Okay, very good morning to you. It is Thursday the 4th of February. Hope you're doing well in this briefing I'm going to take a look at this We've got the Bank of England interest rate meeting and press conference coming up later on today What to expect from that how the market might react and we're going to have a look at some Fed commentary We've got an update just generally on some key levels technically to have a look at across different products that have been in focus across the different asset classes and And yeah a few US data points and other catch-ups including the lights of some of the movement in Italian assets following the Appointment of dragging to try and form a government in Italy as well as looking at some of the metal space like silver and gold as well So let's get straight into it And start looking at the charts. What is going on at the moment? Well Dixie continues to remain firm this morning And in fact it's broken above what was a bit of a cap to price activity in the last two sessions So definitely worth keeping an eye on there, which is a theme generally of prevailing dollar strength now I've had quite a few questions, you know why the dollar strengthening and to be honest I don't really have a definitive answer. I'm just preferred to be just tracking it. It is leading These dollar based currency pairs at the moment more dollar strength than any other Narrative coming out of the other currencies and I'm just kind of following what I'm seeing at the moment and a technical break Here up again in the dollar. Dixie is trading up about a quarter of 1% this morning We have had things like the US House voted to pass the budget plan which fast tracks President Biden's stimulus plan so using elements of the reconciliation process, but to be honest that's been Something that's being known for a while I don't think that's a key catalyst on its own for the reason of dollar strength But as I said nonetheless, it does bring into play then some interesting Currency movements in the major pairs and just looking at euro dollar here We're having a retest down at the low you can see from from yesterday So this on the longer higher time frame is quite a key area this 120 as we know Has played a real key role in the euro and capping price gains originally It was that kind of I guess marker that the ECB had put down Back in kind of Q3 of last year to say look we're starting to get a little bit concerned about the strength of the euro That hasn't really come to the fore until recently having moved up kind of towards 124 and obviously we had some of that recent commentary just a week or two ago from sources and ECB's not talking about the idea that they could do more to loosen rates and so on But really it's more dollar strength is pushing this down and I'm just quite interested to see how we react We're within obviously touching distance now of that key level of which I think it's going to be very important here for the euro Consequently cable as well training a little heavy this morning so in a cable having been largely cushioned to a certain degree here from some of the action just given the General improvements that we've seen in vaccinations being administered in a fairly on track fashion from the UK government the price has started to break down a little bit and As we've just moved down below then the Kind of price movement that we had seen from the beginning of the week so going back to the second Then we've just had a nice kind of cap to price and a test So here just looking at this load that we printed on Second and we've come up just briefly tested that this morning before then a bit of a move down And that does coincide with the s1 today So quite a nice area of resistance looking on a 90 minute chart here to provide a bit of upside Resistance to any recovery in this price and now on the downside key levels now watching here in cable We're just testing down towards these loads that we printed back on the 19th of January Has failed at the moment on then the initial test here Which does coincide a support around the 136 handling the futures So that's something again to keep an eye on any breakdown there You've got the s2 just below and then you can see technically There's not too much in the way of near clear support until we get much further down Towards the loads you printed back on the 18th at 35 28 So if we do get that dollar Continuation with the euro breach, let's say from yesterday's low, and if it takes out through 120 This could provide Headwinds for cable to continue this downward trend. We've seen materialized in the recent few hours So again, it's not so much I'd say that it's tied to news in this move It's more just trends that we're seeing at the moment that I'd be following Obviously you've got the bank of England later and we'll talk about that in a moment And that could provide some degree of catalyst But we're not expecting any policy change or anything like that It's more about the commentary on negative rates that people will be focusing on but we'll get to that in a moment otherwise other charts in in focus oil markets despite the relatively bearish DOE release Really couldn't hold prices down And I really think that says a lot about the general bullish sentiment for oil at the moment and you know Yesterday afternoon, we just continue to move higher. This was some of the volatility on initial dip. We saw Given that the DOE's weren't as deep a draw as we saw on the prior night's API's But then we recovered very quickly. We actually put in the high Of the session and that is again a 12 month high up at around What would have been a price point at 56 33? You can see I'm just keeping an eye here on a short-term trend line on these highs that we've had both yesterday The Asia pack session and so far this morning But as I've been looking at tracking on the higher timeframe daily chart, we have reached that target You know, this is what we were talking about right at the beginning of the week If we could break out above a test on that 20th a fair pie then the next levels of resistance We didn't see up until the kind of really 55 95 56 handle and just above which is exactly where we're at at the moment So again quite an interesting area for oil because if we do start to break on up above this area Then really I don't see a great deal of resistance until next target up at around 57 36 Which would be another 25 cents or so above the current price Otherwise elsewhere equity markets are pretty flat overall this morning then as that future is sent to you here You can see his marginal outperformance. That's because it underperformed at the cash close on Wall Street last night Albeit marginally down four tenths against around one tenth to percent gain in the S&P and the Dow yesterday's kind of Slight let's say I kind of classified as a slight pause for a breath given this kind of Very decent recovery and equity markets We've seen since the beginning of the week totally Reversing any of those losses that were seen middle of last week on the whole kind of short squeeze mentality That did reverberate at the time Last Wednesday into a bit of downside. So all of that's been taken back and I think still feel Relatively comfortable with the consolidation that's happening at the moment. I think it's appropriate and just kind of waiting now Marking out recent technical ranges to see for the next move Inequities, but don't really have a lot of fundamental rationale to think that we're gonna snap lower not unless anything unexpected New breaks so probably looking for some colors of consolidation at the moment in the indices T notes Been grinding a little lower. Obviously we had some really strong numbers yesterday and some data points in regard to the ISM figure and obviously we've got some more data coming out today jobless and factory orders so Yeah, the old's moving a little higher of late in the US Not that I think that that translates into any definable action from the Fed because there's been quite a lot of Fed rhetoric Which I'll cover briefly in a moment But the 10 year down for the time being albeit marginally, but continuation of very grind low or move lower We've seen materialized over the last couple of days And we're trading down two ticks this morning otherwise metals markets Just want a quick comment on gold gold has been Feeling a bit of the weight of the persistence persistency of the dollar move at the moment and one of the ranges We've been tracking for a while is again looking at a 90 minute chart here This kind of range that gold's been in and yesterday I was kind of stressing to the guys that look need to keep an eye on the bottom end of this range because if it breaks The market could trade quite heavy. So it's exactly what we've seen materialized in the in the overnight session So for me, it's yes, the dollar strength is not helping this But the technical breach and I've having had multiple tests here In the last couple