Tech on Titan.  I'm Zeke and welcome to the dream green show and this if so I'm gonna be showing you guys What nine stocks pay me out in dividends this month that made me over $50 this month alone guys That's right. The snowball effect is starting to take place I went from making this $5 a month in dividends to now making $50 a month in dividends But there's gonna be a major change to my portfolio that could change the complete Outcome in the performance of my portfolio in a major way really really soon So make sure you stick it out to the entire Video to see how I'm going to be changing my investing ways It could potentially make me a lot more money than dividends But I'm still gonna be investing into these great dividend stocks But before we dive into this video this video is brought to you by webo sign up now by clicking the link down In the description deposit $100 and now you can receive two free stocks valued up to $2300 with those two free stocks You could keep them inside the platform and decide to use it or you could sell those two free stocks and withdraw all of your money It's literally free money. 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I am up 2.7 percent Not too bad pretty good actually up $1,790 and six cents and 14 cents So as you guys can see August has been a pretty good month of me Growth wise and also dividend wise I made over $50 in this video I'm going to explain to you what nine stocks pay me out in dividends. So let's go ahead and get started on that Here we go guys. The first stock is AT&T ticker some T They play me out on August 2nd, 2021 $12 and 48 cents on AT&T I got 24 shares paying me out 52 cents per share.  It would take a look at AT&T What makes this company so attractive is that they have a very high dividend yield of $7 and 67 cents AT&T has been increasing their dividends lately, but the value of the company has been pulling back So right now we could be buying at the low point of AT&T and hopefully it could rebound soon But right now a lot of people are investing into this company because they have such a high dividend yield You guys would probably not see too many more companies with a higher dividend yield than AT&T which is at 7.67% on the next company that pay me out is agency This is a monthly paying dividend REIT REITs are required to pay out 90% of their taxable income back to their investors and usually in the form of dividends I own 112 shares paying me out to a sense per share. So $13 and 44 cents I received from agency I'm up 14% on agency and once again They have a very high dividend yield because they are a real estate REIT They have a dividend yield of 8.71% I'm probably going to pick up some more agency soon. This is one of my favorite monthly paying dividend stocks I mean they pay out every single month 12 times a year and Agency has just been completely killing it for me. If we take a look at agency how many times they pay me out Let's go all the way down to the history And click on dividends there you go So agency has paid me out clearly well over a hundred two hundred dollars in dividends alone guys And I'm on and I'm up Let's see. I'm up two hundred dollars from the growth. So total combined I'm probably up four hundred ish dollars from agency from dividends in growth And I reinvest my dividends right back into this company. So right now I'm at 112 shares So I'm gonna take that $12 reinvest it back in agency. So next month. I have around a hundred and sixteen ish Shares the next one after agency is Apple took December at APL. I own 12 shares paying not 22 cents per share They pay me out $2.72 since they have a very low dividend yield by Apple is amazing company I'm up 20% with nineteen point six nine percent They have a dividend yield of 0.56% So yes, they do have a low dividend yield But over the last year alone Apple is up 17% and over the last five years there up 444% so as a growth company Apple is straight up killing it You don't really have to worry about the dividends as long as you're holding their stocks You can make a ton of money from Apple and also receive a small portion of dividends from them The next company that pay me out is ticker symbol or really to income This is also another real estate reap pays out monthly as well on 10 shares Pay me out 23 cents per share for a total of two dollars and 36 cents If we take a quick look at oh, they have a dividend yield of three point nine three percent So a lot of companies I'll show you actually do have a high dividend yield or average dividend yield is anything over a point 7% 1% 2% would be amazing 3% would be awesome But this one has a awesome dividend yield of 3.93 percent And I'm also up on ticker symbol 11% and this one also have been paying me out for a very long time in dividends if we click dividends This may pay me out for over two years or so So I've been receiving a bunch of dividends from ticker symbol. Oh, the next company that pay me out is Clarice ticker symbol CLX This company makes Way more items and products than just bleach and chloride guys. I did a whole video over them I probably gonna do update video over them as well I'm I own 2.2 shares paying out a dollar and 16 cents per share So I got two dollars and 60 cents This is a quarterly plan dividend stock over the last year They're down because they had such a big run-up from the pandemic It's shot it all the way up from a hundred forty eight dollar company to a 224 dollar company in the nine-star in the pool back be a little bit more more reasonable So that might be an area where I could pick up more shares of Clarice and they have a dividend yield 2.72 percent for this company be this big 20.25 billion dollar market cap and have a pretty decent dividend yield of 2.72 percent That is a that is almost a steal for me. So that's Clarice. The next company that paid me out is PG Product and Gamble. I