Okay, very good morning Monday 22nd of February. Hope you had a fantastic weekend If you haven't already done so feel free to join our community on and fire live comm if you access a free trial You can get full Unlimited access to all of the portal content including the live stream that goes on throughout the day with myself and the rest of the team but looking ahead to What's in store not just for today, but this week and also Summarizing some of the major things to be aware of for the weekend press I'll kick it off with the overall sentiment at the market open this morning equity index futures a touch soft But fairly moderate move yields again on the front foot So UST notes have come under a little bit of pressure Having seen a very marginal gap down overnight and just trended down in the US 10 year in Asia Pacific trade So down 10 ticks Elsewhere gold up around 13 bucks and back towards a fairly key Level of the course of the last I'd say four weeks of trade that we've come up to have a brief look at 1793 which was that area of support and resistance through 16th 17th of last week which when we broke down price We've got quite heavy there in the other metal and that was also support areas back in the fourth and the fifth So and we've had a retest and rejection of that so far this morning, but worse keeping an eye on the upside levels Otherwise just sticking with metals briefly copper has been Seeing a pretty awesome run of late Initiated at the end of last week continued in the overnight Asia pack session the general Sentiment around the progressiveness of the kind of global economic view about the future Because we've had some really stellar data in the US last week Accelerated vaccination rollouts COVID situations improving just generally in the likes of the US for example and more stimulus coming so Definitely copper here. You can see has sprung higher in the last two trading sessions on a monthly Just to give it a bit of context. We haven't traded this high in copper prices In nine years or so and any breakout of here, which was where we're at at the moment We've seen a bit of a short-term rejection was also the 2008 May high we'd be looking up at around this 2010 2011 high around for 54 if we continue any higher Otherwise Crude oil is in a bit of a short-term range At the moment to find by 6029 at the high to 5880 at the low It's moved a little higher in Asia Pacific trade We'll talk about some of the update on the weather conditions as we go through the news in a short while As eyes continue to remain on that the normalization of temps if you like in order to get facilities and infrastructure back under way And then in the FX markets the dollars actually pretty flat this morning So not too much to speak of near-term Technicals just quite interested to see here the dollar just bumping up a touch actually as I speak and so you're a Cable just having a test down And around what was the late a late us low in the futures here 140 is the pivot as well So an area of near-term support just being tested here in cable moment You can see just trading a little heavy on the breakthrough there Downside level here if we remain this way directionally in cable I'll be looking down at this level here as a target at 130 982 the price Could well drift there and find support around that area technically Likewise, it's definitely a greenback story. There's not a great deal new coming out of the UK We'll talk about the lockdown roadmap in a moment But not a great deal of market moving information for the UK and Europe So definitely driven by the the US dollar for the time being in the euro Just looking at this pat price pattern at the moment that's been holding in some of the short-term price activity We're just having a test on that lower side at the moment So quite interesting to see how we perform here key level on the downside if we did start to break down lower Probably be looking around this 120 303 and a half here We should encapsulate some of the price moving in the second half of last week But overall currency is not too busy If anything just a touch of dollar strength just coming in as I've started the briefing here And a bit of continuation here of equity weakness To boot but look, let's get stuck into some of the headlines and talk about a few different things first off Wanted to mention the COVID-19 situation in the States and It continued to report declining new coronavirus cases Hospital admissions and deaths at the weekend. So all of these main charts pointing While daily tests at the moment still to be tracked They have dropped off quite a bit and a lot of people saying that's because of the adverse weather conditions that've been experienced in the states Meaning that's just been difficult to conduct But otherwise cases hospitalizations and deaths here on the the red going right have all continued to decline at a fairly rapid pace and actually Just having a look at some of these numbers here and a few different charts the US has now vaccinated over 60% of people aged 75 or above and almost half of those aged at 65 to 74 Two bars you can see on the right hand side here And obviously this is particularly important because this older demographic obviously is the most vulnerable to the disease And if we start flipping this over to here Analysts suggest that we could then see deriving from these numbers COVID-19 deaths continue to plummet in the coming weeks and the reason for that is as those aged 75 plus So really these two blue bars here have represented about 60 percent of all COVID deaths and 65 plus have represented about 80 percent of all deaths So here goes the the thinking that if you can target like we've done here in the UK Which is the older more vulnerable group? The kind of priority groups then that that takes care in the US case by terms of death rates 80 percent of all of the deaths that have happened so far in the history of COVID-19 and so Here then we could continue to see some fairly and would be very welcome drop-off in this daily death rate If that can can happen, of course So some positive signs there of course and in the UK we've had similar as well If actually if I just quickly pop to my Twitter account. I was sharing some of these At the weekend so just to quickly show you a number of vaccinations now in the UK is kind of heading up to around 17 million So we continue a pace at this point On the the targets for kind of late March mid April ahead of the self-imposed end of April deadline for the next target Of the priority groups to be hit the number of infections continues to decrease So on a seven-day rolling average down over 20 percent Deaths down nearly 30 percent over the same period if you were looking at the UK So some some some positive signs there But what I would say is that positive signs on that front and this isn't just an isolated thing This is one of a number of positive catalysts at the moment is what perhaps is making equities trade a little heavy Not just today, but over the last couple of sessions The the equity markets struggle a little bit to continue to plow on to new all-time highs And we are in the future as you can see here if you're looking at the Nasdaq in the center chart If you're looking at the S&P here, we're retesting loads that we were printing back kind of on Thursday of last week So equity weakness here tends to then lend its hand to a bit of risk-off sentiment that could bill Support the greenback if that does then and some technical levels here in the euro and sterling to watch On the on the downside Quick look there some of the other news stories sticking with the kind of domino effect then of COVID and talking of the UK This is what we're looking out for later on today And it is the idea then that ahead of the UK lockdown roadmap Which we're going to get unveiled later today a senior minister said last night