Christopher Columbus as the first man to discover the Americas is a myopic event that only happened in the minds of Eurocentric historians with an Aryan colonial agenda. In Wainer's book Africa and the Discovery of America he explains that Columbus noted in his journal that the Native Americans confirmed black-skinned people had come from the southeast in boats trading in gold-tipped spears. It was found also that the ratio of properties of gold, copper, and silver alloy were identical to the spears, then being forged in guinea. According to an American historian and linguist Leo Wainer of Harvard University, one of the strongest pieces of evidence to support the fact that Africans sailed to America before Christopher Columbus was a journal entry from Columbus himself. There is now a growing body of evidence to support the idea that Africans did in fact visit the Americas long before Columbus as there have been solid claims about African explorers, sailors, and traders who made their way to the Americas in ancient times. The idea that Africans may have visited the Americas in pre-Columbian times is not a new one. In fact, widely untaught evidence exists that Africans sailed to the Americas in settled centuries before Columbus. While we commend Christopher Columbus, or should we say, Cristobal Colón, for sailing the seas in search of new land on Europe's behalf, he was not the first man to make that journey. However, as is frequently noted on this day, when Columbus landed, natives already inhabited the land. He called them Indians because he initially thought he had reached India. Columbus's first landfall in October 12, 1492, most likely somewhere near the Bahamas or the Dominican Republic was a later time in history. Let us even limit our scope within Europe. And Columbus will still not be the first European to have visited the Americas as many genuine historians suspect that Viking Leif Erickson, who established a settlement in northeastern Canada in the 11th century, was the first European to come to the Americas. The truth is that black Africans, Indians, Polynesians, Chinese, and Arabs had visited the Americas long before Columbus. Enormous Olmec head statues with African facial characteristics found throughout Central and South America, support that Africans had settled in America long before its apparent discovery. Ranging up to 11.15 feet in height and weighing 30 to 40 tons, these statues generally depict helmeted black men with large eyes. Broad, fleshy noses. Columbus was never the first man to arrive at the Americas, rather he was the first to commit genocide. Sex, slavery of young girls, rape, pedophilias, mass mutilations, arbitrary killings, and transatlantic slavery in the Americas. The manufactured history by Columbus's European sponsors must be exposed and forcefully rejected. Columbus and his men took to hunting the fleeing Lukaians down for sport and after murdering them using their bodies as dog food. Surviving Lukaians fled to the surrounding mountains to escape the sadistic savagery and barbaric treatment of the so-called civilized Christian Europeans toward them. There are eyewitness accounts of fallen Lukaian warriors being fed to hunting dogs while they were still alive. Screaming and wailing in agonies the dogs feasted on their limbs and entrails. Columbus saw this as a perfect excuse to go to war and with heavily armed troops and advanced weaponry, it wound up being a very short war. The natives were quickly slaughtered, having only spears, rocks, and other primitive tools to fight with. Eventually the natives rebelled.  When the Lukaian refused, Columbus responded by ordering that their ears and noses be cut off so that the now disfigured offended could return to their villages and serve as a warning to others. The ugly picture that emerges is of a brutal man who massacred the existing population of the islands, the Bahamas amongst others. Where he landed used girls as young as eight or ten for sex and conducted mass mutilations in his hunt for gold. Matthew Inman, the oatmeal's author, not only exposes this myth, but also shows us who Columbus really was. The US celebrates October 14th as Columbus Day as one of its three federal holidays, reinforcing the myth that Columbus was a great explorer who discovered the new world. Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-Columbian or pre-European contact of the Americas to be as high as 112 million in 1492, which declined to less than six million by 1650. The so-called discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world. He described these people as having black skin, curly hair and other features that were characteristic of Africans. Similarly, the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who traveled to the Americas in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, wrote in his accounts that he had encountered people of color in the Caribbean region. He also notes that some of the indigenous people had features that were characteristic of Africans, such as curly hair and dark skin. In his book, Natural History of the Indies, he described seeing Negroes among the indigenous people of Hispaniola, present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti, one of the most well-known accounts of African presence in the Americas comes from the Spanish explorer Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, who traveled to the Americas in the early 16th century. Thor Heyerdell was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany and geography, made voyages to demonstrate the possibility of contact between widely separated ancient peoples, notably the Rey AI expedition of 1970, when he sailed from the west coast of Africa to Barbados in a papyrus reed boat. These strong currents, which Mali oral tradition describes as rivers in the middle of the sea, could have helped propel African vessels to the American continents. Travel between Africa and the Americas was possible because of the worldwide ocean winds and currents that caused drift routes from east to west. Africans were indeed sailors that a division of Negro sea captains and mariners is reported to have been in the Egyptian Navy of the 19th dynasty and the East Africans sailed between their countries and China in the 13th century. How could Africans who are not popularly known as semen have crossed the 1500 Atlantic miles to the American continents? Early 14th century Atlantic expedition headed by Mali King Abu Bakari, I may have reached the Americas. The launching of the expedition is recorded by Arab historian Ibn Fadal ala ala ala ala. Omari, archaeological evidence also supports the idea that Africans traveled to India and China in the 13th century. In his memoirs titled Ritla Ibn Battuta describes his travels in detail, including his experiences in the court of the Chinese emperor. Born in 1304 in Tangier, Morocco, Ibn Battuta embarked on a journey of exploration that took him to many parts of the world, including India and China. There is strong and compelling evidence to suggest that Africans travel to India and China in the 13th century, long before the arrival of European explorers in these regions. While it is possible that some of these plants may have been brought over by European traders or explorers, the fact that they have been found in pre-Columbian archaeological sites suggests that they may have arrived much earlier, potentially as a result of contact between Africans and indigenous Americans. The presence of these and other African plant species in the Americas provides compelling evidence to suggest that Africans visited the Americas long before Columbus. The African oil palm has been found in South America, including in the Amazon region, where it was likely brought over by Africans or other non-European visitors. Another example is the Kola nut, Kola Naitida, which is native to West Africa and is used in traditional African medicine and religious ceremonies. This suggests that Africans may have brought the Kola nut with them during their visits to the Americas. Kola nuts have been found in archaeological sites in the Americas, including a site in Brazil that dates back to the 14th century, long before Columbus arrived. One example of an African plant species that has been found in the Americas is the tamarin tree, tamarindus indica. In the Americas, tamarin trees have been found in archaeological sites dating back to before Columbus's arrival, indicating that they may have been brought over by Africans or other non-European visitors. The tamarin tree is native to Africa, but has been introduced to many parts of the world as a food and medicine plant. While some of these plants may have been brought over by European explorers or traders, there is evidence to suggest that many of them arrived in the Americas much earlier, potentially as a result of contact between Africans and indigenous Americans. The presence of certain plant species that are native to Africa in the Americas provides further evidence to support the idea that Africans visited the Americas long before Columbus. Villa Corta has written, Any way you view it, Mexican civilization had its origin in Africa. Indian scholar, Rafiq Jiarazboi, appears to have been right when he wrote, The black began his career in America, not as slave, but as master. Even early Mexican scholars were convinced that the impact of the black explorers on the new world was profound and enduring.


