Is it the responsibility of the military alone? Is it the responsibility of everybody to keep a lot and find safety when necessary? But we shouldn't be cowards.  In our younger days, we stand to fight any aggression coming to us. I don't know why people are running away from manu, manu, manu, things like that. They should stand and let these people know that even the villagers, they have the competence and capability to defend themselves. But our own duty is to ensure no Nigerian is hurt and we are capable of protecting the integrity of this nation. And we will continue to do it. Well, that was the defence minister months ago. But now, the Pan-European Social Political Organization, Afhenifera, has hurt Nigerians to defend themselves against bandit, warning that Nigeria is fast moving into the precipice. Afhenifera also expressed worry over the worsening security situation in the country, noting that it is threatening the corporate existence of the country. Now joining us to discuss this is head of research at the Act for Positive Transformation Initiative, Kalawalik Johnson. It's good to have you join us, Mr Johnson. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. It's interesting that we're beginning to hear this more from leaders and not just normal leaders of thought, our political leaders. A few weeks ago, the governor of Katsina State had also come up to say that the people in his state should resort to self-help. And months earlier we had the defence minister also saying we should not be cowards that we can actually defend ourselves against this bandit. And here we are today, the Afhenifera is also calling on Nigerians to resort to self-help. What does this really mean if everybody seems to be saying the same thing? Are we really failing to win the war against terrorism in Nigeria? It'll be wrong to say that we are failed, but perhaps we can rightly put it that we are failing. Until you have the final closure in defeat, you may not be able to say that we are failed. However, with the pointers, with the indicators, clearly shows that we are not winning the war, that we need to do more. We need to come up with strategies. We need to act decisively. Unfortunately, let me take you back history lane and to clearly let you know that we didn't get here by accident. We arrived at the status what we are now, at this precipice, simply because we didn't do the right thing at the right time. My job turns me into be able to extrapolate and look into some few years to come and be able to make some work out based on present circumstances and situations. Four years ago, 2016, I remember June 12, on a national program to mark the day I was among the panelists, and I clearly told Nigeria that within the next four years, we may be entering into some very dangerous umbrella of the country. We may be having situations that may consume the country if the country fails to act at that time. Now, you would understand the fact that when you do not decisively deal with issues, issues that are not dealt with decisively in good time would always go to crisis. And when you have crisis situations in your hands, you can have a full proof solution. Every solution on the table will have some consequences and some adverse effect. Now, you need the balls as a leader at such time to take hard decisions knowing well that leadership, providing leadership at critical times is not a popularity contest. It's a contest to do the right thing. Now, I remember those days in Lagos when Basula just became the government. He took some decisive steps and I remember that everybody publicly everywhere who was being booed, some were even coughing him, but go down memory lane. Two years into that administration, he started early acolyte, practically for my country. Now, what does that tell you? You can take the decisive decision at the right time, even if it is not popular. But later, the people will come to say that you took the decision for the large amul of the good of the largest majority. So, if I understand you, I'm sorry to... Let me land on this thought, please. Clearly you will see that this government failed to take the right decision at the right time. So, it is the inaction of the government that brought us to this point. And I thread for you two incenses. The first, when we started having paakia killers, and killing farmers unnecessarily destroying their produce, rather than having an action from the government, you can see a ton of support for these agas. Clearly the president keeps supporting them and he got to a point that the target had the same as clashes. How can you call that clashes?  That's not a class. That is terrorism. Now, again, we have these guys integrating into communities and running down communities, killing people, taking over some communities. You know what the government said? They call them bandits. Now, when they became notorious, taking over the highways, demanding ransom, each time they pick people, killing professors, killing people in their prime. We are the women. You will hear that the government will come out almost defending this action. Say, for example, in those days when the governor said that we need to reach the forest of elders that come to the misery so that those who are hiding, those criminals who are hiding among you to stop the credit that we can fish them out. You had an immediate release from the presidency, not just containing the governor, but defending these elders. Whereas when they kill, they don't come out to do that. However, have you seen that each time the government defend them, they grow mobiles and they become border? I don't know if the government really defends them, but I'll let you be the deciding person on that. But let's backpedal. I remember when this started and it was just pockets of violence. At the time, the Sultan of Sakoto, Alhaji Sa'ada Bubaka had said, and I called him, that these people who were engaging in this dastardly act, were not Nigerians. And there were questions that were posed as to why we would allow outsiders to come in and kill our people. That's that. We also know about the guns, the gun running around the Sahel region and how these things are coming towards the western part of Africa. We're seeing it happen even in the countries at the fringes of the Sahel. So you have already stated that if government had acted early enough, we would have been able to deal with the issue. But we're no longer there. We're here now. And where we are now seems to be worse than where we were before. So the question again is, is it still government's willingness to fight and put an end to this that is our situation right now? Or could it be that there's more to it? Now there are also people who think that we have overly politicized this issue and it's made it even more difficult for us to be able to pinpoint what the problem is and deal with it. What are your thoughts? My thoughts. Simple. See, everything rise and fall on leadership in a society. And this matters as simple. I've been opportunity to contribute to public discourse. Different for us. And I can stress back the days of warning even to take and tell you clearly is that the government has not gone enough and clearly the government is willing to win the war today. We can win the war. But listen to how, I mean to why we can win the war. Please permit this example. What exactly did we grant iPop for as a terrorist organization that we are filled to see the fact that Bandit are doing much more than that? However, the government cannot come out with the boss to lead all these guys. Yet Nigeria is the second most terrorized nation in the entire world. And guess who are those contributing to this indices that has made Nigeria the second most terrorized nation? The Bandit involved. Yet we can lead all them terrorists. Aside from that you have seeking government defending them and saying that no, they are Bandit. They are only doing business. That after all, they are not requesting to succeed from the nation. Now, such all transits will keep onboarding these guys. Perhaps in another time when we have the time, I will take you through some processes in PR that affect criminality in the society. I can take you through the operans conditionally learning by BF Skinner and the classical conditionally learning by Bandura. Because we do not have time, I'm going to push you just because my guys are saying we have to go. So with all of these things we are still talking about the problems. This solution that seems to may not be a solution. No, I am giving you a solution. Let the government go the boss to do the right thing. That's the solution. But while we wait we resort to self-help. How can we protect ourselves against people who are wielding AK-47 and some of them riding in numbers in 300s and more? How do we intend to do that if even the NDA had been raided by these same people? Is that really a great call especially coming from the Fennifera? Hello. Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. We cannot protect ourselves against criminal state. This is the job of the state. Now what exactly will be the job of the state? A lot of people provide their own amenities. They road in their estate. They provide electricity. They provide their water. Yes, they take taxes to the government. So what exactly will be the job of the government? The number one job of any government is the security of the life and properties of the people. Yes, you said the people should defend themselves. The folks and the ministers of defense themselves said this and he was practically cutting us cowards. That AK-47 will be running for some tough looking criminals with few AK-47. And the question I asked him then was simple. Can you go about in those places without having your escort without having the soldiers guiding you? No, he cannot. A lot of times many of them can even travel to their villages to where they come from. So clearly we cannot defend ourselves and I am also a bit disappointed in affinity. How can he be calling an engineer to defend himself? When the same person that you guys prepped up to defend you, to defend himself. When he was taking, what were they doing? Did they call me? Did they move immediately for the government to release those guys? Now what exactly did I do wrong? A lot of them they prepped him up, they pushed him to that neighborhood. Now thank God it was never unrecognized, supported that move. However when he was, I mean when the government moved against him, you were expecting groups like affinity to move and do the government immediately. But they never did. They are coming up now to say people should defend themselves. How would they defend themselves? To go by gun and also be charged for illegal. We have to go. Well Mr. Karawali Johnson, time is not on our side. He is the head of research at the Act for Positive Transformation Initiative and he's been speaking to us live from Abuja. Thank you very much for speaking with us. Thank you. All right. Thank you all for staying with us. We'll take a short quick break and bring you a report on what Nigerians or how they feel about credible elections. If they follow the electronic like the western world, I think you understand. I think we achieve a good election research. In Nigeria as a whole, all the elections we've been doing so far, people's votes don't count. That is nothing but the truth. People's votes don't count. But then if they can listen to the masses and at least carry the masses along and do what is good and do what is right, then everybody is good to go. Everything will work out fine. But whereby everybody goes in there for their selfish interest, then it doesn't make sense. Let's even get over this COVID first. After this COVID, we start thinking of, we are talking about survivor here. Yes, free unfair is all about transparency in the process. The procedures put in place by governments ensure that people's life are safeguarded while voting and that there is no cause for alarm in terms of chaos in irrespective ballot stations, whereby we've had so many cases of theft of ballot papers and all that. So all those things should be guarded against to ensure that the elections are free and fair. I don't know if it's possible to do the online voting, if it's safe to do the online voting. The ones that can come out of votes can come out. If you can do it virtually, then I think it's okay. Well, I guess security, like security level increase the, what's the name? The country security. If you increase the country security, then I guess at least during the election, things will be balanced at some point. I guess constitutional reform should be first, then online voting should be put in place. I think there should be transparency on everything. I think basically that's just all. With that, I think that's all. If there is transparency and the government should try to have the love of the people. For people to come out during election and also defend their votes. Because most times whenever you have rigging things, it's because a lot of people don't believe in the electoral system that believe rigging will always take place. Well, that's all we have for you tonight on the show. We'll see you tomorrow again on Plus Politics. I am Mary Anacorn. Have a good evening.


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Maybe if I lean out the window a little. Is that you, Mr. Gilder Sleeve? What? Hello. That's why we now find the Great Gilder Sleeve plowing home in a heavy snow with a light heart a little early. She wasn't peeking out this time. That's what I like about her. She's unpredictable. I thought I'd work around the yard a little before it gets dark birdie. Spring's just around the corner. Is that where it is? It's still there, right? Nothing like getting an early start. It might just trim the hedge between us and Miss Fairchild. You mean you're going to prune them icicles? Must be something out there that needs doing. Hey, what's that nice smell? It could be either one or two things. What's that birdie? Miss Adeline Fairchild's perfume or Creole Gumbel. Huh? She left you just a little while ago. She sure is nice. Brought over some Creole Gumbel she made and wants us to try. She did? Well, did she say anything birdie? Yes. She wanted to know how were we all. Nothing more? She kind of looked around the place and said I sure was a good housekeeper. Anything else? Well, she admired Miss Marjorie's picture in there on the radio and she said Leroy looked like a perfect little gentleman. Hasn't met Leroy, I see. Did she say anything about me? Yes, but she said she hoped you'd enjoyed the Gumbel. Well, might just try a little after Creole Gumbel or to taste mighty good on a cold day like this. Mmm, nice and thick. I'll just take a little. Chewfunk? What does it need, birdie? Probably a good cook. Something missing, all right. She said it was Creole Gumbel, our New Orleans. Tastes like leftovers from the Mardi Gras. What are we having for dinner? Your favorite dish, Mr. Gil, please. Pot roasts and brown potatoes, all a birdie. Oh, wonderful. Let's take some of our pot roast over to Miss Fairchild. We pay the Southern hospitality. I don't know. It's Yankee pot roast. We'll chance it, birdie. Yes, as soon as it's done, I'll put a slice on the tray and take it over. Well, you fix the tray. I shall take it over as soon as I run upstairs and freshen up a bit. Sweet Adelaide, my Adelaide. Now we got to sing and wait us. So am I. Here's the tray, Mr. Gil, please. How's that? Oh, fine. Better give me a little more of that roast, birdie. Prices are coming down. Okay. And a few more potatoes. You know how they load those southern tables. Okay. Oh, put some gravy in a bowl, too, birdie, for the potatoes. Okay. Yeah, let's see. What's for dessert? Beef dish, apple pie, Mr. Gil, please. Okay. Nobody bakes apple pie like you. Yeah. That ought to do it. You say this. Help me get this tray out, birdie. Pretty heavy. Hi, buddy. What's for dinner? Leroy, watch that door. Oh, hi, Al. What's going on? Are we moving? No, Leroy. Just a little something. I'm taking over to Miss Fairchild next door. Little something. Now, Leroy, I'm merely returning southern hospitality. Miss Fairchild brought over a bowl of gumbos after dinner. Oh, I see. Miss Fairchild brought over a bowl of gumbos after dinner. All that good stuff for a bowl of soup?  Leroy.  Okay, just feeling. Well, don't. But I'm going to start. You wait for dinner. Have I got everything, birdie? Wait, I didn't load on this pan of hot biscuit yet. Oh, I'll just stick it under my chin. Okay. Can you raise your bottom chin up a little more? There not. You got it? Yeah. How do I look? Just like the friendship train. That's me, Leroy. Hold open the door. Miss Fairchild, it's me, Mr. Gillisley. What cloth you cute little mine you. Just a little surprise. Thought you might like to sample our birdies cooking. I certainly would. I've never heard of anything so nice and thoughtful in my whole life. But I'm just letting you stay in there, bring it all in. You come too. Well, thank you. Of course, this won't compare with your Creole gumbo. It was, well, I never tasted anything like it. Really? Well, I'm mighty glad you enjoyed it. Just put the tray down here, Mr. Gillisley. All right. A little heavy. You shouldn't have done all this, Mr. Gillisley. You know the man I declare. Oh, it's nothing much. I knew you wouldn't feel like fixing dinner after making all that gumbo. Well, of course I don't have a cook yet. The gumbo was just a little trick. I picked up one time in New Orleans when I was there for Mardi Gras. Oh, then it was leftover. That's delicious, delicious. Oh, would you like me to get you another bowl, Mr. Gillisley? I've got gobs of it in the kitchen. No thanks. Kind of filling. Couldn't eat another bite. This roast looks wonderful. And there's enough for a whole family. It's too bad you can't join me. Well, if you insist. I'll force myself. Where's the ketchup? That was the simplest, crumptious dinner, Mr. Gillisley. You don't know what a treasure you have in Birdie. Oh, yes I do. Best cook in the country. But bringing the tray over was my little idea. Only a sweet man like you would have thought of that. Hmm. Mercy, Mr. Gillisley, if I've only been in town a week and here we are having dinner together at my house. Well, Cousin Leela's house, rather. I bet it'd make her jealous. What she doesn't know would hurt her way down in Savannah. Cousin Leela and I have always been rivals one way or another. She was always trying to take my bowls away from me without any success of my dad. Yeah, that's Leela. Once she even tried to get Birdie away from us. That didn't work either. Well, I can't say that I blame her for trying. Birdie's a Jew. You bet. But let's talk about you, Miss Fairchild. Uh, Adeline. Oh, me? Well, there's not much to talk about, Mr. Gillisley. I grew up so sheltered and all. Yes, you can tell that. Just about my entire life, history is recorded in that little old snapshot album there on the coffee table. Oh, well, mind if I take a peek? Go right ahead, but snapshots rarely do justice to a girl with delicate features. Oh, a picture of you on the beach. I'd recognize you anywhere. Who's this fellow buried in the sand behind you? Friend of yours? That's Jefferson Davis Calhoun. Huh? He was a wolf, Mr. Gillisley. He followed me all over the south. Hmm, sounds more like a bloodhound. And what a voice that man had. When he sang, I just completely evaporated. A good baritone could just turn me into a piece of putty. Oh, it does something to me, Mr. Gillisley, like honeysuckle on a summer night, like moonlight on the bow. Do you sing? Do I sing?  