that the UK government would take a cautious approach to easing the lockdown with restrictions lifted every few weeks to judge the impact despite a significant Acceleration of the COVID-19 vaccination program as we just saw in some of those previous Graphics so the idea here being I'm going off data not a dates Which I guess is a bit of a reverse strategy from what they were doing at the beginning Which was putting out these pretty Aggressive timelines and pretty much failing to hit them nearly every single occasion So as much as there's some internal Tory difficulties with Boris managing this strategy It's probably the most prudent way to do it in order then that you're not falling short of expectations persistently So slightly different approach Aside from schools most of the real people know is not likely to be con or is likely to be concentrated in April and May Because if you remember with those priority group listings We're looking at the FT last week all the priority groups are likely to have been done with their first dose by Easter So kind of early April time and so therefore most of them more Significant reopening is probably gonna not be with us until at least another month or two At this rate in time in terms of the timings for today This is what the the timings look like the sign-off is with key ministers said to have happened yesterday We'll go to a full cabinet today Parliament to be informed at 3 30 this afternoon and then a press conference will be held at 7 p.m. tonight presumably with the Prime Minister on national TV and That's coming from the telegraph newspaper. How market-moving is this for cable? I don't actually think it's either Outright initially positive or negative the fact that we are and any adored the Longevity and the strictness of the current UK lockdown has had an obvious impact on Containing the virus to a certain degree as we've just seen we've seen Positive developments in terms of case rates declining subsequent pressure on on the hospital infrastructure and deaths, which is all good However, that does create further economic damage But I would say that that's just a kind of afterthought the more near-term driver of markets is still how quickly these vaccines going How how quickly can we get the next priority group done and can we start then seeing some more? Reopening around those timelines as we said in April and May so I don't actually think the roadmap in itself is a Particularly big deal today. I wouldn't be looking at it to be a real significant catalyst for sterling If anything, I think it allows the market to have a fairly constructive view That's if anything supportive for pound about what the future looks like over the coming months It's kind of the light at the end of the tunnel kind of idea that in combination with the vaccines I think and Ultimately for currency markets a lot of that's going to be derived from the dollar reaction to power on Tuesday But if power does tow the line continues to push back against this kind of reflation yield worry and says that look We're going to remain Accommodative and loose policy for the foreseeable future Well, if that keeps the green back down And then I got no reason to think that this this pound won't remain Supported at this point if we look at the week as a whole but obviously that's contingent on Power going that direction, of course Okay, a few other things to get up to speed on just on the news perspective then we'll look at the calendar There's quite a few key events this week This was an update on the vaccine side Pfizer and by NTEX COVID-19 vaccine appeared to stop the vast majority of Recipients in Israel becoming infected and this is providing them the first real world indication that immunization will curb transmission of the coronavirus Otherwise bit of attention on the Iranian situation now that we've had Biden come in Iran's deputy foreign minister has said US needs to remove its sanctions Before talks can begin to revive the nuclear deal with world powers Iran as in terms of timings has set a self-imposed deadline basically of tomorrow Tuesday and separately to this So when I say that deadline, this is atomic inspectors will lose some access a lot unless there's some type of Arrangement brokered now We're not looking for a one-and-done deal to happen right now The things I was reading in the press at the weekend was more about the idea that they can just kind of roll things Over with the premise that both sides are willing to continue dialogue and there's a lot of back-and-forth The such a tricky relationship and geographic region to manage particularly coming how that Relationship was soured through the Trump administration that it's going to take a lot of time here So I don't think this is necessarily Again a good or bad immediate thing in an intraday environment for oil prices But it's certainly something that warrants watching going forward. The other thing here was about Iran they are set to attend the meeting of an OPEC plus advisory committee next month according to a delegate who chose not to be identified This isn't particularly Unusual Iran some other countries are not actually part of the group that would normally be in these meetings But they do often attend But it does go some way to show that perhaps the Iran is gearing up for a bit of an increase to their oil supply There are expectations that that's going to pick up and by the year-end Iran was going to be pumping Circa around a million more than they currently are at the moment But again, this could all be comprised of this part of this deal that the conversation between the US and Iran It will be happening not just this week, but in the coming weeks and months otherwise Yeah, what's the weather conditions? Because this was a real driving point in the energy markets last week I would say that a lot of that trade is kind of done As it was last week when we sold off very persistently through Thursday into Friday session We still remain relatively elevated Trading at 59 73. I did hear of Goldman's over the weekend they basically said that They're bullish with their forecast and brought forward this estimate and now see global oil demand to reach 100 million pounds per day by late July So looking at things like the speed of the vaccination rollouts As to become ever more bullish on prices over the medium term But this is one of the main things looking at the National Weather Service in America Temperatures are beginning to to moderate and as you can see here some of the key areas particularly around Texas Seeing some of the warmer spots as well allowing the facilities and just general infrastructure to continue to thaw out At the moment there are some reports of refineries restarting operations But there's others who because of more lasting damage It's still going to take a number of weeks to get back online So not too much visibility on this at the moment on a granular level But I'll keep you guys updated on Amphilive throughout the rest of the session But as you can see this morning, I wouldn't say it's having too much of an in broader impact on the price of oil for the time being And then let's look at the calendar then because it's generally a calendar driven Week there's a lot going on to be aware of and I'm going to run through it in chronological order So this morning and you do get the German iPhone number first thing on the docket Economists are expecting a rebound from a seven month low of 90 spot one But only marginally up to around 90 spot five here Again, ifo for any new traders is a forward-looking soft sentiment based survey Asking companies on the ground in Germany about their expectations Current conditions and what they what they kind of outlook is over the next six months period Given that Germany remains in one of the strictest lockdowns and having been rolled over several times in in