of sessions on around the lower end of that range Just giving way and adding a bit of downside weight. So gold trades down 13 bucks this morning On the back of that And then silver obviously was a massive talking point at beginning of the week That's kind of faded as the week's gone on and just kind of tracking the price here now on a kind of relative range so you've got the previous What you can see here the low that we had on the initial Test down toward the gap fill that we saw back at beginning of the week to snap through retest retest And you've got the r1 today at that same level. So I think you've got a really nice area of strong Resistance now on the upside for silver And the interim the kind of mid Point stop before we'd get up there. You've got the pivot level You can see the market's respected that in the overnight session And that does coincide roughly with around some of the late us trading hours Highs as well on the downside again a nice double Bottom here to keep an eye on should prices start to continue to trend lower as what we saw materialized during The overnight session that'd be at 26 35. So just looking at that range at the moment for for silver prices All right, let's get into some of the news. What is going on other things to be aware of? and Just a quick word then on italian markets The footsie nib actually put in the local index In equities the best performance in three weeks yesterday gains. I think we're just over two percent We saw that big gap up in btps. Obviously yesterday. This all coming on the confirmation that draggy's being Kind of collared to come in and try to form a government still A lot of work to be done there and definitely not a definitive done deal by any stretch of the imagination But I was just looking technically at btp futures You've got this area double top from the 28th and the first of february And that marked then the kind of low end of the initial test at the range that we had From yesterday's session had a brief flirt through that level at the initial open this morning That's definitely an area that i'd be watching is around that 54 mark in btp futures If we did move below there Then that does open up the prospects of a continued drift down Back in toward that range we were seeing before the dragging confirmation came through I kind of feel like That will eventually happen We will move back below this kind of key level Given the fact that I think the markets got a little bit overly excited about this whole draggy situation You know reality sits in it's not as straightforward when you start looking at the Kind of the power struggle at the moment and adjusting for political positioning And what draggy needs to do in order to make the numbers work In order to get a government over the line So that being said the longer that takes the more I think the yields will continue to move slowly back up in Italy just putting a bit of downside pressure on btps Just having a look then some fed commentary I thought is worth touching upon because It definitely when we start seeing some solid data points come out of the us Like we have done to a certain degree this week People starts get a little bit apprehensive again about things like inflation and you know the fed are they going to have any Discussions on tapering in the near future and so on so it's always good to get a bit of a A status check if you like on where the fed's heads are at And you can do that by obviously monitoring their speeches Now there was two speakers that came out notably yesterday feds bullard He said rising us stock prices do not raise financial stability concerns And there is no hurry for the central bank to slow its massive bond buying program So definitely policy is not going anywhere anytime soon according to bullard But I must note bullard is a non voting member A voting member so perhaps a little bit more influential was fed zevins He said that monetary policy will need to remain super easy to boost too low inflation Even as prices are expected to temporarily spike this spring Again, I thought that was quite timely given the fact that the service sector activity survey yesterday in ism Might have gone some way to reignite fears about this whole inflation overheating But again evans clarifying that this is would be temporary at this point in time And and being a call for super easy policy to remain in place. So That in itself, I think is an important general top level Reinforcement for why equities I don't think Would see anything other than small little profit taking periods when equities have risen consistently over a period of time So any pullbacks then generally I think you'll see people buy into them And then we grind back up and you know all-time highs back on the cards for sure Given the nature of what evans is really saying, which I think is definitely a shared stance Of the the main kind of federal reserve view at the moment All right quick quick word about the bank of england then what's going on here I'll give you a kind of summary. I'll go over everything in great detail on the amplifier live stream later But we're not expecting any policy change. So rates at 0.1% the asset purchase facility 895 billion there's no need for them to make any moves on their major policy tools at this disjuncture The mpc definitely, you know, if you think about it, if you were part of the bank of england, you know How can you really at this point make? A decision to move policy when you're awaiting the government's fiscal plan to come out at the beginning of March, which is their budget You know as we've seen through what's going on in capitol hill in washington and elsewhere This is a coordinated almost Effort in order to support an economy through fiscal and monetary means so At the moment the fiscal kind of leads it if you like they they work on their own steam and for The mpc they have to just react to what gets gets announced gets done to factor that in so They've got to sit on their hands for the time being because of really that reason the other thing is then They're going to release their quarterly money monetary policy report. So this is what comes out every alternate meeting And it allows us in markets to have a bit of a greater insight as to the forward guidance that the bank has in this Present point in time the last time they issued this was back in november And obviously the world was a bit of a different place back in november I'd say if anything COVID numbers got materially worse than expected and subsequently that's led to longer and more onerous Lockdowns than expected back then and so You know things like a an upgrade or an update to gdp forecast Which will probably materially see a weakening of what q1 growth estimates look like Is going to take place, but how much of a surprise would that be? I'd say very little at all So not really looking for too much there in the way of surprises to really act as a catalyst for price movement in sterling Or are the uk-based assets on the forecasts? However, the one area of interest of course is So much persistent talk about negative interest rates as much as I really do not see that as anywhere near Being imminent requirement Given the current status of what's going on in the uk You know one of the major things here is the general success the uk has had in its covet 19 vaccination rollout you know the kind of move to Having a heavy gearing towards the astro drug Which has proven to be a a good strategy Has then yielded results where they're on target now to hit that mid february target of Inoculating enough people in those key at-risk demographics the older age group and so That could mean then that we we might see a decent second half recovery in the uk economy all things remaining equal And with that being said then there's absolutely no need to be moving the needle now In regards to adopting a more dovish stance So I guess the main thing to look out for here is that the bank has been in discussions with Numerous financial institutions about a feasibility discussion on negative rates So the kind of necessary due diligence before Adopting it would be to explore The implementation and the ramification if it were to come into place in future So it's part of a strategic planning. Let's say but that in itself can be quite a powerful thing for markets You know at risk there's a credible tool on the table To be able to be used in future. Could that be enough to actually not use it if that makes sense so, yeah, overall for the bank of england the main risk then is going to be the Kind of insight the depth of commentary on negative rates I guess the more The research might show that it could be implemented very easily It could you know anything that would signal it could be a quite a successful thing to adopt Given it's never happened here in the uk That's probably only going to fuel the flame that it's going to happen Even though I think all those previous things I've said still stand