we have already exceeded our borrowing threshold. So, let's look at some of the things that he has to deal with. And where do you think he should start from? If you were to be part of the advisory body, what would you advise the president elect to start from in dealing with Nigeria's marital problems? Okay. On that, I would say if I'm close to the one of the advisory, I will actually advise him to start from the reduction of cost of governance. And the appointment of special advisor, senior special advisor, assistant senior special assistant all those things. It starts to be reduced. Let's have a specific number of special advisors that can work. What do we need special advisor for everything all over again? We have a special advisor of about 30 something also. And we have some of them. We have a special advisor for nothing. It's cost of governance has to be reduced. What are the two things that are not necessary that we have created for to increase the cost of governance? So all those things has to be looked into. How many governments that are not actually functioning, but they are just there and collecting allocation and we are not seeing any results. Let's have from this, reduce the cost of governance by all means. Then the next thing we need to do is to look at if what has been done with all the loans that has been collected by this government since 2015 up to now. Because if you have to look at all the loans, the one that is the one that was one of yesterday that the government is now asking for additional loans of about 200 and some to give you for the national assembly to approve. For what purpose? What have they been doing with all the bonds? This 77-year-old era or over 77-year-old era? Where is the money? What have they done? They need to look into it. All those things have to be queried. If the government is actually serious about impacting the lives of the people, if the government is not involved about that today, that means the government will continue to live with that. Look at the media of today. If we cannot continue to live with this money generating revenue, that will be enough for us to establish these loans and at the same time develop our country, the economic growth of energy development. We cannot use such flow. We cannot use the revenue we are generating. We have a lot of things to do. This government has to do something about the cost of government. It has to be reduced and we also both think that is very important is to address the issue of insecurity. When we are talking of insecurity, we are talking of people being kidnapped. We are talking of banditry. We are talking of all those things. They have to be addressed. Let the military let the police, let the police let those that are in charge of banditry, let them concentrate on it. Let them be focused on the issue. This government has never said anything about the government that we stay in. They are not given anything about the do something about to me, but not a lot of things actually, but I know this time it's almost spent, so I will stop there, thank you. Well, it looks like it's a very huge and a daunting task ahead of the president-elect. We look forward to Monday, and of course, right after that work begins. I want to say thank you, Baba Shaladevi and Sonny Madukah, our both political analysts. Thank you so much gentlemen for being part of the conversation. Thank you very much. All right, we'll take a quick break and then we will go to River State where Tonya Cole is challenging the election results in River State and he's saying it's not backing down. Stay with us.


When you're not there The narcissist does this When you're not there The narcissist is a very different person It's like they have another personality, but it's all fake They are insincere and Deceitful They're not expressing their genuine feelings They are deceiving people They're giving them the wrong impression They're hiding who they really are They're hiding what they're really about They're fake people They're not real or genuine to you or anyone else They're just putting on an act They're pretending to have an emotion, illness or injury To gain attention from other people The narcissist will give people Whatever they think they want to see They will display this selfless, kind, caring character Who is more concerned with the needs and wishes of other people than with their own Which is intended to manipulate people into doing what they want They will pretend like they care They will pretend to be respectful They will pretend to have values and morals Which is why other people may see them as someone who is caring and respectful Someone who has their best interest in mind Because they accept their false character as being real and genuine Which is why other people listen to what the narcissist is saying They accept the narcissist's actions Because they believe that the narcissist is who they say they are but what they don't realize Is that the narcissist has been studying them They have studied other people's likes and dislikes So they already know what they want to see And they display that to them So these other people are being tricked and deceived They're being fooled Because they don't know the narcissist's true nature They don't get to see what you see Because they don't spend a lot of time around the narcissist So they don't know that there is another side to the narcissist That is opposite in nature Because the narcissist hides that from other people They don't reveal that they have anger issues or drug addictions They trick people into thinking that the false character is who they really are Rather than someone who acts foolishly and recklessly And doesn't think about the consequences of their actions When you're not there The narcissist is out being someone else Being whatever they think other people want to see They're indulging in their many addictions They're addicted to people They're addicted to sex They're addicted to alcohol and drugs They're always engaged in some form of escapism They're not happy with themselves So they're trying to escape from reality And they don't care about what is right or wrong They will do anything to feel better about themselves The character they displayed to you in the beginning Was not real or genuine They don't have any values or morals They don't really care about you That was just to keep you around So they could keep extracting fuel from you You may think that you know them You may think that you know what they're capable of But there's really no way to know Narcissists are pathological liars They are hiding a lot of things from you that you don't know about What you think you may know about the narcissist is only the tip of the iceberg There are a lot of things that you may never know Because they only show you what they want you to see Which means that you never really knew the narcissist When you're not there You may never know what the narcissist is really doing But you can be sure that they are up to no good They're doing something that could be potentially harmful to you And that is why they do it when you're not there But they're not really concerned about you They have no consideration for you even when they're with you So why would they think about you when you're not there? Why would they consider the consequences of their actions? It wouldn't make any sense for them to do that If they're not even concerned about your emotions while they're with you So when you're not there You can be sure that they're not concerned about you They're not thinking about how their actions might affect you All they're concerned with is indulging in their addictions And doing whatever they think will get them what they want Thank you for watching I hope this video resonated with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe If you would like to donate My PayPal link is in the video description Coaching Inquiries You can email me at coaching.narc-survivor.uk Thank you for watching And I'll talk to you soon


So yeah, some context of the birdhouse. Since 2016, this has drawn from a mission statement acting as a hub of exchange for those attracted to caring for the land and people through arts and ecology. That intersection of arts and ecology is really central to what we do. And now as of 2020, we are the first urban ecosystem restoration camp in the world. And we really don't take that opportunity lightly. It's a great responsibility and a great privilege. And that's what this project speaks to. So yeah, arts and ecology are very complementary. And so we have music through the band of singers, skill shares and crafts, salon conversations, and our wisdom series. So all of those things are kind of cultural pieces and ways to reinforce this kind of spirit of biofilia, the spirit of community building. This is not in the Bueri per se, but this is just the overall picture of the birdhouse. On the ecology side, yeah, we've been developing the garden here for the last few years. We have an herbal medicine collective called the community apothecary that draws from the plants that we grow here to make products and distribute them amongst the community. Our arts and ecology volunteer days where we bring people to the garden to work and to make crafts as well, signage for the plants, using natural materials. Big emphasis on natural, locally grown materials for those things. We're also super excited. Just at the tail end of last year, we signed an MOU with a cultural advisor of the Tongva people