Okay, good morning, everyone. Welcome to the class. Welcome those of you online to BC 214, Developing the Human Spirit. Let's take a moment to pray. We will start. I think this is the other mic that has to go around. Could somebody please pray and then we will start. Father God, we thank you for this time. We thank you for this day as we came before you're shown. You give us grace. You give us wisdom and knowledge, God. And when pastor will teach us from your word, you give us the new revelation, God, from your word. We surrender every student, every faculty, it's in your hand. We surrender this class into your hand. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. All right. Let me share the PDF. So last week we covered, I mean, we spent quite a bit of time talking about the stage of innocence that's on page four. We also talked about the condition of the human spirit before being born again. That's we are without the life of God. We don't have the life of God. We are without the life of God. And then we said the human spirit can grow. That means the human spirit can, just like in the natural, the body or the physical body, you feed the body, the body grows, the body becomes strong. Similarly, the human spirit can grow. You can feed it with the knowledge of the Word of God. It can increase in revelation how much it knows about God. It can know God's will. It can become stronger and many other areas that we can grow. So we're going to talk more about that in the weeks to come. Let me talk about the functions of the human spirit. Just to emphasize the revelation knowledge that means it is knowledge the spirit doesn't know, but God reveals to the human spirit. And we receive understanding over there in the spirit. So when we want to know the will of God, it takes place first in our spirit. We'll just go to 1st Corinthians chapter 2. It's not in the notes, but in 1st Corinthians chapter 2, let's read verses 14 to 16. 1st Corinthians 2, 14 to 16, please. 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14 to 16. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God for their foolishness to him. Nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things. Yet he himself is rightly judged by no one for who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him. But we have the mind of Christ. So actually I just want to read verse 11 as well. I'll just move back. Verse 11. For what man knows the things of a man except the Spirit of the man which is in him? 1st Corinthians 2, 11. What man knows the things of a man except the Spirit of man which is in him? That means the best person to know you, I mean other than God, the best person to know you is the Spirit within you. So what man knows the things of a man? Can I know everything about you? No. For what man knows the things of a man except the Spirit of man which is in him? That means your Spirit is the best to know about you. So what man knows the things of a man except the Spirit of man which is in him? And it is in the Spirit that God is going to reveal to us his plans, his purposes, his will. As we read verse 14, the natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God. So natural man, we are not receiving the things of the Spirit of God through our minds. The natural man does not, verse 14, the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God because they are foolishness to him nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. That means they must be understood by the Spirit first. So we want to receive the things of the Holy Spirit. We don't receive it first in our mind, we receive it first in our spirit. Then it comes to our mind. Our mind begins to understand and then we can say it, we can speak it, we can express it. But it first is spiritually discerned or spiritually understood by the Spirit. And verse 15, he was spiritual, he examines everything, but he himself is rightly judged by no one. So a spiritual person, a person living by the Spirit, he discerns everything, but somebody from the outside cannot understand them fully. Why? Because you don't judge in the natural, you cannot understand spiritual things in the natural. So he himself is not judged by anyone. Then he says, who has known the mind of the Lord that we may instruct him, we have the mind of Christ. That is, God reveals his mind to us in the Spirit. So we come to this, but what I wanted to emphasize is that our human spirit is a place where we are going to receive revelation of spiritual things. Our human spirit is a place where we are also going to understand the will of God, the mind of God. It is first made known to us in our spirit. Then the soul of the mind begins to understand. There's some side notes here, this one page five about the human soul. The main thing to understand is in the Old Testament, the word heart and soul are sometimes used in a very interchangeable way in the Old Testament. So you just have to read the context and then see, okay, is that referring to only the Spirit or is it referring to the emotions? Because it's kind of used interchangeably. Whereas in the New Testament, it's very distinct, very clear, heart, spirit, to talk about the human spirit, soul, mind, to talk about the soul of the mind. And it uses a combined term, inner man, to talk about both spirit and soul. Okay, so when you're studying the New Testament, keep that in mind. And there are some, I'll just give a list here of things, of how the word soul is used in the New Testament. And I've just taken this from the dictionary, that's all. Other questions that have come up in the past. So I made a note of these questions on page six. In the spiritual realm, will people feel emotions? Yes, we can feel because Beers talks about hell, he said there will be no more, in hell, there will be beeping, gnashing of teeth. In new heavens and new earth, there will be no more tears, no more sorrow. So the emotions are there in the spiritual realm. Another question is recognition, can we recognize people? Answers, yes. 1 Corinthians 13, it says, we shall know, verse 12, 1 Corinthians 13, 12. But now we see in Amirah-dimly, but then face to face, now I know in part, then I shall know, just as I also am known. So when Jesus comes, he says, will we recognize? Yeah, you will know, you'll know others, you will recognize others, you will know just as you are known, like we know each other and be able to understand each other. Can we remember things from the earth's realm?  It's an interesting question because we can go back to Luke 16, where Jesus spoke about the rich man and Lazarus, and the rich man being in hell, he was crying out, and there he says, you know, remember when you were living on the earth, you had everything, but Lazarus had nothing. And from there he remembers, oh, my father and my brothers are there, please send somebody to tell them, so they don't end up here. That means, I'm just going by that story, I'm going by that story, that based on that, maybe there is some remembrance of what happened here on earth, but in heaven, so that's what will happen when we, but in heaven, we know it's a place of joy, which means we are not going to remember our sins and our failures. So God says, as far as the east is from the west, so far I will remove your transgressions, your sins, I buried your sins in the depths of the sea. So obviously in heaven, we're not going to be remembering all the mistakes we made, because then it'll be very sorrowful. So that is, just based on that, it's okay. Most likely, so in heaven, we're not going to remember those things, but God will reward us for the works we've done on earth. So maybe there may be a recall of the good things, I'm not sure. The other question that's related is, when we go to heaven, can we see earth from heaven? So that means my mother, father, grandfather, whoever has gone, are they watching me now from heaven? I don't know. Now many people quote Hebrews 12, 1 and 2, you know, seeing, so we have such a big cloud of witnesses that has run with endurance.  We are the runners who are now living, we are the runners, and they are looking at us. It's as a picture, like, you know, seeing them, we have such so many witnesses that has run with endurance, the race that is set before us. That's the picture he's having in mind. So while that's the picture of Hebrews 12, 1 and 2, that doesn't mean that it implies that everybody from heaven is looking down at you, watching. They are probably busy worshiping Jesus and enjoying God's presence, not wasting time looking at us here on earth. Right? So my thought, again, I'm just sharing this, my thought is they're not looking at us. They won't be able to see us, otherwise they'll be so sad all the time. But maybe if God allows, you know, because there's some people who say, I went to heaven, then I saw what was happening here on earth. So maybe God allows them to see for that individual case, maybe. But generally I don't think that's going to be the way it is, that they are always watching us here on earth because they're busy, they're probably busy looking at Jesus. That's much more better than looking at us. So these are some questions people generally ask. So I just put them here. Let's go to chapter 2. In chapter 2, page 7, yeah. That's a continuation for this question, what will they can people who are in heaven, since even we are studying that God reveals his plans towards in our spirit, it is relating to us who are here. So people who are in heaven, will they also know the full plan of God for humanity or what God is going to do next? Or for our lives, they will have the revelation of what is the plan of God. So your question is, all the people who have gone to heaven, because they are in heaven, will they understand everything about God's plan and will they know everything about everything that God is going to do? Because they are already in spirit and they are in God. So we just read 1 Corinthians 13. I'm just thinking about that verse. 1 Corinthians 13 says, now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also know. So it says, now we know only little, little, little part. But then the implications, then I will know everything. But does that everything make us omniscient? Say God is omniscient. God knows everything. So Paul is saying, of course, I know he's saying in verse 12, now we know in part, then we will know fully. But the question is when he says we will know fully, does it mean we'll know everything? I don't think so, because the only person who knows everything is God. And that's what omniscience is. It is a part of deity. That means only deity, only God is omniscient. Only God knows everything. We are still, we are in heaven, but we're still human beings, humans. Maybe with God, but we're still spirits that he created. So will we know everything? So does Paul mean here, now I know in part, but then I shall know just I also have known. Does he mean we will know everything? I don't think that's the extent, because that is omniscience, that is God. Only God has that. So I think my answer to this will be, whatever God allows us to know reveals to us, even in heaven, that's what we will know. So for example, even when Jesus will exactly return, even we won't know. It'll only be known to the Father. And the Father says, okay, now, then others we might tell everybody, just joking. So my answer to the question is, no, we won't know everything, but we will know much more. Because to know everything is omniscience and that's only God's attribute. So do we have free will there also, like after going to heaven? The answer is yes. So then you say, will somebody again sin in heaven? I hope not. So will we have free will in heaven? God created us, that's just one of our attributes and also of angels. Angels are not robots. Angels also have a will. That's how Lucifer sinned. He said, I will ascend. He also exercised his will. So angels and humans, we are created with a free will and we will have that free will. But those who are allowed in heaven are those who have demonstrated that they're using their free will to worship God. They've demonstrated, they've made a choice. Now that does open up the question, can somebody do something wrong out of free will? I mean, theoretically, yes, because can some other angels sin theoretically? Yes. But