the market will just jump on the headlines But ultimately I think beyond that the realization is is now is not the time to be taking rates negative For all those aforementioned reasons. So that's what I look for for the catalyst. But as I said Probably I'm just keen to look at the dollar and further appreciation there And if the euro breaks 120 cable just could get caught in those headwinds and start training a little heavy on the back of the green back strength All right calendar for today What have we got? So pretty quiet morning Construction pmi of the uk is not going to move move sterling Construction point of the least important of the the pmi metrics that we've seen So then you've got bank of england coming out midday Then leading up into non farms tomorrow, we've got challenger layoffs Then you've got weekly jobless claims expected there 830 000 not too dissimilar from the prior week Then you've got Later the revisions to durable goods, but again revisions. So this will be non-market moving and then factory orders Might get some attention expected at 0.7 percent from 1 percent previous. That'll be at 3 p.m. London time Speaker-wise fed focus again Daily a voter at seven cap plan an hour before non-voter speaking on the economic outlook at 6 p.m. London And and that's it for the morning briefing. So any questions at all just feel free to Leave a comment. I'm happy to help otherwise. I wish you guys a good day ahead. Thanks very much


Hey, James, so sorry, having some technical difficulties, but I'll be with you in a second. SLP will be here in just a few moments, and then we'll go going. Hey, SLP, you should be able to unmute yourself. Hey, everybody. Lordy, hi. Hey, I think we're ready whenever you are. I'm sorry, my camera isn't working. I'm trying to figure it out. Oh, ha ha, oh my God, I'm listening to this other weird, crazy thing. Hold on. What? Hold on, I've got some weird, crazy thing. There. You know how things run in the background? Yes. I'm doing this anyway, blah, blah, blah, long story. I'm gonna sneeze, and then we're gonna get started. How exciting. There we go. Thank you. Okay, so welcome to watch me work. Sorry, I'm late today. I was working. And hi. So this is how we do it. We work together for 20 minutes. And then I take questions from you about your creative process from SLP. Audrey's gonna tell you how to get in touch should you have questions. Thanks, friends. Hi, if you have a question on your inside of the Zoom, all you need to do is click on the raise your hand button, which is in the reactions tab, likely on the bottom of your screen, if you're on a laptop or on the top, if you're on an iPad or a tablet. And if you're watching on the live stream, you can also tweet at us at watch me work SLP with the hashtag howl round H-O-W-L-R-O-U-N-D, or you can tweet at the public theater, or you can write to our Instagram. And those are the ways. And tabulous. Okay, we're gonna start. I can't see Audrey, but I'm guessing it's gonna start. Now. Now. Thank you. Did it work? Yeah. Mix this. Oh yeah. No, it's all good. I'm just in many other programs today. Okay. Hi. Hi. Hello, beautiful. Hello, beautiful people. Okay. Any questions? Only answers. Today, only answers. Hey, Ryan. Good to see you. Hi, Ryan. Do you have a question, Ryan? I will- I'm sorry, I was just saying, I was just waving. I was just saying- I mean, we see all our fabulous people like Milani and Lou and everybody else. Steady poor. I love you. And MC, we see everybody, but then it's like Ryan, we see like every like once a month or something. Yeah. So I said hi. Oh. Oh, all right. Let's- Ryan does have a question. So I go to Ryan. There you go. Oh no. You're so funny when we can't see you. There you go. Yeah, wait, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Oh, it's good to be here. Yeah, I didn't realize that. Yeah, y'all been at it. It's good to see- Yeah, yeah, we have. It's good to be here. Well, I guess, I mean, yeah, I'm always up for, I always have some questions running through my noggin. I guess some, so yeah, the last time I was here, I was like, I decided or was very helpful to decide that I was editing or if I was still writing or like just not doing one thing at a time. And so I've been like going through my piece and sort of assigning the choir of characters and that sort of been like, I was looking at that as editing, but it is the rewrite or it is writing. Yes. Not even, yeah, it's the original writing. But I found some pieces where I didn't feel like it was applicable. I wasn't hearing the voices that I'm sort of molding. I wasn't hearing them in some of these chunks and I'm trying to play more with the idea of, I guess, a narrator as opposed to a full choir. But I just sort of was being really hard on myself. Like nah, you have these characters and you need to like get each, you need to find them in each piece. And I think I, yeah, I guess, yeah, my question I guess is more is like, I guess it's more of like the idea I've heard before in the space of like lowering the bar to be like, no, if it flows like this, it flows, it doesn't need to, you don't need to force it. Yeah, don't force it if it doesn't, if you're finding that it's still, you can still go forward. I guess it's sort of, I guess it's, I guess that's the writing space I'm in now. That sounds good. That sounds good.  Hello, yeah, yes, yes. So you added a character to the choir. Yes, I think I was really trying to be like, no, this is like a whole choir, like there's no narrator. I think I was just working against that idea when it just made more sense to work with it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, constantly you have to like reframe, right? You know what I mean? I think, yeah, a lot of the difficulty comes when we say this is how it is and I made it my mind and now it doesn't fit and oh no. And it says, oh, maybe it's like this. Yeah, yeah. But narrators are characters too. Yes, yes. And but yeah, I know it's good to be our, I guess more in my, the writing space is too, I guess I'm trying to like really look at more compassion or like with the self, which is so much easier said than done. Because I think I'm also, my one other big work that I'm still trying around town with comes from a place of writing, not to go too into the work, but writing from like a place of survival. And I sort of, my next piece is like, I tried to document a year in the pandemic. I took, maybe I took a 365 note, but I tried to, I was like, okay, I want to document this March, 2020 to March, 2021. And like, but I'm also trying to remember, I don't need to, again, with being compassionate. You don't, the stakes don't need to be so high. Right, right, right, right, right. And I think it's just, I always think I'm a compassionate writer to myself, but then I really clock, I'm like, no, you got, you can, if it's like, if your self critiques can prevent you from going forward, that's not, that's the tricky place to stay. Exactly, and that's a great thing to say, Ryan, that if your self critiques prevent you from going forward, then they're in, you know, we have to find more compassion, more helpful ways of critiquing ourselves, more helpful notes really.  Think of, I don't know, can you ride a bicycle? Yeah.   Yay, YouTube, go, come on, yay, look at them go, take a video, you know, all that kind of silly stuff. And that is the kind of encouragement we need to give ourselves when we're writing. And it's not fake and it's not a lie and it's not how could, I mean, I was, really, and it's widespread.  I don't know, they were like, I don't know. So wasn't there one thing that you like about it? No, really, you know, we get in these loops of sort of, you know, and they finally said, I don't wanna presume too much, but I think maybe I like my characters. Like, whoa, you know, so that, you know, we gotta work on that, you know what I mean? And we have to give ourselves encouragement and you can err on the side of feeling good about yourself. That doesn't mean that you're not gonna take any notes, you know? Okay, yeah, I hear. I did feel like this past weekend, I did catch myself when you read something back and you can be that sort of hype person you need for yourself. I was like, you need to remember that feeling. And when you find something like that, where you're celebrating yourself to like, but then I guess I was a little trickier to being like, okay, but only if I'm celebrating myself like that. But yeah, I think it's, yeah, a little, yeah. And even, yeah, even just speaking and now, yeah, to make it more, a little, yeah. Just say what you gotta tell yourself to, you know, get yourself out the doors.    