Granny have some mercy please please granny. I'm asking for mercy. Oh god. No. No. Oh my gosh.  We're gonna be trying to extreme nightmare mode Why are you running? I know it's gonna be pretty darn impossible, but let's just try to see how this goes All right, and before we start this video guys, let's try to get this video to 700. So we can that would be awesome Okay, so I think I already have everything set up. Okay, extreme high. Okay. High quality and nightmare darker Okay, so granny moves faster than you to extra locks on the main door darker mode is on what wasn't that great granny's way faster And there's more locks on the main door like how more can to make this impossible and they also I think I believe they Added like a new trap on the nightmare mode. So let's check that out Yes, yes, yes, we know. Oh god. I didn't even want to try this. It's gonna be impossible man. Oh God, but let's see. I'm pretty sure we'll be able to get a little far into this Day one. Okay, so you still have five days, right? I mean you should be able to Okay, so what's different about this extreme darker? Okay, I see the difference now Everything is so like red look like there's blood everywhere Okay, I'm scared. Oh god, I don't even want to get out of here. Okay Well first of all we need to make sure granny's not lurking. Okay, let's just drop this Let's go down here Why is it not working? Oh, there you go. Oh god, let's see if granny looks any different Maybe she has like blood on her if she does that would be epic and I noticed the music is different as well Okay, we can't really tell The granny looks different or not.  Oh my god. There's a rat. There's rats on the extreme mode or I mean nightmare mode That is scary. How do they want to get out of here? We're like, what if she's just chilling there? Remember guys. She is faster than she normally is Okay, this oh my god. Look at the new trap. Oh my god. It's like a Venus flytrap Okay, uh It's so scary and dark.  Let's just close the door Wait, I can't even close it. It's not letting me close the door right there you go Anything in here? Nope. Oh God, hopefully she didn't hear that.  What oh I hear rat that is not Dude, we didn't even hear her creep up Okay, this is way more intense This is not a game anymore. This is life or death Dude, she's so quick Now I did hear the rat make it make a noise before granny got us so maybe the rats let you know when granny's near So that's something we have to pay attention to Okay, dude, she unexpectedly got us from the back Okay, there she is I'm not gonna tell you where I am What do you think I'm crazy? Okay, she came in let's wait for it to get out. I Don't want to get out of here because I feel like okay. She put a trap down Dude, it's so dark. You can't even tell. Oh My god, there's two traps here Okay, that one disappeared nice. Oh the rats was a rat on the trap. I think the rat was eating the trap or something That is nasty.  Okay, let's open this Okay, open sesame. Oh, we got a shotgun part We can definitely use this because this nightmare mode is is super crazy Okay, your granny's laughs somewhere. Okay, I think we're good to go Like I said, I think we're good. It's not a for sure There's no way to I run this lady All right, man. Well granny's just too quick. We're gonna have to like break her ankles or something in order to Get away from her Okay, so we're on day three I Let's see if we do any better on day three Okay, let's open this okay, I'm a savage. I'm just gonna run out here man. Oh My god, there's a trap right there.   Okay, let's go up here Have a feeling she's behind us Because you just can't tell in this mode But let's just drop that to make her come up here and then so she can leave afterwards. Look at how fast she walks. Oh My god, you got a chill man. I don't know granny was that quick And the mannequin just spawned behind her Although there's a rat coming this way. Get out of here They're not bite me That's where I'll smash that that rat if I could okay, so we need to get the hammer or something We need to find something to like at least make some progress Because so far it's just been hide-and-seek with granny because I mean it is my first time and it is kind of Impossible to run out run her as she is quicker in this nightmare mode Okay, I think we're Gucci. Oh God, what was that? Oh no crowds crotch crotch crotch crotch crotch. Okay, hurry. I'm sorry I just panic a little because I mean she's really quick Is she up here? Oh My god, there she is My god, how do you not see us? We're like right in your face I'm even scared to drop down there because you can catch up to us. My god. Look at the rat What are you doing? Is he licking himself think the rat is licking himself can let's drop that Make it come up here. Then we drop down here and we'll go to the first floor.   She does not give up I give that a granny like she's always determined like she never gets up no matter what Okay, so do we okay. We stop to open this Hopefully she's not over here. Oh my god.  I don't want to grab that. Okay. I don't think we need the gasoline. Oh God, no all the shotgun part we can granny come in here Okay, she can I hear her walking Let's run down here and hide Okay, let's just chill here for a second I don't know if she can open that door or not because I mean she can open doors Okay, she doesn't open it, but it sounds like she's still in this area Dude, she's right there She's trying to get through the door Granny's trying to get through the door. Oh my god. How are we gonna get out of here? She's camping right there Why is she laughing? This is not funny Dude, I swear we open this and granny's right there I'm just gonna quit. I'm gonna quit this game There's nothing She was camping there the whole time we were so we weren't just stuck there no matter what we would have done I mean that was the only way out That is not fair. She was just camping. Oh my god Okay, so we're out there for oh no, we got the blood all over our screen now Because we're on our last day Wait, there's a day four and it finishes our day five. I think it's a day five, right? Okay, open this okay, there's nothing in here What a coincidence that granny was gonna be right outside the door day five the last day We did so terrible man.  It's my first try. Okay, I swear it is. I mean you can only tell by my gameplay Because it's just dropped us this place safely. Okay. Why is she not coming? There's granny Hopefully the rat doesn't come down here because I feel like if it bites us one more time or at least once We're gonna die because our screen already has blood on it. Okay, there she goes Bye granny, okay, let's go. Let's go go go go. Okay. I hear her over there. Oh We dropped the paintings I feel like it's the safest way.  I don't know man. I'm just gonna drop down here. I feel safe when I dropped out here because like granny can't get us To that music though Is she coming over here? Did I hear steps? Hey crow or raven Just chilling in there I think that's the music. I don't think that's granny Okay, let's grab the shotgun part Okay, let's try to at least put together the shotgun so we can defend ourselves Because I want to shoot granny at least once get some revenge Wait, it's locked What? Why is this locked? We can't get around this. Oh my god, this must be because of the nightmare mode This is not fair at all. This is like our this is our gateway to escape granny Oh my god, and I have my granny's on this side now I do not want to go up the stairs. I know she's gonna be there Dude, it's so dark Did I just drop something? No And granny got us Well Oh god, let's see what ending we get. Oh no, she's gonna run us over with the car Granny, don't do it. Oh my gosh. She's a savage granny. Have some mercy. Please. Please granny I'm asking for mercy. Oh god. No. No. Oh my gosh. She's even going back And she just ran us over we were pinned against the garage door and she ran into us game over Well That was it you guys granny. Oh my god. Look at this ad donuts. This looks delicious I want donuts now. Oh, man. What no, I don't want to play cooking fever would even whatever that is All right, you guys so thank you guys for watching Thank you guys for the major support if you guys enjoyed the video make sure to slap the like button If you need a channel make sure to subscribe and turn that notification bell on and I will see you guys in the next one Bye