who are the first nation's people of Los Angeles, a really fascinating guy, a great educator. And we're gonna be offering a lot of programming with him this year. So that's the rest of the birdhouse, right? And what we're gonna get into the Bueri project now, which is the new part that we're kind of expanding into. So that stands for Birdhouse Urban Ecosystem Restoration Initiative, Bueri or Bueri, you can say it with an Italian accent, makes it a little, it comes off the tongue a little different. And so our big goal for that, Bueri, yeah. And you can throw your hands into it if you really wanna, that's the other part of the Italian accent. You should, you should, yeah. Yeah. So that big goal, which is regenerating land under the Hollywood sign by growing gardens on neighbor's lots, sharing the bounty and creating a culture of care. We aspire to create one of the world's most visible and iconic restoration projects, one that will inspire restoration efforts around the globe. We think that's a huge potential of this project to inspire others. So why does it matter that we're doing it here in Los Angeles, Urban Ecosystem Restoration? Well, we see that Hollywood, it broadcasts the messages which reflect and shape our culture. And there's no higher place in the watershed of world-changing ideas. So if we're doing this work here, we're asking ourselves the question, oh, how do we make sure that this isn't just a flash in the pan, that this isn't something that, some work that gets done that gets abandoned later. And we think it comes down to building a culture of care. We think that that's really essential, that this cultural piece enforces the work that's done on the land. And I said that we need to build this culture of care. And so we're kind of interested as well in like, well, what are the boundaries of this we that we speak of? How can this be more inclusive? How can we draw more beings into this realm of we? And I'm reminded of this quote by one of my favorite speakers and writer is a Nigerian psychologist named Bayo Okomalafi. He says, we need a thicker, we comprised of entangled agencies of lichen and leaches, mycelia and mountain, barnacles and howling beasts, not just humans, because we are a conspiracy, a commonwealth of breath. Oh, I love that. Yeah. Because let's remember that to conspire has nothing to do with QAnon. In fact, to conspire is to breathe together, right? So just as we breathe in the exhalation of the trees, they breathe in our exhalation. So that's a bit of context for the Bury Project. And I'm gonna turn it over to Jessica now. Yes. Thank you, thank you, Cameron, for that introduction. And yes, so you can imagine that when this opportunity came to partner with ERC and to become the first urban ecosystem camp, we thought, okay, how do we do this together? How do we do it with care? And how do we do it in a holistic manner? So the first thing that we wanted to do was really research if there was a framework that we can adapt and use to this WETI project that we were thinking of developing. And what we found was a partner of the ERC called Commonland, who have a successfully proven model and business plan for the restoration of degraded land, and they call it the four returns model. Now, this model was developed in close collaboration with leading scientific institutes, business schools, farmers and experts, and they did so by focusing on four key returns over the course of a single generation or 20 years. Now, this diagram offers a snapshot of Commonland's four return model, parts of which we will be adapting to our proposed WETI budget, and we will address how we will do so through the course of our presentation. So what we really want to draw your attention to at this point in the diagram is what Commonland identifies as the four returns. And we feel that these four returns really provide a holistic and innovative way of looking at what our investment really can produce, what are the returns that they could really produce? And they have four categories. The first is the return of inspiration, and they define that as giving people hope and a sense of purpose and being that we are in Hollywood and that we have access to advisors who are filmmakers, music producers and so forth, we feel that we have a really good standing to be able to receive this type of return within the next two years of our project. The second return is the return of social capital and that is bringing back jobs, business activity, education and security. And we at the Birdhouse are in fact an educational nonprofit. And of course as the first ERC camp, we feel that we will need to share what we learn as we go, because we want to make sure that we're paving at least parts of the ways, parts of the way for those who are interested in creating something similar in their own neighborhoods and communities. So we want to create this social capital, this community and culture of care that we were talking about. The third return is the return of natural capital and that is restoring biodiversity, soil and water quality. This again is an expected return by virtue of the nature of restoring degraded land, but it is our intention to actively monitor and evaluate the progress of our restoration work in Hollywood. The last and final return is return of economic capital. And this is defined as realizing long-term sustainable profit and really speaks to the idea of facilitating community-driven business activities that would produce financial benefits to all stakeholders. For example, sustainable agriculture, forestry, real estate, tourism, sustainable industrial development and so forth. Now, while we love common lands for return model, it has yet to be tested in a large city urban context like Los Angeles. So we feel that what we will be doing is adapting certain concepts and elements of the model to strategically inform our approach in restoring land here in Hollywood. And the main concept that we are really drawing from is what common land considers a mosaic landscape. And they say that the mosaic landscape is or are multifunctional landscapes consisting of different components which together form a patchwork. This concept reflects the complexity and dynamics as well as the uniqueness of each landscape. And we find that to be especially true in an urban setting like we find ourselves in Hollywood. The other concepts that we will be drawing from and that John will be speaking on shortly are the three zone types that produce these returns on investment. And they are natural zones, combined zones and economic zones. And what these do is basically define the ecological function of each piece of land and what are the possible activities that could be hosted on them. So now I will pass it over to John who will talk about those zones. You're muted. You're muted. There you go. Thank you, Jessica. I'll do that. So we're talking about really the mosaic pattern that we started and these will be the six new properties that we can look at through the lens of the four returns and see how this investment into natural zones, common zones and economic zones has these returns of natural capital. So for example, the natural zones are really focused on ecosystem function and restoring the vegetation. And as we see most of the time it's funded by grants and or government agencies. The Holly Ridge property is in the shadow of the Hollywood sign. I say that it's close by and in view of and provides a photo op if you will. And it is a disturbed piece of land that we're in negotiation with the council district for for a license agreement. And it'll provide an opportunity for engagement with the Tongva for our developing traditional ecological knowledge and of course a cascade of benefits from that, including education and participation. And that'll produce a wildlife corridor. The other, which is strangely the most visible as what we call the triangle here. And it was another just a disturbed forgotten piece of land that the city owns. And we started restoring the soil there and the production of flowers, sunflowers and greenery and wildlife and rabbits there was just a real inspiration. I'd say the greatest harvest in this is the inspiration of the people who walk by every morning with their dogs. And these are people who are writing the TV shows and they're full of questions and just really enthusiastic. It's a great thing to see. And we need signage for that for the coming. So there's this combined zone, which is part of the urban wildlife interface here that's a big part of where we are in the canyon. So yeah, restoring vegetation, planting usable low maintenance trees, primarily fruit and nut. And I'll show you how, you know, you get returns in all carry of this lens that we're looking at it through for the natural inspirational and social capital. The birdhouse is really the, what we're looking at here is from the rooftop down on the birdhouse. It started in 2016 or maybe 15 is that first one with the cement and the progression toward this canopy, this edible oasis. We call it the oasis of connection because that's what's going on there really is connection on so many levels with our programming and with just nature itself. And it was, it's important to know that this was really built from the waste streams of gardeners and horses in the community. There's stables nearby and Halloween, horses and Halloween built this. And I was really tempted to include a photo here that showed when we started, the soil could not be penetrated