just added them to my portfolio got seven shares paid out 86 cents per share So I received six dollars and nine cents from Procter and Gamble Quarterly paying dividend stock over the last year that up 2.88 percent if you guys want to know why I bought Procter and Gamble. I believe that that link somewhere right here You could click that and see why I bought Procter and Gamble up five percent So I got in at amazing time and dividend yield is 2.33 percent Amazing company Procter and Gamble is also a dividend keen. That means they increase their dividends every year for the last 50 years And they're also inside of the S&P 500 So Procter and Gamble was a steal to me and for me to buy it so recently at an all-time high And I'm still up five percent. I'll tell you guys why I thought this was going to go up in the video So if you want to know why click that link That I posted up there the first time I said it. So that's Procter and Gamble And next company that pay me out is the ETF SPHD is a power share S&P 500 high dividend low value to ETF got 30 shares pay me out 12 cents per share for a total of $3.81 and Right now over the last year that up 28 percent So they've been doing fairly well over the last year. I should have bought more shares when I could I'm up 9 percent and this one has a Monthly paying dividend stock with a dividend yield of 4.11 percent So once again, it's above the 3% range that we're looking for in different stocks in order to Generate a decent amount of dividend income and then on the last one is PE Y This one has been performing better than SPHD for me I have 105 shares 6 cents per share pay me out $7.01 cents this one I'm up 25 percent for a hundred and thirty nine dollars and they also have a Dividend yield and they also have a dividend yield of 4.09 percent So over the last year that up 36 percent with a dividend yield of 4.09 percent PE Y has been straight up killing it for me. So with PE Y being the ninth company that pay me out That's gonna be my total to $51 and 17 cents guys such an amazing Passive income method that I use in order to do absolutely nothing at all and still receive passive income I'm gonna take that $51 and reinvest it back into these companies in order for me to have even more Next quarter or even more next month when I'm getting paid out from these dividend stock and there we go guys That is the nine companies that pay me out fifty one dollars Let me know down in the comment section as always How many companies paid you out if you want to say how much you made this month you can if you want to buy I just want to know around how many companies paid you out this month some people post that 27 companies paid them out last month and some people post that I made $200 last month in dividends and some people saying that they made 12 cents last month. That's all amazing I'm gonna see how many different companies you guys are visiting in down in the comment section And also if you guys want to see different times on when I buy and sell stocks every time I buy sell stocks I post it over in the discord if you want access to my discord you could join the patreon That's linked down in the comment section join that join the discord You'll be able to chat with me and see every time I buy and sell different stocks But other than that guys don't forget to pick up your two free stocks from Weeble and pick up your mini free stocks from Moomoo from signing up for both of those Sign up for Moomoo. You'll get a free share just from signing up and then deposit $2,000 you get a free share of GM Do with it what you want, but other than that I'm Zeke bring you to dream green show and I'm out peace


This study proposes a novel algorithm which can accurately identify the type of walking pattern of a person based on their ankle movements. It uses a single du FIMU axis to extract kinematics data from the ankles and then classifies the walking pattern into upstairs, downstairs, treadmill, overground and stationary. The algorithm was tested on 40 healthy participants and achieved an accuracy of 89.57% and 87.55% in the left and right sensor, respectively. Additionally, the algorithm was able to detect inherent multimodal walking features in elderly people, similar to those seen in young adults. This suggests that the algorithm has the potential to be used in robotic gait intervention for multimodal walking. This article was authored by Yogesh Singh and Vinit Vashista. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


The leadership crisis besetting the PDP has taken a different turn as the embattled national chairman of the party, Uche Secundus, in obedience to a high court in river state, has abdicated his office and handed over to his deputy, Eldar Yemi Akimi. Meanwhile, two contenders have emerged for the acting chairmanship of the PDP. The two contenders are Yemi Akimi, deputy national chairman, South and Suleyman Naziv deputy national chairman, North. Now they have engaged in hostilities with each claiming to be the rightful occupant of the office of the acting chairman. Well, joining us to discuss this is chairman Ikwere local government area in river state, Samoanaseke, and former national publicity secretary of the People's Democratic Party for Nashus Ikim. Thank you very much gentlemen for joining us. Thank you for having me. It's my pleasure to be here with you. Great. I'm going to start with you, Mr. Ikim, because you have been at the national before. You might be able to help us understand exactly what's happening within the PDP.  