Hello friends, myself Mr. Alia Arsanjane, Assistant Professor from Department of Electronics, Walchen Institute of Technology, Solapur. Today we are going to see the topic optical recording and reproduction of sound on two different surfaces. So, what are the learning outcomes from this particular topic? At the end of this topic, student is able to describe the working principle of optical recording and reproduction systems on film. Also, he will be able to describe the working principle of optical recording and reproduction system on compact disc. So, optical recording and reproduction of sound can take place in two different methods. So, first one is variable density method and second one is variable area method. So, we are going to see these two methods one by one. So, what is the basic principle of recording on photographic film? First we are going to see this. So, this is the recording of sound on photographic film is done by converting audio signals into variations of light intensities falling on the film. So, such a type of sound which is recorded it is called as track which is having a width of 2.5 mm and it is on the edge of the movie film. So, intensity of the sound basically the sound intensity from a slit it is made varied in accordance with the sound pressure variations and hence it is also called as sound modulation. So, this varying light basically it falls on the edge of main film hence a photograph of varying light intensity gets recorded in the same way and the intensity basically it is related to the different types of pictures which are getting imprinted on the film by the light. So, first we are going to see variable density method. So, this is the diagram which shows the variable density method mechanism as here you can see basically this diagram has three different three to four different parts. So, this is the input side this is the this is the AEO bulb through which the light variable light gets incident onto the slit and then there is a lens this particular lens is a convex lens. So, by using this the light variable light intensity is concentrated on the edge of the film. So, how or what how this this mechanism basically works this mechanism works as given. So, here the sound is first picked up by mic and then it is converted into amplified signal. These amplified audio signals are then fed to a special type of vacuum tube which is called as AEO lamp which contains helium gas. The anode of the the anode of the vacuum tube gets high DC voltage in series with the volt with the audio voltage. Hence, the intensity of light coming out from the lamp varies in accordance with the audio signals which are at given at the input side. This light is then passes through the slit and it gets incident on the focusing lens. Hence, the light falls on the moving photographic film where image is recorded in the form of bars of varying densities which are basically called as track and these are having width these are having a width of 2.5 mm. So, the second method is variable area method. So, you can look at this particular diagram this diagram is the mechanism which is used for recording of sound by using variable area method. As you can see here there is a magnet there is a spring this spring assembly is attached to the mirror and the input is given at the mirror side and there is a lamp which is giving constant intensity. The light rays are then concentrated onto the mirror by using a convex lens the reflected light then passes through the slit and then it gets concentrated on the photographic film. So, here how this particular method or mechanism works? So, in this method constant light intensity is falling on a slit the area of slit varies in accordance with the variations in sound pressures which are given at input side. Hence, the light falls on variable area on soundtrack at the edge of the film. Hence, the area which is bright to the light varies the area of the slit is made variable with the help of galvanometer or the mirror. Here the sound first gets converted into electrical signals by using mic these signals are amplified and then given to the coil of galvanometer where the deflection takes place in accordance with the sound variations. Hence, the light from the lamp duly focused by a lens system falls on the mirror and hence the reflected light from the mirror goes on to the to a narrow slit where the mirror deflects the slit area exposed to the light and hence slit gets illuminated partially. The extent of slit illumination basically depends on the mirror deflections and the galvanometer deflection and hence on the audio current. The light from variable area of slit falls on to the soundtrack edge of the film and hence the sound gets recorded on to the photographic film by using a variable area method. So, how does the sound is reproduced from the film? It is reproduced by using this particular mechanism as you can see here this is the film and this film is then made it is then made incident to the light which is coming from the lamp. This light is then focused by using a focusing lens it then passes through the slit. The dispersed light coming out of the slit is again focused on to the by using a convex lens on to the film where the sound the sound is converted into different light variations. These light variations are then converted into electrical signals by using a photo cell and then given to the audio amplifier and then to the loudspeaker for the hearing purpose. There is also the second method in this you can you will you will get a clear cut idea that this is the take up assembly upon which the film is bounded as soon as it gets unwound it passes through these two pulleys and then the film is gets incident to the light it gets incident to the light and the width of the film or the picture gate or the movie film and the sound gate these are the three major components which on the film surface. So, movie film is nothing but the image and sound is nothing but it is which which has been recorded at the edge of the film and then the field rail is nothing but where the film photographic film gets bounded again. So, how does the sound recording takes place on the disc? So, this is the mechanism here you can see there is a magnet onto this magnet a field coil is bounded and there is a armature assembly which consists of a coil a cutter and then this is the armature. So, as soon as and and this is the disc surface which is coated with wax and lacquer coating. So, as soon as the DC is nothing but the audio signals. So, when the DC current or the audio signals are given to the field coil what exactly happens a EMF is generated this EMF is then passes through the magnet and it gets induced into the coil. So, the EMF is nothing but it is a varying one and these varying EMF is analogous to the input sound sound variations sound variations. So, according to that the EMF gets induced into the coil due to this the armature starts to move the armature assembly starts to move and hence the cutter also starts to move by which the cutter then cuts out the the wax or lacquer coating as soon as it moves onto the disc surface and in this way the sound gets recorded. So, how the sound is reproduced it is reproduced by using this particular mechanism here as you can see this is a stationary magnet this is a movable magnet onto which a needle arm is placed and then there is a stylus. So, when the disc is the recorded when the recorded disc starts to move the stylus is kept onto the surface of the disc what the stylus does is it trace out the recorded portion from the disc and as that as the as the recorded portion gets detected the assembly starts to move and hence the magnet will will start to move into and flow directions. Due to this movement and EMF is generated this EMF is analogous to the recorded sound to the recorded sound and this EMF is further then given to the amplifiers where the signal is amplified and then given to the loudspeaker. So, this is the sound reproduction system for from the disc. So, as you can see here this is the disc surface basically the above structure is formed on the surface during the disc recording this is formed as the cutter moves on the surface of the disc cutting the wax coating which is coated on the surface a structure this structure basically denotes the surface disc surface when the disc is kept in ideal condition or when it is not used for recording purpose. Hence, it is called as unmodulated grooves. Secondly, the B structure is due to the cutter which moves onto the surface of the disc when an audio signal is given as input. The input in turn vibrates the armature assembly to which cutter is attached hence creating the modulated grooves. The vibration in the armature assembly is due to the variations in audio input signals which are nothing but high and low pitches. During the reproduction of sound the grooves which are created by the cutter are traced by using a stylus the stylus then in turn moves the moves onto the grooves as it moves due to the variations in depth of the grooves the stylus vibrates in turn creating vibration vibrating the armature assembly hence these vibrations are then converted into electrical signals due to the movement of magnet. So, these are the references for you people for the further study. Thank you for watching the video.


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Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host Krista Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10am central time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week as we are doing today, and it will be available on our website and our archives for you to watch later at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our show archives. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the shows we have on Encompass Live. Not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries. So in your state it'd be similar to your so and so state library. So we provide services and training and resources and grants to all sorts of libraries in the state. So you will find shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries. Public K-12 academic corrections, museums, archives, historical societies. It's all over the place. Really our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries. We cool things libraries are doing things we think they could be doing. We have Nebraska Library Commission staff that do presentations for excuse me. And we bring in guest speakers. And today we have a mixture of that. But also today it is the last Wednesday of the month. So that means it's pretty sweet tech day. Yay. Pretty sweet tech is every once a month. Amanda Sweet. Good morning, Amanda. Good morning. She is our innovation like technology innovation librarian here at the Nebraska Library Commission. And the last Wednesday of every month she comes on to talk to us about something tech related. Sometimes she just shares things she's doing or a cool thing she's found out. But today she has brought in a guest speaker for us with us today is Cheryl Bayer. Good morning, Cheryl. Good morning. And she is from Living Popups. And I think, Amanda, you said, and I feel like I should have known this. You did one of our Friday reads about one of their books, correct? Yeah. If you search for Romeo and Juliet and robots, you'll find the Friday reads on there. Yeah. That's a perfect search. Everyone's going to go and do that now. Right. Yeah. That's what I