Oh, of course. What am I thinking about? Sing again. Well... Oh, come on now.  No, no, I just don't feel like it. Then why don't we let our dinner settle? Right with me. That's pretty. Huh? That's nice. You know the words. And while in slumberland, madame, I'm begging for your lips. Do I know the words? I haven't any right, madame, to do the things I do. Just when I hold you tight, madame, you vanish with a knife, madame.  Well, Miss Fairchild, wonder if she's turned to putty. Miss Fairchild. Oh, excuse me. I'm afraid I got lost for a moment, Mr. Gillisley. A penny for your thoughts. I was just thinking, wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cook like Birdie? Well, good night. Thanks for Birdie's dinner. Must be other things to talk about besides Birdie. Well, Gildy. Cooker. Up for stroll. Just walking off my dinner, judge.  Stop cackling, judge. The neighbors will think we keep a goat. As a matter of fact, Gildy, I just stopped by to play you game of checkers if you were out. I wasn't out. I just took some of Birdie's cooking over to Miss Fairchild. Come on in. Very few. Now, here's Miss Fairchild. All she could talk about tonight was Birdie. Probably she's more interested in Birdie than she is in you. I sort of gathered that. These southern women like great store buy good cooking, Gildy. You remember how Leela tried to hire Birdie away from you? Well, she'd better not try anything like that. I'd watch it, Gildy. If you lost Birdie, your home would absolutely fall to pieces. Yes, ma'am. Now, if you want my advice... That's Birdie on the telephone.  What's that? We'd better talk business tomorrow. Here's Miss Gildy. Good night. Want to tell you something? Birdie? And was that Miss Fairchild? Yes, the evening judge. Evening, Birdie? Good night. I got to go to bed. Got things to do tomorrow. But Birdie... You're right, Judge. That fair child woman is trying to break up my home. We'll be back with a great Gilder's sleeve in just a minute.  Only yesterday, he said... Boy, that parquet is absolutely positively my favorite spread for Brent. Those are strong words, Leroy. You must have a strong reason for liking parquet. Well, heck, it just plain tastes so good. And millions of families agree, parquet is delicious. After all, it's a craft product. You know what that means? Parquet? Right. Parquet margarine is made from only the choice products of American firms. And each delicious pound is enriched with 15,000 units of essential vitamin A. I never tasted them. Of course not, Leroy, but they're there. And they're necessary for a well-balanced diet. Nourishing parquet is the perfect topping for rolls, pancakes, muffins, and waffles, as well as bread. And I know Birdie uses it for seasoning and cooking. Of course she does. Thrifty women like appetizing parquet because it's economical. Why, it actually costs less today than it did a year ago.  Actually costs less. Millions of women know it's the better buy for both bread and budget. Millions of women serve parquet because it tastes so good. Try it, friends. Ask for parquet margarine. P-A-R-K-A. Why parquet made by craft? Well, to the great Gilder Sleeves dismay, his new neighbor has cast admiring eyes upon Birdie, giving our hero reason to suspect a dastardly blow is about to be struck where it'll hurt the most. Right in the stomach. And so the troubled man has spent a fitful night trying to sleep off his fears. And Birdie's pot roast dinner. And Miss Fairchild's pre-o gumbo. That's peculiar. He appears to be dreaming. That's what it means, Birdie. A good cook. But Birdie, don't you know that? Oh, Miss Fairchild. Didn't you see anything? Did you make some more pre-o gum- gumbo, I mean? Oh, no. Miss Martin, me like, watch out on that side. He's holding that way. I'll see you here. I don't have nightmares. Back to bed, all of you. I sleep sound as a log every night. Ah!  Nothing, Birdie. Nice to see you're still here. Nice at two o'clock in the morning. Already gets up at seven to fix breakfast. Don't get out of the kitchen till eight at night. Round out at two o'clock in the morning. Just cause it's night to be here. But Birdie won't be here. But Birdie, I had a nightmare. I had a nightmare. Now she's upset. But she will leave. Let's not be complaining, Leroy. Good morning. Good morning, Marjorie.  We're gonna have a little meeting. Oh? About Birdie. Seems she's a little upset this morning. Well, who wouldn't be? Well, we're all gonna be more kind to Birdie, starting this morning. I always have been kind to her. Pathetically watch. All right. What thanks do I get? A cold egg. I'm sure we can all help make living here more enjoyable for Birdie. So she'll never be tempted to leave us. Marjorie, you can start by helping her with the dishes after breakfast. After breakfast? I have to go to school. Well, the dinner dishes then. And why don't you look around for a good course in home economics? What? Sure. So you can really help Birdie. Besides, you'll want to know all about those things when you get married. Sewing, sweeping, cooking? Uncle Mort, isn't that viewpoint a little old-fashioned? Old-fashioned? What's so old-fashioned about cooking? It will be by the time she gets married. Leroy. Careful, young man. And you can start by cleaning up your room. There's something hanging on every door now. Hold on. Hey, piggy's out front. I gotta go. Leroy, excuse yourself. Okay, excuse me.  Oh, quick. And comb your hair for school. Okay. Not with your hand, Leroy. Found it. No wonder everybody has nerves around this place. Excuse me, too, wonky darling. And I'm sure Birdie will get over her huff. Well, let's hope so. Goodbye, wonky. Goodbye, my dear. Maybe Birdie has gotten over her huff. No, I guess not. I guess I'd better go cheer up.  Cheer. At least that'll keep her away from that fair child woman. Did you slide your sleeve? Birdie. Yes. And Birdie, I've just had a little talk with the family, and things are going to be different around here. Oh. My tree's going to help you with the dishes tonight. I'll get you out earlier in the evening. Starting tonight. Yes, ma'am. And I've spoken to Leroy about his room. Yes, ma'am. And Birdie, why don't you take the rest of the day off? That would be nice, Mr. Gilles, please. And I can go right over and help that nice, Miss Fairchild clean her house. What? We got a little business to talk over, too. She hasn't got any help, you know. Well, and she's so nice. Me and my big, fat, generous ideas. Can I have this, please? What can I do for you this fine morning? Well, you might sell me a good cook if you have one in stock. Okay. A cook? That's what I thought you said. Yeah, I'm afraid we're going to lose Birdie. Miss Fairchild is making a very obvious play for her. Oh? What would you do with a neighbor like that, Peevie? Well, I've heard of people getting married to share a place to live. You might work out an arrangement so you and Miss Fairchild could share the cook. No, Peevie. I don't want to get married. Of course that's up to you. Some people do. I can just see Adeline showing Birdie that fancy lavender room and baths she can have. Well, worse things can happen than losing your cook. It's all right for you to say, but I bet you couldn't get along without Mrs. Peevie. Oh, no, I wouldn't say that. I recall the time she went home to her mother, I had a fine time batching it. Batching it? Breakfast was always my favorite meal. The only one in fact. Bacon powder patties and eggs. And then the next morning, just for variety, sourdough patties and eggs. Just for variety, eh? When it came to making bacon powder patties and sourdough patties, that's peculiar. It don't sound so good, no? I think I may take a box of candy home to Mrs. Peevie tonight. Oh? Candy? That's it, Peevie. I'll take Birdie some candy. She has a sweet tooth. Well, how about this six-tonne box? It's not that sweet. Something around two and a