Hey, it's Bridget. Welcome to Sunday morning coffee with Bridget. So I'm recording this audio on a Saturday and I'm trying to do some things around the house. Some days are hard, you know. Some days are just harder than others and I'm going through things and boxes and bins and drawers and trying to organize a bit. What's the big kids stuff and get things kind of situated in my space downstairs where then I can move all the kids crap so I can set up a little sitting area living room for myself and have some Bridget space. That's a little more organized right now. It's kind of a makeshift and I want it to feel a little more homey and cozy and I got some great terracotta orange colored comfy cozy chairs and with an ottoman and it just so happens to match this blanket that I have and it's just beautiful and I got them for free. It's so great. You know how that is. It's like, wow, right place, right time. Very sacred chakra for sure. So I'm sitting in the greenhouse right now. I used to work in here a lot. I used to do a lot of work in here and I'm looking outside and I see the trees just moving and grooving in the wind. It's a chilly October day here. It's like 32 degrees out. The sun just came out though. So that's always a positive perk for me. I love the sun and In the middle of the hard moments the difficult moments There are also breaks. We get a break. We get a pause. I'm just sitting right now trying to remember why it is I came in here in the first place and I found myself feeling, feeling a lot. There was a lot of emotion and so I gave myself permission to sit down, just sit and be in one of those breaks. Breaks aren't always breakdowns. Breakups. Breaking apart. Sometimes they're breaking open. Breaking into. Breaking through. It's just perspective, isn't it? I think that's kind of what life's all about, right? The way you look at it. I remember there was a quote by Wayne Dyer, Dr. Wayne Dyer, that said, If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change. Something like that. And it was probably from someone else. It could have been Hafeez. It could have been Carl Jung. It could have been any number of people that he would have quoted. But I've heard him say that so many times, but it's true. It's really true. So in this moment I look outside and I see the grass turning a little more yellow than green. And the leaves on the many, many trees that lie in the backyard are definitely more yellow than green. And they're getting sparse. The leaves are changing. I know. I know it's cliche. As are we. Nature shows us how to change and slow down. I know. I know. And with the air element present, I know that that is an affirmation. That's really true. So the other day I had an astrology reading thinking about air and the air sign. Aries is in two of my things. I don't know what it is. The moon and something rising is both Aries. And then of course my son is Aquarius. And it really opened me up to understanding in a way the pattern of the last year and a half or so that, wow, okay, so this was kind of planned, you know, like this was not just something I randomly made up in my head because right now it kind of feels like that. Do you ever go through a lot of stuff like just so much just churning and churning and churning and happening and changing and you and the people around you and your loved ones and your kids and your job and in your relationships and your love life and all of the, everything just changing, right? And it's turning so much that it's like, wait, what? So I catch myself looking back and saying, did I just dream that like, was that a dream? Or did that actually happen? Wait, what did that happen? Was that a dream? You know, it's like, do I have any proof of that? Well, I have a few pictures. Maybe that can put the memories together for me and affirm to me that, yeah, that happened. Do you ever feel like that? And with this astrology, this energetic of understanding the map with the stars and the universe and more of a cosmic look at our life as humans, it really certainly affirmed for me that, yeah, wow, okay, all the things I know about reincarnation and soul charts and how we have interactions with people for a purpose and a reason and how there are different life purposes that we as spirits agree to and come into so that we can fulfill in different areas of lives, which is the point of all the houses and astrology and different sections of your life. And when things move across, it creates change or it brings somebody in or make somebody leave or like there's all these incredible, it feels planned things and how that occurs is different. Now, I know this because I experience it through energetics. When I'm in a session with you, I experience it and excuse me, excuse me, sorry. I'm sorry if you're listening with your AirPods in. Oh, I'm sorry about that. And you all know I don't edit, right? Yeah, we're just having a conversation between friends. And I know because I see it, I read energy, that's what I do. That's why I'm a really good intuitive coach. All right, it's not because I know everything that's going to happen in your life, but I know what your soul tells me and shows me as your patterns, your life themes, the things that you play out in multiple, like in astrology would be in multiple houses and money and career and love, all of that stuff. It's all interconnected. It's this big web of life, this big web. And it's intended to support us and to reassure us that we're not alone and for us to ask for guidance from our human friends and support systems and also from our spirit friends and support systems, like spirit guides and angels and totem animals and ancestors and saints and goddesses and deities and all of it, everyone, you know. And we sometimes forget that I think in these moments, like right now I'm just sitting here and I do feel supported and I feel super, super in tune with my body that when the emotion comes up to stop and just let it come up and let it be with me and let myself feel it without having to explain it or know exactly what it's attached to. Sometimes I have a thought that comes in my head or a remembrance, a memory and it flashes and then it settles and then it hurts, you know, it hurts. And then I think to myself, did I make that up? Did I? Did that actually happen? Did any of this actually happen? I think life feels like that a lot, doesn't it? Especially when it's moving so quickly and there's layers upon layers of things. And I know, psychically and spiritually lately, I can attest to the fact that at least the last six, eight months, maybe even a year now, the timelines have been so squishy. It's been not clear. It's like, who's life am I living anyway? Yes, that's the point of how the timelines are squishy.  Like it really can be that simple and subtle, but it's connected to something deeper and more thematic related to your life. And so it moves and shakes out some of the resistance that softens the edges for you so that then you can flow more freely into what's next for you. But there's two important pieces I want to mention about this is that what's now and what's next, really important, super important. When the past comes up, when the memories come up, when, when that emotion is brought to the surface, let it move. Let it come and move because if you push it back down, it's going to come back up again, probably with a vengeance because you ignored it and you stuffed it and it might come attached to something else that's harder to handle. So pause when you have a break, pause, just sit the F down and let it happen.     She knows exactly who she is. And she knows that, yeah, the hard times, the hard moments, they're just moments, they're temporary. And because I know that, that also means I know that the good moments, the joy that has been in my life and will be again is also temporary. It's moments, the hard and the joy, the hard times and the joy and the enjoyment, the pleasurable times, the pleasure, the hardships and the pleasure. They're not associated or connected to any one person, hardship and pleasure, the hard stuff and the good stuff. It's not connected to any one time of your life. The hard stuff and the good stuff is not connected to any place that you've lived. The hard stuff and the good stuff is not connected to any one scenario or set of circumstances in your life. The hard stuff and the good stuff is the balance. It's the yin yang. It's the difference between a breakdown and a breakthrough. It's the difference between falling apart and falling back into place. It's the beauty of life. It's the rhythm. It's the natural cadence of things. So in this moment, I just take a breath and I look at the gorgeous blue sky. I love the sky. You know I love the sky. If you watch my Instagram on Bridget inspired, you know how much I love sky pictures of gorgeous clouds moving and shifting and bringing messages, those sky dancer energetics, those soul messages and those spirit guides just showing right up for you. It's momentary, isn't it? Truly, everything is temporary. This is why they say life is a gift. It is. It is. Don't wait to live it. Please don't wait. Even when there's hard times and that you're going through a major transformation. Oh my gosh. The astrologer said, okay, she's looking at my charts, my, uh, oh gosh, I don't know how it, my transits and my progressions. I think that's right.  And I said, yes, yes, indeed. True that true that she's kind of laughed and she said, well, I'm thinking, Oh my gosh, I said, any, any chance that that's going to let up soon. She says, No, okay. Gotta love the truth, right? Yeah, I'm like, please lie to me, please just, can you just please lie to me? No, I will be much more offended in the long run. If you lie to me, trust me on that. It's better to hurt me with the truth than to manipulate me with a lie, right? Isn't that how it goes? So I'm like, okay, okay. All right, transformation. Yeah, indeed it's happening. That indeed is happening. And some really deeply personal stuff has been, wow, like she just made sense of so many things. And then I said, wait, what? And she says, you're unconventional. Your life is going to look different than other people's lives. Your business, your approach to business, your approach to healing, your approach to your work is going to be different. You're innovative. You're out of the box. She said, you're cutting edge, not everybody's going to get that.  