was hoping for. Yeah. Yeah. Here at the library commission, we do a weekly Friday on our blog. Commission staff do a Friday reads post sharing about a book we've read that we want to share with people. And actually up this week too. Oh, are you? Okay. Yeah. And this was one that she presented about and then I'll actually just hand it over to you. I'm talking, giving all the. Giving away all your secrets about how you got all connected with Cheryl and getting this on the show and everything at the conferences and whatnot. So yeah, I'll take it away. Yeah, so I actually ran into Cheryl and company at this past year's ALA. So if you were at ALA, if you saw the tech playground, you may have seen me tucked in the corner there. Yeah. So our booth was actually right next door to living pop ups on LB book space. So I saw these really fun augmented reality books got to play with some dragons got to play with some robots and Shakespeare land and it was pretty awesome. Yeah. So, and then I was like, yeah, this needs to happen. So after that kind of brief introduction, I'll just hand it over to Cheryl so you can introduce yourself kind of give your spiel. Yeah. Great. Well, thank you so much both Krista and Amanda so grateful to be here. It's been really fun going to conferences like ALA or ASL where I'm CEO and co founder of living pop ups who's created LP book space we are a platform that revolutionizes learning. We're so excited to talk to you about this platform because we are not only an entertainment and technology company but we are an education company that uses machine learning augmented reality. Storytelling for interactive learning and data collection. Now, I'm not telling you anything that you don't know the problem we're tackling is literacy comprehension retention and attention. As a child, I grew up struggling in school with material that if it if I didn't relate to it, then I couldn't retain it. But this isn't just a me thing. I think it goes for like my own kids my grandkids and I'm sure a lot of people see it out in the world too. I used to joke if I only had a wingman to break down the material. But as I grew older I also realized we all need a wingman. So globally we know that rates are for literacy and comprehension are in an all time today for kids and adults and I love that you're talking about correction facilities because we're talking about going into correction facilities on their tablets. And they are so comfortable with their devices right. They have deep anxiety around books. Well, so what do we want to do. We created a solution that brought us to the experience of LP book space we take a device and bring it in as a wingman to any learning material whether in school at a library in a story time or book club and a workplace. So it's books meets an app audibles for AR what with the tutor in your pocket and why because people are afraid to ask for help. They're afraid to make mistakes, and we have your back. So here's what the app looks like it's on, you know, Android and it's on iOS, download it, you download your experience for a book, and then we collect the data in real time, whether it's for teachers, librarians, work development, higher ed. So, and yes we do love robots to clearly. So here's a video showing you on the webinar was going to be a little complicated so here's a video of how the app wants to open it up and download an experience for. All right, yeah, you want me to show it here I'm going to pull presenter control to my screen so I can show the video to everyone here. Oh great and can you make it big. It goes big. You should see. You have the sound to help you understand the story. So here's a reading comprehension question to teach Benny to read, but we needed a book to teach him. I did not know how to write on pages, but Violet had a great idea for what we use. What do we use to write in the book we made. So every AR experience has an educational pedagogy. We have multi potatoes. Look at page 112 to find out. So she redirects you, you have an opportunity in real time to reread it and have self efficacy. Violet had a great idea of using a bird stick out of the fire. That's how she wrote the words. What's exciting for us is that we did. We use something that actually intervenes with negative brain speak, like I said, people are afraid to make mistakes. They're afraid to ask for help. You have a wingman and the characters in the material. So this is what the dashboard looks like. Oh, was I supposed to show that video wasn't sure. Sure. So on the back end, and by the way, on the app in this, you go to the settings on the right hand corner and you wear on Google classroom, we're on clever, or you can log into your own specific class on your own. So this is quite easy to use, and it uploads your class immediately. So here's your students goes to your assignments. Now, if you pause this for a second, I can just show if you pause this. You can see the pop dots have a coding. Did you complete it? Was it incomplete? What was the exact illustration that they were looking at and it can give you the video and a synopsis? Does it show you that you got it right with redirection, or if you got it wrong with redirection, you actually can have a teacher or a librarian come up to you without you having the, like, feeling bad. Come up to you and go, let me help you. I see you're having difficulty. Like, so we're looking at ways to have power positive words and not feel shame and blame when you're getting in there. So you can go on from there. Because then you get to see each student and how they're doing in real time. And so if you send home homework, or if you send home the book, you're getting to see the impact. And this is where the ROI on the experience really works too. Because you're going, oh, they're using it. And we have a white paper that's been written that shows the research that we've done has actually had dialogic learning gone up assessment scores gone up and confidence gone up. Thank you. I got to love it. Well, I do. I'm so excited because not only do not only does people do like do people who are in education love it does so to the kids, the kids feel like they're really successful. Right. So, next slide. Okay. So we can skip this because we were showing you this kind of. So what is the programming that we have for libraries and for schools. It's something that after a school or library does either a book club or story time, we have something called meet the makers. So you can sign up for a virtual field trip. And we come and we have the experience, the Q&A with the animators, the motion capture artists, the actors, the technologists, and they get the kids get to ask questions. And they say, by how many great questions come out of it and so are the teachers they go, the critical thinking has not been the same. The understanding of the material had not been the same. But we get kids going, you know when he said this or remember it wasn't about when they use the rocks to build a creek it was when they use the rocks to build like people are blown away about how their students or patrons are retaining their education. The story time curricula we also provide is expands vocabulary social skills and develop self regulation and creativity are like I said between the dashboard, the engagements, the interactive materials that we give. You see an immersive experience that actually does look at the whole human and engages the whole human to have accuracy self efficacy and better critical thinking. So, I'm very excited. And the one thing I do want to say is, because kids are all at different reading levels. We've noticed some schools have bought for an entire grade level a variety of different books, and then had their kids in pods in a classroom. So you might have six books of my father's dragon six books of animal farm and six books of great Gatsby, because they're in the same class, but the teacher can track them or the librarian can trap track them in their book club to be able to talk with those pods, and, and keep them in material. So, I think it's important for us to know we want to meet kids where they're at. We want to meet people where they're at with dignity and respect. We know, like I said before, they're very comfortable with this, and we want to keep them in this and knowing it and understanding it. So that's where we go so right now, we've been in over 125 libraries. I do have to say that's increased since last weekend in Tampa school districts in five different states, and we're also a vendor in the labor because of wake workforce training. And like I mentioned, we do have research to prove our white paper. Now, I know it's some of you are here from universities, we are in a couple of universities already in their teaching programs and in their library skills programs and their library information. So I'll mention here while you're showing here because there's a link here to the white paper that the slide presentation for this of these slides are on the event page for today show already I put them up there so if you want the slides are there if you to grab if you want to. And that will have I believe in there you'll be able to get that link to the white paper and the videos are in part of the slide presentation as well. This is just a variety of our books. We also like I said have been doing things for workforce development so invocational training and that's where I'm excited about the corrections program to because what we see is that if they build confidence in reading, they'll build confidence in training material which will keep them in training material as well. So this is really a dynamic product. I'm so excited about it because of the impact sorry I don't I don't apologize, but also we've worked like we believe in being relatable a lot of programs, especially when it comes to teaching. I feel are either dry, boring, or really and not relatable, like I talked about earlier. I wanted to feel like you get me. Right. So, what was fascinating was having been in very successful in programming and television and film. And when I went into education, I thought it has to connect to humans. The programming that I've worked on a prior people used to say to me you raised me those were my friends. Well now I wanted to create the friends that were in your books. So, we took, you know, I took from my relationships and we have some great actors who said, we wish this existed when we were growing up how we would have benefited. And now they're wanting it for their own kids as well so do you want to share this. Yep, hang on a second to switch. I'll go to my screen again. It is I, Napoleon. Hello there.  