with a pen knife. And recently we took a picture of my hand squabbling in to middle of the wrist without any effort. So the soil biomass and biodiversity has increased here in a model kind of way. Then there's the, what we call the willing neighbor. This is Mary Lou. She's the first to participate in this way with a memorandum of understanding that we use their property to restore the soil and produce food, produce fruits, vegetables and a learning center. It turned out beautifully that her husband is a lawyer and provided the services to refine our memorandum of understanding that would be a boilerplate for others in the neighborhood. This is a property, a piece of that property, also part of the combined zone that where we're building beds of herb, mostly herbs for kind of way of being responsible to what it means to wild forage and people irresponsibly forage and produce their own herbal medicines. In this way, we're giving forward planting wherever we can herb gardens that will provide a possible economic return with the remedies we're making. And this property also has all kinds of social returns because of the people who own it are influential and engaged, they're participating in a big way. So the economic zone is the sort of third part of this zones and this is where we're more in the city and we're restoring what vegetation we can for food, sustainable agriculture. And it's frankly in a beautiful model in that these are some of the most expensive pieces of land, in America, I guess you could say, it's just seeing it through the lens of having access and participation by the landowners without having to buy it is a beautiful model. And that's at the core of what we're up to is engaging people and the social capital, the return of, in that way is clear. This is a new neighbor, an old neighbor that's a new participant. And that as you can see has a great deal of opportunity for farming, for producing food. And that's where she's really interested in, she was excited to have found us by word of mouth and there's a great potential for the ERC participants to work on this land because of the scale of it and a great deal of potential for the food that could be produced there. And the last one here is Vasanta Way, a Shiraz property that is, as you see, a disturbed piece of soil. It is the, if you look close way up at the top, you can see beehives, it's the apiary annex of the birdhouse. So he's been participating with us to house our hives, where they're a little more out in the distance. And so this land here is the orchard that we talk of, the orchid to be. And so you can see that there's quite a bit of restoration to do on the soil and it's a proven model. It's something that we now have confidence in doing to take a piece of land like this and restore the soil, which brings back the biomass, the biodiversity, accumulated organic matter that makes for a great orchard that of course, not in its first year, but maybe in its second or third year will be producing food to feed those who need it most. And the bounty of our vegetation, vegetables and fruits go to the community at large, which includes those who need it most that we work with through participating non-profits who are that interface. So there you have it. Thank you, thank you, John, for that breakdown and for describing the zones. But now that you've outlined the Bwedi project sites and their respective ecological function and the returns that they provide, what are we proposing to achieve when we do this? So what we are proposing or the restoration goals that we have outlined for ourselves is that after the two-year mark, we would have generated approximately 43,350 square feet in Hollywood. We would have planted 300 trees who are cared for, 300 trees not just planted, but cared for by the community. We would have produced or generated 11,200 pounds of food that we will distribute to the community and to as John mentioned, to communities of need. And we hope that we will be partnering with a sister organization called the Hollywood Orchard to be able to do that within these two years while the six project sites are being prepped and established and we can start kind of sharing the bounty when we see that coming in. We will have planted 12 million seeds, especially because we do a lot of cover cropping as part of our way of restoring or building up the top soil. So we are very confident that we will probably exceed that number. We will have propagated approximately 1,000 trees in low maintenance, high efficiency nursery. And that is possibly going to happen with a partnership that we have with the urban ecologists here in LA, but I'll talk about her a little bit more later. We will increase the soil organic matter by 400% and increase the water infiltration and percolation speeds by 100%. And as John mentioned, we have demonstrated those successes at the Birdhouse Community Garden and the other parcels that we've been working on. So we're very confident that we will be doing this, especially because I know Cameron's been testing this out in the garden, how fast the water goes. So if you want to check that out, talk to Cameron. Now, to ensure that we are fulfilling on the restoration goals that we've just outlined, we will have to monitor and evaluate our work. And we will be doing so by using what ERCs, honestly, they've been a blessing. They've already created a monitoring and evaluation framework how-to guide that we will be adapting to include indicators of success that are more consistent with the LA region. And we will be doing that with support from Cat Superfiske, who is the only urban ecologist on staff in LA. And she's really excited to walk us through, help us figure out what's the best way to produce the results that reflect this region. So we're excited for that partnership. She also is the founder of a nursery that is based out of Griffith Park. And we're hoping that instead of acquiring another parcel, maybe partnering with her and that nursery to propagate more trees that are appropriate or to plant in this area, but doing so in partnership instead of having to look, as John said, to purchase another property to do this. Okay. So in order for us to be able to sustain the current programs of the birdhouse, which Cameron talked about at the beginning of our presentation, and to do the proposed work of the project, of the WETI project, we will need support. To date, it's only been four of us doing all of the programs of the birdhouse. And Cameron and John has been doing a lot of the restoration work of the land, of course, with some supportive volunteers, but it's going to require some real personnel to help move this project along, especially with six new sites. So what we will, the needs that we anticipate having is a part-time position that is focused on, that is a media specialist and who will be focused on really capturing the story of the birdhouse as we restore these parcels and actively engaging the community in a more consistent basis. Right now we've been doing it periodically, but because we have so much work, we need somebody that's really dedicated to doing this so that we can really broadcast this message and inspire this culture of care that we're talking about. The second position that we would need would be a part-time gardener and a nursery assistant. Again, not only to steward these parcels, but also to coordinate the volunteer activities that Cameron will be looking to do and to establish also the educational activities that correspond to that work. Which brings me to the third part. Cameron now will have to focus on a large portion of his time, it's about a large portion of his time to establish this program, to establish these sites. So we have accounted for a percentage of his salary in our costs. And last but not least, we've included the hard costs and labor to establish these parcels given that we're going to be having formal agreements to restore them, but also to provide volunteers with the necessary materials and tools that they will need to engage in this work. Now to date, we've been able to secure private funding to sustain the current work of the birdhouse, which is approximately $100,000. However, in order for us to restore an additional six demonstration sites, we will need seed funding for the support that I just mentioned. And so today our budget and ask is in the total amount of $125,000 and $700 for two years. And that would be $62,850 annually. What that would cover and include, of course, is the staffing that I just mentioned, and then that's approximately $68,700. Sites, infrastructure and improvements. Again, we're gonna have formal agreements to store these parcels. So in order to keep our volunteers safe, we're gonna have to make some adjustments to access and to exit these places and also some minor irrigation work that we need to do. And we anticipate that to be a cost of about $19,000.  