the major Economic country in the eurozone be interested to see how that how that comes out a soft number Might only further fuel any recent weakness here We're seeing in euro on the back of the fact that dollar just picking up a little bit as well as I said Earlier Keeping on that euro level you can see it's just snapped through there So training a little bit heavy now and as I said, I've been keeping on around 121 oh three and a half as a downside level So definitely a dollar driven move here rather than those other currencies as I said, you can see that target now Cable coming down through that pivot 140 finding some support around 3982 will be key on a downside level They're in cable just while it's up that would be to the next area 139 53 encapsulating the highs that we saw back on Monday last week support on Thursday and Friday's price activity Okay, back to the calendar then finals things So ifo today, but otherwise, it's a very quiet calendar That then leads us to go further into Well, don't forget this afternoon. You do have ECB's Christine the guard speaking 145 what would I look out for the guard? Nothing really too much to be honest. I think the ECB have been fairly Open and transparent and spoken frequently. I don't think we would be expecting anything particularly new here from the guard But nonetheless 145 London time fence bowmen of Ota Just half an hour before the closing Wall Street There's we're going to Tuesday. We get the latest jobs day to come out UK HICP final numbers and Eurozone, but these are again finals. So I'm like to be to market moving US consumer confidence on Tuesday in the normal all of the trees in the API The biggest thing now on Tuesday and arguably for the week is this one For any of those new to markets This is one of the major Speeches that power will give during the year outside of the uniform eight kind of normal rate-setting meetings During the course of a year. So he's going to be presenting this semi annual testimony This does actually come alongside the latest semi annual monastery policy report as well And given really the context we've had really rising yields on the back of strong US data Coven improvements vaccination acceleration Progression in Biden's stimulus plan. Don't forget as well. There's another stimulus plan for on the infrastructure side due to be Talked about as well in the near term beyond getting the current proposal of 1.9 trillion ratified in some shape or form So there's definitely Reason to constitute rising yields and this has got people a little bit apprehensive about future rates of inflation as well As we know and so this is why we're so keen to hear from power this week personally I see power largely reiterating the central banks commitment to easy policy the difficulty he has that as any optimism Which he's peers to a certain degree? Validated in showing in terms of his current view on things and what the future might look like particularly on the COVID and vaccination front It needs to be Timpered with a lot of caution because he definitely will not want to fuel the flames of this whole Idea that the discussion may be looming that the Fed might start taper on QE I don't think you'll want to give that signal not not yet So probably a reiteration of the idea that the virus is particularly uncertain in terms of Future developments and so on might well be used in order to just play down a little bit any underlying Moderate optimism he might he might show so as much as I I think power will navigate this with Probably minimal market disruption It is the single the biggest event of the week and it definitely carries the propensity to to move things considerably if he doesn't Do a good job of it. So definitely that's the one to watch three o'clock on Tuesday if you're gonna You know have a spot in your calendar if you're swing trading or if you're looking at medium term Trades, then you definitely need to be aware of that that event That will probably dictate them a lot of the week's direction in terms of yields equities FX commodities the full cross the board macro view on things He then does appear. I believe the normal routine the Senate Tuesday house on a Wednesday It's just a reiteration on the Wednesday. So Tuesday is the big one Fixing some fixed income supply coming throughout the week as well in the US just to be aware of So let's just move on HSBC also due to give a corporate update which I tweeted a preview of on the Ampli live Twitter account as well When you get a second to have a read Going into then Wednesday, you get new home sales out of the US pretty quiet in terms of UK and Europe You've then got the all-in-between numbers in the afternoon a Number of Fed speakers though. This is not unusual the day after power delivers a big keynote speech on policy almost the Kind of strategy from the Fed is to deploy a number of speakers after any big speech Just in case it requires any realignment of market expectations if what he says is interpreted if they feel Incorrectly so as much as power is going to be coming out again at the house You're going to have brain on Clarita both speaking both voters of some influence as well With on the board Clarita the latter speaking directly on the economy and monetary policy Then going further into the week on Thursday You get the Eurozone sentiment figures not really too much to worry about there more for consideration is going to be The second reading of US GDP expects to be just over 4% you've got durable goods initial jobless claims as well coming out and then going into Friday Well a number of Fed speakers as well on Thursday, and then on Friday you get the quiet Generally UK European session, but the core PCE price index so the feds preferred measure of inflation And given the particular focus on that subject matter at the moment That's going to be a key one to watch at the end of the week And then you'll also get the Chicago PMI the Michigan number is the final reading so not not too much to worry about there So that that is the week so plenty going on and do check out my Twitter handle I've published some full notes yesterday if you need to recap anything in greater detail Otherwise, just let me know if you have any questions for the community on Amphi live in a discord room Well, if you're watching this delayed on YouTube, then just leave me a comment I'll be happy to help. All right guys. Have a good session and a good week ahead. Thanks very much


Experience. In this video we will discover how to create a successful work experience section of your portfolio. We will discuss which experience to include and how to describe your work in an effective way. Now the age-old question when it comes to portfolios and resumes is do you put work experience before education or vice versa? This all depends on the job to which you are hoping to apply. The relevance to potential jobs or job postings plays the most important role in how to lay out your portfolio. You want to list your most relevant experience first.  