It's okay. Curly would never understand what happened. Did you hear something. Now, don't get too excited. There are no robots and Shakespeare plays. Well, there's one right now, me. I always knew that his big secret would go well with the family. Just bad luck to say the name of my Scottish play in a theater. The same boat and at least two ways. They're poor. No, I could go. If anyone asks, you didn't see me. I pulled you into the future to help us understand your Scottish play. We're going to help you understand the story. We're going to have fun. We're even worse off than when we started. I love eating meat. It's all I eat. What are fleas anyway? Little spires, bugs. Mother is going to love this. Come read the story about me Cooper. Shakespeare used real curses in his play. I'm going to ask you. My name is George is your Lenny. These are just a few. I love that. You know, like I said, and what I appreciated before we got on Amanda was you were saying, you gave a quote from one of our books about what the, the wingman to Shakespeare is a robot woman. And tell us what you said she said, like, you're the one who brought. Oh, I paraphrase a little bit because I can't remember the exact phrasing. But I love it when a sassy little robot says. Talking to Shakespeare. What were you thinking writing a book about two dying teenagers. And I was like, agreed robot. Agreed. So I think next I have on here. You have presenter control back to you and get your slides back up on the screen. Okay. There you go. Perfect. Oh, we're not seeing where we're in black mode now. I see your, I see it though. Yep. Oh, okay. Well, then go to the net. Oops. So here's the QR code. And if you download that and then you download within the book, within the LP book space, like I said, audibles for AR. So you open up the app, you click on the book, it will download the experience with your own phone on your desktop. You can put once you download midsummer night stream or my father's dragon or sleepy hollow. You can download and watch it pop off of your screen. We are available. Like I said, Google classroom. We are available on clever. Clever. Thank you very much. But we are also available on Chromebooks as well. And this is something that's important to us to stay connected within material that is classic or original that builds confidence in reading and identifying with characters that you feel like relate to you. So we do have some original books as well. Deals with not controversially being comfortable in your own skin. Not controversially, I say to you. Making sure you feel good about expressing your feelings in an appropriate way. And then some of the required reading that's K through 12. And like I said, from university level, when you're learning how to teach those grades or you're a librarian. Any questions? Thank you so much. Yeah, leave this slide up here on, I think so. Yeah, for those of you who pre-registered, I did send you an e-mail yesterday. The end of the day yesterday with the, asking you to use the QR code to download the app. It doesn't take very long if you didn't do it, that's fine. But yeah, go ahead and try it out right here. I did it, you know, hold your phone up to the camera, to the QR code, and then after it's downloaded, hold it in front of one of these book covers. Sleepy Holland might be a good one. It's a time of year for that. And you can experience it and see exactly how it works with your device. Now, so here's a question. Yeah. What, I know you said, says, says phone. Does it work on any device? Yeah, phones, tablets. Yeah, phones, tablets. We have, depending on, you know, if you have a Title I school, I've had, you know, the carts with tablets. We've also had a teacher that's just, you know, send her phone to a smart board and started a conversation and did read aloud. There's so many opportunities here. Reading aloud, asking the question to the students, asking them what they think it should be. If they got which one and why, you know, it's been really cool to see. We've had both librarians in different areas of the same state talk to us about the different things that they've done and the kinds of questions and conversations that they've received in similar. It's also been in schools.  And so it's been fascinating to see whether they're using their phones, their tablets. They send home, they send homework home or when somebody, when a patron is checking out the book, the engagement with the parents and socio economically diverse, like families are very interesting because we've had almost like a fabulous confession from parents from Black Brown communities or Indigenous communities who have said, I'm, I'm reading with my kid. Like, and that is such a high to me because we all want connection and we all want community. And the fact that we have community through a book is awesome. Oh, absolutely. Yes. Yeah. Oh, and I wanted to give us quick side note for the people that are downloading the app. One question that I got from libraries that were using it is that after you download it, when you try to find the app again, it will say LB bookcase instead of living pop ups. We had LB book space. It's LB book space is the name of the app. Yeah. Yeah, LB book space. And then once you have the app and once you've downloaded, if you just press to download the experiences, they'll pull up right away after the first time. They're a little bit longer after the first time, but then they download in a snap. Yep. And the thing I see now and I reopened it today, I've got one that I guess I downloaded the sleepy Halloween yesterday and then I've got available for download some free examples, I guess. So there's a couple of things that I want you to know for both in school libraries and in public libraries. We give you a video that you can put on a monitor like the one that showed the pop ups in the beginning that is without, you don't need the words. Kids are attracted to seeing what's happening. What is that? And then the other thing we give libraries are these cards that you can hand out to your patrons, which shows the app itself and how to download it. Then we also, so it's these cards for the app itself. And then we give you individual cards based on books that we have as samples. And that's got the cover of the book and as well on the back, it has an AR experience within the book. And normally we try to make one that is a reading comprehension or some educational pedagogy question so that it could be vocabulary, it could be plot, it can be theme, it can be character based or it can be comprehension. So we have different, we have different cards with different books, different AR experiences from within the books, and you receive these as well as you order from us. And my suggestion is honestly, there's different, you can buy a small bundle to try it because what we've seen is we've had county libraries buy for one and then start buying for five and then realizing they, because they also have that video that is in the front of their library as they walk in. People are wanting it and they're wanting it for their book clubs and they're wanting it for their story times. And so they've started to order more because they, they started by only ordering two or five. And so it's just been exciting to see whatever is in your comfort level. We just want to prove that how we can make the impact the way we do. And if you're in Nebraska, I'm actually looking at adding some of these to the tech kits of the mail. So pretty soon you'll actually be able to try them out that way too. And then you can do what you will with getting whatever you want and it's all good. Thank you.  Pretty much. It just reduces the risk of exploration for that. Yeah, a lot of things that we, you know, there's so many new things coming out tech related. That's why we have a technology innovation librarian here at the commission and libraries can't be. Buying all these things just to test them out. They don't have the budget. You can just go and buy one of these things and they're like, I don't know, I don't know if I can just let you test it out. And then if it's something that does work in your library, then you can go on to buy your own. But you can always just, we also have sets of things that are like, yeah, you don't have to go and buy one. If you don't want to, you can still just keep checking out our kits to do things with like checking out a book club kit that we do of books. You're in mind, you have to put on your ringer and you do have to put on the volume of your phone. We do have some questions. Someone wants to know, are these in English language only? Or do you have anything in other languages? At the moment it is in English. We have one box car children that is in Spanish. The fascinating thing is the international schools have said, you know, by research that showing. This is how kids learn quicker by actually the character can hear how the character speak in English. Instead of using an accent, because we have them being, we're selling in China based on the fact that normally Chinese teachers have an accent and they're not getting the right pronunciation on English. So at the moment it's just in English, but in the next six months we will have it in other languages as well. We have lots of, you know, communities in Nebraska with people speaking all sorts of languages. Yeah. English is the second language is like everywhere right now. Oh yeah. And it is fascinating. Like I said, parents and kids are learning how to speak English by using our books. Yeah. So someone did, you talked about the bundles and stuff. What is the, or what is the cost for this? How much is it to. Well, we do have, we were giving an offering for two book, two copies in every. I can send you it's on our website as well, but it's, there was two copies of every book, the dashboard for a year and a meet the maker session. I think it was, bear in mind, I don't have it in front of me, but I think it was just under $1,000 for two of every copy of every book in our library as of now, and those offerings to meet the maker session, the dashboard for a year, that kind of thing. And there's 18, 18 books in our library. So that was a starter kit. We have hard copy. We had hardcover books. We have paperbacks, but I know that our bundles are on our website. So if you click on the library section, you can see the different offerings, but does it, did that help you? Was it just my audio that cut out? I lost sound for while you were talking there, Cheryl. Yeah. I didn't know if it was me or, so I guess it was. Yeah. Oh, so I did say on LP on a living pop up. We have LP book spaces, the app, but on living pop ups, our website, we have offerings and bundles for libraries based on what their needs are. If they're going for middle school books, high school books, if they're going for a book club scenario, we did just have an offer for ASL that I'm totally offering, which is two of every book in our library, the dashboard for a year and the meet the maker session for a year and a half. It's not a lot of money. It's like, I don't know, it's under $1000, but there's all kinds of varieties of offerings. And we do, you want to pick from the menu yourself. You can as well. Nice. Okay. I already have your, all of our books. I do want to say too. All of our books are analogous to how you would buy. There are no like more out. And then, and like I said, just getting the app skin, the QR code that is, that's free. Anyone can just do that. Cause I did it without having that's free. The dashboard is 250 for it per year. And that's for however many patrons. Right. That was actually my next question. Cause I couldn't find the cost of the dashboard on the website. Oh, okay. Good. Cause it said that it was included in the package, but then I couldn't find what the cost was per year after. It might be on it and I just couldn't find it. Gotcha. Well, like I said, we're starting, we want to prove it makes it sense on the dollar because we want to prove that it works. Yeah. Yeah. And who doesn't like dragons? Come on people. Like every year, sleepy hollow is so fun. You know, there's certain things that are, you know, what we tried to aim for vote first was like a number of our books are half dues. We have a great book called little buck the fire truck for pre school through like up to second grade, depending on the reading level, but it also talks about fire preparedness. And guess what? Like this year. Everywhere in the world was having, you know, the need for understanding of what it meant, what's a healthy fire, what's not safe, you know, all kinds of things. And it's so cool. It's based on a real truck out of Santa Rosa, California. That's still legendary and just went into the children's music. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. All right. Go ahead. And like the libraries that we're doing programming around the world fires that were in California and Canada, because like the smoke was just covering everywhere. That could be a fun book for that too. Oh yeah. The curricula that we offer has really cool crafts projects that are like. Things that you have around. You can have your patrons bring in whether it's the recycled water bottle. You know, we really try to look at social impact to and have them participating. I'm really excited about how we have engagement going on. That's amazing. Yeah. So we do have questions about some more and I'm not sure how much you know about the technical issues of it. And I was interested too, because you mentioned that part of the coursework is meeting how the people who make this happen, like how the animation is done. And you mentioned mocap that motion captures to talk a little bit about how it was done. Sure. So when they have a meet the makers, they get to see how with the suits, how the actors who are having the motion capture suits on are assigned to the technology that becomes the animation. So it's super cool. I mean, what I love is kids get to see possibility. Of careers. You know, a book like Midsummer Night's Dream or my father's dragon hook them young to go, Oh, I might be passionate about that. Oh, I might learn. And we also talk about how we're using AI and how to use it in a safe and proper way. You know, so that's like that's a career that's and that's kind of linking technology to it that that's a career option of this motion capture.  You know, being an educator who works with a comedy writer from television to actually make the scripts for the augmented reality pieces because they have to hit the educational core curriculum. Then kids are actually having the depth of why they're learning what they're learning. Right.  There's so much more to it. Yeah. Yeah. And that's why I also loved it for like the career exploration aspect for like the. Workforce development and what can I do kind of thing. Yeah. Wait. I think about. Yeah. Like Amanda sweet. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think that's what I do. And how immersive it is. It's, yeah. There is definitely a difference watching animated. Characters that have been motion captured as opposed to just animated. I guess. Yeah, I've been. I agree with you. Huh. So I totally agree with you. Yeah. That's why when I said, we make it relatable. Cause they're working with real human bodies. They're humans. Yeah. Yeah. My husband and I were big. We're big nerds. And we've been playing Baldur's gate three. New Dungeons and Dragons game. And it, all of the animation, all of the interactions you have with the characters there, we're all done with motion capture. They actually had 240 something actors that did it. It wasn't just a few here and there for your little cut scenes and talking to someone. It's almost everyone you interact with in this gigantic game. And it is so different. It's so different. It's like, I'm not distracted away. And I know through the whole point of this is like, read the book, learn about it and understand the book. But I'm doing that in the game and understanding the story, but now I'm distracted looking up all these actors and motion capture people and that technology and how that is. And I'm a good, I get distracted from the game. Getting interested. Okay. And I'm like, this is so cool. I mean, I have an offer up that like if somebody is that kind of interested and wants to continue the conversation, they can apply for internships because we want to show from the books, how they'll stay. And even how we go about like my, my favorite new book that we're, that's just coming out in the next couple of weeks is great Gatsby. Okay. The character, we have great Gatsby himself, we have Gatsby himself, and then two kids, she's like, I'm really good at this. The other kid is like, I'm so lost. Can you help me out? And so you feel like it's your friends who are breaking down the material for you. Yeah. You know, and that's like in my, I just did a session for internet librarian last week. And that session, I started it out with saying, if your community introduced kids to augmented reality and you train 20 augmented reality developers, where would they work in Nebraska? So you talk about internships, but then how can the library actually connect kids over like high school? I have an idea. We're coming up with it right here, Amanda. You as a library system, get kids so involved and want to, we can create a pilot program where we can create an AR experience that has you exploring the library. Sweet. There you go. Yeah. Okay. And then that's something that you can start piloting in one library. And then with our toolkit, you can create for your other libraries. Love it. I have to see who would be like that. Yeah. Volunteer to do that. Yes. Yes, I know the, they'll get kids into the library and they'll keep coming back. If you want them to become repeat customers, not just because they have to, but because they want to. And they want to explore the different genres, you know, because I know the augmented reality scavenger hunts were really popular. I think it was like a couple of years ago or even like still now. And being able to add on to that and translate it from just fun scavenger hunt to this is the thing you can actually do. Or this is like a cool book that helps you learn and process information. But now this is something you can actually do. Would be kind of awesome. Totally. So I just want to recap. You get cards. You get a video. And then it also shows how the book and the app. Go together. Yeah. Interesting. I have to go. Are there any other questions? Yeah. Yeah. Just one more question. I just want to grab because we still have about 15 minutes left in the show. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you saw my wrap up. You had a lot of. I don't know if you saw my face. Really famous actors and people that I love on here. How did you get them all to do this? I started a lot of their careers. Okay. They know you. It's okay. I was. So I, I, my background is I was head of. I grew up in the city. The land area.  I'm very close. I own improvement. My so called life. I then. Developed from books because I love books. I developed from a book called kick made that Paul. Grote. Freaks and geeks. I developed from a book called sex in the city. I developed. And living color. I developed. So understand the Simpsons and a lot. Awesome. That's great. All right. Well, thank you so much for being here with us today. Yeah, if you do have to run, that's fine. We will wrap things up here. Well, the thing that I will say from that is that I saw that I was successful at programming on television and that that was an honor and a privilege that whether you were in your pajamas or in your underwear and you were watching us on TV in your living room or bedroom, I went into education because I thought if I can make an impact in television then we can do it in education. And so I started brick and mortar three schools and enrichment programs and then was invited to be a part of rewriting the blueprint to the California State Education Plan. So this comes from a natural progression of literacy as the gateway to everything. And that's where we are. Agreed. Yes. Well, I think this is definitely something that is going to has an impression and will and I hope a lot of our libraries try it out and bring it out to more kids. I have a sneaking suspicion they will. Yes. It's just fun too, which makes a huge difference. Yeah. Thank you so much, Cheryl. Thank you. And so if anyone has any, we have links to their website on our session page and I'll show you all that. You can reach out to them and reach out to Cheryl for more information. So I'm going to pull presenter control back to my screen again. Thank you so much, you guys. Bye for now. Yeah. Bye. Bye. Bye. Thanks a lot. Do we exit? Yeah. There you go. All right. All right. So that wraps up for the presentation. Does anybody have any other questions? There may be some things that Amanda or I can answer about this because I know Amanda, like I said, you wrote up about it and looked into it a little if anybody does have any questions. I think it's an awesome, fun thing.  We do have somebody and myself too had a little technical issues with this morning. It seems to be hiccuping for me, but it worked yesterday on my phone. So I think maybe try again later or something. Like I did have that happen once or twice, but then when I opened it the next day, it was fine. Yeah. So or I just closed and opened it and it was fine. Yeah. So definitely. Like any app ever. Yeah. Yeah. So, so this is really cool. Yeah. So I would see, you know, I would see in the examples of it before. I mean, like I said, the videos are in, here's our session page where we've got the slide presentation up there already for you. I also have like a mini activity where you can try playing with even like a free sample of the book and then download an app called Halo AR and it basically lets you make your own augmented reality book. So you can, like if you don't mind sticking stickers on the book, you can actually stick a sticker onto the book and then use that as the trigger for augmented reality. So you would point your camera at the sticker and then you would tell it to either pull up a video or pull up a little animated character or a 3D object or like whatever media object you want to and you can build your whole little story just using that. So honestly, Halo AR could actually be its own little encompass session. I don't, I don't think we did that one before. I don't recall it, no. Yeah. I'd have to look but yeah, I don't remember the one, yeah. We can definitely think about doing that, yeah. So yeah, so here's the page linked to the book spaces, living pop-ups. The videos are in the slide presentation, excuse me, but I think since I've uploaded it to SlideShare, it doesn't have live links. So I'm going to take these three videos and I'll link them here on the page. I've got the links here for the three videos that we showed. So you'll have access to those quick links to those on here. I'll add them there for when the recording is us added as well. I don't see any other questions that have come in. So I think we will do a little wrap up here. The show, as I said, is recorded and it goes on to our archive page here. Actually, I'll pop over to our main page. This is our main Encompass Live page for the upcoming shows and at the bottom of the list is the link to our archive page where on this recent one we'll go at the top of the list here. We'll have a link to this recording on our YouTube channel. The slides are already there. I'll be adding the links to these three videos they had to the session page as well. Everyone who attended today's show and registered for today's