would God have taken some measure to prevent that? I think so. That some way he has, he will make sure that, I don't know how, but he will make sure that there's, we don't have to go through this whole thing again. So in theory, I'm just theorizing, because we are free model beings and he's not going to take it away. And that's the whole point that we should, as free model beings, choose to worship God. So the spirit and body. So when this was actually, it was in mother's womb, when cells are getting prepared and to, I mean, about to form a body, then only the spirit will form or else the spirit is there from some eternity or these many souls are there in eternity because God knows everything, how many people will be involved. So my understanding is that God is the creator of the human spirit. And as human beings, we all had a starting point. We had a point in time before which we didn't exist, after which we existed, God created us. So the question you're asking is, let's say, there are going to be 13 billion, so many, so many spirits, human beings, whatever the number is. The question is, were all these spirits created beforehand and kept somewhere and then zing, zing, and they come into the earth, like they come in and then they are born on the earth. Or are these spirits created at different points in time? So my thought is it's happening at different points in time. That means we, when conception takes place in the body, I feel that's the time, that's the time the spirit created by God is given to the body and the human spirit is created and given to the body. Now we can't prove it by chapter and verse, I'm just thinking, the only thing we can say is that God is the Father of spirits, like we read in Hebrews 12. And we are born, like says Psalm 113, we may be created in the womb. So I'm thinking that's the time the spirit comes in and the body is formed around the spirit. So maybe that's the time God creates that person, is what I'm thinking. But we don't have a clear chapter and verse on, okay, this is exactly how it takes place, whether it's like, okay, God already created everything and one by one is releasing into the earth or it's happening in time. I'm thinking it's happening in time. So let's go to chapter two, where we focus a little bit more on the human spirit. The main point that we want to understand in this chapter is that the human spirit is the real person with personality, faculties and functions.  See outside body will change, we grow old, soul also is changing. I mean, mind and emotions changing. The real person is the human spirit and your spirit has personality, it has faculties, things it can do are faculties and functions. So you can imagine the human spirit just like how we imagine the or we understand the human body. So example body, the human body has faculties, there we say five senses, five faculties, mainly what you see here, smell, touch, taste, all that, five faculties, human body and it is through that we feed information to our soul, mind, emotions.  Like the human body has functions, you can stand, you can talk, you can walk, all those things you can do. So similarly, the person, the spirit must be understood, the spirit must be understood to be like a full real person with personality, faculties and functions and we want to see this. Let us go to 2nd Peter chapter 1, 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 13 to 15, somebody could read it. 1st Peter, 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 13 to 15. Yes, I think it is right as long as I am in this tent to stir you up by reminding you, knowing that shortly I must put off my tent just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. Moreover, I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my disease. So say how Peter is talking, as long as I am in this tent, so he is calling his body tent, but the real person is inside the tent as long as I am in this tent and then he says, I must put off my tent. That means the real person is inside this house, I come inside the house, I mean I am in the house, I might go out of the house, this is only a house, it is a body. But the real person, I Peter said, I, the real person, I will put off this tent and obviously go to be with the Lord.  So even if this body decays, the real person continues to live, you are going to continue to live and that spirit has personality, faculties and functions. So let's go back to 1st Peter chapter 3, we spent some time here on this verse in the beginning, we will review all of that one more time. 1st Peter chapter 3, let's read verses 3 and 4, 1st Peter 3, 3 and 4 please somebody can read it. 1st Peter chapter 3 verse 4, 3 and 4 pastor. 3 and 4. Knowing the first, that scoffers will come in the last days. That is 1st Timothy, let's go 1st Peter. Do not let your adornment be merely outward arranging the hair, wearing gold or putting on fine apparel, rather let it be the hidden person of the heart with the incorruptible beauty of a zentile and quite spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. So 1st Peter 3, 3 and 4, Peter saying is of course speaking directly to the ladies, he's saying okay don't focus on all your outward wearing, but verse 4, rather let it be the hidden person. Who's he referring to as a hidden person, your heart, your spirit. So the real person is a hidden person, it's hidden inside, that's the real person and that's the heart. And it has incorruptible beauty, so we said this hidden person has this glory or a beauty or a personality which will not fade away and he mentioned some things, a gentle and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is very precious. So 1st to make some statements here, page 7, the hidden person has its own traits and characteristics that define the individual's personality. So your spirit, every human spirit has certain characteristics. Sometimes you will see some people, oh that person is very bold, that person is very adventurous, that person is very quiet, that personality of the spirit comes out in the person, that person is very strong or that person is very determined. So in Luke 9.51, actually that whole passage and we're just picking out one verse 55, Jesus turns around to his disciples, James and John. He says, you do not know what manner of spirit you are of, that means what kind, so James and John, so the incident there in Luke 9 is, they come to a village, Jesus and his disciples, they're all traveling, they come to this village, they don't want to receive Jesus. So James and John says, let us call fire on them like how Elijah called fire down, we'll finish them and show them.  Your own spirit is so aggressive and at that particular moment it was very angry, short tempered, that kind of expression, let's finish them, they're not receiving us. So you don't know what manner of spirit you are, you understand how your spirit is reacting in the situation and you've got to temper that. And so and there was a big difference between how they wanted to do, what they wanted to do and what Elijah wanted to do. Elijah was seeking to glorify God, here they're saying, let's do it out of revenge and anger and so on. But anyway, the point is your human spirit has characteristics, it has traits and if we can build the right traits or character in our spirit, then that will be revealed in our behavior. So example, I'm saying, okay, let's think about, you know, the fruit of the spirit, say meekness, how can you have meekness or English word humility?  No, meekness is developed in your spirit. It's a fruit of the Holy Spirit developed in your spirit. So when your spirit has that quality, then it will show up in your life. So every other thing, you know, how we say love, joy, peace, kindness, meekness, gentleness or self-control. So all those qualities, where is it going to be developed? Not in our mind, it is developed in our spirit. The Holy Spirit is developing that in our spirit, then it will come. If that is the character of your spirit, the trait of your spirit, then it will come, it will be in your personality. People will say, oh, it's a very loving person, kind person, gentle, all the fruit of the spirit will be seen. Okay, page eight, otherwise Jesus said, you know, out of the heart, all these other things, bad things will come, evil thoughts, murders, other things. That means from the heart, this is all happening. So understand that the human spirit, what you build into your human spirit, right, that will define your personality, that will define who you are as a person. We also want to talk about five faculties of the human spirit and functions of the human spirit. I will just mention this, we're going to study each of these in detail and you may have seen some of this in the book on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, because it's connected there. So the human spirit, what we can see in the scriptures is the human spirit has at least five faculties. That means just as the body has the faculty of sight, you can see the human spirit also has eyes. So we know these scriptures, you know, in the Old Testament, Psalmist says, open down my eyes that I may be whole wonderful things out of your word. So what does it mean? What opened my eyes? I want to see wonderful things from your word. He's not talking about naturalized, naturalized, you can read, but he's not about spiritualized. I want to see wonderful things. So our spirit has eyes and it can see and therefore we can have, you know, what we call is vision. That means our spirit is seeing, perceiving. Similarly, we can hear, that means words come in. We were going to study these five faculties. You can hear, that means just here right now, you're hearing me. I am communicating words to you and all these words put together are making sentences. Sentences put together is giving some meaning. It's imparting some information, knowledge. But you're hearing because of sound in the spiritual realm. Similarly, we can receive word, sentences, knowledge, information, we can hear, but God doesn't use sound. It just comes into our spirit. We can feel, so sense, sensation. Now you feel cold, feel warm, all of our emotions. So we can have those senses, sensations or senses in our spirit. Similarly, we can smell and taste spiritually. Spiritually in heaven, for example, we are in heaven. Bible says the prayers of the saints are like incense. Incense has smell. So in heaven, there is that, I know that must be this, I don't know what the smells are, but must be something very nice. Right? But our prayers are like incense before God, the presence of God. And taste, of course, even in the spiritual realm, there's that sense of taste. Again, I know how it's made up, but we will share some thoughts on this as we go through each of these five faculties in an upcoming chapter. And we mentioned the seven functions. So I'll just mention these now. We're going to look at all of these point by point in different coming chapters. The function, so what does the born again human spirit do? That means you're born again, what must your spirit be doing? So it has faculties, it can learn all these things. What does it do? Number one, it's conscience to help us recognize what is right and wrong. Right? So the conscience is actually a function of the spirit. So when we say conscience, what are we meaning? We're saying there is something God has put inside the spirit, that every person is telling them this is right and this is wrong. So you can think even unbeliever, you ask, generally ask unbeliever, is it okay to murder? No, no, no. How do you know it's not okay to murder? Conscience. So even an unsaved person, as long as his spirit is alive, like he has not, you know, like killed his conscience, the conscience is there, he will tell us to some extent what is right and wrong. But whether he does it or not, that is different story. At least he can tell us correctly, this is the right, this is because we have a conscience. It is a function of the spirit, the human spirit. But some people can suppress the conscience. No, don't listen to the conscience saying, don't do it. I won't listen, go do it. Then slowly the conscience dies, the voice becomes softer. Another function of the human spirit is to know, that is receiving revelation, knowledge. Another function is to