I'm like, okay, I get that, I get it. And she's also said, um, yeah, and personally, your life is going to look different than other people's lives. And that's okay. And I'm like, Oh God, yes, indeed it sure is. That's right. And that's okay. You know, that's why business is business and personal is personal, right? That everybody needs to know your business. That's interesting. Yeah, I am working on some things though, business wise, I will share. There's a couple of things that are really, it's fascinating because things are bubbling up and I shared with her, she kept repeating this pattern about wellness and healing. And for me, it's the word I use as embodiment. You've heard me use it before. And I'm like, yeah, it makes sense. It makes sense. And there's all these opportunities I have for advancement in that and certifications and trainings and all that. And not necessarily to qualify me, but to give me the wisdom and the knowledge for my brain to be able to access and tap into in order to be able to translate very spiritual, energetic information into a way that's very practical. You know, that's my purpose. I do that. That's my goal and everything I do is to make spirituality practical, to make energy understood, to make intuition, not a weird woo woo thing, but a really cool natural resource you can tap into. That's what all this is about here on above life channel. That's what Sunday morning coffee is about helping to translate some of these themes that are showing up. And I share through the energetics that I'm seeing in sessions. Oh my gosh, last week, you all just broke down my doors asking for sessions. I hadn't had sessions, maybe one a week for like three weeks. And all of a sudden last week, I had like double like four sessions at like, I'm like, wait a minute, people reached out to me and I'm like, wait, what? I added three sessions on my books in a matter of a day and a half. I was like, this is cool. But when that happens, I know something, something sums up, right? It sums up. So here we are in this moment, taking a break, sitting in stillness. It's so quiet in here. It's so quiet. The cold floor is making my butt numb. So sensory wise, I can feel, so that's a good thing. I'm actually feeling my body, which is good. My body is also moving through some things because I'm doing a a natural pathic reset. I've been doing natural path to help with some of the stress and the the adrenal overload, toxic levels of things that have been showing up for me. I need to really pay attention to my body. And so I'm doing a reset, which as you know, if you've done it before, it can really mess you up for a bit. Yeah, can shake things up. The hardest part for me, honestly, is like the absolutely no sugar. I mean, I'm good with the no gluten, no starches, no dairy. I'm fine with that stuff. That's no big deal. But end the no caffeine. Oh my God. Oh my God. Sunday morning coffee with the Bridget. Guess what? I'm still having coffee. I'm trying to do half seas. I'm trying to do half seas. And I told her, I said the first week I'm weaning off it, I'll wean off it. Now I'm drinking some dandelion root thing, which actually is good. I should actually look it up and give you guys a link because it's good. It is good coffee. I can't even do mushrooms, you guys. So my mushroom based coffees that I use, I can't do that, but I can do tea, no caffeine, which is fine natural herbal tea. So I've been doing that and that's good. And it's just, it's fat. The only kind of oil I can use is coconut oil right now. And it's just for a month, just getting everything reset. The focus is on the digestive system, the liver. And because my adrenal system is like way maxed out, so tapped out cortisol is like running a muck in my body along with some other hormonal things. And I just am like, Oh my gosh. So yeah, challenging people are having challenges with weight gain. I'm having challenges with too much weight loss. So yeah, if you've noticed that in a personal note, if you've noticed that on my videos, just don't worry about me. I'm okay. I'm getting all of my stuff checked out. I know it's been dramatic. If you've noticed, I know, trust me, I know, and I'm on it, I'm on it. It's just, it's too much. I know. And it's not because I'm excessively exercising. That's not happening. So don't worry about me if you've noticed that I'm taking care of myself and being healthy as I can. And given it's going to be a couple months, and I probably will lose a little more weight this month because of the clearing and the detox that's happening, the reset, it's not really a detox, it's a reset. And that probably will happen for four to six weeks. And then I'll step into a little bit of an adjusted diet. And then the third month, we'll start experimenting with some different things to help support the hormonal levels in the body. And then we'll see what happens from there. So I'm okay. It's a commitment. And I love me. So I'm going to honor me. So, and yeah, things have been really hard. And so my body is in need of love. Before she breaks down, I am working with her and giving her breaks and helping her move through to a breakthrough. So yeah, don't worry, I'll be gaining some weight in the future. That's for damn sure. Yeah, it's tricky though, like eating the whole animal protein thing is harder for me than I thought it was going to be. And so I've had to add that back in this month and it makes me a little bit sad. But also, I'm eating it in a very honorable, loving, very respectful way. So if my vegan friends, my vegetarian friends, or my vegan friends rather, just just know that that's what I'm doing. And I can't really do red meat much anyway at all. My body just does not like it. So I'm not doing that. But there's some things I have to do this month just to really get my body in alignment. So just know that if you read energy, you're going to notice that's why I share this here on Sunday morning coffee. I'd rather share it here than on a video. But wow, there's so much perspective in this life, isn't there? Ups and downs. And like I said, it's just moments, moments, everything is temporary. And that's why the beauty of nature is something to be admired. That's why I create poetry. I live for it now. I live for it. It fills me up at re ignites the light inside me that sometimes feels like it's gone out. Highly recommend poetry. I've been writing it also. I've kind of teased that a bit. Yes, I will share it. I promise I promise you I will share it with you. And additionally, I'm working on Berry Grasshopper. YouTube is coming back now. Little bit by little bit, I'm going through all the videos and trying to put them back online again. And so they're going to come out in some random order right now, just so you know, but at least there's something there for you to tap into. There's a couple, there's going to be some videos you haven't seen before because I didn't share them. Like I have a tendency to be a massive creator and I don't share them because I was, I'll do like four videos in a day and I'm not going to bombard you with that. But then I forget to launch them. So you're going to see some probably from last year at this time. And so they might seem out of context, but just focus on the content. Okay. Wow. So I don't know what to call this life updates. Let's call it breaks. Let's call it breaks. Take a break. Give yourself a break. Cut yourself some slack. Don't be so hard on yourself, my dear. Please see, I'm feeling a lot today. It doesn't mean I'm like every day is awful or every part of my day is awful. No way. I have a kid coming home from the college arena to come visit me again today. Like all of a sudden they're like, Hey, I miss home. I want to come home. I'm like, yeah, let's go. Then let's go to the pumpkin patch and get some pumpkins. Let's do that.  She and I will have a good time with that and have some girl time. I need some girl time. I live in a house filled with the non girls for the most part, you know, so it's like, Hey, looking forward to that. But in the meantime, I'm sifting and sorting things. And I think that she's checking on me too actually, which is kind of sweet. I appreciate that. You know, when your kids get bigger and older and then they check on you, it's so sweet. See moments, moments. Don't let them pass you by. Take a break, pause, take it in. Be in stillness, be in the quiet and just really feel the peace during the breaks. Let the emotions come because what comes after it is a nice exhale. And then the next in breath brings peace and calm. And that's what's needed in the moment, even as your heart is breaking and the memories will still come. And you'll still ask yourself, I promise you this, did that really happen? And the answer to that question is I'm really not sure. I don't quite know. I don't quite know what all that was, what it is and what it means. I think time will tell. Don't be too hard on yourself, please.  Take care of your beautiful, sweet heart. Your soul will guide you if you let it. Tell your mind to take a break. Take a break. It's okay. I am sending you all so much love and hugs. I'm with you 100%. I got your back. I always will have your back. Thank you so much for listening to this kind of deep, actually, Sunday morning coffee in person with Bridget. I hope I've inspired your spirit and filled you with some hope today. Reassurance. Reassurance. Okay? It's not just you. You're not cray-cray.  I don't really know unless you have a session with me that I'll tell you. But this is your life, moment to moment to moment, okay? And you get to live it. Please don't wait. Don't get sucked up by the bad or feel too stuck in one moment that feels too heavy and tough. Keep moving through, moving with emotion, flowing with the energy that's present today for you. Okay? Flow with. Don't deny it. Flow with and receive the gift of life that you have been given. It's your life after all, and you get the opportunity to live it. So please just live it. Just live it.