Everybody was hoping that they would together go for a national convention, which would have, you know, solved the situation on ground now, because we now have two people allegedly claiming that they're supposed to be the acting chairman. But then what changed? What exactly is going on in the PDP? We saw the Sakoto state governor saying that, you know, all is well, everything seems to be calm. And now we're seeing another issue emanating from a court in river states. Can you paint us a picture of what's happening? Thank you for having me. It's my pleasure to be with you always. I don't know why we're making a storm out of nothing. As far as I'm concerned, historically, these issues always come up whenever we are putting a national convention. And that goes for all the major political parties, not just PDP. And if you look even globally, these issues happen. Even when the Americans are preparing for elections, they are usually crisis surrounding, candidature control of the party and all that. So it's a democratic process, as far as I'm concerned. Now, having said that, I'm not saying that it's the best we can have, we can do better. But having said that, I also believe that having this earlier in the day as we have now and resolving is better for us than postponing it to when we are closer to the elections. And I believe ultimately, this will be held in for our democracy. The contentions about who is acting and who claims to be acting. I mean, I didn't come with the condition of a party to be clear, but I'm aware and it's enshrined in the constitution that wherever, whenever there is a vacancy for the chairmanship position, is the deputy chairman from the chairman's zone that acts on his behalf or steps in on behalf of the chairman. So that one is incontrovertible. So I don't even know where the issue should have been contentious. So for me, I think this might be the last palms of struggle towards the reactivation of PDP for lack of maybe a better word to say. I think that we are on course, and I know that once we go through the proposed next meeting, we will be on course to set up a new national executive that will guide the party towards 2023. And I think that is what all this issue is about. Mr. Wanusike, this court order is emanating from your state. And I think we've had a conversation before where I asked if this is the hand of Issa, because your governor has had twice, if I'm not mistaken, asked that Mr. Secondus step down. He seemed to have interest in the fact that Mr. Secondus is still sitting on that seat. Does he want to be the party chairman? Does he have a candidate he wants to take over from Secondus? I mean, because even Mr. Uche Secondus has come out to say that Governor Wike is after him. Well, first of all, thank you for the opportunity of being part of the program. Like my brother just said, I think Nigerians are happy that PDP is putting their house together. We are ready to let the Moos go back to where they belong to, the Moos that have been holding us down, the Moos who have been seeing the misrule that has been handed over to Nigerians by the current government or President Muhammad Wadi and the APC. Please turn off all your TV sets.  We cannot afford to have that whole back sound. So if your TV is on, please turn the volume down to its minimum. We do not want to have that whole back because it's distorting the sound that's coming from you. Mr. Wanaseke, you can go ahead. Well, so like I was saying that, you know, before you have a beautiful sword, the method needs to go to the furnace of fire. And during that period, if they tell you to appreciate that sword, you won't appreciate that sword. The People's Democratic Party is the only political party that have the structures in the 774 local government to have in Nigeria to be able to wrestle power from the misruling APC government today in Nigeria. Everybody including you that's conducting this interview agrees that even Mr. President himself has agreed that he has failed. That's why he told his services chiefs when he met with them a few days ago that please help me. Let me not leave power as a failure.  It's not interesting. But he's a critical stakeholder in PDP and he understands that the future and the lives of the rivers people and the lives of Nigerians depends on what the PDP will offer. Because you cannot govern political parties that will have an election in 2023, probably in January if it's not shifted. And you're saying that people should start forming and building new political parties. That means you're allowing the APC to perpetuate themselves in office at that 2023. So we agree that the governor is behind that court order. So you agree on national TV that Governor Zemoyosovike is behind the court order? I never said so. You said that you asked me if Governor Zemoyosovike wants to be national chairman. And I'm trying to answer you so you cannot push words into my mouth.  Good. That the court order emanated from River State. Governor Zemoyosovike is not a judiciary staff. He's the head of executive. And so rivers people have the right to approach courts to ask for whatever. Even non-rivers people. Somebody from Abuja can come to River State to suit an action. Somebody from America can come to River State to suit an action. So it has nothing to do with Governor Zemoyosovike. If you've seen the order of court, you do not see Governor Zemoyosovike's name in the order of court. So I don't think you'll be fair calling Governor Zemoyosovike's name. But I understand you and I know the platform I'm speaking from. So I can give it to you that the worry you have about your platform and the ruling APC is Governor Zemoyosovike and a few PDP leaders who want to stand their ground and they will not be cowed like the other people who have voted out of PDP to go to where they believe that they will have soccer. For us, we want a stronger PDP. We don't want a PDP that will see all the shenanigans and all the mischief happening in this nation and they keep quiet. Imagine what happened in NDA. In Defense Academy a few hours ago, it's an embarrassment to this nation. So we want this embarrassment to stop. We are not in ridicule. We are not in ridicule