commune, that is to fellowship with God. The human spirit is also like a container. It carries the nature, the grace, the power, the glory of God. The human spirit also has identity, who we are in the spiritual realm. So that recognition of that identity is important for us. The human spirit can also do things, act. That means in the spirit, you can do things. You can believe, you can serve, you can intercede, you can fight, you can get things done in the spirit. The human spirit can also grow. That means it's becoming, the character is becoming more and more like Jesus. So that means the character of the spirit is becoming, is being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. So these are the functions of the spirit. We will discuss all these in upcoming chapters. All right. Yes, friends. We're talking about the senses of the spirit and what the spirit can do. Like we can, we saw like spirit also can take actions. So like my question is like, is astral projection, is true or can it also be done? Yeah, can be done. So the human spirit can do a lot of things in the spiritual realm. We are talking of all the good things we can do, but other people can train their spirit to do wrong things. Example, we are thinking about communing with God. They will commune with some dark powers. They'll say this, no, we call them as familiar spirits, but they say, no, no, there's some spirit that is talking to me very nice, giving me extra information, very friendly. So they will build, come in with that. We call it familiar spirit because actually evil spirit that has become friendly with this person, giving them information. Now like that, they will do other things like the evil spirits can help them have experiences, one of which is go out of the spirit, show you other things and come. So they make them feel very powerful. Yeah. So the good side example is Paul, we read 2 Corinthians 12. He was caught up to the third heaven, so free ticket, like body is here on earth, but he went there and God was speaking to him. He said, I heard things, I can't even utter. So what happened? Body is here on earth, God took his spirit, same thing with John in Revelation. He said, on the Lord's day, I was just praying, suddenly I was in the spirit and God says, come up here and he's there. The door is opening, he's going inside. It's like actually entering some place, but body is on earth in the spirit. Now that is an experience God gives. Paul is not saying today, I'll press three buttons. He's not going up and down, like taking a lift. Lift is only if you want to go in the building, but this is not like that. It's not like Paul is deciding today, I'm going, God is giving that experience. And for a reason, in Paul's case, he had to give him revelation about the New Testament. In John's case, he had to give him revelation about coming events. So there is a reason God does those things. Does it mean that person is more special? I think it means that person has more responsibility. Paul, you go back and write everything. Whatever I want you to write, you make sure you give it to the church. John, right? Because they have to read the response to it. But like that, evil spirits can help people go have this kind of experience. Yeah, I'm saying, is it possible? Yeah, because God has not changed and God can still do, God will still do these things. But here's the thing, we don't know, hopefully, I say, hopefully all these ministers of God are saying truthfully, but we don't know when, how much is genuine and what some people are just making up. So we're not denying the genuine, but we also must be aware that sometimes people can just make up some stories and say, write some things, just for becoming popular, writing books, this, that story. So and the other thing is the only way we can judge those things is by going back to the Bible. So when people start saying things that we cannot judge by the Bible, like if they say, I went to heaven, there was one school, special school called School of the Supernatural. All the believers who died had to go to the school first.  No, there is no way for us to judge those things. Somebody else had written, I went to heaven, he saw one big storeroom of different body parts, body parts are hanging there. And so if you have to claim your body part, if any injury or something, now how will you judge that? But he said, I went to heaven, I saw those things. Some said, I went to heaven, I saw my two dogs, they were there. How are we to judge? So my response is just leave it alone. They had their experience, if it's real, enjoy. If it's not real, leave it for us, we can only live by the written scripture, that's all. So I don't pay too much attention to it, I just leave it. If you want to, you pray. But I think there's a lot more things to pray about now. Eventually you're going to spend eternity there. So the short time we have here on earth, I think you pray about things here on earth. Once you're there, you're there. You can't pray about earth. So that's my response. I mean, there are people who say, you must pray that God will take you to heaven. Why are you going to be eternity there? Now you focus on getting the job done. You have a very short time here on earth. All right, very quickly there's a question on the chat. The human spirit is made alive and sensual things of the spirit. Everyone is born again and enveloped by the spirit of God. The people of the world who are not born again operate according to the level of their conscience, their knowledge of right and wrong. Yes, that's correct. They operate out of their conscience and they can either the conscience can become strong or the conscience can become weaker depending on what they do with that. Okay, so let's pause here. So can we pray for the rapture to happen quickly? I mean, we can say, Lord come, Lord Jesus quickly because Revelation 12 says, the spirit and the bride say, come. Spirit, the bride is the church. The spirit and the bride, they're crying or saying, come. Let me say, Lord, we want you to come. So you pray that. So there's nothing wrong in saying, Lord Jesus, please come. But he will come in his own time. I mean, I did that point at whenever he sees that time's ready. Okay, let's close and pray and we'll continue this next week. Somebody could pray please. I have only Father Lord. We come before your throne, O Lord Father. We thank you for your grace. We thank you for your love, O Lord Father. We thank you for this time of learning and a good insight to Lord Father that you have given. Lord, we pray, O Lord Father, whatever you have taught us, O Lord, we ask you, O Lord Father, that let it be in our hearts, O Lord Father. Let it fall on the good ground, O Lord Father, to bear 30, 60 and 100 folds, O Lord Father, for your kingdom and help us, O Lord Father, to live according to your word, O Lord Father and walk in your ways. We submit our lives to you. We give you glory and honor. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you.


Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and children of all ages, you are now tuned in to the investor show as always. This is Greatest Hosts. The Prince of Invest and Prince of Diets is coming to you guys and girls live all the way from a beautiful city and state of Denver, Colorado via Haululu, Hawaii. Don't forget to hit that like, subscribe, comment, and share button, and follow us on YouTube and iTunes as well to get the audio and the visual as well. Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I don't have a lot of time. I definitely, you guys and girls don't have a lot of time, so we're going to jump straight into it. So today's topic, we're going to talk about the stimulus plan that was just passed. The $1.9 trillion plan that just passed the house. So to give you a little backdrop on it, it went from the house all the way to the Senate. The Senate took out some things, made some modifications, sent it back down to the house. The house just approved it and they're looking to have President Biden sign that and President Biden will sign that and the stimulus package will start going out immediately, which includes stimulus checks for Americans, people who are gross under $75,000 a year, or if you are married, grossing under $150,000 a year. With that being said, that we know that this is happening now as investors. So what, Prince? What's the so what factor? What does that mean for me as an investor? What does that mean for people in general? That's what today's episode is going to be about. So stick around and stay tuned as we discuss. The first thing we want to discuss with the stimulus plan is with this stimulus plan, you got to look at more, this is the third round. We had one pass about a couple of months ago, right before we got a new president, President Biden was inaugurated in January. So we just had a new plan. So with that new plan, now that we just got passed, so this is plan number three. So this is, it's a new plan, but it is plan number three. And now you've got to keep it in consideration. What did we do March of last year? I've always spoke about this. We lowered interest rates. The Federal Reserve decided to lower interest rates, something that is an economical stimulus plan that has been used for decades and decades. We did it back in 08. We did it back in 2000. We lowered interest rate to make, to ease money, to make money easy, easy to borrow. And in return, we turn around and push the money out, stimulate the economy by pushing money to people. When we push money to people, this is all to spur the economy. Now the first thing, let's look at the economical stance, but we look at the simple things. One of the big talking points that you've probably seen, that you probably haven't heard around the financial industry has probably been bond yields. Everybody has been talking about bond yields. We saw the NASDAQ, which is currently down about 0.21% and from not mistaken, so far this year, the S&P 500 is at 2%. And it's mostly due to the stock market came out strong in the year, but it slowly has had a nice little drag. Why it has had a nice drag? Due to the fact of the last two or three weeks, we've heard this thing called bond yields. What is bond yields? Bond yields is a big thing. So the thing that you probably heard me say on this show, or if you catch me on my other live streams, you hear me talk about what I say that bond yields are interest rates as interest rates go up, the stock market goes down. As interest rates go up, the stock market goes down, right? That's one of the things you have to be very concerned with itself. So we see bond yields as they start to itch up. Guess what? More people, when bond yields go up, bond prices go down. People will be more likely to return back to bonds. When bond yields are down and bond prices are up, equities, aka stocks look more attractive. People move over to equities. So when I say equities, I'm talking about stocks like your Apple, your Google, Amazon, things like that. And when I'm looking at, when I'm speaking about bonds, I'm speaking of things like corporate bonds. Corporate bonds, government bonds, right?  Interest rate starts to jump. Interest rate starts to jump. And where do these interest rates come from? Why are they jumping? One of the big questions is people are looking at inflation. So before we get into that, I got to ask you a question, what is inflation? So the first question, what is inflation? Inflation is the simple cost of rise of goods and services.  So he's more of a, he's a grandparents age, but he's my dad. And what he always says, he's always, son, back when we should be able to get Coca-Cola for a nickel. You should be able to buy gas for a penny. We used to be able to, you know, all these things, we never brought bottled water. So, you know, you see those prices. And now I'm becoming the old guy, I'm 36 years old. And I remember how much a can of Coca-Cola, by the way, how much a can of Coca-Cola costs when I was in high school. And when I was in high school, a can of Coca-Cola used to cost, I don't know, I could take a dollar to a vending machine and get a meal. I would probably get a $50 Coca-Cola, maybe a 25, 35 cent, maybe a 50 cent for a Coca-Cola. Then I basically get a pack of cookies for another, maybe 25 cent, a bag of cookies and another 25 cent. I can get some chips, not the most healthiest meal, but I can get chips, cookies and a drink for all about a dollar, right? Nowadays, you look and with a dollar, you might be lucky if you can get a pack of chewing gum and that's a five pack of chewing gum. It's probably costing you a dollar these days. So that lets you know for simple, for simplistic purposes, the price of goods and services are actually going up. That's great for the world of real estate. When we look at real estate, real estate, when the price of goods and services go up, guess what else goes up? The price and the prices of houses. So if you're out here saying, man, look, I have to go buy, I have the order for me to buy groceries, I'm buying less and less with groceries.  