half. Well, then may I suggest some of these chocolate-covered cherries? Got them in fresh for her Washington's birthday. Oh, not bad, Peevie. She's always admired Washington, father of our country. Or, see, if you have any Lincoln candy. No, but I think you have the germ of an idea there. A rat love, Peevie. I'll go foolin' Birdie. I'll tell her I have a surprise for her. That'll get her out of Adeline Fairchild's house. Nothing like a little kindness to make people happy. Party dress. What chances a man have with a box of candy? You take it now then. Hello? Never mind. Wrong number. Something wrong, Mr. Gillis, please? She's trying to outbid me, Peevie. Give me the big box. And they have the larger cherries. Anything else? No, thanks, Peevie. The next step is legal. There you are, Gillie. Five-year contract. You have the right to pick up Birdie's option. Yeah, that fair child woman can't lure my cook away. I'll show that southern siren. But how do you know Birdie will sign it? Don't you worry, judge. A six-dollar box of chocolate cherries says she will. What? Never mind. I'm in a hurry. She's not home yet. And I'll put the candy right here on the table. On top of the contract. Birdie's up. That's right. She isn't here. We wouldn't miss Birdie around here at that. Yes? Is Birdie here? Birdie? Well, not at the moment. Is the woman of the house here? I'm the woman of the man of the house. You are? Well, Birdie told me to report here for a job. A job? Can I take my bag in? No. And that was a little presumptuous of Birdie, I'd say. Well, she said to come here and talk to her about a job cooking. I'm sorry. Birdie's the only cook we've ever had and never will have. Sorry. Goodbye. Yes, but... What's going on, Miss Gillie? Birdie, where'd you come from? In the back way, me and this fair child. We saw you walking home, Mr. Gillie, to sleep. My, you know her, and then walk briskly. Well, I feel briskly. I want to talk to both of you. Well, Birdie and I want to talk to you too, but I think I should apologize a little first. There's no need to apologize. Just get this straight. Amelia, what you doing standing out there? I don't know, but I sure been standing. Well, pardon me. 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Hello everyone, I am Mrs. Sunita Dole. Topic covered here is Structured Query Language nested subquery. As considered in the previous video, a subquery is a query within another SQL query and embed within the where clause. Learning outcome At the end of the session, students will be able to write the query for given problem statement using exist, not exist, unique and not unique operator. A subquery is a select from where expression that is nested within another query. A subquery return data that will be used in the main query as a condition to further restrict the data to be retrieved. A common use of subqueries is to perform the test for set membership, set comparison, test for empty relation and test for absence of duplicate tuples. In the previous video, we considered set membership and set comparison, while in this video we are going to cover test for empty relations and test for the absence of duplicate tuples. Test for empty relation SQL includes the feature for testing whether a subquery has any tuple in its result, that is the exist operator is used to test for the existence of any record in a subquery. The result of the exist is a Boolean value true or false. The exist construct returns the value true if the argument subquery is non-empty. Exist R, this is equivalent to R is not equals to phi and not exist R, this is equivalent to R equals to phi. Syntax for test for the empty relation is select column name from table name where exist or not exist in brackets subquery that is select column name from table name where condition. Consider an example of test for empty relation, find all customers who have both an account and a loan at the bank. So, relation required are borrower and depositor as shown below. As we have to find all the customers who have both an account and a loan at the bank. So, for this example we require all the customer names which are common in both the relation. In relation borrower first tuple contains the customer name Adams, so we check the depositor relation for this name. Now this name is not there in the depositor relation, so now consider the second tuple from the borrower relation having the customer name Curry and we check the depositor relation for this name. This name Curry is not there in the depositor relation, so now we consider the third tuple from the relation borrower having customer name Hayes and we check the depositor relation for this name. Now this name is in both relation, so this name will be in the result. In this way we check both the relation and find all the customer names which are common in both relation. So the customer names shown in the blue box will be in the result which are common in both relation. Query for this example can be written as select customer name from borrower where exists. In brackets subquery select star from depositor where depositor dot customer name is equal to borrower dot customer name. Here the second example find all the customers who have a loan but not an account at the bank relation required borrower and depositor. As we have to find all the customers who have a loan but not an account at the bank, so we are going to consider those customer name that are in the relation borrower but not in the relation depositor. Such customer names are Adams, Curry and Williams. These names are not in the relation depositor, hence the result contain these three names that is Adams, Curry and Williams. So query using the operator not exists can be written as select customer name from borrower where not exists. In brackets subquery select star from depositor where depositor dot customer name is equal to borrower dot customer name. Till now we consider the topic that is test for empty relation using exist and not exist. Now pause this video and reflect on this question for a minute or two minute and write your response. Once you return the answer to these questions then you can restart playing this video. What is the output of the following query for the given relation depositor and the borrower? I hope all of you have completed this activity. The question is what is the output of the following query for the relations depositor and the borrower? And the query given for these two relation is select customer name from the borrower where exist. In brackets select star from depositor where depositor dot customer name is equal to borrower dot customer name. Here the SQL query indicate the name of customer having both loan as well as account at the bank since all customer names that are in the relation borrower are also there in the relation depositor. Hence the result contained four tuples that is Hayes, Jones and two tuples for Smith. Second query is select customer name from borrower where not exist. Select star from depositor where depositor dot customer name is equal to borrower dot customer name. This query indicate the name of customers having loan but not an account at the bank. All the customer names that are in the borrower relation are also in the relation depositor hence the result does not contain any customer name. Test for the absence of the duplicate tuples. The unique construct test whether a sub query has any duplicate tuples in its result. It returns a Boolean value indicating the presence or the absence of the duplicate tuple. Unique construct returns true only if the sub query has no duplicate tuples as it returns false. Syntax for the test for absence of duplicate tuples using unique operator is select table1 dot column name from table1 where unit or not unique in bracket select table2 dot column name from table2 where table1 dot column name is equal to table2 dot column name. Syntax for test for the absence of duplicate tuples without unique operator is select table1 dot column name from table1 where one less than equals to or one greater than in bracket select table2 dot column name from table2 where table1 dot column name equals to table2 dot column name. Consider an example for test for the absence of duplicate tuples. Find all the customers who have at most one account at the peri-rage branch. So the relations required are depositor and account. Common attribute between both the relation is account number. So this common attribute is used to combine these two relation while writing the query. After considering both the relations there is only one customer haze having only one account at the peri-rage branch. Hence the result contains only one customer name haze. Query using test for absence of duplicate tuples using unique is written as select t dot customer name from depositor as t where unique in bracket. The sub query is select r dot customer name from account comma depositor as r where t dot customer name equals to r dot customer name and r dot account number equals to account dot account number and account dot branch name is equal to peri-rage. And the query using one less than equals to for the same example is given below that is select t dot customer name from depositor