show will get a link from an email from me letting you know when the recording is ready. It should be by the end of the day tomorrow at the very latest. We also push it out onto our various social media. We do have a Facebook page for Encompass Live. If you like to use Facebook, give us a like over there. We do reminders. She's reminded her login today show. Meet the presenter and then where's the previous one? We announced when the recordings are available of the shows too. We also post out to Twitter and Instagram and we have a little hashtag Encompass Live, little abbreviation of our name that you can use look over there to see what we're doing. If you're in Nebraska, you can also set up a mailing list for the library commission in our regional systems that you can do. This is our show archives and there's a search feature here if you want to see if we've done a show on a particular topic. Like what was it you were talking about? Halo something or other or that we just Halo? It's Halo AR. Let's see. Nope. I might have put it as like two separate. Yeah, I just did it for a different thing. Maybe I did it for a conference. I'll think about that for a future and pretty sweet tech. But this is our full show archives and you can search for any topic and see if we've done something. And I'll not just go all the way to the bottom. This is a huge list, but this is our full show archives going back to when Encompass Live first premiered, which was in January 2009. We're 15 years old. Oh my God. And so do pay attention to the original broadcast date of anything that you watch on the recordings. There is the date here when it was first done. So you can tell how old something is. Some of the shows will be fine and good to watch and stand the test of time, but some things will become older outdated. Resources and services may have changed drastically or have disappeared closed down completely. People may work at totally different libraries or different places than when they presented for us. So just pay attention to that original broadcast date when you do watch anything here. But as long as we have a place to host all of our things, this is something libraries do, keeping things for historical purposes. As long as we have somewhere that can host them, which right now all of our recordings are on our Library Commissions YouTube channel, we will have them available for you. So that'll wrap it up for this month's Pretty Sweet Tech. Jumping ahead to next month, we just put this on the calendar yesterday. Like I said, every last Wednesday of the month is Pretty Sweet Tech Day with Amanda and she's going to be talking about Internet Librarian that just happened. Yep. It actually really wasn't that long ago. That was last week, yes. And Internet Librarian is online now entirely, correct, right? Yeah. And they're probably going to do it online going forward because people liked having that virtual option so much. And they'll probably do CIL computers and libraries in person. So there's like one in person and then one virtual. Yeah. Yeah. So computers and libraries, I always think of it as kind of like a sister conference to Internet Librarian. Historically, computers and libraries is held in Washington, D.C. area and Internet Librarian was in Monterey, California. I've been to both of them over the years and when the COVID pandemic started, they went re-virtual, calling it whatever connect. And they have now brought back the in-person East Coast one, but have kept this one as virtual. Yep. But Amanda usually goes and or attends and presents like you were talking about and sometimes and then brings back some info about what she saw there. So sign up for her next pretty sweet tech. And it is always the last Friday, month wait, we'll see what'll come up for December, but that's a month's a month's wait. Yeah. And these are we've got all of our everything scheduled for the rest of this year and we started getting into January to the 2024 even. So you've signed up for any of our upcoming ones. Next week, the first November, we were talking about Nebraska's Golden Sower Award. This is Nebraska's Children's Choice Literary Award. The Nebraska Library Association sponsors this award and they've been doing some updating and changing of the award. And it actually opens up, I think the voting for the children to choose the books actually opens on November 1st. So Anne Price from their committee is going to be with us here on Encompass Live to talk about everything at Golden Sower. So if you work either in a public library or a school library, this is a session for you to get the kids in your library and community reading books and voting on them. Sweet. Yeah. So I don't see any other desperate questions coming in. So I think that will wrap up for today. Thank you so much, Amanda. This is great. Thank you for bringing Cheryl on the show. This is just a really fun thing, I think, too. And hopefully we'll get some libraries. Once Amanda gets it into her check kids, you still work on getting them in your check kids, correct? Yeah. She'll announce when that's available and you'll be able to borrow it and test it out. Other than that, thank you everyone that wraps up today. Thanks, Amanda. Good to see you. I'll see you in another month. Sweet. And hopefully we'll see some of you on a future episode of Encompass Live. Bye-bye.


There have been many occasions here upon our channel where we have explored artifacts and evidential ruins indicative of a tremendous prehistoric age. Testimonies, photography, even physical proofs, locations of some finds making their ages undeniably enormous. This along with a sheer amount of said evidence collected and exposed over the years making their authenticity and indeed the evidence to suggest the existence of a now lost yet once incredibly ancient civilization overwhelming. With our next expose of ancient finds of no exception, although the following could have been aiding in the expansion of mankind's knowledge of its origins, it has instead been quietly ignored by those in favor of doubling down on a funded paradigm when seemingly crumbling around them. Greece, a thorn in the side of many an academic for centuries with unexplainable architecture and finds that simply lack explanation. There exists, however, a far deeper reason for this persisting annoyance. The competing recordings of finds made far before any funded paradigm had arisen by people in positions of specialist authorities, documentation of remains of human inhabitation supporting our many videos' subject matters. These finds dated within the Pliocene era of at least some 2-5 million years ago. As mentioned in The Forbidden Archaeologist by Michael Cremo, quote, Today scientists say that the oldest evidence for human presence in Greece can be found at the Petrelonis site, where human bones and artifacts attributed to Archaic Homo sapiens go back to between 200,000 and 500,000 years ago. But taking the role of the Egyptian priest, I might say to these modern Solons that the history of a human presence in Greece goes much further back than they might imagine. The Greek scientists who reported the Petrelona Discovery, A. N. Polianos, announced further discoveries far more ancient than Petrelonomae. The Anthropology Museum of Petticus gave the following information. In 1977, Isaac Pandelidis, the owner of a sandpit not far from the village of Petticus, chanced upon the remains of a large animal. He informed the Greek Anthropological Society, and the excavations were directed by the anthropologist Aris Polianos, who brought to light the skeleton of a mammoth, approximately 3 million years old. Although the entire skeleton was found, the bones were in disarray, and had evidently been killed, butchered, and consumed by humans. This timeline flies in the face of modern evolutionary chronology, and if accepted as it should, coming from legitimate sources, who documented said finds correctly. The timeline of man should rightly be pushed back to an unknown origin, and we strongly feel more effort should be put into this investigative direction. The mammoth, along with Cremo's effortless correlation of the facts, is a gem of proof, and a continued glimmer of hope that if such finds continue to surface, modern paradigms will slowly shift to a more critically established realization of not only our history, but of our existence itself. It was a find, and indeed is a journey, which we find highly compelling.


Hello everyone, my name is Anand and I am representing Samokath sharing the most compact city transport So most of us use public transport every now and then and I would like to give an example of this particular venue So the metro station is almost one kilometer from this particular place which takes at least 10 to 15 minutes of walking Now the lack of speedy transport for the first mile and the last mile is a really big problem Which causes most of us to use our own personal vehicle and this particular problem is called the last mile problem Now the metro cities are the one which are facing this issue on a really broad basis It is costing them around 120 millions annually Because the workforce is busy traveling the productivity is not high and there are so many sort of problems which you can see on the screen Now there are substitute of walking which are bicycle sharing Taxi and car sharing, but they come with their own disadvantages For example taxi and car sharing is still expensive and the lack of parking spaces and the pickup spaces It's a common urban city problem On the other hand the bicycle sharing market is grooming. It is estimated on a value of 10 billions and More than 2000 cities are having this particular service with hundreds of station everywhere But once again the bicycle sharing comes with its own disadvantages Bicycles are heavy. They are bulky and the bicycle sharing station It cost a huge amount for the cities or the owners of the bicycle sharing because the maintenance is there because there is a reallocation of bicycles every day or even more depending on the Business of the station. So in Samokat sharing we believe that there is a smarter solution to tackle this particular problem and that is foldable kick scooters Now kick scooters are lightweight because of their compactness. You can easily maneuver them in narrow sidewalks in busy streets These are safer to use than bicycles because of the weight and Because of the height which you have from the street as compared to the bicycle which you all already has quite a lot as compared to these the biggest thing with these things are that Because of their lightweight you can take them in a metro in a tram in a bus or any sort of transport which you use So there is this synergetic effect which you get with every sort of transport Now ladies and gentlemen in Samokat sharing we would like to present our solution Which is a kick scooter sharing station. It is the world's first fully automated foldable kick scooter sharing system There are enormous enormous features which would be hard to cover in this particular presentation But it is a vendor resistant. It is weatherproof and it can carry up to ten kick scooters We are testing this particular pilot in ASPO and in Moscow and the numbers are staggering in ASPO. We have More than 210 registered users 900 plus rides and in Moscow. We have Thousand plus rides with 400 400 registered users. I would like to end my presentation with a high note Keeping in mind that we will be growing faster covering more cities Covering more places in Finland and everywhere around the world. Ladies and gentlemen, let's make our daily commuting more productive and more fun Thank you very much. Thank you. Excellent some questions Please so I understand that the logic in In the mobility side, so it's it makes a lot of sense The how's they go to market because it's quite capital intensive for you And for example the bike sharing here in Helsinki is like the sponsor by Levi and I think it's HSL behind it and so on So how are you planning to to expand? at the moment Which I explained earlier that we are doing our pilot in ASPO and in Moscow and the good thing is that we are Doing our partners. We are in partnership with the city of ASPO the government and Again, we are in talks with City of Helsinki as well same in Moscow We are in partnership with City of Moscow So the best way at the moment we see is to partner with the government because the carbon footprint is completely reduced As compared to anything else and the kick scooter station is three to four times cheaper than a bicycle sharing station So it cost fairly less for the cities So this is the way we want to go