If you think your recent work experience is more applicable to your field or is significantly more recent then this should be the priority. Your experience should be listed in a relatively similar manner to your education as you want your formatting to stay pretty consistent throughout your portfolio. In that you should list your job title, the company name and location and the dates you were employed. In this section you should also include a brief overview of your achievements and responsibilities during your time in that position. All in reverse chronological order. Try to keep the work experience section under three to five jobs. You want to try to tailor your past work experience to the job you're hoping to achieve. Only include your jobs that are the most relevant to your field. If none of your previous or current positions had anything to do with the industry you're hoping to enter, search for elements in your work that can be applicable to the position you are applying for. This can be a good chance to feature some of the soft skills you possess. Once you have narrowed down the jobs you will be including in your portfolio you need to decide how best to describe your achievements and responsibilities to any readers. When possible you should always list accomplishments over responsibilities as any potential employer would rather know what you did to make a change in your time at an organization than know what your responsibilities were at the job. For example instead of just saying that you've carried out sales operations you could list more specifically that you hit and exceeded monthly sales targets for three months in a row or that you were granted employee of the month on multiple occasions. They're looking for information and any kind of notable achievements that you could also apply to their company. If you have no paid work experience to speak of you can focus more on your soft skills, achievements in college or university and other personal qualities. Most likely if you are a reason graduate or still in school recruiters will not expect you to have a whole page worth of work experience. Instead you might consider including internships or co-ops, volunteer experiences, school projects with applicable takeaways or even personal projects like a YouTube channel or an Etsy store. Form out these positions and experiences the same way you would a paid work experience. Remember that even though the work experience section is arguably one of the most important your actual experience doesn't matter as much as what you can take from it. If you are able to tailor it to the job you are searching for and list any noteworthy achievements it will help you stand out. In the next video we will learn how to provide constructive evidence of your skills through projects or work example section.


About 16 years ago when I was in secondary school I would go to the cyber cafe in my small town to go and browse the internet I would pay for overnight browsing because it was cheap. I would be at the cafe all night doing just one thing Reading what Tony Evans, Brian Tracy, Robert Kiyosaki, etc. had to say my favorite was their quotations I loved reading and writing those quotes because they are powerful More than once a single quote has changed my life and that is why in today's video I'll be sharing with you nine powerful quotations that can change your life For those of you who have been wanting to know who is behind this channel since when we had 10k subscribers Now that we are close to a million subs We're ready to let you see and meet the man behind this channel Simply check the description box below to meet with me on my personal channel 1 Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm Winston Churchill I had my first business breakthrough in the year 2016 And let me tell you this it was by accident or maybe you can call it luck It simply came But that was eight years after I had been in the business world A few years later after I started making millions of Naira every month One of my friends who dumped his business after many failures asked me how he could do what I did I didn't have any formula till today I don't have any formula about how anyone can become successful in business Because such success simply comes to me after years of failure I believe the most successful person can tell you something like this Success is what you get after you fail Fail and fail without giving up It's that simple 2 The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus Bruce Lee Another problem I see in our society is that most people simply don't know that those who succeed aren't that special At least I can say of myself that I don't know any such thing that is special about me Except that whatever I set my mind to do I would set my life to do it 3 If you really want to do something you'll find a way If you don't you'll find an excuse Jim Rohn Think about this in relation to what I said earlier People who achieve their goals simply really want it like their life They want it so bad that they can die without getting it Other people wish for it and when you wish for something you can easily make excuses whenever you fail 4 The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same Calling R Davis For about 8 years my phone rarely rang and whenever it rang I know it was my family members calling to warn me would you destroy your life? What exactly are you doing? To them I was failing and they were right I was failing but the road is the same a man who wants success will fail And who will fail will fail But there comes a moment when you get your luck and suddenly the name of the road is changed 5 All progress takes place outside the comfort zone Michael John Bobak Trying new things is scary nobody likes it because it leads to mistakes and failures What if we can leave an easy life do as little things as we can Or even get someone else to pay us by selling our time There are so many easy roads the world has discovered and so many people Follow those roads because they are easy, but they are also crowded Which means they leave so little on the table for everyone There are a few places that are not crowded, but you have to get out of your comfort zone to get there 6 Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning Robert Kiyosaki Fear is a negative emotion. This makes it to be very powerful Think about this for every goal you set and every dream you have There's another side consisting of fear and uncertainty There's another side of success and achievement But because fear is a negative emotion and our minds love negative things We're more likely to give space in our head for fear than to ruminate on the excitement of success Train your mind to meditate on what it looks like to achieve your dream And the excitement of that will override your fear 7 A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him David Brinkley At some point in my entrepreneurial life I stopped looking for success because I wanted it I started looking for success because everyone had told me that I would fail You can't believe how motivating this strategy is I simply could not look back Giving up was simply what I couldn't get my head to think The reason was simple Everyone had already told me that I would fail So giving up meant I would make them feel like they know what they're talking about I never wanted to let that happen I would rather die than to make these people feel that they are right So I kept pushing hard So many people in our world today get discouraged because their parents told them That they are good for nothing So many people stopped pursuing their dreams because 10 people told them how silly their ideas are That's like failing because someone throws stones at you Though it's usually painful, you can endure the pain that comes from the stones people throw at you And then use those stones as a foundation for the skyscraper you want to build 8 The secret to success is knowing something nobody else knows Aristotle or Nasus The first successful business actually came as a result of what I learned from a Dan Kennedy book Which my friend borrowed me I mean, there were so many people who were in the same business with me But because I learned what they didn't know, I succeeded when they were struggling I tell you, it all came from a book Look at this channel It's one of the 10 biggest entrepreneurship channels in the world And the biggest by far of any entrepreneurship channel created by an African This isn't necessarily because I know about money or business more than anyone else One day, about 26 months ago, I read something online about the power of video That was it It's about learning and reading It's about searching for knowledge