What have you seen so far this spring in terms of guys like Tyon and Kluber answering some of the concerns that you might have had going in at least three weeks and what have they shown you? Still kicking. I answer early, you know, everybody is getting their work in and and you know so so far so good I guess is all I could say you know we're it's such a early stage of the game you could this is all we could hope for at this stage right now which is you know for the most part everybody but Clark Schmidt has taken the ball and getting their work in and and you know working on areas of deficiency as well as building up their their you know their strength and endurance as they prepare for a start of a season and in some cases where they might slot you know whether it's in our pen in our rotation or waiting in the wings at the alternate slight alternate sites slash spring training so but you know it's good to you know get to know I think from the staff's perspective and then some of the teammates perspective you know it's good to obviously start to you know introduce you know the Kluber's and the Jameson Tyons into the the Yankee network and allow them to find their their way and you know the early returns are are are good but you know um you know the standing the records in the standings are still the same where we've got no wins we've got no losses obviously because the season hasn't been started yet so we're just hopeful that they're all the work eventually will pay off when when it's lights camera and action ready to go come April take another from Sweeney Murdy hey Cash Aaron kind of joked about the idea that you'd really be lost without Carlos Mendoza I know he had a chance he was under consideration for some managerial openings in the offseason you what do you think basically just his skill set how important he is to you and what his future might be as a manager yeah I think I think the industry recognizes who Carlos Mendoza is you know we started getting a number of manager requests on him and and obviously you know he took his his shot at you know the managerial spots up in you know Boston as well as Detroit and they went other directions but Carlos is extremely talented extremely organized bilingual you know the players trust him you know he's a superior candidate for the next chair you know within the industry and and we're fortunate right now that he's here and he's served us well every step of the way in every capacity he's served us and you know he's obviously you get nervous when you have somebody you know I remember I've been around a long time now so when Mark Newman was was running major league spring training you know for essentially being our camp coordinator under you know back in the day for Joe Torrey you know then we transitioned to Rob Thompson for an extended period of time after Mark Newman and when we transitioned from Mark to Rob there was a great deal of trepidation and when we transferred from Rob to Carlos there was a great deal trepidation because those prior people were so good at what they did and and camps ran seamless and and it's a real you know you know a real fortune for the New York Yankees that obviously Mendy allowed that transition to to go without without skipping a beat clearly he is organized he is extremely knowledgeable you know I don't know if anybody works harder than Carlos Mendoza and his ceiling is extremely high so I was bracing myself if we lost him it's one of those situations where it's almost like you put one of these players on the waiver wire and you're like man I like and when I called Greg Allen and told for assignment for instance and so like listen we acquired you this was not the intent but selfishly hoping that we retain you but I know privately you're hoping you go somewhere else and same thing when you deal with these coaches at interview for higher positions and like you brace yourself for losing somebody like a Carlos Mendoza because they're almost impossible you know quality talent to replace and then you thankful selfishly when they're still here but his day is coming without a doubt he is going to manage a major league team and I think he's going to be really good at it we go next to Marley Rivera my gosh just a quick one on Aaron how hard is it to keep your manager out of the dugout well you know he doesn't even sit in the dugout right during the games a lot during spring training all these guys sit along the side you know but um you know I guess it's really hard for him probably you know it's not something he's used to uh I can tell you this though I was he FaceTimed me uh might have been seven ten you know I couldn't tell you uh maybe you guys know I don't know when the exact time of his procedure was that afternoon whether it was four was four thirty five five thirty all of a sudden we have that night game starts at six thirty day of his procedure uh and at seven ten range I get a FaceTime and it's Aaron Boone and I my oh my gosh I pick up and the the energy uh how good he looked uh the personality was so vibrant he's like hey what are you doing I'm like how are you feeling and he's like I feel great and I'm like wow it was just again uh a real tip of the cap to the the expertise in the medical field and what these exceptional doctors and their specialty or areas are able to do for for uh for people it's just incredible and um you know for him to be you know to have to go under have this procedure and within an hour or so next to him he's he's back up and running as if nothing really happened at all it was a it was incredible so I know he's chomping at the bit to get back into that dugout back into the Yankee uniform uh frustrated with the COVID intake process but he understood that going in and uh but the greatest thing is that he just feels amazing uh and uh you know he's shared with me how uh how amazing he feels now kind of in retrospect you know uh made him realize how how unamazing he was really feeling over the wintertime so thankfully he he acted on you know his impulses and had it checked out but he you know the newer version of him is you know I'm good I'm happy for him and happy for his family and happy for us we go next to Pete Caldera and Brian did you give us an idea where Luis Severino is in his rehab and uh if he has a date to throw his first bullpin yeah I'm sorry I uh I don't have I I don't want to give a wrong information it's going really well I know that uh you know he's been doing his flat ground throwing program and I believe he's due to get on the mound here shortly but I can't I don't want to give you the wrong information I wasn't prepared for that I apologize um you know obviously Matt Blake will have that Aaron Boone will have that um I do get his rehab program and follow it but I I don't have the exact uh bullpen date I'd rather tell you after he does it rather than he's supposed to do it on this date just in case he doesn't do it on that date so it's probably a safer way to go anyway we go to Dan Martin Dan please unmute Brian it seems like you were able to uh to slide in Gardner Justin Wilson in no day uh after the trade of autobino is that kind of what your mindset was when that trade was made and what do you think of the the depth that you were able to acquire there towards the end of uh I guess free agency or like the four camp yeah the autobino deal was difficult um we wanted to buy some flexibility so obviously taking a talented pitcher that I know is going to do really well I remember when I had to talk to Otto on the phone and and give him the surprise news that not only were you traded or or being traded but you're going to our our tribal and as we all know we we're a very we're completely right handed lineup for the most part and so and we play obviously Boston you know within our division you know more more times than you want so uh you know it's going to create great lanes for him um and he's going to have the hell of a year for them I'm sure uh so that wasn't an easy situation but like again if you get a focus when you make these type of decisions of what's in it for you and what kind of benefits you know will this potentially create no guarantees uh and we were able to redeploy uh some of those uh funds that created that flexibility and and haven't manifest itself ultimately in a dare no day uh and Justin Wilson and and uh and obviously Gordy and and you know that was the ultimate hope but there was no guarantee as you enter the process because free agency is a very fluid situation so you know the method to that madness was to buy flexibility you can utilize either an hour later and uh you know it you know we decided to you know with the conversations we had with the various players uh in free agency that we were able to to utilize it now uh and hopefully we're better served for that um but you know it was not easy to to make those type of decisions because I think Otto obviously is going to have a a terrific year I think as I've discussed whether it's a Gary Sanchez or other people that did not have the type of years that in a 60 game season I think that short sample size not a good reflection of of you know what Otto was I think what really Otto is is more like the year before the COVID season last year and and I think you're going to see that obviously re-emerge you know in Boston but we are excited about O'Day and we're excited about Justin Wilson and we're excited about you know obviously having Gordy return as well and and we're hoping those players uh you know can help you know Aaron Boone and our staff uh you know