Hey guys, this is Nate A.K. The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. No voice crack in today's intro, so we're good there. But let's talk about what could be coming today on Thursday in FIFA 21. Of course, foot birthday is on the out and out. People are wondering if we're gonna get a new promo this Friday. And also, I think there's potential for a party bag SBC today. Since the previous party bag expires today at 6 p.m., I feel like there's a chance they might re-up it. So we'll talk about that. And of course, I think there's gonna be a nice market rise after rewards. Now, a lot of stuff on the market has actually ticked up a bit in price as I'm looking around right now because it seems like people are saying, hey, I think Thursday flips, and I think rewards this week is gonna push the market up with a lot of people not expecting a promo. So I'm seeing a lot of stuff actually kind of creep up right now. Some of the out of pack specials, some of those types of cards have honestly gone up a little bit. And I'm seeing some competition on cards on bids and on snipes because people are getting interested in some of that stuff. So I wanna talk about, again, I do think there's potential for a party bag today. And also, I wanna talk at where this market could be headed. Now yesterday with some road to the finals, there were some good flipping opportunities. This, I bought these Draxler's at a 90K, sold them at 102, 103, so that was decent. I bought this at 390. So there were a couple of small flips there. And of course, you still have some movements and some fluctuations on these road to the finals. Davies went down post game to like 660 or 670, I think. Went back up to like 720 and is now at 680. I think Alaba as well has been chilling around 400,000 coins for now, he's at 385. So of course, with these cards, after they do lose like the first leg, you do see a little bit of a drop off in their price. But sometimes they rebound back because of course, I know Bayern have let in three away goals and they don't have Lewandowski, but they have 31 shots on target. So probably people are gonna start buying up these Alaba and the Davies potentially for the game next week because they think that since they had such a strong showing in game one, when they could possibly go into game number two and have a strong showing as well. So I would expect to see similar cards bounce back. Of course, the brand new team in league today is really garbage, it's not good at all. It's not even worth really looking at, to be honest, except for Jay Lings and Furlan, or not Furlan Benjamin-Mendi. And then of course, there's a lot to talk about with these full birthday cards as well. Cause these cards dropped in price today but some of them have rebounded from their lowest of lows from what they had earlier today cause I think people saw those low prices and said, hey, I'm gonna buy this because it's just too cheap. So again, today we have the party bag SBC expiring this first one, right? And the reason why I'm thinking we could get another party bag today is because last year in full birthday, we had three. I think last year we had like a guaranteed full birthday SBC as well possibly, but we had three different like party bags or guaranteed player packs from the promos last year during full birthday. That's why I'm thinking that they could go back to back with these party bags and drop another one today. It would also be good filler content on a Thursday of course, we have Europa League today, but for birthdays kind of over, right? I don't expect any more full birthday player SBCs. We had another objective yesterday for a CDM, another for Silver CDM, which is cool. But I'm really, it's really just kind of speculation that plays right now. I do think we'll see a decent market rise. Of course, the stuff that is in packs is gonna be dropping as well because there is gonna be some supply today. But honestly, the big part of what happened on the market yesterday with the supply from you, way from market matchups and no icon SBCs coming out is the fodder market dropping. And I think if there is a party bag today, there's gonna be potential to see some of this bounce back. Now I've done a slight club stock of some 84s and some 85s. And I mean, even some of these 86s, they're up a little bit from where they were, but they're still very, very low. A lot of people were selling fodder that they had invested today because there were no icon packs or icon upgrade packs that came out. So of course, people sell. This is the second week in a row now. We've seen on Wednesdays a pretty solid sell off on fodder pre-rewards. Cause I honestly think people say, or see that there's no SBC that's come out, they know that fodder usually drops with rewards and they sell stuff, which actually creates a pretty big drop off. So, you know, 84 rates down here in the 7K range is pretty low, 85s in the 15K range. These are dropping decently low as well. There still is an outside shot at some sort of icon SBC. If we don't have a promo on Friday, that could be some sort of content that EA drops. They've done it before in the past this year. So that could be something that we see on Friday as well. But if you do want to do a little bit of a club stock on some of the 84s and 85s, that's where in my opinion, would be the best place to go right now. Some of this higher rated fodder, I mean, I've already got some of this stocked and you know, I still got 88 rated cards like 46, 47,000 coins. So these prices for me are low. They're pretty low, but they're not the absolute lowest. I remember buying Casamiro like 56K, 57K. I think I have a Benz Millet I got at 56K as well. And these 89 rates are still like 60,000 coins.  But these 84s are legit low. And these cards move around the most as we've seen a lot of like, if a party bag comes out, you're gonna see these guys shoot up. You know, so I think there's gonna be a lot of people that look to buy these 84s today. Look for the ones with good links, of course, the ones with the center backs. I bought like a Telus for 8K or an Asperley Quater for like 8,000 coins as well. That's really low. I'm just saying this could be a quick flip play today with some of the 84s if we do get another party bag SBC. Now some people have been saying there's a chance of a guaranteed foot birthday pack to be released today as well. And as of right now, Foot Watch or no pack code has been released about an SBC like that coming. And that would not be an SBC that's just, you know, EA could release like this. They would have to add a pack code for it. And that would show up in the code of this game. And we would know about it. So again, if you're looking at any of these foot birthday players today, 100%, I would be looking at these guys in the first little bit of the rewards timeframe because these guys have actually gone back up a little bit. Adama's 1.8, 1.28, he was down at 1.25 earlier. Again, at all was at 760, 750, which was just kind of too low for him. And this our was down at about 900,000 coins flat, which right now he's back up to like 920. That's actually a little bit of an undercut. He's about 930. So, I mean, you are seeing some of these cards lower than where they were. Like a mortgage this morning was 380. And the man is down to 330 right now. It's kind of crazy with some of these drop offs. Now, some of them are gonna drop a little bit more with a reward supply and then probably start going up after that as people buy them and put them in their teams and stuff like that. But you've already started to see some people buy these cards and cards around the rest of the market. Now, I mean, scrolling through some of these team of weeks, I bought some 80 or 92 rated Kimmich. That's actually my cheapest one right there at 437. I bought these yesterday for 380. I got a couple of them. These cards from this last team week are up so much. This Obamian yesterday was like 380. He's up to 410. So, this team week was really rare and those cards are already starting to go up in price. And if you look across the game, you're starting to see some prices that are up, right? This jota's up like 15,000 coins. That the broing is still a little bit low. Some of these what if cards that got upgraded today are down thousands to 10. So, that is kind of low. Diata's at 230. We're keeping an eye on that one. But some of these cards have started to rebound like that Mertens was up a decent amount right there. Kothi's at 1.2. That is up. Burchiche is up about 10,000 coins. Odegaard's up like 10, 15K. So, as I'm looking through a lot of these special cards in these teams, people have started to buy these for a rise after real wars. This James is up a little bit right now. Actually, Rupindia is 248. I'm pretty sure I saw him at 270 earlier today. So, he really, really went up a lot today. I think people got the green light, especially with the links to the Mendy card, the Benjamin Mendy, I think is what's going on with this one. So, if I could find this, I might get involved here. But, you're starting to see a lot of people invest for Thursday flips. Honestly, that's like when you see this Rupindia's go up so much with a link to a new team in the week card. That just tells me that people have confidence in this market and people have confidence in investing. I'm gonna snag that one at 248 because literally he was 270 at one point today. Now, I don't know if it's gonna be too over-invested, but of course, this went down with the couple of center back SBCs that we got. If I could snag a 290 for this, maybe overnight, we'd be in the money there. So, I'm gonna buy that as a potential Thursday flip for the Rupindias. I mean, look at how many pages apply. He has the 280, one page, one page. I'm gonna leave that 251 sit there. So, just in case people wanna undercut that one, we can maybe get some more undercuts, at least for the time being. So, that's kind of what I would be doing on the market right now. It's kind of what I'm looking for is maybe some undercuts pre-rewards. And I do think you'll see a decent amount of a rise after rewards. But also, since people have already started investing, that might hurt some of the rise. So, just be careful on stuff. If you're buying something