that other people don't care about 9 The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty Winston Churchill Look at your country If you're among those people who love to look for what's wrong You can tell me a million things that are wrong about your country Look at the rich They are the reason why you're poor Look at the economy It's bad and terrible and you can get ahead Look, look, look There are more things to complain about More difficulties than you can ever overcome More problems than you deserve if you set your mind to look for them For those people who set their mind to look for opportunities There are more than enough of that too Let me prove this to you with a good example If today you decide to like a particular car Suddenly, anywhere you go, such a car starts showing itself to you If you tell your subconscious mind that you like the opposite sex Which looks in a certain way And you enter a room with 10 of the opposite sex Even if there are only two of those that meet your criteria Those are the ones your mind will look for And those are the ones your mind will see This simply means that you're likely to exaggerate the numbers of whatever you're looking for Those who are looking for difficulties Tend to exaggerate how difficult things seem While those who are looking for solutions and opportunities Tend to exaggerate how common those are to In summary, the way to win is the way of war The obstacle is the way Life is difficult and it doesn't get easier by running away from difficult things It doesn't get easier by keeping to your comfort zone In fact, the opposite is the truth Life eventually becomes easy for those who are willing to fight hard While it becomes difficult for those who want to take it easy For those of you who have been wanting to know who is behind this channel Since when we had 10k subscribers Now that we are close to a million subs We are ready to let you see and meet the mind behind this channel Simply check the description box below To meet with me on my personal channel We love you


Attention Goldsmith residents. This is a community notification of a new sexually violent predator in your area. Please stay tuned to the following short program for more information. Hi I'm technician Ron Hackett with the Denver Police Department. The sex offender registration and compliance unit at DPD is responsible for the registration monitoring and tracking of all registered sex offenders and sexually violent predators who live in the city and County of Denver. Here's a brief history of sex offender legislation in Colorado. Our state laws trickle down from federal government mandates. In 1994 we had the Jacob Wetterling Act which mandated that states would establish a sex offender list. Magans law of 1996 said that the public would have access to those sex offender registration lists. The Pam Litchner Act of 1996 stated that some offenders might have to have lifetime registrations and the Adam Walsh Act of 2006 unified sex offender laws across the country. In Colorado the legislature has determined that sexually violent predators by definition pose a higher risk to the community at large and therefore mandated that upon their release from the Department of Corrections the community must be notified. Sex offender notification in Colorado happens in two ways. The first is passive and ongoing through the sex offender registration process which is a list maintained by local police departments. The second way is active via community notification for those offenders determined to be sexually violent predators by the courts or by the parole board. Most sex offenders in Colorado are supervised by the criminal justice system in our communities. Most sex offenders engage in crossover behavior which means they may have been arrested for one type of crime but be apt to commit another.  There is no typical sex offender but all tend to be deceptive, manipulative and secretive. 80 to 93% of sex offenses are committed by someone known to the victim. Sexual deviancy begins in mid to late adolescence. Sex offenses are not impulsive.  The community has a vested interest in helping offenders to be successfully managed in the community. Sex offenders have the same need for housing and employment as any other citizen.  There are approximately 16,500 registered sex offenders in the state of Colorado. About 65% of convicted sex offenders are placed in the community on probation. The remainder are in the Department of Corrections or community corrections. Offenders may be caught for one type of offense but be at a high risk to commit another type. Crime of conviction is only one indicator of risk.  The offender's residence must be verified quarterly by the Denver Police Department. The full sex offender registration list is available by calling the Denver Police Department Identification Bureau at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Convicted felons and those with multiple convictions are posted online at denvergov.org slash police.   Now, here's a look at the newest sexually violent predator living in Denver. Here's an overview of the registered sex offenders currently living in Denver. There are 2,475 total living within city limits. In Denver Police District 3, there are 351. Precinct 323 has 72 registered sex offenders. Of those, 56 have felony convictions and 16 have misdemeanor convictions. Michael Benjamin Diden is a sexually violent predator currently living in Denver. He's 32 years old and was born on April 27, 1990. He's a white male, 5 feet 4 inches tall, 130 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes. He's currently living at 2375 South Linden Court in the Goldsmith neighborhood of Denver. Schools located within one mile of this offender include Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside at 7808 Cherry Creek South Drive, Holly Hills Elementary at 6161 East Cornell Avenue, Highline Academy Southeast at 2170 South Dahlia Street, Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning at 1700 South Holly Street. Parks located within one mile of this offender include Ashgrove Park, Quebec and Wesley Park, Cook Park, Highline Canal, Colorado to Parker Road, Bible Park. Recreation centers located within one mile of this offender include Cook Park Rec Center at 7100 Cherry Creek South Drive. Bus routes located within one mile of this offender include Route 105 Hamden Avenue and Dayton Street, Hamden Avenue and South Akron Street, Hamden Avenue and South Yosemite Street, Route 73 Hamden Avenue and South Yosemite Street.  He's currently on parole and registered with the Denver Police Department on January 26 2023 to 2375 South Linden Court in the Goldsmith neighborhood of Denver.  Michael Benjamin Diden has been determined as sexually violent predator after meeting the following criteria. Criteria one age 18 or older on the date of the offense or under 18 and tried as an adult. The offender was age 21 at the time of the offense. Criteria two, the crime must have been committed honor after July 1 1997 and convicted honor after July 1 1999.   Criteria three, the relationship to the victim was one of the following. Victim was a stranger to the offender or the offender established or promoted a relationship with the victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization. The victim was an 11 year old male. The offender was known to the victim. Criteria four, positive results or the passing of a risk assessment instrument administered by probation parole staff and a qualified treatment evaluator. Positive results include an assessment for the presence of a mental abnormality, a level of denial regarding the offense, treatment appropriateness and motivation, presence of sexual deviant interests. The offender was evaluated by the Douglas County courts with positive results determining him to be a sexually violent predator.