as t where one is less than equals to in bracket sub query select r dot customer name from account comma depositor as r where t dot customer name is equal to r dot customer name and r dot account number is equal to account dot account number and account dot branch name is equal to peri-rage. Here simply we have to write less than equals to instead of the operator unique as in the query of the previous example. Now consider the second example using not exist find all the customers who have at least two account at the peri-rage branch. So obviously the relations required are account and the depositor. So the common attribute is account number after considering both the relation there is no customer who have at least two account at the peri-rage branch. Hence the result does not contain any customer name. So we can write the query for this example as select t dot customer name from depositor as t where not unique in bracket sub query select r dot customer name from account comma depositor as r where t dot customer name is equal to r dot customer name and r dot account number is equal to account dot account number and account dot branch name is equal to peri-rage. Till now we consider the topic test for the absence of duplicate tuples using the unique and not unique. Now pause this video and reflect on this question for a minute or two minute and write your response. Once you return the answer to this question then you can restart playing this video. The question is what is the output of the following query for the given relation instructor? I hope all of you have completed this activity. So the question is what is the output of the following query for the given relation instructor and the query is select i dot instructor underscore id comma i dot instructor underscore name from the instructor as i where unique in bracket the sub query select i n s t dot instructor underscore id from instructor as i n s t where i dot instructor underscore id is equal to i n s t dot instructor underscore id and i n s t dot year is equal to 2 0 1 9. Here the query indicate the name of all the instructor that taught at most one course in the year 2019. There are two such instructor Hays and Jones having the id 1 and 2. Instructor Smith also taught the course in 2019 but the Smith taught two courses hence this instructor name will not be there in the result. Hence the result contain these two instructor name Hays and Jones. These are some references. Thank you.


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You're talking about about 250 points away from all time highs, barely in the positive this morning. You have the Dow going to open right near record territory. We traded to a record yesterday in the Dow. We closed to the record yesterday in the Dow. The Dow $36,463. We're trading just about 30 points off that price level right now. You're positive by a 10%. We're also positive barely by less than one point right now. Bitcoin continuing to slide a bit, but getting a little bit of a pop from the lows we had overnight. Bitcoin down to $45,880. We're back to $47,380 flat on the session. Crude, $76,69. A little bit of volatility yesterday. How about that volatility? Up to $77, down to $75. We're catching a bit even in the last few minutes since I came on the air at 9 o'clock. Crude up above $0.50 on that bar that began just at 9 a.m. this morning to $76.70. We jumped to gold. Golds and volatility this week up to $18.21 yesterday down to $17.90. This morning back to $18.02. Your negative $3 technically on the session on gold. Silver is up $0.11 at $22.97 and we jumped to notes and bonds. We got that 10-year yield right now of 1.53%. 1.527 to be exact. So you're back above 1.5%. You see the action yesterday in terms of trading. It was quite a day yesterday. When you look at from early on Wednesday to where we ended up, you were trading at $130.23. Coming into Wednesday action, you trade down 20 ticks. That is quite a rise in the yield of the 10-year as a pretty low volatility day otherwise. And nonetheless, we're right back at 1.52. I think we came into yesterday 1.47, something like that. You jump over to the VIX volatility index. We had an 18-handle a couple of days ago. Tuesday to kick things off. We were sitting at around $17.50 yesterday. Today, we're sitting at $17 as we inch towards the final trading day of the year tomorrow. Our man Dave White, he sent out an update to his subscribers this morning. One of the things he put in there I thought was cool was NYSE Rule 7.2. So I was talking about prior that when January 1st falls on a Saturday, which it does this year, okay, so we get Friday is the 31st, January 1st, falling on a Saturday. The market actually gets no holiday. When it falls on a Sunday, we get Monday off. So on Saturdays, they kind of take a day from us here in the market as they usually get a holiday on any other day. Now, here's the exact reason why. The exchange will not be open for business on New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Good Friday Memorial Day, Juneteenth National Independence Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. We get a lot of holidays early on in the year, where we get Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Good Friday Memorial Day, and then things kind of stretch out towards the end of the year. But what happens is when a holiday observed by the exchange falls on a Saturday, the exchange will not be open for business on the preceding Friday. So normally, right, the first falls on a Saturday, any other day along that list, that holiday falls on a Saturday, you get the Friday off. And when any holiday falls on Sunday, you get the Monday off. So next year, January 1st is going to fall on a Sunday, we'll get the Monday off. That'll be a nice three-day weekend on the New Year's holiday. The exchange will be open for business on the succeeding Monday unless unusual business conditions exist, such as the ending of a monthly or yearly accounting period. So there's where it goes. Normally, a holiday falls on Saturday, we'll get off Friday. But because it is the end of a month or a year, the market is open Friday. And it does make sense. I always kind of thought maybe it's just because of the yearly, especially there's a lot of year on accounting. There's a lot of tax purposes, right? You sell that share one minute before the close on December 31st, much different according to taxes, as opposed to if you sell it in the first minute of trading on the 1st of 2022. Nonetheless, so we are open a full day tomorrow for New Year's Eve. And next year, we get a little bit of a break. Markets, no break indeed. As we are talking about potentially folks, the 71st, I think high of the year, 71st, almost one out of every three trading days for the entire calendar year, we've been setting records in the market. That is quite a statement in and of itself. Let's jump around to some of the fang stocks. We'll kick things off with the biggest of them all, Apple, Apple shares. You're going to open up about $0.20 this morning. You're up at $179.56. The elusive number of $3 trillion, $182 in change, $182.86, I believe they need for that number. You jump to Microsoft shares, Microsoft up a bit this morning as well, up about $0.40. We jump over to Google, Google, quite a banner year. You're talking about up almost 70%. $29.36 up about $6. We jump to Facebook shares. Facebook up a couple of bucks from $342 to $344. I've been talking a lot about them this week. Meta with the metaverse, the Oculus 2. It will be interesting to see how that race heats up between Facebook and Apple, as Apple launched their own VR headset early next year. Might be quite a different story, though, with Apple potentially pushing out a VR headset to the tune of thousands of dollars, as opposed to Facebook's meta pushing out Oculus Quest, excuse me, at like $400. Nonetheless, Facebook catching a little bit of an acceleration on Monday and Tuesday on some strong holiday sales, potentially, of their Oculus Rift 2. Given back some of those gains yesterday, this morning, you're up about $2 for Facebook shares. We jump over to the retail, Amazon, a little bit of a tough week for Amazon, volatility on all three days so far. I mean, look at Monday, right?   