Now, in 2021 with $100, you can get not a shopping cart that you pushed. You can get maybe a little basket of items for $100. What happened? It's the same amount of money, but the purchasing power, which they call purchasing power risk, the purchasing power is going down. The purchasing power is going down because inflation is going up. So as we see low interest rates and money being pushed into the market, we're going to see the purchasing power of the dollar start to go up. Purchasing power of the dollar starting to decrease and go down. Now, when inflation increase, inflation is very good. I won't say, I don't need crazy inflation, but a little inflation is good for real estate. For people who are out there who own houses.  The value of my house or the price of my house will continue to rise as inflation rises, right? So that's good.  Me, I own some land, so the price of those land get to go up. Great idea, right? Now, when you look at it on the reverse side, so people are worried about inflation because uncontrollable inflation is not good. Because guess what? And one thing that I saw with that, that I was glad that was shot down. This is not a political thing. I'm not, you know, Republican or Democrat or trying to push an agenda. And there's nothing wrong with anybody with their political views. But let's look at it this way. It was pushed to have $15 minimum wage. $15 minimum wage does make sense in a place like Hawaii. $15 minimum wage makes sense in a place like, well, not Hawaii, but Haluulu, where it's very expensive to live. Minimum wage makes sense. San Francisco minimum wage makes sense. Seattle minimum wage of $15 makes sense. New York City $15 minimum wage will make sense. In the middle of Alabama $15 an hour, as a minimum wage, that's pretty high. My belief is minimum wage should be controlled at the state level, not the federal level, because every state is different. The house, for what I purchased from my house, a half a million dollars here in Colorado, gets you a decent house, right? A half a million dollars in Hawaii will get you nothing. When it comes down to a house, right? The average house up there, I just got through talking to one of my cousins down in Hawaii in Ewa Beach. You know, I think when I was there a couple of years ago, his house was worth about $700,000, $800,000. And I was like, man, it's a thing of bubble. And he just called me today and said, hey, my house to start negotiating is $1.1 to $1.2 million. All those houses are millions of dollars around that area, right?  So minimum wage, and I felt as though minimum wage was going to be the number one contributor, not the number one, but was going to be a mass contributor to inflation. Because what's going to happen is when you get one person, the person that get $15 an hour, the person that's going to get more, everybody wants to get more than that. Hey, I earned $15 an hour. That was cool, but I want more, right? So I want more than $15. So the person who's receiving $15 an hour today, if the minimum wage was to change, that person now is going to want $20. The person who's getting $20, they're going to want $25. So it's just not raising the bottom. Everybody's going to want to get raised. And more people make money, you got to ask yourself how are you going to pay for this? There's only three ways to cover the costs. If my work force, if my payroll has just increased, I have now have incurred what type of costs, right? How am I going to pay for this? I'm paying people more, where's the money coming from? Number one, I can cut the workforce. As you can see in a lot of shopping, a lot of fast food places, you'll see a lot of people being replaced by kiosks. In warehouses, you'll see a lot of people being replaced by robots. So one, the company's going to look to cut back on the workforce. Number two, the company could just bite the bullet and say, hey, you know what? I'll just pay the money myself. So the company's not making more money, but it's paying out more money that's going to decrease their profitability, which is bad juju for the economy. And as an investor, I want to see companies have increased their retained earnings and see the retained earnings to continue to grow. But with that, the retained earnings is going to start to decrease, right? So with that being said, you're going to look at companies with either the company can pay it out of their earnings. The number three way, not price, number three way is to raise prices of goods and services. If you raise prices of goods and services, nobody wants that. Everybody wants to make $15 an hour, but everybody loves the dollar menu in McDonald's. Everybody wants to make $15 an hour, but they love the same price at Disney World. Everybody wants to make $15 an hour, but we want the same price when we go to the grocery store. And unfortunately, when you look at the economy, it just doesn't work that way. If Walmart start to pay all of its workers more money, will it be able to offer those low prices? I'm all for people getting a competitive and a fair wage, but we got to look at the bigger picture. When I was younger and I was a kid, my first job, I got $15 an hour at Domino's Pizza. I could care less about the grid economy, the retained earnings and how it was going to affect inflation. I didn't even know inflation was. I could care less. All I wanted to care about was my $5 an hour. I was happy to get it. I was happy to put gas in my car and I was happy to drive back and forth to work. And I was happy to be able to buy some school clothes and be able to go on dates, spending money. That's all I cared about. So now when you look at people today, people today are saying, hey, well, what about me? What about everybody else? But as I became older, became an investor, I start to realize it's something bigger going on than me. I have to look at where does the dollar come from? There's no such thing as a free meal. As a lot of you guys and girls know, I'm the founding and president of a 501C nonprofit. And with this 501C3 nonprofit, what I do is we're a charity, but guess what? Everybody loves to take a lot of things from charity, but a lot of people don't like to give a lot of things to charity, right?  Yes, a charity can provide those services, but guess what? To have a website is not free. To drive out to do certain things, that's not free. When I go to the gas station, a nonprofit cannot write off the gas as an expense. Well, they can write off expenses for us business, but they still have to pay for the gas. They still have to pay for the website. They still have to pay for their time. They still have light bill, water bill, gas bills. They have to hire employees sometimes. They have to have different systems in the play, tax professional, hiring help, marketing, flyers, social media, all those things you still have to pay for. You may get a break from certain people, but you still have to pay for, but nobody cares about the expense side. Everybody wants a good side. And what I say, when we look at the grander scheme of things, that's what we have to look at. Now that we know these things, now that we know how inflation is very important, how it plays into the role, now that we know how this can affect people who's going to invest, I now want to talk about ways as an investor, how you can profit from the $1.9 trillion stimulus plan being passed. So with that being said, I got something in my eye there. With that being said, we're going to take a break. We're going to take a very good, not a very good break, but a quick break. And we're going to come back and after the break, we're going to talk about ways to benefit or ways to invest to benefit from the $1.9 trillion stimulus package. Now we are back. We are back. Welcome back to the Prince of Investment. I'm your host, Prince Dye. It's coming all the way live for the beautiful city and state of Denver, Colorado via Haluulu, Hawaii. Before the break, we was talking about the $1.9 trillion still and stimulus plan and the ways that it affected the economy. Some of the things that was good. I kind of went on a minimum wage rent in a way, but now we're going to get down to the nuts and bolts. Okay, Prince, that was all good stuff. Okay, as an investor, what can I do? How can I make some money with this, right? So the first thing is with stocks, with stocks, you're going to be able to look at the companies that are going to benefit the most. It's going to be no secret. These $1.9 trillion dollars, it is going to the lower income of society, the middle class and the middle to lower income are going to be receiving stimulus checks. And what do you think people are going to do with the stimulus checks? The audience, the people that tune into the show, they're going to look for ways to invest their $1,400. The rest of the people, the rest, not the rest, no offense, but majority of people are probably going to spend that money. Ask yourself, where are they going to spend the money? Right now, we don't have too much leisure. The hotel and leisure and transportation industry has been hit, meaning people can't go on to trips as much, meaning that, you know, Carnival is not really open all the way in full swing, airlines are not opened up all the way in full swing, people can't go to clubs and bars, too funny, but with the 14th, a lot of people are sitting at home. So number one place people are going to do is online e-commerce and retail. Online e-commerce and retail, people are going to sit at home.  It's mentally gone.  That new TV that I wanted to buy, that new thing that I would rug that I wanted to, you know, buy or whatever. Now, I'm not saying this to negate, there are people that's actually going to need it to buy food, pay for rent, clothes, that's true. But a lot of people that's going to buy it, you got to look at things that are in the consumer spending sector. Number one, e-commerce. Amazon Estis, ETSY, hopefully I didn't pronounce that. Online retail, people are probably going to, hey, you know what? I want to get that jacket, those pair of shoes, that shirt, whatever the case can be. People are going to Amazon, they may get that TV they always wanted or whatever. Number two, we're looking at consumer products. We're going to look at things like Walmart and Target and Costco's, Walmart, Target, Costco's. So people will probably go and, hey, people who are really struggling and hurting, they may go out and grab some water. They may go out and grab, not water itself, but maybe cases of water consumables. So, consumer goods, companies that are in the consumer goods space, I can see them making a run for it. You know, being very good, that's what stimulus check is probably going to go. Then you're going to have people in McDonald's. People, places like McDonald's, I would not McDonald's in itself, but drive through fast food. Drive through fast food has been booming during the economy, during this pandemic.  