It's really, it's, the more we can get in that practice of doing that, the better off, you know, we'll be with ourselves and with each other, you know? Yes, yes, yeah. And I saw, I saw a strange loop this weekend. And that, yeah, it's for like everyone in this space like that, yes, that, yeah, yeah. It is, it's about, it's about it. Uh-huh, uh-huh, fantastic. Fantastic. Okay. Ryan, thank you. Thank you. Oh, I muted you too soon. I am so sorry. It's been a rough moment. All right, let's go to Chris. No camera, what's going on with your camera? I don't know. I've tried to turn it on and off many times. I think it's just registering the wrong camera. Uh, go for it, Crystal. Hi. Hi, Crystal. Hello. First, thank you for your support and encouragement from when I was putting my play up, The Father Chronicles. That happened last Monday. And- Congratulations. Thank you. And I was very pleased with it. And it was, it was, it was, you know, there was also a Q&A and it was, yeah. So I was afraid of that too. And get this, I was supposed to get a, do like this interview with like the Queens radio station. And then they were like, oh, we can't have our interview with you because we're interviewing Chuck Schumer. So, I was kind of like- That's okay. Okay, it's fine. But it went really, it went really well. I was, I think I'm like, I think I'm probably ready for it to be done again and to be done in other places.  So thank you. Cause I'm very nervous about how to be. My question, now we have to go back to my Zephan Violet play. And it's more of a question of when, you know, I've written many, many drafts and I've been on this since I started, since I started Watch Me Work. Right, yeah, I remember. And when, when is like, not rewriting, but like revising or like looking over, like when does that become like almost like, I don't mean to be gross, but like picking a scab. Like when does it become like, we're just picking at it for the sake of picking at it. And it's not like really productive. Right, right, right, right. Let's see, I feel like it becomes picking a scab. When, and it's great when you're not allowing the thing to gel, think of it's a scab. I mean, you answered the question yourself. So when you pick a scab, you're not allowing the body, the great writer, really the spirit, the work to pull itself together in a way, right? You're becoming impatient and you're picking at it because, and you're nervous or it feels good to pick at your scab or whatever, but you're not allowing the process to do its work, the process that doesn't actually take your actual sitting down at the typewriter or the computer and doing it, right? The bigger process, the natural process, the body to write itself, right? So I think it's not picking at a scab. When you're actually, you have a list, it can be five things, 25 things or one thing, an action list, things that you wanna work on, you know? I don't know if the beginning of the third scene and the second act is really, you know, I don't think that the action is clear, you know? I really wanna clarify so-and-so's journey through the play.  So when you've still got a list, you've still got work to do. And as long as you've got work to do, it's not picking at a scab. You don't have really any work to do, you just don't know what else to do with it. And I think I just get in there and do stuff. Then you're picking at a scab. Does that make sense? Yes, yes. And I think it comes back to that old fear that we already talked about. And I apologize for bringing the fear, the fear that we already discussed about like, you know, I've just been told, I mean, without people really reading it, that like, if it's a two-person play, it needs to be shorter. And right now it's like at like 105 minutes. And I'm told- So how short are they talking? 90. 105. So what's the difference between 105 and 90? 15. So is that a note that you think is valid? I don't know only because when I look at the, because they're in three different parts, each part has a beginning, middle, and end. So how long do you know it's 105 minutes? Because I mean, because I have 105 pages, that's how I- What's the font? 12. Can you make it 11? Make it 11. Can you make the mark? I mean, really.  You can go through it with a pencil and go anytime I sort of feel like, I heard that already, circle that passage and cut it for the moment, right? You can do that. After you've done that and really cut down to the bone and like, oh, this speech is four pages long. Guess what? I can do it in two. That gives you two pages. After you've done that, really cut it down to the very essential, right? Then if you're still six pages too long, change the font. You know what I mean? Yeah. Okay, change the font, make it 11 point. Make the margins a little wider maybe. Really, if they're really look, if they're dismissing your play because they look at the page numbers and go, it's too long, you know, then change the font. Oh, okay. Yeah, but first you're gonna go through it and cut.  I bet you there's some places in there. So let's take the note, right? Let's take the note and go, okay. I'll give it a try. But then after you've gone through it and if you're a few pages over, then change the font, give yourself a break. Okay, you see what I'm saying? Absolutely. Okay. Okay, I can do that. Yeah, see, it's easy. That was very easy. It usually always is. That's what's weird about it. It usually always is kind of like just. Yeah. Yeah. Don't do that. I don't let you know how it goes. Okay, okay, but it'll be fun. Just circle anything that makes you feel like, ah, I'm bored. This is boring. Circle it. Okay, anything. And also, after you get it in the festival, you can always add those pieces back. Oh, okay. That's good too. You're like, we love your play. Okay, let's have a reading. Great, okay. Have a reading and add some stuff. I'm adding some stuff here. Actors, oh, great. Awesome. Okay, I'll do that. Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks, Crystal. Thank you. All right, Jesse, you were clapping. Did you have your hand up also, or is it just clapping? Just clapping, great. Thank you. Oh, Melania, go for it. Melania. Hello, Suzanne. Hello, everybody. Hey, how are you doing, sis? Fine, I'm doing fine. And I have a question about trusting myself when I write. There was, we talked about synopsis last week. I knew what you said about trying to do it like I am telling to a friend the story. And I had a deadline that was there. So I was in a hurry and I tried to, as I said, to go fast. So I couldn't listen to my fears. And I went and went, and I knew that I had problems in the story. There were situations that, but you didn't have the time. So I said, okay, I keep going, I keep going. When I go to submit the work, they extended the deadline. So I have one more month to work. Love it. Yes. So there was a part of me that said, okay, this is great. And there was a part of me that said, oh no, because now I be without myself about the story, the characters. And I am finding myself almost trying to change the story. And I don't know if there is a part that there are things that I need to figure it out in the story, in the plot. Or if I would like to do another thing in this month and I was so in a hurry that I couldn't change before. So I don't know what can I do to talk to myself and to the spirit in order to know what is the way, what is the path that it's better to take. Because I am open to do, but I don't know if I have to insist in the story or I need to try another thing. No, no, no, I hear you, I hear you. And I feel like because you felt when you had no time to do it, that there were things that you would like to change. Yes. I don't want to honor that feeling. That was probably a real feeling. You felt like darn, there are things that I want to change. And now that you have the time to change them and work on them, you're like, ah, because it's hard, it's work. Yes. Go ahead and take the, you know, take the, take, you know, do it in two weeks though. Don't take the whole month. Okay. Take two weeks to do it. Okay. And then use it to other two weeks for something else. Don't go all the way up to the deadline. Cause then you'll be in the same place you were last time. Ah, I didn't get all the changes done, you know? So give yourself a deadline of a couple of weeks. And in a couple of weeks, you're going to turn it in, you know, you can have it ready. And be very clear on what the things are that you want to change. Again, you don't want to be picking at the scab. You actually want to, may have a list. I'm going to do this and this and this. Those are the three things you're going to fix. Change, remedy, rewrite. And then you're going to let the rest go. Okay. I like that. Yeah. Okay. Good question. Good question. Thank you for always helping us. Thank you. Well, thank you for asking such great questions all the time. All you, such great question. So helpful, you know? And we know that like other people, are we recording this one, Audrey? As we do often? Yeah, yeah. It's great cause other people, you know, can listen to this and be like, oh, I have a question like Melania had. I have a question like Crystal had. And they can, they can sort of, you know, Ryan, that's