And Wednesday, man, right out of the gate, you trade lower. This morning, you're barely higher by about $2 on Amazon shares at $33.84. Let's jump to Walmart. Walmart shares, $142.71. Why not? I'll jump to this segue. I have a Walmart article up here. Check this one out. Check out this statistic. Walmart drew $1 in $4 spent on click and collect. That is an amazing amount of money. When you think about how we changed in terms of being able to 25.4% of click and collect orders in 2021, the largest share of any US retailer, I mean, that's pickup orders. Pickup orders were huge. Click and collect sales are expected to jump by about 21% to $101 billion in 2022. That translates when you're talking about Walmart's numbers this year, $20.4 billion in sales for click and collect orders in 2021. Now, here's what I'll say about this. I was talking to my dad about it recently. The way that they work on this process is going to be very important to their business. When I was thinking about ordering something from Target for a pickup order, actually in my head was not excited about that experience because they have not streamlined the ability for you to be able to pick up products in an expedited fashion. I've been there many times to pick it up and it was a total mess. We'll talk a little bit more about how they're going to maybe expedite that process. But Walmart, $1 in $4 spent on click and collect. Stay tuned folks. We'll be right back. Everything in the universe is governed by the Fibonacci sequence. This mathematical principle is responsible for everything from the most aesthetically pleasing artwork to patterns in the stock market. To stay on top of stock patterns you can take advantage of, sign up for the Fibonacci 24-7 newsletter at tfnn.com. When you subscribe, you'll get a weekly report from veteran day trader Larry Pesavento on stocks you need to pay attention to and you can trust Larry's analysis. 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That's six weeks ago now that we're at 194, so the market just ticking around at just under 200,000. Justed for volatility. Yeah, four-week moving average under 200,000 right now at 199. Continuing claims, that's a week behind. Dropped 140,000 to 1.72 million, lowest level since March 7th of 2020. There's your continuing claims line. The trend is your friend there has declining numbers, which is what you want to see on a continuing basis, getting people back to work. Okay, back to the Walmart story for a moment, talking about click and collect. So there's a couple of cool statistics here. I talked about that. Number one, they're looking for click and collect sales to be on the industry-wide, 101 billion in 2022. They're expected to grow by nearly 20% the following year to 120 billion. When you look at the size of retail e-commerce that click and collect represents in 2019, about 6% of online orders were click and collect. You fast forward to 2022 when you're talking about 10 or 11%, you see the numbers in terms of real dollars for click and collect. That's the total sales and share of retail e-commerce sales for items purchased online and picked up in stores, click and collect, also called buy online pickup in store. We're all familiar with it. For retailers, the option comes with a financial advantage. I mean, man, if these retailers could really perfect this, and sometimes it's, if they can perfect it, it's actually more convenient for many people in many times, as long as you can pull into that store, grab that item and be on your way. That's where you see the likes of companies like Chipotle, Building Special Delivery Lanes just for items purchased online. They understand that the appeal is of ultra importance that you got to be able to have that product picked up with ease. You're not going to order it online and pick it up in the store. If you have to walk into the store, sit in the customer service aisle and wait for three people and then wait for somebody to take your name, go get your package. This was my experience at Target. Target's usually a great company. It's the holiday season. It's what to expect, but you compare that with a company like Home Depot and Lowe's, and I'm sure there's horror stories of going to pick up packages during the holidays at those two companies, but what they do have, which you start to see the innovative ways that they're going to change things, is they have those locker systems, where you get a code, you go just to the store, there's a wall of lockers.  You don't have to deal with anybody. You show up, you do it. It's there. At Walmart, I know sometimes they have people that bring it right out to your car. You can schedule a pickup time by the hour if you're able to do that. It's very important for these companies to master that process, because I tell you, it was not a good experience going into Target doing it once. So what did it make me do? It made me not want to do it again when in realistically, if they just perfect that process, that's the quickest way for them to make some good margins, because that last mile of delivery is a tough one. Now you get into the actual retailers for the top, click and collect. These are order online, pick up in store retailers in the US, ordered by 2021 sales estimates for items ordered online and picked up in stores. You see the acceleration from Walmart here, and it would make sense. Pure numbers, Walmart is just a beast out there. Target with quite an acceleration as well. Best buy, I mean, look at the plateau though, because some of the other companies have a head like Home Depot actually going to see a decrease in 2021 versus 2020. Best buy going to see a decrease as well as they really accelerated during the pandemic. More people, I guess, comfortable with walking into a Best Buy, Home Depot, a Lowe's. When you're doing shopping at Walmart and Target, I think we're all becoming a little bit more comfortable with shop online, pick up in store. Macy's, quite an increase as well. Nordstrom, they should reset that Y-axis there to give us a little context of what these numbers actually are, but pretty marginal numbers nonetheless. They're a grocery store as well, but click and collect sales have nearly tripled over the past two years for Walmart. Now, I got to give just a little disclosure. We have some Walmart in my newsletter, Rocket Equities and Options. But anytime you're dealing with these types of raw numbers for a company like Walmart, I mean, one out of four dollars spent on order online, pick up in store, that's an area that Amazon is going to have a little bit of trouble competing in. I also have some Amazon and Retirement Account. Amazon is a great company, but the one area that they may struggle to compete in is they do not have the retail storefront experience that anybody else has in terms of picking up. Now, that may change. Amazon may have their whole foods, right? Amazon may be able to form partnerships that their items can be picked up at warehouses. Maybe it's just picked up at their own warehouse. Maybe they have a storefront at their warehouse that then turns it to an order online pick up at their warehouse. It's potential, but some of those others like Walmart and Target. Now, the one thing is, you check out just the pure, and I've talked about this before, the pure value of a company like Walmart is under $400 billion right now. When you think about the numbers that they're doing, the reach they have to the number of Americans, one out of four dollars for order online and pick up in the store was spent at Walmart alone. You're talking about a company valued at $395 billion. Yes, you always have risk in a company, no matter what the valuation is that you can trade lower because if it was too easy to trade higher, everybody would be buying it. But when you're at a level of $395 billion and you're talking about a company like Walmart that has the presence they do, that has the retail reach they do, for a longer-term investment, $395 billion, I see less risk in a company like that with that value getting destroyed. You tell me that Walmart's going to go down to two or $300 billion company. I don't see that happening, okay? Versus, you're talking about some of these companies for the growth companies, man, even a company like Amazon, all right? And Amazon's nowhere near $3 trillion like the company Apple is, but even a company like Amazon, when you're talking about a company valued at $1.7 trillion, yeah, you can shave $100 billion off that pretty quickly. You talk about a company like Apple. Apple only needs to trade down $6 to lose $100 billion. $6, right? You take a look at Apple. You put it on a daily. You have swings across the board just on December 20th. 10 days ago, Apple was trading at $167 billion. You're talking about $12. You're talking about $180 billion of market cap swings percentage-wise, not as big, but point being a company like Walmart, $395 billion.  Which is surprising sometimes, the valuation of a company like Target, where you're just barely over $100 billion of a company like Target, and you see the numbers target. They're pushing some big numbers here. You're talking about in 2021, just by click order online pickup in store. They're approaching $10 billion in sales alone in a market that's going to be growing in 23%. I think they talk about 20%. Yeah. It's going to grow 21% to $101 billion in 2022. 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Did we just get a high print? I think we just might have. We sure did. You got a pop on the open there, right coming into the open. $36,475. Dow opens at basically literally a record print on the futures right now. Russell, negative by one. Jumping over to the airlines. Man, they are dealing with some issues on the airlines. More cancellations. We got JetBlue down half a percent right now. How about cutting about 1,300 flights from December 30th to January 13th over the next two weeks expecting more sick calls? Airlines have canceled thousands of flights since Christmas Eve due to bad weather and a wave of COVID-19 among flight crews. The unfortunate part about this is no matter what we do with COVID, folks, if people are getting sick across the board, and yes, maybe this gets us to over the hump as in a state of some form of natural immunity as this thing rips through, basically the whole population is how it looks, is that when you look at it for the market, for the economy, there will be disruptions. Just like when there's a flu season, you know, you got the flu. I don't want people coming to the office with the flu, right? No, before COVID, if people were sick, and I had employees, TFN employees, they say, I'm not feeling well, but I can make it in. I'd say no way, man, I don't want the whole office to be sick, right?  