hit that wind column a lot we go next to Brendan Cuddy Brendan Hey Cash thank you for taking the time what are the early reports you're getting on Glebert Torres from coaches, teammates? Good you know I uh everything uh he's in good shape um you know I I believe everybody here in camp you know is reported in and top shape and uh and you know ready to get after it so that's a really encouraging circumstance that's you know that's the way you want it from you know uh from you know the starting gate which is what you're working with and then uh and then go from there and it sounds like everybody here for the 2021 spring training showed up uh you know ready to go and um I think another year of Eric Cressy uh and his staff uh you know getting to know the players uh you know kind of sell um you know programs for instance uh you get some buy-in or a lot more buy-in a lot more trust to it so uh so we're a little bit more integrated than we were at this time last year and I think obviously that's that's a good thing as we search for higher ground of preventing injuries and having players in the consistently best position to to perform to their to maximum so all the information I get is really good and you know the the height surrounding your your top overall prospect Jason Dominguez has been deafening throughout this offseason could you tell us what your early plan is for him he's not obviously not here again obviously he's you know he's like everybody else in the non you know in the minor league population waiting for you know a minor league spring training report time and and then see where it takes him so I don't have a plan to articulate publicly on him other than the fact that you know he hasn't played his very first he hasn't played a minor league game yet um you know he'll go through despite obviously his name the notoriety the signing bonus he's now one of many that will be competing for a spot on a roster and and uh and what roster that turns out to be remains to be seen but um that all those evaluations get I mean it will take place when we have the collection of all the talent and including himself so so we need to get his career going just like a number of the other prospects that we have that they're you know uh seasons or their development has been stalled because of COVID and we look forward to getting um minor league baseball back so you know obviously there's no way to get better unless you're playing games so it's vitally important that that starts sooner than later thank you we can move to Andy Martino Andy please unmute I speaking of the turnover in your bullpen I mean are you confident Brian that the bullpen that you have now has the upside uh that you've had over the past couple years and it's really been a major strength of the team being down not just out of you know but keenly uh between the guys you brought in and the internal options you have do you still think that will be the strength of your roster that it has been I just hope I never feel confident about anything I think it serves me best in the position I'm in I certainly hope that it's a strength for us uh you know I think we've lined it up for it potentially to be a strength for us and can and maintain a strength for us but at the end of the day baseball is a very very bumbling you know circumstances we have all lived through so uh anticipated strengths you know have a chance to become weaknesses and and areas of weaknesses and I have a chance to become strengths and it's just uh managing through that over a course of a spring training in 162 is you know what defines your season and so I think on paper it looks good but uh but then you have to prove it and so I think we have you know we have a very strong bullpen on paper but you know we got to wait and see how it plays out and certainly hope it isn't if it's not then we'll have to make adjustments along the way like any team fighting for something you know it has to do and uh but I think I feel like we're in a good place starting out but uh you know like anything else we'll just have to pay attention to it every step of the way of all the veteran options that you had what what appealed to you guys about O'Day in particular you know I feel like he uh he wipes out right handers he can get left handers out um you know the makeup you know we had a lot of you know great feedback on his makeup from players that played with him you know obviously Britain had him in Baltimore um always heard great things uh you know regarding Darren O'Day from Buckshaw Walter and um you know so his his leadership his mentorship his experience as a veteran you know clubhouse presence has always been you know very strong uh and uh but the fact that you know he continues to you know have a lot of success coming out uh from a you know different arm slot you know um is something that we haven't been able to you know we can't deny and the fact that the the price point was was workable for us we felt he could be a viable member of this uh um this bullpen you know and despite his age he's he's still going strong so uh certainly we hope that he can hold up for us and I think you have to manage him you know a certain way you know as you follow his career to make sure you get the best results out of him and I know he's in good hands with Aaron Boone and Matt Blake and Mike Harky um but uh but that experience that veteran leadership uh the makeup you know he should fit right in and hopefully he stays healthy for us and can do the job that we expect thanks we'll take a couple more Ron Blum go ahead hey cash despite how good your offense looks does part of you get concerned that being that right handed you could be vulnerable at some key points of the season yeah I mean it's uh you know there's going to be lanes for uh for other managers to to navigate with if they have a you know a starter slash reliever that you know is really difficult than right handers that you know can make things difficult there's no doubt about it and and of course that's an area of of weakness the you know the fact that we're so right hand uh and don't have um as much mix and match uh there so it's definitely something that that we're aware of um and we'll continue to to remain aware of and and if things present themselves that uh that makes sense to swap something out for something else uh but it just has to make us better by doing so if it I'm not going to do it if it makes us at least perceived cases if it makes us worse I'm not not interested in that was important of getting for this year just to have I mean it's certainly a quality that uh has but ultimately he is just still a very reliable uh really an everyday player uh you know in most respects on the offensive side and defensive side and then the leadership you know is unquestioned too he's he's one of the the the blues in that clubhouse um you know I certainly like what he brings to the table um from the clubhouse standpoint but but that's secondary to what he actually does on the field of play I mean he really impacts this team uh and he would impact any team that way he plays hard he plays right um and uh you know he's successful on on the defense and the offensive side so he's he's definitely a difference maker and and that's certainly you know he was always someone that we wanted to have back and and we tried to articulate it you know through his agency throughout the winter which is you know it's something we have to wait for because you know uh we have other areas that we want to dress first and foremost but that doesn't you know dismiss or dilute how important guard Brett Gardner has been to this franchise and we didn't bring him back as a reward for what he's done in the past we we brought him back because we think he's going to impact us in the present and uh we know he can and we know he will as long as like any other player under that definition as long as they stay healthy you know he's going to help us a lot and uh so we're lucky that he loves being here because I guarantee he had a chance to go elsewhere and probably makes more money than we had in terms of flexibility so uh so I'm glad we're still you know working together thank you take the last two in queue Max Goodman go ahead hey Brian hope your family's doing well say Max speaking of the the righty heavy lineup you also brought in guys like Derek Dietrich and Jay Bruce this off season some moves that made a little bit of noise now that they've had a couple weeks under their belt at camp what have you seen from them and and what do you envision with those two guys this year yeah they were brought in to get a legitimate shot to try to find a way to make this roster and it's a strong roster but they're going to you know so far the early returns are strong they they they look you know they look like they are going to make us to have decisions and that's what we want we want to have we want to be in a position to make tough calls you know and and you know so ultimately you're talking about two players that have different skill sets but but could impact us in a positive way and and if camp continues to go the way they were going for both of those players so far then at the end of the camp we're going to have some tough calls to make but you know they've integrated themselves within the the group really well they're demonstrating in the early portion of this thing and we are in the very early portion of this thing but they're demonstrating why we had had interest to bring them in and and so we'll see what what transpires obviously we have a number