to the entire world. The giant of Africa is now a dead giant. So we need to wake up and say people and hold our future. We will not run like half-gantt from the Taliban. We will stand as a people, get a political party that will raise support from the APC, call 2021. Everybody in our party agrees. All Governors, DOT members, all members of NEG have agreed in the previous meeting that we should second this, that don't have the capacity to provide that leadership. And Governor Zemoyosovike is too much a critical stakeholder to keep quiet. All right. All right. All right. Because it is going to be some mistakes. All right. All right. I want to emphasize again why our party is dead. I want to emphasize again, please turn off all your TV sets because we're having a feedback that we do not want to have right now because it's affecting the conversation. If there's a TV that's on around you, please turn it off so that we can have a smooth conversation. But I'm coming back to you, Ms. Deike. He's talking about a formidable party, a party that would be able to stand against the ruling party come 2023. But how does a party become formidable if its house is not in order with all that's happening? Because I mean, I remember when Governor Tambua was addressing the press, he said that the chairman will stay until they had the party convention. And then of course, things would change. But it's yet to be party convention. And here we are again, having this conversation. And you said that we're making a mountain out of a molehill. But of course, if the PDP wants to be the party that can take out the APC, we can't be having its dirty linens washed in public, can we? No, I agree with you entirely that we probably need to have our house in order. But having our house in order doesn't mean there wouldn't be contestations for power. There have to be contestations for power as there is currently going on. Secondly, I want you to understand that the party is not at the national secretariat. The party is a national party. PDP is a national party, like the chairman just said, with structures across the entire 774 Google governments of Nigeria, and strong structures in the subnational governments in the 36 states and the federal capital territory. Now, that is where the foundation of the party lies. It is not at the national secretariat. Before I say that, at the subnational levels, PDP has a lot of Congresses in the 9th or 7th or so, if my memory is correct. Now, having said that, you realize that there is hardly any crisis in all those 29 states. So the crisis, if you call it that, at the national level about changing the structure, the leadership by the national level, as far as I'm concerned, is a storm in a tick up. Once we get through that, as we're about to go in place, our structures remain formidable in the words in the Google governments and in the states. So for me, I think PDP has done an opposition party has done much better than any other opposition party has done throughout the 21 or so years of this democracy, apart from the short intervention formation and one election in 2016. I can see the mess. It sounds to me like a lizard situation where it falls from high up there and then not to itself or gives itself a power in the back that I've done well. I don't know if Nigerians feel the same way when it comes to saying that you played the right kind of opposition. How well has the PDP matched up to the opposition? I mean, putting it side by side, when the APC was your position and the tables were turned, can you really say you've done a great job? Yeah, we will test that at the elections coming up. Like I said before, the APC was not up to a year when it won elections. And of course, because PDP had been in government before. We're having connection issues with you, Mr. Ekheim. So I'm just going to put a plug on your response. They will come back to you. Hopefully that the internet will be friendlier. But let me come back to you, Mr. Wanoseeke. Now we see two people contesting for that seat, even though Mr. Ekheim has said that the party constitution clearly states that when the party chairman steps down, automatically somebody from his zone, a deputy from his zone, is supposed to take that place. But I mean, looking at what it is now, it spells confusion all over because if you have a manifest or rather a constitution and you're not sticking to it, I'm wondering what else is the PDP not sticking to? That's not an issue to us. What we're interested in is the next meeting that has been called for on Friday. The neck is the superior body, the final arbiter of our party. When the neck meets on Friday, you'll be happy that the people's democratic party will come out flying again. You see, for us, we don't want you to lose sleep over what is happening, like my colleague said. Contestation of power is a normal thing that happens. It happened in the APC. Don't forget before they do election. And so it depends on how you manage yours.   Don't worry yourself, my sister. On Friday, the neck of the people's democratic party will meet and the decision that will gladden your heart has energy. I know even you, you are praying that the good days of the people's democratic party will return when you have the dividends of democracy that you appreciate. And even as you're there, you're not comfortable because you're not sure if Bandit will not invade your studio. If Bandit will invade MDA, the seat of where all our military minds are being groomed and kidnapped cadets and even the military will pay ransom. You know, it's shocking. Let's go to China's television this morning. I asked myself, come, what is really happening? Is this Afghanistan? So, but Nigerians have agreed that APC leaders have issued statements that, in fact, today on national television, an APC chief has called on the national assembly to institute an