So that includes the tools, the trees, but also the way that we wanna work and do this work is to not only go and work, we wanna celebrate after. We want to celebrate around music and art or whatever it is. We've hosted a talent show, which was really cool before, as a gathering at our harvest festival. So some of these costs account for that. And we feel that it's important again to establish this culture of care and through the celebrations that we would host. Now, I want to make note that our total budget presented here does not reflect the 15% fee that ERC includes, but I know that Faye has sent over. We actually have an updated budget. So we have a different line item budget for you to consider and review. And we also had sent our overarching goal, meaning the full mama-jama budget to you as well previously, which is the full package. So what I will do now is pass it on to Mr. Cameron, who will talk about how we will educate and engage our members in the Bueri project. Should it be funded? Thank you. So that was looking at the Bueri. So we started macro. We went into the Bueri project kind of micro and we're pulling back out and seeing the other things that the birdhouse is gonna continue to do while the Bueri is ongoing. And these are things that fall outside of the budgetary ask that we're making, but we see that it's really a complimentary restoration strategy that we're not just on the land. We're gathering together to learn, to educate, to educate ourselves, to have difficult conversations, to seek solutions in the community context. And so that's through courses in ecosystem restoration, fire mitigation, which is such a concern for us here and fire mimicry, kind of bringing back some of those indigenous patterns to mimic traditional burning. Also our work with our Tongva instructor who are really excited to get programming here at the birdhouse. Music, arts and craft making. Again, it's all inspired by this biofilia. How are we really like building this culture of care through these cultural artifacts as well as through developing on the land base as well. Intentional conversations. This is our salon series where we're really seeking solutions to problems in a community context and continuing to work with volunteers from California and around the world through the ERC. This is a photo from our band of singers a while ago, a great performance we had here at the birdhouse. And this is one of our fearsome volunteers fully decked out with a compost scoop in hand. And we see that this restoration work of education engagement really brings back the inspiration and the social capital. So we are approaching DVC with this funding ask but on our side as well, we are working with our advisory council that we're getting together that includes John Lou as a restoration expert but also directors and producers in film and TV industry, financial impact planners, people who can really work to maximize the restoration impact, our visibility and the long-term financial sustainability. These are some of the advisors here and these are some of the partners that we've worked with over the last few years to start seeding this in terms of the ideas and establishing the name of the birdhouse and getting it on people's tongues so that they associate us with really, really positive development and ecosystem restoration work. So when we consider the future of the project, we're referring back to our birdhouse vision statement which is a lush and vibrant urban landscape where people are cooperating with nature to attain health and wellbeing born with genuine concern for each other and the environment. We hope that this spreads, we hope that this movement becomes contagious here, that they look to the example, they see things, they see an orchard go up on a hillside that they previously just saw was eroding and they want to know and they want to volunteer their properties so that our portfolio of parcels continues to grow over time. So we're actively managing more through our WERI program but that also that we're just inspiring other groups in other communities in different cities and in Los Angeles just to undertake the work and to go through their own local process of adapting and implementing this kind of strategy because we're driven by this question, not just how many trees can we plant but how can we ensure that the trees we plant are cared for across generations because this sort of seventh generation consciousness, I think it has to be built in right at the core of all this restoration work that we're doing if we really want this to be this kind of watershed moment in terms of planetary regeneration. So lastly, thank you so much on behalf of the Birdhouse for hearing our presentation today.


IonMPI brought to you by Digi-Key and Adafrit this week. It's CUI Devices Lediator. What is this week's new product introduction? This week's IonMPI is one of my favorite things. It's a USB PD power brick from CUI. So what it looks like? It's basically your kind of standard desktop power brick. This is a 30 watt power supply. It's got a USB-C cable on it and it's a multi-voltage USB PD power supply that you can you can see you can change the power plug to be you know US or UK or EU. And what I like about this series is the SDI 30 CUT series is basically this allows you to have a very high quality low quiescent current very efficient power supply that you can use for your products. It matches a lot of safety standards. It's UL. It's FCC. It's CE. All the safety and compliance you want and the best part is because it's USB PD sorry USB type C PD power delivery. You can use this one power plug for a vast number of projects and products that you may sell. So if you see down here sorry this is the data sheet. So you can see at the bottom there it says the output voltages for example 5 volts you can get 3 amps 9 volts 3 amps 15 volts 12 amps and 20 volts 1.5 amps so basically you know 30 watts maximum to get the maximum voltage of course you have to go to 15 or 20 volts you can't get that at 5 volts because USB-C doesn't really like to give you more than 3 amps no matter what the voltage but the power supply will automatically select the correct voltage based on the USB-C device that it's plugged into and I think that this is handy because this is a nice upgrade to what we've been using for the last like 20 30 50 years which is 5.5 millimeter slash 2.1 millimeter DC jacks. You have these you know I'm sure you have tons of these types of power adapters at home they look like this they're called wall warts because they're a little bit warty you plug them in and you get that 2.1 slash 5.5 millimeter jack on the end but the thing that's really annoying is every power adapter is slightly different so like this one for example is 9 volt 1 amp but you have to look on the label some are going to be 5 volts 2 amps some are going to be 20 volts half an amp I mean they can be any voltage you know almost any current limiting amount and some are you know AC only some are DC output some are positive tips some are negative tip you know there's one connector but it's used for like you know a variety of different voltages and current capabilities so you know one solution is well you can have one of these adjustable adapters where you can dial in voltages this is like I think a 3 to 12 volt adapter and you can see it's got that standard 5.5 2.1 millimeter end here's one from another company where you you can select different voltages and different tips almost everybody has one of these and then you immediately lose the tips and you're really annoyed because it's the one you wanted so basically everybody has a gigantic pile of power supplies for all the things in your house and you can never throw anything away because that's the one power supply you need you know because you need like some weird voltage like three volts at five amps for your battery charger or something so you know a couple years ago maybe 10 15 years ago a lot of companies especially companies making small gadgets and electronic devices were like we can't take it anymore first off the DC jack is a huge connector second you never know what you're gonna get and the risk is very high that people gonna plug in the wrong kind of adapter so let's go with USB because USB is 5 volts 5 watts 1 amp maybe 2 amps so you can get 10 watts if you don't mind having a thick cable so here's a CUI devices power adapter it's nice and svelte it's got this like oval shape very nifty looking you plug USB in and then you can use this to charge I mean this is really popularized by mobile phones you know everybody has this mobile phone or you know mobile music player or GPS or watch or whatever electronic device that you charge over USB or micro USB so you can get these with you know this is a version of the adapter that has the micro USB plug in it you have a Raspberry Pi computer you're well aware that this is how you power your Raspberry Pi basically or you know Arduino whatever very very common and this works wonderfully as long as what you're powering is 5 volts and no more than 10 watts so stuff that's powered off of a lithium-ion battery is great because lithium-ion batteries are 3.7 volts you know 4.2 volts you can power them and charge them from 5 you're good to go but the thing is that this doesn't solve the problem for larger devices in the house and that's where you know people basically said look we cannot you know if you have a tablet your 10 watts is actually not really enough to charge or run a tablet or a laptop so the USB implementation forum came up with the idea of power delivery which you're starting to see in a bunch of devices basically you can get up to 100 or even 200 watts of power different voltages and it's one plug but the client device not the power supply but the power sink negotiates it tells the supply what how much power how much current how much voltage it needs and then the power delivery device does its best so you can see here for example it's like you know USB 2 really was supposed to be 2.5 watts but really people used it at