of players that that are here from the past whether it's a mic forward amongst others that are left-handed some of the you know whether it's Dietrich with the viability he has on the infield side or you have Jay Bruce and what he provides potentially at first in the outfield and so there can be some interesting conversations to continue to have and and the quality of the people seem really good and and so I thought that you know our office of Mike Fishman for instance and and others Matt Ferry and Tim Nairing and you know Jim Hendry and Matt Daly and and Dan Geiss and David Grabner amongst others Gene Afterman have done a really nice job of of you because again you have to you have to delegate and a lot of some of these guys are negotiated directly by by some of these other people I just referenced as non roster invites and I think that we have a very deep strong group of people to consider here over the course of the six week of a spring training and and that's a good thing I think our staff did a good job of lining some alternative options up and protecting us as insurance policies of injuries hit or hey if everything goes perfect which you knock on what you hope it always does trying to force their way into the mix and I'm thankful that we have the depth that we have some considerations like that Heather you have the last at bat of the zoom session please unmute Yes I'm just curious if you guys have received any guidance from Major League Baseball or anything on vaccine distribution how that may work and how um how has that become available throughout the season that may sort of change what the season looks like No I haven't you know I do get offended when I get asked if I've been vaccinated yet because I feel like that they're implying I'm older than I am so I have not been vaccinated but I haven't gotten any uh any guidance on if you know there is anything on the horizon I mean I I wake up every morning and watch the today's show and and uh and listen to the you know what's next and you know for the country in terms of uh you know you get excited when you hear things are moving along and speeding up and and more shots and arms for for the population here in the United States and that's obviously uh you know exciting news for for us all um but where I where we all slot in that assembly line obviously take care of the people that need it the most first and and uh and then you know at some point you know our numbers will come up you know uh and so anyway we're just waiting uh waiting on it but I have had I got no inside information that anything's on the horizon for us but uh but taking good care of us regardless right now we're doing testing you know uh the tier ones and tier twos we're getting tested every few days for the tier ones and every four days for the tier twos and and I think everybody's uh you know really complying with the masks and and being very careful uh you know you know within the the confines of our facility and then obviously uh when they're outside of our uh facility when they go home after work is done so um so far so good


Hello everybody, E here, welcome to 31 Days of Halloween. It is the third year in a row that I am doing this. You have 31 days of horror slash Halloween themed content coming your way. Starting tonight with Sunday Cinema at 5pm CST, I will be streaming live on this channel. I will not be streaming the movie, that's illegal, can't do that. But I will be streaming Tales of Halloween tonight. You guys can watch it for free using Tubi, so I hope to see you there tonight. But before I let you go, I also kind of want to do a channel trailer for 31 Days of Halloween this year and tell you exactly what you can expect. So in week one, this coming week starting tomorrow on Monday, I will be doing movie week. We will be reviewing cobweb, no one can save you. We need to do something, Grim, Cutty, and the new Saw movie, Saw X. For week three, we are doing book reviews. Starting with Joe Rustin's Vampire Night, then we are moving on to The Weight of Blood, which is a retelling of Carrie by Stephen King. Then your mind is a terrible thing by Hailey Piper, his black tongue, and finally closing out with a rolled doll story that I've been meaning to read for ages, and that's The Witches. Week three, we have Classics Week. Just like we did last year, we are doing The Monk, the Castle of Entronto, Carmilla, I don't think it's Carmilla, the woman in white, and the mysterious case of Udolfo. And then we're going to cap everything off with a History of Horror week, which basically just going to be a series of discussion videos about what horror means to me, some little tidbits about the history of horror, basically just look for a week of discussion videos on the topic of Halloween and horror. Now every Saturday night I will be streaming games here on YouTube, not on Twitch, but here on YouTube. The weekend that we're going to be watching the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which I'll get to the lineup for Sunday Cinema here in a second, I will be playing the Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game the Saturday before we watch the Texas Chainsaw Massacre on Tubi. Next, we have a highly requested short horror game called Blood Wash that I'm going to be playing. It's a short, maybe two, three hour game retro horror style by a company named Puppet Combo. It's become very, very popular. So I'm going to try that one out. We're going to try and play it and beat it on that Saturday. And then after that, for the remaining Saturdays of the month, I'm going to be playing a game that is exclusive to Xbox and it's on Game Pass. It's called Scorn. So you can look forward to that. Now here is the rest of the Sunday Cinema schedule. We are starting with Tales of Halloween tonight, 5 p.m. Central Standard Time, every Sunday in October. Keep that in mind. Then we are going to be the next week we're going to be watching the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. After that we're going to be watching Wishmaster. After that we're going to be watching one of my favorite cheesy low budget horror movies of all time. It's on to be for free. All these are on to be for free. It's called Highway to Hell. It's a wild ride. You're not going to want to miss it. And then we are capping off the month with another one of my favorite horror movies which is May. If you have not seen May, absolute classic. But that's the schedule for October. I hope you guys enjoy the videos. I hope you guys have fun. And I hope to see you in the comment. And until next time, I have been E. You have been U. This has been a 31 days of Halloween update. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye.


We just finished a study looking at continuing education on forest landscape restoration. That is courses that are not part of university curricula. We did this in conjunction with UFRO, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, and we found that even though there are many, many online courses that look at FLR, forest landscape restoration, there are many gaps in their contents. The main one is really embracing the FLR concept and teaching about how to incorporate what are sometimes conflicting land uses and generate a multifunctional landscape. Another issue we found is that these online courses are pretty much a one-time event and there's little continuity with very few exceptions. That means that the course is offered but there's no record that someone can go back and look at what was covered. And another important finding is that the level of participation of civil society was very low. It was mostly aimed at mid-career professionals, early career professionals, working in extension at universities or in government organizations. But civil society at large, that is in the context of the public, we did not find too much material or at least courses aimed at that sector and citizen science is becoming more of a more important issue nowadays. One key recommendation is when you design an online course, it's to try to offer successive additions, not a one-time event. Of course, that depends on funding. Maybe there's not enough funding to keep doing these for five, ten years, but as long as you at least archive the contents and the reports of the course also helps others to design future additions. In many cases we did not find even records of what was covered. We just found a list of topics and who the target audience was. Another key recommendation is to give these a progressive approach. In other words, most of the courses that we looked at cover many topics, but they were basic topics and it would be good to design a system in which you have a course in which you teach the basics, but then successive additions go more and more specialized and more and more specified, if you will. That's exactly why we partnered with UFO to look at the gaps in order to write a proposal or a series of proposals to design what we think is perhaps an optimal way of implementing forest landscape restoration. Many of the courses are teaching the basics, as I mentioned, but not too many and probably none are really teaching the implementation component, which is what we're largely missing. Many countries pledged hectares to be restored. We know pretty much about the gaps that need to be overcome in terms of policy, institutional issues, governance, even curricular aspects, but then putting it on the ground, it's the major next step. So we want to fill that gap, hence the nature of the assessment that we just carried out.