for a flip that is already up, like I'm kinda looking at this Zaha, of course, an absolute Thursday flipping beast who we flipped so many times on Thursdays this year, is 86 Zaha. If I can stagnant for as close to 100k as possible, I am all in on that card, 117. You know, this guy will probably get some lazy sales on because he has the other inform that gets in the way. But this is a five star skillar, Prem striker, links to Gervino, I guess, if you did that SBC. And he just has hype, right? So, that's kinda where I feel like the market is heading, a pretty nice rise after rewards today. You also, since people have invested, you're also probably gonna see a little bit of a drop off right before 6pm because all the people that bought some of these special cards to try to flip, maybe they're buying La Porte. This guy was down at like 320. Of course, linking to the brand new Mendy, which he's actually still 320, 325, he was 340 at one point. But you see cards like this that were invested in today probably gets sold off pre 6pm because of course people will be kind of scared and fearful of what the content could be. Today on Thursday, that's one thing that I'll be watching out for too. But it's honestly not racking up to be super hyped on a Thursday, to be completely honest. That's why we're looking at some of this fodder because I think one thing EA could try to do to maybe keep us engaged one more day is throw out another one of those party bag packs. So again, some of those 84s and 85s, if you did wanna get involved with that, that could be a place that you go and look for this. Now I wanna talk about some of the newly upgraded cards like Diata and some of the cards that did not get upgraded yesterday because there were some definite movements on these cards. Now this Diata card right now of course got that plus two and he's looking ridiculous. Some people I think are even trying to sell a tall to go out and get this guy. He's been between 220 and 230 today. He actually got down in the 220s during the Champions League and has now gone back up to about 230. I think people are investing in these cards because they think he is going to spike tomorrow after rewards as people see this upgrade and want to try them out. I 100% understand where that thing has come from but this guy is up a decent amount already. I know to me he's just kind of like a super sub though. I don't know if you would really use this card over a tall in my opinion but again he seems a bit underpriced still compared to that a tall card so maybe the hype could carry this one up especially to get some glowing reviews from other content creators in the community. People saying it was a cracked in game. He could continue to rise up. Now that's one card that's been moving today. I'm really watching this thalvin' right now. I bought one tonight at 200,000 coins. He is actually down around 210. There's one at 214 right now and this guy, it was really weird. He did not rise up at all right when the upgrade came out today. He was chilling right around like 220 to 230 and then for an hour he mysteriously went up to like 270. He was actually selling there and now he's back down to 220. So I actually got one of these at 200k flat as I mentioned and if I see another one of these at 210 I'm probably gonna pull the trigger because I think with the French links and this card just seems to be extra rare for some reason. How many pages of supply do we have here on thalvin's what if? Now I know it's at nine times so this card's probably gonna be a little more rare and I feel like that's a glitched out market right there to be honest with you. So let's try this and see if I get any more pages but yeah, there's a few more pages but still this card seems to be very rare to me for some reason. I don't really understand why it is. So that's why I'm trying to snag a couple of these at 210 if possible because this could be 230, 240 as a reward. We'll see, right? We'll see with those French links and with that league on hype if that continues to go. Now let's talk about a couple other cards, right? Goretzka, Ben Yetter did not get in team of the week. This Goretzka was like 600,000 coins almost this morning and he got sold off now down at 500k going for lower than that on bid. So a really nice drop off on that card if you wanted to get him at, you know kind of like a flash sale discount right now. Ben Yetter as well has actually rebounded. He was down to 885 and almost as lowest today. People that were selling this card after he did not get in team of the week but I totally understand why this has rebounded back because this is Ben Yetter, that links to that Diada card that just got upgraded to the Renato Sanchez to the Payet all the league one links that are going around right now. So I understand when this is up, I think this keeps going. I bought an Inform 87 Ben Yetter at 230 because I think that card could do well as a Thursday flip. So again, it just feels like to me right now that a lot of the hype on this market and a lot of what people are focusing on in FIFA at the moment is a nice little bit of a market rise heading into the weekend since there does not seem to be a promo and since people probably have some coins from for birthday it doesn't seem to be like the past couple of days have been a huge SBC frenzy to be completely honest. So maybe this will be a chance for people to use their newly completed SBCs to in their teams for a full weekend. So that's something that we're kind of expecting. Now I want to talk about the potential for a promo on Friday too. And I heard some people talking about this earlier today that since we didn't have the weekend league plus extra player picks they think that there is going to be a promo on Friday. Now of course it is a Thursday the most popular day for EA to drop loading screens. And I guess there is potential that if some point if EA to drop a loading screen either at 6 p.m. content drop today or maybe at like 8 p.m. because they've done those delayed loading screens before then we could see some panic. But of course that's going to be an only an if scenario or if we see some pack code tweeted out from Foot Watch or something like that that's going to be what we're really waiting on to see some sort of promo hint I guess you could say. But some people said that they think there's going to be a promo because we don't have those weekend league plus player picks which to an extent I can agree with because it's obvious the last few times that we haven't had a promo there's been those weekend league plus player picks that have come out. But again I just think that since we don't have those right now it doesn't to me think to say that we're going to have a promo this Friday. I honestly think that it could be a no promo Friday. You know maybe EA does run. I don't know if they'll run shape shifters or if they'll run maybe team in the knockout stage in the next couple of weeks. You know before we have team in the season but we're really going to probably start sliding towards that team in the season timeframe sooner than we realize. So once we start hearing the rumors and we're going to start to hear a lot of speculation people are going to say hey yo when should I sell for team of the season. There's going to be a lot of that coming very soon. There really is going to be a lot of that stuff coming very soon. This Sancho is pretty low on bid right now and if I had coins I would love to get on it but I don't think you have to be too worried about team of the season yet. I still feel like we're three to four weeks away. Three weeks at the earliest four weeks to five weeks at the expected time for me for team of the season. So I do feel like stuff could drop off as we get nearer and nearer towards team of the season of course but I don't feel like we're just there quite yet. And I wonder if EA is going to try to run some sort of promo in between. That's my biggest question mark is EA sports are you going to try to run some sort of promo between now and between team of the season because I feel like they could squeeze one or two in there but also kind of like they did for foot birthday they really built the hype for foot birthday by not running any promos for two weeks. Right and that really made us crave a promo and I could see them doing that again with team of the season. I really could. I could see us going to maybe even three weeks without a promo if EA is going to really try to make us desire that promo and the promo packs and the new upgraded players. So that's just something that I'm thinking I got a cool ballad tonight at 285 and that card is looking like it's up around 300K so that's a GG. Just to switch the quick switch on the topic right there but that's just kind of how I'm feeling about right now. Again and also if you think about it this way if EA is not going to drop a promo and make us want those that promo and just kind of be desiring and you know when we don't have a promo for a while people start speculating about the next promo. I mean look what happened with foot birthday right. People are talking about it two weeks beforehand. We didn't have a promo for two entire weeks and then the whole team was leaked because people were so into it about foot birthday and EA obviously leaked the whole team but people I feel like went to extra efforts for foot birthday because there was so much time ahead of time, there was so much more speculation predictions, concepts and if that happens for a team of the season I feel like EA would drop coins suck and coins raining SBCs in the weeks beforehand. So that to me bodes well for more party bag SBCs icon upgrade SBC maybe even icon players right. Maybe even more icon moments player SBCs. That's the biggest thing that I think people are really you guys know everybody's tweeting about they want icon upgrades so you know when we see that sort of stuff come out people might be somewhat satisfied at least for a little bit that could come today that could come a Friday if we don't have any loading screen today then I think we'd be probably looking at some sort of icon upgrade SBC on Friday as sort of like here's some content for a Friday even though it's on a promo so that's just kinda like all my thoughts dumped into one video right now boys I know right now it's not super duper exciting on FIFA I appreciate all you guys that are watching the videos on the daily even though we're in this foot birthday promo where a lot of people were wanting to know you know what's gonna go on with these foot birthday cards you know when to buy when to sell all that good sort of stuff so if you do want a little bit more information on that I did make a video earlier today but as of right now the foot birthday cards are gonna be big time 100% watches during rewards because they're gonna get supplied then potentially bounce back and then hopefully we'll see a little bit of a market rise if you want any moments icons those will probably get supplied during rewards as well usually you see a few of those pop up and you know undercuts and then rising up nicely into the daytime those icon moments that's been a trend the past couple weeks with those I've noticed so that is a GG as well but that's the video for today boys if you have any questions of course drop it down below hit a like on this video if you enjoyed it and subscribe if you are new it's been Nathan Foot Accounting we'll catch you guys later peace out