to continue discussion of cancer. But in a little different form, Hans invited me to speak and suggested the topic of costs of the American Empire. And that is probably not a topic I would have selected myself. I don't regard myself as an expert in the American Empire in particular, but I have done research in writing on closely related areas. And I'm pleased to speak under that title. I do want to call to your attention before I begin that what I'll be talking about, I'll have only a few minutes to discuss. And so I can't do much more than hit some high points. But if you have an interest in reading more some of these subjects that I've written about, I would recommend to you a book of mine published first in 2006 by Oxford University Press called Depression, War, and Cold War. And the book, fortunately, has just been reproduced in a paperback version with a new subtitle. Otherwise, it's just like the original. So the cover is important, it seems, at least to this publisher. And also more readable. The book was reset so that the type is larger and it's not so much work to read. So I recommend this book to you. I recommend that you buy them by the ton, if possible. Now, to speak about American Empire automatically gives away one's ideological coloration because Americans rarely talk about the American Empire. It's not a standard term in American English. The only Americans that talk this way are leftists who have been talking about the American Empire for quite a long time and a few libertarians. So crackpots, basically, talk about the American Empire. And it turns out I'm one of these crackpots. I believe there is an American Empire and has been one for some time. And in fact, what I want to start with is the suggestion that, unlike the description given in the standard history book used in almost all American universities and colleges, which say that America began to become a great power or a world power around the end of the 19th century, particularly with the Spanish-American War, I would maintain that America, both before and after the formation of the United States of America, has always been an imperial enterprise. We need to remember, for example, that when the first English settlers came to America, they were, in a sense, imperial outreach. The British were in the process of establishing an empire that, as the saying went, the sun never set on, an empire of global scope. And the Englishmen who came to North America were part of that imperial enterprise. They didn't come here to establish democracy. They came here. They came to America to plunder. And when the plundering didn't turn out to be very good, they stayed and engaged in commercial enterprises, especially growing tobacco and exporting it back to Europe. But we shouldn't fall for the myth that the people who came to America from Europe were all seeking freedom. We're all fleeing oppression. Some were, that's true. But that was not the rule. All of these colonies were approved by the Crown. They operated subject to British imperial rules, the navigation acts, and all the rest of the regulations the British government devised for the management of its worldwide empire. So these Americans came to North, these Englishmen, and eventually other people from Europe as well, came to America. And they immediately began to seize land from the people who were already living in America. They weren't always violent. Sometimes they actually made attempts to purchase land. And sometimes they made agreements with the Indians who were living in North America at the time. But nonetheless, if they had to, they resorted to violence. And they immediately began to push away from the coastline where they began and to spread across the entire continent of North America. And indeed, if one goes back and reads centuries ago what their view of the future was, it was the expectation that the European settlers would eventually spread their populations across the whole of North America and either displace or kill the indigenous people in the process. In any event, they would subjugate them. They were generally viewed as savages and not viewed as people who had the same moral and political stature as the Europeans that came to North America. So they were not treated as second class citizens. They were simply not treated as citizens at all, or even as potential citizens. So this was the way things proceeded up to the formation of the United States in the late 18th century. And many of the so-called founding fathers of the United States, people such as Jefferson and James Madison, who are held up to this day as great proponents of liberty, which in some ways they were, were also imperialists. This is usually mistaken because they were also people who advised against foreign entanglements. George Washington, in his famous final speech, and Jefferson on many occasions, and the Jeffersonians who formed the party around him, were people that were strongly averse to engaging in European quarrels. But notice how specific this is. European quarrels, not quarrels, period. And in fact, Jefferson and Madison were both keenly interested in pushing out the authority of the United States government and the settlement of American people across the whole of North America. And they set in motion policies to begin that process, including the acquisition of Louisiana in 1803, which almost doubled the amount of national territory and opened up vast new areas of natural resources and potentially fertile farmlands for the settlement of the millions that Jefferson and his friends foresaw, eventually breaking those lands and bringing them to cultivation. But they also undertook intrigues of more immediate import, such as the seizure of West Florida, which is the area where I happen to live right now. This is a portion of southern Louisiana state now. But once upon a time, it was an extension of the Spanish province of Florida, which extended all the way to the Mississippi River. And in 1810, I'm very proud to say, the people of West Florida rebelled against the Spanish government and overthrew their local administrators and established the Republic of West Florida. And they have a nice flag with a blue background and a white star in the center. And this became what later was known as the Lone Star and the flag was used later in the Civil War by some of the Confederate troops and became the model for the Texas flag with its lone white star and a blue background, which Texas is known as the Lone Star State. So we West Floridians started all of this and had our little republic. And little republics are probably the only good republics because that was the downfall from the beginning. This imperial project was bound to produce bigger and bigger political units. And as they became bigger, the potential for the preservation of liberty became less and less. The importance of scale has never been fully appreciated by American historians and political scientists. Centuries ago it was appreciated. It was long believed that all republics needed to be small because otherwise they became empires and became corrupted and any liberty