like you know 5 watts and then USB type C you know you can get up to 5 volts 3 amps you know with 1.2 and then PD which is very common now almost everything is USB PD 100 watts is easy and multiple different voltages which is great if you have devices that have 8.4 volts battery pack so you need 9 or 12 volts to charge them or it's a laptop or it's a monitor something like really needs a huge backlight or a lot of power it needs or it's a pump or something it needs you know up to 100 watts of power you can get that over USB C. One thing to note this is from the CUI blog by the way check out the blog they have a great in the text version of this there's a great blog post about USB PD you cannot I was kind of obvious but I didn't realize it depending on the wattage you need you're going to have to go with it a voltage that will provide up to that much current because you're really best off not trying to draw more than 3 amps over USB type C cable there are fancy cables you can do 5 amps but people don't always have the fancy cable so really do 3 amps which means that you know as you reach 30 watts you can't use 5 volts anymore you have to use like 15 or maybe the higher end of 9 so like just be aware right like the you know if you can't get more than 3 amps if you need 60 watts you need 20 volts to do that and if you get into the higher voltages you need these thick cables for USB C that can carry 5 amps but that said you can in this power adapters and do more than 30 watts anyways but if you get one of those 100 watt power supplies one thing I recommend and I'll that I'm going to show the demo with is we we stock in digikey stocks this little like USB like power throwing star it's really great because it'll tell you whether the voltage was what voltage was negotiated over USB PD it's great for testing because not every you know every device has some you know as you design your device and you have the USB PD sync you want to make sure that it works properly based on what power supplies plugged into because now you know if you're going to be using a power spike this people might plug it into their computer that cannot provide 12 volts or 20 volts it can only provide 5 your device just has to let people know hey I'm not in charge mode I'm you know in low power mode because I'm not getting the full amount or basically somehow communicate but to debug it I recommend one of these little adapters I use them every day and also have an excellent guide that one of our staff creative engineer R&D people wrote up all about USB see this graphic as also by a graphic designer check it out it's on the learning system learn.afer.com just search for USB type C and then let me show off the overhead this demo so okay here is the CUI devices so the thing to note with USB PD is what you want to look at is the output so you know again with us the non-USB PD power supplies is going to say like 5 volt 3 amps or 9 volt 1 amp with this it actually shows multiple voltages and compare this to earlier power supplies where you'd actually have like you sometimes get weirdo connectors with like four pins because you'd get like 5 volts and 12 volts this one provides only one voltage but it can provide any of these so you don't get like 20 volts at 1.5 amps plus 5 volts at 3 amps you have to choose one or the other and the way you choose is again there's this USB C cable on the end so I'm going to do a little bit of a I did a little bit of a hack because it's like I wanted to plug in different things so for example let's say I plug in you know and this is my my USB throwing starch this is the into the adapter and this is going to just visualize what the voltage is that it's getting so this is plugging into a QT PI which requires only 5 volts so you can see the voltage the V plus here is 5.05 so it negotiated 5 volts that's great and then what I wanted to do is I wanted to plug in from last week I showed off these funky cables that can give you that they have a PD sync chip inside of them that will request 20 volts from it so I have a little like USB jack-to-jack adapter so that's why I like got there just like wanted a quick adapter to convert the two so you can plug in this cable and then I have to plug it in and this time you'll see down here on the voltage it says 19.8 so it got 20 volts so basically this cable or your device you plug in the CUI adapter has to negotiate and say hey I want more than 5 volts use a special chip for that there's a lot of companies that make them they're only like a dollar or two but this way you know no matter what gets plugged in it can request the right voltage and if it doesn't get it it will know that didn't get the right voltage so I recommend if you're gonna get this power supply to integrate it debug with this and of course also get a proper USB PD sync chip to go along available and did you key in stock there's two versions one version has a power cable that's a USA you know three prong and one does not so if you're like why is one 25 bucks and one's 20 bucks that $25 one has the USB cable of the power cable that's on a piano


My fellow Americans, good news for this hot summer day. Tax reform is on its way toward final victory in the Congress. To return for the moment to my old role as a radio sportscaster, it's the bottom of the ninth. Tax reform is rounding third and heading home. We're about to score the winning run, not just of the game, but of the whole season. Still, we should remember, as Yogi Berra once said, the game isn't over till it's over. A half years ago, I instructed the Treasury Department to begin work on a revolutionary overhaul of our tax system that would make it fairer and simpler and stimulate growth by lowering tax rates. It's been a long, arduous struggle. Each step of the way, a chorus of pessimists predicted failure. It would never get by the special interests. Tax reform, they said, stood about as much chance as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Well, they forgot one thing. America didn't become great being pessimistic and cynical. America is built on a can-do spirit that sees every obstacle as a challenge. Every problem is an opportunity. Thanks to the support of the American people, tax reform has gained steadily in popularity and momentum, powering past the opposition and on to victory in both houses of Congress. Now, just last week, the Senate House Conference Committee approved an agreement that reconciles the Senate and House versions. We want to commend Chairman Packwood and Rostankowski for this great achievement. The next step is final approval, an up- or down-vote in both houses. There is absolutely no reason for any further delay, which only causes uncertainty and puts a damper on investment and economic growth. I urge Congress, when it reconvenes in September, to act promptly and make tax reform the law of the land. Let me give you a few of the highlights of this revolutionary tax overhaul. First of all, the present 14-rate structure will be collapsed into only two, and over 80% of the American people will pay the lower rate of only 15%, or will pay no taxes at all. The top individual and corporate rates will also be slashed, while many special tax breaks will be closed. All of this will draw America's investment money out from under-the-tax shelters and back into the productive economy where it belongs, and with index taxes to make sure inflation never again pushes Americans into higher tax brackets. Families will get a long overdue breakthrough increases in the standard deduction and personal exemption, and millions of working poor will be completely dropped from the tax rolls, making this one of the best anti-poverty programs this country has ever seen. We will no longer use the tax code to make economic and social policy. Instead, we're going to let market forces shape our economy into a sleek and efficient powerhouse of growth. With tax reform, America will have the lowest marginal rates and the most modern tax code in the industrialized world, one that encourages risk-taking, innovation, and that old American spirit of enterprise. We will be refueling the American growth economy with the kind of incentives that have helped create record numbers of new businesses and over 10.5 million jobs in 44 months. But America won't be able to grow and prosper indefinitely if the rest of the world economy is dragging behind. We're already beginning to see the slowing effects on our own economy of sluggish world growth. Without faster growth, other countries simply can't afford to buy as many of our goods and services, and that hurts American workers. Well, tax reform is good news for them, too. A British news magazine is described it as the beginning of a tax revolution that will, quote, stalk through the West, unquote, as our industrialized partners cut tax rates in their own countries in order to remain competitive with the American Dynamo. The Europeans have called our expansion the American Miracle and have talked enviously of our record of economic growth and job creation. Well, now is their opportunity to join us on the growth path to carry this revolution of hope and opportunity around the world and create a strong sound and growing world economy. Tax reform is the door to a bigger future, a future as big and hopeful and full of heart as the American dream, a future of expanding possibility and ever-increasing opportunity for all Americans, indeed, for the whole world. Until next week, thanks for listening. God bless you.