Thank you. Okay. Good. Then we have our next speaker. That's Jojo Nam Singh and Jojo He's the assistant professor of international development at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague Welcome Jojo. You can see him in the screen and this institute is a part of the Erasmus University Rotterdam And Jojo recently was awarded a prestigious grant from the European Research Council for a new research project with the name Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals And when we are talking about intersecting inequalities like we just did we also have to talk about colonialism and its heritage extractivism. This is a phenomenon where large amounts of the natural resources of a country are removed or exported with little or no processing taking place at home and something we've seen again just with the presentation with one way as well. Many countries in the global south which supply others with raw materials wish to develop their own capacities to transform these materials into see-mind finished or end products and by building their own industries they may be able to capture a greater part of the value change, earn more money and have better jobs. This is an attractive way out of poverty but it seems not to be happening. Jojo will explain to us if and how metal mining can be a driver of economic development in the global south and he will address a few questions like should the countries with profile Europe with the lithium cobalt and nickel for its transition try to follow the example of China which has successfully captured the whole value chain for so-called rare metals from mining to the production of magnets and electric vehicles. So that's a very very long question Jojo. Very much look forward to hearing your presentation so go ahead. Thank you can you hear me okay so I'm working on I'm running a five-year research program called green industrial policy in the age of rare metals grip arm based at the ISS and the basic premise of this project is that we need to think about how the policies that we implement at the supply side meaning you know at the resource producing countries how these policies interact directly and indirectly from the demand side meaning those who are consuming these minerals. So what I'm going to show you is a broad overview in terms of how rare metals and in particular rare earth elements are very important vital to the transition the green transition to our future green political economy but that these pose fundamental question in terms of how and in what ways you know we can proceed as we promote the green economy. So what I'm going to do is I'll start with a big picture about the green transition what does it look like why do we need to talk about what I call critical raw materials or the rare metals and then the second and the third part I'll talk about what is the evidence that exists in terms of the relationship between mining and economic development and finally I'll talk about what does this all mean for the future transition. So let me start by talking about what we mean by rare metal. So there are two concepts here one is what we call the rare metals which we are also which we also refer to as minor metals these are basically metals that are produced in low amount but we use them in high tech sectors such as the digital sector renewables energy technologies and the list that you see below is the list of elements that are considered as rare metals from gold, beryllium, bismuth, cadmium all the way to vanadium and tungsten all these minerals all these metals are used for different types of high tech advanced manufacturing products or goods so for example some of these elements might be used for electric vehicles like lithium some of them might be used for the production of boron magnets in order to be used for wind turbines but in some other cases they're also used for defense so they're very widely used in small quantities across different sectors of the economy. Now the project that I'm working on is a more specific type of rare metal which is what we call rare earth or REEs so as you can see below here these are 17 different kinds of elements they're chemically similar they share certain characteristics of ferocity superconductivity meaning that they have similar characteristics and they're applied to highly specific industries in this presentation I'll particularly focus on their application to the green technology sector but they can be used in other sectors as well such as petrochemicals they can be used for telecommunications ICTs digital technology etc. Now this is a broad picture of how the value chain of the critical raw materials that I had I showed you a while ago looked like so most of us when we think about the supply chain we often think in terms of you know there's a mineral and then that leads to the sector like renewables defense e-mobile but in fact it goes through several levels of processing and you know there are several sectors in between what we call the processing and alloy sectors and that's what you see in the middle so this could be batteries fuel cells wind PV meaning solar panels ICT drones so what you see on the left is the level of risk that exists these are the level so when we say when we talk about the supply risk we mean two things how accessible are these minerals in terms of exploiting and extracting them and secondly how much available are they so there's two things there and because they're so critical for the different industries we need to make sure that there's access to these minerals now this is what the green transition looks like let's look at it in terms of the different metals that we need you can see from the top electric vehicle will require four times more in terms of the mineral in terms of the actual amount compared to a conventional car but it also means will require more types of metals as we add more technology to them to you know to the car we also need to increase the number of minerals and elements that we have to use to produce them the more complex the technology the more metals we need in order to produce them now this is a scenario this was the recent report by the international energy agency and it basically shows the number of times you know the growth of the selected minerals that we need in order to secure the green transition what this all means basically is that in the next two decades we will be multiplying the amount of metals we need primary metals that we are you know extracting from the ground where do these minerals come from in many places they come from China they come from Latin America they come from Africa and so what this basically tells you is that in order for the green transition to take place a lot of developing countries would need to be paying the cost and so if Europe proceeds you know the whole European Union Green Deal if they proceed towards you know promoting the Green Deal promoting electric vehicles solar panel it means will be externalizing those costs to developing countries this is just a very simple diagram in terms of the different stages of production you can clearly see that as you proceed to the higher technology sectors processing components assembly you also in change you know that you can see the share of countries changing China is the biggest winner here because they're able to increase their share in processing and the production of the final products you can see that only in the section the first section raw materials that's where developing countries are participating in the value chain now this is a simple diagram to say the same thing the main suppliers of these minerals are China Africa in Latin America but now the big difference is traditionally up to I think about the 1990s usually Western technology Western companies dominate the market we're now seeing a shift in which Asian countries are increasing their share as well as the European Union and the US so what we're saying here is that as the value chains in as we move towards the higher technology high value added activities China East Asia participates more in the process and basically Latin America Africa and those primary producing countries remain to be raw materials producer this is not any difference if you look at the history of economic development of developing countries this is the same story that you find they were primary producers they produce coffee cotton sugar in order to promote promote the industries in Western Europe and the US at least in the 19th and the 20th century and so if we are going to do this transition we'll see the same role being played by many developing countries this is an example of how it looks like China because of its emphasis on its industrial policy meaning it wants to domesticate the manufacturing of these products they increase their they're increasing their share of participation in the value added activities and by contrast there's limited value addition in the primary resource sector in Latin America and Africa now why is this the case why is there why is this a big problem the problem is apart from the fact that we're going to outsource these minerals to developing countries historically only few countries were able to achieve mining based development in the 19th century it was only in you know in in the so-called first world countries it's mainly Australia Canada Norway the US which have taken advantage of their mining sector and created manufacturing industries alongside in middle-income countries you broadly have some countries that were able to take advantage precisely because it's more difficult for mining to deliver economic development and these are more of the exception than the rules so there's a lot of econometric studies that have shown this and most studies are basically saying if you increase the export earnings if you increase your reliance on natural resources you are unlikely to produce a diversified export sector you're unlikely to achieve this manufacturing based development model that we've seen in the rest of western Europe why in in in academic