what I was thinking about my own work. And they can feel, you know, less alone. And they can encourage themselves. And they can, and whatever they're doing, whether they're writing or knitting or doing deco parts, does anybody do that anymore? You know, or a combination of all three, macrame, interpretive dance, you know, they can encourage themselves. So that's kind of, we're all providing a wonderful service for people. And we have about 10 more minutes to do that. Wow. So look at your sit here. Talk about Audrey's camera. Oh, Lou's got a question. Oh, Lou. Hey, great to see you. I love the idea that what we're doing here will just like reverberate through time and space. So I really appreciate that. So my question today is I wanna finish what I started. And boy, even though I want this, I could come up with so many reasons to start anything. Some of these things have bubbled up in this room. It's like, you're the same. I could start a new thing. I could start a thing that will help me understand the thing I wanna finish better. So I should do that. How can I finish this thing? It's the biggest thing I ever wanted to do. There's so much to think about more. I wanna tell you, it is time to finish this thing. And I wanna find a way to finish it. So what is my question? How do I remind myself every day that right now I'm clear talking to you? I always get clear when I'm here. And then I leave and then... That's why you have to come back. I know. That's why I keep coming back. But I want, this is my wants. It's my, and that's why I'm afraid to do it. Because I think it's the truest want of my whole life to finish this thing I'm working on. And when you give it to yourself, you won't have another true want? Maybe not. Maybe it's like, I just wanna stay in it. It's like, it's the want that I want, not the work or something. It's like, it's become addictive. It's not healthy. I know this, it's not great. That's helpful, that's helpful, that's helpful. I mean, because it's not, because what it's not like is a wonderful relationship where you go, this is my significant other and we're good and we're together. And so there's no, right. But you're saying this is a work relationship or relationship that I have in my work that feels good, but I want, you wanna get done. You wanna cross the finish line. I wanna get done. I was really- Do you care? So if you were running a marathon, would you care what it looked like when you crossed the marathon, the finish line? No. Great. So you could be like the original runner in marathon and like, fling yourself. You don't have to be like the winner. You're like, it doesn't have to be graceful. It can be, it can be just sloppy or just throwing yourself. You're finished, right? If you get to, and then, well, you know, when you get to the finish line, is it a finish line, is it a first draft finish line or is it a finish line, finish line rewrite? It's a first draft. That's a first draft finish line. That's just the beginning. Yeah, this I know. Did you go to high school? I did. Great. Okay. So when you- I mean, I know we all looked at high school when we were in high school going, oh, I graduated. Right? And you graduate and you're like, geez, it's just the beginning. I mean, it's not even the beginning. It's like, not even the beginning, but it's just the starting line.  And then you look back and go, gee, that's just kind of where I started. So, and maybe that's what's concerning you, but let's say we don't care about what's really bothering you. We do, but we won't worry about it because we'll be picking at that scab, like trying to figure that out. So let's just say it could be a number of reasons. So let's find a number of tools. Let's find a number of tools. Okay, one of the, one fun tool is the five minutes a day method. Five minutes, five minutes on your timer. You're only gonna work on it five minutes a day, inch forward every single day without fail, inch forward for five minutes, inch forward for five, working it for five minutes. Right? You have a number of pages that you think, I write these number of pages and then I'll be done. What's, how far away is the finish line? I have an outline that's pretty strong and what I'm trying to do is now beef out the outline so it's real, because I have the flow. Right, okay. So I think, so it's not pages, I think what it is is meat on the bones, I wanna hang the meat on the bones that I have. Okay, five minutes a day, every single day without fail. I can do that. Yeah, good. Okay, and when do you think you'll have enough meat on the bones of this outline to then start writing it? Is that the next step after you have meat on the bones and you start writing it? Is that the next step? What's the next step? Well, I have a couple of chapters that some of the meat is meatier than there's some just bones without meat. So it's a little half and half right now. There's like 50% meat. Sorry, I'm probably being confusing with my metaphors. No, it's okay, it's okay. Here's what I will say, I owe it to somebody who's really important in its potential to see the light of day on May 20th. So the outline is sort of due to somebody who could affect this getting in the world. May 20th. Yeah, 18 days from now. 18 days from now, okay. So what is how many more hours do you think you have left to work? I mean, how many more hours before you get to finish like realistically? I think if I'm hurling myself and not being precious and weird, maybe like I could do it in like 30 or 40 hours if I was just like, you know, just like doing it. So that's like two hours a day? Probably, yeah. Is that like, I don't know, I'm not doing the math here. Today is the second we're talking the 18 days. 18 days. That's gonna be, you know, 36 hours, right? Yeah. It's kind of, I don't know, whatever. Yeah. You can work that out on your own, but two hours a day, let's just say, right? So instead of five minutes a day, you've got two hours a day. So can you do four 30 minute chunks? A day? Yeah. I can't do two solid hours, but I can do four, but I know, but in my mind, you're helping me. You have the time during the day to sit down and do 30 minute chunk, you're done. 30 minute chunk, you're done, like that. I do.  Paper calendars, I don't have one right now, but you know, I don't have one right now.  Yep. You can write four little squares a day and just check the boxes. So you can see your progress visually. And it actually works to print it out and do it manually, then like do something on your computer, your screen or something like that. And you just kind of trudge along. Yeah, I can do that. Okay. And you're gonna alert your friend to be ready to receive it on the 20th of May. They've been alerted. They've been alerted already. So they're expecting, they're expecting it. It's a deadline with my agent. Good. Very good. Okay. So you can send them an email like today and go, get ready because that's gonna remind you they're really expecting it because I just told them again. Get ready. It's coming. You know what I mean? Okay. You know what I mean? So you could put some like pressure on yourself, 30 minutes, four times a day and just be single-minded. And guess what? No other idea is interesting. Right now. I got real distracted this past few days I was looking all around. Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Yeah, I really was. Yeah, and that's okay. It happens sometimes, you know what I mean? We are just, if you check, if you think, oh, I'll be, I'll do this. I'll take a course back writing, you know? No, no, it's not as interesting. I'll do, I'll paraglide. And yeah, that's gonna, yeah, no. Powerlifting. No, no, no. Sorry, sorry. Gardening got really interesting. Gardening! Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Just no, no, no, I'm bullshitting myself. I'm bullshitting myself. You can make yourself a sign. Yeah. Finish by the 20th of May. Anything, if you do anything else, you're bullshitting yourself. That's it, that's it. There's no other reality. Yes. I'm gonna come back. I was looking at the schedule. I'll come back and tell you when I sent it. I'm gonna tell you. Good, there you go. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you. You're welcome so much. Thank you. Great question, great question. And just know that there's someone out there, you know, in the community somewhere who's really helped by that. Cause I, you know? Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, thanks, Lou. Thanks. All right, friends, we've got about 30 seconds left. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's all, we're good. Excellent. Well, we'll see you next week. Well, maybe we'll see you. Maybe we won't, maybe you'll have your camera. Ah, ah, ah. I love you. I think I know what to do, but I couldn't do it in the middle of the thing, you know? Understood. Understood. I think I... We will see you next week. See you next week. Okay, bye. Thanks everybody. Thank you, bye.