Assalamu alaikum, welcome to the beliefs of Islam with me Hassan Hadi. In today's episode we are going to talk about the existence of God in the light of the design argument from human language. As a matter of fact, there are numerous different theistic arguments which base their evidential nature upon inference from unique features of this universe, which seemingly have no other explanation other than within a supernatural design. These arguments, as have been referenced in previous episodes, are known as teleological arguments. Now, what is the definition of the teleological arguments? They simply are defined as a family of arguments which all infer from precision and design, which finds no valid explanation in anything other than a supernatural creator. Today we shall briefly be exploring one such teleological argument, which looks at the unique nature and experience of human language and linguistic capability. Humans are distinct from all other species we have come across until now, in their unique ability to develop and learn not merely one, but indeed several constructed languages, each one possessing unique features of complex stylistics and forms. Now, our argument will mainly focus upon one crucial point, namely that any naturalistic explanation of our human development of language falls fatally short of a viable feasible explanation of the difference between the human linguistic capabilities and the language skills of other animals. Now, to put this in a logical context, the argument has got the following premises. All human societies have language. They always have. Language was not invented and did not suppress. Contemporary grammars are no more complex than those of hunter-gatherers, that is to say, freestone age men. Humans are proficient language users, regardless of intelligence, social status or level of education. Children are fluent speakers of complex grammatical sentences by the age of three, without benefit of formal instruction. Children are capable of inventing languages that are more systematic than those they hear, showing resemblances to languages that they have never heard and obeying grammatical principles for which there is no evidence in their environments. Therefore, God does exist and endowed humans with an inability to acquire and use language. Now, to quote David Premek, a prominent behavioral psychologist, the dilemma of a naturalist is the following. I challenge the reader to reconstruct the scenario that would confer selective fitness or recursiveness. Language evolved. It is conjectured at a time when humans or proto-humans were hunting mastodons. Would it be of a great advantage for one of our ancestors, quoting alongside the embers, to be able to remark, beware of the short beast who is a frowned hoof bob-cracked when having forgotten his own spear back at camp. He got in a glancing blow with the dull spear he borrowed from Jack. Now, human language is an embarrassment for evolutionary theory because it's vastly more powerful than one can account for in terms of selective fitness. A semantic language with a simple mapping rules of a kind one might suppose a chimpanzee would have appears to confer all the advantages one normally associates with discussions of mastodon hunting or the like. For discussions of that kind, semantic classes structure dependent rules, recursion and arrest are overly powerful devices, absurdly so. This is for today, until we meet next episode. Thank you very much indeed. Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Happy Thursday, happy rewards day, and happy Thanksgiving to you guys that are celebrating. Again, we have some Black Friday market to talk about today because we had a little bit of stuff rise yesterday with no content, a new team of the week, road to the final cars moving, SBC fodder still staying inflated. I want to talk about, especially tonight, right before rewards, maybe with rewards coming, what you might see with the market. And of course, could this be kind of like our last chance to buy into some of these cards today on Thursday with whatever content comes, and then also tomorrow on early Friday. And I kind of want to explore a little bit of what could be happening maybe late into the night today, Thursday, depending on how rewards goes and how the content goes, and then on Friday as well, the start of the day. But a couple of things I want to point out really fast is this Erling Holland that we talked about yesterday on the video. He was about 120,000 coins last night. He did get in team of the week. And his team of the week card that came yesterday was at 500K right away in the first hour or so. So this Holland card bounced up nicely. Same thing with Theo Hernandez, because he did not get in team of the week. But that was kind of nice. So if he did buy any of those, you were chilling right there. Speaking of the new team of the week, we have rewards in a couple hours, right? And I don't think a lot of packs are going to be opened at rewards today. I feel like people are going to save those packs and save them for Friday. So the only packs that people might be opening are those guaranteed team of the week packs. Some people might be saving those still, because they might think if there's a best of team of the week coming out on the weekend, they might be able to pack those cards in those reds or not reds, but in the the tradeable team of the week packs, I don't believe that's the case. So I do think we'll see a lot of those open. So a market movement to watch out for today would be some of these cards getting supplied from the tradeable team of the week packs from the elite and higher players on the game. You know, we're still in like this, this market's just really in a dead state right now. Really, people, the markets not moving that much. We did see an uptick on some cards today, some out of packs, informs and some gold cards. I'll talk about that in a second. But a lot of stuff on the market is just kind of like dead and chilling because nobody really wants to buy it because they're waiting to see what happens on Friday with the actual promotion of Black Friday, especially with the the icon SBC that happened a couple days ago. That really messed up the market. But I do think these cards are going to fluctuate a little bit today. These guys don't have much supply at all. There were no tradeable packs that were released today. So their first real bit of supply, they're already low, in my opinion, for what kind of cards we have here and how fast they got to this price because without a lot of tradeable supply, if that makes sense. But with the rewards today, I do think these guys, some of them will dip and then some of them will rebound. Cards that I would expect to rebound a little bit after rewards from this team of the week would be Ronaldo, Lukaku, Carrasco, Holland and Neuer and Dignay. Those would be my picks to probably bounce a bit with the best bounces probably being Carrasco and Neuer. Maybe Holland will see. But just kind of keeping on those cards today. Now let's talk about the rest of the market for a second because I'll talk about SBC fodder in a second in terms of rewards. But again, if we're looking back towards yesterday with no content that came out on a Wednesday, you saw a lot of cards kind of bounce back a little bit. Pogba was 130, up to 140. Sun, I actually have five or six suns on my transfer list. I talked about this in the video yesterday too. Meta Golds and some of the out-of-packs informs that are very desirable are probably going to bounce back today or probably at least bounce back at rewards. I'm kind of a big fan of some of these Rule Breaker cards. This Llorente is one that I shouted on the Twitch live stream tonight. When we're live streaming on Twitch.tv, link is down below in the description of course. But this Llorente card was like chilling it in the 200, 205, under 210 range today. With the Carrasco card that came out, I think this card has a possibility of rising today just because I know the inform