debates this is what we call the resource curse basically there are negative effects when you're extremely dependent on natural resources there's the political effect and there's the economic effect the political effect the argument basically is that because you have resources there are many different contending groups in societies that want to to have control over these resources and because of these it leads to political conflict it leads to sometimes political violence or simply unequal redistribution of the wealth that comes from natural resources the economic effect is what they call the Dutch disease effect and yes it comes from the historical experience of the Netherlands in the 1970s so when commodity prices went up in the early 1970s they saw that the manufacturing and agricultural sector of the of the Dutch economy suffered they became uncompetitive that has to do with the effect of of having to rely on these export sector vis-a-vis the other sectors of the economy now in the cases where we saw you know that they they were successful in building mining based development what are the lessons that we can draw the first lesson I think is that there have been significant institutional reforms policy reforms implemented in developing countries to maximize the capture of the mineral wealth and to increase the value added activities in mining now this can take place in two ways it can be through a fiscal compact or through if you know if they're not willing to do that the state would have to impose it but basically forcing taxation special taxes to improve the tax collection efforts of the state in the mining sector so this has always happened and in some cases for example in Latin America this has led to what they call the re-taxation re-nationalization of the sector the second important policy is creating a balance between attracting investment and building productive capacity within the sector what we basically mean by this is that the mining sector needs to create domestic firms without domestic companies that actually produce the minerals we will still see a situation where countries are dependent on technology from the multinational company so this transfer of technology is really important in building sectors around the mining industry so one of the best examples on this is Petrobras who built a niche technology around deep-sea engineering through local content policy through emphasizing the you know the need to build domestic firms within the within the sector and making these firms competitive internationally over the long term now what kind of conditions do we need at the international level you know for this to work so one interesting debate that's happening now is policies that should focus on developing the sector enhancing these productive capacity of the firms one good example that you know that you can find these days is what we call the linkage policy the idea of a linkage policy is you build activities around the mining sector such as services goods you know manufacturing in order to promote the mining sector so in the end you don't only have employment and income coming from the mining sector you also have employment and income from coming from the different sectors connected to mining so this could be you know for example through the the production of equipment in order to support the mining industry or it could also be creating different suppliers in the domestic sector Nigeria is also a good example here Nigeria has been domesticating its supply chain increasing the share of Nigerian companies in the sector because of its high dependence in oil and finally which leads to the you know the point that was being made by our colleagues a while ago on South Africa it's really important to also think about not only about the growth oriented policies but the implementation of social and environmental licenses that need to get you know acquisitions from the mining communities it's many it is often the case there's a lot of studies that shows that social conflicts in mining are often connected to the pressure for redistribution I mean of course there are questions of identity politics and culture but most of the time it's about the redistributive question the mining communities don't get enough and they face and and they absorb the external costs of mining activities there's also a lot of studies that have shown that communities can make better choices if you give them options if they are able to you know between extraction and agriculture they can make a better choice whether they want agriculture or they want mining so I think it's wrong to think that you know all communities will want extraction or that they always will reject extraction I think it's really a balance between these two choices what does this all mean for the future transition it means that aid now because the global value chains are more complicated China is increasing its role you know its influence in the global south these you know there's no straightforward solutions policies in order to make mining more developmental for resource producing countries what this means then is that it's up to developing country governments to come up with long-term visions around how to develop their mining sector one of the most important evidence that we find from among engineering in among engineering literature for example is that every mine is different they have very different requirements so every government must need to think about how they can take advantage of mining in order to promote their own development finally sorry finally I think at a time don't know yeah that's the exact time because we have quite a lot of questions for you so I would be very I think yeah I think the final point is the same point as what our colleagues in South Africa is make are making there's a social equity question there's a social ecological debt that we are facing we need to resolve this the difficulty now is because with the transition we need to tackle both the social equity question around mining and at the same time the equity question that comes out with the green transition so we have to tackle both of them at the same time and that's what makes all of this more complicated thank you thank you so much Jojo


Good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swash, and I'm here today to review Altah. Previous high it looks like in here just hit up at 182.64. I called this as a pre-earnings call to gap up. It was a really nice call. And I wasn't going to do an option in it. A lot of people did options in it yesterday morning and then I decided to do it. And here you have it. So I bought 20 contracts. I'm gonna hold it. I've been back and forth, back and forth with my broker all morning whether that I should sell half. 100% conviction that it gets to the first target within the two-week expiration. So it's 185 is a strike price. Anything over that I just collect. But dream targets 200. And this option I have expires December 18th. I'm not saying it gets to 200 by December 18th. But I feel like 190 is very realistic and I mean this is really a nice call actually. So 182.64 is what it just hit up on here. And the market's gonna rally next week with this as well. Anyways, very, very nice call I made in here on this. And I decided to do my very first options tree. And it worked. So I risked $1,000. I'm up $2,500 right now. I could cash out of this. I'm not going to because if it goes to 190 I'll make $10 grand risking $1,000. That's a really nice, nice call. Now if you do this just to make money, obviously you could just take this off today. But I'm not going to be doing options as a regular thing. I'm going to do them on specialized calls that I see. And then the plan of action is to hold it to a number. Which I have to figure out what the number is with the timing of it. But I can tell from the way that this trade here today that I will reach the strike price of 185 and go beyond that. So I want to maximize the profit on this today. I mean not today in the whole trade. So how do you know what to do? You could have gone long off the day as an intraday day trade. You could have done off as an option trade yesterday or today. You could take Alta as a swing trade long even today. There's so many different ways to use my method. It pinpoints what stock to look at, to do in the gap, and whether to go long or short it. And I teach you the targets and the entries. And then you can use it in so many different ways. But it's really the gap rating system. Look at this now. Look at this. Did that just go to 185? Was that real? Oh my, Lanta, hold on. I have to quick call my broker. I think it actually did go up over 185 right there. Unless it's an invisible tick but I see it on Sterling. Alright, this is a great call everybody. This is a great call. Watch the Alta. I'm holding the position to get it up to get more profit out of it. I've got two weeks. Yeah, if you were in my live trading room, you got this. If you were actually, you know, did my class, you could have rated the gap and gone long this today. Beautiful call I've made here in Alta. Amazing. And if you want to learn how to trade stocks in the U.S. market, whether to do options or swing trades or day trades, a day trade every day, I prefer to short but I also know how to read longs. Boom, Alta. My first options trade was in along with Alta and the markets higher next week as well. Have a great week and everyone. The Golden Gap class is this weekend. It is December 5th and 6th. If you want to learn how to trade stocks in the U.S. market and make money on a consistent basis, you got to learn a strategy and a method to do it. It's all in my 26-point rating system. It's everything is in the 26-point rating system and looking at the targets and that's how I could see this and the numbers and what it's going to do and you could have gone long this today and today. Have a fantastic weekend everyone. If you're interested in the Golden Gap class, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. Thanks everyone. Have a great day.