You can't go to work sick no matter what. So the airlines dealing with some tough woes here. Now, asymptomatic cases get into a little bit of complex situation here as things evolve, but nonetheless, these airlines, they are dealing with some woes, and you got JetBlue trading down about half a percent. Let's jump over to Southwest. Not quite as bad. Southwest is flat. All the airlines, kind of really American catching a little bit of a bit after trading lower decently yesterday. Delta airlines, yeah, I was going to say probably similar. Delta getting a little bit of a pop after trading lower yesterday as well. Okay, what else we got pulled up here? Buybacks. Let's talk about this one. How about poise for a record year? These numbers, man, what happened to capital investment in corporations, folks? That's the real thing of all these companies. I mean, it's quite a nice world where you get to have the lobbyists these companies get to have. I mean, the amount of money that gets spent on lobbying by corporate America, and it's all spun in a fashion, right, that every dollar is created for capital investment, which grows jobs, et cetera, et cetera. Well, folks, coming up this year alone, you're talking about $850 billion, $850 billion buybacks for 2021. After cratering in the first half of 2020, during the pandemic, buybacks have increased six quarters in a row and are poised for a record breaking year. Total buyback volume for 2021 going to be a record and exceed the record of $806 billion in 2018. You look at some of the biggest buybacks out there, you got Apple, $20 billion, Meta, $15 billion, Google, $12 billion, Bank of America, the banks, they had to hold that capital for a period of time, then they got to release it, Bank of America, $10 billion, Oracle, $9 billion, almost $1 trillion in one year alone, just taken from corporate America and given to shareholders. They are the owners, folks, okay? But keep that in mind when you hear that every dollar is necessary to grow the company, they're taking almost a trillion dollars right out and basically giving it a dividend. A buyback is a dividend, it's the same exact thing, okay? It's a dividend in a different form. And then you're talking about almost a trillion dollars, which is perfect for corporate America, except when corporate America wants the handouts and except when corporate America says that every dollar that a company earns above their bottom line that we have right now is a company, is a dollar that gets invested, right? In the employees and growth and capital expenses, etc. It's just not how it plays out, folks. It's just not how it plays out recently on a quarterly basis. Some pretty stunning numbers there, $178 billion, $199 billion, $236 billion in the estimate for this quarter we're in right now, $238 billion, quite the number indeed. And do they benefit the investor? Yeah, they certainly do on most cases. Not sure they benefit the economy overall as much as well. All right, what else we got going on there? Taking a look at AI. It's always interesting wrapping up the end of the year. There's a bunch of cool articles that talk about things going on in the year. The AI-powered stock fund bails out of mega cap thank stocks. So this is an artificial intelligence guided fund that's been lagging the market. So right recently it's jettisoned.  So this is an AI-powered equity exchange traded fund and it's sold down its so-called fang position that's leaving just Apple in its top 20 holdings. Now this thing has underperformed the market, but it's going to be cool as we look at this. Because I imagine this is where part of the industry is at least going, right? Trying to have computers how to figure out the best way to potentially manage returns, beat the market, et cetera. So you have this AI system continuing to lighten up on its big tech exposure with none in its top 10 positions. Excuse me. That is the co-founder of a data track research. The only overlapping theme in their top 10 positions, all right, this is the AI system, is cybersecurity with the rest spanning everything from cloud computing, commercial real estate, medical devices, and the semiconductor industry. Let's see. So the shift in positioning suggests the AI fund's quote unquote manager, which is a quantitative model which runs 24 seven in IBM on IBM Corpse Watson platform. And yeah, it would mean that this AI fund that's running on Watson is not buying into the narrative that the tech giants can lead the market higher as they trade out of them. Chipmaker AMD and security solutions provider Palo Alto networks are the fund's top positions. But here's the key. So this was started with, excuse me, the quantitative model behind the $170 million fund assesses more than 6,000 publicly traded companies each day. It of course scraps everything you have out there, regulatory filings, new stories, management profiles. This can see a lot more than we could see in one human brain. And nonetheless, though, okay, it is underperforming. It was launched in October of 2017, delivered total returns total though, since 2017 of 66%. That would be staggering in any other world, except for the fact in our world, you got 102% since 2017 in the S&P 500 total return index. So underperforming, nonetheless, AI should be an ever evolving science that is always getting a little bit brighter.  I can't map it up my own brain. But once they get all the data in front of them, there should be a system where that computer picks up something going on of how good companies to get ahead of the run higher, et cetera. But it hasn't done it yet. It's been running for four years on that system on Watson. All right, jumping back to the market, we're in positive territory across the board. Why not? There's an all-time high print for you. Come on, we're going to stop at $47.99. Why not $4,800 in the S&Ps? You're talking about the Dow just blows away $36,500. Look at this market. Nothing getting in the way of this. Nasdaq is flat, and you got the Russell up 16 points, man. Bitcoin $47,000. Let's see, we got crude trading up to $77 right now. We got gold trading up as well to $1807, everything's trading higher, folks, even notes and bonds. A little bit of a pullback, actually, as we get a little bit of higher yield. We're talking about 1.454% now, 1.54% of the yield on the 10-year. And we jump over to the VIX, sitting right at a simple, even number of 17. We got record prints across the board, folks. S&Ps, right? Is that a record print? It sure is. Record print, $47.99. S&Ps, Dow's. Can the Nasdaq get here? We got about 260 points for that one. Stay tuned, folks, and be right back. 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We have market giving back some of those gains right now, a little bit of volatility to kick things off, right? Checking out the Nasdaq 100 on a five-minute basis. There's some volatility for you. 9.25, we're down to 16,480. We open and make it all the way up to 16,520. We've given up about 60 points from that price level. You get the S&Ps trading 10 points off the highs right now to 47.89. The Dow holding up relatively well though, you're above 36,500. That's the first time we've ever had a Dow above 36,500 on this morning's show, as we tick just under that level right now. Jumping around to other headlines I had up here talking about crypto. Ethereum beats Bitcoin in 2021 as volatility takes a bite, both of them having pretty banner years. Biggest cryptocurrency has macro correlation with risk assets. Yeah, I would say so. They are trading pretty correlated to everything else going on right now. But you take a look at the years that they have had, ether outshining Bitcoin. When you look at Ethereum versus Bitcoin, yes, and there's where the year that you're talking about. It was way under where it was. And you can see the resurgence it had from 19 to 20 to 2021, even in light of what Bitcoin had. Now, man, you're in any type of crypto just to kick off 2021. And I hope you're doing well because the years that these had, you started 2021 out at 27,000 on Bitcoin. Is that right? Yeah, that is correct. You started 2021 at about 27,000. You come into the end of the year at 47,000. You started the year for Ethereum at, now this goes back to February 8th. Maybe that's when Ethereum futures started trading, but nonetheless, 1600 back at that time up to 3700. All right, you want to talk about dollars. How about $13 billion of them for one ship for our Navy? The Navy's costly carrier finally has all its bomb lifting elevators. Only in the world