So everything with a drive through is having a good, having no way with things, right? So you got to look at things like that. Number three, I like what James Fortland said today earlier on one of my live broadcasts. He said cryptocurrency is the irresponsible index, meaning when the economy is financially irresponsible, cryptocurrencies go up. So for prime example, some people may look at us being irresponsible. We have a massive amount of debt that nobody seems to be worried about and I don't think nobody's worried about. The military is the only thing that's backing up the US economy right now. It's the only thing that people have faith in and it's the only thing that people have trust in. Outside of that, if we were to lose our economy, if we were to lose our military today or tomorrow, I think our economy would collapse. We were going to massive inflation. With that being said, I know that we're gonna have a massive inflation but we have been very irresponsible with our money. We have been printing out money, left and right, printing money, throw at it. We did it in 08, we're massive doing it now in 2020 and we're on stimulus package number three. With that being said, what does that mean for low interest rates in massive and passing out money? With moderate unemployment. That means that we could see some move in cryptocurrency. Now, this is speculative. This third one is speculative. When I say cryptocurrency is very speculative and what I mean by being speculative, there's a difference between speculating and investing. An investor is someone, you have financial data, you can look up finances, something that you can point to to have evidence to why you believe something. Cryptocurrency, I don't know who owns cryptocurrency. I don't know how many cryptos are out there. I don't know what makes it go up in value. I don't know what makes it go down in value up to this point. So I speculate on it. I have money put into cryptocurrencies but it's nothing fancy. I'm speculating on it to say, hey, you know what? If it goes up, it goes up. If it goes down, it goes down. But as you have seen it, as we become more financially irresponsible, you're looking at cryptocurrency as the new irresponsible index of the financial industry. Shots out to James Fortland for saying that. I really like the way he framed that. So as we become more irresponsibly financially, you're gonna see more people, you're gonna see a nice move probably in cryptocurrency. Now the first two that I said, leisure, transportation and leisure, people may go to Disney World, people may travel, people may get on their planes. We have a lot of pent-up energy from the transportation sector. There was a time when nobody was traveling, flying, jumping in hotels. So we have a lot of pent-up energy into that space that's gonna be released here as we have these three vaccinations that are gonna be spreading across the globe and across the nation. There could be a move there. Another good one I like is oil. You might see a short-term moving oil, oil for the short-term and green energy for the long-term. I can see that oil prices are making a nice move this summer as people get back on the road and people get back to their normal lives, right? So that's one of the things that I look at as well. Another one that I can see is real estate. Why? I think when people have more money because when I think about it, not just the stimulus packages, we have unemployment. People on unemployment are being extended and making more money from unemployment. Why is that? That's great for doing what? I'm making more money from unemployment. Now that I'm making more money from unemployment, guess what I can do now? I may take that trip. Maybe I may not go to Disney World, but I may make a two, three hour drive to go see a new place or do something new, right? Those are the things that I want people to think about as well. So let's do a recap. We spoke about the stimulus package being passed and we spoke about people receiving stimulus checks that unemployment benefits being extended. This could potentially cost a nice rise in inflation and with inflation, real estate, real estate starts to do well. It's a great way to hedge inflation as inflation increases. That's where you can benefit from that. So that's one way. Real estate is one way. The next way is Walmart, Costco's and Target. You know, they sell a lot of essentials of our lives. Another one too, a sneaky one there is Home Depot and Lowes. So you got Lowes, Home Depot, Target, things like that. Then you have the next one, which was the first one that I was saying was travel. You know, maybe airlines. Airlines have been doing very amazing this year. Stock price wise, they have been increasing.  I think we're gonna have another round, one more for the year. And I think that this should be the last massive year. I think this pandemic is gonna last the rest of this year. And I think we're gonna see one more stimulus and then as the vaccination kind of takes over, then we're gonna get back to normal. All right? But anyway, ladies and gentlemen, that's gonna conclude today's episode. I wanna say thanks to everybody for tuning in. My name is Prince Dykes. I'm the Prince of Investment. Don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe button here on Think Tech Hawaii and check us out on Apple iTunes as well. 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Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great. And as always for anyone new to the channel, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris. Today we are continuing on with our X9 draft league content. We are into week seven and this week we're going up against Visually. So Vis, as he's known, is a very solid player, started off in singles and has recently transitioned over to VG. Doing amazing stuff, does a lot of ranked ladder things as well and just a very all-round solid player. Definitely check you stuff out aside from this video. Obviously all of these socials are linked down in the description below. So you want to check out his side of the battle and see his take on things as they play out in week seven. This week, as I say, we're going up against the Antarctic Aegislashes. So that's his team name and I'll obviously throw his team up on the screen now. So we can take a quick look and have a rundown. He's got the Indeedy female, the Porygon Z, Dracovish, Conkudo, Alakazam, Gengar, Ditto, Bishop, Slurpuff, Landerous, Incarnate and Pikachu. So pretty solid draft. You know, there is a lot of threatening Pokemon in there and, you know, on face value, I'll be the first to admit it doesn't look as strong as some of maybe the other teams in the draft, but I think it's deceivingly strong. We'll start off with the redirection to great pick with Indeedy female. Probably one of the best redirectors that we've got access to in Sword and Shield with the psychic terrain as well as an added bonus. It's a very good versatile Pokemon, can be quite threatening on the offensive side as well with that psychic terrain boost, expanding force is probably it's kind of main attacking option that it would rely on outside of possibly something like Mystic Fire that it can use as well to lower special attack and then dazzling gleam. But mainly going to be there to kind of protect his partner in Pokemon. And he's got plenty of those Pokemon that really appreciate that redirection support in abundance and will make it extremely difficult for us starting off with the Porygonzi. As you'll know, if you watch your channel, it's not one of my favorite Pokemon because I actually hate playing against Porygonzi. It's obnoxiously powerful. It can do so much damage and it's normally paired with redirection. Got max strike, it can lower speed, so speed control as well. And it just hits like a truck, like whatever, even like stuff that resists it. It's hitting so hard, especially when you pair it up with like helping hand support from Indeedy. So we've got to be very careful around the Porygonzi. It's going to be one of the main threats that I have to watch out for this week. And probably one of the things that I would expect him to bring with that in Indeedy Female that I expect to max as well. So big, big warning signs around that one. Dracovish as well, something that we need to watch out for for sure because it's definitely, you know, it's not going to appreciate the sun. But again, it's going to be able to take those fire and grass type attacks that we rely on so heavily really well. It doesn't really like to face things like Mimikyu or Zoomerill. So we do have that fairy kind of typing that would help us out against Dracovish. But again, we can't let the speed control that the visors got access to get too out of control because if that Dracovish gets in a good position, regardless of the sun being up or not, if it's got something like a choice ban, then you're stacking that up with the vicious rend. It's going to get really dangerous very quickly and it'll just be able to kind of cut through most of our team pretty easily. Then we move down to the Concordeur. Now, again, I could see the Concordeur coming this week because although it doesn't feel like it's got an amazing matchup against our team, it definitely performs very well in a trick room and it's probably one of the only Pokemon that he's got access to that can perform a kind of trick room roll relatively well, if not excel in trick room. So it's going to make it difficult to get right period going. We do have obviously intimidating support that we can help kind of mitigate the attack power that the Concordeur's got. You'd expect it to probably go with something like a Flame Orb or a Toxic Orb, get that guts boost and really start taking advantage of the trick room. We'll get into some ways that I've kind of built my team up around these threats when we get into our team, of course. Then we move down to Alakazam. I don't know if we'll see the Alakazam. It's definitely something that we need to be concerned about because it is probably while it is the fastest Pokemon that he's got access to and naturally on his team hits 190 I think, is it 190? I'm pretty sure it's 190 or 189 speed stat, raw speed stat, 189 I think. So yeah, pair that with the psychic terrain. It's got access to imprison so it can stop trick room going up pretty easily. The only downside to Alakazam, it's pretty frail. So it's not going to be able to sit on the field for ages and take a lot of attacks. So we've got to really pummel it if we do get the opportunity to do that. And then you've got Gengar. I do see coming because it's got access to speed control without having to max and icy wind and it's got trick room and imprison so it can cause us all sorts of issues and pair super nicely with Bisharp as well. So you get that icy wind or sludge wave and assurance combination going between those two. We've seen it in Sword and Shield series, series five or series six. Did very well on one of those. It might have been even earlier. So it's something that we need to be aware of for sure. It's a combination that does scare me. Probably one of the more scary combinations that we've got on on Visus team. We'll see you not forget about the Ditto that he's got. Bit of a wild card. Don't know if we'll see it coming to this match. I feel like it's there to kind of compensate some some other matchups where you probably see teams that have a lot more setup than what we do. But again, it could come. It could be a good mitigation tool against Ryperia. So if we get our weakness policy proct or something along those lines, then the Ditto can come and copy that and then just kind of hopefully stall at the trick room in time and and you know, take us down and close the match out pretty easily. And then we got Slurpuff, which is an interesting one on this team. Another Pokemon that's going to benefit from the psychic terrain. Of course, with that on burden ability, give it the psychic seed and then it's speed doubles and it's got a lot of support and options. They can cause us a lot of issues. Obviously, if we do bring things like Scrafty, go to watch out for play rough and things like that that it can throw up as well as all the support and options as Slurpuff does have access to. I don't think it gets Bellydrum anymore. So that's a plus for us. I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I think it lost it in Sword and Shield. Then moving on to the last two, Landerous and Carnet. Another big threat. I can definitely see this coming. I would say if I'm banking on anything coming to this match, it's going to be that Pokemon. Outspeeds Charizard threatens us with sheer force rock slides, stone edges, and it also threatens Venusaur as well with Max air streams and things like that. So yeah, very good Pokemon. Base 101 speed, sheer force, life orb candidate can just do a lot of damage and it's definitely something that