that they promoted would be lost to tyrants. But that was an ancient wisdom that fell by the wayside somewhere. Certainly Americans stopped subscribing to it very quickly to their peril. So Americans were imperialists from the beginning. But for several centuries, their empire was confined to the continent of North America, which was vast and potentially very rich source of raw materials and potential for trade. And they occupied themselves exploiting that opportunity rather than taking sides in European wars for more than 100 years. Now, eventually they did, at the end of the 19th century, fall into the trap of thinking that somehow the natural development of their wealth entitled them to the status of great power, which is to say the kind of nation state that is constantly warring against other nation states for some kind of international supremacy or hegemony. And so even the orthodox historians recognized that something happened of great importance in 1898. But what happened was only that the American imperial impulse had reached its continental limits. The continent had been subdued and placed under United States jurisdiction. And so in order to continue growing, the Americans had to leap over the seas, which is what they did by taking possession of the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and in effect Cuba as well in the war with Spain. This was very easy pickings, of course, because by 1898 the United States was indeed the world's greatest industrial power, the greatest economic power. And therefore potentially the greatest military power if it turned its resources in that direction. So that is what increasingly began to be done for 20 or 30 years of the early 20th century. The United States engaged in so-called gunboat diplomacy, which was a way of intimidating the small nations of Central America and the Caribbean and sometimes South America, in order to bring them into line with US preferences about trade relations especially, and sometimes to compel the payment of debts. The next big change in American imperial thrust occurred after World War II, which left the United States in the position of being the world's overwhelmingly superior economic and military power. For the first time, the United States did not dismantle its armed forces after a war, but dismantled them only partially, retained an armed force that was very, very large and powerful by historical standards, and has continued to maintain such an armed force ever since, and to use it for the purpose of maintaining global hegemony. And that's where the term American empire comes into play. There's a good deal of dispute among historians about what to call this arrangement. People deny sometimes that it even exists, why America doesn't control anybody out there in the world. But that's the rankest nonsense. Americans have so much economic and military power that they are in a position to intimidate many, many countries of the world or to bribe them if intimidation doesn't work or to bribe and intimidate. And if neither of those works, then to bring military force to bear. So it behooves practically every nation in the world to be cooperative to American wishes if they don't want to suffer the consequences. And to some extent, even rich and powerful nations of the world, such as the nations of Western Europe, are subject to this intimidation. And there's no point wishing it away. In the process of maintaining this post-World War II apparatus of global hegemony, the United States built many, many military bases around the world, permanent bases. I have a report issued last year, which gives us the following information. The Department of Defense admits that they maintained more than 545,700 facilities, which are building structures and so forth, located in more than 5,400 sites on approximately 30 million acres. And that includes more than 300,000 buildings around the world with a total value of almost $1.5 trillion. These holdings are spread across nearly 5,000 sites in the United States and 761 sites in foreign countries. And of those in foreign countries, that 761 does not include bases and sites in war zones, which is to say right now Iraq and Afghanistan, which contain a number of big US bases, as well as many, many smaller bases. So if we added those in, we would certainly have more than 800 US military bases scattered around the world. And this is unprecedented. The height of its glory as the British Empire could not come close to exerting this kind of military presence on a worldwide scale. And then, of course, the US naval forces may show up anywhere in the world as well, bringing great military power to the location. So the United States is not only an immense economic power, but stands ready to exert enough military power to destroy the earth. Even now, after considerable reduction in the stockpile of atomic weapons, the US forces maintain thousands of nuclear weapons, all designed and positioned so that they can be used very quickly against any place in the world. And along the way, of course, the United States is engaged in a number of small wars, such as those in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, repeatedly, Afghanistan, and many other places on a smaller scale. So the United States, when I said to begin my talk, is like a cancer, I mean it. It has metastasized on a global scale. Its tentacles are everywhere. It is an octopus indeed. Now, we like to say in the United States that nobody sticks with anything very long unless there's money in it. And that's true of the military industrial congressional complex in the United States. This is the combination of the armed forces and their leadership, the civilian military leadership from the president and the secretary of defense on down. The great defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and so forth. And the congressional overseers of military expenditure who have a great stake in this oversight because it allows them to extract very large bribes from the defense contractors.  The contracting system that's used to facilitate the operation of this complex was created just before the United States became an active belligerent in World War II. That is to say, in 1940 and 41, when the United States began to prepare and to build up its forces for the war. And since that time, this contracting system has been designed in such a way that it allows immense latitude to the contracting parties and therefore allows them to serve their interests at great expense to the public and at great benefit to themselves. One of the papers in this book I held up to you before is a study I did with a colleague, Ruben Trevino, of the rates of return to defense contracting companies over a period of four decades of the Cold War. And they were very high rates of return. And you ought to remember when you think about them that they were also high rates of return with very little risk. There's nothing unusual about high rates of return to investment, but normally they come only to people who take great risks. These people have discovered a way to have the best of all worlds. High returns and low risk. And the low risk comes from the fact that they have always enjoyed what ultimately became known as the green span put, which is they can expect to be bailed out if they get in trouble. And we know that because again and again and again, these big defense companies were bailed out. Every one of them from Lockheed on down at tremendous expense to the American taxpayer.  