impeachment proceeding on the president. So for us, we don't want to bore ourselves. The job has half done by our opponents. They've made it easy for us to win the election country in 2023. And that's why they are scared of signing the electoral act to address that amendment to say that results, election results should be transmitted from the police unit to INX servers. They know what will happen. They know that if you be asleep all over the 774 Nukagomechi in Nigeria, we don't want to worry about ourselves. PDP, after Friday, will come out strongly. I can assure you that. Don't bother yourselves. Finally, Mr. Ikim, I hope that your connection is great now. What direction is the PDP going? Because Nigerians are watching and I'm sure that, like you said, I think we lost the connection with Mr. Ikim, unfortunately. So, Mr. Wanosike, the last question goes to you before we wrap this up. What direction is the party going in? Because Mr. Ikim said that it's a national party and you also said that the party is a national party. But from the look of things, it looks like the PDP is gradually becoming a regional party of sorts because look at where the governors of the states are and it seems like the opposition has shrunk the reach of the PDP, even though the PDP would keep telling you that they have more, you know, spread in the country than the APC. What is the PDP doing about that? First of all, you have even said it yourself. Do we need governance in all the states to win elections? Did the APC have even one state when they won elections in 2015? So that argument does not follow. The reason the matter is that Nigerians are fed up. But it's even more so than the voters in Nigeria. We are telling you that as we speak today, that there are 40 million Nigerians who are voting A2 have not voted yet. You heard the presiding pastor called Tunde Bakare, he said Nigerians that have not voting would have not voted before in previous elections. We voted this election in 2023 because this election, our life depends on it. This election will not tolerate the issue of ministry, in caution, will not tolerate the issue of police in caution. This election will take the way that it happened in Zambia. You saw the people of Zambia rise to say enough is enough. We need to take our nation, we need to take our destiny by our hand. And we are calling our brothers in diaspora. The time to return is now. Let's take our country, rebuild it. All our leaders have done their best. Those who have failed have failed. The ministers who have failed have failed with me. They don't have anything to offer anymore. There is no more time. We are saying GDP will win all the 36 states, mark my word. GDP will win all 36 states in this nation. I bet anything for it. I can tell you. All right. Well, the voters will decide. Thank you very much. Mr. Wanusike is the local government chairman for a query in river stage. And unfortunately, we've had a little connection problem with the former national publicity secretary for the people's democratic party, Mr. Wanusike. Thank you gentlemen for being part of the conversation. We have to go now. Thank you for having me. All right. Well, we'll take a short break and when we return, I will be giving you my take. Here's my take. Now, it is very disheartening. It's pretty scary that a military institution in this country, such as the defense academy with the mandate to train officers and cadets for commissioning into the three services of the armed forces was attacked by so and a soldier was killed. When will the Nigerian government led by Mr. President Mohammed Buhari and his governors understand that security of lives and property of Nigerians need to be top most on their list? And not the 23, 2023 elections because that seems to be the focus of all our politicians and the security of our people seems to have taken a back burner. So when will the governor, when will the president stop treating the issue of banditry with kids' gloves? Here's a reminder, Mr. President. You promised us in 2015 that you would give us improved security. This is nothing close to it. The time is up. No more playing games. It's time to get to work before this blows out of proportion. Fix Nigeria and fix it now. I am Mary Ann O'Call. Thank you for watching.


Well, hey there, it's Sandy Allnock. And today I am going to be unboxing some art supplies from Altenew. First is their watercolor pencils. These are woodless watercolor pencils, a set of 24. And I am going to be coloring this image this weekend on the 11th as part of their anniversary celebration blog hop. So you'll want to subscribe to Ellen Hudson's channel or watch my social media because I'll link over to that when it goes live. And you'll get to see how that gets done. But I thought I'd do the swatching over here. So you guys could see what all the colors are, and I can talk about them a little bit. The woodless watercolor pencil means there's no wood in there. So you're not buying a stick of wood with a piece of lead in the middle. You're buying the whole stick of color, which means you're going to get a lot more color out of these long term. And that's always a good thing. These are also colors that are very bright. I kind of think of them as as kind of sweet store kind of colors, you know, like candy. They're not my colors. They're not my kinds of colors. I like neutrals a lot. I know a lot of you don't and it drives you bananas. But a lot of you love these these kind of really super sweet kinds of colors. Totally fine. Really big benefit of that is that I am giving them away because these are not colors that I will necessarily use a lot.  And I will tuck in the mojo when I send them to you, but I'm going to give away the woodless watercolor pencils as well as the watercolors that are coming up in the other half of this video to two lucky winners. And you will get the swatch sheets along with them. And my swatch sheets are always a mess.  