you would see Maxing. And again, Gengar going to be one of those Pokemon that can support it pretty well with that with that good base 110 speed and icy wind and trick room of course, and then Pikachu on the end, which gives Lightning Road support to the team and a fake out user as well and another option as a maximum. Don't know if we'll see it come to this match. I doesn't feel like it would do too well against that team. In general, I think Venusaur does very well against it by period is very well against it. Pikachu hates trick room. Then the way of paralysis don't like trick room. So I mean, in that respect, I've not really thought too much about Pikachu. Maybe that comes to bite us. But that's Visus team in a nutshell. There are some of my thoughts and we'll move over now and have a look at the team that we are bringing this week. I was pretty much really quite scared of just the Gengar and Alakazam potentially coming out as leads. Also the redirection scares me. So we need a way to like hit his team pretty hard. And for that reason, I went with Charizard. We went pretty bulky. We don't need to speed ourselves too much. So we just outspeed Alakazam by one point. If he's got any scarf users on his side of the field, then it makes things a little bit more tricky. But heat wave in the sun will do a phenomenal amount of damage. We don't need to max and we get round redirection with that solar power boost that we've got in the sunup and heat wave with the scarf. I'd speed and potentially everything before he can move makes things a lot easier to deal with. So that's an option. So the primary idea behind this is lead Charizard talk all and then switch directly into something like Scrafty which would give Charizard a little bit more support. And we've got the option as well. If we're in a decent spot and that works out, we can always max Charizard and get some speed control for something. I don't know, like, like Rhyperia or something like that late game. I don't know. Fire Pledge works nicely as a different option. If we're really caught out game one, we've got a lot of options that we can turn to and try and mix things up a bit. It means that we don't need to talk all out on the field to start the game.  So it'll be like a quarter of damage for four turns for his set of the field, which is going to be so valuable, you know? So there is that option. Dragon Pulse is there for Dragovish specifically and Air Slash there specifically really for the Conqueror if we need it. And when we move on to Venusaur, we have got a Pai Yappa Berry on the Venusaur this week. It's a Psychic Resist Berry. We went pretty bulky on the Venusaur. Just so if we are maxed with the Pai Yappa Berry, we can take a combination of Max Mindstorm from Timid Life Orb Alakazam and we can also take the Expand Enforce from the Indeedy as well. So Venusaur going to be able to stick around on the field for at least one turn even if they double up into us, which might create a little bit of room for our partner in Pokemon with maybe Trick Room or something like that to get the Trick Room up and give us a bit more of an advantage going forward. And so that is that. Not really too flashy with the moves. We need Grass Pledge if we're playing it with Flyer Pledge with the Charizard. It makes a lot of sense. And the thing with the Pledge moves is as soon as Charizard moves, the next Pledge move will skip all priority brackets, you know, speed order and it will go directly after the Fire Pledge which is pretty nice. So it means that Venusaur can kind of get the jump and that's what it was meaning before with not needing Tockel on the field to get that Chlorophyll boost and then Sludge Bomb Earth Power with the other options with Protect. I just feel like we don't need Sleep Powder in this match. It would be handy, but I think a lot of players are going to kind of prepare for that. So I'm opting not to go for it in the Protect. I think we'll be a little bit more valuable in being able to kind of just preserve it and get a better board position if we find ourselves in a bad situation and we need it. Then we move on to Scrafty. We've got the Assault Fest this week. It makes a lot of sense. There's a lot of special attackers. You can expect things like Dazzling Gleam from things like Indeedy, Gengor, Alakazam. There's lots of threats on that side. If you look at his team, majority of it can really conceivably be more special than physical. So it makes sense to go with the Assault Fest. We're pretty bulky though as well. So we've got an Impish. No, we haven't. We've got a Calm Nature on Scrafty this week, but we've still got a lot of defense investment as well to take things like minus one, Conqueror, plus combat. So that will help Snorler to reduce special attack. Obviously, Intimidate there. Got to be careful around the Bishop, which has Defiant, but we can take a plus one Iron Head from an Adamant Bishop. So that does help. And then a Dream Punch will be able to knock it out if it is something like Dark Glasses and not a Sash. And then we move on to Mimikyu. Mimikyu this week. We're going with the Psychic Seed. Now, this could be another candidate for us to maybe Max if we wanted to. I feel like the Ghost Typing and the Fairy Typing help out a lot. I expect Viz to go with something like Imprison Trick Room for sure. So it's going to make it very difficult to get a Trick Room up early game. I think we're going to have to go for a late game in a kind of cleanup crew. Mimikyu great against the team.  The Fairy Typing kind of compliments it because then you can go after stuff like Bishop. You can go after stuff like Conqueror pretty hard. And we've got enough attack investment to hit kill a ball 252-252 in DD with Max Starfall, which is very useful because he doesn't have Intimidator on his team. So if we can get rid of the in DD early game, then it makes it easier to kind of approach the rest of the team and we don't need to worry about that. Moveset, Phantom Force, play rough. They're just they're obviously Phantom Force. We could have went Shadowclaw. We could have went Shadow Sneak. Shadow Sneak is a bit risky because the Psychic Terrain is likely going to be up on the field. So that would be blocked anyway. And Shadowclaw isn't as powerful if we're Maxed. So that was the reason. Willow Wisps there. It's nice to shut things like Bishop down if we get the opportunity to in particular because obviously that Defiant is going to be a little bit of a problem for us. So if we can burn it, it makes it a lot easier to manage and Trick Room is there to support the Tocall which is coming up next and the Ryperia after that. So Tocall we went for Citrus Berry with a what is it? A relaxed nature. So a minus speed and we've also got a bit of defense investment in defense and special defense to allow us to take those big special attacks because we need to be able to take those with Tocall. We don't want to just get wiped out straight away. Moveset, we went Iron Defense, Body Press. Iron Defense allows us to take on things like Dracovish in the sun. If we can get an Iron Defense off before it comes in and the sun's up, we can beat it with Body Press. And the same goes for something like Concordia as well. So Heat Wave hits everything on the team for pretty good damage except the Dracovish which we can kind of cover with Body Press. So we're not like going to be locked out against anything in particular. And then we round off with Ryperia with the weakness policy. We've got a imp... No. Yeah, impish. Impish, Ryperia. Here. Should be impish. Maybe should be relaxed. Maybe should be. But we've got an impish one here. Anyway, it is going to be minus speed with the weakness policy. It's going to have enough bulk to be able to take Dracovish. Bandit, Fishes, Rend in the sun if we're maxed and then return with a knockout onto it with Max Quake. It can deal with pretty much most things on the team. We need Ice Punch there to help with the Landerous incarnate because otherwise we're kind of relying on Rock Slide or Max Rockfall which aren't ideally the best things to be relying on whereas Ice Punch or Max Halestorm will give us a route to be able to knock out the Landerous like in one shot which is always very useful. Solid Rock this week though. No Lightning Road and no need to worry about the Pikachu. I don't feel and that wraps the team up. So that is the team in a nutshell. Hopefully it makes sense. I know it's a little bit shorter today but hopefully I do like to kind of cover the team before we get into the match. And what we'll do now is hook up with Viz and we'll be back when we jump into game one. Okay, here we are. Viz is selecting the rules so we'll be into the match in a minute. It's going to be interesting to see what he picks. Let's do the Good Luck Have Fun. And this is going to be good. Yeah, I'm interested to see what he brings. Obviously we need to select our team. I need to start putting together some Series 10 teams on here. We've only got one at the minute but we will. Here we go. Viz. So are we going to see? Are we going to see the Alakazam? I imagine Gengar, Bishop, Leanderous incarnate, Conqueror in DD and either PZ or Dracovish. Let's see how close we are. Okay, here we go. Viz, Good Luck Have Fun, my friends. Everyone check out Viz's side of the battle. All his stuff is linked down in the description below. All his socials and things like that. We've got the Slurpuff, the Indeedy Female, the Ditto, Gengar, Bishop and Porgunzi. Porgunzi, not something we want to see but again, quite surprised there's no Leanderous here. Very centric around the Psychic terrain course but we've got that Gengar, Bishop combination that does scare me quite a bit. I think we will go with the Charizard because I think for this first game we'll go quite safe, we'll bring Scrafty and then I think if we, you know, if we can see, I think we've got Venusol because not Alakazam makes it a lot easier to deal with. I think, yeah. And then it doesn't mean we need to set the trick room up which also, you know, the PZ, I didn't mention this in the TV review, PZ has access to trick rooms. So we're locking with that. I think we go with that. Our original mode, it was the first idea I had when putting a team together against Viz. I think the Charizard with the scarf is quite devastating to most things. He's got no wide guard on his team. So that heat wave, as long as it hits in the sun, it can just rip through everything that he's got access to. And like if we can steal a game early on, then we can change things up for game two and hopefully kind of clinch this week because that would take us to five, five, two, I think, I believe, which would be amazing. But we can't think too much about scores at the minute. We've got to concentrate on what we're doing right now and it is PZ and Gengar. The worry would be if we see Scarf PZ, Scarf PZ would worry me quite a lot. But we get a sunup and we'll just go for it. We'll go for it. We can't, we can't hesitate. I think I will switch into Scrafty though right now. Preserve Toko because Toko could be a lifesaver at the end, especially if something like Ditto's in the back and they try and like copy Venus or something like that. Toko could be quite handy for us. The other option would have been obviously staying in and just double heat waving. It gets around any sort of sashes that my opponent has. But at least we're going to have like an active fake out of the next turn potentially onto the PZ. If it doesn't max here, it's a Toko switching. Let's see. We can get a double knockout here. That's so huge for us, but there's so many different variations that we've got to worry about going into this turn. Let's see. Okay. White. Oh, eject pack. Okay. Gengar going out. Now this could be there. This could be very big for us. So what's Gengar got? Oh, indeedy. Okay, that's fine. Don't mind that at all. You know the PZ. I don't think the PZ is max. Is it maxing? Do we not know yet? It's maxing. Okay. This is still all. Is it all right? Is it all right? I don't know. Depends where you attack into. You have to go after the Charizard here. You have to. Depends how much the heat wave does to the indeedy. It depends how it's being trained. But the heat waves should still do an absolute chunk to this PZ. Yeah. Yeah, that's good damage. That's good damage. Max strike coming out. Where we going? Into the Charizard. Bye bye, Char. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. So let's life orb. I think we have to go Vino here. I think we have to. I have to. I worry about helping hand. So I think what we'll do is we have to max. We could max guard here and just snarl. That's definitely an option. It means that Venusaur has a way to use her time. But do you go after, yeah, or do you go after Scrafty here? Because Scrafty could just drain punch that PZ. We could just see a redirect as well, you know. We could just attack. But I think we see helping hand. Like honestly, I think we see helping hand. Max strike. So I'm going to go full. Max guard and snarl and hope we don't get like absolutely caught out by this. And although we're wasting the turn of our max, it's going to be worth it. I think that's a Gengor got wants the eject pack. Please chase down the Venusaur redirection. She's fine. That that's all right. That's all right. Perfect. Okay. That's fine. We can deal with that. We'll take that all day. We'll take that all day because now that PZ is nowhere near as is threatening as it was previously. And what we can do is we can clear the field now with a vinylash and the worry would be here if we see the PZ protect this turn. Although I don't think it really doesn't any good. And a drain punch will get the DD. I think we got crunch. Or do we just go snarl again? Now I'd like to get rid of the PZ. If you guys follow me, we get rid of the DD. Yeah. Okay. So we get rid of the DD and we'll be able to get rid of the PZ as well. So let's see the vinylash coming out. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Max strike. I imagine comes out from the PZ. Where are you going? At least we've got the vinylash stacking as well, which is good. Max strike. So we've just got the plus one at the minute minus one. It does so much damage doesn't it?  It is actually ridiculous. Scrafty will be able to get the knockout here, which is good. And it all comes down to the last two Pokemon that he's got. Is it Ditto? We know one of them is Gengar. No item as well. So crunch should be able to pick up the knockout onto it. We'll be able to take a dozen gleam. And we still got options with Tocall in the back. We still got to turn a max as well. It is the Ditto. Yeah, of course. It's always going to be the Ditto. The Ditto. Well, it's Scrafty transformed into Scrafty. Huh? That's way better for us. That's like way better for us. I mean, they do a fake out, but we just max quick the Gengar. We switch out. Yeah, we switch out and switch out to Tocall. Even though we're going to get rid of our son, I don't think we need it because I think necessarily we've kind of got this wrapped up. If we can intimidate the opposing Scrafty, they have to lock into like pretty much drain punch, which then is not effective against Venusaur or they lock into crunch, which isn't effective against Scrafty. Or they do that and I left switch. Okay. Didn't see this coming. First Alice, which we've had in the X9 League. It's going to come max quick though. It's fine. We need that special defense boost. That's all we're really worried about at the moment and we can switch back into Scrafty and the residual damage going to be useful. Critical hit is useful there. Of course and drain punch. Yeah, that makes sense, but you're not going to be doing too much to our Tocall. Well, we've got two more turns of that. So have we have got two more turns of that? I think, yeah, I think we've got two more turns of the Vine Lash. We can check. Can't we get two more turns? Um, yeah, we just, I think we just earth proud again. Go you don't really need to worry. I mean, we can just body press the Scrafty as well. Although we might get Alice, which again, but I think are going to see Alice, which we can't play to the Alice, which that's like, that's a rule I have myself. I don't play to it. If we get caught up by it, then fine. We've seen it. We've been caught up by it once, but we're not going to, we're not going to play the mind games. We're just going to attack where we should be attacking on the field. And like I say, if we get caught up by the Alice, which again, then that's fair enough. But I don't think we will. I don't see an Alice, which coming out this time, but it could be wrong.  All coming out. It's fine. Yeah. That just pox us. Oh, it's not even poking us. It just buried. This will get rid of the Gengar. Just hangs on. So that's fine. I'm cursed body activating. So that's all right. Crunch coming out. I was assuming that the ditto would be scarfed, but the ditto is not scarfed. So we've got this now. So the body press will be able to get the scrafty and the residual damage will get the Gengar. So here we go. We're going to be able to take a 1-0 lead. So that worked out pretty well for us. Um, but again, can't really rest on this. All right, Siri, don't you hear when Siri does that? Good, good game. Good game. Game one. Yeah. So hopefully Siri didn't bleed over that and ruin that too much for us, but we take an early lead. Like I say, we can't rely on that too much. I think the fact that we haven't given way that has odd is is scarfed. I think helps us out so much. Um, take the lead card and, uh, play the same rules because Charles are naturally out speeds. PZ. We know it wasn't scarfed. So I think we've got that going for us where we could go for that lead again, but then we have to look at what he could potentially bring. That would make it a little bit more tricky for us. Of course. Um, slow puff. Definitely be one for sure. They show up. I don't think it's the play. I think you have to go. I think the one thing that he could potentially do is is copy Charizard with his ditto. It makes the Venusol matchup a lot easier. Like way, way easier because it means we don't have really a way to, to hit the Charizard, which makes it quite tricky course. Um, Mimikyu's a nice option as well in this match. So we could mix things up a little bit. Um, but it means kind of dropping the scrafty, but I don't necessarily think we need like scrafty is great, but I don't know if we kind of need the scrafty to be honest. We could go talk all Charizard, Mimikyu and Riperia in this one. Yeah, let's go for that. Let's go for it. Let's go for it. Let's mix it up. Let's bring the trick room. Let's bring the Riperia. Get some more points on that Riperia's board. Hopefully it doesn't all go super bad and we can see if we can pull another win off this week. Be good. Indeedy slow puff. Okay, that's good. Um, I think what we'll do is just double heat wave to be honest. Um, the slow puff will outspeed us. For sure. Does slow puff get rock slide? Does it get rock slide? Potentially. Potentially. Potentially it does, but we just need damage on the board at the minute. I mean, we could body press, but I think we get around the redirection and I think double heat wave like if Charizard gets the heat wave off double heat wave will string shot. It's a nice option. That speed control is juicy, juicy speed control drop a nice beat by two spot. Two points. Light screen makes a lot of sense here. Okay, that's fine.  This is going to actually like do so much damage though and the heat wave from the talk or not as much, but still good chip all the same. Solar power going to chip in there as well. Um, could body press here. I think we just double heat wave again to be honest and try and clear the field because if we get rid of these two, he's only got two Pokemon left. And it gets a little bit easier for us. Although if the game goes in the back, although we, you know, Mimikyu is something that we said we can definitely go with Mimikyu for, um, our alternative Max Mon. If we want, um, we don't necessarily need to rely on it too heavily. And there's also the option here where you could switch in like something like Ripera and Mimikyu, but again, I don't really want to switch anything in. I don't want the disguise just getting broken for, for free, um, fake tears and expanding force into the talk call. So it gives Charizard a free turn, um, which is amazing. Can talk will take this with pretty specially defensively built. You know, we do take it. So we're going to get that double heat wave off, which is amazing.  Yeah, let's clear the field. Okay. So brilliant. Getting rid of the redirection early on is spot on the talk call. Where's the new heat wave? You're all right there. Talk call. You've done a good job so far depends what's left. Now we need to be nothing's maxed yet. You've got to, you've got to keep that in mind when mine is too speed. PC. That's not ideal. And what is it going to be? The ditto ditto. It is going to be the ditto. Okay. It's a tricky switching stuff in. I don't think we switch anything in. I really don't. I think we just let these two go down.  Um, and we, we just go for a heat wave. If PZ goes for the talk call here, then you get punished with it. It's Charizard. If not, we get it. We get a body press off a whole way. We do get a body press off because I don't think the opposing ditto is going to be able to, to knock out our, our talk call. The only issue would be, would be if that talk call starts going for iron defenses and then things get very difficult very quickly because then right here is going to really struggle to deal with that talk call.  So here it goes. Yeah, the iron defense. It might have been worth us iron defencing at the same time. Potentially because then we can protect the next time when we trick room. Yeah. It depends. If they go for iron defense here, then it was still not in a bad spot because under trick room, we'll, we'll still be the fastest talk call. Max strike coming out. Yes. It's, it's all about the Charizard and the body press damage, you know, will be useful onto this PZ. It will be useful. There's no doubt about it. So it's not, it's on a terrible play. Be interested to see what he goes for. It is the iron defense or not. Yeah, it is iron defense. So we get a free turn, but the iron defense coming out, making it a bit tricky for us. Very tricky. Right. Okay. Why are we bringing and obviously with the psychic train still in effect? We do get that misty that psychic seed boost. So that does help us. Do you tack into the talk all now though? That's the thing. I do go after the mimic you like double up into that slot. I think you go after the talk call and all honesty. We trick room just trick room. Yeah. But I think they've got the chance to, to iron defense again here, which is really not ideal for us, you know, but we do have we could max. We could max mimic you. We could. We could max mimic you because the talk was going to struggle to hit the mimic you can't hit us with body body press. Quick claw. See what? Oh, this is the worst because if they heat wave and then they max strike max darkness. Okay. They go for an iron fence again. That's all right. That's all right. Okay. Thinking like the heat wave there and like max darkness that would be the most terrible combination. Stop our trick room and then things go downhill very quickly from there. Oh my God. Talk all can't even take that. Oh my. That is rough. That is rough. Well, yeah, I don't know if we're going to be able to beat the talk all to be honest. I really don't. I really don't think we're going to be able to beat it. I think we've been beat by our own. Hmm. Hmm. We have to max the right period. And I think we go after I mean do we leave the PZ alone? We max quick. It's not going to do much. But I mean, if they body press right period, activate our weakness policy then I think we go after PZ. The only issue is do we can trick room. I think we trick room now. I think we max we trick room reverse the dimensions, get them to activate our weakness policy. This turn we twist the dimensions round and then we can attack into the talk all the next turn. The only issue is if this PZ protect here, if it max guards then this, this is a bad plan because then we're going to have to max guard ourselves the next turn trick room. Again, it gets very complicated. Okay. There's a heat wave. That's fine. So the skies burst. That's all right. That's all right though. Max quick. Hopefully this is enough. It is. Okay. Okay. So critical hit that might matter. That might have