is cheaper. But this one has the boosted defensive stats. And I think people actually like this Rule Breaker's one and it's very rare. So a lot of cards right now have bounced back a little bit. And a perfect example is that Sun and Joe Gomez. Sun today was around 75,000 coins in the midday. I bought seven or eight of them at 75,000 coins. And as you can see now, here's an 80k. I do think today with rewards stuff is going to trend upwards. I wouldn't think it'd be a crazy upturn, but probably just a trend upwards. So you might see some of these cards go up. It might be a time to make a quick short flip. If you see any quick price drops before rewards on any informs, Rule Breaker's, or even some of the Meta Golds, you know, that could be a situation where you try to buy in on some of those and watch them rise a little bit. Like I was looking for Timo Werner. He's 104,000 coins. He was at 99k earlier today. He's really not up that much. Varan is 251. He was like 260 at one point. He was 240. Now he's gone to 251. Joe Gomez is up almost 10,000 coins. He was under 70k on snipe today and is now up to 76. I bought a Gomez at 67 and sold at 77 today. So that was a GG. But today mostly on the market, what we're kind of hoping for is a slight rise after rewards, possibly an opportunity for us to make a little bit of profit on some cards. And then depending on what the content is today at 6pm, you maybe see the market rise a little bit more into Friday night. I don't know about any leaks or loading screens. I would expect a loading screen today at 6pm UK last year. And I can look this up really fast. Black Friday FIFA 20. The loading screen that they had last year, it was this right here. Basically this was the loading screen. It was nothing big or revealing. I think that's all that it was. So it was really nothing that special. But I do expect some sort of a loading screen today. And hopefully we get more of an insight on what EA is going to do. Are they going to do best of Team of the Week? Or are they not going to? I still think they're going to because think about it this way, right? I was talking about this with a couple other friends today. They have to do something to sell packs. Yes, they can put Ronaldo and Team of the Week and that's going to sell some packs. But they have to do more than that, especially for a Black Friday promo, where a lot of people are getting the game. They need to have some sort of incentive, getting the game for the first time, I mean, some sort of incentive to put on FIFA points, buy FIFA points to open packs. So I think they're going to either put old special cards back into packs of some kind, either doing that in a new way this year with other cards in packs, or just doing best of Team of the Week, which I think has the highest possibility of happening. And once again, just to kind of reiterate what you might see is we've had a lot of sell-off on some of these cards, right? Mane last year went from 1.2 million coins almost down to 1 mil, even before he was released in best of Team of the Week, because people were expecting his release, right? We've already seen Messi drop off Bruno Fernandez. We've seen a lot of other high tier Marcus Rashford's inform drop off a lot already. But then again, once they get released into packs, they absolutely get destroyed with supply.  Honestly, this Messi card's down like 300K. Messi was 1.06 million coins today. Right now he's 1.11, so he's kind of dropping back down, but he's still fluctuating a decent amount. A central position changed Messi. Crazy that he's this low already. Just keep an eye out on this card today. Watch out for the panic selling. Is it an opportunity to buy in the panic selling? In my opinion, no. You don't want to buy these cards when they're going into packs, if they're going back into packs, and they're going to have tons and tons of supply. If EA does something different and doesn't end up releasing these cards into packs, like a best of Team of the Week, if they switch it up and do something different, then you're going to have an opportunity to buy these cards and see a massive rise if they're not getting released back into packs. But I think they are going to get re-released. This Ben Yetter card was 600K a few weeks ago. He was down to 400K just earlier this week. He's now bounced to 430. So if you have any of these cards, I still would consider it a last chance to get out of them unless EA changes it up and does something completely different with that best of Team of the Week. But this again kind of on cards that aren't in the best of Team of the Week. We have an opportunity here. This is kind of like maybe our last chance to buy some of these out-of-packs informs rule breakers if they do drop at all. For whatever content is released on Thursday, if they do put out a loading screen that gives us some information, and if we don't see too much of a market rise, or even before rewards now, if you see a low price, it would be a great time to buy an out-of-packs card in my opinion, because you just don't know how much panic we're going to see on Friday morning. Because a lot of people are starting to think about buying cards in that time frame. You just don't know how much panic we're actually going to see related to the Black Friday promo, and especially after 6pm on Friday with all this stuff happening as well. So this might be a chance where you say, hey, the market rose a little bit today. It's giving me a bit of confidence that people want to buy cards. You know, Valverde was $2.29 this morning. Joe Gomez was $3.70. Kimmich was $1.05. Zaha was $1.90. So a lot of these cards have started to rebound back a little bit. So, you know, they're maybe up a little bit. They're still going to go higher, right? Because we have a huge coin injection coming. A lot of people are going to be buying teams, and you're going to see these prices bounce up even more. Firmino is still low. Ramos was $2.30. So I'm kind of looking at this like a possible last chance, maybe not exactly like today on Thursday, but tonight, Thursday night, and Friday morning, if there is panic, could be kind of like a last chance buy time for some of these out-of-pack specials. Some of you guys have waited this long to buy. Some of you haven't, right?  And you're like, yo, man, this guy went down 10,000 coins. He's almost back up to where I bought him. Like, what do I do? Just keep holding, right? You bought in a very, very low time overall. Jimenez was $1.90. Now he went down to $1.50. He's got to be chilling, right? He went down to $1.49, $1.50. He's back up a little bit, right? We're starting to see a little bit of that bounce back, and that gives me confidence that, again, this market is just ready to buy. People have been waiting. They've been waiting for two weeks now. Some people have been waiting to buy the team that they have wanted to buy for Black Friday, and we're getting very close. Now, one thing that's made this market very interesting is the Champions League games that have happened in the past couple of days, and I think the Europa League games are going to impact that as well today. So, the main man, Quincy Promes, road to the final item, dropped a lot after the game today. Right now, he has 209,000 coins. He was just 200K on the market. A lot of these roads to the finals are dropping post game, and these guys are rare. I think these are really solid investments if it's a team that is either going to get third place and go to Europa League, but it's even better if a team is going to be top one or two and advance to the knockout rounds of Champions League because that means their upgrade is still going to be happening in December. Now, Quincy Promes and Ajax, they did win today, but since in their group, Atalanta beat Liverpool, it's looking more likely. It looks more, I guess there's a higher percentage chance, in my opinion, I think that Atalanta will stay up in the group, and that has made the card. Who's the striker from team number one that rose today? Muriel. So