I don't worry if I get a little tiny bit of bleeding here and there because this is really just to give me the overall sense of color. These pencils, since they're all color, are very dark compared to what color you actually get on paper. So it is helpful in this particular instance to have a swatch sheet to go from because then you know what color you're getting when you use it. When I first laid out all the pencils to try to get them in the order that I wanted them on my little swatch sheet, I kept putting that really dark blue in the second row down with the black. I thought it was like a gray color and it wasn't, but it looks like it. It's a really, really dark color. So it's helpful to be able to see all these and see what kinds of colors you get out of them. You can also tell that they melt out really nicely out of all the watercolor pencils that I have. These are probably in the top group for melting out and turning fully into watercolor and not leaving residue behind. There are some like ink tents where you have to work really hard sometimes to get it to break down. You don't have to do that with these. I'm just going through this really quickly. It is sped up, but I'm going through it quickly and they're just working. They're just melting out and and having a good time. So there is the swatch sheet and that's over on my blog. If you wanted to download and print that or anything or save it in your Pinterest and whoever gets the set of pencils is going to get that swatch sheet as well. I will even sign it for you. How about that? This is the watercolor set and I've seen a lot of people using them and I thought, oh, they'd be interesting. But I knew that I wouldn't really be using them a lot. So I hadn't bought them and was tickled when they did send them to me for the blog hop so that I could get to play with them a little bit and see what they're all about. And they do come in these little half pans that have labels on them. Yes, that's a sticky label on top. It goes down both sides. And you could peel it off or what I did was just cut a hole in it. Just chopped it out. So whoever wins this can sit and peel all the labels off the side if you want. But there you go. The label that I put in the top, the little swatch sheet. I just cut a piece of watercolor paper so it would fit. Always use whatever watercolor paper you normally paint on. So this is actual arches watercolor paper. And I put a black line there so I could tell whether or not these colors were opaque or not. If they're opaque, then you'll see some dulling where that black is. And you can tell whether or not they're going to cover up your stamp lines. And it doesn't matter a whole lot, except your stamp lines may look a little grayed out. They don't look as sharp when they've got one of these kind of chalky paints over top, something that's got opacity to it. When I say chalky, if you've used the Gansai Tambi or even the Koi watercolors are even more chalky. That's the kind of thing that I mean that these have. They don't have the full transparency of the Daniel Smith colors that I use. And as you can tell, they're also these like super sweet candy store types of colors, not my color set at all. So I don't mind parting with these, even though they were fun to play with. They're not my look. And for lots of people, this is exactly what you're looking for. For your cards, you want all those rainbows totally perfect for you. So you can enter over on my blog to win these. And they're going to be fun to play with. That is for certain. So I'm just going to continue to swatch these out. There is that one green there that I'm painting right now that I kind of liked. That's my kind of color, something that feels very natural. And yeah, I'm I'm weird that way. I like the dull colors. I like the desaturated ones. These also have kind of funky names to them. They're very crafter type of names. They're not like like art paint kind of names. They're not artists colors. There is a lapis lazuli in here that looks nothing like lapis lazuli. But, you know, they're named for crafters. They're not named for fine artists. So I'm going to give them lots of grace on that. So there are the finished colors. And what I end up doing with them is writing all the names on them. I did a very bad job on this. So whoever gets this, I apologize because my pen just seemed to be really fat this day. But I've also had my hand injury and my hand was not doing all that well after all of this work that I've been doing. So yeah, you get the funky little cheat sheet for your palette. But what I do is put a piece of packing tape over it, fold the ends over the back side of it, put some double stick tape on it. So it will stick into the lid and then it stays in place and it's plastic. So it's not going to ruin it, you know, you'll you'll keep your colors. You don't really need it for this set, though, because the paints, unlike art paints, these actually look like the colors that they are. So they're going to not really need the swatch sheet there. So you could take that out and just use it for mixing wells for paint colors. So be sure to hop over to Ellen's channel and hit the subscribe button so that you can be notified when my video goes live on the 11th. And then you can also go over to my blog and enter for the giveaway of the pencils and or watercolors. Make sure you leave in that comment a note as to whether or not you want one or the other or whether you're OK with whatever you get, because I don't want to send you one if you already have it. I want to send it to somebody who hasn't got one yet. All right, I will see you guys again soon. You know me, I will be back here with more creativity in the very near future like next week. Take care and have a great weekend. Bye bye.