mattered. I don't know. I don't know, but mad. If it did, then that's a huge, huge, huge for us. Okay. Heat wave and now we trick room. Get rid of the trick room. Now we're the fastest thing on the field and we've got two turns of max left sun fades, which is which is what we need, which is what we need and the light screen wears off for them but it doesn't really make any difference right now for us. Um, okay. I think the only thing we can do is let's see. Let's see. They both want to say you should get the chip. The chip from max rockfall is is probably useful because that residual chip is going to be way more useful. I think I can't burn it because it's a ditto and it is a fire type of renewable phantom force. Okay. They protect phantom force. Does literally nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing and they still got a citrus berry. I worry, you know, about the body press getting us like they got a birdie presses this turn or they're just waiting for us not to be maxed anymore. So there's a phantom force doing minimal, minimal damage after this. Plus for defense. Let's see what this does. Minimal damage. Not very much. That doesn't it. Well, it's going to proc that citrus berry, which is good. I think if they Yeah, he's been smart about it. He has been very smart about it where he doesn't want to to activate our weakness policy because he knows it's the one thing that can are they don't have the citrus berry. Of course, they got the quick claw. Okay. Um, Yeah, I'm thinking of my talk call. So we protect a phantom force again. You might be able to do this with just mimic you. I think we might need to get some if he iron defenses here, that's terrible for us. But I think you body press this turn hoping that you get the right period. Yeah. It makes sense to you can't protect this next turn. So like either right period goes down here. Um, we have to rock slide and hope we get a flinch because a flinch would be pretty huge for us unless right period takes a plus. Are you kidding? Are you actually kidding? You kidding? You kidding? You kidding? We take it though. Oh my God. We've got this now then because we just earthquake right period you beast. I can't believe you just took that. I mean, we have got a very defensively built one. So I mean that is that's amazing. Okay. That that that's ideal. And now we can just go earthquake phantom force and that should do it. That should do it. That should do it and that gives us the victory. No protect coming out an earthquake plus to mimic your voids and there we go. We get it. We get the win. We get the win and that takes us to five two. I believe I believe I record five two. Let's have a look. I think yeah, five to five wins two losses. So that is amazing. Great game to Viz. It was a pleasure playing him. I as I mentioned to him before I'm a big fan of watch a lot of his content, especially when he was a singles player and then a lot more when he turned over to VG because we are like we're embroiled in the VG community. So it would be great to see him kind of continue on with that. Go and give him some support over in his channel. He's got an absolutely huge following. So we're like a minnow on YouTube compared to this and like he does amazing stuff. So yeah, check him out if you haven't already. I'm sure all of you have and see the battle from his side of the field. It was a pleasure playing him. Hope you enjoyed this week. Leave your comments down below. Let me know what your thoughts are and hopefully you're looking forward to week eight versus Mandy B and you know, Bryce is going to be one of the hardest opponents. I think we'll have, I mean, we have every opponent's really hard, but Bryce is absolutely crushing it in the X9 League this week. So we've got some big preparations to do for next week. Big shout out again to Viz. All these socials are down in the description below and thank you so much for tuning in, friends. And I'll catch you all for another episode very soon. So until then, take care and bye bye.


A day in the life of an NRC resident inspector. The NRC resident inspector is a specially trained nuclear power expert who lives in the community around the plant. Even though they are employed by the NRC, the resident inspectors work at the plant site, but strict rules require them to be independent and they can't even socialize with plant employees. As with everyone at the plant, the inspector passes through security checkpoints. Each morning, the inspector visits the reactor's control room and gets information on the plant status from the operators. Resident inspectors also attend the plant of the day meeting with plant officials to understand what plant activities are scheduled for that day. The inspector provides the plant status and safety information to the NRC regional office every morning. Resident inspectors, there are at least two at each site, prioritize their activities each day with safety as the key measure. Resident inspectors work as a team with other NRC experts to make sure the plant is following NRC rules. Inspectors meet with plant management on a regular basis to discuss plant safety issues found during their inspections. The inspectors would immediately notify plant management if they identify an urgent safety issue. These inspection reports are available to the public each quarter. As part of the routine, resident inspectors walk through the plant and inspect plant facilities and operation. These inspections allow them to watch plant workers at their jobs. Resident inspectors also observe plant workers during emergency exercises. Inspectors watch to make sure everyone knows what they are supposed to do and are following NRC rules. During a real emergency, resident inspectors work with plant employees to address the issue and report to NRC headquarters what is happening at the plant. Plant workers can bring their concerns about plant management directly to resident inspectors or submit them anonymously. These concerns are handled by the NRC allegation process. NRC resident inspectors get the chance to inspect and visit other plants because of their special skills and to put fresh eyes on other issues elsewhere. Inspectors have training opportunities to help them do their job better and prepare for another position in the NRC. They can only work at one plant site for seven years. Resident inspectors play a very important role for the NRC. They are the agency's on the ground eyes and ears.


What up Bicycle Internet, Anthony here and I want to welcome you to our first episode of Pure Cycles Gear Corner. If you've cruised the Interwebs recently you've likely seen a number of rad rigs with a front basket setup. Of course this got the Cogs turning and we got today dreaming about bike setups and what our ideal bike would look like. Today we're going to be talking about taking one of our urban commuters, this guy right here, and adding some options to make it your go-to bike for city adventures. For this project you'll need a few things.  So for this project what you're going to want to do is install an urban front rack onto the bike. We've already done that here on this one, but if you're curious on learning how to do it we will provide some instructions for installation in the description of the video down below. But after you get that installed then you're going to want to get that 137 basket out and get that kind of centered on the rack. Keep in mind there will be some tabs in there. These guys right here and right here and then a couple on the back. You'll want to keep those out of the way. I usually like to tuck them in the back. But once you do that grab your first zip tie and this one just kind of serves as an anchor. There's a backing on the rack so you can just go ahead get that guy's zip tied all up. Don't go too tight. This way you can keep the the rack kind of flush to the basket flush to the rack. And then once that's set there then you can go ahead and do the rest of the zip ties. So now that we have all the zip ties set I'm going to go ahead and pull the anchor a little tighter that way you can get it kind of flush to that backing plate and then make sure that all of these are tight. Once you've done that check those guys over get your cutting tool out and just clean up the zip ties. The nice thing about zip ties is that they're pretty pretty versatile so you can get you can kind of position the basket wherever you want it and then also if you decide to take the basket off and you just want to use the rack on its own you're able to just clip them and go.  Now that we've got our basket and rack set up on the bike let's go ahead and talk about installing the bag. The first bag we're going to talk about is the outer shell bag. This bag on the bottom is going to have a little bit of webbing and a couple of connection straps. These connection straps you want to get kind of set width wise to the basket and rack that way you'll have a proper connection on the bottom. The other bag that we're going to talk about today is this Swift Industries bag. A Swift Industries bag will be a little bit different instead of webbing on the bottom it's going to have two clips and then a flap on the side that you just go over the side of the basket and that will be your connection point. So let's go ahead and get these installed on the bike. First we're going to go ahead and get the outer shell basket bag installed. So we'll go ahead and drop it into the basket. You'll want to get your clips pulled through there and the one in the front pulled through there. Now that you've got those underneath you'll go ahead get that guy all clipped in. There'll be a little extra strap here. That's the pull everything tight so once you get that in there and then clipped in go ahead pull that tight and then just get it tucked up and out of the way and you're ready to ride. All right and now we're going to go ahead and get that Swift Industries bag installed. This one's going to be pretty straightforward. So on here you're just going to undo the clip like that. Drop this guy in there. Make sure that your clip gets pulled through the bottom of the rack and then just flap over top and you're off to the races. We appreciate you joining us for this first episode of Pure Cycles Gear Corner. If you have any questions on what you saw today feel free to leave a comment below or shoot us an email at gearcorner at purecycles.com. Also if you like what you saw today don't forget to subscribe to the Pure Cycles channel. So until next time stay safe out there and keep your rubber side down.


For this next topic, we're going to be looking at parallelization. And while there are several different types of parallelization we can look at, the basic idea is that parallelization allows a machine to run more than one operation at a time. So there are many different ways we can implement parallelization. When we get to the architecture part of this course, we're going to be building a computer that implements pipelining, and we'll extend that to include symmetric multithreading. And while we're there, we'll also look at SIMD processors. Chances are you're familiar with multi-core processors. That's what the vast majority of the processors we build these days are. Anything that has more than one processing unit on the same chip die. There's also multi-processor computers. These aren't as popular, but to some degree you could just consider a machine that has a central processing unit and a graphics processing unit to also be a machine with two processors. You can't offload everything to your GPU, but for a lot of tasks you can. The last example of parallelization is with clusters. Clusters are really just a large collection of machines, each of which is going to be running a separate task or a separate part of a task. So you get many parts of your computation run at the same time. For these examples, we're going to be focusing on pretty much the case of multi-core processors. Though for most extents and purposes, symmetric multithreading is pretty similar to multi-core processors. Symmetric multithreading will work pretty similarly to multi-core. And for a given example, we may assume that they do, but there are some cases where symmetric multithreading runs into problems and doesn't perform quite as well as we might hope.