of defense spending and government spending could this make sense. None of the 11 elevators were installed on this carrier on delivery in May of 2017, more than four years ago. Now that they have the elevators for the bombs, operational patrols can now deploy four and a half years late. This ship, 13.3, the USS Gerald R. Ford, $13.3 billion, $13.3, I almost couldn't get it out of my mouth there. The service has announced that the 11th and final advanced weapons elevator is in place. They must be some special elevators to be bumping around the type of bombs that they're carrying, I'm sure. Significant milestone is how a rear admiral puts it in the Navy's program executive officer for aircraft carriers. The Navy took delivery of the first in the Ford class of carriers in May of 2017. Say it was expected to be operational in 2020. We're now, of course, in the final two days of 2021. The service did not disclose that at that time. None of the 11 elevators were operational, much less installed until Bloomberg News reported the problem in November 2018, $13.3 billion. The delay to fix the elevators or resolve other issues has lengthened a period during which the Navy is attempting to maintain policymaker desired levels of carrier forward deployments with its 10 other carriers. So a little bit of a stress there, but you take a look at it, quite a ship, $13.3 billion. They started looking up defense spending, defense expenditures for NATO countries 2021. There's the U.S. at $811 billion. $13.3 billion is the number for this ship alone. You don't have to go far down the list to get into yearly expenditure for the companies, companies, countries like Spain spending $14 billion all year. That would just be that one ship alone. Obviously, defense spending, unfortunately gets a little bit political. But man, when you talk about expenditures, $13.3 billion to take delivery of a ship in May of 2017 and four and a half years later, things finally working. Nonetheless, you see the type of money that is spent in that defense sector pretty mind-blowing the way that those stories continue to go. All right, what else do we have pulled up here? Let's talk about, let's jump around to some of the fang stocks as we have the NASDAQ 100 in negative territory, only index in the negative right now. We'll jump to the biggest dog out there, Apple shares, yeah, dipping a little bit lower on the open from $179.70 to $179.32. Let's jump to AMD. This thing, quite a rocket ship last week. We're at $140 up to $156, just like that. We're at $146. Maybe we give it all back to $140, putting this thing on a daily. Man, you talk about acceleration. Now $130 would be the area that we were just trading in December 14th potentially for AMD.  We jump over to Intel. Quite a different looking chart. Intel trading at $52, a little bit of volatility here in spades. For Intel shares, we jump around to some of the other fang stocks to see how they're trading. Google shares down about a quarter percent right now. We jump over to Facebook shares up about four tenths percent. Some of the stocks I like to take a look at, Disney continuing to pop off of that double low kind of it made back here. In early December, middle of the month, December 20th, you're trading a low of $145. We're up another eight tenths percent for Disney at $156. The world has a long way to go to get back to a little bit of a normalcy for Disney. I mean, yeah, we're close to that level folks, but we're nowhere near where Disney needs society to be for their parks to be just completely over full on a weekly basis. And yes, you're going to be over full when you open back up. But I'm talking about a sustained opening where everybody is attending the parks without thinking about the virus at all. That's probably six, 12 months out into the future, hopefully, but movie theaters as well. As somebody in Florida case, they're spiking right now. I have two kids who are unvaccinated under the age of five at home right now. It's not quite comfortable going to a movie in the theaters just yet. Outside of the kids being unvaccinated, you know, people getting back to life. It's a beautiful thing. You're out there. You're vaccinated. You're boosted. But when you got kids in the house, they're unvaccinated. It weighs on it's weighing on the economic decisions. And you can see it's weighing on companies like Disney. Now Uber pulling back from some of the highs. This thing's been quite an underperformer this year. You kick off 2020 at a price point about 52. We come into the end of year at 42 up from 35. But man, they've paid a price as the world economy taken a little bit longer to get back to normalcy. The one thing I will say is that you are basically where you came into COVID at a price of 41. The ride sharing business changed forever with business travel. Not quite what it used to be and probably not what it will be ever again. But the food delivery business also changing forever and ingrained in society forever and probably changing the way that we think about food, delivery of food and our eating habits forever and Uber at the forefront of that with DoorDash a big one as well. Now I jump over to DoorDash. Look at the pullback they've had recently from 257 to 152 and we take a look at Lyft a little bit of a different story with Lyft. But still under where you were in 2020. Now interesting that Lyft, they don't have that food exposure that Uber has. They haven't seen the benefit Uber has. The one benefit they do have is that they're not global. A lot of their focus is North America, which has seen a quicker comeback from COVID. Europe dealing with a lot of woes over there. When you got Uber with so much exposure internationally, that's going to weigh on them a bit. But you can see what it's weighing on Lyft that they have none of the growth of the food delivery business that Uber has. Today though, up about 1.8%. I like Airbnb. Strong company as well. Like taking a look at them. If I was looking to maybe get some exposure to a rebound in travel, this might be a good play. Airbnb, you take a look at the 15 minute, you're up about three quarters percent today back on a daily basis. And yeah, you're getting in.  You were trading at 130 back in July up to 213 as recently as about a month ago, six weeks ago, just trading at 168 for Airbnb. Stay tuned folks. We get the S&Ps up three points just off all time highs. I was sitting above 36,500 right now. We'll be right back. We got one more show tomorrow before the end of the year. Stay tuned folks. I got one more segment in the program. I'll be right back in three minutes to wrap things up. 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Do we make it to $4,800? In the futures, we will find out. NASDAQ 100 is flat right now, only index barely in the red. The Dow, giving it back a little bit, back under $35,000. We've traded $100 points now in the Dow off of the highs with a quick turnaround. We were up at $935. So in the last about 20 minutes or so, the Dow trading 100 points off the highs right now. The Russell, though, look at that acceleration, Russell catching a bit of 20 points. You're up almost a full percent from where we were on the open in the Russell right now. We jumped to commodities, gold trading at $1,805, backing off a bit. Notes and bonds right now, backing off as well. We're talking about a yield in that 10-year, 1.544. 1.54 we'll call it, 1.54%. The yield on the 10-year, we jump over to the VIX, sitting right at about 17 with one trading day left in the year. Not much can derail this market, I imagine at this point, folks. It's not like a sell-off is going to come out of nowhere with the type of strength we've had this week. I mean, look at a weekly basis. For all the fear we've had in this market, when you think about the number of times people have said, and we've probably thought you've at least examined in your own mind, is this it? Is this a sell-off? Are we trading lower? Are we going to have a pullback here? Boy, you look at this weekly chart. You can't even find a pullback on this. You cannot even find a pullback. Now, the run has been so substantial. From $2,500 to almost $5,047.99 to be exact today, that these pullbacks don't register even though they've been pretty substantial in their own right. When you look, $35.87 down to $31.98, you're talking about $250 S&P points in that pullback last September. We look at, let's find another one, the pullback that we had in August. We have a high of $45.49. You trade down to $4,260, almost $300 S&P points. But man, in context to where we've been folks, context is very, very important. $2,500 to $4,800. We come into the end of the year, but nothing but strength. We've got markets in positive territory, and we've got one more trading day left. I'll be back tomorrow morning, December 31st, New Year's Eve to kick off my New Year's Eve at 9 o'clock in the morning. Live programming all day, folks. We've got our man Basil Chapman. He's coming up next with Tiger Technicians Hour. Fast Market at 12 Steve Rhodes is live at 1 o'clock today. Tom O'Brien, my dad wraps things up live from three till four. Thanks so much, folks. Have a great Thursday. Thank you, Basil.