This 2010 Chevy Camaro 2SS in red jewel tint coat is stock number 11639Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. They're new and used sports car headquarters and Camaro headquarters as well. This 2010 Chevy Camaro has the 6.2 liter V8 motor, which pumps out 426 horsepower when paired up with the six-speed manual transmission. This car has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this car is 100% ready to go. Red jewel tint coat is the color once again. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the car before seeing it in person. If you'd like to subscribe to our YouTube channel, the bottom right hand part of the screen is a gold subscribe button. Click that and then click the bell notification to get reminders of our videos that we do each and every day on our new and used inventory. This one comes with the 20-inch polished aluminum rims and it has the Brembo brakes on here. These tires are Pirelli P024545ZR20s and they have, I'd say, probably 80 to 90% of the tread left on them, lots of good tread on those tires. Red jewel tint coat is a really good looking color. It does have a little bit of metal flake in it so if we can get it to focus there, it's got kind of a hard color to get to focus but it's got just a little bit of metal flake. There it is. So you can see that really good looking color. It has the headlamps that are nice and clear. Front bumper is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents, dings, cracks or scuffs on there. The headlight lenses are nice and clear and the hood is in excellent condition as well. It has the gray stickers. They got a little bit of metal flake to them as well. And they are in excellent shape. Passengers side front fender, no dents or dings on there. And the passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of the car, take a note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. These HD videos, so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the car, hear the car and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises. And you can make a smart mind decision from the comfort of your own home. Very clean down that side. Didn't see any dents or dings and this back room is in excellent shape as well. There's the Brembo brakes and back. And the back tires have roughly about, I'd say, 60% of the tread left on them. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, your bumper is in great shape. No major dents, dings or cracks or scuffs on there. And this one does have Borla exhaust on it. So we'll check out how that sounds in just a little bit. The deck lid is in nice shape as well. And we'll check out the trunk in just a second too. Coming around the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger side. No dents or dings on the rear quarter. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent shape as well. I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on there. Driver's side door looks really good and it does come with the heated power mirrors.  There are no rips or major tears on here. You get the stitching SS in the back seat. And on this side, just a little bit of wear on that bolster there. Power driver's seat, factory floor mats, auto headlamps, Boston premium sound. Power windows, power locks and power mirrors. It does have the silver trim that is also metallic. There's a little bit of metal flake to it so it's a pretty cool feature as well. We'll take a look in the trunk as long as we're standing up here. Actually, we'll take the keys back there.  And the storage area is very nice and clean. You also have the RPO codes back here. So you can see those right there. Feel free to pause it to get all those codes to make sure this one's got all the options you're looking for. But very nice and clean and it does come with that car cover. So another little added bonus to this car. The stripes are in nice shape on the trunk lid. Take a quick look at the back seats here. The back seats are in great shape as well. No rips or tears. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may want to try and put back there. And then those seats do fold down with that little strap right there as well. We'll hop inside, turn the ignition on so you can check out the miles and everything. And then we'll start it up. Give that exhaust a go. You can see that this car only has 6,824 miles. You do get a compass display. And it also comes with a tire pressure sensor system. Average speed, miles per gallon, fuel range. And it does have a digital speedometer. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the leather wrap steering wheel. That's in excellent shape as well. Bluetooth and audio controls on the right. Cruise controls on the left. Comes with the AM, FM and SiriusXM radio capabilities.  Oil temp, oil pressure, volts and trans temp right there.  Speed, manual transmission, passenger side, floor mat and seat are in excellent shape as well. Headliner is in nice clean condition. You do get homelink buttons up there. Map lights and on-star capabilities in the rear view mirror. We'll start it up and then we'll check out that exhaust. But I'll like to start it here so that you can see that there's no check engine lights or anything like that. That's real nice. And we'll go check out that exhaust just one second. Alright, we're going to rev it up here. So check out this Borla exhaust on the 6.2 liter with the 6 speed. Really good. Alright, we'll take a quick look under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video you've been able to tell just how clean this car is inside and out. How good it sounds with that Borla exhaust. Under the hood we have the 6.2 liter VA motor. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. Once again this car has been fully-safetyed and inspected by Aller Service Shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. Shock's doing a nice job supporting the hood. Here's your emission sticker. And this car is 100% ready to go. I would highly recommend this car from a quality and condition standpoint. And to see more pictures of this car or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, wranglers, Camaros, challengers, chargers, Mustangs, GT500s, Corvettes, you name it. 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My name is Sam Vaknin and I am the author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisible. Clinging and smothering behaviors are the unsavory consequences of a deep set of existential, almost mortal, fear of abandonment and separation. For the codependent to maintain a long-term healthy relationship, she must first confront her anxieties head-on. This can be done via psychotherapy, of course. The therapeutic alliance is a contract between patient and therapist, which provides a safe environment where abandonment is not an option, and thus where the client can resume personal growth and form a modicum of self-autonomy. In extremis, the psychiatrist may wish to prescribe anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medications. But self-help is also an option. Meditation, yoga, and the elimination of any and all addictions such as workaholism or binge eating. Feelings of emptiness and loneliness which are at the core of abandonment, anxiety and other dysfunctional attachment styles, these feelings can be counted with meaningful activities, mainly altruistic and charitable, and with two stable friends who provide a safe haven and are unlikely to abandon the codependent, and therefore these people constitute a holding, supportive and nourishing environment. The codependent's reflexive responses to her inner turmoil are self-defeating and counterproductive. They often bring about the very outcomes that she fears most. Clinging and smothering often lead to abandonment. But these outcomes also tend to buttress her worldview. She says to herself, the world is hostile, I am bound to get hurt. And these outcomes also sustain her comfort zone. A view is an abandonment, she says, are familiar to me. At least I know the ropes and how to cope with them. And this is precisely why the codependent needs to exit this realm of mirrored fears and fearsome tumult. She should adopt new avocations and hobbies, meet new people, engage in non-committal, dispensable relationships, and in general take life more lightly, or even get a life. Some codependents develop a type of militant independence.  