the Muriel striker card because he's from Atalanta, and they had the big game today. They were not looking good in the group. We've had flips in price on both sides of the coin. We have guys like Muriel. This guy's up like 10, 12,000 coins from where he was. He was 62K today. He was down under 50K earlier, and now he's back up to 60. Now, then you have guys like Promes who were 240, 250, and is now down to 200K because it's not looking as likely for him to get into that next round of the Champions League. Now, why did Promes drop? Is Promes still a decent investment? Yes, he's very hyped up. This in my mind is still a decent investment. Low 200s, if you can get him there, not a bad price. Now, I'm not sure about the PlayStation price. I have to check that in a second, but this is a very hyped up card in this game that people like to use regardless. He's got 82,000 games played and he has 3,400 upvotes on footbin. I know you can't see it at the moment, but very hyped up card, overpowered card with the four star weak foot and the five star skills in this game. Now, he doesn't get an upgrade. If they get third place in early December and he does, he won't get an upgrade when he turns into a Europa League card. He literally just won't get an upgrade when all the other ones do, even though he's still a live item. And if I ask get third and then go down to Europa, he'll still be live, but he will not get an upgrade at that point in time. He will have to wait until the spring when they would play their first rounds in Europa League and advance in order to get an upgrade. So that's kind of the bad situation with this promise, although there are Champions League games next week. I do think promos will rise back up because these cards are so rare and they just, they just plain rise back up from panic selling. We've already seen a little bit of a rise on guys like Akagi, right? Akagi after the Dortmund game went down to almost under 200,000 coins. He's back up to 215, even smaller drops like, like Draxler. Draxler was 60K, PSG won, giving themselves, putting themselves in a more favorable position for the next Champions League possibility of an upgrade. And Draxler is 50K right now, but he was under 50K today. And he's kind of bounced back to 52 if that 50K snipe was not there. Some of these Champions League cards did get sold off though. And that's why I wanted to point it out. If you have any Europa League cards that are still high, you might consider taking the cash. Renato Sanchez, Abameyang, Inditi, Diaby, Bruno Perez, any of the guys that are in team two as well. Because once they're guaranteed to get the upgrade, you might have a situation like Griezmann right here. Griezmann was 600K before the game. He's now 520. They're guaranteed to go to the next round. Barcelona is guaranteed to go to the knockout rounds and this guy has still dropped 60K. I think he rises over this weekend with Black Friday and continues to rise into early December just because it's a rare out-of-packs road to the final live item. So watch the drop offs on any of the Europa League cards today if their teams are going to be progressing into the next round. It's more likely that you see a drop in price just with the way the market is right now than an increase in price. The cards that have actually stayed the same, Salah, Zechariah, those items have stayed the same because I think they were pretty modestly priced before and they weren't over-invested in. Zechariah has actually dropped a little bit today, not much, but guys like Davies were way over-inflated. Rashford's down 100K. Klaus Schumann still is 340. He was 380, 390. And then you have cards that might not even get into your Europa League like Inter and the way Inter is playing right now, you have a parasitch card that is down at 33,000 coins after being 50K because Inter is sitting on two points at the very bottom of their group. So just kind of take advantage and or take a knowledge of what situation each team is in the group and if those cards are not destined for glory in Champions League or your Europa League, you're probably going to see those prices maybe go up a little bit from Black Friday. But I do like these roads to the final cards. Once the market gets confident again, I do feel like these cards are going to rise back up. So that was one of the big things I wanted to talk about today along with just the whole general market rise. Last thing I want to mention, SBC fodder. Let's talk about this for just a second. We have rewards in a couple hours or maybe you've watched this video and rewards have already come out. SBC fodder is dropping at the moment, slowly but surely. It's dropping all of these 86 is right 15 to 16k earlier today. They're now at 14 to 15. Nobody can do the base icon SBC twice. Everybody is completing it. You know, an SBC completion rate is like a downward sloping curve right away. It's like it's very high. It's hype. And then as time goes on, if it's non repeatable, it just goes down because the number of people that can actually do the SBC, they've already done it. They can't do it anymore. So a lot of this fodder is dropping with even though there's a little bit of packs probably being open today, not many. I do expect SBC fodder to drop today on the market. So if you have any stuff that you want to cash out on, you can cash it out. If you're still invested and you're not sure what to do, should I sell? Should I hold through Black Friday? All I'm saying is there's going to be a lot of packs apply on Friday. I don't really expect any content today, except tradable market matchups. That just is going to add supply to the market for this SBC fodder with really not a ton of demand right now. We have icons. Yes, we have a team of the week SBC. Yes with Ronaldo. Maybe you see these 83s drop and then rebound a little bit today on Thursday. But all I'm saying is if you have SBC fodder, and you're still making coins, maybe you cash out on it or you're or you either cash out now and get your coins and try to invest in something else and buy a team, or you just continue holding on and hope for the absolute best after Black Friday actually comes in two days. So or in one day. So that's kind of where I'm feeling with the whole market at this point. Again, I'll show you what I bought for a technical Thursday flip today. My Goma has already sold. I had this Carrasco. I bought a 77k. He rebounded to 82 a little bit from team of the week fluctuations today. And then all of these sons, I bought one Konate at 40. These walkers I bought earlier in the week at 65. And all of these Shunmin sons after I get past my Dumfries that I need to sell, all of these Shunmin sons I bought at 75, 74 to 75k today. And I would love to get another six to seven K a card out of them after rewards because I do think there are going to be people that buy some teams today because they're just used to buying and selling on Thursdays and buying their teams on Thursdays for weekend. So it's probably like the last dead day on the market, boys. Today, Thursday, probably not a lot of content, maybe a loading screen, maybe an SBC, marquee matchups. I don't expect a ton to happen today unless EA has something fancy up their sleeve. This should be like the last dead day on the market. I'm excited for big things to happen tomorrow. Get ready. Get your coins liquid. If you want to be liquid, I'm going to be rolling up to Friday morning with all of my Thursday flips sold so that I have all my coins right at the ready for Friday with Black Friday with panic selling, hopefully in the morning we get some panic. I would like that possible coin making opportunities. We'll talk about it all tomorrow's video as well. Hopefully we learned something about Black Friday today through a loading screen through a foot watch tweet or anything like that. So if you enjoyed the video, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nate the Foot Accountant, catch you guys later. Peace out.


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