The governor's race is coming to Baxter tomorrow as the Brainerd Lakes Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce hosts a candidate forum. The forum will feature these six candidates vying for the Republican nomination for governor in 2018. State Representative Matt Dean, former Minnesota GOP chair Keith Downey, Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson, Minnesota State Senator David Osmek, and Woodbury Mayor Mary Giuliani Stevens as well as Philip Parrish. It's very exciting to be at ground zero of the 2018 governor's race and to have the Republican candidates choose the Brainerd Lakes area because they see this as an important part of the state to get to know them and for us to get to know them it's just great to have them here. The Brainerd Lakes Chamber has reached out to the DFL party about a possible candidates forum but nothing has been scheduled as of yet. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Ooh, okay, so I just went through my files on my camera and I saw that I filmed a video last night thinking about my luvars and I thought I'd give a proper intro.  Hi, hello, my name is Lydia and I'm into health videos here on YouTube. Today's video is me talking about my use of benzodiazepam. Mainly luvarsopam. I've made various other videos talking about all the different medications that I've been on and take currently and just to throw this in so people can't. I'm not a professional, all my medication is moderated by trained professionals, my mental health team, my GP, and you know if you don't take stuff that you're not supposed to. Take what you doctor prescribed, you doctor knows more than me. Um, I just talk about my experience and share my life. I'm not saying therapy doesn't work, I'm not saying not to try therapy. I'm just simply sharing my experience and just because I use medication doesn't mean you should but it's also something that you could maybe use as a tool to, you know, open a conversation with a doctor. Like I said, I'm not a professional, I'm just sharing my experience with you guys and yes, I am pro-medication. I'm also pro-therapy, therapy to me don't really mix great so I don't do it. So I'm managing all my meds, that's fine. Okay for anyone to do whatever works for you works and that's just the important message that I forgot to put in last night because I was very, I want to say hyperactive but I wasn't really hyperactive, I was really tired but I was also just talking lip and life so apologies but enjoy. Best intro ever. Also keeping all this on my face. I got attacked in hospital, you know, like what are you gonna do? I can't really, like I could try, I could talk like that but it's a bit annoying and I'm not going to. Enjoy the video guys. What's going on in your lot? Welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, hi, hello, my name's Lydia and I haven't been to half videos here on YouTube pretty much every day. I realized that I've done a few medication videos and I haven't actually talked about one of the main medications that helped me get through a day. I haven't got a video on my channel talking about that and I was like how haven't I filmed a video already and also why haven't I filmed that already? Now I've got a video on my channel about diazepam, I've got a video about planazepam, I've not got a video talking about lorazepam and lorazepam is something that I take every day. I rely on it to get through a day. I take it four times a day, so I'm on one milligram, four set of points in a day and it works very well for minimising how I take it a day and also my anxiety is manageable on it. I do also take planazepam in combination with this and that does work for me and I know there are going to be some people commenting on this saying you can't be on benders long term, they only give you a few days' worth. Now I get a week's worth of medication at a time. I've got 28 lorazepam tablets. Is this what I need four times a day? You know that's just how medication works for me. Planazepam, I take 0.5 milligrams at once a day and so with lorazepam, I have got the information leaflet. I actually got this one as an inpatient because I asked, I've never actually read like the information leaflet that goes with lorazepam so like you're a read and just talk with you guys about it. This is a very real thing that's, but people are very anti-benzerized and I do understand it.  I understand why people are against the use of benzo and I understand why people don't think they should be prescribed. However, people also need to know that these medications do work and they do help and they do affect people in different ways. Some people can take them long term and they work. Others can't. Person to person. This channel is about me sharing my experience. So lorazepam, also called ativan, is a benzer that has to be, is mainly used to help treat symptoms of anxiety. I find lorazepam extremely, and that is because I have very, very, very intense anxiety and I do get very paranoid. What comes to my paranoia is often I get agitated by things and, you know, I need something to calm me down and benzeraspenes are remarkable because of that. That's literally what they're used for in hospitals. When people are like, oh my god, I got injected, that's what people are injected with. They get injected with benzeraspenes, usually lorazepam, because it calms people down quickly. A few reasons, really, I know it's used in any, as a way of stopping seizures. Like, these are a very powerful group of medications. Obviously, I don't take it for seizures, I take it, you know, agitation, anxiety, that kind of thing, and that's okay. Loads of people do. Like, it's not something I'm afraid to talk about. Like, you guys know that I'm very pro-medication. Well, I am pro-medication, I think, especially for me. I'm someone who doesn't respond well to therapy. I'm someone who doesn't feel ready for therapy. Someone who, if I can take a tablet and have no anxiety for the day, I'll take that up. Yes, it's a quick fix, and no, it doesn't fix the root cause. I've never said medication well, and, you know, we all wish medication could do that, but it can't. But what medication can do is it can relieve the symptoms and make life liveable, and that is literally what I'm about.  