But even these daring rebels tend to view their relationships in terms of black and white, an infantile psychological defense mechanism known as splitting. These codependents, who are also militantly independent, tend to regard their relationships as either doom to failure or everlasting. And their mates as both unique and indispensable, sorely, tween, or completely interchangeable, objectified. All these, of course, are misperceptions. Cognitive deficits grounded in emotional immaturity and thwarted personal development. All relationships have a life expectancy, a sell-by or good-before or expiry date. None is irreplaceable or completely interchangeable. The codependent's problems are rooted in a profound lack of self-love and an absence of object consistency. She regards herself as unloved and unlovable when she is owned by herself, and that's why she goes out seeking relationships. Yet clinging codependent and counterdependent, fiercely independent, defined, and intimacy-retarding behaviors, all these can be modified. If you fear abandonment to the point of phobia, here's my advice to you. First of all, compile a written, very detailed, kind of mission statement regarding all the aspects of your romantic relationships. How would you like them to look like? How would you go about securing the best outcomes? Revisit and revise this chart regularly. Then list your three most important made-choice criteria. What would you be looking for in the first date? And without which, there will be no second date. This list is your filter, your proverbial selective membrane. Revisit this list and revise it regularly, as your tastes, experience, and preferences change. Conduct a thorough background check on your prospective intimate partner. Go online, Google his name, visit his social networking accounts, ask friends and family for information, and an appraisal of his character, temperament, and personality. This preparatory research will put you in control and empower you. It will serve as an antidote to uncertainty and the anxiety attendant upon it. Next, use the volatility threshold and the threat modeling tools. Explanation is in order. The volatility threshold instrument is a compilation of one to three types of behaviors that you consider critically desirable, deal-makers, in your partner. Observe him and add up the number of times he had acted inconsistently and thus reversed these crucial aspects of his behavior substantially and essentially. Decide in advance how many strikes would constitute a deal-breaker and when he reaches this number, simply walk away, leave. Do not share with him either the existence or the content of this test list. This sharing may affect his performance and cause him to play-act or prevaricate. As a co-dependent, you tend to jump to conclusions and then jump the gun. You greatly exaggerate the significance of even minor infractions and disagreements, and you are always unduly fatalistic, hyper-vigilant and pessimistic about the survival chances of your relationships. The threat monitoring tool is comprised of an inventory of warning signs and red flags that in your view and from your experience herald important abandonment. The aim is actually to prove you wrong, to falsify this list, to prove to you, to show you that more often than not you are wrong in predicting a breakup that never happens. In general, try to act as though you were a scientist. Construct alternative hypotheses, interpretations or behaviors and events to account for what you regard as transgressions or bed omens.  Pre-emptive abandonment is based more on your insecurities than on facts, so make sure to test your hypothesis and your partner in a variety of settings before you call it a day and before you prophesy doom and gloom. This scientific approach to your intimate relationships has the added benefit of delaying the instant alleviation of your anxiety, which consists usually of impulsive ill-thought actions. It takes time to form hypotheses and to test them, and this lapse of time between trigger and reaction is all you need. When you have formed your informed opinion, by that time, your anxiety will have abated and you will no longer feel the urge to do something now, whatever it is. Armed with these weapons, you should feel a lot more confident as you enter a new romantic liaison. But the secret of the longevity of long-term relationships lies in being who you are, in acting transparently, in externalizing your internal dialogue and inner voices. In short, if you want your relationships to last, you should express your emotions and concerns on a regular basis and honestly. You should knowingly and willingly assume all the risks associated with doing so. You will be exposing the chinks in your armor. Your vulnerabilities and blind spots might be abused or exploited or leveraged. You may be misunderstood, even mocked. But the rewards of being open with your partner, without being naive of course, without being valuable, simply open, are enormous and multifarious. Stronger bonding often results in long-lasting relationships, which is exactly what you are after, as a co-dependent.  What types of conduct he should avoid, and what modes of communication he should eschew. You should both agree on protocols of communication. Fears, needs, triggers, wishes, boundaries, requests, priorities and preferences should all be shared on a regular basis in a structured and predictable manner. Remember, structure, predictability, even formality are great antidotes to anxiety and impulsive acting.  You can and should help him in this oft-herkulian task. You can start by using drama to desensitize yourself to your phobia. In your mind, imagine and rehearse in excruciating detail both the worst-case scenario and the best-case scenario. This is abandonment in the wake of adultery versus a blissful marriage. In these reveries, do not act as an observer. Place yourself firmly at the center of the scene of the action and prepare detailed responses within these impromptu plays. At first, this pseudo-theater may prove agonizing, but the more you exercise your capacity for daydreaming, the more you will find yourself immune to abandonment. You may even end up laughing out loud during the more egregious scenes. Who knows? Similarly, prepare highly detailed contingency plans of action for every eventuality. And that includes the various ways in which your relationship can disintegrate. Imagine the possible breakups and prepare an action plan for each and every type of breakup. Be prepared for anything and everything, thoroughly and well in advance. Planning equals control, and control means much reduced and lessened dread. Good luck.


Other reviews, and here I mean media, not say bloggers, but how corrupt are they? Corrupt in what sense? That there's something in the process which involves favoritism, and maybe there's an incentive for excess enthusiasm, because if your book review section reviews 13 books and says they're all mediocre, well people won't buy the books, but more importantly they'll stop buying your book review section, right? So do you think there's for instance an incentive to be too positive or some other skew? I think I don't know that it's as blatant as that. I definitely think it is editors certainly prefer positive reviews, and there are some newspapers which basically won't print negative reviews. I think that's always an issue, and I mean they can say that well we, you know, we pre-select, so that's the way we do it, but that's, I mean one of the things I love about how I'm able to review books is that I just, you know, I'll review almost anything, and I will actually review it even if I do not enjoy the book, even if I have immense problems with the book, because I think that's just- You don't put them down like I do it. Take New York Times or Amazon, I know there's both, but if you had to choose which do you trust more? I don't know if I can, I like Amazon because I can get a lot of information about, out of Amazon. They're really that, the way the information is presented and in part with the reviews, depending on how widely it's being reviewed, part of the problem with the New York Times, of course, is that they can only review so few books, and so you have really so little information, or information about so few titles, whereas Amazon, you have at least some information about practically everything. In that sense, good reads is perhaps, you know, even more useful, because especially with the foreign language books, they'll usually at least be people who've already reviewed the foreign language edition, and that's helpful. One of the things I find remarkable about my site is I try to link to big media reviews, and an extraordinary number of the books which I cover basically go unreviewed in the major media, often even publishers weekly, which I find kind of shocking, because I mean, I do review obscure books, but it's not that obscure. I'm fascinated, the Literary Hub is a very good website now, which collects a lot of literary information, and they've also now started a review aggregating part of the site called Bookmarks, and basically what they do is when they find reviews in three of the publications they monitor, which are basically all American major publications and a few internet sites, if they have three reviews for a book, then they'll put that on bookmarks with the summaries and links to the reviews, so sort of what I do, and I find maybe one out of ten of the books I cover qualify for them, and I find that shocking.