These tall ideological tales have been the backdrop for all of this military activity from the very beginning. And if you track the history of American foreign policy, what you see is not only a series of crises, such as the wars in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq and so forth, but you see a whole series of phony crises. Alarms that were rang about threats that didn't really exist, gaps. There was always a gap of some kind from the very beginning. Immediately after World War II, there was a troop strength gap because the Soviets had enormous numbers of people under arms and the Americans many fewer. Shortly thereafter, there was said to be a bomber gap. So we needed to build more bombers to match the Soviets. Of course, we already actually had more bombers than they and better ones, but never mind. Each gap scare served its purpose if it frightened people long enough to bring them to capitulate into being plundered to enrich the defense establishment. And so we had a succession of these missile gaps, missile throw weight gaps, anti-submarine warfare gaps. And right at the end of the Cold War, believe it or not, we had a Star Wars gap in which the Secretary of Defense asserted that the Soviets had virtually perfected an anti-missile system to protect their leaders in Moscow. And unless we built our Star Wars systems, we would be sitting ducks for intimidation. These are all phony stories, every one of them, with a grain of truth large enough to keep the belief intact. The amount of money spent, we can easily look up. It's always reported in the budget documents and in the press. And in recent years, the Pentagon has greatly expanded its expenditure. It's almost doubled since the year 2000, even after adjustment for inflation, that being the Iraq gap, the Iraq war being used as an apology for diverting enormous sums of money to military uses wholly unrelated to the war in Iraq, especially the purchase of big, expensive hardware, such as rockets and military aircraft and the related materials, software, operations and maintenance supplies and so forth. Maintaining this huge defense apparatus is enormously expensive. And of course, it's two or three times more expensive than it needs to be because of all the corruption that's inherent in its operation. But it is a magnificent machine for the enrichment of its participants. Even though the American people know or think they know how much is being spent for defense, they're actually not even close to the truth. Because the accounts are kept in such a way that many defense related expenditures are classified somewhere other than the Department of Defense budget. And that's nice. It makes people look at the Defense Department's budget of now more than $600 billion per year, year after year, with increases each year. But it puts them to sleep without realizing that actual expenditures for defense related purposes are actually about twice that much. I've done in recent years two studies to bring all of these other forms of expenditure into account. And for example, in fiscal year 2006, which was the last set of data for which I did this exercise, the Department of Defense was spending approximately $500 billion that year. But then we start adding things that are actually defense related or military related, such as $17 billion in the energy department, which is where the nuclear weapons are manufactured. The Department of State, $25 billion, including the foreign aid, a large sum of which takes the form of credit for foreign military sales, which is to say the U.S. government is giving weapons to countries it favors at the moment. The Department of Veterans Affairs, almost 70 billions, that's obviously a military related expense, but it's been hived off into a separate department so that it doesn't fall under the category of defense spending. But it's very large amount. The Department of Homeland Security, surprise. Many Americans thought that's what the Defense Department was for, defending their homeland. Then we discovered, no, we were mistaken. The Defense Department was actually for imperial maintenance and policing. It had nothing to do with protecting us in the United States. For that purpose, we now needed to create a wholly new apparatus, the Department of Homeland Security. And its budget in fiscal 2006 was almost $70 billion.  A great deal of it is what we call security theater. It's for presenting the impression of protection by going through senseless motions and by intimidating people so that they become accustomed to abasing themselves before petty tyrants. Then we have some expenditure in the Department of Justice for anti-terrorism actions. The Department of the Treasury pays almost 40, now actually more than 40 billions a year towards some of the military retirement costs. Almost no one knows about this. When I tried to find out the amount, I had a devil of a time, even tracking down where the account was located. Even after I called experts in the budget process, they didn't know either. But it's squirreled away in the Treasury Department rather than put under Defense Department. NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is engaged in a certain amount of defense-related research.  And the reason that needs to be counted is that this is a deferred cost of previous debt-financed defense spending. So if you don't pay the full cost in the year that you make the outlays, but you borrow money to make a portion of your expenditures, then you're incurring a debt service obligation. And what I did is I went back to 1916 when the US national debt was approximately zero and cumulated forward each year the amount pro-rata of any deficit in the budget attributable to defense spending. And then cumulated that forward until I knew how much of the current US government debt is the product of past debt-financed defense spending. And that added in fiscal 2006 more than $200 billion to the total. So it's a very large amount and getting larger all the time because now of course the US government is financing in this fiscal year approximately half of its entire budget from borrowing. We finally reached third world status in that regard. So rich countries make full circles it seems. Well, this is not a pretty picture. I'm not going to talk any longer because my time is up but I would say in conclusion that this is indeed a cancer. It's a great threat to the world. It's a threat to world peace despite claiming to be the guarantor of world peace. It has been responsible for many of the wars and much of the suffering among human beings for the past 50 years or more. And until it's contained the Leviathan state of the United States will never be brought to heel. Thank you very much.