No way down. My medication is monitored by my GP and now mental health team. I was prescribed these medications while in hospital, by a psychiatrist who is very anti-benzo-resbian, and there's a whole other story about that, but don't get into that right now. The consultant on that war that I was in was very anti-benzo-resbian, and I'm quite the opposite, and I'm prescribed the opposite. Like, I used to take three benzos, and I stopped taking theirs upon the earlier this year because the effects that it had became a lot less, and it just, it didn't work well for me, it didn't work great. There was some side effects with it that I just couldn't deal with, and it stopped numbing me out. So when I say numbed out, I mean, it stopped me a few. I'm medication on that, the LaVaz-Pan, Macamaz-Pan. In combination, it numbs out the crisis level of my emotions. It makes my emotions very predictable. You know what you're going to get.  Like, what did the table do to me? You know, nothing. And then they kept going, and normally I'd never lash out at anyone, I'm not a violent person.  The mental illness aren't violent, not on the whole.   Because I'm very good at, like, I can identify it, I know it, and when I experience it, I take a tablet, and gone. I didn't feel it on a very intense level. That's a bad thing, that's, I think, a well-BPD that we all forget. We feel emotions very intensely, so when I was dealing with agitation, and I wasn't on the medication, it just got worse and worse and worse, and I lashed out, and, you know, that's why I take medication to prevent that.  I will take it for as long as it works. I don't care that that leads to addiction, I don't care whether... I don't care about the side effects. I'd rather have the side effects for medication than be aggressive. Like, I would hate to be that person that's always aggressive. I couldn't do that, I would hate myself so much.    I'm not really that scary, I'm 5'2", and I'm not very big. And I find that the medication does work extremely well for me, and I do know with those that it does not work well for, and I know that people, again, are very cautious to benzodiazepines, and don't really want to take them, but when you've tried other medications, like I've tried beta blockers, they send me fucking paranoid. I was on one while I was in hospital, and I was on one briefly before I went into hospital, and my paranoia got that bad that I managed to order pepper spray, and I climbed inside that cupboard onto the shelf that's in my cupboard, and I was just a very reassided paranoia. And that is why I can't take certain medications, that's why I do take benzodiazepines rather than say beta blockers, because benzos work better for me. I'm not saying they're the only option, I'm not saying medications are the only option, I'm just saying it's what works for me. I literally don't want to get hated on, I'm like, I try so hard not to get hated on, but I still get hated on, and it's annoying. It's not actually that many side effects that are listed on this, side effects, what happened, and what to do about it. It's a side effect, very common, sleepiness, dizziness, and yeah, then we go to uncommon, so 1 in 100 people might get these, aggression, headache, confusion, amnesia, rare but important paradox or reactions, which is rage, anger, hallucinations, and basically the opposite effect.  I just would, and people are gonna be like, oh my god you're not taking the stairs again, I am, I just take all these medications for a while now, and they work. It's not like I'm on like the highest dose or anything, like, I think of lorazepam, you can get given 2.5 milligrams tablets, I think, didn't point me on that. I take one milligrams tablet, four times a day, that's literally what's right on that. 28 lorazepam, one milligram tablets, take four, take max four daily, warning, this medicine may make you feel sleepy. It doesn't actually, this lorazepam does not make you feel sleepy, it just mellows out my anxiety, and all these intense motions, and it makes me bubbly and happy, and the tablet has the power to do that, and it works, why would I not take it? Tell me that. Like, people are like, smoke cannabis instead. I never smoke cannabis, probably never will. I'd much rather stick to my prescribed medication, which is lorazepam.   I don't even know what I'm doing right now, I'm so tired. I'm like, oh, how do my sleeping tablets?  No, no, I don't even upload this. Do you know how many videos I have that I never upload? It's actually unbelievable, but anyway, I should start recording and lie down, I could sleep, didn't lie down, you know. Night night, Lydia. Hopefully this is quite enough to prepare her in the morning, I'm still pissed off about that. Not the person who did it, just the fact that it's my face. Like, if it was there, if it was like hideable, I wouldn't care. Honestly, I just wouldn't, but because it's there, and I have no choice but to see it, and feel the pain of it on my face. Trust me, I have my hot water bottle.  Oh my god, what is my life? I have a hot water bottle, but I don't have a go-over, so I wrapped up it in the scarf things I have. If you imagine it, oh, there's a police helicopter outside, and I feel more just full stop. No, when I feel less, like I'm about to keel over and fall asleep, I just snorted like a pig. Isn't life wonderful? Don't let me drown. Don't let me drown.