All right, we're gonna work on making a memo. Now, the body of the memo, the text I already have here, so that we're not doing a lot of typing. So I'm not doing a lot of typing. But I need all of my heading information. I need the word memo. So if you've printed out the PDF of the memo, explaining it all the different parts, then you'll see what's going to be made here. So the first thing I want to do, we can see we're on the Microsoft default, which is Calibri 11 point normal spacing. And so I want to select everything so I can either hit Control A on my keyboard, or I can go into this selection bar area, which is on the left of the screen, not on the right. Go over here and triple click, one, two, three. And it selects everything. So I want this to be no spacing style. And I have my no spacing style set with Times New Roman 12 point. It might not be that way on your computer. So just go to Times New Roman. If you have to find it all the way down in the T's, you might have to scroll down until you get to the T's. We're going down, down, down. There's a lot of fonts here. Here's Times New Roman, and then we find 12 point. All right. So I also see that I need a space between these two paragraphs. So I'll put that in there now. But I need to push all of this text down so that I can put my headings up here. So I'm going to put my show hide on. Remember the button up here. And I'm going to hit the Enter key, I don't know, a couple of times. And then I'm going to go up here to the very first line in the document. And I'm going to type the word memo. And I'm going to, well, I want it to be all caps. And there's a couple of different ways to do that. I could have used the cap locks key on my keyboard. If you look down on your keyboard, you'll see something that probably says caps lock or caps. And that holds all of the keys in capital letters. So if I put my cap locks on, M-E-M-O, you can see that they stay in cap locks. Let me undo that for a minute. The other way to do that, which I tend to use more often, is this change case button up here in the fonts grouping. You can see I have a sentence case, lower case, uppercase, and capitalize each word. Toggle case is pretty specialized and rarely used. So I'm going to say uppercase. So here I have it in uppercase. I want it to be larger. I'm going to put it at about 18 and I'm going to center it here in my center, in my paragraph groupings area. Now I want to hit the enter key and I'm going to do the headings now. And the headings for a memo are, I have my cap lock still on, two. So I'm going to use my cap locks in this case, two. And I'm going to hit the, whoops, hit the tab key. All employees from tab. Now I'm using the tab key. Now you can see that these two aren't lining up. So I'm going to have a problem. David Johnson, enter, enter. I'm leaving a blank space between all of the, oh well, when I hit the tab key, it went right to this place, which is in line with this tab right here. So I had to hit the tab key twice because I want everything to line up with David Johnson there and April 12th. And I'm going to hit the enter key and type subject. I'm using a colon after each one. So I can see up here, I need to go back and hit the tab key one more time. I can either go to the end of the two word or before the all. I'll go right there and hit the tab key. So these are all cap. This is good, but they're not bolded. These have to be bold. I like to do my typing first and then I go back and format. So I'm going to use bold. I can use it right here. You can see the keyboard shortcut is control B, but I'm going to bold. I could use bold up here on my keyboard. I mean, on my toolbar, I could go here. Whoops, let me go right here. And I could do control B, which bolded it. Oh, now look, when this became bold, it pushed my date too far out. So I have to get rid of one of those tab keys. So I'll either go here or here. It doesn't matter which and just backspace one of those out. And my last one is subject. All right, so my headings are all bold. I'm going to turn the show hide off for a minute. Yes, they're all lined up. Memo is large, bold and capitalized just for the headings, not for the information with the headings. All right, now I want a line to separate my headings from the body of the text. There's a couple of different ways to do that, but let me show you, well, let me show you both of them. What I could do and what I tend to do because in newer versions, we have this horizontal line that's available. If you're using an older word processing program, you're going to use a border, but let's show this. So I have three blank spaces here, one above and one below. And I'm going to use the one in the middle. And I'm going to choose from my borders dialogue, well, borders choices in the paragraph grouping. This thing called horizontal line. And it's a gray line, it's not as dark as a border, and that's fine. So when I turn my show hide off, it makes a nice horizontal line there. Now, if I have an older word processing program, this isn't something that you can do. So what you can do is go to, pardon me, the blank line below the last heading and choose bottom border. And that puts a border all the way between margins. Here's the left margin, here's the right margin. So now we have a border between the headings and the body of the letter. And we've used our change case. We've used fonts and sizes, our bold. Now let's use a metallicize and underline. Now, underline is different than a border, okay? If I underline something, let me just choose this whole line and underline. It only underlines text. So I can't use underline in a blank space. Let me make a blank space down here and underline that blank space. Nothing will happen, it's underlined but nothing will happen until I start typing and then the text is underlined. So underline and borders are slightly different. Let me undo that, it's a toggle switch on and off. All right, so let's italicize the word italicize and bold, August 6th.  So I can use bold and italicize here. I tend not to use it just because it's a newer feature and I'm not quite used to it yet. But I'll do italicize and bold. Let's underline standard rate. Where's my little toolbar? I'll underline it. Or I can go up here and underline it, okay? And then we have some other features, font styles up here. We have strike through, which actually draws a line through. So let me select employees. And when I do that, you can see it puts a line through it. And then we have superscript and subscript here. Superscript, subscript. Superscript goes above the line. So let me superscript the word employees here. You can see it becomes higher. And subscript, it goes below the line. And let me turn that off and turn that off.  All right. So what are we missing here? We're only missing the typist's initials. So if David Johnson had typed this letter himself, there would be no need for the typist's initials. But since he gave it to somebody else to type, we need the typist's initials down here. So I put the typist's initials in there. Now when I hit the space bar or the enter key, it will try to capitalize that. So I have to go back and enforce the change or turn off my feature in word that capitalizes every letter, every new sentence. But I prefer to have that on. All right. Now let's print this out. We remember, we go under the file tab and we can decide how many copies we want. I don't know how many all of all employees are. Maybe there's 12 or 13. In a nowadays in an office, this would probably be sent via email, but sometimes you need a paper trail. So you decide how many and then you would hit print. And then let's save this. We haven't saved it yet. So it doesn't matter whether we hit save or save as, the save as dialog box will come up here. And we decide where to save it. I don't know, I'll just save it to my desktop for now. And then I can delete it later. Memo practice. So it took the first word that it found in the document, which was memo and that's fine. Sometimes it's the date and some people like to name all of their files with dates. All right, so I'm going to hit save and this will save up here. And so now I know it's saved. Okay, so play around with some borders. See what you like there. Your alignment is right here and your font styles and features. So I encourage you to get in there, play around with any of the features that you want to have fun with. This is a 2010, this text effect. It is only the newest version of Word. So you can play with that and see what that does. There's so many ways to make things look interesting in this program. So you just need to get in there and start playing around with it. The last thing I want to mention is the CC part of a memo. Now we saw it in, and you learned a little bit about it in the business letter, but occasionally a CC, which means carbon copy might go to another person and usually when it's sent to another person, everyone knows who it was sent to. So we can put a CC line on here. So I went to the end of subject, went to the end of the subject line and hit the enter key and I would put CC colon and then I would say who it's being CC to, Emily Johnson or something. Oh no, that's the same name as above. It doesn't matter. And I would make it just the same as the other heading, which means all caps and bold. I would line it up. So in, if more than one person, I would put a comma and put Chris Williams or something like that. So that's the CC line. Those are the basic, the first four are the basic lines that should be included in every memo. And this is a courtesy if it's going to, specifically to, for example, another manager in another department or someone who might not be part of the all employees. All right, CC carbon copy.